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Kelowna City Councillor Ryan Donn has been named the District of Lake Country's new cultural development coordinator.
Donn, a long-time Okanagan Valley musician and a former George Elliot Secondary School student, will be responsible for the coordination of the Creekside Theatre, open air performances, public art, and other local cultural and heritage events and activities.
Cultural development coordinator is a new position created at the conclusion of the contract of Creekside Theatre manager Horst Jassmann. The district chose to move in a different direction, adding more duties to the role.
"The District of Lake Country is about to embark on a journey of discovery where the true potential of its cultural capacity will be allowed to flourish if guided properly," Donn said. "I consider it an honour to be a part of this exciting time of transition in such a dynamic community."
To make time for his new responsibilities and to address any perceived conflicts of interest, Donn has now stepped down from Festivals Kelowna and is also stepping back from his duties with the Creative Okanagan Society, an organization that he founded to work on the arts in West Kelowna.
"The opportunity for growing culture in Lake Country is immense," he said of the position in Lake Country.
Donn will start in the new position on November 17.
"Hiring someone with experience connecting with the creative community is vital," the announcement from the District stated.
"Ryan has a comprehensive understanding of the logistics and structure required to create successful cultural plans, festival initiatives and community buy-in. He has been the creative force behind the establishment of various cultural initiatives such as Parks Alive!, Pianos in Parks and New York New Years in Kelowna as well as Music in the Park and a World Music Festival in West Kelowna and founded Creative Okanagan as a non-profit organization. Fostering and enhancing the growth of a culturally vibrant and creative municipality is a goal of council as Lake Country becomes increasingly well-known for its desirable lifestyle in the fastest growing municipality in the province."


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The Jets and WR Braylon Edwards are still far apart on contract talks, as the wide receiver wants a long term deal, while the Gang Green want to see Edwards to dedicate himself to the team's offseason program and become more consistent in 2010. Edwards, who had 6 drops in regular season, caught 35 passes for 541 yards and 4 TDs in 12 games with the Jets. He is a restricted free agent and the club is expected to give him a 1-year tender offer of slightly more than $5M.
RB Thomas Jones' future with the club remains uncertain. The team wants the veteran, who turns 32 in August, to take a paycut or be released. Jones is slated to receive a $3M roster bonus on March 9 and a $2.8M base salary in 2010.
The Jets have also begun contract talks with C Nick Mangold and CB Darrelle Revis. It's essential that the two All Pros remain with the Jets and the team wants to sign both to long term extensions.
evojoe67 – 02/27/2010 08:09:07 pm
I still say SIGN TJ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Having TJ for one more season would be the best move, I would think. We don't know how LW's leg will hold out, and he's not yet proven he can be a consistent coming out of the backfield. Also, it would appear that Greene might not be able to be their #1 back all year, if only due to inexperience or if he hets those niggling injuries again. And TJ was third in rushing the AFC last year! Damn!


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The year is young, but Brooklyn Rundfunk Orkestrata may have already clinched the prize for most creative concept of 2011. Initially the idea of fusing sounds minted in rock, jazz, R&B and hip-hop with a dozen of Rogers and Hammerstein's classic Broadway compositions seems unwieldy. Purists will scoff—yet somehow it works, albeit in quirky fashion. Who would guess the Jackson 5's classic "ABC" could segue so effortlessly into "Do Re Mi"? Or that "Edelweiss" might be reinvented as a mandolin-plucking country ramble? For that matter, imagine "The Sound of Music," "My Favorite Things" and "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" inspired at once by Queen, Aerosmith, Boston, Yes and Van Halen. The hills aren't just alive, they've been reborn.


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Nontas Apartments in Hersonissos are located in the heart of town, 27km east of Heraklion city and just 150m away from the nearest beach.
Nontas Apartments in Hersonissos consists of 11 self-catering apartments, only 150m away from the nearest beach and 650m from the famous Star beach.
The three-storey building features 1 apartment on the ground floor suitable for 4-5 persons , 8 apartments on the first and second floor for 3-4 persons and 2 apartments on the third floor for 2-3 persons.
All apartments have a balcony overlooking the pool or the town of Hersonissos, while the third floor apartments have a terrace.
The outdoor seasonal swimming pool with free umbrellas and sunbeds is only accessible to the residents.
Guests receive a 10% discount at the snack bar which is located on the ground floor and is open troughout the day.
Not far from Nontas apartments, one can find restaurants, traditional taverns, cafés, bars, super markets, a bakery house, and night clubs.
The welcoming staff at Nontas Apartments can also arrange car rentals to explore the scenic town of Agios Nikolaos and the roundabouts.
Apartments: 11
Apartment size: 30 m²
Single beds
Stone-built sofa bed
Garden view / Pool view / Town view
Air Conditioning
Free Wi-Fi
Seating area
Bathroom with a shower cabin
Free toiletries
Dining table
2 ceramic hobs
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Safe (at an extra charge)
Cleaning service: three times a week
Change of bed linen and towels: twice a week
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Currency exchange
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Free WiFi is available in all areas
Free public parking is possible at a location nearby (reservation is not needed).
100m to the nearest beach and bar
400m to the famous Star Beach
1km to the village of Old Hersonissos
1.7km to Koutouloufari village
2km to Piskopiano village
5km to Stalida
7km to Malia
10km to the Archaeological Palace of Malia
21km to the Lasithi Plateau
24km to the "Nikos Kazantzakis" International Airport of Heraklion
27km to Heraklion city
29.5 to the Minoan Palace of Knossos
36km to Agios Nikolaos
69km to Ieraptera town
102km to Sitia town
104km to Rethymno town
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Here are some of the movies I have been watching. To aid us both, I will write two sentences that are straight to the point for each movie.
Some of these movies are really new, while others, are on DVD...
The reviews for these movies will be out in a few days:
- Realistic hacking, but bad acting
- Decent acting, very dark movie, and inappropriate
- Funny movie, more kid oriented
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Ulster Farmers' Union, seeds and cereals chairman, Allan Chambers, has stressed that with conacre agreements now being negotiated cereal growers need to look at their budgets carefully before deciding how much to pay landowners.
"Currently it costs around £360 an acre to grow and harvest a crop of spring barley. With the grain worth £135 a tonne and only £60 an acre for a good crop of straw, most growers will struggle for profitability, even with an above average yield of 2.2 tonnes an acre," said Mr Chambers.
He said the world is massively over-supplied with all grains, with no signs that the market will deliver a better price in the short term. On that basis farmers need to look carefully at any land they are considering. It's vital they assess its yield potential before agreeing a price," said Mr Chambers.
"If a grower is confident of a high yield, it may be worthwhile making an offer based on a percentage of the value of a ton of barley in September 2017. This could take a degree of volatility away from the risk-taking cereal grower," he said, adding that conacre land prices need to leave farmers with a potential to make a profit.
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The program will consist of works by Heinrich Schütz, Johannes Brahms, Franz Schubert, Samuel Forcucci, Jacinto Guerrero, and Francisco Barbieri.
The program will begin with two selections by the baroque composer Heinrich Schütz: "The Annunciation" and "Psalm 100." The former, chosen in observance of the season of Advent, features soloists Marion Giambattista, singing the role of Mary, and Dominick Fantacone as the angel Gabriel. The accompaniment will be provided by local violinists Colin Heasley, Michelle Stevens, and Jeremiah Hopkins, and violist Emmanuel Sikora. Cellist James Weiss and harpsichordist Alan Giambattista, the Choral Union's pianist, will play the continuo for this selection. Following this work, the charming "Psalm 100" will feature the full chorus, answered in each measure by an echo quartet, sung by Ashley Marshall, Jessica Moss, William Sieling, and Emmanuel Sikora.
Two works by the Viennese Romantic composer Franz Schubert will follow. His dramatic and darkly-colored "An die Sonne" (To the Sun) will be followed by his shorter and much less serious "Der Tanz" (The Dance). Both selections will be sung in their original German, but the second work will include a translation by the conductor as the "reprise."
The lyrical song "A Thought Like Music," originally written by Brahms as a solo "lied" (art song) will be sung by the full chorus. This work will be followed by the dynamic "Alleluia," by Cortland resident, former mayor, and long-time Professor of Music, Sam Forcucci. This powerful piece will be sung as Forcucci directed, without accompaniment.
The concert will conclude with two works chosen from the rich but less familiar repertoire from the Spanish Zarzuela: "Pan y Toros" (Bread and Bulls) by Barbieri, and "Los Gavilanes" (The Sparrowhawks [or Vultures]) by Guerrero. The choral portions of these two selections have been extensively amplified by the conductor during his sabbatical leave from the University during the spring, 2007 semester. This performance constitutes the premiere of both of these works in their present form. Gina Sikora will sing the soprano solo in the second work.
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|Skis, beads, and crown
Of course I had no objection! March is usually the best month to ski in the Cascades anyway. Not only that, it also meant we could celebrate a few more holidays usually missed. Our bus has a party every Valentine's day, but this year, a lady on my bus and I decided it would also be fun to celebrate Mardi Gras.
|Enjoying Heather Canyon
So I ran to my local Dollar Tree and picked up a bunch of beads, masks, and decorations. And I couldn't pass up a Mardi Gras-themed tiara (only a dollar!). With the help of some well-placed duct tape it fit perfectly on my helmet.
|Great views of Hood abound
My Vancouver ski buddies were more than happy to don the colorful beads I offered them. Glen brought his daughter Annie and she was a great addition to our group. We had a perfect blue sky day full of great skiing, culminating in three amazing runs down Heather Canyon (the snow was like velvet!)
|Our great Mardi Gras decorations
For the ride home, we decorated the bus in festive gold, green, and purple. I made special sandwiches, and my bus friend whipped up a batch of Mardi Gras-colored jello shots. The jello shots were a huge hit, so popular they were all consumed before I could get a photo!
|Sunshine and smiles
A couple weeks later, we had a more subdued celebration of St Patrick's Day (planning Mardi Gras had worn me out) with a only bottle of Guinness and Irish whiskey making the apres-skiing rounds.
|Hello from the bottom of Heather!
A week after that was our final bus Thursday of the year. To end things on a high note, the weather gods cooperated with a lovely clear day.
|Me 'n the guys in Heather Canyon
My Vancouver "Men in Red" ski buddies and I went everywhere! We took multiple long runs from the highest lift at the resort. I was finally able to try out a new GoPro gadget that attached the camera directly to my ski pole. I'm happy to report it worked splendidly - way better than my old selfie stick. Take a look at the video below for proof:
My friends and I had lots of fun that day. Brian had the idea to take some silly photos of us pretending to crash into trees. I think Glen had the best one of all - I call it his "Sonny Bono impression."
|Glen does his best Sonny Bono impression
Waiting to load the chairlift, someone was playing a loud upbeat song, and my friends and I broke into spontaneous dance moves (much to the delight of the liftie!)
|Ready to rip down Stadium run
I kept forgetting to bring a few "sacrifices" for the poor, empty bra tree. To liven it up, my buddies hung a few leftover Mardi Gras beads high on its branches.
|Hanging Mardi Gras beads on a tree
You never know what you're going to see at your local ski area.... (I came upon this snow imprint at the top of the chairlift, and have no idea how it was created!)
|The crazy things you see at the local ski area....
Of all the activities I do, skiing is hands-down the one that brings me the most joy. It's a time to play in the beautiful winter outdoors. A time to fly down the slope as fast as my skis (and my nerve) allow. A time to be silly with my friends. A break from my humdrum working and life routines. That's why I love these midweek ski days.
|I'm gonna miss my ski bus buddies!
Throughout my life, there's very few places I really felt as though I fit in. On the ski bus I've met a great group of like-minded people who share my obsession with sliding on snow. We all get together for 8 short weeks to play on the slopes, laugh, be a little crazy, and enjoy the company of fellow winter enthusiasts. These folks are my peeps!
Here's to my bus buddies - thanks for another wonderful ski season. Seeya next winter!


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You guys know that I am so appreciative of everything that I have the opportunity to try out and review for you all. So when I was given the opportunity to try this out, I jumped on it because who doesn't love face masks?
To get the pump to pop up you have to twist the top silver piece.It's like the Lancome DreamTone with the way you have to twist it, best way I can describe it.
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Now, my before,after & during pictures aren't that great this was my 'getting used to using my camera' phase so they're not exactly clear. Now that I KNOW how to use it, the pictures are a million times better.
Think of pop rocks popping on your tongue, that's what this kind of feels like but it's on your face. This is really the best way that I can describe this without freaking you out. It does tickle and it's very weird feeling BUT it's definitely tolerable. Have you tried the Perlier Sparkling Cracking Body Water? That's exactly what this feels like. The scent is also very similar as well. It's a citrus-y lemon scent, and I bloody like it! I'm a sucker for anything fruit scented!
The really cool thing is that you can actually watch this mask work on your face! It's really neat because you can see the oxygen bubbles popping (and sometimes you can hear them). Not only that but as it's working the mask starts to become translucent, at least that's what I've experienced. It freaked me out the first time that I used this because I didn't know what was happening. Don't let that fool you though! You still need to wash it off of your face!
My skin felt clean, fresh, oxygenated (does that even make sense?) and all around a hundred times better than before I used it! Not only just that though, my skin felt more hydrated, which even us oily skinned girls need some extra moisture once in a while! I've not had any adverse effects from this either, no breaking out, irritation anything so this mask gets an A+ in my book! After using this mask for a few weeks (twice a week) my skin has felt softer AND it's got a nice glow to it!
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Radical Skincares' Neck Firming Gel and Exfoliating pads look really interesting as well. Those might be
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The best and worst foods for a cold
By Sarah Klein for HuffingtonPost.com
Last week, I came down with what I now think is becoming my annual early-September cold (if two years in a row makes a trend).
I tucked myself in Monday night with the beginnings of a sore throat. After a restless night, I found my symptoms had escalated by Tuesday morning to a stuffy, runny nose, watery eyes and that telltale pressure headache unique to mucus-logged sinuses (sorry).
While it's not even technically autumn yet, this is a prime time for colds: When the humidity drops, cold viruses can survive better, according to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; the past couple of weeks have really felt like fall, not summer, and the sneezes sounding off all around our newsroom are proof enough for me.
I holed up in my bedroom for a couple of days, armed with tissues and tea. But even with nighttime meds, it took longer than I was expecting to get some much-needed relief from the sniffles.
There are over a billion colds in the U.S. every year, according to the National Institues of Health. Yes, a billion. So it's not surprising that we all think we know what to do to kick a cold. Everyone I spoke to over the past few days asked me if I was eating or drinking something different—but what really works?
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Presenter: Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld Monday, December 10, 2001 - 12:30 p.m. EST
(Joint media availability with Minister of State for Defense and Director General of the Japanese Defense Agency Gen Nakatani. Nakatani's remarks are provided through an interpreter.)
Rumsfeld: Good afternoon. First, I want to welcome His Excellency the Minister of State for Defense of Japan, Mr. Nakatani. He has visited here before, we've had other visits, and it's a delight to welcome him back to the United States.
As you know, the -- you may not know, but the Japanese Defense Agency, after the September 11th attack, got together and raised a large sum of money and donated it for the families of the victims of the Pentagon attack. And needless to say, all of us were deeply grateful for this spontaneous example of the strength of the wonderful relationship between the United States and Japan.
Since the two of us have been in our respective positions -- oops, stop and let her do it. There you go. (Laughter.)
Interpreter: (Provides interpretation of remarks.)
Rumsfeld: For those of you who don't speak English, I can assure you that Mrs. Gregg does it a lot better than I do. (Laughter.)
Very briefly, we talked about a great many things, and certainly the strengthening of the strategic relations between the United States and Japan. And we talked about the very fine cooperation that Japan is providing with respect to the war on terrorism. And as you know, this is a very interesting period in Japan because of the steps that the government of Japan is taking to evolve the role that their military takes. So we had an excellent visit and had a great deal to talk about.
And I'll turn it over to the minister of state for defense.
Nakatani: I'm really happy to be able to hold this meeting with Secretary Rumsfeld again, following this June's meeting. And first of all, I would like to express my sincere condolences to the people who died in September's terrorist attack. And also, I heard that there were 125 victims in this Pentagon regarding this attack. And I really would like to express my sincere condolences.
I would like to express my respect to the U.S. forces who are engaging in the fight against international terrorism, and also to the whole U.S. citizens, who are fighting against terrorism.
And we strongly support U.S. actions fighting against terrorism.
And as for Japan, we take this fight against terrorism as our own security issue, and we have dispatched our vessels -- Self Defense Force vessels, and also operating our aircraft for the support and -- cooperation and support activities to the U.S. forces. And also, we have -- we are conducting relief activities for displaced persons in Pakistan.
As we discussed in the meeting with Secretary Rumsfeld, I think our operation that we are conducting now is very significant in terms of this is the first significant operation of Japanese self-defense forces abroad fighting against terrorism. And also, I think this is significant in terms of the first actual significant joint operation between Japan and the United States. And so, I think this -- the fight against terrorism is the first challenge and first trial to the new 50 years of U.S. and Japan alliance. And I would like to make every effort to overcome this trial and challenge.
And we'd like to continue to cooperate each other, and I'm really determined to make every effort and put every energy to fight against terrorism and enhance our U.S.-Japan alliance.
(In English.) Thank you very much.
Rumsfeld: We'd be happy to take questions. I don't see Charlie, so I'll start back here. Yes?
Q: You can start right here. (Laughter.)
Rumsfeld: Yes?
Q: (Begins speaking in Japanese.)
Rumsfeld: I thought we'd start with a guest. (Laughter.)
Q: (Through interpreter.) My name is Arima, and Mr. Secretary, I'm sure you talked with minister about the Japanese -- U.S.-Japan cooperation on the fight on the terror, and also I'm sure you talked about the missile defense, as well. Mr. Secretary, what have you shared with Minister Nakatani, and how did he respond to you?
Rumsfeld: Well, I don't know that I can relate the lengthy discussions we had, but we did talk about both those subjects. And I expressed my appreciation to the minister for the cooperation that Japan is providing with respect to the war on terrorism. And with respect to missile defense, we discussed the fact that as our research and development program evolves, we need to stay in very close contact because of Japan's interest in certain aspects of our program. Which we shall do.
Q: Mr. Secretary, Minister, you have said that the fight against terrorism will last years, not months. Do you both foresee any chance that the Japanese support for the United States in this war will grow beyond that which has already been approved?
Rumsfeld: Well, I can speak for our side, and that is that we have always believed that each country should participate in those aspects of the war on terrorism that they feel comfortable participating in. And I think it is a -- the answer to your question is something that will evolve over time, depending on what the various missions might be, and that is true not just of Japan but, I suspect, all countries participating in the various coalitions.
Q: And you, sir?
Interpreter: (Translating the question and answer for Mr. Nakatani.)
Q: Can she translate -- I'm sorry; Mr. Minister, can we ask you the same question?
Rumsfeld: Since we have so little time, it seems to me we ought to probably ask one question of one person. And we'll take two more after the minister responds.
Nakatani: With regard to the response measures regarding this terrorist attack, actually we have passed legislation which is anti-terrorism special measures law. And this special measures law prescribes that in order to conduct any kind of response measures, the foreign forces' activities have to be related to the terrorist attack on September 11th, and also they have to abide by the purpose of the U.N. Charter and so on.
So, keeping these things in mind, I would like to have close contact and communication with U.S. side and within this, I would like to conduct every possible cooperation that we can have -- we can have with the United States.
Rumsfeld: Yes?
Q: Mr. Secretary, regarding what Japan is doing now, maybe in the future, specifically, what is the most visible thing you appreciate most? Is Japan making a real difference in this military campaign against terrorism? And if Japan feels comfortable in deciding to send an Aegis destroyer to the Indian Ocean sometime in the future for intelligence gathering and other activities, will it be useful and helpful for the coalition? And did you discuss this issue today?
Rumsfeld: (To interpreter) Are you prepared to translate that? You weren't making notes. (Laughter.)
Interpreter: Sorry.
Rumsfeld: (To another interpreter:) Are you prepared?
Interpreter: (Repeats the question in Japanese.)
Rumsfeld: I have a practice of not characterizing what other countries are doing, because it's best that they characterize it. And that's particularly true when the minister's next to me. (Laughter).
But I can say we appreciate what they're doing a great deal, and it is helping, and it is important.
And I will also not speculate about what they might or might not do in the future; that is up to Japan, as to what they might do in the future.
Last question, Pam.
Q: Could the minister then please explain to us exactly what it is Japan is doing, how many ships, how many people, what missions, how long they've been there, and if indeed there are plans for -- or discussions going on about sending a cruiser to the Indian Ocean?
Nakatani: Now as for our cooperation activities, we have been conducting fuel supply by our Maritime Self Defense Force vessels to U.S. Navy vessels, and also transportation by our aircraft of goods and so on. And also we are conducting relief activities to the displaced persons, based on the requests from UNHCR, and we are transporting blankets and tents and so on.
And with regard to the numbers of the vessels we have dispatched, we have dispatched three destroyers and two AOEs and one minesweeper tender. And also we are using a C-130 for the transportation, air transportation, and also a U-4 business jet for transportation activities as well.
Rumsfeld: Thank you very much. Thank you.
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L's Holiday Wish List
Friday, November 18, 2011
As a kid I would make my wish list MONTHS in advance. There would obviously be various adjustments along the way. And for my dad, a special hand drawn map with an "X" marking exactly where the sought-after item was located in the store... along with size, color and style number in case they had to locate it at another store.
Luckily my wish lists have matured right along with technology. And as of today, I have graduated from sending emails with direct links to the items, to writing a blog about them, complete with pictures. (Not to mention a smidgen of added pressure... because if the items I'm asking for aren't seen in future posts, my readers will know you have failed me. I'm ONLY kidding.)
So mom, dad, boyfriend... here you go. My 2011 holiday wish list:
Viktor Rolf Flowerbomb from Sephora. This stuff smells SO yummy.
Tile-Quilted Mini from Anthropologie. Hi skirt, meet closet.
Magic Twisty Whisk also from Anthropologie. If I could own one of everything from their kitchen collection, I would. How ridiculously cute is this whisk?
DV by Dolce Vita Wyatt Boots from Endless.com. I LOVE the blue suede and the edginess of these boots. PS -- they're on sale!!
Oh hi boyfriend, you're looking very cute and generous today. What do you think of this Michael Kors Oversized Runway Watch from Piperlime? Wouldn't it look great on my wrist? Next to all those bangles you bought me?
The Rebecca Minkoff Morning After Mini in Blood Red from Revolve Clothing. Isn't she gorg? She perfectly complements my skin tone, no?
And last but not least, I wish that everyone who reads this blog would please make a donation (even $1!) to Bessy's Place via the Massachusetts Humane Society. I adopted my cat Marley from a humane society over five years ago and it breaks my heart to think that there are so many cats that need to find loving homes. Help them build a cage-free sanctuary for homeless kitties! (Yes, folks, I truly am a crazy cat lady.)
How about you? What's on your Christmas list this year?
Happy Friday!
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of the Inspector General, Audit Division has completed an audit of the use of DOJ equitable sharing revenues by the Fayette County, Georgia, Sheriff's Office (Sheriff's Office). Equitable sharing revenues represent a share of the proceeds from the forfeiture of assets seized in the course of certain criminal investigations.1
The audit covered equitable sharing activities from July 1, 2004, through March 19, 2007. During that period, the DOJ shared $2,646,363 in cash and $63,367 in property with the Sheriff's Office, and the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) shared $209,416 in cash with the Sheriff's Office. Also during that period, the Sheriff's Office expended $2,355,153 of DOJ equitable sharing funds and $110,514 of Treasury equitable sharing funds. We tested $1,957,328 (83 percent) of the $2,355,153 expended from DOJ funds and $108,078 (98 percent) of the $110,514 expended from Treasury funds.
We reviewed the Sheriff's Office's compliance with six essential equitable sharing guidelines. Generally, the Sheriff's Office complied with the guidelines, but we found weaknesses in three areas as identified below.
Federal Sharing Agreements and Annual Certification Reports. Recipients of equitable shares must submit to the DOJ Federal Sharing Agreements and Annual Certification Reports. The Sheriff's Office properly submitted agreements and reports, except that one agreement and three reports were not signed by a county official as required. The Sheriff's Office and Fayette County have taken appropriate action to provide the required signature for future agreements and reports.
Accounting for Equitable Sharing Receipts. Recipients of equitable shares should maintain a log of all shares requested. The Sheriff's Office maintained the log but did not document on it the method of receipt and receipt date for the cash shares. Consequently, we could not determine whether the Sheriff's Office timely deposited eight receipts during or prior to February 2005 in the form of paper checks. Since February 2005, all receipts have been provided through electronic funds transfer and, because such transfers are deposited directly, the timeliness of deposit is not a concern.
Use of Equitable Sharing Funds. The DOJ and Treasury expenditures we tested were allowable, adequately supported, and used for law enforcement purposes with one material exception. In July 2006, the Sheriff's Office advanced a staff member $1,500 in Treasury equitable sharing funds for expenses related to security at an out-of-town baseball tournament. The expenditure apparently related to protecting a local team while in another state and not to the ongoing law enforcement activities of the Sheriff's Office. On July 24, 2006, the Sheriff's Office deposited $672.50 of the $1,500 not used by the staff member and on August 11, 2006, a Sheriff's Office employee repaid $827.50. The Sheriff's Office deposited both amounts, totaling $1,500, into the equitable sharing account. We identified no other transactions of this type. In response to this matter and to ensure appropriate use of equitable sharing funds, in August 2006 the Sheriff's Office implemented new procedures for staff members requesting the use of such funds. These procedures appear sufficient to ensure that equitable sharing funds are appropriately used.
Recipients should implement standard accounting procedures and internal controls, which include separation of duties. The Sheriff's Office did not separate duties for maintaining the blank check stock, signing checks, and performing the monthly bank account reconciliations. Consolidation of these duties creates the possibility that a staff member could write, sign, and reconcile to the bank statement an improper check without detection. The Sheriff's Office compensates for this possibility by using an informal compensating control involving a second staff member's review of the bank reconciliation results, but that control is not established in the Sheriff's Office procedures. Our extensive testing of disbursements from equitable sharing funds identified no instances of improperly written checks, but these duties should be separated to minimize the possibility that such checks can be written or the compensating control should be formally established in the Sheriff's Office procedures.
The Sheriff's Office purchased $540,760 in equipment using DOJ and Treasury equitable sharing funds. Of this, $255,237 in equipment was not recorded in inventory records maintained by the Sheriff's Office or Fayette County. We conducted a physical inventory that identified no missing equipment, but all equipment purchased with equitable sharing funds should be recorded in the inventory records. Other equipment was purchased by a federal task force using equitable sharing funds transferred by the Sheriff's Office. The Sheriff's Office did not maintain inventory records for the task force equipment, but should clarify ownership of that equipment and, if the Sheriff's Office retains ownership, it should record that equipment in its inventory records.
The results of our work are discussed in detail in the Findings and Recommendations section of the report. The audit objectives, scope, and methodology appear in Appendix I.
The DOJ asset forfeiture program has three primary goals to: (1) punish and deter criminal activity by depriving criminals of property used or acquired through illegal activities; (2) enhance cooperation among federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies through equitable sharing of assets recovered through this program and, as a by-product; (3) produce revenues to enhance forfeitures and strengthen law enforcement.


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Matomy's social team worked with Wondermall, a mobile mall app available to iPad users, to launch a Facebook promotional campaign with the end goal of creating a strong female user base. Read on for the full case study.
The Advertiser
Wondermall was founded in 2012 in Palo Alto, California by a team of entrepreneurs who were passionate about disrupting e-commerce on tablets and providing a fun and enjoyable shopping experience for brand consumers. Today, Wondermall features global brands such as Gap, Nike, DKNY, Neiman Marcus, Ralph Lauren and Sephora.
The Objective
Launch a Facebook app promotion campaign for women and build a strong user base for the Wondermall iPad app.
Filling Wondermall's Cart with New Users
Since the concept of the Mobile Mall was new, it was important to create a large number of users at the lowest possible CPI and track in-app events for performance optimization.
For the launch of the campaign, Matomy targeted women 18+ with an interest in brands that are part of the Wondermall selection. Matomy also targeted women who had shown an interest in online shopping, department stores, clothing, shoes, and accessories.
Matomy used Facebook's Core Targeting capabilities to target and test different groups of users and later used Lookalike Audiences to find new users that resembled the best-performing groups. Wondermall used "Conversion Tracking" to analyze user engagement, and placed a conversion-tracking event on the 'Add to Cart' button.
After a few months of activity, Wondermall and Matomy created Mobile Custom Audience groups that were comprised of users who were highly engaged with the app in a variety of patterns and frequencies and presented targeted creatives that included Carousel and videos ads.
As the number of new users grew, the application usage data helped provide better targeting groups and improved campaign performance. Using Facebook's targeting tools and conversion tracking optimization proved to be the winning formula. In a short time, the app has established itself as one of the leading iPad shopping apps for brands.
- 70,000+ users in under a year
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- Over 4M female iPad users were exposed to Wondermall ads
In the words of Wondermall CEO Oren Donronsky:
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Monday, January 6, 2014
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to celebrate the alfredo ramos martinez opening exhibit january 19- april 20th at the pasadena museum of california art
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- shellie said...
these are beautiful. i love the one with the oranges on her head!!
- January 6, 2014 at 1:28 PM
- Kim Baise said...
thank you sf! alfredo ramos martinez paints lots of beautiful women avec fruit + his color palette is gorgeous!every single color was hand mixed here...no straight from the tube:) i hope you'll get a chance to see his paintings at pmca, i know you will love <3 and be inspired
- January 6, 2014 at 6:40 PM
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Chuck Stewart's photography provided by Fireball Entertainment Group, courtesy of Chuck Stewart Photographs of John Coltrane, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
His songs have been recorded by the Dead Milkmen, Yo La Tengo, Pearl Jam, Beck, and Tom Waits. Kurt Cobain was often photographed wearing one of his Hi, How Are You t-shirts. David Byrne sang his praises, Bill T. Jones choreographed a ballet to his music, and Matt Groening said he was his favorite songwriter. According to Bowie, "Daniel Johnston is an American treasure."
The result: as many as a million and a half feral hogs rampaging through Texas, growing as big as sofas, tearing up farmland and creek bottoms with their root-rooting snouts. They gobbled up baby lambs and caused car wrecks. They carried pseudorabies, swine brucellosis, tuberculosis, bubonic plague, tularemia, hog cholera, foot-and-mouth disease, kidney worms, stomach worms, liver flukes, trichinosis, roundworms, whipworms, dog ticks, fleas, hog lice, and anthrax. Their tusks were "razor sharp," the pamphlet said, and their gallop as fast as "lightning." Lest some shred of sympathy stay my hand from indiscriminate slaughter, the pamphlet threw in the lurid detail that feral sows had been known to eat their own young.
I'll See You On The Beach addresses sites that commemorate the American legacies of exploration, conquest, and the instillation of nationalism by way of stimulating displays.
Around two thousand years ago a woman died in Greek-speaking Asia Minor, near the ancient city of Aydin, in what is now Turkey. Her name was Euterpe, after the muse of music. Her husband or son, Seikilos—his relationship to Euterpe depends on how you read a gap in the dedication line—commissioned a stele, a stone memorial, which bore the following words, etched in Greek: "I am a tombstone, an image. Seikilos placed me here as an everlasting sign of deathless remembrance."
For Zachary McCauley, making a home in the South is a matter of welcoming the often overlooked, banal moments of the land and people.
Before Berry Gordy started Motown—before Russell Simmons and Suge Knight were even born—Don Robey epitomized what it meant to be a black music mogul. Working in Houston from the 1930s until his death in 1975, Robey discovered Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. His record company released the original version of "Hound Dog," and he made Bobby "Blue" Bland a star. Ike and Tina Turner, B.B. King, and Little Richard were clients of his booking agency, and T-Bone Walker, "Big" Joe Turner, and Wynonie Harris all regularly graced the stage at his nightclub, where legendary after-parties saw the likes of Sister Rosetta Tharpe jamming with Big Bill Broonzy and Louis Jordan.
A profile of Charlie Sexton, from the 2014 Texas Music Issue.
The circus had left town. Rolling toward the end of the Seventies, all the high-dollar distressed denim, heavy turquoise bracelets, soft and scuffed Lucchese boots, and even the brain-blowing snow-white cocaine weren't quite as ominous in Austin's nightclubs. It was starting to feel a little more like home again, back before the so-called redneck rock invasion. When the cosmic cowboys first started raiding the city, hijacking all the musical attention in our little Austin oasis, it was the mid-Seventies and the Lone Star state was slightly sedate. But that's how we liked it, actually, because it let the city's hippies and beatniks create their own fantasies and live on inexpensive fumes. Before the onslaught, the dozen or so honkytonks and nightclubs took care of their own. There were no record business people to promise what rarely got delivered, and the long days and nights spread before central Texas like the promise of a pot hit and a hot kiss.


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Continuing our look at how the MotoGP riders stack up so far, we already reviewed the top eight in the championship, from Marc Marquez to Andrea Iannone, and now we pick up where we left off, reviewing the bottom half of the championship standings.
We start with Stefan Bradl who is ninth the MotoGP Championship, and work our way down to Mike Di Meglio, who has yet to score a point in the premier class this year.
|Championship Points
|Stefan Bradl
|Honda RC213V
Since winning the Moto2 championship in 2011, hopes have been high for Stefan Bradl. The German started well, but never quite lived up to his promise in his first year in MotoGP.
He showed improvement in 2013, scoring his first pole and podium, but again fell short, never returning to the podium after his second place at Laguna Seca. 2014 has been much of the same: flashes of real potential, but never really following through with results.
Bradl's best chance of success came at his home Grand Prix at the Sachsenring. Starting from the front row, Bradl's team gambled on staying on the grid and changing his bike from a wet to a dry set up. A dropped spacer meant they ran out of time to change fork springs, and Bradl's chances of a strong result at home collapsed along with his soggy front suspension.
Bradl's seat at LCR Honda is under severe threat, if it hasn't already been allocated to someone else. Team owner Lucio Cecchinello is still keen to keep him, but HRC's patience is wearing perilously thin. Bradl will need to be close to, or preferably on, the podium for the rest of the season if he is be riding an RC213V next season.
|Championship Points
|Alvaro Bautista
|Honda RC213V
Alvaro Bautista's time at Gresini Honda has not been easy. Drafted in to take the place of the immensely popular Marco Simoncelli after the Italian's tragic death, Bautista's results have been erratic throughout his time with the team.
The first half of 2014 has been no exception. Bautista started the year with a heartbreaking run of DNFs, not all of which were his own fault. He broke that streak with a solid sixth place at Jerez, then followed it up with a podium at Le Mans.
Since then, he has wavered around eighth place, with an electrical DNF at Barcelona adding to his misery. He is hampered by Gresini being the only team using Showa suspension and Nissin brakes, and therefore lacking the mountains of data the Öhlins/Brembo crowd have at their disposal. A new rear shock has been a big improvement, but too often, the set up of the bike is just a little bit off.
Bautista's days at Gresini appear to be numbered, but his experience may yet stand him in good stead. If Aprilia do make an early return to MotoGP, as rumored, then Bautista could be the man to take the lead in developing the new bike.
|Championship Points
|Bradley Smith
|Yamaha YZR-M1
2014 is turning out to be a very complicated season for Bradley Smith. It is the year in which he has to prove he has the pace to deserve a ride on a satellite bike, and get the results to secure one for next year. He has only half succeeded in that mission so far, and his outlook is not good.
Smith has the pace, though you have to look hard to see it. At Assen, he was the third-fastest rider on track. At Barcelona, he was fastest during FP2. Several times during free practice, Smith has been very close to the front runners.
His problem is that none of that really counts. Where Smith is falling down is on race day, he is simply not scoring the results that are expected. There have been too many crashes, too many things going wrong, though not always of his own making.
Making things worse, he is being shown up by his rookie teammate Pol Espargaro, the man he was used to battling in 125s and Moto2. He expects to be battling with Pol, instead he is nowhere near him. Even more than Stefan Bradl, Bradley Smith needs results in the second half of the year.
|Championship Points
|Scott Redding
|Honda RCV1000R
The tallest and heaviest rider in the paddock finds himself riding one of the most underpowered machines available. Scott Redding proved his mettle in Moto2, but found himself out of luck when the satellite rides were being handed out for 2014. Instead, he secured a ride on Honda's RCV1000R production racer, with the promise of a switch to the RC213V for 2015, if he lives up to expectations.
Redding has surely managed that. The rookie is the best of the Honda production racers, and has been battling Nicky Hayden and Hiroshi Aoyama – two former world champions, though no longer in their prime – right from the beginning of the season. Redding's biggest handicap is the lack of acceleration of the RCV1000R, his weight, and height working against him.
Despite that, and despite the difficulty he shares with Alvaro Bautista, of using Showa suspension and Nissin brakes as part of his contract, Redding has performed well. He will need to keep that up if he is to be at the front of the queue for the engine updates Honda is rumored to have waiting for the best RCV1000R rider at Motegi.
|Championship Points
|Nicky Hayden
|Honda RCV1000R
This has been one of the toughest seasons Nicky Hayden has ever had. First he finds that Honda appear to have forgotten to put the necessary ponies into the RCV1000R production racer he had signed up to ride. Then, an old wrist injury sustained crashing the Ducati Desmosedici, in an accident which wasn't even his fault, starts playing up for no reason.
Hayden has spent much of this season gritting his teeth, either to handle the pain in his badly inflamed wrist, or trying to wring the last ounce of performance from the production racer.
He has twice opted for surgery to help with the wrist, finally going for a radical procedure to remove the damaged scaphoid from his wrist, along with a couple of other bones. He will hope to have a little more strength in his right wrist when he returns.
A stronger wrist should allow Hayden to concentrate on learning to ride again. He has spent the first half of the season unlearning the bad habits from five years of riding the Ducati. He can work on braking much further and much deeper into the corners, and getting on the gas earlier, something he had almost forgotten how to do. But first, he needs his wrist to heal.
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|Cal Crutchlow
|Ducati Desmosedici GP14
When Cal Crutchlow signed for Ducati, he was warned that he was in for a tough year. He countered that he already knew how tough things could be, as his first year in MotoGP was pretty rough. Crutchlow nearly got fired that season, 2011, despite only being in the first year of a two-year deal.
Judging by the look of resignation on Crutchlow's face when he speaks to the media, this year is even tougher than he could have imagined.
This time last year, we were wondering when he would win his first race. This year, we are wondering if he will ever see the podium again. And from the look on his face, so does he.
Crutchlow's vale of tears is not solely of his own making, however. A large portion of the blame can be placed on Ducati, Crutchlow suffering a bizarre string of technical problems in the early races in the season.
An ECU problem at Qatar, a destroyed tire at Austin, overheating brakes at Jerez, the list was seemingly endless. Most of those problems appear to have been solved, but they have left Crutchlow's confidence at rock bottom.
He badly needs all the confidence he can get. Bradley Smith has commented that it is scary just following Crutchlow round, as the Englishman is saving the Desmosedici on his knee in just about every corner.
Whether he can build confidence in the second half of the season on a bike which is virtually unchanged remains to be seen. He needs to keep his nerve for 2015, when Gigi Dall'Igna brings a radically different Desmosedici to the track. He will need the mental resolve he showed in 2011 if he is to better the results he scored in 2013.
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|Hiroshi Aoyama
|Honda RCV1000R
After a couple of years of aimless wandering, the last ever 250cc world champion is finally back on a Honda in MotoGP. Hiroshi Aoyama is riding the second Honda production racer alongside Nicky Hayden in the Drive M7 Aspar team, and the Japanese rider has shown occasional bursts of his old form.
Aoyama is just a single point behind his teammate, and has been involved in the three-way battle for best RCV1000R rider with Hayden and Scott Redding, sometimes coming out on top, but losing out on balance.
Aoyama will have to reverse the outcomes of those battles in the second half of the season. At the moment, his position is helped both by being a favorite son of Honda, and an asset in selling TV coverage for Dorna in Japan. But if he is to be more than a placeholder, Aoyama needs to up his game.
On his pit board, Aoyama has a sticker saying "Two strokes forever!" As much as I agree with that sentiment, it won't help Aoyama go any faster. Whatever he feels about it, he's racing four strokes now.
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|Yonny Hernandez
|Ducati Desmosedici GP13
While much of the limelight is on his Pramac teammate Andrea Iannone, Yonny Hernandez is being quietly impressive. Unlike Iannone, Hernandez is on a GP13 – a bike which is much worse than the GP14 the other Ducati riders are using – and running as a proper Open class entry using the standard Open software. The Colombian earned a reputation as a crasher last year, but so far this season, has managed to finish every race.
On occasion, Hernandez has even managed to take the fight to the factory option bikes, mixing it with the other Ducatis and the satellite Hondas and Yamahas. It has been a step in the right direction for the Pramac rider, and makes you wonder what he could do on a GP14. He is unlikely to get one before the end of the year, but looks like a safe bet to get a shot again in 2015.
|Championship Points
|Karel Abraham
|Honda RCV1000R
At the end of last season, Karel Abraham's career looked to be seriously under threat. A niggling shoulder injury had hampered him throughout 2013, and cast doubt over his continued future in MotoGP.
Things have picked up considerably in 2014, yet Abraham is still the slowest of the production Hondas. The difference is not large, but still enough to be significant. He will be wanting more than a twelfth place finish before the season is up.
|Championship Points
|Colin Edwards
|Forward Yamaha
Be careful what you wish for. Colin Edwards was looking forward to getting back on a Yamaha at the start of the 2014 season, but the M1 has been an unmitigated disaster for the Texan veteran. The bike will not turn, Edwards says, though the performance of his teammate Aleix Espargaro would seem to suggest otherwise.
Things have improved since Edwards finally received the Mark Taylor-designed chassis he had been asking for since the start of the season. Now, he can get the bike to turn, though his results have not improved markedly. Colin Edwards' final season in MotoGP will not be one for the record books. But he will surely be missed once he is gone.
|Championship Points
|Michele Pirro
|Ducati Desmosedici GP14
Michele Pirro continues his hard work as Ducati's test rider, and has had a couple of wildcard appearances to lighten his labor. What those wildcard rides have exposed is that spending too much time as a test rider blunts your edge.
Pirro is still precise, and still has some speed, but is no match for the other Ducati men. His hopes of making a return to full time competition in MotoGP fade with every year.
|Championship Points
|Broc Parkes
For a rider drafted in as a last-minute measure to bump up TV ratings in his native Australia, Broc Parkes has performed exceptionally well. Parkes was brought in to the PBM team at the behest of Dorna, with little expectation of results.
Despite that, Parkes scored points in his first MotoGP appearance, and then had a very strong race in the wet at Assen to finish 11th. In the second-most under-resourced team in the paddock, Parkes has done well.
|Championship Points
|Danilo Petrucci
For the past couple of seasons, Danilo Petrucci has struggled with some decidedly second-rate machinery. He was looking forward to getting on to a more competitive machine, and when IODA announced they would be racing an Aprilia ART, his hopes were high.
As competitive as the ART was last year, it has been a totally different story this season. The Open class has raised the general standard of machinery in the paddock, not close enough to challenge the factory bikes, but just enough to put them out of reach of the former CRT machines.
Adding insult to injury – or rather, injury to injury – Petrucci crashed in Argentina and broke his wrist. He only really returned to fitness at Assen, scoring a point both there and at the Sachsenring. He needs an injury-free second half of the season to show what he is capable of.
|Championship Points
|Hector Barbera
If Aprilia believe that adding pneumatic valves will make their ART machine more competitive, they would do well to look at the Avintia team. That team has replaced the steel spring valves on their Kawasaki ZX-10R engine with pneumatic items, but continues to languish firmly at the back of the grid. The team's hopes are on obtaining Ducatis for next season.
No doubt Hector Barbera will be a part of that, but whether he will have the seat on merit or on his ability to bring money to a ride remains to be seen. Barbera continues to be his usual erratic self, mired in obscurity at the back of the pack. There is no reason to expect the second half of the season to be any different.
|Championship Points
|Michael Laverty
Where his PBM teammate has already managed to score points this season, Michael Laverty keeps just finishing outside of the top fifteen. Despite that misfortune, Laverty has ridden hard, and ridden bravely, on a bike that has had little development, and in the smallest team on the grid. His main battle is with his teammate, who he consistently manages to stay ahead of. Points will come, but it may take until the end of the season.
|Championship Points
|Mike Di Meglio
Handicapped by being on the Avintia, basically a heavily modified Kawasaki ZX-10R, and in one of the three weakest teams on the grid, taking a ride in the Avintia team was always going to be a serious challenge. It is not one which Mike Di Meglio has been up to, the Frenchman yet to score a single point.
That he is under a lot of pressure was visible at Le Mans, Di Meglio's home race, where he crashed during practice. Since winning the 125cc title in 2008, Di Meglio's form has been on a steady slide. The Avintia squad in MotoGP is not the place to put a halt to that slide.
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This article was originally published on MotoMatters, and is republished here on Asphalt & Rubber with permission by the author.


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Harry D. Schlueter Sr., age 75, of Watertown, died Tuesday May 10, 2011, at the VA Medical Center in Minneapolis.
He was born Feb. 16, 1936, in Hamburg, Germany, the son of Heinrich and Henni (Jante) Schlueter.
Harry was united in marriage to Sandra Gatz Sept. 20, 1987, at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Wayzata, by Rev. Bode.
A loving husband and father, Harry was a big brother to the policemen's children when their parents were killed in the line of duty.
Harry treasured his time with Sandy, going camping and stream fishing.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
Harry is survived by his loving family: wife Sandra; sons and daughters-in-law Harry Schlueter Jr. of Albuquerque, NM, David and Ann Schlueter of Anoka, and Mike Schlueter of Apple Valley; grandchildren Kyle Schlueter, Joshua and Cassie Schlueter, Sidney and Stephanie Schlueter, and Marie and Paul Toschy; great-grandson Skylar; step-daughters Michelle (James) Anderson, and Melissa Gendron; brother and sister-in-law Rolf and Erika Schlueter of Florida; sister Ingeborg Norton of Illinois; nieces, nephews, and other relatives and friends.
A memorial service took place Saturday May 15 at the Johnson Funeral Home in Waconia with the Rev. Steve Anderson officiating. There was a gathering of family and friends one hour prior to the service.
Arrangements were with the Johnson Funeral Home in Waconia; www.johnsonfh.com.


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Students in their final semester must:
- file the intent-to-graduate form and complete the GMU graduation survey on their account on Patriot Web; and
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Preparing for the FE/EIT Exam
Students planning a career in engineering practice should write the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination administered by the National Council of Engineering Examiners and Surveyors (NCEES). This is a necessary step toward attaining Engineer-in-Training (EIT) designation, which is required to advance to Professional Engineer (PE) registration. Many civil engineering employers will not hire engineers who have not attained EIT designation, and PE registration is essential for most civil engineers' careers in practice.
The exam is designed for students in their final year of BS studies. CEIE undergraduates may attempt the exam if they are within 12 months of graduation. CEIE304 and CEIE404 are designed to familiarize students with FE exam style questions well before they attempt the real FE exam.
Graduate students interested in attempting the exam who did not graduate from an ABET accredited program should explore their options through the NCEES site here and through the state in which they are seeking EIT designation.
Effective January 2014, students write the new FE exam which is different in content, format, and administration in the following respects:
- The exam costs $175 for application and fees.
- The FE exam is one six-hour exam of 110 questions. The new specifications for the civil engineering exam are posted here.
- The exam is a computer-based test (CBT) and administered at approved Pearson VUE testing centers on a test date scheduled for the student; for locations, visit here.
- Registration is always open and does not involve the CEIE Department. Applicants register through My NCEES account on the NCEES website. NCEES approves applications and then emails instructions for logging in and for applicants to schedule their exam date and location. Scheduling well in advance provides greater flexibility in selecting test dates.
- NCEES offers four test windows annually in: January and February; April and May; July and August; and October and November. Applicants may attempt the exam once per test window, and up to three times in a year.
- There are seven different NCEES FE Exams. GMU CEIE students and graduates should choose and study for the FE Civil (PDF) exam described here.
- After applicants pass the FE exam, they receive instructions from the Engineer-in-Training Designation Application through the Virginia Department of Occupational and Professional Regulations. The Engineer-in-Training designation is not issued until that application is completed and approved.
FE exam study materials are available from a number of sources including NCEES and ASCE. The department does not offer FE exam practice review, however opportunities for local review sessions are announced in the ASCE-National Capital Section newsletter accessible here.
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- Instructions on obtaining the Volgenau School of Engineering's degree verification can be found here listed under the EIT Paperwork section.
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- If you are considering specialized studies in civil engineering at the graduate level, visit the Prospective Students section for Graduate Studies in CEIE. Admission to graduate study is competitive, and is based on a number of criteria including GPA, and letters of recommendation. Students may be offered graduate research assistantships or graduate teaching assistantships which provide tuition assistance and a stipend; these are awarded competitively. Students are advised to discuss graduate school with a faculty member whether the decision is to remain at GMU or to attend another university.
- High achieving George Mason students in the B.S.-CIE program may apply for the accelerated B.S./M.S. in Civil and Infrastructure Engineering program if they wish to complete an M.S. in Civil and Infrastructure Engineering at GMU immediately after completion of their B.S. Visit Accelerated B.S./M.S. in Civil and Infrastructure Engineering for further information.
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Written documentation of your injuries, your medical treatment, your damages, and the accident itself are very important to the case. Even if your lawyer does not specifically mention that you bring the documents to the meeting, it's still a good idea to bring copies of the documents anyway. Some of these documents may include:
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I've always loved sapphires, but I really do think diamonds are a girl's best friend.
When Joe first gave me my engagement ring, I couldn't take my eyes off of it. I was a serious hazard while driving. It's sparkly and beautiful and so special because it was his grandmother's. I hope a daughter or granddaughter of mine will wear it someday.
But what I love most about this diamond is what is stands for – my marriage. And I think marriage is like sort of like a diamond. It's one of the toughest substances known to man, but at the same time, it's something to be treasured. Marriages are made to stand a lot of pressure, to be thrown into fires and refined. But they also need polishing, and should be well-protected. Much like the care of diamonds, a marriage reflects what's put into it. You can tell if it's not cared for, if it's left forgotten. A marriage won't take care of itself, it has to be cared for and nurtured.
My engagement ring is a constant reminder of that – that I've chosen a marriage to this man , and I have to treasure it and help it stay beautiful. And I must say, the rewards are dazzling.


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Turn a File Drawer Into a Side Table
I found this great file drawer at a yard sale and I immediately knew what I was going to do with it.
With a stand and a little paint, I envisioned a side table for an office, living room or bedroom.
There were no dents, but it did have a few minor rust spots. Sanding seemed to buff those out pretty easily.
After sanding and cleaning, I gave the whole thing a makeover with a satin nickel spray paint.
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The stand I chose was meant to be. You may remember the vanity I restyled earlier this year.
I planned on including the bench in that project, but it had more issues than what I wanted to tackle at that time.
The seat was beyond repair and it was missing the brace bar between the legs.
It was the perfect size to fit under the file drawer. I removed the seat and added a new bar.
After painting it with an oil-rubbed bronze paint, I gave it a bit of distressing with sandpaper.
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On 8th May 2017, I attended the International Symposium on Preservation and Access: Southeast Asia's Documentary Heritage in the Digital Age at MaTiC, Kuala Lumpur. It was a very fruitful session and it is very interesting to know that not only in Malaysia but at the international level, practitioners of librarianship and archivists are promoting the preservation of historical documents and its access for the general public.
I am very interested in the issue of Accessibility. In this International Forum, we have participants from all around the world and for Malaysia, some of the key authorities in the field were represented which includes the National Archives of Malaysia, the National Library and the Language and Literacy Agency Malaysia (in Malay – Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka! – I didn't know this is their official name in English!)
Despite the high interest in promoting preservation of documents and its access, I stood up during one of the Q&A sessions and highlighted to the panelists and the audiences that based on my personal experiences, there is a law in Malaysia that prevents access to certain documents. To elaborate this, I highlghted my own experience.
I am a researcher – a genealogist. I was blacklisted twice by the National Archives of Malaysia for requesting (insisting and demanding access) personal files of my own great grandfather. I was made to understand by the officer then, for personal files, only 5 types of persons are allowed to access the file:
1) the person himself (my great grandfather died a long-long time ago…)
2) the person's parents (obviously, they would have been dead by now)
3) the person's spouses (all are dead)
4) the person's siblings (all are dead)
5) the person's children (the last surviving child died in 1985!)
With this kind of ridiculous regulation, how can I or any other family historians in Malaysia can access those files!? I am a direct descendant of the person. If the officer wants proof of lineage, who do they think they are to proof my lineage? The National Archives is not the authority to proof my lineage.
If the archives feel that it is an issue of national security or invasion of privacy, tell me – in what way am I a threat to the national security if I have access to my own great grandfather's personal file? Even worse, talking about privacy, as a direct descendant, there is no such invasion of privacy!
My question to the panelists, what are the remedial steps taken by the authorities like National Archives of Malaysia to ensure such laws does not prevent the effort in promoting access to archival documents in the near future.
When I was in the UK, I did a research on the life of Richard Olaf Winstedt and a was able to have access to his personal file, including making a copy of both his birth and death certificates with no fuss at all! For the record, I have no blood relations whatsoever with Winstedt.
The panelists were silent. The moderator proposed to KIV the answer and to get people from the National Archives to provide an answer to me. When I sat down, to my surprise, I was seated amongst officers of the National Archives of Malaysia! No one dared to answer in public, but after I sat down, the officer sitting next to me said – "Patutnya boleh tu!"
I don't want to hear "patutnya"s because this is the "ISO" policy of most government agencies – Ikut Suka Officer policy. Different officer will give you a different answer on the same topic. And then, another officer sitting in front of me said "Encik buat surat sikit, hantar kat kami". WTF – I don't write letters to you mate…it is YOU – the agency, must answer to me!
This incident was on Monday, 8th May 2017 and the time of writing this article, it is already 8.00pm in the evening of Friday 12th May 2017. For one whole week, they couldn't be bothered to answer my question. At least, have the courtesy of email me for further details. Not knowing my contact details is a reason which is UNACCEPTABLE because I have introduced myself publicly, and the organisers have my details.
Let's see how long will the National Archives of Malaysia or the organisers of the International Symposium to get back to me after the publication of this article. Let's measure the "efficiency" of our officers…time ticking…


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Skillet Beef Pot Pie with Provencal Flavors
Classic beef pot pie can be an all-day affair. Could a richly flavored beef pot pie—with all the nuances of a slow-simmered beef stew—be made in a fraction of the time and entirely in one skillet?
Why This Recipe Works
We chose tender blade steak—an underutilized, reasonably priced cut used for beef teriyaki and kebabs—for our beef pot pie recipe. Cubed, browned, and simmered beneath a crust, the result was tender and flavorful (and nearly identical in flavor to pricier sirloin steak). For the vegetables in our skillet beef pot pie recipe, we sautéed onions, carrots, and garlic directly in the skillet, then added frozen peas to the filling just before baking to preserve their color. For the topping, tasters liked our Skillet Pot Pie Crust recipe—the combination of the flaky crust with rich beef stew was hard to pass up.


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