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Wisconsin Maps
This entry was originally written by Dawn M. Knauft and Carol L. Maki in Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
The Wisconsin Historical Society has microfilm copies of Wisconsin county plat books (ca. 1870'1900), which are accessible through interlibrary loan. Early and later county plat maps are not microfilmed but some can be photocopied on request. State atlases were published for Wisconsin in 1876, 1878, and 1881, and include county maps. They show post offices, schools, churches, and road systems, all valuable information in locating an ancestral family in Wisconsin.
Geraldine Strey's Land Ownership Maps of Wisconsin, 1836'1960 (Madison, Wis., n.d.) is very important in determining precisely what maps are available at the Wisconsin Historical Society.
Aerial photographs of Wisconsin are in the collection of the Arthur Robinson Map Library, Science Hall, University of Wisconsin, Madison. The first topographical map of Wisconsin, of the Stoughton quadrangle, is dated 1889. Bird's-eye view maps are significant for Wisconsin research, inasmuch as they cover the period from 1867 to the end of World War I. There are over 200 of these maps for Wisconsin towns and villages. Most are listed in Elizabeth Maule, Bird's Eye View of Wisconsin Communities (Madison, Wis., 1977), and are also available at the Wisconsin Historical Society. Many are available online as part of the Library of Congress American Memory collection of maps. The maps were drawn with great attention to the buildings existing at the time.
The Golda Meir Library at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, holds the map collection of the American Geographical and Statistical Society. The worldwide collection includes thousands of bound books, maps, gazetteers, and photographs. A cataloging program at this repository references maps that appear in books. Queries by mail or phone are answered, most material can be photocopied, and some holdings may be borrowed through interlibrary loan. The library is located at 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI; the mailing address is the American Geographical Society Collection, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Library, P.O. Box 399, Milwaukee, WI 53201.
Robert E. Gard and L. G. Sorden, The Romance of Wisconsin Place Names (1968. Reprint. Minocqua, Wis.: Heartland Press, 1988), has an alphabetical list of towns and cities, the county in which they are located, and a brief history.
The earliest Sanborn map (see page 5) for Wisconsin in the historical society holdings is for 1883. An earlier one exists for LaCrosse in 1879.


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Almost No Teachers In District's Low-Performing Schools Considered 'Ineffective'
Lansing School District had only two teachers rated 'ineffective' over the past three years
For the last two years, every high school student in the Lansing School District received a letter from the district stating that all three high schools are on the state's low-performing watch list.
The letters are mandated after a school is designated as one of the worst performing in the state by finishing in the bottom 5 percent academically.
Yet, according to the district, the effectiveness of its teachers is increasing significantly while it has had more schools put on the state's low-performing watch list.
In 2009-10, the district had one school on the persistently lowest achieving list. That number increased to two in 2010-11 and then eight in 2011-12 and six in 2012-13. The 2013-14 list of low performing schools will be released later this month by the Michigan Department of Education.
In 2011-12, the Lansing School District rated all 887 of its teachers as "effective" — the second highest of four ratings available. In 2012-13, 337 teachers received "highly effective," 456 received "effective," 20 received "minimally effective" and 1 received "ineffective."
In 2013-14, 363 teachers received "highly effective," 301 received "effective," 16 received "minimally effective" and 1 received "ineffective."
In 2,382 teacher evaluations from 2011-12 to 2013-14, the district found only two teachers to be ineffective. The percentage of top-rated "highly effective" teachers has increased from 0 percent to 41.4 percent to 53.3 percent over the same period.
Lansing School District Spokesman Bob Kolt and Superintendent Yvonne Caamul Canul did not respond to requests for comment.
Leon Drolet, chairman of the Michigan Taxpayers Alliance, said this is an example of what happens when laws are passed involving the education establishment and the political class: Politicians can say they are making reforms and schools can say they have highly effective teachers.
"You get perverse outcomes that reward the politically powerful," Drolet said. "Kids are not getting a good education while teachers are told they are highly effective. This works for everybody but the kids."
Editor's Note: The three Lansing high schools did slightly better on the Mackinac Center for Public Policy "Context and Performance" report card which adjusts test scores to socioeconomic status. Two of the schools were given a "C" (average) and the other a "D" (lowest 30 percent).
See also:
Dozens of School Districts Consider All Teachers the Same
Less Than 1 Percent of Michigan Teachers Rated 'Ineffective'
Failing School Ranks Every Teacher and Principal 'Highly Effective'
Failing Schools Able to Mark Themselves Up to a Passing Grade
State Gives Failing Schools Perfect Grades For Paperwork
State Says Schools in 'Distress' Are Making 'Adequate Yearly Progress'

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It was nearly 8 p.m. on January 20, 2007, when Rodolfo Rincón Taracena signed off on the final version of his piece detailing a criminal gang preying on cash-machine customers in Villahermosa, capital of the southeastern state of Tabasco. The chain-smoking 54-year-old crime reporter took a call and headed out the door, telling his editor at the state's largest daily, Tabasco Hoy, that a source was picking him up. He would be back tomorrow, he said. He never returned.
Rincón is among seven Mexican reporters who have vanished since 2005, a tally nearly unprecedented worldwide in 27 years of documentation by CPJ. The ranks of the missing include aggressive young reporters and seasoned veterans, the owner of a tiny biweekly and a crew for a major television broadcaster. Only Russia--where seven journalists disappeared in the mid-1990s while covering an insurgent war in the republic of Chechnya--has experienced a comparable period of disappearances.
Mexico is already one of the world's deadliest nations for journalists, with 21 killed since 2000, at least seven in direct reprisal for their work. But the spike in disappearances suggests a significant shift in the dangers facing the Mexican press. Throughout much of the decade, journalists in Mexico were shot in broad daylight on city streets or their bodies left in public plazas. Drug traffickers and criminal gangs are believed to have been behind the vast majority of these slayings and their very public message to the press was clear: Beware.
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With the rise in disappearances, analysts say, either organized crime groups are changing their tactics or, more likely, a new type of perpetrator is at work. Relatives and colleagues of several victims said in interviews with CPJ that they believe local public officials played a role in the disappearances. In at least five of these cases, CPJ found, the missing reporters had investigated links between local government officials and organized crime in the weeks before they vanished. They include reporter Alfredo Jiménez Mota, who broke major stories about the web of corruption among drug runners, police, local prosecutors, and state officials in the northern city of Hermosillo.
Although the disappearances have occurred in every corner of the country, all have happened in corridors through which billions of dollars in drugs are smuggled into the United States. In these areas, corruption has permeated all levels of society. In the case of a two-man TV Azteca crew that vanished, crime reporter Gamaliel López Candanosa was publicly accused of having ties to local traffickers--a charge the station disputed. Whatever the motive, cameraman Gerardo Paredes Pérez, a last-minute fill-in, appears to have been an inadvertent victim.
All seven of the disappearances remain unresolved today, and are without any apparent leads. Initially handled by local police, most of the cases appear to have been poorly investigated in the crucial early stages, CPJ found. José Antonio García Apac, for example, an editor in Michoacán state, was widely known to have compiled a list of allegedly corrupt officials before he vanished, yet local police never looked at that angle. Three of the seven cases are now overseen by local offices of the federal attorney general; only one is being investigated by federal authorities based in Mexico City.
Relatives of the journalists live in an emotional and legal limbo, unable to bury their loved ones, delayed in settling estates, prevented from moving on with their lives. Colleagues tone down their investigative work or abandon it altogether as these cases grow cold and fear settles in. The cases include the disappearances of reporters Mauricio Estrada Zamora and Rafael Ortiz Martínez, both of whom dropped out of sight after reporting on crime and corruption.
In a meeting with CPJ in June, President Felipe Calderón promised to support legislation that would make crimes against the press federal offenses. Congress is expected to debate such measures this fall. CPJ submitted specific recommendations that, among other things, would mean the cases of missing journalists would be overseen by federal prosecutors.
"The main source of danger for journalists is organized crime--and the second is the government," said Rep. Gerardo Priego Tapia, who heads a congressional committee on violence against the press and who supports federalization of such crimes. "The worst scenario for journalists is when organized crime and the government become partners. And in many parts of this country, they are completely intertwined."
Forced disappearances have been prevalent throughout Latin America's modern history, particularly during the 1970s and '80s, an era marked by right-wing dictatorships and civil war. In Mexico, disappearances have reemerged as a national phenomenon. According to a 2008 investigative series in the Mexico City weekly Proceso, at least 600 people have gone missing nationwide since late 2006, when the newly inaugurated Calderón deployed the army and federal police to wage war on organized crime. While many are optimistic that Calderón's efforts will generate long-term benefits, the campaign has disrupted the social balance, making corrupt officials more vulnerable to exposure and leading to a rise in both violent crime and the number of disappearances. In at least some missing-person cases,Proceso found evidence of government involvement.
Rincón was considered one of Tabasco's more dogged crime reporters. The day before he vanished, the newspaper ran a two-page spread in which the reporter described illicit "drugstores," or narcotiendas, run by traffickers. The story, which named several suspects, was accompanied by a map pinpointing these distribution centers and a photograph showing a family allegedly selling drugs. In his cash-machine story, Rincón specified where the criminals' safe houses were located. "It was his typical exclusive," said Roberto Cuitláhuac, the paper's crime editor.
No witnesses ever emerged, and investigators' one publicized lead--the discovery of human remains at a nearby ranch--did not take them to Rincón.
Olivia Alaniz Cornelio, his longtime girlfriend and a reporter at another Villahermosa daily, told CPJ that Rincón was accustomed to getting threats, but a call about a month before he disappeared had alarmed him. He didn't offer details, Alaniz said, but he urged her to stay alert.
Alaniz is skeptical that Rincón's disappearance is the work of drug traffickers alone. "It's more common for narcos to send a message with their victims," she said, noting that a decapitated head was once left on the doorstep of the Villahermosa-based El Correo de Tabasco. "There is no way that organized crime can become so powerful here and conduct their business without the help of corrupt officials. I think somebody set out to silence Rodolfo without a trace."
Many of the other reporters who have vanished wrote about the possible links between local authorities and organized crime. In 2005, as drug trafficking swept Mexico's northern border states, the editors of El Imparcial, a leading daily in Hermosillo, Sonora, recruited a young reporter who had broken stories of organized crime in the neighboring state of Coahuila.
Alfredo Jiménez Mota, a 240-pound one-time boxer, was aggressive and ambitious, said his father, also Alfredo Jiménez. He went for the big names, exposing crime rings and the public officials he said were linked to them. According to his editor, Jorge Morales, he also made plenty of enemies.
Jiménez angered officials at the state attorney general's office by hounding them about dropped investigations, and he drew the ire of the police chief when he looked into alleged links between the department and local drug traffickers, CPJ found. Morales said he often urged Jiménez to drop his byline for safety reasons, but the reporter was insistent to the point of threatening to sue El Imparcial if the newspaper did not credit his work.
In the days before his disappearance, though, Jiménez appeared rattled, and he told several colleagues that he was being followed, Morales said. On the evening of April 2, 2005, he postponed dinner plans with a co-worker so he could meet with a "nervous source," the editor said. His parents, who have been briefed by authorities, said they were told that Jiménez went to a burger restaurant to meet the deputydirector of the local prison, Andrés Montoya García. Montoya told authorities he later gave Jiménez a ride to a convenience store, dropping him off at 10:30 p.m.
That was the last known sighting. El Imparcial said it had obtained Jiménez's cell phone records, which show that he made calls later that night to numbers belonging to the prison official; a local deputy prosecutor named Raúl Fernando Galván Rojas; and a third person the paper could not trace.
Montoya and Galván were investigated and cleared by federal authorities, Morales said. Both resigned shortly after Jiménez disappeared and have dropped from public view. Neither could be located for comment for this story. Officials in the federal attorney general's kidnapping unit, which has handled the case, did not respond to CPJ's repeated requests for comment. The case is the only one of the seven that has been directly overseen by the federal attorney general in Mexico City.
The case took a startling turn in June, when Sonora Gov. Eduardo Bours made public a letter that sought to link his government to the Jiménez case. Allegedly written by one of the captors, the letter details the reporter's supposed kidnapping, torture, and murder, and implicates several local officials, as well as the governor's brother.
Bours vehemently denied any involvement in the case and called for a new investigation. Though Morales and Jiménez's father doubt the letter's credibility, they do believe that Sonoran authorities could have colluded with local crime groups in the reporter's disappearance. Jiménez wrote about drug trafficking, Morales said, "but it all led to local authorities."
One crime analyst notes that the spike in disappearances could simply reflect a change in tactics among crime groups. "The impact of a journalist's death has a short duration," says Raúl Fraga Juárez, a journalist and security expert at the Universidad Iberoamericana. "But if a journalist goes missing, uncertainty will always linger."
Others point a finger more directly at local officials. Samuel González Ruiz, a former organized-crime prosecutor for the federal attorney general's office and a security adviser to the United Nations, believes the disappearances could reflect the entanglement of local authorities in criminal operations. "There are parts of Mexico where you can't distinguish between local police and criminals, and it has become very dangerous for journalists who report on this situation," he said. While proof is scarce, he acknowledged, "I have no doubts that local police are involved in the disappearances of journalists."
For her series of reports on the overall phenomenon of disappearances, Proceso reporter Gloria Leticia Díaz spoke to several people who said their loved ones had been dragged away by uniformed men they believed to be with the military or the police. Officials at the Public Ministry replied by saying that anyone could buy a uniform.
Map out the states and cities where journalists have gone missing and a clear pattern emerges. All worked in states that are key trafficking corridors for smuggling cocaine, heroin, and marijuana from Colombia and Mexico into the United States. Violence in Guerrero, Michoacán, and Nuevo León--three states where journalists have gone missing--has increased as powerful criminal groups, including the Sinaloa and Gulf cartels, fight for turf and retaliate against those who stand in their way, whether they are soldiers, cops, or even the doctors who attend to wounded rivals.
Until recently, Nuevo León and its wealthy capital, Monterrey, were considered safe. But in early 2007, violence spread as the drug gangs, including the Gulf cartel's enforcement arm, Los Zetas, battled for control of Monterrey and its nearby drug route into Texas. The emergence of well-financed criminal groups brings with it a rise in corruption at many levels of society--including journalism. In a 2006 report, CPJ cited numerous professional sources as saying that journalists had accepted bribes, or "chayote," to skew their reporting or spread drug traffickers' messages to the press.
When a wave of execution-style murders struck Monterrey, Gamaliel López Candanosa, a correspondent for the national broadcaster TV Azteca, sprang into action. Soon, crime reporters began noticing that López, known locally as "Gama," always seemed to arrive first at crime scenes. In an April 2007 interview in Crucero, a local online publication, López said jealous colleagues had been spreading false rumors that he was complicit with Los Zetas.
On May 10, 2007, López and camera operator Gerardo Paredes Pérez had finished a piece on the birth of conjoined twins at Hospital Universitario in Monterrey and were scheduled to head to their next assignment, a report on abused children. No one has reported seeing the journalists or their Chevy compact, marked with the TV Azteca logo, after they wrapped up the story at the hospital.
Nuevo León Prosecutor Luis Carlos Treviño Berchelman told local legislators in November 2007 that López had gone missing as a result of the reporter's links to organized crime. Pressed by TV Azteca to present evidence supporting the charge, Treviño retracted his statement and has never again addressed the issue.
A local journalist who spoke on condition of anonymity told CPJ that in the months prior to his disappearance, López purported to be a messenger for Los Zetas, telling reporters what to cover and what to ignore. "He told me not to worry, that these were good people who wanted to work in peace," said the journalist. "Gamaliel told me to do as they said."
TV Azteca managers did not return repeated calls from CPJ seeking comment for this story, and relatives of López could not be located for comment. Paredes did not ordinarily work with López, and colleagues do not believe he was a target.
In Mexico, a missing-person case is generally considered a state crime. Typically, local police handle the initial investigation and then hand the case over to the state attorney general's missing-persons unit. As with homicides, cases can move to the federal level under certain circumstances--if the victim was a public official, if the crime involved military-style weapons, or if the disappearance was linked to organized crime. But investigations can be botched--or, worse, the crimes covered up--in the initial stages, when local police are in charge.
In early 2008, Congress approved several measures designed to overhaul the criminal justice system. Witness protection programs were created, rules were established to improve the hiring and training of police officers, and forensic equipment was designated for purchase. "These are exactly the type of changes we need," said Macedonio Vázquez Castro, a criminal law expert at the Mexico City-based Center for Criminal Policy Studies and Penal Sciences. But the system still faces massive problems, among them the fear and intimidation that criminals instill in citizens and law enforcement officials.
Vázquez said conflicts of interest inevitably arise when local police investigate cases that involve organized crime. "The situation law enforcement officials face on the ground can be extremely challenging," Vázquez noted. "My feeling is that if there are no positive results, if the investigation is clearly going nowhere, then there is a clash of interests somewhere. I mean, what can we expect people to do when there are criminals on the loose with their guns cocked and loaded? Corruption can result from greed--or survival."
On July 8, 2006, Rafael Ortiz Martínez, a reporter for the daily Zócalo, based in the capital city of Monclova in the northern border state of Coahuila, was last seen leaving the newsroom at about 1 a.m. He had just finished editing material for a radio news show he hosted. Somewhere in the three-minute car ride from the paper's offices to his apartment, Ortiz and his company vehicle, a cherry-red Nissan Tsuru sedan, vanished.
Days later, Coahuila Gov. Humberto Moreira Valdés announced that there was enough evidence to believe that drug traffickers had kidnapped Ortiz in retaliation for his work. But two years later, a state police official in Monclova, speaking on condition of anonymity because he is not allowed to comment on investigations, told CPJ, "We have no leads."
Sergio Cisneros, Zócalo's editor in 2006, said Ortiz did not ordinarily investigate organized crime or drug trafficking. "For safety concerns, it is the paper's policy not to cover those issues," Cisneros said. But journalists in Monclova told CPJ that Ortiz had recently reported on a conflict between local taxi drivers and Los Zetas.
In Ciudad Acuña--where Ortiz worked as an investigative reporter for Radio Felicidad until six months prior to his disappearance--he detailed labor abuses in nearby mines, described the workings of local prostitution rings, and named regional drug lords, said Osiris Cantú, director of the local daily Zócalo de Acuña. Friends of the reporter, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation, said Ortiz received numerous death threats, some related to his criticism of a local council candidate.
Early in the investigation, authorities searched Ortiz's home, reviewed his articles, and attempted to locate his car. But the investigation went cold. The Monclova officer claimed that Ortiz's family and colleagues were unwilling to cooperate with investigators. Zócalo's new editor, Pedro Pérez, put it a different way: Interviewed by police once, he said he refused to be interviewed again after the officers in charge of the investigation told him that police had lost the original case files.
Mystery also surrounds the case of Mauricio Estrada Zamora, a crime reporter for the daily La Opinión de Apatzingán, located in the western state of Michoacán. He went missing on February 12, 2008, after leaving the paper's offices at about 10 p.m. to head home. The next morning, his car was found parked, its doors open and engine running, in the neighboring municipality of Buena Vista Tomatlán. Estrada's laptop and camera, along with the car's stereo, were missing.
The investigation appeared to get off to a strong start. The Michoacán state kidnapping unit dispatched a search helicopter to Buena Vista Tomatlán. Local police interviewed Estrada's family, including his wife and brother. They spoke to the five members of the newspaper staff working when Estrada left the office. "They asked us if Estrada had ever been threatened and about the last few articles he published," said María de la Luz Uyuela Granado, the paper's editor-in-chief.
Soon after, according to CPJ interviews with editors of La Opinión de Apatzingán, Estrada's family learned that the reporter had recently been involved in a disagreement with a Federal Investigations Agency (AFI) operative, someone nicknamed "El Diablo." The investigation, by then in the hands of the local office of the federal attorney general, appeared to slow and eventually come to a halt, the editors said.
Sara Salas, a spokeswoman for the federal attorney general, said investigators could not identify an AFI agent known as "El Diablo" or make a connection between Estrada's disappearance and a federal agent. They dismissed any link at all to a criminal group, she said, before turning the case back to local police.
In several instances, relatives have sought to investigate cases themselves, working with civic groups and organizing friends to distribute leaflets. "Families feel alone and isolated from the authorities. There is often little contact between them," said Coordinator Alma Díaz of the Asociación Esperanza (Hope Association), a group based in the northern state of Baja California that assists families of missing people, including that of Alfredo Jiménez Mota. "The message families get is: no body, no crime," said Díaz. She urges relatives not to stay silent. "They can't let fear overcome them."
In the central-western state of Michoacán, Rosa Isela Caballero, wife of missing journalist José Antonio García Apac, is pressing authorities to step up their investigation. García, founder and editor of the Tepalcatepec weeklyEcos de la Cuenca, stopped on the way home to call his family in Morelia around 8 p.m. on November 20, 2006. Could he bring home groceries, he asked. While on the phone with his son, García was overheard responding to men asking his identify and then demanding he hang up. Sounds of García being dragged away were heard before the line went dead.
García reported regularly on organized crime in Michoacán, where drug-related violence has soared in recent years. Weeks before his disappearance, Ecos de la Cuenca published articles about violence between cartels and collusion among local police and hit men working for drug traffickers.
In an interview with CPJ, Isela, the mother of García's six children, said she has made dozens of trips to the attorney general's office in search of answers. She asked, for example, whether calls could be traced from García's cell phone, which he was using when he was apparently abducted. Salas, the attorney general's spokeswoman, said phone records turned up no leads.
Sylvia Martínez, the García family lawyer, also demanded to know if officials investigated a list García had compiled of Michoacán officials he believed were linked to organized crime. Isela said that her husband took that list to the federal organized crime unit in Mexico City in May 2006 for corroboration--a move other Michoacán reporters considered very risky considering the high level of corruption within Mexican law enforcement agencies.
Isela said that Michoacán state authorities told her that line of investigation was not followed because there is no record of García's visit to the organized crime office. Salas said federal authorities had no comment on whether the lead was pursued. Based on other, unspecified information, she said, authorities concluded that García's case was not connected to organized crime.
In July, Isela was informed by Michoacán state authorities that García's case had been put on hold. "I don't want them to forget the case," said Isela. "More than anything, I want to know whether or not he is dead."
Isela continues to publish Ecos de la Cuenca when she can, although it now runs mostly local government news. No longer are there stories about organized crime or anything else that could trigger controversy. "Only my husband could do that type of work," she said. Her goal is to keep the paper alive in memory of her husband. On the upper right-hand side of each edition, she runs a small black-and-white photo of García, with a caption demanding that authorities solve the case. "This is what he would want me to do," said Isela. She lives on about $100 a month from the paper, support from her three eldest sons, and funding from the Rory Peck Foundation, a U.K.-based press freedom group.
Bit by bit, Isela is recuperating. After long bouts with insomnia, she is sleeping through the night. She is regaining the weight she lost and is beginning to run again, something she and García did together. She is also surrounded by five sons who live with her in a small house on the outskirts of Morelia, the Michoacán capital. "They are my support network and have gotten me through this," said Isela. One of her remaining wishes is to have a special place for remembering García. She often visits her mother-in-law's grave and imagines that García is there as well.
In other disappearances, colleagues are shaken. At Tabasco Hoy, where Rodolfo Rincón Taracena worked, the newspaper's staff has made adjustments. On a recent afternoon, crime editor Cuitláhuac sat in the chair Rincón once used. He and his staff of four crime reporters agreed that Rincón's investigations were dangerous, but they also said that he took precautions. He varied his routine, did not take street cabs, and used the company car whenever possible. Today, the four reporters follow the same safeguards, but they will not follow in Rincon's investigative footsteps.
It's unsafe enough, said Manuel Antonio Ascencio, to be alone in a car, going down some back road. Ascencio refuses to increase the risk by undertaking an investigative piece. Fellow reporter José Angel Cintro Domínguez admitted that he once liked crime reporting because it put him in the "middle of the action." But now he stands back and watches as organized crime in Tabasco goes unreported. "The government is supposedly fighting all of this and we are supposed to cover it," said Cintro. "Are we supposed to just leave everything unreported?"
Cuitláhuac supplied an answer. "That," he said, "is exactly the psychological effect the criminals want."
Monica Campbell is a freelance writer and CPJ's Mexico City-based consultant. María Salazar is CPJ's senior research associate for the Americas.


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EPA Recognizes Sacramento's La Valentina Building Complex for Smart Growth Achievement
Release Date: 02/04/2014
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SAN FRANCISCO – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recognized Sacramento's La Valentina building complex as the Built Projects winner of the 2013 National Award for Smart Growth Achievement.
The National Award for Smart Growth Achievement recognizes communities that use innovative policies and practices to develop in ways that protect the environment, provide housing and transportation choices, and strengthen their economies. Seven projects will be honored at an awards ceremony in Washington, D.C. on February 5.
"The winning projects show us that we can develop, grow local economies, and protect public health and the environment all at the same time," said EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. "These projects also act as models for others, so they too can chart their own path toward healthier, more sustainable communities."
Lying vacant for over 20 years, the area surrounding the Alkali Flat/La Valentina light-rail station in downtown Sacramento was known for crime, blight, and contamination. In 2007, a public-private partnership between the city of Sacramento and Domus Development brought together community groups to address neighborhood concerns and create a new vision for the area. From that vision came an affordable, mixed-use building complex—La Valentina and La Valentina North—that has cutting-edge energy-efficient features, bike parking, and is located next to a light-rail stop.
The La Valentina project achieves the goals of the Sacramento Region Blueprint, a 2004 EPA Smart Growth Award winner, to accommodate population growth while mitigating factors that contribute to climate change. California's 2008 Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act, or SB 375, is the nation's first legislation to link transportation and land use planning with climate change. SB 375 requires regions in California to develop Sustainable Communities Strategies like the Sacramento Region Blueprint and encourages projects like La Valentina throughout the state.
The 2013 National Award for Smart Growth Achievement recognized five winners and two honorable mentions in the following categories:
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Atlanta Beltline Eastside Trail/Historic Fourth Ward Park, Atlanta BeltLine, Inc., Atlanta, Ga.
· Corridor or Neighborhood Revitalization – Winner
Historic Millwork District and Washington Neighborhood, Dubuque, Iowa
· Plazas, Parks, and Public Places – Winner
Charles City Riverfront Park, Charles City, Iowa
· Policies, Programs, and Plans – Winner
GO TO 2040, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, Metropolitan Chicago, Ill.
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La Valentina, Sacramento, Calif.
- · Policies, Programs, and Plans – Honorable Mention
Lower Eastside Action Plan, Detroit City Planning Commission, Detroit, Mich.
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Via Verde, New York City Department of Housing Preservation, The Bronx, N.Y.
EPA created the National Award for Smart Growth Achievement in 2002 to highlight exceptional approaches to development that protect the environment, encourage economic vitality, and enhance quality of life. In the past 12 years, 61 winners from 26 states have shown a variety of approaches that states, regions, cities, suburbs, and rural communities can use to create economically strong, environmentally responsible development. EPA's Office of Sustainable Communities manages the awards program.
More information on the National Award for Smart Growth Achievement: (https://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/awards.htm)
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Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg decided to give a thumb's up to Friendsheet, a Facebook app that essentially mimics the layout of social bookmarking darling Pinterest.
Friendsheet takes photos from one's Facebook news feed and puts them in the Pinterest-esque layout of small panels, like images stuck to a pinboard, according to Mashable.
Zuckerberg pushed the "Like" button on the app Tuesday and its likely that the app that debuted in January will have renewed interest -- because Zuckerberg has around 12 million followers on his Facebook Timeline.
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"The goal was to take Facebook photos, and turn it into a visual experience while maintaining speed, performance, and a great, intuitive experience," Friendsheet creator Zachary Allia wrote on Facebook.
It's not surprising that Zuckerberg singled out the app. Although he's a member of Pinterest, he sees the social bookmarking site has something that Facebook needs to copy if it hopes to keep its users glued to the social network. An app like Friendsheet might be able to do that.


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Porter hosts breakfast for after-school program
Astros manager and wife Stacey involved in community through S.E.L.F. Foundation
HOUSTON -- A pair of kids who benefited from the presence of the Bo Porter S.E.L.F. Foundation at their school took the podium early Monday morning in downtown Houston and told a sold-out crowd of about 200 people how much the foundation's after-school program has meant to them.
That brought a smile to the face of the Astros' manager, who started his foundation with his wife Stacey. The foundation has been touching young lives in Houston for nearly two years. The Porters have been involved in mentoring and coaching young student-athletes since their days at the University of Iowa, where they met.
Monday's Opening Day Breakfast at Vic and Anthony's Steakhouse, half a block from Minute Maid Park -- where the Astros and Yankees will begin their season Tuesday night -- featured Astros bench coach Dave Trembley and former Astros and Yankees general manager Bob Watson as keynote speakers, and it served as a reminder of how important it is to give back.
Jeannine Porter, principal of Key Middle School in Houston, said the Porters have made a big impact at her school with the after-school program, which promotes sports, education, life skills and faith (S.E.L.F.).
"I can't say enough about Stacey and Bo Porter and the work they've done to come into Key Middle School and influence our kids in a positive manner," she said. "From the first time I met both of them, I knew that it was worthy of a great working relationship.
"One of the things that we really spoke about was exposing our kids to other factors. A lot of them aren't able to get outside of the neighborhood they live in, so what Stacey and Bo have been able to do by coming in and bringing in others to speak to the kids and share their stories has been phenomenal this year."
Two students from Key talked about the impact of the program, which runs daily from 4-6 p.m. after school. The first hour is focused on academics, and the second hour promotes life skills -- as well as athletics -- and gives students a safe haven. Key is one of three middle schools at which the Porters began an after-school program this year.
"Now that we're in school and they're starting to get the information fed to them day in and day out, the impact in which it's having [is big]," Bo Porter said. "There were probably 50 or so kids the first week, and as time started to go more and more, you're up to like 150, because more kids are starting to talk about it."
Trembley, a former high school teacher in inner-city Los Angeles, said the chance to impact young lives is something those in high positions should take advantage of.
"You make a difference in one person and now you're going to make a difference in another person, and I think what you have to do is let people know, especially young people, that you care about them," he said. "That's why we're here. That's what Bo Porter and Stacey are all about. Not only in this community, but people that live here and people that are going to come here long after us."
Watson played 19 years in the Major Leagues, including 14 with the Astros, and he was twice named to the National League All-Star team. He became the first African-American GM in baseball history when the Astros named him to the post in 1993, and three years later, he became the first black GM to win the World Series when the Yankees captured the Fall Classic.
Watson grew up in Los Angeles idolizing Dodgers players John Roseboro, a catcher, and Tommy Davis, a left fielder, and he was impacted by them as a teenager when they came to speak to him and his classmates at Fremont High School -- which produced baseball stars Eric Davis, George Hendrick, Chet Lemon, Gene Mauch, Bobby Doerr and Bobby Tolan, among others.
"You never know who you're talking to, you never know how you're going to impact them," Watson said. "I want to be a positive influence on everybody I met, especially young people. I know what John Roseboro and Tommy Davis meant to me; and personally, talking to me, what it's meant to me in life. When [Bo Porter] asked me to do this, I said, 'It's a little early for me nowadays -- I'm getting up there in age -- but for you, I'll come do this.'"
On Tuesday, the Porters will play host another Opening Day Breakfast event at Vic and Anthony's, with S.E.L.F.'s major donors and corporate sponsors. The keynote speaker will be 1993 Heisman Trophy winner and former NBA player Charlie Ward.
Porter announced Monday that Hall of Fame slugger Frank Robinson will be honored by the foundation at the second annual "A Legacy Lasts Forever" gala dinner on Nov. 13. The inaugural dinner last fall honored longtime Iowa football coach Hayden Fry, who coached Porter.


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I walk out to my backyard in the wee hours of the morning and hear a hummingbird hanging out in the neighbor's weeping willow… search out and find her (him) … I feel so grateful I have had that moment. Or when I watch a flock of noisy Pine Siskins scavenge through the yard after I had put out some suet. I feel so grateful that I had the money to buy the suet to feed the birds so we could see and enjoy them frolicking in the yard.
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Most of you know, I love my flowers from the moment they bloom until they go to seed. Watching the process makes me so thankful that I have a yard in which to discover these miracles. And I love that I can photograph them and discover all kinds of secrets. When I see my 13+ hydrangeas blooming, I think to myself, "How could I be so lucky?"
The last 4 years have held many nervous moments. Not life-threatening like my sister's breast cancer (I can happily say she is doing fine) or Heather Von St. James' brush with death before the birth of her daughter.
Losing a job can be life altering, scary, but not insurmountable. I had my crying fits of fear and questioned what my life's calling really was. I had my family in my corner behind every tearful fear and knew they were cheering me to my next goal, whatever that might be.
I was thankful I had freelance work so we could keep our house and pay all our bills. But I was really thankful I had the extra time off to spend with my mom when she was really sick and we were spending every other day in ICU. I'm so glad I could be here with her when she was at her worst. I have said many times, God gives you what you need and I needed some extra time to spend with my mom.
Then my son and his fiancée decided to move back home to pay us rent, help us out while I was unemployed and give up their temporary, yet expensive independence. Before we all knew it, we were all expecting a grandchild. I was in shock at first, because they were so young. My husband was the most positive of all the adults in the house. He looked at me and said, "many have gotten through this and so will we". Of course, he was right. Being much older parents than most, we might not have experienced being grandparents. But here we are, and we have had the pleasure of holding, loving, changing diapers of our own granddaughter. From two people who found each other so late in life, that thought we would not be married or ever have kids … I think that is a big reason to be really, really grateful.
We were so happy to welcome our granddaughter, Mason, into this world in October 2013.
So here we are, seeing in 2014 before we can even digest the events of 2013.
Maybe that comes from being "old" … it all goes so fast. Four generations are living in one house, experiencing all of life's "ups and downs" together. Giving each other comfort in love, humor and support.
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Built environment companies have again failed to feature on Stonewall's Workplace Equality Index, leading the campaign to warn of stifled output
Architecture does less to promote sexual diversity and tackle homophobia than banking and the armed forces, a leading gay rights campaign group has warned.
Stonewall said lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) employees' productivity could be at risk as it singled out architecture and the construction industry for failing to keep pace in the drive to support sexual diversity.
The criticism came after architecture and built environment companies once again failed to feature in its annual Workplace Equality Index of 100 leading firms.
Top 10-ranked companies included heavyweight consultancy Accenture, closely followed by the Home Office and computing giant IBM.
The league table started in 2005 and is based on a ranking of companies efforts to improve sexual orientation equality. Transgender rights are not covered by Stonewall's remit.
Chris Edwards, who joined the charity as client manager in 2010 after six years at CABE says: 'When I was working at CABE I found it depressing that there were so few built environment-related organisations working with Stonewall.
'There are no planning firms, no architecture or landscape architecture firms. Many of the other sectors are so well represented and it just seems there's an obvious gap.'
In addition, only four built environment companies are participating in Stonewall's Diversity Champions Programme, representing just 0.6 per cent of the 627 participating organisations. Edwards argues this is disproportionate when 12 per cent of the UK's workforce is employed in the construction and property sector, suggesting it highlights a wider reluctance in the construction industry to address sexual orientation equality issues.
This could be having an adverse effect on productivity. Stonewall research has shown that lesbian, gay and bisexual employees are more productive when they feel they can be open about their sexual orientation in the workplace. 'There's a lack of appetite to tackle [inequality] and for whatever reason, compared with other sectors, [practices] just haven't yet cottoned onto the business benefit of tackling sexual orientation equality,' says Edwards.
'It's not just a nice thing to do that will make your gay staff happier, but it should be seen as something that affects the entire business, irrespective of sexuality.'
Without industry-wide statistics it is hard to judge the impact of homophobia on gay and lesbian architects. However, in this edition of AJ Dieter Gockmann, director at EPR architects, has revealed the impact it had on his early career (see interview, page 22).
Calls for greater recognition and support for LGB architects were heard at last month's Out in Architecture conference, organised by Architects for Change at the RIBA. One stumbling block identified by architects comfortably 'out' in the profession was homophobia in the wider construction industry.
Feix and Merlin director Julia Feix explained she had never been disadvantaged by being openly gay in practice, but said: 'Working in architecture, which is so closely linked with the construction industry, means that you are inevitably exposed to varying amounts of casual homophobia and sexism you would sadly naturally associate with the varying building trades.
'Sexism is in my opinion the more obvious problem if you're a woman in a senior architectural role; homophobia is more likely to be a problem for gay men.'
We have a long way to go yet
She added: 'London is a very easy place to be gay but I have sat in client-contractor meetings where jokes about a transgender employee were openly shared across the table, no one batting an eyelid at the clearly very offensive and discriminatory banter everyone just laughing along. It's moments like this when I realise we have a long way to go yet.'
Some conference delegates argued homophobic banter among clients or on site can pressurise lesbian or gay architects to keep their sexual orientation secret to avoid compromising potential business.
The issues are heightened when practices send employees overseas to more conservative countries. Andrew Best, a director at Buro Happold said: 'In some countries, homosexuality is illegal, even incurring the death penalty in some places. Companies need to think through policies around sending site architects abroad for prolonged periods.'
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The main content of this food is grain. Oats are a decent quality grain, but in flour form (in dog food, commonly a byproduct of human food production), this is a grain fragment we consider primarily filler. Moreover, grains are not a natural foodstuff for canines and dog foods should be based on meat rather than on grain.
The second ingredient is a named meat product. This is not a meat meal, but is inclusive of water content (about 80%). Once this is removed, as it must be to create a dehydrated product, the ingredient will weigh around 20% of its wet weight. As ingredients are listed in order of weight, it is thus unlikely that this is truely the first ingredient in the food, but would be more accurately placed much further down the ingredient list as a minor ingredient in the food.
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Yes, it's iPod update time, with new Nanos and Touches, and tweaked Shuffles and Classics all announced by Apple this evening.
Touch first. The iPhone-alike player finally gets physical volume controls on its side - now a mere 8.5mm thick. Like the iPhone 3G, the new Touch is not only slimmer but sports a curvier, shiny metal back and a speaker.
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Ditto the Shuffle, which is still offered in 1GB and 2GB versions, this time with a change of colours - Apple is favouring bolder, brighter hues this year.
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Apple said the new Nano offers 24 hours' music playback or four hours of video.
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The 8GB Nanos will retail for $149/£109 and the 16GB versions for $199/£149 . Each model is offered in the same selection of nine rainbow colours. The 1GB and 2GB Shuffles are only available in five colours and cost $49/£32 and $69/£45, respectively.
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Linde Werdelin, always at the forefront of innovation, is now giving its customers around the world the chance to experience its new collection through the 'Test Set' option. A hassle free way that ensures the trial of a Linde Werdelin watch, for five days, from the comfort of one's home at no obligation.
As the only watch brand using analogue and digital technologies to their best advantage, the Linde Werdelin Test Set is a unique private viewing opportunity to put the functions of the Linde Werdelin watches and the Rock through their paces. By simply completing a short loan form on the LW website, Linde Werdelin will ship the chosen watch model plus the Rock to be experienced and enjoyed for five days. There is no obligation of purchase and the return of the set has been made hassle free for the recipient.
"Since the launch of the new collection earlier this year, we have seen a lot of interest from people around the world" says Jorn Werdelin, Managing Director and co founder of Linde Werdelin. "We wanted everyone to be able to hold our products in their own hands, feel the
craftsmanship of the watch on their wrist as well as how light and easy it is to use the Rock. The Test Set allows potential customers to have all that for five days no matter where they are situated in the world".
The Linde Werdelin new collection Test Set is available though www.LindeWerdelin.com (models subject to availability).
** For more information on the Terms and conditions of the Test Set option please visit www.lindewerdelin.com/Terms-and-Conditions
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"Thanks for all the messages! Congrats to @AnnavdBreggen! We were a super strong team today with @ellenvdijk and @marianne_vos," she tweeted Sunday.
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Italian cyclist Vincenzo Nibali, who was leading the men's race on Saturday, and Columbia's Sergio Henao both crashed. Nibali broke his collarbone and Henao fractured the upper part of his pelvis in a wreck.
French gymnast Samir Ait Said snapped his leg on Saturday, fracturing his tibia during the vault at the men's qualifying rounds.
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Cooper and Lawrence will star in an adaptation of Ron Rash's "Serena," reported Vulture, a Depression Era tale of infidelity and revenge set in North Carolina timber country. Here's the official synopsis:
The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton arrive from Boston in the North Carolina mountains to create a timber empire. Although George has already lived in the camp long enough to father an illegitimate child, Serena is new to the mountains—but she soon shows herself the equal of any worker, overseeing crews, hunting rattlesnakes, even saving her husband's life in the wilderness.
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An information leak was discovered in the Linux kernel when built with the NetFilter Connection Tracking (NF_CONNTRACK) support for IRC protocol (NF_NAT_IRC). A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to obtain potentially sensitive kernel information when communicating over a client- to-client IRC connection(/dcc) via a NAT-ed network. (CVE-2014-1690)
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