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Articles in the April 2009 Issue
- A Note from Sandra
- Have you told them lately that you appreciate their work?
- Child Nutrition Institute—Registration Deadline April 17!!
- Apply Now for Kitchen Equipment Grants
- Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program Update
- Plan to attend April Training on Special Diets, Standardized Recipes and Offer versus Serve
- Building for the Future with the CACFP
- Kids in the Kitchen
- Kids on the Move
- 12 Month Food Service Supervisor
The view out my window changes from day to day. The tulips have started to grow. The deer have visited and munched on them. It certainly must be spring.
We are very happy that Mark Moen has joined the CANS staff to fill the food distribution position upon Elaine's retirement. Mark most recently was employed at Sisseton School District as a business manager assistant and is familiar with the National School Lunch Program. Thank you, Elaine, for your work with us through the years and best wishes in your retirement.
This spring brings some routine and some new things. We are happy that we have a limited amount of stimulus money to assist schools in accessing equipment. You will see from the note inside and the announcement that priority must be given to schools with 50% or more students eligible free/reduced price. This must happen quickly on your part to request, ours to grant, and yours to purchase. Please get your applications in so we can get the money in the state distributed. We also have received additional funds to bring some more food into The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP). This program serves soup kitchens and food banks.
We expect to be able to award about the same number of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program grants and again, priority must be given to schools with 50% or more students eligible free/reduced price.
Feeding children in the summer is also on schedule for a number of agencies. Most are using seamless summer or Summer Food Service Program. A few are using Special Milk Program. Please contact the CANS office if you need help finding out about and deciding which program would be best for you in the summer. It's not too late – if your agency decides to offer meals in the summer yet in April or May, give us a call and we will get you started on the agreement path.
A number of training events will occur in April through the summer. Take advantage of the opportunities to refresh your knowledge. Think you know it all already? Try this – draw a picture of the front of a penny without taking one out to look at it first. More challenging than we might think and we know how many pennies we see in a year! Sometimes we just need another look at or to hear the requirements and recommendations again and also take advantage of the opportunities to network with others in the same position.
- Workshops on Special Diets the week of April 20
- Workshops on Offer vs. Serve and Standardized recipes the week of April 27
- Child & Adult Care Food Program Basics and Plus in May and June
- CN Institute May 31 – June
What are you planning for next year? Don't wait for it to happen – start thinking now. "You may be on the right track – but you'll get run over if you just sit still." – from Kaplans Cheers.
Have you told them lately that you appreciate their work?
Child Nutrition Employee Appreciation Week
Some might think giving compliments just gives folks a big head and we should avoid it. Just think of the last time someone told you 'thanks' in some manner. While it made you feel good inside, I bet your hat still fit! Folks need to hear that their work is appreciated. May 4-8 is Child Nutrition Employee Appreciation week. The School Nutrition Association has designated this one week each year to honor child nutrition employees. Think of some creative ways to celebrate just how special your employees and co-workers are and let them know you're thinking of them. The School Nutrition Association website has ideas at http://www.schoolnutrition.org/. Look for CNEAW 2009. You do not have to be a member to get to that site.
Certificates of appreciation are available from Child and Adult Nutrition Services for long-term employees to be honored or those that are retiring. Certificates can be requested at 10 years and at 5-year intervals after that (15 years, 20 years, etc.) Certificates for retirees can be requested at any time. You can request a certificate of appreciation for the employee by providing the name, years of service, and school/agency where they are employed. You can include years of food service at other schools or agencies, also. Be sure to note who the request should be sent back to and if you need it by a certain date such as for a retirement party.
Written requests should be submitted so we are sure the spelling is correct. Submit the request to CANS by April 15 to the attention of Shar; by email to firstname.lastname@example.com, by fax at 605-773-6846, or use our mailing address of 800 Governors Drive, Pierre SD 57501-2235.
Child Nutrition Institute—Registration Deadline April 17!!
Have you made plans yet to attend Child Nutrition Institute? This year's Institute is May 31-June 5, 2009 on the campus of Augustana College. Registration deadline is April 17, 2009. Information including prices, class descriptions, daily schedules, and times along with the registration blank in the quick links box at http://doe.sd.gov/oess/cans/index.asp
Remember that Track 5 has been opened up to include teaching staff, nurses, and administrators…anyone who has an interest in creating a healthier school environment. The 30 hr. track includes wellness policy requirements, the HealthierUS School Challenge, the 2005 Dietary Guidelines, teaching nutrition from the cafeteria, and blowing your own horn (promoting the good things that school nutrition does). 2 hours of DOE Renewal Credit has been approved for this class.
For those of you who have already registered be watching your mailboxes in the next few weeks as you will be receiving a confirmation letter that explains what to bring with you, what Track we have you registered for and times for on-site registration.
Please contact Shar VenJohn at 605-773-3413 or by email at email@example.com or Janelle Peterson at 605-280-4278 or by email at email@example.com with any questions.
Apply Now for Kitchen Equipment Grants
A prime opportunity for schools to obtain or replace equipment is available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. If you need funding to replace old equipment with something more energy efficient, obtain new equipment to improve the quality or safety of the program, or expand the program, this may be of help to you. Any SFA may apply but we must give priority to schools with 50% or more eligible free/reduced price meals.
This is on a very fast track, so be ready to move quickly to apply and to complete the expenditure.
- Applications are due May 15.
- Grants to qualifying SFAs will be announced no later than June 8, 2009.
- Grant recipients should to fully expend their NSLP equipment assistance grants within three (3) months of the award.
Focus of SFA Grants:
In order to make the most effective use of the NSLP equipment assistance grant funds, the equipment procured through this grant should incorporate one or more of the following four focus areas:
- Equipment that lends itself to improving the quality of school foodservice meals that meet the dietary guidelines. (e.g., purchasing an equipment alternative to a deep fryer),
- Equipment that improves the safety of food served in the school meal programs. (e.g., cold/hot holding equipment, dish washing equipment, refrigeration, milk coolers, freezers, blast chillers, etc.),
- Equipment that improves the overall energy efficiency of the school foodservice operations (e.g. purchase of an energy-efficient walk in freezer replacing an outdated, energy-demanding freezer),
- Equipment that allows SFAs to support expanded participation in a school meal program. (e.g., equipment for serving meals in a non-traditional setting or to better utilize cafeteria space)
SFAs will be required to follow all Federal, State and Local procurement laws when purchasing equipment under these grants.
Access the Application
The grant application is posted on the Department of Education's Web site at http://doe.sd.gov/stimulus
You can also access the grant application from the CANS website http://doe.sd.gov/oess/cans/ in the central Quick Links box. Contact the office at 605-773-3413 if you cannot access it and we will mail.
Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program Update
~2009-2010 FFVP Elementary Schools
will be announced on April 20, 2009~
The USDA Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (FFVP) provides fresh fruit and vegetable snacks to elementary children throughout the school day. The SD FFVP Application must be postmarked by April 8, 2009. Reviewers are hard at work reading and scoring the applications. Priority must be given to elementary schools that have 50% or more free/reduced price eligibility. Funding is based on $50-$75 per student. South Dakota's allotment for the 09-10 SY is approximately $800,000.
Selection criteria for the FFVP includes:
- You must be an elementary school
- Operate the National School Lunch Program
- Submit an application for participation
- Have 50% or more of your students eligible for free/reduced price meals
Schools will be notified by mail. A list of schools will be posted on the FFVP website at http://doe.sd.gov/oess/cans/FFVP/index.asp after April 20, 2009. You can also read more about the FFVP at that website.
Question may be directed to Janelle Peterson at 280-4278 or email@example.com
Plan to attend April Training on Special Diets, Standardized Recipes and Offer versus Serve
Registration is open for workshops in Watertown, Sioux Falls, and Rapid City on
- Special Diets April 20, 21, and 23 (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday)
- Standardized Recipes and Offer vs. Serve April 28, 29, and May 1 (Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday)
Below is a description of the workshops. Please complete the registration forms for the sessions you plan to attend (one for special diets and one for the NFSMI training which includes Standardized Recipes and Offer vs. Serve) at http://doe.sd.gov/oess/cans/index.asp Registrations must be received by April 10th. For questions, please call 605-773-3413 and talk to Shar Venjohn.
Special Diets will teach participants about special diets such as allergies, food intolerances, diabetes, and celiac disease (gluten intolerance) as well as what accommodations are required by law and regulations. Best practices for keeping students safe from adverse reactions will be covered as well.
This workshop on special diets will be taught by Amy Richards, MS, RD, LN, Education Specialist with the Child and Adult Nutrition Services Office. Training length: 5 hours Offered in Watertown Monday, April 20th, Sioux Falls Tuesday, April 21st and Rapid City Thursday, April 23rd.
Standardized Recipes will be taught from the toolkit entitled On the Road to Professional Food Preparation. The workshop will include: standardizing recipes; weights and measures; portion control, recipe adjustment; costing,and determining component contributions.Training length: 3.5 hours. Offered in Watertown Tuesday, April 28th, Sioux Falls Wednesday, April 29th, and Rapid City Friday, May 1st.
Offer vs. Serve will be taught from the toolkit entitled Offer vs. Serve and will teach participants how to offer students choices that meet the reimbursable meal pattern for the food based traditional and enhanced meal patterns only. Training Length: 2 hours. Offered in Watertown Tuesday, April 28th, Sioux Falls Wednesday, April 29th, and Rapid City Friday, May 1st.
Two Trainers, Marilyn Hurt and Linda Godfrey, from the National Food Service Management Institute (NFSMI) will be in South Dakota to provide training on the above topics.
Hello, my name is Mark Moen. I have just joined the CANS staff in Pierre on March 24, 2009 and will be taking over Elaine Scott's position as Commodity Specialist. I have lived my entire life in South Dakota and graduated from South Dakota State University with a BS degree in Restaurant Management. My most recent position was with the Sisseton School District as business office assistant. I have been married to Michelle since June of 2000. We have two beautiful boys, Matthew 7 and Mitchell 4. We are looking forward to making Pierre our new home. I am excited to be here and look forward to meeting each of you in the near future!
Building for the Future with the CACFP
Upcoming CACFP Training Events:
The CACFP Basic workshops are designed for new staff that need to be trained in the basics of the CACFP. The basics class is limited to 25 participants per class. The CACFP Plus! workshops are designed for veteran staff that have a solid understanding of Program requirements. Pre-registration is required for all workshops. There is no charge to attend. For more information please contact Melissa Halling at (605) 280-2696 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
The dates and locations of the CACFP Basic training are as follows:
May 6 Sioux Falls Sioux Falls School District
May 13 Rapid City Youth & Family Services
June 10 Pierre SD Capital Lake Visitor's Center
The dates and locations of the CACFP Plus! training are as follows:
May 14 Rapid City Youth & Family Services
May 20 Sioux Falls Augustana College
May 27 Watertown Lake Area Technical Institute
May 28 Aberdeen Aberdeen Catholic Schools
June 9 Pierre SD Capital Lake Visitor's Center
Production Records Quiz Show:
In an attempt to help you avoid the most common errors we see during CACFP reviews we are using this as a way to educate agencies on the requirements for production records in the CACFP that are most commonly found as errors during program reviews.
Did you know?
- That the serving size columns must be completed for every age of child that is being served.
- That the serving size column must be completed for every menu component that contributes to the meal patterns.
- That the serving size column must be completed for any adult meals that you plan to serve.
Check back next month for more Quiz Show learning.
Munchie Crunch
Source: Physical Activities and Healthy Snacks for Young Children
Spread a whole grain rice cake with a tablespoon of peanut butter. On top of peanut butter, place 1/8 cup of thin slices of bananas, apples, kiwi, and/or strawberries.
Provides 1 grain/bread and 1 meat/meat alternate for 1 to 5 year olds
Calories, 175; Fiber, 2.4 g; Total Fat, 8.2 g; Saturated Fat, 1.7 g.
Snack Idea (1-5 year olds):
Serve 1 Munchie Crunchie with a glass of water
Seven Jumps
Source: Physical Activities and Healthy Snacks for Young Children
Arrange the children in a circle; they can hold hands facing right which will have them move counterclockwise. Choose music with a lively beat (polka, two-step, march, etc.).
Start the music. Move around the circle (slide, skip, gallop, fast walk, or run). Stop the music. Everyone will touch one knee to the floor for 10 counts, then stand. Start the music and move in the opposite direction around the circle. Stop the music. Touch one knee to the floor for 5 counts, the other knee touches the floor for 10 counts, then stand. Start the music and move the opposite direction. This movement continues and each round add a body part as follows:
- Knee
- Other Knee
- Elbow
- Other Elbow
- Stomach
- Back
- Forehead
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Closing Date: 4/24/09 at 12:00 p.m. CST
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Wagner, SD
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Application and Job Description Available: 605-384-3677
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As in previous years, we have taken a "bottom-up" approach to our work, gathering opinions from leading industry-based and academic commentators, across seven global sector groups.
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The Golden Boy of the Vendée Globe
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The Golden Boy of the Vendée Globe
SW: When and how did you take the lead after it was so close before Cape Horn?
FG: I think I was a little bit faster than Armel at the end of the Pacific when sailing with a gennaker in 25-30 knots of wind. I was sailing 1 to 2 knots faster than him for a couple of days, so I was 30 miles in front of him at the Cape Horn, which helped me to stay in the lead. After that, our strategies were a bit different after the Falkland Islands when Armel stayed a little bit more in the east and I took a more westerly route where I had stronger winds for longer than he did.
SW: When you were within eyesight of Armel and you continued to battle it out with him for first place, were you reminded of Le Figaro race?
FG: Yeah [laughing], a little bit, except in that race you have about 20 or 30 boats close to you and in this race, I could only see Armel's boat. But the constant pressure and the fight I had with Armel could be compared to what you experience in Le Figaro.
Gabart and Le Cléac'h battled it out for the lead until Gabart put some distance ahead between them after the Cape Horn. Photo: F.Gabart/Macif
SW: Can you describe how you are feeling? Are you able to have fun sailing?
FG: I am in good shape, and I am a little bit tired after sailing for two months. I am not as fresh as I was at the start of the race. If you are running a marathon, after 20 or 30 kilometers you are, of course, more tired than you were at the start, but this does not mean that you are running too fast, but are running at the right speed. I am in good shape and am trying to do all I can to race. And I am ready to fight for the final part of this race and am in good shape for it.
SW: Jean-Pierre Dick said the other day that he has experienced some emotional highs and lows during the race and has admitted that he has spent some time crying. Have you experienced emotions like that as well?
FG: Yes, of course. This race causes so many strong emotions … the feelings you have are stronger than they are when you are onshore; when you are happy, you are very, very happy and when you are sad, you are very, very sad. I was actually crying for joy at one point and was very, very happy. Sometimes, you wish you were onshore with your loved ones and you cry a little bit, but it is not bad, it is good.
Enjoying some olive oil a few weeks after the start. Photo: Gabart/Macif
SW: What has been the most difficult moment of the race?
FG: Conditions near New Zealand were difficult. The winds were strong and shifty. The winds varied between 20 and 50 knots. I would have preferred a wind of 50 knots if it were steady. The wind at one point reached 55 knots near Auckland Island. It is difficult to measure the size of the waves, but they were definitely powerful, which made sailing difficult.
I had two reefs in the mainsail then. The problem is that when the wind is unstable, you are very slow when you have three reefs at 20 knots and when the next boat is five miles in front, you have to have fewer reefs. So you really need to find a balance with a sail for low and high winds.
When the winds reached 50 to 55 knots near Auckland Island, I only had one reef in the main [laughing] and used either a fractional gennaker or reacher. But the wind only remained at 50 knots for five minutes. So, for five minutes I [focused] on steering and trying not to break anything.
I used the fractional gennaker until the wind reached 35 to 38 knots and then the reacher for stronger winds. I was running downwind. With one reef, you don't have much choice about where you want to go [laughing].
SW: So obviously, you were taking a risk?
FG: Yes, for sure. I mean the wind was just 25 knots a few minutes before and the wind was only at 50 knots for about five minutes. I could have had many breakages, and so yes, it was a risk. But like I said before, when you are sailing with three reefs, you cannot lead the Vendée Globe. You have to keep a good balance. Sometimes you have to keep some size in the sails for big wave conditions, because if you are going too slowly, slower than the waves, the boat can be at risk. Sometimes, you need to keep some size in the mainsail and the gennaker and make sure that you maintain 20 to 22 knots to navigate in big wave conditions.
SW: Your's and Armel's boats are among the fastest and newest in the fleet. How much have the newer technologies and design helped you to stay ahead in the race?
FG: This is difficult to answer. Sure, we both have very good boats. But I don't know exactly the performance advantages they offer. The Vendée Globe race officially started November 10, but for me, it started when I first began to build this boat, and it is certainly fast.
But it is hard to separate the boat from the skipper. In a way, I am part of the boat, and the boat is part of me right now. After sailing the boat for more than two months, we are now one. If I put my boat in the hands of someone else, he wouldn't use it in the same way that I do so.


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Message forwarded from Director of Friends of Stevens Creek
Dear Sunnyvale Trail Supporters -
Your support is urgently needed to get Sunnyvale's existing policy banning Stevens Creek Trail revised.
Item #2 of Tuesday January 27's City Council meeting is on the city's Policy Supporting Connections to Regional Bicycle Facilities. See http://sunnyvale.ca.gov/City+Council/Council+Meetings/2009/2009January/A... for more information. It appears as an item to study the existing policy. Our fear is that if the policy is merely referred for study, it will continue indefinitely. We strongly feel it is time to eliminate the anti-trail policy and officially recognize Sunnyvale's key role in making Stevens Creek Trail a successful regional urban multi-use trail.
In 1994 the City of Sunnyvale essentially banned building any part of Stevens Creek Trail within city limits (Policy 2.2.C.5). This was precipitated by a study that looked at putting a multi-use trail along the entire 3-mile stretch of the creek that forms Sunnyvale's western border with parts of Mountain View and Los Altos. Mountain View then continued to build the trail south on its own property from Shoreline Park to El Camino Real. They are now securing funding for a bridge to bring the trail over Highway 85 near Dale/Heatherstone, close to the Sunnyvale City limits.
Los Altos convened a task force and held public hearings to consider their section of Stevens Creek Trail, extending it from Mountain View to Cupertino. Their preferred route requires a short 1/8 mile section on the Sunnyvale side of the creek. To date the City of Sunnyvale has been unwilling to even consider this alternative because of the 1994 policy.
I urge all of you to voice your support for removing policy 2.2.C.5. Attend the City Council meeting if you can on Tuesday, January 27 at 7:00PM in Council Chambers at 456 Olive Avenue. The item is fairly soon on the agenda after the consent calendar. If you cannot attend in person, please email the council at email@example.com. Council members need to hear from their constituents that the residents of Sunnyvale support Stevens Creek Trail and want their city to join with the other creek-side cities to determine the best route and make it a reality. This is a critical time for the trail and your voice could make a difference.
Thank you for your support.
Aaron Grossman, Executive Director
Friends of Stevens Creek Trail
22221 McClellan Road
Cupertino, CA 95014
Thanks for posting this--I
Thanks for posting this--I just emailed the Sunnyvale City Council expressing support for the Stevens Creek trail. Paul
I've also written the
I've also written the Sunnyvale City Council in support of the Stevens Creek Trail. Thank you for the information. Please post any follow up from the City Council meeting.


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Aca Male Cocker Puppies
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We look like little snow toys and full of kisses and ready to play. Wish we could find a home as good as we have now. Maybe some kids to hold us.
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Male Yorkie around 4 years old and weighs 4lbs2oz
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The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association has announced the cancellation of all Massachusetts sectional swim meets.
Due to the blizzard predicted to hit the state today and Saturday, the MIAA has postponed all tournaments scheduled to take place this weekend. All swimming sectional tournaments have been canceled and will not be rescheduled.
"We regret that facility and time constraints prohibit the rescheduling of these events," the MIAA said in a statement released on its website Thursday afternoon.
"I've been working really hard for that time and was excited to go," Hoosac's Michaella Vecchiarelli said. "Then to find out two days before the meet that it's canceled for the weather ... it is really disappointing."
The state meet will go forward as scheduled on Feb. 16 and 17.
Western Mass. Division III wrestling has been postponed until Friday, Feb. 15. The two-day format will remain the same at Monument Mountain. That will also push back the state and all-state meet by one week, which now is the weekend the New England Regional tournament was scheduled. It's unclear what will happen with that tournament if not all New England states can participate, but if it's not delayed a week, wrestlers from Massachusetts will not be able to participate because of the all-state meet.
The cancellation of the Western Mass. swim meet will deny swimmers who have not qualified for states the chance to do so.
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"I have to lose weight and make weight," Greylock's Devon Pelletier said Wednesday before finding out the meet was pushed back. "I've really been focused on trying to make weight this time. I haven't wrestled in a single tournament this year."
The extra time will give him a chance to do so. Unfortunately for the swimmers, it won't be the same scenario. If they haven't qualified for states they will not get a chance.
"You'd think with planning a huge meet like this where there are upwards of 20 teams, they would have a backup," Vecchiarelli said. "You'd think they would push the schedule back rather than canceling an entire sectional competition."
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For the first time in Utah voting history, bilingual ballots are available in Salt Lake County.
"Federal law requires that if there's 18 percent, which is the magic number then they have to have the ballots in Spanish," says Tony Yapias with Utah's Proyecto Latino.
And Latino's in the 2010 census in Salt Lake County made up more than 18% of the county's total population.
Albert Rodriguez noticed that when he voted Tuesday.
"That's great because a lot of people can't read English and that's great they can come in here and vote," he says.
Rodriguez chose to use the English written ballot.
For Columbian born Johanna Bernal, it was her first time voting in the U.S. Bernal became a citizen in August.
"I'm glad to vote today because it's so important for me and my daughter," she says.
Bernal says she speaks enough English to read and understand most of the ballot.
"But some of those things are hard to understand," she says.
She voted in English because no one told her about the Spanish option.
"This morning when I go to the school the lady she never told me (about the Spanish option)."
Bernal says someone at the polling place helped her with the ballot.
Not everyone liked what they saw inside the voting booth.
"This is the United States of America," says Daniel Blair who also voted Tuesday. "It should be in English only. I fought for America and served in the military and we should all speak English here."
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Avis Yates Rivers, president and CEO of Technology Concepts Group International (TCGi), is the featured guest on The Growth Strategist ShowTM with Aldonna Ambler on September 26, 2011. Rivers will focus on changing a company's business model.
During the radio show, Rivers will discuss how TCGi has financed their growth in order to thrive during the current recession. She explains the company's approach to innovation and gives details of their method of attracting and retaining of top performers. Rivers ends the interview by revealing how an important acquisition solidified their new business model.
Avis Yates Rivers is the President and CEO of Technology Concepts Group International, LLC, (TCGi), an information technology solutions provider and full-service equipment-leasing firm. TCGi supports the public and private sector in the areas of technology acquisition, equipment financing, professional and technical services. The firm provides project and program management, business analysis and planning, implementation, and training.
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One of the former Antigo teachers convicted of possession of marijuana is now cited for operating a snowmobile while intoxicated.
Mark Incha, 46, was also cited for operating a snowmobile illegally on or near a highway and for refusing a breathalyzer.
The former special education teacher received a deferred sentence to the marijuana charge in September as long as he didn't commit another crime and cooperated with police.
Langlade County District Attorney Ralph Uttke says the snowmobile citations are not criminal, but ordinances, therefore will not count toward his sentence.
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Incha, was one of several Antigo teachers charged with possession of marijuana or more severe marijuana charges.
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Port Credit Yacht Club - Learn to Sail Manager
Port Credit Yacht Club
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David Looyen
Club Manager 905 278-7911 ext 222 Fax 905 278-2519
Start Date: Tuesday, January 01, 2013
The Port Credit Yacht Club, a premier club on Lake Ontario, is seeking application from experienced, qualified individuals for the position of Program Manager – Learn To Sail.
This is a ten month position starting January 2013 for management of the club's learn-to-sail operations. The successful candidate will be accountable for ensuring that a high quality of product and service is maintained and that all programs operate efficiently and according to budget. The successful candidate will be responsible for hiring the coaching staff, promotion of the LTS programs, implementation of CANSail programs and adult sail programs. You will also act as liaison between the club, Sail Canada and Ontario Sailing. This position requires a highly motivated, hands-on professional, with a minimum of five years experience in a club environment, whose energy, creative and interpersonal skills will ensure outstanding service to the membership and program participants. You will report to the Director – Learn to Sail, VC Fleet and the Club Manager and attend Learn to Sail Committee meetings.
Prospective candidates should hold the following CYA certification – LTS Learning Evaluator, Program Manager Module, current CPR and First Aid certificates, Boat Safety, PCOC, and ROC (M)
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I saw they demonstrate it at photoplus expo. There is some kind of app I do not know which one. Once the photographer took a pic, it will appear immediately on the big HDTV. very cool. Also can do live view shooting using that big HDTV. They do not use cable. so must be some kind of app using wifi.
Samsung Galaxy NX Hands-on
Preview based on a pre-production Samsung Galaxy NX Camera
Samsung has had broad success with the Android operating system in the smartphone and tablet space, and last year introduced a long-zoom camera with Android and cellular wireless capability. Samsung now brings Android to its NX mirrorless system with the Galaxy NX. The new camera uses most of the same essential elements as the NX300, including the NX lens mount, the 20.3-megapixel sensor, and DRIMe IV imaging processor, but it also includes a large 4.8-inch 921K capactive touchscreen, the largest display on any interchangeable lens camera so far, and several forms of wireless communication.
Samsung was the second company to announce an Android-based camera in 2012, but it was more ambitious than the Nikon S800c, which ran Android 2.3, while the Galaxy Camera ran 4.1. The Galaxy Camera also had a 4.8-inch LCD, and a wider and longer zoom, ranging from 23-481mm equivalent. What the Galaxy NX offers over the Galaxy Camera is interchangeable lenses, an APS-C sensor, dedicated processors, and a larger battery, among other things.
Samsung Galaxy Camera NX key features
- 20.3MP APS-C CMOS sensor (same as NX300)
- 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 kit lens
- 4.8-inch 921K LCD with capacitive touchscreen with Gorilla Glass
- SVGA electronic viewfinder with diopter control
- JPEG, RAW, RAW+JPEG capture
- Movies 1920x1080@30fps, 1280x720@60fps
- Built-in GPS +GLONASS (A-GPS supported)
- 16GB Memory, 2GB RAM
- MicroSD card slot supports up to 64GB
- 1.6GHz Quad-core processor
- DRIMe IV imaging processor
- Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean)
- 4360mAh battery
- Enhanced voice commands
- Advanced Hybrid Autofocus: 105 points on-chip phase-detect; 247-point contrast-detect
- Focus peaking
- WiFi a/b/g/n 2.4GHz, 5GHz
- Bluetooth 4.0 (LE)
- 4G LTE/3G HSPA+42Mbps cellular data
- Bundled with Adobe Lightroom
- 1/6000 second top shutter speed
- 8.6 fps
While it looks like an ordinary SLR or mirrorless EVF camera from the front, from the back the Galaxy NX looks more like a big smartphone. Samsung decided to rely primarily on the touchscreen for most settings, leaving only one dial on the back, which also serves as a button, the shutter release, movie record button, plus power and flash pop-up button, and the i-Function button on more recent NX lenses.
Though there is no telephone application, the Galaxy NX can run essentially any Android app, according to company representatives, including Skype, so there's potential to use the phone as a communication device. Of course, the primary form of communication intended with the Galaxy NX is uploading images and videos to servers and social media sites via its WiFi and 3G/4G cellular radio. The Galaxy NX can also transfer images to smartphones and tablets for storage, editing, and upload.
The advantages to a camera that is also an Android device are wide-reaching, potentially omitting the need for a computer, at least for the initial phases of a photoshoot. Application of filters and edits are limited only by the programs available on Android. Our initial impression is that the camera doesn't need a SIM card or contract to work.
The Samsung Galaxy NX Camera will come either body-only or kitted with an 18-55mm O.I.S lens. The new camera will work with all NX lenses, including the company's 45mm 2D/3D lens.
Dedicated processors
Unlike the original Galaxy Camera, the Galaxy NX Camera has two separate processors: one for Android (the 1.6GHz Quad-core processor) and one for images (the DRIMe IV), which promises to make both Android and image processing faster.
Size compared
The Galaxy NX camera is noticeably larger than the NX20, which also has an electronic viewfinder. The size increase is likely due to the considerably larger LCD, which literally dominates the back of the Galaxy NX, leaving no room for buttons and just enough for a slight thumb grip.
If you're new to digital photography you may wish to read the Digital
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Los Angeles faces Armageddon when a sinister looking spaceship settles over the city and begins projecting blinding columns of light onto the ground. Mesmerised city folk find themselves whisked into the air and into the hovering hulk. A group of upwardly mobile professionals watch terrified through the blinds of their 20-storey luxury block. It's essentially a hi-tech collision between Cloverfield and War of the Worlds in special effects maestros the Strause Brothers' visually stunning sci-fi thriller. Monsters roam the city's boulevards and stealth bombers scream through the sky as the unwelcome visitors take the city by storm.
- Directors: Colin Strause, Greg Strause
- Starring: Eric Balfour, Brittany Daniel, Scottie Thompson, David Zayas, Donald Faison
- Genres: Action, Sci-fi, Thriller
- More Info Read review on Sky Movies.com
- Release Date 2010
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A young girl stares at the photographer inquisitively near CatCat Village in Vietnam on November 12, 2013. (Maciej Hrynczyszyn/Flickr)
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Harsh red rocks meet soft blue waves in Phan Rang, Vietnam on November 12, 2013. (trendstravel/Flickr)
With the right infrastructure and the right attitude, says Carolyn Buck-Luce, societies can find benefits in a healthy older population. Panel discussion at Asia Society New York on Monday, September 30.
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Vietnam and the United States increasingly see a common interest in Southeast Asia. President Truong Tan Sang's upcoming visit to the White House is perhaps a harbinger of this budding bilateral relationship.
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Advantage Boating - Sailing School Director
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Ron Schute
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Start Date: Thursday, November 01, 2012
Company Overview:
Advantage Boating is a long established boat training facility that has provided excellence in boat training for the past 20 years. Its founding mission was then, and remains today, "to provide the best in boating education and on-the-water adventure". As Advantage Boating's primary place of business, Ottawa is home to one of the largest sailing clubs and training centres in Canada and boasts a very active sailing community. As a past recipient of the William Abbott Senior Trophy awarded by the Canadian Yachting Association for excellence in sail training, Advantage Boating prides itself on providing year round educational boating programs and after-training experiences for boaters of all levels.
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Upon performing a begin and commit/rollback on a local transaction around every entity bean call that isn't taking place in an official JTA transaction, the OpenEJB team sees the following:
Mar 9, 2006 11:19:48 AM org.exolab.castor.jdo.engine.DatabaseImpl.finalize
WARNING: An open database instance
(org.exolab.castor.jdo.engine.DatabaseImpl@a8f250:Local_TX_Database) against database: Local_TX_Database has been encountered. This instance will be closed now to release system resources. Please consider changing your code as well to enforce that all database connections are closed after use.SQL executed, but not closed:null
The code that does that is here:
OpenEJB is using local transactions which is LocalTransactionContext and:
1. The connection is closed immediately after commit()/rollback()
2. But the closeConnections() method is an empty, no-op impl.
So the DatabaseImpl.finalize method checks to see if you are using LocalTransactionContext and makes a point to reprimand you for not calling close, then the closeConnections() method of LocalTransactionContext does nothing anyway.
If you call commit/rollback responsibly on a DatabaseImpl with a LocalTransactionContext, calling close and the log message are unnecessary. Strangely, OpenEJB even runs into thread deadlock issues upon adding a close call after db.commit/rollback.
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Socially mediated ventriloquism--a series of live and recorded performances featuring artist T. Foley and Hector the Dummy.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
The HECTOR CAN'T TALK Talk Show
"The Waffle Shop's first talk show hosted by a ventriloquist dummy who's reticent to perform in public."
The HECTOR CAN'T TALK Talk Show features Pittsburgher T. Foley as the interpreter for a ventriloquist dummy who wants his own talk show, but is reluctant to perform in public. Foley is an artist already known for "throwing voices" via her cell-phone based public art project, Locally Toned (www.locallytoned.org). At midnight on Friday June 10th at the Waffle Shop in East Liberty, the artist will lend her ear and voice to Hector, helping him to get his start show business (while she mines content for new artworks).
Public participation will be encouraged during the one-hour show, en-restaurant and online, to crowdsource creative content for a new series of videos about issues of voice (to be later enacted by Foley and the dummy in a studio setting). The online audience will be invited to help script a video short entitled VENTWITTOQUISMs, by tweeting verbal responses to hashtags issued by Hector on various themes. The live audience will be prompted to participate on stage, as guests, helping the artist and the dummy prepare dramaturgy for STAND UP (a video featuring monologues poached from Craigslist personal ads). Select content developed within The HECTOR CAN'T TALK Talk Show will appear as part of Foley's contribution to the Gertrude's Lot exhibition in September at the Andy Warhol Museum curated by Eric Shiner (part of the 2011 Pittsburgh Biennial).
*Participate in the project (or follow the dummy) at twitter.com/ventwittoquisms.


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Lawyers filed a class action lawsuit against Apple and AT&T seeking $1.2 billion in damages because the iPhone is locked to AT&T's wireless network. The suit also notes that Apple will not allow unauthorized applications on the iPhone. Filed on behalf of Paul Holman in the State of Washington and Lucy Rivello in California, the lawsuit explains that in the United States the SIM chip is locked to the wireless carrier, not the hardware device. Damian Fernadez, the attorney who filed the state suit explains in court documents what Apple is accused of: Apple and AT&T both declined to comment on the story. Source: Macworld, DailyTech
seriously they cannot do this right? $1.2 billion! wow wont that be a like a massive chunk out of what the company is worth?
At least they're being realistic. Anything less than $1.2bn wouldn't really make up for all the hassle
Bollocks, Apple rip people off too much, normally i would i would back Apple up due to the retards buying a product with clearly defined specifications but the fact is if Apple loses it will act as the test case for all other phone manufacturers who are planning similar restrictions on their products so i would have to say this action is for the benefit of the consumer. Apple got away with the Ipod - Itunes saga but hopefully they wont get away with this one but i do hope the pay out is the sum of $1 only.
when you buy an iphone you sign a terms of use agreement. meaning you can only use the phone in the way it was meant to be used. if you dont sign the agreement you dont get the phone. if you break the agreement and it costs apple or att money you might hear from their lawyer. this lawyer sueing apple has no legal ground to stand on. people need to understand that when you buy electronics you arent allowed to hack them and then use them in a way that wasnt meant. most companies let this kind of behavior slide because it makes the company look bad picking on some teenage kid. but now that this particular lawyer has filed a massive class action lawsuit you can bet that apple will be even more protective of its property, meaning more enforcement of the agreements meaning less innovation by people hacking their stuff.
I want to know if the update 1.1.1 had a terms of use agreement that either was Accepted or was not allowed to install?? If thats the case its a whole new contract that people agreed to. Their bad, read the fine print next time! Right or wrong Apple is doing the same thing every other cell phone company is doing in the CDMA market. Sue them all or shutup.
I agree as well. Apple is not the first company to lock a phone to a carrier...people just make a big deal out of because its Apple, grow up people.
It's no different than the idiot women who spilled hot coffee on her lap while in a car, sued McDonalds and won millions. The court system is a joke and you have ambulance chasers at every corner who will try and push the legal system. I like Apple as a company. I don't like their practice regarding the iPod and iTunes. On this one they are in the right because if you don't like the terms then don't sign the contract. It's spelled out before the person even buys the phone. And as much hype as the iPhone got pretty much everyone who wanted one knew they were going to get locked into AT&T for 2 years. That's why I never bought one.
I want to see these dudes win, and watch all the people that got iPhones get checks in the mail as part of the settlement .
hrm...whats the next big thing coming out? buy it and then hack it and sue when it the company you bought it from says you cant do what you did.
No way in hell is this gonna work out like they want to. THis is so stupid. Suing a company over something like this.
I disagree, Apple shouldn't stoop to their level. We're dealing with very greedy people here who try to find reasons to sue people, no matter how ridiculously stupid their reasons are. Additionally, these people have already lost their money due to pure stupidity, they are locked out of a very expensive phone.
Drown someone in the water storage of your mars base. Sue their families for poisoning your water supply


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Fri. January 18, 2013BitchSlap! Comedy Showcase featuring Marga Gomez | San Francisco, CA |Presented By Great American Music Hall
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Also Appearing:Liz Grant, Eloisa Bravo, Natasha Muse, Karinda Dobbins, Priya Prasad, Hosted by Kimberly Rose Wendt
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The BitchSlap! Comedy Showcase features our favorite funny ladies! Marga Gomez headlines with Liz Grant, Karinda Dobbins, Natasha Muse, Eloisa Bravo and your host Kimberly Rose Wendt. Forget everything you think you know about females in comedy. These bitches are funny. Marga Gomez won both the SF Bay Guardian's and SF Weekly's Reader's Choice "2012 Best Comedian" award. Her television credits include LOGO's "One Night Stand Up." Marga is also the creator of nine solo plays which have been produced nationally, and Off Broadway. Her latest show "Not Getting Any Younger," received the SF Chronicle's highest rating in 2011.


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Jimmy White and Ronnie O'Sullivan go head to head in snooker exhibition
9:50am Friday 25th May 2012 in Theatre By Victoria Bull
Four-time world snooker champion Ronnie "the Rocket" O'Sullivan is due to play live in Fairfield Halls in a match against fellow legend "the Whirlwind," Jimmy White.
After having won the championship title again earlier this month, O'Sullivan revoked suggestions he was going to retire, which he had made during the semi-finals. Instead, he announced his intention to take a short sabbatical leave, much to the relief of snooker fans.
But with six months before he returns to the game, this one-off match with friend and former world seniors champion Jimmy White is a great opportunity to witness two stars of snooker go head to head. The evening will feature former snooker professional John Virgo as host and referee Michaela Tabb, who also oversaw the 2012 World Championship final. Snooker Legends, Fairfield Halls, Park Lane, Croydon, June 17, 8pm; call 020 8688 9291; visit fair field.co.uk.
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