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Under a chilly dawn sky, the Patty M sails through Burrard Inlet into Reed Point Marina in Port Moody. After setting sail from the coast of California, the 62-foot Nordhavn yacht has reached its new home.
Onboard the seven-figure vessel is the captain, a couple of passengers and the boat's new owner, Dale Barron.
It's May 1, 2010 and the crew has just endured a tumultuous 10-day journey through rough seas.
For the most part, the weather has been brutal, producing 20-foot-high gut-wrenching waves. The men onboard are seasick, including Barron, who is taking the motion-sickness drug Transderm to combat the illness.
Nonetheless, they have made it home and it's time for the boat and its crew to check in with customs officials.
It should be the final step in a long-awaited dream, but what follows - according to court transcripts obtained by The NOW of Crown and defence submissions regarding Barron's sentencing and of the judge's sentencing reasons - marks the start of an ordeal for the well-known developer that ultimately leads to a guilty plea in court, a hefty fine and the eventual sale of the Patty M.
It's 8: 45 a.m. that Saturday and Barron is getting an earful from a Victoria customs officer on the other end of the line.
He was supposed to head straight to a Canada Customs office in English Bay to check in, but was mistakenly told by someone from the agency back east it was OK to go to Reed Point Marina instead.
During the 28-minute call, Barron is told to stay on the boat.
"Someone is coming down to see you," the agent tells him. Within an hour, three Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) officers are at the marina to begin routine questioning.
Barron presents a bill of sale for $615,867 for the Patty M - which he intends to rename the Copper Raven - to an officer.
He also indicates he spent another $27,000 on extra work on the boat and shares the receipts.
But the price doesn't jive with the officer.
Barron is asked if he's applied any other payments, but sticks to his story.
"This is the total cost," he tells the officer.
Barron is questioned further, telling the officer the asking price of the boat was $1.1 million and his broker, James Gerbrandt, negotiated a deal for the sale price.
He then mentions a down payment of $100,000, but it only leads to more questions from the CBSA agents.
He's asked where the down payment is accounted for, but can't say.
Barron then calls his broker, who's in Alberta at the time. He asks the customs officers to speak to the broker, but they won't.
Instead, Gerbrandt, on the other end of the line, responds, "Fine. Just don't worry about it. There's nothing to worry about."
Clearly, there is a problem and the customs agents are suspicious.
By now, a total of 17 minutes has passed.
It's 10: 37 a.m., and the businessman decides to change his story.
"No, I paid $1.1 million for this," Barron admits. He claimed to customs agents: "And Gerbrandt has a second bill of sale, and he - he told me to present one, and so this is what I've done."
The boat is immediately seized and Barron is eventually charged with two offenses - making a false or deceptive statement and attempting to evade the payment of duties under the Canada Customs Act.
He pled guilty in Port Coquitlam Provincial Court in October to making a false or deceptive statement regarding the import of goods. The second charge was stayed.
In court, Crown said it couldn't prove Barron was intending to evade duties and taxes, because, it said, he was relying on a statement by a person he thought was a broker.
Gerbrandt was also charged with making a false or deceptive statement.
His case is still before the courts and his defence has not yet been heard.
Exactly how Barron found himself on the wrong side of the law involves a complicated scheme including a loose and ultimately incorrect interpretation of a major free trade agreement.
According to court transcripts of Crown and defence submissions on sentencing, Barron and his wife had planned for many years to buy a boat when they retired.
Barron founded Morningstar Homes in the late 1990s, eventually growing the business to become one of the largest home-building companies in B.C.
The company's single-family homes can be found right across the Lower Mainland.
The 58-year-old also served as president of the Vancouver Home Builders' Association in 2007. Barron is now semiretired and works in an advisory role for the company he founded.
That's where the Patty M and, allegedly, broker Gerbrandt enter the picture.
Barron says he met the former Vancouver lawyer turned occasional broker at a boat show in Seattle in the fall of 2009. Gerbrandt was allegedly advertising himself as someone who could help import a boat into Canada.
The man seemed knowledgeable about the process.
Barron went so far as to check references, and was given a recommendation by a reputable boat dealer in Seattle.
However, it was noted in court and the judge's sentence report that the CBSA had cautioned Gerbrandt not to hold himself out as a broker.
According to Crown and Barron's lawyer, Gerbrandt had come up with a plan for importing boats into Canada by breaking down the different components to avoid paying duty and had done so previously with some success.
Built in 2001 in Taiwan with some American parts and eventually shipped to the U.S., Rover, which would be rechristened Patty M, was a Nordhavn 62 - billed as the finest oceangoing luxury yacht under 70 feet ever produced.
And it appeared to live up to its billing, circumnavigating the globe under two owners by the middle of the decade.
Jeff Merrill was the listing broker out of California at the time the boat was for sale.
With a range of 3,000 miles on its fuel tanks, he said, the boat is a popular model, describing it as a "long-range ocean crossing trawler."
"It's for somebody who wants to have the ability to travel anywhere in the world," Merrill told The NOW.
In its early years, the Patty M ventured to New Zealand and Australia, Indonesia and Thailand, India, Yemen and Egypt, including a trip through the Suez Canal.
The yacht received upgrades in 2006 under then-owner Warren Rosendale.
It crossed the Atlantic and
navigated the Panama Canal, ending up in Newport Beach, Calif.
Incidentally, Rosendale was a California millionaire who now lives in Texas but made headlines in the Golden State for his part in one of the longest divorce cases in Orange County - it lasted more than 12 years. By 2008, the Patty M was up for sale.
At the time, the boat was listed for $1.675 million, according to a Nordhavn brokerage website.
Barron found the boat on the Internet in 2009 with the price significantly slashed.
With the decision to buy the boat underway, according to the Crown's case, Gerbrandt offered Barron a plan to pay less duty on the purchase by presenting customs officials with two bills of sale - one he called the base boat made in Taiwan, and the other for the American parts.
That way the owner could avoid duty on the American parts under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
The Taiwanese portion came to $615,867, while the U.S. side was $484,133, bringing the total to $1.1 million US, or $1.17 million in Canadian funds.
According to documents presented in court obtained through a search warrant as part of the case against Gerbrandt, Barron convinced the sellers to sign two separate bills of sale. The request even piqued suspicion from the sellers, who hired a lawyer on their end in California, paid for by Barron, to make sure the plan was not illegal, which it wasn't.
In fact, court heard that had Barron showed the two bills at the time he was questioned by CBSA officers when he entered Canada, he wouldn't have found himself in legal trouble.
But the Crown suggested, after discussing with NAFTA and CBSA experts, the interpretation allegedly given by Gerbrandt would be incorrect.
Although determining the origin of the boat is complicated, the parts can't be separated in the way proposed in the Patty M plan.
Barron would have likely been forced to pay duty on the entire undervalued amount - $484,133, which worked out to $74,612, plus another $38,195 in provincial sales tax.
But Barron presented just one bill to Customs.
It proved to be an expensive decision.
As a result of the guilty plea, Barron was fined the maximum of $50,000. Along with the duties, he was assessed a civil penalty of $124,577. Altogether, he was ordered to pay $212,994 to get the boat back after it was seized by CBSA.
It was noted in court Barron donated another $25,000 to the SHARE Family & Community Services Society as a voluntary gesture. It's an organization he had made donations to in the past.
Judge Deirdre Pothecary noted in her sentencing reasons that instructions sent to Barron from the co-accused attached only one bill of sale that was to be presented if asked.
"There is the additional factor that in the way that Mr. Barron dealt with the CBSA agent that he had been encouraged in doing so and in fact the script was more or less given to him by the co-accused [Gerbrandt] as part of the arrangement and contract that he had with the co-accused," the judge said.
"To be clear, that was not a script intended to necessarily willfully deceive CBSA so much as to follow through with a plan that had been developed that Mr. Barron had been convinced by the co-accused was one that might succeed and would save him a significant amount of money on the entry. Mr. Barron was prepared then to follow through with the advice and recommendation, notwithstanding that he knew that some of what he was saying to the CBSA officer was not true."
In handing down the sentence, Judge Pothecary wrote, "It is clear that it is fundamental to Canadian society and international commerce that there be appropriate commercial laws, essentially to protect both the home country and carefully regulate what items come and go within a country and what the appropriate costs are for doing so. It is for that reason that the penalties that are provided for in the legislation are substantial."
The judge also wrote the circumstances have been highly embarrassing to Barron, who had never been before the courts or had a criminal record of any kind.
Barron's lawyer Jeffrey Campbell spoke to The NOW on his behalf. He said his client has been "quite impacted" by the whole case.
"He's [Barron] not the kind of guy who's used to being in court proceedings. Otherwise, he's led a pretty exemplary life and it has had a big impact on him," Campbell said.
"That's part of the reason why he entered into an early resolution without going to trial."
However, Campbell was reluctant to speak about specific details of the case because Gerbrandt's case is still before the courts.
It was also noted in court that Barron sold the Patty M at a "great loss" because of the "negative things" associated with the yacht.
In a statement provided to The NOW, CBSA suggested the severity of the penalty is based upon previous case law the judge deemed appropriate, as the judge determined these offences should not be taken lightly.
"The CBSA would like to remind Canadians that all goods acquired while you are out of the country, including gifts, must be declared on your return home," the statement said.
"If you do not declare goods, or if you falsely declare them, border services officers can seize them. Smuggling, undervaluation and other Customs Act infractions may also lead to prosecution in a court of law, which is what happened in this case."
Meanwhile, Gerbrandt is due back in Port Coquitlam Provincial Court on Nov. 26.
He declined to comment for this story.
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Pervasive informational goods marketplaces
The online world continues to unleash an immense innovation machine where anyone, anywhere can create, share and add economic value through informational goods such as software, videos and music. In simple terms, an information good is a type commodity whose main market value is derived from the information it contains. Extensive academic literature has been written on the subject, its behaviours and unique properties.[1] Informational goods typically exhibit several key economic value characteristics. Namely they are:
1. Made by human brains
2. Made of pliable symbols
3. Consumption by one human does not exclude consumption by another
4. Almost costless to reproduce
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The original deal pioneer keeps on pinching pennies and cracking wise. No, that price isn't a typo. Go to Woot
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damn hella laggy =/
Finally got one (well, three) - super slow the whole way though...!
And hey, let's get together and have some fun, like a post-birthday birthday party. Maybe the week of the 21st?
I smell a woot-off!!
Ugh screwed again
booooooooooooooooooog of crooooop
Happy Birthday Woot! Thanks for the laughs and shirts and gizmos and cheese and monkeys and wine. We love you!
Awesome! Too bad woot is having issues with its server.
Woot I got in! HAPPY BIRTHDAY WOOT WE LOVE YOU!!!
Random carp ?HAPPY BIRTHDAY WOOT!
why doesn't woot like me
Happy Birthday Woot! Im in for 3 (hopefullly anyway, orders still processing, fingers crossed)
Wow Woot!, way to screw up my birthday by not letting me click 3...
I have a good feeling about this one... I've been wooting for over 3 years now and I think this might just be my first Blue Onion Casserole.
Woohoo, been awhile since I got in on a carp sale! Hope I get some goodies this time! KuoH
Ugh damn servers. I couldn't get it to accept THREE craps, so I settled on one before I lost my (slim) chance of a carp altogether. Still processing now.
Oh the humanity! SNAFU!!!!
My "I want 3" button wasn't working!!! Oh well, I'll take what I can get. 1 is more than 0 but less than 3
The IE page loaded my order form faster than Foxfire. Color me surprised. I'll have to take back all that smack I said about IE if my order goes through. On the negative side, I don't want to close the IE window while it's processing. Ewwww, IE. ...whoops.
welll, think i'm screwed.... but i think my girlfriend got an order in for one... shrug
so I guess woot! borrowed itunes servers
So not fair.. just getting the "server too busy" error.. I want a Blogging Old CEO
Processing and hoping... First night home in 2 weeks, it could be a good night!
Wow dont think im gonna score
in for 4
I spend 20 minutes trying to get the page to load and, of course, when I do the carp is gone. Alas, I'll never get a bag
The serve is going so slow... I hope it's accepting my order!!!!
Wooooo! in for one
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Yeeeehaw - in for THREE! Happy Birthday Woot!!!
noooooooo. I was so close!
really?!? my coumputer ran updates today and deleted cookies... i wasn't signed in... i started refreshing at 11:59 and never ever got the order page loaded after fighting to sign in.... I lost my spaghetti. =(!
what a crock of Manos, the Hands of Fate
this is total carp... i have a faster computer... faster internet... and i still cant get a single B O C.... arg. this makes me mad...
I think I got 3 ... running pretty slow tonight...over 25 minutes but server ain't crashed yet
WOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I did get's 3 bright orange crayons!!!
Happy Birthday Woot. Maybe this year your server will be potty trained! Missed out AGAIN
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A different story read each night just before bedtime
Nicky Campbell reads Ping and Pong are Best Friends (Mostly), by Tim Hopgood.
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brr, on Feb 9 2009, 02:39 PM, said:
Here an upsidown characters:
You must put it in C:\WINDOWS\Fonts
and in the PRIBLUDA.ini , change:
fontFace = Courier New in fontFace = upsidedown
Note: I found this solution to the problem with inverse characters in RSC, but RSC have web problems in this moment (our wish are that they can fix them soon).
But these are not too cute upsideown characters.
If someone have other better, please say.
Edit: Im forgoted to say how it worked in my PC.
Well... so fantastic! I feel as I were bought a new more great computer.
Detailed Bias move now to 100%!!
Mónaco Rocks: starting last with 18 AI: 32FPS. After the start, 35FPS at least everywhere.
Montjuic: 28FPS at the start in the same conditions; later 36FPS everywhere.
I have a XPSP2 in a AMDAthlon64, Dual Core 2.90GHz;
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APRENDE's objective is to "foster in Bolivian people a preventative culture which will contribute to responsible sexual behavior, which is healthy and free of risk, through diverse modes of education". As such, health education is APRENDE's institutional specialty.
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APRENDE achieve its goals through the following strategies: _Health Education:_ The Sexual Reproductive Health Trainers Program is made up of a team of trainers who instruct health professionals, university students, members of the armed forces, police officers, neighborhood associations and others regarding sexual and reproductive rights, prevention of STIs, contraceptives, and sexual violence. The educative services are carried out in seminars and courses. These programs are offered for free. _Information Hotline:_ APRENDE offers an information line (800-10-8662), an automatic, free, anonymous and confidential service, which provides information about alternative contraception methods and operates 365 days a year. Information, education and communication materials about sexual and reproductive health are distributed free-of-charge through national pharmacy networks, educational institutions, fairs, markets, etc. _Dedicated Resource Website:_ The web page utilized by APRENDE (www.aprendeaprevenir.com.bo) is a virtual space where youth are able to access up-to-date information regarding sexual and reproductive health. The site includes a library containing updated documents from the Organizacion Panamericana de Salud (The Panamerican Health Association), a space for frequently asked questions and answers regarding sexual and reproductive health, a blog, an open forum for user questions to which other users can respond (although responses are monitored and the APRENDE's medical team also responds), informational videos, and games related to sexual and reproductive health. APRENDE maintains agreements and alliances with the municipal government of La Paz to carry out integrated activities and health campaigns as well as with health department services, the army, the national police, and the public university of San Andres. The organization also maintains partnerships with private organisms such as Marie Stopes International, Red de Jóvenes Latinoamericanos Unidos en Respuesta al VIH/SIDA (Latin American youth network United in Response to HIV/AIDS), Aldeas Infantiles SOS (SOS Youth Villages), and the Centro de Información y Desarrollo de la Mujer (Women's Development and Information Center). APRENDE comprises an interdisciplinary team of 15 professionals (doctors, psychologists, social workers, communication specialists) who work in the cities of La Paz, and, through alliances, in Cochabamba and Santa Cruz. Those working in La Paz also cover the cities of Oruro and Chuquisaca. In the five years since the organization's inception it has reached a total of 413,684 beneficiaries.


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Elkhart County counsel: Rodinos China dealings dont constitute conflict of interest
Elkhart County Commissioner Terry Rodino allegedly profited from a deal that his business foes say stemmed from his duties as commissioner � promoting Elkhart County in China. So is he culpable, not just of an impropriety but of a criminal act?
Not so fast, says Elkhart County�s legal counsel and the attorney for Rodino.
�There was full and open disclosure to everybody by Terry on the issue,� Spencer Walton, his Mishawaka lawyer, said Wednesday, March 20. �It was straight up and open.�
Gordon Lord, the county�s legal counsel, indicated that the conflict-of-interest statute in question, as he interprets it, doesn�t apply to Rodino. The law, Indiana Code 35-44.1-1-4, states that a public official is guilty of a Class D felony if he or she profits from or has a �pecuniary interest� in �a contract or purchase connected with an action� of the governmental entity he or she serves.
As far as he knows, and he�s checked around, Rodino �has never directly or indirectly had a contract with county government while a county commissioner from which he could derive a pecuniary interest,� Lord said in an email Wednesday.
Sue Beesley, an Indianapolis lawyer who gave a public presentation on I.C. 35-44.1-1-4 to county leaders from across Indiana last December, described the sort of scenario when the law would come into play. If a county commissioner, say, owned an asphalt plant and voted to award a contract, as commissioner, to the company to do road work, that would a pretty obvious conflict-of-interest case.
Rodino�s case doesn�t fit that mold and it would be up to a prosecutor to determine if the law applies in his circumstances. �I really couldn�t comment without knowing all the facts of the case,� she said.
John Henning, lawyer for Amit Shah and Tim Dugle, estranged business partners of Rodino who are suing him in federal court over alleged mismanagement of several businesses they co-own, declined comment. But in their lawsuit, filed Feb. 14, Shah and Dugle single Rodino out in connection with the profits he made allegedly serving as middleman in the $1.63 million sale of five recreational vehicles made in Elkhart County to a Chinese company.
It�s just one of many charges in the suit, which Rodino has yet to formally answer.
Money to engineer the Chinese deal came, at least partially, from a pallet company Shah and Dugle own with Rodino and they indicate they were essentially short-changed profits from the transaction.
Notably, they charge that the complex web of deal-making in the RV deal and other instances constitutes a violation of the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO. Furthermore, they say Rodino used his position as county commissioner to secure the RV deal.
Rodino�s earnings in the RV sale, at least $104,779.90 as outlined in the suit, maybe more, stemmed from his efforts, as county commissioner, to promote to trade and cultural exchange between Elkhart County and Jinhua in China�s Zhejiang province, Dugle and Shah charge. Thus, the reasoning goes, he profited personally from his governmental duties.
Rodino has traveled to China at least three times since 2010 as part of his efforts to foster a China-Elkhart County connection and inked a sister-city accord with Jinhua.
Rodino has spoken publicly of his travels to China and efforts to promote two-way trade between Elkhart County and the country. In an open letter dated April 12, 2010, Stephen Akard, director of international development at the time at the Indiana Economic Development Corp., praises Rodino�s efforts.
�On behalf of the (IEDC), I am pleased to support the mission of Terry Rodino, president of the Elkhart County Board of Commissioners,� Akard writes. In the letter, supplied by Elkhart County Administrator Tom Byers, Akard goes on to tout China as an �important investment and trading partner for Indiana.�
Rodino has said he paid his way each time he traveled to China and county leaders have confirmed that. Likewise, Mike Yoder, one of his fellow county commissioners, has said he understood Rodino traveled there mindful of two things � promoting Elkhart County and potential business opportunities.
Walton, Rodino�s lawyer, emphasizes that Rodino never used county funds in his travels. Likewise, Lord notes that Rodino, as far as he�s been able to determine, never entered into any sort of financial arrangement with Elkhart County, which, as he sees it, is central in the conflict-of-interest law.
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I have been a pretty diligent lurker here for the past several years or so...with a few posts under my belt..anyway I am going to take the plunge in the next couple of months and purchase a house.
I have actually bid on two homes in the last three weeks, and jjust got word tonight that the bank isnt taking my final offer. The other house was owner occupied well priced house and there was another offer. I was outbid. Anyway, the area I am looking in SC (Tega Cay) is relatively small but within 20 miles of downtown Charlotte. The older section has all that I am looking for and advertised rents are screaming its a great time to buy (>30% over what PITI would be) The problem is it is a small area and of the homes that are for sale in my price range (lets say there are 30) 90% of them are overpriced. Of the remaining 10%, 2 I bid on, the other one my wife wont do because it has some radon issues.
My strategy has been to go without buyer representation, figuring that the listing agent would be sitting at his desk calculating what his commission would be if somehow my offer did go through..and then plotting ways in which he can make that happen. So far hasnt worked out in my favor.
But on to the question: Do you think this is a sound strategy?
Also, the bank wanted 3% earnest money deposit AND wanted contigencies to fall off on 12/31(30 days). I wasn't about to risk $6600 on getting financing to close within 30 days and all of the other title/inspection work done too...especially since I know no underwriter is going to be working from about December 15 on this month. They also wanted 10K more than I offered. Is this standard for a bank to ask for such a high earnest deposit and make it non-refundable after 30 days? I cannot believe anyone would risk 3% of the purchase price with no contigencies after 30 days...especially since the house needs about 20K of rehab work or so. (maybe more because it has plumbing issues of unknown severity) I countered that I would give that earnest deposit but contingencies would stay in place until the close...and they rejected. I am less worried about the ten grand than the contingency issues..I mean I wont go higher...but I am really more curious for the future. Will I be encountering taking such a huge risk with all REOs that I bid on? Is this something that this listing agent is doing or is it the bank? My last purchase was done with a earnest deposit of $750 I think, but it was a while ago (2002) and I knew the agent personally.
Also, does this seem as foolish to all of you as it does to me? This house has been listed for 70 days, just lowered 20K, they have an offer that is within 8% of their asking price and 4% of their counter offer, all the while it is the beginning of December so it is likely if I dont buy it, it will sit for at least a month before they get another offer and probably until the spring. Also, this listing agent is going to get about 13K if I buy it but another buyer who may come along in 1-3 months will probably have a buyers agent, so he will get 6500 then...and the average DOM in this area is about 200 or so...I cant believe they didnt take a 92% offer...I really cant.
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Prefabricated components for a 7,200-square-foot elementary school addition at the South Nodaway R-IV School campus in Barnard arrived Monday morning, and general contractor Lee Grover Construction of St. Joseph was expected to begin erecting the structure as soon as possible.
A small crew was on site as a large crane began to unload what will become the addition's steel frame. When completed the brick-and-corrugated metal structure will wrap around the existing high school and middle school perched atop a concrete pad foundation poured earlier this winter.
R-IV Superintendent Kyle Collins said the arrival of the structural components and completion of the pad means construction is back on track after slipping behind schedule late last year due to design issues.
The timeline calls for the six-classroom facility to be completed by July 21, though moving furnishings and equipment into the addition will likely begin a couple of weeks before that.
When it opens at the beginning of the 2013-'14 school year, the addition will replace an aging elementary school in nearby Guilford, which district officials say has become inefficient and expensive to maintain.
South Nodaway voters approved a $1.1 million bond issue last April to pay for the new construction. In addition to elementary classrooms, the scope of the project includes offices, a commons area and remodeling of an existing cafeteria and special needs classroom.
Collins said much of the kitchen gear, classroom equipment and furniture from the Guilford campus remains in good shape and will be moved into the enlarged school, which is slated to become the district's only instructional facility. Office furniture and other items will be replaced "as needed," Collins said, but comprise only a fraction of the bond funding.
The soon-to-be-closed school has long been the heart of Guildford, a town of fewer than 90 residents located 20 miles southeast of Maryville and five miles east of Barnard. The school has a reputation for academic success and was designated a Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education in 2009.
However, South Nodaway, which was created when the Barnard and Guilford districts merged in 1952, only has 180 students — about 90 each in elementary school and at the combined middle school/high school.
That, plus structural problems, rising transportation costs and high utility bills, simply made the Guilford campus impractical, the R-IV School Board reluctantly decided.
Though the closing of yet another rural school is always hard a community, Collins said the district's elementary pupils will be better served by a classroom complex designed for efficiency and broader access to technology.
"The teachers and staff have created a really positive school atmosphere over there, but the building itself has problems," Collins said. "We've already got a good school, we're just going to put it in a better building."
Page 2 of 2 - The need for improved technology resources was one of the factors that drove the decision to build new classrooms. The high school/ middle building went completely wireless a couple of months ago, Collins said, and the elementary addition will be Wi-Fi as well.
He said the upgrade will further the district's move toward a "one-on-one" technology model in which every student has access to a laptop, tablet or other portable Internet device.
To that end, R-IV recently purchased 13 new Samsung Chromebooks, which will be used to facilitate "paperless" school board meetings in addition to being available for students to check out.
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If anyone who isn't matt96 is Marvin, counterclaiming is almost certainly a good idea.
Assuming no counterclaims, voting for someone who has claimed is probably a bad idea. This came up earlier, and someone said we shouldn't necessarily believe the claim even without a counter, but we might as well wait. I'm inclined to believe the claim if nobody counters it. Even if the mods did leave a character out for cases like this, how would Matt know it was Marvin who had been left out?
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I still think you had been acting scummy, though, and that claim is the only reason my vote is now off.
So...now what? Unless we want to risk lynching cjquines, we've got very little time to lynch someone else. I suppose we could go for lynching one of the lurkers, but I'd prefer to leave that for if we actually can't find anything else.
So first, I'd like some comments about this:
This looks like it could be a convenient way to push a wagon without having to be get on it. Or it could be exactly what it looks like, but everyone else was willing to put their vote where their opinion was. I'm trying to picture how this comment would look from various points of view if Matt flipped town.mpolo wrote:I am not unhappy with this lynch, but just in case there are shenanigans connected with his L-1 comments, I am really content to let time run out here.
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Market freezes.
Ashley Webster is in Athens ahead of this critical vote he joins us -- -- good evening to you -- -- Athens is just -- 8 o'clock because just walk us 1 o'clock in New York so in 48 hours from now the polls will have closed in Athens and around Greece and -- the counting begins to say.
-- gets the most votes a critical vote one perhaps you could say that decides whether Greece stays in the Euro -- or not the question is.
Which party will carried the day when it will real -- -- -- the conservative new Democracy Party that's holding a rally right now as we speak.
In front of the parliament building behind me -- wanna -- the leftist party of the series a party led by Alexis zip brass who has.
Openly said that he will air route the bailout agreement already signed with the EU.
And that spells danger for perhaps the markets if Greece is forced out of the market out of the euros on something that the people of Greece say.
They don't really care to be honest life is very very hard right now they just want a government that could put them on the right course asked -- business owners.
And we've spoken to quite a few today they say it's just all about survival.
Very hot.
I paid little bit better now.
For some -- to tourism and so forth.
-- -- -- -- What you're hearing from the -- and we'll and the stories here in the little we're hearing.
And I headed -- -- -- -- felt funny and hot fill up by the data.
This is sitting -- looking at old.
Only euros in net profits did you remain very Leary way they spend their money.
When someone instead of being.
No -- did not know wondering where -- spending money and spinning off.
On -- that the -- made now that are actually.
Wondering where they're spending their money -- name is of value for money.
And those same business owners guys save Greece falls back to the drachma it will be complete chaos because that currency will be so -- valued.
The people would have a hard time affording any thing.
Which is.
Basically the case now so lots riding on this.
-- on -- Sunday who wins and what happens to Greece and the Euro zone as a whole and that the map -- The global markets as well so all eyes on Greece this weekend bacteria and -- stuff actually Webster.
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Nov 14, 2012
maine day 11: baxter state park
Our last day in Moosehead Lake, and in Maine. Breakfast began with an early start for coffee.
Creature! What ails you?
The coffee nook was quite adorable.
As was the breakfast room.
We sat outside on the porch with coffee and The Bangor Daily News until breakfast was ready.
Is that you, juice? Why yes it is. Grapefruit.
And seriously some of the most scrumptious pancakes with peaches and sausage that I have ever had.
After breakfast, we stopped in town to pick up a lunch to go for our hike...sandwiches at Jamieson's Market.
Which was right next to the Rod-N-Reel Cafe, which is where we we would be eating dinner later that evening. But first, we set off on our drive to Baxter State Park.
Duly noted.
We took the route we were not supposed to take. Going through Millinocket would have been easier, mainly because it's a paved road all the way until you get to the park. But no. We went the complete opposite direction on Kokadjo Road then ended up on Golden Road, a dirt road that is a working logging road. Did I tell you that I have no desire to be on a working logging road? I didn't even know if we were allowed on there for all I saw were signs that kept saying private, and our GPS kept telling us to "turn around when possible." But we forged ahead on this desolate and creepy Siberian-like road at about 3 miles per hour. For the next half hour! We saw two hunters on our way and we waved to them like idiots on a working logging road.
Finally, two hours later and much too late to really be doing any hiking, we reached the Togue Pond Gatehouse at the park.
The park area in general was not a welcoming place. No signs, no people, nothing but raw wilderness. And we got the feeling that they didn't really want anyone there to disturb it either. The informational pamphlet we were given screamed about everything it did not have: No running water, no facilities, no paved roads, no bringing in of firewood, no postcards, no trailers. What it did have plenty of? Bears. We talked to some rangers who told us that all the hikes we wanted to do would take us 7 to 8 hours. Great. But they recommended another one, Doubletop Mountain, that would only take us 6 hours. For some reason, illogically, we decided okay. Then it was another half hour just to get to the trailhead because of the dirt roads in the park.
Mortified of the predicament we were in, we began our hike, agreeing to turn around if it was getting too late. We started out at Slaughter Pond Trail. Lovely.
This is precisely how I felt.
We were in mixed forest, mostly dark and covered, on a small and rugged trail that was sloppy wet. We certainly felt spoiled by the gorgeous trails and views at Acadia. We cursed the trees, cursed them! They were never ending.
Yes, please. Let's get there. We were practically running on the trail to make up some time while fearing bears at every turn.
Adding to my delight were these brown frogs everywhere, jumping out of Matt's way ahead of me. Yuck.
And there were wild fancy chickens. Hopefully the bears would eat them.
This hike was not pleasant. It was hot. We were sweating buckets. It was steep and rough and extremely muddy, and crossing creeks was perilous and slippery. I wanted it to end! The trees just did not stop, so we couldn't even see where we were going and all of a sudden our map calculations seemed incorrect and our mileage trackers seemed off. I think they stopped working because the forest deemed it. Deemed it! Wicked. We kept going. Just a little more, we're almost there, I feel it! We must be near!
But we were far. Very far. Finally, a clearing after about three miles of hiking, and we saw where we were. And where we were supposed to head. We hadn't even reached the first peak, nowhere near the first peak. Nowhere. Near. And it was almost 3pm. Which meant, sadly, we had to turn around. And take the exact same way back. Misery!
The mountain defeated us. Defeat! On our last day of vacation. We made it out of there, back to our car, and back on the dirt road in the park.
Driving away, we caught a nice view of what we were attempting to do. Doubletop Mountain. It won.
We left Baxter State Park and began our two our drive back to Moosehead Lake and Greenville. This time, on the right road through Millinocket.
Need some logs? I know a guy.
Defeat is exhausting. At the Rod-N-Reel Cafe, the chili soothed all. I love places that serve chili like this. With sides that consist of rice pilaf, mixed veggies or mashed potatoes.
And salad like this with dressing like that. It somehow is perfect when you are perfectly famished.
Matt, unfortunately, was not too happy with his baked haddock and mashed potatoes that had a sheen of gravy that existed in another gelatinous dimension.
But I loved my fried haddock. And loved that U.F.O. mashed potato.
The next morning, I was feeling a severe case of the blues. It was the day we had to head back to New York City. I felt just like this heavy fog that was slowly rising from the lake.
Breakfast began with grapefruit juice and apple cider.
I will hide here forever. I will live with the moose!
Matt is very dubious of that prospect.
Frittata! And a sweet orange and cranberry muffin, fruit, bacon and potatoes. Love.
And just like that, our adventures in Maine were over.
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Okay. I want everyone to read this story and tell me what you think. Note that the article simply says things like "researchers" and "The expert" yet no reliable source is noted in the story. But like the saps that we have become, we will walk the earth for the next few days telling anyone that will listen that tuna is radioactive. Ugh . . .
Radiation from Japan's nuclear meltdown keeps hitting US shores: The latest comes in the form of the bluefin tuna, a massive fish that can top 1,000 pounds and which spawn off the coast of Japan and rocket 6,000 miles across the Pacific to school off of California and Baja California. Bluefins arriving on the West Coast five months after the Fukushima disaster showed much higher levels of cesium-134 and cesium-137 than previous specimens. "We were frankly kind of startled," one of the researchers tells the AP.
Underscoring that surprise is the time and distance involved since the bluefins were first exposed to the radiation—in which scientists expected they would have metabolized and shed much of the cesium. "That's a big ocean. To swim across it and still retain these radionuclides is pretty amazing," says the expert. The bad-good news: Though the bluefins' cesium levels were more than 10 times higher than normal, they are still considered safe to eat under both US and Japanese regulations. Scientists plan a more comprehensive study this summer.