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03/04/2008, Willemstad
We cleared out today and spent our last evening walking around the charming downtown area of Willemstad. The Renaissance hotel on the north side of the harbor entrance has made nice use of the old fort walls in their construction. We enjoyed some tasty crepes and ice cream on the ground of the fortress and spent our last hours in Curacao looking out over the sea as we walked along the fort walls.
03/03/2008, Willemstad
We had a big list to cover today prior to clearing out tomorrow. We had to get Roq and exam, pick up our mail from the US and do some last minute shopping.
The Vet we called was Dr. Geus. We met him at Sarifundy and he did the full exam and helth cert while we sat around and had colas. It was really wonderful and reasonably priced.
Poor Roq has had so many of these exams. Unfortunately many countries post requirements for a proper health certificate minted within the last 30 or 14 days or even from the last port in some cases. We have been advised that Roq (13) never needs another rabies shot, they simply will do no good anymore. Not that he can get Rabies, the contrary, he has had 13 years of vaccinations and can in no way come down with the disease at this point short of a fluke and the shots are making no difference.
This is all irrelevant to the bureaucrats passing legislation however. Oddly, in practice, no one has ever given Roq a second look or asked for any of our pet papers except Nevis and Kitts (who were maniacal about it). We have always declared him at customs but they just stamp the forms and that's that. We don't look for trouble in this department but we do keep Roq in the highest state of health and inoculation possible regardless. From what I hear Australia and Europe will be Nevis and Kitts all over again and then some.
After visiting with the doc we attempted to secure our mail. As I suspected the free ports of the ABCs are not so free of hassle when receiving one's mail. We always have a DVD or two in our mail and this really seems to confound the customs folks. After quite a go round I convinced them that the invoice Saint Brenden's Isle put on the box was all that we had and informed them that they could go through the packages one by one assessing their taxes as suited as long as we had our mail by tomorrow. They threatened to charge the video game fee on the DVDs if I didn't produce the invoice. I told them again that I had no invoice, that this was simply my mail, like any other American would get in their mail box and that if it meant getting my mail they were more than welcome to charge me the Video Game import rate (11% or something). That seemed to stump them, left with no other threats they agreed to charge me the max rate and have the mail ready by tomorrow afternoon.
In retrospect the only place we have ever been able to forward our mail with a few things from Amazon in tow without hassle has been the BVI. We haven't tried everywhere but the mail in the BVI was delivered right to our boat at Leverick Bay no fees and no questions asked. As crowded as it is the BVI has much to recommend it.
We shopped a bit in the area of the FedEx outlet back behind the main port of Willemstad and discovered a Sushi restaurant. It was alright by Japanese standards but quite a welcome treat for us.
03/02/2008, Curacao
Hideko and Em went out to explore the beach areas today while I worked on our passage plan. We plan to leave Curacao soon and then hit Aruba. After a short stay in Aruba we will then sail straight through to Cartagena Colombia.
It should take us about 48 hours and I have not been able to find a commercial Colombian Cruising Guide. There are some neat write ups on the net but from a navigational stand point I'm relying on Chris Parker's weather routing, the US Sailing Directions (targeted at big ships) and the paper and electronic charts we have. We have some friends in Cartagena now so they have been a big help also. We have been looking forward to visiting Cartagena for a long time so it is an exciting trip to plan.
03/01/2008, Spanish Water
Curacao is the best place to work on your boat in the ABCs from what I can tell. They have a small (but bigger than Bonaire's) Budget Marine, a good Napa and a lot of big ship services that can help in a pinch.
We took the bus the the area of town where Budget and Napa are located and picked up some parts we needed. After that foray we decided that a rental car might be in order. Things are far apart in Curacao and you will miss much if you stay holed up in Spanish Water.
We ended up trying Limestore Resort for the rental. The owner answered the phone and agreed to pick us up (quite a concession give our location half way across the island at the ex-Applebees restaurant). The car we ended up with was rough but perfect for bombing about Curacao. The rate was cheap and it was more like borrowing a car from a friend than checking out at Hertz. No detailed inventory of scratches on the car (it would have been hard to discern new from old) or up front payments.
The car, though running on its spare tire the whole time, served us perfectly and we saw much more of Curacao with it.
The Limestone resort is a neat little place with a small private beach on one of the deep fingers of Spanish Water. They have several little cottages and it is a place I would happily stay if I were to come back to Curacao by plane. Not fancy, but quaint and very homey and friendly. They have some boats and can arrange dive trips and lots of other excursions.
02/29/2008, Spanish Water
There are many neat places around Spanish Water. The main anchorage in the north west provides good access to transportation and the main cruiser hangouts in the harbor.
The south anchorage, my favorite, is quiet and less windy and also right across from the beach and dive shop (pictured). Other areas have their advantages as well.
Many cruiser hang outs have a special place that caters to the needs of the sailing wayfarer. In Isla Margarita it is Juan's Marina. In Curacao it is Sarifundy. At Sarifundy cruisers can grab food, get a drink, send and receive mail, do laundry, get all of the necessary info on clearance/transportation and provisioning along with various other conveniences.
Hideko and Em took a free trip to the market from Sarifundy's this morning and I met them later in the day for a nice light lunch and some cold drinks.
02/28/2008, Williamstad
We dinghied over to the Fisherman's marina this morning to look for transport into town. We ended up taking a bus from the circle a short walk away. The locals here are amazing, much as in Bonaire, they speak Papiamento, Dutch, Spanish and often English. With a little help from the locals we ended up in Punda, the south bank of Williamstad.
Our first order of business today was to clear into Curacao. While we always try to respect the laws of the countries we visit I must admit that we have found very few countries that care if you, or even give you the ability to, comply with the strict nature of the clearance procedures set forth. In fact the customs and immigration requirements often conflict. Only the captain can come ashore but the entire crew must be present types of things.
I know cruisers who press the officials for proper procedures, paperwork and promptness, these generally get hammered. There are also those who never clear in, these almost never have problems. We have found that making clearance the first thing you do ashore and bringing the entire crew along seems to be a practical approach acceptable to all parties. If they ask you to come back after lunch, go have lunch. If they are closed, enjoy your day and come back tomorrow. The bigger the boat the more detail oriented you need to be and if you are commercial (i.e. 120 foot motor yacht on charter) you should follow things to the letter. Most places just want to get the little pleasure boats out of their hair as quickly as possible. Exceptions would be the USA, back water bureaucracies, and island groups that make a living off of the small yachts.
The folks in Curacao were very nice but you do have to run around a bit to hit all of the stops. First is customs, a large corner building right on the waterfront with CUSTOMS written in huge letters across the top of the building. Stinky in there for some reason, but folks were great and services was fast. Next is Immigration, located on the other shore inside the inner harbor cruise ship docking area, back under the Queen Juliana Bridge (the really high one). You cross the innovative opening/floating Queen Emma poontoon bridge to get to the other side of town.
You have to get a pass to go down into the cruise ship port but service is good. After immigration you head across to the upstairs Port Captain's office. Like Bonaire everything is free. The hassle in Curacao is that yachts are really only welcome in Spanish Water. If you want to anchor out and about you have to clear your itinerary with the Port Captain. You also need to take care about timing your clearance out because immigration keeps shorter hours than the other two offices.
Hideko and Em shopped and looked around the town while I handled the paperwork. Once complete we had a nice meal in the impressive traditional surroundings of the Governor across from the cruise ship forum entrance. We had a fun day exploring town and took a cab back to the Fisherman's marina at the end of the day.
02/27/2008, Spanish Water
We made one last trip to our favorite cafe, Brasserie Grandi, for breakfast just before clearing out today. We left our mooring around 13:00 after finishing our business ashore. It is an easy four hour sail to Curacao.
We made a slow pass by Klien Bonaire on the way out to get a good look at the little island. It is very arid on the interior, like its big brother, but has some nice beaches and, as expected, it is surrounded by nice reefy dive sites.
We were leaving the Chris Doyle Cruising Guide coverage area for the first time in a long while. The Doyle Venezuela Guide also covers Bonaire but stops there. A new guide on all three of the ABCs was published just before we left Fort Lauderdale so we would be switching to that for Curacao and Aruba. The ABC Guide is great to have and is packed with good information but it is not as well laid out as the Doyle Guides (or perhaps we're just not used to the style). You have to dig through it a bit to find the approach navigation info, which IMHO should be the first thing in every section.
We made decent time, sailing in the 8-9 knot zone on the way to Curacao. Bonaire blocks most of the seas for a good bit of the trip and just when you start to get the full Caribbean seaway affect you round Curacao and get back into the flat island lee zone.
The biggest problem sailing to Curacao from Bonaire is the rhumb line can be dead down wind. We ended up jibing our way along the route. On our last Jib we were slowly peeling off the coast with the wind 150 degrees to port apparent. I don't like to go much deeper then 150 apparent due to the jib risk and the slow down that come with running. As we waited for the angle to make the entrance to Spanish water on our final tack we noticed the tour boat Mermaid heading our way.
Klien Curacao is a small satellite island southeast of Curacao. Mermaid does day charters there out of Spanish Water. We were sailing and they were motoring in a sea way so the bearing varied a bit but they seemed to keep coming at us over time. We kept a close eye on them but assumed that being a 60 foot power vessel, they would steer a little to starboard or kick down a couple knots if need be to allow a safe crossing. We were obligated to stand on, so we did.
Phase two of the colregs kicked in as they got closer and I began to consider trying to get out of their way. The problem was they were not really keeping a constant heading. I couldn't tell if they were going to try to go in front of us or behind us. It mostly just looked like they were going to go at us. I couldn't alter to starboard because we were sailing as deep as we could get, altering to port would be a bad idea, slowing down would be tough without reefing, having no power over the wind I couldn't speed up and other than radical maneuvers (which I quietly planned) the best course seemed to be to continue to stand on. They would certainly slow a bit to let us cross, right?
We'll the new guy must have been on the helm that day. Mermaid kept coming. I got on the VHF and hailed them on 16 three times to ask their intentions and make sure that they saw us (sail 72 feet off of the water usually work) but got no reply. They obviously wanted to go to Spanish water, where we were going, so rather than delay their trip 10 seconds and slow or turn to starboard they turned to port and kept coming at us. I was astonished. We were a sail boat, to starboard, less maneuverable, and the overtaken, any of which would have required them to pass astern. When it looked like they were actually going to ram us I got the crew ready to jibe away while I yelled at their bridge (we were close enough for them to hear me). I said, "sailboat/velero!!", and pointed to the sails, then explained, "we can't turn right!".
At this point they were 20 feet off of our beam and running parallel to us but not able to actually overtake. The tourists were shouting curses at us assuming that we were just some pesky pleasure craft in their way. I was just about to give the command to jibe when a scuffle took place on the bridge deck of Mermaid. An older gentleman came on deck looking a little shocked, waved his hands in apology at us and then began shouting creatively at the wheel house. Mermaid slowed and passed behind quickly. She was up to speed and back on course in moments. The ocean would be a safer place if people were required to learn the rules of the road prior to operating a vessel (particularly a commercial one!).
The entrance to Spanish Water is rather small and very hard to make out from off shore. Fortunately we had Mermaid to show us where it was. Once we could lay the waypoint we jibed and shortly there after watched Mermaid make the entrance. The entrance can be tricky with a break either side and some shallow water about. I would not want to try it in heavy weather.
Once in the straights we took in the beautiful scenery. The edges of the waterway that winds back into Spanish Water are rocky and steep and there are some tabled mountains in the area that give the route a dramatic tone.
Once inside Spanish Water is a very large complex of bays connecting and running back in rivulets through the hills. My guess is that 80% of the cruising yachts in the ABCs are anchored in here somewhere. The main anchorage was fairly crowded but we decided to give it a try because we wanted to be close to the docks that access transportation to town and the sun was dropping. Though you would have no waves in Spanish water even in a Cat 5 hurricane the wind does blow very strongly.
We anchored once is what looked like a spot but didn't like the potential swing with the yacht to port. Our second attempt put us a little to much in the channel. Fortunately a passing dinghy with some helpful cruisers directed us to a nice spot close to the fishing boat marina. We finally set the hook that would hold us for the next week at 19:00.


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Guess WHO attacked America will be a mystery... by design.
We get 4+ years of blame Bush but Allah forbid we blame the Messiah.... ?
You cry like a little girl.
You have to have a reason to blame someone. You know, actual facts that establish errors took place and something could have been done to avoid them. You don't do this. You just mindlessly blame Obama for a tragedy without any facts to establish why you do this. Don't you wonder why you have this innate hatred for all things Obama? You have no rational reasons... just a visceral prejudice... What could it be rooted in? Gee, I wonder...

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On this Memorial Day I want to say thank you to all the servicemen and women who gave their lives that all of us might enjoy the freedoms that we do.
We may not always agree with the reasons that our country sends these young men and women off to protect and defend us but they deserve our respect and appreciation none the less.
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Cleveland nears minor league deal with Ryan Raburn
DETROIT (WXYZ) - According to sources, the Cleveland Indians are nearing a minor league deal with free agent Ryan Raburn. The deal will likely be finalized next week and is expected to include a spring training invite.
Rayburn, who turns 32 in April, was released by the Tigers in November. He batted .256 with 54 home runs, and 216 RBI in seven seasons with the Tigers.


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Special to OneWed by The Charity Wedding, named Best Blog for a Cause in OneWed's Best Wedding Blogs 2011 competition!
There are a few short moments after you get engaged of pure happy bliss. And then you start the actual wedding planning... and stress begins to flood your mind. That's how it was for me anyway and why I came to the conclusion that I'd have to tweak the process to successfully plan my wedding. I've never enjoyed being the center of attention and while I love weddings, I found myself unable to get excited about all the details when I not only saw the cost of such items but came to the realization that all of this was for one day... just for us.
I truly believe that a wedding should reflect the couple and while some couples chose to do that through flowers, décor, or their attire, we did this by making our wedding about more than just ourselves. We determined that the best way to have the wedding of our dreams would be to help others through the process both by raising awareness and money for various causes. What started as a crazy idea turned into an amazing process that motivated us to give more, introduced us to new non-profit organizations, and opened our eyes to all the ways other couples could give back just by committing to make selections that they would make anyway, that could do more for others.
Incorporating charity into weddings is a relatively new trend and I am excited to be able to share all the ways that you could bring a little good will into your day with little to no sacrifice on your part!
1. Wedding Registries: This is one of the most popular and well known ways to give back. In today's world many couples already live together, have a house full of things, and really don't need to register for new toasters and china. Organizations like the I Do Foundation allow you to not only to create charity registries but also to register with common retailers like Target who will donate a portion of any items bought through the I Do Foundation wedding registry, at no additional expense to your guests.
2. Wedding Vendors: Several vendors donate all or a portion of their proceeds to a charity. While some will make this public, others may not so it might be a good idea to ask wedding vendors when you meet with them. Shoot for Change is photography company that donates their proceeds to charity and over $56,000 has been raised so far. Imagine the impact that is having on non-profits!
3. Attire: Organizations like Brides Against Breast Cancer or dress shops like The Bridal Garden both sell wedding dresses and use part or all of the proceeds to help their respective causes. Grooms can get in on the action too by wearing Tom's Shoes or seeking out companies and organizations that donate to charity- like these ties from Mountain and Sackett that benefit Autism research.
4. Goods: Even wine can benefit charity if you purchase from One Hope Wine! While it may take a little extra effort and research to find companies that use some of their funds for the good of others it will help counteract that buyer's remorse just a bit!
5. Details: Consider raising awareness by using different charities as your table numbers, selecting colors based on specific charities (red for heart disease, blue for autism, purple for cystic fibrosis) and then tell your guests a little about it in the program. My bridesmaids and I wore red shoes to bring awareness to heart disease (the number one killer of women in this country) and we even asked female guests via our wedding invitation to do the same.
6. Paper goods: The I Do Foundation even has a partnership with an invitation company. They will donate a portion of your wedding invitation sales to charity at no extra cost to you.
7. Postage: The post office sells stamps that benefit various charities. Instead of opting for a wedding related stamp or something else, ask what cause related stamps they have on hand.
8. Flowers: Consider donating leftover wedding flowers to local nursing homes or hospitals. Some places have restrictions on what can be brought in so try to arrange this in advance.
9. Food: If you have leftover food consider arranging to drop off anything extra at a local homeless shelter.
10. Favors: Skip the little mementos with your wedding date one them, that let's face it, no one really wants and opt to make a donation in your guests honor instead. Guests are not coming to your wedding to get a gift and I can promise you they won't miss it! If you do want to give them something search for a little something from an organization that gives back like Emily's Edibles or Truffles for a Cause.
11. Cake: Wedding cakes are gorgeous but one of the costs I had the hardest time swallowing. Luckily there are bakeries like Cakes for A Cause that give back through your wedding cake purchase!
12. Honeymoon: Yes, even your honeymoon can be charitable! A portion of travel booked through the I Do Foundation will go to charity and companies like Sandals even have their own non-profit organizations so you know that while it may not translate directly, they do use some of their profits for good in the community that their resorts are located in.
Overall with just a slight shift in perspective and perhaps a bit more effort, you can bring charity into several aspects of your wedding. The most important thing you can do is simply ask if your vendors make any charitable contributions from their proceeds or even if they are actively involved with any charities. You just may inspire them to give back too! In the end the day will be beautiful, guests will have an amazing time, you will be married and you will know that along the way you helped change the lives of others.


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Web Application Developer
Are you passionate about clean standards-based, user-friendly web applications/data-driven websites and able to build robust, accessible front-end code that conforms to current web standards? Are you interested in working in a creative atmosphere with smart people who are delivering the best work possible for our clients, which include well-recognized, world-leading Fortune 100 companies? If so, Quarry Integrated Communications might be the place for you!
Quarry is currently seeking a Web Application Developer to join our Digital team. Applicants should have expertise in PHP, popular PHP frameworks, relational database design using MySQL, Git-based version control, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (including jQuery) and Mobile First Responsive Web Design using Progressive Enhancement techniques.
What you'll be doing:
• Maintain and continually improve upon existing LAMP-stack based hosting infrastructure, including existing hosted websites.
• Work with Front-end developers to implement full-service CMS and/or web application installations, including integrations with third party tools/systems, SSO platforms, SaaS providers and other data-driven web services.
• Collaborate with the rest of the Digital team to recommend and implement customized technology stacks that solve for use case scenarios and support an overall end-user experience.
• Interface directly with client-based and/or thirdparty IT departments to collaborate on joint infrastructure setup and maintenance needs.
• Maintain and improve upon legacy code of existing sites.
• Assist in building responsive and elegant cross-browser user interfaces for a range of sites with our team in a fast-paced environment.
• Translate visual design comps into standards-based, accessible code that is search engine optimized.
• Manage multiple projects and deliver them on time, to spec and with an appropriate level of communication.
What we're seeking:
• Expertise in the PHP server-side language, with experience in other languages like Python or Ruby on Rails a plus.
• Experience with PHP frameworks such as CodeIgnitor and/or Laravel.
• Expertise in LAMP-stack server administration, with CentOS/Redhat-specific experience a plus.
• Expertise in relational database design and management, primarily using MySQL, with MariaDB, SQLite and PostgreSQL experience a plus.
• Expertise in the Git version control system, including specific experience with Github and/or Github Enterprise, branch management, working with/across multiple Github Organizations and using Github webhooks to automate various aspects of code promotion across multiple development environments a plus.
• An understanding of usability, accessibility, cross-browser compatibility and semantic markup.
• Experience with Mobile First, Progressively Enhanced Responsive Web Design.
• Experience with Mobile Web Development.
• Knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and W3C standards compliance.
• Experience with JavaScript frameworks such as AngularJS and/or Node.js is a definite plus.
• Proficiency with Mas OS X and Adobe Creative Suite.
Quarry is the buyer experience agency for savvy marketers who want to transform their brands. Our clients span a broad range of industries and audiences, with one element in common: all market highly engineered goods and services across a complex buying journey.
Interested applicants, please send an email to Shelley Facey, Director People (firstname.lastname@example.com) with your résumé and a cover letter to let us know why you're the perfect fit for this role.
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So your agency is a bit strapped for cash. Sadly, its not surprising given the Great Recession's far reaching impact on the operating budgets of law enforcement agencies across the nation. In fact, IACP's 2011 study showed that 1/3 of agencies surveyed nation-wide expected budget reductions in 2012. Just this week, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck announced that his department would lose 500 officers without a $200 million tax increase to fill the department's budget gap. It seems agencies everywhere are challenged to do more with shrinking resources but for most communities taking cops off the street to cut costs [is a last resort]. So where else can you find cost savings?
Technology as a Force Multiplier
As cash-strapped communities are looking for ways to cut spending while keeping more officers on the streets, many agencies are cutting back on costly tech budgets while others are shifting their operational models to use technology systems that improve efficiency and cut costs. Take for example San Francisco PD, who recently developed a mobile application that enables officers to file reports when out on patrol. Designed for use on smartphones, the new application eliminates the need to run back to the office to deal with paperwork which enables officers to stay on the streets up to 4 additional hours per day.
BYOD-Bring Your Own Device
Unfortunately for the San Francisco PD, they can't afford the $1.5 million necessary to put smartphones into the hands of every officer. Chances are your agency can't afford to buy the department that needed batch of tablets, smart phones or other necessary mobile devices either. But why should [the agency] dish out, if those devices are already in the hands of the workforce? Today there are more iPhones are sold per day than babies born in the world; as mobile devices proliferate in the hands of consumers, corporations and government agencies alike are adopting policies that let employees use their personal mobile devices for and at work. In fact, according to a March 2012 GovTech study 40% of state and local IT government professionals say their agencies already have some sort of BYOD policy.
Cutting Costs and Boosting Efficiency
While there are many reasons an agency might consider implementing a BYOD policy, cost savings is chief. According to a May 2012 Cisco Business Solutions study of 600 U.S. IT professionals, savings based on reduction of IT costs and increased productivity ranges from $300 to $1300 annually per employee. So how are government agencies using BYOD to cut costs and boost efficiency?
- Device Purchase and Maintenance: By letting the force use their own smartphones and tablet devices, IT doesn't have to purchase as many (if any) smartphone/mobile devices. Additionally, BYOD reduces (if not eliminates) the time and resources necessary for maintaining a fleet of devices (software upgrades, hardware fixes) as the responsibility for device procurement and maintenance falls to employees who own their devices.
- Device Training: Specialized hardware and software can be a pain to get the force to adopt en masse. But, BYOD can enable employees to utilize the everyday devices that they are already comfortable using, eliminating the need for employee downtime for device training.
- Phone/Data Plan Savings: Faced with a 15% IT budget reduction 2011, the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission decided they were paying too much for employee mobile phone service, noting that many users weren't even using their company phones, preferring their own devices. Implementing a BYOD policy gave employees access to agency email, calendars, contacts and tasks on their phones, monitored their data/phone minutes using mobile device management software and reimbursed them for work use. The result: the agency's cost for phone service was slashed in half.
- More Efficient Time in the Field: BYOD and the development of specialized applications (like San Francisco PD's app to file reports on smartphones) can result in officers spending more time on the streets and less time in the office. BYOD gives police increased access to resources and communication when in the field, additionally giving mounted officers, cops on bikes and others mobile access they could only achieve previously by lugging around clunky ruggedized laptops.
Ready or not, BYOD is coming. Heck, it may have already arrived.
As more and more consumers get smartphones and tablets, its likely BYOD is already happening at your agency whether sanctioned or not; perhaps a detective uses his personal smartphone to check work email or maybe a crime analyst checks documents or pulls up crimereports.com on her iPad. Since people's attachment to their mobile devices doesn't appear to be going away anytime soon, BYOD is most certainly on its way if not already here to stay. Our advice: Don't fight it. Leverage it. Save some dough to keep more cops on the street, and more streets safe.
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Let us know how its working for you, what cost savings you've found, and what other hitherto tips and insights that can help fellow agencies successfully implement BYOD. Use the comments section below to share your best practices.


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Tremont Illinois Statistics
Tremont, a village in Tazewell County, Illinois, is located in North Central Illinois and is part of the greater Peoria MSA. Tremont has a total area of 0.9 square miles, and is situated approximately 18 miles Southeast of Peoria, off of Interstate 155 and Route 9. The closest major cities include Chicago (160 miles to the Northeast) and St. Louis (150 miles Southwest). The town was incorporated on July 25, 1835.
City: Tremont
County: Tazewell County
State: IL / Illinois
Postal Code(s): 61568
Elevation: 650 feet
City Type: Village
Category as used for US Census purposes
Latitude: 40.525687
Longitude: -89.490443
Land Area: 2468576 square meters
/ 0.953123 square miles
Water Area: 0 square meters / 0.000000 square miles
Within city boundaries as defined for US Census purposes
Tremont Age and Gender Demographics
Total Population: 2029
Male: 978
Female: 1051
Median Age: 36.9
Click for detailed Tremont Demographics for Age and Gender with more graphic charts and statistics.
Tremont Relationships and Households
No. of Housing Units: 835
No. of Owned Units: 602
No. of Rented Units: 214
Average Household Size: 2.49
Average Family Size: 2.99
Click for detailed Tremont Demographics for Relationships and Households with more graphic charts and statistics.
Economic Characteristics
Median Household Income: $47,137
Median Income for Family: $53,800
Families Below Poverty Level: 2.0%
Individuals Below Poverty Level: 2.5%
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Saint Kitts and Nevis: Availability of state protection for victims of domestic violence
|Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
|Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada
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Further to KNA37167.E of 21 June 2001 and Section 5 of Country Reports 2002, both available at Regional Documentation Centres, a 22 January 2002 report submitted by the Government of Saint Kitts and Nevis to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) reports the following:
St. Kitts and Nevis has an impressive list of statutory and institutional provisions for the protection of women and children. However the law enforcement agencies are generally handicapped by a number of traditional social practices and institutions, these include:
-an unwillingness of women to testify against their spouses/partners in cases of physical, sexual and other abuses;
-the persuasion of victims by family members, particularly in cases of incest and molestation, not to testify against the perpetrator, and'
-inadequate institutional protection for battered women and children (UN 22 Jan. 2002, 17).
The report states that training of law enforcement officers on domestic violence issues began in the 1980's but was discontinued, and had been reintroduced since May 1997 (ibid.). It states that measures have been taken to raise awareness among law enforcement officials of violence against women, particularly domestic violence, and adds that a special Police unit was established to deal with gender-based violence (ibid.). However, the report also states that
No place or shelter for women faced with violence within the family, exists in St. Kitts and Nevis. However, with the increased sensitization of the police service, more women are going to their nearest police station and receiving assistance. In Nevis, women go [to] the NGO operated Change Center which provides counseling and advice. In St. Kitts women, in addition to going to their nearest police station, call or visit the Ministry of Women's Affairs for assistance. Safe rooms are also available in various private establishments (ibid., 17-18).
Please find attached excerpts from a comprehensive study on the implementation of domestic violence legislation in four Caribbean countries, including Saint Kitts and Nevis, published by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The study refers to the difficulties in obtaining accurate data on domestic violence, including guilt and shame that inhibit victims and perpetrators from self-identifying, as well as cultural acceptance of domestic violence and lack of training which keep officials from recording reports of domestic violence in official records (UN 23 Nov. 2001, 6). The report also cites as a problem the absence of protocols for data collection in the police and the courts, and concludes that when reports have resulted in criminal charges being laid, the cases are merged with other cases of assault, battery or other physical offences, and are difficult to identify (ibid.).
The report contains a section on child abuse, pointing out for Saint Kitts and Nevis that
Children in need of protection and care because of neglect, abandonment, abuse or homelessness are placed in the St. Christopher's Children Home. This institution is funded largely by government which not only provides annual grants but also health services, utilities and maintenance services. Children are placed at the home as a result of referrals from the Welfare Department, police or the hospital (ibid., 10-11).
In its overall appreciation of the implementation of domestic violence legislation, the report refers to all three countries stating that
Notably absent in all the legislation is any reference to persons in an intimate relationship who do not or have never resided together or shared a household, namely persons in a visiting relationship. The legislation leaves such persons without a domestic violence remedy at the magistrates court level (ibid., 18).
The attached excerpts refer to the implementation of legislation in regard to service of applications or orders, access to courts, and other procedural matters (pp. 35-40); pages 40-48 describe protection orders, "occupation orders," "tenancy orders" and other orders that can be applied for before the courts in cases of domestic violence, discussing their application and limitations.
Due to similarities in legislation and practice, the report discusses simultaneously the cases of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia and Antigua and Barbuda; it includes discussion of "ex parte, interim protection orders," "reporting and monitoring," "standard of proof," "notice of consequences of violations," "enforcement of orders" and "penalties for violation" (ibid. 50-57). The report's final sections refer to "criminal jurisdiction," "social service provisions" and "police duties" (ibid., 58-64). Under "criminal jurisdiction," the report notes that:
The definition of domestic violence sufficient to ground a criminal complaint in St. Kitts and Nevis is more restrictive than that provided in relation to protection orders. A domestic violence offence is an offence committed against a spouse, child or dependant or a parent and encompasses any of the following acts:
Use of violence or threatening to use violence;
Causing physical or mental injury;
Arbitrary deprivation of liberty; and
An offence under Section 5 of the Juvenile Act
...Perhaps as a result of a drafting error, although a domestic violence offence is created in St. Kitts and Nevis legislation, no punishment is prescribed. Without amendment, it is unlikely that anyone could be penalized pursuant to a successful prosecution.
...Apart from the imposition of a sentence (albeit not prescribed), the Kittitian legislation creates the possibility of ordering a first time offender to undergo probation in a re-education or rehabilitation programme. The exploration of alternatives to custody merits further examination...The Kittitian legislation makes it clear that recidivist offenders are not to be the recipients of rehabilitation orders (ibid., 58-59).
In its conclusions, the report provides a general assessment of the limitations in law and in practice of the current domestic violence legislation, pointing out that "the legislative framework, whatever its limitations, represents a tremendous advance in giving women the right and the legitimate expectation to protection by the criminal justice system" (ibid., 67). In addition to the attachments, the full report can be consulted at the ECLAC Website cited below.
The information that follows was provided by a representative of The Change Centre, a non-governmental organization assisting victims of domestic violence in Nevis.
Both Nevis and St. Kitts are governed by the same legislation cited in the ECLAC report (The Change Centre 24 Sept. 2003).
There are no shelters on the island of Nevis to house victims of domestic violence. However, there are some legal measures in place; in practice, these consist of:
- Restraining orders to keep the perpetrator away from the victim;
- A possible prison term, if the restraining order is violated;
- Police intervention, which in extreme cases can involve removing the perpetrator from the matrimonial home (ibid.)
The source adds that the above "very simple and sometimes ineffective" procedures are the extent of state protection available for cases of domestic violence (ibid.).
This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the list of additional sources consulted in researching this Information Request.
The Change Centre. 24 September 2003. Written communication from representative.
Untied Nations. 22 January 2002. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties under Article 18 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Combined Initial, Second, Third and Fourth Periodic Reports of States Parties: Saint Kitts and Nevis.
_____. 23 November 2001. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). An Evaluative Study of the Implementation of Domestic Violence Legislation: Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts/Nevis, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. (LC/CAR/G.659)
Untied Nations. 23 November 2001. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). An Evaluative Study of the Implementation of Domestic Violence Legislation: Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts/Nevis, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. (LC/CAR/G.659)
Additional Sources Consulted
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2002. 2003
IRB Databases
Latin American Regional Report:Central America and the Caribbean [London]
Latinamerica Press [Lima]
The Change Centre, Nevis
UNIFEM Caribbean Regional Office, Barbados
Internet sites and search engines, including:
Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)
Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Network against Domestic andSexual Violence
United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)


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This Easter weekend was pretty much perfect…one of my best friends in the world, Logan, came into town and he, my boyfriend and I spent the better half of Saturday soaking up the sun on the beach. Later that night, my boyfriend treated me to a delicious dinner at Ruth's Chris (their stuffed chicken breast is so addicting, it's kind of scary) and after, we met up with Logan and some friends for cocktails at Pusser's. Sunday capped the weekend off perfectly – I cooked up a big Easter supper of roast turkey breast, scalloped tomatoes and pine nut cous-cous (more on that meal to come.)
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Harvest Carrots Recipe
I make this hearty side dish quite often. Once in a while, I add leftover turkey or chicken breasts and turn it into a main dish.
- 4 cups sliced carrots
- 2 cups water
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1/2 cup butter, divided
- 1 can (10-3/4 ounces) condensed cream of celery soup, undiluted
- 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 3 cups seasoned stuffing croutons
- 1. In a large saucepan, bring carrots and water to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 5-8 minutes or until tender. Drain. In a small skillet, saute onion in 3 tablespoons butter until tender.
- 2. In a large bowl, combine the carrots, onion, soup, cheese and pepper. Melt remaining butter; toss with stuffing. Fold into carrot mixture.
- 3. Transfer to a greased 2-qt. baking dish. Cover and bake at 350° for 20 minutes. Uncover; bake 10 minutes longer or until lightly browned. Yield: 6 servings.
Nutritional Facts
3/4 cup equals 342 calories, 21 g fat (12 g saturated fat), 53 mg cholesterol, 962 mg sodium, 34 g carbohydrate, 5 g fiber, 7 g protein.
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|I gave this a 5.7 R based on how we climbed the squeeze chimney on P2. The lowest section of the squeeze was too tight for us to traverse low, so we climbed 20 ft up on the outside edge of the squeeze to reach a wider section. Then we traversed the 40ft of squeeze to a stuck block, then up the 5 ft into the cavern. No pro that entire section up and through the squeeze, just made sure to keep myself partially stuck most of the time! We had 7 people in the cave at once, with plenty of room all over! We downclimbed to the rated X bolts, which rap to the bottom with a 70m.
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Awesome!! A must do adventure!! Doesn't look like it but you can squeeze in down low. Definitely choose your own adventure!! Different chimneys through different passage ways.
Some sunglass in the crack at the back of the squeeze chimney. Need to bring something rigid like tent poles to snag them.
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Her last pregnancy with baby Josie resulted in a host of medical problems for her, including pre-eclampsia, and in order to save Michelle's life doctors were forced to deliver their little girl three and a half months premature. Josie weighed only one pound six ounces at birth and spent several months in the hospital recovering from the complications of her early arrival and also a perforated bowel.
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When the federal government shut down for the first time in 17 years, Abigail Carpenter-Winch 10F found herself in a unique position. Carpenter-Winch is currently interning for a United States senator as a Victory Congressional Intern, a program of the Gay and Lesbian Victory Institute, a nonprofit that supports openly gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) public officials.
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A Craving for Acceptance
Few aspects of American life better exemplify the glories and miseries of our culture than the college-admissions rat race. The glory is that our system of higher education is the envy of the world. America's best colleges and universities excel all others, yet the system is vast and flexible enough to offer a place to almost anybody who wants one, whether at the local community college or all up the way up the ladder to the Ivy League. And make no mistake: A brilliant kid without money really can go to Harvard.
On the misery side: Most students (and their parents) have no clear idea why a university is the reflexive next stop after high school, and yet roughly 70% of American high-school graduates go on to college. Are they supposed to marinate themselves in the best that has been thought and written? Is the point to learn how to think? To gain marketable skills? To make social connections? Or merely to signal to potential employers and spouses that here is a person with the patience and cleverness to navigate a great deal of folderol on the way to a degree? Although nobody can quite agree on what college is for, Americans and their leaders have embraced higher education with cult-like devotion—which is one reason the cost of tuition at many institutions has climbed into the stratosphere.
The desperate scramble for admission to America's very best universities makes our contradictory national ideals glaringly apparent. We desire equality of opportunity, of course, and so insist on meritocratic admissions. Yet we also hope fervently for equality of outcomes, leading us to undermine the very meritocracy we had so eagerly promulgated. Thus our ambivalence toward the SATs, once an implement of fairness that became, to later critics, a pernicious tool of privilege.
The result of these tensions, for countless teenagers and their parents, is a frantic struggle to gain the approval of inscrutable college-admissions officers. It's hard to imagine a more amiable Virgil to guide us through this infernal process than Andrew Ferguson, who embarked on it when his son came of age. Mr. Ferguson reports his findings in "Crazy U," a book that I read—as the father of twin boys who are three years away from this dismal rite of passage—with horrified fascination.
Mr. Ferguson is not the first author to chronicle the horrors of the SATs, the runaway cost of elite universities or the mysteries of the admissions process. But having taken what his subtitle calls "One Dad's Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College," he has succeeded in pulling the whole thing together through a single family's experience, enriched by much authorial homework. This is a guy who doesn't just delve into the history of the SAT. He also takes the test himself. ("Close to a disaster," he says of the results, with a math score so bad that he won't divulge it, other than to say "somewhere below 'lobotomy patient' but above 'Phillies fan.' ")
"Crazy U" is compulsively readable, unusually vivid—and thoroughly dispiriting, even though the author's son ends up doing just fine. Approaching the subject with genial savagery, Mr. Ferguson begins his journey by attending a meeting between a college consultant and a roomful of well-heeled Connecticut moms. The consultant charges—better sit down for this—$40,000 to shepherd a single kid through the admissions process and so naturally works only with, as her assistant says, "high net-worth individuals."
A series of enervating campus visits is marked by interchangeably chirpy undergraduate tour guides united by their ability to walk backward while extolling the school's a capella groups and reassuring parents about the high priority placed on security. On a swing through New England, the Fergusons narrowly miss Dartmouth's Second Annual Campus Sex Screening, a supposedly health-promoting event where, the flyers promised, "sexperts" would be giving "free demonstrations!" and the party favors included dental dams, glow-in-the-dark condoms and Ben & Jerry's ice cream. Mr. Ferguson muses: "I may be showing my age, but back when I was a college student we didn't need free ice cream to get us to come to a sex demonstration."
Crazy U
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But the author is no killjoy. On the contrary, he has a darned good idea of what most teenagers are all about—their unformed nature, their insecurities and, yes, their interest in sex—and if anything he resents the way the admissions rat race warps them into becoming, or at least pretending to be, something else. We see, for instance, Mr. Ferguson's son agonizing to deliver the requisite self-revelation for a college application essay (the author calls this process "the Great Extrusion"). Burdened by a normal suburban teenage life and needing some drama to write about, the boy at first suggests that his parents divorce and then wishes that he'd been a drug addict. Finally he gets something down by inflating a minor personal episode into a transforming moment of illumination. The most darkly humorous aspect of this often hilarious book is its depiction of an admissions process that corrupts everything it touches.
It's a process that discourages reticence by requiring students to write revealing and disingenuous personal essays; discourages thrift by regarding parental savings as fair game in the financial-aid evaluation; discourages intellectual curiosity by encouraging students to pursue grades rather than knowledge; and discourages honesty by transforming adolescence into a period of cynical calculation.
"At its most intense," Mr. Ferguson writes, "the admissions process didn't force kids to be Lisa Simpson; it turned them into Eddie Haskell. . . . It guaranteed that teenagers would pursue life with a single ulterior motive, while pretending they weren't. It coated their every undertaking in a thin lacquer of insincerity. Befriending people in hopes of a good rec letter; serving the community to advertise your big heart; studying hard just to puff up the GPA and climb the greasy poll of class rank—nothing was done for its own sake."
This stressful process practically demands cynicism from all parties. To "climb the page" in the closely watched U.S. News & World Report rankings, schools solicit applications so that they can increase the numbers they reject, thereby appearing more selective. Elite institutions claim to be open to all but devote wide swaths of their entering classes to athletes, the offspring of donating alumni, members of minority groups and others with "hooks" that give them an edge.
Matters have been complicated in recent years by the success of girls, who persist in outperforming boys academically in high school and outnumbering them in college. But a university may admit so many girls that a tipping point is reached, making boys even less likely to apply or, as Mr. Ferguson notes, "attracting the wrong kind of boys for the wrong reasons."
Admissions officers have tried to rectify this problem by making schools more appealing to male applicants, expanding math and science departments, adding sports—and lowering admission standards for males, most of whom are white. Asian boys generally don't need any such help. "After several generations of vicious racism," Mr. Ferguson says, "followed by protest marches, civil rights lawsuits, accusations of bigotry, appeals to color-blindness, feminism, and eloquent invocations of the meritocratic ideal, the latest admissions trend in American higher education is affirmative action for white men. Just like the old days."
Mr. Ferguson doesn't mention his son's name or the college that eventually accepts him—the author dubs it BSU, for Big State University. But the lack of specificity doesn't mar "Crazy U" because the book is otherwise wonderfully detailed in its reporting and because it is the story of countless parents and students across the land. Most of them, one infers, would do well to focus on state schools and avoid the siren call of gold-plated, "brand name" schools. But "the college mania won't subside anytime soon," Mr. Ferguson writes. "Too many people, too many institutions and businesses, have an interest, financial and ideological, in keeping it going."
—Mr. Akst is a member of the editorial board at Newsday.


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The Cabinet Thursday deferred taking up the issue of the formation of the Rail Tariff Authority despite it being on the agenda because the proposed dual nature of the authoritys mandate would require further deliberation, sources said.
As proposed in the Cabinet note, the authority would be more than just recommendatory body fixing the bracket of increase and decrease of rail fares and freight taking into account input costs, expenditure, budget and market conditions. But the final nod would still be taken by the government. Some parts of the Railways Act 1989 would also need to be amended. In that it will be different from other tariff regulatory bodies in sectors like telecom and power.
This duality of its nature requires some parts of it to be passed by the legislature and some parts to be passed by the executive. Thats why it requires more deliberations and would be taken up later, a senior government official said.
Mooted by former railways minister Dinesh Trivedi in the 2012-13 Rail Budget, the making of the authority has been a work in progress for the past one year and gained traction after the TMCs exit from the UPA and the Rail Ministry. Former railways minister P K Bansal too had mentioned it in his 2013-14 Rail Budget.


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History of prizes awarded at European Congresses of Mathematics
EMS Prizes
A total of 60 EMS Prizes have so far been awarded at the European Congresses at Paris (1992), Budapest (1996), Barcelona (2000), Stockholm (2004), Amsterdam (2008) and Krakow (2012).
EMS Prizes of 2012 (6th ECM July 2-6, Krakow, Poland):
- Simon Brendle (Germany)
- Emmanuel Breuillard (France)
- Alessio Figalli (Italy)
- Adrian Ioana (Romania)
- Mathieu Lewin (France)
- Ciprian Manolescu (Romania/USA)
- Grégory Miermont (France)
- Sophie Morel (France)
- Tom Sanders (UK)
- Corinna Ulcigrai (Italy)
EMS Prizes of 2008 (5th ECM July 14 - 18, Amsterdam, Netherlands):
- Artur Avila (Brazil)
- Alexei Borodin (Russia)
- Ben Green (UK)
- Olga Holtz (Russia)
- Bo'Az Klartag (Israel)
- Alexander Kuznetsov (Russia)
- Assaf Naor (Czech Republic/Israel)
- Laure Saint-Raymond (France)
- Agata Smoktunowicz (Poland)
- Cédric Villani (France)
EMS Prizes of 2004 ( 4th ECM June 27 - July 14, Stockholm, Sweden):
- Franck Barthe, Institut de Mathématiques Laboratoire de Statistique et Probabilités, Toulouse, France
- Stefano Bianchini, Instituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo "M. Picone", Rome, Italy
- Paul Biràn, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
- Elon Lindenstrauss, Clay Mathematics Institute, Massachusetts and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, USA
- Andrei Okounkov, Princeton University, USA
- Sylvia Serfaty, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, USA
- Stanislav Smirnov, KTH, Sweden and Geneva University, Switzerland
- Xavier Tolsa, ICREA and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
- Warwick Tucker, Uppsala University, Sweden
- Otmar Venjakob, Mathematisches Institut Universität Heidelberg, Germany
EMS Prizes of 2000 (3rd ECM 10 - 14 July, Barcelone, Spain):
- Semyon Alesker (Israel)
- Raphaël Cerf (France)
- Dennis Gaitsgory (USA)
- Emmanuel Grenier (France)
- Dominic Joyce (UK)
- Vincent Lafforgue (France)
- Michael McQuillan (UK)
- Stefan Yu. Nemirovsky (Russia)
- Paul Seidel (France)
- Wendelin Werner (France)
EMS Prizes of 1996 (2nd ECM 21 - 27 July, Budapest, Hungary):
- Alexis Bonnet
- William Timothy Gowers (UK)
- Annette Huber
- Aise Johan de Jong
- Dmitri Kramkov
- Jiri Matousek
- Loic Merel (France)
- Grigory Perelman (Russia)
- Ricardo Perez-Marco
- Leonid Polterovich
EMS Prizes of 1992 (1st ECM 6 - 10 July, Paris, France ):
- Richard Borcherds (UK)
- Jens Franke (Germany)
- Alexander Goncharov (Russia)
- Maxim Kontsevitch (Russia)
- Francois Labourie (France)
- Tomasz Luczak (Poland)
- Stefan Mueller
- Vladimir Sverak (Czechoslovakia)
- Gabor Tardos (Hungary)
- Claire Voisin (France)
Felix Klein Prize
At the 3 ECM in Barcelona, a Felix Klein Prize was given to David C. Dobson (USA).
The prize was not awarded at the 4ECM.
At the 5 ECM in Amsterdam, the Felix Klein Prize was given to Josselin Garnier (France).
The Felix Klein Prize at the 6 ECM in Kraków went to Emmanuel Trélat (France).
Otto Neugebauer Prize
The first Otto Neugebauer Prize in the History of Mathematics was awarded to Jan P. Hogendijk (Netherlands) during the 6ECM in Kraków.


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