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EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP — Police officer Lauren Laielli clutches a pair of handcuffs as she sits at her kitchen table nearly 19 hours after she got up for work.
Engraved with her last name, the cuffs were a gift from her college friend for Laielli's graduation from the Philadelphia Police Academy two months ago. Laielli immediately went to work for the SEPTA (Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority) Police Department, more than a year after the women graduated from from the Richard Stockton College criminal justice degrees. Neither Laielli's friend nor anyone else from their department has since landed a law enforcement job.
Recent grads have struggled to find work in a stagnant economy, but the scarcity of government jobs is particularly marked, given the traditional ability of the public sector to withstand hard times better than private industry. Local government will face an added challenge during the upcoming year with the onset of a state-imposed 2-percent limit on annual increases for operational expenses while state legislation that could buttress municipal budgets remains stalled in Trenton.
Hiring freezes and layoffs — most notably in Atlantic City, which has cut 60 patrol cops during the past year — have shrunken local police forces. Laielli's fiance, an ACPD detective, kept his job, but she has witnessed the difficulties other friends have experienced after losing theirs. Given that, the 24-year-old says, she's grateful to have found work with SEPTA. Her makeup-free face showed no trace of the fatigue one might expect after a three-hour, round-trip commute to her nine-hour shift in Philadelphia capped off with a gym session near her house in the Bargaintown section of Egg Harbor Township.
But the daily grind is not comfortably sustainable for her long-term, so she and her fiance might sell her house and move. Laielli had hoped to find a job closer to home, but shortly after starting her job hunt, it became clear she would need to cast a wider net.
"I applied for 1,000 jobs. It felt like it at least," she said.
More like 20, but total number of pages in the combined application packets actually did number about 1,000.
Laielli provided "every address I ever lived at, every car I've ever driven, every license plate I've ever had" for each prospective employer, notarized the documents and enclosed a college transcript before sending each package on its way.
She got calls back from five departments, continuing the process through the physical, psychological exam and one-on-one and panel interviews, only to find out she didn't get the job.
"It was really disheartening, but didn't want to do anything else. I'd rather drive an hour and a half to do something I love than seven minutes to do something I can just live with, that just pays the bills. There's a big difference. So I never gave up," she said.
In one case, Laielli contended with 500 other applicants for one opening.
That degree of competition wasn't unheard of in better economic times, according to Atlantic County Police Training Center Director George Nettles.
But the recession has made opportunities scarcer. The center has long fielded daily calls from prospective recruits looking to optimize their chances of landing a public safety job; now they often qualify their inquiries with references to the poor economy and job shortage, Nettles said.
"We tell them keep pushing for it, the economic times are what they are, don't give up on it. It's a great career to have. But you have to be realistic in your outlook, but we don't discourage them at all. Keep pushing, and maybe you'll get your dream job, it just might not be the first agency you look at," Nettles said.
That held true for Laielli.
Financial difficulty has prompted hiring freezes at many police departments in the Philadelphia region, but not layoffs, according to Richard Evans, chief of the SEPTA Police Department where Laielli now works.
Universal financial difficulties have recently delayed or cancelled training classes at the Philadelphia Police Academy. But SEPTA has so far managed to maintain its 256-officer force, which patrols city streets and train and subway cars and platforms throughout the tri-state area, according to Evans and SEPTA's director of recruiting Daniel Amspacher.
SEPTA hired Laielli and 11 others from her 164-recruit class; the next class has already started and includes 15 SEPTA recruits, Laielli said.
"A number of people look at SEPTA as an opportunity to join the police force and become a police officer," Amspacher said. "There are people whose careers are focused on police officers or some area of law enforcement, and when an opportunity and there isn't a residential restriction, they're not limited to being Philadelphia citizens because we do serve the (tri-state) area. ... The challenge we're facing now, as most organizations are, is the unpredictability of what's going to be the funding stream in future. Governments are challenged economically."
SEPTA's last testing session drew a record 2,000 applicants from a wider-than-usual geographic area, which Amspacher attributed to fewer opportunities elsewhere brought on not only by funding shortages, but also changes in retirement patterns. Economic uncertainty drives more officers to stay at work after they qualify for retirement; those that do leave are not replaced by governments looking to save money, Amspacher said.
During the next eight years, job opportunities for patrol officers will grow 9 percent versus 10 percent for the labor market overall. Other fields, like biomedical engineering, could grow as much as 72 percent; textile workers will see their occupation shrink fastest (between 39 and 45 percent, depending on specific job function), according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
By then, Laielli hopes, her long days will have propelled her closer to her ultimate goal of becoming a supervisory officer.
"Honestly, they could pay me nothing and I'd still do the job," she said. "Showing up and putting on my uniform makes me feel like I have a purpose in life."


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The Hidden Valley Vista Council of Beta Sigma Phi International will hold its 80th Founder's Day luncheon at 10:30 a.m. April 30 at the Lake San Marcos Country Club, 1025 La Bonita Drive. "Through the Eyes of a Child" is the theme, open to all chapter members and guests. The new officers for the year will be installed. Order of the Rose, Golden Circle, for 50 year or more members, and Diamond Circle, for 60 year or more members will be conferred. Cost is $26 per person. Reserve at 760-746-1649. Call 760-743-3459.
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Bully, liar and cheat: Lance Armstrong admits his sins
Lance Armstrong said he didn't believe it was possible to win the Tour in the years he raced without doping, and challenged the characterization of the doping program on his US Postal Service team as the most sophisticated ever.Poll: Has Lance Armstrong redeemed himself by confessing to Oprah Winfrey? | A legendary feat taintedother Updated: Jan 19, 2013 10:15 IST
Cycling legend Lance Armstrong's fierce defence of his record finally collapsed on Thursday as he admitted that his seven Tour de France titles were fueled by an array of drugs.
"I made my decisions. They're my mistake," Armstrong told US talk show host Oprah Winfrey said, in his first interview since he was stripped of his record yellow jersey haul and banned from sport for life.
"And I'm sitting here today to acknowledge that and to say I'm sorry for that," Armstrong said. "I view this situation as one big lie that I repeated a lot of times."
"Certainly, I'm a flawed character," said Armstrong, who was once revered as a cancer survivor who beat the odds to succeed on cycling's greatest stage, then used his fame to help others fighting the disease.
"It's just this mythic, perfect story," he said. "And it wasn't true."
Winfrey's much-anticipated interview opened with a rapid-fire series of "yes" or "no" questions that saw Armstrong admit to using the blood-booster EPO, blood-doping transfusions and testosterone and human growth hormone.
Did Armstrong take banned substances? "Yes."
Did that include the blood-booster EPO? "Yes."
Did he do blood doping and use transfusions? "Yes."
Did he use testosterone, cortisone and human growth hormone? "Yes."
Did he take banned substances or blood dope in all his Tour wins? "Yes."
He said he didn't believe that in his years of competition it was possible to win cycling's greatest races without performance enhancers.
"I'm a flawed character," he said.
Did it feel wrong?
"No," Armstrong replied. "Scary."
"Did you feel bad about it?" Winfrey pressed him.
"No," he said. "Even scarier."
"Did you feel in any way that you were cheating?"
"No," Armstrong paused. "Scariest."
In those years, Armstrong said, he didn't even think of himself as cheating. He didn't feel he was doing something wrong.
"I went and looked up the definition of cheat," he added a moment later. "And the definition is to gain an advantage on a rival or foe. I didn't view it that way. I viewed it as a level playing field."
Hours before the kickoff, Armstrong saw another accolade withdrawn as the International Olympic Committee said it had asked him to return the cycling time-trial bronze medal he won in 2000.
The International Cycling Union in 2012 upheld the US Anti-Doping Agency's ban of Armstrong, and the revocation of his cycling results from August 1998, but the IOC waited for three weeks to see if Armstrong planned an appeal.
"All the fault and all the blame here falls on me, but behind that picture and behind that story there's momentum, momentum," Armstrong said.
"And whether it's fans or whether it's the media ... it just gets going and I lost myself in all that," he said.
In his climb to the top, Armstrong cast aside teammates who questioned his tactics, yet swore he raced clean and tried to silence anyone who said otherwise. Ruthless and rich enough to settle any score, no place seemed beyond his reach - courtrooms, the court of public opinion, even along the roads of his sport's most prestigious race.
That relentless pursuit was one of the things that Armstrong said he regretted most.
"I deserve this," he said twice.
"It's a major flaw, and it's a guy who expected to get whatever he wanted and to control every outcome. And it's inexcusable. And when I say there are people who will hear this and never forgive me, I understand that. I do. ...
"That defiance, that attitude, that arrogance, you cannot deny it." Armstrong's years of denial
Armstrong said he started doping in mid-1990s but didn't when he finished third in his comeback attempt.
Anti-doping officials have said nothing short of a confession under oath - "not talking to a talk-show host," is how World Anti-Doping Agency director general David Howman put it - could prompt a reconsideration of Armstrong's lifetime ban from sanctioned events.
He's also had discussions with officials at the US Anti-Doping Agency, whose 1,000-page report in October included testimony from nearly a dozen former teammates and led to stripping Armstrong of his Tour titles.
Shortly after, he lost nearly all his endorsements, was forced to walk away from the Livestrong cancer charity he founded in 1997, and just this week was stripped of his bronze medal from the 2000 Olympics.
Armstrong could provide information that might get his ban reduced to eight years. By then, he would be 49. He returned to triathlons, where he began his professional career as a teenager, after retiring from cycling in 2011, and has told people he's desperate to get back.
Initial reaction from anti-doping officials ranged from hostile to cool.
WADA president John Fahey derided Armstrong's defense that he doped to create "a level playing field" as "a convenient way of justifying what he did - a fraud."
"He was wrong, he cheated and there was no excuse for what he did," Fahey said by telephone in Australia.
If Armstrong "was looking for redemption," Fahey added, "he didn't succeed in getting that."
USADA chief Travis Tygart, who pursued the case against Armstrong when others had stopped, said the cyclist's confession was just a start.
"Tonight, Lance Armstrong finally acknowledged that his cycling career was built on a powerful combination of doping and deceit," Tygart said.
"His admission that he doped throughout his career is a small step in the right direction. But if he is sincere in his desire to correct his past mistakes, he will testify under oath about the full extent of his doping activities."
Livestrong issued a statement that said the charity was "disappointed by the news that Lance Armstrong misled people during and after his cycling career, including us."
"Earlier this week, Lance apologized to our staff and we accepted his apology in order to move on and chart a strong, independent course," it said.
The interview revealed very few details about Armstrong's performance-enhancing regimen that would surprise anti-doping officials.
What he called "my cocktail" contained the steroid testosterone and the blood-booster erythropoetein, or EPO, "but not a lot," Armstrong said. That was on top of blood-doping, which involved removing his own blood and weeks later re-injecting it into his system.
All of it was designed to build strength and endurance, but it became so routine that Armstrong described it as "like saying we have to have air in our tires or water in our bottles."
"That was, in my view, part of the job," he said.
Armstrong was evasive, or begged off entirely, when Winfrey tried to connect his use to others who aided or abetted the performance-enhancing scheme on the US Postal Service team.
When she asked him about Italian doctor Michele Ferrari, who was implicated in doping-related scrapes and has also been banned from cycling for life, Armstrong replied, "It's hard to talk about some of these things and not mention names. There are people in this story, they're good people and we've all made mistakes ... they're not monsters, not toxic and not evil, and I viewed Michele Ferrari as a good man and smart man and still do."
Armstrong took issue with some points in the damning US Anti-Doping Agency report that lifted a lid on his activities, saying he didn't believe the doping program on the US Postal Service team was the biggest in the history of sport.
He said it couldn't compare to the state-sponsored doping program in the former East Germany, for example. Performance enhancing drugs used in sports
He also said he didn't use banned drugs when he returned from retirement in 2009, and was clean when he raced in the Tour de France in 2009 and 2010 and insisted he didn't force team-mates to be involved in doping.
"We expected guys to be fit, to be strong, to perform," Armstrong said, acknowledging that while he never issued a directive he could see that team-mates might feel pressure to follow his example.
He was almost as reluctant to discuss claims by former teammates Tyler Hamilton and Floyd Landis that Armstrong told them, separately, that he tested positive during the 2001 Tour de Suisse and conspired with officials of the International Cycling Union officials to cover it up - in exchange for a donation.
"That story wasn't true. There was no positive test, no paying off of the labs. There was no secret meeting with the lab director," he said.
Winfrey pressed him again, asking if the money he donated wasn't part of a tit-for-tat agreement, "Why make it?"
"Because they asked me to," Armstrong began.
"This is impossible for me to answer and have anybody believe it," he said. "It was not in exchange for any cover-up. ... I have every incentive here to tell you yes."
Finally, he summed up the entire episode this way: "I was retired. ... They needed money."
Ultimately, though, it was Landis who did the most damage to Armstrong's story. Landis was stripped of the 2006 Tour title after testing positive and wound up on the sport's fringes looking for work.
Armstrong said his former teammate threatened to release potentially destructive videos if he wasn't given a spot on the team. That was in 2009, when Armstrong returned to the Tour after four years off.
Winfrey asked whether Landis' decision to talk was "the tipping point." Beyond the confession
"I'd agree with that. I might back it up a little and talk about the comeback. I think the comeback didn't sit well with Floyd," Armstrong recalled.
"Do you regret now coming back?"
"I do. We wouldn't be sitting here if I didn't come back," he said.
The closest Armstrong came to contrition was when Winfrey asked him about his apologies in recent days, notably to former teammate Frankie Andreu, who struggled to find work in cycling after Armstrong dropped him from the USPS team, as well as his wife, Betsy.
Armstrong said she was jealous of his success, and invented stories about his doping as part of a long-running vendetta.
"Have you made peace?" Winfrey asked.
"No," Armstrong replied, "because they've been hurt too badly, and a 40-minute (phone) conversation isn't enough."
He admitted he bullied people who didn't go along with the "narrative" he constructed, but categorically denied forcing team-mates to dope.
He also called London Sunday Times reporter David Walsh as well as Emma O'Reilly, who worked as a masseuse for the USPS team and later provided considerable material for a critical book Walsh wrote about Armstrong and his role in cycling's doping culture.
Armstrong subsequently sued for libel in Britain and won a $500,000 judgment against the newspaper, which is now suing to get the money back.
Armstrong was, if anything, even more vicious in the way he went after O'Reilly. He intimated she was let go from the Postal team because she seemed more interested in personal relationships than professional ones.
"What do you want to say about Emma O'Reilly?" Winfrey asked. Armstrong interview provokes little sympathy
"She, she's one of these people that I have to apologize to. She's one of these people that got run over, got bullied."
"You sued her?"
"To be honest, Oprah, we sued so many people I don't even," Armstrong said, then paused, "I'm sure we did."
Near the end of the first interview installment, Winfrey asked about a federal investigation of Armstrong that was dropped by the Justice Department without charges.
"When they dropped the case, did you think: 'Now, finally over, done, victory'?"
Armstrong looked up. He exhaled.
"It's hard to define victory," he said. "But I thought I was out of the woods."
(With AP and AFP inputs)


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With most guns used in 3-gun competition, the challenge lies in unloading them very quickly and very accurately into the indicated targets. Reloading isn't really an issue thanks to detachable magazines and Surefire's big-ass contraptions. With shotguns, though, it's exactly the opposite. The challenge lies in keeping the gun loaded, and the stages are designed to force you to empty your magazine as quickly as possible. There are a couple ways to reload your gun, but one of them I wrote off as an absolute gimmick. Until, that is, I found that it cut my reload time in half.
First, there was the sidesaddle reload method. It worked, and it was cheap, so people liked it. Then there was the 4-shell caddy reload, which took a ton of practice but was quicker than the sidesaddle. The latest craze to hit the competition shooting world is the "load two" method of shotgun loading, and now even the "load four" load.
There are a ton of snake oil salesmen in the competition shooting world. People like to think that you can throw money at the sport and make yourself go faster, and manufacturers are more than happy to indulge the less frugal tendencies of that type of shooter. I've seen everything from specially designed 3-gun shoes to people who swear that a certain compensator shaves a tenth of a second off their time. And in every case it seems like the solution never truly yields any visible results. I still managed to beat them running my bone stock Mossberg 930 with some well-used shell caddies.
I first saw the "load two" method in action at a local match where an older gentleman was running a load two rig and running it poorly. He was hesitating at the loading gate, and it honestly looked like the load two thing was slowing him down instead of speeding him up. I wrote off the concept right there as another gimmick that was just the flavor of the month would soon fade into obscurity.
But that all changed when Larry Houck from Team FNH USA gave me some one-on-one instruction. It turns out he'd been just as skeptical as I had at first, but when he had his 12-year-old son running the technique in under 15 minutes and zipping along faster than he ever could with the old methods, he was sold. And after another 15 minutes, so was I.
The idea, of course, is to slam as many rounds in the shotgun as possible as quick as possible. What takes the most time in a shotgun reload is finding the loading gate and lining up the rounds. Even with the (now standard) shell caddy reload, it takes a relatively long time to get the next round in place before your thumb slides it home.
The idea behind the "load two" method is that you basically cut the time it takes positioning the rounds in half, since you only have to position your hand once to load two rounds at a time since the second one slides right in behind the first. It's also a maneuver that requires less fine motor skills to execute than the caddy reload, meaning that the skill it takes to align the rounds is much less than with the shell caddy method. Instead of requiring hours of practice with your shotgun, you can master this technique literally in minutes and perform it more easily under pressure.
What ultimately sold me was when we put Larry on the clock and he showed me the difference between the two loading methods. You can see it (and the load two in slow motion) at the end of the YouTube clip up top.
Now, the newest iteration is the "load four" maneuver. The idea is to grab two sets of shells at the same time (four rounds total), loading one pair and then the other. It takes a lot more skill and practice, but since you don't have to go back to your belt for the next pair of shells, it slices the reload time almost in half again.
There is, however, a downside to the load two and load four methods.
First, it's an "all or nothing" kind of load. Either you get it right, or it all goes to hell and you'd be better loading the standard way from shell caddies. But take heart: even a dunce like me can master it in a few minutes. The trick is staying slow and smooth to get it right the first time.
The second issue is that this is a "low density" loading system. You can't stack shells like you can with caddies, and the holsters that are currently available take up a lot of space on your belt or your chest. The power in this system is that the shells are pre-positioned on the belt in the way that you would pick them up, so it takes more space to hold fewer rounds.
As soon as I realized how fast and easy this system is, I decided to make the switch. But the way I'm planning on running it is two holsters with 8 rounds in "load two" configuration on my right side, and standard shell holders on the left. Because while this new system seems like it's the real deal and the "wave of the future", I'm not putting all of my eggs in one basket. Just yet, anyway.
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man, this is so slick, what a move.
I think this can also be utilized in a HD situation as well, gonna give the "load two" a try when i get home.
Like a Boss
Well, I know how I'm going to spend my evening. I've gotta try this!
I prefer the "load 12" method. Pop out magazine. Insert full 12rnd magazine. Done deal 🙂
when you run out of magazine, then what? You can reload this method with a huge box of ammo.
Is there anything special about the loading port on that shotgun or can I use this technique just as well with a stock Remington 870?
What's the real world application for unloading rediculously fast?
Sorry, I understand the idiom now that I read it again. Unloading means shooting, not removing live rounds.
Actually, don't you have to empty your gun before you can drop it and move on? I think I read that from Nick once…
I've been playing the 3gun game for a couple years now. My reloads are a disaster in my 870, but I and everyone knows this is what wins shotgun COF's. My spring (clipped/shortened) is still too strong, I have poor shell-feeding technique and no viable unloaded shell management other than a loose pouch. Why haven't I corrected this?
Now I'm imagining a shot shooter that uses stripper clips…
Slightly random question. Never even held an SLP, but it seems like the rim of the shell next up to go from the magazine to the chamber stuck waaaay out. Is that the way it's designed?
Pretty cool and very useful.
Jerry Miculek's 17 yr old daugther, Lena Miculek does that already she is as fast as her dad.
Load two? I thought that everyone has given up that already?
With load four you can get 8 shells loaded in 4 seconds. And with a little training sub 3 seconds 8 shell loading is possible.
So if you're now about to improve your loading speed and think about moving to load two I'd say you're atleast one or two years too late. Load four is the new thing that got popular about one year a go.
Fast reload on shotgun is something I worked on a long time ago, shooting skeet with friends out here in the boonies. For tactical reload I made my own 12ga speed loader from a short piece of black plastic water line. Ain't pretty but it works, with a minimum of practice it is quite fast. Gonna talk to my geek and see if we can make a video to send you.
I could swear that on an episode of Sons of Guns I saw Jerry Miculek load 4 shells in all of a half a second with a single swift hand-belt-gun motion. I may have a selective memory on that, but I do distinctly recall being blown away by how fast he reloaded an empty shotgun.
You can reload shotguns? Holy shit, I just keep buying new ones… Why didn't anyone tell me?


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07-10-1914 Volume OD - Pages 521-523 Reno, Nevada July 10, 1914 The Board of Regents met at 10 o'clock Friday, July 10, 1914. Present: Regents H. E. Reid, J. W. O'Brien, Walter E. Pratt and Charles B. Henderson, and R. P. Lewers. Absent: A. A. Codd. Minutes of June 2 and 15th, 1914, read and approved. Report of Robert Lewers, Acting President, read and filed. Motion of Regent Henderson that the appointments of the follow- ing members of the faculty be confirmed: Francis Church Lincoln to be Professor of Mining and Metallurgy at a salary of $3000 a year to date from July 1, 1914. It is understood that Mr. Lincoln is to be allowed to do outside work in mining engineering at such times and places as will not interfere with his University duties. Also an allowance of $250 is to be made to pay his expenses in moving from New York to Reno. F. W. Wilson to be Professor of Animal Husbandry at a salary of $2500 a year to date from July 1, 1914, and an allowance not to exceed $300 to pay the expense of moving from Arizona to Reno. William P. Roseman to be Field Demonstrator in the Smith- Lever Agricultural Extension work at a salary of $2500 a year to date from July 1, 1914, and an allowance of $250 for expense of moving to Reno. Philip Augustus Lehenbauer to be Assistant Professor of Botany and Horticulture at a salary of $1500 a year to date from July 1, 1914. Motion seconded and carried. Upon motion of Regent Pratt, duly seconded and carried, it was ordered that the sum of $4000 be set aside in the budget for the purpose of stock. This sum is to be expended at such times and in such amounts as the Department of Animal Husbandry may deem advisable. The tentative plan submitted by Director Chas. S. Knight and the Acting President for work under the Smith-Lever Bill was ordered approved when it had received the sanction of the Department of Agriculture in Washington. Director Chas. S. Knight was authorized to attend the meeting of Agricultural Extension workers in Denver in July, to comply with the request of Director A. C. True. Regent Henderson moved that the question of the adjustment of salaries be referred to the Finance Committee, the Acting Presi- dent and Comptroller C. H. Gorman, with power to act. Motion seconded by Regent O'Brien and carried. Regent Henderson moved that the recommendations of the Acting President in regard to the following promotions be approved: Reuben Cyril Thompson to be made Junior Professor in the Latin Department; J. Claude Jones to be made Professor of Geology and Mineral- ogy; Albert Ellsworth Hill to be Associate Professor of English; Miss Kate Bardenwerper to be Associate Professor of Home Economics; Albert W. Preston to be Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Motion seconded by Regent O'Brien and carried. The Acting President reported that he had appointed a Night Watchman at a salary of $75 a month and assigned him the care of the Administration Offices in addition to other duties as Watchman. Action confirmed. The Acting President was authorized to secure a Director of Phys- ical Training for young men, for the Fall term, and to enter into negotiations looking to the return of Amos W. Elliott as Physical Director for next year. It was moved by Regent Henderson and seconded by Regent Pratt that the matter of arranging for the use of the history fees be referred to the Acting President. Motion carried. The bill of Professor F. W. Wilson for travelling expenses in the amount of $97.06 was ordered paid. The bill of the Sunset Magazine for 100 copies of the Sunset Magazine ordered by the late President was ordered paid. Amount of bill $25. The Acting President was requested to write a letter to Miss Anna H. Martin to the effect that the Board of Regents, after a full consideration of the request contained in her letter, had decided that the resolution confining the use of the University name to purposes germane to the institution should stand as adopted. Adjouned to 10 o'clock, Saturday, July 11, 1914. H. E. Reid Chairman Geo. H. Taylor Secretary


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Mina and boyfriend create commotion
Egyptian actress Mina Fadali refused entering the Egyptian television studios after arriving to film an episode for the program "Ah Ya Lail" (Oh the nights) after security guards refused to permit a male friend accompanying her to enter. The security guards refused to allow Mina's friend due to the fact that he did not have a permit to enter the premises.
Mina tried to convince the security that her friend will only walk her to the studio where the episode will be film then leave, but to no avail. As a result, Mina refused to enter the building of the station and got into her car and left the scene all together. Producer of the show Mina was to film an episode for tried to call Mina on her phone to convince her return and notify her that a permit was obtained for her friend, but she refused to answer all calls.
Mina's actions were considered unacceptable by the makers of the programs, especially since she did not give anyone prior notice that she will be bringing a friend to the filming locations. The episode for the program has been cancelled.
On a different note, Mina is preparing to begin rehearsals for the new play titled "The Dictator" that will be showing during the coming Muslim holiday Eid Al Adha at the Al Salam theater in Cairo.


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To think that a person who "doesn't like having a photo taken" is a PITA?(148 Posts)
My MIL is a little ... self-absorbed, shall we say. One belief that she holds is that she looks better in a photo if she's sort of caught unawares, rather than just facing the sodding camera and giving it "cheese" like everyone else. So she now tries to create this effect every time, waiting until a split second before the picture is taken before turning her head and staring into the middle distance. I first noticed it when she spoiled all of the informal photos at DH's graduation, standing beside him doing what is basically a catalogue pose. I knew she'd do it in my wedding photos, so I told the photographer to watch her like a hawk. Judging by the number of times he shouted, "Mother of the Groom, look straight at the camera, please!" she was planning to do it in every photo. She's now doing it with my 9 month old DD, her only grandchild. I think that in years to come, my DD may like to have a photo of herself with her grandmother, but I've now given up. I've always thought that people who do the big flappy hands, going, "Noo! Nooo! Don't! Don't take my photo!" make a tremendous show of themselves, but this is something else. It's not all about YOU, you old bat. And you don't look better staring off into the distance. You look like a simpleton.
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YANBU - but I used to fucking well do this. What a total twat.
Though my reasons were
1. I look like a gurning fool when I smile
2. I develop four more chins when I smile
3. I somehow looked redder
but could be because I only relaxed enough to have my photo taken when I was drunken
I thought if I suddenly looked away when the photo was taken I would get away with not smiling and therefore not look like a gormless twat. But instead I just looked like I'd wandered into the photo and was looking for my lost escaped budgie.
I now smile, awkwardly and stiffly and try and stick my chin out.
I think there's a lot of missing the point on this thread. I think it may be because the thread is somewhat mis-titled (sorry OP!). Your MIL clearly loves having her photo taken as long as she's in her pose which essentially places her as the central subject of the photo. I don't enjoy having my photo taken, but I certainly don't manufacture a gormless pose that makes me the focus of photos I don't want to be in. Your MIL adores having her photo taken in affected poses, but loads of posters on here have taken your thread title to heart and think you're attacking those who really dislike appearing in photos.
I'm probably not making much sense (back to the cider...)
I hate having my photo taken but mostly because I ruin perfectly pleasant photos of groups of my family/friends by looking like a demented, staring freak. I'm not exactly spectacular looking in real life, but at least I'm not constantly confronted by the sight of my own leering, peculiarly posed face unless I look in a mirror, whereas having photos of me captured looking horrendous is depressing. I don't want to learn 'tricks', I just want to look nicer in general, but as that's not to be, I just try to avoid being in photos. I know that this is a light-hearted thread, but I do think that perhaps the solution is to accept that this is one of your MIL' quirks and enjoy it as such.
I think if I was your MIL I would have snatched the camera off you and punched you in your self-absorbed chops by now.
Message withdrawn at poster's request.
Do we have the same MIL? She ruins all the photos she has in her own house, all our wedding photos she was in and now all the baby photos with her in. IMHO it makes her look simple, like she doesn't understand how photos work! So not YANBU to not want your photos ruined by a simpleton.
I was at an award ceremony for fairly youngish people a couple of weeks ago. It involved having a photo taken while they collected certificates. A couple if them did the Hello pose thing laqueen described and they looked like vain self absorbed twats compared with the ones that shook hands and smiled. The photos proved it - the posers look like wannabes while the more natural ones look much better. We actually can't use the posers' for our publicity as they look so fake, which rather defeats their intended objective.
I utterly hate having my photo taken. Unless I'm drunk, in which case you have to prise me away from the lens.
laqueen is correct, her tips are well known and do work.
I look quite rough in every day pics, but scrub up well when needed!
op my Mum is like your MIL, she has extended these habits when photographing the Grandchildren too!
"flapping and fussing and protesting" only happens if people are rude enough to insist on taking a photo.
If "please don't take my photo" isn't enough, I will hide.
Obviously for special occasions (like my wedding) I did the grin and bear it thing. But just generally, I'd rather they didn't.
Some people see everything at one step removed, through a lens, and don't think an experience has been worth having unless it's on Facebook. This irritates me.
I don't mind having my photo taken, unfortunately when it is I either look deranged or pissed.
I may occasionally be the latter, but even sober the camera hates me.
I agree in a way, I have a best friend who I barely have snaps of as she refuses to get in one on any occasion.
I too dislike having my photo taken as I genuinely always look horrendous on photo's, but i still get in them, to be nice. I just grin and bear it.
I hate the current craze of taking loads of photos on a crappy phone and posting them straight to facebook - are people being deliberately unkind - or do they REALLY have no inner editor saying " no I don't think ByThe... would like a photo of her looking really fat with her hair all skewiff put on the internet for all to see.."
Hence MY current craze of putting hand in front of phone until it goes away...
I hate all that flapping and fussing and protesting some people do when it comes to photos. I am not photogenic to say the least but I just grin and bear it.
My inlaws have an enlarged family shot of us all at dd's Christening. Everyone in it looks normal, except me. I look like a walrus trying to photobomb the group shot from the bottom. (kneeling on the floor) The walrus-photobombing effect is increased even further by the tiny hand of one of my SILs resting on one of my wobbly chins.
What can you do but laugh and cringe!
I agree with OP. She sounds a PITA.
Mind you OP, you could have my mother who thinks that her best photo face is achieved when she does the old Lady Di trick, 'chin down, eyes up,hint of a smile"
She looks like she needs a shit tbh.
well i am a PITA! i hate hate hate my photo being taken im not in the slightest bit photogenic.
However its a bit different at people weddings etc i dont want to ruin there pictures!
I hate having photos done because I am so non photogenic its untrue. I always spoil group pictures with eyes shut, looking drunk when I'm not etc. For our wedding I asked the photographer to take loads of each shot, which he did. We still had trouble finding enough good ones with me on to fill the album! Even worse is when people put hideous pics of me on Facebook. I sympathise with people who hate being photographed and agree that unposed photos tend to be better especially if they take them when I'm not expecting it. Am trying to have a few done so my descendants know I existed
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Brilliant coco!
Probably ineed, probably
I used to be really photogenic, much better in photos than the flesh.
Unfortunately that seems to have desserted me and I look like a gurning mad eyed horror. I always have my eyes open too wide so they don't look old and crepey. It makes me look like whoever is next to me have their cock out.
I sitting here like a numpty practicing the tips .
I have a cousin who's actually a model. She's in catalogues and things - she's not Linda Evangelista. In family photos she always turns directly sideways, hand on hip and sort of looks down her arm, beaming at the camera. It looks a bit affected since she's usually surrounded by all her big country bumpkin cousins and mad haired aunties.
My Dad hates getting lots of photos taken. He will tolerate one and I am coming round to his way of thinking. It applies to many things. For example did anyone see the Madness concert at the BBC the other day? There were the cameras and the BBC taking lovely moving pictures of the event and yet, there were a whole bunch of people pointing their mobile phones at the band recording them.... Those recordings will be shit! Why can't people LIVE IN THE NOW? They should take one token photo just to show they were there and then just enjoy the experience of being there, rather than deferring their lives for the sake of a crappy bad sounding bad image video that will go on YouTube along with everyone else's. What a waste of time and effort.
I sympathise OP. I think it's pretty strange when people stand looking over their shoulder at the camera cos they think it makes them look thinner. It looks weird when one person is doing this in a group shot and everyone else is face on.
I think some people are misreading this .
Ps - if you thrust a hip forward and 'cock a leg' you look like a vain twat.
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Thanks for responding! I started with a vhdl behavioral filter design, did structural synthesis using Cadence BuildGates, place and route with soc encounter, imported output of encounter to virtuoso and extracted spice netlist using divaEXT.rul. My experimentation is supposed to be on the spice netlist.
The problem is I need to insert sensors in the filter design and connect them to certain modules. I have a transistor level implementation of filter (it cannot be represented as a gate level design). I was confused where to insert it in the flow so I specified those certain modules as partitions in soc encounter expecting a final structural netlist where I thought I could insert the sensors. But it is not working.
Can you suggest me another way to insert my filters in the flow?
Thanks a lot,
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If you have a LEF representation of the sensors you can instantiate them in the Verilog netlist and place&route them in Encounter. The output Verilog netlist and GDS would have an instantiation of the sensors.
I also recommend posting your question to the Custom IC Design forum to see if you can accomplish what you want in Virtuoso.
The DMS Flow doc is also available in your installation. It can be access using 'cdnshelp' or under the Help menu. The PDF is at:
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Chain emails are an interesting thing, as are election years. Combined they create a curious mix of gullible conservatives and grotesque falsehoods perpetuating a sense of fear the GOP surrogates hopes will translate into votes.
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This isn't anything new. Chain emails have been circulated by credulous conservatives for some time now. For obvious reasons they become increasingly popular during election years —- so popular that several fact-checking sites have dedicated sections specifically for debunking the nonsense. Snopes.com, FactCheck.org, Politifact.com and even About.com's "Urban Legend" section have seen huge traffic for their work over these emails. According to FactCheck.org, none are more popular than the political ones.
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Anyone got any good out of pdfunite in Slackware-14.0? I can't get it to accept any filenames. It seems to be for use with pdfseparate, for making booklets out of pdfs in page order.
It refuses all filenames, and I have tried all permutations I can think of.
Just did a quick test and it worked for me. I was unaware of this command, so thanks for pointing it out. I can make use of this.
I just picked two arbitrary PDFs and combined them with
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Weird. It's working for me now. I think it was too many suspend/resumes, or maybe some bitchiness from the printer itself (going into cycles of downloading firmware endlessly).
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Indeed, amid the constant flurry of new releases and working six months ahead, it's that reflection that affords team members the opportunity to assess what worked, what didn't and what's next. Often, they discover trends or nuances that seem so obvious in hindsight but sometimes get lost in the moment. Last month, the Panini America NFL team hit upon one such example.
Turns out that Panini America products over the last few years have been the only place to find certified autograph cards from some of the best veteran superstars in the NFL. In fact, when cross-referencing the Top 100 NFL Players lists for 2012 (one selected by the league, the other by fans) with recent autograph trading cards issued (according to Beckett.com), there were a staggering number of top-level stars whose newer autographs can be found only in Panini America products.
The short list of examples: Calvin Johnson, Victor Cruz, Larry Fitzgerald, Charles Woodson, Ben Roethlisberger and Troy Polamalu. There are more, and the series of charts that follows more clearly illustrates the point, but we thought it was a point well worth sharing.
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Sport Card Collectors permalinkNovember 14, 2012 9:59 am
For this reason and many others thats why we turn to Panini for our football trading card needs. It helps satisfy our addiction.
Want that Crruuuuuuuuuzzz bad. Nice card.
Eric Cabreros permalinkNovember 14, 2012 10:01 am
Very good research on this Tracy!
This is great. I think that knowing this will even drive the demand and price for this autos!
Jeffrey D permalinkNovember 14, 2012 10:12 am
Hey Tracy, have y'all reached out to Julius Peppers to see about adding him to some products. His only autos right now were a bunch of short prints his rookie year. I was just curious after seeing this list because Woodson and Polamalu were both the same way before you were able to sign them.
SGP FB Guy permalinkNovember 14, 2012 11:17 am
We have been trying for 2 + years to secure Peppers and will keep trying. We talk with our FB Aquisitons dept weekly/monthly to identify players that have either not signed or have very little autos on the market.
Jeffrey D permalinkNovember 14, 2012 10:00 pm
Sweet love the effort! I figured he would sign. He signs a lot of TTM for fans. Hopefully he signs up for some Panini authentic ones!
ryan permalinkNovember 14, 2012 10:42 am
please, please, please! produce a rookie auto card of Blair Walsh!! The kid is amazing and he'll be an elite kicker by the time his career is up. also – way to go Panini!
SGP FB Guy permalinkNovember 14, 2012 11:18 am
Coming Soon to Contenders FB!
bobwick30 permalinkNovember 14, 2012 11:25 am
Some sweet auto patch cards Tracy! As always, Panini has the best product! Now, if only you guys could ahold of MLB!!
Ernest Hebert permalinkNovember 14, 2012 11:32 am
Some really nice auto's there and I would not mind owning any one of them…putting this info out there to the collectors is a must Tracy and appreciated ….you should post updates on The Knights Lance every so often on this topic also with the other sports across the board …
Panini Collector 4ever! permalinkNovember 14, 2012 3:03 pm
Great work as always Panini- wait could it, Yes! Panini Prime Signatures comes out today! Can't wait to see what you guys pull in the Panini Unwrapped episode! Super excited!
Daniel permalinkNovember 14, 2012 4:13 pm
This is why i love panini so many nice hits!
Eric G. permalinkNovember 14, 2012 11:06 pm
I still want an Elvis Dumervil auto. The man led the NFL in sacks a few years ago and is a stud DE. Lets get it done guys and send me a free one for the idea that I have mentioned 92 times now
November 19, 2012 12:23 pm
You guys must have one solid acquisitions team to get those autographs done. Good work!


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An American army sergeant has been freed from the Taliban after nearly five years in captivity in Afghanistan.
US Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl was released in return for
five Taliban detainees at the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the custody of Qatar.
Mr Bergdahl's freedom follows months of indirect US-Taliban talks with Qatar acting as intermediary, the officials said.
US special operations forces took custody of Mr Bergdahl in a non-violent exchange in eastern Afghanistan, he was believed to be in good health.
Mr Bergdahl, who is from Idaho, was the only known missing soldier in the Afghan war.
He was captured under unknown circumstances in eastern Afghanistan by militants on 30 June 2009, about two months after arriving in the country.
President Obama said: "Today the American people are pleased that we will be able to welcome home Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, held captive for nearly five years."
He continued: "On behalf of the American people, I was honoured to call his parents to express our joy that they can expect his safe return,mindful of their courage and sacrifice throughout this ordeal."
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When country music star Craig Morgan is asked why he's returning to Country Thunder in Florence for the second time in three years, his answer is simple: "Fans and money."
"If somebody wants to pay us and the fans want to see us, we're there," Morgan said in a phone interview. "As long as that happens, I'll keep doing it."
And if Morgan's last appearance at Country Thunder in 2012 is an indicator, fans will no doubt flock to see him when he goes on stage Saturday, April 12 at 7 p.m.
Twice nominated for Academy of Country Music (ACM) Awards' Top New Male Vocalist (2006, 2007), Morgan is also the winner of Inspirational Country Music (ICM) Awards' Video of the Year and Mainstream Country Artist, and has charted 17 times on the Billboard country charts.
The list of Morgan's hits, which include "That's What I Love About Sunday," "Redneck Yacht Club," and "International Harvester," has only expanded since 2012.
"I'm still Craig Morgan. I'm the same guy I was last time I was there, I've just got more hits, and a beard," he said.
One of those new hits is "Wake Up Lovin' You," which Morgan called the biggest hit of his career.
The song follows the journey of a man who falls in love with a woman only to end up heartbroken.
"It is a heartache song," said Morgan. "That's what it's about, but the great thing about this song is you don't have to have had heartache, or been in the situation that the guy in the song has been in, to enjoy the song. There's something about the melody and the lyrics that make you feel compassion for him, and that's a rare jewel to find."
Morgan, who is a former veteran, broke into the country music industry in 2000, said some things – such as the turnout at Country Thunder – still surprise him.
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Mine Hill Township operates under the "Mayor-Council Plan" of the Optional Municipal Charter Law, also known as the Faulker Act. The Mayor-Council Plan is modeled after the federal and state governments, consisting of two separate and co-equal power centers directly elected by the people: the Mayor as chief executive, and the Council as the municipal legislature.
The Mine Hill Township Council meets on the first and third Thursdays of most months. Please see the Calendar for information pertaining to upcoming Council Meetings. The Council can be contacted by calling Town Hall at 973-366-9031 and selecting Option 7 for the Municipal Clerk. Each Council member also has a mailbox located just inside the front door of Town Hall.
From Left: Fred Willis, Bret Coranato, Kristine Kanzenbach, David Bloom, Conrad Pepperman
Council President David Bloom was appointed to the Council in January of 2012 and re-elected the following November; he serves as the Council Representative to the Open Space Committee. He has been a resident of Mine Hill since 1990, and currently resides on Randolph Avenue with his wife, Margaret, and their dogs. After obtaining his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Dave moved to New Jersey from Massachusetts in 1988, and he is currently employed by Nokia as an Engineering Director in the Wireless Product Development Division. In his spare time, Dave enjoys gardening, skiing, cycling and home improvements.
Council Vice President Conrad Pepperman was appointed to the Council in 2010, after serving on the Planning Board. He currently resides on Valley View Drive with his three daughters: Alexa, Aryanna, and Avery. Conrad is a graduate of County College of Morris and Rowan College, and holds a Masters degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University. He is also a graduate of the West Point Command and Leadership Program. Conrad is employed by the Rockaway Borough Police Department as a Sergeant overseeing the Records Division and a Patrol Squad; he also serves as the Deputy Domestic Violence Liaison Officer and the Municipal Counter-terrorism Coordinator and is a member of the Morris County Rapid Deployment Team. Conrad enjoys spending time with his daughters, working out and watching the New York Rangers.
Councilman Bret Coranato is a lifelong resident of Mine Hill, and currently resides on Route 46 with his wife, Nancy, and their two daughters, Alisha and Christina. Bret is the Council Liaison for the Board of Education, the Mine Hill Beach Committee, the Senior Citizens' Good Years Club, and the Interlocal Services Committee. In the past he has also served on the Mine Hill Recreation Commission and as co-chairman of the Mine Hill Day Committee. Bret is also a youth leader for junior and senior high students at Grace Church in Netcong. When not running his home improvement company, Bret enjoys coaching his daughter's soccer team and running.
Councilwoman Kristine Kanzenbach has been a resident of Mine Hill since 2002, and currently resides on Frank Street; Kris has been a member of the Council since 2009, and currently serves as Council Liaison to the Recreation Committee and the Community Development Profit Sharing Committee. When not working as a Systems Analyst at Schindler (previously Westinghouse Elevator), Kris enjoys coaching soccer, gardening, home improvements, puzzles and mysteries, and visiting with her children and grandchildren.
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Daniel is one of the foremost experts on AngularJS, the most modern and widely used framework for developing websites, web applications, mobile apps, art installations, and other digital projects.
Material Design is Googles specification for a unified system of visual, motion, and interaction design that adapts across different devices. Available for both the web and mobile devices, it is the basis for the design of the upcoming Android L operating system. Attendees will learn how to put Material Designs principles and goals into practice with Angular Material, the AngularJS implementation. Daniel also will explain how easy it can be to create a beautiful user experience (UX) for your application using the Material metaphor.
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Obama Should Use Fighting Words In The 2012 State Of The Union - Michael Tomasky/TheDailyBeast
Obama Should Use Fighting Words in the 2012 State of the Union
by Michael Tomasky - TheDailyBeast
Jan 24, 2012 4:45 AM EST
This is not the year to roll out a dozen policy initiatives, Clinton style. We all know that hell go one for 12, getting the Republicans to agree to vote for the least important of the 12, which theyll do just so they can say they behaved in a bipartisan fashion. In other words, its not the year to give a presidential speech, communicating to the American people and legislators of the other party that there are great goals to be jointly accomplished in behalf of the people. Bullshit. Theres one goal: get reelected. Everyone knows this. Comport yourself accordingly, or you look weak and naive. Especially at a moment when buckets of blood are swirling in the roiled Republican waters. Loose the sharks.
Obama shouldwithout mentioning them by nametake a couple of whacks at Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich. This is a time, with Romney on the ropes and the leading GOP candidate (Gingrich) enjoying a roughly -35 point approval-to-disapproval rating, to float like a butterfly and sting like a bee. Play some head games. Have some fun. Doif I maysome dozens. Not your mama is so fat dozens, obviously. But talk some smack. Drop in one or two that the Republicans will attack as undignified to the occasion. Put them on the defensive, make them sound whiny. Trust me, David Plouffe: independents will like it. They sure didnt like what you wanted to do last summer (capitulate).
Beyond this, Obama should speak only in broad themes, and that theme is the one I stated at the end of the first paragraph. Middle class, middle class, middle class. And use the wedge. I am for you; they are against you. This speech should be so obvious that if anyone with an IQ higher than 85 is asked tomorrow, So, what did the president say last night, the person will say: He said he was on the side of the middle class. It would be nice if the person remembered and the Republicans are for the rich, but the first sentence will do.
Thats it, and thats all. But its a tall order for a SOTU. It means that Obamaand, crucially, the people around himhave to view this speech differently from most SOTUs. Usually, a SOTU is little more than a kind of competition among agencies to see who can get a pet program mentioned. The lobbying, I kid you not, goes on all year. EPA, Department of Labor, you name it ... theyre all straining to be mentioned or have one of their key initiatives mentioned. It can invigorate them for months. But tonight, Obama needs to be remorseless about not throwing out any bureaucratic bones. If it fits the theme, fine. If it doesnt, wait till next year, pal.
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gateley (62,472 posts)
1. Good advice, IMO. And get a couple of zingy sound bites in there -- as someone said
today, he gave a great speech but not all that memorable, people weren't quoting from it (like, for example Biden's Giuliani noun/verb/9-11 gem).
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WillyT (72,631 posts)
2. Agreed !!! - I Guess We'll Know Soon...
I wanna see a fighter for the poor and the middle-class!
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3. Last Kick From Me...


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Teachers and governors at Melksham Oak Community School are celebrating its highest ever Ofsted grade. The school has been rated Good by inspectors, who found significant improvements across the board when they visited last month. It opened in 2010, to replace the George Ward Technology College, which had been graded as inadequate. The new report praises the standard of teaching and highlights the strong partnerships between staff, students and teachers. Inspectors observed 44 teachers over two days and held meetings with students, governors and staff. An online parent questionnaire was analysed, along with the attendance and behaviour figures. The inspection found standards in all subjects had improved, especially in maths and English. Disabled students and those with special educational needs were also found to be well served.
The pupils were said to be friendly and polite, with overall behaviour good. The report declared the school had created a "strong climate of inclusion, trust and support". The few instances of bullying were said to be dealt with swiftly. The report also praised the headteacher and senior management team for providing strong and decisive leadership, well supported by the local authority. The inspection was the school's first, but follows the George Ward College's inspection in February 2010. Ofsted introduced a stricter inspection framework in September, which makes it harder for schools to get the highest standards. Melksham Oak headteacher Stephen Clark said: "I am especially pleased, as this judgement was made on the new, more rigorous Ofsted framework. "We remain determined to continue our journey to be a great school and are delighted that Ofsted have recognised our progress." The report was warmly welcomed by chairman of governors Ruth Gillings, who said: "The report is absolutely awesome. They have done so well and worked so hard. Everybody at the school – the teachers, the backroom staff, the parents and the kids – have been absolutely superb."
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115 E. Gray St.
Staff: Kayla Brandt
Being green is good for your bottom line. Customers reward businesses who are making an effort to establish green practices in their daily operations. This recognition program will help you market and promote your efforts. By participating, you should recognize savings on many of your expenses, and grow your revenue. So it's good from the top to the bottom (line)!
The Green Sticker is to be placed on any door or window and is designed to complement your Norman Chamber Member sticker. If you need a sticker for your business, contact Kayla Brandt at 321-7260 or email@example.com
There are six Greenovation categories: Solid Waste Reduction, Eco-Friendly Products, Eco-Friendly Transportation, Energy Use Reduction, Water Conservation and Recycling & Supply Reuse. The information sheet (linked below) provides you with a few examples of how you can take steps to green your business within each category.
Each month the Greenovation Committee will review all submissions and award footprints. The committee will evaluate requests based upon two criteria:
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2. You must include at least two steps you have taken within each category.
Recycling Resources
- Do and Don'ts for City of Norman Curbside Recycling
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Greenovation Committee Goals
- Continue to promote Green Sticker program
- Communicate and collaborate with city on green issues/events
- Promote green meetings within the city of Norman and metro area
- Recruit a representative from schools (NPS, OU and MNTC)
- Hold series of green open houses at local businesses
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