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Is smaller better for nuclear power plants?
Small nuclear power plants are not new. After all, the pioneer commercial reactors were small units, along with generations of nuclear reactors successfully applied in naval vessels. Conditions may now be favorable to build advanced nuclear power plants with one-tenth the output power of current utility-scale plants—and even physically smaller in overall size.
During my direct involvement in nuclear power plant design and development more than 30 years ago, those of us advocating smaller-scale plants were not popular with management or fully in-synch with prevailing market conditions. At that time, only large plant construction was on the radar screen of economics. Financing of capital projects also lived in a different world. Now, nuclear plant design with "smaller is better" in mind may have a chance to become reality. Benefits of small nuclear reactors are seen as:
- Faster plant construction with smaller, less complex reactor systems;
- Modular plant design, enabling simpler replication of multiple units;
- Real scalability of plant output to current power needs, and easier add-on of units as demand increases;
- Simpler design, such as integrated reactor core and steam generator, less complex shutdown procedures; and
- Easier financing with less total cost involved.
Nuclear power has its share of opponents, extending to any new developments. In their view, downside of smaller plant design includes:
- Nuclear material and spent fuel dispersed to more sites;
- Safety: more potential terrorist targets (and possible plant sitings near urban areas); and
- Concern about overall cost of electricity generation.
These issues require proper resolution and assurance of being preventable to the most practicable degree. An emotional decision should not be the basis to turn away from a promising technology.
Numerous designs, developers
A significant number of companies worldwide are developing small nuclear plants of new, advanced design with intent to commercialize them.
One U.S. developer—Babcock & Wilcox Nuclear Energy Inc.—refers to its technology as the "world's first advanced generation III" small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear plant and carries the catchy trademark name of "mPower." To streamline production and lower project costs, the pressurized water reactor (PWR) rated for 125 megawatt electric (MWe) output would be factory built and transported to the plant site via barge or rail.
mPower's design calls for burying the reactor and its containment dome below ground. Its spent fuel is to be stored onsite under water for the full 60-year design life of the reactor. Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) envisions initial SMR sitings at existing nuclear plant sites with space for future expansion and where obtaining a permit would be simpler. B&W intends to request certification of mPower from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in 2011 and projects first units going online after 2018.
Among other current small reactor designs are NuScale Power Inc.'s 45 MWe modules, 12 of which would be integrated to form a standard plant, and IRIS, a 100-335 MWe system from a group of companies led by Westinghouse (a unit of Toshiba Corp.). Both offerings are PWR designs.
NRC's current licensing agenda focuses on new large-scale nuclear reactors—thus pending applications for "mini" nuclear plants will be considered later. However, with their shorter construction period, downsized nuclear power plants could be operating in about the same time frame as their new giant cousins.
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Miggy will need fans' ballot help with move to first
After years of snubs in All-Star balloting, Miguel Cabrera finally broke through last year when he won the starting nod at third base. If he's going to repeat, he's going to have to do it at first.
It was a positional move meant for the long-term health of his career. It might not be much help for his All-Star standing.
After years of snubs in All-Star balloting, Miguel Cabrera finally broke through last year when he won the starting nod at third base. If he's going to repeat, he's going to have to do it at first.
It was a positional move meant for the long-term health of his career. It might not be much help for his All-Star standing.
Major League Baseball released its annual All-Star ballot on Friday, complete with Cabrera at first base after the last two seasons at third. He joins a field that includes reigning former teammate Prince Fielder, reigning home-run champion and American League leading vote-getter Chris Davis, three-time MVP Albert Pujols, former MVP and three-time batting champion Joe Mauer, White Sox rookie slugger Jose Abreu, Red Sox hero Mike Napoli and Yankees slugger Mark Teixeira.
Even for the reigning two-time AL MVP, that's a challenging vote to win. He'll get some help from in-stadium balloting at Comerica Park, which begins at the start of the next homestand May 5, and runs through June 18. In the end, however, Cabrera will need a heavy amount of support from the online ballot, which is now available.
Others on the Tigers ballot include second baseman Ian Kinsler, who has made the All-Star team as a reserve every even-numbered year since 2008. His solid start gives him some momentum for early votes amidst a field that includes Boston's Dustin Pedroia and Seattle's Robinson Cano.
Other candidates include rookie Nick Castellanos at third base, Victor Martinez at designated hitter, Alex Avila behind the plate, and an outfield trio of Torii Hunter, Austin Jackson and Rajai Davis.
"Obviously, it would mean a lot to come back to my hometown and play in the All-Star Game," Hunter said. "This is where I grew up. Of course, it's Target Field -- I didn't get to play here. To see everything in place and knowing there's an All-Star Game, of course that's one of my goals, to get here and play here. I don't know how much longer I'm going to be playing and it might be my only opportunity."
The Tigers can already rule out one position. Detroit released Alex Gonzalez on Sunday, but not with enough time to change the ballot, so he's listed at shortstop.
Fans can cast their votes for starters at MLB.com and all 30 club sites -- online or on a mobile device -- using the 2014 All-Star Game MLB.com Ballot Sponsored by Experian until Thursday, July 3, at 11:59 p.m. ET. The 2014 All-Star Game will be played at Target Field on Tuesday, July 15.
Fans may submit up to 25 online ballots, but they can also earn a one-time bonus of 10 additional online ballots. To access these additional online ballots, you must be logged into your MLB.com account when you submit any online ballot. If you do not have an MLB.com account, register on the site in accordance with the enrollment instructions for a free MLB.com account.
Fans this year once again can participate in the Home Run Derby Fan Poll. Fans will have the opportunity to select three players in each league who they would most like to see participate in the Home Run Derby. The 2014 Home Run Derby will be broadcast live on ESPN, ESPN HD, ESPN Deportes and ESPN Radio in the United States beginning at 8 p.m. ET on Monday, July 14.
The 2014 American League and National League All-Star teams will be unveiled on the 2014 MLB All-Star Game Selection Show during the weekend of July 5-6, with further details to follow on MLB.com. Immediately following the announcement of the AL and NL All-Star rosters, fans can begin voting to select the final player for each league's 34-man roster via the 2014 All-Star Game MLB.com Final Vote Sponsored by Experian. Fans will cast their votes from a list of five players from each league over the balloting period.
The voting doesn't end there. The final phase of All-Star Game voting will again have fans participating in the voting for the Ted Williams All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award presented by Chevrolet. During the Midsummer Classic, fans will vote exclusively online at MLB.com via the 2014 All-Star Game MLB.com MVP Vote Sponsored by Pepsi, and their voice will represent 20 percent of the overall vote that determines the recipient of the Arch Ward Trophy.
MLB.com will provide extensive online coverage of the All-Star Week festivities.
The 85th All-Star Game will be televised nationally by FOX, in Canada by Rogers Sportsnet and RDS, and worldwide by partners in more than 200 countries via MLB International's independent feed. ESPN Radio and ESPN Radio Deportes will provide national radio coverage of the All-Star Game. MLB Network and SiriusXM will also provide comprehensive All-Star Week coverage. For more information, please visit allstargame.com.
Jason Beck is a reporter for MLB.com. Read Beck's Blog and follow him on Twitter @beckjason.

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Saturday I ran the WV Trilogy 50K course with Dan. What a day we had. It was just a gorgeous day to be out on the trails. These long self-supported runs are often times more fun for me than races.
I know I've said it before, but man this race is going to be special. We wanted to run the course to see "how it runs" and check out a few logistical issues. Well . . . it runs very nicely!


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HTC have evolved over the years into the massive powerhouse in the mobile industry as we know it today. Well, they didn't start with Smartphone's, but they did innovate and produce an awful lot along the way. This video showcases HTC and it's innovations through the years. Starting from 1997 with some very early touch devices, to Windows Mobile devices like the Compaq Ipaq, then onto Android and of course HTC Sense as well.
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Authored by Dr. Fraser Cameron, Prof. Roy Ginsberg, Mr. Josef Janning.
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A festive and meaningful Michaelmas to all on this profound holiday.
I thought I was going to write something about Michaelmas that included an explanation of the beautiful and quite esoteric nature of its symbols and stories but with all the birthday planning and visitors and cleaning, I'm afraid it will have to wait. What I would like to do is just share the way the struggle of will and consciousness conquering desire and psychological sleep is manifesting in a cute and cuddly way for our daughter in our home. As with all meaningful celebrations, we don't talk to our almost-five-year-old about the internal significance and substance of these observances but just let the stories and pictures act upon and through her in a gentle subconscious manner.
For a few days now we have been reading (with a fair amount of editing) the wonderful story of St. George and the Dragon as retold by Margaret Hodges. There aren't a great many picture books out there for Michaelmas and this is one we really enjoy.
To hold the pictures of the story, we set up our Nature Table for Michaelmas to include a scene from this book (as seen in the photo up top). A pattern for the sweet Michaelmas dragon can be found at Rhythm of the Home.
When Naiya arrived home from school today we decided to bake Dragon Bread for the first time using a recipe we found here.
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"The Kite" by U. de Haes
Once upon a time there was a boy whose father helped him make a kite. They worked on it in the winter, until its wooden cross was surrounded by transparent paper of yellow, red and blue.
In the summer the boy flew his kite and the sun was so pleased with its colours that he sent his clearest rays of light. And so the kite looked like a flaming cross in the sky. The boy let his kite rise as high as it could until the string came to an end and the kite could go no further.
Whoosh! Then came a gust of wind. The string snapped and the kite went flying into the sky. The boy saw it rise higher and higher. Soon the kite had gone so high that he could barely see it.
Up there in the blue there was much to be seen. First the kite saw a crow.
"Good morning," croaked the crow.
"Good morning," replied the kite.
"Are you a bird, with your flaming wings and long tail?"
"No, I am not a bird."
"What are you then and from whence do you come?"
"I come from the lad standing down there; he made me himself."
"And where are you going?"
"That I do not know. I want to fly into the sky."
"Then you do not belong here. Up here every being knows whence he comes and whither he goes. I fly every winter to the south, and every summer to the north. I advise you to return to the human beings below, for if you do not know where you are going, you will lose your way in heaven." But the kite was determined and rose further into the heights.
Then the kite met a seed.
"Good day," whispered the seed.
"Good day," replied the kite.
"Are you also a seed with your roots and shoots?"
"Not I."
"Where are you going?"
"I do not know. I want to travel into heaven."
"Then you do not belong here. Up here everyone knows where he is going. I sail through the air and take in that which moves from the east to the west - the warmth of the sun. When I have taken it into myself, I travel down again and bring it to the earth. The earth then lets a flower grow out of me. If you do not know what to do, I advise you to descend to the earth or you will lose your way in these heights." But the kite did not hear and soared higher.
Then he glided past a cloud.
"Good evening," murmured the cloud.
"Good evening," said the kite.
"Are you a cloud with your flaming sunset red?" asked the cloud.
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"And where are you going?"
"Oh, only into the sky."
"Then you do not belong here. Everyone here knows his purpose. I collect the last red of the sunset and turn it into the red of the sunrise. I rain down with the red of the sunrise and bless the earth and when I have done that the sun carries me up once more, so that the red of the sunrise can again be made. And so I travel up and down. I advise you to go back to the boy, for without a goal you will lose your way up here." But the kite would not return and rose higher.
Then he came to the stars.
"Good night," sang the stars.
"Good night," sang the kite with them.
"What news do you bring to us, you comet of the earth?" sang the stars.
"I come from the boy who lies sleeping down there on the earth," said the kite. "He is waiting until I return but in the meantime he has fallen asleep, and is dreaming about me."
"We ask you to take our blessings back to the boy," sang the stars and every one of them gave the kite some of their light.
Then came the Angel Michael. He took a star and hurled it towards the strange newcomer. The kite burst into flames and like a torch plunged into the depths.
The boy awoke from a dream. But when he looked around he realised that it could not have been an ordinary dream for next to him lay the cross of his kite and the coloured paper had been devoured by flames.
And the cross was no longer wooden but was of bright, heavenly iron. The boy was astounded when he saw that. But he was also vexed because his beautiful kite was gone.
At home his father comforted him: "Let us be glad. If your kite was not burnt you would never have received this cross of heavenly iron. This iron is lighter than the lightest wood and stronger than the strongest steel. Let us use it to make a new kite."
This they did. And next summer when the kite rose to the heavens he again met those who traveled from north to south, from east to west and from heaven to earth. And when he came to the stars he again met Michael and again he plunged burning to the earth. But the cross of heavenly iron shone even more brightly than before.
And this happened for many years and with every year the cross became brighter and stronger. And when the boy had grown up the cross took on a different form: it turned into a shining sword which gleamed with the light of the stars. With this sword the growing man traveled through the world and he became a knight and servant of Michael.


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Lake Amistad Gets New Fishing Hotspot
ATHENS—The lake known as "the Big Friendly" got a little friendlier to fish recently.
As a result of a cooperative effort among Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, the Del Rio Home Depot and the National Park Service (NPS), fish-attracting structure was placed into Amistad International Reservoir near the Governor's Landing camping area.
"The drought of 2011 had a devastating impact on most Texas reservoirs, including Lake Amistad," said Randy Myers, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) Inland Fisheries biologist. "The lake is currently about 15 feet low, and projections have it going as much as 25 or 30 feet low in the next couple of months."
"We're happy to be working with Texas Parks and Wildlife to improve habitat for the fish and at the same time improve the fishing," said Jack Johnson, resource program manager for Amistad National Recreation Area. "Home Depot provided about 160 unsold Christmas trees, and National Park Service staff bundled them together and constructed concrete anchors. TPWD provided the expertise to identify the location to sink the trees."
"Good habitat is key for good fish production," Myers said. "We selected a small hump off a point between the Diablo East boat ramp and the Highway 90 bridge. The hump is small enough that the trees cover the entire top of that hump. We expect many species to be attracted to the area—largemouth bass, baitfish, sunfish and catfish. There were some fish on the hump before we placed the fish attractor, so we expect it to attract more fish. We will provide the waypoint for the attractor on the TPWD web site so anglers can find it and fish it."
As Myers motored slowly over the hump, the newly planted "forest" of five- to six-foot Douglas firs lit up on the sonar like a Christmas tree, surrounded by a shimmering cloud of needles floating up off the trees. Compared to the bare lake bottom around it, the hump is a paradise for fish—and anglers.
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When one of the Spud & Chloë team left for college this fall, we sent him off with a little something to remember us by–the Cabin Fever Blanket in Spud & Chloë Outer! We're confident it's going to keep him comfy and cozy in his new apartment. We also think it's the perfect project for those cold days when all you want to do is sit by the fire and knit.
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Oh, and did we mention that there's a crochet version too?
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10-22-11 Relocation Event, PNC Park
Near the end of the 2011 season, the Pirates, fresh off of a record 19th consecutive losing season, announced that they planned on raising ticket prices for the 2012 season. Their rationale is that it was necessary to remain competitive against teams that are in a larger market.
The Pirates completely restructured their pricing tiers. It used to be that the farther a section was from home plate, the cheaper it was. For example, in 2011 seats in section 301, row A, would've cost $9 per game in advance, $11 on the day of the game, and $5 to a season ticket holder. In 2012, those same seats will cost $16 per game in advance ($7 increase) and $12 for a season ticket holder (another $7 increase).
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It's virtually the same system on the lower level.
When I opened my season ticket invoice, rather than seeing the $798 that I had paid the last five seasons, I saw this:
The seats were DOUBLE what I paid in 2011. So I didn't renew.
Until today.
Sensing that many fans didn't want to pay double to be in their original locations, the Pirates had a season ticket relocation event. My time to meet with a Pirates representative was 11:00-11:30 AM. Despite arriving at 11 AM:
and being the hall of fame club at 11:05, Amy, Olivia, and I had to stand around for about a half hour before a representative finally came around to taking us up to the seats.
And when we were shown the seats, the whole thing seemed rushed, because the rep we were with kept getting questioned where he was.
Some seats were color coded with papers taped to them. Those were available seats that a fan could take the papers off of and turn them in to a rep to claim the seats and buy them for the 2012 season. I wasn't a fan, because there weren't many seats that I liked with red tags (full season) in the area I wanted.
I was told that the red tagged seats were the best available. I didn't agree.
The seats were in row S, which was the best available section, but they were in such an area where people would be constantly walking in my line of sight if I were to watch a game (up and down the aisle).
So after sitting in a few seats and weighing the pros and cons of each location, I finally settled on three seats that I liked. That's right, I'm getting 3 seats. Olivia won't be under 30 inches much longer, so she'll likely need a ticket at some point either at the end of next season or 2013.
PNC was looking beautiful, even roughly a month after the regular season ended:
Before leaving the seating bowl, the rep offered to take out picture. Here's the Jabs family:
Upon returning to the Hall of Fame club, I stood in line to get to a rep at a computer and handed him the sales sheet that had been prepared by the guide and paid for my 2012 tickets in full.


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Event to benefit LMH Foundation for volunteers' 60th anniversary
Jeanne Robertson discovered she had a sense of humor that people couldn't get enough of when she was a rising junior in college.
"I don't even think I was the funniest person in school," she said about her growing up days.
But in 1963, when she won the Miss North Carolina Pageant, she began making speeches around the country � and people laughed.
"I was funny," she said. "So because of that, I dropped out of college."
That started the 69-year-old's successful speaking career, although she did go back and finish college.
On Sept. 13, Robertson will be bringing her humor to Kinston starting at 7:30 p.m. for the Lenoir Memorial Hospital volunteers' 60th anniversary fundraising event.
The volunteers have partnered with the Lenoir Memorial Hospital Foundation to raise money for the cardiology lab's new equipment.
Volunteers Director Ann Durusky said she was looking for a unique idea for a fundraiser to fulfill a hospital need.
"Recently, I heard (Robertson) in Wayne County," she said, "and she was hysterical. People want to have a good time and laugh."
So she asked the Foundation how the event could benefit the hospital.
LMH had recently completed its $2 million cardiology lab, including a $400,000 cardiac imaging and information management system. The equipment will be used for a new procedure for catheterizations in the near future, Foundation Director Dirk Griffith said.
"I saw this as an opportunity to raise money for a cause," Griffith said about the fundraiser.
The proceeds from the event will help recoup the money spent on the new equipment, he said.
The partnership between the volunteers and the Foundation is a first.
"I love the fact that we're working together," Griffith said. "It's the first time we've actually worked together on a project. I hope we do it again."
At least 65 percent of the tickets for the 640 seats have been sold. Durusky said she's hoping for a full house. Tickets are $25 each.
"We wanted people who wanted to see (Robertson) to be able to afford it," she said.
Robertson doesn't consider herself a comedian. She doesn't tell jokes; she tells stories � humorous ones. In fact, she's written books on the difference between a comedian and a humorist � which is what she considers herself.
Her website describes her as "a professional speaker who specializes in hilarious humor based on her life experiences."
"I weave a story," Robertson said, "that everybody in the audience is familiar with and can identify with."
And she means everyone.
"I like to say," she said, "you can bring your momma and bring your teenagers."
Last week, her show on YouTube received 18 million hits, Robertson said.
She noted � tongue in cheek � what might have been the reason for her success as a public speaker during her year as a pageant winner.
"That year, I was unusually tall," she said. "I'm 6-foot-2."
Today, Robertson is still 6-foot, 2-inches tall � and a polished national speaker who doesn't stop writing new material.
"I think people will want to hear things they haven't heard or seen on YouTube," she said.
She's written books and monthly columns, as well as produced CDs and DVDs.
For about 22 days a month, Robertson's on the road � writing � in between shows. There's always a point, or a lesson, from her stories.
"Funny things happen all around us," she said.
Robertson just happens to get them down on paper.
Margaret Fisher can be reached at 252-559-1082 or email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @MargaretFishr.
Breakout box:
What: LMH Volunteers 60th anniversary fundraiser
Who: Humorist Jeanne Robertson
When: 7:30 p.m., Sept. 13
Where: Waller Auditorium, Lenoir Community College
Tickets: $25, Volunteer office, 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Monday-Friday, 252-522-7248
Catch a preview:jeannerobertson.com, YouTube or SiriusXM radio


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I am writing this Friends and Family Newsletter late on Friday night! First, there was "Who Do You Think You Are" to watch, and it was an awesome episode. As a matter of fact, it came on right after I had finished and posted my article for the First Carnival of African American Genealogy: Restore My Name – Slave Records and Genealogy Research.
Then I was reading some blogs and saw that several had already changed to the new templates. I had seen the news the night before on GeneaBloggers and had given a trial run to some of the new templates, but wanted to make sure that my blog header banner would be compatible and that all of my pages would show up at the top (the template at the far right didn't seem to include them all), so I hadn't made the change, yet. But after seeing how other blogs looked I had to go to back to the Blogger Template Designer and play, and, well, you see the results. Things I love about the new templates:
- The flexibility. Now the blog really is like a doll. I can change its clothes. Today I have a subdued background, but be forewarned, on some days it may be much more colorful – despite the great craze for "simplicity" in blogs these days – and I especially like the patchwork-quilt background.
- The fact that I can keep my header banner (I am very attached to it). I had created an "extra, experimental" blog to try to work out a way to incorporate some of those neat free backgrounds that are available, but they only work on a template that doesn't seem to work well with my banner.
- The ability to have a nice, wide space for my posts as well as enough room so that some of my "gadgets" don't get cut off.
Another change I have made is to add the "Woo-Hoo! Wall" to my Pages. This is modeled after Bart's "Fireplace Mantle" page at Stardust 'n' Roots. I moved most of the awards to this page, and I think that the front page of the blog loads more quickly now. Any new award would be featured on the front page for a while, and then eventually moved to the Woo-Hoo! Wall.
Now for the news.
Mystery of the week.
The oldest son of my gg-grandfather Elisha Berry Lewis, James West Lewis, was one of the Lewis kin who went to Texas from SC. He is shown on the censuses for Travis and Wilbarger Counties in 1880 and 1900. I had always thought he was buried there and that the J. W. Lewis shown in Midway Presbyterian Cemetery in Anderson, SC was not him, even though E.B. and some other Lewis family members are buried there. However, when I looked up his grave on Findagrave, the inscription indicates he served in Co. B, 4th SC Infantry. Sounds like him. He died in around 1904; was he taken to SC to be buried there or was he perhaps visiting family when he died there?
Jo Lee at Those Who Went Before in "Who Do You Think You Are? Premiere WOW" tells about watching the premier episode in amazement when one of her own lines – Hodge – was featured in the show.
Schelly at Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog writes about the NY Times columnist Neil Genzlinger's clueless and condescending reaction to WDYTYA in "America's WDYTYA – Tree or Shrub?"
Bill West at West in New England, in "What I Thought About 'Who Do You Think You Are?'", writes that one of the graves from which SJP was shown brushing snow off was that of his ancestor Mary Eastey!
Tipper at The Blind Pig and the Acorn has posted another Appalachian Vocabulary Test. (Come on, broaden your education!)
In the belief that any good idea is worth stealing – I shall adopt this practice started by Cindy at Everything's Relative – Researching Your Family History in her "Visits and New Follows" by noting that this week I started following these blogs:
Genealogy Freelancers
Climbing Joshua's Tree
Climbing My Family Tree
Help! The Faerie Folk Hid My Ancestors!
Journey to the Past
Know Your Story
Roots and Branches
Future Plans
Nothing firm yet, and everything depends on having enough money left over after paying tuition bills, but I am tentatively starting to begin to think – just think – about possibly attending the annual conference of the Federation of Genealogical Societies in Knoxville August 18-21. We could actually drive there and my husband said he could enjoy the historical sights while I attend the conference. Just thinking …
Friday, March 12, 2010
Family and Friends Newsletter Friday 12 March 2010
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Congrats on the new blog look. I have to go have a lookie see, but, I have been too tired, so saving it for one of those times when brain is functioning, eh? LOLReplyDelete
I too have moved my awards to one of those nifty pages on blogger. Like the pages facility.
bYour Blog looks very polished, I like it! I need to look into updating my blog now.ReplyDelete
Greta - Long time no visits! I love the new look of your blog and must say that I'm terrified to touch mine! Guess it'll have the old look for sometime :-)ReplyDelete
Thanks for the mention and for reading! -cindy
Carol, Jenna, Cindy - Thanks for the encouraging words! It was hard to let the old look go, but it's fun to be able to play around.ReplyDelete
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GUSD Uniform Complaint Procedure (UCP)
For employees, pupils, parents and/or guardians, advisory committees, private school officials, and other interested parties.
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What is a UCP Complaint?
Official Board Policy: BP 1312.3 | AR 1312.3
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A complaint under the Uniform Complaint Procedures (UCP) is a written and signed statement by an individual, public agency, or organization alleging a violation of federal or state laws governing certain educational programs. The GUSD Board of Education encourages the early, informal resolution of complaints whenever possible and appropriate. To resolve complaints that cannot be resolved through such informal process, the Board has adopted the following UCP.
What agencies are subject to the UCP?
The UCP covers alleged violations by local educational agencies (LEAs) (school districts and county offices of education) and local public or private agencies which receive direct or indirect funding from the State to provide any school programs, activities, or related services. Charter schools which receive federal funds are also subject to the UCP or where specified in statute.
What educational programs and services are covered by the UCP?
- Accommodations for Pregnant and Parenting Pupils
- Adult Education
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- Agricultural Career Technical Education
- Career Technical and Technical Education; Career Technical; Technical Training Programs (State)
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- Child Care and Development Programs
- Compensatory Education
- Course Periods without Educational Content
- Discrimination, harassment, intimidation, bullying, and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (LGBTQ) resources
- Education of Pupils in Foster Care, Pupils who are Homeless, former Juvenile Court Pupils now enrolled in a school district, Military families, migrant child or newly arrived immigrant student
- Every Student Succeeds Act
- Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) and Local Control and Accountability Plans (LCAP)
- Migrant Education
- Physical Education: Instructional Minutes
- Pupil Fees
- Reasonable Accommodations to a Lactating Pupil
- Regional Occupational Centers and Programs
- School Plans for Student Achievement
- School Safety Plans
- Schoolsite Councils
- California State Preschool Programs
- State Preschool Health & Safety Issues in LEAs Exempt from Licensing
What issues are not covered by the UCP?
Not all complaints fall under the scope of the UCP. Many concerns are the responsibility of the District, including classroom assignments, common core, grades, graduation requirements, hiring and evaluation of staff, homework policies and practices, provision of core curricula subjects, public meeting laws (such as the Brown Act), student advancement and retention, student discipline, student records, and other general education requirements. The District, however, may use its local complaint procedures to address complaints not covered by the UCP.
In addition, the following complaints are referred to other agencies for resolution and not subject to the UCP:
- Allegations of child abuse are referred to County Departments of Social Services, Protective Services Divisions, or appropriate law enforcement agency.
- Health and safety complaints regarding a Child Development Program are referred to the Department of Social Services for licensed facilities, and to the appropriate Child Development regional administrator for licensing-exempt facilities.
- Any special education complaint alleging denial of a free appropriate public education based on services called for in a settlement agreement shall be investigated by the California Department of Education.
- Any complaints relating to child nutrition shall be investigated and responded to directly by the California Department of Education.
- Employment complaints are sent to the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing.
- Allegations of fraud are referred to the responsible Division Director at the California Department of Education (CDE).
How do I file a UCP complaint and how is it processed?
The District UCP complaint policies and procedures provide the information needed to file a local complaint. The District ensures annual notification to its students, employees, parent/guardians, school and district advisory committees, appropriate private school officials and other interested parties of the District's UCP complaint policies and procedures, and the opportunity to appeal the decision to the CDE. The District must provide the complaint policies and procedures free of charge.
Pupil Fees or LCAP complaints may be filed anonymously if the complainant provides evidence or information leading to evidence to support the complaint and shall be filed no later than one year from the date the alleged violation occurred.
What are the responsibilities of the complainant?
- Receives and reviews the UCP complaint policies and procedures from the District.
- Files a written complaint by following the steps described in the District's UCP complaint procedures.
- Cooperates in the investigation and provides the District Superintendent or designee with information and other evidence related to the allegations in the complaint.
- May file a written appeal to the CDE within 15 calendar days of receiving the District's decision if he/she believes the District decision is incorrect.
- Must specify the basis for the appeal and whether the District's facts are incorrect and/or the law is misapplied. The appeal packet must contain a copy of the original complaint to the District and a copy of the District's decision.
- Where applicable, within 35 calendar days of receiving the CDE's decision, may submit a request for reconsideration by the Superintendent of Public Schools at CDE. The CDE's decision or report will notify the complainant if there is a right to request reconsideration. The request for reconsideration must designate the finding(s), conclusion(s), or corrective action(s) in the CDE's decision for which reconsideration is requested, and the specific basis for requesting reconsideration. The request must also state whether the findings of fact are incorrect and/or the law is misapplied.
What are the responsibilities of the district?
- Ensures compliance with applicable federal and state laws and regulations.
- Adopts UCP complaint policies and procedures consistent with the California Code of Regulations, Title 5 Sections 4600-4687.
- District Superintendent or designee is responsible for receiving, investigating and resolving complaints and makes sure the staff member is knowledgeable about the laws/programs he or she is assigned.
- Must give the filing party an opportunity to present information and/or evidence relevant to the complaint.
- Protects complainants from retaliation.
- Resolves the complaint and completes a written report within 60 calendar days of receipt of the complaint unless extended by written agreement of the complainant.
- Must advise the complainant of the right to appeal the District's decision to the CDE within 15 calendar days of receiving the decision.
What are the responsibilities of the CDE?
The UCP authorizes the CDE to process appeals of the District's decision on UCP complaints; or in certain specified situations, to intervene directly and investigate the allegations in the complaint. The CDE:
- Reviews, monitors and provides technical assistance to all Districts regarding the adoption of UCP complaint policies and procedures by the local governing board.
- Refers a complaint to the District for resolution when appropriate.
- Considers a variety of alternatives to resolve a complaint or appeal when:
- The complainant alleges and the CDE verifies that, through no fault of the complainant, the District fails to act within 60 calendar days of receiving the complaint.
- The complainant appeals a District decision if he/she believes the decision is factually and/or legally incorrect.
- When requested by the complainant, the CDE determines when direct intervention is applicable.
- Requires corrective action by the District if noncompliance issues are identified during the investigation.
- Provides monitoring and technical assistance to District to ensure resolution of findings of noncompliance.
- Where applicable, notifies the parties of the right to request reconsideration of the CDE's decision by the Superintendent of Public Instruction at the CDE within 35 calendar days of the receipt of the decision.
- For those program governed by part 76 of title 34 of the Code of Federal Regulation, notifies the parties of the right to appeal to the United States Secretary of Education.
Williams Complaints
[ AR 1312.4 | Form ]
A Williams complaint concerns instructional materials, emergency or urgent facilities conditions that pose a threat to the health and safety of pupils, and teacher vacancy or misassignment, and may be filled anonymously. The District must have a complaint form available for these types of complaints, but will not reject a complaint if the form is not used as long as the complaint is submitted in writing. Under applicable regulations, a notice must be posted in each classroom in each school notifying parents and guardians of the matters subject to a Williams complaint and where to obtain a form to file a complaint.
A Williams complaint must be resolved by the school principal, District Superintendent or designee. A complainant who is not satisfied with the resolution has the right to describe the complaint to the local governing board at a regularly scheduled meeting of the board. Except for complaints involving a condition of a facility that poses an emergency or urgent threat, there is no right to appeal to CDE.
In the case of complaints concerning a condition of a facility that poses an emergency or urgent threat, a complainant who is not satisfied with the resolution has the right to file an appeal to the Superintendent of Public Instruction at CDE within 15 calendar days of receiving the District decision.
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The exes have two children together – Eloisa, 11, and Maria, 2½.
Miller cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split. She requested to terminate the court's ability to award spousal support to Huggins. She has also asked to have sole legal and physical custody of their children, with her ex receiving child visitation rights.


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Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection
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text: 24 Oct 2013 14:30 From today, Serbian travellers can choose from a range of new options to select and book air travel, as Air Serbia launches new sales channels including its first Travel Shop in Belgrade, as well as a new Facebook page and a new website. The first Air Serbia Travel Shop opened in Belgrade today, offering a range of expanded services and a new emphasis on providing the highest levels of customer service. Hundreds of Serbs visited the new store, taking advantage of a wide variety of launch day offers. The Travel Shop, located on the familiar spot near Saint Mark's Church, has been designed to reflect not just the new Air Serbia corporate identity, but also the company's new customer-focused philosophy. Open between 8.00am and 8.00pm, Monday to Friday, and from 8.00am to 3.00pm on Saturdays, the store has a dedicated team providing a one-stop shop for all Air Serbia-related travel enquiries and bookings. Dane Kondić, Air Serbia Chief Executive Officer, said: "The Travel Shop gives our guests their first real taste of the new Air Serbia, ahead of our inaugural flight on 26 October. "These shops are a critical part of our strategy for success. They bring Air Serbia to our guests. "Revitalised with a fresh new look and feel, this shop will offer levels of customer service not seen before. "At all times – from when our guests seek advice in our travel shops, to when they make bookings, to when they arrive at the airport, to when they reach their destination – our unceasing goal will be to provide the highest levels of customer care, service and warmth." Travel shop staff will wear a uniform that reflects the new Air Serbia brand and will assist customers with a wide range of services. Customers can also access information and make bookings through Air Serbia's new Facebook page (www.facebook.com/airserbia) which is also launched today and its new website at www.airserbia.com. Dane Kondić said the airline was committed to offering customers a range of choices when it came to bookings. "We are ensuring people can take advantage of the latest technology, with improved digital channels. But nothing will ever replace the personal touch here in Serbia and that is why travel shops will always be a core part of our sales strategy." The inaugural Air Serbia flight departs Belgrade on Saturday 26 October for Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. It is the first new destination for the airline formerly known as Jat Airways. New Air Serbia flights to Banja Luka in Bosnia, Bucharest in Romania, Ljubljana in Slovenia, and Prague in the Czech Republic will also launch by the end of the year. Bize Ulaşın Tam anlamıyla uluslararası bir havayolu olarak, gerçekten küresel bir faaliyet ağına sahibiz. En yakın Etihad ofisi ile nasıl iletişim kuracağınızı öğrenin. İletişim bilgilerini görüntüleyin Geri bildirim Bize yorum, tebrik veya şikayetlerinizi göndermek ya da soru sormak isterseniz, lütfen buraya tıklayın Bizi Beğenin Facebook sayfamızı ziyaret edin! Bizi İzleyin YouTube kanalımızı ziyaret edin Bizi Takip Edin Etihad Havayolları | Etihad Kampanyaları | Etihad Yardım | Etihad Ödülleri


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Guess what? Jurassic Park got some stuff wrong. No, not just the pseudoscience InGen used to resurrect dinosaurs. More fundamental stuff, like how to spell "Stegosaurus."
Leave it to the folks at CinemaSins to document all 36 mistakes they spotted. And in less than 3 minutes! Not bad.
Side note: Jeff Goldblum's hair was fairly magnificent in this movie. Okay, it might be time to rewatch it.
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text: 26 Oct 2014 12:00 Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has appointed Mr Dimitrios Karagkioules as General Manager for Thailand. Mr Karagkioules, who has more than 20 years of airline experience, takes up the Bangkok-based role after five years in Athens as Etihad Airways General Manager for Greece.Prior to joining Etihad Airways, Mr Karagkioules held a number of Athens-based sales and marketing management roles at Continental Airlines and Delta Airlines.Peter Baumgartner, Chief Commercial Officer of Etihad Airways said: "We are delighted to welcome Dimitrios to the Asia Pacific management team and wish him success in the new role."As General Manager for Thailand he will have significant responsibility for the performance of the Bangkok route – the busiest in the global network – and for our second Thai gateway, Phuket."Mr Karagkioules said he was looking forward to the challenges of the new role and was excited about the move to Bangkok."I am truly delighted to have been appointed to the role and look forward to working with the local team and industry partners to accelerate the airline's growth in the Thai market."Mr Karagkioules reports to Craig Thomas who is Etihad Airways Vice President for Asia Pacific North and the Indian Sub-Continent, and also based in Bangkok. Contact met Etihad Als wereldwijd opererende luchtvaartmaatschappij hebben wij natuurlijk overal ter wereld vestigingen. Lees hoe u contact kunt opnemen met uw dichtstbijzijnde Etihad-kantoor. Bekijk onze contactgegevens Feedback Als u een opmerking, compliment of klacht wilt doorgeven, of een vraag wilt stellen, klik dan hier Vind ons leuk Bezoek onze Facebookpagina! Bekijk ons Bekijk ons YouTube-kanaal! Volg ons Etihad Airways | Etihad Aanbiedingen | Etihad Help | Etihad Rewards


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Last week something notable happened. The Daily Caller, a conservative website, came up with a tape of President Obama speaking in the spring of 2007 to an audience of black ministers about matters of concern to black ministers and their black congregants.
After the tape was aired, conservative commentators announced that they had discovered "the real Barack Obama." He is — and there are reliable sources for this — a black man!
The perspicacious Fox News host Sean Hannity was among the first to note the importance of the speech. He said it offered "a glimpse into the mind of the real Barack Obama." The real Barack Obama is not the man who has been in the White House for almost four years . He is, instead, the man who gave a single speech back in 2007 and who lapsed, as many politicians do before black audiences, into a black speech cadence that, if you ask me, he should use more often.
As for the speech itself, while it might have sounded innocuous to the average (white person's) ear, it supposedly contained "dog whistle" messages that could only be heard by black people in the audience. This explained the headline on a column by Washington Examiner columnist Gregory Kane: "Obama's dog-whistle speech from 2007." Kane, too, wondered if the speech revealed "a glimpse of the real Barack Hussein Obama."
The search for the True Obama is the Holy Grail of the conservative movement. It is a quixotic quest that induces a kind of delirium in the President's critics.
The 2007 speech itself is evidence of this recurring madness. It was matter-of-factly reported by various news organizations, and so the tape contained nothing startlingly new. One bit of stale news was that Obama had praised the rabid Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whom he would eventually dump as his spiritual adviser.
Some of us, in fact, think we know the real Barack Obama. He is a man of the center — or maybe a wee to the left of it — who is prudent in all things. His most radical program is called Obamacare and if it has sent us all down the road to socialism, we have somehow become stuck in a suburban cul de sac. Instead of a single-payer plan — the one adopted by much of the industrialized world — we stick with private insurance companies. This is not Trotsky. It's not even Hubert Humphrey.
I'm glad Kane slipped in Obama's middle name with all its jihadist overtones, because it plays a role in making the President a mysterious man of the left. It makes him a trifle weird and since he seems to have come from somewhere at sea — Hawaii? Indonesia? — he really could be a Muslim or something even worse, although my imagination fails me here.
It does not fail others, though. Dinesh D'Souza has cited Obama's exotic provenance to assert that the President "draws his identity and his values from a Third World, anti-American ideology that goes by the name of anti-colonialism."
In his latest book, D'Souza even does a Cotton Mather number on Obama's mother. "Ann's sexual adventuring may seem a little surprising in view of the fact that she was a large woman who kept getting larger." For rebuttal, how about a mouthful of soap?
This need to turn a political foe into the frightening "other" is a reaction against modernity — the permanent platform of the Republican Party. The country is changing demographically, socially, culturally. A lot of the change is unwelcome, trashy — Kardashian to the Nth degree.
Remarkably, the man who gets the blame for all this is a dad out of a '50s sitcom, a national security hawk who, in his personal qualities, is an insurance underwriter's dream. Still, the right awaits the Freudian slip that will reveal Obama's trueness, a lapse into possibly Russian or, worse, French.
Liberals long ago realized they had idealized Obama. Only conservatives still hope he is a different man.


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UBS announced on July 11 2001 that due to challenging market conditions it had postponed its plans to spin off UBS Capital to an affiliated status. UBS also stated that in view of the more volatile prevailing conditions, it would be slowing down the rate of new private equity investments from its own balance sheet.
Following its most recent review of portfolio valuations and divestment prospects for the remainder of the year, UBS now expects UBS Capital to record a pre-tax loss for the second, third and fourth quarters combined of CHF 350 million to CHF 400 million, with the losses concentrated in the second quarter. UBS Capital's portfolio had a book value of CHF 5.7 billion excluding unrealised gains at 31 March 2001, the most recent reporting date.
UBS Capital's results are driven by gains on exiting its investments, for instance through public offerings, and by the valuation of the primarily unlisted companies in which it invests. Currently depressed market conditions have resulted in the postponement of planned divestments, or lower expected gains. In addition, deteriorating valuations across a range of industry sectors have led to a number of writedowns in UBS Capital's portfolio.
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"The APA use the terminology "Very Severe", which doesn't even appear on other scales...But where did the APA get their system from? This is the most extraordinary thing. Here's the paper they based their approach on. It's an 1982 British study by Kearns et al...You'll recognize the APA's categories, kind of, but they're all shifted. Why? We can only guess. Here's my guess. The scores in that Kearns et al graph were the average HAMD scores of people who fell into each severity band. The APA must have decided that they could use these to create cutoffs for severity."
Friday, 13 August 2010
Depression severity
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Well I see Yahoo!'s problem right off the bat - they let a time-traveling barkeep do their legal
Plus, Mr. S Robinson wants them to pay up for each time Callahan's name appears on the filings.
The enemy is the American people.
Also known as unilateral disarmament. You want to sit quietly, worry only about the aggressor's fee-fees, and not their victims' wounds, you can do so in the Vichy Corner. The rest of us might actually try and make the world a better place.
I guess the chorus of Rule Britannia is no longer in effect.
Randoid, mental defective, or troll? Maybe all three?
So, "family show" is defined as a bunch of men engaging in pretty blatant homo-erotic S&M play, while women are shown on the sidelines doing routines that most of these municipalities forbid for strip-clubs"? But a nipple is so explicitly over the top, that the world ends? Unless you are using the sheet-with-a-hole method, the nipple was involved in the creation of the family - and was probably used in the rearing of the family (unless you also believed that your kid must be the sole supporter of the dairy industry). Please explain in non-retard-speak how the nipple is not family oriented, but intentional violence (with Spartacus-levels of homoerotism) and hootchie-girls is pure, chaste family embodiement
My running theory is that cheap hotels give free wireless because they see it as a way to attract customers (like advertising HBO). On the other hand, fancy hotels figure that either (a) their customers will consider the price a small part of the total cost of the trip, and/or (b) they are traveling on business and the expense account will cover it
I think what he means by lecturers losing jobs has to do with how administrators want the courses designed. They want a course format set-up in such a manner as that any warm body can "teach" the course. Basically, lay out all the info, and then do assessment in such a form that actual teaching by the "instructor" is not needed. The meatspace equivalent would be: "Write us a book containing all the lectures needed for the course in a format easily read by freshmen, then write a couple multiple choice exams and a key. Here's $50, now leave peaceably or security will escort you out unconscious on a stretcher". He phrased it so badly as to possibly rip space-time with the derp, but he basically means "we plan to stop the university from charging you a premium for online access to a random guy holding a three-ring binder and a GED".


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This quotable quote comes from Ged, a fellow legal eagle who overheard the following on Beach Road a few days ago. I loved it. Hope you do too:
30-something cyclist: "Do you notice those rims in cross wind?" [Referring to a bling set of Zipp 404s]
Other 30-something cyclist: "Not really. I mostly notice them when riding past store windows. In fact, I find that's when they really come into their own."
If there are guys with that kind of humour riding Beach Road, clearly I need to get down there more often.
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