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After its release, the generals received a generally positive. Based on 34 reviews, Metacritic gave score 84/100 which includes a score from IGN 03/09/10. Generals also awarded the 2002 E3 Game Critics Awards' Best Strategy Game Award ".
One review noted that the generals are the game Command and Conquer real-time strategy first that does not include cut scenes full-motion video to tell stories and this is set out in the inter-face is unique and the mechanization of building a base that has the characteristics of all the title C & C RTS before.
Generals use the machine "SAGE" (or Strategy Action Game Engine) and the first game Command & Conquer real-time strategy that fully three-dimensional.
A Generals expansion pack, Command & Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour, was released on 22 September 2003, the deepening of the story-line generals. Unlike Generals, Zero Hour Features restore full motion videos in the series.
Zero Hour get the same reception as the generals with an aggregate score of 85% and 84% from Game Rankings and Metacritic.
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Command and Conquer: Generals has better graphics than the previous version of Command & Conquer (Red Alert).
Command and Conquer: Generals is a strategy game where you will be challenged to build a military base camp to battle with your opponent.
Starting from the building, making the troops, and set the attack. Command & Conquer: Generals has better graphics than the previous version of Command and Conquer (Red Alert).
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Command and Conquer series was first developed by Westwood Studios between the years 1995 - 2003, further development was taken over by Electronic Arts with the liquidation of Westwood Studios in 2003.
The first series was launched globally on August 31, 1995 and renamed easily the Command & Conquer. The first series is based on a strategy game that was developed previously by Dune 2. This series was first segmented to Anglo-Saxon audience, which is then translated into different languages including German, French, Spanish, Korean and Chinese.
This series is primarily developed for personal computers running Microsoft Windows operating system, although some titles also have various versions of video game consoles and Apple Macintosh.
This game series developed in various versions starting with Tiberium Wars is also developed for the Xbox 360. Another loose game, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, is also developed for the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
In 1999, the U.S. marketer and developer Games , Electronic Arts purchased Westwood Studios. Westwood closed in 2003 and merged into EA Los Angeles is the center of a game developer serial Command and Conquer ahead.
Some of the original developers Westwood survive at EA Los Angeles, but most of the form Petroglyph Games.
On July 2009, Command and Conquer franchise consists of eight games and ten packets of expansion (expansion packs) with sales of more than 30 million units worldwide.
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International: What women are saying about the violence in the Middle East
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What does feminism offer peace, economic and social justice and human rights campaigners? The 2006 International meeting of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) invites you to its International Seminar on 9 September 2006.
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About 40 farmers turned out for a free breakfast and a tour of Kansas State Research and Extension's test field Thursday.
Farmers came from all over the county, but all noticed one thing: fields were shorter and sparser than average no matter what variety of seed was planted.
Across the test plot, varieties were nearly half the average height, but what made the field truly poor was the distance between plants down rows.
"If you can see down the rows, then that's a bad sign because typically you can't," Lyman Adams, general manager of Cooperative Grain and Supply in Hillsboro said.
The size of the wheat heads is also noticeably shorter, with some of the pods seedless. This and the lack of plants that sprouted will combine to create one of the poorest years since K-State Extension began recording wheat yields in the 1860s, extension agent Doug Shoup said.
He presented the 16 different varieties of seed planted in the test plot to farmers.
"Some of the varieties produce smaller plants in general, but they shouldn't be this short," he said. "The plants aren't going to grow anymore, but if we get more rain it will help the heads fill out."
Kernel size will also depend on moisture received, he said. If no more rain falls on Marion County fields, farmers can expect to see small dehydrated kernels. Shoup estimates the heads to be half or a third smaller than average and expects the test plot to produce poor yields around 10 to 15 bushel.
"We're seeing about 20 seeds per head and usually average around 30," he said.
Unlike corn that doesn't need much water in its current seedling state, wheat needs moisture desperately at this time. However, while things look dire, wheat could still produce above expectations, Shoup said.
"It could surprise us, which I'd like to see," he said. "We've had a couple of good years, and this will bring us to about average."
One farmer from southwest of Hillsboro talked about a fellow farmer in Oklahoma whose fields would soon lay over due to lack of moisture.
"The stems about half way up are brown because the head is sucking what moisture there is out of the plant," he said. "It can't survive long like that."
A late season frost last week in western Kansas also hurt many fields.
He is still optimistic about harvesting an average crop of about 20 bushels per acre, and said he feels fortunate for what he's got, despite it being only average.
"We go from our best year ever to our worst," Randy Eitzen said. "Usually you can at least count on wheat doing OK year after year, but this year you can't."
Similar phrases were shared by other farmers in attendance, the majority of whose crops mirrored the state of the test plot. Some are even giving up on wheat and turning their hopes to other crops.
"Hopefully corn will be better," Eitzen said.
Farmers agreed the rain was a lifesaver, falling just in time to help the wheat produce even a few seeds.
"If we got even one more good rain, it would help the wheat heads fill out," Brian Nickel, Hillsboro farmer and Cooperative Grain and Supply employee, said.
He said there is a noticeable difference in fields across the county with fields north and west fairing the worse.
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The last few days we have had lots of water falling from the skies. But not to worry as Rotorua has plenty on offer even on rainy days.
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The last few days we have had lots of water falling from the skies. But not to worry as Rotorua has plenty on offer even on rainy days. We have put a few of our favourites together for you. Eitherway when you stay at Econo Lodge Cleveland Motel you do not need to worry about getting cold as our lovely geothermal heating warms our property all year round.
1. Hot mineral bathing – Rotorua has several places where you can try hot mineral bathing. If you stay at Econo Lodge Cleveland Motel you can use our indoor hot mineral pools for free!
2. Mud Bathing – Hell's Gate offers you to try out the unique mineral mud and feel its therapeutic properties on your skin. Whilst you are there try the geothermal walk as during the rain you will see extra steam appearing.
3. Rotorua Museum – The museum is a beautiful building that once upon a time was known as a bath house. Here you will find exhibitions from the basements right through to the rooftop. Everything from informative displays about the local area and tribes down to art gallery type displays.
4. Rotorua Duck Tours – Hop on board a WWII amphibious vehicle that drives around Rotorua as well as into the lake! It's a great way to get a guided tour of the area and it is suitable for all ages.
5. Volcanic Hills – Take the Skyline Gondola up the Mt Ngongotaha and enjoy the views from the wine tasting room at Volcanic Hills. Add some lovely food platters, sit back and relax.
6. Mamaku Blue – Try locally grown blueberry products at the Mamaku Blue orchard including jams, juice and wine. Here is also a cafe on site. Tours are also available.
7. Agrodome – Enjoy the farm show with sheep shearing demonstration and watch the clever farm dogs show off their tricks. There maybe a chance to feed lambs and milk a cow!
8. Indoor Play – Playtopia Playland and Cafe is a great play for little ones to blow of some steam on bouncy slides and climbing equipment. For the older kids Rotorua has Driftkartz, Rock Climbing, a Trampoline Park , Ten pin bowling and Movies.
9. Maori Concert – In the evening Rotorua has various places that offer hangi and concert. On arrival to the motel ask us for recommendations, as each show has its own unique way of presentation. Bookings are required for these shows and they are generally high in demand.
10. Rafting – If you like a bit of adventure why not go for a rafting trip in the rain, as you will get wet anyway! The Kaituna River offers plenty of excitement including a 7 meter waterfall drop! That is the highest commercially rafted waterfall in the world.
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To celebrate the 55th anniversary of the T.T. Wentworth, Jr. Museum, local historian Brenda Rees has issued a book honoring her great uncle.
Rees is a Walton County native but lived much of her adult life away, in places such as Texas and Alaska. She built her South Walton home in 1989. She met her great-uncle a couple of times, but didn't know him well � mostly through family lore.
However, she describes a great and kind man who was generous, loved kids, and was passionate about preserving historic sites and collections.
"He would let you touch things," recalls Rees.
Wentworth moved to Florida in 1821 from Mobile. He only had a fourth-grade education.
His greatness came not from a monetary wealth, but rests with his entrepreneurial nature and passion for preserving historic sites.
Among Wentworth's accolades is the distinction of becoming the youngest county commissioner in Florida in 1920, while he was in his early 20s. He also owned a bicycle repair shop, was a Realtor, politician, tax collector, educator, preservationist, a state board member of the Florida Historic Society � anything he could to make ends meet for his wife, three children, and himself.
In 1906, after a major hurricane, Wentworth found a gold coin on the beach in Pensacola. That one gold coin became the cornerstone for what would become a museum collection of everything from a petrified cat to a cannonball.
The building that housed the bike shop where his early collection was initially displayed in the window still stands in downtown Pensacola. Others donated to his collection and when it grew too large for the shop, it was moved to the historic Dorothy Walton (wife of George Walton) home in the 1930s, which Wentworth owned. George Walton signed the Declaration of Independence.
In 1957 Wentworth moved the collection out to the suburb of Ensley, then donated it to the city in 1983. The city returned it to downtown Pensacola in its present location and re-opened the museum in 1988.
Before his death, her uncle founded the T.T. Wentworth Museum Historical Foundation, which donates scholarships and grants.
When Rees moved back to the area permanently in 1999, she was asked to be on the board of the T.T. Wentworth Museum.
Rees is the primary author of the commemorative book, which she wrote in collaboration with her cousins, Lynn Robertson and Karen Penton.
"Even though I didn't know him well, his daughter, Jane, tells me I am the daughter her father never had, as his children didn't inherit their father's passion for history," said Rees.
Rees began as a history major in college before switching to government.
"I come by it naturally," she said.
After working in the government realm for years, on returning to her Walton County roots, the county's history became her biggest passion.
She penned the book to describe T.T. Wentworth � the man, his family, and his life in the first chapters.
In the second part, she talks about his museum and the collection.
Two years in the making, the book features 150 photos; 100 of which are from the historical collection, as well as some she gathered from her cousins in Pensacola. It was completed last month.
Rees will do a book signing Jan. 17 at Walton County Heritage Museum, and Nov. 16 at the T.T. Wentworth Museum in Pensacola during Gallery Night. She said she plans on during others at bookstores throughout the area at times to be announced.
The book is available at the T. T. Wentworth, Jr. Florida State Museum in Pensacola for $10 with all proceeds benefitting the West Florida Historic Preservation, Inc. It will also be available at her book signings.
Proceeds from private book events will benefit the T. T. Wentworth, Jr. Historical Foundation, Inc.
Already in the works is Rees�s next book: �Anna's Stories.� Anna Smith Hollingsworth Reardon was a writer and historian and was the mother of Sonny Hollingsworth, who married Rees�s mother.


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The city recently received an offer it could not refuse when Landmark Bank offered to renovate the exterior of the Fullerton Park water tank. In exchange for the pricey endeavor, Landmark received the right to place its logo alongside the Davis Wolves logo on the tower.
As part of the renovations taking place, the city council entered into a loan agreement during its meeting Monday night for interior improvements on the tower. City Manager Roger Pulley said the council looked at three loan quotes and entered into a loan agreement with First National Bank for $60,500.
The Davis Fire Department received good news as the council entered into a contract with the Southern Oklahoma Development Authority to accept a grant of $34,418 for a self-contained breathing apparatus bottle refill station.
"It is nice to have," Pulley said. "I know when I was involved with a fire department years ago, it was handy to have it around to refill it at our own place."
The department has refilled its bottles at other departments and had no problems, but Pulley said there would be a convenience factor involved which would pay dividends in the event of a large fire.
In other city actions:
The council will allow 3D geophysical surveying on Cross Bar Ranch Property pending approval from the city attorney. The city does not own the mineral rights on the property.
The council will begin looking at the possibility of a cemetery addition and will have Pulley explore the costs of surveying city-owned property.
The council approved annual employee Christmas bonuses. The bonuses will be paid on a staggered basis based on longevity of employment.


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Praying for Ericas aunt and uncle made me want to share 3 times I have seen God raise someone from dead. The first time was my mother. She had had horrible breathing problems. Been in and out of hospitals for years. Shortly after this was diagnosed as having malignant tumor between her wind pipe and her esophagus. This night she was struggling to breathe and then went silent. No breath no pulse nothing. I was crying and praying. My grandmother went out of the room came back half an hour later and said something like no point in praying now. I couldnt have stopped if I had wanted to. Another half hour or more and she was breathing again. Not struggling to breathe just breathing. Her skin got warm her face stopped being gray.
The next was Debbie. She was pregnant and miscarried w major bleeding. Her husband took her to the ER. After a time she was pronounced dead and Dr. wrote death certificate but her husband would not stop praying. The Dr. tried to reason with him. He kept praying. Then she sat up and said that was beautiful. She still had her death certificate for years may still have it.
Then there was Charles December 17, 2004 he had been prescribed a medicine to which he turned out to be very allergic. I found him unconscious and barely breathing. Could not revive him. 911 came and could not either and lost airway in taking him out on gurney. Used breathing bag etc while taking to hospital. Dr there said he had no respiration or heart beat. He was medically revived Life support and they told us he could not respond to anything. But he did. Was out of ICU next day 3 days later same Dr walked into his hospital room and said See You see what God did. He did it all. Youre going home today.
1Peter 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. ... Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. Matthew 25:40 & 45
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A Libyan militia battling a rival armed group over control of the country's biggest airport is ready for a peaceful solution after five days of heavy fighting, a spokesman said on Thursday, hours after shells hit the terminal building.
The news, if confirmed by the rival militia, would be a huge relief for Libyan citizens who were stunned after two armed groups turned Tripoli International Airport into a battlefield.
The conflict is fuelling worries that Libya is on the point of turning into a failed state where a weak central government is powerless to control militias that helped oust Muammar Gaddafi in a Nato-backed uprising in 2011 but now defy state authority.
"There is an agreement between the conflict parties on a ceasefire and to hand over the airport to a committee tasked by the prime minister (to find a peaceful solution)," said Mahmoud al-Hatwish, spokesman for the town council of Zintan.
The conflict has pitted fighters from Zintan in the northwest, who have controlled the airport since the ousting of Gaddafi, against armed groups from Misurata, a western coastal town.
There was no immediate comment from the Misurata brigades. The Zintani spokesman said a force from a different part of Libya would protect the airport in the future under a deal proposed by Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni.
Hours earlier several shells hit for the first time the main terminal where the Zintani forces are concentrated. Days of fighting had already damaged at least 20 civilian aircraft belonging to Libyan carriers, officials said on Wednesday.
A Reuters reporter at the airport saw holes in the roof and smashed windows at the terminal and in airline offices, including one belonging to British Airways, with a shell lying on the floor.
In another sign of turmoil, air controllers halted work in Tripoli, shutting off much of the oil-producing country from international traffic.
On Wednesday, Libya reopened the western Misurata airport, which had been closed with Tripoli after the weekend attack, but it will have to shut again because Tripoli air controllers are also responsible for Misurata.
But late on Thursday a passenger plane could be seen circling over Tripoli though it was not clear from where it had taken off. A transport ministry spokesman said he had no information about the plane.
Libyans who had been planning to come home for the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan have been trapped abroad. Expatriates trying to leave the country have been travelling by taxi to Tunisia, in scenes reminiscent of the 2011 Nato-backed uprising.
In the eastern Islamist hot spot of Derna, gunmen shot dead Fariha al-Barkawi, a former member of parliament, officials said. She is the second prominent woman to be assassinated, following the killing of Benghazi human rights activist Salwa Bugaighis last month.
Western powers fear chaos in Libya will allow arms and militants to flow across its borders. The south of the vast desert country has become a haven for Islamist militants kicked out of Mali by French forces earlier this year.
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Area truckers will roll out on Sept. 25 from Hillsville to help in the fight against cancer.
Participants in the fourth annual Truckers Parade Against Cancer will band together at Carroll County High School at 11 a.m., giving them time to eat and socialize before heading out at 2 p.m. westbound on U.S. 58, according to organizer Cindy Dixon.
The destination is Grayson County High School in Independence.
Many truckers have joined the "convoy for a cure" every year.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's election on Sunday is too close to call and could push the debt-ridden country out of the European single currency, rocking the euro to its core and sowing turmoil in global financial markets.
The election, a re-run of a May 6 vote that ended in stalemate, amounts to a referendum on the punishing terms set by international lenders as the price of saving Greece from bankruptcy - withering tax hikes, job losses and pay cuts that have helped condemn Greeks to five years of record recession.
Riding a wave of anger to rise from political obscurity to contender for power, radical leftist SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras is threatening to tear up the terms of the 130 billion euro ($163.75 billion) bailout.
Tsipras says Europe cannot afford to cut Greece loose and cope with the fallout for the rest of the 17-member euro zone.
On the right, establishment heir and New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras says rejection of the EU/IMF bailout would mean a return to the drachma and even greater economic calamity.
Samaras told supporters on Friday they faced a stark choice - "euro versus drachma."
Neither party is expected to win outright, triggering coalition negotiations with smaller parties. A new government would buy time, but little respite. Whoever comes to power may find their tenure is short-lived.
Greeks say overwhelmingly that they do not want to leave the euro but neither do they want the terms of the bailout, which many believe has amnestied a corrupt, tax-evading elite and heaped an unfair burden on the poorest sections of society.
"I'll vote for SYRIZA," 34-year-old theatre producer Georgia Zoumpa said on Saturday, heat rising from the pavements of the capital Athens. "I don't believe in blackmail: if we leave the euro, other countries will suffer too."
Central banks from Tokyo to London are readying arsenals to defend banks and national currencies against any post-election turmoil. The result will dominate a meeting of the Group of 20 world economic powers on Monday and Tuesday in Mexico.
European leaders weighed in on the eve of the vote, some of them openly urging Greeks to reject SYRIZA or risk undermining the very foundations of the single currency.
Finance officials in the euro zone have discussed limiting the size of withdrawals from ATM machines, imposing border checks and introducing euro zone capital controls as a worst-case scenario.
A Greek exit from the single currency would heap further pressure on two far larger European economies - Spain has already received up to 100 billion euros to save debt-riddled banks and Italy could be next to seek a bailout.
Euro zone officials have hinted they might give a new Greek government some leeway on how it reaches debt targets set by the EU/IMF bailout package, but there would be no change to the targets themselves.
Euro zone paymaster Germany warned Greeks on Saturday the bailout would not be renegotiated.
"That's why it's so important that the Greek elections preferably lead to a result in which those that will form a future government say: 'Yes, we will stick to the agreements'," Chancellor Angela Merkel told a party conference of her Christian Democrats.
Anger with the establishment parties of New Democracy and the Socialist PASOK propelled SYRIZA and its youthful leader, a former Communist student protest leader, from the obscure radical fringe to shock second place on May 6.
"The memorandum of bankruptcy will belong to the past on Monday," Tsipras, 37, told his final election rally on Thursday, though analysts suggest the SYRIZA leader might temper his stance if confronted with the reality of leaving the euro.
The neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party also won seats in the first election, underscoring the fragmentation of a stressed society wrestling with unemployment of almost 23 percent and plummeting living standards.
Five opinion polls published before a blackout two weeks ago put New Democracy narrowly ahead. Two other polls had SYRIZA leading.
"It's obvious the country is now staring into the abyss," leading Greek daily Kathimerini said in a front-page editorial on Sunday, calling for the creation of a New Democracy-led "unity" coalition to keep the country in the euro.
But analysts say Samaras, 61, will find it hard to govern for long with an empowered SYRIZA protesting at the gates. Tsipras, if he wins, will inherit a country on the verge of bankruptcy. He has ruled out a government of national unity and promised to nationalize banks and halt privatizations.
Some global businesses and banks are already in retreat.
Europe's biggest retailer Carrefour said on Friday it was selling up in Greece, a day after French bank Credit Agricole moved to take direct control of its Albanian, Bulgarian and Romanian units from its Greek bank Emporiki.
Polling stations open at 7 a.m. (0400 GMT) and close at 7 p.m. (1600 GMT). Exit polls will quickly follow.
Writing by Matt Robinson; Editing by Ralph Gowling


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Moving kids from fat to fit
The Springfield campaign to promote healthy food and exercise
This school year, in a little patch of yard beside a set of mobile classrooms at Southern View Elementary School, students and their teachers are hoping to find a few new flavors. As a way to teach students about health and wellness, the District 186 school is building a garden in a sunny spot that last spring surprised passers-by with a few bright red wild strawberries.
"It's fertile," Southern View principal Jonnell Baskett says about the patch of grass that is to become the school's vegetable garden, which is meant to broaden students' food horizons. If students can take ownership of the garden, they'll be more inclined to try the fresh fruits and vegetables they grow, educators hope. And once they try the healthy foods – which some students are not exposed to in convenience-driven homes – students will ask their parents to purchase them instead of sweet and salty treats with little to no nutritious value.
"We had somebody who came and talked to us about a garden a couple of years ago," Baskett says. Even then, she thought it was a great idea, until reality struck – among other roadblocks, the school doesn't own a tiller, needed for breaking ground. The proposed garden was canceled.
This year, however, the garden will grow – or, at least, Southern View will plant it in hopes that seeds will sprout. "All I have is the black thumb of death," Baskett says, explaining that Southern View is relying on the genH Coalition to bring a tiller and to help make the garden successful.
The genH Coalition ("Generation Healthy") formed about three years ago in response to the nation's growing childhood obesity rate that advocates say will eventually threaten everything from the economy to national defense. The coalition is run on the energy of Dr. Kemia Sarraf, about two dozen dedicated volunteers and the work of its anchor partners – St. John's Hospital, Lincoln Land Community College, Sangamon County Medical Society Alliance, District 186 and the Illinois Department of Public Health, to name just a few.
As an umbrella organization, genH facilitates networking and cooperation among organizations independently committed to health and wellness and works to educate schools, families and the general public about the benefits of proper nutrition and physical activity. With one paid staff member – executive director Brandy Moore Grove, whose $20,000 salary is paid for by a gift from the St. John's Foundation – genH's initiatives, from health fairs to cooking demonstrations, are made possible through grants and donations of time and money from individuals and businesses.
"What I have seen since I moved here, and continue to see, is that Illinois is ranked number four in the country with regards to the percentage of our children who are either overweight or obese – number four," says Sarraf, genH founder and president, the mother of four and a board-certified internist. She and her husband, Jeffrey Goldstein, an interventional cardiologist at St. John's Prairie Heart Institute, moved to Springfield about eight years ago. Before moving to Springfield, Sarraf worked at Barnes Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, in internal medicine, and earlier in her career worked on obesity and diabetes issues in Salt Lake City with the Indian Health Service.
"The statistics show it is very unlikely that a child who is overweight or obese will overcome their weight problems as an adult," Sarraf says. With obesity comes greater risk for an onslaught of other health problems, including heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes.
"If the trends continue as they are today, kids being born now are going to live a shorter lifespan than their parents. It would be the first time that would happen in U.S. history," says Tom Schafer, deputy director of the Illinois Department of Public Health's office of health promotion.
Though the current statistics paint a grim picture, Schafer says Springfield is one community poised to change its course.
"I think Springfield fits in with the rest of the state as far as there's a problem and we're all aware of it. I think what makes Springfield unique is a group like genH and the school district," Schafer says. "The thing that makes us so optimistic about Springfield is the willingness of this group of people who have the time and the passion to put forward a program that will ultimately help kids today and the rest of their lives."
Continuing with their own initiatives in concert with genH, organizations including St. John's Hospital, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine and Lincoln Land Community College serve as anchor partners with District 186 and other Sangamon County schools in the common goal of encouraging childhood wellness.
Kimberly Luz serves as St. John's Hospital's education outreach coordinator and as genH's education action team leader. In one of its latest efforts to fight childhood obesity, the hospital has developed an interactive map of Route 66 at www.kidsncontrol.org that anyone can use to log physical activity. Luz says the hope is that teachers will use it to teach about locations along the route while logging an entire classroom's efforts to stay active.
The program is the result of an $86,900 grant from Kohl's Department Store, which St. John's chose to dedicate toward childhood wellness efforts after the revelation several years ago that 26 percent of Springfield kindergartners were overweight or obese. That percentage only increased as students progressed through school, with 35 percent of fifth graders and 38 percent of high school students overweight or obese.
"It shows kids getting bigger and bigger and bigger as they go on to the next grade level. So that's pretty interesting data," Luz says, noting that those numbers are several years old. The hospital is now working with a vendor to update those statistics, which should be available later this fall.
Sarraf says schools – which feed many children two meals a day and have kids' attention for most of their waking hours – can help combat the trend St. John's numbers show, though they shouldn't be expected to do it alone. Sarraf says that genH operates on the assumption that all schools are already overworked and underfunded.
"I agree with those teachers who look at me when I talk to them about increasing physical activity for kids and improving nutrition and say, 'That's great, Doc, but that's your job. My job is to teach them.' And I agree with them," Sarraf says. "What I have worked very hard and diligently to do, through continuing education for teachers, is to teach them that the data show unequivocally that children who are well-nourished every single day during the school day, who are physically active multiple times every day during the school day, perform better academically."
"We have never created a program and then handed it to the schools and asked them to do it," Sarraf says, commending dozens of volunteers who've signed on to the genH cause. "We are asking for access, that's it."
It's an approach educators say has been ideal.
"GenH has a lot of wind behind its sails, because it's a coalition that when they say they're going to do something, they're going to do it," says Rick Sanders, District 186 physical education coordinator. Sanders oversees several wellness programs made possible by a $150,000 CATCH (Coordinated Approach to Child Health) grant from the Illinois Department of Public Health, including a series of wellness fairs organized by genH and St. John's Hospital.
When genH was just getting off the ground, St. John's had already been working to develop kiosks about healthy living, so it was only natural that St. John's and genH partner to bring wellness fairs to area schools, Luz says. After holding all-day wellness fairs for students at participating schools last year, the organizations also put on family health fairs where Lincoln Land Community College chefs demonstrated healthy cooking to parents and St. John's offered hundreds of dollars worth of free health screening. The fairs allow kids to see everything from martial arts instruction to real hearts and smokers' lungs.
"They don't say, 'Well, we want this, but you have to do all the work.' With this health fair, which was a component of the grant to have the health fairs, it would have been very challenging for 24 individual schools, or this office, to pull off what genH has done with all their stations," Sanders says.
Sarraf says she works first to gain buy-in on the individual school level, and has done so by giving 90-minute presentations at least once to every District 186 elementary school as continuing education for teachers.
After sitting through one of Sarraf's presentations just prior to last school year, Hazel Dell staff members immediately chose to ban chocolate milk – which is high in sugar – from its cafeterias, says Leila Hosseinali, a second grade teacher at the school. During the presentation, Sarraf showed an image of several sugar cubes representing the amount of sugar in one chocolate milk.
"Seeing it like that was kind of surprising for us," Hosseinali says, noting that many students were getting a double dose of chocolate milk when they ate both breakfast and lunch at the school. "It just started a conversation right then and there – what steps can we do as a staff and a school to make some small changes to help out our kids?"
Besides removing chocolate milk, Hazel Dell implemented "brain breaks" – two- or three-minute breaks from coursework taken by an entire class at the same time for a quick physical activity such as jumping jacks or yoga breathing.
"We have so many expectations that we have to get done in one school day … that you don't really stop to think that they really need to be doing more than getting up and walking down the hallway to get a drink," Hosseinali says.
Hazel Dell also moved recess from after lunch to before lunch, which Sarraf says should reduce food waste. Because children are active before eating, their bodies are hungry for more food – nutritious food.
Hosseinali says the change proved beneficial for classroom management. Instead of taking 10 minutes out of what could be instruction time to calm down students after recess, sitting through lunch does the trick. Any arguments that had developed during recess were resolved through the lunch period, before students returned to class.
Then-Hazel Dell principal Mike Grossen, who this year is the new principal at Springfield High School, says discipline referrals after lunch last year declined by about 30 percent, with an overall decline of about 14 percent. Students also complained less about stomachaches, he says.
Grossen isn't quite ready to attribute standardized testing gains to the wellness changes, but he notes, "It didn't hurt us." He says that about three other principals in the district have contacted him about the logistics of switching to recess before lunch.
Measuring results
Independent from other genH-partnered studies, SIU's Springfield Collaborative for Active Child Health, over the course of five years, is using $350,000 in grant funding from Blue Cross Blue Shield to encourage childhood wellness. One of the programs introduces students aged three to five in Springfield Urban League Head Start programs to exercises meant to help them develop motor skills through moderate to vigorous physical activity, such as hopping, skipping and jumping. A second program is part of the CATCH program and uses SIU medical students to provide district teachers with information and ideas about incorporating wellness into all aspects of school.
Melissa Jones, project coordinator for the collaborative, says focusing on younger children will help them make educated choices as they grow older and are able to choose their activities and food. "A lot of the times these kids will be malnourished then their BMIs will skyrocket because they're introduced to vending machines," Jones says. "BMI" stands for body mass index, a measurement of fat.
As part of SIU's work, the school is surveying the students it works with so it can measure how effective its efforts are, something it's also doing as part of a partnership with genH, which is implementing a new program, "JumpStart," at Matheny-Withrow Elementary School this year.
The JumpStart program asks teachers to spend the first 12 minutes of every school day leading students through moderate to vigorous physical exercises. Looking at behavior, academic progress and absenteeism, the study will compare any progress seen at Matheny to Pleasant Hill Elementary, which will serve as a control school and won't implement JumpStart.
Another genH, SIU and St. John's Hospital program, "Destination Dinner Table," is slated for a study as well. The program will feature Lincoln Land Community College executive chef Charles Campbell, who will give four presentations at each of a handful of District 186 schools to teach families how to cook balanced meals from scratch. As adults learn to make inexpensive, easy-to-prepare, nutritious meals, children will learn etiquette and how to set the table.
Campbell says the program will start by assessing the skill level and time constraints of each family. Then, Campbell will teach parents how to make simple meals and use their children to help out. "So it becomes a family project to get dinner on the table," Campbell says. When families leave, they'll take home recipes and supplies donated by County Market.
Sarraf says any data gleaned from the study could help genH and other organizations compete for grants to support future programs.
Going forward
While the district is making considerable progress in the wellness arena, Sarraf's ideals for physical education and food service have yet to be reached.
Physical education courses are not a daily activity for Springfield elementary students, despite a state requirement. Having obtained a waiver from the state, the district only provides two half-hour physical education classes to students each week. That waiver expires in two years, and Sanders says that, in order to meet the requirement for kindergarten through high school, the district would need between 25 and 30 more physical education teachers to add to the approximately 40 already employed.
District 186 Superintendent Walter Milton says expanding physical education courses is a great idea, but he adds that the district must also consider "the fiscal reality of our state and our country."
Sarraf says funding physical education is a matter of priorities and that it's genH's role to educate the public and those in the district who set those priorities on the documented academic benefits of physical activity. "It's a leap of faith … but when you live in the fourth heaviest state in the country, regarding your children, we have to begin doing something different." She says the studies genH and its partners are conducting with programs like JumpStart should make that leap a little easier.
The district has already changed much of its cafeteria offerings to healthy versions of old standards (corn dogs are still a staple, but breaded with whole wheat) and introduced raw produce on a daily basis as an alternative to canned fruits and vegetables, says Jan Miller, District 186 food services director. Comparing this month's lunch menu to a menu from about 10 years ago, pizza is relatively rare. And while the old menu offers zero opportunity to eat a real salad, it's a Wednesday standard for at least the first four weeks of this school year.
Sarraf, as well as the LLCC chefs working with genH, would like to see more from-scratch cooking, but she acknowledges that schools no longer have the resources they did when, 30 or more years ago, school cooks made everything from raw ingredients.
"From-scratch cooking is labor intensive. … So while it is absolutely possible to deliver a lunch to the children made from scratch at school for what is budgeted per child, it's difficult to do that without hiring additional staff to help, and that's where we end up with the problems," Sarraf says, adding that school lunches – regulated and paid for through complex laws and bureaucratic systems – is the "hardest piece" of the wellness puzzle.
Even if the resources were available right now, Miller says that sudden changes aren't necessarily going to be successful. "I know everyone wants to change everything right away, but I've been in this long enough to know that you can't. It's a slow process. We've been trying to put the fresh fruits and vegetables out, and I have seen … more and more kids taking more produce, it's just taking time."
She says she's seen the most success in getting students to eat healthier foods in the youngest grades. "You get the little kids coming in – they have nothing to compare it to."
In the meantime, Sarraf says Springfield and the nation must focus on changing the current culture of food, both in schools and in homes. "We need a paradigm shift in this country with regards to the way we approach food. We need to again begin to view food as fuel, as nutrition, rather than as entertainment. … We get really, really hung up on the idea that my kid's breakfast needs to make his eyes pop open and rainbows to shoot out of his head and butterflies to sing. … We need to move away from that and towards the idea that food is designed to nourish the body."
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text: SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY COMMISSION (As approved June 17, 2004) Minutes of the regular meeting of Thursday, May 20, 2004. The San Francisco Public Library Commission held a regular meeting on Thursday, May 20, 2004, in the Koret Auditorium, Main Library. The meeting was called to order at 4:06 p.m. The following members were present: Bautista, Coulter, Higueras, Strobin, and Steiman. Commissioner Chin joined the meeting at 4:23pm. Commissioner Streets was reported excused. President Higueras made a brief announcement that City Librarian Susan Hildreth had submitted her resignation to the Mayor in order to accept a new position as Library Director in Tucson, Arizona. Agenda Items: 1. Public Comment 2. Approval of the Minutes of April 15, 2004 3. Bond Program Manager's Report 4. Noe Valley Branch Peer Review 5. Sunset Branch Peer Review 6. ADJOURNMENT 7. APPENDIX A AGENDA ITEM #1 PUBLIC COMMENT An anonymous member of the public commented on the Library Chief of Security's report to the Commission at the May 6th meeting. Mr. Martín Gómez, Executive Director of the Friends of the Library, lauded Ms. Hildreth's contributions to the Library during her tenure as City Librarian. Ms. Rona Sandler, Friends of the Library, called attention the City Librarian's vision and leadership that had significantly benefited San Francisco library users. Mr. Peter Warfield discussed the Board of Supervisors creation of a library citizen's advisory committee and the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force's rulings concerning his complaints again the Library. Author Peter Wiley, Friends of the Library, expressed appreciation of Ms. Hildreth's many important contributions to the Library's progress. Ms. Marsha Popper, Council for Neighborhood Libraries, called attention to Ms. Hildreth's years of skilled and dedicated service that resulted in making our libraries more accessible and responsive to the community. Retired SFPL Librarian Roberto Esteves praised Ms. Hildreth as the most talented City Librarian he had worked with during his 35 years of service at the San Francisco Public Library. Library staffers Linda Greenfield and Dorothy Coakley presented Ms. Hildreth with a bouquet of flowers on behalf of Library staff praising her as the most supportive and accessible City Librarian. AGENDA ITEM #2 APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF APRIL 15, 2004 Public comment on AGENDA ITEM #3 APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF APRIL 15, 2004 An anonymous member of the public suggested that the Minutes were inaccurate and lacking in detail of public comment and Commissioners' discussions. Peter Warfield commented that, while slightly improved, the Minutes left out important information, citing specific comments and detailed questions that were not reported. Commission discussion of AGENDA ITEM #2 APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF APRIL 15, 2004 President Higueras briefly left the meeting at 4:26pm, returning at 4:38pm MOTION: Commissioner Chin, 2nd Commissioner Strobin for approval of the Minutes of the regular Commission meeting of April 15, 2004. Adopted by the following vote: AYE 5-0 (Bautista, Chin, Coulter, Strobin, and Steiman) AGENDA ITEM #3 BOND PROGRAM MANAGER'S REPORT (Presented by Branch Library Improvement Program Manager Marilyn Thompson -This is a discussion item to allow the Branch Library Bond Program Manager to report on recent bond program related activities and make announcements.) This report will consist of an informational presentation: none regular reports: program budget and schedule; active projects; and community outreach; and special reports; presentation and discussion of an update on the status of the renovation of the Marina Branch Library. Ms. Thompson noted that would be no informational presentation at the meeting and then presented the current budget and schedule of active projects, noting a change in their format to a black and white readable design, and community outreach update report (copies attached). The BLIP Manager then presented an overview of the status of of the Marina Branch Library addressing and outlining the issues resulting from existing San Francisco General Plan language related to libraries located on park properties. The BLIP Manager then discussed the point that the current facility was not sited within the boundaries granted by the Recreation and Park Commission to the Library for the Branch in 1946, and noted discussions will continue between the Recreation and Park Department and the Library with recommendations for action by the Library Commission and the Recreation and Park Commission possibly this Summer. Ms. Thompson concluded her report with an overview of a proposed Marina Branch expansion site plan (copy attached). Public comment on AGENDA ITEM #3 BOND PROGRAM MANAGER'S REPORT An anonymous member of the public found the budget and schedule reports more readable, but commented that the copies of the slides were too small. This person also inquired about toxics on the site of the proposed new Ingleside Branch, and questioned the lack of discussion of the seismic safety of the Marina Branch. Commission discussion of AGENDA ITEM #3 BOND PROGRAM MANAGER'S REPORT In response to Commissioners' questions, Ms. Thompson discussed how the decision to locate the proposed expansion of the facility was made and noted that a more detailed design for the Marina Branch was not yet ready for review. In response to Commissioners' questions, Ms. Hildreth discussed aspects of the interdepartmental talks with the Recreation and Park Department about the renovation of the Marina Branch AGENDA ITEM #4 NOE VALLEY BRANCH PEER REVIEW (The Peer Review Panel presentation consisted of an introduction by BLIP Manager Marilyn Thompson., the architects' presentation by Ms. Nancy Goldenberg, Senior Vice President Carey & Co. Inc. Architecture, a Library response to the proposed design by Deputy City Librarian Paul Underwood, and concluded with the expert Peer Panel discussion evaluation and critique by Pamela Anderson Brule, Anderson Brule Architects, Mr. Gerald Takano, TBA West, and Sylvia Kwan, Kwan Henmi Architecture/Planning) Presentation of and discussion of a peer review of proposed designs for the Noe Valley Branch Library. Ms. Thompson began the Peer Review of proposed designs for the Noe Valley Library discussing the project's $4.2 million budget and the special challenges of renovation of this historic "Carnegie" Branch Library. Architect Nancy Goldenberg followed with a detailed presentation outlining the several design concepts for the Noe Valley Branch Library that had been explored to arrive at the proposed design. Deputy City Librarian Paul Underwood followed the architect's presentation with the Library's response to the proposed design lauding the proposal as having exceeded expectations in doing complex seismic safety improvements that preserved the historic architecture and provided an upgraded multi-use room. Peer Panel member Mr. Gerald Takano, TBA West, presented his comments based on his visit to the branch on May 10th focusing on the historical integrity of the design. Then Peer Panel member Pamela Anderson Brule, Anderson Brule Architects, presented her review and design critique. Ms. Sylvia Kwan, Kwan Henmi Architecture/Planning concluded the Peer Panel review with comments focused largely on the building's proposed interior designs. Public comment on AGENDA ITEM #5 NOE VALLEY BRANCH PEER REVIEW Ms. Debra Neiman, Friends of Noe Valley, commended Library's design process as having included and responded to the desires of the community. Ms. Neiman noted that Carey & Co., as respected preservation architects, had the confidence of the community and would do a truly great design. Ms. Neiman also suggested renovating and reusing the original library tables. Ms. Gerheart agreed that the community was fortunate in the choice of the architect but questioned why a solar energy installation was not considered. An anonymous member of the public found the proposed renovation of this historic library located in a very active community interesting, but expressed concern if the proposed disabled exterior access from outside would meet the needs of disabled users Mr. Peter Warfield expressed approval of the architect's sensitivity and asked: would there be more space for books; if the furniture would be replaced; and questioned the proposed combination of circulation and reference functions. Commission discussion of AGENDA ITEM #5 NOE VALLEY BRANCH PEER REVIEW President Higueras thanked the architects for having such a thorough process in arriving at the final building design and suggested that the project with such a good beginning could only get better. In response to a question from Commissioner Bautista, it was reported that the Noe Valley Branch, while using green systems and sustainable design whenever possible, had no source of funding for and would not be a good candidate for a solar installation. The Commission's discussions centered on how this traditional Carnegie branch library could be seismically strengthened while respecting its historic fabric. Vice President Steiman suggested re-orienting the proposed entry area for the restrooms and installing security cameras to provide better security. The improved lighting design and plans to reuse some original furniture were applauded. Commissioner Coulter called attention to good and the inclusive process that resulted in this design. Commissioner Chin left the meeting at 6:08pm. AGENDA ITEM #5 SUNSET BRANCH PEER REVIEW (The Peer Review Panel presentation consisted of an introduction by BLIP Manager Marilyn Thompson., the architects' presentation by Anne Fougeron and Bassel Samaha of Fougeron Architecture, a Library response to the proposed design by Deputy City Librarian Paul Underwood, and concluded with the expert Peer Panel discussion evaluation and critique by Pamela Anderson Brule, Anderson Brule Architects, Mr. Gerald Takano, TBA West, and Sylvia Kwan, Kwan Henmi Architecture/Planning) Presentation of and discussion of a peer review of proposed designs for the renovation of the Sunset Library. Ms. Thompson began the Peer Review of proposed designs for the 1917 Sunset Library discussing the project's $1.4 million budget, noting that seismic strengthening and ADA improvements had been done with funding from a previous bond program. The Branch Library Improvement Program Manager contrasted the degree of difficultly of renovation at this largely intact original design "Carnegie" Branch Library with the more challenging task at the Noe Valley Branch. Architect Anne Fougeron followed with a detailed presentation that began with a discussion of steps that she recommended be taken to remove clutter and increase the visibility of books as one entered the branch as well as restore the grandeur of the reading Rooms. Ms Fougeron's design proposed several changes in book drops, service desks and creation of a teen area to increase functionality of both the upper and lower levels of the Sunset Library to provide for more book shelving and computers. Deputy City Librarian Paul Underwood presented the Library's response to the recommended design and noted that the addition of the ground floor program room, the re-organized staff work areas, improved restroom access and increases in book shelving and computers while maintaining and improving seating met the library's goals for the renovation. Mr. Gerald Takano, TBA West, also found it useful to contrast this much simpler project, with the seismic and ADA requirements already done, with the more difficult design challenges of the Noe Valley Branch, Mr. Takano approved of the proposed design's restoration of the open feeling and symmetry of the original largely intact "Carnegie" rooms with the more central circulation desk and shift of back-of –house staff functions. Mr. Takano applauded the planned use of sympathetic contemporary lighting fixtures as both aesthetically and practically useful. He called attention to security concerns and the issue of the elevator access between the floors being outside the lower level secured area, suggesting shifting the security gate and making sure restroom sight lines remained open. Peer Panelist Pamela Anderson Brule, Anderson Brule Architects, found the proposed restoration of the upper level an improvement and urged careful consideration of how materials would circulate within the building, recommending creation of one exterior book drop that would drop into a staff work area. Ms. Anderson Brule recommended more access to books in the entry areas and lauded planned availability of both a teen and adult computer use area. Ms. Anderson Brule also recommended shifting the lower level security gates and adding a downstairs book drop in the glazed wall beside the circulation desk near the doorway and access to the elevator. Ms. Sylvia Kwan, Kwan Henmi Architecture/Planning again largely focused her critique on the building's proposed interior designs, noting that the Sunset Library was a particularly good candidate maximizing planning for long-term flexibility of uses, Ms. Kwan also approved of the proposed use of contemporary pendant and task lighting and of the design's efforts to mitigate the basement-like feel of the lower level. Regarding the furniture, she noted that as there were very few original items left, the new furniture should be of a sympathetic durable contemporary design with similar types used both upstairs and downstairs. Commissioner Coulter left the meeting during the Peer Review Panel. Public comment on AGENDA ITEM #6 SUNSET LIBRARY PEER REVIEW An anonymous member of the public questioned why such a recently renovated branch was being done so early in the Bond Program and recalled a controversy concerning water damage during the 1992 renovation. The person also expressed concern about security and congestion problems at the lower level elevator entry. Mr. Peter Warfield suggested that the lower level security gate placement was not correct and applauded efforts to make books more visible and the circulation desk and the role of librarians more visibly central in the branch. Mr. Warfield expressed concern with the placement of the lower level desk; questioned the proposed self-check out and reserve materials pick up area; and urged retaining at minimum the current book count. Ms. Rosemary Bassey, a Sunset Library user, applauded the restoration of symmetry in the upper level adult areas but expressed concern that the proposed teen area could disturb the adult reading areas. Ms. Bassey suggested that a stable book collection in the library was more important to her than computer access. Commission discussion of AGENDA ITEM #6 SUNSET LIBRARY PEER REVIEW Commissioner Bautista noted that this was a very busy branch and that the proposed design did much to alleviate its cluttered congested appearance. In response to her suggestion that the Teen Area be moved downstairs to the Children's Services area, it was reported that the teen users wanted to be included adjacent to adult areas. Commissioner Bautista noted that increased security and perhaps more artwork were needed in the lower level. Vice President Steiman approved of the restoration of the openness of the upper level and its grouping of differing uses in different corners of the building. President Higueras recalled using the Sunset Library when he was growing up. He approved of the efforts to tie both levels of the building together by design and expressed regret that nothing could be done to redesign the 1992 elevator installation. President Higueras proposed that the security problem with the lower level elevator entry be resolved by redesigning the lobby area. He also recommended moving the book drop so that materials dropped into a staff area and asked if space for bicycles and stroller parking had been considered. The Commission President also agreed with the suggestion that book displays be moved closer to the entry areas as was suggested by the Peer Panel. President Higueras concluded by expressing the Commission's thanks and appreciation to the Peer Review panelists Pamela Anderson Brule, Anderson Brule Architects, Mr. Gerald Takano, TBA West, and Sylvia Kwan, Kwan Henmi Architecture/Planning for their participation in the Library's effort to maintain the highest standards of design excellence in Branch Library Improvement program projects. ADJOURNMENT MOTION: by Commissioner Bautista , 2nd by Vice President Steiman that the meeting be adjourned In Memoriam of the late San Francisco Poet Thomas Gunn, who had recently passed away. Public comment on AGENDA ITEM # 6 ADJOURNMENT An anonymous member of the public called the Commissioners' attention to the passing of Thomas Gunn, a San Francisco resident for 53 years and internationally renowned poet and U.C. Berkeley Professor, suggesting that the meeting be adjourned in his memory. There being no further business before the Commission the meeting was adjourned at 8:01 pm in memory of the late Thomas Gunn. ACTION: AYE 4-0 (Bautista, Higueras, Strobin, and Steiman) Michael Housh, Commission Secretary 5/25/04 as revs'd. 6/10/04 Please note: Minutes are subject to change by the Library Commission. Copies of Commission Minutes and handouts are available in the Office of the Commission Secretary, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA 94102 ATTACHMENTS: Noe Valley Branch Library FAQs (PDF 41K) Proposed Noe Valley Branch Library renovation floor plans (PDF 521K) Sunset Library FAQs (PDF 41K) Sunset Library renovation floor plans (PDF 171K) Branch Library Improvement Program (BLIP) Manager's Report notes Branch Library Improvement Program Schedule 2/19/04 (PDF 155K) Branch Library Improvement Program Budget 5/20/04 (PDF 72K) Minutes of the Library Commission Meeting May 20, 2004 Appendix A The Public Comment Summary Statements included in these Minutes are authorized by San Francisco Administrative Code Section 67.16. These summary statements are provided by the speaker. Their contents are neither generated by, nor subject to approval or verification of accuracy by, the San Francisco Public Library Commission. The number of members of the public who spoke anonymously at this meeting. 1 Explanatory documents: Copies of listed explanatory documents are available as follows: (1) from the Commission Secretary/Custodian of Records, Main Library, 6th Floor, (2) in the rear of the Koret Auditorium immediately before and during the meeting, and (3)to the extent possible, on the Library's Web site. Additional materials not listed as explanatory documents, if any, that are distributed to the Library Commissioners prior to or during the meeting in connection with any agenda item will be available to the public for inspection and copying in accordance with Government Code Section 54954.1 and Sunshine Ordinance §§ 67.9, 67.28(b) & 67.28(d).


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Matrix Games (www.matrixgames.com) and Strategy 3 Tactics are thrilled to announce the release of Close Combat: The Longest Day, their remake of the acclaimed Close Combat: Invasion Normandy! This highly anticipated re-release brings the same immersive tactical action as its predecessor but with greatly expanded features and loads of improvements, including a full grand campaign that connects all the airborne landings and all the beach landings.
David Heath, Director of Operations at Matrix Games, said "The team of dedicated Close Combat fans at Strategy 3 Tactics have done it once again with Close Combat – The Longest Day. I'm convinced that newcomers to the tactical real time genre and long time fans of the Close Combat series will find a lot to enjoy in The Longest Day."
Close Combat - The Longest Day is a highly enhanced rebuild of the critically acclaimed Close Combat Invasion Normandy, originally developed by Atomic Games. Take command of either the Allied Expeditionary Force or Germany's Wehrmacht. You will either carry out the world's largest amphibious invasion to liberate Europe from Nazi occupation or defend Hitler's Atlantic Wall!
Close Combat – The Longest Day comes with expanded force pools, support for much larger maps, night battles with simulated flare effects, and more! Also included in this rebuild is are 60+ battles, operations and campaigns including a new enhanced Grand Campaign as well as "classic" CC5 style Grand Campaign available for download!
Features include:
- Comes with all new 60+ battles, operations and campaigns.
- Expanded strat layer with new strat map image as well as 64 gorgeous hand-drawn tactical maps. That's an additional 21 tactical map slots over the original game!
- Extended ForcePool list to display 25 of 25 available units as opposed to the 20 that stock CC5 displayed.
- New reports at the end of battle showing campaign cohesion and VL control – track your progress after each bout.
- New enhanced Grand Campaign as well as "classic" CC5 style Grand Campaign.
- Display of battlegroup cohesion and fatigue status.
- Game now accepts maps up to 4800x4800 pixels as compared to the stock CC5 map size of 3600x3600 pixels.
- Off-board or off-map support quantities now tied to difficulty level.
- Improved graphical communication of strat map connections.
- Tweaked User Interface graphics, with nearly all new planes, vehicles and map graphics. Also includes carefully crafted game play manual
- Capable of simulating airborne battlegroup deployment drop zones.


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Drive down Garden Grove Boulevard with your windows up (paying proper attention to the road in front of you) and you might not notice that you're passing through Little Seoul. There are no banners, memorials, murals, monuments or that many fluttering South Korean flags. Pass through on a bus and maybe you'll notice the Hangul signs and blue tile roofs. The best way to experience Little Seoul, despite some drawbacks, is by walking in it – although your hair might pick up the smell like bulgogi by the end of your ramble. The other day I headed over there to explore it, accompanied by Una Zipagan and host of the excellent Notebook on Cities and Culture podcast, Colin Marshall.
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In a speech today to the National Governors' Association, President Obama proposed that states do exactly as he tells them regarding national education standards, or his government will take their people's money and not give it back. The applause was… light.
Under the president's preferred reform to federal education law, states would have to bring their curriculum standards into line with his administration's wishes or they would be denied their share of the $14.5 billion education program known as "Title 1."
But of course taxpayers in every state must pay for Title 1, whether or not the administration deigns to allow their children to participate. So the president wants to take their money and only give it back if they do as he says. The closest word I can think of to describe this arrangement is… extortion.
I'm fairly sure that's not a central value underlying American greatness, but there's another political entity that it does evoke.


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- Gudzune KA, Bleich SN, Richards TM, Weiner JP, Hodges K, Clark JM (2013) Doctor shopping by overweight and obese patients is associated with increased healthcare utilization. Obesity (Silver Spring) 21(7):1328-34.
- Gudzune KA, Bennett WL, Cooper LA, Bleich SN (2014) Perceived judgment about weight can negatively influence weight loss: a cross-sectional study of overweight and obese patients. Prev Med 62:103-7.
- Gudzune KA, Doshi RS, Mehta AK, Chaudhry ZW, Jacobs DK, Vakil RM, Lee CJ, Bleich SN, Clark JM (2015) Efficacy of commercial weight-loss programs: an updated systematic review. Ann Intern Med 162(7):501-12.
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The Federation of Genealogical Societies has announced that Archivist of the US David Ferriero, will be speaking at the annual FGS Conference – on Wednesday August 18th in Knoxville, TN.
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That same day he will also give remarks at the Librarian's Day conference.
The FGS Annual Conference takes place in Knoxville, Tennessee from August 18-21, 2010. "Rediscovering America's First Frontier" is the conference theme and it is co-hosted by the East Tennessee Historical Society and the Kentucky Historical Society.
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Raj Restaurant ("Raj") was founded on very strong principles encompassing vegetarianism, the beliefs and practices of vegetarians. The word 'vegetarian' comes from the Latin word 'vegetus,' meaning 'whole, sound or fresh.' True to its founding principles, wholesome, sound and the freshest ingredients are used in magical mixes, by some of the most talented, trained and experienced chefs, to bring you the very best cuisine from the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western parts of India.From the day it was set up, the mission of Raj has been to serve quality vegetarian food in a clean and appealing environment at attractive prices. It has become one of the most popular Indian vegetarian restaurants in Singapore and has become a synonym for high quality, scrumptious Indian vegetarian food. Raj has maintained the highest standards of quality by using the best ingredients including healthy cooking oils such as sunflower oil, groundnut oil and sesame oil.Raj, in Singapore, attracts people of all nationalities. Most of the items in the extensive menu can be served mild or spicy, without garlic or onion, to suit the different taste buds and wants of our multi-national customers. Raj provides full service in a great ambience, offering a fine dining experience at reasonable prices.A number of customers have rated our food as the best in Singapore and many have complimented that Raj is the only restaurant where the food is akin to home made food! Our chaats (a range of light savouries) have also received rave reviews from our customers."COME HOME TO RAJ."Dedicated to the loving memory of Late Shri Raja Subramanian, founder of Raj Restaurant, Calcutta, India.
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First Annual Youth Summit on Race, Class and Education
On December 5, 2013, Clark University's Hiatt Center for Urban Education hosted the first annual Youth Summit on Race, Class, and Education for Massachusetts high school students. The summit provided students an opportunity to engage in dialogue about how race and class shapes the educational experiences of young people across the nation. Students also had a chance to listen a diverse group of activists, educators, and scholars share their thoughts about this complex matter... Learn more »
STEM Research Collaboration: Hiatt Center, South High, and Worcester Airport
This collaboration between Hiatt Center, South High, and Worcester Airport, engages students in learning science through studying the mechanics of flight.
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Gurel Lecture: Span culture divide to teach New Century students
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When the classroom populations are culturally diverse—and students often technologically savvier than their elders—teachers are faced with the challenge of finding way to engage them in meaningful learning. Gloria Ladson-Billings, a nationally known educator, urges teachers to immerce themselves in... Learn more »