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With the heat waves rolling in and the summer solstice behind us, it is officially BBQ season! And there couldn't be a more BBQ friendly holiday than the 4th of July, because there is no better way to celebrate America's birthday than with smoked food. As well as BBQs, summer calls for strawberries and lot's of them! So how can you honor the US of A, summer strawberries, and BBQ season? A one of a kind dessert by the name of Strawberry Rhubarb Pie. So celebrate the country and the season with this traditional summer treat.
Vegan Strawberry Rhubarb Pie
Prep Time: 30 Minutes Bake Time: 45 Minutes
Pie Crust (x 2)
- 2 Cups Organic Unbleached Flour
- 1 Tsp Salt
- 2/3 Cup, plus 1 Tbsp Earth Balance
- 1/4 Cup Ice Water (more may be needed)
- 1 1/4 lbs Organic Rhubarb
- 1/3 lbs Organic Strawberries
- 3/4 Cup Evaporated Cane Juice
- 1/3 Cup Organic Unbleached Flour
- 1/4 Tsp Salt
Pre-heat the oven to 375 degrees. You will need to double to recipe for the pie crust to make crusts, one for the top. Prepare the pie crust by combining the flour and salt. Blend in 2/3 cup soy margarine until the mixture is crumbly. Add in the water until mixture starts to hold together (you may not need all the water or you may need more-play it by ear!). Next roll out the crust with a rolling pin (or in times of need a washed wine bottle can substitute). Place the first crust in a 9 inch pan and use your fingers to make even patterns in the dough. Repeat the above instructions and after the dough is rolled out, set aside.
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Why isn't opposition to "ed reformists" news?
On a larger note, State media outside the blogosphere has also pretty much ignored resistance to education reform as a story. Yes, the furor over Christina and State funding during the PZ dust-up got coverage, and, yes, from time to time a Delaware Voice column will be run authored by John Young or Frederica Jenner, but if I were a historian (oh, oops, I am) trying to write a history of education reform in Delaware from traditional media sources, I would almost completely miss it. Why?
[I should be clear and transparent (if not as in Christina, ouch): there are multiple items of the reformers' agendas with which I agree, others than strike me as innocuous or silly, and some that I downright dislike. But this is a post about process, not product.]
The reason is almost exactly the same reason why--despite any school board election victories the resisters might win this year--Vision 2015 keeps rolling along . . .
Vision 2015 built one of the most effective coalitions in Delaware History.
It is obvious that the business and non-profit sectors are represented in the implementation team for Vision 2015, but here's the other part that is so significant:
Dr. Susan Bunting, Superintendent, Indian River is on the team, as is Howard Weinberg of DSEA.
Susan Bunting is widely acclaimed not just as the best supt. in Delaware, but also as one of the very best in the nation. She was everyone's consensus pick to succeed Lillian Lowery as Sec Ed, and is rumored now to have turned Governor Markell down for the job--a second time. And Indian River has gone big into the Vision Network, with five schools, and has seen positive results.
When you have the leading supt. in the State on your side, and when her district has serious skin in the Vision Network, and when she's publicly endorsing Mark Murphy as the new Sec Ed, then what you are NOT going to find is any other supt. in the State coming out against the reform initiative. Theirs is a very small club, and she's one of the undisputed leaders. Even reform opponents respect her, although they rarely deal with the disconnect of the respect for her versus her support for Vision 2015.
So Vision 2015 has that base covered.
Next, Howard Weinberg (and--by extension--Frederica Jenner). I realize that I have been arguing strongly about the role of DSEA in monetizing school board elections, but I have also been coming to the realization that there is a significant tension between DSEA and its local affiliates on the issue of reform. (I will be doing an extensive post on this in about a week.)
For now, suffice it to say that Weinberg and Jenner are not simply the official voices of DSEA who signed off on Race to the Top, but are also the people controlling the DSEA Advocacy PAC (and all those little offshoots with name variations on "Working Families") that have poured over a million dollars into Delaware elections during the past five years.
So, regardless of what the opposition might say, Vision 2015 has the official imprimatur of teachers around the State in the form of the leaders of DSEA.
Thus, when you've managed, for reporting purposes, to assimilate the superintendents AND the teachers' union, there's not much of a place for the resisters to go (and let us not forget that the Delaware PTA is also firmly on board).
So what has the resistance got? The answer is three big gaps.
[Side note: I am not bashing resisters here. I am trying to explain why it is not getting much traction in the political process.]
Gap one:
It has no name. I'm serious. Vision 2015 and Vision Network may sound schmaltzy to you, but they conjure up a specific image of a specific group of people with a specific--and recorded agenda. The opposition is a loose conglomeration of fellow travellers including school board members, local teachers, bloggers, and some disenchanted parents. I understand that the opposition doesn't want to be Vision 2015 in reverse, but it has to have some sort of coherent identity, and . . . .
Gap two:
It has no leaders. You can make fun of Skip Schoenhals all you want, but he provides Vision 2015 with a visible focus for the public, and he is far more widely respected than most of the opposition would prefer to believe. On the opposition side there is no statewide recognized leader. John Kowalko perhaps comes closest in the legislature, but--let's be really honest here--John is a gadfly and not the day-to-day leader of a functional education reform opposition. I love kilroy and John Young, but bloggers--even when they are school board members--do not qualify as statewide leaders of a major counter-reform movement. And the various groups of teachers, as well as skeptical school board members scattered around the state constitute a muttering more than a voice. The opposition has found no institutional spokesperson on the level of
Gap three:
It presents no alternatives. This is important. Thought experiment: suppose the opposition is 110% correct and Vision 2015 will doom all of our children to a poor education forever, impoverishing them for life. So what's the alternative to the Vision Network that improve education? You have to have a credible alternative besides saying that we need research-based answers or that we should just trust our teachers. People are aware that schools are failing in many parts of the State, and they perceive the Vision 2015 people as at least pursuing a plan. They do not perceive the opposition to Vision 2015 as doing the same thing. That's why virtually every political candidate in the State stands up to salute Vison 2015--because nobody has presented a credible alternative.
I realize that some of my friends in opposition to Vision 2105 and Race to the Top will take offense at this post, because to them it suggests that they have to become like their opponents in order to succeed, and they will bristle at that.
But you cannot change the fact that the Vision Network has, as a political process, organized in textbook fashion, and whether you like it or not, if you want to change the direction of Delaware education away from their agenda, you're going to have to pay more attention to the process.
Last note (that people really really really won't like): building that coalition took the Vision people several years, and it will take--even if the opponents started today--at least 4-5 years to build a counterweight organization.
You could call it Occupy Education.
16 comments:
- Ed Diagnostician said...
nothing in your article makes me bristle at all.
I will say that offering an alternative is critical as you suggest, but I do disagree about the efficacy of trusting teachers or demanding research based solutions. To knock those is to suggest that it is OK to deploy non-research based "solutions" that may literally tear asunder a school and its community.
In effect, I see that statement from you arguing in favor of experimenting on children. To me, that is unacceptable.
After reading you pot I mostly want to ask you why is it OK for the "reformers" to not beheld to account for their ideas and the results. You point to Indian River's success, but I counter with is that success absolute or conjectural within the context of whether or nor DCAS scores are even a useful measure of success in a school or with a child.....
The problems about on both sides for sure, as you note, it's a Civil War.....but the side that has organized and played by the processes you note has something the resistors don't: money.
And speaking of money....the DSEA's support of RTTT is what Kilroy says it is,a political go along to get along stubt to ty and protect teachers from a runaway evaluation system. A stunt that is going to fail in my opinion. They are not resistors.
I am a resistor and calling me out as solution-less is certainly fair game, but it's no more specious than ignoring that the reformers have no evidence of success, just a network of monied organizations (Innovative Schools, Rodel, Vision 2015, Chamber of Commerce, etc)that subsist on diverting taxpayer dollars into companies and out of classrooms....all in the name of helping children.
As you know, I embrace the role of the rouge School Board Member Blogger. I know my limitations and my effect. I am #1 on the tote board in 2014 for electoral defeat. Somehow, I will sleep well again tonight. When you believe in your cause and you kids, fighting for equity and excellence in public education is an honor.
Fending of individuals and organizations that exist to laud themselves is a privilege.
- May 1, 2012 at 9:47 AM
- pandora said...
"[I should be clear and transparent (if not as in Christina, ouch): there are multiple items of the reformers' agendas with which I agree, others than strike me as innocuous or silly, and some that I downright dislike."
Is the difference between you and Ed reformists.
And you're correct, "resisters" won't organize. Know why? In order to organize they'd need a message as simplistic (and as misleading) as ed reformers.
Ed Reformers message is: Traditional public schools have failed our children.
Resisters, in order to be effective, would then have to take the opposite argument: Charter schools fail our children.
Both positions, imo, are ridiculous, and neither has anything to do with children.
So... I wouldn't necessarily classify myself as a resister. I'd call myself wary. I don't want to get rid of charters; I want to find a way for them to co-exist and enhance traditional public schools.
I am not a true believer - and I have never trusted true believers. No one has all the answers, and those (true believers) who claim they do should be avoided at all costs.
- May 1, 2012 at 9:53 AM
- Ed Diagnostician said...
@ Pandora
I agree, but charters are not really the problem, sure the law needs some work, but their existence is not inherently problematic.
By comparison, the policies being made and enforces the DE Legislature, DOE and State Board of Education that have little basis in research are choking our schools to death:
funding equity, busing, testing, curriculum, standards, school climate, school violence/bullying, teacher career pathways, administrator pathways, merit pay, untrained teachers coming in from alternative routes of certification (like TFA), Neighborhood Schools, re-segregation are the problems.....charters are sometimes a symptom, but generally do not cause the problem in DE education.
So, I am not going to organize or try to organize. Ideas have power. Pointing out that other ideas are bad has power. Being articulate, if not sometimes abrasive in the public space has power. Embracing the David v. Goliath mindset has power. I get ZERO power from being a school board member, just a 5 year platform to inject ideas.
Just like the corporate interests that control the landscape, the marketplace will embrace or reject my ideas. For sure you can't win them all, but little 'ol me got meetings electronically recorded, defended my teachers (for 11 days) against the Governors office in a way that shed real light on the nexus of bad policy and practice, have over 100,000 hits on my blog discussing and linking to thoughtful analysis of ed policy and have assisted in ensuring that the ARTC TFA pathway gets a formal review in three years rather than a lifetime license to bring untrained educators in Delaware's highest needs schools..all without a brand or a 501(c)4. Imagine that.
- May 1, 2012 at 10:08 AM
- Steven H. Newton said...
Just so we're clear: I have a great respect for what you are doing, and i was not calling you out.
Nor do I expect you to organize the resistance.
This was a PROCESS piece, aimed at explaining to a lot of people who have asked me why nobody is covering or really talking about the resistance to ed reform.
My point is fairly simple (but apparently not so simple as I thought): the only way to derail such a process in the education world, once it has become politicized, is through a countervailing political process. Yes, you can raise issues and change things around the margins, but the machine marches on.
There is a current opportunity in Delaware, however, for such a resistance to coalesce. A lot of things have weakened the reform movement this year, not the least of which is its own over-reach. But the movement is not composed of stupid people, and they have resources, and they will adjust, and they will move more effectively next year to marginalize opposition.
Before that happens is the time to set up a counter-movement; I was just laying out the parameters as I see them.
pandora: I don't agree that an alternative would have to be as simplistic as "Traditional schools have failed" and "Charter schools have failed" to be effective.
There are a variety of ways to go about it (this below is very very rough and is only meant to give an idea):
--Education happens in the classroom. The Federal government needs to provide resources, not mandates.
--If choice is a parent's option, why does the State get to pick where the charter schools go?
--Charter schools for Everybody! It can only happen when we make all schools that good.
--Reforming education has more to do with teachers and resources than it has with corporatons and their visions.
- May 1, 2012 at 11:33 AM
- pandora said...
I hear ya. I was approaching it from a Marketing standpoint. Bumper sticker slogans are effective. Probably too effective.
This was a Process piece, after all. ;-)
The ed reformers are winning on process - and a big part of that process is convincing (rightly or wrongly) that traditional public schools are failing our kids and it's time for something new.
Truthfully, ed reformers don't bring much in the way of solutions, either. They rely on everyone buying into their initial premise (traditional public schools are failing our kids) and then shoot from the hip - selling a variety of untested products under the guise that anything is better than what we have now. Powerful stuff, but hardly deep. Then again, I've never been a fan of throwing the baby out with the bath water.
- May 1, 2012 at 12:07 PM
- pandora said...
Know what? It's time to get everyone to the damn table. I'm sick of these sides. It's past time to think about the kids. Yeah, novel idea.
- May 1, 2012 at 12:14 PM
- Steve Newton said...
Vision 2015 would argue that they have brought everyone to the table. They have educational administrators, they have teachers' union reps, they have parents from the PTA, they have university types, they have corporate types, and they would say to you that they put out a call for everybody several years ago, and they have worked with everybody who showed up.
The problem is that they now "define" the table: the discussion about the future of Delaware public education, for better or worse (and by that I mean the discussion that has the practical ability and the resources to implement its conclusion) is occurring through the prism of the Vision Network.
This is especially true after Governor Markell has annointed one of them to be Sec Ed for Delaware.
In other words, what I am saying is that on any coordinated basis, that bird has already flown, leaving people with different idea only three options that I can see:
1) Construct a viable alternative, as I outlined in this post.
2) Get into the network of Vision 2015 and try to affect it from the inside.
3) Continue to be the irritant, and feel good about what you are doing without seeing any major systemic movements away from the groupthink. That's OK--even honorable--but it is not terribly effective.
The other alternative is for the teachers to retake control of their union at the State level, for the parents to do the same, and internally transform the Vision partners out from under them.
And if we do move school board elections to November, all we will be doing is ensuring the election of more pro-reform candidates.
- May 1, 2012 at 12:35 PM
- Ed Diagnostician said...
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- May 1, 2012 at 12:36 PM
- Ed Diagnostician said...
I did not think you were calling me out at all. In fact, I read your post as sort of a call to action. I agree with pretty much every point you made about process and just used your post to pivot on ideology.
- May 1, 2012 at 12:38 PM
- Ed Diagnostician said...
re #3): Dead on about the groupthink thing!
Also, 100% agree on the November election red herring.
- May 1, 2012 at 12:40 PM
- pandora said...
Red herring, or not... something has to change. And, in case no one has noticed the ed reformers are winning anyway.
Strategy wise... resisters have nothing to lose by moving school board elections to November. If anything, they would gain an audience ed reformers ignore for a reason.
As it stands now, ed reformers will continue to pick off candidates/board members one by one. How's that working for ya?
Move the elections to November and make everyone work for the voters they ignore and count (desperately) on not to vote.
Just sayin'
- May 1, 2012 at 12:59 PM
- Ed Diagnostician said...
indeed they are winning. Moving elections to Nov will have them win faster. They have the $$ and access to campaign tools that local community members who want to serve in a voluntary elected position for the benefit of children mostly don't have.
So, in the booth, underr which column do you place the candidates names? D or R? School board elections are not party affiliated and the folks that pull a donkey or elephant "all" lever may elect the school board person by happenstance without engaging the issue at all?
You can make the argument that the informed people will still come out, but now the rabble could mindlessly sway the election just like they often do in November anyway.
I guess it boils down to how the community feels about the position and even more interestingly its electors. As you know access becomes and issue as school board elections are not from a pool of registered voters but of residents with positive IDs. If November rules come with moving the election, we ow disenfranchise some people. I wonder who those people are?
I know I'm rambling, it's just not so cut and dry for me.
- May 1, 2012 at 1:18 PM
- pandora said...
So, in the booth, underr which column do you place the candidates names? D or R?
Let me put on my political hat... I can tell you which party at least 70% of school board members belong to. So, adding a D or an R after their name isn't that difficult.
School board elections are not party affiliated
Why yes, yes they are. For the most part. We just pretend they aren't.
Can we please stop pretending that politics isn't involved in school boards? That all school board members are somehow above politics. That simply isn't true. Politics are becoming the driving force behind these elections.
John, I love ya, but you need to see that school boards are political, and have been for quite some time.
And, going back to the point of Steve's post and keeping my political hat firmly in place... changing the process for resisters might very well begin with changing the election date. If I were you, I would take the fact that we live in a blue state as an advantage, and play it for all it's worth.
- May 1, 2012 at 1:53 PM
- Ed Diagnostician said...
Love ya too, but please know this: Ds and Rs are both the problem on "reformer" issues.
From Bush's NCLB to Obama's RTTT, what a mess.
- May 1, 2012 at 2:51 PM
I'm another on the "wary" list. I wasn't really brought up to raise hell. :) I may favor some ways more than others but overall to me there are ideas and practices to keep and lose from both (all?) angles.
Like the DSEA, Rodel also has many components and projects and they are by no means made up of drones any more than the DSEA.
Anyway, mainly I wanted to add a point - there IS organized resistance to corporate ed reform in the same cloth of the scattered resistance, it is national and Delaware has an affiliate. They have next to no funding as far as I can tell, but they are pretty organized, and their vision goals are clear and admirable, important. I think it's fair to say that much resistance has been fueled by their organization and the work of those involved with them, especially post-Waiting for Superman.
National: http://parentsacrossamerica.org/what-we-believe/
Delaware PAA affiliate: http://www.communities4educationde.org/
I haven't seen the local affiliate get a lick of press. Maybe that is by design, I don't know.
And I think there is room for more such affiliates watchdogging various aspects of where vision (and Vision) is falling short. Not sure all those things will or should all fit under one group's umbrella.
- May 2, 2012 at 9:36 PM
- Steven H. Newton said...
Interesting links, thanks. I need to look these over.
- May 2, 2012 at 11:04 PM


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It's been a tough two years of home schooling for my daughter, now a senior in high school. The first semester we started we had to constantly travel because I had to take care of my sick mother in another state. Now she's behind in both her Junior and Senior year and isn't looking to graduate on time.
I don't know if there are laws about this, but if someone could inform me that'd be great. (Georgia, Forsyth County)
I would like to know if I can write off some of her classes by giving her the semester and end of the year tests. If she understands the curriculum and passes the tests, I'd like to pass her on the class.
Also, if I could get your thoughts on another thing. My daughter has an impossible time focusing. I know she has the will power to do it, but she's acting like what she is - a seventeen year old girl with options. How do I inform her of the importance of focus and finishing up her school in a way she'll take it seriously? She has big dreams and lots of ideas for college, most of them actually practical, but without focusing and finishing off the school year there wont be any college for quite some time.
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Good news - there are no schooling requirements in Georgia for children over 16. So you can do whatever you want. As far as graduation from high school goes, you'll want to standardized test (AP, CLEP, Georgia-recognized subject test, etc.) for as many subjects as you can, and portfolio for the rest. I don't know if a self-issued test will be sufficient without a body of work to back it up, but probably not.
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NetSuite Acquires Point-of-Sale Company Retail Anywhere
Last year, NetSuite, the cloud software company that helps mid-sized companies run their business, added to the growing list of things offered "as a service." Its contribution to that list, announced in May, was "commerce-as-a-service." NetSuite's approach was, and is, managing both the back-end bit of business-to-business commerce and the direct-to-customer type of commerce, in a unified way.
NetSuite called it SuiteCommerce, and it has turned out to be a pretty big deal. In fact, one of its key partners was a smallish company called Retail Anywhere that specializes in point-of-sale terminals and software. Retail Anywhere had decided to build its next generation of POS terminals using SuiteCommerce. Retail Anywhere had created the popular Retail Anywhere point-of-sale app for Apple's iOS devices. The two companies went to market jointly, and the result was a surprise for at least one of them. "We crushed them with demand," NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson told me.
Today, NetSuite announced that it has bought Retail Anywhere. Financial terms aren't being disclosed, because it's not material to NetSuite's finances. Nelson told me that NetSuite and Retail Anywhere had 30 joint customers, but that among its existing customer base, there are 500 companies who consider themselves retailers that could could take advantage of the combined offering. And there are thousands of existing Retail Anywhere customers — the company has been around for 28 years — who will get exposed to NetSuite.
One thing that's not staying, Nelson said, is the point-of-sale hardware. "We're going to get out that business," he said. Eventually, he said, in-store retail will look a lot more like e-commerce. "More and more, you're seeing sales reps walking around stores with iPads, swiping credit cards," he says.
And things like that are having an effect on shoppers' attitudes. A Deloitte survey conducted during the 2012 holiday season found that retailers who had several touchpoints through which to engage with a consumer had a 71 percent greater chance of selling to them than those who relied only on the old-school brick-and-mortar approach. What it means is that stores who can reach a customer both online and in person are more likely to sell to them. And that means you need to unify the experience. Pricing and inventory, for example, need to be in sync.
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1.) What are we doing today? Create a schedule for yourself but don't kill yourself trying to follow it to the tee. As moms we know that deciding to work from 9 a.m. to noon does not mean we will sit there for three hours straight without interruption. You will probably get up 20 or more times in three hours if you have small children around the house. But children do need and thrive on being on a schedule. If you have very young ones you should feed them and put them down for a nap at the same time everyday. Or at least try to do so.
As a mom of four with a 1-year-old baby, I know that my little one sometimes has plans of his own and will try to resist napping. When you have day's like this where it seems like nobody is going with the flow, just relax and be grateful that you have the opportunity of being home with your children -- getting frustrated at the work that goes undone will only add stress to your life, and the very fact that you work from home is because your children are your priority. So if the work doesn't get done, let it go, you can always catch up later or on the weekend. Besides, these interruptions are your most important work.
3.) Just say NO! It seems everyone wants a piece of you! Your sister wants you to take the kids for the weekend, your kid's school wants you to bake four dozen cookies for a fundraiser event, your mother wants you to come over and fix her screen door, your best friend wants you to come over to talk about her impending divorce, a local charity wants you to volunteer, telemarketers want you to subscribe to the local newspaper... need I say more?


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Two Cummins powertrains are rumored to be in the mix for the Tundra. Take one look at the Tundra's powertrains and fuel economy isn't exactly a forte; its base 4.0-litre V6 pumps out 270 horsepower and 278 pound-feet of torque while returning 14.7 L/100 km in the city and 11.7 L/100 km on the highway, according to the U.S. EPA. The top-of-the-line V8, on the other hand, is good for 381 horses and 401 lb-ft of torque and returns 18 and 13L/100 km city and highway, respectively. Toyota is also reportedly considering introducing hybrid technology for the Tundra, though there is no specific timetable for either powertrain.


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Oscar Wilde said, "I can resist everything but temptation." I think he had fresh figs in mind when he said that.
Consider this: Yesterday morning at the Hillcrest farmers' market, I spotted close to a dozen people eating fresh figs as they shopped. That's because everything about fresh figs is irresistible -- their pleasingly plump stature, their velvet skin splitting with ripeness, their ambrosial pink flesh.
Fresh Calmyrna figs grown in San Diego County.
Despite fresh figs' high price tag, usually $4-6 per pound, San Diego shoppers couldn't get enough of them, including me. I also can't get enough of these simple, no-bake Greek Yogurt, Fresh Fig, and Black Currant Parfaits. This dessert proves that opposites attract -- sweet figs and tart black currants, syrupy honey and spicy cinnamon, and earthy rosemary and tangy lemon zest are enfolded in luscious, creamy Greek yogurt.
I just know Oscar Wilde wouldn't have been able to resist them either.
Black Mission figs grown in LA County.
Greek Yogurt, Fresh Fig, and Black Currant Parfaits
Makes 2 servings
Printable recipe.
2 tablespoons honey
A couple of pinches of cinnamon
2 cups non-fat Greek yogurt
6 fresh figs, quartered
1/2 cup fresh black currants*
1 tablespoon pistachios
1. Heat honey, cinnamon, salt, lemon zest, and rosemary either in the microwave or on the stovetop until warm and smooth. Remove from heat.
2. Use two cocktail or other pretty glasses to assemble parfaits. Start with yogurt at the base. Then top with fig pieces, currants, pistachios, and honey sauce. Repeat. Eat. Make again tomorrow.
*Note: Black currants are small, round berries with a glossy black skin and tart flesh. They're available at farmers' markets and organic markets. If you can't find them, blackberries make a good substitute. Dried black currants are more widely available, but their flavor and texture is sweeter like a raisin.
Fresh black currants grown in LA County.
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SANTA FE (AP) It was shortly after closing time one cool, dark night earlier this month at the Legal Tender. Cindy Lu and Phillip Heard were sitting with their spouses at a table at the Lamy restaurant when they heard the voice of a woman screaming.
The sound was coming from the kitchen, but no one was there. And the back door was locked.
I dont believe in ghosts, said Heard, one of the volunteer workers at the restaurant/bar. There has to be an explanation for what that was. When I deal with something like this, I want to know the facts.
Employees Dachin Frances and Avery Young were not there to hear the cry of the terrorized woman. But, Young said, Even when you are alone in a room here, you never feel alone. And Frances said one recent night, she was left through the back door of the darkened kitchen with some co-workers, about to lock the door, when some pots and pans began rattling inside. They slammed the door, locked it and left.
Others wont stay in the joint after closing time, and at least one of Lus employees is afraid that whatever walks within the darkened halls of the old saloon might follow her home at night.
Staff members and patrons have heard unexplained voices and the sound of something heavy being dragged across the floor of the main dining room. The chandelier hanging above that room has started swinging to and fro without any sign of wind.
To many who work at or frequent the Legal Tender, it makes sense that some of its long-dead denizens are still present.
The community, named after Archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy, has a population of about 220, according to the 2010 U.S. Census. Its a quiet village, particularly after the sun sets.
A business first opened at the site of the Legal Tender in 1881 about the same time the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway built the spur line from Lamy to Santa Fe. The operation began as a combination mercantile store and saloon. Lemps Extra Pale Ale was apparently a favorite of patrons of the time, according to an old photo hanging in the restaurant.
Somewhere along the way, the old saloon became known as the Pink Garter. Glen Campbell played there in his early days. In the late 1960s, it was renamed the Legal Tender under the ownership of R.O. Anderson. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. Through the years, a number of historic figures have passed through the Lamy area, including Teddy Roosevelt and Billy the Kid the latter was reportedly on a train that stopped in Lamy as he was on the way to jail time in Santa Fe.
More obscure figures also found their way through the village, and they may still be around the frontier bystander reportedly shot by a stray bullet during a poker game gone wrong and the female train passenger who supposedly died of appendicitis while convalescing in one of the saloons back rooms, for instance. Their spirits known as the Man in Black and the Lady in White have long been rumored to roam the Legal Tender.
The ghost of a girl child is also connected to the site, although no one has ever quite figured out her back story. But Lu recently met a woman in her 90s who lived in Lamy in the 1920s and recalls a female playmate from that period who died of tapeworm at age 7 or 8. The two girls would often visit the store that stood at the site of the Legal Tender. Lu also tells anecdotes of kitchen workers feeling the invisible poke of a finger in their sides and a presence tightening their apron strings.
Lus Learning Mind nonprofit organization has joined with the Lamy Railroad and History Museum to revitalize the Legal Tender. She and other volunteer workers reopened the restaurant last spring. It serves food from Thursday through Sunday, plus most holidays. Staff members often sit around for a half-hour or so after closing to swap work and ghost stories.
Ghost hunter Joni Alm has conducted about five investigations in the Legal Tender during the last six months, utilizing a high-tech audio recorder and a ghost-meter, which registers changes in the electromagnetic field and thus may reveal paranormal energy.
That ghost-meter blinks red when it encounters inexplicable energy, and it almost went crazy during a recent late-night tour of the kitchen area, about the same time that a New Mexican photographers flashlight went dead. The batteries were new. The flashlight worked just fine when he left the restaurant.
Almost four-hour ghost hunt on a recent October evening turned up the usual array of curious activities: cold breezes and unexpected noises, although Lu is quick to explain that the ice machine makes a noise that sounds like a distant gunshot.
Alms ghost-meter lit up to a piano rendition of Beethovens Moonlight Sonata. If anything is going to bring a ghost out, its that (song), Heard said.
On her recorder, Alm captured odd noises, including what seem to be strange whispering sounds and, at one point, perhaps the voice of a man saying something akin to Go away. She is willing to look for logical, human-caused explanations for these noises.
I feel strongly that there are several entities in there, at least three, Alm said of the Legal Tender. When I listen to recording playbacks, I hear conversations that are faint but consistent enough for me to ask, Could someone have been walking in front of the restaurant at 1 oclock in the morning? She thinks not.
She has felt the child spirit in her presence at least twice, she said. She feels a male energy, too. There is no fear at all. I actually feel a sense of impatience from the Man in Black spirit, like he wants his space back, she said with a laugh.
Lu isnt so sure that the Lady in White or the Man in Black are still around. She said various cleansings have occurred within the building over the last 20 years in an effort to send the spirits away, and maybe these two old-timers have moved on.
But Lu is fairly certain that a feisty female energy remains on site. She has reason to believe it is a more contemporary spirit, that of a young woman who went missing in the area not so long ago.
Lu doesnt like to call what happens out at the Legal Tender a haunting. Its just a presence, an energy, of someone or something that is here, she said. Its an energy from a different time; from a different dimension, even.
And she said she is never afraid not even when she hears unexplained whispering or her name being called by others when she is alone in the building.


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The T.F. McIlwraith fonds consists of records documenting McIlwraith's training and career as an anthropologist as well as his roles as an administrator and professor at the University of Toronto. Covering three separate accessions, material primarily includes professional records related to his research, teaching, and publishing activity. Fonds includes significant coverage is of McIlwraith's writing, both published and unpublished. Series 17 (The Bella Coola Indians) focuses on his research with the Nuxalk Nation for the book The Bella Coola Indians. Extensive correspondence, subject files, maps and photographs are included within the fonds and partially consist of material collected and/ or sent to McIlwraith in connection with his research.
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Right now, club members everywhere are filling up group exercise classes, putting in extra time on the cardio machines and booking spa treatments in a last-minute push to be ready for pool season.
Club operators also have a pool deadline looming. Just two years after updating their pool drains to comply with the Virginia Graeme Baker (VGB) Pool & Spa Safety Act, operators of public swimming pools, wading pools and spas must be prepared to comply by March 15, 2012, with the new Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Standards for Accessible Design, issued by the Department of Justice (DOJ).
Most public aquatic facility operators already are familiar with the majority of these ADA access standards, which were finalized in 2004 as guidelines. However, as of September 2010, they became legal standards, and they include a few major changes operators may not yet know about. Making these changes could be costly for many facilities—but it could prove even more costly to be ignorant of details of the new law, as some found when the VGB Act came into effect.
Previously, ADA guidelines called for one means of accessible entry for each pool. The new law is more specific, requiring a lift or sloped entry in pools measuring less than 300 lineal feet. Pools larger than 300 lineal feet must have two means of access—the first must be a lift or slope, but the secondary means of access can be either of those or a transfer wall, transfer system or stairs.
In addition, wading pools must now have a sloped entry. This requirement is likely to have the greatest financial impact on pool operators. Not only would club operators lose income during renovations due to a closed pool, but the cost of adding a sloped entry would run about $20,000, according to Andrew Lacelle, an aquatic designer at the architecture firm Ohlson Lavoie Collaborative, Denver. Even the less-expensive options for ADA compliance could be difficult for many already cash-strapped facilities to afford. With pool lift prices ranging from about $4,000 to $8,000, adding a second means of access to each pool or spa at a large public facility can become expensive.
Craig Feldman, aquatics program coordinator for the Federal Way Community Center in Federal Way, WA, says the pools and spas in his facility, which opened in 2007, are already compliant. However, he says the cost of ADA compliance may be too great for many of the state's community pools.
"A lot of our pools are fairly old," he says. "Many were built out of a 1969 bond issue. Their lifespan was supposed to be 30 years, so they've already exceeded [that], and they're just trying to limp along."
At LifeCenter Plus, a for-profit fitness facility in Hudson, OH, the club's aquatics program director, Jim Clark, is still assessing how to ensure LifeCenter is ADA compliant by next March. But he says he is ahead of the game because he is aware of the requirements while many of his colleagues are not.
"This is all clear as mud right now to most people in the industry," Clark says.
While both operators raise valid concerns, Jen Hartfield, government affairs director for the Association of Pool & Spa Professionals (APSP), says ADA compliance should not be a worry for most club operators because the bulk of the access standards—and the equipment and knowledge needed to implement them— have been around for years.
The concerns that some aquatics facility operators have regarding ADA requirements are likely to remind them of the issues they encountered when bringing their pools into compliance with the VGB Act. For many of them, it won't be a pleasant memory, and for quite a few, it won't be a memory at all—more than three years after Congress passed the act, many public pools are still noncompliant.
VGB was named for Virginia Graeme Baker, the 7-year-old granddaughter of former Secretary of State James Baker. She died by drowning after becoming trapped by the suction created by the drain at the bottom of her family's hot tub. The federal law, which went into effect in December 2008, required all public pools and spas to be fitted with anti-entrapment covers on every drain. The act also required pools or spas with a single main drain other than an unblockable drain to have either an automatic shut-off system, gravity drainage system, safety vacuum release system (SVRS), suction-limiting vent system or to disable the drain. If a pool or spa has multiple main drains, the law dictated that these must be at least 3 feet apart.
Although Clark made the necessary adjustments to the pools and spas at LifeCenter Plus before the deadline, he says a federal law was not warranted.
"Many of the incidents that led to the VGB Act came from people who had poorly maintained pools without the correct covers in place," Clark says. "So, yes, there was a problem, but the real problem was maintenance."
Another facility manager, who asked that his name be withheld, agrees with Clark that entrapment dangers could have been addressed by proper maintenance.
"VGB was a kneejerk reaction to a situation that really didn't need to happen," he says. "There have been less than a dozen entrapment issues in the country. Most of those were in pools where the main drain was either missing its cover or malfunctioning in some way. The only people that came out of VGB in better shape than before are the engineers that got extra jobs out of this and the people who manufacture drain covers."
Despite objections like these, Tom Lachocki, CEO of the National Swimming Pool Foundation (NSPF), says that pool operators generally have been positive about the VGB Act and have had more unanimity about the importance of preventing suction entrapment than about any other industry issue. He also says the industry has a good attitude toward ADA standards, which enable more people to access aquatics facilities.
The initial dissent regarding the VGB Act came from the belief by many people in the industry that drowning rather than entrapment danger should be the main focus of a federal aquatic safety law, Lachocki says. On average, fewer than two fatalities per year occur due to entrapment while hundreds die every year due to drowning, he says.
However, the VGB Act does address the issue of drownings in addition to drain cover issues, says Kathleen Reilly, pool and spa campaign leader for the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the agency charged by Congress with implementing VGB. The act provides for funding toward educating the public about the importance of learning to swim, watching children in the pool and putting fences around residential pools.
"And it also teaches that if you don't have the right equipment in your pool, you could be at risk for an entrapment incident," Reilly says.
The CPSC works with several industry associations (including the NSPF and APSP) to educate pool operators about the requirements. Even so, Ohlson Lavoie's Lacelle estimates that more than two years later, about 30 percent of commercial pools still are not compliant. In many cases, lack of compliance is not due to unwillingness but to confusion about the actual requirements, he says. Lacelle has been hired by hundreds of facilities across the United States specifically to inspect their pools for VGB compliance. Despite having already been professionally repaired or retrofitted to comply, at least half the facilities he sees still require additional work to become fully compliant.
"The particulars of the VGB law are very specific, to the point where even the fasteners have detailed requirements," Lacelle says. "Many pool contractors are not familiar with the complexity of the VGB law and simply install a new drain cover and possibly a SVRS and think the pool is compliant. Unfortunately in these scenarios, the facility owners believe they have done their due diligence to become compliant and may not discover they are not compliant until an accident occurs."
Lachocki says one of the main problems is that more than half of the states require no verifiable training for people who operate public pools, so no one is training operators about compliance.
Although it is impossible to estimate how many pools still are not VGB compliant, Lachocki says the number may be high even though it's certainly lower than when the act went into effect.
The rush to implement the law just one year after it was passed not only left little time to educate the industry about the act, but it also did not allow sufficient time for equipment suppliers to manufacture the necessary drain covers, Lachocki says, because that manufacturing process usually takes more than a year. This meant drain covers were not readily available before the deadline, he adds.
"So how can you say that you are putting more lives at risk by saying let's wait and implement the educational program?" Lachocki asks. "People couldn't get the covers anyway."
Nevertheless, Lachocki says, the CPSC had only two choices: to maintain the deadline dictated by the law or to tell Congress that implementation by that deadline was impossible.
"They didn't have a nice choice either way," he says.
Now, nearly two-and-a-half years after they were required by law to come into compliance by installing new antientrapment drain covers, the operators of many aquatics facilities may soon have a new reason to wish that the CPSC had heeded the NSPC's 2008 request to extend the deadline. Last month, the CPSC announced it was investigating the testing methods that led to the certification of many drain covers as VGB compliant.
According to a CPSC statement, the investigation "has revealed that the testing protocols used by some laboratories may have been improper and, as a result, some covers certified by these laboratories may not comply" with the VGB Act.
The statement goes on to say that due to problems with the testing, some VGB-certified drain covers may still fail to prevent entrapment. CPSC says it aims to identify the affected drain covers and issue new safety information by Memorial Day, the opening day for many public pools.
CPSC's current education efforts may bring more pools into compliance, but some facilities simply cannot afford to comply.
"Costs can range from a few hundred dollars to thousands, depending on what all needs to be retrofitted for compliance," says Tracynda Davis, director of environmental education for the NSPF.
When the Federal Way Community Center opened in 2007, its amenities were considered state of the art—and that included adherence to safety standards, including the current pool codes. However, just two years after opening, the facility had to renovate its two pools and spa at a cost of $30,000, including permits and engineering but not the costs of draining, refilling and chemically treating the new water, Feldman says.
That figure might have been much lower had the CPSC, still struggling to define the specific terms used in the act long after its implementation, not revised in March 2010 its definition of what constitutes an "unblockable drain." Unfortunately, Feldman had already spent about $8,000 to $10,000 installing custom-built frames for two 7-foot drains that qualified as unblockable by the revised definition.
The Federal Way Community Center paid for its renovations by drawing from a fund set aside for capital improvements, which is financed by a state real-estate excise tax. But other facilities had to resort to drastic measures to become compliant, such as disabling their pools' main drains by filling them with concrete, Feldman says.
"In order for them to drain their pools from now on, they'll have to bring in supplemental pumps," he says. "If you're an agency that doesn't have access to a public works department and can't get a trash pump in there, you're going to be spending some money on that. But it kept their pools open."
To become fully ADA compliant also could be an expensive prospect for many facilities, but the act does allow some flexibility, which should mean that operators won't have to resort to drastic measures, such as closures, if they simply cannot afford to comply. Public facilities can be exempted from adopting the access standards if they can demonstrate that doing so is not "readily achievable" or would create "undue hardship."
"However, the Department of Justice has made it very clear that, given the flexibility and cost of a pool lift, it would be very difficult for any entity to escape their responsibility to provide access to a swimming pool," the APSP's Hatfield says.
Unfortunately, facility operators do not have a formula to determine whether they would be exempt from purchasing equipment or making alterations to comply with the ADA standards. This will be decided at the federal level on a case-by-case basis, says Hatfield, who adds that even if operators feel strongly that they are not able to become ADA compliant for whatever reason, they still have the responsibility of making inquiries related to the feasibility of becoming compliant and maintaining relevant documentation, such as construction estimates. Some financial assistance is available to enable businesses to comply with the ADA standards in the form of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax credits and deductions. Small businesses (those with 30 or fewer full-time employees or that had total revenues of $1 million or less in the previous tax year) can apply for a Disabled Access Credit toward expenses incurred by making alterations to improve accessibility. Businesses of any size are eligible for a tax deduction of up to $15,000 per year on the costs incurred in removing architectural barriers in existing facilities or making alterations.
Both the VGB and ADA acts are federal laws, but their enforcement is subject to the laws and codes of the state or local jurisdiction that adopts the acts. However, Hatfield points out, even operators in states that have not adopted the acts are subject to comply with them, and the federal government can enforce them when this is not being done (or done satisfactorily) at a state or local level.
The VGB Act has been adopted in very different ways across the country. North Carolina is the only state to adopt the full act passed by Congress. Other states have adopted only parts of the act, and still others have added their own specific provisos. Compliance inspections of pools and spas are generally the responsibility of a state or local agency, such as a county department of health, but these agencies are only able to implement or enforce what state legislation permits, as directed by the state's attorney general.
Some local authorities enforce the VGB Act more stringently than others. The CPSC does not keep a central database of pool closings due to noncompliance, but these are a matter of public record—and in at least one state, VGB-related pool closings became big news.
The Las Vegas Sun newspaper reported in March 2009 that many public pools in the area were unable to open, not because they were noncompliant but because the local authority had not had time to approve the work done to make the pools compliant. Nevada law requires that remodeled public pools be inspected and approved by the district, and the Southern Nevada Health District waiting list for inspections was at the time more than three months behind.
The CPSC has the authority to fine or close pools that are not compliant, but Reilly says this is not its priority.
"CPSC can issue fines but has not to date, as we are focusing most of our energy on education and promoting compliance," she says.
The details of ADA enforcement are still in limbo. The DOJ has already certified, or is in the process of certifying, the accessibility requirements of 10 states, which means that the states' requirements meet or exceed ADA standards. But whether or not the local laws or codes affecting their facility have been certified, operators should still make sure they understand and comply with the ADA standards, Hatfield says. The APSP website features a 30-minute webinar about ADA for pool professionals.
There is another angle to ADA enforcement that pool operators should consider. In addition to the public agencies charged with ensuring ADA compliance, grassroots advocacy agencies and individual citizens also could get involved by reporting noncompliance to the DOJ or filing a civil lawsuit.
This is one reason LifeCenter's Clark says facilities need to ensure they are on the ball regarding the ADA standards.
"With VGB, people didn't know what to look for, but with the ADA requirements … well, you either have a lift or you don't," he says. "It's going to be a lot more obvious if you're compliant or not."
The DOJ promotes mediation and settlements as the preferred ways to resolve ADA-related disputes, but if negotiations fail, it is authorized to file a civil lawsuit to force the operator into compliance and can impose civil penalties of up to $55,000 for a first violation and $110,000 for a subsequent violation. Other groups, including private citizens, can sue in federal court to force facilities into compliance but cannot request financial penalties beyond recouping the cost of a trial. State laws may allow for punitive damages. In some cases, this has led to major settlements.
"There are certain attorneys that make their living off this," Hatfield says.
All of the industry experts contacted by Club Industry said that they believed ADA would not present the issues VGB did for many pool operators because they will have had more time to become familiar with the requirements prior to implementation. The necessary equipment already is readily obtainable, and the law allows some flexibility for circumstances that might have led to pool closures in the case of VGB, even if the operators had good intentions.
That last reason is important, Lachocki says, because keeping pools open should be the industry's priority. He says the downsides of closures outweigh the risks posed by noncompliance.
Reduced access to public pools, he points out, means fewer children will have the chance to learn to swim, few people will be trained as lifeguards and fewer people will derive the health benefits associated with swimming.
"We should never forget the value that swimming pools bring to help people live longer, happier, healthier lives," Lachocki says. "We have to continue to find ways to keep those pools open and keep people using those pools—and, of course, we need to do that as safely as possible."


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Emily Evans Russell is the Worldwide Kitten Herder for Access Consciousness and a leader of the Access Bars and Facilitator Creation Team. She is also an Access Consciousness® Certified Facilitator, Certified Yoga Teacher, Speaker, Mama of 2 little girls, and Lover of Having Fun. She integrates over 15 years experience studying, teaching, and working with people and their bodies to create more ease and possibilities in their lives. Emily is part of the Access Consciousness Team creating social media, marketing, and communications for Access Consciousness®, Gary Douglas, Dr. Dain Heer, Simone Milasas and Brendon Watt. Emily has her Master's Degree in Teaching and brings a unique perspective and sense of adventure to all of her endeavors. Her writing has been featured on HolisticFashionista.com, AccessStoriesofChange.com, AccessConsciousness.com, and JoyofBusiness.com. She offers private sessions online or in person, and classes locally in Chattanooga, TN area and travels around the globe!
Emily has always been interested in the body's structure, function, and abilities since she earned her undergraduate degree in Biology, Summa Cum Laude, from DePauw University. She later went on to earn her Master's Degree in Teaching from National Louis University in Chicago, and followed that with working several years in the Chicago Public School System teaching Biology.
During those years, she coached the Cross Country team and founded both a Women's Health Club and Yoga Club to serve the students of the school.
In addition to teaching high school, Emily has been a wellness and nutrition consultant, volunteer birth doula, and health speaker and educator.
She has practiced yoga for 15 years and is a Certified Yoga Teacher through Tejas Yoga's 200 hour teacher training program with an emphasis in Women's Health and Ayurveda.
Emily has continued her advanced training with Access Consciousness by taking Foundation, COP, Energetic Synthesis of Being, Symphony of Possibilities, Maestro, and 6-Day classes. Emily also facilitates Access Bars, Foundation, Being You Adventure and Joy of Business classes.
Emily is grateful to work with women, men, mothers, fathers, grandparents, children, and babies to restore a sense of ease, peace, and calm to their daily lives. She has found that by combining her knowledge in different areas, she is able to facilitate others and herself in finding greater possibilities in life.
Have you ever tried to get anything right? Your life, your family, your relationships, your business? So has Emily - and so she calls herself a recovering Perfectionist! She now practices being gentle with herself and living in allowance. Allowance is existing peacefully in a space of non-judgment, without feeling the need to change or force things around us into what we deem as 'right'.
By coming out of the world of 'right' and 'wrong' regarding ourselves, others, and events going on around us, we are able to gain access to the calm, clarity, and joy that is available to us all.
Emily has always been inspired to learn new things. This desire has taken her on travels around the globe and to live and work in Australia, England, and Japan.
Emily was a 2007 Fund For Teachers Grant Winner which allowed her to spend a summer in Kenya researching dolphins and primates for conservation efforts. Emily also taught in the local school and volunteered in the orphanage while living on Wasini Island.
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Los Lunas soldier caught up in tragic train crash
Collision killed 4 veterans, injured 16
America's wounded warriors became the victims of a train crash during a parade in Midland, Texas, honoring veterans. Witnesses described the scene as total chaos after the train plowed through a float carrying injured veterans and their spouses.
Four veterans were killed and another 16 people were hurt -- one of whom is from New Mexico.
Los Lunas native Richard Lee Sanchez Jr. had just returned from Afghanistan. He was injured while deployed, and now his family said his injuries from the train crash could leave him paralyzed.
Sanchez and his wife were on the float when the train hit the float. His family said he saved his wife by pushing her off the float, and then the train catapulted him into the air.
"He said he hit his back on a concrete pillar and he knew laying there that he was either going to die or at minimum he had a broken back," said a family member via telephone.
The family member declined to be identified.
Sanchez graduated from Los Lunas High School around 2000. He has three small children and is stationed at Fort Carson in Colorado. He has served three tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. Just this year, he lost use of one after being shot overseas.
"After all that he has went through with Afghanistan and now this, just pretty tough on him ," the family member said. "He's the hero. Nobody else in this picture, just Richard."
Members of the Los Lunas community said they are praying for Sanchez and thanking him for being a hero.
"After you have survived something like Afghanistan and you come back and be hit by a train. My heart goes out to the family and we will be praying for them," said Los Lunas resident Dlaine Sinds.
Sanchez's family said he cannot move his feet or his legs and does not have any feeling in them. They said they are hoping and praying he will recover from the accident.


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In the May 6 Republican primary, voters will choose from three candidates who are running for the position of Henderson County register of deeds: C. Shannon Baldwin, Lee King and Evona Johnson Kilpatrick.
The candidates recently answered questions from the Times-News about their plans to expand digital records, what experience they bring to the position and how they would handle requests for marriage licenses from same-sex couples.
More information about the My 6 primary and early voting can be found at www.hendersoncountync.org/elections or by calling 828-697-4970.
Shannon Baldwin
What is your plan to increase the number of records available digitally?
We need to launch a deed digitizing project in conjunction with the Tax Department (mapping division) consisting of clearly defined goals, objectives, resources, and schedule to redact (remove) personal identification numbers, scan and upload deeds for online access.
• Primary goal: Scan and upload all deeds for online access by 2022.
• Project objective 1: Upload deeds from 1994 to 2005 online by January 2016 (one year from beginning of new term of office).
• Project objective 2: Upload deeds from 1995 to 1984 online by January 2017 (two years from beginning of new term).
• Subsequent objectives: Upload remaining deeds from 1983 to 1838 for online access beginning February 2017 and ending December 2022.
• Project resources: Personnel, technical expertise, time, and equipment (high-quality scanner).
The project requires we determine whether or not we utilize existing staff, hire new staff, or outsource this project altogether. If we were to outsource, we would solicit proposals/bids from various firms and select the most qualified. Other counties in North Carolina have completed this project and could offer valuable guidance. By January 2017 we will have uploaded deeds stretching back 30 years. The existing information system (software and hardware) is sufficient to meet our basic needs.
How has being a former school board member prepared you for the position?
My career path after completing a master's degree in public administration, including time as a town manager and planner, combines with my experience as a county commissioner and school board member to provide very thorough knowledge of analyzing and preparing local government budgets.
As a professional administrator, I have developed and implemented budgets twice as large as the current budget in the Register of Deeds office. Having implemented computer information systems in three towns, I understand the necessity of using technology to provide effective and efficient customer service.
Having served as a town manager, I know the importance of delivering courteous service to the public, managing costs, responding to stakeholder demand, fostering an atmosphere of cooperation and teamwork among staff, and working with, and for, elected officials.
I have worked with public records (researching, retaining, and facilitating public access) for over 18 years. My unique background in public service will allow me to serve the public well as the register of deeds.
How would you handle a request for a marriage license from a same-sex couple?
If elected, I would develop a series of informational brochures that would address this issue and many others related to the authority, responsibilities and services of the Register of Deeds Office. If a same-sex couple requested a marriage license, I would hand them a brochure summarizing North Carolina's position regarding marriage and qualifications for securing a marriage license while politely letting the couple know the office simply cannot comply with the request based on North Carolina law. If elected, all customers would be treated with dignity and respect.
Lee King
What is your plan to increase the number of records available electronically?
I will keep the current staff and request an additional position to be used for placing records online. I will also ask for overtime in the budget. The current staff is already cross trained and by allowing for overtime, additional time can be allocated for the current staff to place documents online.
That being said, I will not place any document online without redacting sensitive information such as Social Security numbers first and foremost. The register of deeds takes in recording fees and other fees which allow for the office to be self-sufficient. I will be a wise steward of the people's money and ensure that each dollar is spent wisely and effectively with the goal of eventually bringing all records online as the budget permits.
How has being a county tax collector prepared you for the position?
For the last eight years, I have supervised a staff of six people (the same size staff as the register of deeds staff) and prepared the budgets for my section of the Tax Office. I have dealt with personnel issues and understand how to manage an office to stay within a budget. When the next register of deeds takes office on Dec. 1, the first thing he/she will have to deal with is the budget for fiscal year 2015-16. I will be able to hit the ground running.
I have also assisted with two software conversions during my career with the Tax Office. In my current capacity as delinquent tax collector, I have been responsible for seeing that over $60 million of the people's money gets safely deposited in the bank each year. Our office has exceeded the goals put forth by the Board of Commissioners each year that I have been delinquent tax collector. The Board of Commissioners has not had to use any reserve funds to balance the budget in six of the last seven fiscal years.
The register of deeds is a county office, and I have 18 years of experience in county government.
How would you handle a request for a marriage license from a same-sex couple?
I would not accept the request for the following reasons: North Carolina Constitution, Article XIV Section 6 Marriage: Marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this state.
North Carolina General Statute 51-1 states in part: "A valid and sufficient marriage is created by the consent of a male and female person who may lawfully marry, presently to take each other as husband and wife, freely, seriously and plainly expressed by each in the presence of the other…"
Evona Kilpatrick
What is your plan to increase the number of records available digitally?
Our current online computer indexing system begins in 1979. However, online images only began in October 2005. I would like to start moving backward so at least our capability to see images would match our online indexing system. It will be necessary to meet with vendors to ascertain costs and time to do this project as quickly and cost effective as possible.
I have talked with past employees who retired from this office over the last several years and they are very excited about my vision for this office and have offered their volunteer services to help make it a reality.
How has being a paralegal prepared you for the position?
I am a North Carolina State Bar-certified paralegal and notary public. Over the past 31 years I have been in the register of deeds office (while not employed by the county) but with a local law firm that entailed me searching the public records. I have been in this office daily except for family vacations or minimal sick time. I know what documents are housed in this office and also how to locate them whether using the older book system or the newer computer program.
I am very familiar with finding different documents and want to use that experience to help promote and facilitate customer service and user-friendly technology for all who have a need for the records and information this office houses. I will be a working registrar within the team.
How would you handle a request for a marriage license from a same-sex couple?
If elected as registrar, I will at that time take an oath to uphold the laws of North Carolina for this office.
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In the May 6 Republican primary, voters will choose from three candidates who are running for the position of Henderson County register of deeds: C. Shannon Baldwin, Lee King and Evona Johnson Kilpatrick.


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text: Friday, March 28, 2014 Autism Rates Show a 30% Rise in 2 Years In a report that could inform how physical therapists (PTs) and physical therapist assistants (PTAs) approach their work with children, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has cited a nearly 30% rise in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) rates in the US since 2008. Current CDC estimates raise the prevalence of ASD from 1 in 88 children to 1 in 68 children, with a growing number of children diagnosed with ASD who have average or above-average intellect. The CDC findings were widely reported in major media outlets including the Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and the Associated Press, each highlighting different features of the report, which pointed out variations in prevalence among ethnicities, sex, and geographic location. While the new rate "exceeds that of all previous surveillance years," authors of the CDC report said the "most notable change" was the prevalence rates among children with average or above-average intelligence—from 38% of all ASD diagnoses in 2006 to 46% in 2010, the year the study was conducted. The rise was accompanied by a decline in the number of children with co-occurring intellectual disabilities, from 41% to 31%. The CDC report called for more standardized measures to document ASD severity and functional limitations, improved recognition and documentation of symptoms of ASD, and lowering the age at which children are first assessed. For more information on ASD and its relationship to physical therapist services, check out a 2014 Physical Therapy article on Physical Activity and Exercise Recommendations for Children and Adolescents With ASD, as well as a 2011 article on Motor Functioning in Infants, Children, and Adults with ASD. Additionally, the association offers a 2-part continuing education primer (part 1; part 2) on ASD available through the APTA Learning Center.


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There's a reasonable chance that some of you who are reading this first got the cruise bug by watching the TV series The Love Boat in the late 1970s.
If that was a fun decade, the actors had more than their share of it on the Pacific Princess (a.k.a. The Love Boat) as it sailed the Mexican Riviera from Los Angeles, with stops in Cabo San Lucas, Mazatlan, Puerto Vallarta and, yes, sometimes all the way south to Acapulco.
That original Pacific Princess was dismantled and scrapped last year in Turkey, but it holds a lot of memories for many early cruisers and TV viewers. The show played on Saturday nights on ABC and was paired with Fantasy Island.
For some reason, I thought the celebrity guests on the show were in the B category. But it appears not when you find people like Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Ginger Rogers, Olivia de Havilland, Debbie Reynolds, Tom Hanks and Don Ameche all made appearances.
Gavin MacLeod, the skipper, and Lauren Tewes, the cruise director, are probably pleased to know that the Mexican Riviera is making a comeback after five years of diminishing numbers, fuelled by reports of violence and a collapsing U.S. economy that arguably hit California harder than any other state.
Cruisecritic.com offered a few facts about the demise: "Puerto Vallarta went from having a banner year in 2008, when 180 ships arrived, to a mere 82 in 2013. Mazatlan suffered a significant financial hit when a string of violent incidents prompted cruise lines to pull out completely in 2011, losing all of the 520,000 passengers that had visited in 2010."
Carnival announced this summer it is going back with seven-day cruises in 2014-15 that include stops at Mazatlan. Princess has also put Mazatlan back into its Mexican Riviera schedule. The Riviera isn't just Mazatlan, of course, but it's an important cog in reviving the traditional Mexican Riviera seven-day cruise to those three ports.
A major holdout so far is Royal Caribbean.
With Galveston and Houston thriving as ports and the Mexican Riviera back on the radar of at least some cruise lines, people living in the western half of North America now have more choices of ports closer to home.
Carnival has designated Long Beach, Calif., the year-round home port of the Carnival Miracle. While there are several itineraries, the first that includes Mazatlan departs on Nov. 8. Princess won't have a yearround presence, but its Crown Princess and Grand Princess will be sailing the traditional seven-day cruises seasonally. Mexican Riviera cruises for Princess run from November to April, then again in the late fall of 2015 through the spring of 2016.
Norwegian's presence in Mexico will be mainly in fall and early winter.
It's clear the cruise lines believe in the recovering global economy and in anti-violence steps taken in Mexico, especially Mazatlan. If Carnival makes a success of its yearround presence, look for competitors to drop their anchors in Southern California yearround, too.
Phil's Pick of the Week I've selected two Mexican Riviera cruises for you to consider.
Carnival Miracle Departs: Jan. 10, 2015 Duration: 7 days return from Long Beach, Calif. Ports: Cabo San Lucas, Mazatlan, Puerto Vallarta Starting price: $519 See Carnival.com Crown Princess Departs: Nov. 15, 2015 Duration: 7 days return from Los Angeles Ports: Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan, Cabo San Lucas Starting price: Balcony $878 See Princess.com
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HONOLULU (Oct. 16, 2013) — The William S. Richardson School of Law on the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa campus has topped the nation's law schools as the "Best Environment for Minority Students," according to the latest 2014 rankings by The Princeton Review.
The Law School also placed third in the country for "Most Diverse Faculty" and fifth for "Most Chosen by Older Students," according to the newly released educational study.
The company also features Richardson Law School in the new 2014 edition of its book, "The Best 169 Law Schools," published by Random House/Princeton Review and released on Oct. 8, 2013.
"We recommend Richardson Law School as one of the best institutions a student could attend to earn a law school degree," noted Robert Franek, The Princeton Review's Senior Vice President and Publisher. "We chose the schools we profile in this book based on our high regard for their academic programs and our reviews of institutional data we collect from the schools. We also solicit and greatly respect the opinions of students attending these schools who rate and report on their experiences at them on our 80-question student survey for the book."
Law Dean Avi Soifer said the Law School is gratified by its high rankings. He noted that, once again, there is recognition of the top quality education at the Richardson School of Law, as well as its student and faculty diversity and welcoming atmosphere for all students.
"We are very proud to celebrate diversity on an everyday basis," Soifer noted, "but at the same time we proudly offer excellent teaching in first-rate practical courses, which range from business law through numerous topics about the law of Asia to civil rights and liberties, social justice and a wide variety of environmental issues."
This is the second year in a row that the Richardson School of Law has been singled out for its embrace and welcoming of a diverse student body.
Last year a different publication, U.S. News & World Report's 2013 National Diversity Index, also named Richardson first in the nation in terms of the likelihood of students encountering classmates from different racial or ethnic groups.
In these latest Princeton Review rankings, 10 of the 11 lists are based on surveys of 18,500 students attending the 169 law schools profiled, with an average of 109 students responding at each law school. The surveys were completed online with data from three academic years (2012-13, 2011-12 and 2010-11), asking law students for their views about their law school's academics, student body and campus life, as well as about themselves and their career plans.
Richardson's choice as best in the U.S. for minority students included comments from law students about the "friendly, supportive environment," and other statements noting how students in recent classes "respect each other" and "quickly gelled."
Publisher Franek notes that his publication does not rank the law schools hierarchically. "Each school in our books offers outstanding academics," he said, pointing out that no single law school is "best" overall.
"We publish rankings in several categories and detailed profiles of the schools to give applicants the broader information they need to determine which school will be best for them," Franek added.


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Episode 221 of The CyberJungle is about 26 minutes long. You can hear it by clicking on the flash player below. You may download the file directly – great for listening on many smartphones. The interview starts at about 14:00 into the show. Or, you may go to the listening options page and browse for other ways to hear the show.
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