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In this business, it's hard to condense something as deep as a controversial political issue into a 20-inch story.
I'm talking about Wednesday night's forum on the county executive referendum, which I wrote up for today's paper. I try to err in news stories on the side of sticking with the issues to help voters make informed decisions, and leave the side issues and the barbs for another time.
I won't rehash what a county executive form of government is, but I wrote a comprehensive article on it that you can download here. Yes, it's in our pay archives, but a man's gotta eat.
As we work on posting the video of last night's debate between pro-executive state Rep. Jack Franks, D-Marengo, and anti-executive Rep. Mike Tryon, R-Crystal Lake, I'll delve into some observations from the forum, sponsored by Patriots United.
• IS IT JOHN GALT?– Just who are the McHenry County Republicans for Lower Taxes? Tryon said he, and party attorneys, want to know.
The group has been putting up signs throughout the county urging people to vote yes. But they haven't reported yet with the Illinois State Board of Elections, likely because the group has stayed under the $3,000 reporting threshold.
"I'm the McHenry County Republican Party Chairman, and I have no idea what [that group] is," Tryon said.
Tryon told Franks that the GOP has a team of attorneys eager to talk with the group if they reach that reporting threshold because the phrase "McHenry County Republicans" is "not their name to use."
• GLASS HOUSES – I hope this interest in intellectual property from the county GOP means that the party and its members will end the actionable practice of posting our stories up wholesale on its website without permission.
If the GOP ever calls in those attorneys, I urge them to take a moment to ask about something called Fair Use law.
And for the record, you don't meet Fair Use protection by putting the original link at the bottom of the story you reprint in its entirety without permission. That's about as legal as me stealing a new car but keeping the plastic license plate holder from the dealership.
• TRANSPARENCY COMPARISON – While the identity of the McHenry County Republicans for Lower Taxes group is a mystery, the identity of the anti-executive group Citizens for No County Czar is not.
The group has openly reported its donations and leadership to the Illinois State Board of Elections. Tryon stated in the name of disclosure at Wednesday's forum that he has donated to it.
Donors also include County Board Chairman Ken Koehler and his McHenry County Chairman's Circle, and the Board of Directors consists of attorneys Thomas Zanck and Mark Gummerson, and former County Board member and Upper Illinois River Valley Development Authority member Blake Hobson.
Support for the executive referendum is also coming from Supporters of Jack Franks – the group's records can be found on file here.
• JUST BABES IN THE WOODS – Opponents of the executive form have an argument that the new office, and the money that it would cost to run for it, could open up county government to special interests, quid pro quo and influence peddling.
But they have absolutely no argument, no ground to stand on whatsoever, when they keep implying that it's not happening now – that this new office if approved will spill the toxic waste of Illinois government into the pristine pond of county government.
Balderdash. Horse hockey. Baloney. Poppycock. We had more appropriate words in the Army, but I'll get fired if I print any of those.
If anyone who reads this honestly believes that board members cast their votes for the chairmanship on pure selflessness – that committee chairmanships or getting their initiatives pushed through don't enter the equation – I have a great development proposal at Love Canal to sell you.
So on behalf of my readers, I'll say it yet again, slower and clearer this time, to the officials who keep pushing this line.
You're. Not. Fooling. Anyone.
Least. Of. All. Me.
• EXECUTIVE TRYON? – I saw it coming that Franks would rule out running for the office is is trying to create. He's said it to me on the record, and stated the same at least twice to his audience.
I think the question that was asked to them both was tailored for Franks – after all, it's a very legitimate thing to ask him or any other official seeking to create a new elected office or government position.
I did not see it coming that Tryon, former McHenry County Board chairman, would not rule it out himself.
Tryon prefaced his answer by saying that he was working to defeat the referendum so the office never gets created in the first place. But he then said he could not rule out a run.
Besides saying that coming back to run a county would have something of an appeal to him, Tryon added that he would have a real concern – i.e. consider a run – "if the wrong person emerges as a candidate."
If Tryon does run, he secured his first vote on stage.
"I'd vote for you, Mike," Franks said. "I think you'd do a good job."
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We're a group of families who love having a few chickens in our backyard. The fresh eggs & fun that a few pet chickens provide is a great value for people everywhere. We've written a resource guide specifically for other families who want to know everything they need to know to get started with backyard chickens. We want our logo to project a fun, modern approach to having pet chickens.
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Download the Safejumper Installation Package
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Run the Installer
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From the first drop-down menu, select a protocol and its port.
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Click Jump in the main application window.
Right-click the Safejumper icon located in the system tray. Select Jump to Faster to connect to the server with lowest load. Switch Country will make you jump to a random country.
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A broken-down sports agent tries to use a promising jockey as his ticket back to the top.
At Dellington Park racing track, down-and-out jockey agent Boots Malone lives with ex-jockey Stash Clements in trainer Preacher Cole's tack room. Boots has not represented a jockey for two years since his prize client died in a stable mishap, and is continually hounded by big-time gambler Matson for repayment of a loan. One evening at the local diner, Boots and Stash are startled when an unfamiliar teenager, Tommy Gibson, attempts to pay for his meal with a hundred dollar bill. Boots sizes Tommy up as an easy mark and upon discovering his interest in horses, convinces him to stay in Preacher's tack room, where he tries unsuccessfully to steal the hundred dollars. Boots does convince Tommy to pay for them to stay at a hotel, and impressed by a speech Boots gives the next day at Dellington Park, Tommy asks Boots to train him as a jockey. When Tommy offers to pay him, Boots agrees. Soon Tommy is mucking out stalls and cleaning the tack room. Slick agent Brady, meanwhile, convinces wealthy horse owner Howard Whitehead that Preacher's only horse, Mother, is a good risk in the next claim race and to Preacher's dismay, Mother is bought out from under him. Boot arranges with Whitehead's trainer, Beckett, to get Preacher one of Whitehead's horses, White Cargo. They tape weights onto the horse's ankles before his next race and when Whitehead sees the horse's poor performance, he quickly agrees to sell him at auction. Boots organizes all the jockeys to contribute money to buy White Cargo and raises $1,400. The next day at the auction, when a drunk pushes the bid to $1,500, Tommy contributes the extra hundred dollars. Deciding to move the horse south to train away from Whitehead, Boots refuses to take Tommy, until the boy demands a refund for the training he paid for but never received. Grudgingly, Boots allows Tommy to come along. On the trip the car overheats, and as Tommy walks out White Cargo, the horse is startled by a rattlesnake and bolts. Tommy hangs on and manages to bring the horse under control. Impressed by Tommy's ability, Stash induces Boots to train Tommy as White Cargo's jockey, despite his being a year shy of the age limit. Stash works on Tommy's conditioning and Boots joins in his training. When Tommy grows curious about Boots's past, Preacher tells him that Boots lost his wife in childbirth fifteen years earlier. Later, Boots reacts uncertainly when Tommy registers for his jockey license as Tommy Malone. Preacher takes over Tommy's training and readies him for his first race. Unknown to Tommy, Boots and Preacher weigh down White Cargo's shoes before the race so he will finish poorly and drive his odds up for future races. Tommy loses the race and is devastated. Boots arranges for him to ride another horse in the next race, and Tommy wins and regains his confidence. On the trip back north, Boots realizes they are being followed and, worried that Matson has tracked him down, calls the gambler with a tip to bet heavily on White Cargo. Upon arriving at Dellington Park, Stash reports that they have been followed by a private detective who is looking for Tommy. Boots jumps the man and learns Tommy has run away from a posh boarding school and lied about his whereabouts to his mother, the wealthy head of a perfume factory. Boots contacts Mrs. Gibson, who flies in the day before the race and takes Tommy away, convincing him that Boots turned him in for a reward. That night, Tommy secretly breaks away from his mother and returns to Dellington to berate Boots, before admitting he only came back for Boots's approval. Boots calls Mrs. Gibson, but cautions her if she does not allow Tommy to race she will lose his respect forever. Brady, meanwhile, contacts Matson and tells him to place all bets, on Whitehead's horse and assures him White Cargo is a loser. When Boots hears about the bets, he asks Tommy to throw the race so Whitehead's horse can win, but Tommy refuses. During the race, several jockeys crowd Tommy against the rail, but he wins. That night at the train station, Tommy tells Boots that he has promised his mother to return to school and she has agreed to buy a stable, which Tommy asks Boots to manage. Boots refuses but as the train departs, Stash drives up and tells him Matson is waiting for him, so Boots jumps on the train, where Tommy happily welcomes him.
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kevin sellers 2018-04-21
As a movie about a struggling sports agent I liked it better than "Jerry Maguire"! It's got some problems...it's too long, with a... MORE>
el debbo 2015-02-19
Right after a stellar performance in 'Stalag 17', we catch Holden at the tracks in "Boots Malone". Wonderful movie. I was dubious as... MORE>
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Marty 2011-05-06
I have always enjoyed Boots Malone for the three reasons in my headline -- love horse racing -- Bill Holden is my favorite actor -- and this early Elmer... MORE>


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23 February, 2014
WOOLSEY HALLMy first U2 concert of many to come, I was 13 years old. It was Bono's 23rd birthday and The Edge brought him a cake and they cracked open a bottle of champagne. Bono was climbing all over the stage and it was crazy wonderful!!
05 December, 2012
was this at Woolsey Hall?I just remember hearing about how great this show was!
18 May, 2011
Hooked!Always loved the band since first album and this was first time I got see em live. Kicker was my great girlfriend at the time got us seats second row center - AWESOME! BTW@ I believe opening band was The Alarm.
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THIRD TIME AT THE RODEOMy fourth U2 gig, and third time onstage. Getting me up there took persistence from the front man, as New Haven security guys were trying to push me back, even as Bono grabbed my hand! Sorry I can't remember the support (Big Country, perhaps?) or much else. My older sister was well-impressed by the fact that I was hand-selected.


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A month ago, the editors of the Utica (N.Y.) Observer-Dispatch saw a sudden spike in Web readership for stories about the Rev. William Procanick, pastor of a local church who had been convicted of sexually abusing a child.
A story about Procanick was the upstate New York newspaper's No. 1 story in April, with 10 times the readership of the second-highest story. The paper's editors wouldn't expect such a story to generate so much interest, but Procanick's church was in a little-known town with a well-known name: Clinton.
In headlines and stories, Procanick was identified simply as "Clinton pastor."
For some supporters of Barack Obama, including one who posted an item on an official Obama campaign blog, that was an easy recipe for outrage. After seeing their candidate battered over his connection with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the phrase "Clinton pastor" was all they needed to conclude that Bill and Hillary Clinton's pastor was a convicted sex offender.
Never mind that Bill and Hillary don't attend Procanick's church, which is 225 miles from their home in Chappaqua, N.Y. And never mind that the Observer-Dispatch's stories never suggested any connection between the Clinton pastor and the political Clintons. In the lightning-fast world of the blogosphere, emotions often outrun the facts.
"Okay, so now that Bill and Hillary Clinton's pastor has been convicted of child molestation, will we see the same furor directed at Hillary that Obama has had to endure these last few weeks? I don't think so!!!!" said a chain e-mail that was sent to PolitiFact and pasted on blogs.
Similar postings have appeared a blog called "Black Love is Alive," in a comment on the National Journal blog "Hotline on Call," and even on a motorcycle blog called "The Sportbike Network," under the headline "Billary's preacher is now a convicted pedophile."
On My.BarackObama.com, the Obama campaign's official blog, Shemora Singletary of Columbus, Ohio, posted an item April 25, 2008, that was headlined "Clinton's former pastor convicted of child molestation."
Singletary, a volunteer blogger on the site with the nickname "Knowledge Seeker," groused that the media hasn't paid enough attention to the episode involving the Clinton pastor.
"Will this story get the press that Rev. Wright is getting?? And will the Clinton's have to answer for the character of this man??" she wrote.
She posted an article from the Utica paper and this postscript: "Now that Obama's lynching has gone off as planned, think the MSM (mainstream media) will run this story about Clinton's former pastor? Or would that upset the planned election of either Israeli-firster Hillary vs. Israeli-firster McCain?"
Singletary's posting drew two comments that said she was wrong. She acknowledged one of those comments but did nothing to correct or retract the inaccurate posting.
Singletary could not be reached for comment.
Tommy Vietor, a spokesman for the Obama campaign, said that the posting was not authorized by the campaign and that it was removed Wednesday morning after PolitiFact inquired about it. But it had been on the Obama site for nearly three weeks.
"This is one of more than 800,000 user-generated pages. It's like a comment on your blog," Vietor said. "And it's been taken down."
The posting was on a campaign blog created by volunteers who support Obama, but it's not always clear where an official Web site ends and the blog begins. The Obama blog has the same logo, candidate photo and quotation ("I'm asking you to believe . . .") as the regular campaign site. The only thing to distinguish it from the rest of the site is a headline that says "Community Blogs."
It has no disclaimer to indicate the messages may not be authorized by the campaign. To the contrary, at the bottom of the page it says "PAID FOR BY OBAMA FOR AMERICA."
(Since the campaign removed the page, we have preserved the original posting here. )
Academic experts who study politics on the Internet say having the message about the Clinton pastor on the Obama site gives it extra credibility.
"You assume that those things are representing statements the campaign believes are true," said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a political science professor at the University of Pennsylvania and co-author of a new book on presidential rhetoric called Presidents Creating the Presidency.
Julie Germany, director of the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet, said sophisticated Web users might understand the distinctions between a campaign site and its blog, but many readers don't.
"To somebody who doesn't know the blogosphere very well, (having it on an Obama site) could actually validate what the post is saying," she said.
The experts said campaigns need to police their sites more carefully.
Jamieson said the campaigns should be "vigilantly policing their own blogs – or making them freestanding blogs unassociated with the campaign – so the campaign isn't perceived to be attaching its credibility to the information."
Vietor, the Obama spokesman, said the Obama blog is so large that the campaign must rely on the "community" – the people who post on the blog – to do the policing.
"Users help police the page," Vietor said. "Obviously we can't monitor all 800,000 pages in real time. So users help us flag and take down inappropriate content."
Apart from the policing issues, the tale about the Clinton pastor shows that some bloggers don't spend a lot of time on research. Indeed, it doesn't take much Internet searching to find that there's no connection with the political Clinton, a fact that the Obama campaign was quick to acknowledge.
Mike Kilian, managing editor of the Observer-Dispatch, said he was amazed that so many people could have such a big misunderstanding with so few facts.
He said, "Any fourth-grader could read those stories and know there is nothing to do with Bill or Hillary."
As for the claim by the bloggers and the chain e-mails, we find it isn't just false. It's Pants-on-Fire wrong.
Our Sources
The Truth Will Set You Free blog, Clinton's former pastor sentenced to prison for sexually assaulting a 7 year-old girl
Black Live is Alive blog, Do I see smoke coming from Hillary's Church pew? May 4, 2008
The Sportbike Network blog, Billary's preacher is now a convicted pedophile, May 1, 2008
Utica Observer-Dispatch, Former Clinton pastor's alleged sex abuse confession questioned, Oct. 26, 2007
Utica Observer-Dispatch, Fate of ex-pastor in jury's hands" Jan. 18, 2008
Utica Observer-Dispatch, Judge to ex-pastor: 'You lied'" Feb. 29, 2008
Interviews: Mike Kilian, managing editor of Utica Observer-Dispatch; Kathleen Hall Jamieson, University of Pennsylvania; Tommy Vietor, Obama campaign spokesman; Julie Germany, director of the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet; John Horrigan, associate director of research, Pew Internet Project


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"Democrats for smaller government" may sound to Republicans like an oxymoron, but shrinking the size of the McHenry County Board is going to be a key campaign issue for its Democratic candidates.
The Democratic Party of McHenry County announced that its slate intends to fight for a plan to reduce the cost of county government and increase its accountability by reducing the number of members while increasing the number of districts. The County Board now consists of 24 members, who are elected to six districts of four members each.
"Dividing the county into more districts will help ensure that all parts of the county get the representation they deserve. Reducing the number of members will save money, but it will also make each member more accountable to the voters," party Chairman Michael Bissett said in a news release.
The initiative comes at a time when the sheer number of Illinois governments and their sizes have become an issue for tax-weary voters. It also comes after a shake-up put the leadership of the McHenry County Republican Party in the hands of new members who have promised to turn the party and a legion of newly-elected precinct committeemen into an aggressive get-out-the-vote machine.
Two of the County Board's 24 members are Democrats. Both of them, Nick Chirikos in District 1, and Paula Yensen in District 5, are running for re-election. Former board member Kathleen Bergan Schmidt is running in District 3, and the party after the March primary caucused in Arne Waltmire, a former high school teacher and dispute mediator, to run in District 4.
Both Bergan Schmidt and Yensen fought to reduce the County Board's size during the redistricting process after the 2010 U.S. Census. They were joined by a handful of Republicans in an unsuccessful effort to shrink the board to 10, two-member districts for a total of 20. Chirikos was not elected until 2012.
Altering the County Board's size and structure requires a voter referendum, except during the once-a-decade redistricting process. While the McHenry County Board in 2011 rejected change, three of its fellow collar counties took advantage of the redistricting process to do so.
The Lake and Kane county boards each eliminated two board seats, bringing their totals to 21 for Lake County and 24 for Kane County, not including the board chairman. But both moves were fueled in part by preparation for one day reaching 800,000 residents, when state law caps a county board's maximum size at 18 members. Only Cook and DuPage counties have reached that limit.
The Will County Board completely overhauled its map in the name of increasing accountability. It kept a 26-member board, but went from three districts of nine members each to 13, two-member districts.
Another neighboring county board decided, like McHenry County's, that it liked things the way they are. The DeKalb County Board during 2011 redistricting soundly rejected a proposal to shrink from 24 people representing two-member districts to 18 single-member districts.
McHenry County's four-member districts are the largest of county boards in the Chicago metro area. Kane, Lake and Cook counties have single-member districts while the DuPage County Board has six, three-member districts.
Bissett said he expects to get bipartisan support for the initiative, and took a shot at some in the majority party to help make his point.
"County records show that a number of board members are chronically absent or late for meetings, yet the other members manage to get the work done without them. That's a sign that we could get by with fewer members," Bissett said.
Reform-oriented McHenry County Board members won a long-sought victory in March when voters approved a referendum to make the chairmanship popularly elected to four-year terms rather than elected from among the County Board's membership after each November election. McHenry County voters will elect the County Board chairman starting in 2016.
The County Board has had 24 members since its creation in 1972, when the new Illinois Constitution abolished county boards of supervisors ruled by township officials. It consisted of three, eight-member districts until 1992, when it went to its present structure of six, four-member districts. A failed effort was made during the 1991 redistricting process to shrink the board's size to 18 members.
What it means
The four Democratic candidates running for McHenry County Board – two incumbents and two challengers – are running on a platform of reducing the size of the body. The County Board now consists of 24 members, who are elected to six districts of four members each.


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Liberty salutes its 2013 military graduates
While nearly 100,000 Liberty University students enjoy the freedom to pursue an education — and their dreams — whether on campus or with the convenience of an online degree program, a special group of graduates do so while simultaneously defending that freedom.
Liberty celebrated its graduates in uniform Friday night inside the Vines Center during its annual Military Graduate Recognition Ceremony, hosted by Liberty's Office of Military Affairs. Out of more than 15,000 graduates this year, 4,171 are military.
Dr. Ronald Hawkins, vice provost and vice president for academic affairs, welcomed the graduates, who sat according to their respective branches of the military.
Maj. Gen. Robert F. Dees, retired, associate vice president for military outreach and director of our nation's first faith-based Institute for Military Resilience at Liberty, delivered a charge to the graduates.
He recalled his time in the military when he would refer to those serving under him as "diamonds in the rough."
"I knew if we put a little heat on them, a little pressure, we let that cook over time in tough realistic training, they would shine; they would shine like diamonds, they would be as hard as steel and they would become priceless. So it is with each one of you," he told the graduates. "You are in various stages in that process. In the educational arena we have put you under a little heat, a little pressure, and you have started to shine more and more. And your time here at Liberty University will only enhance your future in many, many ways. You will become priceless."
Dees challenged the graduates to have hope and become merchants of hope. True hope, he said, is found in the "real Hope Diamond," which he called the message of the Gospel found in John 3:16 — "For God so loved the world that He gave His only son, that whoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."
With that hope at heart, Dees encouraged the graduates to use their service as a platform to share it.
"When you wear the American flag on your shoulder and you enter another nation or you enter some place to help … you dispense hope, tangible, physical hope," he said. "And now for each of you, as Liberty graduates, as Champions for Christ, you also dispense eternal hope, the hope that comes only through … Jesus Christ."
Each graduate was given a commemorative coin in recognition of both their service to the United States and for completing their degree. The coins were presented by members of Liberty's administration who have served in the military: Dees; Lt. Col. David R. Dinsmore, U.S. Army, retired; Maj. Robert J. Foy, U.S. Army; Capt. John A. Ezzo, U.S. Army; 1st Lt. Keith R. Anderson, U.S. Army, discharged; Capt. Ernie Rogers, U.S. Navy, retired; Lt. Darren C. Wu, U.S. Navy, discharged; Maj. Barry N. Moore, U.S. Marine Corps, retired; Capt. Todd R. Campo, U.S. Marine Corps, discharged; Brig. Gen. David L. Young, U.S. Air Force, retired; Lt. Col. Robert B. Young, U.S. Air Force, retired; and Chaplain Capt. James M. Henry, U.S. Air Force, retired.
As Friday was also Military Spouse Appreciation Day, the spouses were also recognized and presented commemorative coins.
Earlier in the day, Liberty held two special commissioning ceremonies for its Reserve Officers' Training Corps programs in the Towns-Alumni Lecture Hall. The Liberty Eagle Battalion Army ROTC and Liberty's U.S. Air Force ROTC Detachment 890 each celebrated their graduating cadets as they were sworn in as second lieutenants in their respective branches. As is tradition, each cadet was presented a pin signifying their rank and received their first salute.
Commissioned to the rank of second lieutenant, U.S. Army:
Jacob Arisman, infantry
Jesse Armstrong, field artillery
Richard Atkins, infantry
CJ Collins, quartermaster
Sean Dennerlein, infantry
Daniel Desmond, infantry
Andrew Dodson, infantry
Robert Gartner, engineer
Isaac Goodin, quartermaster
Timothy Hepburn, field artillery
Christopher Hungerford, engineer
Adam Lintner, engineer
Jennifer Oskam, nursing
Dylan Perry, ordinance
Jonathan Pfenninger, ordinance
Jeremiah Potter, field artillery
Lindsay Quigg, signal
Zachary Quigg, medical services
Brian Sammis, chemical
Jonathan Steel, armor
Commissioned to the rank of second lieutenant, U.S. Air Force:
Rachael Antone, nursing
Daniel Bruce, undergraduate pilot training
David Burton, undergraduate cyberspace training
Sky Lesh, undergraduate pilot training
Ryan Matis, undergraduate pilot training
Micah Uveges, undergraduate navigator training


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John Nunes '13 wins State Dept. scholarship to study Russian
The U.S. Department of State recently awarded John Nunes '13 a Critical Language Scholarship to study Russian for seven to ten weeks this summer of 2013. He will be studying in Russia.
Nunes, a Russian studies major, is one of 610 undergraduate and graduate students nationwide who received Critical Language Scholarships. The summer program will provide fully funded, group-based intensive language instruction along with cultural enrichment opportunities.
Irina Dubinina, director of Russian studies, introduced Nunes to the Critical Language Scholarship program.
"I'm looking to improve my language skills through the program's intensive curriculum and exposure to authentic colloquial Russian," said Nunes. "This will be my first time in the country, so I'm also looking forward to encountering the culture and experiences Russia has to offer."
Improving his language ability will also help Nunes with his research in contemporary Slavic paganism, he said.
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Student or Learner
Dear teachers,
I was reading a book which is about how to write a good resume,
and in one of the chapter, it points out that
"Use work experience as the subject of categories in resumes..."
This brings some questions:
1. Is "working experience" grammatically wrong in written English?
2. What is the difference between "working experience" and "work experience"?
3. Should we use "volunteering experience" or "volunteer experience"?
4. What about "working performance" or "work performance", which is grammatical correct when it refers to someone's performance at work?
Please kindly help clarify, teachers.
Thanks a lot.
Four years of qualifying work experience in the field of Marketing.
Work experience can be projected in the right way such as: work experience in a responsible capacity or having associated with decision making process.
Working is used an adjective to describe a person doing some form of work or labor; such as: a working person. An working woman
It is also utilized to describe something working/functioning; as:
an working model, an working knowledge of English.
It is not usually used to describe experience.
Thank you for your help, sarat andKondorosi.
Does "Job experience" have the same meaning as "Work Experience"?
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With Google priming Nevada to be the first state to allow driverless cars on its roads, transit fans could be forgiven for asking: Where are the driverless trains?
The technology is relatively simple and has been around for decades. Unlike cars, which are autonomous and proceed on sight alone, railways must be centrally controlled to prevent collisions. So while a driverless car is limited by how far its sensors can "see," the central computer that directs driverless trains is fully aware of all trains on its tracks, removing much of the guesswork.
The United States doesn't yet have any fully automated trains outside of a few airport shuttles and small-scale "people movers," but Europe and Asia have adopted the technology quite readily. European firms like Italy's AnsaldoBreda and France's Matra (now owned by Siemens) pioneered the technology, and which operates on six continents. Africa's first system, in Algiers, opened in November of last year.
The obvious advantage of driverless trains over their manned counterparts is that transit agencies don't have to pay drivers. Upgrading to driverless requires a large upfront investment, and still requires humans to act as engineers, maintenance workers, janitors, and station managers. But after the investment is made, eliminating the driver position offers agencies flexibility and riders much more frequent service.
During rush hour, the main impediment to more service is the number of trains an agency owns, and in some cases tracks that simply can't handle any more traffic. But during off-peak hours, it's the cost of putting drivers on each train that determines how often the trains come.
Driverless service eliminates these costs, "break[ing] the connection between frequency and labor costs," as transit consultant Jarrett Walker put it. Vancouver's driverless SkyTrain network, for example, has off-peak headways that would make Americans drool with envy. Riders on the Expo and Millennium trunk line never have to wait more than 5 minutes for a train, even late at night – a frequency that would be prohibitively expensive without driverless trains.
While pouring money saved on labor costs into better service is a boon for riders, it's anathema to transit unions. When London Mayor Boris Johnson proposed a driverless Tube within a decade, he sought to preemptively counter criticism from what he termed "hardline union barons," going so far as to request changes to labor laws to prevent some strikes. (ASLEF, the Tube drivers' union, did not disappoint. "How many votes are a young child's life worth?" the union's general secretary asked of Johnson's proposal.)
Explaining the benefits of Johnson's plan, Daniel Moylan, former deputy chairman of Transport for London, downplays the reduction in wages. "You save a bit of money," he tells The Atlantic Cities, "but not a lot." The real savings, he says, come from eliminating staffing inefficiencies.
Managing people as opposed to computers comes with "additional and unpredictable factors," with Moylan citing occasional sickness and lateness as examples. "Add to that the perfectly understandable need for drivers to have agreed work schedules, meal breaks, and respites to go to the lavatory," he write over email, and scheduling drivers becomes "as large a logistical exercise, almost, as timetabling trains."
"All this would be true in a non-unionized environment," Moylan added, "though unionization often adds further inflexibility."
Don't hold your breath for driverless trains in the United States. While America generally lags behind peer nations in transit, the prospects for driverless trains are especially slim.
The Washington, D.C. Metro is one of the best candidates for retrofitting, but the system's deplorable state makes such an upgrade unlikely in the foreseeable future. Even Metro's automatic train operation system (ATO) – a halfway step to fully driverless operation, where a computer drives the train while the operator still usually opens and closes the doors – was turned off after the fatal Fort Totten crash three years ago.
Being forced to switch off an ATO system for years may be a first in the world of automated trains, but systems across the U.S. face similar challenges of underinvestment and mismanagement. Driverless trains save money in the long-run, but they require upfront capital upgrades and ongoing careful maintenance that most American transit agencies simply cannot provide.
And New York? Fuggedaboutit. Upgrades to Paris's Métro have proven that retrofitting century-old subways for driverless operation is possible (and arguably safety-enhancing, with platform screen doors installed at stations that restrict access to the tracks until a train is safely docked and aligned), and Glasgow's subway, which predates New York's by almost a decade, is only five years away from driverless capabilities.
New York's subway, on the other hand, hasn't even advanced to the 20th century in terms of labor-saving efficiencies, never mind the 21st. Almost all of the subway's trains have two paid employees on board at all times, long after other rapid transit systems around the country folded driving and door operation into one job. The city has slowly been winning concessions from its drivers union toward so-called "one-person train operation" and other efficiency measures, but it's starting from a low base.
New York is an outlier in labor intransigence, but public sector transit unions are a potent force in setting transit agendas in American cities – more so than in Europe and Asia, where high ridership creates a large and wealthy rider constituency to demand efficiency and counteract the political power of transit unions.
Off-peak ridership is growing in America's healthiest urban places, though, and with budgets strained and necessary repairs and expansions going unfunded, it's only a matter of time before driverless technology comes to our cities. The only question is, will riders demand it in time to actually improve service, or will transit agencies hold out until they're forced to use it to save existing service from cuts?
Top image: A train conductor looks out of Germany's first driverless underground railway in Nuremberg in 2008. (Michaela Rehle/Reuters)
In places where most child cares and schools have closed, in-home family daycares that remain open aren't seeing the demand — or the support — they expected.
Some renters and homeowners are getting financial assistance during the economic disruption from the coronavirus pandemic. What about landlords?
We must prepare for a protracted battle with coronavirus. But there are changes we can make now to prepare locked-down cities for what's next.
A group of U.S. economists, academics and policymakers say the Covid-19 pandemic is an opportunity to fix the economy — and the planet — for the long term.
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Cisco Dividend Boosts Spurred by Investors
Cisco Systems is barely two years into paying a dividend, but the company has already raised the payout three times and now "emphasizes" the practice over share repurchases, Chief Financial Officer Frank Calderoni told CFO Journal in an interview on Tuesday.
The company began a "considerable amount of outreach to investors" about 18 months ago, and found "investors were more focused on the dividend," he said at The Wall Street Journal's third-annual CFO Network conference in Washington, D.C. Now, with a yield approaching 3% a year, he said the company has become one of the top yielding stocks in the technology sector.
Before initiating the dividend in early 2011, Cisco used buybacks as the sole way to return excess cash to shareholders, as well as offset the dilution of stock option grants to employees. Mr. Calderoni said Cisco has bought back about $70 billion of its stock since 2002; the market value of its shares outstanding is currently around $131 billion.
Cisco isn't alone among the world's largest companies in believing its shareholders prefer dividends to buybacks. Separately at the conference Chevron CFO Patricia Yarrington told CFOJ that dividends are the top priority for the company's cash, while buybacks rank a distant fourth, behind reinvestments in the business and balance-sheet fortification. In addition to the cash in hand that they provide investors, Ms. Yarrington said that, perceptually, "dividends are forever," because companies are loathe to cut or eliminate them.
Mr. Calderoni said Cisco's cash position was about $47 billion at the end of its most recently reported quarter, with about $7.9 billion of that in the U.S. and the rest overseas. He said that the company's revenue and profits are split about in half between the U.S. and the rest of the world.
That $7.9 billion is "higher than we've had in the last two years," he said, and is sufficient to fund its dividends, buybacks and other expenses that must be funded out of U.S. cash.
The U.S. cash and an untapped $3 billion revolving credit facility mean that Cisco should have enough cash to meet its needs, but Mr. Calderoni said it feels it would be able to add to its roughly $16 billion in debt if it needed to raise additional cash.
In the video below, Mr. Calderoni discusses how it has shifted its capital-return focus to dividends from buybacks:
Below, Mr. Calderoni explains how its current liquidity should suffice, but issuing debt is an available option to raise cash if needed:
Write to Maxwell Murphy at email@example.com, and follow him on Twitter @KMaxwellMurphy.
Corrections & Amplifications:
An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the amount of Cisco's global cash position. Cisco had about $47 billion in cash at the end of its most recently reported quarter. The post has been updated to correct the error.


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If you did the holidays right and spent the better part of the last two weeks parked in front of the television, you probably saw AT&T's new "smart home" TV spot. If not here's the gist. A husband and wife are sitting outside their cabin when their teenage kids arrive. One of the youngsters mentions that they had to make a quick stop at home on the way up. Dad's ears perk up. He knows what that means. He pulls out his smartphone and taps a button that reads "close home." Cut to the empty house, where we see the lights dim, the faucet turn off and the front door lock automatically—all the little things the kids forgot to do.
What AT&T's showing off here is basically the remote control house—a system where you can monitor and control your home wherever you are. But that only gets us halfway there. A truly smart home, you'd imagine, would know that the kids were leaving and do all that closing up automatically. You wouldn't need to control your home remotely, because you wouldn't need to control it at all. You'd just live your life and the house would know what to do.
That's the type of smart home a start-up called Zuli is trying to build, with smart plugs that use Bluetooth LE to bring proximity-based automation to your domicile. The company's currently finishing up a Kickstarter campaign; $135 gets you the starter pack of three plugs.
The idea started when a trio of electrical engineering students from University of California Santa Barbara were trying to automate their own college digs. There were a plethora of smart home products on the market, or just on the verge of coming out, from big name offerings like Belkin's WeMo plugs to upstarts like Smart Things. But none was quite right. "The solutions were really complex, really expensive," says Taylor Umphreys, one of Zuli's founders. "And the user experience inside the home wasn't much more than a glorified remote control."
When existing solutions did incorporate proximity into the automation equation, it typically involved separate motion sensing hardware that had to be purchased and installed in addition to the plugs that brought individual gadgets and appliances online. The idea with Zuli, then, was to combine smart plugs and proximity smarts into a single device.
That's where the Bluetooth comes in. By incorporating a Bluetooth Low Energy radio into every smart plug, Zuli effectively creates a mesh network that can track you, via your smartphone, throughout your home. With three or more Zuli units plugged in and your smartphone in your pocket, the system will know whether you're in the bedroom, the bathroom, the living room or the kitchen and can respond accordingly.
The question, then, is what you gain with these precise locational smarts. Turning off all the lights when you leave the house is one useful scenario. But ultimately, the real promise of a Zuli-style solution is a smart home that knows not just where people are but who, specifically, is inside of it. Maybe someone likes the lights a little lower when they watch TV at night; perhaps another person always sets the thermostat a little higher when they're home alone. Eventually, a Bluetooth-connected smart home could make adjustments like these automatically.
The fine-grained proximity information provided by BLE could also make the way for more elegant interactions. If you're the only one home, maybe the TV volume goes up when you walk over to the kitchen. Or instead of just switching on all at once, rooms could dim to a glow as you enter them. "The home experience just gets better and better when you can get that responsiveness," Umphreys says.
Aside from that, Zuli brings all the standard smart home functionality. A slick app lets you create schedules for connected devices, or check their energy consumption.
The problem, though, is that even as wireless technologies like Bluetooth get cheaper and smart plugs proliferate, there's no guarantee that they'll all play nice with each other. Zuli's worked out their own solution for using Bluetooth to triangulate your position in the home, and right now that system only accommodates Zuli plugs and your smartphone, via the Zuli app. In other words, if your TV happened to have Bluetooth, or if you had other plugs from a different manufacturer, those would be out of the loop.
Umphreys says that in the future, an API might be one way to bring these other devices into the fold. We've seen how other home automation companies like Smart Things are opening up their hardware to third-party services like IFTTT, allowing users to cobble together workflows involving distinct apps, services, and hardware devices.
In the meantime, though, Zuli shows how cheaper and smarter wireless technologies will push smart home type functionality further towards the main stream. After all, dimming your lights from your phone is cool, but it's not all that much more convenient than doing the same with a slider on the wall. Having your lights dim automatically, depending on where you're sitting and what you're doing, is much more compelling.


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A new version of the download manager for Adobe Reader is live. This new version resolves the Moderate local privilege escalation issue discussed in an Adobe PSIRT blog post on July 22.
No action is required for users downloading Adobe Reader from http://get.adobe.com/reader/. Users who previously downloaded Adobe Reader for Windows from http://get.adobe.com/reader/ can verify they are not vulnerable to this download manager issue by checking the following:
- Ensure that the C:\Program Files\NOS folder and its contents are not present on your system.
- Click "Start" > "Run" and type "services.msc". Ensure that "getPlus(R) Helper" from the list of services.
If the NOS files are found, the download manager issue can be mitigated by:
- Navigating to Start > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs > Adobe Download Manager, and selecting Remove to remove the Adobe Download Manager from your system.
- Deleting the C:\Program Files\NOS\ folder and its contents.
Note: As mentioned in a late July Adobe Security Bulletin and PSIRT blog post, we want to remind users Adobe is planning its next quarterly security update for Adobe Reader and Acrobat for Tuesday, October 13.
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HALF MOON BAY — The Mavericks Invitational website crashed Sunday because more than 1 million people tried to watch the webcast, the contest"s technical staff said.
Jay Johnson, chief executive officer of Dana Point-based Action Sports Productions, which produced the webcast, said it came down to servers and bandwidth that were not equipped to handle the load. He said he tried to warn contest organizers of potential problems, but they did not anticipate such a crush of viewers and didn"t have enough equipment.
"It was their first event as a group, and they"ll get a lot of experience off that," Johnson said Monday. "I was actually blown away by how hard the site was hammered," he added, considering the contest had such a small marketing campaign.
Fans with some tech savvy found their way to http://live.redbull.tv, which carried the webcast, along with Surfline.com. Johnson said he set up the Red Bull partnership at the last minute and was glad he did. That site worked for many users on mobile devices and computers during the event because it has more stable infrastructure.
"If it wasn"t for that, we would have been in major disarray," Johnson said.
Although MavericksInvitational.com was down for much of Sunday, on Monday it was back online with a nearly two-hour video of the semifinals and finals of the contest.
Tuesday, the site is expected to have a Heat Analyzer similar to the O"Neill Coldwater Classic website and other Association of Surfing Professionals contests. In that format, users can see individual wave scores and navigate through heats.
Also, a one-hour package of the Mavericks Invitational is expected to air on CBS in late January or early February, potentially on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 3, contest staff said.
Many fans around Santa Cruz County said they were frustrated with the live webcast on Sunday.
Ed Dickie, a 54-year-old artist from Davenport, said he tried to watch on the contest"s website, then searched for alternate sites.
"The main website was down most of the contest, but the stream was active just on other sites," Dickie said. "If you had some web intuition, you could find it. Red Bull worked fine for me."
The site carries live feeds of various action sports, including snowboarding, motocross and BMX events.
Another glitch for online fans Sunday was the results announcement.
For those who tuned in to the final, the commentators said the results would be posted on the Mavericks Invitational Facebook page.
They were posted more than an hour after the contest ended, and when they did, the second place and fourth place finishers were swapped mistakenly. It was fixed later.
The results were announced incorrectly about the same time at the festival site in front of hundreds of fans. After the event ended, media representatives were told that Zach Wormhoudt actually got second place and Alex Martins came fourth.
Peter Mel won, followed by Wormhoudt, Greg Long in third, Martins in fourth, Mark Healey in fifth and Shawn Dollar in sixth.
Despite all those challenges and less-than-giant surf conditions, fans flocked to festival and Pillar Point Harbor.
The Mavericks Invitational festival sold out with more than 12,000 fans, and more than 30,000 people flocked to the Half Moon Bay area, authorities said.
Highway 1 near the event was snarled with traffic for most of the day.
San Mateo County sheriff"s deputies said that unlike previous contest days, there was little trouble. One person was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and there were a few calls for medical help.
"Imagine having a whole city on the coastside for the day, but there was almost no trouble," said San Mateo County sheriff"s detective Rebecca Rosenblatt.
During the last Mavericks event in February 2010, at least 15 spectators were injured as waves rushed ashore and knocked them into the water. The water killed the PA system and swept off several booths and tents.
In response to that chaos, the 2013 permit banned spectators from the beach.
Police said some fans tried to defy the new safety rules on Sunday, but in general people obeyed. The crowd also was forbidden from the Pillar Point bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean, but a few fans watched the surfers from the crumbly cliffs.
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