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More than a home....Its a lifestyle. Beautiful one-of-a-kind 26 acre m/l HOBBY FARM with a warm and inviting RESTORED/UPDATED 4 bedroom/2 bath, Craftsman-style 2,038 sq ft brick farmhouse with great views in every direction. A Nature-lovers retreat with natural tranquil creek, plentiful wildlife and mature trees surrounding the park-like setting of this traditional farmstead. AND it offers plenty for horses, alpacas and goats, fruit trees or gardens!
Beginning in late 2005, high-quality and energy-efficient improvements have resulted in a lovely home with all the character & charm you expect in a 1932 vintage farmhouse, along with the modern conveniences that you desire. Craftsman quality and details have been preserved, like double-sided oak hutch, French doors to the living room, original built-ins for storage & beautiful oak floors and amber woodwork throughout.
The CUSTOM chefs kitchen now features: all NEW STAINLESS steel appliances, incl new DOUBLE-OVEN range; center peninsula with breakfast bar; plenty of all-maple, extra-height Bertch cabinets; prep sink with Insinkerator; & warm, comfortable cork flooring.
Two CUSTOM bathrooms now feature porcelain mosaic floors, period lighting and finishes, main-floor extra-wide Kohler tub and subway tiles, and second-floor oversized, all-tile walk-in shower.
Other special features incl: heated/cooled sunroom; south-facing windows for panoramic views & plenty of light; smaller upstairs bonus room for office or crafts; full open, insulated walk-up attic; period finishes throughout.
ALL THE UPDATES have been done for you! Too many improvements to list here, include: ALL NEW (June 2017) WELL with pressure tank/peroxide drip system; all new Pella windows & doors (06-12); high-efficiency furnace w/humidifier & AC(06); all plumbing (06); interior insulation of all bedrooms & baths (06-12); electric service, panel, wiring, outlets, switches, lighting throughout (05-12); new roof (06); spray foam insulation of sill & open, walk-up attic (07); tuck pointing & brick replacement (09); new septic system (06) & more!
Outside, a beautiful spacious paver patio (09) & pergola await you, for entertaining or just relaxing.
This mini-farm includes a flowing creek, 9 acres m/l for hay/pastures & 10+ acres of cash-generating CRP. When this was a family farm operation, the homestead included another 1+ acres of fenced grazing areas, including a paddock area beside the barn. These areas are currently mowed to create a park-like setting.
Outbuildings offer plenty of space for a variety of hobbies and uses. Four buildings have been rebuilt, incl the 18X51 structure now repurposed into a garden shed & a workshop, with walls of windows & newly-installed elec & lighting. A 1943 barn (07 roof) with big lean-to has lots of possibilities, as do 3 pole barns (largest 40X60).
See also "20302 180th St, Cresco IA" on Zillow.com for more info and photos.
Low country taxes & energy-efficiency improvements mean years of affordable living!
Great location, just 15 min to Cresco, 30 mins to either Decorah/Oneota Community Food Co-op/Luther College (east) or to New Hampton (south).
With all the UPDATES, this BEAUTIFUL hobby farm is truly a RARE FIND! If you want QUIET COUNTRY LIVING, or an active mini-farm, this very special property is waiting to WELCOME YOU HOME!
Please, ONLY pre-qualified buyers. To learn about LONG-TERM FARM financing through Farm Credit Services, call the Decorah office at (563) 382-8413.
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Sarna receives Martin Marty award
Jonathan Sarna, chair of the Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program and the Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis, has received the 2011 Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion from the American Academy of Religion.
The Marty Award recognizes outstanding contributions to the public understanding of religion. According to the academy's website, the award goes to those "whose work has a relevance and eloquence that speaks not just to scholars but to the broader public as well."
Sarna is author or editor of more than 20 books, including "The American Jewish Experience," and "Jews of Boston," a highly successful volume of local history that was made into a television documentary. He serves as chief historian of the new National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia and writes widely about issues affecting the Jewish community of the United States, on which he is considered an eminent authority.
Marty taught in the University of Chicago's Divinity School and Department of History from 1963 to 1998, focusing chiefly on American religious history in the context of Atlantic culture. An ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Marty's six-year "Fundamentalism Project" for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1988-1994) led him to enlarge his focus to global inter-religious concerns.
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Professor Monserud teaches Contracts, Modern Remedies, UCC: Sales, and UCC: Secured Transactions. He has written extensively on current issues in sales law, the law of suretyship, and the law pertaining to special education. A former law clerk to the Hon. Andrew W. Bogue of the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota, he practiced in the area of commercial litigation in Rapid City, South Dakota, before joining the New England Law faculty in 1987. He has served as a visiting professor at the University of Bucharest School of Law in Romania and at Vermont Law School.
An Essay on Teaching Contracts and Commercial Law for the First Time (Even if you have taught these courses many times before),
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The Quest for a Meaningful Mandate for the Education of Children with Disabilities,
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Blending the Law of Sales with the Common Law of Third Party Beneficiaries,
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Rescission and Damages for Buyer Following Seller's Fraudulent Inducement of an Article 2 Contract for Sale,
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Measuring the Damages after Buyer's Affirmation of an Article 2 Contract Induced by Fraud,
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The Privileges of Suretyship for Delegating Parties under U.C.C. Section 2-210 in Light of the New Restatement of Suretyship,
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Rounding out the Remedial Structure of Article 2: The Case for a Forced Exchange Between a Buyer and a Remote Seller,
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Interested Sureties and the Restatement of Suretyship: An Argument Against Tender Treatment,
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The Bachelor of Integrative Studies (BIS) degree replaces the Bachelor of General Studies (BGS) Degree program offered by the College of Arts and Sciences. Please review this page and the material in the Academic Year 2013-2014 catalog to learn more.
Program Description The Bachelor of Integrative Studies (BIS) is a non-major degree for juniors or seniors (those with at least 60 earned hours) that provides maximum freedom for students who wish to take a multidisciplinary, individualized approach to the design of an educational program while maintaining a focus on career or professional goals. This degree may have the most appeal for students near the end of their academic careers who are re-evaluating their academic and career choices. The student is responsible for the research and design of the curriculum, subject to University requirements and approval by the College. Students choose a minimum of three academic departments in which to select courses and develop a rationale for the way in which these courses support their career goals.
There are two concentrations within the BIS degree: Integrative Studies-General, which allows students to choose a minimum of 30 credit hours from interrelated programs that support their career aspirations, and the Integrative Studies-Three Minors concentration which allows students to complete three university-recognized minors and/or certificates.
Admission Requirements Junior or Senior students considering the BIS degree should first visit the College Office in 105 Bowman Hall (or their Regional Campus BIS advisor) or use the link below to obtain a copy of the Inquiry materials and Request for Evaluation form. Students must have completed 60 semester hours before a BIS evaluation can be requested.
Once this form is completed and returned, the advisor will arrange a meeting to go over the evaluation. This evaluation conference reviews the student's transcript and the requirements that the student must meet in order to earn the BIS degree. If appropriate (i.e., if the student is a viable candidate for the degree), the advisor will go over the application materials the student will need to prepare (Application for Admission, Statement of Program Rationale, and Program Proposal).
The student is then responsible for completing these materials and doing the necessary research to design the BIS curriculum and develop the rationale explaining the connection between the coursework and the student's professional and career goals. This includes consultation with resources such as faculty advisers, career services offices, and prospective employers.
The completed application materials then undergo review. Given the possibility of revision, students should allow 3-5 weeks for this process to be completed. Collegial approval of the Change of Program form constitutes admission to the program
Admissions Deadlines
Program Rules and Restrictions A student who has already completed the course or hour requirements for another College of Arts and Sciences major MAY NOT be admitted to the BIS degree program. Students who have already earned a baccalaureate degree are not eligible to pursue the BIS Degree. The BIS may not be combined with another major or field of concentration.
Students must choose from one of the two BIS concentrations (General or Three Minors) as part of the application process. Changing concentrations requires re-application to the program and Collegial approval.
This degree requires a minimum of 15 hours of new coursework after admission to the program (reflected in the concentration chosen and plan developed by student), as well as coursework from programs in the College of Arts & Sciences. Changes in the coursework are subject to approval by the BIS advisor and must occur in advance of signing up for the course.


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Keira Knightley marries in France
British actress Keira Knightley is a married woman after exchanging vows with rocker James Righton in the South of France on Saturday.
The Pirates of the Caribbean beauty wed The Klaxons star during a low-key ceremony in front of just a dozen friends and family members in the town hall of Mazan.
The bride wore a cropped Chanel jacket over a simple dress with a tulle skirt, pale pink ballet flats, and a daisy chain-style garland of flowers in her hair, while Righton donned a navy blue suit.
The newlyweds were photographed holding hands and smiling as they left the building and climbed into a silver car, as their guests applauded and waved them off.
Knightley and Righton will reportedly toast their nuptials at a reception held at Knightley's mum Sharman MacDonald's nearby home, before throwing a second party to celebrate when they return to the U.K.


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Dr. Jeffrey A. Dean and his colleagues fulfilled AAPD's four-part CE series in the December issue of Dimensions of Dental Hygiene in an article titled, "Managing the Developing Occlusion."
As the article states, "Managing the developing occlusion involves understanding normal eruption sequence and timing. Dental hygienists must also be aware of common signs of atypical development, occlusal patterns, tooth loss, or potentially harmful developmental oral habits. Early intervention with appliances that maintain space, correct malocclusions, or guide the eruption and positioning of teeth can help reduce the need for additional orthodontic interventions. Involving patients and parents in the development of good oral hygiene practice can lead to improved patient outcomes."
To read the article in its entirety, please go to: http://www.dimensionsofdentalhygiene.com/2012/12_December/Features/Managing_the_Developing_Occlusion.aspx
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California One Step Closer to Ending Discrimination-Youth Equality Act Passes Senate Committee
SACRAMENTO-The Youth Equality Act (SB 323), designed to bring youth group tax exemptions in line with California's existing non-discrimination laws, has passed the State Senate Governance and Finance Committee with a vote of 5-2. The bill, authored by Senator Ricardo Lara and sponsored by Equality California, has continued to gain momentum, adding 19 official co-authors and official support from the California National Organization for Women, the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, the City of West Hollywood and American Civil Liberties Union.
"Today's vote puts California one step closer in bringing full equality to LGBT youth throughout the state," said Senator Lara. "With its passage and growing list of supporters and co-authors, we will end this outdated practice of discrimination and exclusion."
"The leadership of the Senate Governance and Finance Committee is exemplary and the broad support for this bill is further evidence that California does not tolerate discrimination," said John O'Connor, EQCA executive director. "We're thrilled to see even more legislators and organizations embracing a vision of full equality for youth groups and, in doing so, sending a message to the Boy Scouts and others that discrimination has a real cost."
The Youth Equality Act will eliminate a sales and corporate tax exemption for youth groups that discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, or religious affiliation.
The bill now moves on to the Senate Committee on Appropriations.
For more information please visit this link: http://www.senate.ca.gov/lara
Equality California (EQCA) is the largest statewide lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender advocacy organization in California. Over the past decade, Equality California has strategically moved California from a state with extremely limited legal protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people to a state with some of the most comprehensive human rights protections in the nation. Equality California has partnered with legislators to successfully sponsor more than 90 pieces of pro-equality legislation. EQCA continues to advance equality through legislative advocacy, electoral work, public education and community empowerment. www.eqca.org
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This sight set is for 1911 style pistols and requires machining of the slide.The SlantPro style rear sight is designed with conceal carry as it's primary focus. The sight is contoured and completely snag free. It has a notch with of .125 and offers a crisp sight picture. The rear face is serrated and slightly slanted forward to help eliminate glare from any light source. The front sight supplied with this set is our standard .190 tall and is .125 wide. In addition, this rear sight has the legendary single tritium insert (for low-light and nightime shooting) that will align vertically with the front sight insert (when used as a set). This vertical alignment is proven to be faster and less confusing for the human eye.
HSP Inc. does not accept any returns or exchanges on any product that has been installed and/or is in used condition. If you suspect your product is defective (as in, the tritium does not glow), the product will have to be returned to Heinie for inspection. Heinie cannot send out replacement products without having the originally purchased product in hand. If the item is determined defective, Heinie will send the sight out for the tritium vial to be replaced (in the originally purchased product). We do not replace the entire sight, only the tritium will be replaced. Turn around time to replace a broken or defective tritium vial usually takes about 3-4 weeks.


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Last night I finished a hat for Elsa. I've knitted quite a bit the past few months, but haven't obsessed about taking photos and posting finished projects on this blog. Most of my blogging efforts, as measly as those are, are directed at my food blog potlikkery.
Even though Elsa is two, she's not talking a great storm. But she makes herself understood. She watches me knit. Loves touching the needles and the yarn. I finished a sweater for her. It was too big. I worked on a shawl, but ran out of yarn. Then I finished up the second sock to a pair I started in 2007.
Elsa wanted a hat. I picked out this Muench Black Forest Naturwolle from my stash specifically for her hat so that it would match her yellow wide-wale corduroy everyday coat, but I was surprised by the almost total lack of yellow in the finished hat. The pattern is the Pointy Elf hat from Joelle Hoverson's new book More Last-Minute Knitted Gifts. Heck, it's on the cover, actually.
When I glanced through the book, I wasn't sure I'd like any of the projects. Or make them. But, the hat seemed perfect for Elsa despite my not having any Nature's Palette Merino. And it might help if I read the pattern. Duh. Was supposed to knit it on 3 dpns, not 4 like I did. Oh well.
It came out alright.
And, the amazing thing, was that Elsa loves the hat and wore it this morning. She voluntarily put it on her head and wore it in the car a minute or two, then ripped it off. Then once we arrived at my mom's this morning, Elsa wanted her hat back on to be outside in the 40-something degree weather.
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The recent transit workers' strike in New York City was a vivid reminder that unions maintain considerable leverage despite their shrinking numbers. Buried beneath the stories about tense negotiations, holiday shopping disruptions and commuters hoofing it over the Brooklyn Bridge was one of labor's past glories–the creation of Martin Luther King Day. When Transport Workers' Union president Roger Toussaint demanded recognition of the holiday, he cited the Metropolitan Transit Authority's failure to honor King's birthday as evidence of administrators' lack of respect for the mostly black, Latino and Asian-American members of his union. By doing so, he harked back to the civil rights leader's working-class activism–and the forgotten labor roots of the MLK holiday.
Given the corporate sponsorship of contemporary King day celebrations, it may come as a surprise that the holiday began as a union demand in contract negotiations. In 1968, just four days after King's assassination, Representative John Conyers introduced a bill to make the slain leader's birthday a national holiday. The bill would likely have died in committee, and stayed buried, had it not been for thousands of working-class Americans–most of them black, but also white, Asian and Latino–who risked their jobs over the next fifteen years to demand the right to honor a man they viewed as a working-class hero.
As black union leader William Lucy testified before Congress, King's prolabor politics gave the holiday a "special significance" for the organized working class. Those politics had emerged from King's close collaboration in the 1950s and early 1960s with union activists like Bayard Rustin, A. Philip Randolph and Cleveland Robinson, a leader of the New York City-based Distributive Workers of America (DWA). Lucy highlighted that King was shot while supporting a strike in Memphis by members of Lucy's union, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME).
Initial protests on behalf of a King holiday were small and geographically limited. Managers at a General Motors plant in New York threatened to discipline a small group who refused to work on King's birthday in 1969, but GM backed down after a larger group walked off their jobs in solidarity a few days later. A few thousand New York City hospital workers went on strike that fall, returning only after managers agreed to higher wages, better benefits and a paid holiday on King's birthday. Similar contracts were won by 25,000 additional hospital workers and 80,000 dressmakers a few months later.
Unions provided the financial and social capital to extend the movement nationwide. That support was coordinated by DWA leader Robinson, a close friend of the King family. King's widow, Coretta Scott King, invited Robinson and Conyers to kick off the campaign for a national holiday at a 1969 birthday rally at the new King center in Atlanta. At the rally, Conyers recounted his bill's defeat in Congress and expressed hope for more support the following year. Robinson called for direct action, declaring, "We don't want anyone to believe we hope Congress will do this. We're just sayin', Us black people in America just ain't gonna work on that day anymore."


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New Resource: Apple Scout Website
The Extension publication, An IPM Scouting Guide for Common Problems of Apple in Kentucky, was first introduced in 2014 as an online/paper version. In order to improve access to this important scouting guide, a mobile website was developed. The Apple Scout Website (applescout.ca.uky.edu) is now available for grower, agent, and homeowner use. The website can be easily accessed from any phone, tablet, iPad, or computer.
This website provides users with the information available in the scouting guide publication. The home page allows visitors to select a major disease topic. Next, users can select from a menu of various diseases or pests to obtain more information and view images.
Information on Zika virus for Kentuckians
University of Kentucky entomologists have created a website with current information about Zika and the mosquitoes that can potentially transmit the disease. You can visit the Zika site at: http://pest.ca.uky.edu/EXT/ZIKA/1kyzika.html


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Belmont elementary school principal ready for her next stepBy DAN SEUFERT
Union Leader Correspondent
March 23. 2014 9:08PM
BELMONT — After 34 years as an elementary school educator and administrator in Belmont, Canterbury and Manchester, Belmont Elementary School Principal Emily Spear is stepping down.
Or, from Spear's point of view, stepping up.
"I have been working toward my doctorate in education and I look forward to following one of my lifelong dreams. That dream is to help teach and support the careers of new educators, and perhaps future school administrators, by teaching at the college level," said Spear, who has been principal at Belmont Elementary School for the past 17 years.
"Although I will desperately miss the teachers, students, parents, and community members of Belmont, I am anxiously looking forward to my next adventure in education. I am grateful for everything I have learned from working in education so far and to those who have contributed to my learning, I hope to have the opportunity to share that with future educators."
Spear served for eight years as an interpreter and tutor for the Manchester Program for the Hearing and Language Impaired based at the Green Acres School. She also worked at Memorial High School and Southside Middle School in Manchester, where she used sign language to communicate with students and supported their academics and speech services.
She also served for seven years as fourth-grade teacher at Belmont Elementary School, and served two years as the school's assistant principal. While holding those two positions she also served as the Shaker Regional School District's K-12 language arts curriculum coordinator.
"My greatest joy in education has been supporting the learning of students and teachers," she said. "Watching the 'light go on' for children is as good as it gets for an educator, as is helping teachers learn new strategies that support students' learning.
"I take great pride in the professionalism and dedication of the staff members at Belmont Elementary School, Spear continued. "It has been my honor to act as their principal and watch them grow and perfect their practice for the benefit of student learning. I have learned a great deal from them, just watching them teach has helped me understand the learning process, as well as outstanding teaching practices. They have taught me so much."
Spear said she is proud that Belmont Elementary School has been a Blue Ribbon School with the New Hampshire Partners in Education for volunteerism for 27 consecutive years, with residents donating more than 8,000 hours of volunteer time each year.
"I am very proud that parents and community members take that kind of an active role in the children's education," she said.
"Without this kind of support the school would never be such an outstanding place to learn and grow."


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My view is that there is nothing inherently good about EVFs. They are at best a necessary evil, chosen for the form-factor advantages they bring and the cameras they make possible. Sony clearly does not share this view, since they built this camera around an EVF simply for the sake of doing so. It offers no notable advantage of any sort, most notably not in price. I can see no reason to chose an EVF in any context where it does not significantly reduce the size, weight or price of the camera, or substantially enhance its usability. The case is simply not made out beyond, "It's cool new technology".To me, the experience of viewing the natural world through an EVF is like crashing at a cheap motel, closing the blinds, and turning on the small, fuzzy old cathode-ray tube TV on the dresser. It's a shame, because this is otherwise a cracker of a camera, really nice to hold and behold. Nick
In the review of the Sony A99 Nick Devlin makes a very interesting point. I would like to know what the other opinions are on the subject ? Some say that EVF's as noisy as they are in the dark let you focus on things that your naked eye can't see. That must surely be a benefit, right ?
I actually find Nick's opinion interesting because it summarizes so well the various feelings I have had surrounding EVF's. So far having both systems in one camera seems to be the way to go.
To say nothing of the pellicle mirror degrading our micro-detail - N.
I've seen examples of that on Gen1 of the SLT (Alpha 33/55). Not on Gen2 and Gen3.Do you have any controlled tests from anywhere on the net taken with / without the removal of the mirror (it is easy to remove FWIW).
The only real downside I see to my G1's EVF are its inability to show detail when shooting at night
and the fact that in low light the EVF acts like a torch shining directly into my eye destroying night vision and being extremely uncomfortable to use.
Agreed. I switch between them on the X100 regularly, but I sure do prefer the OVF. I switch because the EVF allows me to see more accurate framing and focus. What this discussion misses is that the mirror-box on SLR cameras brought a bunch compromises with it. Why are Leica lenses so small and of such superb quality? Clue: it has something to do with the rear element being a lot closer to the film. So...why are we suffering the disadvantages of the SLR mode if we gain none of the benefits? If you're using a pure EVF camera, then we should have the RF set of advantages, no? To say nothing of the pellicle mirror degrading our micro-detail - N.
The grin was included specifically because there has been no real mention, much less examination of this issue. Common sense tells us there is *some* impact. Whether it is material is, as best as I can tell, unknown at this point.
So...why are we suffering the disadvantages of the SLR mode if we gain none of the benefits? If you're using a pure EVF camera, then we should have the RF set of advantages, no? To say nothing of the pellicle mirror degrading our micro-detail
Nick Devlin says of the Sony A99:I tend to agree: previous Sony "SLT" cameras kept the mirror and its extra depth requirements for the sake of supporting PDAF, but now that Sony has that on the main sensor, it seems redundant. Maybe Sony is not yet confident that its in-sensor AF is as good as its traditional AF, but at most that seems a transitional "belt and suspenders" cautiousness.
The bottom line is -- the SLT camera (and pure mirrorless as well) has some really important advantages, but it requires an EVF for framing. So if someone cannot stand to work with an EVF, then they will not like the new Sony Alphas.
Unfortunately, there's a downside, too. (I like mirrorless, btw, and use a GH2 pretty extensively.) Since the shutter has to be open for viewing on the EVF, there's a double motion to take a photo: the shutter needs to close first, and then begin the exposure. Not only does this increase shutter lag, it seems to cause more vibration. There's a fair bit of empirical evidence that at certain shutter speeds increased camera shake is a problem, especially with some of the lighter bodies.


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UC Davis Medical Center last week was honored for achievements in promoting diversity at the 2012 National Leadership and Education Conference in Nashville.
The Institute for Diversity in Health Management hosted the conference, which honored hospitals from across the country that scored highly in "Diversity and Disparities: A Benchmarking Study of U.S. Hospitals." The survey recognizes high-performing hospitals and highlights the advancements they are making in key areas that can promote equitable care, such as the collection of key demographic data, cultural competency training and the promotion of leadership diversity.
The survey results provide a snapshot of some common strategies used to improve the quality of care that hospitals provide to all patients, regardless of race or ethnicity.
"We are committed to ensuring that all patients receive the very best care for their particular needs," said Ann Madden Rice, CEO of UC Davis Medical Center. "Our medical center is in one of the most diverse cities in California, and collecting accurate race, ethnicity and language data is critically important for improving the health of the patients and communities we serve."
— Ann Madden Rice
The institute recognized UC Davis Medical Center as "Best in Class" for its work in one of four categories assessed by the survey: Diversity Management and Strengthening the Workforce. Recognition for this category is based on hospitals' reported efforts to improve diversity management through efforts to recruit, retain and promote minority individuals within their workforce.
Among the key findings of the institute's report are data regarding the accurate collection of demographic data, which can help hospitals tailor the delivery of care to their patients and develop appropriate quality-improvement interventions. Since launching an initiative almost 18 months ago to systematically collect race, ethnicity and language data from its patients, UC Davis Medical Center now is successfully retrieving that information from nearly 75 percent of patients.
The institute sent its survey to the CEOs of all U.S. registered hospitals, and received responses from 924 of them. The institute is an affiliate of the American Hospital Association.


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Celebrate everything Irish at the Grant County Public Library. In honor of St. Patrick's Day, the library is hosting a limerick contest for adults and teenagers with the winning entry being published in the Grant County News. The limerick must be about the library or a favorite activity at the library. Submissions must be turned in to the library by March 16 and include a name and phone number. Call 824-2080 for details.
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LabVIEW – Scilab Training
National Instruments and Scilab Enterprises launch a new joint training offer on their flagship products LabVIEW and Scilab.
You are using LabVIEW and you are interested in Scilab? Or on the contrary, you are using Scilab and wish to invoke your scripts directly from LabVIEW? LabVIEW-Scilab training is for you.
Master both environments, become familiar with LabVIEW and Scilab capabilities and discover the connecting possibilities between Scilab / Xcos and NI devices, are the objectives of this training.
In one day, enjoy the best of both products.


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3 Signs of the Future of Media
...all information will come from databases and servers and the companies with the most robust infrastructure to manage this information, make it personal and relevant and do it fast will be the leaders of all forms of media from this point forward.
We're seeing the new convergence model – the combination of social networks, gaming, entertainment and advertising is right around the corner.
Every once in a while I get an email asking about the media space. I came to Minyanville in 2005 because of the changing media landscape and the belief that we will make the 'Ville the leader of a new media revolution. Today, Minyanville is a place that entertains and educates and we're well down the road to being an incredible community for all generations.
Most recently I received emails from Minyans asking about the changing media landscape and what's next.
"I am very interested in your thoughts on the recent online media action with Google (GOOG)/DoubleClick, Microsoft (MSFT)/Aquantive (AQNT), and yesterday with WPP Group (WPPGY) and 24/7 Real Media (TFSM) and what might be the next logical action by Yahoo (YHOO) or others in response.
All the best,
Minyan Triple M, Gerry & Mike"
With the acquisitions of Doubleclick by Google, 24/7 by WPP and Aquantive by Microsoft the landscape is changing dramatically and the ability to control the flow of information – data, video, audio, advertising, etc. - is being controlled by a few select companies. In April of 2005 I wrote about the notion that the new media revolution will be centrally served, and again in September of 2006. The general premise is that all information will come from databases and servers and the companies with the most robust infrastructure to manage this information, make it personal and relevant and do it fast will be the leaders of all forms of media from this point forward.
Here are the three core tenets of what's happening in the media marketplace:
1) There is no TV or PC, only input devices (remote controls, keyboards, cell phone touch pads) and output devices (Plasma and LCD screens).
2) Everything will be centrally served. All video, audio, text (essentially data) will be served from a central server system – call it the "media central nervous system." If Google has its way, it will be the brain!
3) Convergence is not about the TV and PC, it's about the convergence of social networks, gaming, entertainment and advertising.
How does this all translate into investment opportunities? At the moment, it's making it very difficult to invest in new media. There are great opportunities in infrastructure and network providers with companies like EMC Corp. (EMC), Akamai (AKAM), Qwest (Q), Level 3 (LVLT), AT&T (T), and Verizon (VZ), but beyond that, investing in new media has become a difficult task and private equity is reigning supreme – think about what Sequoia made on the YouTube acquisition by Google! The mid tier acquisition targets have been taken, what's left are the bigger content companies and a host of potential mergers.
Big Deal!?
We're going to see a few very big deals in the months ahead (although the definition of "big" has certainly changed in the past few years). These deals will be for content providers both big and small. The obvious choice is Yahoo and I think the buyer will be surprising - Newscorp (NWS) or General Electric (GE) maybe? The networks need a platform like Yahoo to expand and they certainly have not found the magic sauce. This week, CBS (CBS) bought a startup called WallStrip. Our friends at WallStrip did a great job building equity in one program and it paid off. There are a lot of smaller content providers out there, but unfortunately none of them are public.
I could also see companies like Electronic Arts (ERTS) and Activision (ATVI) as targets. Online gaming will take off in the years ahead as bandwidth constraints decrease. This is probably a few years out though. Think about it: you're watching the latest episode of 24 and and as Jack Bauer walks off the beach you pick up your wireless game controller, Jack steps into a Second Life virtual world and hops into his Ford pick-up truck. You're controlling the car and the story and you outrace the helicopters and earn points that are redeemable at McDonald's (MCD). You get the idea. In the next five years we will see a new convergence model.
Right now we're in an exciting time, but a bit of a lull. You have to ask "Where are the opportunities" We need to take a closer look at why more new companies aren't going public. Facebook is a great example. If it were 2000 we would have seen incredible IPOs of Facebook, Myspace, YouTube and a host of other content players. But we're not and it's frustrating to say the least.
Someone should have snapped up Doubleclick years ago. I told WPP to buy Doubleclick in 2000, '01, '02, '03. I met with Kevin O'Connor, the CEO and Kevin Ryan, President at the time to talk about a deal. Instead WPP waited and bought 24/7.
The short answer is we are sitting in the eye of a hurricane and this is simply the calm before the storm! We will see a spree of acquisitions as new companies in content and media build momentum to potentially go public and create a new crop of great investment opportunities.
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Esther Baxter rose to prominence after being featured in the music video for Petey Pablo's single "Freek-A-Leek" in 2004. Since then, she has appeared in several music videos , including Ludacris's "Number One Spot", Will Smith's "Switch", Nelly's "Shake Ya Tailfeather" and Kanye West's "The New Workout Plan". Dubbed "Miss Freek-a-Leek" due to her appearance in Petey Pablo's video, she is well known for her voluptuous figure with a measurement of 34DDD-24-40.
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Sep 14, 2013
Worcester, Mass. – (taken from a Clark press release) Visiting Brandeis University, ranked No. 8 in the latest D3Soccer.com national rankings, used a powerful offensive attack to post an impressive 5-0 win over Clark University in non-league men's soccer action on Saturday afternoon.
With the win, the Judges improve to 6-0 and extend their team shutout streak to 354 minutes – a span of nearly four consecutive games. Clark, meanwhile, falls to 2-2-1 and has now been shutout for the sixth time in the last 23 games.
Brandeis got the ball rolling in the 14th minute when Tyler Savonen (Orleans, Mass.) took a Tudor Livadaru (Bronx, N.Y.) throw in and fired a shot that found the upper right corner of the goal for an early 1-0 lead.
The next goal came in interesting fashion when Savonen got past Clark netminder Robert Bischof (Tarrytown, N.Y.) but his shot was saved by a Cougar field player, however, the subsequent rebound was drilled home by Livadru at 15:51.
Clark's best first half scoring chance came in the final minute when TJ Zirkman (Freehold, N.J.) took a feed from just outside the box but his attempt sailed high over the crossbar.
Less than seven minutes into the second half, Brandeis added another score on an own goal by the Cougars, upping the lead to 3-0.
In the 62nd minute, Clark's best scoring opportunity of the day came off the foot of Josh Demers (Warwick, R.I.). He got free in the box and fired a blast that Kenn Fryer (Wilmington, Mass.) turned back with a diving stop.
The Judges tacked on two more goals less than two minutes apart to put the game out of reach. The first one came when Josh Berg(Weymouth, Mass.) found the back of the net for his first career goal at 74:21 and the final one came courtesy of Kyle Feather (Pinebrook, N.J.) who scored when Michael Soboff (Framingham, Mass.) saw his shot bang off the crossbar and Feather was there to send it home.
In the end, the stats were pretty close, with Brandeis holding a 19-12 edge in shots and a 5-4 advantage in corner kicks.
Fryer finished with three saves for the shutout in what was his first career start. Bischof stopped five in suffering his first defeat of the year.
Brandeis will return to action on Wednesday when they host Lasell at 4:00 p.m. Clark is back on the field on Tuesday when they host Gordon on Tuesday at 6:00 p.m.


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Now able to lay claim to only one worker out of twelve in the private sector, organized labor is in deep crisis, and this means that the American working class is in crisis. As the ranks of unions have thinned, economic inequality for all, particularly along racial and ethnic lines, has reached historic proportions. It is in this harrowing context that a debate has erupted, which will come to a head at the federation's July 25-28 convention, about the purpose and future of labor's central governing body, the AFL-CIO.
Calling themselves the Change to Win Coalition, five AFL-CIO member unions (SEIU, UNITE HERE, the Laborers, the Teamsters and the United Food and Commercial Workers) are pushing for a near-total redefinition of the AFL-CIO's role, which, they argue, is necessary to stimulate a return to large-scale worker organizing. Established through the merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955, the AFL-CIO was set up as a voluntary coalition with little formal power over its affiliated unions. Change to Win proposes to streamline the federation while also giving it substantial power over member unions, with particular emphasis on the need for each union to focus its organizing efforts on a strategic economic sector–its "core industry."
The proposed reforms mirror restructuring measures that in recent years have been taken by some unions, like the SEIU and the Carpenters Union (which left the AFL-CIO in 2001 and joined Change to Win in June). They have consolidated local unions into regional bodies they believe map more logically onto the contours of emergent economic structures. The transitions have not been easy, and many worry that the restructuring has taken power away from local unions and the rank and file. Critics of the SEIU and Carpenters approach believe that it underestimates the centrality of rank-and-file participation and deliberation to nurturing working-class consciousness–the real key to labor's revival.
The five dissident unions are among the largest in the fifty-seven-member federation and together constitute more than a third of union membership in the United States. They are bringing a set of constitutional amendments to the July convention in the hope of persuading a majority of delegates to adopt them. If they lose, as SEIU president Andy Stern explains below, they are "fairly certain" to pull out of the AFL-CIO, possibly bringing others with them into a rival labor federation. AFL-CIO president John Sweeney and his coalition (which includes AFSCME and the Communication Workers of America) will be brandishing their own amendments at the convention. The sharpest difference between the two sets of proposals lies in the power vested in the federation to compel changes in the behavior of member unions.
The forum that follows is intended to give readers an opportunity to hear directly from six of the most prominent union leaders engaged in this debate: AFL-CIO's Sweeney; SEIU's Stern; John Wilhelm, hospitality president of UNITE HERE; AFSCME president Gerald McEntee; CWA executive vice president Larry Cohen; and Teamsters president James Hoffa. Each was interviewed separately by telephone. Transcripts of the interviews were edited for space and clarity.


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Wolfpack's Smith ready for Doeren's new offense
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Rashard Smith arrived at North Carolina State as a cornerback, fought back from a knee injury that cost him more than a year then converted to receiver only to earn reserve role.
Now he's poised for much more in the Wolfpack's new offense under first-year coach Dave Doeren.
"I took it as there's an opportunity to show other people what I can do," Smith said of the coaching change. "It's a chance for myself to make the coaches believe in me, so I had to buy into the system early so we could build a successful offense."
Under Tom O'Brien last season, Smith managed 19 catches and played fewer than 30 snaps in 10 of 13 games while also handling punt return duties.
But the 5-foot-11 senior from Dublin, Ga., had a big performance in the Wolfpack's spring game, which was the team's first chance to run Doeren's no-huddle scheme under game situations. And Doeren, who left Northern Illinois to take over here, is expecting a lot from Smith.
"He's a playmaker and he's hungry and he's got a chip on his shoulder," Doeren said. "Those things usually equal what you want: production. I haven't seen anything that we've asked him to do that he hasn't been able to do yet — knock on wood. I hope he keeps going that way.
"I like the guy, man. I wish I had a lot more guys that understood how important it is to practice and play the way he does with the energy he has every day."
Frisman Jackson, Smith's position coach and a former NFL receiver, said he thought Smith had the best spring of any Wolfpack receiver and took advantage of the clean-slate opportunity that came with the arrival of new coaches.
"We think he can be a guy that can be a threat down the field and be a guy that we can do some of our jetsweeps to because he does a good job with the ball in his hands," Jackson said. "He showed a little bit of it in the spring game of what he can do after the catch. That's real big in our offense, having a guy that can take a hitch or a slant and get us yards after the catch."
Smith finished last year with 315 yards receiving and five touchdowns, four going for at least 18 yards with the longest being a 33-yarder against South Alabama. He also had a 73-yard punt return for a touchdown against The Citadel.
But Smith had eight catches for 84 yards — both were team-highs — and was a constant target of quarterback Pete Thomas in the spring game in April.
Smith arrived in Raleigh in 2009 and started his second college game at cornerback before an ankle injury cost him two games. He eventually returned to the starting lineup only to suffer a knee injury against Boston College that sidelined him the five games then forced him to redshirt the 2010 season.
In 2011, he played receiver for the first time before eventually moving back to cornerback by the end of the year. He even played both ways twice that year, the first Wolfpack player in six years to play offense and defense in the same game.
By last season, his first full year as a receiver, the frustration had built because of a lack of playing time and a constantly changing role. Brenda Williams, Smith's mother, said her son even kicked around the possibility of transferring.
"We had a big talk about it," she said. "I told him, 'Just hang in there.' His education was the big thing. That was the real reason he was there, to get that degree. It was just to do what they tell him to do. If you play, you play. If you don't, you don't. Just don't get so frustrated. It was really eating at him. It was tearing him up because he wanted to play."
And now? Williams said she hadn't seen her son "this excited" since going to N.C. State, a feeling captured in a phone call from him during spring drills.
"He said, 'Mama, this is the first time I've ever enjoyed going to football practice since I've been here,'" Williams said.
Smith is eager to play the fast tempo that could wear down defenses. He said he's focused on being a leader as a senior, down to coordinating runs around campus or the surrounding area five days a week with teammates to ensure everyone's in the best shape possible.
The chance to make big plays is just a bonus.
"We can really take a toll on the defense," Smith said. "The more plays we run, the faster we lineup, we can get the other team tired. We can score more points. It opens up a lot of opportunities for everybody to make a play."


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Kiss Cam Gone Wrong – Would Not Want to be in His Seat
Two baseball fans may not be a couple anymore, but their dysfunctional relationship will live on forever on the Internet, thanks to a breakup captured on a stadium's Jumbotron.
The apparent bust-up was sparked by the "Kiss Cam" at Chukchansi Park, the home to the minor league team the Fresno Grizzlies. During Friday night's game against the Colorado Springs Sky Sox, the Jumbotron's operator cut to the young woman and her man, who was too busy chatting on his cellphone to pucker up. After he waved off her advances -- oblivious to the fact that scores of fans were now watching -- the camera cut away to other couples who were more than happy to show affection.
However, each time the Kiss Cam cut back to the first couple, the chatty guy paid more attention to his call than his girl, and remained unaware that the crowd was beginning to turn on him -- until his date had had enough.
While still on the giant screen, the miffed woman stands up, dumps a giant soda on her less-than-attentive mate, and storms off, earning cheers from the crowd, and a high-five from Parker, the Grizzlies' mascot.
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David Moyes was not exactly singing from the same hymn sheet as the travelling fans who chanted "We're gonna win the league", but the fact that the Everton manager said he would be happy to sit among those supporters provided a ringing endorsement of his team.
"I said to the players afterwards: 'I'm enjoying watching you play,' " he added. "There were times at this point last season when I wouldn't have paid to watch. I would definitely pay to come and watch us now."
These are exciting times at Everton. A return of 10 points from five matches, on the back of a strong finish to last season, has put a spring in Moyes's step and fuelled belief among the players that something special can be achieved this term. The squad look far stronger than in previous years, Everton have no European football to serve as a distraction, and there is a confidence about the players that comes with a prolonged run of decent results.
This third league win of the season, courtesy of goals from Victor Anichebe, Kevin Mirallas and Marouane Fellaini, means only the two Manchester clubs have picked up more points than Everton in 2012.
"It's as good an Everton side as I've played in," said the left-back Leighton Baines. "The last time we were at this level was the year we got to the cup final [2009]. We had a really strong squad then, it got broken up a bit in between, but we're getting back to that level.
"We've seen times where numbers have been thin and we've had to play young lads. Now we can call on experienced, seasoned professionals [who] would be playing in most other teams. That strength in depth is something we haven't had before. Victor [Anichebe] highlights that — he's been on the bench but has come in and shown what a good player he is. If we can get him playing like that every week, people will bevery scared."
There was certainly a feeling of trepidation in the Swansea defence on Saturday — Everton had 30 attempts on goal. Although Nathan Dyer's sending off hardly helped, Everton had been opening up Michael Laudrup's side with ease long before the substitute was shown two yellow cards in less than three minutes.
Alan Tate, who was substituted in the second half, was scathing in his criticism of his Swansea team-mates. "It was disappointing but that's what happens if you play as a group of individuals rather than a team," he said. "We have gone away from the team aspect which made us good last season. We need to get back to playing as a team, otherwise we're going to struggle like that every week.
"Defensively we tried to do it on our own. We were more concerned with scoring goals than we were about stopping them at the other end. We were gung-ho really. Everyone was going forwards, leaving the back four to defend by themselves. You can't do that in any league, let alone this league. We haven't got the players that Everton have got.
"We can't get away from the fact that defensively we weren't good enough – that's not just the back four, it's the whole team. They played the ball forwards to two big lads, and we didn't have people getting around them and coming in from the front. All the lads have trained with us so they know what's [being] asked of them. But if people are going to play individually we may as well pack up now."
Man of the match Leighton Baines (Everton)
This article was written by Stuart James, for The Guardian on Sunday 23rd September 2012 23.02 Europe/London
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DHAKA, Bangladesh — The number of tigers in Bangladesh's mangrove swamps has risen by more than 50 to 419 in the last decade, thanks to the government's steps to save the endangered species, the Environment and Forest Minister said recently.
"The number of tigers in the Sundarbans has risen to 419 from 362 a decade ago," Tariqul Islam told a news conference, announcing the result of a census in the mangroves early this year.
The Sundarbans, as the mangrove swamps are known, stretches into India's eastern state of West Bengal, is about 400 km (250 miles) southwest of Dhaka, and is home to a wide variety of wildlife, but its chief attraction is the tiger.
It forms a fragile ecosystem that is being ravaged by the pressures of population and the weak enforcement of environmental regulations.
Forest officials said greater surveillance against poachers and reduced human interference with wildlife had helped the tiger population to recover.
Authorities redoubled protection efforts in the mangroves after the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization declared the area a World Heritage site in 1997.
Islam said census takers had scoured the 6,000-square-km (2,320-square-mile) wetlands from Feb. 26 to March 3 and collected 1,546 tiger paw prints to fix the numbers of the big cats.
They said the tiger population fell to about 362 in 1993 from 450 in 1982 because of deforestation caused by poachers and illegal loggers.
India did a census of tigers in its 4,000-square-km (1,545-square-mile) portion of the Sundarbans in January.
About 3 million people live in the portion of the swamps that belong to Bangladesh and 3.5 million more in the Indian portion in the neighboring state of West Bengal.


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Area locations are best preservation opportunities
June 5, 2012
Two locations in South Pittsburgh are on the Young Preservationists Association of Pittsburgh (YPA) tenth annual list of the "Top Ten Best Historic Preservation Opportunities in the Pittsburgh Area."
Making the list as No. 1 was the Pittsburgh Sign on Mount Washington, the Beltzhoover School building came in as No. 5. The Top Ten report was unveiled at YPA's Tenth Anniversary Celebration on Saturday at the Union Project, 801 North Negley Avenue in Highland Park.
YPA's Top Ten List highlights endangered properties that have a good chance for survival and reuse. Through its Top Ten List, YPA highlights the economic value of historic preservation and encourages more young people to take an active role in preserving their community.
Incorporated in 2002, the YPA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit comprised of dynamic preservation leaders throughout the region organized to ignite a new historic preservation movement in southwestern Pennsylvania. The mission of Young Preservationists Association of Pittsburgh is the participation of young people in the preservation of historic resources.
The full YPA's 2012 Top Ten List includes:
1. Pittsburgh Sign, Mt. Washington
2. New Castle, Pa., Lawrence County
3. Mayview State Hospital, Upper Saint Clair, Allegheny County
4. Former Greensboro Public School, Greensboro, Greene County
5. Beltzhoover School, Beltzhoover
6. Race Street, Homewood
7. Beechwood Boulevard Bridge, Greenfield-Schenley Park
8 Turner Cemetery, Squirrel Hill
9. Canonsburg Armory, Canonsburg, Washington County
10. Bigelow Boulevard Retaining Wall, Hill District


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So I've determined that I have an oversupply (which, in contrast to my first son when I had a low milk supply, doesn't seem like it should be a problem!). My son, now 8 weeks, has been having green poops for over a week -- and only green for the past three days. He's been gulping/gasping while eating since my milk first came in, but I didn't think anything of it at first. I thought he was just an eager eater.
I've started to feed only one side per feeding and trying the "uphill" positions. I try to spray some of the excess milk into a burp cloth, but it's been a struggle to get him back on the breast when I do that so I only do it if he's really struggling.
I've seen a few other threads about oversupply, but none seem to answer my question -- when does oversupply "correct" itself? I started consciously using one side per feeding on Friday (before that, a lot of feedings were on only one side because he would either fall asleep or just wouldn't be interested in the other side).
Also, I worry about the effect of this on his intestines -- over a week of green poop, excess gas, etc., can't be good. Can it indicate a larger problem? To be proactive, I also decided to eliminate dairy from my diet in case that's also an issue -- I started that yesterday.


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SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Crimea voted Sunday in a hastily organized referendum about whether to break away from Ukraine and join Russia, in defiance of broad condemnation from the international community, which has described the process as illegitimate.
Moscow-backed politicians in Crimea, a territory of 2 million people, argue the move will ensure the local population protection from radical nationalism that they say surged after President Viktor Yanukovych was forced to flee Ukraine. No immediate proof of specific threats has been produced, however, and the leadership in Kiev describes what is happening in Crimea as a crude land grab.
Ukraine's territorial uncertainty has its roots in the protests that led to the downfall of Yanukovych, who enjoyed support from the Kremlin and had his base of support in the mainly ethnic Russian-populated southeast.
The demonstrations began in November when Yanukovych abruptly refused to sign a long-anticipated political association and free- trade agreement with the European Union, opting instead for closer ties with Russia.
Weeks of peaceful rallies were punctured by bursts of violence, which culminated with the death of dozens of protesters in late February.
A peace deal between the government and opposition was overseen by EU diplomats, but that arrangement was overtaken within days when protesters took control of the capital, Kiev, and police abandoned posts. Parliament voted to remove the president from power and soon appointed a replacement.
An early proposal in the new parliament, which would have seen the status of the Russian language downgraded, was greeted with alarm in some parts of the country. Russia also has loudly expressed indignation over what it claims is the inexorable rise of radical nationalist groups, a concern that critics suggest is an exercise in disingenuousness.
The referendum ballot features two questions: One, to grant Crimea greater autonomy within Ukraine. The other, which is widely expected to secure the bulk of support, envisions annexation by Russia.
What little actual campaigning there's been in Crimea has taken place under the often menacing gaze of local militia forces, as well as heavily armed troops under apparent command from Moscow. In the face of overwhelming evidence, Russia denies it has deployed any troops.
The pro-annexation message has been crude but effective, and is aimed at instilling alarm over the new Ukrainian government's purported design to marginalize the country's ethnic Russian population.
One billboard showed two maps of Crimea: one emblazoned in the tricolor of the Russian flag. The other shows it against a crimson background and stamped with a swastika.
Supporters of the referendum have argued it is little different from the independence vote to take place in Scotland later this year. But British officials argue the latter vote has been planned for two years and is being held in a climate of free discussion. Crimeans have had less than two weeks to ponder their referendum, with little public debate.
If Crimea votes to break away from Ukraine and seek annexation by Russia, the final decision will be up to Moscow. It has said it won't comment until after the referendum.
The Russian legislative process that would be required to annex Crimea may already be underway. But Crimea's Russia-backed leader Sergei Aksyonov has said the full annexation process could take a year.
Another factor will be what steps the European Union and the United States take with sanctions to punish Russia for what they regard as an illegal referendum.
For instance, the U.S. has threatened to cut off Russian corporations from the Western financial system. Russia and the EU are big trading partners, and if they begin imposing sanctions on one another that could sharply affect international markets, which already have been rattled by the political chaos in Ukraine and Crimea.
Crimean authorities say if Ukrainian soldiers resolutely occupying their garrisons don't surrender after Sunday's vote, they will be considered "illegal."
Leaders of the mainly Muslim Crimean Tatar minority, who make up more than one-tenth of the region's population, insist they want to remain part of Ukraine and worry about what fate awaits them in a country they have no desire to join.
Once Crimea's pro-Russian leadership seals some vague semblance of legitimacy through the referendum, attention will likely swing to eastern Ukraine, another heavily Russian-populated area in which the central government is struggling to stamp its authority. The past few days have seen ugly confrontations between pro-Russians and pro-Ukrainians, and concern is rising about that situation worsening.
A national presidential election set for May 25 is seen by the interim authorities as an opportunity to restore democratic processes in a country currently run by an interim post-revolutionary Cabinet. However, perceptions of an uncertain security situation could undermine confidence in what that vote produces.


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By Emma Meyer and Kristin Leaman
Title: Marlene Dobkin de Rios papers, 1968-2008
Predominant Dates:1968-2008
Extent: 0.5 Cubic feet. More info below.
Date Acquired: 10/06/2009
Subjects: Ayahuasca, Ayahuasca ceremony, Ethnopharmacology, Hallucinogenic drugs--Therapeutic use, Psychoactive Substances Research Collection at Purdue University., Shamanism--Peru, Traditional medicine
Forms of Material: Clippings (Information artifacts), Correspondence, Ephemera, Manuscripts (Documents), Programs
Languages: English, German, Spanish;Castilian
Marlene Dobkin de Rios was born on April 12, 1939 in New York to Bernard and Anne Dobkin. Dobkin de Rios received her BA in Psychology from Queens College in 1959, her MA in Anthropology from New York University in 1963, and her PhD from the University of California, Riverside in 1972. She is a fellow of the American Anthropological Association and the Royal Anthropological Institute and served as president for the Ethnopharmacology Society (1979-1981) and the Southwestern Anthropological Association (1979-1980). She taught cultural anthropology at California State University-Fullerton (1969-2000), where she is now Professor Emerita of Anthropology. Dobkin de Rios is a medical anthropologist and psychotherapist who works as an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry & Human Behavior at the University of California-Irvine. She also works as a transcultural specialist helping those from other cultures and has developed a technique called "Visualization Strategies for Success," which is used to help individuals improve their professional testtaking abilities. Dobkin de Rios' anthropological fieldwork is extensive, as she has conducted research on ayahuasca in Peru and Brazil, which resulted in several publications. Dobkin de Rios' impressive and diverse accomplishments range from her work as a cultural anthropologist, medical anthropologist, and psychotherapist. Among her most recent publications are Brief Psychotherapy with the Latino Immigrant Client (2000), LSD Spirituality and the Creative Process with Oscar Janiger (2003), "Anthropologist as Fortuneteller" in Skeptic Magazine (2006), A Hallucinogenic Tea, Laced with Controversy (2008), and The Psychedelic Journey of Marlene Dobkin de Rios: 45 Years with Shamans, Ayahuasqueros and Ethnobotanists (2011).
Dobkin de Rios, Marlene. "Contemporary Authors Online." Gale Biography in Context. Detroit: Gale, 2001. Web. 7 Jan. 2011. http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?displayGrou pName=Reference&disableHighlighting=false&prodId=BIC1&action=e&windowstate=norm al&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CH1000025907&mode=view&userGroupName=purdue_ main&jsid=e77a7ffbd94c4d22d1a621fcf713743c
Dobkin de Rios, Marlene. "Marlene Dobkin de Rios Ph.D., L.M.F.C." Marlene Dobkin de Rios. 2008. www.marlenedobkinderios.com
"Marlene Dobkin de Rios." The Vaults of Erowid. Last modified March 18, 2009. http://www.erowid.org/culture/characters/dobkin_derios_marlene/dobkin_derios_marlene.sht ml
Ayahuasca ceremony
Hallucinogenic drugs--Therapeutic use
Psychoactive Substances Research Collection at Purdue University.
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Justin Bieber has apologised for making a "reckless and immature mistake" after old video footage of the troubled pop star telling a racist joke was leaked to the press.
The Baby hitmaker was caught in yet another scandal over the weekend (31May-01Jun14), when a clip obtained by editors at Britain's The Sun on Sunday newspaper was released online.
The footage appears to show a young Bieber asking pals, "Why are black people afraid of chainsaws?", before answering, "Run, n**ger, n**ger, n**ger, n**ger, run."
The video is said to have been shot during the production of his 2011 documentary Never Say Never, and Bieber has now come forward to apologise for making the comments when he was 15 years old.
A statement issued by Bieber to TMZ.com reads: "As a young man, I didn't understand the power of certain words and how they can hurt. I thought it was OK to repeat hurtful words and jokes, but didn't realize at the time that it wasn't funny and that in fact my actions were continuing the ignorance.
"Thanks to friends and family I learned from my mistakes and grew up and apologized for those wrongs. Now that these mistakes from the past have become public I need to apologize again to all those I have offended."
He continues, "I'm very sorry. I take my friendships with people of all cultures very seriously and I apologize for offending or hurting anyone with my childish and inexcusable mistake. I was a kid then and I am a man now who knows my responsibility to the world and to not make that mistake again.
"Ignorance has no place in our society and I hope the sharing of my faults can prevent others from making the same mistake in the future. I thought long and hard about what I wanted to say but telling the truth is always what's right."
"Five years ago I made a reckless and immature mistake and I'm grateful to those close to me who helped me learn those lessons as a young man. Once again... I'm sorry."


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Oak & Mica Lamp
A blend of Arts & Crafts and Asian design influences.
by Ken Burton
Pages 30-33
My design sense and influences are pretty eclectic. I draw on a wide variety of sources and enjoy mixing things up a bit. In keeping with popular culture, I think this is referred to as a "mash up." Today's young people are quite good at it, and sometimes like to think they invented the process. But as I think about it, people who design and make things have been doing this for years – taking details and ideas from one source and combining them with details and ideas from another.
Consider this lamp, for example. In some ways it is a fairly traditional design. It certainly recalls the Arts & Crafts style that was popular in this country about 100 years ago. In particular, I drew influence from the Greene brothers, architects who worked in and around Pasadena, Calif., designing and building some splendid examples of Arts & Crafts-style houses and furniture. But when you start looking into their training and design influences, you find that they, in turn, drew on other cultures for inspiration – notably traditional Japanese architecture. So in effect, they were "mashing up" things when they built such masterpieces as the Gamble House.
With all that being said, this little accent lamp will add a nice warm glow to almost any room regardless of the style of the rest of the furnishings. I chose to make mine in white oak with amber mica to play up the Arts & Crafts connection, but I think it would look stunning in a dark walnut with silver mica panels or even in curly maple with frosted glass in place of the mica. As you think about building this lamp, consider taking a few risks and doing a little mashing up of your own.
Construction is pretty simple, though you'll need to make some precise cuts. The top is mitered together, while the four frames that make up the front, back and sides are assembled with lap joints.
Cut the pieces for the top frame to the thickness and width stated in the cutlist but leave them long for now. Set your miter gauge to 45˚ and cut the pieces to length, mitering them in the process. Use a stop to control the lengths of the pieces as shown above. Glue the frame together. Gluing mitered frames is a tricky business at best. I find using two pairs of clamps allows me to fine-tune the clamping pressure as shown above at right.
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Veterans invited to put their stories on filmBy SHAWNE K. WICKHAM
New Hampshire Sunday News
November 09. 2013 9:43PM
He's capturing their stories, one veteran at a time - while there is still time.
Dan Marcek of Brookline is the founder of Vetflix, a nonprofit company dedicated to recording interviews with those who have served. His is an ambitious goal.
"Our big mission is to educate Americans about what veterans have done so that they care," he said. "Right now, there's such a disconnect; we're trying to make that connection so veterans get the respect they deserve."
Marcek, 56, grew up in Nashua and studied computer science at the University of New Hampshire. After 30 years in the high-tech industry, he "became part of the great recession of 2008," as he puts it.
While figuring out what to do next, he started volunteering as a Big Brother. And through his "little brother," he met Bob Flannery, "a 100-year-old man living in the woods of Brookline by himself in a house that he built with his own hands."
The two became friends as Marcek offered to do some woodworking and other chores Flannery needed done around the house. He was captivated by the older man's stories from his century of living, including his service during World War II in the South Pacific.
"He could make you feel what it was like to be there," he said. "He was truly inspirational."
Indeed, Flannery, who died in 2011, inspired the idea that became Vetflix: "To capture and focus on the veteran's story."
Marcek created Vetflix with a partner, cinematographer Jon Teger. The two tape interviews with veterans at their homes, and each veteran then receives a DVD that includes a "highlight film" as well as the raw footage.
They've interviewed about 60 veterans to date, the majority of them from New Hampshire.
And in honor of Veterans Day, two films compiled from those interviews will be previewed at the New Hampshire Veterans Home in Tilton this Thursday.
The first, shown at 3:30 p.m., will feature interviews with veterans of World War II and the Korean Conflict. The second, at 6:30 p.m., focuses on the Seabees, the construction branch of the U.S. Navy, whom Marcek calls "unsung heroes."
John Hemeon is commander of the New Hampshire Seabees, which made Marcek an honorary member because of what he's doing for the veterans.
"The World War II guys, they've been silent for a long time," Hemeon said. "But we don't have much time left to get their stories."
Margaret LaBrecque, commandant of the Veterans Home, said what Vetflix is doing means a lot to her residents and their families.
"It means a lot to them to not be forgotten. And on Veterans Day more than any other day, they should not be forgotten for everything that they've given to their country."
She hopes the public will come to see the films - and stay to talk with the residents. "They love to be listened to."
While there's time pressure to capture the stories of the oldest veterans while he can, Marcek also interviews those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And he said the older veterans love to visit with this younger generation of warriors; he once asked some of them why. "You know what they said? 'Cause that's what we looked like when we went to war.'"
Vetflix does not charge veterans for the interviews or DVDs. Instead, they rely on fundraising and donations from grateful family members who "pay it forward" to cover the cost of future interviews.
One grateful relative is Michele Thomas of Mont Vernon; Vetflix interviewed her dad, Leo Thomas of Rindge, several months before his death last January.
Her father served in the Navy's Armed Guard during World War II and later re-enlisted in the Seabees. Marcek also interviewed her mother, Cecile Thomas, who worked at Fort Devens during the war.
The Vetflix interview has become a cherished family treasure, Thomas said, noting it was shown during her dad's memorial service. "It was pretty wonderful," she said.
After this week's premiere in Tilton, Marcek plans to try to get his films screened at some of New Hampshire's independent theaters. He hopes showing them to a wider audience will inspire more public support for those who serve.
"In World War II, the whole country was involved in the war," he said. "In Vietnam, one way or another, the whole country was aware and involved in the war."
But with today's all-volunteer force, he said, only about 1 percent of the population serves in the military. Many veterans don't tell their stories, he said.
"What happens is that people come home from war and they put it in a box in their head, and they don't like to open it. And then the people around them are sensitive to how painful it might have been, so they don't ask.
"When we lose their stories, we lose a piece of ourselves and where we came from."
For more: www.vetflix.org.
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See topic - what wild pets do you just absolutely hate to fight but always seem to get stuck with?
For me, it's squirrels. Man, do I hate squirrels (chipmunks included - anything with a squirrel-esque appearance and skill set). It seems they always have the most annoying skill set designed to maim you (half the time, they come with Woodchipper and Nut Barrage DoTs), and they're always secondary/tertiary to something I want to catch or when I'm trying to level my team. Stupid squirrels.


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President Barack Obama jokingly mimics U.S. Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney's 'not impressed' expression while greeting members of the 2012 U.S. Olympic gymnastics teams in the Oval Office, Nov. 15, at the White House in Washington, D.C. Maroney's expression became an internet sensation when during the ceremony for her 2012 Olympic vault silver medal she was photographed giving a brief look of disappointment with her lips pursed to the side. Steve Penny, USA Gymnastics President, and Savannah Vinsant laugh at left.
Read the full story about the U.S. Olympic gymnastics team visit to the White House.


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Courtesy Reem Acra; Inset: Sipa
We've already discussed Jennifer Aniston's potential wedding gown silhouettes, but designer Reem Acra took the conversation a step further this week, designing fantastically gorgeous (and hypothetical) gowns for the newly minted bride-to-be.
Acra, who's designed wedding gowns for stars like LeAnn Rimes and Jenna Dewan-Tatum, sketched two dresses for Aniston at PEOPLE's request: one more princess-like, fitted to the waist and finished with an elaborate skirt (left), and another that's glimmering and form-fitting with a complementary veil (right).
When Aniston married Brad Pitt in 2000, the actress went somewhat simple, choosing a form-fitting, beaded gown by designer Lawrence Steele. She kept the touches — a veil and jewelry — traditional.
The designer calls the actress "the epitome of effortless beauty" — and we know she'd look even more beautiful in either of these elegant gowns. Tell us: What do you think of these sketches? And what do you envision Aniston wearing on her wedding day?


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The Ovation Awards, L.A.'s biggest theater honors, were handed out Sunday at a ceremony at the San Gabriel Mission Playhouse.
Center Theatre Group was the top winner of the evening with a total of 12 awards. The La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts won the award for best season. "The Nether," a new drama by L.A. playwright Jennifer Haley that was presented at CTG's Kirk Douglas Theatre, received seven Ovations, the most of any single production.
A production of the musical


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You can registered into Movescount.com with the same account you use on Suunto.com. With this account, you can rate & review any of the Suunto products on Suunto.com or ask and answer any of the questions related to products. You can also sign in to MySuunto which provides you all the support material for your product. In MySuunto you can contact our support center, track you Suunto.com purchases and send products to repair.
The same account can also be used with Suunto Movescount mobile apps, which you can find from Apple Appstore and Google Play.
Overview is an overview of your recent Moves and activity in Movescount. With overview you can easily follow other peoples activities, see if you have received any feedback for your Moves.
Activity feed is a real-time feed of things happening in Movescount. You can see your own Moves in activity feed but also the Moves and doings of the members you have chosen to follow. Activity feed allows you and others easily react to others' Moves and see if there are Moves that gain a lot of likes or discussion. Moves that are less than 2 days old pop-up in top of the feed when someone reacts to them making the feed to show most relevant content for you.
Training Load describes you how much you have been training regarding the total volume and intensity. The section of the Training Load when looking at a summary to your training from the week or month, provides you details about hours spent in different intensity zones, peak training effect, type of training you have done as well as Training Load trend. For the best possible impact in your ongoing training, you should keep your training load in a good balance with the Rest and Recovery.
The Rest and Recovery describes you how you are recovering from your training and provides insight on how much you have been investing for the recovery. For best possible outcome you should be able to balance the training load with adequate recovery to ensure your progress.
Progress is the reason to invest time in training. Progress is usually followed with sport specific values such as doing regularly a cycling FTP power test or running a cooper. It's also possible to follow your progress by comparing the intensity via heart rate to running pace or cycling power. Better average pace with the same average heart rate is a common way to see if there is progress achieved during longer period of time.
Read more about training load and other upcoming tools in training insights in Suunto Training World.
Move types are summarized when looking at your training for example from the past month or year. As you update the type into "Interval" for each of your interval runs, you are able to follow how much intervals you have done during the year. The move types are also available when planning your training sessions.
Move types are: Race, Test, Technique, Recovery, Speedwork, Strength, Longbase, Brick, Interval
To get an understanding on how much you are pushing your body, Suunto Movescount tracks your long term training load. The recovery time data from each of your exercises is calculated to produce a cumulative graph, illustrating your training load over time. Monitoring your long term training load is important from the performance perspective to make sure you train at an optimal level towards your goal. The training load trend provides you understanding of your long term load to your physiology. When you see the trend, which is going up in very fast, you should be alarmed as this can lead into overtraining. Make sure that your load is growing gradually. Spotting possible overloading from individual exercises can be difficult, making the trend graph a valuable tool. Ideally the load trend should vary, allowing your body to rest between high intensity exercises. You can monitor both your weekly and monthly training load in Suunto Movescount. Read more about Training Load and other upcoming tools in Training Insights in Suunto Training World.
The feeling trend is a good tool to follow your capability to manage your training in a long term. If you start to see a decline in your feeling trend you should be alerted. The feeling for each Move can be set in the mobile app or while editing your Move in movescount.com. Read more about Rest & Recovery and other upcoming tools in training insights in Suunto Training World.
How to follow progress?
When looking at several moves selected from calendar/table/tag cloud, you are able to compare moves with various parameters. For example you get an understanding on how running pace and average heart rate have been behaving. When reaching faster average pace with the same heart rate you are getting progress.
Read more about Progress and other upcoming tools in Training Insights in Suunto Training World.
You can add in calendar a planned move in the upcoming days. The simple way to add planned move is to select the "+" icon from the future days on calendar. Each planned move can have basic information such as activity type, duration, intensity, distance, type and description. The plans are synched to your watch automatically, if the watch supports plans. The plan synchronization can be checked from watch settings.
Suunto Movescount includes Suunto designed MapBox maps, Google Maps, and special map for our Chinese users. MapBox map should be your choice when planning your outdoor routes, it has the most data in it.
Heatmap data is generated by using the data from millions of Moves from Suunto Movescount members who have tracked their sports during the several last years with Suunto GPS devices.
There is heatmaps provided for: Running, Trail Running, Cycling, Mountainbiking, Roller skiing and skating (RollerSkiing and Rollerskating), Triathlon, All walking (contains Nordic Walking and walking), All trails (contains trekking, hiking, trail running), Mountaineering, Dowhill (contains AlpineSkiing, TelemarkSkiing, Snowboarding), Ski touring, Cross-country skiing, All paddling (contains Kayaking, Canoeing, Rowing), Surf and beach (Windsurfting, StandupPaddling, Kitesurfing, Surfing), Golf
We only use data from public Movescount members. Also we have a special algorithm to prevent one active person to creating lot of heat to their commute or daily walk while revealing where they might live.
We can provide heatmaps for those sports that have enough GPS track data. Pool swimming or other indoor training do not have GPS data. There is bit of GPS data logged in tennis, but this volume is too low for reasonable heatmapping.
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Boeing faces jumbo problem over US aerial raygun fleet
Airbus A380s with frikkin' lasers on them?
Boeing executives have revealed to reporters that they have worries about their plans to mount America's second nuke-nobbling laser cannon in a pricey new jumbo-jet variant. It seems that the 747 cargo model which will carry the first as-yet-unproven raygun is going out of production, and Boeing wants more cash so as to tackle the challenges which will come with a new airframe.
America's photon-cannon defender - soon with a new travel case.
The Airborne Laser (ABL) project is intended to produce a fleet of aerial laser weapons which could patrol off the coast of (say) North Korea, and beam America-bound nuclear ICBMs out of existence as they boosted upward from their silos. The first airborne zapping of a test missile by the mighty, hundred-tonne beam blaster aboard the initial 747-400F is slated for next year - though this has slipped backwards constantly since 2003.
Assuming a successful shot, the next issue will be what carrying aircraft to use for the rest of the raygun fleet, as Boeing doesn't plan to keep making 747-400Fs. According to Aviation Week, some $16m is allotted in the 2009 US budget for looking into this question - but Boeing say that isn't enough to really get the ball rolling, and that it will lead to expensive delays after their anticipated 2009 triumph.
Others, however, can't quite see why Boeing's proposed new laser airframe - their new 747-8F enlarged jumbo freight model - is quite the obvious choice they say. The 747-8F is brand new, only just coming out, and is markedly different to the preceding 747-400F. This would appear to be quite an expensive step for the US taxpayers to take, though nobody can deny the increased performance that the new jet offers.
Even so, there are other and more affordable options open. For instance, existing 747-400 passenger planes can be converted into freighter models fairly economically - producing so-called 747-400BCFs, Boeing Converted Freighters. This would seem to offer an airframe much more like that of the existing ABL prototype, largely eliminating the difficulties and cost of shifting to a new type; and it would be cheap compared to buying a brand new 747-8F, too.
Then, of course, there's theoretically the option of using a non-US aircraft. Until lately, the notion of the Pentagon buying an enormous cargo aeroplane from anyone but Boeing would have seemed entirely laughable; but the aviation world is still ringing with the US Air Force's recent announcement that it would prefer to buy its next generation of tankers from Europe's Airbus.
Whether the USAF will actually be allowed to do that remains to be seen. However, it appears that Boeing can feel the wind blowing - even if it's determined to resist it in the case of ABL. Flight International reports that Boeing's ABL chief, asked if he had considered mounting the second ray-cannon in the new Airbus A380 double-decker superjumbo, admitted - no doubt rather bitterly - that he had.®


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Boeing Machinists rally against contract proposal
EVERETT, Wash. -- Boeing workers rallied in front of their union headquarters in Everett Monday afternoon calling for workers to vote "no" on a contract extension proposed by the company to the International Association of Machinists.
The extension is part of a deal struck between Boeing's top brass and Governor Jay Inslee to keep production of the 777X here in the Pacific Northwest. Governor Jay Inslee signed the other part of the deal into law Monday morning. The bill, approved during a special Saturday session of the legislature, gives Boeing $9 billion in tax breaks if union workers agree to the proposed extension.
Boeing explains they need both or they could be forced to shop around 777X production to other areas of the country.
"We would prefer not to do that - really, we would prefer not to do that - we'll just have to see," says Boeing CEO of Commercial Airplanes, Ray Conner.
Many union members say Boeing's extension, which would last 8 years starting in 2016, is loaded with too many takeaways, including less health coverage and less wage increases. However, their biggest concern is replacing Boeing's pension plan with a 401k.
Senator Patty Murray added her concern for Boeing and Boeing workers if they fail to work out a deal.
"Building the 777X here means jobs for a long time to come," said Murray. "Every family will have to look at the offer and decide for themselves."
The union will vote on the contract extension Wednesday. Boeing says they'll have to make a decision in the next month whether to build the 777X somewhere else.