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International Hockey: Trained with and played exhibition games against the Australian National Team in Australia in 2009 ... Played against the Austrian, Finnish, Latvian and Russian Teams in the Czech Republic and Austria in 2007 ... Competed with the Edge varsity team across western Canada and the mid-west and eastern United States.
2011-12 (Junior): ECAC Hockey All-Academic ... One assist in 27 games ... Incurred only five penalties.
2010-11 (Sophomore): ECAC Hockey All-Academic ... One assist in 27 games ... Incurred only five penalties.
2009-10 (Freshman): First career point came on assist in 3-3 tie at BC Jan. 9 ... First career goal came in 3-0 win vs. Union Jan. 15 ... One goal, one assist in 28 games.
Before Yale: Part of inaugural season for Edge School's varsity team in 2008-09 ... Team was third in the Junior Women's Hockey League and fourth at the JWHL Challenge Cup ... Assistant captain of St. Albert Slash in 11th grade ... Tied record for most points as a rookie on Slash in 2006-07 ... Left the team to attend Edge School in 2008 after competing in the Western Canadian Championships and being chosen as the team captain ... Won gold medal at Alberta Winter Games in 2006 ... Also played basketball at Edge School, winning league playoffs and advancing to provincial championships ... Completed Bronze Star, Bronze Medallion, and Bronze Cross in swimming ... Was chosen by Edge School founder and senior staff as the Mountaineer Team Leader for grade 12 ... Qualified for the Alexander Rutherford Scholarship from grades 10 through 12.
Notes: Won silver for acting (contemporary monologue category) at the World Championships of Performing Arts in Los Angeles in July 2008 ... Attended Paul Kane High School prior to enrolling at Edge School ... Has two brothers, Graeme and Bryan, and a sister, Rachel ... Edge school teammate Jamie Gray also plays for Yale.
Why Yale? "I'm interested in Medicine, the performing arts, and hockey. Yale offers exceptional opportunities in all three. Being close to New York and Boston is very appealing too. I've read and heard a lot about Yale and after visiting the school and meeting the coaches, players, and other students the school exceeded all of my expectations."


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Riding to work in 2020
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On the Tulsa Now forum, Patric started a thread about driving to work in 2020. It can be found under Forum Chat. I'm hoping to retire long before then, but I speculated about the commuting experience anyway.
It's another cloudy spring day. I open the garage door and push my bicycle up the driveway. The slight chill feels good against my face as I coast down the hill from the house. The coolness will be even more welcome once I'm warmed up.
Traffic is light this early. The sun is hiding behind the eastern horizon, but there's not enough light yet for the electric cars to run at full speed. They hum along at about 30 which is still twice my speed, but since they're smaller and lighter than the old gas-guzzling behemoths it's much easier to share the road.
But speaking of behemoths...here comes that ancient Chevy Tahoe again. I can hear the engine rattle from nearly a quarter of a mile away. It's a bio-deisel conversion, but the guy driving it must make his own fuel out in the garage. The neighbors must really love him. The exhaust has all the appeal of an open grease pit at a third-rate Chinese restaurant. At least the commercial stuff smells like french fries or donuts. The Tahoe just smells rancid. Adding to the irony is that chipped and peeling W04 sticker on the back bumper, still recognizable after all these years. The true diehards will never give up, even if their hero is confined to his prison cell.
A couple of young, skinny fast movers dart by, pedaling smoothly and making it look effortless to cruise above 20mph. They nod at the 'old guy' in acknowledgment, but never say a word. Then a middle aged matron passes not pedaling at all. She's on an electric bicycle - much like an old fashioned moped, but with an electric 'assist' motor. I pedal hard for a moment in order to draft behind her, knowing she'll slow down on the rise ahead. She smiles, because we've played this cat-and-mouse game many times. Some mornings she gets to the main gate first, other mornings I do. I'll pass on the uphill and try to open a big gap that she won't be able to cross before I reach that gate. The tailwind helps.
Soon enough, I'm in the parking lot locking up my bike. Compared to the old days, there are far more motorcycles and even the bike rack is full most days. But the astonishing thing is the difference in car parking. Where we had about 50 vehicles in the front lot, there are now twice that many in the same space. Sleek electric minis sit next to bulkier deisel-electric hybrids, and there are even a few old Smart Cars in the mix. Much of the backlot was no longer used, so the company built more offices and a small park for employee's breaks and lunches.
After work, I'll probably take a ride down along the River. I like the quiet trails and I want to enjoy them while I can. If the Pro-River Tax people get their way and the tax gets implemented, all the development will make going there a real pain-in-the-ass.
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This year's Grindleford Gallop event is set to generate over £8,000 for projects at the village's primary school.
Over 600 runners and walkers took part in the 17th event on Saturday, March 8.
Sponsored by local outdoor equipment company, Outside, the event was won by James Scott-Buccleuch of Stockport Harriers who finished in a time of 2hrs, 26mins and 48secs.
The first woman home was Catherine Faux, completing the course in 2hrs, 50mins 49secs.
The Grindleford Gallop is a 21-mile race around some of the Peak District's most beautiful spots. It is the primary fundraising event for the Grindleford Parent, Teachers and Friends Association (PTA). Over the years it has helped to subsidise school trips for pupils, built a trim trail in the playground and funded the purchase staging facilities for school productions.
The event is a major date in the village calendar with residents and local businesses providing support. Winners' prizes were supplied by Outside, whilst the soup served to finishers was produced by The Sir William Hotel.
Villagers pulled together to bake over 1500 pieces of flapjack, cakes and biscuits to feed competitors en route and manned checkpoints around the course, handled registration and recorded finishers.
Go to www.grindlefordgallop.co.uk for the full results of this year's event.


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What's Cooking This Weekend?
Happy weekend everyone! What's cooking? The Kitchn editors are at my house in Ohio this week, cooking up ideas and plans for the new year. We're having so much fun — want to see some photos of our pasta-making adventure last night? We made noodles, meatballs, and a big pot of greens, and we ate it all up with some convivial bottles of red wine. (If you'd like to see us rolling the pasta, click through and watch Emma shaping cavatelli!)
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I recently hit up the Clouston & Hall store in Canberra. They're an academic remainders store and they often have excellent cookery books hugely reduced. The book I was really excited about in the latest catalogue was independent UK researcher Dr Frances Short's Kitchen Secrets: The Meaning of Cooking in everyday life. It promised that it would explore
the thoughts, values and opinions of home cooks, their practices and experiences, and the skills and knowledge they use to prepare and provide food. It provides new and challenging ways of thinking about cooking, examining and often contesting commonly-held beliefs and theories about the role of practical cookery lessons, dinner parties as showcases for culinary flair and the negative effect of convenience foods on home cooking and kitchen skills.
It was a very unsatisfying book, but as we all know that's the next best thing to a really good one, right? For an overview of Short's arguments, check out this journal article from 2003 (pdf), and you can also read extracts on Google Book. Her writing is clear and unfussy and there were some parts I found very interesting, such as her careful dissection of the "family meal" as an unquestioned and unassailable good and her findings about which types of home cooking parents were more likely to involve their children in.
Kitchen Secrets was developed from Short's PhD thesis in sociology and her exploration of claims that domestic cookery is becoming deskilled has been significantly influenced by food historian Rachel Laudan's 2001 polemic A plea for culinary modernism.
It will help to briefly look at Laudan first. The full text is here (pdf), but to give a potted version of her argument, "culinary luddites" have conflated the terms "natural" and "unprocessed" with "good food" and in doing so they display ignorance of the history of food. In the past survival has demanded that all but the richest perform endless backbreaking work to make highly monotonous diets safe let alone palatable. Laudan says that historically wherever people have an opportunity to eat more processed food that requires less work to prepare, they have taken it.
My problem with Laudan's argument is that I don't accept that the leap from wheat kernel to bread is the same as the leap from bread to McDonalds. In saying so, I don't underestimate the hours and expertise that making raw agricultural ingredients into food takes (for a very entertaining example in relation to the journey from corn to tortilla, read Dave Arnold at Cooking Issues).
It frustrates me that Laudan builds an air of legitimacy by footnoting research arguing that European peasants were stupefied by adulterated food for 500 years or essentially hibernated through a bad winter, but she doesn't name and shame any "culinary luddites". She does give the them credit for foregrounding that we "need to know how to prepare good food, and we need a culinary ethos", but she's very upset with the ethos of nostalgic agrarian utopianism she insists they are demanding we adopt. I could find you a back-to-the-land hippie who believed the crap that Laudan is arguing against but what persuasive or political power do they have anyway? The exercise would be a pointless waste of everyone's time – at it's heart Laudan's argument is posturing against a strawfoodie.
Her provocative stance certainly has managed to generate attention for her ideas a long time; when a snippet of Laudan's piece was published in the New York Times last year, she blogged that she was "just relishing the thought of responding to the flood of hostile comments. I love controversy." More recently in Australia, her spittle-flecked food-politics troll mantle has been adopted by the Institute of Public Affairs' Chris Berg, in this recent piece for Fairfax "Dig in, don't wait. Our slow food nostalgia is misplaced."
Right, so that was a little less brief than I intended, but I jeez I feel better. As I was saying, Short has applied Laudan's scepticism to claims that none of us can cook anymore. It certainly not an argument that I've ever supported, and it something I'm active about both personally and professionally.
Short points out that many terms in this discussion have remained undefined, terms such as "pre-prepared", "convenience", "raw" and "natural" and she agrees with Laudan's view questioning whether food really can be divided into "two nice, neat groups". (link) It's disappointing that the only response to rejecting "two nice, neat groups" is to throw your hands up in the air and stick to one meaningless group.
None of her interview subjects express a view that prepared foods are unacceptable, although for different types of meals they might rely more or less on processed or packaged ingredients. Short asserts that "Kitchen technologies and their offspring, the trimmed, par-boiled, floreted, deboned and ready-to-steam, are regularly proclaimed as the scourge of home cooking" (link) or, even more alarmingly, "the scourge of good diet and family health and unity". (link) Her subjects' universal lack of anxiety about using processed ingredients makes me think that the prevalence and vehemence of these "proclamations" is being overstated.
I'd rather buy bottled passata with an ingredients list that said "tomatoes, tomato juice" and avoid the BPA lining in canned tomatoes, but I certainly don't think anyone credible is pointing at canned tomatoes as a scourge of home cookery. What's the point of clinging to the inclusion of items such as canned tomatoes and rice in the "processed" category if it's only you and Rachel Laudan putting them there?
Short's argument is much stronger when she points out that there is no consensus in ordinary life or academic practice of what is meant by "cooking" and "cooking skills". In addition to concrete skills such as "baking" or "chopping", she describes a range of tacit skills that are built from experience and learned knowledge, extending from the ability to open the oven and inspect a dish and know at what stage of cooking it's at all the way to the organisation, planning and emotional work it can take to cook every day for fussy children.
To me the ability to look in the fridge, garden and pantry and whip up something delicious is the mark of a good domestic cook. My definition also includes an element of domestic economy, which would amuse my friend Chris who was astonished that I don't have a budget for food shopping. What I mean is that there is no food waste in this house. Every usable morsel is eaten by us, the chickens or the worms. There's a hint of class-based distaste for that kind of frugality in some of Short's subjects, who don't want meals to appear as if you'd "bunged your leftovers in" (link)
My parents both worked and eventually my mother got sick of cooking as well as doing all the rest. I was brought up with Deb instant mashed potato and frozen vegetables that were favoured because they didn't go off in the crisper. I don't know why I struck out against that way of eating so vehemently. I still try and do all the cooking at my parents' house rather than eat that way.
My list of "acceptable" processed food will differ from yours (unless you're Tammi 🙂 I do make some things "from scratch" that are almost exclusively used in bought versions. By Short's and Laudan's arguments, is the hoi sin sauce I make using miso and malted barley from the Co-op and Megachef oyster sauce just another assembly of processed foods?
My list of "unacceptable" processed foods will differ from yours too – I find chilled packaged "fresh" pasta a ridiculous invention and will either make fresh pasta or, more commonly, used dried pasta. I'm under no delusions – I am what's described in the book as a "food hobbyist" and I'm clearly more than a couple of standard deviations past the bell curve of processed food eating – to the extent that my use and consumption of processed food surprises people sometimes. For instance the lovely @charlotteshucks responded when I tweeted that I was making the kids chicken drumsticks with lemongrass and Maggi seasoning sauce for dinner recently "wow, never thought I'd hear you singing the praises of Packet Food … #worldupsidedown". Fortunately she wasn't on twitter when I posted a couple of days later "I think y'all will realise how crook I'm feeling if I tell you we're having Crust pizza for dinner".
I think what I ultimately found most disappointing about the book was that although Short was a chef for 15 years before becoming a scholar there is nowhere detectable in the book a passion for food beyond that academic fascination. Particularly where a book has begun as a formal qualification-directed research project we can't judge it for what it's not about. But how can you talk about cookery skills and how people cook without talking about how it tastes?


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(ed note: Jeff Phillips is at the CRA Career Mentoring Workshop. His Day 1 dispatch is here)
It is day two at the CRA Career Mentoring Workshop.
Today was all about funding, with speakers from NIH (Terry Yoo), DARPA (Peter Lee), Laboratory for Telecommunications Science (Mark Segal), and NSF (Jan Cuny). Jeanette Wing, the assistant director at NSF CISE also made an appearance at reception yesterday.
(ed. note: I just heard that Jeannette Wing is leaving CISE in July. This is sad news - she was a strong and dynamic presence at CISE)
NIH advertised having a lot of money (about $30 billion, compared to $7 billion in NSF). The NIH has many sub-institutes with many different topics, but all applications are funneled through grants.gov. Terry Yoo was very enthusiastic about us applying for a piece of his large pie. It seems a bit tricky, however, to fit a pure computer science project into one of these institutes, specific health-related applications are enough.
We all (CI Fellows) thanked Peter Lee who helped spearhead the CI Fellows program. He recently joined DARPA to head the Transformational Convergence Technology Office (TCTO or "tic-toe"), a new program that will oversee many funded computer science programs. See the DARPA_News twitter feed for information on DARPA solicitations. Among other goals of this office, is to eliminate harsh "go or no go" conditions associated with DARPA grants.
For young researchers, look for CSG or YSA programs, similar in some ways to NSF CAREER awards.
The Laboratory of Telecommunications Science is part of NSA. They hire many many Ph.D.s for advanced computer science research. He could not tell us specifics about what they do, but compared it to an industrial research labs (e.g. AT&T, Yahoo Research, etc.). Movement between research parts and non-research parts is more fluid and is pretty hands on. Even the theoretical computer scientists and mathematicians they hire often build systems to implement their work.
To get funding through them, they generally have close and specific collaborations with faculty. The best way to start a relationship is sending a student on a summer internship (maybe even an undergrad) or via a sabbatical.
Jan Cuny from NSF decided she did not need to convince us that we should apply to NSF; rather, she just assumed we would and gave a howto on applying for NSF grants. Most important tip: **talk to program officers!** (before you submit). Otherwise, it is hard to give specific summaries from her talk (the slides will eventually be online--definitely look for them). The presentation nicely demystified some of the reviewing process; such as how grants are reviewed and why she may choose a certain proposal (for diversity) that scored slightly lower than another unfunded proposal. The other key advice: follow the guidelines precisely and carefully, make it easy for reviewers, and focus the content section on proposed work, not existing work.
A parting thought. It has been great to see many friends who are recent faculty or postdocs, in areas who I might not meet in my normal conferences. But it was a bit odd to have such a large fraction of my competition for jobs in the next year or two in the same room. The funding agencies were definitely here advertising how to get their funding, but if we did not realize that this was important, we would probably not have much luck getting jobs. If you were a department looking to hire to someone, perhaps it would have made sense to come here to recruit postdocs to apply ? Although I guess that is a bit optimistic, as it is a hirer's market.
Is there some way that having many people looking for jobs all in one place can facilitate the hiring process, or has this been out-dated with the electronic age? I would argue that personal interaction is underrated, and would help universities figure out not just who has a great resume on paper, but is also great to personally interact with.


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The Anna Maria field hockey team will make its first NCAA Division 3 Tournament appearance when it plays at Tufts at 3 p.m. today in a first-round game. The AmCats (15-6) earned an automatic NCAA bid by capturing the NECC championship.
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The field hockey team will make its first NCAA Division 3 Tournament appearance when it plays at Tufts at 3 p.m. today in a first-round game. The AmCats (15-6) earned an automatic NCAA bid by capturing the NECC championship. This is the first NCAA appearance for any Anna Maria team since the men's basketball team advanced to the Sweet 16 in 1996.
Junior Paige Anderson and sophomore Kiley Colucci were named to the All-Northeast-10 Conference field hockey second team. Freshman Meghan Sullivan of Worcester was named to the All-Rookie team. … Senior Andrea Bates of Holden, senior Kelsey Imondi and juniors Rachel Edgin and Lindsay Miller earned All-NE-10 third-team honors for women's soccer. … Senior Lucas Spina was named to the All-NE-10 men's soccer third team.
Senior Talia Fish and freshman Lauren Mackey earned All-NEWMAC second-team honors for field hockey. ... Senior Janelle Pasternack of North Brookfield was named to the All-NEWMAC first team for women's soccer. … Junior Oscar Zapata was named to the All-NEWMAC first team for men's soccer. … Clark will host the 33rd annual Worcester City Women's Basketball Tournament Friday and Saturday. Admission is $5 for adults, $1 for students and free for senior citizens and children under 12. Clark has won the tourney 20 times.
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Women's soccer senior goalkeeper Jillian Kirouac of Leominster and sophomore Jacqueline Walker were named to the All-MASCAC second team. … Junior Aidan Hanratty earned All-MASCAC second-team honors for men's soccer.
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Senior Monty Sanders was named to the All-Patriot League men's soccer first team. Senior Josh Cintas earned second-team honors while senior Tommy Uttaro and sophomore Luke Melody were named to the third team. … Freshman Emily Popp was named Patriot League volleyball Rookie of the Week. She averaged 5.43 digs per set in matches against Loyola (Md.) and American. … Junior forward Nicole Grannino, who led the women's hockey team to wins over Sacred Heart and Salve Regina to open the season, was named ECAC Women's East Player of the Week. Grannino had three assists vs. Sacred Heart and her first career hat trick against Salve Regina. Freshman forward Rose Rather, who totaled three goals and four assists in the two games, was named Rookie of the Week.
Senior Pat Gaumond earned All-Commonwealth Coast Conference men's soccer first-team honors. Senior Fred Willard and junior Phil Mitto were named to the second team. … Junior Nicole Simeone earned All-CCC first-team honors for field hockey. Juniors Avery Orszulak and Jenn Townsend and sophomore Victoria Utter were named to the second team. … Sophomore Alex Larson was named ECAC Northeast Goalie of the Week. Larson stopped 37 shots in a 2-0 men's hockey win over Curry for his third career shutout.
Former star Ryan Flynn, a 2006 WPI graduate, has joined the men's basketball staff as the top assistant. Flynn replaces Rob Southall, who was named head coach at Elms last month. Flynn returns to WPI after serving as the owner and head coach of Crossover Basketball, a nonprofit AAU basketball organization based in San Antonio, Texas. "I am ecstatic to welcome Ryan Flynn back to WPI," coach Chris Bartley said. "First and foremost Ryan is a person of high character with a passion for teaching basketball and developing the people he coaches." … The 400 medley relay team of Alex Powers, Nathan Hughes, Andrew Kelleher and Erick Burgwardt was named the NEWMAC men's swimming Relay Team of the Week. The foursome combined to set a home pool record with a time of 3:36.45 in a tri-meet with Babson and Brandeis. ... Freshman Matt Farrell was named NEWMAC men's soccer Rookie of the Year. Senior teammate Chris Ciampa earned first-team honors and junior Eric Crevoisert was named to the second team.
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Senior Brendan Whitson of Auburn was named MASCAC men's soccer Player of the Year. Whitson led the MASCAC in goals (12) and points (27) and helped the Lancers to the final of the MASCAC tournament and an ECAC Division 3 New England tourney berth. Joining Whitson on the all-conference first team were senior Brian Cormier of Hudson, senior Derek Alves and sophomore Nick Zucco. Senior Alex Wolfel and sophomore Jake Denver were named to the second team. The third-seeded Lancers host sixth-seeded Mount Ida in the opening round of the ECAC tourney at 7 tonight. … Senior Brittany Rotatori of Auburn was named to the All-MASCAC first team for women's soccer. Senior Laura Maunsell and junior Shelby Archer were named to the second team. … Junior Kelli McPherson was named to the All-Little East third team for field hockey. The field hockey team is seeded fifth for the ECAC Division 3 New England tourney and will travel to fourth-seeded Smith for a first-round game at 2 today. … Junior Alyssa Jasper earned All-MASCAC first-team honors for volleyball. Seniors Megan Brown and Vicki O'Brien were named to the second team. … Sophomore Salvatore Tecci was named MASCAC men's hockey Goalkeeper of the Week. Tecci made 34 saves in a 3-1 win over WNEC.
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Merrimack junior Jose Silva of Northboro was named NE-10 men's soccer Goalkeeper of the Year for the second straight season. Silva, a first-team All-NE-10 selection, posted a 0.53 goals against average during the regular season. Also earning All-NE-10 honors for men's soccer were Franklin Pierce postgraduate Terence Ciavarra of Sutton (second team), Franklin Pierce postgraduate Ryan Ruffing of Westboro (third) and Merrimack sophomore Augusto Silva of Hudson (third). Bentley freshman Jack Blatchford of Douglas was named to the All-Rookie team. … Bentley senior Gina Lirange of Auburn and Stonehill senior Gina Sheehan of Shrewsbury were named to the All-NE-10 field hockey first team. Stonehill senior Kelsey Davis of Gardner earned second-team honors. … Bridgewater State senior Katie Nasuti of Millbury and MCLA junior Sarah Lieneck of Ashby earned All-MASCAC second-team honors for women's soccer. … MCLA sophomore Tyler Guzzi of Southboro was named to the All-MASCAC men's soccer second team. … Endicott senior Sarah Person of Holden was named the CCC Senior Scholar-Athlete for women's soccer. Roger Williams senior Tory Benoit of Shrewsbury earned All-CCC first-team honors.


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The first award was for being the best school in overall sportsmanship in Region XV during the 2012-13 school year. According to GCHS Athletic Director Ronald Dolphin, Grand received the top sportsmanship honors in the region for both the winter and spring seasons, as well as being the overall region winner.
Dolphin said Grand's excellence in sportsmanship is due in large part to the school's participation in the Utah High School Activities Association's "Raise the Bar" initiative designed to maintain a high level of sportsmanship across all sports.
"Grand has worked hard and efficiently to produce a positive sportsmanship climate in the school and community over the last four years," Dolphin said.
In addition, Grand County High was named the overall 2A winner of the annual Director's Cup award, which was first established by the Utah Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association three years ago. According to Dolphin, the current criteria for winning the award are as follows: 40 percent is based on the state finishes for each athletic and activity program, 40 percent is based on the combined grade point averages of each team competing at state, and the remaining 20 percent based on the school's participation in the UHSAA's "Raise the Bar" sportsmanship initiative.
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A softball-sized piece of metal crashed through the windshield of a charter bus Friday causing delays on southbound Interstate 75.
A female student riding on the tour bus was injured by the piece of metal and transported by Cridersville EMS to a nearby hospital for treatment.
"The piece of metal went through the glass over the head of the driver and struck the passenger," Wapakoneta Fire Chief Kendall Krites said Friday afternoon. "The accident could have been much worse if the metal had struck the driver of the bus. He was able to get the bus to the side of the road so the passengers could be checked for injuries.
"They were all very fortunate it did not hit the driver," he said.
Firefighters and EMS personnel from the Wapakoneta Fire Department, officers with the Wapakoneta Police Department and troopers with the Wapakoneta Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol (OSHP) responded to the accident, which occurred at approximately 11 a.m. Friday. Crews left the scene at 12:19 p.m.
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He noted he was glad there were not multiple injuries, but EMS members helped students clean their clothes and hair of glass.
There were 44 students and eight adults on the charter bus which was transporting a church group from Louisiana. They were on their way home when the accident occurred.
Krites also said Wapakoneta City Schools Operations Director Mike Watt offered the use of a school bus to transport the group to the local truck stop, but a replacement charter bus arrived minutes after the city school bus arrived at the scene.
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Redistricting forces Hansen out of hometown
You could call it an embarrassment of riches. Most communities in Mono County only get one supervisor to represent them. But for the past eight weeks, and until at least 2012, Lee Vining and Mono City will get two.
If that sounds a bit awkward, it probably is.
The redistricting went into effect Aug. 16 when the county supervisors voted by a majority vote to accept new supervisorial district boundaries as created by a citizens redistricting committee. The plan, selected from of a total of three redistricting alternatives, pushed Lee Vining and Mono City out of Tim Hansen's District 4 and down into District 3, the home of Supervisor Vikki Bauer.
The new boundaries gave Bauer, a June Lake resident, an area from Mammoth north to the Conway summit, and Hansen an area from Conway summit north to the Nevada border (along with an oddly shaped wraparound over to the eastern edge of the county and then down into Mammoth, but that's another story…).
The problem is, Tim Hansen lives in Lee Vining, and was elected by Lee Vining residents, amidst others. The new boundaries make him a man without any official responsibility to his own hometown and its people, at least until the election of 2012 when his seat comes up.
It's also the reason he didn't join the majority Aug. 16, voting against the plan. Right now, though, it's just plain making him mad.
Stuck in a unique situation, Hansen is determined to continue representing those who elected him.
"I'm going to keep going to these meetings, no matter what," he said. "These people elected me, I have a responsibility to them. I haven't missed a meeting since I was elected, I know all the issues and I'm going, even if Vikki is there."
New boundaries in effect now
Hansen said he recently found out the new boundaries were already in effect last week.
"I thought the new boundaries didn't go into effect until after the 2012 election, until I asked county counsel about it," he said. "That was a surprise."
"The Board's ordinance changing the district boundaries has already taken effect," Mono County Counsel Marshall Rudolph confirmed by email Wednesday. "As part of that change, the Mono Basin is now part of District 3. The change in district boundaries does not affect any incumbent supervisor's term of office. So Tim Hansen will continue to represent (the newly drawn) District 4 for the remainder of his current term of office even though he is not a resident of District 4."
Supervisor Bauer, unlike Hansen, isn't upset with the situation. She said Wednesday she thinks the current situation, as odd as it may seem, will work out well for the citizens of both communities.
"Tim and I will work together to serve the Mono Basin, which in reality has been happening all along," she said. "I have covered that RPAC (community advisory committees) during periods when they had no supervisor … because we share so much. Until Tim was there, the North County supervisors never did a whole bunch with them. I always naturally had more information on their issues and was always in it as a fellow supervisor. It's really much a do about nothing … unless you ask Tim. But Tim … was voted in by the voters, and I would never disrespect that, and me, by happenstance of redistricting. How lucky are they right now to have two votes?"
She emphasized that the new boundary was set by residents of the region, not by her, and only after many months of public hearings and community meetings over the past year.
"Now that it has happened, I am thrilled," she said. "There was not a single negative comment (outside of Tim, who was redistricted out) on this. In fact, the committee received more public comment (all positive) on this one issue than any other. And the comments were split between June Lake and the Mono Basin, with everyone in support."
She added that most people never got used to the idea that June Lake was cut off from the rest of the Mono Basin communities ten years ago, during the 2000 Census.
"Most people never got the memo," she said.
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The same thing is happening all over the state, on a larger scale, as state representative and senate districts are also being redistricted, Bauer said.
"In particular, (it's happening in) the state senate districts due to election cycles," she said. "Some areas have two senators and some (now) have none. Mono is in the "none" category, with no election for 2.5 years. We will be assigned a senator for the interim, until the election."
In the meantime, Hansen, who ran a close race against Walker resident Tim Fesko, is getting far more than he bargained for when he entered politics for the first time.
The business owner (High Sierra Brine Shrimp) and decades-long resident of Lee Vining ran as a "common man" with a deep concern for the working class residents he feels are the heart of his district. During the time he ran, he was quick to draw contrasts between Mammoth's resort-dominated needs and character, and those of his district.
Due to the new redistrict boundaries, he's now the supervisor for a small part of Mammoth, an area north of Main Street on the eastern edge of town.
When asked how he would represent an area he had actively said had nothing in common with his own North County district, he said he would do his duty.
"It's simple," he said. "I will represent it as I have represented other issue that affect Mammoth in the past, and do my best to make good decisions."
To see the maps that show the new district boundaries, go to: http://www.monocounty.ca.gov/redistricting/


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Residents of Oxnard, California, now have a new go-to deli inspired restaurant serving up big, made-to-order sandwiches stuffed with the freshest ingredients.
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|Dev: Digital Extremes
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|Pub: D3 Publisher
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|4.5 - 4.9 = Must Buy
|Release: March 25, 2008
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Graphics in this title are definitely above par and feature rich and complex environments. Characters in cinema scenes look fairly good, but character detail is a little lacking in-game. The game is presented in full HD up to 1080p, and this is definitely apparent when you see the lighting and water effects. One of the best facets of this game in terms of visuals has to be the action scenes. There was one particularity memorable scene in the second level that featured a giant, hairy monster. And while the monster itself wasn't that impressive, the animation was really spectacular during this fight, and I was impressed by the fluidity and framerate consistency during this scene.
Sound in this game is pretty mediocre, and features some largely uninspiring stage music and some pretty generic sound effects. The voice acting isn't too bad, but I think this title could have benefited immensely if a little more attention was paid to the sound. Some of the levels are quite creepy, especially ones where zombies are after you, but they fall short of being actually scary because the music just doesn't match the situation.
Dark Sector can best be described as a game born out of a formula. To create this game, you will need 2 parts Gears of War, 1 part Resident Evil, and a dash of X-Men. It is totally easy to rip this game to shreds based on this description. But as you play this game, something unexpected happens: you find yourself having an amazing amount of fun. Even though this game pulls largely from pre-existing material, it seems to have pulled everything that was enjoyable about these series and compiled it into a game that is unexpectedly fun. To its credit, it does produce some type of originality with the glaive weapon. But that's not enough to make this a great game. A fun and amusing game perhaps, but if you're looking for a whole lot of substance, this isn't the game for you. But if you like beheading foes in slow-mo, then you'll have a great time with Dark Sector!
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text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - robotics reference photos Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Digital Art Discussion View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "robotics reference photos" jefferymemberMember #Joined: 02 Jan 2001Posts: 107Location: Toronto, ON, CA Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2001 9:12 am i mentioned a week ago that i had some robot reference pictures to scan and upload. they're from a book called "RoboSapiens" that i got for xmas, and the book is AMAZING! a lot of the pictures are dark, or have really strange lighting, so they're not really suitable for me to scan & upload as reference pics.. but if you're interested in the subject, get this book! has a lot of different structures that can be used in robot design a robotic cockroach. very cool! take a look at all the hydraulics that power the legs. (the silver cylinders) check out the knuckle joints and the cool pressed metal arm covering. looks like they use elastic fabric to help some of the fingers spring back into place. not the best reference, but this picture was so cool i had to include it. makes me want to get into the auto trade! ------------------ Make your eyes smile Back to top absinthememberMember #Joined: 15 Dec 2000Posts: 100Location: portland, or Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2001 9:14 am yeah, but are the little red x's really good examples of robotics? ...sorry. Back to top IsricmemberMember #Joined: 23 Jul 2000Posts: 1200Location: Calgary AB Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2001 9:43 am Wow, those are keen! If you were to draw every one of those, you would be...be..a genius! You could draw the best robots ever seen! and...awww, i'm not gunna do it, too lzy. Back to top SumalethAdministratorMember #Joined: 30 Oct 1999Posts: 2896Location: Australia Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2001 10:01 am Those are really cool refs. Row. Back to top napalmmemberMember #Joined: 09 Feb 2000Posts: 326Location: Brooklyn, NY, USA Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2001 10:14 am ah very cool henny, thank for the scans. absinthe: theyre pretty big and take a while to load, patience grasshopper. haste leads to darkness, darkness leads to hate, hate leads to little red x's.. er.. yah ------------------ firstname.lastname@example.com me: http://www.deadzebra.com / my crew: http://www.creators.org my master nick.com Back to top jefferymemberMember #Joined: 02 Jan 2001Posts: 107Location: Toronto, ON, CA Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2001 11:22 am i think they were still uploading when poor absinthe viewed the thread, mere seconds after i posted it. my fault. ------------------ Make your eyes smile Back to top SergenthmemberMember #Joined: 06 Apr 2000Posts: 437Location: Milford NJ USA Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2001 11:30 am That top robot is pretty old, oldest of these bunch of pics I would guess (just take a look at Honda's(?) stair-walking robot to get an idea of where we are really at in terms of advanced robotics - it can finally turn around by itself and only weighs around 200 pounds heavier than an average human) That cockroach ain't going nowhere with all those hydraulics tubes stapling it to the table The nicest thing in the hand pic is the hook it's holding. Dang, that hook has a nice finish on it! Funny... the auto-industry robot on the bottom is the most advanced and programmable (and useful) of all the robots shown here. Notice how that is the only robot that does not resemble an animal or a person in it's entire form. Notice a trend about that...? We are a long, long way from useful robots in the home. Don't believe what any show or article about the future tells you - it's all dreamy fluff, just like flying cars for the family (would you trust your neighbor with a garbage truck-sized rolling vehicle today even?). Too darn expensive to break into that consumer market... more expensive than microchips and automobiles put together. Back to top ZosomemberMember #Joined: 23 Dec 2000Posts: 132Location: Stuttgart, Germany Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2001 11:55 am Thanks for the great reference pics jeffrey! I'm going to have to try to find this book. ------------------ Zoso http://www.digitaldeities.net ICQ: 2883426 Back to top jefferymemberMember #Joined: 02 Jan 2001Posts: 107Location: Toronto, ON, CA Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2001 1:47 pm sergenth - actually all 4 robots are from around the same timeframe. the book comes with detailed stats for each of the robots it features, and i was surprised that most of them looked like #1. (or even more primitive) these clunky-looking robots seem to work much more functionally than things like honda's p-series robot. i deliberately chose to scan robots with less fancy-looking plastic covering up the cool gizmos, cuz they're better reference. hondas robot looks like a 4-foot tall astronaut. anyways, agreed about non-humanoid robots being more realistic. that was one of the themes of the book, and they had pretty interesting arguments. the book features robot monkeys, dinosaurs, flamingos, geckos, insects, fish, etc etc.. ------------------ Make your eyes smile Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Digital Art Discussion All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group


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BATAVIA – North River Street is sporting streetscape improvements, and several businesses have opened or plan to open in the downtown as a result of the city's use of tax increment financing funds.
But not all residents and aldermen agree with how the funds are used. Batavia resident Jack McCabe said he believes the $3.5 million the city is spending on the North River Street project is a waste of money. The project is being funded with funds generated from the two active downtown TIF districts.
North River Street, which recently has reopened to pedestrian and vehicular traffic, has been transformed into a curbless street in which pedestrians have priority over cars. The project is expected to be finished by spring. McCabe said the decrease in parking will hurt the restaurants and other businesses along North River Street.
"Where can people park?" he asked. "They can't all park in the parking garage."
Batavia is not the only community receiving scrutiny for its use of TIF funds. In St. Charles, a group of residents opposes the creation of a TIF district for the proposed Lexington Club housing development.
State law requires a TIF redevelopment meet criteria, such as blight and conditions that lead to blight. Once a municipality creates a TIF, its property assessment is frozen and new or increased taxes generated by improvements are used to pay for improvements or other development incentives. These include buying land, razing buildings, relocating a business and rebuilding streets, sidewalks and utilities, among others. State law allows a TIF to exist for 23 years while its diverted taxes pay for improvements.
Batavia also uses TIF funds as business incentives, specifically through its facade and downtown improvement grant programs and redevelopment agreements.
The Batavia City Council has approved several downtown improvement grants in the past year. But not all have been with the unanimous approval of aldermen.
Aldermen in September voted, 11-3, to give Kay Eck of Wheaton a $25,000 downtown improvement grant so she could open a yoga studio on North River Street. The project is expected to cost $121,251.
Also, Batavia aldermen in October voted, 9-4, to give Batavia Enterprises a $25,000 downtown improvement grant. Batavia Enterprises owns the building at 8 W. Wilson St. in downtown Batavia, the former home of Lane Allen Architects, and requested a $25,000 grant to renovate the 1,555-square-foot space into a coffee shop for Limestone Coffee & Tea.
Limestone closed its cafe in November at the corner of Wilson and North River streets after being in the building since September 2007. The Rhino Room restaurant has moved into the space.
The City Council in 2009 established the downtown improvement grant program, which provides building owners with up to 50 percent of actual improvement costs.
Fifth Ward Alderman Eldon Frydendall voted against the grant.
"I don't think that we are being fair to businesses that have been around for a while and are trying to survive," Frydendall said at the time.
McCabe said he would rather see the city give out new businesses loans instead of grants.
"The city is not looking at their return," he said. "They just look at vacant buildings."
Batavia MainStreet Executive Director Joi Cuartero said the MainStreet organization views TIFs as an important tool for economic development. The organization's mission is to "enhance downtown Batavia's identity as the heart of the community."
She noted that the grant program goes to funding permanent improvements to buildings "so we can get these properties up to snuff." Cuartero urged those downtown business owners to apply for the city's incentives, as well.
Batavia city officials have pointed to the success of TIF funding in getting Water Street Studios up and running. To get the project off the ground, aldermen voted to give Batavia Enterprises up to $125,000 in TIF funds. Water Street Studios opened in 2009.
TIF districts are not welcomed by all. In St. Charles, a group has gathered more than 600 signatures on a petition against the creation of the Lexington Club TIF district.
Joseph Masiokas, chairman of the group 2R2R: River to Randall, Railway to Route 64, sent a letter to aldermen stating the group's concerns, including that "St. Charles residents are vehemently opposed to helping a residential developer add more units to the housing stock at a time when the number of vacant properties in the city is approaching 500 units."
The proposed TIF district would encompass about 45 acres on St. Charles' west side that developers want to transform into a 125- to 130-unit residential development called Lexington Club. As part of the proposed $6 million TIF agreement, the city would reimburse the developer for costs associated with demolition, site leveling and environmental remediation in an amount not to exceed $6 million.
"The city recognizes that those costs are extraordinary," St. Charles Economic Development Director Chris Aiston said.
Aiston said the property could add about $57 million in overall assessed valuation to the city once it is redeveloped. City officials said it would be the city's first truly residential TIF district and would operate on a pay-as-you go system, bringing no financial risk to the city.


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For the first three weeks of the football season, Guilford's defense was getting all the attention. Friday night, it was the offense's turn.
For the first three weeks of the football season, it seemed that Guilford's defense was getting all the shine.
It's not hard to figure out why with nine returning starters that helped to lead the Vikings to a then 3-0 NIC-10 record with three shutouts.
However, Guilford coach Mel Gilfillian was ready to see his team's offense pick up the pace as the Vikings prepared to take on Belvidere North Friday.
They did just that with a 35-7 win, shutting down the Blue Thunder's high octane offense.
His Vikings (4-1) were coming off a disappointing loss against Boylan 47-21 last week.
"We really take pride in our team's defense and last week, we just didn't play well," he said. "So this week, we wanted to come out and set the tone for the season. I think we have a fantastic defense and our offense came alive tonight. It's the first game we actually put both phases together."
Offensively, the Vikings had 369 yards of total offense, with 259 yards passing and 110 rushing with four touchdowns.
"We threw the ball tonight," Gilfillian said. "We didn't turn the ball over. Our turnovers have killed us in the past. (Nino) Musso threw the ball and we caught the ball. We kind of threw their (North) game back at them."
Meanwhile, Guilford's defense continued to be strong. For the past two weeks, North quarterback Jace Bankord had thrown for over 300 yards, but against Guilford, he was limited to just 139 yards and had two interceptions. Guilford recovered two fumbles. The Vikings scored their first touchdown off a blocked punt when Greg Williams ran it into the end zone for 34 yards.
"This is two weeks in row where a big play in the game has really taken us out of our rhythm," said North coach Jeff Beck, whose team has lost two straight games and now stands 2-3. "We are not a big fan of it and we need to be able to respond and bounce back."
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According to a story by Jeff Sentell of AL.com, Gamecock recruiter Grady Brown called DB Marlon Humphrey of Hoover, AL on Signing Day. Alabama head coach Nick Saban also called Humphrey, the son of former Alabama star running back Bobby Humphrey.
The report stated USC and Alabama are the two favorites of Humphrey in the early going of his recruiting. Humphrey said his relationship with Brown is a major reason he likes USC.
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1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil, 1 turn of the pan
3 cloves cracked garlic
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Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 cup part skim ricotta cheese
10 sun dried tomatoes in oil, drained and sliced
1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
12 to 15 leaves fresh basil, torn or stacked and thinly sliced
Preheat oven to 500 F. On 12-inch nonstick pizza pan, stretch out dough and form pizza crust. Drizzle olive oil on crust and spread it with a pastry brush over the dough to the edges.
Sprinkle crust with grated Parmigiano-Reggiano.
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RIPLEY – The beginning of football season is always filled with hope and excitement. This is especially true for the Ripley Vikings, who officially opened their 2014 season on Monday with their first fall practice.
The Vikings–clad in gray shirts that read "Leave No Doubt"–started two-a-day practices, with the offense working during the morning session and the afternoon session focusing on the defense. One thing was for sure at Monday's practice, the players and coaches were anxious to get going.
"It was a good day," said the Vikings second year head coach David Tennant, "It wasn't great, making some mental errors, but for our first day, even though we expect perfection, it was a good day."
The Vikings had around 45 players report for practice, many of whom took part in the summer workouts that helped maintain conditioning levels and really served as a great teambuilding experience for the players. Tennant and his staff were less concerned with the number of players, and were instead focused on building around the players who were there.
"We didn't have the numbers we expected, but you don't need 80 kids on your team to put a good team on the field," Tennant said, "We got a bunch of kids that are here, and those are the ones you can build a program around."
One of the main takeaways from the first day's practice was the Vikings' energy level. Both the coaches and the players showed a great deal of enthusiasm and vigor at both sessions on Monday, which is something that they hope will carry on through the rest of the fall.
"It was better," Tennant said regarding the energy at the practice, "It's not exactly where we want it to be, but it's better than it has been in the past. Having the coaching staff very enthusiastic, getting on them [the players], helps out a bunch. Once the players start jumping in there, coaches can only do it for so long, you need players to step in there and lead the way."
Tennant also talked about some of the positives and negatives from the first day, mentioning that he and his staff were pleased with his team's level of effort, but did acknowledge that they, like everyone else on the first day of practice, have things that could be better.
"We saw kids having fun out there," Tennant said, "It looks like they love the game. It's hard, we're pushing them past their limits big time and you can see it in their faces that we are pushing them as hard as we can push them, but they're still having fun and enjoying it. They're here to work."
The Vikings will continue two-a-days into next week, when they will get pads and go into full contact practices.
The physical nature of the Vikings was one the summer's bright spots, and the players themselves looked extremely anxious to get started with full contact, something that Tennant confirmed.
"I'm hoping that the intensity we have now goes right into it," Tennant said, "The first couple of days, the excitement comes. There's nothing like the first day of hitting. You can tell the excitement, they want to hit each other now. That's a great feeling. We have kids out here that want to hit someone. It's going to lead to good things."
The Vikings are hoping that the first day's enthusiasm will translate into better things once the season begins later this month. Ripley hopes to improve on last year's two win season and will have their first opportunity on August 29th, when they travel to Parkersburg South to take on the Patriots.
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Christy Sharp has worked with the homeless for a few years. A 1999 graduate of Duke Divinity School. She now works with Joseph's House, a program at First United Methodist designed to provide services needed by the homeless.
Lora Starling's experience with homelessness started about three years ago. She has wrestled with mental health issues that include post-traumatic stress disorder and depression, and she has some major health problems.
Starling, 46, could not find a steady place to call home.
She would move from place to place, sometimes returning to the man who mentally and physically abused her when she had no other shelter. She didn't have any support.
"I was ready to give up," Starling said. "I didn't know which way to turn. I just needed somewhere to lay my head."
She moved from South Carolina to Henderson County about a month ago and was taken to Mainstay, the domestic violence shelter for women. There, case manager Anita Bodenhamer connected her with a group from First United Methodist Church that has found a home for Starling.
"Anita believed in me and took a chance on me," Starling said. "I don't know why. And now I have everything I need, when I thought I had lost it all. "It's a total miracle," Starling said. "It's such a good feeling to lay my head down and know it's mine."
On the edge
Studies show that many Americans are only one paycheck away from homelessness.
According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, in 2011 (the most recent year available), North Carolina had 12,918 homeless people, an increase of 4 percent over the previous year.
"In Western North Carolina, 44 percent of homeless people are veterans, 11 percent are children, and 75 percent did have housing but lost it," said the Rev.
Christy Sharp, associate pastor at First United Methodist Church in Hendersonville.
Sharp has worked with the homeless for a few years. A 1999 graduate of Duke Divinity School, Sharp served at Skyland United Methodist Church, took a sabbatical to focus on her family, and joined First United Methodist Church this past August.
Sharp now works with Joseph's House, a program at First United Methodist designed to provide services needed by the homeless. For many years, she has served with Room in the Inn, a program under the umbrella of Homeward Bound in Buncombe County, in which faith communities provide mobile shelters for homeless women. "Participating churches provide safe lodging and three meals a day for up to 12 women at a time. " Sharp explained. "The churches provide stability so that the women can work on other issues. Some women have jobs; others are in school.
Room in the Inn is an important safety net for women seeking to find permanent housing. We also know that women need support after they transition from Room in the Inn into housing."
Hope to Home
First United Methodist's Joseph's House is working with a new program in Henderson County, Hope to Home. Initiated in Buncombe County by Homeward Bound, Hope to Home offers support to homeless people with two conditions: They must want support, and they must be clean and sober.
"Many people transitioning from homelessness to housing need supportive relationships," Sharp said.
Hope to Home trains teams of eight to 10 church members who spend several hours per month with the person or family being served. The teams often form relationships that continue after the transition into housing is completed.
FUMC's first team has 10 members who began working with Starling in February.
"FUMC has a real commitment to reaching out and making a difference in our community," Sharp said. "At the same time Homeward Bound was beginning to offer programs in Henderson County, one of our churchowned apartments became available. It was a great opportunity for us to partner with Hope to Home in this new ministry for our community.
"God makes things happen," she said, smiling.
"It is not always neat and clean, but when people come together to try to make a difference doing God's handiwork, good things can happen."
Each Home to Home client has a case manager, which means the team is there to offer a supportive, neighborly relationship.
"They can be cheerleaders for the client," Sharp said. "Teams are there to support those in homes, to surround them with help until they are able to stand on their own.
"If stable housing is provided, it makes it easier to improve in other areas, which ends up better for everyone all around," Sharp said. "And it's cheaper, too."
The estimated cost of supporting one homeless person per year in Buncombe County is $23,000.
Other efforts
There are several teams working to end homelessness in Henderson County.
The Homeless Education Link Project (HELP) program in the Henderson County Public School System has two employees, Christine Craft and Troy Bradley, who work to support homeless students from kindergarten through high school, 230 at their last tally.
"The reasons for homelessness among youth vary, but a majority fall into homelessness for reasons such as domestic violence, physical/emotional/ or sexual abuse, a conflict with a step-parent or a parent's boyfriend/girlfriend, drug or alcohol abuse, teen pregnancy, parent deportation, or conflict because of their sexual orientation," Craft said.
HELP's main goal is not only to keep students in school, but to keep them in the same school.
"Students fall behind academically an average of three to four months with each move they make," Craft said. "The trick is catching them before they move. Then we do our best to help provide transportation to their home school."
Craft and Bradley have plenty of eyes and ears throughout the school system. "Lunch staff members let us know when they see kids who are hungry.
Bus drivers and guidance counselors are key people who let us know what is going on in kids' lives," Craft said.
Craft is co-chair of the Henderson County Homeless Coalition with Brian Alexander, the executive director of Homeward Bound of Buncombe County, which has an 89 percent success rate among more than 500 people the group has housed.
The coalition brings together local agencies that work to end homelessness in Henderson County, including the United Way, the Department of Social Services, Western Carolina Community Action, Pisgah Legal Services, Children and Family Resource Center, Mainstay, the Rescue Mission, Housing Assistance Corporation and community volunteers.
"The city police just joined us at our last meeting, and we all had a great info-sharing session," said Craft, who hopes the Henderson County Sheriff's Office will join in the discussion soon.
Making a difference
"I believe folks in Henderson County do care, but they can't make a difference if they are unaware of the problem," Craft said. "We have some third-world living conditions right here in Henderson County."
Sharp offered ways individuals can help solve the problem: "Volunteer with agencies providing services to the homeless," she said. "If you are a part of a faith community, encourage your congregation to find ways to get involved in the issues of homelessness in our community. Start a Hope to Home team.
"Faith communities have a lot to offer the community as a whole," Sharp said. "If we keep focusing on reaching out in faith and love, there will be no shortage of opportunities for us. And if we can partner with organizations and agencies that have the same goals in mind, it will be a win/win for everyone concerned."
Starling credits "God, Homeward Bound, First United Methodist Church and my Hope to Home team" for her transition.
"I don't take this for granted," Starling said.
"I'm living proof that things can turn around.
Now I have a passion to succeed. It felt impossible before, but now I know it's not."