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Cochin LT Italic
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Diverda Serif ComStyle
1.10; 2006Company
Linotype GmbHAuthor
Daniel LanzTrademark
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Diverda Serif is a contemporary typeface that is free from ornament. Created by Swiss designer Daniel Lanz, Diverda Serif is optimized for maximum legibility. In contrast to many other modern typefaces, which try to squeeze the traditional rounder forms of the alphabet into square designs, and which often attempt to equalize the widths of the capital letters, Diverda Serif remains true to the proper proportions of the Roman alphabet. The x-heights of Diverda Serif's characters are low, and the differences between curved, square, and triangular elements are very clear. Like the more calligraphic typefaces of the past, Diverda Serif's strokes exhibit contrast that is inspired by movements of the pen on paper; down strokes are heavier than up strokes. Possible applications for the Diverda Serif include magazine design, as well as advertising for fashion, design, or architectural products. Diverda Serif is also a good fit for Corporate Identity solutions.License
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The 2014 Blackboard Awards For Teachers: Event Photos
See a photo slideshow from the 2014 Blackboard Awards for Teachers ceremony at Scholastic
On Monday, June 2, the 2014 Blackboard Awards For Teachers honored 15 of the finest educators in the city at a special ceremony at Scholastic's headquarters in Manhattan. Dana Points, the editor-in-chief of Parents and American Baby magazines, was the emcee. In addition to Scholastic, the sponsors included the United Federation Of Teachers (UFT), the City University of New York (CUNY), Yorkville Youth Athletic Association, The New School, and School Search Solutions, a division of the School Choice Group.
The slideshow below contains a selection of photos capturing special moments from the Awards' ceremony. All photos are by Andrew Schwartz.
To learn more about our spring 2014 honorees, click HERE.
Please note: We welcome and encourage parent nominations all year long; to nominate a school, principal, teacher, or guidance counselor visit blackboardawards.com.
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Junior Girls Academy (U14-U16)
The Junior Academy is specifically designed for female rugby players that want to train in order to perform to the best of their abilities. Our goal within this age grade is to ensure that players are equipped with the core rugby skills and understanding of the game in order to best prepare them for success in the future.
The Upright Rugby Senior Academy focuses on developing the core skills necessary for "breaking the gain line" and moving on to the next level. Whether your ambitions are provincial, varsity, national, or simply to be the best player you can be, our sessions will provide you with the resources and know-how to get you there.
Our program includes:
- For the first six weeks, athletes participate in two weekly Speed and Strength training sessions.
- For the second phase of the program (10 weeks), athletes participate in three weekly Speed and Strength training sessions.
- Training is provided by highly reputable and knowledgeable coaches, each of whom bring their own impressive résumé of high-performance strength training and conditioning.
- Up to 16 weeks of Advanced Skills Training that utilizes the latest technology to provide concise, accurate feedback for each athlete;
- Athletes participate in two weekly Skills Development sessions with some of the country's best skill assessment and development coaches.
- In addition to the on-going tactical sessions that athletes experience in their weekly Skills Sessions, they also benefit from 12 weeks of tactical experience in game situations through our Indoor Touch Rugby League;
- Functional Motor Screening and consistent monitoring of our athletes progress from a medical and physiological perspective;
- Weekly Yoga or Pilates classes in order to increase range of motion amongst our athletes, strengthen their core and minimize the risk of injury;
- Four-Part Nutrition Seminar
- Two-Part Sport Psych and Performance Visualization Seminar
Our program maintains consistency with the Long Term Rugby Development ("LTRD") goals established by Rugby Canada and implemented by the IRB.


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Woody Allen's 1977 movie 'Annie Hall' (one of my personal favorites) showed off Diane Keaton's style perfectly, with men's suits, hats and trench coats. Channeling Diane Keaton's style, model Anna Jagodzinska does her best 'Annie Hall' impersonation for Vogue France.
The Vogue France editorial with Anna Jagodzinska was shot by Mikael Jansson and is the perfect shout-out to my favorite film of the 70s. Take a look at Anna as Diane Keaton above.
Implications - The recent recession prompted financially limited customers to shop in affordable vintage and thrift shops. This caused a resurgence of retro fashions in the marketplace which consumers appreciate for their rarity and elements of antiquity. Essentially, moving backwards is the best way for a company to move forward with today's fashionista.
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Anna Jagodzinska Channels 'Annie Hall' for Vogue Paris
- By: Rachel BowmanAug 25, 2009 Updated: Aug 4 2011
References: vogue.fr & fashiongonerogue
References: vogue.fr & fashiongonerogue


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Carlos Lopez - Senior Project manager
Carlos leads our Spanish office. He is an experienced marine engineer with a PhD in marine engineering & Naval Architecture. His specialities include offshore aerodynamics, mooring design and CFD applications for marine use.
José María Gómez - Senior marine Engineer
José is a naval architect that specialises in structural analysis and design for the marine industry. He has great experience in the mobilisation of vessels and has held positions in Global Maritime and Iberdola in Spain..


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Budget £20-250 GBP
Looking for a simple webpage creator where I can login, click create new webpage, input page name (e.g. sell-gold) choose from 12 pre-installed templates (you'll need to create these based on our png designs) and then via a web editor add content within the template (images/text/embed video). I need to preview the page, save as draft and publish. When published the URL format would be e.g. [url removed, login to view]
Also need a visitor counter within the admin area to log unique page visits on a page by page basis and of course need to reset the hits as required.
The important thing is that its fast, easy to edit and deals with copy/paste word code as well as possible as these web pages are created from word docs and some are very long e.g. 30 pages.
I'm sure this already exists as its not a complicated task so existing examples I would be particularly interested in.
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We have earlier described our panorama pipeline used in the Bagadus system [Halvorsen et al., 2013, Stensland et al., 2014]. In this system, we record raw 2040 × 1080 video frames in Bayer format from five cameras at 50 fps, and each of these camera streams must be debayered in real-time.
Modern GPUs can provide significantly better performance than a CPU for certain tasks. They are optimized for applying small transformations to every single pixel or texture element, with hundreds or thousands of threads performing the same task in parallel, with minimal inter-thread communication. Debayering is an inherently parallel operation, as each pixel, or block of pixels, can typically be calculated locally. Hence, with our high data rate and real-time requirements, we found the GPU to be better suited to perform this task. However, more complex algorithms that require a greater level of contextual information about the entire image will not achieve the same performance increase.


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Building Quality Relationship Since 1962
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Location: Detroit, MIContract Value: $2,600,000Size: SF | 22 Units | 3 StoriesYear Completed: 2006Client: Southwest Housing Solutions Corp.Financing: MSHDAArchitect: Hamilton Anderson Associates
Prior to renovation, the 3 story building was abandoned and in extremely poor condition. The interior was completely stripped and rebuilt into 22 new affordable rental apartments. Historic restorations looked to maintain the original quality of the building while introducing modern interior elements to accommodate today's living standards and requirements.
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Adventure Guide to Cruisin' Bahamas & Florida
What a blast! We gotta admit… Cruising is not our preferred way to travel, but for a cruise we had a pretty fantastic time! We don't love being shipped around like cattle, and ideally like to be in places longer than a blink of an eye… BUT when you're able to travel across the Florida Keys, and Bahamas hanging out with other super successful entrepreneurs from all over the world… Seems pretty silly to pass up!
We flew into Miami a couple days early so we could hangout, see the city, and get some work done.
Because we have made travel our lifestyle we don't go on daily excursions. We enjoy working on our business in beautiful places, and living in each destination like locals… Not as tourists!
That being said when we arrived in Key West we took the time to really enjoy it since the boat only stops for eight hours. What a beautiful little place! We walked for miles & miles discovering the old houses, cute shops, and history of the place. After a long day of walking we checked out Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park, which is right beside a kool beach that is kind of off the beaten path. Beware the beach is pretty rocky walking in, but the warm water makes it worthwhile. Also… It is nothing water shoes, or flip flops couldn't cure!
The next day we enjoyed being at sea, mingling with our entrepreneur friends, enjoying great conversations about life, and getting the inside scoop on how to be successful business owners.
The day after we went to Balmoral Island in the Bahamas for Brian 35th birthday. We swam with the dolphins, soaked up the sun, and took in the beautiful beach with its silky sand, and bright blue waters. Swimming with the dolphins was wonderful, they are mystical creatures. BUT to be quite honest, we don't really like the idea of supporting animals in captivity, so we likely won't participate in something like this again.
Getting to mingle with people who are earning 6, 7, 8 Figures in their business, and now be able to call our biggest mentors friends… What an incredible experience! Absolutely a blessing to be able to learn while you travel!
When we returned to the port in Miami we decided to finish our stay with a couple more days at an AirBnB, which lead to us meeting up with our friends for one last night in Miami… Enjoyed a dinner together, and fantastic conversations. An out of the park experience!
We took a lot of Ubers in Miami, which started to really add up. When we returned to Miami we figured it was a good idea to rent a car since we were flying out of Fort Lauderdale so we could go check out the beach for our last afternoon. Miami has a pretty great little transit system, and is fairly walkable. Before booking your accommodations just be sure to check walkability to the places you wanna check out. We kind of dropped the ball with that on this trip when it came to book our AirBnB, even though the place was so relaxing… It was kind of far from the core of the city.
Key West:
The Royal Caribbean – Empress Of The Sea Took us from Miami Port to Key West. We were at sea for one day, on our way to Bahamas.
Balmoral Bahamas:
Once we arrived in Bahamas, we took a ferry to Balmoral Island.
Our first couple nights we stayed at the Holiday Inn near the Cruise Pier. It was $298.64 USD for 2 nights, and that was low end. If you're looking for cheap… Miami isn't it! Once we got back to Miami we stayed in a nice little private pool house. We booked it through Airbnb, you can search it as "Nice cozy Cottage/ private entrance." (Never booked with Airbnb? Get a discount HERE!) This was a great little place, just outside of the Miami core. We had full access to their pool, along with a private bedroom, bathroom, and small kitchen. The bed was comfy, and Gustavo & his wife had great recommendations about where we should go!
The Royal Caribbean – Empress Of The Sea:
We cruised the Key's for 5 days on The Empress Of The Seas with Royal Caribbean for $1500. That was with our sweet group deal because we went with our Marketing Crew. The Royal Caribbean is definitely a high end ship to sail the seas. We have cruised with them 3 times, and recommend it if cruising is your thing. Our package came with drinks included, along with food at the buffet, and dining room for breakfast lunch & dinner. We paid a pretty penny for internet while on board… Because our business depends on it… Totally worth it for us to get a plan for 2 devices.
Le Chat Noir was the perfect date night! What an awesome little jazz bar, in the basement of a two floor restaurant. The place was full of beautiful artwork, and there was an entire wall of wines to chose from. We took a day trip to South beach which was pretty entertaining because we landed right in the middle of Spring Break. LOL… If you want to avoid Spring Break… March is pretty much out of the cards.
Key West:
As for Key West… We walked all over the island! They have some really quirky little shops, lots of history, and we found a really wonderful beach beside Fort Zachary where we met up with our friends. There is plenty to do there, but if you are cruisin' through… Hit the beach!
Balmoral Bahamas:
We took a quick day trip to Balmoral Island in the Bahamas where we swam with the dolphins, soaked up the sun, and took in the beautiful beach. Absolutely breathtaking with its silky sand, and bright blue waters. Swimming with the dolphins was wonderful, they are mystical creatures. BUT to be quite honest, we don't really like the idea of supporting animals in captivity, so we likely won't participate in something like this again. For us this is our lifestyle now… So as we work we like to fit little adventures into the nooks & crannies of our days. It is kind of hard to work on a cruise, so we are giving this a pretty low Digital Nomad Score. There is always something to do… Whether that is dinner with friends, walking around, or splashing about at the beach. We travel not to escape life, but so life doesn't escape us.
Our first night in Miami we enjoyed a great date night at Le Chat Noir which had a sweet little jazz bar in the basement. From the Holiday Inn we travelled through a pretty sketchy neighbourhood to get there, and didn't really realize it until we were already in the thick of it. We love a good walk, but would recommend taking an uber to get to the other side of that neighbourhood to arrive at Le Chat Noir. We LOVED it there! The food was wonderful! Another favorite of ours was a Peruvian place called CVI.CHE 105. They place some great music, but it is pretty loud. It has a really cool modern vibe. We went there with our friends, and recommend ordering to share! We tried quite a few things we would never think to order on our own, but the diversity of the group attracted lots of new dishes! The plates are huge for a mid range price.
The Royal Caribbeans – Empress Of The Sea:
We had some pretty wonderful meals. The buffet gets a little tiresome, but we had a pretty great dinner our last night at Chops Grill with our friends. Its a steak house… So if your a strict Vegetarian… Try something else. The lobster and fish dishes are wonderful, along with the steaks.
Key West:
We had a great lunch at Carolines. They have a huge range of salads, burgers… Mostly American food though.
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Key West
This study is not really conclusive considering we only visited for a few hours… So the Digital Nomad/ Location Independence Score was a hard one… Along with the wifi. Though we could see it being a pretty cool place to hang your hat for a while because of all the cafes, and kool looking guest houses to stay,
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Balmoral / Discovery Island Bahamas
This study is not really conclusive considering we only visited for a few hours… So the Digital Nomad/ Location Independence Score was a hard one… Along with the wifi. There is a hotel on the one side of the island, and the other side is a Dolphin Sanctuary. So if you're looking for a happening place… Nassau Bahamas would likely be more up your alley. Though we only saw it for a blink. We walked around a wee bit, and got some ice cream before we had to get back on the ship… It looks like a pretty awesome little place!
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It ill behoves me to take issue with my colleagues over at SemanticWeb.com or indeed with Tom Gruber, a co-participant with me in the Ontology Summit for many years, and the brains behind Siri – the "Virtual Personal Assistant" software acquired by Apple last year for a rumoured eye-watering price.
What I want to argue is that the expectation to interact with devices in increasingly sophisticated ways is rapidly becoming a generalised meme rather than the unique selling point of any particular device, however smoothly the Apple marketing machine want to pitch it.
I think Tom's work is extraordinary and I saw his pre-release demo of Siri to a hushed Web3.0 event last year and remember thinking how groundbreaking this would be. So I don't want to take anything from today's announcement but rather underline something else – that in fact Tom did very elegantly at the time.
He called it "The Perfect Storm" – he argued that we are approaching a moment when we can leverage four important and inter-related trends:
- The near-infinite scalability of cloud-computing, providing off-device computing, application and service power and content storage;
- The ever-increasing bandwidth available to devices (increasingly, mobile devices) connecting to the Internet;
- The growth of ecosystems of users providing rich crowdsourcing and powerful communities of interest;
- Increasingly "sensitive" mobile devices – sensitive (and responsive) to touch, sound, movement, light, in ways that allow them to act as proxies to our own senses in realtime
I'll be covering the first of these in more detail next week when I open the International Cloud Symposium in England. On the second, I'll restrain myself from too much comment about how we allow ourselves to be milked by mobile operators for our insatiable appetite to be "always on". Many greater minfs have applied themselves to the third issue and Tom himself elegantly exposes the fourth.
However, taken as a whole, we are already in The Perfect Storm, or at the very least we all feel the leaves starting to rustle around us as the storm picks up.
I was struck by this forcefully only yesterday. My Windows Phone pinged me with the much-hyped and long-awaited news that the "Mango" update was ready to install. It didn't disappoint. Being just a little bit nerdy, I pulled up my "wish list" and bug-tracking notes from a year ago when the Windows Phone was first released, and started to check off how many of my "must have"s and "nice to have"s are now covered – all so far. Nice. But the real surprises were those of the "oh so simple, why has no-one thought of this before" variety and really underlined Tom's point in more general terms. A couple of examples:
- Press the 'Search' button and then the new 'Vision' icon: simply point the now-activated camera at a barcode (on a book, a DVD, any item on a shop's or your own shelves) or QR code and the software will recognise and scan the object, check it against information in Bing services and send me a page summary of information or a web site. All this without having to take a photo, press the shutter, import to a scanning app, copy the data to a search query and await the result.
- A text message arrives while I'm driving – the phone offers to read the message aloud to me and, when done, offers me the options to dictate a reply or call the other party – all without taking a hand off the wheel or my eye off the road – something which I would welcome widespread adoption of here in Los Angeles where stupid in-car behaviour is elevated to a unique art-form (The other day, I watched from the passenger seat in horror as a driver – "only" doing 60mph on the motorway – was casually reading his New York Times on an iPad while talking on his hand-held phone).
It is computing power where and when I want it – it leverages the power of the local (multi-sense) device and couples it with the power of cloud-based services: each playing to their respective strong suits. The experience for the user is natural and intuitive. The mobile phone becomes the telechiric device of the information age.
I wish Tom and the whole Siri crew the best for continued success from their partnership with Apple but it's already, in less than a year, no longer as unique an idea as it seemed – it's rapidly becoming an expectation that mobile devices are natural and intuitive. I'll leave you with the image of a father and his three-year old daughter on a recent long-haul flight, the daughter frustrated that the pages of the eBook she's reading on her dad's reader wouldn't come "unstuck" if she held it upside down and shook it. Made me think how much technology has contributed to such cognitive dissonance and, on the positive side, how much it can also make our virtual worlds resonate with the real world around us.
Update (12 Oct 2011): It seems that Siri will not appear in the latest update of the iPhone.


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Looking for the Wrights!
San Angelo Police are searching for Mr. or Mrs. Wright—literally. This morning, police viewed photographs stored on a found SanDisk Micro SD Card in hopes of finding the owner.
The SD Card, found in the parking lot at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts on the day of the 9-11 Memorial Prayer Service, contains numerous family photos that appear to have been taken at a hotel or other meeting space. A sign featured in several photos reads, "Wright Reunion".
Although the SD Card has an estimated retail value of $7.95, we would argue these sentimental memories are priceless.
Anyone with information about the owner is asked to contact the SAPD 24 Tip-Hotline at 1-855-TIPS-247 or 325-481-2718.


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|Marsha Neal Studio Macro Image of Cone Flower
|Marsha Neal Studio ceramic clay accent beads - coming soon!
|Marsha Neal Studio "Stormy Waters" Silk Knot Bundle
And then there is the silk...
My obsession with silk ribbons in a more formal way started when I used to travel to bead shows all across the United States to sell my ceramic pieces to jewelry designers. I met Ute, the woman that hand paints the silks I carry, out in Tucson in 2005 and I happily came home with a small batch of her hand painted silk ribbons to sell along with my beads.
I miss that face to face customer interaction...
In my case it is more about being an artist that runs a business & trying to come up with fun interactive marketing ideas to keep my business alive.
|"Mom - I like this one the best!" Purple - Yes!!! She is a bead girl in the making...
|2mm Silk Ribbon Strands pulled for an order.
It makes me happy, it would make them happy too.
How to make it a challenge?
Network with other artists?
Have lots of fun, and give stuff away (I love giving stuff away!)...
Take a photo that inspires you (respect copyright, use & give credit or don't use it) and pull colors from that image and make a palette of (10) of the 2mm silks that I sell and make a "knot bundle".
Help me sell and promote it & run challenges of your own along with ones I will run here on my blog and we can have a blast with this stuff and get creative juices going.
And I can give stuff away (did I mention that already? Hmmm...)
So want your first chance at getting FREE stuff?

First Way to Win: Feb. 29 to March 4, 2012 (closes midnight EST)
|New Marsha Neal Studio Bead Sets for my Etsy shop!
My Etsy shop will be updated on Monday, March 5, 2012 with a pendant destash (selected items in a designated section) as well as all of my new bead sets you see in the photo above will be listed for sale.


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During his world record run at the 2009 Berlin World Championships, Usain Bolt had a top speed of 12.27 meters per second, which is approximately 27.44 miles per hour. Usain Bolt has an average speed of 10.44 and 10.42 meters per second while running 100 and 200 meter sprints, respectively.
Usain Bolt's average running speed gives him an average speed of 23.35 and 23.31 miles per hour, depending on which running distance speeds are taken. While Usain Bolt is the fastest human runner on record, various animals, such as domestic cats, African lions and cheetahs, easily exceed his top speed.


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|A tekukur tanah with its chicks
|Two chicks makes me happy!
Everytime these birds nested, everytime I had to revive the plants or change it to a new one. However, I don't really mind. Not a lost at all. It's all about gaining the trust and love of my birds.
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For pastors, worship leaders, educators and others preparing for 9/11/16 Patriot Sunday and related 9/11/01 anniversary activities
|In photo above, Mayor Koch (L) and David Randolph (R) are seen on Sept. 21, 1986 at Gracie Mansion. Photo by Susan Rymshaw, courtesy of Mayor Koch
"Ed Koch was a great listener and that is why he was a great leader," said David Randolph, minister of Christ United Methodist Church during Koch's tenure. "When he asked, how am I doing? He listened to your answer," adds Dr. Randolph who now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where he hosts the New Way Media Fest. Dr. Randolph, who received his PhD from Boston University and taught at Drew University in New Jersey, cites his visit to Gracie Mansion in 1986 when he spoke about the problem of drugs in the city. Mayor Koch listened to religious leaders and with Cardinal O'Connor and others formed an interfaith force to deal with the drug problem on which Randolph served. This expanded into action that helped lay the foundation of the transformation of the city from the crime and chaos of that time. Randolph recalls that the United Methodist City Society of the New York Annual Conference played an important role then with John Carrington as Director as it as it does now with William Shilladay as Director. Randolph's sermon "New Heaven, New Earth, New York" along with other sermons preached at the time is included in his book "Credit Card Christ" published recently and available at Amazon.com. More will be added on Mayor Koch, Joey Adams and others who helped make the new New York in Randolph's forthcoming autobiographical work, "The Great Parade."


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[Music: Mika, Rotten Sound]
[Lyrics: Keijo]
The bath we live in,
It's fucking contamined...
Call the cleaner, call the firemen!
I want to get rid of the filth!
The whole race: floating in rust
The symbols in the water must be obsolete!
The dirty water around all of us
Polluted by icons
Crosses, churches, stars
Legends and betrayers!
Convenience from the chewed shit,
Living without own ideology
Follow the jester, believe in him!
Find the leader and obey!
A natural pressure on top of the plug,
The drain could keep us sane
Who is holding us from the infinity?
Is it you, or the whole society?
Who's the blame?
Who's the blame?
Who's the blame?
Who's the blame?
[lead: Juha]
The plug to be pulled
An ultimate solution
Beliefs to be collapsed
Salvation, the sweet salvation...
The sweet salvation!
The sweet salvation!


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Join the Club: Goat is the New Lamb
After all of our cheerleading of goat last week, we had a little laugh when we woke up to The New York Times dining section's top article: "How I Learned to Love Goat Meat." We'd love to call ourselves trendsetters, but as the Times article notes, the rest of the world has been eating goat forever (it's the most widely consumed meat in the world). We're just now catching on.
The article reminded us of another piece we read several months ago, about Bill Niman coming out of retirement to raise goats. At the time, we thought, "Huh. Wonder who's going to buy those." And yet, here we are. Restaurants are featuring goat on their menus, and home cooks are starting to ask for it at the market.
We learned a few things reading this very funny article. Goat is lower in fat than chicken and higher in protein than beef. There are a couple of places in the city that sell fresh goat meat for less than $5 a pound (compare that to lamb!) And, if you're looking for an accurate description of its taste, try this: "Think lamb, but with a tang of earthy darkness. Think lamb, but with a rustle in the bushes. Think… jungle lamb."
The author also echoes some of what Faith wrote last week, how handling and prepping goat meat makes you especially conscious of the fact that this was a creature, not a shapeless piece of meat. He even mentions the difficulty in removing his goat's caul fat, a web-like membrane that we just learned about from a chef last night. More on that later this week…
As if we weren't already inspired by Faith and Sara Kate's goat recipes, we're really excited now. We're planning on serving goat for Easter lunch.
Who's with us?
• Read the Times article: How I Learned to Love Goat Meat, by Henry Alford
Here are our recent goat posts and recipes:
• Goat Meat 101
• Goat Tacos (or Delicious Roasted Goat for Any Occasion)
• Braised Goat Shanks with Prune, Shallot, and Brandy Reduction
(Images: Flickr member maessive, licensed for use under Creative Commons; Sara Kate Gillingham-Ryan)


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- Dog Days Event Kit -- http://www.wimpykid.com/Book4EventKitWeb.pdf
- Trivia Game, Shame Game, Personality Game
- Cabin Fever Event Kit -- http://wimpykid.com/eventkit/CabinFeverTGfinal.pdf
- Different Trivia Game, Cabin Fever Word Search
- Ugly Truth Event Kit -- http://issuu.com/hnabooks/docs/wimpykid5eventgudie
- Third Wheel Event Kit -- http://www.abramsbooks.com/academic/WimpyKid7EventKit.pdf
- Shame Game
- Hard Luck Event Kit -- http://wimpykidclub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/HarkLuckEventGuide_UK.pdf
- Another Trivia Game, Design Your Own Book Cover, Make Your Own Comics
We also used program notes from the blog Tiny Tips for Library Fun.
- http://tinytipsforlibraryfun.blogspot.com/2012/11/diary-of-wimpy-kid-party-third-wheel.html
- http://tinytipsforlibraryfun.blogspot.com/2010/03/wow-wimpy-kid-party.html
- http://tinytipsforlibraryfun.blogspot.com/2011/11/wimpy-wimpy-wimpy.html
Activity: Trivia Challenge
Activity: Shame Game
Everyone starts by standing up. We read aloud a set of statements. After each statement, the kids sit down if the statement is not true for them. The last one standing is the winner. We modified this and had the kids stand up again for each new statement. they more fun watching others and commenting on the statements than there being one true winner.
Activity: Cheese Touch Game
We played this like hot potato. We played music as a cheese slice (fake) was passed around a large circle. When the music stopped, whoever was holding the cheese was out and now had the cheese touch. Play continued until only one non-cheese touched person was left.
Activity: Personality Game
We passed out three slips of paper to each kid. Each slip had a statement and a symbol on it. They had two minutes to go around the room and switch slips with others until they had three slips that most represented their personality. When time was up, we read aloud what character each symbol represented.
Game: Manny Cereal Toss
|Flying cereal boxes!
Kids could throw mini-cereal boxes into a toilet seat set upon a crate. The closest we could come to a reason for this activity is that Manny likes to eat his cereal on his potty chair in front of the TV. When he is done, he pours the remaining cereal into his potty chair. This idea came from Tiny Tips for Library Fun blog.
Craft: Wimpy Kid Masks
We downloaded masks from http://www.wimpykidclub.co.uk/downloads/ and made copies of them on card stock. The kids could choose one mask to cut out. There were craft sticks they could tape to the mask so they could hold it up to their face.
|Working on journals
Each kid got a blank 20 page journal we purchased from Office Depot. On the cover we pasted a sticker of Greg with this saying...Diary of a ___________ Kid. The kids got to choose what kind of kid they were and write it in. Examples include: silly, cool, awesome, artistic.
Game: Mixed Up Wimpy Kid
Other Activities:
Cabin Fever word search
Make Your Own Comics
Draw Your Own Cover
This was a different kind of program for us in that it relied heavily on games instead of crafts. However, it was very popular and the kids had a great time.
Attendance: 21, 16
|Can never get enough of these books!


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4/20 at 7:56 p.m. Matthew H. Grant, 32 of Saco, was arrested on a warrant from Biddeford district court on a charge of operating after suspension.
4/22 at 12:15 p.m. James Stewart, 44, of West Elm Street, was arrested on a warrant request for violation of protection order.
4/24 at 3:31 a.m. Gary L. Richards, 26, of Raymond, was arrested on a charge of criminal operating under the influence.
4/22 at 10:22 p.m. Nathan A. Wiley, 18, of Freeport, was summonsed on a charge of theft.
4/25 at 12:18 p.m. Jeremy S. Lowell, 20, of Windham, was summonsed on a charge of operating while license is suspended or revoked.
4/26 at 8:43 p.m. James Stewart, 44, of West Elm Street, was summonsed on a charge of violation of protective order.
Lawn care crime
4/20 at 10:17 a.m. Police reported a theft of $1,500 in lawn tending equipment from Cole Haan.
Not so happy hour
4/22 at 11:05 p.m. A person at the Deer Run Tavern reported a stolen briefcase and cell phone. Police reported the stolen items to be $60 in value.
New mailboxes needed
4/24 at 7:06 a.m. Residents of Princes Point Road, Royall Point and Channel Point reported damage to their mailboxes. Police estimate $800 in damage.
Fire calls
4/20 at 10:22 a.m. Carbon monoxide alarm, Glen Road.
4/22 at 6:36 p.m. Electrical alarm, Drinkwater Point Road.
4/23 at 3:07 p.m. Vehicle crash, Summer and West Main streets.
4/26 at 12:07 p.m. Assist rescue, Bennett Road.
There were 13 calls for emergency medical service from April 20 through April 26.


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Deep Side of the Pool
Lately I have been feeling small. Insignificant. Not in the "oh woo is me I'm unloved " type of way. I have a life, I have loved ones and friends, but beyond that, nothing. Everything out of my reach just seems to not really matter.
The only thing the matters is what I do for myself and mine. I've been on the emotional trip. Saving the world, doing the right thing by people, treating everyone how you want to be treated. I went into the navy, I've been to war. I've helped build homes for the homeless, spent the day at an orphanage in France, donated time and money to the right causes. Spent time and effort with my children, paid my child support, kept a job, been faithful, supportive, everything a good friend is suppose to be. I've voted, protested, and listened.
All of this has made me who I am today. I'm not unhappy with who I am, just feel very small in the world. I guess I've circled the wagons here. Ready to keep my sanity intact.
It doesn't matter to me who is president anymore then who the English Prime Minister is. The world will save it self, it doesn't need or want my help. If a giant asteroid hits, I can't do anything about it. The troops in Iraq? They got there the same way I did, they volunteered.
It is the same on the telephone a work, I can't bring my self to care. With some people I won't let myself care. I do not need to put myself out there for most people I know. Yes, I have friends at work, but if they disappeared on me tomorrow, I wouldn't feel anything. I would wish them the best, but I've given up on attachments with new people.
I don't care that you haven't paid your electric bill in 3 months and now you are being shut off. It does not help when you tell me you didn't get your shut off notice because you just spent the last two weeks on vacation in Florida. And look at the big picture, I paid my electric bill, my power is not being shut off. Of course I didn't go to Florida either.
You don't like your hours in the call center? I hear S-Mart is hiring.
Bring the union in so we can get higher wages! We are underpaid compared to other call centers! Um, no we are not. I've worked in the other call centers. Anyway, go work for them then, I'm staying here and voting no on union.
I'm late to work cause my car is broken. Yea mine too, still manage to get there on time.
I used to care. Anyone had a problem I would help, first to lend a hand. Not anymore. Sorry did my time, now it is just me and mine.
This all leads to a question. I used to care, now I don't. Am I right now or was I right then.? In our life times have any of us found the meaning of life? Is there a meaning?
Ok a little deeper then my usual, but this has really been bugging me lately. Even watching Superman on the huge Imax screen, just looks small. Like the whole world has shrunk. Maybe just my world.


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"Now is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
These famous words from Churchill, in a speech given nearly 75 years ago, provide an almost perfect description of where we are in the journey towards Brexit, following the Article 50 notice having been given at the end of March.
The Article 50 letter from the Prime Minister to the EU together with the draft guidelines for the negotiations which the EU Council published in response, do mean we have a much more meaningful framework or roadmap towards Brexit than at any point since 24th June last year. However, we are still largely in a world of principles and themes rather than specifics and certainties. What is clear is that we remain some distance away from having clarity on a number of crucial details, including on citizens' rights, the mechanisms for securing a smooth transition and on the rules which companies will be operating once the UK ceases to be a member of the EU.
We are a firm which works across a wide range of sectors and with a wide range of clients - from large PLCs, owner-managed businesses, major clearing banks and angel investors to housebuilders, property developers, central and local government and private individuals. This allows us to take a broad view, whilst also seeing how the impact of Brexit-related issues can be quite different both between and within specific sectors.
So our task is to continue to work with our clients to assess what it means for each of them specifically, with the benefit of what we can see happening across the range of sectors we work in.
Read the full article from Chris Harte, Chief Executive, here.
Use the interactive timeline below to see how the Brexit road map has unfolded so far. You can also read about the Brexit related issues facing business, real state, the public sector and individuals and families as detailed by our legal experts.
United Kingdom leaves the European Union
Meaningful Vote finally, but what does it actually mean?
Yesterday evening just after 7.30pm was one of those "Wow" Westminster moments. After eight days of debate and 381 speeches, most people expected the Commons to reject Mrs May's Brexit plan when they finally had the chance to hold their "Meaningful Vote" on Tuesday evening.Read more
Brexit won't change the fundamentals of business
We all know the feeling when stress or anxiety in one walk of life spills over into another. Research has proven that when people are anxious about one issue, it lingers.Read more
Brexit Ho ho ho …
Every time you think that the Brexit world can not surprise you any more, it does just that. Not only do we have to remember the last posting dates for Christmas, we have another three dates to remember arising from court cases in London and Luxemburg, and a "meaningful vote" in Westminster to look forward to. We assume recent rumours of the vote cancellation are misplaced.Read more
Deadline for all EU citizens living in the UK to have applied for a status document
Transition period ends and free movement is due to stop
Home Office starts to accept applications for settled status from long term residents
Brexit to do list….
For some of us there is something comforting about putting together a list of things which need to be done and by when. There is then the satisfaction of ticking the items off as done and seeing the list reduce. However perhaps this might not be the best time for those in Whitehall and Holyrood to write down their Brexit "to do" list as a means of cheering themselves up.Read more
EU approves negotiation guidelines for future EU/UK relationship post Brexit
United Kingdom Withdrawal from the European Union (legal Continuity) (Scotland) Bill passed by Scottish Parliament
Agreement reached on a Transitional Agreement until end of December 2019
The Scottish EU Legal Continuity Bill notching up a number of firsts…
On 27 February 2018 the Withdrawal from the European Union (Legal Continuity) (Scotland) Bill was introduced into the Scottish Parliament. It may not have the catchiest title ever but this relatively short Bill is already clocking up a number of firsts.Read more
Brexit and the snow - a perfect storm?
Last week was a strange week when the "Beast from the East" met "Storm Emma" and managed to bring most of the UK to a standstill in a blast of snow and ice. This was to be the week, however, when the Brexit hot air of the last couple of months was to morph into a series of focused ministerial speeches and proposals to enable decision makers in the UK: to move forward with Brexit planning; take informed steps for the future; and set out a platform for the next stage of Brexit negotiations.Read more
EU Draft withdrawal Agreement legal text published
Brexit and Family Law
Lucia takes part in a round table evidence session of the Justice Committee of the Scottish Parliament, looking at the consequences of Brexit for family law.Read more
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill introduced into the House of Lords
EU agrees to move on to phase 2 negotiations
Why Henry VIII is alive and well at Westminster...
Before Brexit, for most lawyers, Henry VIII was no more than a historical, rotund, Tudor character who managed to work his way through six wives. For the constitutional lawyer bells may have rung around a rather obscure drafting issue relating to powers in legislation.Read more
Sewel, Legislative Consent Motions and Brexit
On 21 July 1998 Lord Sewel was a Government Minister tasked with taking the Scotland Bill through the House of Lords.Read more
Brexit: Strategies for retaining and recruiting talent in uncertain times
Since the UK voted to leave the EU we have increasingly been asked to advise on what the immigration system may look like in the future.Read more
Theresa May delivers a speech in Florence on Brexit laying out her offer to introduce a transition period after the UK formally leaves the European Union in March 2019.
The Repeal Bill – a legal perspective on the realities of the process
The European Union (Withdrawal) Bill has now been published. This is a major legislative step for the UK in leaving the European Union and achieving Brexit. In many ways the Bill contains few legal surprises. It now has a more formal "parliamentary" title than the earlier soundbite version of "The Great Repeal Bill".Read more
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill introduced into the House of Commons
UK Government announces its position on EU nationals after Brexit
The UK Government has published its position on the rights of EU nationals living in the UK after Brexit.Read more
It is almost a year since the UK Brexit Referendum vote on 23 June 2016. On that day, no one could have predicted where the UK would be now and all that has happened in the interim; legally, economically and politically.Read more
Queen's Speech
Formal Brexit negotiations commence
UK General Election
Whatever next? Another election and visit to the polling booth…..
When I turned 18 my idealistic young self promised that since women had gone through so much to obtain the vote, that I would always exercise my democratic right and vote when I had the chance.Read more
Brexit: The end of the beginning
"Now is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." These famous words from Churchill, in a speech given nearly 75 years ago, provide an almost perfect description of where we are in the journey towards Brexit, following the Article 50 notice having been given at the end of March.Read more
A week is a long time in politics; at least it is in a Brexit world.
Monday was a quiet day but full of constitutional expectation. Tuesday saw the continued debate on and a vote in the Scottish Parliament seeking authority for the Scottish Government to apply to the UK Government for a section 30 Order under the Scotland Act 1998 to allow a further Scottish Independence Referendum to be held.Read more
EU Draft Guidelines response drafted
A nine-page document containing the EU's draft Brexit negotiating guidelinesRead the document
Publication of The Great Repeal Bill: White Paper
Legislating for the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European UnionRead the paper
Article 50 triggered
Prime Minister Theresa May writes to European Council President Donald Tusk to notify him of the UK's intention to leave the EU.Read more
Brexit: Immigration and the Retail and Leisure Sectors
Since the UK voted to leave the EU I have spoken with many employers who have concerns about the implications of the decision for their EU staff members. These concerns apply across all sectors but there are particular concerns in the retail and leisure sectors.Read more
Section 30 and the real start of another Scottish Independence Referendum campaign
This morning the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon fired the official starting gun for the next Scottish Independence Referendum campaign.Read more
Dutch Prime Ministerial Election
The European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill is introduced into the House of Commons
A Bill to confer power on the Prime Minister to notify, under Article 50(2) of the Treaty on European Union, the United Kingdom's intention to withdraw from the EU.Read more
The Supreme Court decide on Article 50
The Supreme Court have now issued their judgement on whether the UK Government need to consult the Westminster Parliament before triggering Article 50 to start the formal process to take the UK out of the EU.Read more
Prime Minister announces there will be a White Paper on Brexit
Supreme Court decision in Miller & Ors v The Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union
The United Kingdom Supreme Court rules that the UK Government may not initiate withdrawal from the European Union by formal notification to the Council of the European Union as prescribed by Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union without an Act of the UK Parliament permitting the government to do soRead the decision
Prime Minister's Speech on UK negotiating position
Scottish Government Consultation on a Draft Referendum Bill closes
The Scottish Government publish "Scotland's Place in Europe
The Scottish Government have today published their promised paper setting out how they consider Scotland's interests could be protected in the Brexit negotiations once Article 50 has been triggered. They also provide outcomes they consider the UK Government should seek to meet those Scottish interests.Read more
Scottish Government Publication Of "Scotland's Place in Europe" paper on SG preferred EU Brexit options
Scotland's Place in Europe sets out the Scottish Government's position following the result of the EU Referendum.Read the publication
Supreme Court Hearings in Miller & Ors v The Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union
Article 50 Before the High Court in London - In R (on the application of Miller and Ors) v The Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union
Can the Government trigger Article 50 TEU to take the UK out of the EU by exercising the Crown prerogative? It is a short but constitutionally complex question, that has already been the subject of much external comment.Read more
Scottish Government Publication of "Scotland: A European Nation"
This publication outlines the historical, political and constitutional context that gives legitimacy to Scotland's voice in the Brexit debate.Read the publication
Indyref 2 - Consultation on a Draft Referendum Bill
A Consultation on a Draft Referendum Bill was published this morning by the Scottish Government, all as trailed by the First Minister at the recent SNP Conference. The Bill being proposed is, essentially, an application of the Scottish Independence Referendum Act 2013, which governed the procedures at the last Independence Referendum, to any new Referendum. There are some technical changes as suggested by the Electoral Commission after the 2014 vote and some updating of practice to make the process work better.Read more
Scottish Government Consultation on a Draft Referendum Bill
This consultation paper invited views on the proposals for how the referendum would be run. A draft Scottish Independence Referendum bill is set out as an appendix to the document.Read the consultation
The Apple Dispute: A Fundamental Issue for the EU
On 30 August 2016 the EU Commission ruled that Ireland was in breach of the EU state aid rules by reaching decisions which substantially and artificially lowered the tax paid by Apple in Ireland since 1991 in a way which had no factual or economic justification.Read more
Brexit: A Litigator's Reflections
Almost exactly 20 years ago today I set off for the Netherlands to spend a year on the ERASMUS programme studying at the University of Leiden. In Edinburgh we now have to prepare for life outside the EU while Leiden remains at the heart of it.Read more
Employment Law: Implications for Businesses of Leaving the EU
Innes Clark and Kate McGarrity look at the potential implications of Brexit on UK employment law and are joined by, Stuart McWilliams, one of our immigration specialists who provides his own thoughts on the possible consequences of Brexit.Read more
Brexit - Immigration FAQ's for employers
Our immigration expert, Stuart McWilliams, answers your frequently asked questions about Brexit and immigration.Read more
Brexit? Don't panic...
Property briefing: despite the shock to the commercial property market from the Brexit vote, the fundamentals remain quite strong, and those in the sector should stay level-headed as to its prospects.Read more
BREXIT, Patents, Trade marks and Data Protection: FAQ for Businesses
With Brexit foremost in the minds of many organisations at present, here we give a short summary on the current situation with regard to European patents and European Union trade marks, and what measures to take regarding data protection compliance.Read more
Niche no longer for constitutional lawyers as changes continue
The constitutional lawyer was a niche breed 20 years ago. We in the know knew who they were. They might usually be found working for Government, north and south of the border or in academia. They wrote the odd article or book. Their work was referred to in university law faculty lectures but otherwise they did not impinge much on the consciousness of the man on the "Clapham Omnibus", and it was definitely a man in those days.Read more
Brexit update: One month on
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Now-public police files from the Columbus Parks and Recreation probe leading to the corruption convictions of top administrators show the issues prompting the investigation were nearly a decade old and no secret to workers inside the department.
Though City Manager Isaiah Hugley and other city leaders last year initially claimed Parks and Rec Director Tony Adams did nothing wrong in using the department's Nike-branded elite Georgia Blazers basketball team to recruit top players regionally, police questioning current and former city workers learned warning signs of the scandal to come dated back to around 2001.
Conflicts with Parks and Rec sponsoring an elite youth team first arose when Brad Chambers directed the department from 2000 to 2002.
Pam Knight, who now teaches accounting at Columbus Tech, served as Parks and Rec's finance manager before leaving in 2003. She told police that concerns surfaced when Chambers was in charge and Adams was the assistant director.
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Even then, critics questioned whether the basketball team was part of Parks and Rec or an independent venture for which city workers volunteered. "In every act it appeared to be a Parks and Rec program," Knight told police, "but we weren't depositing the funds, so then it was presented to me that it was not a Parks and Rec program -- they were just volunteering their time to coach and be part of the program."
Parents unhappy with how the program was being run met with Chambers, Adams and then-rec services manager Ray Evans, and Chambers ordered them to split the Blazers off from Parks and Rec, Knight said.
Hugley, who was then the deputy city manager, helped make the decision, she said: "That was also the agreement of the city manager, because he was involved in that, too. He was aware, I think, because some of the parents went to him and complained, above the department to the city manager's office, because at that time Isaiah was the deputy city manager like how Lisa (Goodwin) is, and our department reported to him."
Chambers told the Ledger-Enquirer he recalled some "confusion" with the program, but he did not recall ordering the split.
That was not a decision Hugley would have let him make alone, he said: "I remember the programs being hard to define in terms of where the lines were, what was a Parks and Rec program and what wasn't. I don't remember talking with a parents' group or anything like that. And anything that would have been more than just the basic decision-making or directive, I would have had to run that past Isaiah Hugley, because he made it clear that any decisions of any consequence at all had to go through him for approval. He made that clear on numerous occasions, that I couldn't make any more than just the basic recommendation. ... He was pretty much a hands-on manager, which is one of the reasons I left."
Beyond its elite boys basketball team, the Blazers program had teams for girls basketball, boxing, flag football and track and field.
Like Knight, Michael Woods also remembered parents' complaining about favoritism in the program.
Woods is a basketball coach who later split from the Blazers to run the competing Columbus Jaguars. He said parents of girl basketball players complained that they helped raise money for the Blazers, but all the resources went to the boys' teams. The girls' mothers confronted Adams and Ray Evans, who then held the rec services job Margaret Brown later occupied.
"Everything was going to the boys," Woods told detectives. "One of my older team's parents went down there and sat down with him and Ray: 'Why is it that the boys get all this stuff and the girls don't?'"
Such complaints were not welcome, Woods said, and Evans made that clear: "Ray said, 'Y'all sent this lynch mob of women down there to attack us.'"
Unaudited accounts
Knight also told officers that administrators years ago questioned Parks and Rec workers' signing onto bank accounts created by team booster clubs -- accounts the city was not tracking.
The city finance director then was Kay Love, who tried to shut down unaudited, outside accounts involving city workers, but some continued, Knight said.
Love told the Ledger-Enquirer she recalled some booster club accounts to which Parks and Rec workers were signatories, and tried to establish clear lines between what was private and what was public.
The conflict is not uncommon, said Love, who's now city administrator for Roswell, Ga., having left Columbus in 2003. Rec workers often volunteer to support teams privately, which cities encourage, but then what's public and private get confused.
It's not that city workers set out to mingle public and private resources with no accountability, she said, but once it starts it tends to spin out of control.
"I think it goes to how things have like mission creep, and volunteers go 'OK, I'll do that,' and then the first time they do it, it's like, OK, well then is that their responsibility to continue to do it? And it just morphs into something maybe it was never meant to be."
The Blazers' account that Tony Adams and assistant Herman Porter established at CB&T in 2005 morphed into a slush fund through which they funneled more than $200,000 in public and private funds.
That fund may have been hidden from top city leaders, but talk about "the Blazers account" was common within Parks and Rec, said Brian Giffin, who worked in the athletics division before becoming operations manager at the Columbus Civic Center.
"Too many times I heard -- whenever they were looking for funding or doing this -- they said, 'Just run it through the Blazers,'" Giffin told police.
"They" means Adams and Porter, Giffin added. "If they had to purchase something," he said, "if they had to do travel, if they had to do anything like that: 'Oh, we'll just run it through the Blazers account.'"
First hired in 1993, Giffin left Parks and Rec in 2008.
Detectives also learned that the city got a warning about the Blazers' account a year before the Parks and Rec scandal hit the headlines.
City Finance Director Pam Hodge inquired about unauthorized bank accounts bearing the city's tax-exempt ID number in May 2009, and CB&T sent her a list with Adams' Blazers account on it.
In a July 20, 2010, meeting with prosecutors, the police chief, the city manager and detectives, District Attorney Julia Slater asked Hodge if she'd ever heard of the Blazers account.
"Back of last year I was made aware that the senior citizen center down in south Columbus had their own account," Hodge replied. "Somebody in Parks and Rec called and said, 'They're operating their own account; they're using the city tax ID number; is that allowed?' And I said no, they're not allowed to do that.
"So that sparked me to ask CB&T, who's our bank, 'Is there anyone else that's using the city tax ID number?' And they sent a list. And I told them these are the ones that are authorized. And going back after this happened, the Columbus Blazer account was on that list, but at the time when I saw it, I had no earthly idea what Blazers was...."
Hodge had told police about this earlier: On June 22, 2010, she showed them emails between her and CB&T. Dated May 12, 2009, and May 14, 2009, the emails listed 13 accounts using the city's tax ID number, and at least eight were not authorized, investigators said.
Keeping up with cash
Also in 2009, a Parks and Rec worker in her resignation letter complained about the department's lack of accounting for the cash collected as admission to basketball tournaments, but no one followed up on that, either.
Irene Pate, once a pottery specialist in Parks and Rec's cultural arts program, was outraged in 2008 when told she no longer could accept cash from residents enrolling in pottery classes, yet she saw that cash from rec services' basketball tournaments was never counted, just stuffed in a box Margaret Brown collected.
Pate detailed her objections in her Jan. 20, 2009, resignation letter to supervisor Lisa Castille.
Pate wrote that while other parts of Parks and Rec struggled with budget cuts, the rec services division "has been spending money for years like water flowing through a screen door."
Of the cash generated by basketball tournaments, she wrote:
"This cash money is kept in a little metal box that is eventually picked up at each location and taken away to where? At least we satellite studio employees can account for our incoming cash. It seems that no one holds those who handle tournament cash accountable. I continue to wonder what happens to the thousands of unaccounted dollars that get generated by basketball tournaments. It has become increasingly difficult to watch Parks and Recreation continue to be such careless stewards of our money. If this division is so careless, one can only imagine what is going on in others."
Pate said that in response to her resignation letter, Castille called and told her Adams wanted to talk to her. She left a message for Adams, but he never called back, Pate told the Ledger-Enquirer.
Pate's resignation took effect April 1, 2009.
Resources diverted
It was no secret within the department that Parks and Rec resources over the years were diverted to the Blazers' program. City workers driving city vehicles transported out-of-town players to tournaments, picked them up and took them home. The drivers said so when police questioned them. The city paid some per diems for expenses.
Yet as late as July 7, 2010, Deputy City Manager Lisa Goodwin told detectives that as far as she knew, city vehicles and drivers never were sent to get players or take them home.
In an April 28, 2011, report summarizing his findings after reviewing the police files, Internal Auditor John Redmond said that not only were city vehicles and drivers used, but that department managers directed drivers to stop recording out-of-town trips in their mileage logs:
"City-owned vans were operated to transport out-of-town players to and from Columbus for practice or tournaments. Full- and part-time employees and volunteer coaches and chaperones drove these vans, which is a violation of city policy. Daily vehicle logs which would have readily disclosed this out-of-county travel were discontinued at the direction of Parks and Recreation Department management. Likewise, many of the drivers were not qualified by city driving courses and proper licensure to operate the vehicles, which exposed the city to unnecessary risk."
Complaints to Hugley
Two local coaches told police they personally complained to Hugley about how Adams was operating.
One, former Carver High School coach Richard Mahone, who now coaches basketball at Phenix City's Chattahoochee Valley Community College, said he complained years ago about Adams recruiting out-of-town kids for a city-funded rec program.
The result was that Muscogee's then-assistant superintendent for student services, Brenda Dozier, called Mahone in and reprimanded him, he told police. In retaliation, Adams and his allies afterward tried to sabotage Mahone's program at Carver, the coach said.
Michael Woods, the Columbus Jaguars coach, told police Dozier relied on Adams for access to the city recreation facilities that school teams needed.
"I think Tony's power is just like mafia," Woods said. "He became the biggest thing in Columbus sports athletics. You want to do anything in Columbus sports athletics, you have to go through Parks and Rec. That's the school district and everybody. Brenda Dozier, when she was in charge, she went through Tony. Everything was handled through Tony."
Woods said that when Adams restricted the Jaguars' access to city rec centers, he met with Adams and Hugley. Woods thought Hugley found his complaint valid, but Adams just got up and walked out, Woods said.
When police told Hugley what Woods said, Hugley called the coach a liar, saying he would never let a department head walk out of a meeting.
"Well, let me just say this, I vaguely recall a meeting with him, but if he told you that, he lied to you," Hugley said while meeting with prosecutors and police on July 20, 2010, the same meeting in which Hodge recalled hearing about the unauthorized Blazers account.
The city manager later added, "I want to go back to this Mike Wood for a second, and let me just say, I wouldn't know him if he walked through the door. That's the first thing. And the second thing, if you know anyone who knows me, if a department head got up and walked out of the room while they're in a meeting with me, they probably wouldn't work for me."
Woods told police that his meeting with Hugley made no difference: Adams still wouldn't let the Jaguars use city gyms.
In a Parks and Rec audit response that Hugley and Goodwin presented to Columbus Council on June 8, 2010, the city manager suggested the elite Blazers basketball team and others operating under the Parks and Rec Innovative Sports Program would split from the city and seek outside funding. No more city money would be spent on players from outside Columbus, he pledged.
Councilors were not informed then that Adams was using the program specifically to recruit Division 1 college players, cutting local players when he found better ones out of town. The Blazers bank account remained secret. Hugley and Goodwin later would tell police they knew nothing about that.
As the audit response concluded, Councilor Mimi Woodson asked Hugley whether Adams had violated any law or policy.
Hugley answered: "Tony Adams and the Parks and Recreation Department have worked to be about the business of taking care of children, and they've not violated any current policy and any current law through this audit finding. And so Tony Adams has not done anything wrong. Do we need to fix some things? Yes, and I intend to do that, but he has not broken any policy or any law."
The city manager concluded the audit response by trying to shut the controversy down, saying he would meet with Adams, the auditor and other Parks and Rec staff, and report back to council, and that would be the end of it:
"I will work through the concerns with them and the misunderstandings with them, and when I will have done that, I will consider this matter closed."
When the Ledger-Enquirer requested an interview for this report, Hugley said he had nothing more to say: "The investigation is over, the reports speak for themselves, and I have nothing further to add."


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