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WALTHAM, Mass. – Brandeis University senior Caroline Miller (Bala Cynwyd, Pa./Harriton) struck out 11 and allowed just three hits over seven innings of work while also driving in the game-winning run with an early two-run double to lead the top-seeded Judges past No. 8 seed Daniel Webster College, 7-1, in the opening round of the 2012 Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III New England Softball Championship Tournament. With the win, Brandeis improves to 24-16 overall on the season and will host the rest of the tournament over the weekend. Daniel Webster's most successful season comes to a close with a 23-20 mark.
Miller was the star, facing just four batters over the minimum for the game and allowing baserunners in just two of the seven frames. Miller set down the first 12 Eagle hitters in order, eight by way of strikeout. She finally allowed three straight hits in the fifth, then retired nine of the final 10 hitters, allowing just one seventh-inning walk. She improved to 14-7 on the season.
Miller's 11 Ks were one short of her career-high and marked the third game of the season and fifth of her career with at least 10 punch-outs. She moved into second place on the Judges' career strikeout list with 302, making her just the second player to reach the 300-mark for her career. Her 146 Ks this season are within 17 of Kaitlin Streilein '08's single-season record.
Miller also drove in what proved to be the game-winning run as part of a four-run first inning for the Judges. After Brandeis loaded the bases with one away against DWC senior Amanda Wilson (Merrimack, N.H./Merrimack), rookie DP Anya Kamber (Sammamish, Wash./Skyline) opened the scoring with an RBI grounder to second base. Miller then followed with a double down the left-field line, her eighth of the season, to plate two more runs. Senior LF Megan DeNubila (Princeton, N.J./Wachusett Regional) followed suit with a two-bagger - her third - to right-center field, making it a 4-0 lead before the end of the first inning.
Wilson (12-11) settled down for Daniel Webster after the first, allowing just one hit over the next three innings. The Eagles did their damage against Miller in the top of the fifth, stringing together three straight hits. Junior CF Chelsey Crawford (Westfield, Mass./Westfield) doubled to left-center for the visitors' first hit of the game. Junior 1B Samantha Hill (Hudson, N.H./Alvirne) singled to put runners on the corners, while rookie RF Heather Strong (Palmer, Mass./Palmer) bounced one through the right side to spoil the shutout bid. Miller then retired the next three batters to minimize the damage.
Brandeis got that run back in the bottom of the fifth on DeNubila's second RBI of the game, making it 5-1. The Judges added two more runs in the sixth on a single by senior 3B Brittany Grimm (Perkiomenville, Pa./Perkiomen Valley) and sacrifice fly by senior CF Lauren Porcaro (Shrewsbury, Mass./Shrewsbury) to make for the 7-1 final.
In addition to Miller's big day, Grimm finished 3-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored. With 14 hits in her last 19 at-bats, Grimm has raced up several of the Judges' career lists, climbing into second place with 183 career hits and a three-way tie for sixth with 56 hits this season. She is also now just one RBI shy of becoming the seventh player in school history with 100 for her career, while also moving into fifth place with 118 career runs scored.
DeNubila, who finished 2-for-3 with two RBI, was the game's only other multiple hitter, but the other seven Brandeis starters all had one hit.
Brandeis will now host the remainder of the ECAC Division III New England tournament on Marcus Field. The Judges will take on fifth-seeded Rivier College on Saturday, May 12, at 10 a.m. The Raiders upset fourth-seeded Plymouth State University, 5-3, in the opening round. Two other quarterfinals - #2 Salve Regina vs. #7 Simmons and #3 Endicott vs. #6 Worcester State - were postponed today and will be played tomorrow. The winners of those two contests will play at noon on Saturday. The first elimination game will take place at 2 p.m., with the winner's bracket game to follow at 4 p.m.


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NEW YORK (AP) — NFL owners and players need to go into hurry-up mode as time gets short to reach labor peace.
Although both sides say progress has been made in the last month of meetings in various locations, the prospect of postponing the opening of training camps grows stronger every day. Lawyers for the NFL and the players' association sorted out contract language and details Wednesday for a second straight day, hoping it could speed the process in reaching a new collective bargaining agreement.
A person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press that attorneys met at a Manhattan law firm's headquarters. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because a judge has directed that details of the court-ordered mediated negotiations not be disclosed.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and NFLPA chief DeMaurice Smith plan to return to the negotiations Thursday, along with several owners and players. They all know that some training camps are set to open in less than three weeks and the first exhibition game, at the Pro Football Hall of Fame inductions, is Aug. 7 in Canton, Ohio. The St. Louis Rams and Chicago Bears are scheduled for that game.
"Everyone's back is up against the wall," said economic consultant Dr. Jessica Horewitz, a director at Gnarus Advisors who consulted with Smith on the finer points of NFL labor before he was elected executive director of the players association. "The last few details of the contract have to be hammered out, but I believe the big issues are pretty wrapped up: the salary cap and revenue share with the players.
"I think it will be steady progress, and if we don't have something by the 15th. I don't think it will long after that."
Marc Ganis, president of Chicago-based sports business consulting firm Sportscorp Ltd., and a keen observer of the league's business side, also sees something getting done in the next week or so.
"They are now up against a hard deadline," Ganis said. "July 15 is effectively a hard deadline to make sure to get all the preseason games in. If they go beyond July 15, you likely start losing preseason games and it means less money is available overall to do a deal to satisfy both parties.
"Once you start losing real and serious money that can't be replaced, getting a deal done becomes much more difficult."
Canceling a full weekend of preseason games would cost upward of $60 million in lost revenues. That lessens the overall income for the league that the two sides are battling over. Sure, players don't get paid for the preseason (except for a per diem), but reducing the total pie certainly affects them.
Ralph Cindrich, an attorney and player agent who has been involved in every NFL labor dispute, believes neither the owners nor the players felt any motivation to close a deal until now. He cites late June and very early in July as normally a dead time in pro football, anyway.
"It is now that time when pressure has to be put on both sides," he said. "This is just too strong of a business not to find a solution. You go worldwide and spend a month overseas, you can see how we are in a fragile economy, and to mess with this successful business will have a devastating effect.
"I do see it getting done, it's too good a product not to get done. But I can see the tough owners taking it into overtime, causing a cancellation of the first preseason game."
Hall of Fame president Steve Perry has said the game is being planned to go on as scheduled on Aug. 7.
There's much more than opening up training camps and staging preseason games that must be straightened out soon. Free agency, for example. Depending on the rules, hundreds of players could become available. The longer it takes to reach a deal, the more frenzied the free agency signing period will be.
Teams still need to instruct rookies they drafted and sign rookies who were not selected in April. Those clubs with new coaches haven't been able to install offenses or defenses or learn unfamiliar playbooks.
General managers don't know what the salary cap will be; 2010 didn't have a cap.
The regular season is scheduled to begin Sept. 8 with New Orleans at Green Bay.
"They are within a range on almost everything," Ganis said, "and 48 hours of continued serious negotiations could get it done."
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.
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Faculty Handbook
Promotion, Tenure, Professional Assessment and Annual Evaluation Procedures for Teaching Faculty Members, Librarians, Athletic Coaches, And Non-Instructional Athletic Trainers
I. Departmental Evaluation Committee (DEC) Responsibilities
A. Evaluation of non-tenured teaching faculty members, librarians, athletic coaches, and non instructional athletic trainers.
B. Evaluation of teaching faculty members, and librarians for tenure.
C. Evaluation of teaching faculty members, including librarians, athletic coaches, and non instructional athletic trainers for promotion.
D. Within the limits of the CSU-AAUP contract and legal limits, maintenance of complete and absolute confidentiality about all data and deliberations.
II. Departmental Evaluation Committee Membership
Departments may set their own rules regarding rank and number of members of the DEC provided that all members are tenured and that the committee consists of at least three people.
A. The membership of the DEC shall include only tenured members of the department.
B. In no case shall persons under consideration for promotion serve on any DEC during any deliberations for promotion.
C. If, in the judgment of the University President, these provisions work a hardship on a department, the department shall develop and approve a list of tenured members from allied disciplines and shall seek members from that list in forming the DEC. If the department requests, the School Dean (or Director) will assist in the formation of the DEC. Such DECs shall follow the procedure set by the department involved.
D. Departmental procedures for DECs must be consistent with the current CSU-AAUP contract and this document.
E. Tenured department chairpersons may be members of the DEC. In no case, however, shall a department chairperson being considered for promotion participate in the promotion evaluation process as a member of the DEC.
III. Evaluation Procedures And Considerations
A. The DEC Chairperson shall inform each member being evaluated in writing of (a) the fact and purpose of the evaluation; (b) the opportunity to submit material to the DEC, and (c) the opportunity to appear personally before the DEC prior to the DEC recommendation. (Refer to current Collective Bargaining Agreement and Department Bylaws.) A suggested memorandum that may be used by the DEC Chairperson has been attached to these procedures.
By October 1 of each year the DEC shall send a list of the members being evaluated for promotion and tenure (with their present rank) to the appropriate Dean or Director, the University Promotion and Tenure Committee, and the Associate Vice President for Human Resources for informational purposes only.
B. In accordance with the due dates established in the AAUP Collective Bargaining Agreement, the member being evaluated should prepare and submit all relevant material to be considered for evaluative purposes directly to the DEC. Each page of the material submitted should be numbered and the total number of pages submitted must be provided. If the member provides other supporting material such as books, art portfolios, etc., then the member should prepare a table of contents listing all the material presented for consideration.
C. In making its annual evaluations and its promotion and tenure evaluations, the DEC shall make peer evaluations and shall obtain and use written student evaluations and consider materials supplied by the candidate.
D. The University President or his designee shall make available to the DEC and the Promotion and Tenure Committee (when a member is being considered for promotion and/or tenure) the personnel file of those members being evaluated. It is understood that the appropriate Dean or Director, Provost/V.P. for Academic Affairs and other administrators may access a personnel file for operational needs of the University. The member must understand that it is his/her responsibility to make sure that the file contains, in addition to the current curriculum vitae any official documents such as legal transcripts.
E. The DEC shall make a written evaluation and recommendation with supporting reasons which is signed and dated by all members of the DEC. The DEC shall issue their written evaluation and recommendation on the form titled "Department Evaluation Committee Written Evaluation and Recommendation Report." Separate evaluation forms have been developed for teaching faculty members, librarians, athletic coaches, and non-instructional athletic trainers.
F. Department chairpersons who are not members of the DEC shall submit at least one calendar week prior to the due date for the DEC evaluation and recommendation, a separate signed and dated evaluation to the DEC for its consideration. This evaluation will be attached to the DEC recommendation. In no case, however, shall a department chairperson being considered for promotion participate in the promotion evaluation process; being considered for tenure participation in the tenure evaluation process; or being considered for renewal participate in the renewal evaluation process.
G. In the event the evaluee feels that a DEC member has abrogated his/her responsibilities by absenting himself/herself from deliberations, the evaluee may request that appropriate academic dean or director investigate the situation. The evaluee must make this request to the academic dean or director no later than five working days after receipt of the DEC written evaluation and recommendation report. If the dean of director finds that a DEC member has abrogated his/her responsibilities, then the academic dean or director shall direct the DEC to reevaluate the member and issue a new evaluation and written recommendation based upon the reevaluation.
H. By the appropriate date, the DEC shall transmit its written evaluation and recommendation with supporting reasons to the appropriate academic dean or director, together with all material submitted to and considered by the DEC. A copy of the DEC's recommendation including supporting reasons and any material considered by the DEC which was not submitted by the member shall be sent to the affected member upon issuance. The original copy of the DEC's written evaluation and recommendation with supporting reasons shall be placed in the member's personnel file.
I. The Dean or Director shall review and consider all of the materials submitted by the DEC and make a recommendation based primarily on these materials. A copy of the Dean or Director's recommendation shall be sent to the affected member upon issuance and a copy placed in the member's personnel file.
J. The following procedures are applicable only to the annual renewal evaluation of non-tenured members and the evaluation members employed on term contracts:
K. The following procedures are applicable only to the evaluation of members for promotion and/or tenure
September 1982
Revised: Mar. 1996
L. Summary of promotion and tenure procedural guidelines
a. The Vice President for Human Resources.
b. The Promotion and Tenure Committee Chairperson.
c. The appropriate Dean or Director.
2. The DEC report should include:
a. Peer evaluations (e.g., classroom observations, etc.)
b. CV (curriculum vitae) of the candidate.
c. Student evaluations and/or their summaries from most recent semesters.
d. Statement clarifying the "primary professional function" for those faculty whose primary function is not teaching (e.g., library work, etc.), as well as any special conditions incorporated within appointment letters.
e. Separate reports for promotion and tenure if a candidate is being evaluation for both in the same year.
3. The DEC shall prepare a total of three (3) copies of the entire DEC Written Evaluation and Recommendation Report and distribute:
a. One copy to the candidate.
b. One copy to the Dean or Director.
c. The original signed copy to the member's personnel file.
4. The Dean shall prepare a total of three (3) copies of his/her recommendation and distribute:
a. One copy to the candidate.
b. One copy, with the DEC report, to the chairperson of the Promotion and Tenure Committee.
c. The original recommendation shall be sent to the member's personnel file.
5. Listed below are the administratively approved terminal degrees (not doctoral degrees) according to the definition used in the Semi Annual Statistical Report of the Connecticut State University System: MBA/CPA for teachers of accounting only
- MFA for teachers of fine or applied arts (not including art history or education)
- MLS for librarian
- MSW for teachers of social work
- JD or LLB for teachers of business law
6. Additional and/or comparable credentials and/or experience defined in individual departmental side letters or letters of appointment shall be taken into consideration by all persons and committees involved in the evaluation process, pursuant to Article 5.3.5 (Comparable Standards) of the CSU-AAUP Collective Bargaining Agreement.
Revised Senate Approval: R-03-02-02
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Shola Ameobi, with his 13th European goal, Henrique and Senegal international Papiss Cisse were all on target as Newcastle United cruised to a comfortable 3-0 win over French side Girondins de Bordeaux in the UEFA Europa League on Thursday.
Newcastle lead Group D with four points from two games.
"We were expecting a little more from Bordeaux," Newcastle midfielder Yohan Cabaye said. "It was important to take the three points, but now it's just as important to concentrate on our next Premier League game against Manchester United on Sunday."
Tottenham Hotspur, fresh from upstaging Manchester United at Old Trafford last weekend, were held to a frustrating 1-1 draw by Panathinaikos in Athens.
Spurs were in control of their Group J fixture against a side reeling from the sacking of their captain Kostas Katsouranis after Michael Dawson's first-half header, but their Greek hosts battled back to scrape an unlikely draw after the break courtesy of Spanish striker Toche.
"There is a sense of disappointment," said Spurs manager Andre Villas-Boas, who won the Europa League with Porto in 2010-2011. "In the second half, we made a lot of mistakes in passing and that let them in the game, but a point away from home is positive."
With SS Lazio beating Slovenian outfit NK Maribor 1-0, missing a penalty in the process, Spurs slipped to third place behind their Serie A rivals who had Ederson to thank for their victory.
Inter scored all their goals in the first half in a 3-1 win at Neftchi of Azerbaijan to leave Andrea Stramaccioni's side level on four points in Group H with Rubin Kazan, who beat Partizan Belgrade 2-0.
Inter warmed up for Sunday's city derby with AC Milan with a victory courtesy of goals by Philippe Coutinho, Joel Obi and Marko Livaja.
"Even though there were a lot of changes to the side, Inter put in a really solid first half," Stramaccioni said. "This group of players is on the way up."
The only dampener on the night for Serie A clubs was SSC Napoli's 3-0 loss at PSV Eindhoven. That result ceded top spot in Group F to Dnipro, who won 3-2 at Sweden's AIK, and it came as a surprise given a 4-0 win over AIK by Walter Mazzarri's side two weeks ago and their strong start to Serie A, where they are unbeaten in second place.
Elsewhere, Cristian Rodriguez grabbed a stoppage-time winner for Atletico Madrid in a 1-0 victory over Viktoria Plzen, the defending champions' second straight triumph in Group B.
French club Olympique Lyonnais also left it late to beat Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona 4-3 in a thrilling match in Israel, with Gueida Fofana scoring a stoppage-time winner.
However, there was no end to the woes of Athletic Bilbao, last season's beaten finalists, who lost 3-1 to Sparta Prague to slump to the bottom of Group I. Bilbao are also in the relegation zone in La Liga.
In other results, France forward Loic Remy scored twice in Group C leaders Olympique de Marseille's 5-1 thrashing of Cypriots AEL, while Hannover 96 beat Levante UD 2-1, despite playing with 10 men for 80 minutes.
In another surprising result, unheralded Hungarian side Videoton swept past Portugal's Sporting 3-0 in Group G.
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West Melbourne, FL Home Saga OngoingAugust 14, 2009 at 17:13 | Posted in Bits and Pieces, citizens fighting city or towns, property values, taxpayers can you fight city hall, West Melbourne, FL | Leave a comment
Tags: Brevard County, FL, Florida, Melbourne, photographs, ramblings, Space Coast Flordia, SpaceCoast, taxpayers, Utility Easements, West Melbourne
There is some hope for life returning to a degree of normalcy at our home. I had written a letter to a local TV station (I will not name until they make a decision) and posted several posts here on the conditions as a result of the sewer lift station construction. The amount of hits I have received is encouraging that word is out. I hope it helps anyone else facing such a mess and disruption to their lives in addition to the financial pain. I am also perfectly aware that much of the tracking is by the folks at City Hall wanting to see what exactly I am posting and therefore forcing them to prepare for the inevitable. I am not someone who wanted to be a political activist. I never was such a person but obviously I have been forced to become one. The photos show the landscaping and clean up of our yard. I have to state here that the gentlemen assigned to us to be responsible for getting the project done have gone out of their way to get it done. I realize that much of this big push is due to my speaking at the City Council meetings, posting here and on Twitter, as well as a letter of inquiry from the TV station to City Hall. The cypress trees were a more expensive alternative to what they intended to put there but it was acknowledged that maintaining hedges would be expensive over the long run – something I brought up. I suggested the trees would be less likely to have branches that might damage the antenna system also. I also admit that when the bulldozer broke a large section of our driveway, they poured a new one the same day without us having to mention or discuss it even with anyone. Again I attribute this to the new attitude of actually supervising the job — and again the two men assigned to do this have done their jobs well. For all of the folks who hate to see certain ethnic workers on a job site, I want to refute some of those issues here. These fellows were all legal and they were gentlemen. They were also very hard workers with no swearing, no raudy behavior, and they cleaned up after themselves daily! I believe in giving credit and Kudos where owed.
All of that said, the bottom line is a financial one to us. How the project was handled originally was a publicity nightmare, a lesson in rude, obnoxious city employee attitudes, and an elitist attitude also by a city mangement. None of that can be changed. What was done was done. And unfortunately no amount of landscaping will change that we now have the view from our front windows of a sewer lift station. Stand in the street and look at our house and you see a sewer lift station. Trees and hedges only go so far, curb appeal is now destroyed. Given a choice of the same house with a sewer station or without, obviously buyers will not choose the sewer lift station. The reality is that our finances are therefore impacted by the City's decisions. We had no voice in the decision and now we are the ones whose future is impacted. Our home was like most Americans a big portion of our lives. After all, our governments claim home ownership is a major part of the American Dream. This is now our nightmare we get to live and relive every day.
West Melbourne, FL City Council August 4, 2009 Ongoing Saga of Our HomeAugust 4, 2009 at 22:51 | Posted in Bits and Pieces, citizens fighting city or towns, property values, taxpayers can you fight city hall, West Melbourne, FL | Leave a comment
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We again attended a City Council Meeting for the West Melbourne, Florida City Council. I was asked by one of the City Council members to keep them apprised of the situation at our home. At the last meeting, some photographs of our home were shown that did not clarify our position fairly or properly along with incorrect statements being put out there that we were inconveniencing others and costing delays with our complaints. So I felt it imperative to set the record straight on several issues and felt a few photographs of what transpired would say more than mere words. With that in mind I showed proof that equipment needed could not fit in between the two houses and that the tanks themselves would also not fit. More importantly I showed our house before and now. Remember this was a 2600+ square foot home that is now a mess no matter how many shrubs they try to plant. I don't think a 20+ foot antenna on tripod stand will be covered by some flowers or hedges. And none of it helps the value of our home now. Watch the presentation for yourself – it was well received and most of the citizens came up to us after the meeting to agree with us.
West Melbourne, FL Never-Ending SagaJuly 23, 2009 at 17:21 | Posted in citizens fighting city or towns, property values, taxpayers can you fight city hall, West Melbourne, FL | Leave a comment
Tags: Brevard County, fight city hall, FL, Florida, Melbourne, Space Coast, Space Coast Flordia, SpaceCoast, Utility Easements, West Melbourne
Yesterday I was awakened by a fellow from the City of West Melbourne, FL. He is the Deputy City Manager assigned to assist the new City Manager of West Melbourne, Florida. I became his first assignment – such a lucky fellow! He has been present at the City Council meetings so he already knew a bit of the history but I gave him another earful. I refuse to allow all of the mis-statements and inaccuracies continue unchallenged. Anyway yesterday was the start of the job for our new City Manager – the previous one has been let go of course. (Not only because of me!) Supposedly the City of West Melbourne, Florida wants to get this job finished although FPL has yet to set the meter in the one panel box. They wanted to know if I would accept a test of the system on Monday using a generator. I told the fellow go ahead – maybe we will get lucky and it fails and blows itself apart. I am tired of the mess at this point but not the fight.
Late yesterday afternoon I received a phone call from our new City Manager himself. Seems I was the project that he got greeted with to start his job – of course, along with all the other messes he was left. He'll be using the inheritance theme for awhile I am sure! I welcomed him to West Melbourne, Florida and he felt obligated to apologize to me on behalf of the city. He wanted me to understand he cannot change what has been done but wants to finish the job and at least give me back some semblance of a front yard. After that we will need to talk obviously. I went through what was in the past and explained to him that the missteps, inaccurate comments, and lack of honesty are all symptomatic of a bigger problem. With my construction background I could speak to the poor management and even misuse of trust and funds on this job. Every time a task needs to be redrawn, or redone, it costs more money. Wrong in this recession/depression. This is not being good stewards of the public trust! More importantly I warned him that employees who were responsible for managing this project didn't do their job properly and were being disingenuous at best. That signals they will not be his best friends or good employees – beware! He laughed and said he was glad someone in the city was aware of that and would continue to remember that as projects are enacted in town. All in all, I will be honest and say I do not feel this new fellow is 'out to get me' – and I suspect he will be as fair as possible in finishing the job. At least he had the courtesy and class to apologize on behalf of the city for previous behavior – and that goes a long way in my estimation! Bottom line is that my home values are and will be down-valued. Some degree of landscaping will help but not change that fact. I still believe the City of West Melbourne, Florida owes me for that – and I do not owe anyone else because it is good for them. They don't pay my bills and they will not give me a pension to make up for lost equity in my home. And that is one fight I will not back away from – hang it on principles – if something is right based on legal technicalities, that does not guarantee it is ethically or morally right. Would you want it done to you or someone you care about? Then don't expect me to accept it either – I do not owe it to anyone!
West Melbourne, Fl City Council Meeting July 7th, 2009 with New UpdateJuly 8, 2009 at 16:02 | Posted in Bits and Pieces, citizens fighting city or towns, property values, taxpayers can you fight city hall, West Melbourne, FL | 1 Comment
Tags: Brevard County, City Destroys Family, Eminent Domain, Emotional Damage, Financial Hardship, FL, Home Owners, Melbourne, Space Coast Flordia, taxpayers, Utility Easements, West Melbourne, WestMelbourne
I posted HERE previously a post concerning what West Melbourne, FL has done to our home. They have added a sewer lift station directly in the street sidewalk area of my home – see large photos before and after on the West Melbourne, FL Photo page on this blog – tab is at top of the page. Consider the land was plotted for a subdivision in 1960 but the very first house was not built until 1976 in this neighborhood. Obviously they never took into account since then how to redesign a sewer system to service the neighborhood or surrounding areas. I find it shocking the City of West Melbourne, FL is now forcing homeowners to accept the attempts to bubble gum the sytems together in this manner. I say bubble gum because engineers have had to redraw this lift station in front of my house three times because they did not measure anything correctly nor pay attention to houses that exist where they wanted to put the lift station. I am not sure the St Johns Water Management folks have any idea this project has been handled this way but the sewers need to conform to new water service standards. I am also not sure if anyone else ever approved the redesign of the road right of way.
Last night the City of West Melbourne, FL had a city council meeting – regularly scheduled. It seems that last night the "Haven Drive Lift Station Rehabilitation" (doesn't that have a nice ring to it?) was added to the agenda. I found it interesting that this subject was not mentioned to us ahead of time – but no matter – we have found it "interesting" to attend these meetings lately, so we were there. I went with my laptop and proceeded to take notes all evening. I don't think our presence was fully appreciated at that meeting. The Public Works Director went by the job site (in front of our house) yesterday and took a few photographs – they look pretty close to my own although the full angle view was one that most of the city officers were not happy to have on the screen. Several of the council members mentioned they were by the house and were appalled or shocked at the mess and what was done.
The mayor of West Melbourne, FL felt this was not the proper time or forum to discuss the issue. As it was a public forum, when best to discuss it? After all West Melbourne, FL – this is a sunshine state – and the taxpayers, property owners, citizens have a right to know the full steam ahead attitude of its city in spite of the consequences to anyone.
The implicatons continue to be that West Melbourne, Fl is trying to please me and that they have compromised with us. We interrupted that train of thought more than once – I emphasized that the engineer and the building inspector on both redesigns realized that the project could not fit within a twenty foot wide easement that is actually only 18 foot wide. See why that is below.
They could not remove the underground cement box (inside that orange fencing) of the manhole cover housing the force main until ready to switch into the new force main. That limited their room pushing everything closer to the houses. That meant compromising the foundations by having to place wet well points to draw off the water -the holes to place all of the tanks go over 15 foot deep – almost 20 at places.
The two houses are only 18 foot apart due to a building error because the City of West Melbourne, Fl allowed the neighbor's house thirty years ago to be built into the easement. Take a look at the photos I've added today. It is pretty obvious this hole and equipment would not fit in an 18 foot wide area without completely crashing the house foundation! They had no way to do anything but move it from that easement.
They did what they did because they could and they expect me to accept it. Was it "right"? You be the judge – what would you like to have out your front windows? Do you feel the actions of the City of West Melbourne, FL are how you want your city to treat you? Because a city has the right to do something, should they? Was it right to crush one family emotionally and financially because it saved the City of West Melbourne, FL time and money? Remember they feel they are not obligated to do anything to correct this with us financially – we are expected to accept — move along folks, nothing else to see here – we did it because we can! Thanks West Melbourne, FL. That's a city that has the best interests of its citizens, its taxpayers at heart!
UPDATED JULY 21st, 2009 —
Incredible as it may seem, NO ONE has done any work on this project yet! Nothing has changed since my last photographs (although I do have plenty more dated ones to prove that) and our lovely eco-friendly(?) orange plastic fence still complements the lare hole and mud in our front yard. The promised landscaping has never been done. The road remains unpaved and still barricaded. We still drag our garbage cans down the street and walk to the corner for our mail every day – nice when it rains! I am not convinced that this isn't a 'get even' compaign at this point. But that is fine – I have contacted a couple of TV stations locally and sent photos to them so we will see who is afraid of the local government or not.
City of West Melbourne, Florida – Democracy or What???July 6, 2009 at 18:29 | Posted in Amore di Italia | 4 Comments
Tags: BrevardCounty, citizens, City West Melbourne, dream, FL, Florida, home, house, laws, Melbourne, property values, ramblings, real estate, SpaceCoast, taxpayers, West Melbourne, zoning
This is one of the most difficult posts to write and as I write, I am in tears. I am shaken to the core to realize that my city government of West Melbourne, Florida could be as callous and undemocratic as it is. Unless one considers the needs of everyone else come before the needs of a homeowner and taxpayer, unless one considers the financial well being of one is unimportant in respect to what the city sees as fair to everyone else. I am making this post in hopes of sharing enough information that others can be forewarned and not face the heartache, disillusionment, and financial ruin that West Melbourne, Florida has "blessed" me with.
My home originally before mess can be seen here –
As many of my loyal readers know, bonnieshusband is permanently disabled. We are not wealthy people. I have worked since he was disabled and like many folks, we planned on the equity in our home to be our retirement base. As with most others we have seen that value decrease due to the housing bubble but we had purchased twelve years ago and did enough improvements that we still felt safe and comfortable with the amount of equity we had realized. This home spanning almost 2700 sq. ft. with pool and originally nice landcaping was market value of over $200,000, a moderate but decent home for us and the area. When we purchased our home we did our research. I had been raised in the construction and real estate business and worked in the field also. The first rule of real estate is location, followed by rule #2 of location, closely followed by rule #3 of location. We knew an easement existed on our side and rear yards for drainage and utilities, something almost every subdivision in this area also has. To the very edge of the property line, clearly visible even in the current Google maps photos there shows a telephone pole with small electric panel box. This was to power a sewer pump underground in the road – visible as a small manhole cover in the road. There was also a small cover in-ground on neighbor's easement, also visible in the photos. Grass for the most part hid that one. We were told before we agreed to purchase the house that the electric box and pole would be 'going away' when the city reworked the system – and all would go under-ground. This was something all of the neighbors then were also told. Based on that information we bought the house. The city for some reason did not use earmarked funds to do the project so it was delayed for several years. In March of this year the surveyors arrived and marked utility lines and well point marks (we were later told that was what the wood stakes were for). Note the photo of the wood stake up against our front window area – it is still there as of tonight and turned out to be where they planned on drilling a well-point. However as a building inspector pointed out, drawing water off so close to the foundation would probably compromise the foundation! Ya think???
Next ensued a visit by myself to city hall of West Melbourne, FL to 'invite' city officials to actually visit their intended job site. We along with neighbors were informed that obviously they would need to 'redesign' the project but that we "were inconveniencing the rest of the neighborhood" and that we should realize how "unfair we were to not do this for the betterment" of our neighbors and the city. Gee – I'm so sorry! I guess if they had given us a Notice of Intent up front or knocked on the door when the pros visited the job site to work on the plans, we might have been able to show them the large cement structure that had been sitting there for thirty years! Well they did the redesign – except they forgot to note the driveways to the houses so they had to go back to the drawing boards again! Professionalism at its finest so far? Their ultimate solution was to now position all of the lift station in the right of way of the roadway. Of course it ended up also in front of my front windows.
As the West Melbourne, Fl City Attorney explains it, that is their legal right to position anything such as this anywhere they have a right of way, i.e.: road or easement! So beware – you may be equally blessed, especially if you live in West Melbourne, Fl with one of these in the road directly in front of your front door or windows too! Worse yet, the constant refrain has been that none of them would have bought a house with a sewer in front of it either. Interestingly neither did I per se – but the City Attorney of West Melbourne had also stated it was the city's prerogative to build this in any road way right of way.
I have reminded everyone that as a taxpayer I do not expect to be talked to condescendingly as they work for me, a taxpayer and citizen. No one else pays my mortgage or taxes, so this is more than merely inconvenient for me! They have robbed me of my financial security and peace of mind. My faith in our government being there to serve and protect is obviously destroyed! Most municipalities although having the same rights, do not abuse them in such a cavalier manner. Rather they work in an effort to bolster, not destroy property values. Our complaints are also a part of the City Council Records as we have been attending the West Melbourne, Fl meetings.
Interestingly most of the Council went on record agreeing with us but it means nothing but a "Gee, we're sorry" and no recourse otherwise. This has been a rude awakening. I was raised to believe that one's town government as well as the federal government were there to serve and protect its citizens. Obviously this is not the policy or general belief of the town of West Melbourne, Florida. I thought this was a great place to raise a family and retire – now I am sure it is not! Any company thinking of relocating here should do so cautiously or they will find corporate property values could be played with and certainly the employees would be taking a huge risk to purchase a home in a place that cares so little about them. No consideration was given to our family's rights or needs. It may in fact mean my future is ruined, but I would never want to see anyone else go through this type of heartbreak at the hands of another town the way West Melbourne, Florida has treated us! By the way – our yard is still dug up and a mud hole, our mailbox was relocated down the street, the road is also still dug up. We've been promised some flowers around the lift station and they're going to paint the electric boxes, too. Aren't we lucky???
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text: Daniel Pfenniger wrote: "But while configuring a cluster remember that you can get a better deal (=speed/cost for your application) by choosing cheaper CPUs in larger quantities." I disagree. Sometimes this is true, and sometimes it is not. The CPU cost is a fractional element of the total cost. The total cost can vary quite a bit. Let's do a fictional example, with 60 nodes, one rack, GbE networking: Quad core Opteron blades, in a 10 blade 8U chassis. 6 chassis per rack, 60 blades, 120 CPUs, 480 cores 1 Motherboard Opteron S1207x2/ split rail power, newer chipset, video/GbE*2 2 AMD Opteron2347 Quad Core 1.9GHz 8 2GB DDR2 667MHz ECC REG DIMM Assuming 16GB RAM ( 2GB per core) 1 160 GB 7200rpm HDD Total per node: $ 2,600 Blade frame/chassis/power cost per node: $300 Rack, PDU, GbE network switch, cables, etc., etc, per rack of 60 nodes: $6,000 Cost per node: $100 Total: $180,000 So, each node costs roughly $3,000 with 1.9GHz CPUs ( 2 per node) Each CPUs is about $400/3000 of the cost, or 13.4% Upgrade to: 2.0GHz: Each node is $3,200, CPU $500 15.7% 2.3GHz: Each node is $4,200, CPU $1000 23.8% 2.5GHz: Each node is $5,150, CPU $1475 28.7% Assuming performance is pretty well linear with clock speed in your applications. Yes, a big assumption, but one that holds true for most, unless you are limited by memory bandwidth or network performance.. Using the above figures, we can see that: Upgrade from 1.9 to 2GHz: 5.3% performance gain, 6.6% cost increase. Upgrade from 1.9 to 2.3GHz: 21.1% performance gain, 40% cost increase. Upgrade from 1.9 to 2.5GHz: 31.5% performance gain, 72% cost increase. When one factors power consumption and cooling the curve of cost/performance certainly gets steeper. But, the jump from 1.9 to 2.0 is a reasonable one. Going from 1.9 to 2.0GHz is an example that disagrees with your statement. Going from 1.9 to 2.3GHz it is different: If we factor in the performance gain ( again, assuming even scaling by simply adding nodes): Add a second rack, add 13 more nodes, to gain 26.4% mode performance ( equiv to 1.9 vs 2.3GHz) : 2 more 10 blade chassis, 16U, more network, another rack, PDU, etc. $8,000 13 nodes @ $3,000 = $39,000 $180,000 + $47,000 = $227,000 227/180 = 26.1% cost for 21% performance gain. It seems that the gain for more CPUs versus faster holds true for the jump to 2.3GHz. With Quad core Opterons it is more cost effective to add nodes versus faster CPUs comparing 2.3GHz to 1.9GHz. Of course you are supporting a second rack, more power, more cooling to do so. And, you are maintaining more nodes which is more work, more risk of failure, etc.. ----------------------------------- Barnet Wagman wrote: "Of course I'd rather wait for AMD's quad but that's not an option (I doubt that they'll be readily available until next year). So I'm leaning towards the low cost per node solution - one quad processor (probably a Q6600) per node." Huh? What does "readily available" mean to you? How many machines would you like with these? Give me a call. -- With our best regards, //Maurice W. Hilarius Telephone: 01-780-456-9771/ /Hard Data Ltd. FAX: 01-780-456-9772/ /11060 - 166 Avenue email:maurice at harddata.com/ /Edmonton, AB, Canada http://www.harddata.com// / T5X 1Y3/ / -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/attachments/20071010/eb92c8bc/attachment.html>


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Pigeon Point Light Station State Historic Park
One of the tallest lighthouses in America, the 115-foot Pigeon Point Lighthouse has stood proud since 1872, the year it began to guide mariners from its perch on the central California coast. Today the lighthouse and the hostel are part of a California State Historic Park. Half-hour guided history walks around the grounds are available from State Parks docents on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, and Mondays from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., weather permitting.
Note: The interior of the lighthouse itself is closed to visitors, pending restoration work.
Hot Tub
Hostel guests should make time to revel in our oceanside hot tub, perched on the coast above soaring brown pelicans, languid Pacific harbor seals, and migrating gray whales.
The hot tub is available from 4:00 - 10:55 p.m., and is open only to overnight guests. The cost is $7 per person for a half-hour session, with a two-person minimum and a four-person maximum. Hot tub reservations are available at check-in.
Whale Watching
The gray whale northern migration season from March - May is a great time of year to visit us. Watch the majestic animals spout, sound, spy-hop, and breach from the boardwalk behind our fog signal building. The gray whale makes one of the longest mammalian migrations, averaging 10,000 - 14,000 miles round trip. Mothers and calves travel very near shore on the northbound migration.
Note: Many guests consider the migration the most spectacular event of the year, so reservations are highly recommended during the season, especially for weekend stays.
Whaler's Cove
On the south side of the Pigeon Point Lighthouse is Whaler's Cove, a series of small sheltered beaches and coves that face southwest and are protected from the prevailing northwesterly winds. From the lighthouse, you can descend the the stairway to the beach below, or walk the bluffs above the cove along Mel's Lane walking trail.
Portuguese whalers arrived at Punta de la Ballena in the 1860s and shore-whaled from this point and cove for over a decade. Small sailing boats with paddle oars launched out of the cove to chase down the gray and humpback whales that frequent this coastline. Whalers then rowed their catch back to the beach, where the blubber was flensed and boiled to make the valuable whale oil ready for market. Just west of Whaler's Cove is the old Pigeon Point Wharf that jutted out over the rocky islands to the south of the lighthouse, and supplied coastal schooners with timber and agricultural products during the turn of the century.
Tide Pools
Walk a mere 100 yards north of the hostel during low tides, and you'll see a colorful array of starfish, crabs, mussels, abalone, sea anemones, and other marine animals on display every day. We keep a tide chart in our reception office, or you can check local tides on this website.
Pescadero Marsh
Just across the highway from the hostel is Pescadero Marsh, a large coastal estuary that's considered the area's top destination for bird watchers and other naturalists. Thousands of northbound birds (more than 150 species) pass through the popular feeding and nesting ground, including loons, scoters, brant cormorants, and gulls. The marsh is also a refuge for blue heron, kites, deer, raccoons, foxes, and skunks.
Butano State Park
Just 5 miles from the hostel, you can hike through giant 1,000-year-old redwoods at Butano State Park. The 2,200-acre reserve features miles of hiking trails in a secluded redwood-filled canyon. Guided nature walks are offered during the summer.
Año Nuevo State Park
North America's largest native mammals -- elephant seals -- return to the California coast for breeding season every mid-December - April. Located 7 miles south of the hostel, Año Nuevo State Park is the world's largest mainland breeding ground for elephant seals. Naturalist-guided walks are available on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, from December 15 - March 31. These tours are extremely popular and tickets can be difficult to come by.
These tours are extremely popular and tickets can be difficult to come by. Through a partnership with the park, we're able to secure advance tour tickets for our guests. Tickets are $7 per person; ask to reserve them when you book your hostel stay.


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The blocked shot.
The swat of the basketball off the gargantuan hand of an immovable object standing 6-foot-10 or -11 — or even towering over 7 feet — is the most spectacular defensive play in the game, and easily the most appreciable.
We can see a blocked shot. We can hear it by the oohs and ahhs from the crowd. We know the result. We can measure its impact in fastbreaks. We can tabulate it. So it's easy to want to judge the league's best defensive player by how many swats he has. If he's blocking a lot of shots, he must be a tremendous defender.
But there's much more to defense than blocking shots, which is why Oklahoma City's Serge Ibaka, an improving all-around player to be sure, won't win the Defensive Player of the Year award despite being well on his way to leading the league in blocks for a second consecutive season.
Ibaka finished second in DPOY voting last season, largely on the strength of his impressive shot-blocking, behind Knicks center Tyson Chandler, who ended Dwight Howard's three-year reign while finishing tied for 17th in blocked shots.
There will again be a new defensive champion this season, and the pick here is Marc Gasol, the burly, 7-foot-1 center and anchor of the Memphis Grizzlies, who have the stingiest defense in the NBA.
Gasol's closest competition for the award may come from within his division from the apparently ageless Tim Duncan. The San Antonio Spurs' All-Star once more has been a rock. If you want to talk blocked shots, Duncan is swatting 2.7 per game, his highest mark in a decade. He's also on the cusp of averaging double-digit rebounds (he's at 9.9 a game) for the first time since the 2009-10 season, a feat he accomplished in each of his first 13 seasons.
The Chicago Bulls' energetic Joakim Noah and the runaway MVP candidate LeBron James are also in the blue-collar defensive mix. James, who plays everywhere on the floor from point guard to power forward, has become the one non-center (or center-like player) candidate to make an annual run at a traditionally big man's award.
The 265-pound Gasol ranks 12th in blocks per game (1.74) and is tied for 10th in total blocks with 136 (entering Monday's games), one fewer than Charlotte's Bismack Biyombo. So be it.
What a blocked shot total doesn't reveal is the number of shots a properly positioned defender alters or prevents altogether. Gasol, hardly the quickest or most athletic center in the game, might be the most intuitive, and his ability to read, react, recover and make the right play is second to none.
Gasol's 7.8 rebounds per game are bit on the low side considering he averages 35.2 minutes a game. But teammate Zach Randolph (11.2 rpg) cleans up a lot of the boards on plenty of shots Gasol goads into clanking off the rim or backboard.
"He anchors the defense, he talks in the back, he recognizes what's going on that the other team is doing to us," Grizzlies coach Lionel Hollins said. "He's also pretty decent in pick-and-roll, going to help, and knowing when to double, when to stay home. He just has good basketball instincts and that carries over offensively and defensively as well. Probably a lot of guys are deserving, probably guys that are quicker than him, more athletic than him, but what he does for us, it works."
His defensive rating is an excellent 95.5. Since the All-Star break it's been significantly lower at 92.2, a stretch that the Grizzlies have gone 21-8.
The Grizzlies allow just 89.4 points a game, the lone team to limit opposing offenses to less than 90, a mark they've upheld despite roster upheaval caused by the Rudy Gay trade. Memphis ranks third in overall field-goal percentage defense (43.7), second in 3-point field-goal percentage defense (33.7), fourth in allowing fewest assists, fourth in creating turnovers and sixth in allowing the fewest free-throw attempts per game.
Memphis' excellent team defense begins with rigorous perimeter defenders Mike Conley and Tony Allen. But it's the burly Gasol — the anchor, the quarterback or what have you — that keeps the entire thing on a string.
The other candidates:
Tim Duncan — He's had a remarkable 16th NBA season and, interestingly, the oldest player on the Spurs appears to be the healthiest as San Antonio heads into the postseason with plenty of uncertainty. Duncan has been key in the Spurs' improved overall team defense, which ranks in the top 10 in points allowed, field-goal percentage defense and 3-point field-goal percentage defense.
LeBron James — What's a smallish perimeter player to do when he's got the ball and a the 6-foot-9, 250-pound James attacks on a double-team? James is almost inarguably the greatest two-way player in the game. He can guard any position with relentless aggression and when he traps up top, his size and quickness are daunting.
Joakim Noah — It's a shame he's played in only 64 of the Bulls' 80 games — the same number he played during last season's 66-game schedule — because he's that good and mostly because he makes watching defense incredibly fun. As they say, his motor never stops. He's lunging, jumping, leaping or diving somewhere at all times to grab the basketball. His rebounding is at a career-best 11.4 a game, up nearly two from last season.


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Kids Record Their Father Assaulting Teen & Then Ramming His Truck! [Footage That Got Thier Dad Arrested]
A 53 year old father is facing 8 years in jail after he assaulted a teenage boy who had been fighting with his son. As the teenager tries to drive off the man rams his own truck into the other truck. Police arrive and end up arresting the dad after watching the tape his own kids recorded.
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Expectant elephant speared in Amboseli
In what may be one of the saddest incidences of poaching in recent times, an expectant elephant has been speared to death within the Amboseli ecosystem.
The incident happened on Thursday around 3 p.m. within Oltiani area. Reports indicate that a herd's boy witnessed the elephant going down as it succumbed to its injury and notified community scouts who secured the site as they alerted Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) personnel.
Responding to the incident IFAW's Regional Director for East Africa Mr. James Isiche stated: "This is a double tragedy. The callous poachers did not care that the elephant was pregnant. Their actions were driven by greed to make quick money. IFAW joins other organizations in calling for the President to declare poaching of elephants and rhinos a national disaster. The government should spare no efforts in stopping the poaching menace that is threatening to decimate Kenya's national heritage."
Elephant and rhino deaths due to poaching for their tusks and horns respectively have dominated the news recently. Conservationists have called on the President to invoke emergency measures to crack down on poachers and place elephants and rhinos under state protection. Failure to do so may lead to the loss of this national heritage within a few years and during the current government's tenure. The President should do all that it takes to ensure that Kenya's elephant and rhino populations are not wiped out on his watch. The increase in poaching occurrences is despite the recently passed Wildlife and Conservation Management Bill which has raised the penalty for offences relating to endangered species to life imprisonment or fines of up to 20 million shillings.
Though no arrests have been made in relation to the incident and investigations are underway, swift action by community scouts within the Amboseli Tsavo Games Scouts Association (ATGSA) ensured that the ivory was secured.
Community wildlife scouts play an important role in preventing poaching, avoidance of human wildlife conflict and, mitigation of environmental degradation. IFAW supports the training of these scouts at the KWS Law Enforcement Academy in Manyani and also provides them with logistical and administrative equipment. IFAW plans to support the training of 30 community scouts in 3 years; 10 of whom graduated in May 2013 with the second batch of 10 expected to enrol in April 2014.
About IFAW (the International Fund for Animal Welfare)
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I still don't like the car, though it may be grow on me. I think it needs to be much more retro as in 1rst. gen. styling. But then they did not ask for my opinion. That said, they may miss a huge part of potential market (baby boomers) by not making significant changes. Anyone agree, or am I in a dream world???Bill


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earthhour.org wrote:Earth Hour started in 2007 in Sydney, Australia when 2.2 million homes and businesses turned their lights off for one hour to make their stand against climate change. Only a year later and Earth Hour had become a global sustainability movement with more than 50 million people across 35 countries participating. Global landmarks such as the, Sydney Harbour Bridge, The CN Tower in Toronto, The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, and Rome's Colosseum, all stood in darkness, as symbols of hope for a cause that grows more urgent by the hour.
In March 2009, hundreds of millions of people took part in the third Earth Hour. Over 4000 cities in 88 countries officially switched off to pledge their support for the planet, making Earth Hour 2009 the world's largest global climate change initiative.
Earth Hour 2010 takes place on Saturday 27 March at 8.30pm (local time) and is a global call to action to every individual, every business and every community throughout the world. It is a call to stand up, to take responsibility, to get involved and lead the way towards a sustainable future. Iconic buildings and landmarks from Europe to Asia to the Americas will stand in darkness. People across the world from all walks of life will turn off their lights and join together in celebration and contemplation of the one thing we all have in common – our planet. So sign up now and let's make 2010 the biggest Earth Hour yet!.
It's Showtime! Show the world what can be done.
So tomorrow night Liewen and I will enjoy a little candles enlighten romantic dinner
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NORWALK >> Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District school officials are moving forward with plans to ask voters to approve a $375 million bond issue in November.
The Board of Education on Monday met to finalize language for the issue. At its 6:30 p.m. July 21 meeting, it is expected to consider placing the bond issue on the ballot.
If approved by voters, property owners would pay an additional $60 per $100,000 valuation over the next 52 years. For someone with a home valued at $300,000, that would mean an $180 increase a year in property taxes.
Board President Margarita Rios said money from the bond would improve the district's 28 schools.
"We want a safe learning environment at our various sites," Rios said. "We also want updated technology for the education of our students."
The board already has approved a facilities master plan with $600 million worth of projects, including a priority list of $352 million.
The list includes $53 million for infrastructure to support new technology; $48 million for modernization for three schools not completed with money from the 2002 bond issue and other work; $47 million for a performing arts center, and $45 million for new roofs at all sites.
Also proposed is $44 million for new football stadiums at Glenn and Norwalk high schools; $32.5 million for new ornamental iron metal gates and fences at all sites; $32 million for an endowment to pay for electronic devices, such as iPads, for classrooms; $18 million for new furniture; $23.5 million to improve play fields at all schools and $9 million to renovate La Mirada High's football stadium.
Rios said the two new football stadiums were added to the list because of community support.
There's also interest by officials at the middle and high schools in a performing arts center. No site has been chosen for the proposed center.
"As a district, we support our visual and performing arts programs," she said. "It would be great if our students had a facility they'd be proud to perform in."
There are concerns about the amount of money the district may be asking for from property owners.
"I have concerns about the dollar amount," board member Chris Pflanzer said.
"I believe the district needs a bond but I'm more concerned about getting it passed," Pflanzer said. "It's a 52-year indebtedness. I have concerns that it would put in debt (board member) Sean's (Reagan) kids and Sean's kids' kids. I think a $200 million (bond) would have a better chance of passing."
Reagan said $375 million does sound like a lot but it's what the district's schools need.
"They deserve a great investment," Reagan said.
In addition, a poll taken late last year didn't show reduced support for a bond issue even when the dollar figure was lowered, he said.
The bond issue also just gives the board the right to sell bonds up to $375 million, said Jim DiCamillo, an architect hired by the district.
"You're not committing to sell $375 million," DiCamillo said.
Board member Karen Morrison said the board might not even go that high.
"Depending on where we are 25 to 30 years in the future, the board may decide it's not going to issue any more (bonds)," Morrison said.


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It's hotter than hell in most parts of the country today, but nothing is quite as steamy as the sneak peek MTV gave us of one of Robert Pattinson's sexiest Bel Ami scenes.
There is so much hype surrounding this film already, and even though we won't get to see it till this summer, judging from this clip of Rob romancing Christina Ricci proves we're in for a real treat.
Pattinson will actually get pretty intimate with three women in the film, including Uma Thurman and Kristen Scott Thomas, but it looks like he'll have the biggest connection with Ricci's character.
Get ready to feast your eyes on Rob lying in bed shirtless and showing off his noteworthy kissing skills. (I knew that would make you smile.)
Ok, enough teasing -- here's the clip. Aside from his shirt being off, pay extra attention to right before he crawls into bed (about 22 seconds in) with Ricci -- because you can see a tiny bit of his bum. (It's ok -- I giggled like a school girl too.)
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Two questions: Are you done salivating yet -- and how excited are you to see this movie on June 8th? OMG.
And judging from some comments Rob made to MTV news, it sounds like we are going to see even more of his "assets" than what was shown in this clip. He said, "I think there's a lot of my crack in it. I think there's quite a bit of nudity."
I think I speak for all RobPatz fans by simply saying, "Bring it on!"
Do you think Rob will be sexier in Bel Ami than he was in the Twilight films?
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Toyota has dethroned General Motors as the world's top-selling automaker.
The Japanese company sold 9.7 million cars and trucks worldwide in 2012, although it's still counting. GM sold 9.29 million. Both companies saw higher sales.
GM was the was the top-selling car maker for more than seven decades before losing the title to Toyota in 2008. But GM retook the sales crown in 2011 when Toyota's factories were slowed by an earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The disaster left Toyota dealers with few cars to sell. The company has since recovered.
Toyota's comeback is only part of the story, said Jeff Schuster, senior vice president of forecasting for LMC Automotive, an industry forecasting firm. The company also has rolled out new vehicles, such as the revamped midsize Camry, the most popular vehicle in the United States.
GM's global sales were up 2.9 percent last year. Toyota sales rose 22 percent. Schuster expects Toyota to keep the lead over GM this year as it launches a new Corolla. "I think that's going to be enough to keep them in their position," he said.
GM is also contending with a stronger Volkswagen. It narrowly edged out the fast-growing German company for second place in 2012, when VW sold a record 9.1 million vehicles.
Volkswagen, with fast-selling vehicles like the Passat midsize sedan and Jetta compact, closed in on GM with an 11 percent sales increase across the globe. The United States, where VW Group sales rose 34 percent, led the way.
Schuster expects GM to hold off Volkswagen in 2013 because VW has more of a presence in Europe, where sales are falling as the region heads struggles with high unemployment and weak economies.
GM has said in the past that it's more concerned with profitable growth than the global sales race.


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Mexico's 49 Headless Bodies is Third Massacre in 10 Days in 'Triangle of Death'
MONTERREY, Mexico – The discovery of 49 mutilated bodies dumped on a highway in northern Mexico on Sunday is the third massacre in the last ten days in the country's so called "Triangle of Death."
On May 9th the dismembered bodies of 18 victims were left near Mexico's second largest city, Guadalajara. Before that, on May 5th, the bodies of 23 people were found hanging from a bridge or decapitated near city hall in the border city of Nuevo Laredo.
The triangle, an area comprised by the highways that connect Monterrey, Nuevo Leon Reynosa and Nuevo Laredo is a region where Mexico's two dominant drug cartels are trying to outdo each other in bloodshed while warring over smuggling routes.
According to Mexican newspaper Excelsiór, of some 4,832 missing people cases from 2006 to 2011, 80 percent disappeared in the "Triangle of Death."
The victims of the latest massacre, 43 men and six women, were found with their heads, hands and feet chopped off and dumped at the entrance to the town of San Juan, on a highway that connects the industrial city of Monterrey with Reynosa, across from McAllen, Texas.
Mexican investigators have also said that they are alarmed that of the 49 bodies dumped on the highway, none have any signs of bullet wounds.
Investigators said the dead would be hard to identify because of the lack of heads, hands and feet. The bodies, some of them in plastic garbage bags, were most likely brought to the spot and dropped from the back of a dump truck. The remains were taken to a Monterrey auditorium for DNA tests.
"The victims were not killed on site, they were thrown on the site. In all cases, and to complicate our efforts to identify the bodies, none of them are headed and include mutilated upper and lower extremities," Nuevo Leon state security spokesman Jorge Domene said.
Questions also remain whether or not the victims were U.S.-bound immigrants.
In 2010, the National Human Rights Commission, or CNDH, revealed that more than 11,300 migrants, most from Central America, had been kidnapped and either held for ransom or conscripted into criminal gangs in Mexico between April and September of that year.
The victims could have been killed as long as two days ago at another location, then transported to San Juan, a town in the municipality of Cadereyta, about 105 miles (175 kilometers) west-southwest of McAllen, Texas, and 75 miles (125 kilometers) southwest of the Roma, Texas, border crossing, state Attorney General Adrian de la Garza said.
Only one couple looking for their missing daughter visited the morgue in Monterrey where autopsies were being performed Sunday, a state police investigator said.
The officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the case, said none of the six female bodies matched the missing daughter's description. He said some of the bodies were badly decomposed and some had their whole arms or lower legs missing.
It seemed more likely that the killings were the latest salvo in a gruesome game of tit-for-tat in fighting between the Zetas and the powerful Sinaloa Cartel.
Mass body dumpings have increased around Mexico in the last six months of escalating fighting between the Zetas and Sinaloa, which is led by fugitive drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, and its allies, the federal Attorney General's Office said in statement late Sunday.
The two cartels have committed "irrational acts of inhumane and inadmissible violence in their dispute," the office said, reiterating it is offering $2 million rewards for information leading to the arrests of Guzman, Ismael Zambada, another Sinaloa cartel leader, and Zetas' leaders Heriberto Lazacano Lazcano and Miguel Trevino.
Under President Felipe Calderon's nearly six-year offensive against organized crime, the two cartels have emerged as Mexico's two most powerful gangs and are battling over strategic transport routes and territory, including along the northern border with the U.S. and in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz.
In less than a month, the mutilated bodies of 14 men were left in a van in downtown Nuevo Laredo, 23 people were found hanged or decapitated in the same border city and 18 dismembered bodied were left near Mexico's second-largest city, Guadalajara. Nuevo Laredo, like Monterrey, is considered Zeta territory, while Guadalajara has long been controlled by gangs loyal to Sinaloa.
"This is the most definitive of all the cartel wars," said Raul Benitez Manaut, a security expert at Mexico's National Autonomous University.
The Zetas are a transient gang without real territory or a secure stream of income, unlike Sinaloa with its lucrative cocaine trade and control of smuggling routes and territory, Benitez said. But the Zetas are heavily armed while Sinaloa has a weak enforcement arm, he said.
The government's success in killing or arresting cartel leaders has fractured other once big cartels into weaker, quarreling bands that in many cases are lining up with either the Zetas or Sinaloa. At least one of those two cartels is present in nearly all of Mexico's 32 states.
A year ago this month, more than two dozen people — most of them Zetas — were killed when they tried to infiltrate the Sinaloa's territory in the Pacific Coast state of Nayarit.
But their war started in earnest last fall in Veracruz, a strategic smuggling state with a giant Gulf port.
A drug gang allied with Sinaloa left 35 bodies on a main boulevard in the city of Veracruz in September, and police found 32 other bodies, apparently killed by the same gang, a few days after that. The goal apparently was to take over territory that had been dominated by the Zetas.
Twenty-six bodies were found in November in Guadalajara, another territory being disputed by the Zetas and Sinaloa.
Drug violence has killed more than 47,500 people since Calderon launched a stepped-up offensive when he took office in December 2006.
Mexico is now in the midst of presidential race to replace Calderon, who by law can't run for re-election. Drug violence seems to be escalating, but none of the major candidates has referred directly to mass killings. All say they will stop the violence and make Mexico a more secure place, but offer few details on how their plans would differ from Calderon's.
Benitez said the wave of violence has nothing to do with the presidential election.
"It has the dynamic of a war between cartels," he said.
Based on reporting by the Associated Press.
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"Using propane as an engine fuel makes complete sense simply by looking at the return on investment. Fleets can save tens of thousands of dollars over the life of the van or truck and that alone is worth switching to propane even before you factor in the cleaner emissions and reduction in foreign oil dependency." –Jack Roush, CEO of Roush Enterprises
I got the opportunity to talk with Jack Roush last year about the virtues of propane as a vehicle fuel -- and it's needless to say he's a true believer in the stuff.
What's important here, though – at least in my view – is that Jack isn't an idealistic dreamer on this subject. In fact, Roush started out in 1964 as an engineer for Ford Motor Co., moving on to pursue his own specialized interests in engine development and motorsports.
He formed Jack Roush Performance Engineering, a precursor of today's Roush Industries, in 1976 and Roush Racing in 1988 and is today one of the premier names associated with the sport of stock car racing.
All of that tells me that Roush doesn't get involved in business ventures that don't offer his company a viable future – meaning the involvement of the Roush Performance arm of his company in the propane vehicle market isn't due to some "do-gooder" impulse. He really thinks propane is going to become a popular alternative fuel in the not-so-distant future.
[Here, Todd Mouw, Roush's director of sales and marketing, gives an overview as to some the advantages of using propane as a vehicle fuel.]
Right now, Roush offers several vehicle models running on liquid propane: Ford E-150 / E-250 / E-350 passenger and cargo van equipped with the 5.4L V8s plus F-150, F-250, and F-350 trucks. The E-Series vans, it should be noted, achieve Super Ultra Low Emission Vehicle II emission standards, which, on average, results in 90% cleaner emissions than the average new model year car or truck.
A bit of background first, here. Propane got listed as an approved alternative clean fuel within the 1990 Clean Air Act, followed soon thereafter as an approved alternative fuel in the Energy Policy Act of 1992.
The big reasons why propane got this designation is that it produces up to 20% less oxides of nitrogen (NOx), up to 60% less carbon monoxide, 24% fewer greenhouse gas emissions, and fewer particulate emissions when compared to gasoline. Also, 90% of the propane used today in the U.S. comes from domestic sources of production – mainly as a byproduct of natural gas and petroleum refining.
In 1996, Congress formed the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC) with the passage of Public Law 104-284, known as the Propane Education and Research Act (PERA) to promote the safe, efficient use of odorized propane gas as a preferred energy source.
Today, propane is roughly a $10 billion industry in the U.S., with the country consuming more than 15 billion gallons annually for home, agricultural, industrial, and commercial uses. It's become one of the most common alternative fuels around the globe, powering over 13 million vehicles worldwide.
And we're talking commercial vehicles here, too – not necessarily big rigs, but definitely medium-duty units. Take Schwan's Home Service, for example, which operates one of the largest direct-to-home food delivery businesses in the U.S.
Today, almost 90% of Schwan's 6,000 trucks run on propane: trucks that are also roughly 6,000 pounds lighter, resulting in increased fuel economy. The company even recently redesigned its truck fleet to capitalize on the "green" image possibilities of using propane as well.
"While our customers are sure to recognize the outside of our trucks, it is important that they know that inside there is a fuel efficient machine that is safer for our environment," noted Scott McNair, president of The Schwan Food Company.
In fact, company founder Marvin Schwan began using propane in his trucks in the early 1970s in response to the oil embargoes. The investment made to use propane has not only been efficient and better for the environment, but also economical, as the company has saved millions of dollars since the 1970s, McNair said.
Then take Prime Time Shuttle that serves southern California. Prime Time is replacing its fleet of 200 shuttle buses with 200 liquid propane-powered Ford E-350s over the next 24 months. Today, each of its gasoline-powered shuttle vans consumes more than 7,500 gallons annually; by switching to propane, Prime Time should save more than 1.5 million gallons of gasoline each year.
[Below is a recent interview with Tom Arnold, Roush's manufacturing director, about the propane injected F-150 they've developed.]
Then there's Ferrellgas Partners, one of the U.S.'s largest propane distributors, out there banging the propane drum via a nationwide tour of 5.4L V-8 propane powered Ford F-250 for the last year.
Ferrellgas's 2010 Roush liquid propane injected F-250 offers the same horsepower (300 hp) and torque (365 ft-lbs) as a comparable gasoline-powered truck, equipped with in-bed tank provides about 55-gallons of propane, resulting in a range in excess of 500 miles.
During the first year of this road show, Ferrellgas said its propane-powered F-250 traveled more than 47,000 miles across 30 states, producing approximately 5,954 lbs less carbon dioxide than its gasoline equivalent while saving some $2,469 in fuel costs. Those are pretty compelling numbers, especially with the legacy of 2008's oil price spike still fresh in our minds.
Add to that two to three years longer service life and extended intervals between required maintenance and you get an even more interesting vehicle life cycle equation to consider.
This doesn't make propane a "silver bullet" in terms of taking care of our nation's transportation energy needs by any stretch of the imagination, but it certainly makes it a compelling piece of an ultimate solution.


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Excel Sports in Boulder, Colorado, became an early player in mail-order and then online retailing. Created in 1988, Excel Sports isn't some clearinghouse run by clerks; instead it's a high-end bike shop run and staffed by cycling fanatics. BikeRadar checked in with Josh McGuckin for this week's Three for Thursday.
What's the coolest thing in your shop? "Our history"
"We have been around since 1988, and since then we have had a reliable staff of cyclists who have been loyal to the company, some have even been around since the first days," McGuckin said. "We value proper craftsman and the art of wheel building in our workshop."
Although the Internet has replaced some of the catalog business, Excel proudly displays the cover of every catalog it has created.
Excel Sports displays its deep collection of catalog covers proudly
"Of course, some of our visitors simply love to check out our pets," McGuckin said, "including the shipping department's snake and our showroom's saltwater fish tank."
What are you personally lusting after right now? "Capo Country Kits"
"How am I supposed to choose?" McGuckin said. "Right now I would love to be riding a new Ridley Helium SL on the roads, an Intense Hard Eddie on the trails and doing all of it while wearing a country kit that Capo made exclusively for us."
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What are your current best sellers? "Dream builds"
"From day one we have stocked a large inventory of the latest parts, components, wheels and frames in order to build up exactly what a cyclist wants to ride," McGuckin said. "We have always had a staff of cyclists who know the products and can help spec the bike of your dreams and we have a staff of mechanics and wheel builders who take their time and are meticulous when building up custom equipment. In our view you shouldn't have to settle with the bike you see on the floor, you should be able to pick the parts and build it the way you want it."
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YORK, PA – The York College women's soccer played a solid game but dropped a 1-0 decision against Misericordia University in a non-conference contest on humid Sunday afternoon in York. The Spartans are now 0-2 while the Cougars improve to 1-1.
The Cougars had the better of the play in the first half as they applied constant pressure on the Spartan defense in the opening 45 minutes of action. The Cougars squeezed off 10 first half shots with five of those attempts coming on goal.
Misericordia got the only goal they needed in the 29th minute of play as Ashley DiPippa collected a nice thru ball in the top of the Spartan box. She pivoted around a Spartan defender and buried a shot under a diving Sarah Spanarkel for the game's lone goal. The goal was DiPippa's first tally of the year.
The Green and White came out of the break and played their best half of the young season. York had more of the possession but struggled to convert that possession into quality chances. The Spartans' best opportunity to score came early in the second stanza as senior Steph Rice had a header just skim over the cross bar just four minutes into the half.
York had consecutive corner kicks with less than 10 minutes remaining in regulation but the Spartans would be unable to direct either kick towards the Misericordia net as they are still looking for their first goal of 2011.
Jess Anderson earned the win in net for Misericordia but she was not forced to make a save in the victory. Spanarkel played very well for the Spartans as she recorded seven saves but suffered the loss with the one goal allowed.
Misericordia outshot York 14-3 overall and 8-0 in shots on goal. Both squads had four corner kicks while the Spartans were whistled for 14 fouls to just six for the Cougars.
York returns to action on Wednesday afternoon when they welcome the Elizabethtown College Blue Jays to York for a non-conference contest. Kick off is slated for 4:00 pm.
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text: Does Gun Control Debate Put Farmers in Crosshairs? January 16, 2013 11:00 PM Tweet © stock.xchng TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Nate Birt Top Producer Managing Editor Email As lawmakers and the White House debate possible changes to gun policy, people with farm backgrounds tell AgWeb.com via Facebook they're sympathetic to victims of violence but concerned about government overreach. "Growing up on a farm, you learn from an early age that a gun is a necessary tool, much like the wrenches, etc. in the back of Dad's truck," DeAnna Thomas writes. "You also learn from an early age how to respect and handle a firearm properly. Just like learning the rules of the road, you learn the rules on how to properly handle a firearm. "All of the changes or proposed changes, shall we say, are because of the horrible tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary. I do not wish that kind of tragedy on anyone. However, I look at how banks, brinks trucks, grocery stores, department stores, etc. have armed security officers in them, but not schools? Maybe, just maybe had a trained security team been in place, they could have stopped the shooter before he got to the students or at least prevented him from getting to more than one classroom." (Click here to read more reaction to the gun control debate on Facebook.) Another commenter, Cindi Hayes Dickerson, agrees that it's impossible to predict when a gun will be needed growing up on a farm. "We have used them to kill poisonous snakes," Dickerson writes. "A rabid raccoon chased me right up to my door, and he had to be euthanized. Sometimes animals are suffering due to injuries, and it is cruel to not put them down. We enjoy target shooting as well. I really don't see the need for assault rifles - AK 47's or the like. I am not a huge fan of banning them but don't see where they are practical for the average person. I agree that background checks should be stricter. I wouldn't mind waiting." Whatever changes are made, the focus should be on improved access to mental health care and limited government involvement, several commenters say. "People control would be more effective than gun control," Micki Warpinski says. "I vote we enforce our current laws for background checks and expand our mental health services." Safety training should also be required, Kenneth Wayne Bliss says. "I am for gun control. But not banning certain guns as they plan. People's records need to be checked to see if they have any mental health issues and what medications they are on. People should be required to take a safety training class on how to properly use a firearm and store it securely. "Most of us farm folks grew up in rural areas and learned to be responsible from our fathers and grandpas. City folks get their training by watching movies and playing video games, then they go out and buy a gun. These people are extremely dangerous." Back to news