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Commentary: House Child Nutrition Bill ...
Commentary: House Child Nutrition Bill Would Weaken Programs for Low-Income Children
| By Robert Greenstein
Over the last four decades, most child nutrition reauthorization packages have improved the nation's child nutrition programs and been enacted on a bipartisan basis. Republicans and Democrats have worked to improve school breakfast and lunches, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), and other federal nutrition programs for low-income children. The work has included improving the healthfulness of the foods offered to children, increasing access to the programs, and improving their efficiency and effectiveness. In keeping with this norm, the Senate Agriculture Committee passed in January a bipartisan child nutrition reauthorization bill, the Improving Child Nutrition Integrity and Access Act of 2016.[1]
The bill would reduce access to school meals by poor children attending some schools in low-income areas.Unfortunately, the child nutrition reauthorization bill introduced by Rep. Todd Rokita, chair of the House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, departs from that bipartisan history and would make the programs less effective, rather than more so, at serving low-income children.[2] A revised version of the bill, which the House Education and the Workforce Committee approved on May 18, contains some useful provisions, but its detrimental provisions significantly outweigh the sound ones. In particular, the bill would reduce access to school meals by poor children attending some schools in low-income areas and would make it harder for state WIC programs to achieve savings through the time-honored approach of competitive bidding. The revised bill also would convert the school lunch and breakfast programs in three states to a block grant that wouldn't respond if poverty increased and under which states could restrict eligibility for free school meals, weaken nutrition standards, and shift some funds to other uses.
Among its most concerning provisions, the bill would:
Convert the school meals programs in three states to a block grant under which these states would receive a capped amount of funding, instead of federal reimbursement for meals served in the school breakfast and lunch programs. States would have to guarantee only one "affordable" meal a day for students, would be free to set eligibility rules more restrictive than those used today, and could alter the programs' nutrition standards. If the fixed amount of federal money for the year ran out — as could occur if poverty increased in a state due to a recession, plant closings, or other developments — there would be no guarantee that poor children would continue receiving free school meals. Moreover, states could divert resources they now spend on school meals to other purposes as long as state politicians ruled that would meet school-aged children's nutritional needs. While, as noted, the proposed block grant would operate only in three states, it's likely intended to be a foot in the door. In 1995, House Republicans passed legislation to convert the school meals programs to block grants in all states.
Substantially restrict schools' eligibility for "community eligibility," an option that allows high-poverty schools to provide school meals at no charge to all students. If this proposal became law, more than 7,000 schools now using community eligibility to simplify their meal programs and improve access for low-income students could have to reinstate paper applications and return to monitoring eligibility in the lunch line.[3] These schools serve nearly 3.4 million students. In addition, 11,600 other schools in low-income areas that qualify for community eligibility but haven't yet adopted it would lose their eligibility. The result would be fewer children served and higher administrative costs for the affected schools.
Alter the process by which school districts verify eligibility for a sample of children who have been approved for free or reduced-price school meals. Improvements to the verification process are needed, but the proposal in the reauthorization bill the Senate Agriculture Committee approved takes a better approach. The Rokita bill would result in more administrative burden on schools, likely for little gain in improving verification systems. The bill also would put more vulnerable families at risk of losing free or reduced-price school meals for their eligible children.
Represent a setback to WIC, one of the government's most cost-effective programs. For decades, WIC has used competitive bidding to substantially reduce the cost of infant formula and some other foods for infants.[4] Competitive bidding is quintessential good government that harnesses the free market to deliver services at the most economical cost. The Rokita bill, however, would require each state that wishes to use competitive bidding for infant foods other than infant formula to submit reports on the impact that competitive bidding would have on factors such as retail prices and product availability for non-WIC customers. Such analyses appear to be beyond the capacity of many state WIC programs. Producing them would likely require many state WIC programs to undertake or contract for academic-style economic analyses that could be costly. Yet state WIC programs generally have tight administrative budgets.
These requirements appear to have been included in the bill as a result of lobbying by a major baby food company that opposes competitive bidding for baby foods (Gerber), which is a subsidiary of a multinational corporation based overseas (Nestlé). In addition to being burdensome for states, the proposed requirements might make some state WIC programs susceptible to litigation by baby food manufacturers on the grounds that the reports the states submitted didn't contain all of the mandated data and analysis (since, as noted, the data and analysis could be beyond the capacity of some state WIC programs to produce). The resulting burdens and risks could have a chilling effect on the use of competitive bidding by state WIC programs to secure the best prices for baby foods (other than infant formula). If so, that could have adverse consequences: if WIC costs were higher as a result of less use of competitive bidding, either WIC would serve somewhat fewer children in need or taxpayers would have to pay somewhat more to serve the same number of children.
Reauthorization provides an opportunity for Congress to review and strengthen the child nutrition programs, but this bill sadly represents a step backward.
Food Assistance, Child Nutrition and WIC
[1] http://www.agriculture.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/WEI16005.pdf
[2] http://edworkforce.house.gov/uploadedfiles/ans_h.r._5003.pdf
[3] Zoë Neuberger, "House Bill Restricting Free School Meals Option Could Increase Food Insecurity in High-Poverty Neighborhoods," Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, updated April 21, 2016, https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/house-bill-restricting-free-school-meals-option-could-increase-food.
[4] Robert Greenstein and Zoë Neuberger, "WIC's Competitive Bidding Process for Infant Formula Is Highly Cost-Effective," Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, updated September 14, 2015, https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/wics-competitive-bidding-process-for-infant-formula-is-highly-cost.
PDF of this commentary (3 pp.)
School Meals Block Grant Proposal Gambles With Children's Basic Nutrition
Proposed WIC Changes Would Weaken Efforts to Cut Costs and Fight Fraud
House Bill Restricting Free School Meals Option Could Increase Food Insecurity in High-Poverty Neighborhoods
How Would Bill Restricting School Meals Option Affect Your Community?
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In your child's future digital world, software programming is KING!
Every technology we use, from the technology you are using to view this web page, to the web computer that serves up the information, to the digital watch on your wrist, all work because of creative software programming. Many colleges across our nation have arrived at a simple understanding - every student needs to learn how to program a computer because learning to program requires you to think differently. Unfortunately grammar, middle, and high schools are a long way from doing the same.
theMaker's lessons go beyond filling the learning gap!
By attending, your child will build knowledge their peers do not possess.
theMaker's STEM Learning Lessons use new and powerful learning technologies that integrate software programming concepts and activities and are organized around peer groups of Grammar, Middle, and High School age youths.
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A sus habitantes se les conoce por el gentilicio Belviracois.

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Book of Industries - Creating opportunities!
9. Export opportunities, how to methods.
9. Methods of financing the project.
The booklet would be sold at all available government outlets in each province. The project will require hiring professionals from all types of industries. It will require research. The project will be financed temporarily by the government and paid back from the sales of the booklets. The main objective of the booklet is to publish feasability studies for projects. The booklet may also be read online or downloaded as a PDF file.


Latest News for the Official Jonny Quest DVDs from Warner Bros.
On this page we kept you all informed on the latest rumors concerning the official commercial release of the classic Jonny Quest TV series on DVD from Warner Bros as it neared release. We're preserving this as an historical archive; most of the information and links regarding the DVD itself have been moved to the DVD page.
May 11, 2004 Released at last!
Amazon tracks top selling DVDs on this page -- a check as of 10:50 p.m. EDT on May 11, 2004 (the first day the set was officially available) showed it rated at number 10! This is as high a rating as the collection received -- pretty heady stuff for a nearly 40-year-old cartoon!
May 5, 2004 Review Copy Arrives!
March 28, 2004 TVShowsOnDVD reported that Warner Bros. will be releasing single-episode DVD samplers of some of its TV series, including "The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest."
Warner Home Video (WHV) opens its classic vaults to team up with legendary animation studio Hanna-Barbera to premiere two releases in the new "Hanna-Barbera Golden Collection" DVD series featuring the animated series "The Jetsons: The Complete First Season" and "Jonny Quest: Season One." By popular demand, both cult-classic cartoon series will be available May 11, 2004 for the first time ever digitally re-mastered on DVD in a deluxe four-disc collectors set, each featuring over 11 hours of classic original TV programming and newly-added enhanced content, priced to own at $64.92 SRP.
Read about The Jetsons DVD.
March 3, 2004 Thanks to forum regular "Curt in Houston" for noticing Amazon.com has the DVD collection up for pre-sale on their website. Amazon.com web site also confirms Tuesday, May 11, 2004, as the release date.
While poking around the web, we found a large picture of the cover art on the DVDEmpire web site.
Posted by Gord Lacey in this report on TVShowsOnDVD.com.
[TVShowsOnDVD.com] reported this was coming awhile ago, but today Warner Bros officially announced that they are releasing the first season of Jonny Quest on DVD. On May 11th we'll see the entire 26 episode premiere season of the show released on DVD for the first time. With a running time of 676 minutes, and boasting "dazzling translucent collectible packaging," the set will carry a suggested retail price of $64.92 for 4 discs.
The 26 episodes aren't all you'll get, as Warner Bros has a bunch of great extras lined up for the set. "Jonny Quest Files" will contain fun facts and trivia on the show, the "Jonny Quest Video Handbook" contains information on the heroes [and] villains.
I read this morning on Coming Attractions (http://members.cox.net/comingattractions/) that a release date of May 12th has been set for the complete 1st season on DVD. This is my only source of information for this news, so a second source may be in order before you post this news on your Quest site, but it's worth looking into.
JONNY QUEST SEASON ONE DVD SET - Coming in May!
The JONNY QUEST SEASON ONE DVD Set is coming this May from Warner Home Video!
Follow young, intrepid adventurer Jonny Quest, his scientist father Dr. Benton Quest, bodyguard Race Bannon, boyhood companion Hadji, and pup Bandit, in the globe-trotting, harrowing exploits featured in this DVD set collecting all 26 Season 1 episodes of Hanna/Barbera's 1964-65 animated classic!
The March PREVIEWS solicitation indicates that this DVD set is scheduled to ship in April 2004. The retailer ordering data lists May 12th as the ship date.
Yes, there will be a DVD box set of all 26 classic Jonny Quest episodes. Most probably by the end of '04. News we've all been waiting YEARS to hear.
I and others were interviewed for a small retrospective documentary (which I hear came out great). Other extras MAY include, the Toby Danger short from Freakazoid and a vintage B&W PF Flyers commercial done at the time of the original show. I know they have access to both these things and I suggested that one or both should be Easter Eggs. We'll have to see. I asked about censorship (The infamous "Heathen Monkeys" line, for example) and uncut versions (unlike some awful VHS releases of the past) and, rest assured that they want to put out the truest versions from the archives.
The two producers of the extras are big fans and very nice guys and the quality of the extras will be whatever they are allowed to do, time, money, and available material (The classic show wasn't that well archived). As far as I'm concerned, it is a MAJOR victory to have the episodes on DVD, period. Any extras will be welcome, but that's a minor point to me (even though I'm involved a little!).
In addition to CJQ, first season sets of Flintstones, Scooby-Doo, and Jetsons are on the way and I know that they are working on a Challenge of the Superfriends thing. Also, they are finally talking about a good box set (or sets) of Batman: TAS.
Sorry it isn't the best of info, but you can be assured that those bootleg sets are a waste of money. Within ten months' time, a much better quality, and less expensive official version will be easy to buy.
January 14, 2004 Thanks to "tomahawktom" who posted this info on our forum, and to www.thedigitalbits.com for posting the information in the first place, even if they did misspell Jonny's name!
A while back here in The Rumor Mill, we told you that Warner Bros. was finally going to get more serious about releasing their animated product on DVD, particularly TV series animation from their new and classic lines. Well, we've been hearing from some very good sources recently, who tell us that the folks at WB are hard at work on The Flintstones: Season One, The Jetsons: Season One and Johnny Quest: The Complete Series! That last title has us particularly excited here at The Bits. No release timetable has been set other than probably late 2004 or early 2005. Other full season animated titles are planned, we're told, including the recent Batman: The Animated Series and more. We'll post additional details when we have them.


A client of mine moved earlier this year from a small commercial kitchen in an industrial area to a much larger commercial kitchen with a fabulous shop front display and client meeting/display area.
So this is the first year she has had to think about a Christmas display.
She was very excited by the choices. Should she go for a 2 metre fibre-optic moving reindeer? Or a Santa that lights up and sings while gyrating his hips? Or the large inflatable snow globe with a constant flurry of snow inside? And of course how could she pass up elf hats for her team and the basketball sized baubles?
She was like a kid in a lolly shop!
How can you design your business and sales processes to have this effect?
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Over the years I've been a lead developer on different types of teams for different types of companies and environments. The past few years, I've been lucky enough to be able to manage and mentor some great developers to become leads themselves. At first, I had assumed that everyone would know what being a lead is about, and what their responsibilities are since they had been on teams with leads their whole career. However, this was definitely not the case. Every developer came in to the lead role with different ideas of what their responsibilities should be. Despite me discussing the responsibilities with them, they were really surprised at just how many things a lead is responsible for. In order to help set the expectations with developers over what I think a lead's responsibilities are, I put some effort in to documenting what I view as the responsibilities of a lead developer and I'd like to share that with everyone.
This list is based on my experiences of what I've seen work and not work on teams. It also reflects the types of companies I've worked for - growing companies with frequent new hires, many less experienced developers (including many right out of school), frequently changing projects and priorities, and in general a decent amount of chaos. If you're at a stable company on a team of very good and experienced developers working on a long running project, and not a lot of chaos, a lead developer shouldn't have as many requirements as I describe here. But, I don't think that is the norm in our industry. In the types of companies I've been at, a strong lead developer that takes responsibility of the output of the team is critical for the success of a team. I have yet to see a team in this type of environment excel if the team tries to distribute most leadership responsibility to all team members and doesn't have a strong lead.
Also, to clarify, "lead" by my definition is not a manager. For this post, a lead is not the one that is handling performance reviews, administrative issues, and overall career development for the software developers. Many times it can make sense to have the lead developer also be the manager of the developers on the team, but that just means that the person has some additional responsibilities. They still have the full lead responsibilities too. And a lead by my definition does not typically handle overall project planning and coordination between teams on multi team projects. The lead should have input here, but, taking those responsibilities on is a little too much for a lead in my opinion. The lead should be focusing on their individual team.
My list is NOT comprehensive, the responsibilities as a lead developer are going to vary and change all of the time, but all come back to being the leader of the team more so than anyone else on the team. With being the leader comes accountability for the team. A good lead developer must be an accountable leader. Read http://www.brandonhall.com/blogs/the-buck-stops-here-a-culture-of-accountability-drives-effective-leadership/ for a really quick summary of what that means. The lead (along with the manager) should be held accountable for the output/results of your team - both the good things coming out of the team and the bad things. "The team" means the entire team - devs, testers, product managers, scrum masters - not just developers.
So here is my list of lead developer responsibilities. For each responsibility I will give some examples of how you can do this.
Full and good code reviews are being done by you - you are the one who needs to be approving code on the team and enforcing this. If your team does not do code reviews, start! Others on the team should help in the code reviews but you are the point of responsibility. Many code review comments by you should lead to changes by the developer, but, be sure to allow the developer space to reply if he/she disagrees with your suggestions, and be open yourself to backing down on suggestions for change. Hopefully you will learn some from the developers in code reviews as well. This should occupy a good portion of your time. Don't just look for styling/syntax. You should be able to fully explain to someone else what the code is doing, how it's doing it, and why it's doing it that way.
Ensure proper test code is being added while functionality is being developed, not as follow on work after the functionality is delivered.
Ensure developers are doing the proper amount of local testing - sit with them (meaning actually sit by them and have them go through the local testing with you, or if remote, do a video call with screen sharing) and work with them to see this. When you see bugs introduced by developers, sit with them and discuss it to see how the developer can improve to reduce bugs in the future.
If a developer continually produces code that does not follow best practices, sit with them and work with them to identify why this is, and what can be done to help them to produce better code in the future.
Most of us work for businesses, and businesses main objective is to make money. You as a lead play a key part in this so you must be doing what you can to ensure the developers are realizing their potential and are getting as much done as they can (WITHOUT working long hours). Many leads struggle with this because they do not want to have difficult conversations and do not want to ever say anything negative to people, but this is important as a lead. Managers should be helping with the difficult conversations, but all responsibility for this cannot be deferred to the manager.
Make sure each developer is producing enough - if you feel they are not you need to work with them to ensure they realize the expectations, and see if there are blockers/issues that you can help with. Take their experience/background in to consideration for this.
Make sure work is planned out well enough to reduce conflict/overlap with others on the team and outside teams. This can be really hard to do, but will have a huge impact on output of the team.
Make sure that there is always work lined up for each developer - my guidance is every developer should have at least a full week's worth of concrete work lined up for them and that they need to know what this work is. This will increase their priority on getting work done - if they do not have anything lined up beyond their current work, they will take longer on their current work (I wish this wasn't true but in my experience it is true for most developers). Be explicit on this and don't assume developers will pick up random unassigned work. Anticipate when they are going to run out of work and get ahead of it. Depending on the environment they can be the ones to pick the specific work, but you must ensure that what they are working on next is figured out. If you have good developers, this is going to be a real challenge, keeping up with them should be difficult!
Ensure communication is open and that the developer understands what you mean in your communication. If you frequently get head nods, and "yeah"'s, this might mean people don't understand what you mean and you need to find another way to phrase what you are trying to say.
Ensure that every developer has challenging work, depending on their skill level and experience. Watch over time to ensure that they are not continually given non-challenging work.
Ensure that developers don't get pigeon holed in to always being the one to do a specific type of work. If one developer always takes a specific type of work, get this work spread out to others on the team. This might mean you have to jump in to a conversation and say something like "Joe, I appreciate you wanting to take this on, but I'd like to get more knowledge of this spread out among the team. Sarah, can you work on this instead?"
Make developers uncomfortable. Get them outside of their comfort zone on occasion.
Don't wait for a developer to reach out to you - if a developer has not made progress on a task for a few days, it might be best to talk to them individually to see why and what can be done. In general you cannot rely on developers, or for that matter anyone, to ask for help themselves. Most people don't like to ask for help and like to try to figure out things themselves, but in a team setting, people always days figuring things out on their own is not always best for the team. Granted, the opposite is not good either - if developers are immediately asking for help for others, you'll need to sit down and talk to them and get them to spend some time trying to figure things out on their own first.
If you don't know how to help a developer that is stuck or in a difficult spot, reach out to others, or get the developer to reach out. First share on the team. Then escalate it up - reach out to other leads, other developers in the company, etc.
When teams don't have a system to share out to do technical designs on work and share them with each other, I've seen two things can happen. First, if the developer doing the work is good with designs, they'll do decent designs but deprive the rest of the team an opportunity to suggest better ways, and deprive others on the team a chance to learn. Or, the design just doesn't happen. This leads to systems and code being produced that are not optimal, and will definitely lead to rework. And will definitely deprive the team of chances to learn.
As the lead developer, you don't have to be the one to do all of the designs yourself, but, you have to ensure that the designs are being done and shared with the team, and need to ensure that the designs are good. Work being done should be designed to properly meet future needs, be able to scale to meet the expected usage needs (and a little more), and not require high amounts of maintenance in the future. That can be really hard to do in many organizations, because this will typically mean things will need a little more time to develop right now. But that additional time will pay off very quickly.
I feel that the lead should be doing the most difficult designs on a team. If you don't have the technical skills to do this, and you are not brand new to the team/organization, then, maybe you shouldn't be a lead. When the design decisions are left to the loudest one on the team, or deferred to architects who aren't part of the day to day of the team, the results will not be good. So you as the lead are responsible for this.
Having the technical skills to do good designs also allows you to help better shape designs that others on the team do. Much of technical designs are opinions and there is no clear right or wrong answer. So when disagreements arise of how things should be designed, someone has to make the call over which path to take. This should be you making this call. Depending on how your company is structured you may also have architects that will do this, but, I have not worked for organizations that have enough architects to go around to do this for every team. Now, you don't want to come across as a dictator, so if there are design decisions that others take that you disagree with but you don't feel will lead to poor systems being implemented, you may want to back down and let the designer go with what they feel is the right path.
Some process I recommend to follow to achieve this is to create a standard design template, with questions to be answered for every task/user story done. Some examples of types of question for the template are any data structure changes (like new database columns, data types, etc), if APIs are used describe any interface additions/changes, and high level description of automated testing that will be written. Having this template is not enough though. You need to ensure that it's followed and this will require persistence, because not every developer wants to be bothered with this type of activity. A key part of this design is not just having developers do it, but share it with everyone on the team. This will lead to better designs, the more people think about a problem, the more potential solutions will be discussed. This is also a great way for less experienced developers to learn from the senior developers.
Part of this process can be to require the design be done and reviewed with the team before coding starts on every task. Many leads do not like issuing mandates like this, and in some environments it's not necessary, but if you feel this will help, by all means institute these processes.
Don't let the design reviews stop at just the team! Reach out to other leads, managers, architects outside the team, etc to get more input for sufficiently complex designs. You as the lead will need to be the one to initiate these conversations.
This means getting ahead of requirements. If product managers are not ready with upcoming requirements for the team, continually try to work with them to get requirements ready. Offer to help. If they are not willing to let you help, or cannot get things lined up, escalate to your manager and/or their manager. I don't want to prescribe a specific process, but you as the lead need to help to ensure the work is lined up. Dropping a ton of requirements on a team doesn't mean the team should start working on these right away - work needs time to be thought through, planned, and designed.
You should be working with PMs prior to planning meetings on this. Always think of better/more efficient ways to accomplish the end goal and suggest this to PMs (and designers if it's a UI heavy thing). Suggest ways to get to an MVP sooner. Challenge yourself to always do this even if the idea seems weird/unusual. Product management working on their own to come up with the path to get to the end goal usually does not lead to the best path. The more input on this, the better. Feel free to involve others on the team in the discussions too!
If you don't think the work makes sense for the team to do, that it does not seem like it's worth sinking the time in to, talk to the product manager. You probably aren't the only one thinking of this. Push them to come up with the business value and explain it to the team. Organizational politics can come in to play here, but don't shy away from questions because of this Getting a project that won't provide much value put on the shelf provides huge value for the organization!
The more the whole team understands the objectives and feels a sense of ownership, the better ideas will be proposed, and the more motivated the whole team will be (more motivation = happier team members = more output). This isn't just the responsibility of the project manager or product manager. As lead you need to ensure the whole team understands project objectives.
This can vary a lot based on how the company is structured with devops, SRE, and development teams. But you as a lead should ensure there is some sort of continuous integration/continuous deployment system, and that these are kept stable. If there is no easy/central build and deployment pipeline and system, you've got some work on your hands!
Keeping this stable is crucial. When it's time to get a developers code pushed out, whether for internal testing, or to production, it must be easy to do. I've seen builds fall in to disrepair and unstable automated tests cause people to bypass all automated tests. If you're lucky you'll have someone on your team that really cares about this and will help others when things start to fail. But, if you don't, you'll need to take this up yourself. But I don't want to prescribe any specific solutions, different organizations take very different stances on this.
Work to get more communication to happen between individuals on the team - you'll probably need to continually push developers to go talk to others on the team and not rely on chat rooms too much.
Make sure that all stakeholders who could have an interest are in relevant discussions/meetings. This is not just the job of the scrum master.
In most organizations, teams "own" different areas of functionality of the applications that are being used in production. The team isn't necessarily actively working on all of these areas but should be considered the owner. What ownership means can vary wildly but typically involves investigating and fixing bugs found, monitoring for functionality degrading/breaking, addressing performance/scalability, and planning future major enhancements.
This can be difficult when code is long lived and teams frequently change. As the lead, you should be the primary point of contact for these areas. So when inquires come in, you need to be able to answer them yourself or point to someone who would know. If you don't know where to start, that's a good sign that there needs to be knowledge sharing and more documented. As the lead, it's your responsibility to ensure that there is knowledge spread so there isn't one single person with all of the knowledge of something. For anything that your team owns, if a high priority bug comes in, your team should be able to quickly diagnose and fix, regardless of who is on vacation. If this is not the case, work to make it true.
Lots of random things come up from people outside of the team. Ensure that these are given the appropriate priority and are not ignored. Many times, teams view these as distractions, and scrum masters sometimes view it as their job to shield teams from anyone outside of the team. While this may be best for short term project gains, it's not the best for the overall organization. As the lead you can help here by being a primary point of contact to ensure that others outside the team are getting the necessary support from your team, without distracting the individual contributors from their current priorities any time there is any external request.
Never settle on a "good" velocity. Always try to push the team to deliver more, and be smarter about how they do their work.
If you feel individuals on the team can do more, push them to do more. Give them more assignments.
Escalate team issues to your manager and seek out their guidance/advice. You should not try to always paint a positive picture of everything to management, this will shield issues that they can help with and make it look like you are not doing enough to get the team to improve.
Ensure that the manager of every developer on the team knows of that developers progress. You should be able to give this manager a frank assessment of the developer. Don't try to shield them from their manager, if they are struggling their manager should be involved to try to help.
You're probably not going to get a ton of dedicated time to write code. But still try to set aside time to write code and deliver functionality that the team is working on. If you go too long without writing much code you'll lose touch with what the developers on the team are going through. I recommend that every lead take on at least one development task per work increment (like sprints).
However, it's probably best to not commit to delivering things that are extremely time sensitive, or could put things at risk if it slips a few days. Try to work on relatively independent pieces so if you are not able to get much time for several days it will not impact the team much.
Well, that's a lot to discuss. I hope you found this valuable, whether you are considering being a lead, you are a lead, or you are managing/leading leads yourself like me. Writing this up and sharing it with my leads has really helped them to grow in to the role and become great leaders of their teams. If you have any different ideas, or other types of lead responsibilities that you can think of, I'd love to hear it in comments!
I recently started using JRuby for a Rails project and overall the experience has been excellent. Using RVM, you can just switch to jruby to build a new project (rvm use jruby), and just about everything will work the same. One of the big features of JRuby is that you can bundle your entire app, including JRuby itself, in to a WAR file that Java servers like Tomcat and Glassfish can serve up, so your app can be distributed on to servers that only have Java.
After you have JRuby installed, simply install the gem warbler. You'll then get a command line tool, warble, to generate war files from your project. Simply run warble from your project's directory, and a war file will be produced. It's as easy as that!
Another great feature is that the Ruby code can be compiled down to Java class files, so your source code is not visible. This is great for distributing on to a server where other companies will have access that you don't want seeing your source code. However, this is not working for me. Warbler should support this, just run "warble compiled war" from the command line in your projects directory instead of "warble". This will produce a war file with both .rb and .class files. The .rb files however are simply stubs that require the .class file, none of your code is in there. But, for me, it's not generating .class files on all of my controllers. I've entered an issue for this at https://github.com/jruby/warbler/issues/72.
I will be making another post on how to do database migrations on the server you're deploying to.


This upland area at the south of the Pennine range covers 555 square miles (1437 sq km), falling mainly in Derbyshire. The landscape has three distinct characters: White Peak which is limestone plateaus with steep sided valleys; Dark Peak, dramatic plateaus and rocky ridges, and South West Peak of moors, valleys and meadows. The millstones quarried here in the 14th century still symbolize the area today. Popular walking country, the Pennine Way National Trail crosses Kinder Scout the highest point of the Park. There is challenging climbing and the best gliding and paragliding sites in the UK.


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Asia > Japan
Japan to air first lesbian drama
Richard Ammon | October 26, 2015 | Japan | GlobalGayz
Fuji television has announced the airing of Transit Girls, a drama series that will feature a lesbian love story as its central theme.
Japan's first drama centred on a lesbian love story will be aired next month according to a release from Fuji Television. A promotional photo (above) shows the two lead actresses lying in bed together, apparently naked, looking into each other's eyes and smiling.
Fuji TV describes the show as "a heartwarming straightforward love story, but the main characters are both girls."
The eight part series is set to debut on November 7. It tells the story of two stepsisters, played by actresses Sairi Ito and Yui Sakuma, who fall in love when their parents remarry.
However, the series has initially drawn criticism from LGBT activists fro portraying an outdated image of same sex couples.
Maki Muraki, the leader of nonprofit organization Nijiiro Diversity, which promotes workplace equality for LGBT people in Japan, believes the show is sending out the wrong message.
"Having two girls lying naked on a white sheet and using words like 'forbidden' is a little out of date, I think," Muraki told The Japan Times on Thursday.
"The things we do are not about sex. We face a lot of difficulties in our life, for example in the workplace. To be told that the image of us is one of sex doesn't make me happy," Muraki said.
Japan is having a good year for LGBT rights: Tokyo's Shibuya and Setagaya Wards have made moves to recognize same-sex partnerships as the equivalent of marriage.
Last week, the new Minister for Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Hiroshi Hase said he plans to promote support for sexual-minority students in schools.
by Fridae Editor
Source – Fridae
Tags: japan gay rights

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Over sixty sea turtles hatched the night before December 1st. It was a great way to go into the holiday season: with a renewed spirit and tiny trails across the sand. This photo captures their exit from the nest, as many still have sand covering their faces. It was a quick few minutes to army crawl their way to the water, before they vanished into the sea.


Winter Recital 2018: Information Central! | Elizabeth Farrell Music - Private Music Lessons in Sarasota Elizabeth Farrell Music – Private Music Lessons in Sarasota » Winter Recital 2018: Information Central!
Winter Recital 2018: Information Central!
Everyone here at Elizabeth Farrell Music are once again excited for an AMAZING show! To make it easy, this page will cover everything you need to know for recital day. all the information you'll need to know for the recital day. If for any reason you have another question not answered here, please email liz@elizabethfarrellmusic.com or your instructor.
We have over 120 performances, so we'll be splitting into 4 showtimes this year. The theatre is spacious so you are free to bring as many audience members as you'd like to the event!
Please be on time. Ideal arrival is 20 minutes for string players (violin, viola, cello, guitar) and 15 min. for all others. Please do not arrive more than 30 minutes prior to your showtime. We need to allow the parking lot to empty before the next show's participants arrive.
You may buy tickets online or pay by cash/check in the studio to your instructor. If you purchase online you may print tickets at home or show on your phone at the venue.
We are going to be recording and photographing performers so you can have great memories and share with family/friends who couldn't make it. The videos and photos will be available for free online after the recital.
Ladies: Dress pants & blouse, skirt or dress and dress shoes.
Pianists/wear pedal-appropriate shoes: Avoid high heels, slippery soles, or boots that might constrict your ankles.
Music Lessons for 3 – 4 year olds?
Music can Help you Heal Post – op!
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Mississippi man pleads guilty in 2020 shooting death of teen
Published 11:43 am Wednesday, October 27, 2021
By AP/Wire
A Mississippi man has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the shooting death of a teenager.
Jacoby Samaji O'Neal, 20, of Belden, was sentenced Friday in Lee County Circuit Court, the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reported.
Tiara Dancer, 17, was killed Jan. 28, 2020, when investigators said O'Neal fired shots during a fight in a Tupelo neighborhood. News outlets reported Dancer was a bystander. She had graduated early from Tupelo High School the month before she was killed.
O'Neal was sentenced to 40 years in prison, with five suspended. The sentencing order specified he must serve the full 35 years.
The newspaper also reported that O'Neal pleaded guilty to other felony charges Monday in Pontotoc and Monroe counties.
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A glacier's cracking, the ice floe's breathing, the wind's sighing and a sled dog's howling… -22.7°C is an online/offline project offering a sensory and interactive experience into the Arctic Circle. It combines the best of immersive technologies with innovative sound & music creation for a unique adventure. -22.7°C is developed around the trip of Molecule, an electronic music artist, who spent 5 weeks in Groenland to compose his new album from sounds he recorded there. At the heart of -22.7°C, a VR interactive docu-fiction where the user will elaborate his own initiatory trip, and around it, several contents to immerse the audience into the polar world: a webseries, a documentary, a radio logbook in binaural sound, a music album-book and an international tour combining live music with a 360° video show.
-22.7°C associates immersive technologies, audiovisual contents and experimental sound/music creation. It generates collaborations and sharing of savoir-faire between the tech, audiovisual and music industries to create an experience of a new kind. -22.7°C offers the audience the opportunity to live the experience online but also offline through a series of international events combining the presentation of the VR experience with an immersive live show (concert and 360° interactive video show). The sound and the music will be at the core of the experience, guiding the user.


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Apachi Sports is our multi-sport day camp offering a full menu of team sports and sports field trips. Campers spend mornings receiving instruction and conditioning from experienced Hot Shot Sports coaches. With extensive outdoor and indoor sports facilities, campers can play all summer long no matter the weather.
Lindsay Farmer is the director of Apachi Old Town and has been with Apachi J Camp for four years. She loves seeing the family that camp creates – a place where campers feel heard and part of something greater. Lindsay's favorite part of being a camp director is seeing how many lives Apachi J Camp impacts. She loves seeing campers grow to be more independent and confident individuals.
Lindsay holds a Bachelor's degree in Social Work from Ball State and Master's degree in School Counseling from Purdue University. During the school year, she is a 8th and 9th grade school counselor at Gavit Middle/High School in Hammond Indiana and when she isn't working, Lindsay loves to be outside camping with her wife and their dog, Henry.
Try Chi is our 4-day, 3-night overnight camp experience for 2nd-6th graders at Camp Chi in Lake Delton, WI. Campers meet new friends and live in cabins with experienced, caring counselors who help them feel comfortable right away. They'll feel the spirit of camp with cookouts, campfires, sing-alongs and great evening programs.
Does your child love both Apachi J Camp AND Camp Chi? Combine day and overnight camp together for an incredible summer experience!
Campers at Apachi Sports play at all ability levels. Coaches from Hot Shot Sports foster skill development through individualized instruction.
Our program emphasizes so much more than competing and winning. Apachi Sports nurtures teamwork, sportsmanship, effort and, most importantly, fun. Sports field trips add to the experience!
Campers can submit friendship requests in the spring and we will do our best to accommodate mutual requests as long as campers are the same gender and entering the same grade.
Campers are taught to swim at Apachi Old Town using the British Swim School swim program, which is dedicated to excellence in safety and swimming skills. British Swim School has honed it's teaching method over fifty years and the cornerstone of the program is using a fun and gentle approach to build water survival skills. Safety is our priority and all members of our Aquatics staff are American Red Cross certified lifeguards with CPR training for the professional rescuer.
Apachi Old Town campers will swim at Lincoln Park high School. Explorers will have swim lessons and Trailblazers and Sports will have free swim.
Our convenient carpool line helps your camper get to their group easily and speed you on your way. A staff member will come to your car rain or shine to help your child out of their seat. You'll get to see your camper with a smiling counselor by their side and you never even have to get out of your car. At pick up time, just use the carpool line again. We will bring your child to you, buckle them in, and you will be on your way.
For an additional fee, families can select to have their children take the bus to and from camp. Buses are driven by licensed, professional drivers and supervised by Apachi staff. Campers are required to wear seatbelts at all times. We have bus routes from several neighborhoods on the city's north side, downtown and Hyde Park (express). Our bus stops are "cluster stops" for groups of campers, not individual stops. We try to make the cluster stops convenient for families as well as safe and efficient.
For campers registered prior to April 15, you will select your bus stop from a list. Campers who register after April 15, will be assigned to a stop close to their home.
View our proposed bus stop map.
We provide pizza lunch on Wednesdays and a hotdog cookout on Fridays as well as a daily snack. For the remainder of the week, please send along a sack lunch that we'll refrigerate.
Safety and inclusion are top priorities at JCC Chicago Day Camps. Our camps are committed to being allergy-safe. While our camps are not allergen-free, we strive to make our camp environments as safe as possible for children with food allergies using a customized approach and working closely with each family to develop an action plan for the child. More information can be found here.
Please Note: Ages and grades listed below are as of the 2019 school year.
Looking for a different Apachi J Camp?
We have options throughout the Chicagoland area.


there are 34 references to angels in her poetry and i think emily may have been on familiar terms with angels. the precedent for this is the story of elija and elisha sitting on a hill, watching two armies prepare to battle in the valley. when elijah opened elisha's eyes, elisha could see angels of the lord crowding every hill and looking on.


Badge earners will understand how to use social media marketing tactics to attract and retain students to academic programs.They will be able to create content to attract the right students, identify a target online audience, and build awareness. Earners will be able to effectively utilize "calls-to-action" in campaigns and build a digital community. They will be able to utilize major social media channels, set goals, measure success and align social media to department objectives.
Attend one day course specifically designed to help academic program support staff learn how to effectively use social media to attract and retain students.


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Elmwood es una villa ubicada en el condado de Pierce en el estado estadounidense de Wisconsin. En el Censo de 2010 tenía una población de 817 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 206,17 personas por km².

Geografía
Elmwood se encuentra ubicada en las coordenadas . Según la Oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos, Elmwood tiene una superficie total de 3.96 km², de la cual 3.91 km² corresponden a tierra firme y (1.37%) 0.05 km² es agua.

Demografía
Según el censo de 2010, había 817 personas residiendo en Elmwood. La densidad de población era de 206,17 hab./km². De los 817 habitantes, Elmwood estaba compuesto por el 98.04% blancos, el 0.12% eran afroamericanos, el 0.49% eran amerindios, el 0.12% eran asiáticos, el 0% eran isleños del Pacífico, el 0.73% eran de otras razas y el 0.49% pertenecían a dos o más razas. Del total de la población el 3.06% eran hispanos o latinos de cualquier raza.

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Villas de Wisconsin
Localidades del condado de Pierce (Wisconsin)


When you're wearing braces, one of the most important things you can do is to keep your teeth as clean and sparkly white as possible. If you let junk build up on your braces, it can cause cavities, gum disease, and even tooth loss. Obviously you don't want any of those things to happen.
So with that in mind, let's see what Dr. James B. Macomson recommends you do to keep your teeth clean.
Enough people already skip flossing – nearly six in ten American adults – but you absolutely can't disregard it when wearing braces. Food easily gets stuck between your teeth and the metal wires and brackets used to straighten your teeth.
Luckily, there are tons of different special flossing tools, designed just for those undergoing orthodontic treatment, which can help you properly clean your teeth and prevent cavities.
Obviously this is the easiest way to take care of your teeth, but a lot of people don't brush properly when wearing braces. You need to focus on cleaning between the wires and brackets and the surface of your teeth – and you can do that with special interdental brushes. These are made just for braces and should make a huge difference in your overall oral health while undergoing orthodontic treatment.
For more information, or to make an appointment, call our James B. Macomson, DDS, MSO, PA team at 704-215-4430 today.


This panel examines cultural productions that participate in the growing comparative engagement with state socialism and its aftermath in Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean, and that are sometimes framed within the emerging field of postsocialist studies. We envision conversations about connections between the United States, Western Europe, and the (post)socialist world that trace new transnational imaginaries as well as alliances among residents and migrants from the former First, Second, and Third Worlds. (Post)socialist experiences were first represented in the cultural productions of individual (post)socialist nations, and more recently of US immigrant authors from the former Eastern Bloc have also placed the Second World into a well-deserved spotlight. Their prizewinning and widely-translated work develops nuanced interpretations of key events in the former socialist world that have shaped the formation of Cold War imaginaries in the twentieth century and beyond. Scholars have examined the literary productions of the global post-Soviet diaspora (Wanner 2011), theorized the racialization of post-Soviet migrants in the US and their relationship to other contemporary US immigrants (Sadowski-Smith 2018), and highlighted the significance of US interventions in the former Yugoslavia for more recent US military engagements (Atanasoski 2013). Other researchers have examined "uncommon alliances" between immigrants from the postsocialist and postcolonial worlds (Kovacevic 2018) and investigated representations of (post)socialist women's migration to the EU (Parvulescu 2014). The panel draws on these approaches to map further interactions and transactions between the United States, Western Europe, and the (post)socialist world. It expands upon a 2015 ACLA panel on "Postsocialist Diasporas in the United States," which has informed a forthcoming special issue of Twentieth Century Literature. Contributions focus on a variety of cultural productions (including media, film, and TV) and explore methodological intersections between US American studies, postsocialist studies, European studies, postcolonial studies, and immigration and diaspora studies. The cultural representations examined by panelists develop comparative perspectives on the former socialist countries, including migration to the United States and Western Europe, as well as discussions that conceive of socialism and postsocialism on a global level.


Major-General Sina Ibn Jamali, head of the interim Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), has extended the contracts of the country's selectors by a month. Though an emergency meeting has been scheduled for August 1, Jamali took the decision to give Faruque Ahmed and Athar Ali Khan until August 31 in order to name Bangladesh's Twenty20 World Championship and National Academy squads.
Jamali, the chief of general staff of the army, was briefed by Mahmudur Rahman, the BCB's CEO, on the current situation. Among the priorities of the new leadership is appointing a new coach and physiotherapist.
"I met the president this morning to inform him about the situation and he asked me to call an emergency board meeting on August 1. There are a number of pressing issues right now and there is a need for a quick decision about the two selectors," Rahman told The Daily Star. "Our president has agreed to extend the two selectors' tenure because we have hardly any time to make a new committee ahead of the ICC's deadline (August 11) for the final squad for the Twenty20 meet. The most important thing is that now the new committee will not get enough time to think about the new selection panel."
Gazi Ashraf Hossain Lipu, a former Bangladesh captain and one of the members on the ad-hoc committee, added: "I think it's a good decision and now the new board will get enough time for taking decision about the selection panel".
Rahman said that Jamali expressed interest in the national team and the Twenty20 World Championship. However, he did not have any details on the developments in the search for a new coach. "Everything is not clear to me about the coach selection process," he said. "We all know there is a shortlist and the board was supposed to invite the coaches for their presentations from the last week of this month but everything has now changed."
As for the standing committees, Rahman said there was no clear guideline in the constitution as to whether they would be abolished once the board was dissolved.


This is an unedited draft. For more on Maximilian and the Bingo Rematch click here.
"Bingo! I have bingo," screams my tía Dolores.
"No! I'm the one that has bingo," my tía Socorro yells back.
We're at the church fundraiser. My two aunts have just scored bingo on their respective lotería cards. They are more than ready to settle their dispute by coming to blows. It's sure to be a no-holds-barred brawl, the likes of which we haven't seen since this past summer's titanic battle between lucha libre legends Vampire Velasquez and the Guardian Angel.
"She's your sister," my mother Braulia reminds tía Socorro.
"Fight! Fight! Fight!" my little brother Robert begins to chant.
"Quiet down, Roberto!" My mother shoots Little Robert a scornful glance.
Tía Socorro claims her bingo diagonally while tía Dolores claimed hers horizontally. Adding to the controversy is an echoing dispute among the rest of the bingo players: Exactly which of my two aunts actually called out bingo first?
After much yelling and finger pointing, it is agreed that the final decision should fall squarely on the shoulders of our local parish priest, Father Martinez. The bingo players fix their eyes on the priest as he carefully looks over my aunts' playing cards. He gestures for me to come forward. I hesitate. The last thing I need to do is get involved in my aunts' ongoing feud.
La chalupa—the lady in the boat.
"It's a definite bingo for my tía Socorro," I say very quietly.
Father Martinez gestures for me to turn my attention to the playing card held by my tía Dolores.
"You both won." What else could I say? I wasn't sure who had called out bingo first, and both of them held winning bingo cards.
"That being the case, the game has ended in a tie," declares Father Martinez.
"Tie breaker! Tie breaker! I demand a tie breaker," screams tía Socorro.
"Yes, let's decide a winner by sudden death," adds tía Dolores. She places major emphases on the word DEATH.
My aunts shoot me disapproving stares. I cringe.
"What about the trophy?" says tía Dolores?
Yes indeed, what about the trophy? The Queen Bingo trophy is in reality nothing more than an old tin cup-shaped trophy Father Martinez won as a boy back in elementary school. He had the old plaque removed and replaced with a new one that reads: QUEEN BINGO.
"We can't split the trophy in two now, can we?" asks tía Socorro.
"You will have to share the trophy," says Father Martinez.
"What? That's insane!" declares tía Dolores.
Share the trophy? Has Father Martinez lost his mind? Does he honestly expect my aunts to share? He might as well be asking the Guardian Angel to unmask and reveal his secret identity to the whole world. It just isn't going to happen!
In Maximilian & the Mystery of the Guardian Angel, Max tumbles over the railing at a lucha match in San Antonio and makes a connection to the world of Mexican wrestling that will ultimately link him to the greatest hero of all time: the Guardian Angel. He also falls in love with the beautiful Cecilia Cantú. In Maximilian & the Bingo Rematch, suddenly everybody seems to be fighting: a couple of cranky tías who, like lucha libre rudos, will stop at nothing to triumph in the church's lotería game; his masked uncles going for the tag-team title of the world, and a green-eyed vixen named Paloma who challenges his love for Cecilia. Will good triumph over evil? Max sure hopes so!
Xavier Garza was born in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. He is an enthusiastic author, artist, teacher and storyteller whose work is a lively documentation of the dreams, superstitions and heroes in the bigger-than-life world of South Texas. Garza has exhibited his art and performed his stories in venues throughout Texas, Arizona and Washington. He lives with his wife and son in San Antonio, Texas.
Click ↓the link below↓ to read the first two chapters of Maximilian and the Bingo Rematch.


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1 Reply Latest reply on Jan 5, 2021 3:23 PM by Shannon Kerner
Seeking Air Force records of Dwayne Arneson
Brenda Arneson Jan 1, 2021 8:29 PM
I am looking for information on a relative, Dwayne Arneson. He served in the Air Force
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Re: Seeking Air Force records of Dwayne Arneson
Shannon Kerner Jan 5, 2021 3:23 PM (in response to Brenda Arneson)
Dear Ms. Arneson,
We suggest that you request a copy of his Official Military Personnel File (OMPF). OMPFs and individual medical reports for those who served in the U.S. Air Force who were separated from the service after 1946 and prior to May 1, 1994 are in the custody of NARA's National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis. In many cases where personnel records were destroyed in the 1973 fire, proof of service can be provided from other records such as morning reports, payrolls, and military orders, and a certificate of military service will be issued. Please complete a GSA Standard Form 180 and mail it to NARA's National Personnel Records Center, (Military Personnel Records), 1 Archives Drive, St. Louis, MO 63138-1002. Or you may apply online at https://www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records/. Certain information in the records is not available to the general public without the written consent of the veteran or his next of kin. For more information see Request Military Service Records.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the NPRC is closed except for emergencies. Currently, NPRC will continue servicing requests ONLY associated with medical treatments, burials, and homeless veterans seeking admittance to a homeless shelter. If your request is urgent, please see Emergency Requests and Deadlines. Please refrain from submitting non-emergency requests such as replacement medals, administrative corrections, or records research until NPRC returns to pre-COVID staffing levels. Please check archives.gov/veterans for updates to the NPRC operating hours and status. We apologize for any inconvenience.


Plants → Magnoliophyta → Magnoliopsida → Lamiales → Lentibulariaceae Rich. → Utricularia L.	→ Utricularia caerulea L.
Terrestrial annual or perennial, herb, 0.07-0.3 m high. Fl. purple/purple-yellow-white, May to Sep. Damp soils, sandstone. Seepage areas, creek banks, pools.


WE DEDICATE 100% OF OUR TIME ATTRACTING CANDIDATES TO YOUR JOB ADS!
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We provide the best value with the lowest posting rate among the 3 largest municipal job websites. Click here to go to the pricing page.
You can post the same ad in both French and English at no extra charge.
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Growing strong since 2006, we attract nearly 30,000 serious municipal job seekers per month which translates to nearly 50,000 page views. This is substantially more than any single association's website and among the highest in the municipal job sector.
We give you National Exposure - Your ad appears on your provincial page as well as our Canada home page which is viewed by candidates from across Canada.
We reach beyond the municipal sector – while 1/3 of our visitors are candidates already in the municipal sector looking to advance their career, we also attract newcomers to municipal government with 1/3 coming from links on college, university and employment services websites and another 1/3 finding our website through Google and Yahoo searches.
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de Alava E, Lozano MD, Patiño A, Sierrasesúmaga L, Pardo-Mindán FJ.
In more than 95% of patients, the Ewing family of tumors (ET) has chimeric transcripts caused by fusion of the EWS gene to either FLI1 or ERG. The presence of specific EWS-FLI1 or EWS-ERG transcripts in peripheral blood (PB) samples of patients being treated for ET was prospectively evaluated, and these data were correlated to their clinical status. The authors studied 113 PB samples from 28 patients with ET.
Treatment included chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgical excision of tumor after induction therapy. PB samples were taken prospectively at least 2 weeks after resection of tumor. Nested reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) followed by Southern blot was performed in all samples. Resected tumors were reviewed for the degree of response to chemotherapy and volume. Seventy-seven PB samples from 28 patients had EWS-FLI1/ERG transcripts. In 11 patients, PB samples became negative with treatment, and, in 5 of them, the samples remained negative throughout the study. Samples taken during progression were always positive and, in 4 patients, became positive before progression was clinically evident. All patients with transcripts other than EWS-FLI1 type 1 (n = 3) died from tumor progression. This is a sensitive assay to monitor circulating tumor cells in Ewing tumors.
The preliminary data suggest that progression is preceded by positive samples and may be related to specific transcript types.


After exiting the train, take the NORTH pedestrian bridge. Turn right at the bottom of the stairs and turn right again on Crescent. Walk to 38th Ave and turn left, then walk one block to 24th street. You will see a red brick four story building taking up most of the block - the main entrance is mid block. Approximately a 10 minute walk from train.
Walk north to 38th Ave and turn right, walk three blocks to 24th St and turn left. The building is on the northwest side of street. The main entrance is mid block. Approximately a 10 minute walk from train.
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Utah Lake Summit and Utah Lake Commission Meeting
by Kaye Nelson | Jan 17, 2022 | Utah Lake | 2 comments
It's been a big week for Utah Lake! Three weeks ago members of CUV met with Rep. Keven Stratton with concerns about a proposal for dredging Utah Lake and creating islands for various uses including innovative housing for Utah County. At that meeting we discussed the possibility of having a Utah Lake Summit to bring various parties to this very critical discussion. We chose a date before the Utah legislative session started so we had 25 days to pull it off, with major holidays sandwiched in those days.
On January 11th, we saw the fruits of the labor of many volunteers who worked tirelessly over that short time to host the first Utah Lake Summit, sponsored by Rep. Stratton and Conserve Utah Valley. Many behind-the-scenes details were addressed and ironed out. Invitations were made through email and social media posts. More than 200 people attended the UVU-based event with more participating online. (Masks were requested at the event.)
Scientists, experts, legislators, concerned citizens, conservationists and island proposers all came together to listen and learn about the lake.
Rep. Stratton welcomed attendees and mentioned the seven generations of his family who have loved Utah Lake. He said his vision is a hope and a desire to spend time with his great grandchildren on the lake enjoying it but also to see something wonderful become something better.
He said we are all stewards and asked for civil, fruitful, respectful discussions. Many experts from diverse fields and professions had been invited and were present.
Our executive director Craig Christensen gave Rep. Stratton nearly 4,500 signatures of those who signed a petition asking for the repeal or amending of the 2018 House Bill 272 which opened the door to potential development on the lake. (Signatures are still coming in!)
Craig also mentioned his desire for transparency and a robust, enhanced dialogue. He said we want more of these kinds of events where neighbors can come and hear what is going on. He asked for mutual respect during the meeting.
Ben Abbott, an ecosystem ecologist at BYU, opened the summit with a talk that included the history, current status, recovery and future of Utah Lake. I've heard Dr. Abbott speak several times now and I've learned he is a gentle, passionate teacher. He guides and enlightens – he uses science-based information to inform and educate.
Ben asked the audience to shout out words they think of when they think of Utah Lake: The answers he got were, "beautiful, shallow, birds, sacred, carp, green, mucky bottom, identity." Ben stopped and said that Utah Lake is at the center of our community and is such an important part of our identity.
It's this identity that fuels my own passion for keeping Utah Lake free of island development.
Following Dr. Abbott's presentation there were two panel sessions where participants gave information and answered questions. For the most part, it was civil and respectful.
Information came from participants and even a few audience members. There is a lot of passion for Utah Lake and hopefully this summit be the hinge point for many more thoughtful, robust discussions.
A recording of the summit can be viewed here.
A few days after the summit, the Utah Lake Commission held a meeting where Dr. Ben Abbott gave his presentation including information about amending HB 272 from 2018. He said Utah Lake is not just a Utah County issue – we need to all work together and that it's in the state's best interest to restore and conserve this ecosystem.
He was followed by those who are proposing island development.
Also on the agenda for the Utah Lake Commission meeting was the vote to elect a new president. Provo Mayor Michelle Kaufusi is now the president of the commission with Vineyard Mayor Julie Fullmer as vice president.
A resolution from the Commission was put forward regarding conservation of Utah Lake and, after some discussion, it was approved unanimously.
An agenda and recording of the meeting are available through the Utah Lake Commission website.
Utah Lake is getting the recognition and focus it deserves as more people join the conversation about what is best for the future of the lake. Conserve Utah Valley invites you to be open-minded, listen to science-based evidence and even look beyond the science. The lake is beautiful and should be preserved as a place of peace, recreation and a living environment for many species. While Utah County might be "running out of space" to house people, the middle of Utah Lake should not be up for discussion.
Lew Burnham on February 2, 2022 at 11:36 am
I have been interested in the proposals for preservation and development of Utah Lake for at least sixty years (ever since my early days at BYU in the 1950s). I am aware of and have followed most of the major ideas and proposals put forth::
1. major and minor dredging schemes and uses of the materials extracted from the bottom,
2. various sorts of bridges and causeways, primarily to provide much shorter transportation access, moving water, power, and so on, to the area where Saratoga Springs is now located,
3. along with many ideas about water quality, wildlife conservation, improvement of recreational facilities, etc.
One large issue rarely dealt with or even mentioned, in the ideas and proposals discussed, is the fact that the South end of Utah Lake is "salty" and is otherwise very poor quality water, mainly due to the fact that the largest surface source into the Lake is the Provo River, which comes in at the middle of the East side, flows relatively intact across the Lake, with very insufficient mixing with the rest of the Lake water (especially that in the nearly stagnant South end) and exits to the Northwest as the Jordan River – with the South end left to concentrate its dissolved minerals by heavy evaporation and too little fresh water input.
That is the main reason a causeway, another vital factor little understood or properly discussed in past years, is essential to the recovery and continuing health of the Lake. The causeway must start just North of where the Provo River enters the Lake and go pretty much straight West across – this is so the fresh river water (or at least most of it) is forced to flow first into the South end of the Lake – and then be allowed to flow into the rest of the Lake through several bridged, flow-controlled gaps spaced evenly across the causeway. The causeway would need to be lined on both sides with large (outside) and small (inside) stones, to allow the dredged materials from the bottom of the Lake to firm up and dry and prevent them from dissipating and spreading back into the bottom. Other than to repeat that no other way (such as a bridge) would accomplish what needs to be done, I will not go into further details at this time.
None of the above is meant to say that Provo (in close coordination, of course, with the rest of the communities surrounding the Lake) should now undertake a master plan for recovery of the Lake – only that I would now favor a limited scope, but thorough and independent feasibility study, based on the above causeway idea. At this point, please don't consider residential or commercial islands – I am not in favor of islands at all, except, possibly the bird sanctuary. (And don't fantasize that you will somehow get rid of the poisonous smog of our temperature inversions that would cover those proposed luxury apartments and mall shops – in a lake at the very bottom of the valley – for many winter days each year).
I would also mention evidence of the "salty" / poor-quality of the water in the South end of the Lake and the failed attempts to use it as irrigation water, which includes:
1. In the late 1960s through most of the 1980s, a Payson fruit farmer named Reid Lee Wayman (who happens to be my wife's brother) planted a large orchard on 100 leased acres in what is now the Southern part of Saratoga Springs. He pumped water from the Southwest shore of the Lake and, with some limited treatment, used it in a drip-irrigation system. To make a long, sad story short, with the rapid buildup of the water's minerals into the soil over a relatively short ten years or so, the trees began to die. First to die were the stone fruit (mainly sweet cherries, apricots, peaches, and nectarines) and then the pomme fruit (apples, pears, and asian pears). The only remedy might have been large quantities of "pure" fresh water to flush the excess minerals from the soil – but there was none, of any sufficient quantity, so within a few more years, all the trees were dead.
2. There have been other attempts at fruit farming, using the South-end Lake water – at the far Southeast shore on the lower slopes of the back side of (Payson's) West Mountain. I have heard that, with measures such as using greater quantities of water and mixing in other (including well) water with the Lake water, at least some of these ventures have been moderately successful, so far. But I understand that their long-range prospects are likely not much better than Mr. Wayman's results.
Finally, I think my personal experiences with the I-Provo debacle are relevant to reviewing risks in the current proposal. I still can't accept how much money was wasted there – and goes on far into the future. Back then, I wrote several times to the City about I-Provo, with advice not to undertake a hasty, poorly-evaluated project, with my predictions of what would be the result if they entered into it. I spelled out that it was based on the wrong technology, it was too late to get into that very competitive business, and the City did not have expertise or resources to do it. Sadly, my advice and that of many others was ignored. Then, actions of the Mayor and Provo Power people that tried to deal with its results were incompetent, spineless, and wrong. Worst of all no one was held accountable for it I !
Lew Burnham 4186 N. Canyon Road, Provo 84604 lewburnham@hotmail.com 801-221-0348
DOUG DRURY on February 12, 2022 at 3:36 pm
As I read the outline of the Jan 22 meeting it was interesting to note that Julie Fullmer, Mayor of Vineyard was elected Vice President of the organization. I find this confusing as it indicates she is in favor of the general consciences of the organization on preserving the lake and its environment, agrees with not building the islands but at the same time in 2018 committed 5 million dollars of the Vineyard RDA funds towards approving the application for the Lake Solutions company that wants to build the islands. It's also interesting that the former Chief of Staff for the Senate and House of Representatives (Hartley) who was there during the passing of HB272 is now a lobbyist for the city of Vineyard and the Lake Solutions organization. Is this a series of conflicts of interest or untransparent political opportunities benefiting a developer?
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