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Dallastown wins 8-inning baseball thriller under lights at Red Lion; other Monday prep action
STEVE HEISER
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The Dallastown Wildcats took a giant stride toward another York-Adams Division I baseball championship on Monday night.
Playing under the lights at Red Lion, the Wildcats outlasted the Lions for a 7-6 eight-inning triumph.
Dallastown now stands at 12-3 overall and 11-1 in D-I action. The Wildcats have won nine straight since a 3-3 start. Red Lion fell to 11-4 overall and 9-4 in the division.
The Wildcats now have a three-game lead in the loss column over Red Lion, Central York (9-4) and South Western (8-4). Dallastown has four more league games left vs. York High, Central York, Northeastern and South Western. Two wins in those four games will gave the Wildcats the outright D-I crown.
Dallastown has won the last five contested D-I championships.
In Monday's win, Brady Altland's two-out RBI triple in the top of the eighth proved to be the difference. Altland finished the game with three hits, including two triples, with an RBI and two runs scored.
Colin Ahr got the win in relief, going four innings and allowing one earned run. He struck out eight, walked three and allowed two hits.
Conner Barto homered and doubled for the winners, driving in two runs and scoring a run. He also walked. Barto also started the game on the mound and went the first four innings, giving up two earned runs, while striking out four and walking one.
Dallastown also got big offensive performances from Camden Flnchbaugh (two hits, two RBIs, two runs scored), Chandler Powell (two hits, RBI) and Travis Reding (triple).
Early on, it looked like Dallastown would cruise to victory, building a 6-2 lead heading into the bottom of the fifth, but Red Lion plated three runs in the bottom of the fifth to make it 6-5 and scored once in the bottom of the seventh to send the game into extra innings.
Ben Koons led Red Lion with two hits, including a double, with three RBIs. He drove in the tying run in the bottom of the seventh on a bases-loaded single with no outs, but another runner on the play was thrown out at home as the potential game-winning run. Ahr then got a pop out and a strikeout to end the inning.
Jacob Shaffer added two hits and a run scored for Red Lion, while Brandon Ritchey doubled with a run scored.
The Lions had their six-game winning streak snapped.
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Spring Grove 12, York Suburban 6: At Spring Grove, Landon Bailey led the Rockets (9-5) by going 3 for 5, including a triple, with three RBIs and three runs scored. Eli Tome went 2 for 3 with two RBIs and two runs scored for Spring Grove, while Drew Miller went 1 for 2 with two runs scored and one RBI. For the Trojans, Nick Andricos had two doubles and two runs scored.
Susquehannock 7, Bermudian Springs 0: At York Springs, Joe Smith led the Warriors (13-3) by starting the game on the mound and throwing six innings, striking out 13, walking one and allowing one hit to pick up the win. The Susquehannock offense was led by Josh Pecunes (2 for 4, run), Josh Preston (2 for 4, RBI) and Ben Koller (double, two RBIs, two runs).
South Western 4, Central York 3: At Central York, the Mustangs (9-5) plated three runs in the top of the sixth to take the lead and went on to capture the victory. Individually for the Mustangs, Carlos Caraballo started the game on the mound and threw 6 2/3 innings, striking out five, walking four and allowing three earned runs to pick up the win. Carballo also connected at the plate with a double and picked up two RBIs. Teammate Dominic Praydis went 2 for 3 with one run scored. For the Panthers (10-6), Aiden Jennings went 2 for 2, while Josh Marquard tripled with one run scored.
Gettysburg 15, Dover 0 (3 innings): At Gettysburg, Bryce Rudisill led the Warriors (8-5) by going 2 for 2, including a triple, with three RBIs and three runs scored. Also for Gettysburg, Cody Furman went 3 for 3, including a double, with two RBIs, while Carson Kuhns went 2 for 2 with two RBIs and two runs scored.
New Oxford 3, West York 2: At New Oxford, Mason Weaver led the Colonials (8-5) by throwing a complete game, striking out 10, walking two and allowing four hits to pick up the win. The New Oxford offense was led by Adam Pascoe (2 for 3, double, run) and Aaron Smith (2 for 3). For the Bulldogs, starting pitcher Marcus Ropp threw five innings, striking out two, walking one and allowing two earned runs, but took the loss. Teammate Ricky Peters went 1 for 3 with one RBI and one run scored.
Lancaster Catholic 6, Eastern York 2: At Wrightsville, the Crusaders plated three runs in the top of the seventh to increase their lead and they went on to capture the nonleague victory. For the Golden Knights, Austin Bausman went 2 for 4, including a double, with one run scored, while teammate Aaron Fox went 2 for 3, including a double.
Littlestown 9, Kennard-Dale 3: At Fawn Grove, Colby Hahn led the Thunderbolts (9-4) by starting the game on the mound and throwing six innings, striking out nine, walking two and allowing two earned runs to pick up the win. Hahn also connected at the plate by going 3 for 3 with two runs scored and one RBI. Also for Littlestown, Bradin Peart went 3 for 4 with one RBI and one run scored, while Ryan Jones went 2 for 3, including a double, with one run scored. For the Rams, Adam Loucks doubled with one run scored.
Delone Catholic 16, Hanover 3 (6 innings): At Hanover, Myles Shearer led the Squires (11-2) by going 3 for 5 with two RBIs and two runs scored. Also excelling for Delone were Brady Dettinburn (2 for 3, two RBIs, two runs scored) and Jake Sherdel, who started the game on the mound and threw five innings, striking out eight, walking three and allowing four hits to pick up the win. Sherdel also connected at the plate by going 2 for 2, including a homer, with two RBIs and one run scored. For the Nighthawks, Nathan Chronister went 2 for 3 with one run scored.
Fairfield 15, York Catholic 5: At York Catholic, Eric Ball led the Green Knights (9-2) by going 5 for 5 with three RBIs and two runs scored. Also for Fairfield, Cody Valentine went 4 for 5, including a homer, with four RBIs and three runs scored, while Cameron Macinyak went 2 for 4, including a homer, with three RBIs. For the Irish, Evan Kipple went 2 for 2, including a double, with one run scored.
Biglerville 14, York Tech 7: At Spry, Nolan Miller led the Canners by going 3 for 4, including a triple, with four RBIs and one run scored. Also for Biglerville, Cameron Hartzel went 3 for 5, including a double, with two runs scored and one RBI, while Austin Black went 2 for 4, including a double, with three runs scored and two RBIs. For the Spartans, Ethan Shimmel had two doubles, two RBIs and one run scored, while Jayden Miller doubled with two runs scored.
Central York 10, Spring Grove 0 (6 innings): At Central York, Ava Beamesderfer led the Panthers (14-1) to the home victory by throwing a six-inning, four-hit shutout, striking out 10 and walking none. Beamesderfer also connected at the plate by going 2 for 4, including a homer, with three RBIs. Also for Central, Brynn Weigle went 4 for 4 with two RBIs and one run scored; Keira Devor went 3 for 4, including two doubles, with one RBI and one run scored; and Jenna Stiffler went 2 for 4 with one RBI and one run scored. For the Rockets, Mia Young went 2 for 3. Central has won 12 straight.
New Oxford 14, Northeastern 5: At New Oxford, Mallory Topper led the Colonials (9-4) by going 3 for 4, including a two-run homer, while scoring two runs. Also for New Oxford, Brooklyn Hodges and Cora Diviney each went 3 for 4 and added two RBIs, while Brooke Becker went 2 for 4 with two RBIs. For the Bobcats (8-4), Colleen Finnegan went 2 for 4 with one RBI and one run scored, while Reagan Wrightstone went 2 for 2 with two RBIs.
Eastern York 17, York High 0 (3 innings): At York High, Morgan Estes led the Golden Knights (10-7) by going 1 for 1 with three RBIs, two runs scored and three walks. Also for Eastern, Cassidy Crean picked up five RBIs and added one run scored, while Allison Cook scored three runs. The Golden Knights took advantage of 16 walks.
Dover 7, Susquehannock 4: At Glen Rock, Jordyn Hennessey led the Eagles by throwing a complete game, striking out two, walking one and allowing no earned runs to pick up the win. Teammate Kaitlyn Thomas went 2 for 4 with one RBI and one run scored. For the Warriors, Allison Karst went 2 for 4 with two RBIs, while Sydney Lambdin went 2 for 4. The Eagles scored the final three unanswered runs to capture the win.
South Western 13, York Suburban 0 (5 innings): At South Western, Ryleigh Sprague led the Mustangs (12-2) by going 2 for 4, including a grand slam, while scoring two runs. Also for South Western, Riley Crowl went 2 for 3, including a double, with three RBIs and one run scored, while Emalee Reed threw all five innings on the mound, striking out 11, walking none and allowing one single to pick up the win.
York Tech 11, Biglerville 9: At Spry, McKenzie Tasto led the Spartans to the win with three hits, including a homer, along with three RBIs and three runs scored. Ava Steinfelt added four runs scored, three walks and a hit, while Abygail Ash had two hits, two runs scored, an RBI and a walk. Selina Smith also had two hits for the winners, while Maggie Lackey scored two runs on a hit and a walk. Steinfelt also pitched a complete game to get the win, allowing four earned runs. Kierney Weigle led Biglerville with three hits and three runs scored, while Alexis Pickett tripled with three runs scored and a walk.
Delone Catholic 16, Hanover 3 (6 innings): At Hanover, Teagan Funkhouser led the Squirettes (10-4) by going 3 for 5 with five RBIs and three runs scored. Also for Delone, Alma Partenza went 3 for 5, including a double, with three runs scored and one RBI; Carolina Arigo went 2 for 3, including a double, with three RBIs and one run scored; and Amy Anderson threw all six innings on the mound, striking out seven, walking two and allowing one earned run. For the Hawkettes, Chealsea Carrera went 2 for 2 with one run scored.
Bermudian Springs 11, Gettysburg 1: At Gettysburg, Hannah Chenault led the Eagles (14-2) by going 4 for 5, including a triple, with two RBIs and two runs scored. Also for Bermudian, Maddie Reever went 4 for 5, including a triple, with three RBIs and one run scored, while Tori Murren went 3 for 5 with one RBI and one run scored. Reever also threw a complete game, striking out four, walking five and allowing six hits to pick up the win.
Littlestown 8, Kennard-Dale 1: At Fawn Grove, Chelsey Stonesifer led the Thunderbolts (13-2) by throwing a complete game, striking out 13, walking two and allowing four hits to pick up the win. Littlestown has won 10 straight games. The Littlestown offense was paced by Megan Gorsuch (2 for 4, homer, two RBIs, run), Keira Miller (2 for 4, RBI, run) and Carley Chaney and Carli Thayer (who each went 2 for 4, including a double, with one run scored). For the Rams, Mackenzie Warner doubled with a run scored.
Top doubles seeds make semifinals: The top four seeds in both Class 3-A and Class 2-A advanced to the semifinals of York-Adams boys' tennis doubles tournaments on Monday.
One 3-A semifinal will match the top-seeded team of Jonathan Arbittier and Hayden Koons of Dallastown against the fourth-seeded pairing of Alex Guy and Mason Neiderer of South Western. In the other 3-A semifinal, the second-seeded team of Cooper Wheeler and Andre Nadeau of Red Lion will face off against the third-seeded team of Daniel Wu and Neil Patel of Dallastown.
In 2-A, one semifinal will pit the top-seeded Hanover team of Antonio Corona and Charlie Zitto against the fourth-seeded Bermudian Springs duo of Parker Sanders and Eli Snyder. The other 2-A semifinal will match the second-seeded Delone Catholic team of Ben Elsner and Andrew Gervasi vs. the third-seeded Susquehannock team of Colin Brusse and Lucas Reck.
GIRLS' LACROSSE:
Susquehannock 19, New Oxford 12: At New Oxford, the Warriors triumphed to move to 13-1. New Oxford dropped to 7-5. Addison Roeder led the Warriors by scoring a game-high 10 goals and also added one assist. Also for Susquehannock, Sydney Marusko scored five goals and added two assists, while Rachel Stiffler scored two goals. For the Colonials, Hailey Linebaugh scored three goals and added three assists, Ally Mathis scored four goals and added one assist and Sydney Winpigler scored two goals and added one assist.
South Western 15, Eastern York 5: At Wrightsville, the Mustangs improved to 12-2 with the victory. Eastern fell to 8-7.
Susquehannock 7, Cumberland Valley 6: At Glen Rock, in a nonleague battle of standout District 3 teams, the Warriors won to improve to 12-0. Cumberland Valley fell to 11-2, with both losses coming to York-Adams programs. CV's other loss came to Central York, 7-4. Doug Reinecke led the Warriors by scoring three goals and adding one assist. Also for Susquehannock, Jake Wetzel scored two goals, while Ben Tomasic and Tristian Coleman each scored one goal and Dominic Eckels added one assist.
York Catholic 3, Kennard-Dale 0: At York Catholic, the Irish (9-2) won the match 25-20, 25-9, 25-13. Individually for the Irish, John Forjan had 17 assists and four aces, while Brady Walker and Tyger Smick each had five kills. YC's Joe Mountain had four kills.
Reach Steve Heiser at sheiser@yorkdispatch.com or on Twitter at @ydsports.


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We went to sleep Thursday night in Puerta Vallarta and woke up Friday in Cabo San Lucas. What really struck me about Cabo is the fact that, from a distance, it looks almost exactly like Phoenix with an ocean in front of it.
In Cabo the harbor is too small for a cruise ship to dock, so we boarded smaller launches that took us in. From the harbor, we boarded a bus that took us the whopping half mile to Mi Casa restaurant, which looked like a cross between a taqueria and the site of a luau.
First, we had the same kind of food that I've had at practically every family party I've ever been to since I was a little kid. Meat, tortillas, soup, rice and beans and various salsas – it was all delicious, and all the better since I neither had to cook it nor clean up afterward.
I can only think that their white, gold and black outfits gave them their name. Or their smell.
Once we were done eating, it was time for the mariachis. The name of the band was Huitlacoche, although I can't for the life of me decide why. But they sang all the mariachi songs that Americans would expect to hear, and after a little while, folks (mostly tiny people) started getting up to dance.
In between numbers, the folkloric dancers came out. When they said "folkloric," they weren't kidding. The first number had an Aztec flavor.
The costumes were a little hokey, but the whole thing was fun, especially the part where the men set their leg hair on fire. No, I'm not kidding.
Later, they did other traditional dances in other costumes in between mariachi numbers. The only thing this party was lacking was that bunch of relatives that had too much to drink and start yelling at everybody.
Finally, it was time for DJ Roberto – an energetic guy who came out and told jokes and got the crowd going. The first time he came out, we applauded, but not nearly enough, so he said very seriously, "I'm gonna pretend that didn't happen. I'm gonna come out again and you guys are gonna act like I'm Justin Bieber!" and he marched himself offstage and then came back on again to a crowd gone wild. He posed and threw kisses and otherwise hammed it up, and then got the kids up for a Mexican version of musical chairs called the Hat Game. The kids were put in a circle and given a hat. While the music played, each child had to put the hat on, spin in a circle, and then pass the hat to the next kid. If you had the hat when the music ended, you were out.
The kids are all ready to play the Hat Game. According to the Badb, the hat, an old leather cowboy hat, smelled like lipstick.
After the Hat Game, we were taught the tequila dance (the one you dance to the song "Tequila"), and then we decided to leave so that we could walk back to the dock instead of taking the bus for half a mile.
We stopped at a little shop to get some souvenirs and met Filomena and her children, who were adorable.
Children all over the world are always happy to mug it up for the camera. For the rest of our visit, the little boy kept making himself available for photo opportunities.
Every night, we got a different towel animal. Today's was a monkey that we kept for the rest of our cruise.
The Pirate and I were so inspired by the towel animals that we were excited to attend the towel origami class offered on Sunday. I can now make a monkey, an elephant, a bear, a swan – you name it, and I can fold it out of bath towels. So…if this writer thing doesn't work out, I have a fallback position.


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United States Foreign Service
The flag of a U.S. Foreign Service Officer.
The United States Foreign Service is a component of the United States federal government under the aegis of the United States Department of State. It consists of approximately 15,000 professionals[1] carrying out the foreign policy of the United States and aiding U.S. citizens abroad.[2][3]
Created in 1924 by the Rogers Act, the Foreign Service combined all consular and diplomatic services of the U.S. government into one administrative unit. In addition to the unit's function, the Rogers Act defined a personnel system under which the United States Secretary of State is authorized to assign diplomats abroad.
Members of the Foreign Service are selected through a series of written and oral examinations. They serve at any of the 265 United States diplomatic missions around the world, including embassies, consulates, and other facilities. Members of the Foreign Service also staff the headquarters of the four foreign affairs agencies: the Department of State, headquartered at Harry S Truman Building in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C.; the Department of Agriculture; the Department of Commerce; and the United States Agency for International Development.
The United States Foreign Service is managed by a Director General, an official who is appointed by the President of the United States, with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Director General is traditionally a current or former Foreign Service Officer.[4] Starting in November 23, 1975 until October, 2nd, 2016 under a Departmental administrative action, the Director General concurrently held the title of Director of the Bureau of Human Resources. The two positions are now separate.[5] As the head of the bureau, the Director General held a rank equivalent to an Assistant Secretary of State.[5][6][7] The current Director General is Arnold A. Chacón, who was sworn in on December 22, 2014.[8]
On September 15, 1789, the 1st United States Congress passed an Act creating the Department of State and appointing duties to it, including the keeping of the Great Seal of the United States. Initially there were two services devoted to diplomatic and consular activity. The Diplomatic Service provided ambassadors and ministers to staff embassies overseas, while the Consular Service provided consuls to assist United States sailors and promote international trade and commerce.
Throughout the 19th century, ambassadors, or ministers, as they were known prior to the 1890s, and consuls were appointed by the president, and until 1856, earned no salary. Many had commercial ties to the countries in which they would serve, and were expected to earn a living through private business or by collecting fees. In 1856, Congress provided a salary for consuls serving at certain posts; those who received a salary could not engage in private business, but could continue to collect fees for services performed.
Lucile Atcherson Curtis
Lucile Atcherson Curtis was the first woman in what became the U.S. Foreign Service.[9] Specifically, she was the first woman appointed as a United States Diplomatic Officer or Consular Officer, in 1923 (the U.S. did not establish the unified Foreign Service until 1924, at which time Diplomatic and Consular Officers became Foreign Service Officers).[10][11]
Rogers Act
The Rogers Act of 1924 merged the diplomatic and consular services of the government into the Foreign Service. An extremely difficult Foreign Service examination was also implemented to recruit the most outstanding Americans, along with a merit-based system of promotions. The Rogers Act also created the Board of the Foreign Service and the Board of Examiners of the Foreign Service, the former to advise the Secretary of State on managing the Foreign Service, and the latter to manage the examination process.
In 1927 Congress passed legislation according diplomatic status to representatives abroad of the Department of Commerce (until then known as "trade commissioners"), creating the Foreign Commerce Service. In 1930 Congress passed similar legislation for the Department of Agriculture, creating the Foreign Agricultural Service. Though formally accorded diplomatic status, however, commercial and agricultural attachés were civil servants (not officers of the Foreign Service). In addition, the agricultural legislation stipulated that agricultural attachés would not be construed as public ministers. On July 1, 1939, however, both the commercial and agricultural attachés were transferred to the Department of State under Reorganization Plan No. II. The agricultural attachés remained in the Department of State until 1954, when they were returned by Act of Congress to the Department of Agriculture. Commercial attachés remained with State until 1980, when Reorganization Plan Number 3 of 1979 was implemented under terms of the Foreign Service Act of 1980.
Foreign Service Act of 1946
In the meantime, in 1946 Congress at the request of the Department of State passed a new Foreign Service Act creating six classes of employees: chiefs of mission, Foreign Service Officers, Foreign Service Reservists, Foreign Service Staff, "alien personnel" (subsequently renamed Foreign Service Nationals and later Locally Employed Staff), and consular agents. Officers were expected to spend the bulk of their careers abroad and were commissioned officers of the United States, available for worldwide service. Reserve officers often spent the bulk of their careers in Washington but were available for overseas service. Foreign Service Staff personnel included clerical and support positions. The intent of this system was to remove the distinction between Foreign Service and civil service staff, which had been a source of friction. The Foreign Service Act of 1946 also repealed as redundant the 1927 and 1930 laws granting USDA and Commerce representatives abroad diplomatic status, since at that point agricultural and commercial attachés were appointed by the Department of State.
The 1946 Act replaced the Board of Foreign Service Personnel, a body concerned solely with administering the system of promotions, with the Board of the Foreign Service, which was responsible more broadly for the personnel system as a whole, and created the position of Director General of the Foreign Service. It also introduced the "up-or-out" system under which failure to gain promotion to higher rank within a specified time in class would lead to mandatory retirement, essentially borrowing the concept from the U.S. Navy. The 1946 Act also created the rank of Career Minister, accorded to the most senior officers of the service, and established mandatory retirement ages.[12]
The new personnel management approach was not wholly successful, which led to an effort in the late 1970s to overhaul the 1946 Act. During drafting of this Act, Congress chose to move the commercial attachés back to Commerce while preserving their status as Foreign Service Officers, and to include agricultural attachés of the Department of Agriculture in addition to the existing FSOs of the Department of State, U.S. Information Agency, and U.S. Agency for International Development.
The Foreign Service Act of 1980 is the most recent major legislative reform to the Foreign Service. It abolished the Foreign Service Reserve category of officers, and reformed the personnel system for non-diplomatic locally employed staff of overseas missions (Foreign Service Nationals). It created a Senior Foreign Service with a rank structure equivalent to general and flag officers of the armed forces and to the Senior Executive Service. It enacted danger pay for those diplomats who serve in dangerous and hostile surroundings along with other administrative changes. The 1980 Act also reauthorized the Board of the Foreign Service, which "shall include one or more representatives of the Department of State, the United States Information Agency, the United States Agency for International Development, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Labor, the Office of Personnel Management, the Office of Management and Budget, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and such other agencies as the President may designate."
This board is charged with advising "the Secretary of State on matters relating to the Service, including furtherance of the objectives of maximum compatibility among agencies authorized by law to utilize the Foreign Service personnel system and compatibility between the Foreign Service personnel system and the other personnel systems of the Government."[13]
Members of the Foreign Service
The Foreign Service Act, 22 U.S.C. § 3903 et seq., defines the following members of the Foreign Service:[14]
Chiefs of mission are appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Ambassadors at large are appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Senior Foreign Service (SFS) members are the senior leaders and experts for the management of the Foreign Service and the performance of its functions. They are appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate. SFS may come from the FSO or Specialist ranks and are the equivalent to flag or general officers in the military.
Foreign Service Officers are appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate. These are mostly diplomat "generalists" who, along with some subject area experts, have primary responsibility for carrying out the functions of the Foreign Service.
Foreign Service Specialists provide special skills and services required for effective performance by the Service (including, but not limited to Facilities Managers, IT Specialists, Nurse Practitioners and Special Agents of the Diplomatic Security Service). They are appointed by the Secretary of State.
Foreign Service Nationals (FSNs) are personnel who provide clerical, administrative, technical, fiscal, and other support at posts abroad. They may be native citizens of the host country or third-country citizens (the latter referred to in the past as Third Country Nationals or TCNs). They are "members of the Service" as defined in the Foreign Service Act unlike other Locally Employed Staff, (also known as LE Staff) who in some cases are U.S. citizens living abroad.
Consular agents provide consular and related services as authorized by the Secretary of State at specified locations abroad where no Foreign Service posts are situated.
Additionally, Diplomats in Residence are senior Foreign Service Officers who act as recruiters for the United States Foreign Service. They operate in designated regions and hold honorary positions in local universities.
Foreign affairs agencies
While employees of the Department of State make up the largest portion of the Foreign Service, the Foreign Service Act of 1980 authorizes other U.S. government agencies to use the personnel system for positions that require service abroad. These include the Department of Commerce[15] (Foreign Commercial Service), the Department of Agriculture (specifically the Foreign Agricultural Service, though the Secretary of Agriculture has also authorized the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to use it as well), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).[16] USAID, Commerce, and Agriculture senior career FSOs can be appointed to ambassadorships, although the ranks of career ambassadors are in the vast majority of cases drawn from the Department of State, with a far smaller sub-set drawn from the ranks of USAID Mission Directors.
Foreign Service size
The total number of Foreign Service members (excluding Foreign Service Nationals) from all Foreign Service agencies (State, USAID, etc.) is about 15,150.
State Department Foreign Service employees number approximately 13,000 which is a total of both Foreign Service Officers and Foreign Service Specialists.
Statistics from 2004 show that there were approximately 6,200 Foreign Service "generalist" diplomats. This number was split up roughly evenly between the "cones" of Political, Public Diplomacy, Consular, Economic, and Management, meaning there were approximately 1200 diplomats that specialized in each of these areas.
The USAID Foreign Service currently numbers about 1,700.
Members from the other Foreign Service agencies number approximate 450: Foreign Commercial Service numbers about 250, Foreign Agriculture Service numbers about 175, and the International Broadcasting Bureau numbers about 25.[17]
Increasingly, the State Department is assigning diplomats abroad under alternate personnel systems that afford more flexibility to the USG, such as reduced benefits, longer terms, etc.
The process of being employed in the Foreign Service is different for those applying for Generalist positions and those applying for Specialist positions.
The evaluation process for all Foreign Service positions can be broadly summarized as: Initial application, Qualifications Evaluation Panel (QEP), Oral Assessment, clearances and final suitability review, and the register.
All evaluation steps for Generalist and Specialist candidates are anchored using certain personality characteristics. For Generalists there are 13, for Specialists there are 12. Familiarity with these characteristics dramatically improves a candidate's probability of success.
Initial application
Step 1 for a Generalist is the Foreign Service Officer Test (FSOT). For a Specialist, it is an application on USAJobs.
FSOT
Generalist candidates take the Foreign Service Officer Test (FSOT), a written exam consisting of three sections (job knowledge, biographical information, English grammar and usage) and an essay. Those who pass the FSOT are invited to submit short essays called Personal Narrative Questions (PNQs) for review by the Qualifications Evaluation Panel (QEP). Approximately 25 to 30 percent of candidates pass both the FSOT and the Personal Narrative Questions/Qualifications Evaluation Panel phase of the process.[18][18][19] After the screening process, less than 10% of those that pass the FSOT are invited to an oral assessment, administered in person in Washington, D.C. and other major cities throughout the United States. Approximately 10% of the original applicants at the written exam will ultimately pass the oral assessment.[20]
Specialists fill out an applications tailored to their particular knowledge area. Given how varied the specialties are, this application will vary a lot as well. The candidate is essentially asked to rate their own level of experience, citing examples and references who can verify these claims.
If a Generalist candidate's score on the FSOT meets or exceeds cutoff, they are invited to submit answers to Personal Narrative Questions, which will be reviewed by a Qualifications Evaluation Panel. Recently these have been six essays that ask for examples of how the candidate met certain challenges, anchored by the 13 personality characteristics. The Qualifications Evaluation Panel (QEP) (which is composed of three current Foreign Service Officers), was one of the most significant changes to the Foreign Service hiring process in decades. To be invited to take the Oral Assessment an applicant must not only pass the FSOT but also the Qualifications Evaluation Panel review. The Department of State's Board of Examiners can find some candidacies unacceptable despite the fact that they passed the FSOT.
Specialists also undergo a QEP, but their essays were collected as part of the initial application on USAJobs. Foreign Service Specialist (FSS) candidates are evaluated by Subject Matter Experts for proven skills and recommended to the Board of Examiners for an oral assessment based on those skills.
Oral Assessments
The oral assessment also varies for Generalists and Specialists. For Specialists there is a structured oral interview, written assessment, and usually an online, objective exam. For Generalists, there is a written assessment, structured oral interview, and structured group exercise.
The various parts of the oral assessment are aggregated and scored on a seven-point scale. At the end of the day a candidate will be informed if their score met the 5.25 cutoff score necessary to continue their candidacy. This score becomes relevant again after the final suitability review. Successfully passing the oral assessment grants a candidate a conditional offer of employment.
Clearances and Final Suitability Review
Candidates must then obtain a Class 1 (Worldwide Available) medical clearance, top secret security clearance, and suitability clearance. Depending upon the candidate's specific career track, they may also require eligibility for a top secret Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance. Once a candidate's clearance information has been obtained, a Final Suitability Review decides if this candidate is appropriate for employment in the Foreign Service. If so, the candidate's name is moved to the Register.
Failure to obtain any of these clearances can result in a candidate's eligibility being terminated. It can be difficult for a candidate to receive a TOP SECRET clearance if they have extensive foreign travel, dual citizenship, non-United States citizen family members, foreign spouses, drug use, financial problems or a poor record of financial practices, frequent gambling, and allegiance or de facto allegiance to a foreign state. Additionally, it can be difficult for anyone who has had a significant health problem to receive a Class 1 Medical Clearance.
Previously, the Foreign Service automatically rejected anyone with HIV. However, the landmark case of Taylor v. Rice mandated that the Foreign Service cannot discriminate against applicants who have stable chronic medical conditions. Taylor v. Rice allows HIV-Positive applicants to become Foreign Service Officers, provided they meet the other criteria required for employment.[21][22] Other conditions, such as mental illness and diabetes, are still considered severe enough to warrant rejection for the Foreign Service.[22]
Once an applicant passes the security and medical clearances, as well as the Final Review Panel, they are placed on the register of eligible hires, ranked according to the score that they received in the oral assessment. There are factors that can increase a candidate's score, such as foreign language proficiency or Veteran's Preference. Once a candidate is put on the register, they can remain for 18 months. If they are not hired from the register within 18 months, their candidacy is terminated. Separate registers are maintained for each of the five Generalist career cones as well as the 23 Specialist career tracks.
Technically, there are many registers. One for each Foreign Service Specialty, and one for each Generalist Cone. The rank-order competitiveness of the register is only relevant within each candidate's career field. Successful candidates from the register will receive offers of employment to join a Foreign Service Class. Generalists and Specialists attend separate orientation classes.
Generalist candidates who receive official offers of employment must attend a 6-week training/orientation course known as A-100 at the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) in Arlington, VA. Specialist orientation at FSI is 3 weeks long. Depending upon the specialty, employees will then undergo several months of training before departing for their first assignment.
All Foreign Service personnel must be worldwide available-that is, they may be deployed anywhere in the world based on the needs of the service. They also agree to publicly support the policies of the United States Government.
Members of the Foreign Service are expected to serve much of their career abroad, working at embassies and consulates around the world. By internal regulation the maximum stretch of domestic assignments should last no more than six years (extensions are possible at the six-year limit for medical reasons, to enable children to complete high school, etc. The eight year limit is difficult to pierce and is reserved for those who are deemed "critical to the service" and for those persons at the Deputy Assistant Secretary level). By law, however, Foreign Service personnel must go abroad after ten years of domestic service. The difficulties and the benefits associated with working abroad are many, especially in relation to family life.
Dependent family members generally accompany Foreign Service employees overseas.[23] Unfortunately, this has become more difficult in regions marked by conflict and upheaval (currently many posts in the Middle East) where assignments are unaccompanied. The children of Foreign Service members, sometimes called Foreign Service Brats, grow up in a unique world, one that separates them, willingly or unwillingly, from their counterparts living continuously in the states.
While many children of Foreign Service members become very well developed, are able to form friendships easily, are skilled at moving frequently and enjoy international travel, other children have extreme difficulty adapting to the Foreign Service lifestyle. For both employees and their families, the opportunity to see the world, experience foreign cultures firsthand for a prolonged period, and the camaraderie amongst the Foreign Service and expatriate communities in general are considered some of the benefits of Foreign Service life.
Some of the downsides of Foreign Service work include exposure to tropical diseases and the assignment to countries with inadequate health care systems, and potential exposure to violence, civil unrest and warfare. Attacks on US embassies and consulates around the world — Beirut, Islamabad, Belgrade, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Baghdad, Kabul, and Benghazi, among others — underscore the considerable danger these public servants face.
FSOs stationed in nations with inadequate public infrastructure also face greater risk of injury or death due to fire, traffic accidents, and natural disasters. For instance, an FSO was one of the first identified victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.[24]
For members of the Foreign Service, a personal life outside of the U.S. Foreign Service can be exceptionally difficult. In addition to espionage, there is also the danger of personnel that use their position illegally for financial gain. The most frequent kind of illegal abuse of an official position concerns Consular Officers. There have been a handful of cases of FSOs on Consular Assignments selling visas for a price.[25]
Members of the Foreign Service must agree to worldwide availability. In practice, they generally have significant input as to where they will work, although issues such as rank, language ability, and previous assignments will affect one's possible onward assignments. All assignments are based on the needs of the Service, and historically it has occasionally been necessary for the Department to make directed assignments to a particular post in order to fulfill the Government's diplomatic requirements. This is not the norm, however, as many Foreign Service employees have volunteered to serve even at extreme hardship posts, including, most recently, Iraq and Afghanistan.[26]
The State Department maintains a Family Liaison Office to assist diplomats, including members of the Foreign Service and their families, in dealing with the unique issues of life as a U.S. diplomat, including the extended family separations that are usually required when an employee is sent to a danger post.[27]
Clientitis
Further information: Clientitis
Clientitis (also called clientism[28][29] or localitis[30][31][32]) is the tendency of resident in-country staff of an organization to regard the officials and people of the host country as "clients". This condition can be found in business or government. The term clientitis is somewhat similar to the phrases "gone native" or "going native".
A hypothetical example of clientitis would be an American Foreign Service Officer (FSO), serving overseas at a U.S. Embassy, who drifts into a mode of routinely and automatically defending the actions of the host country government. In such an example, the officer has come to view the officials and government workers of the host country government as the persons he is serving. Former USUN Ambassador John Bolton has used this term repeatedly to describe the mindset within the culture of the US State Department.[33]
The State Department's training for newly appointed ambassadors warns of the danger of clientitis,[34] and the Department rotates FSOs every 2–3 years to avoid it.[35] During the Nixon administration the State Department's Global Outlook Program (GLOP) attempted to combat clientitis by transferring FSOs to regions outside their area of specialization.[31][36]
Robert D. Kaplan writes that the problem "became particularly prevalent" among American diplomats in the Middle East because the investment of time needed to learn Arabic and the large number of diplomatic postings where it was spoken meant diplomats could spend their entire career in a single region.[30]
Foreign Service career system
The Foreign Service personnel system is part of the Excepted Service and both generalist and specialist positions are competitively promoted through comparison of performance in annual sessions of Selection Boards.[37] Each foreign affairs agency establishes time-in-class (TIC) and time-in-service (TIS) rules for certain categories of personnel in accordance with the provisions of the Foreign Service Act. This may include a maximum of 27 years of commissioned service if a member is not promoted into the Senior Foreign Service, and a maximum of 15 years of service in any single grade prior to promotion into the Senior Foreign Service. Furthermore, Selection Boards may recommend members not only for promotions, but for selection out of the service due to failure to perform at the standard set by those members' peers in the same grade. The TIC rules do not apply to office management specialists, medical specialists, and several other categories but most members of the Foreign Service are subject to an "up or out" system similar to that of military officers.[38]
This system stimulates members to perform well, and to accept difficult and hazardous assignments.[39]
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↑ "General Information - Our Employees at Work". U.S. Department of State. Archived from the original on August 31, 2010. Retrieved September 3, 2010.
↑ Kopp and Gillespie, Career Diplomacy, pp. 3-4
↑ "What is the American Foreign Service Association?". Retrieved February 6, 2010.
↑ "22 U.S. Code § 3928 - Director General of Foreign Service". Cornell Law School. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
1 2 "Directors General of the Foreign Service". U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. December 22, 2014. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
↑ "Assistant Secretaries and Equivalent Rank". U.S. Department of State. January 20, 2009. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
↑ "Department Organization Chart". U.S. Department of State. March 2014. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
↑ "Ambassador Arnold Chacon Sworn in as Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Human Resources". U.S. Department of State. December 24, 2014. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
↑ "Curtis, Lucile Atcherson, 1894-1986. Papers of Lucile Atcherson Curtis, 1863-1986 (inclusive), 1917-1927 (bulk): A Finding Aid". harvard.edu. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
↑ "The Text Message » An Archives Filled with Firsts". Blogs.archives.gov. September 9, 2013. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
↑ "A Woman of the Times". Nytimes.com. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
↑ Evans, Alona E. (April 1948). "The Reorganization of the American Foreign Service". International Affairs, vol. 24/2, pp. 206-217.
↑ Foreign Service Act of 1980, Section 210.
↑ Foreign Service Act
↑ Foreign Service Personnel Management Manual
↑ See for example 15 FAM 235.2, which specifically refers to the foreign affairs agencies as "each Foreign Affairs Agency (U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Foreign Agriculture [sic] Service of the Department of Agriculture (FAS), and U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service of the Department of Commerce (US&FCS)) and the U.S. Defense representative."
↑ "Diplomacy Post-9/11: Life in the U.S. Foreign Service". Retrieved September 26, 2011.
1 2 "Becoming a Foreign Service Officer". ACT's Activity Publication. Spring 2009. Retrieved June 16, 2009. "Only about 25 to 30 percent of candidates pass the initial examination and screening and move onto the oral assessment phase"
↑ "U.S. Department of State Careers". United States State Department. Archived from the original on January 6, 2005. "There is no set percentage that pass. The "passing score" depends on hiring needs."
↑ Mathews, Jennings. "Foreign Service Officer Test Passing Rate". FSOT Prep. FSOT Prep. Retrieved January 3, 2016.
↑ "Taylor v. Rice". Retrieved April 12, 2013.
1 2 http://pacer.cadc.uscourts.gov/docs/common/opinions/200606/05-5257a.pdf
↑ Inside a U.S. Embassy. American Foreign Service Association. 2005. ISBN 0-9649488-2-6.
↑ "L.A. Now". Los Angeles Times. January 19, 2010.
↑ STATE DEPARTMENT CONSULAR OFFICER PLEADS GUILTY TO VISA FRAUD. United States Department of Justice. May 31, 2009.
↑ Dorman, Shawn (January 2008). "Iraq "Prime Candidate" Exercise Cancelled" (PDF). AFSANEWS. American Foreign Service Association. p. 1. Retrieved March 2, 2008.
↑ "Family Liaison Office". www.state.gov. United States Department of State. Retrieved March 2, 2008.
↑ "The Carter Years". Behind the disappearances: Argentina's dirty war against human rights and the United Nations. University of Pennsylvania Press. 1990. p. 156. ISBN 0812213130. Retrieved May 8, 2013.
↑ Timothy J. Lynch (2004). Turf War: The Clinton Administration And Northern Ireland. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 87. ISBN 0754642941. Retrieved May 8, 2013.
1 2 Robert D. Kaplan (1995). "The Arabists". Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite. Simon and Schuster. p. 122. ISBN 1439108706. Retrieved May 8, 2013.
1 2 Meyer, Armin (2003). Quiet diplomacy: from Cairo to Tokyo in the twilight of imperialism. iUniverse. p. 158.
↑ Freeman, Charles W. (1994). Diplomat's Dictionary. Diane Publishing. p. 58.
↑ The American Spectator online, from November 6, 2007, review by Phillip Klein of John Bolton's book: Surrender Is Not An Option, http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=12270
↑ Vera Blinken; Donald Blinken (2009). Vera and the ambassador: Escape and Return. SUNY Press. p. 58. ISBN 1438426887. Retrieved May 8, 2013.
↑ Eizenstat, Stuart E. "Debating U.S. Diplomacy." Foreign Policy, No. 138 (Sep. - Oct. 2003), p. 84
↑ Kennedy, Charles Stuart (July 18, 2003). "Interview with Ambassador Charles E. Marthinsen". Foreign Affairs Oral History Project (2004). The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training.
↑ Careers
↑ Kopp and Gillespie, Career Diplomacy, pp. 135-137
↑ ibid., pp. 138-139
Kopp, Harry W.; Charles A. Gillespie (2008). Career Diplomacy: Life and Work in the U.S. Foreign Service. Washington: Georgetown University Press. p. 266. ISBN 978-1-58901-219-6.
American Foreign Service Association; Dorman, Shawn (2003). Inside a U.S. embassy: how the foreign service works for America (2nd ed.). Washington, DC: American Foreign Service Association. ISBN 0964948826.
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Q&A With El Ten Eleven's Kristian Dunn
Photo by Michael Klayman: Kristian Dunn of El Ten Eleven playing his double-necked bass. The band will be playing March 11 at JR's Lightbulb Club in Fayetteville.
Q I'm really curious, how did you two get into looping music and the electronic scene?
A I don't think we are a part of the electronic scene, or any scene for that matter (no one will have us!) but we got turned on to looping via Jon Brion. He was doing it a long time ago … brilliantly.
Q Can you recall that moment when the sound came together, and you said, "Yeah, this is it. This is OURS."
A The very first band practice!
Q What is that like for you guys on stage? Playing double-neck bass and guitar, fretless bass, keyboards, drums, recording, pedaling, looping. Is it a choreographed routine?
A There are no keyboards (people get mixed up about that, I think, because of the My Only Swerving video, in which Tim plays a bass line with a keyboard whilst playing the drums. But we abandoned that a long time ago. Now he plays that bass line with drum pads. But ANYWAY …) but it's a lot of work onstage. We watch other bands that play with tracks, or just do the normal bass, drums, guitar type of thing and think, "That is so easy!"
Q With so much going on, how do you recover from mistakes during a live show? (By now I'm sure you're seasoned professionals, but at one time, you had to make mistakes, right?)
A We used to get really flustered, sometimes having to totally restart a song. Occasionally we still do, but usually we cover mistakes up without anyone (hopefully) noticing. Let us know if you catch any mistakes!
Q I heard you are writing a book. (Go English majors!) Tell me more.
A Yes, I'm about halfway through, and it's quite difficult. Obviously, the process isn't as natural to me as writing music, but I'm plowing through it. The problem is that I want it to be good, so I keep having to revise. I have a feeling I'll eventually release it even though I don't think it's quite good enough, just because I've got to stop at some point (the El Ten Eleven records come out this way, too). I really would like to be like George Lucas: the way he keeps redoing his Star Wars movies but, let's face it, that's kind of lame.
Q The new album, Transitions, can we expect to hear some of this during your show at JR's?
A Yes …
Q SXSW! What is your favorite thing about it?
A The unexpected. Last time we wandered into a restaurant one morning to get some breakfast and Judy Collins was playing! And she killed. I mean just killed. Here's this 70-something woman up there with an acoustic guitar and she just blew away all the dumb indie rock bands playing at SXSW. It really proved to me what little talent most of these bands actually have. But anyway, that kind of thing is what's great about SXSW.
Q It's such a dynamic event, do you guys get a chance to meet other bands or listen to new things while you're there? Or is it just work,work, work?
A Well, we are meeting people while we work, which is part of why it's cool.
Q What is your favorite thing to do when you're not on the road or working on music?
A Fly helicopters, play with my 5-month-old daughter, ski and surf. I don't do them all at the same time, but I'm working on that.
Q OK, last question. What do you consider to be your most rockstar quality?
A My insistence on a hotel every night. No couches!


Ante Pavelic was the leader of the fascist party of Croatia (the Ustase), who, on Adolf Hitler's instruction, became the leader of Croatia after the Nazi invasion of 1941. Pavelic was an extreme Croatian nationalist who believed that the Serbian people were an inferior race - he would preside over a genocide that ultimately killed an estimated 390,000 Serbs during World War II. Croatia under Ante Pavelic provides the full history of this period, with a special focus on the United States' role in the post-war settlement.
Drawing on previously unpublished documents, Robert McCormick argues that President Harry S. Truman's Cold War priorities meant that Pavelic was never made to answer for his crimes. Today, the Ustase remains difficult legacy within Croatian society, partly as a result of Pavelic' political life in exile in South America.
This is a new account of US foreign policy towards one of the Second World War's most brutal dictators and is an essential contribution to Croatian war-time history.


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Inglewood Hostage Standoff Suspect Identified
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department identified the suspect from the Inglewood hostage standoff on Thursday, November 28, 2013. The suspect, 45-year-old Christopher Warsaw, shot two Inglewood police officers and was arrested late Wednesday night after an approximately nine-hour standoff. According to officials, the incident began around 12:35 p.m. when Inglewood police responded to a domestic violence call at a home in the 10700 block of South 5th Avenue, near 108th Street. When police arrived, Warsaw opened fire on the officers and barricaded himself inside the home with two hostages, believed to be his girlfriend and teenage daughter.
The male officer was struck in his bulletproof vest and suffered blunt force trauma injuries. He was admitted to Centinela Hospital, transferred to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, and is currently in stable condition. "He seems to be doing fine, he's talking," said James Madia, Inglewood Police Captain. "Fortunately, for all involved, they came out of it relatively okay," he stated. The female officer fell while attempting to protect her partner and suffered minor injuries, but has since been released from the hospital. As stated by Lt. Oscar Mejia of the Inglewood Police Department, both were ten-year veterans of the department. The officers' names were also not released to the public.
Later, a SWAT team responded to the scene. Warsaw eventually released the hostages after hours of negotiation and surrendered to authorities at approximately 9:15 p.m. "I guess the negotiator built enough trust with the suspect, who felt he would be fairly treated and safely taken into custody," said Lt. Dave Dolson of the Sheriff's Homicide Bureau.
Warsaw was booked on attempted murder charges and is being held on $1 million bail at the South Los Angeles Station. No booking photo was released and Warsaw is due in court on Monday at 8:30 a.m.
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Facebook announced a Partnership with Ray-Ban in Delivering Cool Smartglasses in 2021. Well kind of, that is …
A Major Patent Update Indicates that Apple has Prepared Apple Pencil to work with their Calendar App on iPhone & iPad
An OLED Licensor in Ireland who has Sued Samsung & LG, now claims that Apple has Infringed their acquired Casio Computer patent
Apple has been sued by an Irish Company based out of Dublin by the name Solas OLED Ltd. for patent infringement. Solas was only formed four years ago and position themselves as owner and licensor of technology focused on the OLED market from the smallest OLED watch display to the largest OLED TV.
The company, that only has 5 shareholders, appears to be nothing more than a patent troll. They're on record having sued Google, LG and Samsung. They're now suing Apple with patent 7,868,880 that they "acquired" from Casio Computer Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) solely for the purpose of suing tech companies with deep pockets.
The patent was granted in 2011, five years before Solas OLED even existed, titled "Display Apparatus and drive control method thereof." You could review it here.
The company claims that Apple Watch 3, Apple Watch 4, and Apple Watch 5 directly infringe, literally and/or under the doctrine of equivalents, at least claims 2-40 of the '880 Patent.
For more details, read the Plaintiff's full complaint filed with the court in the SCRIBD document below, courtesy of Patently Apple.
Solas OLED v Apple - Patent... by Jack Purcher
For the record, Apple, Google, Intel and Cisco filed a complaint in a California Court against the Director of the U.S. Patent Office earlier this month for allowing patent trolls to bring cases based on invalid claims to court which is costing big technology companies billions every year.
The complaint noted that "IPR was a centerpiece of Congress's efforts to strengthen the U.S. patent system in the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act ("AIA") of 2011.
Congress accordingly created IPR to provide a more efficient and streamlined administrative alternative to litigation for determining patentability before specialized patent judges. IPR has served to enhance the U.S. patent system and strengthen U.S. technology and innovation by weeding out thousands of invalid patent claims."
It's patent infringement cases like the one filed by Solas OLED against Apple that the law was intended to stop.
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Community values.
At OpenCorp we value the diversity of the Australian community and the friendships we all share and feel. Never before has this been more important.
We believe that to make this sense of community last we must help our children carry it on. This is why we are major partners of the SMJFL, offering community fund sponsorship to support junior sport and foster positive relationships between financial education and team spirit.
As kids, we all learnt how being involved in local sports fosters connections within the community.
Now as adults we want to ensure more Australian kids play and stay engaged in a wide range of sports for the benefit of everyone.
We are proud to make a difference to our youth and the future of our community.
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Money smarts workshops
The money smarts workshop is about giving young people and sporting professionals the "Smarts" about money.
Drawn from the personal life experience of our founder Cam McLellan, this workshop fills a critical void in financial education for young people and sporting professionals.
As a start-up franchise, situated in the heartland of Australian basketball, the South East Melbourne Phoenix set out to build a professional NBL club with a strong community focus. We wanted to create a club for hard-working families and passionate basketball fans to align with and feel a strong sense of belonging and connection.
Our partnership with OpenCorp is strongly based around our core community values and helping people to achieve their financial goals. The team at OpenCorp place a large emphasis on education and their free online seminars have been a great way to get our fans started on their property investment journey.
Their support as an inaugural sponsor of the South East Melbourne Phoenix has been invaluable and ensures we can continue to deliver high-quality programs to Australia's Basketball Heartland in the South East.
Anoop Singh, Chief Commercial Officer
FC Bulleen Lions (FCBL) is very proud to be partnering with OpenCorp for the 2020 and 2021 seasons. FCBL do not partner with just anyone but in OpenCorp we saw an organisation with good values that wanted to give back to the community.
OpenCorp's approach to property investment education has been really appreciated by our members because they are able to access wealth creation information and education through a variety of mediums (i.e. seminars, webinars, books, etc.) when and how they wanted to receive it. This property investment education, delivered by experts in the field, is invaluable to our families who are being shown how to embark on a path of wealth creation that will improve their, their children and the children's lives.
From a financial support perspective, FCBL cannot thank OpenCorp enough for its contribution that will greatly assist FCBL deliver a quality football (soccer) experience to our young players. The sponsorship donation from OpenCorp will enable the club to not only purchase new equipment, apparel and enhance facilities but we will also use some of these funds to subsidise the registration fees of players who are less fortunate and would not be able to play without this assistance.
Again, we thank OpenCorp for their support, especially during these challenging times of COVID-19, and hope this is the beginning of a long and prosperous relationship.
David Del Monaco, Chairman FC Bulleen Lions
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These physicians have been on the job for several years, and evidence is mounting that they are one of the HMO industry's real success stories.
Occasionally an important and successful idea about managing care comes along. Stakeholders, including health plans, hospitals, and physician groups test the idea's viability, investing money and staff time in it and hoping to control costs and improve outcomes. Such is the case with hospitalists — physicians who manage inpatient services. Hospitals that use them have cut average costs and average length of stay (ALOS) by 13.4 percent and 16.6 percent respectively, according to an article by Robert Wachter, MD, and Lee Goldman, MD, in the Jan. 23, 2002, Journal of the American Medical Association.
Wachter, associate chairman of the University of California–San Francisco's department of medicine, is past president of the National Association of Inpatient Physicians (NAIP), a trade association for hospitalists, and chairman of the NAIP's National Advisory Board. He coined the term "hospitalist" in 1996. The theory underlying the hospitalist movement is that being at the hospital full time allows physicians to pursue process improvements that use tests and treatments judiciously, and to develop clinical pathways that shorten stays and improve outcomes. The NAIP estimates that there are 5,000 practicing hospitalists, of whom 55 percent are internists, 35 percent internal medicine subspecialists, 5 percent family practitioners, and 4 percent pediatricians.
Although the term hospitalist is only six years old, innovative physicians for years have been figuring out how to organize and expedite the many tests, procedures, and standing orders that constitute inpatient care.
Minneapolis-based HealthPartners, a mixed-model HMO with 700,000 members and 50 medical groups, has had physicians managing inpatient services for 17 years. One HealthPartners Medical Group physician, Rusty Holman, MD, was named Hospitalist of the Year 2001 by NAIP. According to Gail Amundson, MD, HealthPartners' associate medical director, hospitalists are a natural fit for a model of a salaried staff paid by provider groups. "All of our doctors are attentive to productivity, and the hospitalists, who are internists, renal, pulmonary specialists and others, work on that model. They systematically improve care by removing the causes of variances," says Amundson.
HealthPartners hospitalists strive for continued process improvement. They've adopted a number of clinical pathways for conditions, such as pneumonia, CHF, pain management, abdominal surgery, and hysterectomy. They use published guidelines as well; working with case-review nurses, hospitalists in some groups have driven bed days down to 125 per 100,000 patients, versus 140 to 170 per 100,000. Hospitalists help develop pathways for use within their hospitals, seeking consensus before implementation. And hospitalists detect and respond to variability quickly; if a patient is on a three-day pathway, "falls off the pathway," and has to stay five days because of medical necessity, that's OK, too. "Having hospitalists means that progressive leaders are in charge of inpatient care," says Amundson.
Hospitalists also are an integral part of Downey, Calif.-based CareMore Medical Group, a full-risk physician organization with 85,000 members, 500 doctors, and 31 offices in Los Angeles and Orange counties. Donald Furman, MD, CareMore's director of medical affairs, explains that the organization has had hospitalists since 1993 as part of a comprehensive approach to treatment of the frail elderly .
A typical case: the hospitalist manages the case of an elderly woman with coronary artery disease, CHF, COPD, and adult-onset diabetes while she is in the hospital. The hospitalist also plans for her care after she has been discharged and returns to her apartment.
A team headed by a hospitalist and including a case manager, clinical pharmacist, and social worker "covers all the bases, from the hospital, to a skilled nursing facility, and then home," says Furman. The hospitalist also works with the patient's cardiologist and primary care physician, has the pharmacist re-review all medication, and phones the patient's daughter to give her an update on her mother's condition.
With the social worker, the hospitalist arranges for a housekeeper, coordinates transportation for medical visits, and makes sure the patient has a scale and someone to call the doctor if she gains more than 2 pounds (a CHF alert). The hospitalist might also make a home visit after hospital or SNF discharge, releasing the patient back to her primary care doctor when all systems are "go" at home.
The eight CareMore hospitalists have brought inpatient ALOS down to 2.8 days, versus 5.3 for the average Medicare stay, and have a 20-percent lower readmission rate. They have created proprietary guidelines for CHF, COPD, hip fracture, chest pain and stroke, studying published CPGs to incorporate elements that might improve care. "Being a hospitalists is one of the toughest but most thrilling and rewarding jobs in medicine," says Furman. "It's very cutting edge, life and death every day." Financially, he says, "We're thriving on Medicare managed care, our hospitalists share in the bounty of our medical group, and we love to take risk because we can handle it."
Some programs start with one physician especially skilled at managing inpatient care. In 1983, administrators of an academic pediatric practice at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta's Egleston campus recruited Joseph Snitzer, MD, from private practice to manage inpatient care. Corinne Taylor, MD, medical director of that facility, says, "He is such a fabulous clinician that doctors began admitting to him rather than just asking his advice. The service has grown for almost all general pediatric admissions and most complex coordination-of-care patients." The pediatric hospitalists contend with a variety of diagnoses. "The combination of constant availability and coordination of care definitely improves outcomes and reduces cost and length of stay," adds Taylor.
Hospitalist programs have gone beyond the big-city medical centers and physician groups where one expects to find them. Pitt County Memorial Hospital in rural eastern North Carolina saw ALOS and charges drop by 35 percent five months after implementing a hospitalist program in late 2001.
Clyde Brooks, MD, Pitt County's hospitalist program medical director, said the five hospitalists and a nurse practitioner relieved the burden of 23 primary care physicians who asked for hospitalists to manage their hospitalized patients. "All of the primary care physicians in our rural area are volume-stressed," explains Brooks. "Getting there for morning rounds and back later to discharge patients in the afternoon was difficult."
East Carolina University's Brody School of Medicine, Pitt County's medical school, employs three of the hospitalists, while two are paid by the local physician groups. "We are paying a market salary of $150,000, which the hospitalist billings would not cover," says Brooks. "We're willing to subsidize the hospitalists because of the huge savings in charges and length of stay they have accomplished." PCMH budgeted $951,000 for the program in 2001–2002, and is on track to recoup that and more.
As to the effects on the referring physicians' bottom line, by giving up hospital visits they surrendered an average of $25,000 in annual fees, far less than the $75,000 earned from more office visits. Clinically, the hospitalists have adopted clinical pathways for chest pain, unstable angina, CHF, COPD, diabetes, acute infection, pneumonia, GI bleeding, and stroke. They've improved discharge coordination with the referring primary care physicians and tightened ties with home health agencies and visiting nurses. The referring primary care physicians, Brooks says, are "thrilled and overjoyed. They have extended office hours and are generating much more outpatient volume." Patients are happier, too, not having to spend an unnecessary night in the hospital because their doctors couldn't get there in the afternoon to discharge them.
At Baptist Hospital in Pensacola, Fla., the hospitalist program begun in 2001 showed similar results. Baptist Hospital outsourced its program to Cogent Healthcare of Laguna Hills, Calif. Within a few months ALOS for patients managed by hospitalists was 1.3 days less than for other patients; cost for an episode of care dropped $1,100. Readmission rates were 6 percent after 30 days, compared with an overall hospital rate of 11 percent.
While hospitalists are proving their worth, there are some unanswered questions. The American Medical Association takes a cautious approach. Its policy statement says that making a hospitalist the physician of record must be voluntary and based on consent of the patient and his or her personal physician. "The AMA opposes any hospitalist model that disrupts the patient/physician relationship or the continuity of patient care and jeopardizes the integrity of inpatient privileges of attending physicians," says AMA spokesman Robert Mills.
In their recent JAMA article, Wachter and Goldman reported that although programs brought about significant reductions in hospital costs and ALOS, evidence on reductions in inpatient mortality and readmission rates was inconsistent.
Cogent's chief medical officer, Ronald Greeno, MD, counters, "If hospitalists go away, the length of stay and cost numbers will go back up. Perhaps you can't improve things dramatically after the initial impact, but you can continue to maximize efficiency and keep redefining what works."
In addition to serving their employer's interests, hospitalists may provide care to the uninsured. Because hospitals provided $21.6 billion in uncompensated care in 2000, according to Families USA, some are turning to hospitalists to ease the crunch. Applying their expertise at getting tests and procedures done quickly in the ED and in med-surg units and acting as primary care physicians and post-discharge coordinators, hospitalists are adding efficiencies where every dollar counts. In tough economic times, adding salaried physicians to hospital and health plan payrolls may seem risky, but hospitalists, with their close attention to process improvement and evidence-based medicine, are delivering on their early promises.
Marlene Piturro, PhD, MBA, is a free-lance writer in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. She writes frequently about managed care issues.


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Simply Proust
Great Lives, Book 24
By: Jack Jordan
Narrated by: Caroline Holmes
Series: Great Lives
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Art & Literature
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was born in Paris during a time of great social and political upheaval, a ferment that is dealt with extensively in his monumental work In Search of Lost Time. He was a sickly child and spent the earlier part of his short life pursuing a variety of sometimes frivolous activities, which led to his not being taken seriously as a writer. It was not until 1909, when he was 38 years old, that he began work on the groundbreaking novel for which he is known, a task that consumed the rest of his life.
In Simply Proust, Professor Jack Louis Jordan presents an incisive, yet thoroughly accessible, introduction to Proust's landmark work, helping the listener to fully appreciate the scope of the author's achievement, as well as the fascinating process that underlay its creation. Emphasizing the fundamental role of psychology and the unconscious, Jordan shows how Proust's methodology and our understanding of his novel are connected, and how this makes for a unique and endlessly revealing literary experience.
At once philosophical, psychological, and deeply human, Simply Proust offers an invaluable entry point into a masterpiece of world literature and takes the measure of the flawed and brilliant man who transformed the material of his life into a transcendent work of art.
©2020 Jack Jordan (P)2021 Simply Charly
Authors Literary History & Criticism European
"Simply Proust pulls off with ease the arduous task of making Marcel Proust's masterwork accessible, without sacrificing none of the complexity that makes it one of the most important novels of the 20th Century. To do this, Jack Jordan vividly paints vast the cultural, scientific, and philosophical background that fed In Search of Lost Time. Armed with this knowledge, both new and repeat readers are bound to gain fresh insights into the brilliance of Proust's novel." (Hervé G. Picherit, Associate Professor of French, University of Texas at Austin)
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About two years ago, I made the decision to bring on a fabulous group of contributors to La Dolce Vita. I am so thankful to our amazing group of contributors for taking the time to craft original content and sharing their voices on LDV. Though this time around, I had an open call for contributors, ultimately, every contributor on La Dolce Vita has been personally hand-picked by me for their style and unique point of view.
Moving forward, Arianna, Nancy, Brendan, and Erika will continue bring us their fabulous columns. Joining these talented ladies will be a new group of contributors whose style is perfectly in line with what you've come to expect from La Dolce Vita. They will be developing insightful, chic posts filled with visual inspiration and helpful advice. Each contributors' series will appear on the blog every 4-6 weeks on Wednesdays and Thursdays. I am thrilled to welcome this talented group to La Dolce Vita as we have some very exciting things in store for you. Please join me in welcoming this talented new roster of contributors!
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Seems like such a wonderful and inspiring group of women! Kind of kicking myself for not applying. Why did I not get online that day:( Looking forward to read and hear more from them!


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Sanyasa Term
Upa Parva
Term Generic
Food Item
Philosophy Term
Knowledge Body
Verse Metre
Ritual Term
Pitri
Other World
Battle Term
Battle Array
Constallation
Conchshell
Horsetribe
Tribe Generic
Tribe Exotic
Tribe Sage
Yavana
Vidura
Sudra
Brahmana
Satyaki
Kritavarma
Kaurava
Yuyutsu
Duhsasana
Duryodhana
Pandavas Wife
Draupadeya
Ghatotkacha
Pandavas Son
Pandava
Skandas Men
Viswadeva
Vanara
Suparna
Gandharva
King Aila
Created by Jijith Nadumuri at 14 Feb 2010 13:23 and updated at 14 Feb 2010 18:24
Related topic: Origins of Aila Kings.
The epic Mahabharata mentions Ila as a women, as a king and as a river. Hence, there is reason to speculate that Ila was a tribe name, originally inhabiting the regions of river Ila. Below is the list of Aila kings. I am yet to categorize them as the Ailas, the Purus, the Bharatas and the Kurus. Some researches do not consider Aila-Puru-Bharata-Kuru lineage as a continuous lineage starting from Aila and ending in Kuru. Some tent to consider them as allied tribes and some others as contemporary tribes and yet others change the chronological order of the above mentioned sequence.
I tent to consider them as a continuous lineage starting from Aila and ending in Kuru as described in Mahabharata until I fully analyze the data available against this view.
Lists: Alphabetical Noun List, Leaf Catagories, Higher Level Categories
Total Occurrences Name Occurrences in the 18 Books of Mahabharata
1 Adhiraja 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Ahayanti 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
17 Ajamida 3 4 1 1 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
5 Ajamida's 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
9 Ajamidha 5 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Ajamidha's 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
1 Ajamila 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
1 Akrodhana 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Anadhrishti 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Anadhristi 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Anaswan 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Arihan 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Aswamedhadatta 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Avachina 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 Avikshit 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 7 0 0 0 0
1 Avikshita 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
1 Avikshita's 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
1 Avikshit's 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Ayu 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 0
9 Ayus 5 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Ayusha 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Ayutanayi 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Bhangakara 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Bhavishyanta 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Bhumanyu 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
24 Chaitraratha 21 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Chakravarti 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
16 Devapi 4 0 0 0 7 0 0 1 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Devatithi 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Dharmanetra 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Dharmeyu 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Diviratha 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Diviratha's 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Drahyu 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Druhyu 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
41 Dushmanta 37 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0
1 Dushmantas 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
4 Dushmanta's 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
1 Dushyanta 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Ha 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Hasti 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Havihsravas 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 Ila 4 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0
4 Ilina 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Indrabha 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
26 Indrasena 1 2 16 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Indrasena's 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Jahnu 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0
4 Jala 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
1 Jaleyu 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Janemejaya 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Jitari 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Kakshasena 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0
1 Kaksreyu 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Kaudraswa 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Kichika 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Kundika 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Mahabhauma 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Mahan 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 0
2 Manasyu 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Matinara 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Padati 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Panda 0 0 0 0 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
1913 Pandu 224 137 249 97 181 188 296 213 102 13 17 69 25 51 33 8 4 6
5 Parameshthin 2 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Parameshthi's 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
62 Parikshit 36 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 4 1 3 2 0 4 0
2 Parikshita 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
2 Prachinwat 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Prasenajit 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
27 Pratipa 14 2 0 0 9 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
1 Pratipas 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Pratipa's 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Pratisravas 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Pravasu 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Pravira 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
66 Puru 43 5 3 1 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 3 4 0 0 0 0 0
1 Purumidha 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
27 Pururavas 8 1 3 0 2 0 2 1 0 0 0 5 5 0 0 0 0 0
17 Puru's 10 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Raudraswa 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Richeyu 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Riksha 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Rikshas 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
1 Riksha's 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Rupina 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Sahana 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Sakta 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
32 Salmali 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 23 0 1 0 0 0 1
32 Samvarana 31 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
1 Sannateyu 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
220 Santanu 87 5 5 9 26 65 2 0 1 0 0 3 12 1 3 0 0 1
85 Santanu's 4 0 0 4 16 43 3 0 3 0 0 4 5 3 0 0 0 0
3 Sarvabhauma 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Sarvadamana 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Satyeyu 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Savalaswa 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Shantanu 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Shantanus 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Shantanu's 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
118 Somadatta 4 6 4 0 18 13 54 2 4 1 5 0 0 0 7 0 0 0
41 Somadatta's 0 0 0 0 3 12 25 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Sthandileyu 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Suhavih 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
17 Suhotra 8 0 2 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Suhotri 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Sujeya 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Sumidha 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Sunetra 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Tansu 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Tansu's 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Tejeyu 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Uchaihsravas 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
19 Uparichara 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Vagmi 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Vaneyu 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Vasati 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Viduratha 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1 Viduratha's 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Vikunthana 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Viraja 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
1 Vitarka 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Vrikeyu 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 Yati 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 7 0 0 0 0
188 Yayati 102 3 15 1 31 2 8 1 3 0 0 12 9 1 0 0 0 0
4 Yayati's 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0


Here's to celebrating your body unapologetically! Fat, fluffy, thicc, curvy, plump, plus size...whatever you call it just make sure you call yourself beautiful. Queen G is wants you to embrace the skin that you're in, and encourage others to do the same.


The property has recorded legal access via designated road. The property is leveled, and the elevation approximately 7,670′. There is no maintenance or association fees.
GPS Coordinates presented here are based upon the best date we have accumulated, but are not exact. The information is for the purpose of locating your property only. Prior to building a fence or any structure on your land, you should contact a Colorado licensed surveyor to mark the exact corners of your property.
A beautiful lot in Sports Valley Estates of the San Luis Valley of Southern Colorado with beautiful views of the mountains in Colorado and New Mexico. Mountains surround the area in all directions only a few miles from the tract, providing wonderful views from this flat piece of property.
Costilla County is located in the San Luis Valley of south central Colorado. The county stretches from the Rio Grande to the top of Blanca Peak, east along the Sierra Grande and south along the spine of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains to New Mexico.
Costilla County is the ninth least populous of the 64 counties of the State of Colorado. The county population was 3,663 at U.S. Census 2000. The county seat is San Luis, the oldest town in Colorado.
San Luis, the county seat of Costilla County, is located on Colorado Highway 159 in the San Luis Valley of southern Colorado, about 35 miles southeast of Alamosa. A picturesque little town, it lies at the mouth of the valley of the Ventero, at the foot of Culebra Peak.
County Land area: 1227 sq. mi.
County Water area: 3.3 sq. mi.
Industries providing employment: Educational, health and social services (22.4%), Construction (11.7%), Public administration (11.1%), Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, and mining (10.6%).
Costilla County offers a variety of outdoor recreation choices such as hiking, horse riding, bike riding and 4X4.


UPDATE: The Economic Development Committee has set to hears to accept public comment on April 29. The first hearing will urn from 7:45 a.m. to 9 a.m. and the second period from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- The first-draft of an online and printed survey seeking ideas from town residents was unveiled and discussed on Tuesday night by six members of the Williamstown Economic Development Committtee. The group, at a meeting, reviewed the draft presented by member Andy Hogeland (and authored by the group) and agreed to provide comments and suggests by Friday, Feb. 20, after which Hogeland will develop a second, potentially final draft.
Tentatively, the board is considering including the printed survey along with an official mailing from town in May related to property taxes. However, citizens will be encouraged to complete it online using the commercial service "Survey Monkey" when it is final and made available by the committee.
A copy of the draft may be viewed and printed as a PDF document. Comments should be addressed to Hogeland at: ahogeland@williamstown.net.
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Joan Burns asked the Williamstown Economic Development Committee (WECD) on Tuesday night to consider supporting a plan she unveiled to develop four luxury apartments, a restaurant, grocery and pocket park on the a town-owned Water Street parcel that used to be the location of the town's municipal-equipment garage -- razed in the 1990s.
Burns is a longtime town resident who has participated in developing residential lots near Bee Hill Road. The WECD had scheduled in January a meeting to hear from three different proponents for projects at the old town-garage side, including Burns, but the meeting was deferred because of weather and will be rescheduled.
Six of the 12 WECD members present for Tuesday's meeting took no action on her proposal other than to receive (PDF) and and hear her discuss it for a few minutes. "I have been thinking about getting some plan like this together for the last 13 years," Burns said. She said she had worked with architect David Westall with an overall goal of trying to foster economic-development on Water Street. "The goal is to start the disussion of what to do with the site," she added.
"This is not an affordable-housing project," Burns wrote in her handout to the board. "It is an economic-development project, but it is more than that. It is a Williamstown project at a time when the town has substantially either lost or is about to lose Spring Street."
Burns provided the board with a color drawing of the plan (shown above) and a three-page narrative describing her intention. "For the moment, we can put aside what the college is planning to do except that we are not required to continue the use of a land lot for their parking," Burns wrote in her statement. "If the college wants to maintain parking there, they should contribute financially to this aspect of the plan."
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- This is a personal note from Greylock News blog owner Bill Densmore.
For those who believe that America's practice of democracy and governance of corporations has gone askew, what is to be done, and who is doing it? That question underlies the work of a new experiment called The Rules Change Project, at the borderlines of journalism and advocacy. I've been helping with the project for a couple of years.
"There is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud."
Fifty years later, things have changed. U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren often speaks about today's economic "rules of the game" as being "rigged against the little guy." Exactly which rules are rigged? And if so, what will it take to change them?
At the same time, legal scholars such as Lynn Stout are revisiting Friedman's now-assumed dictum, launched by Friedman, that the only purpose of a corporation is the maximize profits. In fact, Stout writes in her book, "The Shareholder Value Myth," there are equal values at stake – involving customers, employees, communities and the environment.
Please join me for a free, public, videotaped discussion, "Rules Change and the American Dream: A Dialog Among Generations," on Tues., March 3, at 7 p.m. in Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall at Williams College. The college's news release is linked from HERE.
We'll start by hearing -- via "Skype" -- Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times journalist and PBS-documentarian Hedrick Smith. For two years since the publication of his book, "Who Stole the American Dream," Smith has been crosscrossing America talking crowds large and small – in some prestigious locations – and he has gotten an earful of concern from those audiences. He'll set the scene for the Rules Change challenge – telling us why the public feels powerless. He'll lhave some suggestions for what to do about it, including 10 steps for reviving the American Dream.
Then Smith – a Williams College alumnus and ex-trustee – will dialogue with three graduating seniors to hear what they learned during a unique Winter Study project. Working with us at the Rules Change Project, they reviewed hundreds of stories and reports from several years about corporate governance, economics, equity, poverty, divestment, gerrymandering and influence. They were looking for examples of "Rules Changes giraffes" – people and institutions sticking their necks above the crowd to foster analysis an action that will make our participatory democracy more just and open.
The trio – Mitchell Prevot, Jack Atchue, and Tom Cabarle (pictured above, l-to-r) are profilng six "rules change giraffes" for the new Rules Change website. They'll share with Smith vignettes about those six people, and about how their work in January may have changed their life or career perspectives.
Finally we want to talk about the state of the American Dream. What does that mean to you, audience members? And how do we restore it, or reinvent it? We'll capture your thoughts on video, for possible inclusion a short documentary that will advance the Rules Change Project's reporting.
Besides showing up on March 3, if you're interested in a broader discussion about – or involvement in – the Rules Change Project, please email Bill Densmore.