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Comparing the Current Crop of Cop Capers to San Diego Police Scandals of the Past -Part 2
by Frank Gormlie on May 20, 2011 · 2 comments
in History, San Diego
This is the second in a series, and here's Part 1.
The Wilson Era Begins With Police Reform
Mayor Pete Wilson.
A few years later, during the early seventies, a new "centrist" Republican mayor – Pete Wilson, still wearing the mantle of an advocate for "controlled growth" -, made efforts to reform the police department. But he was up against old Chief Ray Hoobler, a veteran of the old school of hard knocks – literally. Hoobler, while not media or PR savvy, was notorious for using his brown-suits to clamp down on minorities, gays, Navy sailors, young people in general, and the growing population of hippies.
In 1975, Chief Hoobler was forced to retire because he was caught lying to the City Council. This worked for Pete Wilson as it then allowed him to appoint a community-policing "reformer" as chief – Bill Kolender.
Kolender, Jewish, college-educated, was a man of the 20th century. He knew how to present himself to the media, knew how to relate to the minority communities, and to those who wanted to push the city away from its boorish past. He remolded his department by embarking on "an ambitious program of professionalism and decentralization …." . He "offered reassurances to traumatized liberals and alienated academics that the police – for so long, mere bagmen and goons for Smith-Alessio – were now civilized guardians."[Mike Davis, "The Next Little Dollar", pg. 108.]
Commander Ray Hoobler, addressing a gathering of young people in Ocean Beach, during the "Labor Day Riot" of 1968.
Meanwhile, having been forced out as chief, Hoobler went to work as head of security for Atlas Hotels. In an unpublished 1976 study of the political-economics of prostitution in San Diego by a team of San Diego State University graduate students, working on their masters thesis, prostitutes / sex workers and police officials were interviewed. This team of grad students included our occasional blogger, Jon Christensen.
Capt. LaMonte, the head of the Vice Squad was interviewed by the team at that time and confirmed what many sex workers had told the researchers – that Atlas Hotels was the center piece of upscale prostitution in San Diego.
Security's job – which Hoobler oversaw, was, per the sex workers, to screen new applicants – as not every one was approved for working the hotel, and to keep things quiet should a customer get out of hand.
Capt LaMonte left the researchers with this quote: "All it takes for corruption to proliferate is for the cops, courts and prosecution to be bought off."
Question: "In your opinion is corrupt proliferating in San Diego?"
Answer: (Chuckle) "It certainly is."
The disturbing irony of why the study was never published can be traced to threats and intimidation against the study's subjects, the women who talked. One was hospitalized after being beaten up, and another had her car window shot out. Everyone was convinced that it was because they had "talked." Plus one of the grad students on the team was pulled into her boss' corporate utility office where she worked – a place totally unrelated to the study – and ordered to stop the research – even though she had never disclosed what she was doing in the study to her boss. Finally, the nail in the coffin came from the team's supervising professor, who declared the project over, as she said, one shouldn't have to risk their life doing theirs master thesis.
So, while Hoobler was overseeing the high-end trade, his replacement, Bill Kolender, spear headed an attack on massage parlors and El Cajon Boulevard street walkers. But he never went after the Mission Valley hotels – where everyone agreed was the center of activity.
Bill Kolender, Police Chief, and County Sheriff.
Yet, all this would pass. Kolender left the Chief's office under a cloud, as he had been accused of dismissing thousands of parking tickets given to influential "friends" of the Police Department. He later would undergo rehabilitation and become the elected County Sheriff, remaining in office until just very recently.
Mayor Wilson, meanwhile, with eyes for higher office, had metastasized into a right-wing racist. He made the transformation from reformer to law and order hard nose in order to establish the credentials he would need for his entry into the conservative world of California Republican Party politics. Wilson waged his infamous "war on crime" by using the police department – unleashing it upon minority neighborhoods. This was not a scandal, but it was scandalous the way Wilson pressured the police to carry out his ideological priorities for his own political gain.
The Unsolved Serial Killings of Prostitutes
As we continue to immerse ourselves in the modern era, other scandals involving San Diego police materialized. And they're not pretty.
One big scandal stemmed from a string of murders of prostitutes and other young women by a serial killer or killers that began in 1985. Over a five year period, there had been 43 murders and not one suspect had been found. The first and most famous murder was of Donna Gentile, a 22-year-old prostitute, who had been associated with cops on the Vice Squad, thought to have been a police informer, and who had been dating an officer. During an investigation of vice, she testified against officers. She was later found dead with her mouth stuffed full of gravel and rocks.
A 1987 Grand Jury report, in heavily criticizing the police in their later investigation into a ring of high-priced call girls, raised "serious questions about police misconduct, concluding among other things that some San Diego officers had hired prostitutes," so reported the New York Times.
The murders of the mainly young women continued into the early nineties, and they were not getting the attention they obviously deserved by police. At one point there were about fifty women who had been murdered, and officialdom was ignoring them. It was scandalous. It was one of the largest strings of serial killings in the United States, and a few cops were even accused of committing some of the killings.
Incidentally, Bonnie Dumanis, current County District Attorney and mayoral candidate for San Diego mayor, was a Deputy DA at the time of the murders and assigned to the Metropolitan Homicide Task Force charged with solving them.
The years passed and eventually the police made a couple of arrests. Dumanis then claimed that the cases were solved, and the whole affair became part of the City's history.
Then there was the 1987 "Rolodex Madam" scandal involving the arrest by police of Karen Wilkening. Despite a police investigation and research by the San Diego Union, somehow her list of high-class San Diego clientele never made it to the light of day. It is incredulous to think that there was no evidence of ties to high-powered or influential clients, but the lack of any publicity of who they were points to some kind of pressure on the police to not divulge the sordid details.
Shootings of Civilians by Police
By time the early to mid-nineties rolled around, another scandal had engulfed the department. This time it involved the fatal shootings by police of local citizens who were unarmed – or lightly "armed". In one year, about 8 or 9 people had been gunned down, way above average for the department. One man had a garden trowel, another had a tomato stake, one had a screw driver, local OBcian Tony Tummania had grabbed a cop's nun-chucks after being assaulted by two cops and was shot dead in a restaurant parking lot on West Point Loma, one guy was totally unarmed. All of them fatally killed. The San Diego community screamed for reforms, and this ushered in the use of non-lethal weapons and additional training for police officers.
These killings followed a general trend, as the San Diego Union-Tribune reported in 2003:
In the 12 years from 1990 through 2001, San Diego police shot 151 people. They killed 81 – more per capita than officers in 14 of the state's 20 largest police agencies, more than those in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacramento, according to a San Diego Union-Tribune analysis.
A decade later, there was another scandal involving fatal shootings by police – although this time homeless men with mental problems were being targeted and gunned down. Within a period of three years, 4 homeless men – most under severe mental distress or even illness – died at the hands of police. This included several in the Ocean Beach area. The most famous case was the shooting death of Daniel "Walking Man" Woodyard in February 2003 – in front of hundreds of OBcians.
Neither of these shooting scandals – the early nineties shootings or the homeless shootings this century – resulted in any police officer being fired or even reprimanded.
The Fall of Mayors
As we stated in Part 1, whatever is going on in San Diego's police department, reflects and represents whatever is going on within City Hall and the corporate high-rises that dot downtown.
No brief review of San Diego corruption would be complete without bringing up the whole Roger Hedgecock story. Hedgecock, a young, "environmentalist" Republican and former rock concert promoter, had captured a seat on the County Board of Supervisors. Then in the the early eighties he – and his partners, J. Dominelli, Nancy Hoover, and Tom Shepard, landed in the mayor's office. But the ponzi scheme that had lifted him out of obscurity into the highest offices of the region was exposed, and the entire deck of cards folded by 1985.
The collapse of Mayor Hedgecock highlights the fact, that while looking at police corruption, one cannot ignore that in today's light of day we find that five of the last 8 San Diego mayors left office under negative conditions – either after being indicted, under the cloud of suspicion, or found responsible for shady dealings that later were exposed. From Mayor Dail to Mayor Murphy, this pattern includes Dail, Curren, Hedgecock, Golding and then ol' Murph himself.
When the mayor is found to be a crook, the effect on the average San Diego citizen, working stiff, and police officer deserves attention that has never been examined. And when there are dirty dealings in the highest corporate and banking offices, the slime does run downhill and engulfs everyone. This effect cannot be underrated.
The Crimes and Misdemeanors of Ten Cops – Half Against Women
Topping off our brief purview of the major scandals of San Diego's police department, we turn to the inevitable comparison with today's crop of cop capers.
Of the ten – five, or half – had to do with assaults, rapes, or the harassment of women. One officer is accused of sexually assaulting five women while on duty and is facing 18 felonies. Another cop is accused of raping a college student, another of domestic violence against his wife, the most recent incident involves allegations of kidnapping and rape of a prostitute, and one officer is on administrative leave for stalking and harassing a fellow woman officer.
The victimization of women by men in police uniform has certainly landed on center stage. And it has broadly exposed the deep undercurrent of male chauvinism that permeates law enforcement. In an institution that has always enhanced, encouraged, and promoted aggression, machismo, control, and physical prowess, we cannot wonder why.
The popular conception that cops have always harassed women they stop, but now they're getting caught, does raise the question why now – why now are cops getting busted – especially while under the eyes of a District Attorney who has never reprimanded a law enforcement officer for shooting civilians?
Are women victims stepping forward more these days? Has there been a cultural change where the victims of rape and sexual assault no longer feel as penalized as they have been in the past? Are there enough women now in law enforcement on all levels who no longer will tolerate the male chauvinism of the past?
Besides these questions, we also ask – Does this current crop represent any trend or pattern within the department?
If it appears to be so, the ready answers are the economic stress, the low morale, the far-reaching territory that a small force has to cover (Norm Stamper's "under-policing"), the low pay, the lack of internal controls that ferreted out misconduct and criminal behavior before it exploded in the department's face, the sense that there has always been "bad cops".
Those who have had daily dealings with individual police officers know there are a lot of fine, honest people trying to do their best to protect and serve the citizenry. As long as citizens continue to hurt other citizens, we will need police. The hope is, of course, that instead of following the dictates of serving the elite rulers of the era, police will actually serve the communities they patrol. This is always the goal.
Does a Corrupt City Mean a Corrupt Police Department?
We've seen in this review how there have been periods in San Diego's history where either the entire department from the chief on down was corrupt (Chief Sears, Chief Sharpe), or there were entire squads or divisions on the take, such as the Vice Squad in the 1950s and sixties. And we've seen other scandalous conduct, such as the official avoidance for years by police of prioritizing the murders of dozens of women because many of them were thought to be prostitutes – less than human – and undeserving of the attention their cases needed.
Plus, we've touched on at least two periods in recent history, where police were aptly described as "gun-happy" in gunning down unarmed civilians, and then a series of fatal shootings of mentally-distressed homeless men.
The definitions of "scandal" and "corruption" are broad enough to encompass all of these waves of police "misconduct." There can be corruption per se – as when the police chief himself is collecting bribes from shady businessmen, or when the department is covering for the slick and slimy dealings of some of the ruling elite (Smith and the Alessios). Or there can be scandalous or corrupt policies or corrupt practices, such as the use of police to suppress minorities, unions, dissent in general, or the policy of ignoring one of the largest serial killings in American history, or in the fatal shootings of unarmed civilians and homeless.
Taken each individually, the latest crimes and misconduct of the ten cops do not rise to the level of these large scandals of the past.
This may be comforting. Yet, San Diego still has to deal with the myth of a usually-untarnished police department.
In a recent article, the San Diego Union-Tribune quoted Sgt. Jeff Jordon, a board member of the city's Police Officers Association, saying that the department has been historically well-mannered for the most part, and that this latest spate of misconduct has risen to a level unseen.
The LA Times even quoted Tony Young, City Council president and the only Black member of the Council as saying: "We have one of the finest police departments, if not the finest, in the country," while adding that the routine days of racial tension between his district and the police are over.
Councilmember Marti Emerald chairs the council committee that oversees the Police Department. She has hinted that she'll call a hearing to get to the bottom of what is contributing to all this police misconduct.
"We need to have an honest talk about what's happening over there," she said.
In order to have an "honest talk" and get to the bottom of any scandal or series of criminal misconduct by uniformed officers, we must understand the history of the subject, we must grok what has come before all of this. What has the record been in ol' San Diego and its police department? Unless this history is at least reviewed and even addressed and understood, we as a city and citizenry will never find out "what's happening over there."
And at the very least, this series has been a start.
annagrace May 20, 2011 at 6:08 pm
Frank, this was a troubling journey down memory lane. I wasn't here in the 60's, so I appreciate you providing historical context and talking about the power brokers of the time.
I moved into City Heights during the time period when those 43 women were murdered. They were a varied group racially and included transient women as well prostitutes. One of these women was found not far from my house. It was at that time that I heard the term NHI- no humans involved, a shorthand way for the police to refer to these women. There was a tremendous public push back against this blatant disregard for these womens' lives.
Minorities, women, the homeless, and people with mental problems are the recurring victims of police abuse. Marginalized segments of our society remain easy targets because their status too often permits the abuse of power with impunity- the NHI attitude. That is a serious problem which we need to face.
Wireless Mike May 21, 2011 at 2:46 pm
This is a good refresher for oldtimers and a good education for newcomers. The history of San Diego government is one scandal after another after another. There are many lingering questions about scandals in the past where justice was not served. To quote the title of Roger Hedgecock's book, "America's Finest City-If We Say It Enough, We'll Believe It".
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#define itkStatisticsLabelMapFilter_h

#include "itkShapeLabelMapFilter.h"

namespace itk
{
/**
 *\class StatisticsLabelMapFilter
 * \brief The valuator class for the StatisticsLabelObject
 *
 * StatisticsLabelMapFilter can be used to set the attributes values
 * of the StatisticsLabelObject in a LabelMap.
 *
 * \author Gaetan Lehmann. Biologie du Developpement et de la Reproduction, INRA de Jouy-en-Josas, France.
 *
 * This implementation was taken from the Insight Journal paper:
 * https://www.insight-journal.org/browse/publication/176
 *
 * \ingroup ImageEnhancement  MathematicalMorphologyImageFilters
 * \ingroup ITKLabelMap
 */
template <typename TImage, typename TFeatureImage>
class ITK_TEMPLATE_EXPORT StatisticsLabelMapFilter
  : public ShapeLabelMapFilter<TImage, Image<typename TImage::PixelType, TImage::ImageDimension>>
{
public:
  ITK_DISALLOW_COPY_AND_MOVE(StatisticsLabelMapFilter);

  /** Standard class type aliases. */
  using Self = StatisticsLabelMapFilter;
  using Superclass = ShapeLabelMapFilter<TImage>;
  using Pointer = SmartPointer<Self>;
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  using PixelType = typename ImageType::PixelType;
  using IndexType = typename ImageType::IndexType;
  using PointType = typename ImageType::PointType;
  using LabelObjectType = typename ImageType::LabelObjectType;
  using MatrixType = typename LabelObjectType::MatrixType;
  using VectorType = typename LabelObjectType::VectorType;

  using FeatureImageType = TFeatureImage;
  using FeatureImagePointer = typename FeatureImageType::Pointer;
  using FeatureImageConstPointer = typename FeatureImageType::ConstPointer;
  using FeatureImagePixelType = typename FeatureImageType::PixelType;

  /** ImageDimension constants */
  static constexpr unsigned int ImageDimension = TImage::ImageDimension;

  /** Standard New method. */
  itkNewMacro(Self);

  /** Runtime information support. */
  itkTypeMacro(StatisticsLabelMapFilter, ShapeLabelMapFilter);

#ifdef ITK_USE_CONCEPT_CHECKING
  // Begin concept checking
/*  itkConceptMacro(InputEqualityComparableCheck,
    (Concept::EqualityComparable<InputImagePixelType>));
  itkConceptMacro(IntConvertibleToInputCheck,
    (Concept::Convertible<int, InputImagePixelType>));
  itkConceptMacro(InputOStreamWritableCheck,
    (Concept::OStreamWritable<InputImagePixelType>));*/
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  /** Set the feature image */
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  SetFeatureImage(const TFeatureImage * input)
  {
    // Process object is not const-correct so the const casting is required.
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  GetFeatureImage()
  {
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  }

  /** Set the input image */
  void
  SetInput1(TImage * input)
  {
    this->SetInput(input);
  }

  /** Set the feature image */
  void
  SetInput2(const TFeatureImage * input)
  {
    this->SetFeatureImage(input);
  }

  /**
   * Set/Get whether the histogram should be attached to the label object or not.
   * This option defaults to `true`, but because the histogram may take a lot of memory
   * compared to the other attributes, this option is useful to reduce the memory usage
   * when the histogram is not required.
   */
  itkSetMacro(ComputeHistogram, bool);
  itkGetConstReferenceMacro(ComputeHistogram, bool);
  itkBooleanMacro(ComputeHistogram);

  /**
   * Set/Get the number of bins in the histogram. Note that the histogram is used
   * to compute the median value, and that this option may have an effect on the
   * value of the median.
   */
  itkSetMacro(NumberOfBins, unsigned int);
  itkGetConstReferenceMacro(NumberOfBins, unsigned int);

  // Set the default number of bins to match the number of values for 8 or 16-bit integers; otherwise 128
  static constexpr unsigned int
  GetDefaultNumberOfBins()
  {
    constexpr size_t bitsShift = std::min(8 * sizeof(FeatureImagePixelType), 8 * sizeof(m_NumberOfBins) - 1);

    return std::is_integral<FeatureImagePixelType>::value && sizeof(FeatureImagePixelType) <= 2 ? 1u << bitsShift
                                                                                : 128u;
  }

protected:
  StatisticsLabelMapFilter();
  ~StatisticsLabelMapFilter() override = default;

  void
  ThreadedProcessLabelObject(LabelObjectType * labelObject) override;

  void
  BeforeThreadedGenerateData() override;

  void
  PrintSelf(std::ostream & os, Indent indent) const override;

private:
  FeatureImagePixelType m_Minimum{ NumericTraits<FeatureImagePixelType>::ZeroValue() };
  FeatureImagePixelType m_Maximum{ NumericTraits<FeatureImagePixelType>::ZeroValue() };
  unsigned int          m_NumberOfBins{ GetDefaultNumberOfBins() };
  bool                  m_ComputeHistogram{ true };
}; // end of class
} // end namespace itk

#ifndef ITK_MANUAL_INSTANTIATION
#  include "itkStatisticsLabelMapFilter.hxx"
#endif

#endif

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World Renowned Psychiatrist: 'Global Predators' Fauci, Gates, Schwab Behind the COVID 'Reign of Terror'
A world renowned psychiatrist says that an evil cabal of powerful elites, including, NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, tech billionaire Bill Gates, and World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab, created the COVID pandemic to push the deadly vaccines on an unsuspecting public, and usher in a new world order.
The United States government began its vaccine rollout by enticing people to get the experimental shot using various bribes, then moved on to forcing the injections on unwilling people by threatening their employment, imposing higher health insurance rates, making it more difficult for them to travel, and even denying them health care.
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Ducey, GOP Governors Lay Out Plan for Biden to Strengthen the Southern Border
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Arizona Governor Doug Ducey and eight other GOP governors on Wednesday toured the U.S. Southern border and presented a 10-point plan for President Joe Biden to strengthen the border.
The conference of GOP governors follows Biden ignoring a letter from the group, which requested a meeting to discuss solutions to the ongoing crisis.
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Prominent Democratic Official in San Luis, Arizona Indicted on Additional Charges of Ballot Harvesting
October 8, 2021 October 7, 2021 Rachel Alexander
A Grand Jury has indicted a prominent Democratic official in the border city of San Luis, Arizona again on charges related to ballot harvesting during the 2020 primary election. Guillermina Fuentes, who is a former mayor of San Luis, a Democratic precinct committee person, and a member of the Gadsden Elementary School Board, was first indicted in December on one count of ballot abuse, also known as ballot harvesting, for collecting four ballots from people and turning them in. She was not authorized to do so since she was not a family member, household member, or caregiver of the voters per Arizona law.
The new charges of conspiracy, forgery, and an additional ballot abuse count relate to a fifth voter, where she signed the voter's name on the return envelope and marked their ballot. Alma Juarez, another San Luis resident, was also indicted for ballot abuse in December along with Fuentes. Fuentes has pleaded not guilty. The Democrats of Greater Tucson describe Fuentes as "very politically active and has helped gather signatures for candidates."
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These past few months have been chaotic, challenging and exhausting and at the same time, inspiring, exhilarating, and gratifying.
Most of all we have been humbled and honored by the response from our colleagues and customers. With three major events coming to a close -- The Florida Baseball Ranch®/Dutch Baseball Skill Acquisition Summit, our Complete Game Summer Training Program and the largest Elite Performance Boot Camp we've ever held -- our staff and I have finally had a chance to sit back and reflect for a moment.
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The reviews of our Skill Acquisition Summit have been overwhelming.
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Un carter de chaîne est une enveloppe permettant de protéger la chaîne et le système de transmission principalement utilisé sur des bicyclettes « domestiques ».

Utilisation

Ce carter de protection sert à protéger le système de transmission de la bicyclette  : la chaîne, le ou les plateaux et éventuellement les pignons situés sur la roue arrière. Généralement moulé en plastique, ce dispositif protège les éléments mécaniques qu'il contient des boues, saletés et poussières abrasives. Il permet également d'atténuer le bruit émis par la chaîne. Certains dispositifs élaborés peuvent contenir un bain d'huile permettant la lubrification de la chaîne.

Ce système n'est pas spécifique à la bicyclette. Il est également utilisé sur de plus gros véhicules ou sur des grosses machines.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

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Why didn't I order a dessert along with my order? Should I cancel or place a fresh order? They probably already think that the food is for four people. I can always pretend I've got guests over.
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Woah! I ordered so much food without even actually going to the restaurant. I always knew I had hidden superpowers. Let's see what else the internet can do for me.
Can't wait to bite into that burger. It looked so yummy. Even if it doesn't turn out to be that good, I have the pasta and burrito as backup. Ooh, it's going to be a feast tonight.
Oh wait, can't answer the door in this state. Arrggghhh…will have to get all cleaned up and dressed. Also, as I have an imaginary party, I'll have to look my best.
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What if they've forgotten about my order? Food is never coming. I'm just going to die here. Cold and alone. No food angel to save me.


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Q: Why is my winforms combobox showing the name of the objects rather than the display member that I specify? Here is the code:
cmbVegas.Items.AddRange((VegasPegasusCourseObject[])convertableCourses.ToArray());
cmbVegas.DisplayMember = "VegasCourseName";
cmbVegas.ValueMember = "CourseMapID";

convertableCourses is a List<VegasPegasusCourseObject>
This is where I am getting the List from:
public List<VegasPegasusCourseObject> GetConvertedCourses()
        {
            using (PanamaDataContext db = new PanamaDataContext())
            {
                IQueryable<VegasPegasusCourseObject> vegasCourses = from cm in db.VegasToPegasusCourseMaps
                                   join c in db.Courses on cm.VegasCourseID equals c.CourseID
                                   join cp in db.Courses on cm.PegasusCourseID equals cp.CourseID
                                   select new VegasPegasusCourseObject
                                   {
                                       CourseMapID = cm.VPCMapID,
                                       VegasCourseName = c.CourseName,
                                       VegasCourseID = cm.VegasCourseID,
                                       PegasusCourseID = cm.PegasusCourseID,
                                       PegasusCourseName = cp.CourseName
                                   };

                return vegasCourses.ToList();
            }
        }

Here is the obj def:
class VegasPegasusCourseObject
    {
        public int CourseMapID;

        public string VegasCourseName;
        public int VegasCourseID;

        public string PegasusCourseName;
        public int PegasusCourseID;
    }

However when I fire this baby up this is all I am getting:

A: As per the comments above, the issue is due to the fact that "VegasCourseName" has been written as a field, not a property. Therefore, the ToString implementation has been shown instead.
Use a property instead:
class VegasPegasusCourseObject
{
    public string VegasCourseName { get; set;}
}

A: From the docs for DisplayMember:

If the specified property does not exist on the object or the value of DisplayMember is an empty string (""), the results of the object's ToString method are displayed instead.

You do not have a property named "VegasCourseName" in VegasPegasusCourseObject and are getting the ClassName (the default implementation of ToString()) instead.

A: Override ToString() method of VegasPegasusCourseObject class

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Saterna är en ort i Burkina Faso.   Den ligger i regionen Cascades, i den sydvästra delen av landet,  km sydväst om huvudstaden Ouagadougou. Saterna ligger  meter över havet och antalet invånare är .

Terrängen runt Saterna är platt. Den högsta punkten i närheten är  meter över havet,  km sydväst om Saterna. Närmaste större samhälle är Diarabakoko,  km nordväst om Saterna.

Omgivningarna runt Saterna är huvudsakligen savann. Runt Saterna är det ganska glesbefolkat, med  invånare per kvadratkilometer.  Savannklimat råder i trakten. Årsmedeltemperaturen i trakten är  °C. Den varmaste månaden är mars, då medeltemperaturen är  °C, och den kallaste är juni, med  °C. Genomsnittlig årsnederbörd är  millimeter. Den regnigaste månaden är augusti, med i genomsnitt  mm nederbörd, och den torraste är december, med  mm nederbörd.

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The Corribee is a model of sailing yacht with good sea keeping ability. It was in a Corribee that Ellen MacArthur sailed around Britain.

The boat has also made longer voyages across the Atlantic Ocean.

Mark 1 Corribee

Mk 1, Clinker
The first Corribee was designed by Robert Tucker in 1964.
Around 10 wooden Corribees were clinker built before production moved to the fibreglass Mk 1. The early Corribees have a centreboard which gives them a minimum draft of , shallow even compared to the bilge-keeled later models which are themselves favoured for their shallow draft. With the centreboard lowered, the Mk 1 clinker Corribee draws . Raised and lowered by means of a winch in the cockpit, the centreboard is housed in a small fin which protrudes from the hull of the boat, as such it does not intrude on the cabin floor.

Corribee number 1
In 1963 a Dragon-class enthusiast wanted a smaller boat with the feel of a Dragon, but with "a cruising ability all her own" and commissioned a design from Robert Tucker.

Robert Tucker's 1963 drawings bear the working name of "Sea Nymph"; the inspiration for her name came from fishing on the banks of Loch Corrib in Galway, Ireland.

Corribee was clinker-built in mahogany on oak at Tommy Mallon's yard by Loch Corrib in 1964 / 65. Corribee, sail number 1, eventually lent her name to the entire class of "Corribees".

Some 10 or so wooden clinker "Corribees" were built at Tommy Mallon's Yard before construction moved to Heron Marine at Herne Bay, who built a lighter plywood-planked version. Newbridge Boats in Dorset started to produce a GRP version called the "Corribee 21", later to be known as the "Mark I" Corribee, followed by several variants of the Mark II, then the Mark III.

In winter 1965 Corribee left Éire to be launched on the Medway - an undated surviving photograph (possibly from this time) shows her with a blue hull and white topsides.

Corribee's 21st Birthday was celebrated at Gravesend Sailing Club, presumably in 1986, photographs show her transom bearing the name "Corribee 1" and "GSC" (presumably "Gravesend Sailing Club") and she is then sporting an emerald green hull with cream topsides.

At some time in the 1990s, Corribee hit an underwater obstruction sailing on the Thames and sank. She was raised and put into storage in a shed on the Isle of Dogs.

She was due to be repaired, but had to be rescued from over-zealous restoration (including stripping all her paint, and stripping out of some of her decks and interior…) and she was moved to another storage shed.

Having found a new owner determined to save this classic boat, and the night before Corribee was due in Clare Lallow's Yard at Cowes for a complete restoration, the new owner found vandals had forced the door on the shed and lit two fires under her hull.

In spite of this, Laurie Borer and the team at Lallow's, and with help from the original drawings, restored her to her former glory.
Corribee was relaunched by Jean Cook of the Corribee Owners' Association on Saturday 9 May 1998 from Lallow's Yard on the Medina, and was put up for sale in 2010.

Her new owner took her to the Lakes, but she was sold again in 2012. Her current owner asked Laurie Boarer at Lallow's to restore her to pristine condition again, and she has been stored undercover ever since.
As she approaches her 50th birthday, this classic yacht is again for sale.

Mk 1, Fibreglass
In the early 1970s, production of the Corribee moved to Newbridge Boats Ltd who built it in fibreglass. Known as the Newbridge "Corribee 21" in the brochure, she was sold as "a fin keel version of the original centreboard clinker boat". The Mk1 was also built as a twin keel boat which has a shallower draft than the fin keel version and has the advantage of staying upright if run aground or kept on a drying mooring. Compared to the later Mk 2 and Mk 3 Corribees, the Mk 1 has a few distinguishing features. The Mk 1 has a circular cover on the lazarette, the coachroof is wider than on later models and consequently has narrower side decks and more room below.

List of Marks
 Mark 1 - still a common sight, recognisable by the timber cockpit coamings.
 Mark 2 - early - grp superstructure moulding.
 Mark 2 - late - similar, but more headroom in the cabin.
 Mark 3 - similar again, some small changes to the deck moulding.
 Corribee, junk rigged - the same superstructure as the standard Corribee.
 Coromandel - junk rigged, but with a different cabin moulding.

Significant voyages
There have been a number of significant voyages completed in Corribees, including a number of circumnavigations of Great Britain and transatlantic crossings.

In 1978 Sgt. Alan Toone made a double transatlantic crossing in his Mk 2 Corribee, Corrie Bee completing the 8,467 mile round trip in 97 days. In 1983 Mike Spring, a paraplegic sailor, sailed single handed to Ponta Delgada, Azores in his Coromandel 3M Mariner. In 1995 Ellen MacArthur circumnavigated Great Britain via the Caledonian Canal in her Corribee, Iduna.

More recently Katie Miller emulated Ellen MacArthur's voyage in her Corribee, Elektra; she made the circumnavigation to raise finds for the Ellen MacArthur Trust. In recognition of this voyage she was awarded the 2006 Raymarine Young Sailor of the Year award.

As part of the 2008 Jester Azores Challenge Roger Taylor sailed from Plymouth to Praia da Vitória, Azores in his junk-rigged Corribee, Mingming, finishing in just under 21 days.

In the summer of 2008, Jack Daly completed his single handed circumnavigation of Great Britain via the Caledonian Canal in Padiwak; the voyage took him 12 weeks.

Voyage attempts
In 2006 Roger Taylor retired from the Plymouth to Newport Jester Challenge. He sailed his junk-rigged Corribee, Mingming to a point North East of the Azores, a total of 2,500 miles non-stop from Plymouth back to Burnham-on-Crouch, retiring only due to a slower than expected boat speed meaning he'd be at sea well into hurricane season, something Taylor described as "a risk too far".

In 2008 while Jack Daly was on his circumnavigation via the Caledonian Canal, Jonny Moore retired from a complete circumnavigation of Great Britain via the Pentland Firth in his Mk 2 Corribee Casulen II. His effort was still successful in raising money for the Kendal Sea Cadet Corps.

Notes

External links
Unified Corribee Website
Yahoo Group for discussion of the Corribee and Coromandel

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Q: Backbone Changing Class Name during {{each items}} I want to change the classname during an each loop;
so that it will look like this;

  // do somthing

  //do

my code looks like this
{{#each pages}}

    //do

{{/each}}

there is no identifier of the class. So the 1st one will be active, the rest of the items will be static.

A: You could add your own helper if you want to do this inside the template. Something like this:
Handlebars.registerHelper('each_with_class', function(ary, first, rest, options) {
    if(!ary || ary.length == 0)
        return options.inverse(this);

    var result  = [ ];
    var context = null;
    var cls     = { cls: first };
    for(var i = 0; i < ary.length; ++i) {
        context = _({}).extend(ary[i], cls);
        result.push(options.fn(context));
        cls.cls = rest;
    }
    return result.join('');
});

Then your template could say things like this:
{{#each_with_class pages "active" "static"}}

        Same stuff you're doing now.

{{/each_with_class}}

If you don't mind ary[i] getting modified along the way then you can assign directly to ary[i].cls instead of using _.extend to make a copy.
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/ambiguous/ZMSQh/1/

A: as far as I know there are no indices provided by {{#each}} that could be checked..
a workaround would be to store this classes in your pages items and then use something like
{{#each pages}}

    //do

{{/each}}


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The late Paul Kalanithi's book "When Breath Becomes Air" is devastating, edifying, eloquent and very real
By Wavefunction on Wednesday, December 02, 2015
I read this book in one sitting, long after the lights should have been turned off. I felt like not doing so would have been a disservice to Paul Kalanithi. After reading the book I felt stunned and hopeful in equal parts. Stunned because of the realization that someone as prodigiously talented and eloquent as Paul Kalanithi was taken from the world at such an early age. Hopeful because even in his brief life of thirty-six years he showcased what we as human beings are capable of in our best incarnations. His family can rest assured that he will live on through his book.
When Breath Becomes Air details Dr. Kalanithi's life as a neurosurgeon and his fight against advanced lung cancer. Even in his brief life he achieved noteworthy recognition as a scholar, a surgeon, a scientist and now - posthumously - as a writer. The book is a tale of tribulations and frank reflections. Ultimately there's not much triumph in it in the traditional sense of the word, but there is a dogged, quiet resilience and a frank earthiness that endures long after the last word appears. The tribulations occur in both Dr. Kalanithi's stellar career and his refusal to give in to the illness which ultimately consumed him.
The first part of the book could almost stand separately as an outstanding account of the coming of age of a neurosurgeon and writer. Dr. Kalanithi talks about his upbringing as the child of hardworking and inspiring Indian immigrant parents and his tenacious and passionate espousal of medicine and literature. He speaks lovingly of his relationship with his remarkable wife - also a doctor - who he met in medical school and who played an outsized role in supporting him through everything he went through. He had a stunning and multifaceted career, studying biology and literature at Stanford, then history and philosophy of medicine at Cambridge, and finally neurosurgery at Yale.
Along the way he became not just a neurosurgeon who worked grueling hours and tried to glimpse the very soul of his discipline, but also a persuasive writer. The mark of a man of letters is evident everywhere in the book, and quotes from Eliot, Beckett, Pope and Shakespeare make frequent appearances. Accounts of how Dr. Kalanithi wrested with walking the line between objective medicine and compassionate humanity when it came to treating his patients give us an inside view of medicine as practiced at its most intimate level. Metaphors abound and the prose often soars: When describing how important it is to develop good surgical technique, he tells us that "Technical excellence was a moral requirement"; meanwhile, the overwhelming stress of late night shifts, hundred hour weeks and patients with acute trauma made him occasionally feel like he was "trapped in an endless jungle summer, wet with sweat, the rain of tears of the dying pouring down". This is writing that comes not from the brain or from the heart, but from the gut. When we lost Dr. Kalanithi we lost not only a great doctor but a great writer spun from the same cloth as Oliver Sacks and Atul Gawande.
It is in the second part of the book that the devastating tide of disease and death creeps in, even as Dr. Kalanithi is suddenly transformed from a doctor into a patient (Eliot helps him find the right words here: "At my back in a cold blast I hear, The rattle of bones, and a chuckle spread from ear to ear"). It must be slightly bizarre to be on the other side of the mirror and intimately know everything that is happening to your body and Dr. Kalanithi is brutally frank in communicating his disbelief, his hope and his understanding of his fatal disease. It's worth noting that this candid recognition permeates the entire account; almost nothing is sanitized. Science mingles with emotion as compassionate doctors, family and a battery of medications and tests become a mainstay of life. The doctor finds out that difficult past conversations with terminal patients can't really help him when he is one of them.
The painful uncertainty which Dr. Kalanithi documents - in particular the tyranny of statistics which makes it impossible to predict how a specific individual will react to cancer therapy - must sadly be familiar to anyone who has had experience with the disease. As he says, "One has a very different relationship with statistics when one becomes one". There are heartbreaking descriptions of how at one point the cancer seemed to have almost disappeared and how, after Dr. Kalanithi had again cautiously made plans for a hopeful future with his wife, it suddenly returned with a vengeance and became resistant to all drugs. There is no bravado in the story; as he says, the tumor was what it was and you simply experienced the feelings it brought to your mind and heart.
What makes the book so valuable is this ready admission of what terminal disease feels like, especially an admission that is nonetheless infused with wise acceptance, hope and a tenacious desire to live, work and love normally. In spite of the diagnosis Dr. Kalanithi tries very hard - and succeeds admirably - to live a normal life. He returns to his surgery, he spends time with his family and most importantly, he decides to have a child with his wife. In his everyday struggles is seen a chronicle of the struggles that we will all face in some regard, and which thousands of people face on a daily basis. His constant partner in this struggle is his exemplary wife Lucy, whose epilogue is almost as eloquent as his own writing; I really hope that she picks up the baton where he left off.
As Lucy tells us in the epilogue, this is not some simple tale of a man who somehow "beats" a disease by refusing to give up. It's certainly that, but it's much more because it's a very human tale of failure and fear, of uncertainty and despair, of cynicism and anger. And yes, it is also a tale of scientific understanding, of battling a disease even in the face of uncertainty, of poetry and philosophy, of love and family, and of bequeathing a legacy to a two year old daughter who will soon understand the kind of man her father was and the heritage he left behind. It's as good a testament to Dr. Kalanithi's favorite Beckett quote as anything I can think of: "I can't go on. I will go on".
Read this book; it's devastating and heartbreaking, inspiring and edifying. Most importantly, it's real.
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Q: How to export a JSON row to data.frame columns I want to export a JSON value inside a row value to a new column in my data.set.
My current data.set:
   a  b  c
-------------------
1 20 10 {d:10, e:6}
2 25 15 {d:30, f:7}
3 40 20 {d:5}

to

   a  b  c  d  e  f
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1 20 10  0 10  6  0
2 25 15  0 30  0  7
3 40 20  0  5  0  0

A: Here is a way to do it with rjson and plyr :
d <- data.frame(a=c(20,25,40),
                b=c(10,15,20),
                c=c('{"d":10, "e":6}','{"d":30, "f":7}','{"d":5}'), stringsAsFactors=FALSE)

library(rjson)
library(plyr)

tmp <- lapply(d$c, fromJSON)
tmp <- ldply(lapply(tmp, as.data.frame), I)
tmp[is.na(tmp)] <- 0
cbind(d, tmp)

Which gives :
   a  b               c  d e f
1 20 10 {"d":10, "e":6} 10 6 0
2 25 15 {"d":30, "f":7} 30 0 7
3 40 20         {"d":5}  5 0 0

Note that you must use plyr here and not dplyr, as the ldply function is not available in the latter.


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Marydia Community Center
The Marydia Community Center project transformed a fire station into a facility that offers recreational activities and academic programs to an underserved community that has had a history of poverty and gang violence. It included a 1,100 SF addition that houses a lobby, an administrative office, maintenance rooms, a computer lab, and a state-of-the-art kitchen. Residents are able to use the computer lab to interface with government services, to search for employment, or to pursue education or training. Interior remodeling of the existing structure includes a multi-purpose room which can accommodate 320 people, will support children's programs and can be used for special community events and public meetings. The design was provided by SLAM architects and civil engineers at minimal cost to the County.
Renovation and Addition
5,000 SF Renovation/Addition | 1 Acres Site Development
Marydia is a primarily low-income underserved community bordered by industrial facilities, where gang activity and drugs have been a problem in the past.
The design team sought to help the city of Kissimmee and Osceola County with their goal of creating a facility for the community and a safe place for kids to go before and after school.
When the county decided to erect a community center in Marydia on the site of a former fire and rescue station, the plan called for demolition of the prefabricated structure only to replace it with another generic metal building.
The design team proposed a different strategy: By recycling the existing structure slated for demolition and deploying a new addition as a formal layer fronting the existing building, the resulting combination would make a community center that was bigger and better quality for essentially the same cost.
"Rather than tear it down and build something similar, we knew we could recycle the building and give the community something that was bigger and better for the same cost."
Doug Kleppin, AIA, LEED AP
Project Principal-in-charge / Designer
The existing fire station complex was sited on an L shaped parcel that was predominately pavement which necessitated a retention pond. The new site plan orients the entrance to the new vehicle drop-off area and visitor's parking area which is nested under and around a historic shade tree. ADA accessible walkways and pavement striping were added to improve access to the Center. The site surrounding the building was enhanced with play structures for visiting children and new fencing to address safety concerns. The plaza and playground frame the new building entrance.
A new sanitary sewer pump station was designed to transition from the existing septic tank system to a future County sanitary sewer system. The pump station was removed after the County's sewer was built. Civil engineering construction plans and site and stormwater permitting through local and state agencies was provided to address the site changes.
To express the playful form of the community center, the design team secured the cooperation of a neighboring architectural precast concrete manufacturer who donated concrete test panels from its stockpiles and also offered a discount on new panels needed to complete the project.
The simple landscape treatment of softscape and hardscape echoes the geometries of the precast façade. Outside enhancements include a front porch, rear courtyard, seating, and site sculptures that make the facility functional, flexible, and inviting.
The playful combination of solid void and the angled precast wall panels give new life to the original metal building structure. The layered massing breaks down the scale and proportion of the building with each element of the arrival and support functions is expressed.
The playful solid void pattern of the angled precast wall panels is reflected in the pattern of hardscape, square planters and raised square "stages" . The environment easily serves for both quiet reflection and recreation.
The angled precast wall channels the public to the entry lobby. The simple steel arbor serves to announce and shelter entry. It also form a proscenium for student plays and concerts on the plaza.
The pattern of openings provides generous natural light and a connection to the exterior. The geometries for ceiling and floor pattern reinforce these relationships.
The deep window pockets become benches and reading cubbies for student.
2014 AIA Orlando, Merit Design Award Winner
The uses of the building and community room range from weddings and family reunions to tutoring, daycare, meals on wheels, and group learning sessions for children.
2013, Parsons Brinckerhoff America Award Winner, Sustainability/Green Teams
Douglas Kleppin, AIA, LEED AP
Principal-in-charge / Designer
Linda Bennett, P.E.
LBennett@slamcoll.com


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Bigalora's
Chef Luciano Del Signore with one of Bigalora's signature pizzas.
The Lighter Side of Italian
From casual to fine dining, the push to use local, fresh ingredients is spreading, with chefs incorporating the practice in a variety of cuisines. In southeast Michigan, Chef Luciano Del Signore is bringing this approach to Bigalora Wood Fired Cucina, for a menu that offers lighter, healthier, and more authentic Italian cuisine.
Now in three locations, the Bigalora restaurants not only showcase Del Signore's relationships with farmers and ranchers, but also his deeply personal commitment to menuing sustainable, organic ingredients that nurture the body and, of course, taste good. "If I wouldn't feed it to my children, then I won't serve it to our customers," says Chef Del Signore.
Taking this lighter approach, Del Signore infuses his menus with grains such as faro, legumes, lots of fruits and vegetables, and protein in limited quantities. "It's the traditional food pyramid chart flipped," says Del Signore.
Protein that he uses is hormone and antibiotic-free, including organically farmed salmon sourced from Ireland. Cattle are 100 percent grass-fed. Even the charcuterie, much of it made in-house, is created from pork and beef that are hormone, antibiotic -free. Bigalora is in the midst of building a bigger kitchen to prepare all its charcuterie in-house.
A key ingredient at Bigalora is organic spelt—the American version of faro—which Del Signore treats as a whole grain or for grinding his own flour for pasta. "Faro dough is higher in protein, and has a lot fewer carbohydrates than semolina or white flour," Del Signore says. "It's darker in color, more nutty, with a nice texture. I love the way it feels in the mouth and the way it chews—it really holds the firmness when you cook it."
Del Signore uses the housemade pasta for a mushroom ragù or served with spring favorites fava beans, ramps, or fiddlehead ferns. "It holds its own with ingredients with pungent flavors," he says.
Using the freshest and highest quality ingredients lets Del Signore pay homage to his Italian heritage. "We come from east of Rome, where you wouldn't find a pat of butter in anyone's home," he notes.
While reflected throughout Bigalora's menu, that approach gets a lot of play on the pizzas. Unlike commercially made pizza doughs, Bigalora pizza dough is leavened with an all-natural proprietary pre-fermented style of leavening, which Italian bakers call a biga.
The dough does not contain any commercial yeast, has no added sugar, and is completely vegan. The end result is a better tasting crust, with a hint of tartness, as well as a better texture and chew, says Del Signore. "It's much healthier than commercially made products—there is no bloated feeling after you eat it."
Del Signore also brings the light touch to traditional Italian fare, like Spaghetti and Meatballs.
"In Italy, meatballs were created so poor families that couldn't afford meat stretched out the servings with bread to feed the family," Del Signore explains. "I pull the bread out of the meatballs; my meatball mixture is made with under 5 percent bread. We slow braise it in marinara sauce for hours. There's a much lighter taste and texture to it."
The first Bigalora Wood Fire Cucina opened in Southfield in June 2010, followed by Royal Oak in May 2012, and the most recent Ann Arbor location in November. Plans are underway for a fourth location, slated to open in the Detroit Metropolitan Airport within the next two years.
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First, knowing the history and mechanics of a pointe shoe are crucial in understanding the importance of your dancer being ready. Pointe is an extension of ballet in which the ballerina wears a specially designed and fitted shoe that allows them to dance on the very tips of their toes. It makes an already elegant and graceful style of movement more ethereal and delicate by adding lightness and length to the ballerina. In 1832 Marie Taglinoi is credited as being the first ballerina to dance en pointe. Pointe shoes have come a long way since her first pair of shoes which were nothing more than satin slippers darned to help hold their shape. The shoe offered no support so dancers had to rely on their feet and ankle strength for support. Now pointe shoes are made out of new lighter materials that keep the dancer safer and prolong the life of the shoe but the physical readiness has not changed.
What age is considered appropriate for pre-pointe?
Dancers ages 11 and older are when your child's ballet teacher may start to begin talking about pointe shoes with them. This is a great go to age as most dancer will have danced for a few year previously allowing them to have the necessary repetition, vocabulary skills, and technique needed to make pointe an extension of their ballet class. In addition to maturity and experience, your dancer must also be physically ready. Your child's dance teacher will ask for them to get okay by a physician or physical therapist before they can participate. This is to make sure the dancer's foot is more than 75% grown and will be capable of handling their entire body weight on their toes.
Why does my dancer have to take pre-pointe? Can't they go right into it?
Pointe shoes are very uncomfortable the first few times a dancer puts them on. Pre-pointe shoes are a great way for dancers to get use to the feeling of a pointe shoe without risk of injury due to low ankle or foot strength. In pre-pointe your dancer will learn vocabulary skills, exercises to strengthen the foot and ankle, how to physically work the foot in the shoes, and take a test to make sure the dancer is fully ready for pointe.
Why does my dancer need to take a test to tell if they are ready for pointe?
Taking the pre-pointe test tell your dancer's teacher everything they need to know about your dancer. If your dancer studied we can see that your dancer has a great maturity level and can be trusted en pointe. There is also a physical portion of the exam where the dance teacher can see if the dancer can physically handle the incredibly hard work it takes to be en pointe. If your dancer does not pass the physical portion or exam this does not mean your dancer can never go en pointe, it means your dance teacher cares enough to make sure your dancer doesn't get injured and will do everything to make sure they are safe.
Should my dancer take pointe?
First talk with your dancer and their instructor to see if they are willing and ready. Next as a parent make sure you are ready for the financial responsibility of shoes. Pointe shoes cost $60- over $100 per pair and a dancer can wear them out every month or once a year. You will also need to get your dancer new shoes if they grow. The correct shoe fit can make all the difference in the world to a dancer.


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Missouri NOBTS alums join Midwestern in prayer for Hurricane Katrina victims
September 8, 2005 By The Pathway
Unable to get IDs of Missouri students at New Orleans Seminary at press time
By Allen Palmeri
KANSAS CITY– On the last day of August, students and administrators at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (MBTS) sent a message to the now homeless brethren of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (NOBTS): "We are praying for you."
Midwestern had already designated three separate sessions of 7 a.m., 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Aug. 31 as a "Fall Day of Prayer." Instead of focusing on their own needs, though, the seminary stopped to consider the needs of the evacuated and dispersed NOBTS community, its campus consumed by floodwaters triggered by the fury of Hurricane Katrina.
MBTS President Phil Roberts stopped in the middle of the afternoon prayer walk time to talk by cell phone with The Pathway about the spirit behind Midwestern's actions.
"We shifted the focus to New Orleans seminary," Roberts said. "Their well being is of utmost concern to us, and we are prepared at this time to do anything else we can to help."
Tom Johnson, pastor, First Baptist Church, Fredricktown, and a trustee for NOBTS, was piecing together details of the disaster as he tried to keep up with his ministry duties south of St. Louis.
"I just feel devastated," Johnson said. "The seminary's been doing so well, and our enrollment's been growing. I'm worried about these kids who have moved to New Orleans and had jobs set up. Of course, those jobs are gone and the seminary's gone, at least for this semester, and they're totally displaced. I just really feel bad for them. I don't know what they're going to do, where they're going to go."
The natural disaster has led Missouri Baptists to weep for the lost. Ed Moncada, Missouri Baptist Convention Director of International Student Ministries, is a NOBTS graduate who along with his wife, Angie, used to minister to people from New Orleans to Pensacola, Fla. They both can remember their newlywed days when they shared the Gospel in the various seaside communities of the Mississippi Gulf Coast and on into inner-city New Orleans.
"At times we break out in tears for the devastation going on in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast," Ed Moncada said. The Gulf Coast's – and especially New Orleans' – need for Christ has long been evident. Though relegated to insignificance amid the widespread suffering was the cancellation of an event dubbed the 34th annual Southern Decadence festival, scheduled for Aug. 31 through Sept. 5. An estimated 100,000 homosexuals were expected to gather for that event, Moncada said.
Efforts by The Pathway to report on how many Missourians are students of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary were unsuccessful due to New Orleans seminary officials relocating to Atlanta. The seminary's database was reported to be down as well, making access to records impossible. The students were embarking on the first full week of school, with orientation and registration, when Katrina hit.
There are about 125 New Orleans seminary alumni scattered throughout Missouri, Moncada said.
Randy Miller, pastor, Emmanuel Baptist Church, Doniphan, talked Sept. 1 with Johnson about the possibility of Missouri Baptists banding together to help those displaced New Orleans seminary students from Missouri with money for basic needs. MBC Executive Director Dave Clippard said the MBC must weigh all of its options in a long-term recovery.
"I think we need to have general support for all of our disaster relief efforts," Clippard said. "Part of that disaster relief plan will be to seek out the students with Missouri roots to see what kind of needs they have and how we can help them."
Miller said his heart goes out to that group of Missouri seminarians and the obstacles they will be facing in the weeks to come.
"They've lost the ability to provide for their families," he said. "There are no jobs down there."
Through its web-like system of 15 extension centers, which is the most highly developed network among the six Southern Baptist seminaries, NOBTS is blessed with the capability of executing a broad array of academic instruction this school year, according to New Orleans Seminary President Chuck Kelley. The main campus may be devastated in a city that has been evacuated, but the work of the seminary will go on.
Roberts said the plan is for Kelley to preside over a temporary seminary in Atlanta. Students will go to school at the North Georgia Extension Center in Decatur, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta, as well as the 14 other extension campuses, which are spread out through Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi.
Many ideas for helping New Orleans are being discussed, with Roberts advocating that the six Southern Baptist seminary presidents agree to freeze the level of Cooperative Program support for New Orleans this year to keep it at the same level next year, in order to offset any potential drop in enrollment. Look for some action at the September meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, Roberts said.
"We've all talked about doing what we can to help them financially, and we'll wait to hear from New Orleans how we can best do that," he said.
It is apparent that the extended New Orleans seminary family is determined to pull together during this time of need. Johnson said it is quite possible that Atlanta will be the site of an emergency meeting of the board of trustees sometime in September.
"Our trustees are supposed to be meeting in about six weeks, and I'm sure that they'll have some kind of contingency plans for us to consider, the direction that we're going to go and what we're going to try to do to help our students," Johnson said.
"Pray for the students. That's the main thing."