Back in March, I had the privilege of guiding a couple of travel and outdoor adventure writers on a kayak tour of Cove Lake.
We didn't start that fire — honest!
"Plead my cause, O Lord, with those who strive with me; fight against those who fight against me," (Psalm 35:1).
I never knew a small church could have such big needs.
We were all called to a meeting with the store manager that morning.


Increase opportunities for students to engage in physical activity. Regular physical activity helps kids succeed in school. Being active for 60 minutes a day has been linked to increased concentration and focus, improved classroom behavior, decreased absenteeism, and better academic performance. A comprehensive school physical activity program is a multi-component approach that utilizes physical education (PE), physical activity during school and physical activity before and after school to help kids achieve the recommended 60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity each day. Quality PE, Joint-use Agreements (JUA) , and active transportation to school (walking and biking) are all great ways to add active minutes to each day.
Get started in developing your customized Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program (CSPAP).
Quality physical education is the foundation for healthy, physically active adults. To learn more about quality PE programs and how Pennsylvania compares to other states, check out SHAPE America's 2012 Shape of the Nation Report.
Joint-use agreements employ a contract or written agreement between a school and a city or community entity outlining specific terms and conditions for shared use of facility. JUA are a practical approach for increasing physical activity opportunities, especially for communities with limited parks or open spaces.
ChangeLab Solutions has created resources and publications to help organizations understand and implement shared use.
Active transportation is a great way to maximize physical activity opportunities before and after school. Get information about walking and biking to school from the National Center for Safe Routes to School and on LiveHealthyPA's Safe Routes to School page.


The Fish Fry Family will start the fish fry season by heading west on Wednesday to check out St. Alban Roe in Wildwood. St. Alban Roe appears to only have a fish fry on Ash Wednesday. On Friday, we are headed to south county to Saint Catherine Laboure in Sunset Hills. Check out the reviews over the weekend.
What do you do when you are stuffed with fried cod and other goodies? How about some live music and coffee, all for a good cause! Friday Night Fish will be headed to the St. Margaret of Scotland's Friday Night Coffeehouse (Church basement at 3854 Flad Avenue). Doors open at 7pm with entertainment from the renown St. Margaret choir beginning at 8pm. $10 donation at the door with all proceeds benefiting the choir's 2013 trip to Scotland. The Coffeehouse will be monthly with the next two on February 24th and March 23rd. Did we mention the fair trade coffee and performances from some of the top choir members in St. Louis?
Don't forget to take the weekly Fan Survey!
I like the St. Stephen Protomartyr fish fry best. I have been to 6 frys so far this season and their cod is delicisous. They have a cornmeal, golden dypt batter. The spahgetti sauce is homemade and great also. Can't beat the price of $8 for two large pieces of cod and 2 sides, desert and drink.


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On behalf of Nick Kujawa posted in truck accidents on Wednesday, November 28, 2018.
While drivers in Illinois and elsewhere may be fearful of sharing the road with large trucks, it is possible to do so safely. It is important that drivers of passenger cars and trucks have a healthy dose or respect for the bigger and heavier commercial trucks. This means giving them ample room to merge onto highways and giving them space while driving. When in the presence of a commercial truck, drivers should be sure to avoid its blind spots.
Drivers may be in a truck's blind spot if they follow too closely in their own vehicles or drive next to the trailer. To avoid an accident, other cars must be sure to pass as quickly as possible as it minimizes time in an area where the truck operator can't see passenger vehicles. It is also worthwhile to pay attention to commercial trucks looking to make a right turn. This is because they need more room to make the turn without going off the road.
If the weather is bad, it may be a good idea to avoid being on a highway or other roads. Doing so may give more space to larger trucks that need it to operate safely in inclement conditions. Generally speaking, commercial drivers must make their deliveries no matter what the weather is like outside.
If a truck driver is negligent for causing an accident to occur, injured victims may receive compensation in a settlement or through a jury trial, and it may help to pay for medical bills or lost wages. In some cases, multiple parties might be found liable for truck accidents including employers or government agencies. An attorney may take actions such as obtaining witness statements or gathering physical evidence in order to show that negligence resulted in an accident.


The 2019 Progressive Insurance New England Boat Show invites the winter weary to get a taste of summer as the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center is transformed into a boater's paradise for 8 days in February. Attracting tens of thousands of boating and sailing enthusiasts, Northeast's largest boating event docks for nine-days, featuring hundreds of the newest boats and on-the-water accessories.
More than 300,000 square feet are filled with the latest boats and nautical equipment – from navigational tools to hardware and galleyware – for all budgets and lifestyles. Visitors can climb aboard luxury motor yachts, sport fishers, performance boats, and personal watercrafts, as well as dozens of sailboats and sailing yachts, rigged and ready to hit the open seas.
In addition to finding the best deals of the season, the Progressive Insurance New England Boat Show offers seminars for DIY boaters, informational clinics for those of all experience levels and hands-on activities for young skippers and families. There will also be some new activities for kid including tours of Salt - the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary's life-size inflatable humpback whale, special Kids' Touch-A-Boat Tours, Create-A-Boat - Kids' Toy Boat Building, and Gone Fishing! Fishing & Kayak Demo Pool.
The show also features more than 250 exhibits of the latest in marine accessories to stock up on everything from the newest navigational equipment, hardware and galley-ware for your boat.
Interactive Displays the kids will enjoy.
Earth Day is celebrated in a big way at the Children's Museum of NH, with a focus on learning how to support a healthy planet.
Do you want to child to ... Dig in the dirt? Daydream? Imagine? Create? Many families today find their days are pressured, tightly scheduled and hectic. Children move from adult-driven activities to device-driven activities with little time left for child-driven free play.
Breastfeeding Classes are taught by Anna Jaques Hospital Lactation Consultants for mothers and their support person(s) to gain the knowledge and tools to help you successfully breast your baby.
Join the effort to protect our endangered right whale. Hear local children's author Angela Kakabeeke share her new book, Whale Alert!, about the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale.


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Caroline Colvin Reporter
Following the shooting at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Jonathan A. Segal attended an interfaith vigil at his synagogue. There had been a robust turnout, with an "overflow crowd," Segal, a partner at Duane Morris LLP in the employment, labor, benefits and immigration Practice Group, recently told attendees at SHRM Inclusion.
"There were individuals standing against the wall. People of all faiths, races and ethnic backgrounds were there. I heard from Jewish, Catholic, Protestant and Muslim clergy," he added. "Political leaders from both major parties were there — and leaders from various racial and ethnic groups, who were not Jewish." The end result, Segal said, was a memorial service where many voices were heard but the Jewish community at the center "did not feel alone."
This is the ethos that Segal — and other identity and culture experts — recommend regarding the inclusion of Jewish people. "You don't need to be Black to be horrified by racism. You don't need to be a woman to be horrified by sexism. You don't need to be Jewish to be horrified by antisemitism," he told the SHRM audience.
Kimberly Reed, a diversity and inclusion expert and CEO of Reed Development Group, said that consistent company-wide conversations about racial justice are key. "This is why antisemitism has come up again in this space. Because the awareness and the education has gone stale," Reed said.
Antisemitism, by the numbers
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In 2020, the FBI recorded 683 anti-Jewish hate crimes. While it's a dip from 963 hate crimes recorded in 2019, data suggests the perceived threat to Jewish identity has increased. That is to say, people of Jewish faith report feeling more unease in their day-to-day lives.
In a survey for The State of Antisemitism in America 2020: AJC's Survey of American Jews, 88% of respondents said they felt antisemitism was a problem in the U.S. Whereas 3% of respondents felt that antisemitism was on the decline and 14% said antisemitism levels remained stayed the same, 82% said they felt antisemitism had increased in the country during the past five years.
Twenty-five percent of respondents said they'd been the target of an anti-Jewish remark in person, by mail or by phone. A note for HR professionals, who are increasingly focused on remote harassment: Of those who said they'd experienced antisemitism directly, 62% experienced it via Facebook and 33% said they had experienced it on Twitter.
HR can watch for social triggers
Reed, for example, pointed to an uptick in anti-Jewish bias following the fighting between Israelis and Palestinians in May 2021, as evidenced by the Anti-Defamation League's cataloging a noticeable spike in antisemitism online.
Prior to that and continuously since 2020, alt-right and White supremacist groups have been sowing seeds of distrust regarding the Jewish community's role in the pandemic — adding another layer of prejudice HR heads and people teams must peel back. "Think of the blatant hate addressed toward the Chinese or Asians, more generally, with some referring to it as 'the Chinese flu,'" Segal said, addressing the SHRM crowd. "It's also been referred to as 'a Jew flu.' That's on some dark pages of social media." (In April 2020, the ADL rounded up memes and posts to this effect, providing a comprehensive resource on coronavirus and antisemitism.)
Experts in the UK have also observed that far-right COVID conspiracy theories fuel antisemitism. Ahead of history exhibition This Fascist Life: Radical Right Movements in Interwar Europe, Guardian journalist Ben Quinn observed, "Parallels can also be drawn between antisemitic conspiracy theories about COVID-19 and the development of vaccines, and pamphlets blaming 'Jewish financiers' for the first world war or suggesting they would gain from the second world war." David Rich, policy director at Community Security Trust, told The Guardian that people holding antisemitic views had taken central roles in UK campaigns against COVID vaccines.
"We've increasingly been seeing people not really attached to one particular ideology but who are part of this amorphous mass fueled by conspiracy theories. An entry point to that has come with the pandemic and the anti-vaccination movement where the language is not explicitly anti-Jewish," Rich said. "It means that a lot of people are at risk of getting sucked in."
The European Union has also made official statements regarding the rekindling of antisemitism across Europe due to COVID-19. The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights noted that France and Germany had seen the largest increases in anti-Jewish hate crimes, with 339 reported incidents in France last year and 2,351 reported incidents in Germany. The agency said 90% of Jews surveyed felt that antisemitism has increased in their country and was a serious problem, with one in three people considering emigrating.
Not all hate is blatant
"Not all antisemitism reflects itself nakedly as hatred," Segal said. Something both he and Reed highlighted as offensive is the cavalier use of Holocaust metaphors regarding mask mandates. Generally speaking, Segal told his SHRM audience, "One thing that we see sometimes on both sides of the political divide is an eagerness or willingness to use Nazi metaphors. Got to be thoughtful and careful how we use them. There are a lot of bad things that don't rise to the level of Nazism or genocide."
For example, this past October, imagery of Nazism and yellow stars were brought up in a Kansas hearing opposing national COVID-19 vaccine mandates. "If everything is genocide, then nothing is genocide," Segal said. Other types of antisemitism he highlighted were rhetorical words and images — for example, "shrewd" can be coded language regarding to Jewish people, similar to the use of "aggressive" regarding people of color.
Consistency is king
It starts with messaging. Often, Reed said, diversity and inclusion conversations revolve around certain objectives. "The goal should really be zero tolerance. Why are we wasting time discussing goals? The goal should be zero tolerance for racism, injustice and bias in the workplace, period," Reed explained. The DEI consultant recommended putting this approach into company policy, as well as continuing to reiterate it to all employees.
"You have to put in writing — because people are visual — but it has to be communicated consistently. Importantly, in a town hall, perhaps a meeting. That's fine, too. But it can't be in small groups. 'We're just going to have it with the folks that have done the offending.' No," Reed said. "This has to be across the board, with everyone in the organization."
Consistent inclusion of Jewish people also involves action. On the heels of Hanukkah ending, Reed said it it is important for employers to reflect on whether the holiday got as much shine as Christmas.
"You have to be consistent in the recognition of holidays, for every religious group. If you start with one, you have to continue," Reed said.
In turn, Segal told his SHRM Inclusion audience, "I'm not saying that we can or should take off for every holiday, every faith. It's not possible, but at least some acknowledgement of at least some of the holidays."
"We have different faiths, and I suspect some who are listening in have no faith, but are people of good faith. We owe it to our employees and ourselves — not only to condemn antisemitism and other forms of religious bigotry, but also to imbue our workplaces with inclusiveness, kindness, and a sense of belonging that starts but does not end with recognizing and responding to antisemitism," he said. "Shalom."
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Prof who predicted 'Great Resignation' says innovative flexibility is next
Flexibility is more than a discussion about remote versus in-office work, Anthony Klotz told HR Dive.
By Emilie Shumway • Nov. 24, 2021
Latest in Diversity & Inclusion
A newly launched job board targets an unusual talent pool: Whistleblowers
By Carla Bell
Mental health, DEI and pay: 2022 hiring trends center employee experience

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"I was very lucky to have a friend recommend Dr Lebens to me when I most needed medical help. Dr Lebens was experienced and knowledgeable, giving practical advice to address a series of my perplexing symptoms. I recommend Dr Lebens to anyone who wants to be looked after by someone who is not only good professionally but is also sympathic, kind, and genuinely cares for your wellbeing." Mr RD (Patient)
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The Spice Girls are set to reunite for a world tour- minus Victoria Beckham.
It has been confirmed that the former five-piece girl group will perform in 2016 on what will be 20 years since the release of their debut single Wannabe.
Victoria Beckham- aka Posh Spice- won't be joining Baby Spice, Scary Spice, Ginger Spice and Sporty spice though as she has commitments to her work in fashion.
She showed her support though by Tweeting a throwback photo of an old Spice Girls album captioned, "Love my Spice Girls".
The girls, who sold 85 million records and had nine number ones, are set to make a reported £10m each from the tour.
This will be the first time the girls have worked together since 2012.


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section: Education
Inclusive sex-ed for LGBTQ teens
Sol Kochi Carballo
If you're a teacher, acknowledging that you most likely have an LGBTQ student can give a whole new sense to your sex-ed lessons. It means you understands you're not just teaching straight kids about gay sex, but helping the queer teen in your classroom make smart decisions.
Teachers earn and deserve their holidays
Gillian Bouras
It's that time again, when exhausted teachers are wondering whether they'll make the distance and finish the school year with their sanity more or less intact. It's also the time when they have to endure snide remarks about 'a really cushy job' and 'all those holidays'. But it's not a cushy job. I know: my brother and I were third-generation teachers.
Keys to closing the education gap
Anthony Dillon
We need to change the language from improving 'attendance' to improving 'engagement' — to reflect that schools need to be places of learning for Indigenous children, not just minding centres, and that learning comes with engagement.
Religious freedom can't trump student health
Stevie Troy
This is the influence Christian schools retain under current legislation. Faith-based schools are given the right to maintain teachings around sexuality, but that shouldn't be given higher priority than students' wellbeing. It's why I fell through the gaps. It's why 13 years later I and the public health system are dealing with the consequences.
A student's view of mobile phone bans
Ann Maria Sabu
I did not need to put in much effort to imagine what such a ban would feel like. I have already experienced more rigid when I studied in Dubai and in India. I used to witness more interaction among students and more studious class environments in these places than what I do now in a private Victorian secondary college.
Better conditions, not better pay, for teachers
Tim Hutton
It's a common cry among progressives that teachers should get paid more. In some instances, this is true. What is, however, more pressing are the poor working conditions that force teachers to choose between students and their own wellbeing and lead them to leave the profession in droves.
Business thinking is death to the humanities
Here's a suggestion. In order to halt the seemingly inexorable destruction of the humanities in our secondary schools, we should immediately sack any senior Education Department bureaucrat who has an MBA. Or perhaps they can be forced to reapply, unsuccessfully, for their old jobs. They like that kind of thing.
High school protestors are good citizens
Jo Hart
Despite criticism of past protests by Scott Morrison and Matt Canavan, the next School Strike for Climate is happening Friday 15 March. In the wake of the Covington Catholic High School controversy, how should schools take seriously the challenge of educating students to be engaged citizens responding to urgent issues?
Research funding regime gets personal
Birmingham's intervention, and Tehan's consolidation of that ill-exercised discretion, suggests Australian Research Council funding will be politicised by executive veto. Expertise will be subordinated to the whimsy of the education minister of the day; researchers will be pondering how to shape their applications accordingly.
Three ways to fix our schooling
Pauline Griffiths
Are we clever enough in Australia to reduce the inequity in our schooling in order to help our moderate voters develop a strong narrative of sensible sharing to shape our future? Or, will the inequities in our schools contribute to ever-deepening divisions?
Homophobic prejudice casts a long shadow
Barry Gittins
Next month, it will be two years since Tyrone Unsworth took his own life. He was 13. What makes his case stand out is that his suicide followed years of homophobic bullying, and occurred in the midst of the same sex marriage debate and conservative attacks on Safe Schools. Suicide does not occur in a vacuum.
Catholic schools' quest for LGBTIQ inclusion
Various bishops and Catholic educational leaders last week assured their communities and the Australian public that Catholic schools do not exclude the enrolment LGBTIQ young people. In actual fact, Catholic schools are being encouraged to do more than not exclude.
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International Dot Day With Augmented Reality!
Awesome Autumn Enrichment Offerings In Art!
I'm happy to see the hot, humid weather has broken and the forecast calls for a much cooler week ahead. No need for ice buckets this week! We are, however, introducing sketchbooks and starting first sketchbook projects in 5/6 Art at Miscoe! Please make sure to bring your sketchbook to class every day!
School is open and your kids want you to see where they'll be creating all of their magical artwork this year! Please stop by room #317 to say, "hi" and enjoy a video of the cool things we do in art class. Looking forward to it!


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Q: Angular 9 ng2-smart table I am using ng2-smart-table, I am trying to do server-side pagination & sorting. I am not able to get how to do it? Once I click on page number it should go to the backend. What function/method/event I have to use, when clicked on page or sort it should go to the function which calls API.
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Featured Articles / Lifestyle
Don't Try These 8 Tricks at Singapore's Casinos Unless You Want to Be Arrested
by Gerald Koh / February 19, 2018
"Go big or go home" says the gambler seated beside you at the blackjack table. Everyone knows the odds in a casino are against the player, so you're both probably trying different tricks to win.
Some, like counting cards in your mind, are legal. However, most of the other ways you can think of are probably against the law.
The Casino Control Act (CCA) contains most of the casino-related offences you could get fined or jailed for. You may also be charged under other laws such as the Penal Code or the Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes (Confiscation of Benefits) Act (CDSCA).
What People have Gotten Caught for
8 not-so-lucky ways gamblers have tried to win more at casinos but got themselves arrested, fined or jailed instead are:
1. Sneaking in bets after the dealer reveals the result (also known as past-posting)
In July 2015, a 23-year old man tried to bet $500 after the dealer revealed the winning result of a Sic-Bo game at the Marina Bay Sands (MBS) Casino. He stood to win $25,000 if he was not caught.
However, the dealer caught the man and alerted the pit manager. The CCTV also recorded the past-posting.
He was sentenced to 4 weeks' jail for cheating at play under the CCA.
2. Swapping cards
4 Turkish tourists won $6,075 while playing Three Card Poker in August 2015 by tricking the dealer at the Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) Casino.
One tourist distracted the dealer and another blocked the other patrons' view so the remaining 2 conspirators could exchange cards under the table.
The dealer did not discover what they were doing. However, the RWS surveillance team picked up on their tricks on CCTV. The tourists were sentenced to between 12 weeks' and 6 months' jail for cheating at play.
3. Taking advantage of a system error to obtain more free credits
3 MBS loyalty programme members took advantage of a system glitch to obtain free play credits, which they used to win about $875,133 from electronic roulette machines.
One of them was redeeming her loyalty Sands Bonus Dollars for free play credits when she discovered the glitch. Her redemptions were not recorded because of the glitch and she repeatedly used the glitch to obtain more free play credits.
Instead of informing MBS, she told the other 2 loyalty programme members how to do the same. Together, they obtained $1.029 million worth of free credits from the glitch. They either kept their winnings, transferred their winnings to others or converted them into gaming chips.
Their exploits were later discovered by MBS. They were charged under the CDSCA and sentenced to between 12 to 26 months' jail. They also agreed to return the $875,133 to MBS.
4. Stealing a playing card machine to photograph the cards' sequence
In May 2013, 13 Thai nationals stole a baccarat playing card machine from MBS. They crowded around the cabinet holding the card machines and brought it to their hotel room, where they laid out and photographed the cards in sequence. They then replaced the cards in sequence and put the playing card machine back in the cabinet.
The next day, they played baccarat at the same table as the stolen card machine and won about $1.372 million in 3 hours. Casino staff caught on their scheme after the Thai nationals' actions were recorded on CCTV. They were sentenced to between 12.75 months and 17.25 months jail under the CCA.
5. Making under-the-table deals with the dealer to see the last card in the deck
A Singaporean befriended 3 RWS croupiers and colluded with them to cheat RWS of $12,915 between May and July 2015. While playing Three Card Poker, the dealers flashed the last card in the deck to the gambler in exchange for 20% of his winnings.
The scheme was exposed by CCTV footage which showed the 3 dealers showing the last card in the deck to the gambler.
The gambler was jailed for 12 months. 2 of the dealers were sentenced to 4 and 8 months' jail. The last dealer is on the run.
6. Making under-the-table deals with the dealer to get paid extra chips
2 Chinese students were jailed for 8 and 15 weeks respectively under the CCA for making under-the-table deals with an MBS baccarat dealer between April and May 2016.
The dealer would either overpay their winning bets or not take in the losing bets. At times, the dealer even paid out on losing bets. The dealer would also hand the students extra chips when they were going to convert the chips to cash.
Their scheme obtained them about $19,700. After the chips were converted to cash, they would meet in the MBS hotel toilets to split the money. The dealer was said to be the mastermind and jailed for 8 months and 12 weeks under the Penal Code and the CCA. The 3 of them also paid $20,275 back to MBS.
7. Convincing other players at the table they have lost
In December 2015, 4 men and 2 women from China were charged with cheating at play under the CCA. What they did was to convince other players at the MBS and RWS baccarat tables that these players had lost their bets. They then pocketed their victims' chips.
They reportedly cheated victims of about $700 worth of chips. The 6 suspects were also believed to have cheated other casino patrons by pretending to help them place bets.
8. Using smartphones to record jackpot machines' play patterns
A Czech national and 2 Russians won $108,995 from the jackpot machines (also known as slot machines) at MBS and RWS over 3 days in May 2016 by using their smartphones to film the jackpot machines' play patterns.
They later uploaded the recordings to a server to predict the jackpot machines' mass payouts. The predictions were sent back to the players' smartphones to alert them of the mass payouts.
They were part of a Russian syndicate which paid players 10% of the winnings. All 3 were charged with cheating at play under the CCA. The Czech national was jailed for 22 months. The 2 Russians were sentenced to 45 and 30 months' jail respectively.
The 45-month jail sentence was later reduced on appeal to 38 months after the courts introduced and applied new sentencing guidelines for the offence of cheating at play.
Other Casino Offences
Other illegal behaviour under the CCA include:
Putting fake coins into a jackpot or slot machine
Making fake chips or chip purchase vouchers
Using any device to count or record the cards dealt
Carrying, selling, or buying fake chips to use as real chips (and the use of such fake chips)
Carrying or using tampered cards or dice
Carrying or using anything which could interfere with the casino's games
Tricking the dealer to get more money
Pretending to be casino staff
While the UK Supreme Court has held in a lawsuit against Genting Casinos that edge-sorting by a gambler himself will be considered cheating, it remains to be seen whether Singapore will take the same approach.
Casino Control Act Punishments
Depending on which CCA offence you have been suspected of committing, you can be arrested without a warrant and jailed for up to 7 years, fined up to $150,000, or both.
At the very least, the CCA empowers Singapore casinos to detain you until the police arrives if they suspect you cheated. We don't imagine that's an enjoyable way to spend a free day.
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Right of the top several speakers stepped up during the "Oral Communications" segment - when the public can address anything within the purview of the commission but is not on the current agenda - to offer their views on the announced, but not implemented, new reduced hours for the Volcom Skate Park of Costa Mesa. Among those was Joey Lopez, skater, coach and activist involved with the fledgling interscholastic skate board league that operates primarily out of the Volcom park.
Each speaker agreed with the need to do something to curtail the rogue skaters that have resulted in unsafe conditions at the park, including - according to Chairman Byron de Arakal - several attacks on members of the Costa Mesa Police Department in recent months.
After hearing all the speakers de Arakal thanked them sincerely for coming out to address the issue, and told them he'd like them all to participate in finding a solution by meeting with him and members of the city staff and the CMPD over the next couple months. He said he anticipates a presentation of options at the meeting in January or February.
At these meetings some of the more mundane segments are requests for tree removals around the city. Normally, it involves one or two city-owned trees on public property that are adversely affecting residents nearby because of raised pavement or root incursion somewhere. Last night was very different.
Last night there were two items on the agenda that involved requests to remove multiple trees. The staff report is HERE. The first was for nine (9) trees along Adams Avenue. After much discussion the solution was to remove only a few of the most offensive trees - those whose droppings appeared to constitute a "health and safety" problem. On a 3-2 vote the commissioners agreed to remove those trees at no cost to the homeowner. My perception of the event was that the staff would return at a future date with a landscaping plan for that stretch of Adams that would permit the replacement of the remaining trees - and others nearby - with a more acceptable and less invasive plant selection. Some of the remaining trees are right next to the block wall that forms a sound barrier from the speeding traffic along Adams at that area, so this problem needs to be addressed promptly.
The second "group" issue was the request by residents for the removal of twenty-eight (28) Canary Island Pine trees along Yukon Avenue in the area of Prospect and Klondike, near Bear Street and the 73 Freeway, HERE. This one was really fun because it apparently pitted neighbor against neighbor. Nine residents stood to speak (some of them twice). Among them was Gabrielle Oseguera, who was joined by three other neighbors requesting the removal of the trees because of the litter they dump into their yards and because they block so much sunlight that even weeds won't grow in the shadows they cast.
Following a short break to let the crowd flush out of the chambers - only three of us remained - the commission then heard the staff presentation by Parks Project Manager Bart Mejia, HERE, on the need to update the Open Space Master Plan for Parks and Recreation, HERE - a guiding document for much of what happens throughout the city - that had not been updated for more than a decade. On a 5-0 vote the commission authorized the staff to request from the City Council the preparation of a Request For Proposal (RFP) for a consultant to guide the city through this process, which might take a year or longer.
Then the commissioners heard the Fairview Park Annual Report by Mejia, HERE, that provided a brief description of the eight improvements within the boundaries of Fairview Park in the past year and the nine (9) goals for 2014. You can read all that information on the staff report. Two of the members of the audience stepped up to address the commission about Fairview Park. Cindy Black was strongly critical of the selection of consultants to work at the park, and of Chairman de Arakal for her perception of his vocation. Anna Vrska, a name becoming much more familiar on parks issues these days, took some time to get clarification on the timing of field needs assessment numbers and was told that Recreation Manager Bob Knapp had just about completed his comprehensive study and that a consultant would be retained to perform an independent review of them before presentation to the Fairview Park Citizen Advisory Committee, of which Vrska is a member.
In an amusing moment, Vrska apologized to Vice Chair Kim Pederson for assuming he was a woman during her recent presentation to the Fairview Park group. We all chuckled and Pederson later teased her about it again, and said he "gets that all the time".
Part of this presentation included a recap of anticipated pending expenditures planned for the park this year and next. Among those items on the list is the controversial - and unnecessary, in the minds of more than a few park lovers around town - $650,000 item for parking lot lights in the park. Those opposing this expense indicate that such lighting is unnecessary in a "dawn-to-dusk" park. We were told that the project is being designed now, with attention being given to illumination levels and a sensor system that will increase the light volume when people are present. Again, this park is closed at dusk every night. Proponents say the lights are needed for safety, but nobody from the Police Department has signed in to this issue indicating a need. Cynics think this scheme - a brainstorm by Mayor Pro Tem Steve Mensinger - is simply laying the groundwork for late night use of the parking area as overflow for events - football games - held at adjacent Jim Scott Stadium at Estancia High School.
In any event, we were told that, once the engineering work is complete, the project will be presented to the Fairview Park Citizens Advisory Committee for review before being channeled through the Parks and Recreation Commission to the City Council for approval BEFORE the installation would begin. It is anticipated that the engineering work might be complete early next year.
During his Recreation Managers Report Knapp told us about the new Ambassador program, 10 part-time employees who provide a presence in parks around the city, focusing primarily at Fairview Park, Lions Park and adjacent city facilities, and TeWinkle Park. He described them as "an extra set of eyes" in a program that will require some fine-tuning in the coming months.
He also discussed the on-going massaging of the lights at Harper School fields, including recent visits by commissioners and city staff to work with contiguous residents and users to find a way to mitigate noise from the generators and spillover light into the back yards. Progress is being made.
NUMBER 1 COMING TO TOWN!
He told us that the Jack Hammett Sports Complex will be the training site of the Number 1 ranked college football team - maybe Alabama? - as they prepare for the BCS Championship Game at the Rose Bowl after the first of the year. The facility will be used by that team from December 29th through January 5th. It's my understand that both teams playing in that game will be domiciled in Orange County.
This last meeting of the year for this commission wrapped up just before 9:30. If you want more information about this meeting you can watch the recorded version via CMTV, either on your television or via stream video replay when it's available.
Fifty years ago today I was a carefree young man who had recently received his induction notice to report for duty in the United States Army the middle of December. It was at the early stages of what would become known as the Viet Nam War - a non-declared military action that eventually took more than 58,000 American lives and caused a rift in this country that lasted for a decade. However, at that time not many people would have anticipated how it ended up. Life was good for me.
The morning of November 22, 1963 I was cruising toward Santa Monica in my 1957 Chevrolet convertible, top down, on the way to measure a home for carpet for my father's business - a job I'd held off-and-on between semesters in college and, at that time, prior to joining the Army. It was a typical Southern California day - perfect, except I couldn't find any music on my radio. Finally I just stopped pushing buttons and twisting the dial and listened to the palaver that was coming from my dashboard.
Then I heard the message - President John Fitzgerald Kennedy had been shot in Dallas, Texas. Soon I realized the traffic around me had gradually begun to slow to well-within the legal limits as people heard the news and began to contemplate what it meant.
Eventually I made my way to the tidy neighborhood in Santa Monica and knocked on the door of the home where I was supposed to measure several rooms. An elderly gentleman - probably about my age now - slowly opened the door. He, and his wife standing with him, had tears in their eyes and I could hear the television commentator in the living room behind them speculating about the events in Dallas that morning with a strained note of urgency in his voice.
I offered to reschedule our appointment, recognizing just how distraught they were, but they graciously declined and showed me the rooms to be measured. For the next half-hour or so I went about my job and they sat, holding hands on the couch in the living room, quietly sobbing as the anxious, confused reports continued to spill out of the old black and white television set.
Finally, just before I finished my work, news came that the president had, indeed, died from an assassin's bullet a few minutes earlier. I wrapped up my duties, wiping tears from my eyes, and offered my condolences to my customers before I left.
I don't recall much about my drive back across the Los Angeles basin to my home. My other appointments had been canceled for the day, so I just went home. I do recall wondering what this tragedy meant, for our country and for me, personally. Was it just the beginning of an attack on our country? There was much prattle on the radio and television about that possibility at the time.
I wondered what this event would mean to my enlistment in the Army a few weeks hence. I didn't pay much attention to politics then, but I found myself wondering what kind of president Lyndon Johnson would make, and what kind of a Commander-in-Chief he would be. I later found out.
I suspect memories of that day and subsequent events will creep into my mind from time to time today, just as they have ever since that day fifty years ago. Most of us who were alive and beyond the age of ten years old at the time still recall it vividly. Kennedy's murder, and the subsequent assassinations of his brother, Bobby Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr., left scars on this country that are still visible today.
Remember, this was a time in our country when we were still tense about the Cuban Missle Crisis a year earlier. Just a few months later three young voting rights activists were murdered in Mississippi and a few days before I was discharged from the Army two years hence, a cross was burned on the lawn of a black sergeant at Fort Rucker, Alabama - my final duty post deep in the armpit of the South. These were not good times in our country.
John F. Kennedy's assassination was the beginning of events that changed American society forever, with the advent of the drug culture, riots in large cities across the country and that damnable, divisive Viet Nam War. Four students were killed by skittish National Guardsmen at Kent State University during an anti-war demonstration in 1970. I still contemplate the 10% of the men of my helicopter flight school class who didn't return from Viet Nam. Many members of my generation carry still-festering wounds from that time in their lives.
At 5:30 this evening, at their meeting in the very cozy confines of the Board Room at the district headquarters at 628 W. 19th Street in Costa Mesa, the directors of the Costa Mesa Sanitary District Board will consider a proposal by contract trash hauler CR&R to change the way each of us will be required to handle our trash. I'm not convinced this is a great idea, but need to hear more. Unfortunately, public outreach on this issue has been nearly non-existent. Brad Zint's article the other day in the Daily Pilot, HERE, is the only news I've seen about it.
Presently those of us who are customers of the Costa Mesa Sanitary District just dump ALL our refuse - recyclables, trash and green waste - into one of the cans provided and roll it to the curb on our appointed day. From there CR&R dumps them, hauls them to a transfer point in Stanton where the recyclables are sorted out and the rest is taken to a landfill.
However, the state has mandated that we MUST do a better job of sorting out stuff and reduce the volume taken to landfills by 2020. CR&R wants us to make these changes by 2015. According to Zint's piece, the green waste and other "organics" - food scraps, for example - would be hauled separately to a facility that would process it and produce natural gas - the fuel used for the trash trucks.
This change, which is found on the agenda for the meeting tonight HERE and, specifically, the agenda item HERE, would cost the Sanitary District (us, the ratepayers) $467,417 per year! We would be required to self-sort the organics into a separate can, which will be picked up by a separate truck. Read the staff report for the details.
I'm told that, due to an unanticipated complication with the environmental issue of doubling the number of trash trucks on our streets, this item may be shoved out to a future meeting before the Board votes on it. It WILL be discussed tonight, though, so you'll have the opportunity to express your views to the board during their meeting. If you plan to attend and hope to have a seat, please arrive early. The audience seating in the board room is VERY limited.
Since there seems to be no reason to rush into this decision, we hope the Board will plan some public outreach meetings to gather public input BEFORE they make the final decision on this issue.
IT'S PARKS AND REC TIME AGAIN!
For all you parks fans out there, tonight the Costa Mesa Parks and Recreation Commission will meet again in City Council Chambers beginning at 6:00 p.m. You can read the agenda HERE.
Chairman Byron de Arakal will lead the group through some tree removals and two very important other issues.
Item 9c on the agenda is the Open Space Master Plan for Parks and Recreation, HERE, and the staff is looking for direction from the commission. This document normally is reviewed and updated periodically - usually in 5-7 year intervals. It's past time for this one to get some lovin' care.
The second one is Item 9d, the Fairview Park Annual Report, HERE. I expect more than one or two people will show up to address this issue since the park has been the point of so much controversy in recent months. One item on the "goals" section, number 6, is "Complete the design of approved parking lot lighting" - that $650,000 expenditure for lights in a dawn-to-dusk park.
ALMOST FOUR HOURS OF NUMBERS!
As promised, I attended the Pension Oversight Committee meeting at City Hall yesterday to hear CalPERS actuary Kerry Worgan make a presentation and answer questions. The meeting had been moved ahead to 2:00 in anticipation of a long session. Good move! The meeting took just a hair under four hours! The agenda is HERE.
The entire committee was in attendance except for member Rick Kapko. Neither council liaison Mayor Jim Righeimer nor his alternate, Mayor Pro Tem Steve Mensinger attended the meeting, which I thought was more than a little curious considering the potential wealth of information about to be presented. They may have been out crawling around under their cars, looking for tracking devices. A dozen members of the public and city staffers attended at least half of the meeting. Following the short break at 4:00 it thinned out considerably, with only four of us remaining.
Over the past several months the Pension Oversight Committee met often - very often - trying to get their arms around the true scope of the "pension problem", and specifically the Unfunded Pension Liability problem. They've worked VERY hard on this issue and should be commended.
Part of that work was the compilation of a 12-page document listing 58 questions for CalPERS (or other) experts that needed answering. After unsuccessfully attempting to lure Worgan to town for weeks, yesterday was the day and they were ready for him - loaded for bear, as it were.
Kerry Worgan is "our" CalPERS actuary, charged with supporting cities in his territory, including Los Angeles, Ventura and Orange Counties. He presented his material using a PowerPoint presentation consisting of many slides and handled most of the actuarial questions flawlessly and provided contact information for others - legal questions, for example.
I'm not going to attempt to parrot what Worgan told the committee, nor will I attempt to replicate all the inquiries the members had. All those numbers make my head spin. I will, however, give you my impressions of what I thought were some pretty important points.
First, I came away from the meeting discouraged - not with the efforts of the committee, but from the news shared by Worgan. In a nutshell, and using my words, the City is in a world of hurt. We sit today in the vortex of what turned out to be a perfect storm of fiscal calamity.
In the simplest terms possible, if we have fewer employees our rates go up. If wages stay flat when the formulas anticipate a rise, rates go up. If we increase benefits the rates go up. If the economy tanks causing investment returns to drop, the rates go up. Unfortunately, over the past few years ALL of those things happened and our so-called Unfunded Pension Liability has risen from $9 million ten years ago to over $220 million today!
And, if that's not bad enough, it looks like it's going to get worse. We anticipate an increasing rate of retirements and other departures, further diminishing the pot of pension contributors over the next few months as employees read the Tea Leaves regarding the current labor negotiations and see that the City intends to reduce benefits one way or the other. Just this week four more people announced they will soon be either retiring or quitting for other jobs - these are non-public safety jobs, too. The City has at least 40 open positions among the 450 authorized slots - well down from the peak employment of 611 just a few years ago. Fewer bodies means fewer folks to contribute to the pension costs, which means higher rates for the remaining staffers, even though new hires receive reduced benefits.
Most city employees have not seen pay raises for the past four or five years except for "step raises" within their job categories. Flat salaries means higher rates.
The economy was in bad shape for several years recently resulting in very sub-par investment returns, which means higher rates since the cost of the pensions must be paid by someone.
Of course, we all recall the ill-advised attempt by our mayor to layoff half the "miscellaneous" employees right after he took office. Had he been successful, an unintended consequence would have been a dramatic jump in CalPERS rates for the remaining employees.
There was discussion about "sharing the burden", which meant asking every employee AND retiree to consider accepting reduced benefits. That idea didn't have much traction around the table.
There were discussions of pre-paying the unfunded liability, but the City has only recently begun showing a budget surplus - this year it was $7.1 million. So far, this council has shown no inclination to pay down the pension obligation. They didn't even pay the $500,000 budgeted for the pre-pay last year! In fact, Righeimer has stated publically and in the strongest terms that he's not going to send one extra cent to Sacramento. That makes us wonder if he has ANY plan to manage the pension issue short of municipal bankruptcy.
Eventually the conversation turned to that very issue - municipal bankruptcy - but it was addressed very quietly and without much vigor. This committee has had a "Bankruptcy Workshop" within the past few months. I've said in the past that there are clear signs that the current council majority may be aiming the City in that direction, presuming that could provide a way to wipe clean the labor agreements and allow them to impose their will on the employees. Righeimer has a history of being strongly anti-labor and his actions while on the council have shown that to be true. However, a bankruptcy filing is no guarantee that the pension obligations would be tossed out.
Worgan was cautiously optimistic about the future. Their formulas depend on a 7.5% rate of investment return. This past fiscal year ended with just over 12% and is at just under 9% year-to-date. They look at the long haul while we sweat bullets over how to pay the short-term obligations, which will likely be over $20 million next year.
At one point I asked - yes, they permitted the audience to ask questions - what it would cost if the City decided to abandon CalPERS and simply withdraw from their program. Keep in mind our current unfunded liability is $220 million. The answer I received was imprecise, but close, as Worgan began tallying up the individual contracts in his head. The answer - right at $1 BILLION! Yep, over four times our current unfunded liability! And that's a check we'd have to write to CalPERS to pull out today. So, neighbors, we're not going to be doing that any time soon.
Worgan left with a pile of questions to research for us, and the committee will also attempt to get some guidance from CalPERS legal staffers regarding bankruptcy and other legal issues. Member Gene Hutchins opined that he didn't think the residents of the city would sanction bankruptcy, but there were not many other options presented as they went around the table this afternoon.
In the meantime, I anticipate more employees to leave in the next few months. I think of it as passengers bailing out of an airplane while there is still altitude enough for their parachutes to open. Way back when this council took over I mused that their idea of the perfect city government would be all the jobs outsourced and only Tom Hatch and a handful of contract administrators left to manage things. I thought I was making a joke at the time.... now I'm not so sure.
I'm told this meeting will soon be uploaded to the City website, so just go to the bottom of the homepage to "Costa Mesa TV", click on that link and look for "video on demand". It's long and the numbers will have your head spinning - and you'll likely end up as I did - very depressed.


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Tracey Spicer Set To Expose Men In Media
Australia's media and entertainment industries are bracing for an expose (names and all) of scores of men alleged to have been involved in the sexual abuse of hundreds of women in the workplace.
Leading the attack is former Network Ten newsreader Tracey Spicer.
Now a freelance writer, speaker, media trainer and broadcaster through her two media companies, Spicer Communications and Outspoken Women, Spicer has enlisted the help up to 400 women who say they were victims of assault while working in the media and entertainment industries.
Spicer has put together a team of police, legal representatives, witnesses and victims all ready to go on the record. Many of the sexual assault stories outlined to Spicer allegedly involve the same 40 offenders.
Spicer, a broadcast journalist with twenty years experience, has for the past few years focused on advocacy work on behalf of female victims of sexism.
Her incredible TEDX talk is called The Lady Stripped Bare and she continued to speak out against workplace misogyny in her book The Good Girl Stripped Bare. It's no wonder these 400 women are trusting her with their stories.
Tracey has two children – Taj who is 12 and Grace who is 11.
"And this is the main reason why we do it, isn't it," Spicer told 9Honey. Australia's leading women's network covering news, opinion, homes, food, fitness, travel, parenting, fashion and beauty.
"Aside from protecting women in the workforce now, we want to ensure our children are safe when they go into the workforce, particularly our daughters," said Spicer. She says by the time her daughter enters the workforce, she doesn't want her to have to go through similar experiences Spicer was forced to endure as a young journalist.
"I don't want her to have to go in there and put up with the groping, the grabbing, the threats of rape that go on in workplaces that go on when there is a huge power disparity between male bosses and younger female employees," she said.
Spicer's quest to bring perpetrators of sexual abuse and assault in the Australia media and entertainment industries to justice began during a visit to a police station. She was there researching a story on cyberbullying.
"An officer who worked with victims of sexual assault brought up the Harvey Weinstein scandal, saying she was surprised a similar outcry against perpetrators of sexual abuse hadn't happened in the Australian entertainment and media industries," she said.
The officer told Spicer to tell anyone who reached out to her that there is no statute of limitations for the vast majority of these cases. "If something happened 30 or 40 years ago, tell them to go to their local police station and report it," Spicer was told in what she describes as a real "light bulb moment" for her.
"A lot of the time these things happened years ago and get swept under the carpet because that was the workplace culture at the time. But can I tell you that the same people who were offending in workplaces 30 or 40 years ago are still doing it in media workplaces now, and I've got countless examples of that."
Despite the hundreds of cases she and her team are already dealing with, Spicer says they are keen for more. "Even if it happened all those years ago, please come to me or report it to the police or report it to your union or report it to your workplace because this person, it's likely they are still offending now," she said.
Of the 400 victims, Spicer says they are aged from anywhere in their twenties to their sixties. Some were hair and makeup artists. Others were producers, personal assistants, executive assistants and young journalists.
When it comes to the historic cases, Spicer says the victims told her the behaviour was so pervasive they thought it was "normal" and they "just got used to it."
There are many more victims of workplace sexual assault and abuse who are yet to come forward, and they may never do.
For those accusing Spicer of a witch-hunt which will result in men feeling as though they can't even ask a female colleague out on a date, the broadcast journalist explains why they have nothing to fear.
"We're not trying to restrict human behaviour. We're trying to restrict criminal behaviour," she told 9Honey.
"What we're talking about are the kind of things that really do lead into the narrative that leads to sexual assault of women. The demeaning treatment of women, the pinging of the bra strap, the tickling under the arms that ends up being a groping of the breasts…these are the sorts of stories I hear an awful lot."
In many of the cases that have been reported to Spicer, the most serious ones involve rape.
"There have been dozens of allegations of rape," she said. "It doesn't get more serious than this."
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Elizabeth, the Queen
Alison Weir (Autor)
Elizabeth the Queen begins as the young Elizabeth ascends the throne in the wake of her sister Mary's disastrous reign - both a woman and a queen, Elizabeth's story is an extraordinary phenomenon in a patriarchal age.
From Elizabeth's intriguing, long-standing affair with Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, to her dealings - sometimes comical, sometimes poignant - with her many suitors, her rivalry with Mary, Queen of Scots, and her bizarre relationship with the Earl of Essex, thirty years her junior, here, in rich, vivid and colourful detail, Alison Weir helps us comes as close as we shall ever get to knowing what Elizabeth I was like as a person .
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Many publications are available to assist local businesses and residents with food safety issues.
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Information for managers on requirements for food handlers is available in our Fitness to Work Managers Responsibilities leaflet. Similar advice for employees can also be found in our Fitness to Work Employees Responsibilities leaflet.
New guidance on preventing cross-contamination by E.Coli O157 has been published by the Food Standards Agency and there is also an easy to read fact sheet.
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Genre: Mid-20th century
Alec Rowley was born in London on 13 March 1892, teacher, composer, organist, pianist, lecturer and writer, who studied at the RAM with Frederick Corder and where he won sundry scholarships and prizes. He was an organist at several London churches including, during the Second World War, St Margaret's, Westminster. He died on 11 January 1958 while playing tennis.
The setting of "The Sixty-Fifth Psalm" dates from 1956, and is one of two "programmatic" organ works by Rowley. The other is "Song of Creation", which you can find here:
http://www.contrebombarde.com/concerthall/music/22538
I added the (for Thanksgiving" in the title, but in reality, Psalm 65 isn't "for" Thanksgiving. The text of it is often associated with harvest festivals, as it deals with the Lord "visiting the earth" and blessing it with abundance.
Well, this piece has some "nice, happy" sections, but it also has ceremonial processional fanfares that "praise God in Sion," not to mention the heartfelt, beautiful section of contrition, "my misdeeds prevail against me."
All that being said, the section that depicts the RAGING of the sea is really something to behold! It's both awesome and awful, and note how the ocean works up to a tremendous and terrifying climax, before gradually subsiding and coming to rest. This section is Rowley at his most spectacular.
Peaceful contentment leads to increased joy, and the work builds to a triumphant conclusion, stretched out on the two final chords, before the 32' reed finally finishes this exceptional work.
As in "Song of Creation," Rowley has written in the text that he is depicting in the music. Since the score is attached, you can follow exactly the "program" if you'd like, but even without the "script," you can certainly and easily tell just what's what!
As mentioned, the score is attached below, as well as the ONLY photo of Alec Rowley that I have.
Early Happy Thanksgiving to All!
More Thanksgiving music and more ROWLEY RIOT to come! :-)
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Crown towing to remain New Haven's towing contractor
Outside Crown Towing in New Haven.Esteban L. Hernandez — New Haven Register
NEW HAVEN >> Crown Auto Center will continue serving as the city's exclusive car hauling contractor for at least one more year, after the city chose a renewal option keeping the company through the 2017-18 fiscal year.
Senior Assistant Corporation Counsel Kathleen Foster said this week the city's agreement with Crown Towing was a one-year agreement signed in 2013 that allows for four annual renewals after its first year. Until city purchasing agent Michael V. Fumiatti took another look at the contract, there had been some confusion over whether a new RFP — and potentially a new towing contractor — would be available this spring.
"Every year, the agreement ends and it's up to the city if they want to renew it," Foster said.
During a budget workshop last month, City Transportation Director Doug Hausladen told the Finance Committee he believed the city's agreement expired this year but that there were provisions for an additional renewal.
"Someone took the four years and took four years, but really it's five," Fumiatti said. "So there's one more renew left. This would be the one left."
The upcoming contract renewal is the final one under the current RFP with Crown Towing. Fumiatti said once it's completed, a new RFP will be issued sometime in 2018.
A one-year agreement with contractors is common, Foster said.
"The city contracts, in general, run for one year," Foster said. "Each year, the option to renew is the city's choice."
Fumiatti isn't necessarily expecting to be flooded with new contract bids once the city reopens its process next year.
The last time the city put the contract out to bid, Fumiatti said Crown Towing was the only company that submitted a completed package. One other company submitted a bid, but it was incomplete.
The towing company frequently is the target of residents' angst, who must pay towing fees and sometimes even fork over unpaid car taxes.
"It's certainly not a pleasant situation to have happen," Fumiatti said. "I don't think it matters who is the contractor who is towing. It will be an issue."
An employee Wednesday said Crown Towing had no comment.
Reach Esteban L. Hernandez at 203-680-9901.


This page has been developed by the Westford Health Department to provide you with access to reliable tick disease information, disease prevention and safe and effective tick control methods (Last revision: June 26, 2015).
Tick borne illnesses are of great concern in Westford, as they are in most of Massachusetts as well as the northeastern part of the United States.
Ticks can be found in tall grassy fields. Neither type of ticks can jump or fly. They wait with their front arms out to attach to animals or people passing by. Lone Star ticks (found on Cape Cod) are known to be aggressive feeders also. For more information on specific Tickborne Diseases, click on the hyperlink.
Watch this "How to Remove a Tick" video.
Visit Tick Report to order a comprehensive report about what disease causing microbes the tick may be carrying. With Health Department discounted program, your final cost is $20. Standard cost is $50.
Presented by Dr. Alfred DeMaria, Jr., M.D. on May 7, 2012. Although this program was geared towards medical personnel, the lay person can learn a great deal about the progression of tick borne infections over the years, the types of infections we see in Massachusetts, the symptoms and treatments, and prevention. This video is available on Westford CAT.


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Q: PowerShell Invoke-RestMethod truncates last period I've noticed a strange behavior with Invoke-RestMethod, where the last period of the -Uri parameter is truncated.
For example:
Invoke-RestMethod -Method Get -Uri http://example.com/this.
Looking at Fiddler, the request goes to http://example.com/this where the last period is removed.
What is puzzling is that this behavior is only present when running the method on PowerShell, but not on PowerShell ISE.  Both PowerShell and PowerShell ISE are using the same engine version.
 Major  Minor  Build  Revision
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Someone mentioned this phenomenon here, but it was never answered.  I tried to encode the string using UriBuilder but the issue is still present.  What could be happening here??


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Apurva Chandra, Secretary, MInistry of Information & Broadcasting addressed the film associations in Mumbai and Chennai on the proposed amendments to the Cinematograph Act, 1952 and other issues of film industry.
The Union government will take every measure to facilitate the film industry, Information and Broadcasting Ministry Secretary Apurva Chandra said.
He addressed the film associations through video conferencing on the proposed amendments to the Cinematograph Act, 1952 and other issues of film industry, at separate events in Mumbai and Chennai.
While interacting with the members of the South Indian film industry representatives, he assured the film fraternity that the ministry is conducting this kind of interaction to ensure that the film industry is cherished and ensure that the Indian film reaches the international markets.
He said that the ministry is taking many initiatives to upgrade the film sector. As part of the initiative, the ministry has already merged the film media units under NFDC.
The issues with respect to proposed cinematograph amendment bill and anti-piracy issues will be addressed after consultation with the stakeholders of the industry, he added.
Additional Secretary Neerja Sekhar, who chaired the meeting, discussed the initiatives taken by the ministry and various central sector schemes being implemented with respect to the film industry including incentives for shooting a foreign films in India and organising a global media and entertainment summit.
Issues pertaining to obtaining CBFC certificate, screen density issues, permission from Animal Welfare Board and location permission were also discussed during the interaction. Around 50 representatives from the southern film industry participated in this interaction.
Followed by Chennai meet, a similar event was held in Mumbai, where Chandra assured the film fraternity that suitable amendments would be proposed to the Cinematograph Act 1952 to combat film piracy and said the issues with respect to proposed Cinematograph Amendment Bill and anti-piracy issues will be addressed after consultation with the stakeholders of the industry.
An Expert Committee under the Chairmanship of Justice Mukul Mudgal was constituted in 2013 to examine the issues of certification under the Cinematograph Act, 1952. Another Committee of Experts was set up under the Chairmanship of Shri Shyam Benegal in 2016 to evolve broad guidelines for certification within the ambit of the Cinematograph Act and Rules. Among the recommendations is the age based certification of films.
Secretary Chandra also spoke about the merger of four film media units namely Films Division, Directorate of Film. Festivals, National Film Archives of India, and Children's Film Society, India with the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) Ltd. He expressed that the basic objective is NFDC should become the entity through which the revenues from the film sector can be utilized for development of the film sector. He went on to say that none of the existing schemes is being discontinued. "We will strengthen NFDC so that they can rotate staff and deliver on the responsibilities assigned to them."
Speaking about the Finance Minister's announcement of setting up an Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming, and Comic (AVGC) Promotion Task Force, he informed that the Ministry is working on its Terms of Reference. "We hope to set up this Task Force in this month itself, so that work can begin and we are able to utilize the potential of the sunrise sector."
Chandra expressed happiness that the industry is satisfied with the streamlining of the film certification processes by CBFC.
Chairperson, CBFC Prasoon Joshi said that the change in design of the film certificate is symbolic of what the Board seeks to achieve, in terms of making processes seamless, digital and more stakeholder-friendly. "The process of certification has been smoothened as much as possible; while we continue to need human intervention for watching the films and certifying it, we have streamlined the system so as to speed up other parts of the process", he added.
Ravindra Bhakar, CEO, CBFC, briefed about the journey of the certification body and its adaptations in view of new challenges. He also spoke about the digitisation in certification process and move towards further transparency and measures towards ease of doing business.
Additional Secretary Neerja Shekhar, who chaired the meeting, discussed the initiatives taken by the Ministry and various central sector schemes being implemented with respect to the film industry including incentives for shooting foreign films in India and organising a global media & entertainment summit.
She also pointed out the requirement for increasing the density of screens. "The Government is planning to come up with single window clearances for opening of film theatres and also for event management." She also informed that ideas are being sought for setting up rural theatres and mobile screens in order to achieve this objective. "We are going to work in a big way in increasing theatre density, in collaboration with states and UTs," she mentioned.
Shekhar also spoke about the incentives under audio visual services of Champion Services Sector Scheme. "Audio Visual Services is one of the 12 champion service sectors which the government seeks to promote," she said. The Government has approved financial incentives for co-production of films in countries with which India has co-production agreements. "For audio visual co-production with foreign countries, reimbursement of up to Rs. 2 crore or 30% for Rs. 25 crore budget film is available. Similar incentive is available for shooting foreign films in India."
Talking about participation of Indian films and filmmakers in foreign film festivals, the Additional Secretary said that there is a need to increase screening of Indian films at international film festivals and showcase India's soft power. "We need specific content from industry which helps showcase Indian films to foreign countries where the demand for Indian films is present." She stressed the need to focus on specific markets which demand Indian content.
British Actor Jeremy Irons Will Be the Jury President of Berlinale 2020
Get Your Film Take Wings at Virtual Film Bazaar


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Q: New-NetLbFoTeam: Unknown or Random InterfaceAlias names I'm trying to automate the create of a NIC team during an unattended Windows Server 2012 R2 install.
I've got the following PowerShell code:
New-NetLbFoTeam -Name "LANTeam" -TeamMembers "Ethernet", "Ethernet 2" -TeamNicName "LAN" -TeamingMode SwitchIndependent -LoadBalancingAlgorithm TransportPorts -Confirm:$false -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

That works well for my Dell servers, but the HP servers Windows randomly gives InterfaceAliases to. One install Ethernet 2 could be the Broadcom, the next it could be the NC373i card.
What I'm trying to accomplish is set the -TeamMembers parameter to be the two NICs that match "HP NC373i*" wildcard for the InterfaceDescription, or have a valid DHCP address. The other team I'll do something similar, but don't retrieve a valid IP address.
I've tried setting a hash table, but not getting it to stick in there correctly.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

A: I was able to figure it out on my own. I output the get-netadapter output to a variable, and added that:
$adapters = Get-netAdapter –InterfaceDescription "HP NC*"

$nicList = @()
Foreach ($nic in $adapters) {$nicList += $nic.Name}

$team = New-NetLbfoTeam -Name "LANTeam" -TeamNicName "LAN" -TeamMembers ($nicList) -TeamingMode SwitchIndependent -LoadBalancingAlgorithm HyperVPort -Confirm:$false


Barnette Magnet School is a choice school, for students in Kindergarten through 8th grade. In order to be eligible to apply to attend Kindergarten, children must be five years old on or before September 1st preceding the beginning of the school year. Children must be 6 years old on or before September 1st to attend first grade. Upon enrollment, a copy of the child's birth certificate is required for each student new to the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District. All new students must submit proof of immunization or a waiver before being admitted into school.
Applications for Barnette Magnet School 2019-20 lottery will be available January 10, 2019. The deadline to submit an application is March 10, 2019 at 3:00 PM.
The lottery for 2019-20 will be held at 12 p.m. on March 29, 2019.
2.) Download an application, beginning January 10th, 2019.
Barnette Magnet School has a small zone within walking distance of the school that is considered to be the attendance area for students in grades K-6. K-6 students who reside in the attendance area may enroll at Barnette Magnet School. Attendance area students must still submit an application, but do not go through the lottery process. Attendance area students must provide proof of physical address, a utility bill such as water, electric or gas. Proof of physical address will be requested at the start of each school year, and upon request at the start of each quarter. To verify the attendance area, contact the FNSBSD Transportation Department at 452-2000 or on the website under "Find your Bus". Barnette does not have an attendance area for 7th or 8th grades, Ryan Middle School is the attendance area school for those grades.
When an attendance area student has a change of address during the school year resulting in out-of-area attendance, a completed out-of-attendance area application is required to be on file with the principal. If attendance and behavior requirements are met, the student may remain at Barnette for the remainder of that school year. The parent must submit an application by the lottery deadline and go through the lottery process to continue enrollment for subsequent years. Continued enrollment at Barnette is not guaranteed. If not chosen in the lottery, the student will be transferred to their new attendance area school.
Most students who attend Barnette Magnet School do not reside in the attendance area. It is the policy of the Magnet School to accept out of attendance area students through an application process. Anyone who is eligible to attend school in the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District may submit an application to Barnette Magnet School. Due to limited space available, there will be a lottery held each spring. During the lottery, all completed applications received by the corresponding deadline will be drawn randomly by grade level for available space. When there are more applications than space available a grade specific wait list will be created.
Completed applications submitted by the deadline will be entered in the lottery. The lottery will be held for enrollment for the following fall and will be conducted in accordance with district policy. The lottery determines the wait list for the following school year. Sibling preference is not initiated from the wait list.
It is the parent/guardian responsibility to ensure that the information provided on the application is correct. Students will be entered in the lottery for the grade applied for. Students may not apply for multiple grades. Applications must be completed by a parent with custodial authority or by a legal guardian.
Applications for full time enrollment are separated by grade. The grade levels are entered in an initial lottery to determine the order in which grades will be drawn during the lottery. When the grade is drawn, all applications submitted for that grade will be randomly drawn to fill any known openings and order a wait list.
In support of the family, Barnette Magnet School does give preference to siblings. Although all new applicants must meet application requirements, future students who already have siblings enrolled in the school are given priority to enroll in Barnette Magnet School, given that space is available at the sibling's grade level during the lottery process. Siblings are defined as permanent, immediate, legal family members. During the lottery, if an applicant is drawn for a known opening, any sibling applications will be moved to the next available opening for their grade, or the highest space available on the wait list. There may be more than one sibling on the wait list. Sibling preference does not guarantee enrollment. Sibling preference is not initiated once the wait list is established.
Barnette Magnet School maintains a waiting list of students who have applied, but were not chosen through the lottery. The wait list is used to fill the vacancies that may occur during the school year. Vacancies will not be filled after the start of the fourth quarter. Wait lists do not carry over for the next year's lottery. Students will be called on an individual basis in the order placed on the wait list as grade level openings become available. Once contact has been made via phone call, text and/or email, the family has 24 hours to accept. If no response is received after 24 hours, the next student on the wait list will be offered the opening. Students on the wait list do not move upon the admission of a family member. All unsuccessful applicants are welcome to reapply for the lottery the following year.
Once accepted through the lottery and enrolled at Barnette Magnet School, students are re-enrolled the following year dependent upon attendance, behavior, and transportation compliance. Each year parents must complete an "Intent to Return" form, which includes the Out of Attendance Area Agreement, and be willing to adhere to the behavioral and attendance policies there-in. Parents are expected to notify the school of any educational change in plans. Siblings new to the school must submit an application prior to the deadline. Attendance area students who have a change of address during the school year will need to apply for a space through the lottery if they desire to continue enrollment at Barnette. Continued enrollment is not guaranteed when a student moves out of the attendance area as is customary at all FNSB schools.
If a student withdraws from Barnette Magnet School to attend another school or homeschool, they must complete the application and lottery process to be readmitted to Barnette and sibling preference may not be used to gain readmittance.
Children of ESSA & FEA staff who are employed at Barnette are given preference in accordance with the current contracts.
Applications received after the application deadline will be accepted but will not be processed until after the lottery. All late applicants will be placed at the end of the wait list in the order received. Sibling preference will not be given to late applicants.
Barnette Magnet Lottery will be held at Barnette Magnet School, on March 29th, 2018, at 12 noon. The lottery is open to the public. Results of the Barnette Magnet School lottery will be mailed within a week of the lottery. Results of the lottery will be mailed by Friday April 7. Please do not phone for lottery results.
Barnette Magnet School does not discriminate toward any individual as defined in District Policy 1011 nor does it require any student to attend the program.
The 2019-2020 application for the Barnette Magnet School Lottery will be available on January 10, 2019. Paper applications are available at Barnette.
The last day to turn in an application is March 8, 2019 at 3:00 pm. Applications submitted after this time will be added to the bottom of the appropriate grade waitlist after the lottery has been drawn and numbered.
We ask that paper applications be delivered to Barnette Magnet School by hand. On-line submitted applications are submitted on the computer.
Contact (907)456-6072 for more information.
We will be giving school tours on Tuesday Feb 19th at 6:30pm and Wednesday Feb 27th at 10:30am. No registration is required.


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Four Thieves Vinegar
Review By Liz Dyer
The Black Death is one of those subjects you learn about at school, but how many of us have really thought about what it would have been like to live through? In Four Thieves Vinegar, Christine Foster and director Adam Bambrough of The 42nd Theatre Company transport us to a grimy cell in Newgate Prison, which has ironically come to represent one of the few places to offer freedom from the plague – for now, at least…
As the situation outside the prison walls worsens, the cell's three prisoners and their jailer grow increasingly desperate to find a cure, whilst also dealing with their own personal dramas in a plot that twists and turns at sometimes quite dizzying speed. Will any of them make it out of the cell – and the city – alive?
Tales of plague-ridden London were Christine Foster's inspiration to write the play, so it's no surprise that this is where the story's strongest. Because we never leave the cell, we – like the prisoners – have to rely on infrequent reports from outside as and when they come; this not only reveals the ever-increasing scale of the epidemic, but also means the characters can discuss what's going on at some length without it sounding unnatural. And it's all really interesting (if slightly macabre); I actually think this would be a great play for a school party to watch, because it really puts all those numbers you hear in class into some perspective, and makes you consider the true impact of such a deadly plague.
Not just the Black Death?
But it's not just the Black Death our characters have to deal with – they all have their own personal issues going on too, although we don't necessarily get into these as much as we could because the play necessarily devotes so much time to discussing the progress of the plague. Nick Howard-Brown's Matthias is an alchemist who's spent all his money trying to find a cure for the disease, though it's never totally clear if his intentions are altruistic or selfish, or a bit of both. Bruce Kitchener's amiable jailer Simon has a daughter on the other side of the world that he longs to see again, and there's a big secret between the pregnant Jennet (Kate Huntsman) and nurse Hannah (Pip Henderson) that only really starts to be revealed about halfway through, and then doesn't have a lot of time to develop.
These backstories fulfil an important purpose – without them the plot would just be four people sat in a cell waiting for the plague to kill them off – but could do with fleshing out a bit; I'd happily have stayed an extra half an hour to really get to the bottom of what's motivating everyone to behave as they do. The cast do a great job of making what are on paper quite unsavoury characters likeable and sympathetic enough that we genuinely want them to survive, with Pip Henderson's sharp-tongued Hannah a particular favourite of mine.
Four Thieves Vinegar Photo Credit Cinzia D'Ambrosi
Appropriate setting
The Barons Court Theatre could hardly be a more appropriate setting for this play, with its cramped space and low, arched ceilings – and the combined efforts of Sally Hardcastle (set and costumes) and Will Alder (sound and lighting) transform the production into something truly special. It's murky and filthy – at one point I was sure I could even smell the pungent aroma of disease and unwashed bodies – and really does feel like walking into an underground dungeon, with the sounds of prison and city life outside the door gradually fading as the weeks pass and the plague takes hold.
Four Thieves Vinegar is an impressive debut from both Christine Foster and The 42nd Theatre Company, painting an authentic picture of an episode from history most of us rarely give much thought to. I'd love to get to know the characters a little better, but nonetheless came away feeling thoroughly entertained – and educated.


are 1 3⁄4" wide and 66'' long they can be made longer or shorter, call for options. Each belly is cut to approximately 1" thick and is ready to tiller and finish. Tools required are a rasp and scrapper. Each kit comes with a piece of leather for the handle wrap and an artificial sinew tillering string and artificial sinew lacing the handle.