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Kiwanis Club hosts Kingsport mayoral candidates
Matthew Lane • Mar 30, 2019 at 8:30 AM
mlane@timesnews.net
KINGSPORT — The five candidates running for mayor in the upcoming city election fielded questions from the Kingsport Kiwanis Club on Friday, with issues ranging from the condition of our roads, to whether the city and county are cooperating well enough, to what exactly is the best use of the General Shale property.
Kiwanians held their third candidate forum Friday afternoon with all five candidates in attendance: Joe Carr, Dennis Mabb, Mike McIntire, Pat Shull and Nathan Vaughn. Forums were held earlier this month for the candidates running for alderman and the Kingsport Board of Education.
Mayoral candidates were asked seven questions, and they presented opening and closing remarks. Below are some of the questions and notable comments from each of the candidates:
THE ROLE OF MAYOR
Carr said the role of mayor is to set the tone and the agenda for the community. "I plan on doing that by ushering in a small business and arts and culture renaissance. We need growth, more jobs and putting people back to work."
"The mayor is the public face of the city," McIntire said. The mayor serves on a number of commissions, chairs the Board of Mayor and Aldermen meetings and has many responsibilities. But when it comes to voting, the mayor has one vote, just like the other aldermen, he said.
One critical difference between the mayor and the aldermen is the mayor has the bully pulpit, Vaughn said, and is able to be the city's cheerleader. "We need someone who gets up and believes in this community, someone who is willing to support this community with all its being."
"I believe strongly in the council/manager form of government," Shull said. "I'm prepared to provide some practical, principled leadership. I expect the mayor to lay out the agenda, but not micro-manage the city manager. It's all about leadership and I've got the background to do that."
DO KINGSPORT AND SULLIVAN COUNTY COOPERATE?
"I don't think they're working together very well," said Mabb. "If they could work together on our roads, pay attention to that, I think we can get a lot further."
"I think the city and county work together on a great many things. We communicate well and I think we'll continue to do that as we move forward," McIntire said.
Shull said the city and county haven't always had the best relationship, but that there is the potential to work better together. "I'd like to see the county join PETWORKS and ... work together on emergency services. There's no reason why the city fire department can't cover the rural parts of the county near the city limits."
There can never be enough cooperation between the city and county, Vaughn said.
"We need to reach out to Sullivan County to mend the fences of our relationship," Carr said.
WHAT SHOULD BE DONE WITH THE GENERAL SHALE PROPERTY?
McIntire said the future for the site "remains to be seen." Kingsport is evaluating it as a potential site for a new minor league baseball stadium that could double as an outdoor venue space. "At this point, I'm still on the fence with what we're going to do with it."
Shull said the citizens of Kingsport that he has spoken with are appalled about the purchase and what's being proposed for the site. "Their No. 1 issue is potholes and fixing the streets. I'm getting tired of Third World comparisons about Kingsport."
Opportunities need to be consistent with what the people in our community want, Vaughn said. "Seven people do not determine what the community wants and needs. We need to evaluate what has become the priorities."
"Building a baseball stadium is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard," Carr said, almost as much as a sidewalk on Stone Drive or a bike lane on Center Street. "If we want to bring more tourists to Kingsport, we need to expand Fun Fest, bring in more concerts and get an AAF (Alliance of American Football) team to play at J. Fred Johnson Stadium."
Mabb said Kingsport should get the roads looking good, then the city can go from there. Using the General Shale property for some other type of development would be better, he said. "We've got one (stadium) that's hardly used now. I'd rather see the roads being fixed."
MOVING CITY HALL TO THE REGIONS BANK BUILDING?
"With all of the priorities, we need to make sure the people of the city understand the issue and that they're on board with whatever our decisions are," Vaughn said. "It's their money and we need to be good stewards."
"I think it's a great idea," Carr said. "If we can consolidate all of the departments of city government under one roof and use the old city hall building to help out the community, help out the homeless, I think its a wonderful move."
Mabb said it's the right move, given a lot of people are working in different buildings. "They can't communicate well, so it's a good idea. The other buildings, we need to renovate into workable spaces for rental."
The Regions Bank building was the best choice for consolidation and has the advantage of bringing all city staff together in one place, McIntire said. "It should improve communications and let us reduce our staff. It's a good idea, great location and will make city government more efficient."
RECRUITING & RETAINING RETIREES?
When going through the city budget, Shull said he was surprised to see that only $25,000 was allocated for Move to Kingsport. "That's one area I would put more money into. If we recruit more seniors, they create more jobs because they use services."
"Retirees are looking for things like the YMCA, the Aquatic Center and the Blake. I think we're heading in the right direction on that," Mabb said.
McIntire said Kingsport is reaching out and is very attractive for retirees, especially folks from high tax states. "But we have to have things for younger folks, we have to have jobs and I think once (people come to Kingsport) they'll stay."
Vaughn said Kingsport needs to make sure it understands the healthcare dilemma in our region before going out and recruiting more seniors. "We need to think about the priorities that are in place to make sure we do what's right for the citizens of our community."
THE MAYORAL CANDIDATES
Joe Carr: a 2014 graduate of Dobyns-Bennett High School and future student of East Tennessee State University.
Dennis Mabb: owner of Waste Knot Solutions
Mike McIntire: current vice-mayor, retired from Eastman
Pat Shull: retired U.S. Army colonel, former alderman and current Sullivan County commissioner
Nathan Vaughn: former state representative, former Kingsport vice-mayor, insurance agent
Municipal elections in Kingsport, Bristol and Bluff City will take place on May 21. In Kingsport, four seats are up for grabs on the Board of Mayor and Aldermen: ones currently held by Mayor John Clark, Vice-Mayor Mike McIntire, Alderman Joe Begley and Alderman Tommy Olterman.
Three seats on the Kingsport Board of Education are also on the ballot: those currently held by Todd Golden, Susan Lodal and Karen Reed-Wright.
Three incumbents have chosen not to seek re-election: Lodal and Reed-Wright on the BOE and first term Alderman Joe Begley.
Early voting begins May 1 in Blountville and May 9 in Kingsport and Bristol and continues through May 16. The deadline to register to vote in the municipal elections is April 22.


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"My art is about seeing yourself seeing."
Text by Carmen Giménez, Nat Trotman, Arthur Zajonc.
The artist's first solo exhibition in a New York museum since 1980, James Turrell considers his long-standing explorations of perception, light, color and space with special attention to the role of site-specificity in his practice. Local audiences find new occasion to experience his work through a major new project created especially for the Guggenheim, Aten Reign (2013), recasting the museum's rotunda as a volume of shifting natural and artificial light. One of the most dramatic transformations of the museum ever conceived, the installation reimagines Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic architecture--its openness to nature, its graceful curves, its magnificent sense of space and light--as one of Turrell's Skyspaces. Experienced for the first time only from below, the rotunda appears not as an open void but as a mass of vibrant color that expands and contracts above the heads of visitors, and at the installation's core, daylight from the museum's oculus connects the work to the outside environment. Through these interventions, Turrell rekindles the museum's identity as a "temple of spirit" (to quote the museum's first director, Hilla Rebay), encouraging a state of meditative contemplation. This full-color catalogue accompanies the exhibition at the Guggenheim, detailing the production of the rotunda installation and situating it in the context of Turrell's career. In addition to beautifully reproduced images featuring the artist's early works, his magnum opus Roden Crater Project (1979– ), and documentation of Aten Reign, this volume includes essays by the show's curators, Stephen and Nan Swid Curator of Twentieth-Century Art, Carmen Giménez, and Associate Curator Nat Trotman, and Arthur Zajonc, Emeritus Professor of Physics at Amherst College.
As an undergraduate, James Turrell (born 1943) studied psychology and mathematics, transitioning to art at MFA level. A practicing Quaker, one of his earliest memories is of his grandmother inviting him to "go inside and greet the light" at Quaker meetings. The recipient of several prestigious awards such as Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships, Turrell lives in Arizona.
The catalogue produced at the Guggenheim situates 'Aten Reign' (2013), an installation created specifically for the museum, in the context of Turrell's previous works, while an entire section is devoted to Roden Crater, Turrell's naked-eye observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., a Land art project perpetually in progress.
Starting in May 2013, James Turrell will be lighting up museums across the country. Three successive Turrell exhibitions are taking place: the first in Los Angeles at LACMA, the second in Houston at the MFA and the Guggenheim in New York. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity to view this many of Turrell's immersive light environments over one period of time. This is the catalogue to the Guggenheim leg of the trip.
Most of Turrell's key site-specific installations are outside major cities. His most ambitious and continuing project is at Roden Crater in Arizona, where he designed and excavated a multi-chambered, naked-eye observatory out of an extinct volcanic crater. Recognizing the challenge of accommodating his expansive vision within the confines of a single museum, the organizers passed over the standard model of a single traveling retrospective in favor of this collaboration of complementary exhibitions.
The Guggenheim will have the most anticipated of any of these shows. For the exhibition, Turrell is creating a major new skylight installation called Aten Reign, designed specifically for the museum's central rotunda. Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic design will be revealed anew through beaming spectrums of light mixed with the natural illuminations from the building's skylight.
Over the years we've had a few Turrell catalogues from European venues. This is the first from a major U.S. museum and the Guggenheim exhibition marks the first New York show of his work since 1980.
Text by Markus Brüderlin, Richard Andrews, Annelie Lütgens.
Text by William P. Banks, Jimena Blázquez, James Turrell, Sharon G. Goto, Michael Govan.
Edited by Ursula Sinnreich. Text by Gernot Böhme, Julian Heynen, Agostino de Rosa.
Edited by Wolfgang Hausler. Essays by Andrea Jonas-Edel, Karl Karau, Jan Linders, Klaus Reese. Introduction by Bernd Bauer.
Edited by Peter Noever. Essays by Daniel Birnbaum, Georges Didi-Huberman, Michael Rotondi, Paul Virilio.
Edited by Michael Hue-Williams. Texts by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Robert Solso.
Artwork by James Turrell. Edited by Peter Noever. Contributions by Georges Didi-Huberman. Text by Daniel Birnbaum, Paul Virilio.
FORMAT: Clth, 10 x 12 in. / 128 pgs / 100 color.


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Each online order is put into a plastic box which is then placed on a wire frame (pod) with a capacity of 20 boxes. Due to batch handling of orders by using these wire frames the' replenishment process ends up to be approximately 20 times faster.
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The prefabricated housing can be dismantled, transported and reassembled within a day or two. Αll robotic gear (mobile robot units plus miniload box handling) can be moved equally easy.
Customers have also the option to pay in cash at the pick-up point.
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Audiovisual OER in a Text World: Breaking Down the License [1152]
Tue, Apr 19 2016, 2:00pm – 3:30pm
Authors: Rolin Moe, and Adam Croom
Room: Holyrood
Theme: Converging or diverging cultures of openness
While the Creative Commons license can theoretically be applied to any Open Education Resource (OER) in any medium, the structure of the licenses are most valuable to text-based content, potentially to the point of a bias toward text-based use. This is in part because in its final state text still has maximum flexibility for reuse and remixability, as well as the ubiquity of text-based editing options across the globe. However, as more and more global citizens access the Internet through mobile device, what factors to does one need one to consider when looking to create and sustain OER materials for other media?
This discussion aims to explore conversations and theories on how institutions can approach OER production with larger, complex media such as audio and video. What does openness in video look like? How does open matter to the creator, to the user, to the institutions? Is it necessary to even bother with a Creative Commons license on a video that contains no contextual information and has institutional brand marks? Where are the options for sustaining open production of audiovisual materials? What are the obstacles and biases within these systems growing in popularity but widely misunderstood in higher education?
Grounded in pedagogical as well as media theories, we want to guide a conversation on the nuances of the other media with respect to media literacy, accessibility, remix, and beyond. We have ideas—but in all actuality we need your input. Let's use pushing towards true openness in large-scale media production to assess the affordances, limitations, and existence of "open."
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If you'd like to know more about how you can help, contact us by filling out the volunteer form below.
If you feel the Lord calling to work in Children's Ministry, we'd love to talk to you! We have spots available Sunday Mornings and Wednesday evenings! No experience necessary, just a heart for God and kids! We will train you! Contact Renee Dunn or Laura Wilkes for more information!
Kids Club is an afterschool program where we can share the love of Christ in the public schools. Volunteers are needed to help on Tuesday afternoons at Rose Elementary from 1:30 pm - 4 pm or at Randall Elementary on Friday afternoon from 2 pm - 4:30 pm. If you are not able to help on those days, we also need volunteers to help offsite. To volunteer, sign up below and select Kids Club from the menu. Questions? Contact Ligi Samuel.
Volunteers needed to help at Summer Camps! Volunteer here or stop by the Children's table on Sunday mornings.
Our technical team strives to serve CCCM by caring for the technical needs of our worship services and special events. Individuals who serve rotate in teams that care for the lighting, video, audio and graphics. Volunteers serve 1-2x a month on Sunday mornings. Training is provided and no experience is necessary. Please fill out the form below and select Tech Support. We are looking forward to having be part of our team!
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Algebraic concepts lay the foundation for more advanced classes in science, technology, engineering, and math. When students successfully pass Algebra no later than 9th grade, we know they have a much better chance of being ready for college and career. In order to support students, educators need new items that are aligned with the Common Core State Standards and that can be used formatively to assess a student's understanding of concepts. Help us build these new items, which are aligned with the 7th grade Common Core State Standards for mathematics and which will be distributed to educators across the country.
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Pink for President, Abusements, Rapid Randy
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Doors 10:00 PM
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Pink for President
Alternative Rock/Pop Punk/Comedy from Troy AL
An alternative rock band from Troy, Alabama, Pink for President consists of Zach Amory (vocals/guitar), Dallas Welk (guitar), Chris Watkins (bass), and Alex Tjoland (drums). The quartet elaborates on the punk rock genre with various musical styles and is known for adding comedy and world-building to all of their creative outlets.
Abusements
Punk Rock from Montgomery AL
All-original punk rock band from Montgomery AL features • Dominique Bradley (drums) • Chris Eckels (bass) • DJ Fake Name (guitar, vocals) • Wil Evans (guitar)
Debut album "Irritainment!" is now available
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Jimbo Mathus, Kate Taylor Hollingsworth
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Tarzan and Boy head off to pick her up on the boat from England. Along they way they save an Amazon from some big cats. Injured in a fall, Tarzan takes her home and talks his way out of being forced to stay. The meeting with Jane is as expected and after some introductions of new friends Jane, Boy and Tarzan head home. Unfortunately there are ripples from an Amazon bracelet that Cheetah found and Jane's new friends end up with. It sets them on a trip to the Amazon city...or would have had Tarzan agreed to take them. Tarzan refuses because he knows its all about the gold. Boy doesn't realize whats at stake and helps them find the city...and great danger.
Large scale RKO Tarzan film looks in many ways more spectacular than the earlier and much larger budget MGM films. Its just cool that we have so many neat locations like the tree house, the river station and the Amazon city. It looks really great and makes it feel like a solid adventure.
There is a maturity to this film that is missing from many of the other films. What I like about the film is it deals with the effect of Jane's being away and her return after years, there is the maturing of Boy and his need to learn more than Tarzan can teach him and there is the hardening of Tarzan as he watches coldly as some of the bad guys die horribly. It's several levels above what was happening in the later MGM films and much better for it.


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Two Wins for Track Night at Legendary June Sprints
There is no doubt SCCA® Track Night in America Driven by Tire Rack is an exciting, non-competitive way to have a great time at a racing circuit on a weekday. But for one Track Night participant, the program turned out to be a stepping stone to an SCCA Competition License and, last month, two Super Touring® Under class wins during the WeatherTech Chicago Region June Sprints, part of the 2017 Hoosier SCCA Super Tour, held at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.
Clint Billimack, 18, grew up watching motorsports at Blackhawk Farms Raceway in South Beloit, Illinois. In 2015, during its inaugural season, Clint realized Track Night in America scheduled a few events at Blackhawk and he recognized a perfect, inexpensive chance to get out on a real racetrack in his own street car.
"I participated in the May, June and July Track Night events at Blackhawk Farms Raceway," Billimack recalled. "I used my street 1995 BMW 325i for the visits. That car was great to learn how to drive in because the power level isn't insanely high, but it offers a good amount of speed at a racetrack."
Fast forward to 2016 and Clint had successfully completed a Sports Car Club of America® racing school at Blackhawk Farms where he earned an SCCA Regional Competition License. The young man noted that some of what he learned during his Track Night experiences was certainly applicable when it came to getting that competition license.
"At Track Night, I learned so much. You start with the basics of how to take a turn on a racecourse and what the corner flags mean, but then you can learn so much about a car, such as where the limit is, what it feels like to break it loose, and even what it's like to slide around in the rain," Billimack said. "So even if you aren't serious about actually going racing at some point, Track Night is good just to learn more about how to handle a car on everyday streets. I felt so much more comfortable with my car when I left Track Night, and that's what makes it fun is that you can leave the track knowing you improved and had a good time."
Now, just two years after participating in his first Track Night in America, Clint finds himself in the SCCA record books as winning at the June Sprints -- a feat owned by some of the most notable SCCA competitors. The wins also came during a Hoosier Super Tour weekend, the country's premier amateur road racing series. And to top it off, Clint was awarded his checkered flag and victory plaque at Road America by racing legend Bobby Rahal. That's not too shabby for two years behind the wheel of a racecar.
So, automotive enthusiasts who are interested in just having fun with a car, or looking to explore motorsports and working toward a competition license, SCCA Track Night in America Driven by Tire Rack is the perfect place to play. It's an entertaining, easy and inexpensive way for nearly anyone who loves cars or racing to get on a racecourse in their own vehicle during weeknights. All that is required is a valid driver's license and access to a helmet and street car in good working condition. The cost is never greater than $150 per event, and no previous on-track experience or Sports Car Club of America membership is required.
Visit www.TrackNightinAmerica.com to learn more, find a circuit near you and schedule your weekday track adventure.
Photo: Clint Billimack on his way to a win at the 2017 June Sprints
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use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;
use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Exception\AccessDeniedException;

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Brett and Gander Mountain teamed up once again for their annual pheasant hunt.
Lucky contest winners joined Brett and some teammates for a great day of hunting and fishing.
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These are the cars their owners can't bear to sell. They are more than mere machines, and hold an emotional value beyond money. They're a part of the family, lovingly cared for over many decades; they've carried sons and daughters to weddings, courting couples on holiday, and hold the memories of loved and lost parents and grandparents in their very fabric. They are the forever cars, and these are their stories.
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Mark's elegant Volvo a car for life
In sun-baked New Mexico, where the cars don't rust, it's not uncommon for people to drive the same vehicle for decades. So when Mark Miller, who had just graduated from university in Albuquerque, bought his Volvo P1800S in the spring
Why David stuck with his MG Magnette for five decades
David Evans' first meeting with his 1956 MG Magnette reads like something from romantic fiction. It was late 1967 and the retired police officer's head was turned by a "stunning" car driving in the opposite direction between Bury St Edmunds
Keith's amazing Amazon a labour of love
Roy's dedication to remarkable Celica
When we arrive at Roy Gardiner's Suffolk home, his 1981 Toyota Celica ST is tucked away under a blue cover, parked on a neatly manicured lawn. That it's covered up on a warm July day is the first indication of
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Q: How do I select items from a list where no part of an attribute is in a list I've got a table in a MySQL database that I'm trying to output objects from. I have a list of words, and in order for an object to be output from the table, none of the words in the the object's "Name" attribute are allowed to be in the list.
Table example (MyTable):
ID    Name           Atrib_1    Atrib_2    Atrib_3
1     Hello Kitty    X          10         N
2     Green Chimp    Y          280        Y
3     Chairs Blue    X          14         N
4     Seven Teens    X          342        N
5     Chair Bravo    V          8          Y

List Example:
Kitty, Green, Seven, Chair, Bravo

I only want to output objects where no word in the name attribute matches a word in the list - in the above example, the only object output should be the one called "Chairs Blue". I've tried using:
SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE 'Name' NOT LIKE Kitty

The issue with this is that I had to manually add a "NOT LIKE" for every word in the list. Also when it gets to the word "Chair", "Chairs Blue" is filtered out because the strings are a partial match.

A: SELECT  *
FROM    mytable m
LEFT JOIN
        (
        SELECT  'kitty' word
        UNION ALL
        SELECT  'green'
        UNION ALL
        SELECT  'seven'
        ) w
ON      m.name RLIKE CONCAT('\\b', w.word, '\\b')
WHERE   w.word IS NULL

A: SELECT ...
    FROM MyTable
    WHERE Name NOT REGEXP '[[:<:]](Kitty|Green|Seven|Chair|Bravo)[[:>:]]';

The funny tokens are word boundaries.  | means "or".

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Sign warning of used needles removed from Golden Gate Park playground after causing a stir
By Amy Graff, SFGATE
Updated 1:25 pm PDT, Tuesday, March 13, 2018
A warning sign at an art studio in Golden Gate Park touches off a flurry of concern over drug needles at a nearby popular children's playground in San Francisco. https://t.co/82r5hQIZV5 pic.twitter.com/bXI5cPYOkX
— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) March 13, 2018
A warning of hypodermic needles near a children's playground in Golden Gate Park sparked community concern, but San Francisco Recreation and Park Department says the sign isn't linked to a specific incident officially reported to the city.
"There were no 311 reports of needles found at the playground near Sharon Arts Building AND Sharon Arts Building area in 2017 to date AND no 311 report of needles found at playground near Sharon Arts between 2014 and 2017," a statement from Rec and Park spokesperson Connie Chan reads.
Chan says the sign was put up on the exterior of the arts building adjacent to Koret Children's Quarter because "well-meaning" staff are aware of the drug activity in neighborhoods surrounding the park.
"Our City's parks are not immune to the challenges of urban living and our staff is trained to respond promptly and on proper disposal," Chan said in her statement. "We encourage the public to call 311 immediately to report any incidents."
Needles left behind on the hill where many homeless camp in Potrero Hill, San Francisco, Calif., Friday, October 16, 2015.
Photo: Sarah Rice, Special To The Chronicle
The sign was posted last winter and remained until Rec and Park removed it Monday. It's now in the news as a Reddit user shared an image of the sign along with the statement, "Sad state of affairs in my city that this sign has to be posted at Children's Playground."
In the comments, many shared concern around the issue of used needles being freely deposited around the city.
"This whole city needs that warning," wrote one.
"It seems to be much worse now than the last 3 years," shared another. "Seen two groups actively shooting up on 2nd and mission, broad daylight and a regular flow of people. Also used needles on bart, caps off and blood in the syringe."
"I used to work in SOMA and seeing this was a daily occurrence for me," wrote another.
ALSO, Needles in sandboxes? Parents upset over drug litter at S.F.'s schools and parks
Public health officials estimate 22,000 intravenous drug users inhabit the city, and the issue of hypodermic needles seems to be an increasing problem.
The city advises those who find needles to report them by contacting 311.
Call volume data from 311 reveals that in 2017 the city received some 6,332 reports of sharps around the city, while 4,233 calls were made to 311 reporting needles in 2016.
VIDEO: Hundreds of dirty hypodermic needles dumped in Duboce Triangle
What's more, 311 data from fiscal year 2015–16 revealed that reports of needles increased by 39 percent since the prior fiscal year, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
In an attempt to address the issue of open drug use and discarded needles on SF streets, the city is opening its first two safe injection sites where users can inject drugs under supervision, according to the Chronicle. At these facilities, dirty needles will be collected.
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Bag's Rants: Are we facing future brownouts?
Ordinarily I wouldn't worry about this sort of thing but lately I've been reading about our requirement that we will be supplying for 15% of our energy needs from renewable energy. Couple this with the article in the Times it appears that I should be worrying about this as we seem to have a foreseeable gap in what we can generate and what we can get from foreign suppliers and what we will be expecting to consume.
Now this could actually be a plan of our government. It could actually be joined up for once and it expecting the EU to solve all its problems with a shared power platform or even for us to reduce our usage so much that the intermittent wind generated power will not be an issue.
Nope. I didn't think so either. None of the above.
I'm thinking this is just another low priority task that at the moment will only lose them votes from the greens. So let's put it off. After all they may not even be here in 2010. So not really a problem and when it does become one they can blame it on terrorists who frightened us so much that we were scared of going nuclear in time to fill the gap, by 2010 the UK will be working toward nuclear power. Then we will be relying on oil, coal and gas from the Middle East and Russia. Yippee. those that won't like us by 2010 and those that we were at 'war' with for 40 years and bankrupted as a country. No issues there then.
I had better buy a decent UPS while I can.


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Oshana is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia, its capital is Oshakati. The towns of Oshakati, Ongwediva and Ondangwa, all situated with this region, form an urban cluster with the second largest population concentration in Namibia after the capital Windhoek. , Oshana had 113,112 registered voters.

Geography

Oshana is one of only three regions without either a coastline or a foreign border.  It borders the following regions:
Ohangwena - north
Oshikoto - east
Kunene - south
Omusati - west

The name Oshana describes the most prominent landscape feature in the area, namely the shallow, seasonally inundated depressions which underpin the local agro ecological system. Although communications are hindered during the rainy season, the fish which breed in the oshanas provide an important source of dietary protein.

Economy and infrastructure
The Oshakati-Ongwediva-Ondangwa complex has experienced dramatic urban growth in recent years and forms an important commercial and potential industrial focus. As a whole, it forms the second largest population concentration in Namibia after Windhoek, but it still lacks basic infrastructure and most of the services and facilities normally found in urban areas of this size. The majority of businesses in northern Namibia are located here, providing a significant amount of employment. However, urbanisation is continuing within the region.

The area is far more densely populated in north, which is linked to Tsumeb and other regions by the high quality trunk road; this also facilitates the transport of freight. However, a significant improvement in the rest of the road network and in other forms of telecommunications are required. Oshakati and Ondangwa have airstrips which handle medium-sized airplanes in daylight only and provision can be made for both passengers and airfreight. The establishment of a control tower may contribute to the improvement of all-weather air and transport. Oshakati has a state hospital which supports a number of clinics. Although both primary and secondary schools are spread across the region, they are few relative to the amount of inhabitants of the region.

Omahangu is the principal staple crop grown in Oshana, which is suitable for agriculture. However, the soil is exhausted over much of the central area and requires substantial fertilisation in order to maintain reasonable productivity. Cattle also do well here and herds are extensive. The southern portion of Oshana is an extensive savannah plain stretching as far as the Etosha Pan, but the generally high salinity of soil and water render it unsuitable for grazing or cultivation.

According to the 2012 Namibia Labour Force Survey, unemployment in Oshana Region is 24.5%. Oshana has 137 schools with a total of 50,740 pupils.

Politics

The region comprises eleven constituencies:
 Okaku
 Okatana
 Okatyali
 Ompundja
 Ondangwa Rural
 Ondangwa Urban
 Ongwediva
 Oshakati East
 Oshakati West
 Uukwiyu
 Uuvudhiya

Regional elections
Electorally, Oshana region is consistently dominated by the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO). The 2015 local and regional elections saw SWAPO obtain 92% of the total votes (2010: 91.0) and win uncontested seven of the eleven Oshana constituencies. The remaining four constituencies SWAPO won by a landslide, with results well over 90%. Although SWAPO's support dropped to 65.4% of the total votes in the 2020 regional election it again won in all constituencies. Only in Ondangwa Urban did the upstart Independent Patriots for Change (IPC), an opposition party formed in August 2020, come close to a council seat.

Governors
Clemens Kashuupulwa was appointed governor of Oshana in 1998. He was reappointed in 2015 following the 2014 election and served in this position until November 2018. In March 2019 Elia Irimari was appointed to succeed him.

Gallery

References

External links

Oshiwambo words and phrases
Regions of Namibia
States and territories established in 1992
1992 establishments in Namibia


Could big Stef be the answer for R2?
Since the beginning of the decade, only one ruckman can claim the honour of owning the highest average for an entire AFL Fantasy season. No, not Brodie Grundy, or Max Gawn, or even throwback Todd Goldstein. I'm talking about Stefan Martin who since the turn of the decade has paved the way for other big men to be relevant in the fantasy world.
Over the last five seasons, Martin has finished inside the top-4 scoring wise (on average) for ruckmen, an honour that no other ruck can claim. While going at 102.4 throughout those five seasons might not scream 'must-have player', any non-midfielder who can boast close to a triple figure average over a lengthy stint of games (96 to be exact) is worth including in your pre-season calculations.
Back in 2015, Stef was at his peak, putting forward his second straight season AVERAGING 110+, which saw him claim the mantle as the highest averaging player in the game. Why do his 2015 averages matter you ask? Because since that time, Martin has continued to produce. Even in an injury infected 2016, when we saw Trent West steal some of his valuable time in the middle Martin closed the year on fire, scoring at an average of 103.8 and only going under triple figures once in his last eight contests.
Playing nice with others hasn't been a strong suit of Martin's but it hasn't completely derailed his scoring either. In the last two seasons, Archie Smith and Oscar McInerney have combined to play in 22 contests with Martin averaging 94.7 alongside, nothing to be sneezed at that's for sure. In the other half of his games, Martin went at an average of 106.4, not only highlighting the points bonus when he plays solo but indicating there isn't a huge difference if Brisbane plans to run out a dual ruck lineup.
There's no guarantee the Lions will utilise two rucks either with Josh Walker trying his hand as a backup ruckman over the last few years until he found his niche playing in the backline last season. Archie Smith failed to play a senior game at all in 2018 and while Oscar McInerney played 16 games, he only averaged a shade over 50 points, so I'd still expect the big unit that is Martin to see the majority of his minutes inside the centre circle unless anything goes pear-shaped. While niggles and small injuries are worrying for a man of Martin's stature, the Lions jet has only missed four games in the past four years and some could argue that 2018 was the best all-around season of his career.
Even though there are some blemishes, Martin's ability to hit the fantasy scoreboard in a variety of ways makes him a unique talent. Two of those three scores came with McInerney in toe as well, giving us cautious optimism that Martin can be a reliable R2 regardless of who else is on the ground in a Lions guernsey.
While Martin's scoring has been a picture of consistency in years past he has had his off days. Injuries can be blamed for a lot of his low scores as we saw in 2016 when he averaged just 89 for the year, a far cry from the triple figures we are accustomed to seeing from Martin. It's no surprise to find that the big unit averaged his lowest time on ground (TOG) percentage in 2016, however, there was barely a difference compared to his more fantasy-friendly campaigns.
There isn't a huge reason to get excited about starting with Stef either. Priced at an average of 101 even if Martin goes over that, it's unlikely that he'll eclipse the coveted 110 barrier. There is plenty of value to be in the ruck department this season with players like Sam Jacobs and Justin Westhoff already previously discussed in the Deck of DT and a handful of others emerging as solid money making plays. While Martin should, at worst, maintain his avearge he shapes as a great upgrade target later in the season rather than a starting ruck choice.
KING – Four averages in triple figures throughout the past five seasons gives me faith that Stef can still hold his spot in the holy trinity of rucks alongside Brodie Grundy and Max Gawn. However, starting with him isn't a surefire strategy considering his age, role and the value availble for our second ruck spot. That doesn't mean Martin won't be one of the top fantasy ruckman this season, but it does mean the smart play is to view Martin as an upgrade target rather than paying big and starting with the big fella.
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Donations for PMH August 2022
Memorial Ride raises funds for DRHC
Nearly 100 motorcyclists took part in the 5th Annual Memorial Ride in late August 2022 as participants and supporters contributed towards fundraising efforts for the Dauphin Regional Health Centre (DRHC). The Memorial Ride made its way through Parkland-area communities, which included a route that ended up in Rossburn.
The event is spearheaded by Tony's Auto Electric and JDS Laundromat in Dauphin.
This year, the 300 kilometre Memorial Ride raised a total of $3000 that was donated back to the health centre through the Dauphin Hospital Foundation.
The Dauphin Hospital Foundation and Dauphin Regional Health Centre sincerely thanks all who contributed to this memorable cause.
Pictured from left: Chandel Bailey-Morrison (DRHC Care Team Manager), John Dulewich (JDS Laundromat), Tony Shewchuk (Tony's Auto Electric) and Curt Gullett (DRHC Care Team Manager).


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No Time to Say Goodbye to Bond
By Llewella Chapman October 4, 2021 October 5, 2021 IAMHIST BLOG, Uncategorized
Daniel Craig's last film as James Bond sees him go out with a bang rather than a whimper. But it's a rare thing for a Bond star to leave on their own terms, argues James Chapman, University of Leicester.
The much-anticipated, and much-delayed, release of No Time to Die, the 25th entry in the Eon Productions series chronicling the adventures of Ian Fleming's apparently ageless secret agent hero, James Bond, closes the 'era' of Daniel Craig's James Bond, which began on 15 October 2005 with that now-notorious press conference beside the River Thames in which Craig, entering via a Royal Navy RIB, was widely if unfairly mocked for wearing a life-jacket. Five films and over US $3 billion at the box office later, and no-one is mocking Craig now. The man who was deemed by some fans 'too short' and 'too blonde' for Bond has indelibly put his stamp on the role of Britain's most famous super-spy.
It's been public knowledge for some time that No Time To Die – delayed first by the departure of original director Danny Boyle and then by successive postponements due to the closure of cinemas during the global Coronavirus pandemic – would be Craig's last Bond adventure. His place in the history of cinematic Bond is assured. But how does his exit compare to other last films by his predecessors who also carried Bond's 'licence to kill'?
It turns out that, rather like politicians and sports stars, Bond actors have rarely had the chance to choose the timing and nature of their exit from the stage.
Never say 'never' to Bond
Sean Connery was the first cinematic Bond, beginning with Dr No (1962), and remains the yardstick against which all new Bonds are judged. Connery was also unique in having no fewer than three 'last' Bond pictures. He first announced his retirement from Her Majesty's Secret Service during the shooting of You Only Live Twice (1967) in Japan, where he tired of the constant press intrusion. For those who don't know their SMERSH from their SPECTRE, You Only Live Twice is the one where the villain's lair is inside a hollowed-out volcano and mod cons include a pool of man-eating piranhas. Some critics have suggested that Connery looks bored in You Only Live Twice: he certainly looks uneasy during his unconvincing disguise as a Japanese fisherman.
Connery was always going to be a hard act to follow. Australian model-turned-actor George Lazenby, who starred in On Her Majesty's Service (1969), lasted for just the one film. Although it was less successful at the box office than previous Bonds, this was probably due as much to the film's downbeat ending (Bond's wife Tracy is shot dead before their honeymoon) as to the inexperienced Lazenby, who was excellent in the action sequences and not at all bad in the dramatic moments. But Lazenby felt that Bond was 'Connery's gig' and left of his own accord. OHMSS is now regarded as one of the best Bond films within the fan culture, an early hint of the greater emotional and psychological depth of the Craig films.
The distributor United Artists drew the conclusion that Connery was irreplaceable and lured him back for Diamonds Are Forever (1971) with a bumper salary and an offer to make two other films of his choice. For non-enthusiasts, Diamonds Are Forever is the one where Bond nearly gets cremated, drives a moon buggy across the Nevada desert and gets knocked around by two athletic women called Bambi and Thumper. It would fair to say that Diamonds Are Forever is a mess: the plot doesn't make much sense (even by the standards of the James Bond films) and the tone is uneven (the death of Plenty O'Toole is particularly nasty in a film that otherwise adopts a tone of high camp). But Connery, purring his way through the film with the self-satisfied smirk of a man earning over $1 million and a percentage of the box office, was clearly enjoying himself more than in Twice.
Connery intended that Diamonds would definitively be his last Bond appearance, telling the press 'never again'. Like Steve Redgrave after the 1996 Olympics, however, he came back one more time in the ironically-entitled Never Say Never Again (1983). This was a 'remake' of Thunderball produced outside the Eon Productions series by Kevin McClory. [i] It's neither the best nor the worst of the Bond pictures, but Connery's swansong doesn't match up to sixties classics such as From Russia With Love (1963) and Goldfinger (1964).
More – much more – Roger Moore!
The king of eyebrow acting, Roger Moore starred as Bond in seven films, from Live and Let Die (1973) to A View To a Kill (1985). Three years older than Connery, Moore was 45 when he first uttered the line 'Bond – James Bond'. Initially signed to a three-picture contract, there was always a sense that Moore was making his last Bond film. The opening scene of For Your Eyes Only (1981) was clearly written to introduce a new actor by linking to Bond's past, and it's known that James Brolin screen tested for Octopussy (1983), but in the end the terms were always agreed for 'one more' film. Prior to A View To a Kill, however, Moore and Bond producer Cubby Broccoli agreed that this would be his last.
A View To a Kill is undoubtedly one of the weaker Bonds and the consensus is that it was a mission too far for the 57-year-old Moore whose role by now had become akin to a high-salaried stand-in for the teams of stunt performers. Moore's swansong is saddled with an annoying heroine – the late Tanya Roberts is even less convincing as a geologist than Denise Richards's nuclear scientist in The World Is Not Enough – and a poorly structured script that cheats the audience out of the promised showdown between Bond and Grace Jones's larger-than-life villainess May Day. It's also the one where Bond escapes Russian pursuers by snowboarding to the strains of 'Surfing USA' and reveals his hitherto unknown culinary prowess to demonstrate that real agents do eat quiche. A lukewarm critical reception confirmed that it was time for a change. [ii]
From Dalton to Brosnan
Timothy Dalton – for many Fleming purists the closest to the author's characterisation of Bond – made only two pictures before a dispute between Eon and distributor MGM/United Artists led to a long hiatus in the early 1990s. The Living Daylights (1987), the 25th anniversary Bond picture, was seen at the time as breathing new life into an old warhorse of a series that had started to look stale, and the classically-trained Dalton was praised for bring fresh vitality and a degree of grittiness to the role. These attributes were highlighted even more prominently in his second outing Licence To Kill (1989). This film deliberately did away with the criminal megalomaniacs and other sensational plot devices of other 007 adventures: Bond is pitted against a 'real world' villain in the form of drugs baron Franz Sanchez (a brilliant Robert Davi), though the stunts and action set pieces are as impressive as ever. The harder-edged violence of Licence To Kill earned a more restrictive '15' certificate in the UK which made it off-limits for the traditional family audience of the Bond pictures. It divided critics and underperformed at the US box office, but, like OHMSS, has since received sympathetic reappraisal. Licence To Kill was ahead of its time: the first Daniel Craig Bond film – just without Daniel Craig. It should not have been Dalton's last.
Dalton had been cast as Bond only when Pierce Brosnan, the original choice for The Living Daylights, became unavailable due to his commitment to the television series Remington Steele. Brosnan's turn came when Dalton and the producers decided by mutual consent that there had been too long a hiatus between Licence To Kill and GoldenEye (1995). Brosnan pitched his Bond somewhere between the light comedy style of Roger Moore and the seriousness of Timothy Dalton. It was evidently a popular interpretation, as each of Brosnan's four Bond films took more at the box office than its predecessor. However, like Dalton, the circumstances of his leaving the series were not of his own choosing. His last, Die Another Day (2002), was a mixed bag, never quite able to resolve the internal tension between realism (Bond's capture and torture ordeal in a North Korean prison) and outright fantasy (this is the one with the Ice Palace and the invisible Aston Martin). For all its popular success, producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson resolved that they wanted once again to pursue a grittier style.
Casino Royale (2006) – the first film since the 1960s to use significant amounts of the original novel – marked a new direction for Bond: tougher and more psychologically plausible, even if the action sequences remained as improbable as ever. It met with near-universal critical acclaim. Quantum of Solace (2008) was a mess, its production disrupted by a writers' strike, but Skyfall (2012) took Bond to new box-office heights, becoming the highest-grossing film in the series to date (unadjusted for inflation), and Spectre (2015) consolidated that success as the second highest-grossing.
The Daniel Craig films differ from previous eras of Bond: there's a greater emotional depth (albeit within the parameters of what are still big action movies: Bond is no exercise in Ken Loach-style realism) and a continuing narrative arc that links the films. Quantum of Solace was a direct follow-up to Casino Royale and No Time To Die is a sequel to Spectre, with returning characters Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux) and Blofeld (Christoph Waltz) – the latter in a Hannibal Lecter-style cameo – as well as the now-familiar 'Scooby Gang' of 'M' (Ralph Fiennes), Moneypenny (Naomi Harris), 'Q' (Ben Wishaw) and Tanner (Rory Kinnear).
Personally I was left rather underwhelmed by No Time to Die: perhaps this time the hype and expectation were too much, especially after the repeated delays to its release. There's a lot in the film to like, including some nice visual nods to Bond films past and the inclusion of material from Fleming, especially the references to the novel of You Only Live Twice. I liked the character of Paloma (Ana de Armas), though she features rather too briefly, and the banter between the retired Bond and new '007' Nomi (Lashana Lynch) as their relationship develops from initial rivalry to mutual respect. But I felt that the desire to tie up all the left-over plot elements of Craig's previous films meant the film was too overcrowded. And I never really understood *why* (as opposed to how) the villain Safin (an under-used Rami Malek) wants to wipe out half the human race. Even a Bond megalomaniac needs some sort of warped, perverse logic for the chaos they seek to create.
The Daniel Craig Bond films have succeeded in bringing a new level of critical respectability to a nearly 60-year old film franchise. That deserves to be acknowledged as a major achievement. And Craig got to choose the moment and the manner of his swansong. The end credits of No Time To Die promise (as ever) that 'James Bond Will Return'. Whoever is the next 007 will have a hard act to follow.
Figures of all six James Bonds, Madame Tussauds, 2021.
[i] Strictly speaking, Never Say Never Again was 'based on a screen story by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham and Ian Fleming' rather than being an actual remake of Thunderball. It's a moot distinction, but matters to the lawyers.
[ii] Moore later took umbrage at comments in Cubby Broccoli's autobiography When the Snow Melts (Boxtree, 1998) that he didn't want to relinquish the role. It may be that Broccoli's collaborator Donald Zec added the comment to spice up the book.
James Chapman is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Leicester and author of Licence To Kill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films (I. B. Tauris, 2nd edn 2007). He is currently writing a stand-alone study of the first Bond film, Dr No, to be published by Columbia University Press in October 2022.
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FOOTBALL PREVIEW: LEAGUE RACES BEGIN
YSN 365 > News > News > FOOTBALL PREVIEW: LEAGUE RACES BEGIN
For the time being we forget about pre-league games that just finished and the playoffs and all of that.
The league races are now at the top of the agenda.
The first week games include a North Bay League game between the only two teams left in the league undefeated and a Sonoma County League game between the only two ranked in the YSN365.com top ten.
In the College ranks, SRJC begins the start of a brutal schedule.
YSN365.COM PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Dylan Alvardo of Calistoga…Rushed for a school record 270 yards on 29 carries and scored three touchdowns in its league opening win 32-14 over defending co-champion CSD of Fremont. Alvardo has rushed for nearly 700 yards on the season and has gained at least 180 yards in three of the four games. It was his second three touchdown game.
NORTH BAY LEAGUE
ALL GAMES FRIDAY
No. 5 Montgomery (3-0) at No. 1 Casa Grande (3-0)
YSN365.COM GAME OF THE WEEK
KSRO 1350…BROADCAST TIME 7 PM
No. 2 Windsor (2-1) at No. 7 Rancho Cotate (2-1)
No. 3 Cardinal Newman (2-1) at Ukiah (2-1)
No. 9 Maria Carrillo (1-2) at No. 8 Santa Rosa (2-1)
Before realignment, the Montgomery-Casa Grande was one of the most anticipated pre-league games. The two teams played yearly beginning in 2003. That year Casa Grande scored the winning touchdown in the last thirty seconds to take a 28-27 win in a game that was considered at the time a major upset. You can say that game was when Casa Grande became the Casa Grande we know about now.
Casa Grande hasn't lost a regular season game to Montgomery since 2005. Montgomery has bragging rights for playoff games, winning two of three, which includes the NCS Championship Game in 2004.
Since Montgomery's last regular season win, which was also in 2004, the teams tied twice, including a rare scoreless game in 2008.
A win for Montgomery will give them as many wins as they have had in four of the last five season.
There is no question this is the toughest test of the season for the Vikings. The teams they has beaten has a combined three wins. Two of those belong to Dublin, who they defeated 50-18. The two wins by Dublin are against teams with a combined record of 0-7.
Casa Grande's John Porcivina leads the team in rushing and tied for second in tackles
Montgomery is trying for its first 4-0 start since 2004 when they went 13-0.
Casa Grande started 4-0 in 2009 and 2010. In 2007 they started 4-0-1, the tie was with Montgomery.
Of the other three games only one would be considered a major upset. That would be in Ukiah where theWildcats host Cardinal Newman.
Both teams had last week off, which means Cardinal Newman has had two weeks to sit on its last game which was a 35-7 loss to El Cerrito, its first loss of the season.
Ukiah has enjoyed the last two weeks with the last memory is a 19-0 win over Oakland. Ukiah has won two straight after starting the season with a 28-6 loss to Piner. The two teams that Ukiah has defeated have a combined record of 1-5.
At 2-1, Ukiah has won more games than it did all last year.
The other two games, no matter which way they go will not be considered an upset.
The rankings from YSN365.com involving Windsor and Rancho Cotate seem backward. It most current rankings they are.
In all other rankings, Windsor hasn't gotten much respect for its 2-1 start. Windsor is also 2-1. The lone loss was to undefeated Benicia 34-27. One of Benicia's four wins was over Maria Carrillo 35-7.
The seven point loss to Benicia is the most one sided game of the three games Windsor has played, although they did last week's game against Washington of Fremont 29-6 going into the fourth quarter.
Quarterback Colin McAlvain has passed for over 700 yards and five touchdowns.
In last year's opener, Rancho Cotate defeated Windsor 43-9. It was Windsor's first game as a member of the NBL.
Defending champion Rancho Cotate is coming off a painful 56-12 loss to American Canyon. That kind of score you are used to seeing Rancho Cotate on winning side of. It was the first loss for the Cougars after a 2-0 start.
Rancho Cotate has won two of the last three NBL championships.
The homecoming season starts at Santa Rosa when they meet Maria Carrillo.
It isn't only the first league game, but homecoming at Santa Rosa when they host Maria Carrillo
The teams are coming into the game in a different frame of mind.
Maria Carrillo is coming off a nice win on the road against Alhambra 42-21. It was the second loss for Alhambra, the other was at Rancho Cotate 21-14. It was Maria Carrillo's first win of the season and they go into league play the only NBL team under .500 at 1-2.
Santa Rosa got a bit of reality check last week. After starting 2-0, they were defeated by Deer Valley 50-16. If the Panthers do go to the NCS Division 1 playoffs they could see Deer Valley again. They are the No. 2 Division 1 team in Northern California (you can probably guess who is No. 1).
This is exactly how the pre-league played out for both teams last year before meeting each other in the NBL opener. Maria Carrillo won that game 50-34.
POWER RANKING PREDICTION
Rancho Cotate
Maria Carrillo
SONOMA COUNTY LEAGUE
No. 4 Analy (3-1) at No. 10 Sonoma Valley (2-1)
Elsie Allen (1-3) at Healdsburg (3-1)
Petaluma (2-2) at Piner (2-2)
El Molino (1-3) BYE
This was a better pre-league for the SCL than last season. Going into league play last year three teams were winless, and the league had a combined 9-19 record.
This year every team no teams are winless and all but one has a better record this season and are a combined 14-13.
The only team that doesn't have a better record than last year is defending champion Analy. Of course they couldn't have been better than the 4-0 start last season.
The Tigers came close to matching that. They went 3-1 with the lone loss to Miramonte 25-13.
Analy travels to Sonoma Valley in a matchup of the only two league teams in the YSN365.com top ten.
Analy Junior Ja' Narrick James has rushed for a team high four touchdowns
Sonoma Valley has had two weeks off since losing to San Marin 47-19 which ended a 2-0 start.
Analy has dominated this series the last three seasons, winning all three games by at least 29 points. Last year they took a 63-20 win.
Pending appeal of the Middletown game, Healdsburg has won three straight.
You have to say Elsie Allen has been consistent. Three of its four games have had finals of either 33-0 or 34-0. They are 1-2 in those games.
The winner of Saturday's Petaluma and Piner will be over .500. That doesn't sound like much, but it has been a while either team can say that this late in the season.
Petaluma hasn't been over .500 this late in the season since 2009 which was the season they went 11-1.
For Piner it is even longer going back to 2003. That was also the last season they made the NCS playoffs when they went 7-5.
Last year Petaluma edged Piner 13-12.
Analy
Piner
Elsie Allen
NORTH CENTRAL LEAGUE I (ALL GAMES FRIDAY)
No. 6 Middletown (1-2) at Willits (0-3)
Kelseyville (3-0) at St. Helena (2-1)
Lower Lake (2-1) at Fort Bragg (1-2)
Clear Lake (2-1) at Cloverdale (0-3)
The defending champion is Fort Bragg.
Middletown is the only NCL team ranked in the YSN365.com Top Ten.
A win by Kelseyville will give them the most wins in a season since 2007 when they went 7-4.
Kelseyville is meeting a St. Helena team who is 17-1 in league play the last three seasons.
Kelseyville isn't the only NCL I team who is trying to turn things around. This is the third time in ten years that Lower Lake has had more than one win.
POWER RANKING PREDICTIONS
NORTH CENTRAL LEAGUE II/BAY
Emery (3-1) at Calistoga (4-0, 1-0)
Stellar Prep (0-3) at St. Vincent (2-1)
CSD (Fremont) (1-2, 0-1) at Upper Lake (0-3)
NON LEAGUE
Castlemont (Oakland) (0-2) at Tomales (2-1)
The Emery-Calistoga game is between two teams that had a combined one win two years ago.
Calistoga is trying to its first 5-0 start since 1997.
They meet an Emery team that is in its third season of its third attempt at fielding a football team. In its first four seasons, with the first one in 2001, they were a combined 3-34. They took a big step up last season going 4-5.
This is the first time they have played three straight seasons.
CSD (Fremont)
Stellar Prep
JC FOOTBALL
No. 5 American River (3-0) at No. 13 SRJC (3-0)…KBBF-FM 89.1…7 PM
This is the start of a stretch for SRJC of three straight home games against teams that are currently 3-0.
American River and SRJC has had a similar type of season. In the opener the games were one sided and in each of the last two games they rallied in the second half.
American River and SRJC has one common opponent and that is Sacramento. Two weeks ago American River fell behind 7-0 in the first quarter, before taking a 34-7 win.
Last week SRJC fell behind Sacramento 21-7 in the first half, before taking a 35-21 win
Stats wise, American River has been dominate. They have averaged more yards a game on offense then they have given up on defense in the three game combined. The most yards they have given up is 139, which was in the opener in which they defeated Monterey 40-2.
El Molino Grad Mike Pierson will start his second straight game, taking David Sowards place who separated a shoulder two weeks ago and is expect out about another month. Last week Pierson was 24 of 40 for 355 yards and three touchdowns.


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EYECARE: Coronavirus BRIEFING: Crisis Response Tactics
Is Double-Masking Worth It?
Tuesday, January 19, 2021 12:30 PM There's a new COVID-trend on the block: doubling up on masks. Recently, both prominent Americans, like President-elect Joe Biden, and regular people have been wearing two face masks while out and about, to double up on coverage. But does it help, or does more fabric just make it harder to breathe? According to The New York Times, double-masking definitely isn't necessary for everyone. But those who wear flimsier face coverings, or those who just spend a lot of time in contact with others, can benefit from the practice. Head over to The New York Times for more.
CDC: New COVID Strain May Dominate U.S. by March
Friday, January 15, 2021 11:03 AM The CDC is urging Americans to double down on precautions to thwart the spread of the coronavirus, as the new B.1.1.7 "super strain" takes hold in the U.S. New CDC modeling shows the new strain could cause more than half of new infections in this country by March, even as the U.S. races to deploy vaccines.
As Vaccines Roll Out, ECPs Get in Line
By Gwendolyn Plummer
Friday, January 15, 2021 8:33 AM NEW YORK—Across the country, COVID-19 vaccine rollout has kicked off. Most states are still in the early phases of vaccination, which usually includes older, more vulnerable members of the population, and certain frontline and health care workers. In many states, those health care workers include ECPs. For many, receiving a COVID-19 vaccine is a cause for hope, joy and celebration. To honor the science that got us here, many in the optical community have taken to social media to share the news of their vaccinations—and to share what The Cut is calling "The Vaxxie," or the Vaccination Selfie. Here we take a look at The Vaxxie in the optical community. Read More
Friday, January 15, 2021 8:30 AM NEW YORK—Across the country, COVID-19 vaccine rollout has kicked off. Most states are still in the early phases of vaccination, which usually includes older, more vulnerable members of the population, and certain frontline and health care workers. In many states, those health care workers include ECPs. For many, receiving a COVID-19 vaccine is a cause for hope, joy and celebration. To honor the science that got us here, many in the optical community have taken to social media to share the news of their vaccinations—and to share what The Cut is calling "The Vaxxie," or the Vaccination Selfie. Here we take a look at The Vaxxie in the optical community.
VM's News Quiz for the Week of Jan. 10: An EssilorLuxottica Product Launch, New Year's Resolutions and Product Winners at CES
Friday, January 15, 2021 8:05 AM Did you follow the optical news this week? Take VM's News Quiz to see how much you know. This week's quiz takes a look at an EssilorLuxottica product launch, New Year's resolutions and product winners at CES.
When Will The Vaccine Change Things?
Thursday, January 14, 2021 12:57 PM Now that people are getting vaccinated againt COVID-19, it's only natural to wonder how long it will take before things start to go back to some semblance of normality. According to some experts, at least 50 percent of Americans will need to be vaccinated before we start to see a change in the infection rate—but that's not all there is to it. Head over to Fast Company for the rundown.
AOA Hosts #AskAOA Webinar on Paycheck Loans
Why You Should Still Wear a Mask and Avoid Crowds After Getting the COVID-19 Vaccine
Wednesday, January 13, 2021 11:51 AM Once you've been vaccinated for COVID-19, you'll likely feel relieved and optimistic, and rightfully so. However, vaccination doesn't mean you should let your guard down completely. In fact, keeping up mask-wearing and social distancing will remain important for a while, still. Head over to NPR for more information.
Fatigue, Brain Fog Most Common in 'Long COVID'
Tuesday, January 12, 2021 1:00 PM Fatigue, post-exercise malaise and cognitive dysfunction (or brain fog) are the most common symptoms reported by COVID long haulers 6 months after contracting the coronavirus, according to a new preprint study published on MedRxiv.
How Will You Find Out When You Can Get Vaccinated?
Tuesday, January 12, 2021 11:48 AM As the COVID-19 vaccine rollout speeds up across the country, many people find themselves asking the same question: how will I know when it's my turn? As it turns out, the answer isn't very simple, in part because each state has a different rollout technique. Head over to Fast Company for more information.
Averting COVID Hospitalizations With Monoclonal Antibodies
Tuesday, January 12, 2021 11:00 AM The United States has allocated more than 641,000 monoclonal antibody treatments for outpatients to ease pressure on strained hospitals, but officials from Operation Warp Speed report that more than half of that reserve sits unused as clinicians grapple with best practices.
COVID-19 Immunity Could Last Longer Than 8 Months, Study Says
Review of Optometry: Missed Visits During COVID Increase Risk of Vision Loss
Monday, January 11, 2021 10:03 AM The lockdown last spring caused patients to delay seeking routine medical care. Looking at the effects of this on vision, new research in Ophthalmology found that about 40% of people who were scheduled to see a retina specialist for intravitreal injections during this time either cancelled or were no-shows. They noted that the delay in care of about five weeks caused vision loss in many of these individuals. The chart review included patients aged 18 or older with DME and/or PDR, wet AMD or RVO who were scheduled to see a retinal specialist during the mandated lockdown starting in mid-March 2020. These individuals had received an intravitreal injection in the 12 weeks prior. Read More
59 Percent of COVID Cases Stem From Asymptomatic Spread
Monday, January 11, 2021 12:11 AM More than half of all COVID-19 cases transmit from people who don't have any symptoms, according to a model developed by CDC researchers.
About 59 percent of transmission comes from people without symptoms, according to a new study published Thursday in JAMA Network Open. This includes 35 percent from people who infect others before they show symptoms and 24 percent from people who never develop any symptoms.
"The bottom line is controlling the COVID-19 pandemic really is going to require controlling the silent pandemic of transmission from persons without symptoms," Jay Butler, one of the study authors and the CDC deputy director for infectious diseases, told The Washington Post.
Head over to WebMD to read the full story.


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Letters: She can't mask her feelings about St. Joseph County Health Department order
I do not live in South Bend and tried to go shopping yesterday, but was kicked out of Sally's because I did not have a mask. Unbeknownst to me, the health department has ordered that people wear masks in businesses and enclosed public spaces in St. Joseph County where social distancing of at least six feet can't be maintained.
After I found this out I did go back into Sally's with my face covered by my high-collar jacket, my nose was completely covered, but they still refused me service because I didn't have a mask.
First, this is a free country and I will not have my rights broken by being told what I have to do. It can be suggested, yes, but told — no.
Second, my face was covered but I was still kicked out. Maybe notices need to be sent out to all businesses in St. Joseph County so they know what is allowed as a face covering, Third, if this is a requirement by the health department, why do I as the consumer have to provide my own face covering?
Valarie Engler
New coach
Notre Dame has a new women's basketball coach. I really hope the new coach, Niele Ivey, will put the best interest of the team, university and the fans above any personal agenda she may have and hire the very best for her staff, regardless of sex.
Don't get me wrong. I really loved Muffet McGraw and thought she was the best, but she stepped on a lot of toes and lost a lot of male fans when she said she would not hire another man for her coaching staff.
Should McGraw have been A.P. Coach of the Year four times? Yes, maybe more than four times. Should she have been a Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee? Yes. Should she have been allowed to invoke her personal agenda on the team, university and the fans? No.
In response to a May 6 letter: The photo featured with the article about Once Upon a Child (Tribune, April 27) was taken while the store was closed to the public. There were only four people in the store at the time of the photo. Once the store opened on May 4, all employees and customers are required to wear masks. We are also limiting the number of customers in the store to continue the social distancing practice. And there is hand sanitizer at the front of the store.
Tracy Schrimsher
owner, Once Upon A Child
A question for the taxpayers of South Bend. What do the College Football Hall of Fame, "Smart Streets" and the South Bend Community School Corp.'s primary ballot referenda have in common?
Paul D. Tipps
Election noteThe deadline for submitting letters endorsing or criticizing candidates and commenting on the South Bend Community School Corp. referendum for the June 2 primary is May 19. The Tribune's deadline for printing such letters is May 26.


Venture-capital investment held its own in the Indianapolis area last year, and local observers expect more of the same this year—not much growth, but at least no setbacks.
Activity won't gain much steam until more entrepreneurs become optimistic, and optimism won't materialize until the economy gets warmer, said John Barnard, managing director of Pearl Street Venture Funds, an Indianapolis fund focused on life sciences.
"I don't see any kind of dramatic changes this year," Barnard said.
Thirteen Indiana companies snagged $68.7 million in venture capital last year, according to the latest PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association Money Tree report.
In 2009, 11 companies received $156.9 million, and in 2008, nine companies landed $40.9 million.
Last year, ChaCha Search Inc., a Carmel-based search engine that differentiates itself by offering answers from live people, pulled down $16.1 million in an infusion from two firms headquartered in New York and California.
The next-largest recipient of venture funding was Indianapolis data-storage seller Scale Computing—$15.2 million from two deals.
Nationally, $21.8 billion in venture capital was invested in 2010. That was up from $18.3 billion in 2009, but well below the $28.1 billion of 2008.
Early-stage, expansion and later-stage investment recovered faster than seed-stage because the youngest companies are relying more on bootstrapping, friends and family, and angel capital, said Mark Heesen, president of the Virginia-based National Venture Capital Association.
"All this being said, many believe that a smaller industry is a better industry and that innovation will continue to be funded, albeit at lower, and more prudent, levels," Heesen said.
Overall venture-capital activity will increase moderately this year and into 2012, he predicted, mostly because institutional investors haven't put a lot of money into venture funds.
In Indianapolis, the coming year or two will amount to more of the same, Barnard and Hill agreed.
That's because existing venture funds have invested most of their resources, and no new funds are on the horizon.
Barnard said last year wasn't as active as the $68.7 million total suggests. Most of the investments were relatively large infusions in later-stage companies—those with the least risk. In Barnard's field of life sciences, investors fret that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has swung from approving too many products to extreme caution. As a result, they worry the FDA might prevent a company from bringing a product to market, and are taking wait-and-see attitudes on buying new compounds.
"You have to move the company along quite a way to get the pharmaceutical company even interested," he said.
Still, Barnard thinks drug companies might soon swing into another of their cyclical feeding frenzies. Many big drugmakers are recognizing they need new compounds to fuel future sales, so they likely will begin making acquisitions soon.
In tech, the industry attracting the largest portion of venture capital, Hill anticipates another year or two passing before the economy improves enough to lure local entrepreneurs into investor offices.


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Course Description : Introduces the student to the field of information security. The managerial, legal, ethical and technical aspects of information security are covered. Students will learn about the need for information security, planning for security and risk management. The function of firewalls, virtual private networks, intrusion detection systems, cryptography and access control mechanisms will be discussed. Physical security and the role of personnel in properly executing security standards and controls are also covered.
Provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to perform day-to-day administration in a Windows-based network. Topics include creating and administering user and group accounts and policies, profiles and synchronization, managing resources, auditing, setting up and maintaining the printing environment, internet connection firewall, remote desktop protocol, remote installation, security zones, and wireless and mobile computing. Hands-on exercises will enable the student to implement the tasks necessary to become a Windows administrator in a Microsoft Active Directory environment. Upon successful completion of this course the student will be prepared to take the associated Microsoft certification test.
All students should consult a computer science advisor.
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Course Description : This course will provide students with the knowledge necessary to support and service a PC. Cabling, network interfaces, storage devices, and other network hardware components will be studied. Hardware and software installation, troubleshooting, and the use of network diagnostic and repair utilities will also be examined. Students conduct research on hardware and software issues using the Web. Students learn to debug printing problems. Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be prepared to take the associated certification test, such as Microsoft Certified Professional or A+ Hardware.
Course Description : Provides a foundation for systems administration of servers in a Windows Server-based network. Topics include the network architecture, server installation and configuration, physical and logical storage devices, active directory and domain management of users, groups, and computer accounts, resource security, remote administration systems monitoring and performance, network printing, Internet web services and disaster recovery implementation. Hands-on exercises are provided to allow the student to perform the above-mentioned tasks. Successful completion of this course will prepare the student to take the associated certification test.
Course Description : Provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to perform day-to-day administration in a Windows-based network. Topics include creating and administering user and group accounts and policies, profiles and synchronization, managing resources, auditing, setting up and maintaining the printing environment, internet connection firewall, remote desktop protocol, remote installation, security zones, and wireless and mobile computing. Hands-on exercises will enable the student to implement the tasks necessary to become a Windows administrator in a Microsoft Active Directory environment. Upon successful completion of this course the student will be prepared to take the associated Microsoft certification test.