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Perhaps if State Senator Nelson Albano had been wearing a number 27 Giants jersey in a luxury sports car, and said he was speeding off to AC to catch a show and play some table games, he might have caught a break from the State Trooper who’d given him a ticket back in February when he was caught speeding on the way to the Governor’s Budget Address.

Because according to this report, the State Police are investigating complaints that two troopers escorted a caravan of luxury sports cars at speeds in excess of 100 mph down the Garden State Parkway to Atlantic City last month.

The occupants included former Giants running back and sports car enthusiast Brandon Jacobs, according to a source with knowledge of the trip.

Witness said that on March 30, they saw two State Police patrol cars with their emergency lights flashing driving in front of and behind the southbound caravan, which included dozens of Porsches, Lamborghinis, Ferraris and other vehicles, all with their license plates covered with tape.

One witness, Wayne Gantt, dubbed the escort “Death Race 2012.”

“I had the great pleasure today of nearly being killed by, not one, but two, Lamborghinis traveling in excess of 110 mph in a (New Jersey State Police) escorted ‘caravan’ of approximately 30 exotic vehicles all traveling well over 100 mph,” Gantt wrote in an e-mail complaint to the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, which oversees the Parkway.

He added that many of the sports cars were weaving across all three lanes.

“The senior official (trooper) who authorized this ‘joyride,’ and the road troopers who participated in the escort, should be immediately fired for their total lack of consideration for the public’s safety,” Gantt wrote. “The state is very lucky no one was killed today.”

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Another witness to the police escort reported to the State Patrol that the caravan had, in his view, been so reckless, that they almost forced an older woman off the road entirely.

Jacobs’ agent affirmed that his client was in Atlantic City on March 30th.

It’s at though history repeats itself.

Imagine, the scenario is the Garden State Parkway.

The date is sometime in April, 2007.

A police escort carrying high ranking State Official traveling at a high rate of speed is supposedly cut off by a wayward driver, causing the vehicle of said State Official to careen off a guardrail, causing massive injury to said Official.

The high ranking State Official, by the way, was not wearing a seatbelt, and was on the way to meet a high profile radio personality at the Governor’s mansion in Princeton.

Ring a bell?

The trooper, Robert Rasinski, according to this report , served three days out of a recommended five-day suspension, according to State Police Superintendent Rick Fuentes.

He said that Rasinski’s conduct violated regulations, adding that the trooper “did not possess the appropriate level of situational awareness in the moments leading up to the accident.”

So, here we are, five years later, and one wonders, what of these troopers?

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Cinderella’s Tom Keifer Indulges in Some Wordplay

CinderellaFor some musicians, interviews are old hat, especially the acts that have been around 20-plus years. This is the case for Tom Keifer, lead singer and guitarist for the multi-platinum-selling Cinderella. Hailed as a hybrid of hard rock and blues, Cinderella remain one of the most successful bands to emerge from the ’80s scene.

All this success means every member of the band has been interviewed a slew of times and sometimes the rockers just want to play games. This is why Noisecreep did wordplay with Tom Keifer instead. The rules? Noisecreep throws out three words or phrases, and the rock star says whatever he wants.

Hair band – “I guess to some people it carries a negative connotation. I think to the fans ‘hair band’ is just ‘hair band.’ To the industry it carries some sort of negative black plague. Honestly it’s kind of a funny word to me, because most rock bands have a lot of hair. It’s kind of funny that the ’80s rock bands got this title dubbed on them. I don’t feel any particular way. I think it means different things to different people. It’s always unfair to judge music with your eyes. Judge it with your ears. A lot of bands in the ’80s may have looked the same, but man they were different sound-wise! There was a lot of variety. Some of the bands were really great and some weren’t, but it’s all a matter of opinion. Lumping things together is not cool and that’s what that term does and I think it’s not fair.”

Women — “Awesome!” [A hearty laugh followed this answer].

MTV — “That’s a complicated one. There were really positive things about it and also some really negative things. The positive was that it caused a revolution; an explosion of creativity, because you had this visual component to add to your music. From a marketing standpoint, it was so positive because that new visual art combined with music led to an explosion of record sales and great things. The downside was that it was a mystique killer. It almost made the music and the artists too accessible and maybe that’s not a great thing. You know, so many good things came out of it, and there’s always a good and bad to everything. Certainly we benefited greatly from it, as did a lot of other bands. I guess it’s a positive word for me. I don’t necessarily like where it’s gone! I think when it started it was really cool.”

Keifer will hit the road with Cinderella this summer to “burn down a big tour,” which includes a headlining spot on the music cruise ShipRocked . He will also release his long-awaited solo album, and the band may write a new album together in the near future. Cinderella’s latest album was the 2009 release ‘Authorized Bootleg: Live at the Tokyo Dome — Tokyo, Japan Dec. 31 1990.’

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Starring Signs Two Record Deal with Northern Spy, New Album Out June 2012

“The band is nearly as omnivorous as King Crimson when it comes to genre, and just as good at making all the bits fit together: I think I’m picking up Deep Purple, the MC5, Sonic Youth, Soft Machine, and Devo, all sitting together on the same plate so that everybody’s sauce leaks into everybody’s meat. It’s a heady and beautiful blend.” – The Chicago Reader

“Think Suicide and a Wooden Ship sailing merrily on a thermos full of Red Bull and Verb Caf coffee… Starring join together to tinker with volume, rhythm and the infectious drone of a Farfisa, angling to be a force more invested in body music than mind music.” - The Village Voice

“[Starring]…played with a vigorous clarity, a compositional vision and instrumental facility that no amount of psych haze, guitar fuzz, or jam flirtations could obscure.” - Impose Magazine

“…a uniquely infectious form of art rock.” - Time Out New York

In 2008, a group of five friends who met at Oberlin College started a project they called Starring with modest ambitions to play loud and wild prog rock in late-night headlining slots around Brooklyn’s DIY circuit. The band’s first recordings (which appeared only as hand-made cassettes and a small run of LPs on screen-printed vinyl), were described by critics at the Village Voice as “kraut” or “circus” punk, apt names for music that was exploring ways to join punk minimalism with proggy, psychedelic maximalism.

In 2011, Starring went on a brief hiatus and partnered with Matt Mehlan (Skeleton$ and Congotronics vs Rockers) to write and record a full-length album that aimed at something sculptural and deliberate – a more measured, balanced composition than their first, that sought to integrate the lyrical and the experimental. Drawing inspiration from new creative directions in their many other projects and collaborations (Pterodactyl, Frankie Rose, Skeleton$, Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang, Talibam!, Till By Turning, Anthony Braxton), the band spent six months writing and recording their new concept album due out this Summer on Northern Spy Records, prefaced by a Spring US tour with rock artist Bobby Conn. Full album details and new music coming soon

Starring Live

05/19/12 Brooklyn, New York – 285 Kent Ave *^%
05/20/12 Philadelphia, PA – Kung Fu Necktie ^
05/21/12 Baltimore, MD Golden – West Cafe ^
05/22/12 Cleveland, OH – Happy Dog ^
05/23/12 Columbus, OH – Ace of Cups ^
05/24/12 St. Louis, MO – El Lenador ^
05/25/12 Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle ^&

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Melanie VernaMelanie Verna began dancing in her hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee, where she toured with the Tennessee Children’s Dance Ensemble. She has been a recipient of the Coca-Cola scholarship with American Ballet Theatre’s summer program and was awarded the Ailey Fellowship through Fordham University.

Melanie is a graduate of the School of Minnesota Dance Theatre where she was a member of the Repertory Ensemble. She was an apprentice with Minnesota Dance Theatre for two years before joining the company.

Melanie has performed repertory by Ashton, Barbuto, Balanchine, Fricke, Hart, Janczewski, Loyce and Lise Houlton, Maginnis, Petipa, Rhoden and Rink. Melanie has been a Minnesota Dance Theatre company member since 2005.

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Westfield To Make Big Investment in Manhattan

Westfield Group, which, remember, managed the mall under the World Trade Center, has announced plans to invest $625 million in lower Manhattan. The New York/New Jersey Port Authority will invest $825 million in the project as well.

Australian major shopping centre owner Westfield will invest 625 million US dollars in a retail project at the site of the World Trade Center in New York, it said Monday.

The Westfield Group said it will set up a joint venture with The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to develop and operate a 1.45 billion US dollar retail project at the site of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Westfield, Australia's largest shopping centre owner, originally acquired an interest in the retail facilities at the World Trade Center in July 2001 for about 130 million US dollars.

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As millions of Americans struggle with the cost of housing, developers who build affordable apartments and condos are confronting such severe financial challenges that at least one major firm has stopped building subsidized projects.

To get low-cost projects built today, developers must search for ways to partner with government agencies or nonprofits to snare low-cost land, and to gain financial incentives.

The need is clear. Some 17 million American households spend at least 50% of their income on housing, and many families skimp on food and healthcare because of the cost of shelter, according to a report issued in June by Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies.

From 2001 to 2005, the number of households spending more than half their income for housing jumped by nearly 3.2 million. Meanwhile, the nation's inventory of affordable units dropped by 1.2 million in the decade ending in 2003.

“One-third of all households are spending more than 30% of their income on housing. It's gotten so high, people no longer find it shocking,” says Rachel Drew, Harvard research analyst and project manager for the new report. As for the millions spending at least 50%, “We call that a severe housing cost burden.”

From Washington to San Francisco, workers, the elderly and others clamor for affordable apartments and place their names on long waiting lists for housing aid. Meanwhile, developers are fighting rising construction, energy, and land costs, as well as governmental regulations.

In Boston, more than 15,500 applicants languish on one nonprofit's housing list. So many vie for low-rent units in New York City that officials use lotteries to pick tenants. Many firemen, nurses and teachers search in vain for reasonably priced lodging in the Big Apple, where a one bedroom can fetch $6,200 on the chic Upper West Side, or $2,800 in artsy SoHo.

Responding to the problem

“Everybody knows there's a crisis,” says developer Larry Hirschfield, president of ELH Management LLC, a Brooklyn-based property development firm that has renovated scores of buildings. “In Manhattan, in a doorman building, you can start at $4,000, $5,000 or $6,000 a month and up — that's a rental price.”

Across the country, an army of developers and investors like Hirschfield have stepped in to produce low-cost housing, and found creative ways to navigate the governmental and financial obstacles.

Some of Hirschfield's rehabs were funded through New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's 10-year, $7.5 billion program to create 165,000 affordable units throughout the city. Since 2003, about 55,000 units have been created.

Hirschfield's labors gave new life to the turreted Brooklyn gem the Imperial, which had fallen into disrepair. Built in the 1890s with 25 palatial apartments, it now offers 34 units for rent starting at $430 per month. As part of a Coney Island effort, Hirschfield is partnering with two other firms to build 152 co-ops that could cost as little as $117,000 for a two-bedroom, based on the buyer's income.

$1 Coney Island land deal

Hirschfield works with New York's Housing Development Corp., a leading issuer of bonds for multifamily affordable housing. Under the agreement with HDC to build co-ops and a community center through Coney Island Commons LLC, with partners KB Cos. and Galaxy General Contracting, the city will convey the property for $1 and contribute $5 million toward the community center.

The New York State Affordable Housing Corp. will provide a subsidy ranging from $25,000 to $40,000 per apartment. The units will be sold via lottery, with at least half the co-ops reserved for Coney Island residents.

The $56 million project, located about a mile from the historic amusement park, includes a 40,000 sq. ft. community center. “They have people banging at their door” at the sales firm, the builder says.

But spiraling costs and federal rules barring thousands of owners from raising rents to offset higher operating costs, hamper many developers. Some no longer participate in government programs.

“We're not building any more subsidized housing, which I'm sorry about,” says Ron Terwilliger, chairman and CEO of Atlanta-based Trammell Crow Residential. One of the nation's largest multifamily housing developers, the company formerly built about 1,500 affordable units a year for people earning 60% or less of an area's median income, and received federal tax credits in return. But development costs rose by 50% in the last three years. “With the increase in land costs and construction costs and the lack of rent increases, it doesn't work for us anymore,” says Terwilliger.

The company's last initiated low-income project, a $48 million rental development across from the Georgia State Capitol, is being built in cooperation with the Atlanta Housing Authority. Tenants have begun moving in after completion of the initial 269 units, and another 421 units are under construction.

Terwilliger, who donated $12 million to nonprofits for affordable housing construction, believes too much of the burden for creating the housing has fallen on developers. “The governments aren't doing enough to subsidize the housing,” he says. “This is a society-wide problem.”

Developers say solutions to creating economical housing lie in partnerships with community agencies, and persuading local and federal government to offer additional subsidy programs, particularly those that allow realistic adjustment for increased operating expenses.

They also urge local governments to rezone land to permit higher-density housing near workers' jobs. Some investors ask cities to donate land for projects so the savings can be passed on to tenants or buyers.

Frozen rents shock industry

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development recently published new income limits that freeze rents in roughly 2,000 of the nation's 3,100 counties for property owners receiving tax credits through Section 42 of the IRS tax code. HUD's income limits are used to set maximum rents owners can charge.

Low income housing tax credits are the government's main incentive for creating affordable housing, spurring construction of more than 1.8 million units in the last two decades. The government offers about $5 billion in tax credits annually through state and local agencies to construct or rehabilitate rental housing.

The rent freeze is the biggest shock to hit the tax credit industry in years, says Paul Emrath, an economist at the National Association of Home Builders in Washington, D.C. “That's unlike anything we've seen before. That came as a surprise to everyone.” HUD based its current income limits on calculations from the American Community Survey conducted in 2005 by the U.S. Census Bureau.

The newer survey showed median family income figures that were substantially lower than those indicated by the 2000 Census, even adjusted for inflation, Emrath says. To resolve industry frustration, the home builders propose decoupling rents from HUD income limits and tying them to the consumer price index or another inflation measure.

Rent freezes have long posed a problem for property owners participating in other federal programs, including HUD's Section 8 program, which offers housing assistance and vouchers to tenants whose incomes fall within HUD guidelines.

“The debt-service coverage has been deteriorating for Section 8-assisted properties because the rents are frozen,” while owner costs are rising, says Wendy Dolber, managing director of Standard & Poor's public finance housing group. “Some of the owners have been taking money out of their own pockets to put back into the property. It's questionable how long they can do that.”

The contracts of about one million housing units financed 20 or 30 years ago with government assistance and subject to federal rules now are expiring. As the loans are paid off and contracts with investors expire, the units will vanish from the Section 8 portfolio, freeing private owners to raise rents. Only about two million “deeply affordable” apartments will remain, Dolber says, mainly federally subsidized or owned units.

Public, private solutions

Many developers believe the future of affordable housing lies in a new generation of structures created through partnerships with public agencies, and in creating infill projects. Some developers receive incentives for building multifamily housing in which a percentage is set aside for people whose incomes are lower than the area median income.

Here's how government and private industry are dealing with housing issues.

  • HUD blocks Brooklyn deal: HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson recently scuttled the proposed $1.3 billion sale of Brooklyn's Starrett City rental complex, saying the sale would have displaced the 14,000 residents of the nation's largest federally subsidized rental complex. Developer David Bistricer, a partner in Clipper Equity LLC, twice tried to buy the 6,000-unit complex from Starrett City Associates. The deal requires approval by the federal government and New York State, which holds Starrett's $234 million mortgage. The state blocked Bistricer's second purchase attempt in April, saying it would be too costly to increase government subsidies to keep rents affordable.

  • Struggle in Beantown: In Boston, a rising number of city dwellers cannot afford market rental rates. About 45% of those receiving Section 8 vouchers for housing aid are workers, says Amy West, a spokeswoman for the nonprofit Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership.

    According to the National Low Income Housing Council, the Boston area median household income in 2006 was $84,100. A family earning 30% of that, or $25,230, would be required to pay no more than $631 a month for housing. Meanwhile, the Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom apartment in Boston is $1,366 per month, West says, and a family would have to earn $54,640 to afford it.

  • Buyers snap up Miami lofts: In Miami, where the recent condo boom sent rental and purchase prices rocketing before the market fizzled, many workers have been priced out of the market.

    “A person who made $50,000 a couple years ago could not afford to live downtown, and now a person who makes $80,000 cannot afford to live downtown,” says Oscar A. Rodriguez, senior vice president of development at The Related Group, which targets workers earning between $40,000 and $80,000 a year, and obtains government subsidies.

    When Related built the 23-story, $50 million Loft Downtown project, offering 196 units priced from $99,000, the tower sold out in three weeks, and residents began occupying the condos in 2005. The project was five times less profitable per unit than the luxury Icon Brickell, a $500 million, 50-story tower with 1,000 units opening in 2009, Rodriguez says.

  • Block Grant helps Maryland project: In Maryland, the Bozzuto Group worked with a local housing authority and a nonprofit to develop The Addison at St. Paul, offering condos from the low $200,000s, says chairman and CEO Tom Bozzuto. The nonprofit bought an apartment project near a subway station inexpensively, and secured a $500,000 grant commitment from Prince George's County under the Community Development Block Grant Program. Ninety of the workforce units have been sold.

With government funding in short supply, the number of affordable units shrinking, and remedial efforts piecemeal, prospects for a turnaround are bleak, the Harvard authors conclude. Despite this, many developers have found success.

Even with government assistance, Hirschfield says it's too early to tell what sort of return his Coney Island investment in New York will generate. After years of rehabbing units, Coney Island Commons is his first project built from scratch, and he, too, cites the daunting construction and energy costs.

“I don't know what our next move is going to be. I think we'll continue to look at affordable housing, but where the land is going to come from, how it's going to be financed, how it's going to work — that's anybody's guess.”

Denise Kalette is Senior Associate Editor.

New rules stir investor anxiety

Multifamily housing investors are bracing for new federal rules expected to be issued in late June that some fear could compound their difficulties:

  • Thousands of 15-year federal contracts to offer affordable housing in exchange for tax credits are expiring, and many of the properties are expected to be sold. Owners are waiting for the IRS to reveal new guidelines for the sales. The IRS has required that units be offered first to buyers who will keep them affordable, but many sellers want to earn market rates, and are eager to learn what constraints are placed on the sales.

  • On June 30, current IRS guidelines for utility allowances expire, and the IRS is updating rules that now limit landlords' ability to recoup utility costs for tax credit properties. Some owners have been forced to dip into operating reserves to meet expenses, and industry groups hope the new IRS proposals will permit allowances based on accurate utility costs. The proposals will be subject to public comment before they become final.

  • Another source of investor anxiety is a proposed fee increase for loan guarantees from the Federal Housing Administration. A similar plan was withdrawn months ago after stinging rebukes by the Mortgage Bankers Association and bipartisan Congressional opponents. Real estate groups claim the fee increase is a disguised tax on rental housing, and that it will lead to higher rents.
    Denise Kalette

Hispanics propel U.S. apartment market

While Congress grapples with proposals for a sweeping overhaul of U.S. immigration policy, the apartment industry is advising firms to prepare to accommodate thousands of new arrivals, primarily Hispanics. Foreign-born and minority households are the fastest-growing segments of the housing market, according to a report by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University.

The minority share of U.S. households is expected to expand from 28% in 2005 to more than 32% in 2015 and have a major impact on multifamily housing. Over the next eight years, the number of rental households is projected to increase by at least 1.8 million. “Minorities will be responsible for the entire gain and will eventually account for the majority of renter households,” the National Multi Housing Council (NMHC) writes in a lengthy report on preparing for a rental housing boom.

“When it comes to housing demand, the immigration story is essentially a Hispanic story,” reports NMHC. Half the immigrants entering the U.S. are Hispanic, and Hispanic households rose by 58% in the 1990s. Hispanics make up 54% of immigrant renters, the report states, and the number is growing annually.

The implication for apartment firms, whether in cities or suburbs, according to NMHC's 2006 annual report, is that “to a large degree, the future of rental housing is focused on Hispanics.”

While the immigrants' impact on the rental market in coming years is expected to be substantial, the industry is monitoring the proposed legislation to reform U.S. policy, which could affect the market. One plan gathering bipartisan support in Washington would offer millions of illegal immigrants now in the U.S. a chance for legal status, but would prevent future arrivals from staying.

As the country grows more ethnically diverse, apartment firms will need to adapt to the renters, say authors of the NMHC study. At many properties, Spanish-speaking staff and bilingual leases will become the norm.

Savvy apartment owners already have taken the immigrant market into account. “I think it's critical throughout our mid-Atlantic states and particularly in the Washington, D.C. area,” to adjust to the newcomers, says Tom Bozzuto, chairman and CEO of the Maryland-based Bozzuto Group, which has built and acquired more than 28,000 apartments and for-sale homes with a combined value of nearly $3 billion.

“There is a tremendously large immigrant population in Montgomery County,” Bozzuto says. Though the county has the image of a wealthy Washington, D.C. suburb, it also has a large share of people who need affordable housing. The company built a mixed-use, mixed-income project that includes 173 apartment units at a subway stop in Wheaton, Md., setting aside 30% of the units for affordable housing. The group also built 122 condos priced from the low $200,000s, a rarity in the pricey capital area.

Bridging the language barrier

“One of the things we have at all our [rental] properties is an interpreter system,” Bozzuto says. It amounts to a telephone system with two handsets. At one property, a Cantonese-speaking prospective tenant approached the English-speaking manager. The manager picked up one phone, and the Cantonese-speaking woman picked up the other, and her words were simultaneously interpreted for the manager.

The firm surveyed its own employees and discovered they had come from 52 countries, from El Salvador to Australia, Germany and the Netherlands. All work in the region between Northern Virginia and Pennsylvania. A number of the company's managers are bilingual.

Heavy housing burden

Across ethnic lines, the need for affordable housing is clear, says Bozzuto, a member of the Harvard Joint Center advisory board. One of every three U.S. households spends more than 30% of its income on housing, and one in every seven households spends more than 50% on housing.

Bozzuto is not certain what percentage of his tenants are immigrants, since the company does not seek that information, but he says the majority are Americans.

“It takes a great deal of ambition and guts to leave a place where all your family is and where you grew up, and come to a place where you know no one,” Bozzuto says. “I have great respect for the immigrant population.”
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NRNB sponsors a variety of competitions for the communities around network biology tools. These competitions range from app development to bug bounties. Check out ongoing competitions and the results of past competitions below. Also feel free to suggest a competition.

February Bug Bounty 2013

  • Giovanni Dall'Olio - 47 points
  • Carol Scalice - 20 points
  • Anna Dieckmann - 10 points
  • Dirk - 10 points
  • Hideo Matsuda - 10 points
  • Navin Rauniyar - 10 points
  • Ramayya - 10 points
  • Savvas Genitsaris - 10 points
  • Michael Heuer - 8 points

Cytoscape 3.2 Launch Challenge November 2014

Best example of using Cytoscape for Biology

  • Thomas Kelder

    1st - Thomas Kelder: The Food - Genomics - Disease landscape: A network linking food ingredients with human disease through underlying molecular interactions.

  • Mark Grimes

    2nd - Mark Grimes: Co-cluster correlation network of phoshporylated proteins in neuroblastoma samples.

  • Ponnusamy Kalaiarasan

    3rd - Ponnusamy Kalaiarasan: Crosstalk among the modules and hubs in the apoptosis protein-protein interaction network.

Most novel use of Cytoscape

  • Christos Vaitsis

    1st - Christos Vaitsis: Mapping of learning outcomes and teaching methods of one course in an undergraduate medical program.

  • Leandro Lima

    2nd - Leandro Lima: Network of citations constructed using BioPython/PubMed API.

  • Steven Hallam

    3rd - Steven Hallam: The image combines network analysis with single-cell genomic sequencing to infer metabolic interactions between uncultivated microbes inhabiting salt stratified Sakinaw Lake.

  • Sherilyn Bell

    3rd - Sherilyn Bell: Using Cytoscape to visualize commercial personal DNA testing data such as chromosome start and end points, genetic distance, surnames etc.

Most aesthetically pleasing network visualization in Cytoscape

  • Roberto Mosca

    1st - Roberto Mosca: The binary protein-protein interaction landscape of Escherichia coli. Cytoscape used to generate the networks.

  • Daniel Himmelstein

    2nd - Daniel Himmelstein: Heterogeneous Network Visualization with Cytoscape: An Integrative Approach to the Genetics of Complex Human Disease.

  • Shazia Haider

    3rd - Shazia Haider: Protein-protein interaction network of apoptosis regulatory protein coding genes.

Most valuable feature to add to Cytoscape

  • 1st - Gordon Bean:

    Provide a “wizard” user interface for simple styles based on common data-driven visualizations to:

    • Teach the user about basic visual style techniques, such as mapping discrete colors to discrete node classes and using edge weights to denote edge score or strength.
    • Ask the user to select attributes that match these criteria (Cytoscape can scan data for each attribute to loosely determine what attributes might be appropriate - i.e. continuous, discrete, pass-through, etc).
    • Automatically bind these attributes to sensible style properties that match the rest of the style theme.

  • 2nd - Mark Fortner:

    Use Oracle JavaFX packager for Cytoscape installers, which package the required version of Java with the application, thus cutting down on the amount of headscratching by users.

  • 3rd - Srikanth Bezawada:

    • Provide case studies on social network data and visualizing transportation networks data.
    • Implement generic feature to allow an app to be run on a large set of networks and allow for efficient extraction of app results to compare networks on a large scale.

  • 3rd - Thomas Pfau:

    Implement edges with multiple sources and targets to allow for programmatic representation of more complex interactions. For example, they could be used to represent Gene-Protein-Reaction relationships without necessitating the introduction of Enzyme subunits.


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"NSS Capital Capsule" updated April 10, 1997
House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics
FY98 NASA Authorization Hearing on the International Space Station

The House Science Subcommittee on Space & Aeronautics today held a hearing on Space Science and NASA's Life and Microgravity Sciences and Applications program.

Testifying before the Subcommittee were Dr. Wes Huntress, NASA Associate Administrator of the Space Science Office; Arnauld Nicogossian, NASA Associate Administrator of Life and Microgravity Sciences and Applications; Dr. Neal Pellis, Program Manager at the Biotechnology Cell Science Program at JSC; Dr. Canizares, Chairman of the Space Studies Board, National Research Council; Dr. Shoemaker, noted astronomer at the Lowell Observatory, and; Dr. Reggie Edgerton, Vice Chair of the UCLA Physiological Science Department.

Space science and microgravity science encompass a wide area of investigation. Each of the panel members provided a brief statement then the Subcommittee members asked two rounds of questions. Attendance by members of the subcommittee was not as high as that of yesterday's hearing on the International Space Station.

Huntress discussed the many successes of the space science program at NASA, from the Mars Program, to discoveries by the Hubble Space Telescope, to recent data on Jupiter's moon Europa, which may contain oceans of water. According to Huntress, NASA's space science program "is doing very well, in spite of a 10-percent reduction between FY 1996 and FY 1997." Huntress said next year's budget request "is crucial to maintaining the momentum that has been building in recent years and for providing a degree of stability and robustness to NASA's Space Science Program."

Nicogossian said the major problem for the microgravity program was access to space. "By far the biggest challenge we face in the years ahead," he said, "will be to maintain the robustness of the science and commercial research community in the face of delayed access to space as a result of the re-phasing of the international space station schedule."

According to Nicogossian, NASA is "examining options to fly additional Shuttle flights during the early years of the station assembly in order to provide continuing opportunities to the U.S. and international research communities to ameliorate the impact of the delay in the unavailability of the permanent research capabilities on the station."

Canizares provided a technical overview of the Origins Program. About Mission Operations and Data Analysis (MO&DA), he emphasized to the subcommittee that "it is important to remember that a level budget means something close to a 20 percent decline in buying power over the next years."

Shoemaker said NASA is spending $1.2 million annually to support a three-institution search for asteroids and comets. An estimated 1,500 asteroids larger than one kilometer in diameter revolve about the Sun on short-period, Earth-crossing orbits. Only about seven percent, or 100 of these Earth-crossing asteroids, have been discovered. At the current rate of spending, about 20 new one-kilometer diameter asteroids are discovered annually. It will take some 20 to 30 years to locate some 90 percent of the one-kilometer sized asteroids that could potentially strike the Earth. Shoemaker recommended increasing NASA support of the joint search effort to $1.7 million annually in order to reduce to 10 years the time needed to locate 90 percent of the one-kilometer asteroids.

Pellis discussed advances in NASA's bioreactor, a slowly rotating horizontal cylinder that is filled with liquid and nutrients to keep cells suspended so they will develop into three-dimensional masses. The technology is advancing the growing of human tissues for transplantation, vaccine development, space cell biology, and the investigation of viruses and strategies to treat cancers. Dr. Edgerton talked about research in microgravity relating to nerve cell regeneration.

Cong. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) said "space science has become a stellar performer." Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) inquired about the transfer of $462 million from the Life and Microgravity program over a three-year period to help construct the space station. Nicogossian said he hoped the money would be repaid beginning in 2001. As a result of the diversion, Canizares said "key microgravity research facilities such as the furnace, combustion and fluid science facilities that were to have been launched and put into operation in 2000 will now be delayed until 2002. Gravitational biology habitat facilities will slip from 1999 to 2001, and the life sciences centrifuge will be delayed until at least the end of 2002."

Cong. Dave Weldon (R-FL) followed up on yesterday's hearing and asked panel members whether or not Dr. Park, who testified yesterday before the subcommittee, was correct that all the research now contemplated by the microgravity program could be accomplished by robotic spacecraft. Dr. Pellis said human involvement was very valuable to biotechnology research because they have the ability to assess experiments and make modifications to enhance results.

Unfortunately, many major questions were not asked by subcommittee members. On the front page of The Washington Post this morning there was an excellent article on Europa. Not one member inquired about the discovery of oceans of water on Jupiter's moon and how NASA could validate the data gathered by the Galileo spacecraft.

The Administration proposes to cut NASA in FY 1998 by $500 million when adjustments are made for inflation, and not one subcommittee member sought to ask about the consequence of the budget rollback.

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March 18, 2014
By Katie Wilhelmi RD, LD , The Journal

As we celebrate National Nutrition Month and Frozen Food Month, I always take a closer look at what is in our freezer at home. Sometimes frozen foods get a bad rap for not being healthy, but there are a number of products I think are worth fitting in your freezer. Here are five:

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Welcome to Null Island!

The Republic of Null Island is one of the smallest and least-visited nations on Earth. Situated where the Prime Meridian crosses the Equator, Null Island sits 1600 kilometres off the western coast of Africa.

Our ancestors were a mix of adventurous European sailors and unfortunate Africans who were swept out to sea and survived long enough to make landfall. Today, most people speak a mix of Portugese, English, Yoruba and Igbo that can only be described as "Nullish".

How do Null Islanders live? Do they trade with the rest of the world? The answers to these questions are both unusual and unexpected. Please explore our web site to learn more about us!

Not satisfied just reading about Null Island? Why not pay us a visit? Ring your travel agent and ask about holidays on Null Island. Services via modern commercial shipping are available from several West African ports!

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 New-York Historical Society | Children With AIDS: Spirit and Memory. Photographs by Claire Yaffa

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Children With AIDS: Spirit and Memory. Photographs by Claire Yaffa

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To accompany AIDS in New York: The First Five Years, the New-York Historical Society will curate a visual arts exhibition and gallery show, featuring twenty breathtaking black and white photographs by noted photographer and social realist Claire Yaffa from her collection “The Changing Face of Children with AIDS.”

Claire Yaffa, whose work has been featured in The New York Times and several other major publications, has worked for years to document an intensely intimate, behind-the-scenes look at medical institutions and their youngest patients, giving agency and voice to thousands of
individuals—particularly children—struggling with life-threatening illnesses. Among the institutions that Yaffa has worked with during her long artistic career, the Incarnation Children’s Center in the Bronx—an organization that was one of the first to care for orphaned infants born with HIV—provided some of Yaffa’s most visceral subject matter, offering a stirring tribute to those affected by HIV/AIDS. Beginning in 1990, Yaffa visited Incarnation Children’s Center and was permitted to document the lives of these afflicted children and adolescents over a period of ten years, creating haunting portraits that capture the pathos and beauty of dozens of HIV’s youngest victims—most of whom did not survive to adulthood—and documenting the extraordinary devotion of the children’s caretakers.

The exhibition will have a special focus on two or three individual children’s stories and will featuring several of Yaffa’s emotionally moving, mid- to large-format, black and white photographs, and revealing with clarity and humility the often heartbreaking tales of children afflicted with HIV and AIDS.

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Plum Sykes, Bob Morris to Bring Style Back to HBO

HBO wants a series to fill Sex and the City's Manolos and they're looking for the next Candace Bushnell to give it to 'em. According to WWD, they've tapped Vogue contributor Plum Sykes and former New York Times Styles columnist Bob Morris for scripts.

Jimmy Cayne Gets His Body Guarded

Wall Street goes back to work, Bob Schieffer postpones retirement, and a cat owner is charged with cruelty in our roundup of finance, media, and law news.

Jay-Z Had to Break Up to Make Up

Jay-Z stepped down as CEO of Def Jam because it didn't pay enough. (Instead, he wants to open a boutique hotel called The Jay.) Amy Fischer is D.J.-ing tonight at Retox, and her sex tape will be on display. Justin Timberlake and Alpha Dog co-star Amanda Seyfried left the Pink Elephant after just fifteen minutes. VH-1 exec Michael Hirschorn, wife and St. Martin's editor Elizabeth Beier, New York Times scribe Bob Morris, and agent Ira Silverberg spent New Year's Eve at the Mexican villa once occupied by Pablo Escobar. There are a bunch of historical inaccuracies in Denzel Washington's The Great Debaters, namely the fact that Harvard was not involved in the real-life proceedings. Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are supposedly expecting twins: one boy and one girl.

Handwritten Notes Are Even More Powerful Than Bob Morris Thought!

We totally rolled our eyes at Bob Morris's very last "Age of Dissonance" column in the "Sunday Styles" section this weekend, because the "Thank You Notes Are Nice" column has been written approximately 400 gazillion times before, although probably not ever preceded by the awesome caveat, “if you want to be sure to be included in a will…" But that was before we saw the true transformative qualities a handwritten note can have! This morning's Post reports that such a note from Hillary Clinton actually managed to flip right-wing harpy Elisabeth Hasselbeck into a Democrat! Apparently, Hillary sent Hasselbeck a missive after the birth of her son a couple of weeks ago. It was "truly a most thoughtful and warm act," Hasselbeck told the Post. "I may actually change my vote." Well, how about that! If anyone needs us, we'll be at home calligraphing thank-you notes to Jared Kushner and Stan O'Neal. Maybe they'll include us in their wills! A New "View" On Old Clinton [NYP] Yes, Thank You [NYT]


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Fug Girls: Shay Mitchell Inspires Rhymes at DKNY

We may now be at the point of Fashion Week — brought on a touch earlier than usual, thanks to dirty melting snow and surprise icy curbside plunge-puddles — where people are a little bit tired, and more than a bit punchy. As we wandered into DKNY on Sunday, we overheard Hal Rubenstein complaining to a seatmate about all the TV shows that shoot on his block — apparently Blair Waldorf "lived" two doors down from him, so Gossip Girl was there all the time. "It drove me insane," he growled. Teen Wolf actress Holland Roden looked adorable in a blue dress, but her smile was tight. In fairness, her feet looked painfully squished into her nude patent pumps, so maybe it was the blisters doing the wincing. And one reporter almost bit it on the damp, slick floors at the entry. "Why am I not in boots? What is WRONG with me?" she muttered.

However, most moods could not be dampened, neither by snow nor camera crews. Donna Karan did her usual pre-show tour up and down the runway and seemed as jovial as if it were 75 degrees and she had a piña colada waiting for her backstage. Teen star Victoria Justice — a ringer for previous attendee Nina Dobrev, causing some brief confusion — arrived a bit too late for interviews, but seemed crazy cheerful. Rightly so, given that her mouth was painted a covetable shade of dark red, and everyone knows a good lipstick cures all ills. And Pretty Little Liars' Shay Mitchell — in the kind of perfect leather jacket that makes credit-cards twitch — was having such a good time talking to the woman next to her that she didn't hear the photographers calling for a photo. So they got creative. "Shay. Shay butter," one shouted. "Shay Stadium," boomed another. Our favorite was, "Atta-Shay." If this is the level of punchiness in the photo mob on only day four, Mitchell will be lucky if she makes it to the end of Fashion Week without them busting out "Shay-ise lounges," "Shay Guevara," or, if one of them is an eighties TV enthusiast, "Rosalind Shays," that L.A. Law character who famously fell down an elevator shaft. And now that we're pulling out references THAT old, we officially may be overdue for a nap ourselves.


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The Glittering Crowd at Last Night’s CFDA’s Swarovski Party

All was glinted at uptown department store Fivestory on Tuesday night, as Swarovski and the CFDA hosted an event to celebrate the limited-edition Objets d'Art Collection designed by the nominees of the 2013 CFDA Swarovski Award for Emerging Talent. Nominees including Shane Gabier and Christopher Peters (of Creatures of the Wind), Irene Neuwirth, and Jennifer Meyer were each asked to select an item they love and customize it with Swarovski elements to create a piece showing off the brand's aesthetic. Each one-of-a-kind item was up for sale, with all proceeds benefitting Free Arts NYC, and three of them sold before the party even began: a crystal-encrusted cactus by Suno's Erin Beatty and Max Osterweis, Pamela Love's shiny bow and arrow set, and a rad black-embellished bike from Public School's Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne. As store owner Claire Distenfeld, Steven Kolb, and Natalie Joos crowded the super-packed space, Todd Snyder explained to the Cut he needed tweezers to update a pair of classic New Balance sneakers with bling. They’re still on display — along with the rest of the items, sold or not — at Fivestory through June 3, the same day as the annual CFDA awards.

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Sunday, September 27, 2009

Tailor Made in the Garment District

Garment District Tailor Statue, NYC
Photo by myself in the Garment District, around 38th Street and Seventh Avenue.

Fashion Week may be over, but this bronze statue lives outside year-round, a tribute to those in the 'rag trade'.

Fashion showrooms are located in this neighborhood on Seventh Avenue, and there still some stores selling fabric and notions. The majority of manufacturers have moved out of Manhattan, however, since rents are high.

The statue sits in an outdoor plaza with zero public seating. People use what they can find.

Related posts: Taking a Break at the Statue of Liberty, Union Square in Black and White and The View of Liberty.

Ken Mac said...

always amazes me how you capture such balanced compositions...and in the street!

Mike said...

I love that area of NYC.


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When Michelle Smith heard that two firefighters were killed in a burning building that was undergoing demolition by general contractor Bovis Lend Lease, she thought, “My God, it’s happened again.”

“Somebody else has gotten hurt or died because of their lack of following protocol and directions and doing things the proper way,” she said.

Smith’s daughter, McKenzie, 3, died Christmas Eve 2001 at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia from an infection linked to aspergillus, a mold often found in dirt kicked up by construction.

Bovis was building the new Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital next door – and dust coated McKenzie’s room, her mom said.

The deaths of four other children were blamed on the mold – and the failure to keep it out of adjacent hospital rooms where kids were ill or undergoing cancer treatment.

Bovis, along with the upper Manhattan hospital, settled a suit with the parents of Grace Murphy, 5, a cancer patient who died in November 2002 of a lung infection caused by aspergillus, said their lawyer, John Dearie.

At about the same time children were falling ill from aspergillus, Bovis was leading the cleanup of Ground Zero. And it stayed for the redevelopment phase of the area – as the company in charge of razing the toxin-filled Deutsche Bank building at 130 Liberty St.

In November 2005, Bovis was handed that $45 million contract – which eventually ballooned to $86 million – by the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., plus a $6 million incentive if it finished work before 2008. Bovis was selected despite objections from the city Department of Investigation over two of its subcontractors, and earlier criticism from agencies of its safety record at Ground Zero.

An LMDC spokesman said he couldn’t comment on Bovis or the contractor’s role in the Aug. 18 fire at the Deutsche Bank building, in which two firefighters, Robert Beddia and Joseph Graffagnino, ran out of air and died after getting lost amid the maze of blocked-off stairwells and thick smoke.

But Bovis is already in hot water over worker-safety failures at Ground Zero.

It was one of four main contractors hired to do post-9/11 cleanup, getting $10 million from the city and another $277.2 million in federal aid. In January 2002, it became the sole construction manager at Ground Zero, in charge of worker safety.

Now it’s named in lawsuits by thousands of 9/11 recovery workers suffering respiratory disease, cancer and other illnesses. They say the city and its contractors neglected to protect them from toxic exposure at the heavily tainted site.

A Jan. 3, 2002, memo by the city’s Department of Design and Construction cited a “lack of commitment” by Bovis to environmental, safety and health programs.

That month, the department said safety meetings were canceled because “no safety officers were present” for Bovis and other contractors.

Meanwhile, “as few as 20 percent” of workers in the rubble wore respirators required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

In Feb. 13, 2002, a department memo again faulted Bovis: “The overwhelming consensus of many parties (e.g. OSHA, FDNY, Liberty Mutual, etc.) is that the safety job is not getting done. Project management appears to only address safety issues when convenient for the schedule of the project.”

But the city is fighting the Ground Zero worker lawsuits and, last week, the Construction Department changed its tune on Bovis, calling the company’s safety record during the World Trade Center cleanup “exemplary.”

A Bovis spokeswoman said the company’s safety record “is one which we can be proud of.”

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Would-be rapist gets 5 years

An East Village woman who bravely fought off a would-be rapist was happy to learn that the fiend was sentenced today to five years in prison.

“I’m good,” Jane Callanan told The Post. “Knowing that he’s locked up, it’s good.”

Her attacker, Imre Meszesan, 36, was nabbed in November 2011 days after he stalked her into her apartment building, pounced on her and tried to lift up her skirt before she fought him off — an attack captured on surveillance video.

“The video, it’s so clear, you didn’t need me” to testify, the 28-year-old fashion industry exec Callanan noted.

Meszesan later pleaded guilty to burglary with a sexual motivation and sex abuse.

Yesterday, over the objections of a prosecutor who wanted Meszesan sentenced to 12 years in prison, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan gave him just five years. With time served, the thug will be released in less than four years. He’ll have to register as a sex offender.

“I’m fine with it,” Callanan said of the sentence. “It’s up to the judge.”

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Rejuvenated Pace found motivation from being released by Jets

CORTLAND — Calvin Pace knew it was coming. Still, it was stunning in a way.

The veteran linebacker was a salary cap casualty in February when the Jets released him in an expected move to save on his $11.6 million salary cap number. He spent two months as a free agent before the Jets brought him back on a one-year deal at the league minimum.

“It’s crazy,” Pace said yesterday. “I’ve been told ‘no’ in a lot of different things in my life, but never football. I’m not going to sit here and say I’ve always been the best guy on the field because I haven’t. When you’re in professional sports and you get fired, everybody knows about it. It’s not a good feeling.”

Pace, 32, then spent the beginning of free agency looking for a job and not finding many takers before the Jets brought him back.

“My agent told me a whole lot more ‘Nos’ than even ‘maybes,’ ” Pace said. “It’s a hard pill to swallow, especially when I can still play.”

During the first two weeks of training camp, Pace has looked rejuvenated, which he credits in part to the motivation gained from the rejection he felt this offseason.

“Sometimes you get shown the door and it puts things in perspective,” he said. “Everybody wants to say you’re on the backside of your career, but I don’t feel that way. I hate when people say that — just because you’re a certain age that you can’t do certain things. I know how I feel.”

Jets coach Rex Ryan praised Pace this week and said he believes the outside linebacker could be even better than he was in Ryan’s first year in New York, when Pace put up eight sacks in 12 games.

“I thought in 2009 he was spectacular, I really did, and I think he might be better now,” Ryan said. “He is having an unbelievable camp. What that means statistically I don’t know, but I’m telling you he is having a monster camp.”

The Jets’ youth all around Pace has added to his motivation, too. The Jets have used three first-round draft picks on defensive linemen in the last three years. Pace said the presence of Muhammad Wilkerson, Quinton Coples and Sheldon Richardson has him feeling good.

“It’s funny. I feel younger because the team is younger,” Pace said. “These guys look to me. Sheldon is 22 or 23 years old. They look at me like I’m an old man. It’s refreshing, man. I think those guys are extremely talented and it’s fun to play with them.”

This offseason has been a tough one for veteran players in the NFL. Teams have decided not to sign veterans or only give them the minimum, taking their chances with younger guys. The Jets have only two players on their roster with 10 or more years of experience — kicker Billy Cundiff and Pace.

Longtime Jets guard Brandon Moore retired yesterday in part because no team would pay him what he was looking for.

“I know the trend in the NFL is teams feel like players 30 and over, we can do without them. But experience is invaluable,” Pace said. “It’s easy to get a guy who can bench the world. He’s the fastest guy in the world. But he hasn’t been in certain situations. You don’t know how he’s going to react. Some guys rise to the top. Most guys don’t. That’s how you learn how to play.

“I would think you would want a few guys. I’m not saying you want a whole team full of 34-year-olds.”

Pace says retirement never crossed his mind. He’s happy to be back with the Jets.

“For me, this is what I truly love to do,” Pace said. “It’s the only thing I can point to and say, ‘I’m good at that.’ I can wake up and enjoy doing that. [Retirement] really wasn’t an option for me.”

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embers of POLICE SURGEONS' LODGE  SA03 volunteer at NYS Headquarters in Hicksville, attend functions, assist in all matters of health, and answer questions.  Since the tragic events surrounding 9/11, we provide grief counseling as needed.

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The requests for 2015 dues have been sent four times.  Mail to Dr. Ente at the address below as soon as possible.   Thanks!

Please e-mail Dr. Ente if you will be attending the Fall meeting, date to be determined.   Thanks!

If you are interested in exchanging your small badge for a large badge for a fee of $125, please e-mail Dr. Ente.

urrently our membership consists of health professionals representing every specialty and sub specialty related to health care, both physical and emotional.   These members are called upon daily by members of the Police force of local, state and national levels to assist in whatever medical, health-related and social needs, with little regard to self remuneration from the police officers, their families, children or families of deceased officers.  All members pledge to support the Police community and their family members.

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The Physician's Surgeons Lodge SA-03 ("FOP Police Surgeon's Lodge") is dedicated to the support of the NYS FOP and to assist those in need, especially those aligned with law enforcement.  Donations are made only to those organizations or groups whose needs are consistent with our mission.  To submit a request online or to download a Request Form, go here.

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Any son or daughter of an active and/or associate member who is in good standing for at least one year is eligible.  These scholarships will apply to either eight grade going into ninth grade in the Fall of 2015 or high school seniors going into their freshman year of college and/or trade school in the Fall of 2015. More details are on the application  here.  Applications must be received by Wednesday, May 27, 2015.

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Ever since California passed its historic new “Local Control” education funding law last year, school districts have been tasked with coming up with their own plans on how best to spend their education dollars as well as how to use supplemental grants to help students who are low-income, English learners or foster kids.

The Local Control and Accountability Plan, by law, has to include community input.

This week, administrators from Oakland Unified School District unveiled a tentative plan for spending $28 million in state grant money for low-income, English learner and foster child students, and a local accountability process that gives students an unprecedented say, through a newly formed “Student Advisory Council.”  The district’s full budget for next year will be $519 million.

Students from every high school in the district lobbied for the creation of this council and several dozen celebrated Wednesday when the district backed the idea.

“By allowing student voices to be heard, we are making history,” said Pashael Dorsey, a junior at Oakland High School told the school board at the unveiling of the plan. She and other students had advocated for the students’ role through. Dorsey said she would ask the district to spend more money on resources like textbooks and on hiring more teachers so classes are not crowded. Another student, Naudika Williams, said she would advocate spending on safety, tutoring, and helping kids get on a path to college.

Oakland’s tentative LCAP plan would break new ground for the district in other ways, putting significant amounts of money toward recruiting and hiring more teachers and guidance counselors and into reading instruction, social and emotional learning programs, internships for high school students, accelerated English literacy programs for non-English speakers, and parent-engagement programs for low income families, and more.

In fact, the most common reaction among parents, teachers, and even board members listening to the LCAP plan at a board of education meeting this week was that it would spread the resources too thin, spending it on many things.

Rather than “sprinkle” the money on many programs, said director James Harris, who represents East Oakland. “Let’s focus” spending on core goals to make sure to achieve them. Reading and literacy training seemed to be the priority most cited.

Since 77 percent of students in the district fit at least one of the categories of low-income, English learner or foster child, the grant money can be used for programs for all students in a school, in most cases.

However, it is allocated to schools by a formula that counts how many students fit these “high needs” categories and then awards grants based on that count and the concentration of such students – and because the district is fusing the state plan with its own Results Based Budgeting process that tries to help schools in high stress neighborhoods, some schools could be left with less money than other schools or possibly less than last year, some parents said Wednesday.

Edna Brewer Middle School could be one, parents said. In the formula OUSD has tentatively applied, this school could lose funding, even though 63 percent of its students fit the low-income or English learner categories. Parents say the school stands to lose as much as $100,000 next year and they believe that OUSD’s tentative plan does not follow the stipulations of the law in where funds should go.

In a petition signed by more than 230 parents, they state, “It is beyond comprehension that any school be receiving substantial cuts at a time when the state budget has increased spending to all California school districts.  The state is not decreasing its base spending per student for any school district (even wealthy ones). Neither should OUSD. Doing so violates the spirit of LCFF.”

Edna Brewer is by some measures the most high-performing middle school in the district, so parents and students asked the board why they would jeopardize successful education.

“Taking money away from a school that works is punishing it for creativity,” said 6th grader Penelope Martindale.

In there petition, the Edna Brewer Parents said “Edna Brewer MS is not alone in receiving significant and difficult budget cuts.   The redesigned allocation process and implementation plan will decrease budgets to schools with teaching staff with relatively low seniority, oversubscribed campuses, or a geographic location not in high stress areas but with a student population with high FRL rates or with significant proportion of students commuting daily from high stress neighborhoods.   Since the OUSD endorses an ‘open options’ policy for enrollment, it is even more critical that the educational dollars follow individual students.”

Each school’s tentative budget can be seen in this district online document.

Under the Local Control Funding Formula, California public schools would be funded with a base grant of about $6,342 for each student that goes to their schools. In addition, schools will receive another 20 percent of that base amount for any student who is low-income, an English learner or a foster child. Then, schools with a concentration of such students, which include most of OUSD schools, would receive additional grants per student of about 22 percent of the base grant.

The base grant from the state will grow each year for the next seven years. Oakland Unified receives an average of $7,502 for each student this year. The sum will grow to $11,810 by the year 2020 under this formula.

Here’s a list of most of the spending items in Oakland’s Local Control and Accountability Plan:

For all students:

  • Recruit, support and retain effective teachers
  • Reduce class sizes in the early years
  • Focus on reading and literacy from early childhood through high school
  • Fully implement Common Core state standards and Next Generation science standards
  • Coaching for teachers
  • Online content for Blended Learning
  • Increase access to Career Pathways curriculum
  • High-quality internships for seniors
  • Expand electives including career technical education
  • Recruit, support and retain culturally-responsive teachers and teachers for hard-to-fill subjects
  • Priority support for three high schools with very low-income populations

For low-income students:

  • Increased support for student engagement in leadership opportunities
  • In the classroom: social / emotional / physical / mental health services
  • Restorative justice, positive behavior intervention and supports, Manhood Development Program
  • Expand electives, including career technical education
  • Family engagement with academic focus
  • Academic parent-teacher teams and school governance

For English learners:

  • Provide full access to the Common Core curriculum
  • Accelerate English language development and English fluency re-designation
  • Provide differentiated programs for newcomers and long-term English learners
  • Provide multi-lingual, multicultural family engagement related to student academic learning
  • Monitor progress of redesignated fluent English proficient students

For foster youth:

  • Prioritize summer credit recovery and after-school programs
  • Coordination of services at school sites
  • Academic counseling with trained counselors
  • Special engagements for foster parents linked to literacy and academic support at home

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Leonard W. Zapasnik 1958 - 2013 SPRINGFIELD - Leonard W. Zapasnik 55 of Springfield died suddenly Wednesday June 26, 2013 at home. Born in Massachusetts, June 18, 1958 son of the late Chester and Stephanie (Strybuc) Zapasnik. He had grown up in Seekonk, MA and was educated in local schools. He was self employed. A Communicant of St. Patrick's Church in Springfield, he was an avid sports fan, and loved to swim. As a weightlifter, he was the 1981 New England Strongman. He was a huge fan of the New England Patriots. He is survived by his life partner Paula Circosta, sadly he was predeceased by his brothers Chester Zapasnik Jr. and Stephen Zapasnik. He is survived by many cousins, extended family members and friends in Seekonk and Springfield. he will be greatly missed by his beloved pets Gerry and Harry. Funeral services celebrating his life will be Monday July 1, 2013 with a family and friends gathering at 9:30 AM at the Kapinos-Mazur Funeral Home 64 Sewall St. Ludlow to be followed by an 11 AM Liturgy of Christian Burial in St. Patrick's Church Allen St. Springfield. Rites of Committal will be in Gate of Heaven Cemetery. Family and friends may call at the funeral home Sunday from 3-6 PM. For those who prefer, donations may be made to the ,1111 Elm St. West Springfield, MA 01089 Dankin Animal Shelter 163 Montague Rd. Leverett, MA 01054 or the Shriner's Hospital for Children 516 Carew St. Springfield, MA For further information, please visit www.KapinosmazurFH.com Independently owned and Operated Kapinos-Mazur Funeral Home and Cremation With Confidence by Kapinos-Mazur "Care For The Community Since 1932"

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John Anthony, age 63, of Flushing, died Thursday, December 20, 2012 at his residence. Services will be held 11 AM Saturday, December 22, 2012 at Sharp Funeral Homes, Miller Road Chapel, 8138 Miller Rd., Swartz Creek. The family will receive friends from 4-8 PM Friday at the funeral home. Contributions may be made to the Carriage Town Ministries. John was born December 31, 1948 in Flint, the son of LeRoy and Helen (Rizik) Hill. He was a 1968 graduate of Lake Fenton High School and was a self-employed landscaper. He had worked for numerous automotive dealerships through out the county and was an avid outdoorsman. Surviving are: two sons, John and Michael Hill; brother, James R. Hill and wife, Bonnie Moore-Hill of Flint Twp; two sisters, Monica and husband, Edward Baron of Arizona City, AZ, Mary Joan Hill of Clayton Twp; nieces and nephews, Heather Baron, Chris Meier, Jason Baron, Vicki and Todd Putinsky. His parents preceded him in death. Friends may share an online tribute on the obituary page of

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