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George Dewey was Admiral of the Navy, the only person in U.S. history to have attained the rank. Admiral Dewey is best known for his victory at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish–American War.
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A career truck driver on why his is no longer ‘a middle-class job’
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Hempstead Town Hosts Long Island’s Largest Senior Health and Wellness Fai
Hempstead Town Supervisor Anthony J. Santino will be holding Long Island’s largest Senior Citizen Health and Wellness Fair on Thursday, June 8th from 10a.m. to 2p.m. at the Lido Administration Building in Town Park, Lido Beach. Presented by the town’s Department of Senior Enrichment, this event is jam-packed with health services from tons of local healthcare facilities. Don’t miss this golden opportunity for “golden-aged” residents!
“If you’re over the age of 55 and live in the Town of Hempstead, you have a golden ticket to the most comprehensive senior health fair on Long Island,” said Santino. “Hempstead Town is committed to the health and safety of our mature residents.”
Free health services offered for our senior residents include blood glucose and cholesterol screenings, blood pressure screenings, hearing screenings, body mass index readings, balance, posture and spinal analyses and much more. Additionally, Hempstead Town will be including a slew of its own programs, such as the Town Clerk’s Senior Identification Program, the Animal Shelter’s Pet Therapy Program and the Receiver of Taxes “Taxpayer Check-ups.”
“Our Senior Citizen Health and Wellness Fair provides important screenings in a quick and timely manner,” said Hempstead Town Senior Councilwoman Dorothy Goosby, “There is no reason any of our mature residents should miss out on this essential fair.”
Medical representatives will be on hand to record the results of the health screenings in personalized booklets that will indicate whether a follow-up with a doctor is required. Hempstead Town’s Department of Senior Enrichment will also be available to assist attendees with registering for the Vial of Life Program, which provides seniors with a kit that includes a health care proxy and emergency health care information.
While physical health may be the mainstay of this program, Hempstead Town puts just as much emphasis on mental health as well. Representatives from the Long Island Crisis Center will offer resources to help combat loneliness and depression while also providing information on the Senior Connection Helpline.
Health screenings will be provided by St. Francis Hospital, South Nassau Communities Hospital, NYU Winthrop Hospital, Northwell Health – LIJ Valley Stream, NuHealth – Nassau University Medical Center, Metro Physical & Aquatic Therapy, Dr. Lawrence Cardano A.U.D., Hearing Center of Long Island and the Levittown Health Center of New York Chiropractic College.
This Hempstead Town event is sponsored by Home Instead Senior Care, Second Home of LI Adult Care, Lynbrook Restorative Therapy & Nursing, Clear Captions, Agewell New York/Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation, Life Inc. Pooled Trust Services, Humana Health Insurance, Life Button, Allied Wealth Partners, P&P Medicaid Consulting Inc., Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, Senior Healthcare Solutions and North Shore – LIJ Health Plan.
“Thank you to our sponsors and all participating hospitals who help make our Senior Citizen Health and Wellness Fair the best on Long Island,” concluded Santino. “The Town of Hempstead is committed to the health and safety of our thriving senior community.”
January 8, 2019 Operating Budget Meeting: Morning Session
January 8, 2019 Operating Budget Meeting: Morning Session
State of the City of Norfolk - 2013 Address
Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce presented the 2013 Norfolk State of the City Address delivered by Mayor Paul D. Fraim on February 8th 2013 at the Norfolk Downtown Marriott conference center.
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BSN Headline News for September 19, 2011
Today's top story is Bon Secours Community Hospital in Port Jervis NY is named as one of the top-performing hospitals in the US by the Joint Commission.
That's right Bon Secours Community Hospital, part of the Bon Secours Charity Health System was the only Bon Secours Hospital to receive this prestigious recognition.
For the first time, in it's 2011 Improving America's Hospitals report, the Joint Commission decided to list hospitals that are top-performers in adhering to evidence-based care practices that enhance patient outcomes.
The Joint Commission listed 405 hospitals in 45 states that sustained excellence on 22 accountablility measures in the organization's Top Performers on Key Quality Measures Program for all of 2010.
The measures are related to myocardial infarction, heart failure, pneumonia, surgical care, stroke care, and children's asthma care..among others.
According to Joint Commission President Mark Chassin, Today the public expects transparency in the reporting of performance at the hospitals where they receive care,
and the Joint Commission is shining a light on the top-performing hospitals that have achieved excellence on a number of vital measures of quality of care.
To be recognized, a hospital had to meet or exceed 95% performance on a composite score that included all of the accountability measures, and meet or exceed 95% performance on every performance measure that it reports to the Joint Commission.
And Bon Secours Community Hospital did exactly that. And by doing so is in the top 14% of Joint Commission accredited hospitals...in the US...that report core measure performance data.
Please join us in congratulating Bon Secours Community Hospital on this prestigious showing.
In other news, well...it's that time of year again....time for golf outings and right now the one we have to report on is the Bon Secours Charitable Golf Outing.
This year's event is scheduled for Monday September 26 at the Turf Valley Resort in Ellicott City Maryland.
The Bon Secours Charitable Golf Outing benefits the Bon Secours Baltimore's Community Works.
Community Works is a division of Bon Seocurs Baltimore Health system and strives to improve the health of Baltimore residents through safe and affordable housing, community services and neighborhood revitalization efforts.
Things get underway at 10 AM with registration followed by lunch at 11. Golf kicks off at noon with a shotgun start and the 19th hole is a cocktail reception, dinner and awards.
Don't miss out on the fun. You can find out more on line on IRIS. Go to the HSO Community Resources and look for the 2011 Bon Secours Charitable Golf Outinglink. Or contact Mark Pozza or Mike LaRocca via BSHSI email.
The 2011 Bon Secours Charitable Golf Outing...don't miss out.
Finally, Bon Secours Richmond has done it again. They were selected as one of the Top 10 Employers for Workers over 50.
This is the 8th time Bon Secours Richmond has received this recognition.
AARP sited many reasons for awarding Bon Secours Richmond the honor. Some the reasons sited were
-Bon Secours Richmond's Employee Wellness Services
-their The Good Life-Well for Life Incentive Program
-Bon Secours Richmond uses senior placement agencies to target mature workers and retirees
-their tuition reimbursement program
-Other training opportunities
-long service anniversaries are celebrated with announcements, parties and awards
-Patient Mobility Teams
-Increase in company minimum wage
-Scholarships to employee's children and grandchildren
-Health benefits for employees working as little as 16 hours per week
-Flexible spending accounts
and many others.
When asked about the recognition, CEO Peter Bernard was quoted as saying, Recognition as a leading employer for older workers from AARP, which knows this segment of the workforce better than anyone else, is a true honor.
As a faith-based health care system, we respect the life and contribution of each individual.
Bon Secours Richmond Health System...liberating the potential of our workers over 50 since 2003.
Well, that's it for this week. Stay tuned to this portal for future up to the minute information on these and other stories on BSN Headline News. I'm Dave Schlachter. Thanks for joining us.
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2017 Ohio State College of Optometry Convocation
The Ohio State University Weigel Hall, 1866 College Rd., Columbus, OH 43210
Saturday, May 6, 2017
5:30 p.m.
Weigel Hall Auditorium
Black Migration - Movements of the People Panel Discussion and Presentation
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Autonomous Vehicle Conference - Sept. 30, 2017
A daylong series of public conversations to focus on ways autonomous vehicle technology will transform physical and social landscapes of Charlottesville and small-to-medium sized cities around the country.
Our Miss Brooks: Deacon Jones / Bye Bye / Planning a Trip to Europe / Non-Fraternization Policy
Our Miss Brooks is an American situation comedy starring Eve Arden as a sardonic high school English teacher. It began as a radio show broadcast from 1948 to 1957. When the show was adapted to television (1952--56), it became one of the medium's earliest hits. In 1956, the sitcom was adapted for big screen in the film of the same name.
Connie (Constance) Brooks (Eve Arden), an English teacher at fictional Madison High School.
Osgood Conklin (Gale Gordon), blustery, gruff, crooked and unsympathetic Madison High principal, a near-constant pain to his faculty and students. (Conklin was played by Joseph Forte in the show's first episode; Gordon succeeded him for the rest of the series' run.) Occasionally Conklin would rig competitions at the school--such as that for prom queen--so that his daughter Harriet would win.
Walter Denton (Richard Crenna, billed at the time as Dick Crenna), a Madison High student, well-intentioned and clumsy, with a nasally high, cracking voice, often driving Miss Brooks (his self-professed favorite teacher) to school in a broken-down jalopy. Miss Brooks' references to her own usually-in-the-shop car became one of the show's running gags.
Philip Boynton (Jeff Chandler on radio, billed sometimes under his birth name Ira Grossel); Robert Rockwell on both radio and television), Madison High biology teacher, the shy and often clueless object of Miss Brooks' affections.
Margaret Davis (Jane Morgan), Miss Brooks' absentminded landlady, whose two trademarks are a cat named Minerva, and a penchant for whipping up exotic and often inedible breakfasts.
Harriet Conklin (Gloria McMillan), Madison High student and daughter of principal Conklin. A sometime love interest for Walter Denton, Harriet was honest and guileless with none of her father's malevolence and dishonesty.
Stretch (Fabian) Snodgrass (Leonard Smith), dull-witted Madison High athletic star and Walter's best friend.
Daisy Enright (Mary Jane Croft), Madison High English teacher, and a scheming professional and romantic rival to Miss Brooks.
Jacques Monet (Gerald Mohr), a French teacher.
Our Miss Brooks was a hit on radio from the outset; within eight months of its launch as a regular series, the show landed several honors, including four for Eve Arden, who won polls in four individual publications of the time. Arden had actually been the third choice to play the title role. Harry Ackerman, West Coast director of programming, wanted Shirley Booth for the part, but as he told historian Gerald Nachman many years later, he realized Booth was too focused on the underpaid downside of public school teaching at the time to have fun with the role.
Lucille Ball was believed to have been the next choice, but she was already committed to My Favorite Husband and didn't audition. Chairman Bill Paley, who was friendly with Arden, persuaded her to audition for the part. With a slightly rewritten audition script--Osgood Conklin, for example, was originally written as a school board president but was now written as the incoming new Madison principal--Arden agreed to give the newly-revamped show a try.
Produced by Larry Berns and written by director Al Lewis, Our Miss Brooks premiered on July 19, 1948. According to radio critic John Crosby, her lines were very feline in dialogue scenes with principal Conklin and would-be boyfriend Boynton, with sharp, witty comebacks. The interplay between the cast--blustery Conklin, nebbishy Denton, accommodating Harriet, absentminded Mrs. Davis, clueless Boynton, scheming Miss Enright--also received positive reviews.
Arden won a radio listeners' poll by Radio Mirror magazine as the top ranking comedienne of 1948-49, receiving her award at the end of an Our Miss Brooks broadcast that March. I'm certainly going to try in the coming months to merit the honor you've bestowed upon me, because I understand that if I win this two years in a row, I get to keep Mr. Boynton, she joked. But she was also a hit with the critics; a winter 1949 poll of newspaper and magazine radio editors taken by Motion Picture Daily named her the year's best radio comedienne.
For its entire radio life, the show was sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, promoting Palmolive soap, Lustre Creme shampoo and Toni hair care products. The radio series continued until 1957, a year after its television life ended.
Askwith Forum: College + Athletics = A Complex American Relationship
Speakers:
• Mark Emmert, president, National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
• Robin Harris, executive director, The Ivy League
• Susan Herbst, president, University of Connecticut
• Chris Howard, president, Robert Morris University
Moderator: James Soto Antony, senior lecturer on education and faculty director,
Higher Education Program, HGSE
There are few traditions as storied and entrenched in our culture and society as college athletics. While the visibility and challenges of college athletics are widely recognized, less-known are the positive impacts participation in college athletics has on student athletes, 20 percent of whom are the first in their family to attend college. Yet, only in the United States do colleges and universities formally sponsor athletic programs, the costs of which can be high. Why do so many institutions put such an emphasis on athletics, and what impact does this have on colleges and universities, students, and our education system overall? How can college athletics be improved to better serve both students and institutions? And what would the country be like without college athletics?
In this forum, experts will engage in a conversation about the tangible and intangible benefits of college athletics, with the aim of broadening how we think about the role of sport and its impact on education and society.
Ann Cooper: Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way we feed our Children | Food at Google
Chef Ann Cooper is a celebrated author, chef, educator, and enduring advocate for better food for all children. In a
nation where children are born with shorter estimated life expectancies than their parents because of diet-related illness, Ann is
a relentless voice of reform by focusing on the links between food, family, farming and children's health and wellness.
Ann is the author of four books: Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children(2006), In Mother's Kitchen: Celebrated Women Chefs Share Beloved Family Recipes (2005),Bitter Harvest: A Chef's Perspective on the Hidden Dangers in the Foods We Eat and What You Can do About It (2000) and A Woman's Place is in the Kitchen: The Evolution of Women Chefs(1998). She is past president of The American Culinary Federation of Central Vermont, and past president and board member of Women's Chefs and Restaurateurs. She also served on the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Organic Standards Board, a Congressional appointment, and was an Executive Committee member of Chefs Collaborative - all in an effort to raise awareness about the value of healthful, seasonal, organic, and regional foods.
Bloomington City Council June 12, 2019
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02:41 PH-1 This ordinance would close 135 feet of an unopened 30 foot paper street segment adjacent to Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority property. The closure would better position the property for redevelopment as a mixed-use apartment and retail project.
04:00 PH-2 These agenda items are a General Plan amendment, two text amendments, and a change of zoning to allow for a development of a mixed use development with 47,472 square feet of retail/office/storage space and 195 unit multiple-family units.
18:09 PH-3 Zoning Text Amendment would allow development on 37.5 foot lots in the R-11 and R-12 Multiple-Family districts.
19:17 PH-4 For the following applications by Luna Development Services, LLC: a. For a change of zoning from R-12 (Medium Density Multiple-Family) district to conditional C-2 (Corridor Commercial) district at 2601 Granby
21:15 CONSENT
21:38 R-1 A Grant to the YMCA of South Hampton Roads to facilitate the development of a YMCA and Childhood Development Center in Park Place - If approved, the City will enter into an Agreement with the YMCA of South Hampton Roads to provide a grant of $925,000 for the acquisition of certain lands within the Park Place neighborhood.
01:47:05 R-2 This encroachment will allow Vernon M. Fareed to enhance the entrance to 530-532 W. 35th Street with gooseneck lighting.
01:47:43 R-3 This encroachment will allow Kate's Corner, LLC to driveway access to 320 E. 41st Street and pier access to the southern branch of the Lafayette River.
01:48:22 R-4 This ordinance will permit the City of Norfolk to accept the dedication of a perpetual sidewalk easement by the American Heart Association at 5840 East Virginia Beach Boulevard.
01:48:41 R-5 Acceptance of Temporary Construction Easement by Richard V. and Evelyn S. Reynolds for Ashland Circle Bulkhead Replacement
01:49:03 R-6 Acceptance of Temporary Construction Easement by Emilie J. Smoke for Ashland Circle Bulkhead Replacement
01:49:24 R-7 The Virginia Department of Emergency Management FY 2010 State Homeland Security Program Grant will provide funding in the amount of $16,040.00 to purchase a license plate reader (LPR) and related computer hardware to enhance port security.
01:49:53 R-8 Allows 9 persons to be employed to continue providing aid and services to City of Norfolk citizens who are victims or witnesses of crime.
R-9 Permits Norfolk Criminal Justice Services to occupy 707 and 711-713 Granby Street.
R-10 License Agreement with Norfolk Rowing Center, Inc., Hagan Designs, and Cooper's Landscape Management
R-11 General Douglas MacArthur Memorial - Right of Entry Agreements (Plume Street & Bank Street)
R-12 Purchase and Sale Agreement for Acquisition of Properties at 360 and 362 San Antonio Boulevard owned by GPMC Properties, LLC with the strategic objectives in facilitating improvements in the Denby Park neighborhood.
R-13 permit the City's acquisition of 316, 320, 324, 336, and 340 San Antonio Boulevard consistent with the strategic objectives in facilitating improvements in the Denby Park neighborhood.
R-14 Allows Holiday Inn Select to amend the Special Exception by revising the hours of operation and managers of the hotel located at 1570 North Military Highway
R-15 The City will receive up to $100,000.00 in reimbursement from the U.S.D.A. Supplemental Nutrition Program
R-16 For Special Exceptions to operate an Establishment for the Sale of Alcoholic Beverages at 521 West 25th Street -- O'Connor Brewing Company and to operate Off-Lot Parking at 600 West 25th Street
R-17 To amend a previously granted Special Exception to operate an Eating and Drinking Establishment at 723 West 21st Street -- Pho 79
R-18 Acceptance of a grant award for the funding of Norfolk Criminal Justice Services
R-19 Acceptance of FY 2012 Department of Criminal Justice Services grant for the Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Program
R-20 Virginia Juvenile Community Crime Control Act (VJCCCA)
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School Board Meeting: August 20, 2019
School Board Meeting: August 20, 2019
2018 Davidson Venture Fund Pitch Competition
LIVE from the 2018 Davidson Venture Fund pitch competition! Join us as five finalist teams comprised of current students and recent alumni pitch their for-profit startup ideas to a panel of judges for a chance to win up to $25,000. This event is sponsored by the Davidson College Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative and LaunchLKN.
ClarkCountyNV Live Stream
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