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Application of journalistic skills through work on the student newspaper. 1 credit (EL)
Training and practice in radio announcing. Introduction to radio and television programming, ratings, newscasts and technologies. Requires work at KSLC-FM. 1 credits (EL)
Application of journalistic skills through work on the student newspaper. For Mass Communication majors. 1 credit
Training and practice in radio announcing. Introduction to radio and television programming, ratings, newscasts and technologies. Requires work at KSLC-FM. For Mass Communication majors. 1 credit
Introduction to equipment, software and techniques with which modern mass communicators need to be familiar. For majors and those who intend to be majors. Recommended to be taken in the sophomore year. Offered fall and spring most years. 1 credit.
History, theory, technologies, and practice of the mass media in the United States. Emphasis on newspaper, magazine, book, recording, broadcasting, film, internet-based media, advertising, and public relations industries at an introductory level. 3 credits (IS or US)
Writing for a media audience. Emphasis on grammar, punctuation, spelling, style, and sentence and paragraph structure. Laboratory work on deadline. Newswriting and copyediting skills, interviewing. Introduction to advanced writing and reporting techniques. $15 lab fee. Prerequisites: keyboard proficiency and consent of instructor. 4 credits (WI)
Training and preparation for internships and careers in the mass communication fields. Preparation of a resume, cover letter and portfolio. Practice and preparation for interviews and networking. Research skills pertinent to searching for internships and jobs. For Mass Communication majors and minors. Prerequisites: 150 and INQS 125, or consent of instructor. Offered fall semester. 1 credit.
Survey of research strategies, methods, techniques and sources; process of evaluating, preparing and presenting information. Includes personal observation, interviewing, documentary and database searches. Prerequisite: 175. 4 credits
Principles and practices of design and layout for magazines, newspapers, and other mass media. Introduction to printing processes, typography, and the graphic arts. $25 lab fee. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. 4 credits
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The tools of visual literacy. Responding to and evaluating cinema as art and as mass communication. The vocabulary of film-making and film criticism. Sample topics: genre analysis, directorial study, international film industry, film narrative. In cases where topics differ, may be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: INQS 125. 4 credits
Critical analysis of the Internet as a communication medium shaped by intersecting and often conflicting cultural, social, economic, technological, ethical and legal imperatives. Applied experience building an effective Web site that reflects audience needs, effective communication of content in a digital environment and in-depth usability testing to evaluate message effectiveness. $20 lab fee. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. 4 credits
The effects American mass media and society have on each other from theoretical, practical, and ethical perspectives. Consideration of significant, timely social issues and concerns. Prerequisite: INQS 125. 4 credits
Structures, concerns, and issues in mass communication and mass media industries, including responsibility, confidentiality, privacy, attribution, objectivity, conduct codes, accountability, and the public interest. Prerequisite: INQS 125. 4 credits (UQ)
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Intermediate-level laboratory and field course creating and producing written materials used in public relations, including news releases, public service announcements, brochures, newsletters and speeches. $15 lab fee. Prerequisite: 275. 4 credits (MWI)
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Theory and practice of writing for radio, television, and other electronic media. Critical analyses of one's role as both a producer and consumer of media content. Emphasis on news reporting for radio and television, including work at campus radio station. $15 lab fee. Prerequisite: 275. 4 credits (MWI)
Advanced studies of critical and technical skills in video production. Students undertake individual projects. Assist faculty members in the classroom and media production facilities as peer instructors. Prerequisites: 325 and/or instructor consent. 4 credits.
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Advanced seminar combining theory, research, and practice in public relations. Development of a public relations program. Design, implementation, and analysis of social science research; public relations, mass communication, and public opinion theory; application of public relations principles, strategies, and techniques through experiential learning. Prerequisites: 347, and 275 or 320, and consent of instructor. 4 credits.
Survey and practice of quantitative and qualitative social science research methods used by mass communication scholars and professionals to answer theoretical and applied questions. Prerequisites: 150, INQS 125, and sophomore standing; or consent of instructor. 4 credits.
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Blogs Attract More Search Engine TrafficYour favorite thing about having a blog may soon be this - they naturally attract search engine traffic. Blogs already have optimized site architecture. Most are set up with a clear navigation, where every page is set up to link back to the other main pages. They also have the inherent potential to be well-linked.
Blog Directories and Site Submission
If you haven't already submitted to blog directories, you are missing out on some great one-way links. Many of the top directories can be found on Robin Good's Top 55 list. But before you head over there and start submitting, you should know a little about how to optimize your blog. Then your new listings can help your site get the best keyword placement in the major search engines.
Tip One: Blogs and SEO - KeywordsYou have a choice. You can target a general high traffic keyword you have little chance of ranking well for and get barely any traffic. Or you can shoot for a keyword that gets a moderate level of targeted traffic resulting in more subscribers and sales. I like to call this a "lucrative keyword". Whatever you call them, here's the most important thing: They may not get you the most traffic, but they often bring the most profit.
More Web Site Traffic and More Sales? Not Always
You may be surprised to learn that there isn't always a correlation between high traffic and high sales. Many of the most profitable sites in the world get moderate traffic because their lucrative keywords result in a much higher ratio of visitors to buyers.
Length of Search Query is a Factor
A recent article in Information Week stated that the highest conversion rates from search engine traffic comes from people who do four word queries. The great thing about your blog is that it can get so well-indexed that you have the potential to show up for any number of four word phrases that are relevant to your industry.
Target Your Blog for More Traffic and Sales
It isn't just the four word phrases that get converting traffic - there are two and three word phrases that can bring you traffic and sales. Targeting your blog discussion to a two or three word phrase that has a high yield of traffic, and yet has little competition, is not a dream of past Internet days. Another recent study revealed that surprisingly high percentages of search engine queries debuted as late as 2004.As long as there are new developments, new products, services and trends, you'll never have a shortage of these terms if you learn how to discover them.
Keep reading for the next four Blogs and Search Engine Optimization Tips.

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The week of April 14-20 is National Library Week. And what better way to celebrate the library than events at your local library? The events are as follows.
Monday: Geek your library campaign day—Everyone is passionate about something—something they geek. The geek campaign is to make everyone aware of the services the library provides.
Tuesday: What can we do for you?/Honor your library workers day.
Wednesday: Computer help day—Need help with your iPad, Nook or Kindle? The library is here to help.
Thursday: High Tea Party—From 1-2 p.m. there will be a celebration of friends and patrons of the library. Wear your hats and white gloves, and be prepared to reminisce and enjoy tea and cookies.
Friday: You can help day—Come learn how you can help support the library.
"We just want everyone to come celebrate with us," said Library Director Teri Mayhew. "We just appreciate our community so much."


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By David Christy, News Editor
Enid News & Eagle
When you first consider which are the best colleges and universities in this land to attend, I would venture most people — right off the top of their heads — would mention Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and throw out the occasional MIT, Stanford and Cal Tech.
Yet, upon further reflection, with a little more thought and despite the obvious quality of these handful of top schools, the U.S. government's three service academies stand in good stead, right alongside these other prestigious institutions.
Founded back in 1802 in the nation's infancy, the United States Military Academy at West Point more than holds its own against the private colleges that top the list.
Its very setting is steeped in Revolutionary War history and intrigue. Located at a strategic sharp S-curve on New York's Hudson River — above New York City — it originally was established as Fort Clinton, becoming a fortified site during the Revolution.
Built by one of foremost engineers of the time, Polish Gen. Tadeusz Kosciuszko, it was manned by a small garrison of Continental soldiers throughout the war with the British.
So well was it fortified, using a massive iron chain laid across the river on the bend, the British Navy never tested it. In fact, they attempted subterfuge and intrigue to capture the forbidding yet scenic post on the cliffs overlooking the river.
The most famous act of treason in American history, when Continental Gen. Benedict Arnold attempted to hand the post over to the British, was foiled by Gen. George Washington, and the rest is history.
Fort Clinton became the oldest continuously operated Army post in the U.S., first established in 1778.
A number of famous men have sprung from the ranks of cadets at West Point, and three also served as superintendents at the prestigious school that turned out some of the finest engineers to ever have walked this continent.
Robert E. Lee, Douglas MacArthur and Maxwell Taylor all oversaw West Point at one time or another in our history, all also serving as leading generals in various American armies.
In 1802, Congress formally authorized funding for training in artillery and engineering studies at the request of President Thomas Jefferson, and the first official graduate was Joseph Gardner Swift.
Far from today's rigid guidelines for admission, the early U.S. Military Academy featured few standards for cadets, or even length of study.
The first cadets actually ranged in age from 10 to 37, and attended anywhere from 6 months to 6 years.
Looming war with Britain in 1812 forced Congress to authorize a more formal system of study and term, and the Corps of Cadets was increased to 250.
The introduction of standardized cadet-gray uniforms originated in 1814, and is the basis for the expression that defined the corps — "The Long Gray Line."
The curriculum still used to this day was established in 1817, and included strict discipline, a standard course of study and an honorable code of conduct.
But it wasn't until the Mexican-American War in 1846 that academy graduates were thrust into historical prominence.
Men like Lee and Ulysses S. Grant distinguished themselves on the field of battle.
Some 452 of the 523 graduates who served in that war received either promotions or medals for bravery.
No war filled the ranks of former West Point officers like the Civil War did in 1861. Virtually every West Point officer of note fought for either the North or South, and 105 graduates died on Civil War battlefields — another 151 were wounded.
Other noteworthy West Point graduates included J.E.B. Stuart, Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson and George Pickett, all celebrated generals who fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War.
The first name George figured prominently during the Civil War, with graduates George B. McClellan, George Meade, George Thomas and George Armstrong Custer all serving with distinction for the Union.
The president of the Confederate States of America — Jefferson Davis — was a graduate of West Point's class of 1828.
Beside Grant stands Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower as the two graduates who later would become presidents of the United States.
Names like Phil Sheridan, William T. Sherman, John J. "Black Jack" Pershing, Omar Bradley and George Patton all are listed on the rolls of distinction at West Point, and on and on and on.
The Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military award, has been bestowed on no less than 74 graduates of the Point. And 18 NASA astronauts can trace their studies back to the little post on the Hudson.
Born a slave in Georgia, Henry O. Flipper was the first African-American to graduate — entering in 1873 — and who was never spoken to by a white cadet during his four years of study.
The first females were not allowed at West Point until 1976.
And as at historic West Point, this nation has come a long, long way since 1802.
Christy is news editor at the Enid News & Eagle. Go to his column blog at http://enid news.com/historicallyspeaking


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Persistence of Immunity Against Hepatitis B in 12-13 Year Old Adolescents After Infant Hepatitis B Vaccination
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This phase IV open study will evaluate the persistence of humoral antibodies against hepatitis B as well as the immune response to a challenge dose of hepatitis B vaccine in adolescents aged 12-13 years, who received three consecutive doses of GSK Biologicals' recombinant hepatitis B vaccine (Engerix™-B) in infancy.
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis B Vaccine
Biological: Engerix™-B Kinder
Phase 4
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|Study Design:
|Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Official Title:
|Long-term Persistence of Hepatitis B Antibodies and Immune Response to a Hepatitis B Vaccine Challenge in 12-13 Year Old Adolescents, Vaccinated in Infancy With GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Biologicals' HBV Vaccine (Engerix™-B)
- Number of Subjects With Anti-hepatitis B Surface Antigen (Anti-HBs) Antibody Concentrations Equal to or Above Cut-off Value [ Time Frame: One month after the challenge dose (Month 1) ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]The cut-off value was defined as 100 milli-international units per milliliter (mIU/mL).
- Number of Subjects With Anti-HBs Antibody Concentrations Equal to or Above Cut-off Values [ Time Frame: Before (Day 0) and one month (Month 1) after the challenge dose ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
The cut-off values were defined as 3.3 mIU/mL, 10 mIU/mL and 100 mIU/mL.
Note: the number of subjects with anti-HBs antibody concentrations equal to or above 100 mIU/mL on month post-challenge dose data are presented as a primary outcome measure.
- Number of Subjects With Solicited Local and General Symptoms [ Time Frame: During the 4-day (Day 0-3) follow-up period following the challenge dose vaccination ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Solicited local symptoms were pain, redness and swelling. Solicited general symptoms were fatigue, gastrointestinal symptoms, headache and fever.
Fever was defined as axillary temperature greater than or equal to 37.5 degrees Celsius.
- Number of Subjects With Unsolicited Adverse Events (AEs) [ Time Frame: During the 31-day (Day 0-30) follow-up period following the challenge dose vaccination ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Unsolicited AE covers any AE reported in addition to those solicited during the clinical study and any solicited symptom with onset outside the specified period of follow-up for solicited symptoms.
- Number of Subjects With Serious Adverse Events (SAEs) [ Time Frame: After the challenge dose of the vaccine (Day 0) up to the study end (Month 1) ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]SAEs assessed include medical occurrences that result in death, are life threatening, require hospitalization or prolongation of hospitalization, result in disability/incapacity or are a congenital anomaly/birth defect in the offspring of a study subject.
- Number of Subjects With Anamnestic Response to the Challenge Dose [ Time Frame: One month after the challenge dose (Month 1) ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Anamnestic response was defined as:
- At least (i.e. greater than or equal to) a 4-fold rise in post-challenge vaccine dose anti-HBs antibody concentrations in subjects seropositive (i.e. with anti-HBs antibody concentration equal to or greater than 3.3 mIU/mL) at the pre-challenge dose time point.
- Post-challenge dose anti-HBs antibody concentrations equal to or greater than 10 mIU/mL in subjects seronegative (i.e. with anti-HBs antibody concentrations < 3.3 mIU/mL) at the pre-challenge dose time point.
|Study Start Date:
|October 2009
|Study Completion Date:
|April 2010
|Primary Completion Date:
|April 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Engerix-B Group
Subjects who were vaccinated with 3 doses of Engerix-B in infancy and who received a single challenge dose of Engerix-B , intramuscularly in the deltoid region of the non-dominant arm, at 12-13 years of age (Day 0).
Biological: Engerix™-B Kinder
Intramuscular, one dose.
Other Names:
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|12 Years to 13 Years
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Subjects who the investigator believes that their parent(s)/Legally Accepted representative (LAR(s)) can and will comply with the requirements of the protocol.
- A male or female of 12 to 13 years of age at the time of enrolment.
- With documented evidence of previous vaccination with three consecutive doses of Engerix-B in Germany: with the first two doses received by 9 months of age and the third dose received by 18 months of age.
- Written informed consent obtained from the parent(s) or LAR(s) of the subject at the time of enrolment.
- Written informed assent obtained from the subject in addition to the informed consent signed by the parent(s)/LAR(s).
- Healthy subjects as established by medical history and clinical examination before entering into the study.
- Female subjects of non-childbearing potential may be enrolled in the study.
- Females of childbearing potential at the time of study entry must have a negative pregnancy test prior to administration of the dose of vaccine and are required to be abstinent or to use adequate contraceptive precautions for one month prior to vaccination. Subjects are required to agree to continue such precautions for two months after vaccination.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Concurrently participating in another clinical study, at any time during the study period, in which the subject has been or will be exposed to an investigational or a non-investigational product.
- Evidence of previous hepatitis B booster vaccination since administration of the third dose of Engerix-B vaccine.
- History of hepatitis B disease.
- Hepatitis B vaccination at birth.
- Adolescents living in institutional care.
- Planned administration /administration of a vaccine not foreseen by the study protocol during the period starting from 30 days before HBV vaccine challenge and ending 30 days after.
- Administration of immunoglobulins and/or any blood products within the three months preceding HBV vaccine challenge or planned administration during the study period.
- Chronic administration of immunosuppressants or other immune-modifying drugs within six months prior to the HBV vaccine challenge..
- Any confirmed or suspected immunosuppressive or immunodeficient condition, based on medical history and physical examination (no laboratory testing required).
- Use of any investigational or non-registered product other than the study vaccine within 30 days preceding the challenge dose of study vaccine, or planned use during the study period.
- Pregnant or lactating female.
- Female planning to become pregnant or planning to discontinue contraceptive precautions.
- Known hypersensitivity to any component of the HBV vaccine or evidence of hypersensitivity after previous immunisation with a vaccine containing the hepatitis B component.
- Acute disease and/or fever at the time of enrolment.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00984139
|GSK Investigational Site
|Kehl, Baden-wuerttemberg, Germany, 77694
|GSK Investigational Site
|Mannheim, Baden-wuerttemberg, Germany, 68163
|GSK Investigational Site
|Schwaebisch-hall, Baden-wuerttemberg, Germany, 74523
|GSK Investigational Site
|Stuttgart, Baden-wuerttemberg, Germany, 70469
|GSK Investigational Site
|Tuttlingen, Baden-wuerttemberg, Germany, 78532
|GSK Investigational Site
|Bindlach, Bayern, Germany, 95463
|GSK Investigational Site
|Cham, Bayern, Germany, 93413
|GSK Investigational Site
|Gilching, Bayern, Germany, 82205
|GSK Investigational Site
|Kempten, Bayern, Germany, 87435
|GSK Investigational Site
|Kirchheim, Bayern, Germany, 85551
|GSK Investigational Site
|Muenchen, Bayern, Germany, 81735
|GSK Investigational Site
|Braunatal, Hessen, Germany, 34225
|GSK Investigational Site
|Duisburg, Nordrhein-westfalen, Germany, 47137
|GSK Investigational Site
|Muenster, Nordrhein-westfalen, Germany, 48163
|GSK Investigational Site
|Frankenthal, Rheinland-pfalz, Germany, 67227
|GSK Investigational Site
|Worms, Rheinland-pfalz, Germany, 67547
|GSK Investigational Site
|Weimar, Thueringen, Germany, 99425
|GSK Investigational Site
|Berlin, Germany, 10315
|GSK Investigational Site
|Berlin, Germany, 10967
|GSK Investigational Site
|Berlin, Germany, 13055
|Study Director:
|GSK Clinical Trials
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|Responsible Party:
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00984139 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|September 24, 2009
|Results First Received:
|February 3, 2011
|Last Updated:
|March 8, 2012
|Health Authority:
|Germany: Paul-Ehrlich-Institut
Keywords provided by GlaxoSmithKline:
Engerix™-B Kinder
Hepatitis B
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis, Viral, Human
Liver Diseases
Digestive System Diseases
Virus Diseases
Enterovirus Infections
Picornaviridae Infections
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12:10 a.m. 6900 block of Hinds Ave., North Hollywood
The Los Angeles Police Department North Hollywood Division's patrol units receive a message from a 911 dispatcher about a reported "ADW" (assault with a deadly weapon) in progress. The suspect is reportedly armed with a knife.
12:14 a.m. 6900 block of Hinds Ave., North Hollywood
A female officer radios the dispatcher that she is with a stabbing victim suffering from a "laceration on the left leg." The victim is conscious and breathing.
12:19 a.m. 6900 block of Hinds Ave., North Hollywood
The same female officer radios a description of the ADW suspect. She gives his first and last name and describes him as a male Hispanic, 5-foot-5, 140 lbs., with brown hair and brown eyes and a date of birth as 2/12/92. The ADW suspect is described as having "used a knife" on the victim and driving a Toyota Scion last seen heading south toward Vanowen Street. The suspect's exact license plate number is also given. The dispatcher repeats all this information to units in the field.
12:45 a.m. 5900 block of Tujunga Avenue, North Hollywood
Units receive a report of an ADW in progress, a man assaulting a woman.
12:45 a.m. 10800 San Fernando Road, Pacoima
An LAPD Foothill Division officer asks for a backup unit and if an air unit (helicopter) is available. What the nature of the call is cannot be heard. Less than a minute later, the same officer reports the situation as "code 4" (no further assistance needed) and "suspect in custody."
1:01 a.m. 7000 block of Coldwater Canyon Avenue, North Hollywood
North Hollywood units receive a dispatcher report of an "ADW in progress." The suspect is described as a male black wearing a black shirt, and the victim is described as a white female. An officer at the scene of the stabbing on Hinds Avenue responds to the call. It sounds like the same female officer who had reported finding the victim.
1:05 a.m. Unknown location
A report breaks up and is only partially audible. The location cannot be heard, but the dispatcher reports that a PR (person reporting) heard five gunshots about five minutes ago. No further broadcasts about this report are heard over the scanner.
1:10 a.m. 12000 block of Runnymeade Street, North Hollywood
A dispatcher radios a report of "shots fired, one shot heard." No further broadcasts about this report are heard over the scanner.
1:12 a.m. Somewhere on Arminta Street
The dispatcher radios for a unit to respond to a location on Arminta Street (exact address cannot be heard) to a report of a misdemeanor hit-and-run. The suspect, who is reportedly still at the scene, is described as an Asian male in a Honda Civic.
1:13 a.m. 7000 block of Coldwater Canyon Avenue, North Hollywood
The officer who responded to the call from 1:01 a.m. about an ADW in progress reports that the suspect and victim are "GOA" (gone on arrival).
1:45 a.m. 11800 block of Vallerio Street, North Hollywood
Units receive a report of a "415 group" (group causing a disturbance). The suspects are described as "seven male Hispanics hanging out behind the location and drinking."
2:00 a.m. 6900 Hinds Avenue, North Hollywood
A Patch reporter calls the LAPD's North Hollywood Division station to check for information from the stabbing that occurred after midnight on Hinds Avenue. Officer Robert Sherock at the front desk says all the LAPD wishes to report is that the victim is currently at the hospital and undergoing surgery.
The LAPD does not wish to release any further information on the incident and the suspect at this time, which is why his name and license plate number continue to be withheld from this report.


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Air traffic control towers at airports in Gary and Columbus will be closed as the Federal Aviation Administration slashes hundreds of millions of dollars from its budget due to automatic federal spending cuts.
The FAA released a final list Friday of 149 air traffic control facilities that it will close at small airports around the country starting early next month. Gary/Chicago International Airport and Columbus Municipal Airport were on the list.
The closures will not force the shutdown of any of those airports, but pilots will be left to coordinate takeoffs and landings among themselves over a shared radio frequency without no help.
0The Gary/Chicago airport in northwest Indiana is in the midst of a $162 million expansion aimed at helping it become the region's third major air hub behind Chicago's O'Hare and Midway airports. The Times of Munster reported the FAA rejected an appeal by the airport to keep its tower open.
But the airport's director, Steve Landry, told Chicago station WBEZ-TV on Thursday that planes already take off and land there without control tower assistance from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m.
"It will not affect the safety of the airport. It will however affect the efficiency of air traffic into and out of the airport," Landry said.
Commercial carrier Allegiant Air, which has two flights weekly from Gary to Florida, has said it will continue to fly into Gary despite the tower shutdown, Landry told The Times of Munster.
Like Gary/Chicago, the tower at Columbus doesn't operate overnight. The tower is only operational from 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.
"They should still be able to land here. They just won't have a tower to speak to," Melinda Finley, the Columbus airport's office manager, told The Associated Press on Friday. "They'll just have to speak to each other."
Columbus airport director Brian Payne was unavailable for comment and did not respond to an email from the AP.
The Monroe County Airport was on the preliminary list of possible tower closures, but its director, Bruce Payton, told the AP on Friday the tower there isn't likely to face closure until September because it's part of a federal cost-sharing program.
Payton wrote a letter to the FAA to argue against closure, noting that many top military officials fly into Bloomington on their way to the Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center nearby. He says one recent visitor was Navy Adm. James Winnefeld Jr., vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Payton also cited the proximity of Indiana University and the Cook Group.
All of the airports targeted for tower shutdowns have fewer than 150,000 total flight operations per year. Of those, fewer than 10,000 are commercial flights by passenger airlines.
The tower at Terre Haute International Airport-Hulman Field was not on the list of closures, and that "is good news," said Bill McKown, executive director. "It seems like we're out of the woods for awhile."
Some factors that could be working in the Terre Haute airport's favor include the opening of ISU's Flight Academy this summer and an FAA-funded rehabilitation of one of the smaller runways, McKown said. Also, the FAA trains beginning controllers "fresh out of controller school" at the Terre Haute airport, he said.
He did not know whether flight control tower staff would be affected by furloughs.


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The author of Three Day Road, Joseph Boyden, teaches writing at the University of New Orleans, where my brother is also on the faculty. Boyden's Canadian heritage comes through dramatically in this first novel as does his knowledge of World War I trench warfare, acquired through research and his grandfather's first hand accounts of battle. Three Day Road braids the stories of Native Canadian friends, Xavier Bird and Elijah Wiskeyjack, who enlist in the Canadian Army and become snipers on the western front, and an elder aunt, Niska, who retrieves her broken nephew at war's end. The journey by canoe to their northern wilderness village, Moose Factory, is the metaphorical three day road of the title. As the canoe glides through calm waters, Xavier and Niska, a prophetic Cree healer, share their wrenching stories in alternating voices and in stark contrast to the peaceful surroundings. This book brought to mind other favorite novels of war, All Quiet on the Western Front, Johnny Got His Gun, The Things They Carried, The Captain, and Beach Red. The weaving of rich Native cultural traditions into stark scenes of battle, however, offers a fresh telling of timeless tales. Three Day Road won the Books in Canada First Novel Award in 2005 and was a selection of the Today Show Book Club the same year. In 2006, it was shortlisted for Canada Reads, a unique literary competition sponsored by the CBC.
I have always gravitated toward books set in the sixties, specifically those having to do with the Civil Rights Movement, perhaps because I was at such an impressionable age during that time. Regardless, I've recently added another to my list of favorites, The Help, a debut novel by Kathryn Stockett. Set in Jackson, Mississippi in 1962, the story is told in alternating chapters by two African American maids and the young white woman who has decided to write a book that anonymously chronicles their lives along with those of several other black maids in the city at that time. Central to their story, for instance, is the irony of being entrusted to care for the children of their employers while at the same time being relegated to use a separate bathroom for fear of diseases thought to be carried by black people. Strong characters, regrettably accurate accounts of race relations in the South at that time, and good pacing made this an especially captivating and fast read. I look forward to more by this author.
After reading a New York Times Book Review cover story about the new Margaret Atwood novel, The Year of the Flood, I promptly placed the title on hold and then began reading 2003's Oryx and Crake which is related to the new one but not necessarily a continuation. I admit that I have not read much of Atwood's clearly impressive body of work, but I am blown away by the very compelling Oryx and Crake. If you love dystopian/end of the world/speculative fiction as much as I do, or just enjoy first class storytelling, it doesn't get much better than this environmentally devastated, gene spliced nightmare world that Atwood so vividly imagines.
I just finished reading two books that center around the theme of the importance of friendship in the lives of women. I listened to The Girls from Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow and read Commencement by J. Courtney Sullivan. Girls is nonfiction that follows eleven childhood friends from Iowa as they mature and grow over forty years. Midwesterners will surely relate to the small-town adventures and tribulations the girls face, as well as the strong bonds created by the close-knit community. Commencement (a novel) begins when four very different girls meet their first year of college and remain friends after graduation. The books' approaches are very different but both succeed in illustrating the tight relationships women have with one another.
Congratulations and good luck to National Book Award finalists Bonnie Jo Campbell and David Small, both of whom spoke at the library about their newest works, American Salvage (fiction) and Stitches (Young People's Literature). Award winners will be announced on November 18th.
London in the early 1900's is the setting for the first book in a promising new series by Kenneth Cameron. Jack Denton, an American in his fifties, is living in England after moving from the United States. He wrote best selling crime novels in the States, and achieved notoriety there after tragic events in his own life.
Now in England, Jack is approached by a terrified man who claims to have witnessed a murder by Jack the Ripper. Jack discounts the tale, until a young woman is discovered murdered, and he begins his own investigation. Scorned by the police and hampered by them as well, he encounters London's dark side as he tries to uncover the truth.
Well drawn and quirky characters add much to this story, and so do the descriptions of London as a great city in the midst of industrial growth and change. You can almost feel you are there, walking down a wet, dimly lit alley….
A refreshingly bold and astute essayist, Eula Biss' critical inquiries on race relations, globalization and cultural identity have found their way into her recently published and award-winning Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays. Unburdened with academic theorization or political heavy-handedness, these short yet heady pieces are revelatory for their power to penetrate the opaque surfaces of subjects not often discussed with any kind of attentiveness to nuance within the broader, public discourse. Her prose flows with ease and the way in which she ponders the intersections of American culture and history reminds me of the work of another great ruminator, Joan Didion.
Theistic minded people have wrestled with this question ever since people have started believing in a Deity: why does evil exist? In philosophy, this has been termed the "problem of evil," and formally reads: if a) God is all good, b) God is all powerful, and c) God created the world; then d) why does evil exist in the world?
Is this the best of all possible worlds? Is evil necessary for free will? Can we not understand the transcendent ways of a totally transcendant God? In this book not only does Nadler give us three unique answers to the problem of evil, but he wraps these answers nicely into three philosophical gaints of the 17th Century--Leibniz, Malebranche, and Arnauld. We enter not only into a philosophical and theological debate, but into the lives and times of these thinkers.
Rush Home Road by Lori Lansens follows the progress of healing between Sharla Cody, a neglected five-year-old mixed girl, and Addy Shadd, an 80-year-old woman with her own heart-wrenching history. Their reluctance toward getting to know each other dwindles when the love both of them long for slowly appears as Addy's story unfolds and Sharla's mother disappears. Addy turns Sharla from a malnourished, over-weight child into a respectable healthy girl while recalling her past.
Addy grew up in Rusholme, a Canadian border town settled by runaway slaves in the 1800's, but the story begins in 1978 in a Chatham, Ontario trailer park. Intimate details remind her of her rape by a close family friend, a young brother who died, her lover, husband, deceased children, and the many people who betrayed her while historic events like the Underground Railroad, and the Pullman Porter Movement, outline her recollection and reflect some of the hardships suffered. The author beautifully weaves together all these details into a well-crafted and compassionate story. The words "rush home" will not only ring in Addy's ears but in our hearts.
Mitch Albom is one of my favorite authors. He is most well-known for his bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie, but he has written many other great books as well. My favorite was The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Albom is one of those authors who can go from writing fiction to non-fiction with the same great storytelling skills.
Have a Little Faith: a True Story is the nonfiction account of Albom's attempt to get to know his Rabbi, in order to be ready to give his eulogy someday. Over a period of years Albom travels from his home in Detroit to his Rabbi's home in New York. At the same time Albom develops a relationship with an innercity Detroit pastor who is a reformed drug dealer and has set up a congregation in a decaying abandoned church. The parallels are heartwarming and touching.
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I write from D.C. about tax and retirement policy and planning.
To hear House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) tell it, he has agreed to President Barack Obama's demand that the rich pay more tax, and their dispute is only over how much more and whether higher marginal tax rates should be used to extract some of that extra revenue. As Boehner put it during a House Republican leadership press conference held to blame President Obama for the continuing stalemate: "There are ways to limit deductions, close loopholes and have the same people pay more of their money to the federal government without raising tax rates, which we believe will harm our economy." (Emphasis added.)
The same people? Not really. "It's not even the same income group or the same income distribution,'' says Eric Toder, co-director of the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center and a former Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis. A close look at the numbers shows that increases in tax rates (particularly on dividends and capital gains) extract more from the very rich, while limits on deductions shift more of the tax burden onto the backs of the somewhat rich and the arguably rich (that's my term for those well-off families who may think of themselves as merely upper middle class because they live in high cost areas, but who earn five to 10 times the $50,000 national median family income, making it absurd to call them middle class.)
Obama wants to use both rate hikes and deduction limits to extract $1.4 trillion in additional income tax from upper income folks over the next decade; Boehner says he's ready to raise $800 billion, but only with deduction limits and loophole closers.
Consider this: If as Obama proposes, the Bush 2001 tax cuts are allowed to expire for families with adjusted gross income of more than $250,000 and singles earning more than $200,000, the top rate on ordinary income will climb from 35% to 39.6% and the top 0.1%—the 117,000 families earning more than $2.7 million—will pick up 55.8% of the tab, according to a fiscal cliff analysis by TPC. The rest of the top 1% (the 1.1 million families earning between $506,210 and $2.7 million) would pick up 41.8% of the bill, leaving just 2.4% to be paid by the arguably rich in the 98th percentile. (Note that the actual threshold would be higher than $200,000/$250,000, since the threshold is in 2009 dollars and would be indexed for inflation, with a standard deduction and exemptions allowed before higher rates kick in.)
Even more dramatically, if the Bush 2003 tax cuts are allowed to expire for high earners, as Obama insists they should, the top rate on capital gains will rise from 15% to 20%, the top rate on corporate dividends will jump from 15% to 39.6%, and the top 0.1% will pick up 62.5% of the tab. (Those rates are before the extra 3.8% Medicare surtax on investment income that kicks in on January 1 as part of ObamaCare.)
Obviously, the very rich have a much greater share of their total income subject to the tax hikes—a $500,000-a-year family would have less than half of its income taxed at higher rates. But the uberrich also receive a disproportionate share of the income that benefitted from the 2003 cuts. According to new Internal Revenue Service statistics, in 2010, 11,264 tax returns (that's 1 in every 12,686) reported income in excess of $10 million. These families reported 4% of the nation's total adjusted gross income, but an outsized 21% of qualified corporate dividends that benefitted from the low 15% rate which would jump to 39.6%. Long term capital gains are even more concentrated; as a result, the 11,264 tax returns with income over $10 million reported nearly half of all income that benefitted from special low rates on gains and dividends in 2010. (The IRS hasn't issued its annual report on the top 400 earners in 2010 yet, but in 2009, the 400 booked a stunning 16% of all net capital gains reported on 140 million tax returns.)
Yet when all of Obama's proposals to squeeze more from the rich are scored, including his proposed limits on the rate against which the wealthy claim their deductions, the share paid by the top 0.1% falls to just 32.4%, according to the TPC. (Under Obama's proposal, even though high income families would pay a top tax rate of 39.6%, their deductions would only be credited against a 28% rate. Moreover, certain exclusions from income, including the interest on tax free municipal bonds and pre-tax contributions to retirement accounts and health savings accounts, would also be allowed only at a 28% rate.)
While Boehner hasn't said exactly how he would limit deductions to raise $800 billion over a decade, Republican aides have pointed to a November paper from the Committee For A Responsible Federal Budget that offered three possible models. One of them, for example, would cap itemized deductions at $25,000, leaving the top 0.1% to pick up just 28.5% of the total, according to TPC's analysis.
The reality is that itemized deductions are simply less significant for the very rich, particularly if deductions for charitable contributions are excluded from any limits—as it seems likely they would be. My calculations, based on the IRS' 2010 numbers, shows that taxpayers earning $250,000 to $500,000 collectively claimed itemized deductions equal to 16.2% of their AGI, and 13.9% when charitable contributions are excluded. By contrast, taxpayers earning $10 million plus claimed deductions equaling 13% of their AGI, but just 7.6% of AGI when charitable contributions are excluded. In other words, non-charitable deductions were almost twice as significant to the arguably rich than to the very rich.
The TPC's Roberton Williams notes that in theory, one might be able to design a tax increase that simply limits deductions and has the very wealthy paying as big a share as they would from a tax rate increase. But, he adds, it would be so complex, "that it's beyond what I want to think about. It's bad enough to have to think about the terrible tax policy we have now." Williams cautions against a "meat ax approach" to limiting deductions, which could have an immediate effect on house values, and would hit, for example, an elderly couple that is now allowed a big medical expenses deduction because one is receiving expensive nursing home care. "We'd be getting rid of a whole lot of things people like and that we've built into a lot of markets,'' he warns.
So somebody making $125,000 is the hated "rich"(!) Of course it's pure politics and disastrous for the economy — but the President doesn't care — it will get him points toward his total regal takeover of the nation in 2014. We didn't elect him to represent and do the best for the economy, we elected him to "win".
Interesting that the tax restoration to Clinton levels would be paid by the seriously wealthy — Provided that the really rich took no further actions! Is that naive or what? I figured that the $125,000 earners would possibly not be inclined to hire the mega-tax firms, but the heavy hitters absolutely will. I hope the mega-tax professional's answer is not to move the investment capital and jobs out of the country, but Margaret Thatcher was right about socialism — "pretty soon you run out of other people's money". And the corollary to that which is "or they put it out of reach until shown the country feels there is value in having it."
America is telling all of us that "we don't need no steenking investment" by attacking capital gains, innovators, and strangely enough pensions! I am guessing there is a loophole for unions.
1. It's $200k+, not $125k. I'm not sure how this is a problem for your comprehension, since $125k was never mentioned, but that's fine.
2. There may be "hatred" towards the rich from some, but really what you're seeing is a growing sense of injustice. After all, income for the top 1% has risen much faster than it has for the bottom 80%. For more reference, see: http://www.currydemocrats.org/american_pie.html. That's probably not an unbiased site, though, so you'd ignore all of its great information, so also feel free to check out: http://www.employmentpolicy.org/sites/www.employmentpolicy.org/files/field-content-file/pdf/Mike%20Lillich/EPRN%20WagesMay%2020%20-%20FL%20Edits_0.pdf
3. You never say it, but I'm sure that we both agree that spending cuts are necessary. Increasing taxes alone will solve nothing. More important than either of those is restoring economic growth. There's a delicate balance between what must be done short, medium, and long-term, and I truly don't know what the right way to do it is.
What I DO know is that what has been done for the last 10 years hasn't been working for at least 80% of the USA, so we should probably address that. Obama's current plan might; the Republican's definitely won't.
James, Here's a problem for your comprehension — if my wife and I make $250,000 together, that's $125,000 apiece and the word "somebody" is singular. And $250,000 divided by two people is [wait for it] $125,000!
Yes we agree — spending cuts are necessary. And we also probably agree that after the last election, the politicians got the message loud and clear — the way to a second place finish is to propose spending cuts rather than "here's a payoff, vote for me". And not 10 years — it's been a half century of spending orgy to stay in office and it ain't ending until the rest of the world decides we have bought enough big screen TV's with public money.
Maybe it's not hatred that demands that somebody making $125k keep 25% of what they earn. Wait, you say, it's only 40%! To the Feds. My state and local government liberates another 25% and other 10% in everything from phone, airplane, gasoline, etc. taxes and I pay 75% taxes — I guess some would consider that "fair".
By the way, to get those wages (that are under the "rich" limit), I invent medical stuff that in the ten years you mention has allowed our doctors to treat twice as many patients, and get incredibly better diagnoses. I'm honestly starting to think "why?" — My country obviously doesn't want me to keep innovating — "Obamacare" has slapped an additional tax on those like me who make medical devices, even if we make no profit. Again, I guess jealousy would make some to think that is "fair".
Somebody implies singular. One person earning that money. It takes TWO people earning $125k that are married to take that hit. Not one.
Further, if you're paying 75% of your total income in taxes, then you're doing it wrong. See http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/09/19/heres-why-the-47-percent-argument-is-an-abuse-of-tax-data/ and http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3505 for more details on the amount of total tax burden, across all levels, levied on people's income.
You have the potential for great arguments, especially about the excise tax on medical devices. http://reason.com/blog/2012/11/01/how-obamacares-medical-device-tax-will-s and http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/11/02/obamacare-election-medical-device-tax/1675093/ both do a great job of illustrating this. I had remained ignorant of this fact until you brought it up; it's one more thing I have to hate/fear about Obamacare.
There's enough bad that you don't have to make up or exaggerate anything, as you're doing with the taxation issue; doing so tempts me to disregard some of your other arguments that are actually damn compelling.
Why is it impossible to get the politicians to institute a flat rate tax for everyone? I am sick of the rich versus everyone else!! I don't feel entitled to demand more of any one's monies, it is greed at it's worse. Like we keep hearing, taking more of the "rich's" monies will not produce enough revenue to keep this entitlement budget stable. The only way to raise enough is to raise the largest tax base , the middle class, taxes or horror of horrors reduce spending!!! Why is this simple logic so difficult to implement.
We can only wish. I know a guy from Hong Kong who can do his taxes in 5 minutes. Flat tax, no cap gains tax. Seems to be working well for them.
You would think we were proposing a 100 percent tax the way they whine. There still will be plenty of profit to motivate investments. There will be entitlement cuts one way or the other, however every dollar we get in taxes, is one dollar we don't have to cut from the safety net that more and more of our population is, or will be, counting on. We don't hate the rich, however if they are going to get such a large piece of the pie.
How well do any of these models pick up the change in behavior that surely will occur when marginal tax rates are raised? It's easier for a company owner to shift income into other forms than an orthopedic surgeon. I think the estimates of how much the mega-rich will pay are probably high under any scenario. Higher marginal rates just increases the cost-effectiveness of finding ways around them.
This is such old news.. the 2%, top 400 GET their money from the general population… aka CIRCULAR economics… Buffet's Dairy Queen dilly bar will just be smaller.. his secretaries salaries can go lower.. to keep them in a low tax bracket (and then he can keep mo money).
America's News that's $tewpid.
$tewpid is spreading.
$tewnomics moment : NO CLIFF !!!
What are the accrued liabilities of Buffet and his buddies.. They can only wear one shirt at a time..
In the midst of calling for higher taxes on the wealthy, can we find just one article that shows how more than the 80 billion that would be collected is wasted? That's the real crux behind each article about raising taxes. The taxpayer who earned it is somehow less valuable to society than the bureaucrats who will waste it.
Do these models take into account the fact that each time capital gains taxes have dropped, capital gains tax revenue has increased? So raising capital gains taxes from current tax rates will just reduce tax revenue, which is completely counterproductive. People only pay capital gains tax if they sell their investments, which they can choose not to do. The magnitude of this response is underestimated by anyone assuming capital gain tax increases will lead to increased tax revenue. The CBO tends to overestimate how much higher tax rates increase revenue due to effects like this, because it ignores how much people change they behavior to avoid taxes.
If instead the government concentrates on limiting deductions, they are likely to get closer to the revenue increase they project. An obvious target is limiting the size of the mortgage interest deduction (a fixed dollars of interest limit is probably better than a maximum mortgage size limit, as it will impact low-risk borrowers less). The mortgage interest deduction encourages many people to buy houses bigger than they need for the deduction, even if it isn't a good investment decision. This helps drive housing bubbles that distort the economy, along with letting higher income people deduct a substantial amount of wasteful spending. It would be better for the economy if they invested that money they overspend on houses in US businesses or US banks instead.
Curious: did you account for the AMT?
Many of us "arguably rich" have our itemized deductions disallowed already because of it.
What's left out of this discussion is something we ought to find repugnant: asking someone else to pay for our govt services. If you want it you ought to be willing to PAY for it.
In that sense things like social security at least pass a fairness test. (Whether the govt actually delivers the paid for benefit is a separate – and serious – question.)
Obama only wants to steal money that was earned by hard work. When he gets all he can from the 2%, he will come after the rest of you.
One thing this doesn't consider, mainly because its controversial is the laffer curve. I know its impossible to say if we are on the left or right of the curve but I always point to 1987 the only time in recent memory the rate on capital gains and dividends was raised (even clinton cut these rates) the revenue received from these rates plummeted. Suggesting something shocking (sarcasm alert), when these people are taxed highly they avoid these taxes.
The one time in the last 40 years the rate was raised, (from 20% to 35%) revenue from capital games dropped from just over 300 million to 160 million, almost have the returns.
If increasing the rate from 20% to 35% had just dramatic consequences on government revenue back then, why should we assume that increasing the rate from 15% to 39.6% will have any different effect now?
Here is something that turns the higher tax argument on its head, Hauser's Law. It shows that whether taxes are high or low the federal government only collects a certain amount of GDP:
Hauser's law is the proposition that, in the United States, federal tax revenues since World War II have always been approximately equal to 19.5% of GDP, regardless of wide fluctuations in the marginal tax rate.[1] Historically, since the end of World War II, federal tax receipts as a percentage of gross domestic product averaged 17.9%, with a range from 14.4% to 20.9% between 1946 – 2007.[2]


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Ex-Williams de Broë boss Howell joins Rathbones
by Daniel Grote on Feb 20, 2013 at 08:26
Discretionary fund manager (DFM) Rathbone Brothers has announced former Williams de Broë chief executive Philip Howell will join the business, as it reported a dip in profits for 2012.
Howell will join the DFM as deputy chief executive next month. He left Williams de Broë in May last year following the acquisition of Williams de Broë parent Evolution Group Investec. Williams de Broë has since been rebranded Investec Wealth & Investment.
Rathbones chief executive Andy Pomfret (pictured) said Howell's 'considerable experience will add to the strength and depth of our management team'.
The DFM has reported profits before tax of £45.1 million for 2012, a 2.4% drop from the £46.2 million reported in 2011. Funds under management rose 13.4% from £15.9 billion at the end of 2011 to £18.0 billion at the end of December.
The FTSE 100 rose 5.9% during that period, with Rathbones reporting a 6% net increase in assets. This figure includes asset boosts from the acquisitions of investment managers RM Walkden & Co and AIB Jersey, and outflows due to the loss of mandates to run both the Albany investment trust and investments for national advice firm Cavanagh Financial Management, now owned by Close Brothers Asset Management.
Rathbones' Financial Services Compensation Scheme bill rose from £600,000 in 2011 to £1 million in 2012.
Pomfret said 2012 had presented 'a demanding investment climate for both Rathbones and our clients'. Chairman Mark Nicholls added that the DFM was well-positioned to deal with the retail distribution review.
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NFC East Spin cycle: What's wrong with Eli?
It wasn't the division's finest hour in Week Nine, with all three teams losing prior to the Eagles' Monday-night game against the Saints.
Falcons hang on to beat Cowboys, stay undefeated
Julio Jones 129 receiving yards and the Falcons beat the Cowboys 19-13 on Sunday night to extend their run as the NFL's only unbeaten team.
Report: League voided Saints' contract with Payton
The NFL voided the contract extension Saints head coach Sean Payton received in September 2011, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.
Cowboys' Carter asked to step up inside
ILB Bruce Carter has come a long way in the past year and a half, and the Cowboys need him most right now.
Not a record, but THE record
Ten years ago, Emmitt Smith established the all-time rushing mark but the record is not revered as it once was.
NFC East Spin cycle: Giant win puts champs in control
The Giants stand alone atop the division ahead of the Cowboys, Redskins and Eagles, all of whom lost in Week Eight.
Change, desperation in air for three teams
The Eagles, Jets and Chargers might have reached the point of no return; examining the Cowboys' losing culture; and more from Week Eight.
Giants blow lead but hang on for win over Cowboys
Eli Manning and the Giants remained undefeated at Cowboys Stadium with a 29-24 win Sunday after blowing a 23-point lead.
Cowboys extend Church's contract
The Cowboys gave S Barry Church a four-year contract extension on Friday, keeping him in Dallas through 2016.
NFL Links: Luck more impressive than RG3?
Andrew Luck is still better than RG3, Wade Phillips has the Texans' pass rush humming and Chiefs fans are feeling neglected.
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PFW personnel analyst Nolan Nawrocki evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of Cowboys ORT Doug Free.
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The Vikings agreed to terms Wednesday on a four-year contract with Cook, one of two second-round draft picks in 2006. A former New Mexico standout who was a three-time first team All-Mountain West Conference selection, Cook can play center and guard. He was taken with the 51st overall choice.||||||| Cook, 23, is guaranteed a little more than $1.5 million, including a $1.2 million signing bonus.


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NORMAN — City Manager Jim Twombly says he became aware of problems at the city's green-waste program in November, but he didn't tell Mayor Dewey Bartlett about it.
He should have.
Bartlett said he didn't learn about the situation — the city wasn't able to process bagged yard waste at its mulching center, so it was just hauling it to the trash-to-energy plant like ordinary garbage — until he read about it in the newspaper this month.
As a result of the political fallout of the mess, some are suggesting the city needs to refund green-waste fees and others are saying Tulsa should abandon the whole idea.
Neither of those plans make sense to us.
The consumers got what they were paying for, if not in the way it was supposed to happen. Their yard waste was hauled away and recycled after a fashion.
The same reasons the mulching plan made sense when it was started still apply. Green waste is a resource that is successfully being mulched in communities around the nation and Oklahoma.
So, don't refund the money or abandon the concept.
We can't help but suspect that if the city's leadership had been more focused on the problem as it was developing, things wouldn't have come to this.
The key point now is cleaning up the mess and getting the system working the way it should have from the beginning.
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Ive always loved old chevy c10's, and recently I bought a 1971 gmc from my uncle (pretty much the same as a c10) its been sitting in his barn for 15 years and im looking into restoring it. The grill and bumpers on it are stock and in ok condition, but seeing as ive always loved the look of the old chevys i was contemplating if i should try and put a chevy grill and rear tailgate trim on it. Theres tons of parts websites that have the aftermarket reproductions for both the gmc and chevy c10. Im wondering if a chevy grill will fit on the gmc. And I know alot of you guys think it would be stupid to put the chevy parts on it, but this isn't going to be a 30K show truck that has to be original, just a fun truck to drive around. comment and let me know what you think. The pic isn't of my truck but its the exact same color and year.
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Boys in grades three through nine will have an opportunity to participate in the Jacksonville Indian Football Camp next week for absolutely no charge; yes, that's right, a free football camp — there is a $10 charge for a t-shirt, which is not required to take part in the camp.
Session I (8-9:30 a.m.) will be for students that will be in grades 3-6 this year.
A second session will take place from 9:30 a.m. to noon for boys entering grades 7-9.
Both sessions will take place at the Tribe's Happy Valley training grounds located adjacent to the baseball field on the high school campus.
Those planning to attend camp are asked to wear comfortable clothing and bring their football cleats if available.
The Indian Football Camp is an opportunity for all participants to learn the basic fundamentals of the game of football.
Participants of all skill levels and experience are welcome. Each boy will be instructed in fundamentals such as ball carrying, receiving, tackling, passing, blocking and footwork for each position.
Instructors will be members of the high school and middle school football coaching staffs.
"We always look forward to Indian Football Camp because it is a time that our coaches can start working work and getting to know many of the kids that will be the Jacksonville Indians of tomorrow," JHS head football coach Chris Taber said. "I think the kids will find camp fun and at the same time they will be learning the basics of football. We're hoping for a big turnout."
Any camper that has not filled out a registration from is asked to stop by the Fieldhouse to fill one out prior to arriving at Happy Valley.


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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -With warmer weather than yesterday, freshman Matilda Castren stayed on a hot streak to hold onto her lead at the Florida State Match Up on Saturday. Castren tied her career best round score from yesterday with a 68 in the windy second round at the Southwood Golf Club. The No. 46 women's golf team is in third place, only six spots out of first.
"The girls played a really good round of golf in tough conditions," said head coach Amy Bond. "They battled hard and took what the golf course gave them. We've put ourselves in position to win tomorrow which was our main goal coming into the tournament. This is really one of our first opportunities as a young team to win a tournament and it makes it more special being at home."
Castren started the morning with birdies on holes one, two and five into the wind. On the tenth hole, her second shot went into the fairway bunker but she bounced back and ended the hole with another birdie. With her seven birdies today and six yesterday, she leads the tournament with 13 birdies, five more than Furman's Inga Gunnarsdottir who is second in birdies.
With six strokes separating Castren and second place players No. 2 Ashlan Ramsey of Clemson and Sarah Schmelzel of South Carolina, the freshman looks to hold onto the lead with her 8-under 136.
"Matilda played a phenomenal round of golf today," continued Bond. "It was one of the best rounds I've seen in a long time. She kept her composure and hit some great shots. She has put herself in position to win her first tournament and tomorrow will be fun to watch."
The team had a 10-over 298 today with Castren, Alex Milan, Carlton Kuhlo and Lydia Gumm contributing to the score. Adding the first round, the team has a 16-over 592 behind No. 13 Clemson's 586 and No. 12 Clemson's 589.
Milan, a junior, shot a 3-over 75 today after making an eagle on the 16th hole. With a long drive and a great second shot to the green, she drained her putt to get the extra strokes. Junior Carleton Kuhlo had a 5-over 77 today while Gumm, a freshman, carded a 6-over 78.
The tournament finished tomorrow as all players tee off at 8:30 for a shotgun start. The Seminoles start on holes one through four. Admission is free to watch the tournament.
Check back to Seminoles.com for all your information on the golf team and follow the team at twitter.com/fsugolf.
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By DANIEL SUDDEATH
NEW ALBANY — Reducing the deficit and forming a long-term spending plan that instills confidence in the nation — Sen. Joe Donnelly said those requests were the chief concerns he heard while meeting with Southern Indiana business leaders Monday.
Donnelly — a three-term member of the U.S. House who bested Republican Richard Mourdock in November to capture the Senate seat vacated by Dick Lugar — met with One Southern Indiana officials and spoke briefly with the media outside of the organization's office.
His stop in New Albany was part of his four-day "I Work for You" tour that will span 18 Indiana communities.
Donnelly acknowledged there are "significant debt challenges" awaiting Congress and President Barack Obama. One of the most pressing issues is the federal debt ceiling, as some spending cuts will begin taking effect on March 1 if the debt limit isn't increased.
"We're not Republicans or Democrats first, we're Americans first, and we need to work together to reduce the spending and to balance the budget," said Donnelly, a Democrat from South Bend.
"We also need to let our creditors know that we're good for the obligations that we have."
During a press conference Monday, Obama said he would be willing to address the deficit and spending, but that those issues should be dealt with apart from the pending debt limit vote.
Republican leadership, including House Speaker John Boehner, said the deficit and the debt limit are intertwined.
"The American people do not support raising the debt ceiling without reducing government spending at the same time," Boehner said Monday.
Another issue expected to soon come to Congress is gun-control reform. Vice President Joe Biden's anti-violence task force is expected to publicly present its recommendations on gun control this week, and Obama has said he will present his own plan within days.
Endorsed in the past by the National Rifle Association, Donnelly said he's willing to listen to new ideas on gun control.
"I'm a strong supporter of the Second Amendment and the right to bear arms," Donnelly said. "At the same time, I'm waiting to see what the vice president's commission comes out with, and to see if there are some common sense things we can do to work together."
Again Donnelly called for a bi-partisan approach, as he said gun control is an issue that Republicans and Democrats should be able to work together to improve.
He added there are mental health and societal issues such as violent video games that need to be examined along with gun control.
Donnelly said he supports the rights of gun owners, but "at the same time we have to make sure our children can safely go to school, and that we can safely live our lives."
He traveled to Evansville after leaving New Albany, and Donnelly stopped in other Indiana cities including Madison Monday.
Indiana's specialty when it comes to economic development can be having "the best educated, most talented" work force thanks to technical schools and universities in the state and the training they provide, Donnelly said.
From a federal level, the key is to pass a long-term spending plan that addresses the deficit, he continued.
National leaders need to "provide [businesses] with certainty and to provide them with a feeling of confidence that we have these issues under control," Donnelly said.
— The Associated Press contributed to this story


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Sony UK's Mark Howsen has said that the company aims to deliver regular shipments of new stock for its DualShock 3 controller, despite conceding that it may not be able to meet day one demand for the hotly anticipated peripheral. Speaking with MCV UK, Howsen, Director of Sales for PlayStat...
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PS3 firmware v2.40 now available
Firmware v2.40 has just been released. Go download it. Right now. Additionally, it has been announced that both Burnout Paradise and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune will "soon" receive trophy patches. Now, for those of you that have been living under a rock for the last few weeks, this l...
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Sony confirms July 2 release for Firmware 2.40
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) announced today that the highly anticipated Firmware 2.40 update for PlayStation 3 will be available for download on July 2. This latest update adds the highly requested XcrossMediaBar (XMB), allowing users access to the PS3 menu at anytime during gamepla...
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DualShock 3 dated for Europe
Sony has confirmed that the DualShock 3 wireless controller for PlayStation 3 will be available for purchase in European territories on July 4. Originally released in Japan in November 2007, the DualShock 3 will retail for approximately GBP 39.99 and brings vibration functionality to a wide range...
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Japan: PSP dislodges PS3 from top of charts
Weekly PlayStation 3 sales in Japan have slumped following an initial boost on the back of Konami's Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, while the PlayStation Portable repositions itself back at the top of the charts. According to Media Create, the PSP sold through 59,351 units for the...
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Hirai: "True generation" quality only available on PS3
Sony Computer Entertainment President Kazuo Hirai has stated that the PlayStation 3 is the only system capable of delivering a "true generation" quality gaming experience. Speaking during the company's Business Review in Tokyo yesterday, Hirai commented, "As PlayStation 3...
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Video download service coming to US this summer
President of Sony Computer Entertainment Kazuo Hirai has confirmed that the platform holder will be debuting its PlayStation Network movie download service in North America this summer. Speaking at the company's mid-term strategy meeting, Hirai stated the firm would be rolling out the servi...
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Firmware 2.4 due in three weeks time; features revealed
According to reports from CVG, Sony is planning on launching its upcoming Firmware 2.4 update for the PlayStation 3 in around three weeks time, coinciding with the E3 Media and Business Summit next month. Previous reports suggested that the update would arrive some time next week; however, accord...
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PS3 to beat PS2's lifetime sales, says Sony Europe boss
President of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) David Reeves has said that the company expects the PlayStation 3 to eventually surpass lifetime sales of its predecessor, the PlayStation 2. While the console may have gotten off to bumpy start, Reeves was keen to observe the current state in w...
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