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JSSI Expanding Presence in Asia
JSSI has opened its Asian headquarters at the Hong Kong International Airport with Mark Winzar, Robin Tozer, and Jacquelyn Lau.
NBAA 2012 – Chicago, IL -- Jet Support Services, Inc. (JSSI), the leading provider of hourly cost maintenance programs for the business aviation industry, continues to expand its presence in Asia. After more than 20 years of providing customers around the world with maintenance cost predictability, JSSI has opened its Asian headquarters at the Hong Kong International Airport and put in place an extraordinary team to cover the region.
Earlier this year, JSSI rescued a Global Express client from an AOG situation in mainland China. The first-ever import of one of their BR-710 loaner engines was coordinated by the JSSI technical team and resulted in another satisfied Hong Kong based client. The entire process required tremendous coordination and effort by the JSSI team, making this unexpected maintenance event a successful engine exchange and got the customer back into the air.
"We are proud of the early success in China, and we look forward to delivering this same value to our rapidly growing customer base throughout Asia," stated Neil Book, Co-President for JSSI. "This is an exciting market. As the number of business jets in the region grows, we look forward to delivering our unique programs, which provide owners peace of mind. No matter where they fly, if they have a maintenance issue, JSSI will be there."
The JSSI team in Hong Kong is led by three industry professionals, including Mark Winzar, veteran JSSI Technical Services Manager and Business Development Director, Robin Tozer, newly appointed Technical Services Representative, and Jacquelyn Lau, the Client Services Specialist for the new Hong Kong office.
Mark Winzar joined JSSI in 2010 and has been based in Farnborough at the JSSI European headquarters. Mr. Winzar will now lead business development efforts throughout the region. His successful aviation career began as a helicopter engineer with the UK Ministry of Defense. Winzar then joined the BBA central sales team at H+S Aviation where he became a vital part of the team that set up the PWC JT15D program and was responsible for operations and field service support for several years.
Robin Tozer joins JSSI with more than 20 years of aircraft engineer and maintenance experience throughout Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Mr. Tozer came to JSSI from Hongkong Jet, where he was Director of Engineering, and prior to that he was a Bombardier Product Manager for Jet Aviation in Singapore. His extensive technical background also includes several years as Director of Maintenance for Metrojet Limited, a leading business jet operator in Asia, where he managed more than 100 mechanics. Mr. Tozer is a resident of Hong Kong and plans to participate in a maintenance roundtable forum during the Asian Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition in Shanghai, China in April 2013.
Jacquelyn Lau has also joined the new JSSI Hong Kong office. Her recent experience as a Fleet Services Officer involved assisting with the delivery process of corporate jets, including making sure all required certificates were in place and regulations met. Ms. Lau is a graduate of Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada and has excellent command of English, Cantonese and Mandarin languages.
"We are excited about the team we have put together to support the opportunities in the Asian market," commented Tim Coggin, Managing Director of JSSI EMEAA. "We are in a global business environment, so it is important that we continue to expand our presence worldwide and provide our clients with the best service in the industry."
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Barring an upset, should Alabama or Oklahoma State play LSU for the title?
Urban Meyer would be perfect for OSU, but can he duplicate his Florida success?
Plus, reception to the revised Mandel Plan, cause of kicking woes, and more mail
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In the 13 years of the BCS, there have been only five occasions when we were reasonably certain the correct two teams played in the championship game. This isn't shaping up to be the sixth.
There were controversies that were unavoidable (USC, Oklahoma and Auburn all going undefeated in 2004), unacceptable (Nebraska getting in after losing its last game of the 2001 season 62-36), unexplainable (Florida State getting in a year earlier despite losing to No. 3 Miami, which itself lost to No. 4 Washington) and uncomfortable (the three-way, Big 12 South puzzle of 2008).
This year looks like it's shaping up to be a mix of both unavoidable and uncomfortable.
Stewart, how could a potential Alabama victory over LSU at a neutral site trump a LSU win AT Alabama? Isn't it time we put a clause in the BCS formula that HEAVILY weighs conference championships? If you can't win your conference, you should NOT be allowed to play in the national championship game.
-- Chris, Katy, Texas
Why is everybody discounting the possibility of Oklahoma State playing in the title game? Right now it's No. 2 in the computer polls and, while I have no idea what the computers will say in two weeks, isn't there a chance it could leapfrog Alabama if anti-rematch sentiment pulls them closer in the human polls?
-- Corey, Nashville
The BCS commissioners considered adding just such a clause after the aforementioned 2001 Nebraska situation. They didn't, in part because not all conferences determine their champions the same way (some have title games, some don't), but also because they didn't want to rule out the very plausible possibility that the best two teams in a given year might play in the same conference. I've felt that way about LSU and Alabama since late September, and I feel the same way today. If the goal is to pit the two best teams in the country at the end of the season, conference affiliation or a previous meeting really shouldn't trump that.
However, as I've said many times, there's a difference between "best" and "most deserving." No one could argue that LSU, probably even at 12-1, would be one of the two most deserving. But is Alabama the other? Before last weekend I felt fairly certain someone else would assume that title, even writing last week about Oklahoma's potentially superior resume. But then the Sooners lost to Baylor. Oklahoma State, the team OU would have needed to beat for its signature win, lost to Iowa State. Oregon went down too. It may now be that the Tide are both the second-best and second-most deserving, conference title be damned.
Outside of the SEC Three, the only other legitimate contender remains Oklahoma State, which will move back up to No. 3 next week if LSU beats No. 3 Arkansas. (The lesson here: If you're going to lose, lose the same week everyone else does.) The computers love the Cowboys, ranking them second behind LSU. Their resume (provided they beat Oklahoma) will not include a win over a team ranked as highly as Arkansas, but will include more wins over current BCS Top 25 teams (four) than Alabama (three).
Yet as much as the public may loathe the idea of a championship game rematch or a team reaching the game without winning its conference, at some point common sense comes into play. I've defended Oklahoma State's defense in the past, but c'mon -- it's not remotely the same caliber as Alabama's. If Iowa State can run right over the Cowboys, as it did in overtime last week, imagine what the Tide's or Tigers' running backs would do. I find a hard time believing the voters will elevate Oklahoma State with the image of Brandon Weeden throwing that dagger pick so fresh in their minds, but let's see what happens if Oklahoma State throttles Oklahoma. It could make for a heated -- and uncomfortable -- 11th-hour debate.
Is Urban Meyer going to come to Columbus to save us or not?
-- Buckeye Nation, Columbus, Ohio
It sure looks that way. But as you know, Meyer has a thing for changing his mind, sometimes more than once. I'd wait for the actual news conference to be sure (and even then maybe wait a few days).
Can Urban Meyer realistically win in the Big Ten with Ohio State? It is usually Ohio State, head-and-shoulders above the rest of the Big Ten, but the Rich Rodriguez experiment didn't go well at Michigan.
-- Carson, Phoenix
As I wrote about Rodriguez's hiring by Arizona, oftentimes the "fit" supersedes a coach's actual abilities. Rodriguez proved to be an awful cultural fit at Michigan, which, when combined with the difficult circumstances he walked into and his own poor decisions, snowballed as the losses piled up. Meyer will have no such problem at Ohio State. You couldn't ask for a much better fit than a guy that grew up in Ohio rooting for the Buckeyes, worked as an assistant there and claims former Ohio State coach Earl Bruce as a close friend and one of his biggest influences. He'll be walking into a program with plenty of talent (including a young quarterback, Braxton Miller, with much the same skill set as his past quarterback standouts) and a fan base hungry to get back on the right track. Barring major NCAA sanctions, he'll face none of the obstacles that hindered Rodriguez.
As for "duplicating his results" from Florida -- that raises an interesting question. No one would dispute Meyer is an excellent coach, having won big at three different schools and capturing two national championships. He'll win Big Ten titles. But with both his and Ohio State's histories, the expectation for Meyer will be national titles. He's therefore the perfect guy to test the growing sentiment that Midwest teams can no longer keep up with their warm-weather counterparts. I'm sure Meyer's connections will help lure some Florida recruits north, but for the most part, his core will still be Ohio kids. Are there enough elite athletes in that state for him to run his preferred style of offense, which is so reliant on speedy skill players? Can he produce a stacked defensive line like the ones he had at Florida? If nothing else, it will be a marked departure from Tresselball.
Stewart, up to this point LSU's dominance has been second-to-none, yet it has no Heisman contender. I would like to know your perspective on this. Can you remember a time that a national championship contender didn't have a player at least in the top 10 of the Heisman race?
-- Derek, Baton Rouge
It doesn't happen often, but interestingly, the last two times it did were also the last two times LSU won a BCS championship (2003 and '07). Like this team, those were built around dominant defenses, not flashy offenses. All had mostly game-managers at quarterback and tailbacks by committee, and those are virtually the only positions that win Heismans. The voters showed two years ago they're capable of taking seriously an otherworldly defensive player like Ndamukong Suh, who finished fourth, and Tyrann Mathieu seemed to be getting serious buzz early this season before his suspension and before it became apparent that Morris Claiborne, not Mathieu, is LSU's best cornerback. Perhaps Claiborne could make an 11th-hour Charles Woodson push with some game-changing interceptions against Arkansas and/or Georgia, but as quarterbacks continue to get more accurate and pass more often, it's becoming harder for guys at any other position to win the thing.
Stew, Can you remember a bigger individual award snub than Brad Wing being excluded from the Ray Guy finalists?
-- Zach, Baton Rouge, La.
No disrespect to the three finalists -- but that's absolute blasphemy. I propose we Occupy the Ray Guy Award Ceremony.
Stewart, I've enjoyed reading your college football articles in the past, but this one might be the best you've ever written. The revised Mandel Plan makes so much sense that the BCS, NCAA and whoever else is interested would be silly to not implement it as soon as possible. The only question now is how do you get in the room with all the powers to make this happen?
-- Pat, Mitchell, S.D.
Stewart, your various iterations of the Mandel Plan have converted me from a playoff proponent. And this one is even better. I still don't like the BCS. It has eviscerated the bowls. They are all meaningless and not fun to watch any more. This could revitalize many of them.
-- Doug, Cartersville, Ga.
You may think I just cherry-picked two e-mails that happen to be particularly flattering of me, but I assure you, that's not the case. The new Mandel Plan was a smashing hit with most readers, much to my delight, reinforcing my belief that the Mailbag draws the smartest audience in college football.
The one very valid criticism is that the elimination of AQ berths could be a death knell to non-AQ teams, what with no more guaranteed access to the major bowls. Mind you, that's not the bowls' problem. They're job is to produce the most compelling matchups possible, sell tickets and garner television viewers, and the brand-name programs tend to do that. Also, I'd argue this only improves those teams' chances of actually playing for a national title. TCU finished in the top four and would have qualified for a semifinal each of the past two seasons. That's one of the great mischaracterizations of the BCS: It's not the system keeping those teams out of the title game, it's the voters.
Dude, your plan is way too complicated. I got tired of reading it after the third point. Whatever the solution, it first and foremost needs to be SIMPLE.
-- Brian Ewalt, Columbia, S.C.
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Kids, don't pipe down
"My father's violence became so bad that I witnessed my mother being pinned against a wall with knives".
This is one of the lines from a letter I received during my youth consultation in a South Australian homeless shelter. Its author was a girl who I will call "Charlotte". She gave me this letter without hope or expectation that I would share her story.
I was surprised to receive the letter. Charlotte had been silent throughout the consultation. Her face had looked so sad and empty that I thought it best to leave her alone. I was stunned to learn from reading that she was only 17-years-old. She looked much older. As I read on, it was easy to understand why.
The violence of Charlotte's father was followed by her grandfather sexually abusing her when she was six. Tragically, Charlotte's cry for help was met with only silence from her family.
So she turned to alcohol to cope. When Charlotte's family broke up, her mother remarried another violent man. To avoid further abuse, Charlotte fled to a homeless shelter, becoming one of the 22,000 young Australians who are homeless as you read this.
Too often and too easily, children like Charlotte are silenced in our society.
Currently youth organisations are organizing public forums, starting in Melbourne this week, to turn up the volume on children's rights and wellbeing. These events are a follow up to a UN committee's mid-year review of Australia's implementation of the UN Convention of the Rights of a Child.
The committee's report from the review, whilst dressed in the genteel advocacy of the UN, reveal its frustration with Australia's checkered progress on children's rights.
On one hand, Australia has made a marked improvement on children's wellbeing in recent years. We now have national frameworks on early childhood development, child protection and the prevention of violence. Right now the Government is calling for applications for a National Children's Commissioner. This newly established role will champion the voices of children and young people on the national stage.
On the other hand though, it will take widespread community education and individual responsibility for us to succeed in curbing the frightening trends engulfing Australia's most vulnerable children.
One such trend is occurring in the out-of-home care system. From 2005 to 2010 there was an overwhelming 51 per cent increase in the number of children placed in out-of-home care. This trend correlates with homelessness. Children who have been in care are significantly overrepresented within Australia's homeless youth. This is largely because only around a third of these children have a proper leaving care plan.
Secondly, the Committee has recommended that substantial reforms be instigated in the juvenile justice system. Over the last 20 years there has been a shocking rise in the overrepresentation of Indigenous youth in juvenile detention.
Today, Indigenous youth are 28 times more likely to be imprisoned than non-Indigenous youth, an increase since 1993 when the ratio was 17.
These trends are hard for anyone to understand, let alone the Committee, when stacked up against Australia's relative affluence. Perhaps Mother Teresa's observation that "it is more difficult to fight poverty in a rich country than in a poor one" can best explain them?
Reversing these trends will require government investment and individual action. But more than that, it will require the right approach.
Evidence shows that community interventions are much more likely to be successful if they embrace an approach which listens to vulnerable children. Listening to children means respecting a child's voice, valuing their perspective and giving them some ownership and control in decisions which affect their life.
On a personal level, I know how powerful this approach can be. I was five when I was diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome, a minor form of autism. When my family sought out specialists to assist me, they got only negative prescriptions of my future abilities. In defiance of this negativity, my family decided to deliver their own behavioural therapy.
It was my family's respect for my voice that helped me develop my self-esteem. I never felt the burden of wearing a label, I was an equal participant in the world around me. Yet sadly, I have met too many young people with behavioural challenges like Aspergers or a physical or mental disability who have been made to feel as though their voice and participation were less valuable to the community.
Australia will next be reviewed by the Committee in 2018. Since 1997 the Committee has repeatedly called on Australia to respect the views of children. This should be the central plank of our agenda going forward.
Social problems like homelessness, crises like Indigenous juvenile detention and the marginalisation of children with disabilities do not have to be prevailing. We can prevail over them if we respond to a child's cry for help with serious inquiry, not with silence. If we practice inclusion, not exclusion and if we celebrate, not tolerate a young person's voice.
These actions on a micro level need to be complemented by action on the macro, such as the development by the Federal Government of a comprehensive plan of action for implementing the Convention as a whole. This plan should work towards giving full and direct effect to the Convention in Australian law.
Charlotte is part of the first generation of Australians to grow up with children's rights. We may have failed to implement her rights, but that does not mean we cannot learn from her story.
We can use the Convention as a practical tool for promoting a culture of rights and responsibilities in the young that can benefit generations hereafter. But it will take each and every one of us. I believe we can do it. Don't you?
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L. says:
"UN Convention of the Rights of a Child."
What a load of crap.
Look at Australia, we have laws already in place to protect child,ren a large national police force to enforce these laws, Gov depts like DOCS to assist at a moments notice, foster families, num,erous church based charities, free education etc etc etc…and the UN is still "frustration with Australia's checkered progress on children's rights. "
Seriously, what does the UN think we should do that we haven't..?
Does the UN really think 'frameworks' are going to stop violent, drunk sexual predators like the one who abused Charlotte..??
A suggestion to the UN… When it comes to child protection, start in Africa, or parts of the mid-east, and let teh grown up countries sort ourselves out.
Fiddler says:
"crises like indigenous juvenile detention"
Just because you say it is a crises doesn't mean it is. We in NSW, a state of nearly 8 million people have a grand total of around 200 juveniles currently in detention. That's right 200, not even enough to fill a cinema. Maybe you should see just how hard they have to try to end up in there (the average inmate breaches their bail conditions 7 times before ending up in their and is usually on parole while committing offences, after having had three cautions for offences and a juvenile conference).
Massive crises hey, and we solve this how? The fact is the ones who are in there for anything more than an overnighter are there because they want to be there. Stop feeling sorry for them, they are violent vicious little shits, just in miniature form. Don't blame the government, don't blame the system, the sole responsibility lies with them and their parents only.
Rooz says:
Im with the U.N on this one, parents need to be licensed somehow otherwise they can be not allowed to reproduce.
Russia should be ashamed for pathetically rejecting this as some kind of Agenda 21 conspiracy attempt to lower their birth rate.
With so many people willing to immigrate who are most likely better parents anyway, we can afford to crack down on parents at home who are abusing children, especially in the Indigenous communities and urban low income areas.
Al says:
Sorry, but by quoting Mother Teresa (the EVIL bitch) you have lost all credibility that you actualy care about the reality of what occurs.
Are things perfect, no, but they never will be either.
The UN Convention of the Rights of a Child actualy provide NO SOLUTIONS to the issues they see.
In many cases they also fail to consider that there may be valid reasons for discrepancies in statistics such as the overrepresentation in prisions of Aboriginals (such as, they actualy broke the law). It is actualy the families of certain groups who make the choice to raise their children in a manner that distances them from the expectations and laws of the society in which they need to live and the consequences of their actions.
Readitagainguys says:
Is it just me or have all comments so far missed the whole point of the article? To me it's very clear Chris is writing about the need to involve children more in decisions that concern them, and actually listen to them, but the comments so far have seemed to overlook this. By complaining about or calling for more from the UN, Government, parents, etc, you're still all saying the same thing: it's for adults to decide and impose what's best for kids, and they're often doing this all wrong. I agree with the latter, but not the first. It's been shown time and time again that when kids are involved and empowered to have a say in key decisions affecting them, outcomes are better and longer lasting. This is a key message of the UN Convention, which after all wasn't written to set out actual programs or systems to be implemented (as some of the comments seem to suggest), but rather principles to be followed when designing and implementing programs.
Thank you for drawing our attention to the need to listen to and involve children, Chris.
Readitagainguys says:
Of course. I didn't suggest kids should have ultimate decision making power, but rather that kids should be involved in decisions. This doesn't mean just following whatever kids say; it's about adults consulting with and listening to kids, so the decisions that are ultimately made by adults are well informed and considered. That's why I said kids should 'have a say in decisions' - not that kids should be allowed to make all decisions.
If you want more information on the benefits of including children in decision-making, just google it. There's more literature out there on it than I could possibly list here. Participation Works (UK) is a good starting point.
adolph stalin says:
so if you commit a crime the colour of your skin decides if it is societies fault or yours??what a joke,a thief is a thief,a pedophile is a pedophile,a murderer is a murderer simple as that anyone who plays or promotes the race card is just a vile creature who ensures we will never be all classed as equals
Kage says:
Wow, the comments 'round here get more incoherent and less relevant to the articles everyday. Well done, everyone.
Kage says:
Wow, the comments 'round here get more incoherent and less relevant to the articles everyday. Well done, everyone.
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'Before I begin, I want to say to Tim Walz and to Senator Klobuchar how sad we all are at the tragedy that occurred in
'At the beginning of this Congress, we had the first 100 hours, where in that short period of time a flurry of activity that related to protecting the American people, growing our economy, strengthening our families, and preserving our planet, and doing that in a fiscally sound, open and honest way.
'This happened because we had new Members of Congress who brought with them their energy, their enthusiasm, straight from the campaigns, with the clearest picture of the desires of the American people. Here we are now in August, and a similar number of hours this week, we have another record of achievement in terms of legislation. Some of it following up on bills that were introduced at that time.
'To make
'In terms of accountability, this week both houses passed the lobbying reform bill, as Mr. Leader said, and it will soon be signed into law by the President. This is historic, a historic change in the relationship between lobbyists and legislators as we break that link. It has been hailed by the reform groups outside the Congress as an outstanding step forward.
'In terms of how we grow our economy, both houses this week passed the America COMPETES Act, our commitment to competitiveness, to keep
'Energy independence takes us to preserving our planet, which we will take up tomorrow. We're very proud of the work that has been done in the COMPETES Act in furtherance of energy independence.
'Most important of all is how we strengthen our families. And this week, both the House and Senate passed the SCHIP legislation. Millions of dollars more for millions of children to be able to receive quality health care. Who are we as a nation, if we don't care for our children? It's probably one of the happiest days of my official life to be there on the floor, which I called 'the children's hour,' when in the people's House, we passed that legislation, which now has been passed in the United States Senate. We look forward to reconciling those bills and sending them to the President's desk.
'Also in strengthening our families, of course, are bills we passed to promote higher education and increase the minimum wage. And we passed the Ledbetter bill in our House, which would end gender discrimination and pay.
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By Gabe Gutierrez, Correspondent, NBC News
ATLANTA -- It's hard to get an exact count, but on any given night, there are more than half a million homeless people in the U.S.
Now, a campaign to get them into permanent housing is growing.
For the first time in four years, 48-year-old Michael Couch has a place to call home.
"I hit bottom in Tampa, Florida, when I was down there living on the street," said Couch, a former homeless veteran who now lives in the Atlanta suburb of Stone Mountain.
He served in the Army during the '80s but later turned to alcohol.
"[I] just went downhill," remembered Couch. "Can't really understand the reasons why to this day."
After a divorce and lost job, he became one of this country's chronically homeless. Local agencies use federal grants to find them permanent housing, but often the screening process can drag on for as much as a year.
So in 2010, a nonprofit group launched a campaign called 100,000 Homes – a movement to house the homeless, in part by cutting red tape from the housing voucher process.
That process can include more than 50 steps and several different agencies. Now, many of those agencies are consolidating those steps, reducing the wait time to two months or less.
The campaign says it's spread to more than 200 communities and helped house more than 59,000 people.
Dwight Fitzgerald, 61, a Vietnam-era Air Force veteran who worked as a fueling specialist, said he developed an addiction to heroin while overseas -- and eventually left the military.
"The toughest part is the sickness and not having the funds to go get [the drugs]," he said. "It makes you go out and do things you normally wouldn't do."
After years in jail, he's trying to bounce back. The 100,000 Homes campaign has helped him secure an apartment in Stone Mountain, the same area where Couch lives.
"Nobody deserves to be homeless," he said. "The U.S. is supposed to be the most powerful and richest country in the world and to see people living in the streets, eating out of garbage cans ... I just don't understand why these things happen."
What is the nonprofit's biggest challenge?
"I think it's this idea that we can't end homelessness," said Jake Maguire, who works for Community Solutions, the group behind the campaign, which is funded by private donations.
Rather than simply focusing on charity, the campaign says it's aiming for long-term solutions. Not only is there a shortage of affordable housing, but the government systems that place people in that housing remain slow and complicated.
"We're really trying to take rigorous data-driven business models and try to bring them into the nonprofit sector," Maguire said.
In the past, he said, many communities offered multiple services for the homeless, but those organizations didn't communicate with one another and often bounced people around without actually housing them.
Maguire said the 100,000 Homes initiative has streamlined the process.
In Atlanta, the mayor said it has not only helped the homeless but saved tax dollars.
"When we have all of the parties at the table at the same time around the same individual, they're all on notice," said Mayor Kasim Reed. "So that really does reduce the amount of duplication."
As for Michael Couch, he's heading back to school, searching for a new job and finally spending time with his daughter – and new granddaughter – at home.
"It's nice," he said, "to have a roof over your head."
To learn more about 100,000 Homes, please visit their website.


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Fragile talks, optimistic reports and a tale of two sweaters
By Stu Hackel
NHL and NHLPA negotiators went at it again as the lockout hit 88 fun-filled days. Federal mediators have returned to the process as well, and that can't be a bad thing as long as both parties really want to reach a deal. If one does not, or insists there is no room for compromise, all the king's men won't be able to put a CBA together.
UPDATE: Wednesday's meeting lasted six-and-a-half hours and the sides were never in the same room. Bill Daly reported afterward that there was really nothing to report, no movement, and the NHLPA would continue to meet with the mediator into the evening and the mediator would get back to the league after that. Here's the TSN report and their video of Daly's brief remarks to the press, after which he took no questions. Don Fehr told reporters there was no change in the owners' stance of last week. Here's video of his brief remarks. There are some indications that the owners' side might restore the offer it took off the table last week, although the proposal would be non-negotiable, but it was not back on the table as of Wednesday evening.
No owners were present at Wednesday's session, only league staff and lawyers. Their NHLPA counterparts were there, along with a group of players. The location was supposed to remain undisclosed, but the two sides didn't do a much better job of keeping it a secret than they did the last time they tried to hold hush-hush talks. Multiple tweets say the session is in New Jersey. The last time they tried a news blackout, all it took to bust the scheme was one guy — Pat Leonard of The New York Daily News — to camp out in front of the NHL offices and tail the league's delegation on foot for a few blocks to the offices of their consulting attorneys at Proskauer Rose. This time, did someone flag down a taxi and yell, "Follow that car!" If so, chalk it up to more good reporting and bad subterfuge.
Of course, the less we hear about this round of talks, the better. We all know by now that when one of the negotiators conducts a press conference, it's most often because he wants to tell the world that the other side is standing in the way of a settlement.
And when we see or hear someone in the media quoting "a source" who reveals what has gone on at the bargaining table, it's almost certain that the source has an agenda that he'd like his surrogate to publicize for him — and you had to laugh on Tuesday afternoon if you heard Pierre McGuire on "Melnick in the Afternoon" over TSN Radio 690 in Montreal when he said sources from both the owners' and the players' sides had told him that if the other party continued to act as disrespectfully in Wednesday's session as it did last week, they would walk out of the talks. Can't you just see it: "We're leaving!" "No, you can't leave. We're leaving first!"
Imparting "inside" info to surrogates has become commonplace. Leaking has been so epidemic that we don't need mediators as much as urologists. You'd hope they'd respect the process, but these rampant leakers may expose how committed some negotiators actually are to making a deal. Well, the leaks from the current talks have already begun: For example, Sportsnet's Mark Spector, who is thousands of miles away from New Jersey, tweeted Wednesday afternoon, "Mediator has met mostly with union thus far. Expected to spend time this aft with league. Sides have broken for lunch."
Another thing from "the less we hear, the better" category: We've had so many false alarms over the last few months — many generated and/or spread by the media (myself included) — and none were worth the attention they received. There have been countless tall tales ranging from "This is the week something has to get done or we're doomed," to "this latest proposal will really get the talks going on the way to an agreement." The best (or worst) was last Monday's claim by Boston WBZ-TV reporter Steve Burton that the lockout was nearly over and might even end in the next day or two. All these claims have accomplished has been to either lift or dash our hopes, and you start to think that someone is doing a masterful job of coming up with little fibs to consciously heighten everyone's anxiety.
The cycle has started once again with talk that the players are coming back from Europe and teams are quietly telling staffers to gear up for a season. Yes, players are returning from Europe — because many of the leagues over there have begun their annual December break for the holidays and no games are scheduled. As for staffers being told to get ready, well, perhaps they are, but there's still no indication that we are on the verge of an agreement.
The two sides seem close in many respects, or at least closer than they've ever been, despite the wretched way in which these talks have proceeded. There's once again a sense of optimism in hockey circles. TSN's Gord Miller tweeted from Alberta, where Team Canada's World Junior Team is preparing for the IIHF Under-20 Championships, "The consensus among NHL management types/agents here this morning is that there will definitely be a resolution to the lockout, and soon." The Kings Kevin Westgarth, who has been in many negotiating sessions, but not today's told James Mirtle of The Globe and Mail, "We feel at least that we're within shouting distance of a deal and we'll be able to get back on the ice." Lots of media commentators, too (like Nick Cotsonika of Yahoo), believe they see how the gaps between the owners and players can be closed, and they're not wrong.
But we've been optimistic before, haven't we? One thing that the glass-half-full folks may be missing is how willing one or both sides still may be to actually filling it. Suspicion continues that the owners' desire to damage the union is one of their priorities (and Andrew Gross of The Bergen Record has some thoughts on that here.) Plus, even though the "moderates" among ownership wanted talks to resume (as ESPN's Pierre Lebrun reported Tuesday) there's no indication that the hardline stance the league took when it removed its latest proposal from the table has changed and they've put it back in play. If the offer is back, there's been no clue that the owners are willing to go further in closing the gap — other than the fact that every time they say "Final offer," it's not. We'll find out if limiting contracts to five years is really a hill the owners — and the season — will die on.
Similarly, voices among the players have restated during the last few days that they have already given enough and it is time for the owners to start making a concession or two. Theoretically, that's the mediator's job, to get the sides together, although the league reportedly still isn't thrilled that a third party is involved here.
On top of that, there are still the outstanding subjects — the transition issues — that Don Fehr said on Saturday have yet to be addressed, and each unaddressed issue gives someone another chance to hold up progress. These transition issues include some delicate matters, such as how a bought-out contract negotiated under the old CBA, or someone with a brand new 13-year deal, fits into a new system under which the players' share of HRR is reduced and the maximum length of contracts can only be, let's say, eight years — or five, if the owners get their way. (Larry Brooks of The New York Post had some thoughts on buyouts here.)
That's a subject that Bob McKenzie discussed today on TSN 690′s "Morning Show" when he said, "Everybody can see there's a deal to be made. I don't think the differences at this point are so ridiculously great. They're not close-close. I think as we alluded to before, for Don Fehr to say 'We're so close to each other as to be on top of each other' [actually Fehr didn't say that; he said "We are close, if not on top of each other, on most of the major issues." -- SH] and then on Saturday he says, 'Well, we haven't even discussed transition' — and transition for the PA means talk about significant amounts of money outside of the system and Don Fehr had said, well 'We'd agree on money.' Well, we haven't really agreed on money because transition is money and we haven't spoken transition. And the NHL is pretty adamant that they are not gong to allow for transition, that that's what the $300 million 'Make whole' was for, to transition from 57 to 50 percent and we don't need compliance buyouts, we're not going to have compliance buyouts. We're not going to put in a cap on escrow. So all the details that aren't necessarily identified with a specific dollar amount, the NHL doesn't want to discuss them. And if they do, they're going to alter the $300 million. So it's not as close as it looks. But it's still not as far as to suggest we should lose an entire season on it."
The players may dispute what the misnamed "Make whole" provision is for, but therein lies what might be the next stumbling block: the transition issues — the next deadly hill in these fitful discussions. McKenzie thinks the process needs a stated deadline to get everyone to put their true best offer forward, a date after which there will be no season. If this current round of talks doesn't wrap things up — and you'd be wise to think it may not — that date could be announced by the league fairly soon.
So this could drag on for a while, not just on Wednesday but beyond, and maybe for a few more weeks. To help you pass the time, here's one of my favorites: the Canadian Film Board's award-winning animated version of Roch Carrier's great short story, The Hockey Sweater.
And here's an updated 21st Century version from the CBC program This Hour Has 22 minutes.
Let's hope things go well at the meeting over on the Jersey side. Don't be terribly surprised if they don't.
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Complimentary offerings at The Grand Summit Hotel include a buffet breakfast, evening cookies, and 24-hour coffee/tea service.
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Open during warm-weather months, a sundeck furnish relaxation at The Grand Summit Hotel - A Summit Hotel. The Hat Tavern restaurant serves a breakfast with hot and cold items, lunch, and dinner. The hotel has 7 meeting and conference rooms and a business center with two computers that provide complimentary high-speed Internet connections. Scheduled shuttle service (surcharge) is available between the hotel and the Newark Liberty International Airport Sunday-Friday.
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The HAT Tavern - Among its menu of dishes made from fresh local ingredients, The HAT Tavern serves tapas, a wide variety of salads, and hamburgers made from naturally raised, hormone-free beef.
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In Their Own Words – The Lonely and Disregarded
Robin Bailey e-mailed us this poem written by her 16-year-old son, Blake, who has autism. Both his local and school newspapers have printed it.
There, he stands
Watching those that don't know he stands
In short distance, lonely and disregarded
Waiting for a friend understanding and trusted.
There, he stands
Shedding the tears inside, unnoticed
Listening in misery, lonely and disregarded
Thinking of a sad, cruel world he exists on.
There, he stands
Scared of speaking, for he sees anger
He remaining silent, lonely and disregarded
Crouching in a corner like an old memory.
There, he stands
Waiting for a person to stare and speak
Smiling and breaking him from lonely and disregarded
Wrapping arms around, as true friendship.
There, he no longer stands
No longer lonely and disregarded
Smiling with the purest glee
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July 10, 2010 at 4:10 pm | #3
This is so beautiful. It made me cry. When i read this i see my vinnie, always alone, not one friend to play with. I feel his pain. Me and my husband try to be his playmates the best we can. He has very poor social skills. Not one child that lives near us will play with him. I hope one day he will find a true friend. Great poem!!! Thanks for sharing Lisa Mango
July 10, 2010 at 6:53 pm | #6
That is so true all those children want is understanding and friendship. They have so much love, adornment, admeration and desire to be a friend to share laughs, special moments and to just see someone smile at them with tenderness in their eyes. My granddaughter has autism and is 9 and because her autism is not a wheelchair,crutch or a noticeable thing till she speaks then she gets strang reactions from children, she loves to be a friend and she enjoys other childrens company even those who can be cruel, she just lets it go and tries to conquer their friendship. i admire my little princess and i wish the world was more like her. Loving, understanding and not judgemental. go taylor!!! nunnie loves you forever and always!!!!!!!
October 20, 2010 at 11:11 pm | #10
He needs to write more :) Fantastic!!!! It also shows that we really need to listen to the Heart and show Good Will towards others. To many people wrapped up in: money, impressions, materials and too many beautiful, artistic people who are loving and sweet left in the corner. We need to "refocus" our BIG picture is getting "fuzzy". Hugs and congrats to him. Please keep writing, I PROMISE, I'll buy his book!
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ca. 190,000 photographs: b&w and col. prints; b&w negatives (nitrate, glass, diacetate, triacetate, polyester); col. negatives; col. slides.
Scope and content
Series consists of records created and/or maintained by the RCMP Photo Library. There are more than 190,000 photographs arranged in files both by subject and in chronological order, with files containing both textual information and original photographs. The Photo Library includes the following: - Black and white prints. Prints are arranged by subject headings in a file formerly used as a finding aid/image index; also, prints are physically located in the same envelopes as the black and white negatives. The photographs in the RCMP collection include images from the beginnings of the force in the 1870s to the 1990s. Because of the force's original mandate to police in the North West, and because of its continuing function as a provincial police force in the western provinces, much of the photography deals with the west, and with the north. The contents cover many of the activities of the force (although some areas, such as surveillance, forensic photography, pornography, clandestine operations, and so forth are not included). The subject headings include: animals, air services (including photographs of many different types of aircraft, aircraft maintenance, aircrew, etc.); bands (arranged on virtually a year-by-year basis for many years); marine and boats (by name of the craft involved) including some specific areas such as rum-runners; cartoons about force activities; churches; ceremonial and church parades; portraits of Commissioners; views concerning different criminal cases; views concerning detachments (arrangements are ly and alphabetically arranged by province and locality within each province), including old forts; disasters; documents; dogs and their equipment; Inuit (under "Eskimo"); weapons and firearms; funerals; graves and memorials, plaques, and memorial services; historical events; horses; First Nations (under "Indians"); insignia; inspections; Japanese re-location centres; jubilee; letters; maps; meetings and conferences; ministers of justice; miscellaneous; training and classes; movies and poetry; museums; musical rides (arranged chronologically); photographs of individuals and groups; parties and picnics; patrols and expeditions; penetentiaries; police department; presentations; provost corps; public relations; radio; RCMP reserves; Royal Easter Show; Scenes - general; teams and sports; training; transportation (and accidents); uniforms; youth and police; veterans; visits (arranged chronologically); and weapons. - Colour prints. Prints are arranged alphabetically by subject in the same fashion as the black and white prints. These have the same general subject headings as do the black and white prints, although there are considerably fewer colour prints. These prints cover the period from the 1950s to the 1970s. - Black and white negatives. These include many copy negatives of photographs acquired from third-party sources, as well as original negatives from internal and external sources. They are directly related to the black and white print file by negative number. The black and white negatives include a number of images which are not found in the print file, as the file effectively was closed in the mid-1970s. There are some black and white negatives in the accession file material (see below), but they are widely scattered. They cover the same subject areas as already discussed. - Colour negatives. The colour negatives are found in several different file units. From about 1957, 4 x 5 in and 2 1/4 in negatives were collected by the Photo Library, covering a wide variety of RCMP activities. This negative series continued until the mid-1970s, and petered out in the mid-1980s. It was effectively replaced by the series of accession-numbered files, which include many items from detachments around the country, single subjects such as royal tours and the visit of Pope John Paul, and some public relations material. A final series of colour negatives are arranged alphabetically by the name of the individual photographed. - Colour slides. These slides, taken from the early 1960s to the 1980s, cover many aspects of force activities across the country. A log book provides item-level description of this series for much of the 1960s.
from RCMP 66 to RCMP 67
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Graphic (photo) Original registers and accession reports located in 2000842303-2000842304. Original alphabetical index by subjects located inn 2000842305 and 2000842306. Original alphabetical index to RCMP members located in 2000842307 to 2000843316. FA-297 90 (Paper)
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Biography / Administrative history
The RCMP Photo Library, in its present form, was begun in the late 1950s or early 1960s. During the following thirty-five years it was the apparent responsibility of several different operations within the RCMP; ultimately it came to rest in the office of the RCMP historian. It functioned as a public information source, as a source of images for authors, historians, illustrators, film-makers and others. In the spring of 1996 personnel reductions at the RCMP led to the closing of the Photo Library.
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FAIRFIELD — U.S. Sen. Angus King, speaking in an experimental videoconferencing format with students at Lawrence High School, said Maine needs a fundamentally different approach to education that recognizes the impact of new technologies.
Sen. Angus King addresses Lawrence High School students via a Skype system at the Fairfield school on Wednesday. Principal Pam Swett is at the podium at left.
Staff photo by David Leaming
The 40-minute back-and-forth between King and a student representative was done using Google Hangout, a computer application that helps people communicate through live audio and video feeds.
More than 500 students sat in the school's auditorium and watched a live projection of King as he answered their questions from the basement of the U.S. Capitol in Washington.
"This is a kind of experiment," King said. "If this works, we'll be doing it more frequently."
After the event, King's representative, Ben Tucker, said the experiment was a success and that King plans to use the technology to speak with every high school in Maine over the course of his six-year term as senator. A schedule for the sessions has not been set, Tucker said.
Principal Pamela Swett said Lawrence High was "extremely honored to be the first school" King chose to participate in the program.
The students posed questions to King about his positions on a proposed east-west highway, gun control and the future of education.
King said successful education in the future will have a structure different from that of the traditional American classroom.
"If you think about it, your school and your classrooms look a lot like they did when Shakespeare went to school: a room with 20 desks and a teacher standing in front and students sitting in the desks and the teacher giving the students information," he said.
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Over the past 16 years the UCLA Film and Television Archive has presented an eclectic selection of the best new film and video works from Iran and the Iranian Diaspora. From the very beginning in 1990, the annual Celebration of Iranian Cinema has been one of the most eagerly anticipated festivals presented by the Archive, with packed houses nightly.
The series opened with Mohammad Rasoulof's breathtaking Iron Island, about a group of impoverished families living aboard a rusting ship anchored in the Persian Gulf. Other highlights included two films about Tehran after dark: Ali Mosaffa's haunting and enigmatic Portrait of a Lady Far Away, about a man (played by Homayoun Ershadi) who is taken on a wild ride through nocturnal Tehran by a mysterious woman, and actress Niki Karimi's brave directorial debut One Night, about the wanderings of a young woman alone in the city. Also screened were We Are All Fine, directed by Bijan Mirbagheri, A Piece of Bread by Kamal Tabrizi, and Wake Up, Arezoo! by Kianoush Ayari, the latter bringing the unfathomable dimensions of the earthquake that struck the ancient city of Bam in 2003 to an immediate and shocking human level. Finally, the closing night feature was Iran's official submission to the Academy for the Foreign Film Oscar, So Close, So Far, directed by Riza Mirkarimi.
The first screening of post-revolutionary Iranian cinema in 1990 was a pioneering initiative co-sponsored by the Center for Near Eastern Studies and curated by alumnus Hamid Naficy. On the occasion of the festival's sixteenth anniversary, the Center asked several friends and acquaintances to comment on films in the 2006 festival which appear to have provoked a critical response among many.
"Iron Island (Jazireh ahani) is a refreshing addition to a long list of remarkable Iranian films," said Hassan Hussain, Islamic Studies doctoral student. "The film is ripe with allegories comparing the community of dispossessed living on a sinking ship under the firm yet protective rule of 'Captain' Nemat to the fragility and uncertain future of the Iranian state and society. However, in addition to the layers of meaning and social commentary, I also enjoyed the setting and characters of the film. Most likely shot near Bandar Abbas, Jazireh ahani depicts the cultural dynamism of the Gulf by using Arab Iranian characters speaking a mixture of Persian and Arabic often found along the southern coast of Iran. I have to admit that it was also nice to see an Iranian movie tackling issues of economic and social constraints on personal freedom without overwhelming and heart-wrenching despair and misery."
Filmmaker and UCLA alum Erik Friedl found We Are All Fine (Ma hameh khoubim) to be "a searing self-portrait of present-day Iran, brilliantly presented in microcosmic form through the all-seeing eye of the commonplace video camera. The eldest son, Jamshid, who has apparently been out of the country some six years, has requested a video portrait of his family. In the hands of the younger son, the video camera proves to be the catalyst that gets members of this impossibly dysfunctional family talking for the first time—an ingeniously simple device on the part of the screenwriter. I also found very effective the intercutting of the more 'objective' 35 mm footage with the gritty, smeary video images of each family member baring his or her soul. There was finally so much emotional bloodletting that I wasn't surprised when the matriarch of this unraveling household—read: the governing mullahs—decided to pull the plug and demand a take-two: 'We are all fine'."
"Ali Mosaffa's Portrait of a Lady Far Away (Sima-ye zani dar doordast) explores the themes of loneliness, people's unwillingness to take risks, and the struggles with commitment in a relationship—issues applicable to any society, not just Iran," said Islamic Studies doctoral student Eric Bordenkircher. "The main character, Ahmed, receives a message on his answering machine from an anonymous female claiming to be on the verge of committing suicide. Although he does not initially respond to the phone call, his concern and/or curiosity lead him on a journey to locate the woman. Throughout his journey, one observes glimpses of Tehran's nightlife, but more prominently, the shortcomings of Ahmed. Portrayed in a rather dark, unconventional manner, the imagery was effective at first, but as the movie progressed it came to hamper the storyline, making it difficult to comprehend and increasingly muddled and confusing."
Holly Shissler from the University of Chicago, who was visiting UCLA during 2005-06 as a Balzan Fellow, said that One Night (Yek shab) reminded her of Jim Jarmusch's 1991 film Night on Earth in the way that it used the conceit of random car rides through the city and the conversations that take place to comment on the condition of the larger society. "In Night on Earth, taxis provide the venue, while in One Night, a young woman hitchhiker serves as the pretext for a variety of male drivers to reveal themselves. A striking feature is that although the young woman is the constant in the film and its nominal protagonist, and although every man who offers her a ride has something to say about women and the relations between the sexes, one felt that there was almost no real female presence in the film. The protagonist remains largely silent, and the drivers monologue about their relations with women without ever seeming to have any sense of the existence of women as independent from their own needs and imaginings. My initial reaction to the film was that it was long and somewhat rambling, but over time I have found it haunting."
Having seen Kamal Tabrizi's first feature film a few years ago—the satire titled The Lizard (Marmoolak)—UCLA alumna Afsaneh Matin, Program Director at Miller Children's Hospital, went to see A Piece of Bread (Yek teke nan) with much anticipation. "The movie takes the audience on a journey to the site of a 'miracle' in a small town in Iran. Locals from nearby villages rush to the site, each hoping to have a wish granted. On this journey we also meet a naive and seemingly meditative young recruit from a remote and unknown place who loses himself in the beauty of nature and repeatedly finds himself in situations not short of small miracles that are lost to the busy eyes of the locals. In the end, we find that he has unknowingly been at the center of the 'miracle' all along. A Piece of Bread is a poetic and visually beautiful movie. However, I wish Tabrizi had allowed his audience to make up their own minds about the reputed miracles and the interrelation of spirituality and religion or the real and the imaginary," she concluded.
Another UCLA alumna, sociologist Elham Gheytanchi of Santa Monica College, saw A Piece of Bread as a moral tale: "It invites a critical assessment of religious fervor and favors a more inward, genuine and essential relationship with God without intermediaries."
Robert Bianchi from the University of Chicago and Iliya Harik from Indiana University were on campus for a CNES workshop and coincidentally attended the last film in the series, So Far, So Close (Kheili dour, kheili nazdik). "It's a double love story between father and son and between man and God," said Bianchi. "The father-doctor couldn't care less about God, but when he learns that he's losing his son to a disease that he cannot cure, he begins a desperate journey to find the boy and become the father he never was. The son taunts his atheist father, leading him on a chase through the desert and speaking only indirectly via his girlfriend's disembodied and scolding cell-phone voice. The last-minute effort to play the father role invites disaster when a sandstorm buries the doctor alive in his Mercedes-turned-coffin. As his oxygen runs out, he replays home videos of the boy on his camcorder and in his mind. In the end, it is the immortal son who saves the dying father in a terrifying conclusion that makes the departing audience check their own breathing and values."
"Here's my take on the film," said Iliya Harik. "There are a lot of things to praise about it including the acting. What concerns me most are minor matters, as films go. First, it was relentless, with no comic relief. At the height of the tension, when the doctor was at the desert hostel, the budding romance could have offered that chance, but then it was totally sacrificed for the religious mission, when the girl was shocked by his disbelief and turned away from him: 'It seems the doctor is in need of help himself, not his son,' a trite and harsh response not befitting those sweet lips from which it was uttered. But maybe that was the price the producer had to pay the censor under an austere religious regime. In some way, the bargain was not that bad for a person who wanted to present an atheistic position. After all, an unbeliever was portrayed as being as human as anybody else, sacrificing himself to save his son, and finally not struck down by an awesome god. In fact, he was saved by his son, about whose faith we know nothing. Not a bad turn for an unrepentant atheist!"
Mimi Brody and FTA colleague David Pendleton have co-curated the series for the past three years. In Winter 2007, the festival moves to the Hammer Museum in the heart of Westwood. Said Brody, "We look forward to presenting many more festivals in the years to come."
Published: Monday, September 25, 2006
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