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LANCASTER, Pa., March 31, 2016
LANCASTER, Pa., March 31, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Workplace relationships are a vital element of a productive and positive work environment, and Christian Business Consultants, In His Name HR, are offering Impact 360, a newly developed leadership tool that will lend more transparency to businesses, available from April 1, 2016 through InHisNameHR.com.
Impact 360 is a tool that provides workplace leaders with anonymous, aggregated and meaningful feedback from the people who work with them. Depending on the organization, this could include the employee's manager, peers, and direct reports.
Receiving feedback from these diverse sources allows each leader to discover how their colleagues view their effectiveness as an employee, coworker and staff member.
President and Founder of In His Name HR, Mark Griffin, said Impact 360 is an invaluable tool that allows feedback and constructive criticism to be given honestly and professionally.
For further information, interviews or images, please contact:
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How To Build "High Performance" Organizations
Do you want to take your organization to the next level? Now more than ever, organizational leadership needs to create a platform to help employees succeed. Come and learn how to do this by implementing processes that will lead your organization to High Performance.
Leading an organization with clarity in Mission, Vision and, most importantly, Values makes good organizational leadership sense. We call organizations that do that successfully, "High Performance Organizations," or simply HPO's.
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About The Speaker
Mark A. Griffin is the founder and chief consultant of In HIS Name HR LLC, a human resources outsourcing and career coaching firm created to help companies pilot the complex issues of managing HR.
As a human resources professional with 20-plus years of experience in both public (Quaker Oats Company, Kodak Inc., Merck Inc.) and private companies (Woolrich, Conestoga Wood Specialties, Valco Companies Inc.), Mark is passionate about building high performance workplaces through utilizing best practices while leading companies with strong values.
While serving in the United States Air Force, Mark received his Bachelor of Science degree in Human Resources Administration from Saint Leo University. He earned his MBA from Bloomsburg University while interning for Congressmen Kanjorski as a Military Liaison during the first Gulf War. Mark has completed several executive education programs at the University of Michigan and is a certified practitioner of the Myers Briggs Type Instrument MBTI®.
Mark and his wife, Gail, have two adult children, and will celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary this June. They attend LCBC Church. Mark has traveled the world coaching leaders on "Business as Mission" in Eastern Europe, India, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Mark is an author of How to Build "Kingdom-Minded" Organizations and College to Career: The Student Guide to Career and Life Navigation.
Speaker and accomplished HR consultant, Mark A. Griffin gives Christian leaders encouragement in building values-led organizations during these difficult economic times.
Hershocks Inc. is committed to understanding, meeting and exceeding their customer's expectations. Established in 1935 and a leading commercial glass and aluminum contractor has an opening for an individual in its Service and Small Contract Division. This person would be estimating, bidding, and then project managing commercial window, door, and storefront installations.
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Just like all Hershocks employees, the conduct of this employee must be consistent with good character, must be an appropriate reflective of our company's heritage. Complete support of and willing adherence to Hershocks's mission and vision. Applicant must hold these standards as his/her own.
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3501 N. 6th Street
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Many potential clients seek a silver bullet when it comes to the hiring process. They want to set up electronic application systems and implement pre-employment testing to objectively and efficiently screen applicants so they can hire the best candidates.
They want to optimize the process, to speed the days to hire-up. They want candidates fast. They want a paperless process and a filtering system to eliminate candidates that don't match their requirements.
Unfortunately, not being sure of what you're doing, and working with unwise counsel, is a minefield you do not want to find yourself in and the results could be downright explosive.
I recently did some preliminary research on Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) cases that have headlined in the past several months, painting a damaging picture of some very prominent companies. The cases revolved around such factors as:
In actuality, many organizations, even those with the best intentions, ask questions that can inadvertently result in disparate treatment across a broad spectrum of minority candidates. Organizations also rely on invalid forms of pre-employment testing as a screening tool, ones they may not aware might disqualify minority candidates at a higher rate than non-minorities.
Read The Entire Article Here: Christian Leadership Alliance Guest Post
Is your organization unknowingly violating federal and state employment laws? If so, you're not alone. Many unsuspecting professionals in both profit and nonprofit organizations manage via flawed human resource practices.
Why is being compliant with Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) laws through proper HR practices important? Read the following cases to understand how organizations that thought they were doing things right discovered the hard way that they were not.
Large Company Cases
Target to pay $2.8M to upper-level applicants in EEOC settlement
Tests for upper-level jobs screened out blacks, Asians and women, EEOC says.
Target Corp. has agreed to pay $2.8 million to thousands of rejected job candidates for upper-level positions because tests they were given disproportionately screened out applicants based on their race or gender.
The payout was announced Monday by the Minneapolis Area Office of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and will be disbursed among more than 3,000 people, said Julie Schmid, acting director for the agency in Minneapolis. Source
BMW to Pay $1.6 Million and Offer Jobs to Settle Federal Race Discrimination Lawsuit
GREENVILLE, S.C. – The U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina today entered a consent decree ordering BMW Manufacturing Co., LLC (BMW) to pay $1.6 million and provide job opportunities to alleged victims of race discrimination as part of the resolution of a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The lawsuit, filed by EEOC's Charlotte District Office, alleged that BMW excluded African-American logistics workers from employment at a disproportionate rate when the company's new logistics contractor applied BMW's criminal conviction records guidelines to incumbent logistics employees. Source
United Airlines to Pay over $1 Million To Settle Disability Lawsuit
Supreme Court Lets Stand 7th Circuit Ruling That Reassignment Is Reasonable Accommodation
In a case that garnered nationwide attention, air transportation giant United Airlines Inc. has agreed to pay more than $1 million and implement changes to settle a federal disability lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
The EEOC's lawsuit charged that United's competitive transfer policy violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The law requires an employer to provide reasonable accommodation to an employee or job applicant with a disability, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship for the employer. By requiring workers with disabilities to compete for vacant positions for which they were qualified and which they needed in order to continue working, the company's practice frequently prevented employees with disabilities from continuing employment with United, the EEOC said. Source
Small to Medium Sized Company Cases
Stack Bros. to Pay $140,000 to Settle EEOC Age Discrimination and Retaliation Suit
Employees Were Fired at Superior, Wis., Firm for Turning 62, Federal Agency Charged
MADISON, Wis. – Stack Bros. Mechanical Contractors, Inc. of Superior, Wis., a major heating and plumbing contractor in northern Wisconsin and northern Minnesota, will pay $140,000 and furnish other relief to settle an age discrimination and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
According to EEOC's suit, Stack Bros. discriminated against Randy Virta and Karen Kolodzeske by firing them when they turned 62 in 2014. Stack Bros. also retaliated against Kolodzeske for resisting its plans to fire her, EEOC alleged.
According to Julianne Bowman, director of the EEOC's Chicago District, which includes Wisconsin, the agency's pre-lawsuit investigation revealed that both Virta and Kolodzeske repeatedly warned Stack Bros.' owner that his plan to fire them when they turned 62 was illegal. However, the owner refused to relent, and, after firing Virta, retaliated against Kolodzeske for her complaints by denying her a raise, suspending her without pay for two days and creating a hostile work environment while waiting for her to turn 62. Virta and Kolodzeske had worked for Stack Bros. for 16 and 25 years, respectively. Source
Texas Oil Field Services Company Pays $30,000 to Settle EEOC Retaliation Suit
Only Female Roustabout Fired for Reporting Sexual Harassment, Agency Charged
DALLAS – An Iraan, Texas oil field construction and services company will pay $30,000 and furnish other relief to settle a retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
The EEOC's suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, Pecos Division (4:14-CV-00073-DAE), charged that Garrison Contractors, Inc. fired its only female roustabout, Elma Garza, after she reported being sexually harassed on the job.
Hired by the company in January 2012 as a dump truck driver, Garza spent most of her employment as the company's only female oil field worker. In this roustabout position, Garza worked side by side with her male co-workers fixing oil and gas leaks, digging ditches and cleaning heavy equipment. EEOC said that during her employment, Garza was subjected to lewd comments about female organs and sex. EEOC contends that when Garza reported the unwanted conduct, the company retaliated against her by terminating her.
Retaliation for reporting sexual harassment violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. Source
EEOC Sues Seymour Midwest for Age Discrimination
Agency Alleges Company Rejected an Applicant Older than Its Ideal Age
INDIANAPOLIS — Seymour Midwest, a Warsaw, Indiana, hand tool manufacturing company, violated federal law when it rejected a 58-year-old executive upon learning that he was older than the company's ideal age range of 45-52, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.
According to EEOC's suit, Seymour Midwest selected Steve Maril, from a pool of applicants for its senior vice president of sales position, to participate in an initial, email-based interview. In addition to questions about Maril's experience and willingness to relocate, the company asked whether Maril was within its ideal age range of 45-52. When Seymour Midwest learned that Maril was older than its ideal age range, the company refused to hire him. Source
Church and Nonprofit Cases
EEOC Sues United Bible Fellowship Ministries for Pregnancy Discrimination
Organization's Policy Requiring Pregnant Employees to Resign Is Discriminatory, Federal Agency Charges
HOUSTON – United Bible Fellowship Ministries, Inc., an organization that provides faith-based, community social services, violated federal law when it forced female employees out of their jobs because of their pregnancies, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.
According to the EEOC's suit, Shamira Johnson worked as a resource technician, providing home care assistance to disabled individuals. Her duties included housecleaning, light laundering, administering medication, cooking and assisting with personal hygiene and grooming. United Bible terminated Johnson and other pregnant employees according to its "Pregnancy in the Workplace Policy" which required pregnant women in direct client-care positions to stop working during their pregnancy and reapply for a vacant job once they were no longer pregnant. Johnson did not return to work at United Bible after her pregnancy. The policy also unlawfully required applicants to disclose their pregnancy when applying for employment. Source
Inconsistencies in Termination Decision Wipe out Employer's Victory
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently erased the victory of the Good Samaritan Ministries in an employee termination case, Ledbetter v. Good Samaritan Ministries, et al., — F.3d —- (7th Cir. Feb. 6, 2015), sending the case back to the trial court for further litigation.
The employee, Linzie Ledbetter (male), worked in a homeless shelter and food pantry. After a shelter resident complained about Ledbetter's alleged threat to evict her, Ledbetter's supervisors met with him and warned him that such behavior could result in disciplinary action, including termination. As a result, Ledbetter filed an EEOC charge—and later, a federal lawsuit—claiming race discrimination and retaliation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Shortly thereafter, Ledbetter filed a second EEOC charge for race discrimination and was subsequently warned again about his behavior toward the shelter residents and toward his co-workers. The day after his supervisors learned of the second EEOC charge, they fired Ledbetter, prompting a third EEOC charge and another lawsuit for retaliation.
In the trial court, Good Samaritan Ministries and its supervisors argued that Ledbetter's termination was not prompted by the second EEOC charge, because they had decided to fire him five days before they even knew of the charge. The trial court agreed with their argument and granted summary judgment in their favor. Source
King's Way Baptist Church Sued By EEOC for Retaliation
Kindergarten Teacher at Church's Christian School Fired for Complaining About Sexual Harassment by Pastor, Federal Agency Charges
ATLANTA – The King's Way Baptist Church, Inc. of Douglasville, Ga., violated federal law when it fired a kindergarten teacher at its King's Way Christian School for reporting sexual harassment by its chief executive officer / pastor, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed recently.
According to the EEOC's complaint, the pastor repeatedly subjected the teacher to sexual harassment by touching her inappropriately and made veiled threats to her if she should complain. When the teacher complained about the harassment, rather than taking measures to prevent any further harassment, King's Way fired her.
These actions violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employers from firing, demoting, harassing or otherwise retaliating against employees because they complained to their employer about discrimination on the job. EEOC filed suit (EEOC v. The King's Way Baptist Church, Inc., Civil Action No. 1:15-cv-03816) in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. EEOC is seeking back pay and compensatory and punitive damages for the former teacher, as well as injunctive relief designed to prevent future discrimination. Source
Miscellaneous Cases Of Interest
Employers Beware: EEOC Stepping Up Disability Discrimination Enforcement
On the heels of that news, 10 of the 22 lawsuits filed or settlements reached by the EEOC in May included allegations of disability discrimination. That's a .455 batting average for the ADA, which is none too shabby in anyone's book. Some of the issues addressed by the EEOC in the past month include:
A $72,500 settlement with an Akron, Ohio, medical transportation services company, which fired an EMT-paramedic with multiple sclerosis instead of providing additional leave as a reasonable accommodation.
A $110,000 settlement with Norfolk Southern Railway Company, which medically disqualified a track maintenance worker because of degenerative disc disease without doing an individualized assessment of whether he could perform the essential functions of his job.
A $90,000 settlement with a Tennessee nursing home facility, which terminated an HIV-positive nurse.
An $18,000 settlement with an Alabama athletic apparel retailer, which fired a legally blind sales clerk (who lost his full use of his sight while serving in the Army) without any consideration of whether an accommodation, such as a magnifying glass or a new computer monitor, might be reasonable. Source
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Christian Leadership Alliance Guest Post
This statement from Bill Hybels has resonated with me for years, but never more so than this past weekend.
"People join organizations. They leave managers. "
My conversation with a young professional twenty-something started simply enough.
"How's the new job going?"
My eyes widened as I listened to this passionate young lady talk for more than half an hour about how she and many of her colleagues want so much to impact the organization they work for, but how management there is weak and how the leadership completely lacks direction. People are not held accountable, she explained. There is no collective vision as a team and new folks are not brought onboard with any sense of excitement or motivation.
Mark Griffin is founder and Chief Consultant at In His Name HR LLC. He has over 20 years of HR experience. Learn more about his recently published book to help college students embark on a path to success, College to Career: The Student Guide to Career and Life Navigation, and follow Mark on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
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Yes, it's possible for you to lead employees to excellence at work, home and in their communities.
For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. ~Ephesians 2:10
A valuable part of leading sustainable for-profit organizations is introducing your employees to community relations. Part of leading people is developing them to be the best they can be, not only in the workplace but within their families and communities as well.
Look at your people from a whole person perspective—they're far more than just "workers." Provide your people the opportunity to do good works, to achieve greatness in their lives, and they will do great things for you. Developing your people's skills, both in and outside the company, can positively impact the communities in which they live and you do business.
Mark Griffin is founder and Chief Consultant at In His Name HR LLC. He has over 20 years of HR experience. ou can learn more about his recently published book for College Students, College to Career: The Student Guide to Career and Life Navigation HERE. Follow Mark on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
Mission DR- 2016
Be a difference maker in 2016! Do this by creating an impact serving the people of the Dominican Republic (DR).
In HIS Name HR LLC in conjunction with Crossover Ministries International and Cups of Cold Water Ministry is leading trips that will open your eyes and fill your heart.
May 31- June 5, 2016
Contact Us Today For A Trip Fact Sheet
Christian Purpose
This trip is focused on service, evangelism and personal Christian development.
It is expected that this trip will provide you with the opportunity to express God's love by helping others. This trip is life changing for anyone in any stage in his or her walk with Christ.
This is a working trip! Be prepared to roll up your sleeves and make an impact!
Our Mission
We will have several main focus areas during the trip.
1. Serve food and water to people in extreme poverty. (Dump Feeding)
2. Deliver kid ministry and enrichment to Dominican and Haitian disadvantaged Children. (Vacation Bible School)
3. Service Projects, which may include painting, cleaning and building homes. (Zion Village Support)
4. Village evangelism, allows us to present the gospel in a meaningful way to children and adults alike. (Movie Nights)
Pictures from previous trips: Group Trip 2015 Group Trip 2014 Couple Trip Mark and Gail Griffin 2014
Contact us to learn more and and receive an information fact sheet with trip particulars. Please place in the subject line "DR2016".
Many job seekers spend countless hours on job boards and resume submission sites. There is a better way. Enjoy learning how with Jamaal Abdul-Alim of Diverse Issues In Higher Education. The central theme of the article is to not get bogged down in the hiring funnel. The following is an excerpt from the article.
Despite the growing number of websites designed to connect college graduates to jobs, job seekers should focus on alternative ways to get in contact with the people who hire and fire.
That is the advice that Mark Griffin, a veteran human resources professional, offers in his newly released book, titled College to Career: The Student Guide to Career and Life Navigation.
"I would have to say that college students and others have very little chance of making it though the filter to actually get an interview, let alone make it to the point of job offer," Griffin told Diverse, citing the "hiring funnel" and data that show that only 25 out of every 100 résumés among applicants will be seen by a hiring manager, and just four to six of those will lead to an actual interview.
"Some of these vacancies receive thousands of applicants per posting," Griffin said. "Therefore your chances are decreased dramatically."
Griffin's remarks come at a time of increased emphasis on a college education as the means to a good job. It also comes at a time of a proliferation of websites — some free and some paid — meant to connect college graduates to the marketplace.
For further information, please contact:
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GreenWay Fence & Railing Supply LLC. is committed to understanding, meeting and exceeding their customer's expectations. They provide customers with the highest quality maintenance free outdoor products and services available at a competitive price – on time with complete satisfaction in an honest and ethical manner.
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The Outside Sales Representative is responsible for establishing and maintaining profitable relationships with customers. The Outside Sales Representative has primary responsibility for ensuring that the products meet the customer's needs and grows the Company's customer base within the sales territory.
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Identifies and targets new and existing customers in the Western Pennsylvania area, Western Albany, New York area, and the North East Ohio market based on revenue potential.
Works with whole sale fencing retailers/contractors, lumberyards, and building products distributors to promote GreenWay's products and services by leading / supporting / coordinating efforts of these partners.
Needs to know the sales and installations of all GreenWay's products.
Responsible for product training. Responsible for training customer's sales team how to sell and install our products correctly. This could be one-on-one training, or in a group setting.
Responsible for notifying the right people at GreenWay to handle any concerns, or problems with the products that you are made aware of by the customer. You are the customer's first contact. Be willing to take a call on a weekend, or after hours if a customer needs immediate assistance.
Some Position Requirements
High school diploma or GED.
A minimum of 5 years of outside sales experience preferred.
Sales experience with an emphasis in fences and railings a plus.
Knowledge of general construction.
Must have a valid driver's license.
Ability to develop Power Point presentations and to communicate effectively during customer meetings.
Aptitude to maintain organized customer files containing account and customer information.
Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Some Required Personal Attributes
Just like all GreenWay employees, the conduct of this contract representative must be consistent with good character, must be an appropriate reflective of our company's heritage. Complete support of and willing adherence to GreenWay Fence & Railing Supply's mission and vision. Applicant must hold these standards as his/her own.
All qualified individuals may submit a resume and letter of interest to:
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What the ship's name?
It is a heavy interplanetary freighter with yet no designation or name
I love the designs of your ships!
yes , i like it very much !
that ship could use a few more engines, I do not think it has enough!
The ship's texture is perfect, and I'm drawn to the planet... I also like the transparency on the station.
Thank you very much! Though I gotta point out that these are reflectors and as such not transparent but ... well, mirrors of sorts^^
Looks awesome
I like the artistic style employed here. The use of blue is very structured and effective, and that station looks like it could be in an actual game.
Amazing, wow!
I love the cool colors that you used. The stream lined and mostly simple shapes gives this piece a posh feeling like, this compact looking station is enough to get the job done and the same goes for the ship. It reminds me of "Ogame", a game I used to play and liked very much.
Thank you very much! I played Ogame for a very short time when it was first published like a decade ago. Though I can't remember how the vessels there looked like^^
Great work!
I'd sure like to try building something like that. Splendid picture.
Thank you very much! Though as I see it, you have the necessary 3d skills already: jadeofmaar.deviantart.com/art/… so go knock yourself out and you'll have something like this in no time
Aww. x3 The construction of my ship there is a walk down the stairs for the likes of yourself. But I do intend to knock myself out over a grand station-like object.
If you do, please forward me the result! Looking forward with what you'll come up with
Love It!
Nice work, wow this looks really cool
Wow it looks so cool. great use of the lights coming from the ship


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DALLAS -- It absolutely, positively had to be the most comprehensive victory of the season for the Dallas Mavericks and their seemingly bottomless depth.
Mavs rehabbing like champs
How do we know?
Let's just say their dominance legitimately began with Thursday night's national anthem, sung rather soulfully by a guy named Jerry Stackhouse.
It didn't stop there, either. It didn't stop until Kobe Bryant was missing a late fourth-quarter dunk at one end and Anthony Johnson -- Anthony Johnson -- was throwing down a fast-break dunk at the other end, earning Kobe an earful of playful trash talk from old buddy Devean George.
Not that the hosts allowed themselves to get too giddy.
Not with what awaits Sunday.
"There was nobody really chest-bumping in the locker room," Mavs coach Avery Johnson confirmed.
Maybe that's because the Mavs, having now won 19 times in the past 20 games, are getting so accustomed to delivering poundings like this 114-95 rout that they couldn't avoid a nonchalant response, even though Kobe's Lakers had troubled Dallas previously more than any other team it has seen this season.
Or maybe it's because the Mavs were already contemplating their next game on the schedule.
"I've been thinking about it a little bit," Josh Howard said with a smile.
It would be Sunday's return to Miami -- for the first time since the Mavs' NBA Finals dream unraveled. Dallas took a 2-0 Finals lead to South Florida in June and needed only to hold a 13-point lead in the fourth quarter of Game 3 to set up a likely sweep. You know the rest: Dallas instead wound up losing all three games in Miami, two by a total of three points, and never recovered.
"It's going to bring back some bad memories," Dirk Nowitzki admitted after his 27 points and 10 boards helped the Mavs avenge a fall-from-ahead loss to the Lakers on Jan. 7 that represents their only defeat in the past 38 days. "Everything went wrong that could go wrong on that trip. But we've just got to get over it. Sooner or later, we've got to go down there again."
So why not sooner? Holding the best record in the league doesn't mean much in mid-January, but you suspect that the Heat won't be terribly thrilled to see these new, deeper and rolling Mavs, given that Sunday figures to be Shaquille O'Neal's first game back from a 35-game injury absence and with coach Pat Riley still out indefinitely after hip-replacement surgery.
The belief here coming into the season held that no team on the NBA map faced a longer 82-game slog than the Mavs, since they really can't answer any of the deep psychological questions we (and they) want answered until the playoffs begin. Yet you'd have to say, as they amassed a 28-point lead that convinced coach Phil Jackson to park a helpless Bryant on the bench for the first six-plus minutes of the fourth quarter, that the Mavs are making the most of the regular-season grind, coasting into the 41-game midpoint with a tidy record of 33-8.
"We're excited about going back down there," Avery Johnson said. "Obviously we all know what happened, but we're excited to go back down to Miami and play against the champions.
"We don't run from anything."
You've got to give them that. Dallas insisted it would recover from its South Beach heartbreak and repeated that vow upon starting the new season at 0-4. The Lakers haven't had Lamar Odom for any of their three meetings with Dallas, played this one without Kwame Brown as well and probably left their best in San Antonio on Wednesday ... but Jackson was still moved to salute how the Mavs were rebounding. Literally and figuratively.
With a punishing 53-28 margin on the boards in this one and some rare praise from the Zenmeister -- "I think Dallas is having one of those years ... things are kind of clicking right for them right now," Jackson said -- it would appear that the Mavs are rebounding just fine.
"Time heals all wounds," Stackhouse said. "I don't think [Sunday in Miami] is going to rekindle a lot of bad feelings. We hope not, anyway.
"We don't really think about it until someone like you comes in here and mentions it. That's the only time we hear about last year.
"We had a great run, man. We look at the glass as half-full more than half-empty. One great play or one great shot and we could have been out in the second round. So we had a great run and now we have a frame of reference, if we're fortunate enough to get back."
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Jermaine O'Neal needs a sidekick, and Danny Granger (left) might be that wingman. On Thursday, he poured in 28 points, with five boards and two blocked shots in a season-high 42 minutes. It was an Indiana loss, but an encouraging one, said O'Neal (see below).
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MIAMI -- After Jermaine O'Neal's shorthanded Pacers team nearly overcame a 16-point fourth-quarter deficit against the Heat on Thursday, Indiana's franchise player sounded a lot more encouraged than he did just two weeks ago.
It was then that he admonished his team for its effort and questioned whether he belonged with the organization anymore.
Thursday, one day after the Pacers pulled off an eight-player trade to get Mike Dunleavy Jr., Troy Murphy, Ike Diogu and Keith McLeod from Golden State, O'Neal seemed like he was looking forward to the rest of the season instead of dreading it.
"I'm really excited about the opportunity to play with those guys," O'Neal said.
One thing he wanted to make clear was that his comments following the Jan. 5 game against Dallas did not spur the trading of Al Harrington, Stephen Jackson, Sarunas Jasikevicius and Josh Powell.
"Everybody's trying to put my comments a couple of weeks ago on the trade, like I forced the trade," O'Neal said. "I didn't force a trade. That was me being frustrated with our team and our effort on the court. I wanted to motivate not only myself, but those guys. I wanted to make sure everybody was on board with it."
What his current teammates showed him Thursday (Indiana's newly acquired players hadn't joined the team yet) was that there should be more of a balance to the Pacers' offense from here on out.
Danny Granger scored 28 points against the Heat, while Marquis Daniels added 23 in the 104-101 loss. With Granger seemingly ready to take over a prominent scoring role, and Murphy and Dunleavy adding perimeter shooting, O'Neal figures his team can be a lot more difficult to defend the rest of the season.
"We had so many different scorers, nobody really had a consistent role of scoring like that every single night," O'Neal said of Granger's game. "I think [Dunleavy and Murphy] are really going to fit in just because of their shooting and their ability to spread the defense. A lot of games we'll see zones because teams are trying to slow me down. So those guys are going to get ample shots from the outside."
Defense may suddenly become a problem if Dunleavy and Murphy can't quickly adjust from the score-first Golden State style to Rick Carlisle's strict defensive principles. (By the way, contrary to rumor, the Pacers are insisting that they're not planning to trade Dunleavy.)
But O'Neal remains confident the Pacers can use this trade as a springboard for the rest of the season -- especially after almost shocking the Heat on Thursday.
"You don't feel good about losing, but you have to feel good about the effort," O'Neal said.
At least he's feeling good about something these days.
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The Harder They Come ...
The Lakers' loss in Dallas disrupted an impressive series of games against the West's best.
Among the West contenders, only the Mavs have managed a winning record against the Lakers.
Even after Thursday night, L.A. has a stellar
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The debut of ESPN.com's new daily Power Rankings, based on the work of John Hollinger, made lots and lots of NBA fans happy.
Because the Lakers were ranked only 8th.
Of course, a few hundred thousand Lakers fans weren't so thrilled, and they let us know in the Power Rankings mailbag.
Here's one telling exchange during Hollinger's Thursday chat:
John (Los Angeles): Do you think with a healthy Lamar Odom and Kwame Brown that the Lakers can win it all, or do you think they need some extra pieces?
John Hollinger: OK, Laker people, let's exhale a little bit.
Beating the Spurs on the road was impressive, but this is about the 15th "are we winning it all?" question I've had from LA-La land today.
I know you're all a little giddy about the snow and everything, but keep in mind that a week ago you were rolled by Memphis and blasted by Houston.
Let's see how the East Coast road trip goes before we start making proclamations.
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Oden Vs. Durant
On Thursday, Chad Ford took questions on the NBA and, of course, the upcoming draft that has fans so giddy.
An excerpt:
Jim (Atlanta): After Kevin Durant's solid play, will it mean Greg Oden will still be the No. 1 pick?
Chad Ford: Kevin Durant has been more than solid ... he's been spectacular.
I honestly think he's been the best player in college basketball this year.
Not best freshman. Best player.
But Oden is a center who, defensively, is already great. Once his wrist heals fully, his offense will be better than people are seeing now.
When you look at the teams with the best chance to get No.1 (Philly, Memphis, Charlotte, Atlanta), all of them could use a dominant center. Almost every team in the NBA could.
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It's so adorable! Haha, he is well-armored.
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Aww! This chubby little guy is cute!
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Is he 'The' TinMan or 'a' tinman?
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Really, really nice
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This is adorable You are a great artist!
TinMan? Does this mean that Scarecrow and Cowardly Lion might be next? Followed by a cute little flying monkey?
Tin-age Mutant Ninja Turtle! Hero in a hard shell, turtle power!
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LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) - A national laboratory insider bent on stealing secrets still could copy files off the lab's classified computers onto a floppy disk or tape and walk out, the Energy Department's new security czar said Friday.
"Unfortunately, those problems won't be fixed for a year or so. That's what concerns me most," said retired Air Force Gen. Eugene E. Habiger, the new U.S. Energy Department security chief.
"Have they got more work to do? You bet," Habiger said.
Habiger said it will take more than a year to close the computer security gaps that put the federal nuclear-weapons lab in Los Alamos at the center of a political firestorm over nuclear secrets allegedly stolen by the Chinese.
Tighter "cybersecurity" measures that include an array of hardware and procedural changes make downloads of nuclear secrets tougher but not impossible.
Los Alamos is gradually tightening the security of its classified network of roughly 2,000 personal computers, workstations, routers and supercomputers. Lab computer officials believe it will take until September 2000 to create a so-called "medialess" network so information cannot be copied to floppy disks, tapes or CDs, said lab spokesman Jim Danneskiold.
A few classified computers will retain floppy or tape drives, but Danneskiold said those will be locked in "vaultlike" rooms under surveillance and under a new "two-person rule" requiring two people for transfers of information from the classified network.
Lawmakers in Congress are debating a wholesale reorganization of the U.S. Department of Energy. The creation of a semiautonomous nuclear-weapons agency directly under Energy Secretary Bill Richardson has gained steam lately.
On June 16, Habiger took over as DOE's director of security and emergency operations.
Habiger was the commander-in-chief of U.S. Strategic Command, which handles all U.S. nuclear weapons. He inspected Los Alamos most of last week, drawing up lists of security problems for the lab to fix.
Although Habiger said lab employees "are patriotic Americans" who would not knowingly compromise national security, he told lab managers they must win back the trust of the American people and Congress.
"We need to change the culture so that security becomes part of the culture," Habiger told about 250 senior lab managers Thursday.
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Legacy Tours of Flagler College will offer free tours of the college beginning July 1 for all St. Johns County residents with valid ID.
The free admission is in celebration of the upcoming 125th anniversary of the Hotel Ponce de Leon.
Legacy Tours highlight the architectural heritage of the former Hotel Ponce de Leon, a nationally designated historic landmark building, built by Henry Flagler in 1887.
The Millionaire industrialist and developer envisioned creating an American Riviera in St. Augustine, and the Hotel Ponce de Leon, now Flagler College, has recaptured the architectural spirit of old Europe.
"By offering free tours to St. Johns County residents, we hope to reintroduce this magnificent historical landmark in time for everyone to take part in the celebrations surrounding the anniversary of the Ponce," said Samantha Palmer, manager of retail operation for Flagler College.
Tours currently depart on the hour from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. seven days a week. Tours run approximately one hour and depart from the main lobby (rotunda) of the college at 74 King Street.
Pricing for non-St. Johns County residents is $10 for adults and $1 for children younger than 12.
Tickets may be purchased in the lobby gift shop prior to each tour or at Flagler's Legacy at 59 St. George St.
Call Flagler's Legacy at 823-3378.
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City "To Start With, I Felt Very Alone."
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Tear down a massive elevated freeway and perpetually gridlocked commuter route without building another freeway to replace it?
Insanity! Mayor Nickels says.
Madness! the state Department of Transportation chimes.
Folly! the City Council insists.
But they did it in Seoul, where a six-lane elevated freeway that carried 160,000 cars a day was demolished, reversing "one of the most comprehensive obliterations of the natural environment ever perpetrated" and replacing it with a five-mile long, 800-yard wide lateral park along the route of the river the freeway had displaced.
Kee Yeon Hwang, the urban planner who masterminded the demise of the freeway, called the Cheonggyecheon after the river it replaced, got the idea in 1999, when one of the three tunnels through the city had to be shut down. "Bizarrely," he told the Guardian, "we found that that car volumes dropped. I thought this was odd. We discovered it was a case of 'Braess paradox', which says that by taking away space in an urban area you can actually increase the flow of traffic, and, by implication, by adding extra capacity to a road network you can reduce overall performance."
The idea initially met with fierce and widespread opposition; people simply couldn't believe the city could survive without the freeway. "To start with," Hwang said, "I felt very alone. […] Ordinary people were a bit sceptical to start with, but then when they saw the river reappear, they got very excited.
The city didn't just tear down the roadway; they improved bus service and gave people other options to avoid the city's freeways, with surprising results:
"As soon as we destroyed the road, the cars just disappeared and drivers changed their habits. A lot of people just gave up their cars. Others found a different way of driving. In some cases, they kept using their cars but changed their routes."
The Cheonggyecheon before:
And after:
Here in Seattle, the naysayers continue to have sway over the debate about how to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct, with their endless chorus of "It could never work here." Everywhere else, meanwhile, it does.


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Judge Judy has scored a ratings verdict over The Queen of Talk. The sharp-tongued jurist defeated Oprah in the ratings last season to become the number one series in daytime, Yahoo! News said Friday.Judge Judy Sheindlin's courtroom drama, now in its 15th season, averaged 6.3 million daily viewers between Sept. 2009 – May 2010, compared with […] Continue reading Judge Judy Bangs Gavel On Oprah Ratings — "Judge Judy" Most-Watched Show In Daytime
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Jean-Pierre Rampal; Robert Veyron-Lacroix; Jean Martinon; Louis de Froment; André Jolivet; Jacques Ibert; Aram Khachaturi︠a︡n; Bohuslav Martinů; Paul Hindemith; Sergey Prokofiev; Francis Poulenc; Orchestre national de l'O.R.T.F.; Orchestre des concerts Lamoureux.
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|Title on Disc 1: Concertos for flute and orchestra ; title on Disc 2: Sonatas for flute and piano.
Previously released in 1967 (3rd work), 1970 (2nd work), 1978 (1st work), 1957 (4-6th works) and 1969 (7th work).
The Khatchatourian work originally a violin concerto; the Jolivet work with string orchestra acc.
Compact discs.
Program notes by Jérôme Pellissier in French with English and German translation ([16] p.) inserted in container.
|Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute ; variously with: Robert Veyron-Lacroix, piano ; Orchestre National de LÓ.R.T.F ; Jean Martinon, conductor ; Orchestre de LÁssociation des Concerts Lamoureux ; Louis de Froment, conductor ; André Jolivet, conductor.
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|Recorded Apr. 1978 in Copenhagen.
|2 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
|Disc 1: Concerto for flute and orchestra / Ibert (18:38) --
Concerto for flute and orchestra / Khatchatourian ; [arr. Rampal] (36:06) --
Concerto for flute and orchestra / Jolivet (12:27). Disc 2: Sonata for flute and piano / Martinu (18 min.) --
Sonata for flute and piano / Hindemith (12:59) --
Sonata for flute and piano in D major / Prokofiev (21:04) --
Sonata for flute and piano / Poulenc (11:32).
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|Sonatas for flute and piano.
20th century flute master pieces
20th century flute masterpieces
Twentieth century masterpieces
Twentieth century flute masterpieces
Chef-d'œuvre pour flute du XXème siecle
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William d'Aubigny (rebel)
William d'Aubigny or D'Aubeney or d'Albini, Lord of Belvoir (died 1 May 1236) was a prominent member of the baronial rebellions against King John of England.
Family background[edit]
D'Aubigny was the son of William d'Aubigny of Belvoir and grandson of William d'Aubigny, and was heir to Domesday Book landholder Robert de Todeni, who held many properties, possibly as many as eighty. Amongst them was one in Leicestershire, where he built Belvoir Castle, which was the family's home for many generations.[1] He was High Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicester and High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire in 1199.
Involvement in military actions[edit]
D'Aubigny stayed neutral at the beginning of the troubles of King John's reign, only joining the rebels after the early success in taking London in 1215. He was one of the twenty-five sureties or guarantors of the Magna Carta. In the war that followed the sealing of the charter, he held Rochester Castle for the barons, and was imprisoned (and nearly hanged) after John captured it. He became a loyalist on the accession of Henry III in October 1216, and was a commander at the Second Battle of Lincoln on 20 May 1217.[2]
He died on 1 May 1236, at Offington, Leicestershire, and was buried at Newstead Abbey and "his heart under the wall, opposite the altar at Belvoir Castle".[1] He was succeeded by his son, another William d'Aubigny, who died in 1247 and left only daughters. One of them was Isabel, a co-heiress, who married Robert de Ros.
- ^ a b Wurts, John S (1942). Magna Charta. Hedgefield, Germantown, PA: Brookfield Publishing Company.
- ^ "Albini, William de (d.1236)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
|Political offices
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|High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire
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Auto auction owner Griffin has iron in her blood
From family of car sales people, she races and sells -fast
Kristie Griffin wears suede boots with spike heels, shakes hands like a man (firm grip, holds just long enough, looks you square in the eye) and knows how to move a car. Twelve years ago she was sliding them into the curves fast enough to become a dirt-track champion at Beaver Dam. Now she owns a firm that auctions them off, one every 45 seconds.
Her company, the Greater Milwaukee Auto Auction, is small but growing. The northwest-side operation, which sells only to dealers, is expanding physically, adding employees and generally offering competition to the much larger Manheim Milwaukee auction along I-94 in Caledonia.
"Kristie's a good person to work for," said Josh Hickey, an Illinois auctioneer whose regular circuit includes Griffin's operation. "She's really a go-getter."
Not much doubt there. Griffin, 38, bounces around her 120-employee business like a pinball, calls men "sweetie" and talks almost as fast as her auctioneers.
"I think fast, is the problem," she said. "I don't talk as fast as I think."
If there's a gene for selling cars, Griffin has it on all 46 chromosomes. Her father sells them, her brothers sell them and she's been hanging around dealerships since she was a kid.
She has to be among a minuscule number of daughters whose fathers got angry because they enrolled in college.
"He took a look at it," Griffin recalled, "and said, 'This is stupid. You should be selling cars.' "
Before long, she was. She lasted three semesters at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. It was boring.
She returned to the family business, lured in part by her dad's promise to buy her a short-track race car. By age 20, she was a dealer herself with her brothers.
"It's who we are," she said.
A setback and new career
For eight years, Griffin and her brothers ran a used-car lot in Madison and did well. They were selling 1,400 vehicles a year - far more than the average independent dealer.
Then came a setback. She and her brothers left Madison to open a Mitsubishi/Suzuki dealership in Milwaukee. Undercapitalized, Griffin said, they were out of business in a year. Griffin ended up filing for bankruptcy.
She went to auctioneer's school, got certified as a colonel - an honorary title many in the profession use - and worked for three years at an auto auction in Jefferson.
She returned to Milwaukee and set up her business in 2004. At first, she got mostly the older, cheaper cars. Manheim Milwaukee, a unit of a 130-location chain based in Atlanta, dominated the market.
"They were a monopoly in town," Griffin said.
She says she built her business through the care and feeding of her customers, the dealers. She offered free pickup of vehicles anywhere in Wisconsin and staffed her front desk largely with women who, on auction days, tend to wear both hair and heels high.
Almost all the dealers are male, and Griffin's experience has been that women know best how to attend to them.
"The men are out there going head to head in a bidder war. . . . When they come to pay, a nice smile from a pretty girl is a nice break," she said.
Griffin's big break was landing the local account with General Motors to auction its company cars and vehicles coming off leases and out of rental.
Manheim used to do that. But GM recently parted company with the firm in some 16 markets across the country, including Milwaukee.
"Our customers are dealers, so we as a routine part of our business evaluate our suppliers and . . . decided to make some changes to serve our customers better," GM spokesman Tom Henderson said. He said GM still uses Manheim in four U.S. cities.
Of Griffin, he said, "We wouldn't have chosen her if she didn't have a pretty strong track record."
With the GM account, Griffin is expanding her lot to accommodate 2,500 cars, up from 1,500 now. She's added about 40 employees in the last year, and now is regularly getting pricier, late-model cars.
The auctions, which seem chaotic but in fact are highly ritualized and efficient, attract hundreds of dealers.
Griffin runs four "lanes" at once. In each one, cars are driven slowly through the garage of a former dealership as an auctioneer spits out bids in a rapid-fire chant.
In some lanes a "ringman" helps out. Hickey was doing that at a recent auction, vibrating as he bounced on his heels at about 100 beats a minute, eyes darting among the crowd as though he were a hunted animal, making sure no bid got missed.
For the uninitiated, that would be easy. The dealers - sporting a collection of unruly hair, stubbly beards and hooded sweatshirts - stood impassively as poker players.
The slightest nod indicates a bid, usually raising the price by $100. Those bids, even on cars selling for several thousand dollars, don't appear to be made lightly.
"Every hundred dollars is very important to a car dealer," Griffin said.
The signals
The ringmen sometimes use signals to communicate with the auctioneer or the crowd. A raised index finger means $1,000. An upright pinkie signals $100. A fist held aloft in the direction of a dealer means he's the high bidder. An open hand extended palm up toward a competing bidder says he's currently low man.
From start to finish, the process takes less than a minute. Volume is critical. Griffin runs about 1,000 cars a week, and when a vehicle sells, she collects a fee from both the buyer and seller. If it doesn't sell, which happens with about 35% to 40% of the cars run through each auction, she makes nothing.
"The auto auction, it's a really simple business model," said Steve Hewitt, a partner at professional services firm Wipfli LLP who works with dealers. "The more iron you run through it . . . the more profitable it is."
New-car dealers use auctions to sell trade-ins they don't want and to buy used cars that meet their inventory needs, Hewitt said. Used-car dealers use auctions to stock their lots.
For Griffin, the hook is the adrenaline rush, just like in dirt-track racing.
"My first year I did asphalt," she said. "I wasn't as good but then when I got to the dirt, that's where I excelled. . . . It was who could go into the corner fastest and hardest - throw it sideways and go into the corner."
Now it's all about rolling the cars through the bidding lanes.
"There's nothing more fun than an auto auction," Griffin said. "It gets your heart beatin'."
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