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AIX‐LES‐BAINS is visited every year by some twenty thousand people, who pour into the little Savoyard town the newest fashions, the latest novels, and the gossip of every country on earth. And day by day a steamer crosses the lake, and takes all the more enterprising people to Hautecombe, the ancient abbey where are buried the Dukes of Savoy; and the tourists return in the sunset across the water with a confused vision of tombs and inscriptions in the church, and of two bed‐rooms in the adjacent building, furnished with extraordinarily plain simplicity; one being that of Marie Christine, a princess of the House of Naples, and the other that of her husband, Charles Felix, last Duke and King of the older branch of the House of Savoy.
Until two years ago the writer had never heard of him, and feels tolerably sure that to the reader of this page Charles Felix is equally unknown. page: 113 A more completely obliterated life it were hard to imagine, for he died childless in 1831, was succeeded by his far‐away cousin, Carlo Alberto de Carignan, and all the principles, aims, and efforts of his own strenuous life were swept away as if they had never been. The cradle of his race, and the very core of his ancient dukedom, the town of Chambèry, is a French préfêture. Hautecombe, though technically Italian, is only so by an amiable legal fiction, and his distant relatives, the King and Queen of Italy, now share Rome with the Vatican. And yet somewhere lives Charles Felix; and wherever dwells that blessed soul, it is impossible to conceive of it as having ceased to pray and labour for Savoy.
I will try to convey the impression of his life, as recounted in a volume written and sold at Hautecombe, in the hope that someone will send for the book, which only costs three francs, and is a very precious record of a fair and unusual type of human character.
The House of Savoy dates from Humbert Whitehands, a contemporary of Edward the Confessor; and for centuries its members made treaties and intermarried with the House of page: 114 France. Not merely were they known as pious people, but as remarkably holy people—five of them were in one age or another canonized by Rome; and on one occasion Pope Gregory the Sixteenth is reported to have exclaimed, "What! another beatification in the House of Savoy!" So that in judging the character of Charles Felix, this hereditary strain of devotion has to be taken into account. It limited his point of view, and was partly the secret of his great personal sanctity. It bound every part of his nature like a fine iron wire, and caused him to absolutely ignore all those wide‐spreading and inevitable changes which were rooted in theories he neither shared nor understood. Stupid, Charles Felix was not: he possessed a quick insight and a most tender heart. One feels a vain regret in realizing the apparently useless struggle against an advancing tide, which he carried on from youth to age. Living, he stood like a half‐submerged rock; dead, the waters swept over his tomb. He was but the eleventh child of a family of twelve; a mere little princeling, with no apparent chance of ever coming to any special honour, though his father was Victor page: 115 Amedeo, King of Savoy, and his mother a Spanish princess of the Bourbon line. She lost a favourite brother by small‐pox just before the birth of Charles Felix, and devoted herself with special tenderness to this little boy. After his birth came one more infant brother, so that by the time that Louis the Sixteenth had succeeded his grandfather on the throne of France, Savoy had already three little princes getting their education in Turin, and a much older Crown Prince of twenty. One baby boy had died and also two small princesses, but there still remained nine children who were mostly destined as usual to marry to France. Strange to say, one sister, wedded to the Comte de Provence, died at Gosfield Hall, in Essex, where her husband, who had become King Louis the Eighteenth, was then living in exile; this elder princess was married when Charles Felix was only six years old; and he remembered that in the midst of the wedding festivities he was taken to the theatre for the first time.
At the age of ten he saw his eldest brother, the Crown Prince, depart for Versailles, to marry Madame Clotilde de France. When the page: 116 Prince of Piedmont returned with his bride, the people of Chambèry very impolitely called out, "Oh! how fat she is! How fat she is!" and her good mother‐in‐law, sitting by her side in the royal carriage, said consolingly, "When I came here in similar circumstances the people cried out, 'Oh! how ugly she is! How ugly she is!'" But Clotilde was good and sweet like her sister, Madame Elizabeth, and spoke tenderly to the little brothers, as Charles Felix recalls in a fragment of his lively autobiography. After the wedding, the royal children went back to Montcalieri, a country palace, and there for more than ten years they received a solid and serious education. Charles Felix is reported to have done only one naughty thing in his childhood: having had a taste of the stage at his sister's wedding, he wanted to see it again. A theatre was attached to the palace, and on the occasion of a new piece being performed, he persuaded a page to leave open a private door, that he might peep in. He found it duly open, but alas! on the other side was a man! Charles Felix tumbled into the arms of his father!
When he was sixtieth years of age, his young‐ page: 117 est youngest sister, two years his senior, was married to a Prince of Saxony, but in the very next year, that terrible scourge of princes, the inexorable small‐pox of the eighteenth century, carried off the poor young bride. At the age of twenty Charles Felix also lost his mother, and his nature had taken the impress which it ever afterwards retained—an impress of gentle severity and holy peace. It was well for him that he was thus annealed, for days were coming when storms were to break over little Piedmont, storms which in all ranks within that kingdom were hard to bear.
The first rumble of the coming thunder came from the rolling carriage‐wheels which brought back the married children of Savoy. First to appear was the Comtesse d'Artois, bringing with her two French sons, Angoulème, sixteen years old, and Charles Ferdinand, Duc de Berry, somewhat younger. After them followed troops of emigrés, among them the Dukes of Condé and Bourbon, and the little Duc d'Enghien—three generations of a great race. They all seem to have kept Christmas together, and on Twelfth Day the page: 118 children had a cake, young Prince Maurrienne of Savoy was King, and Angoulème, oddly enough, was Queen. In March, 1791, came two very unhappy women, Mesdames Adelaide and Victoire of France, elderly and bewildered, pausing to visit their niece Clotilde on their way to Rome. Carlyle has given us in his "French Revolution" a grotesque, and, to my thinking, irreverent picture of these old daughters of Louis the Fifteenth. They were close upon sixty, just a year between them; Madame Victoire was tall and ugly, Madame Adelaide was tall and stout, but had a very kind face; both poor ladies were clad in brown stuff gowns and black fichus, and were so utterly scared by the recent scenes at Versailles, that they could hardly abide the sight of strangers, even though these strangers were royal cousins of their own. On crossing the bridge over the river which then divided the territories of France and Piedmont, they had been pursued with jeers and maledictions, while on the Italian side they were received by a guard of honour and drums and trumpets. When the carriage stopped at the gate of the palace of Chambèry, page: 119 the King of Savoy handed out Madame Adelaide, who very naturally did not know him, and in her trouble and confusion did not so much as notice the gentleman on whose arm she leant. Great was her distress when she was told he was her royal host, and that she had been wanting in due etiquette. Charles Felix kept a sort of diary, written with quaint, mild vivacity and flashes of humour. It would help us to understand those times much better than we do, if other people had done the same. His point of view was naturally quite different from that of the usual historian. He was the equal of all those of whom he spoke, naming them by their territorial titles—"D'Aosta, Maurrienne, Piedmont, Angoulème," the latter as the "eldest of the petits d'Artois." Poor D'Enghien (the youngest of the three Condés) cried when he went away from Chambèry. And in this old court of Sardinia all the elaborate ceremonies and frequent religious functions were kept up with the utmost care; and they are noted down, intermixed with the quaintest revelations of personal character.
In the midst of that family gathering, Charles Felix's sister, the Comtesse D'Artois, shut herself page: 120 up in a darkened room, declaring with tears that under no circumstances would she ever return to France, but desired to go straightway into a convent. To which "the Cardinal" replied that as she had a husband and two sons she must do no such thing, and she was obliged to come out and give it up. During all this time M. de Provence and his wife, that other sister of Charles Felix, were shut up in Paris, and on the twelfth of July, 1791, Mme. d'Artois received a letter from them, which her brother abridged in his diary, describing how the Princess Josephine (Madame de Provence) stole away on a dark night, apparently from the Tuilleries, and felt her way along the garden wall until she reached a small door where waited Madame de G—. By the help of a man‐servant and that servant's wife, the two ladies got off out of Paris, and reached Lille, picking up M. de Provence at Mons. This was coincident with the fatal flight of the royal family to Varennes. At Brussels Monsieur and Madame found their younger brother the Comte d'Artois, and the three Condés; but Madame declined to remain, and said she wished to return to her father, the King of Sardinia. page: 121 This tender but precise parent said she might come if she came by herself, and he would provide her with a court: "what was certain," said her brother in his diary, with a faint touch of irony, "was that she had not a halfpenny, and was dying of hunger" at Brussels. She survived, however, many years, and so finally died in England.
Meantime the threatening storm drew nearer, and the poor little court of Sardinia stood like a sand castle on the shore, in face of the advancing tide. We are accustomed to read of the splendid victories of the armies of France, of the enthusiasm of the Republican troops, of the great race of soldiers bred up in their ranks, generals and marshals of France—their deeds are a poem, an undying legend of glory; their portraits are at Versailles, their names are engraven on the Arc de Triomphe. In the palace of the Tuilleries, the great central hall opening on the balcony under the clock (the familiar clock that is no more!), was known as the Salles des Marechaux. They have had their poets and their painters, and their memory will never die. But in the life of Charles Felix we page: 122 read a pathetic page of the other side of the story; how the Republic sent a revolutionary ambassador, M. de Semonville, to Turin; how quarrels were skilfully fostered; how in the winter of 1792 the King of Sardinia sent him back to France; how Paris roared, got her troops together, and finally, in September, invaded helpless little Savoy, while Austria shilly‐shallied, not sorry to see a lamb thrown to the wolf. France pounced on Savoy and Nice, and a weary struggle began which lasted on and off for four years; till Buonaparte, carrying everything before him, halted at a few days' march from Turin, and the old monarch, Victor Amedeo, the father of so many sons, was summoned to abandon his capital. He ended by giving up Savoy, Nice, Tende, and Beuil, and not unnaturally died in a fit of apoplexy before worse came about. His eldest son, Charles Emmanuel, husband of Clotilde de France, was finally driven off the mainland to the island of Sardinia, and was escorted thither by the English fleet. Before this came to pass, and during the time of bewildering trouble, Charles Felix went on with his private diary, even so late page: 123 as 1798; but there came a day, it was the sixth o{ December, in that year, when he notes that the royal family all sat up in conclave until two o'clock in the morning. On the seventh he writes, "Vendredi. Vivalde, Ch. Bernes"—these three words and nothing more; the rest of the book is blank white paper, and he seems never to have written again. On the tenth, a Monday morning, the royal family of Sardinia set out very early by torchlight. In the darkness those who first got out of Turin waited anxiously for those who were belated. At last all the young men were got together, and the carriages started for the place of rendezvous by different roads. They intended to meet at Leghorn, but the old king, who had gone round by Florence, fell ill in that city, and there they all waited for two months; not till the twenty‐fourth of February did the English fleet take them in charge and land them in Cagliari, where the people received them with joy and greeting, and where Charles Felix was destined to dwell for sixteen years without ever revisiting his native Piedmont. He went there a young prince, he left it a man of forty, soon to be a king. How they all got on in page: 124 the interval can be shortly told, for one sorrow after another fell on the House of Savoy. The old king died on the mainland and was taken to be buried at Montcalieri. When his sons went into exile on the island, Charles Emmanuel took with him a troop of Piedmontese retainers, and settled into an old building near the cathedral of Cagliari, and made of it his palace, while the Archbishop made room for Charles Felix, who chose for his household only native Sardinians. Hardly were they all established when a little boy, son of the Duke d'Aosta, and sole male heir of all the brothers, died at the age of five. Next came the death of Maurice, Duke de Montférat, who caught a violent cold and fever on a night voyage, and perished at the age of thirty‐four. During these events the mainland of Italy was overrun by Austrians, Russians, and French. The misfortunes of Piedmont culminated in Napoleon's famous victory at Marengo, on the 14th of June, 1800, after which Charles Felix gave his native country up for lost. The new king "Piedmont" had bad health, his dearly loved wife, Clotilde de France, had died, and he said he could no longer "bear his Crown of Thorns;" he page: 125 abdicated and went away to Rome to live, and his next brother, Victor Emmanuel, then became king. A ray of relief in the gloomy tragedy of these years is given by the passage across the scene of the well‐known Frenchman, Count Joseph de Maistre, who came and lived for a time with Charles Felix at Cagliari. The sight of his name in the sad pathetic pages is like a breath of air from the outer world.
Finally the youngest of all the brothers, the "dear, dear child" of the wise Charles Felix (but one year older) died quite suddenly, apparently of the usual fever, and this last blow quite upset the nerve of the Viceroy of Sardinia. Affection for Mauria (the Comte de Maurrienne) is the dominant note of the first half of the book; the two had been educated together, in the strict monastic manner of that old court; they had suffered insult, and what they felt to be very bitter exile in common. "Dear, dear child, I love you more than myself and more than anything else on earth," says one letter; and in another, "They tell me to preach to you because you work too much; take care of yourself, for the whole world is not worth your little finger; you are page: 126 all that is good, and I am la cattivaria"—which seems to be patois for general worthlessness.
And so, when Mauria died, Charles Felix for the first and last time quailed before the storm. He fell into black melancholy and was got off to Rome, where he besought the Pope to favour his entering a monastery, an old and ardent desire of his youth. But the Holy Father expressed a strong desire that the Prince should remain in the world, for the House of Savoy was dwindling away visibly. He then tried to get out of being any longer Viceroy; but to this his brother the King was equally opposed; and worse befell, for he was implored to enter the marriage state! There were now but three of his brothers living; the original Prince of Piedmont, who had abdicated; Victor Emmanuel (Aosta), who had lost his only boy; and Charles Felix himself, who was by this time seven and thirty. They sent him back to Sardinia to consider the matter; and there, as ever, and more than ever, he lived the life of a saint, giving up his revenue for the poor, rounding a dispensary with a doctor and a surgeon attached, which has survived all dangers, and is still to be found at page: 127 Cagliari, and devoting time, thought, and money to education of a high order, especially medical.
Numberless little traits recounted of him, give the impression of a man of absolute rectitude and ardent piety; not clever in the ordinary sense of the word, and limited by education to one set of thoughts; but lifted above his fellows by that higher wisdom which always ends by impressing its mark upon a reluctant world.
Two years he gave to thinking and praying, and then he gave way, and wrote to his royal brother that he had made up his mind to marry, and thought he could choose no more suitable wife than the Princesse Marie Christine of Naples, the niece of Marie Antoinette, and great aunt of the Comte de Paris. But here again there was a difficulty, for the Princess, who was six‐and‐twenty, said that she on her side did not wish to marry; she had already refused several suitable alliances, and the most the ambassador could obtain from her was that she must take some time to consider; and it was six weeks before she would ratify the consent given secretly by her parents. But she did so, page: 128 and she had certainly never any cause to repent. Charles Felix wrote her a very pretty letter, in which he tells her that he will always try to make her happy, and says further that he hopes she will be pleased to accept the "seules expressions" which he is as yet allowed to make use of, when he signs himself her very affectionate cousin, Charles Felix. The short letter is perfumed with the bloom of good wishes and sincere resolves. The Pope blessed him, and prayed that he might give a numerous offspring to the House of Savoy. But, alas! Heaven denied the prayer, and a painful omen befell in the loss by shipwreck of four thousand pounds worth of diamonds, which he ordered from England for his bride. They are at the bottom of the sea! He told a friend that she had "enough of her own," and so went off to Palermo to be married to her whom he afterwards called his "Dear Wife," and who showed in subsequent years the firmness and real goodness of her sister Marie Amélie, the Queen of the French, and seems to have become much loved by Charles Felix.
For some years the married pair lived tranquilly in their island; lived in fact the lives page: 129 of saints, keeping a modest court and doing good with the right and the left hand. The chief incident was the stamping out of a violent epidemic fever, during which Charles Felix worked incessantly with the medical men, and when his relatives sent an English ship to fetch him away, he refused to leave, or to let her touch at the port of Cagliari and so incur quarantine. During these years poor little Piedmont floated about, a derelict on the stormy waters of European politics. Sometimes the King saw a chance of getting back to Turin, and then his hopes would be rudely upset. Austria, having married Marie Therèse to Napoleon, was no longer to be counted as a friend; the King of Naples lived in Sicily, and every change in French affairs had a contrecoup in the Italian Peninsula. During the Hundred Days, when the French Royal Family left Paris, Charles Felix did his best to keep his wife's mind easy about her relatives, and curious paragraphs indicate their distance from the centre of affairs; Christine counting the days to prove that the bad news could not possibly, if true, have become known. But it was true nevertheless. page: 130 At last, however, Waterloo put an end to Napoleon, and under the treaties of the Allied Sovereigns the Royal Family of Piedmont all went back to Turin, after years of exile.
Now began a new state of matters, which it is extremely interesting to see from the inside. The King had no male heir, and Charles Felix, alas! had no child; and the next in succession to the throne of Savoy and Piedmont was a very far away cousin, the Prince de Carignan. We knew him many years later as Charles Albert, an heroic fighter against the Austrians, but in 1815 he was a very young man, whose father had died when he was only two years old, and he had consequently received his education from a mother who shared none of the opinions and prejudices of the old House of Savoy; she lived firstly at Dresden and afterwards at Geneva, and at the age of fifteen her son received from Bonaparte a lieutenancy in a regiment of dragoons. When the fall of the Emperor cast this youth into the bosom of the Royal Family at Turin, it may be imagined that the excellent old cousins did not know what to do with him. And yet he was the heir!
Charles Felix, in spite of his profound personal page: 131 piety, had a wider outlook on life than the rest of his House; and he was more hopeful for and indulgent to the Prince de Carignan than was the King. But for the disparity between their ages, he might probably have won him, and saved him from those associations with the Carbonari which were matters of danger in Charles Albert's later life, when it used to be said that he was in constant fear of assassination from the companions of his youth.
The brothers married him in 1817 to a princess of Tuscany, and they tried very sincerely to hold friendly relations with the young couple; Charles Felix, in particular, did his best to soften the severer and narrower judgment of the King. Meanwhile political intrigues and popular demands were threatening to overwhelm the ancient Monarchical Constitution, and in 1821 the King felt he could bear the situation no longer, and suddenly abdicated, as had done the original Prince of Piedmont. Charles Felix, who did not lack firmness, accepted the heavy task; and for ten years he literally set his back against the wall, and fought for the old ideas and the ancient laws of Savoy. A weaker page: 132 man or a more foolish man would have succumbed from the mere worry. The hero prince "held the fort" for Jesus, King of men.
Charles Albert's singularly unlucky career began at Novara, and ended in 1848; but during the ten years of the reign of Charles Felix he seems to have dwelt in peace with his old cousin.
There is to me something indescribably touching in the story of those ten years. The modest dignity of the royal Court, the expenses perpetually cut down in the cause of charity, the minute pains with which the people were cared for, the encouragement given to learning, the restoration of Hautecombe (though it cannot be said that the architecture rivals that of the Middle Ages), and, above all, the personal holiness of the man at the helm of the Ship of State, make a beautiful picture, however opposed to the popular English sympathy of to‐day. There is nothing in the coarse common‐sense of Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy, nothing in the verbose eloquence and shady private life of Garibaldi, to compare for a moment with the character or the language of the last King of Savoy. One of the most extraordinary political page: 133 enthusiasms of modern times has resulted in our English toleration of men who, if they had been Londoners, we should not have tolerated for a year. Victor Emmanuel weeping metaphorically at the knees of the Pope, and consenting to marry his mistress lest he should die without the sacraments, and Garibaldi getting into troubles which were an open secret, and pouring forth torrents of inflated prose, seem to me very poor men indeed compared to noble, chaste, firm Charles Felix.
When he died, in 1832, they bore his coffin regally across Lake Bourget. The chants of the Water Funeral were echoed back from the mountains, and the people he had governed were stirred as when a saint is gone. And so little could the Princes of Carignan keep up the old glories of their place and state, that Savoy is now a French province, Royal Chambèry the head of a Prefecture, Nice a possession of France, and the King of Italy leads an uneasy life in his capital, overwhelmed with debt, submissive to Germany, building ironclad on ironclad to keep invaders from his shores, ruining the sublime beauty of Rome by the huge barracks which lack page: 134 inhabitants, cutting up the splendid gardens, turning out the religious orders, and indirectly fostering a mongrel society which must be seen and heard to be believed in.
Charles Felix lies at Hautecombe, on the side of the Savoyard lake, and though his laws and the principles in which they were rooted are swept away from the mountains and valleys where his ancestors had ruled for a thousand years, the life of such a man is never lived in vain.


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The objection of a slim majority of the current Tupelo City Council to a long-standing citizen-led, nonprofit corporation assuming responsibility for redevelopment of a blighted neighborhood along the West Jackson Street corridor undercuts the city's longstanding policy of allowing private-sector, expert, volunteer leadership to direct redevelopment policy and action.
The stance of four council members – Willie Jennings of Ward 7, Nettie Davis of Ward 4, Jim Newell of Ward 3, and Mike Bryan of Ward 6 – fails to acknowledge decades of trust-building and effective delegation between elected leaders and citizen-led panels.
The Neighborhood Development Corporation is "staffed" with nominated and approved members whose private-sector experience and expertise is provided free of charge for the city in just such situations as the redevelopment of the West Jackson neighborhood.
The corporation is comprised of bankers Brent Waldrop and Chip Ashford, BancorpSouth; Chris Rogers and B.B. Hosch, Renasant Bank; Thomas Mize, M & F Bank; Bill Robertson, BNA Bank; Jeff King, Community Bank; and Charles Russell, Trustmark Bank.
Three non-banking members of the board are Chairman Duke Loden, Ellen Short and George Taylor.
The rationale of the four opponents of delegating authority to the talent-rich NDC board on the $2.9 million project, they say, is a sense of responsibility for allowing anyone not on the council to make decisions about the money.
To the contrary, the responsible course is to entrust the NDC board, as intended, to move ahead with the project, reporting fully to the council. The board, after all, has in its roll a professional appraiser, real estate professionals widely experienced in sales, development and redevelopment of properties, plus financiers who have successfully handled much larger sums.
The Tupelo Redevelopment Agency, a creation of a past City Council, has overseen successful development of Fairpark with very little controversy.
There's no compelling reason to keep the NDC tightly tethered, including gaining council approval for routine matters. Micro-management is not necessary nor advisable for this undertaking.
The West Jackson Street project is off to a solid start, and there's no reason to abruptly rein it in with time-consuming and potentially irksome restrictions too easily turned into political manipulation.
The council played a strong role in starting the project. Now, turn it over to the citizen professionals who have volunteered their time and experience to bring it to completion and others like it down the road.
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parties for employment screening, background checks, and credential verification services, including without limitation verification of the accuracy of your personal information and confirmation of your references. You agree that neither PeopleAnswers nor Client-Employers are responsible or liable for the use and dissemination of such information by such third parties. If you do not want your legally protected personally identifiable information shared with any third parties, you must click that you do not accept these terms (i.e., click the "I Do Not Agree" button), though doing so will preclude you from using the Service or the Site.
PeopleAnswers will retain the personally identifiable information, responses, and answers you provide for fulfillment of the intended purposes for which it is collected. We will establish minimum and maximum retention periods based upon the type of information collected (i.e. sensitivity), the intended purposes, and as otherwise may be legally required.
You may be requested to provide your cell phone number. By providing such number, you authorize PeopleAnswers and the Client-Employer to call you and/or send you text messages.
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You agree that you will not: (a) permit other individuals to use your password; or (b) copy any portion of any test provided through the Service. Please note that you are solely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account and for ensuring that you exit or log-off from your account at the end of each session of use. You shall notify PeopleAnswers immediately of any unauthorized use of your password or account or of any other breach of security that is known or suspected by you. User accounts cannot be "shared" or used by more than one individual. User licenses can be transferred to a new user only if a previous user becomes inactive and is unable to access the Service. You remain solely responsible for any authorized or unauthorized use of your password.
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upload, transmit, post, email, or otherwise make available to the Site any content or other material in any format that: (i) is false, inaccurate, unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, invasive of another's privacy, libelous, and/or otherwise objectionable; (ii) infringes any third party's intellectual property; or (iii) contains viruses, worms, Trojan horses, back doors or trap doors, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs designed to interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
alter, remove, or falsify any attributions or other proprietary designations of origin or source of any other content appearing on the Site or contained in a file that is uploaded to the Site;
impersonate any person or entity, including without limitation a PeopleAnswers official, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
attempt, through any means, to gain unauthorized access to the Site or another user's account on the Site;
forward or share any information regarding the Service and/or the Site, including without limitation an Assessment furnished through the Service, to any third party; or
use any robot, spider, other automatic device, or manual process to monitor or copy web pages or the content contained herein without our prior expressed written permission. Additionally, you agree that you will not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on PeopleAnswers' infrastructure.
The use of any device, software, or routine that interferes or attempts to interfere with the proper working of the Site is expressly prohibited.
Proprietary Rights Restrictions
All material on the Site, including without limitation all informational text, design of and "look and feel" of the Site, layout, photographs, graphics, audio, video, messages, files, documents, images, or other materials (collectively, the "Materials"), whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, as well as all derivative works, are owned by PeopleAnswers or other parties that have licensed their material to PeopleAnswers and are protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws. PeopleAnswers disclaims any proprietary interest in trademarks, service marks, logos, slogans, domain names, and trade names other than its own. Trademarks, logos, images, and service marks displayed on the Site are the property of either PeopleAnswers or other third parties. You agree not to display or use such marks without PeopleAnswers' prior written permission.
The Materials on the Site may not be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way, including by e-mail or other electronic means. Any modification of the Materials, use of the Materials on any web site or networked computer environment, or use of the Materials for any purpose other than personal, non-commercial use is a violation of the copyright, trademark, and other proprietary rights in the Materials and is expressly prohibited.
PeopleAnswers alone shall own all right, title, and interest, including without limitation all related intellectual property rights, to any suggestions, ideas, feedback, recommendations, or other information provided by you relating to the Service ("Submissions"), and you agree to assign such Submissions to PeopleAnswers free of charge. PeopleAnswers may use such Submissions as it deems appropriate in its sole discretion.
Links to Other Web Sites
The Site may contain links to third party sites. The linked sites are not under the control of PeopleAnswers. PeopleAnswers does not endorse, adopt, or undertake any responsibility for the content or privacy practices of any linked site, including without limitation information provided at the Site that may link the user to a third party web site. In no event shall PeopleAnswers or its licensors be responsible for any content or other materials on or available through such third party sites.
Local Laws and Export Controls
The Site provides services and uses software and technology that may be subject to United States export controls administered by the U.S. Department of Commerce, the United States Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control, and other U.S. agencies and the export control regulations of the European Union. You acknowledge and agree that the Site shall not be used in, and none of the underlying information, software, or technology may be transferred or otherwise exported or re-exported to, Afghanistan, Burma, Cuba, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Sudan, or any other countries to which the United States and/or the European Union maintains an embargo (collectively, the "Embargoed Countries"), or to or by a national or resident thereof, or any person or entity on the U.S. Department of Treasury's List of Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Department of Commerce's Table of Denial Orders (collectively, the "Designated Nationals"). The lists of Embargoed Countries and Designated Nationals are subject to change without notice. By using this Site, you represent and warrant that you are not located in, under the control of, or a national or resident of an Embargoed Country and are not a Designated National. You agree to comply strictly with all U.S. and European Union export laws and assume sole responsibility for obtaining licenses to export or re-export as may be required.
This Site may use encryption technology that is subject to licensing requirements under the U.S. Export Administration Regulations, 15 C.F.R. Parts 730-774 and Council Regulation (EC) No. 1334/2000.
Any diversion of the content of the Site contrary to United States or European Union (including European Union Member States) law is prohibited. None of the content, nor any information acquired through the use of the Service, is or will be used for nuclear activities, or chemical or biological weapons or missile projects, unless specifically authorized by the United States Government or appropriate European body for such purposes.
Changes to the Site
PeopleAnswers reserves the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue all or any portion of the Site and/or the Service at any time, without notice. Unless stated otherwise, any new features to the current Site or Service shall be subject to this Use Agreement. All areas of the Site are currently accessible to users without charge; however, PeopleAnswers reserves the right to charge users for access to or use of any portion of the Site in the future.
Failure to Abide by these Terms
PeopleAnswers may in its sole discretion disable your password or terminate or suspend your account and any current activities at the Site immediately, without notice to you, if you breach this Use Agreement or if PeopleAnswers is unable to verify or authenticate any information that you provide to us. PeopleAnswers reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to refuse access to any user at any time to those portions of the Site that require registration. You agree that PeopleAnswers shall not be liable to you or any third party for any termination of your access to any Material, content, the Service, and/or the Site.
PeopleAnswers Privacy Policy
On-line information collected and certain other information about you is subject to our Privacy Policy. For more information, please see our full [Privacy Policy]. Your acceptance of this Use Agreement also constitutes acknowledgment of and agreement to the statements and any obligations set forth in the Privacy Policy.
To the extent that the Client-Employer requests that we disclose on-line personally identifying information collected and certain other information about you to third parties, different policies may apply. PeopleAnswers does not control the privacy policies of any third party, and we are not responsible for the use and dissemination of your personal identifying information by any such third parties. Therefore, we encourage you to contact the Client-Employer for the privacy policies of such third parties.
If any provision of this Use Agreement is found to be invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, such provision shall be severed from the remainder of this Use Agreement, which shall remain in full force and effect. No waiver by either party of any breach or default hereunder shall be deemed to be a waiver of any preceding or subsequent breach or default. The section headings used herein are for convenience only. This Use Agreement shall be governed by New York to the maximum extent permitted by law.
If you have any questions or comments about this Use Agreement, please compose an email addressed to email@example.com. (ver 7.3)
PeopleAnswers Privacy Policy
This website (the "Site") is operated by Infor (US), Inc. ("PeopleAnswers," "we" or "us") on behalf of its client companies (the "Client-Employer"). You
are currently working for or applying for an employment position with one or more Client-Employers, and in the future may apply for an employment position
with one or more Client-Employers. While using the Site, we may ask you to provide information that personally identifies you ("Personal Information"), and
we may collect information in the aggregate not identifying you individually ("Aggregate Information"). Personal Information shall not include any
personal information posted or sent by or to you in any public forum (such as a comment box on a particular blog) on the Site or linked from the Site.
Participation in these public forums requires the public release and dissemination of such information, and thus PeopleAnswers cannot commit to treating
such information confidentially in the same manner that other personal information will be treated under this Privacy Policy. Participation in these
features of the Site is voluntary, and thus your consent to certain terms is required before participation is allowed. All capitalized terms in this
Privacy Policy not defined herein shall have the same meanings as set forth in the separate Terms of Use Agreement. To the extent noted herein, this
Privacy Policy applies to all Client-Employers, employees of or applicants to Client-Employers, and certain other parties doing business with
PeopleAnswers. Client-Employers may also have their own privacy policies that govern the use of their applicant data. We recommend that you review those
policies as well.
We are committed to respecting your privacy rights. We will take commercially reasonable measures to ensure that the Personal Information you submit to us
remains private and is used only for the purposes as set forth herein and in the separate Terms of Use Agreement. To further the protection of your
Personal Information and to outline our intended use of both Personal Information and Aggregate Information, PeopleAnswers has adopted a set of information
management guidelines (outlined below) to describe the information that we collect about you, why we collect it, how we use it, and when we share it with
third parties.
This Privacy Policy is effective as of January 8, 2014 and has been developed with the recognition that applicable laws regarding privacy and personally
identifying information, and the dissemination thereof, are evolving. Accordingly, this Privacy Policy is subject to change at any time, and PeopleAnswers
expressly reserves the right to modify the terms of this Privacy Policy at any time and in our reasonable discretion. Your continued use of the Site
following our posting of notice of a change will constitute binding acceptance of the Privacy Policy and all changes thereto.
What kind of information does PeopleAnswers collect from users of the Site?
We collect Personal Information that you submit to us, including, but not limited to, personal data (i.e., your name, mailing address, email address,
social media account name, IM user account, and, depending on the Client-Employer's needs, social security number), account information and optional
information (i.e., education, marital status, income, etc.), as well as Personal Information collected from the test(s) and/or assessment(s) that you
participate in at the Site. Personal Information is collected online when users voluntarily submit non-public personal information on the Site by
establishing a customer account, taking a test, requesting information, receiving electronic notices or other similar communications.
We also collect Aggregate Information regarding users of the Site, including, but not limited to, tracking your progress through the Site. In general, only
your IP address and/or user name, the type of browser you are using, and whether you are on a mobile device would be collected automatically when you
access the Site for purposes of processing your login to your account on the Site or enhancing your Site browsing via cookies and/or auditing. Aggregate
Information is non-personally identifiable (or anonymous) information about you, such as pages most frequently accessed by you or search terms entered by
In addition, a Client-Employer may be subject to certain governmental recordkeeping and reporting requirements for the administration of civil rights laws
and regulations. In order to comply with these laws, you may be invited to voluntarily self-identify your gender, race, age, or ethnicity or whether you
have a disability or are a veteran. Submission of this information is voluntary, and refusal to provide it will not subject you to any adverse treatment.
The information obtained will be kept confidential and may only be used in accordance with the provisions of applicable laws, executive orders, and
regulations, including those that require the information to be summarized and reported to the federal government for civil rights enforcement.
Client-Employers may also disclose your information in response to subpoenas or other legal process.
By providing information using the Site, you warrant to PeopleAnswers that your Personal Information is reliable for its intended uses, accurate, complete
and correct, and that you will promptly notify us if such Personal Information is no longer current or correct.
How long is Personal Information kept for use on the Site?
Your Personal Information will be retained for fulfillment of the intended purposes for which such Personal Information is collected. We will establish
minimum and maximum retention periods based upon the type of information collected (i.e. sensitivity), the intended purposes, and as otherwise may be
legally required.
What are cookies and how are they used on the Site?
There is a web standard technology called "cookies" that can be used to provide you with tailored information from a website. A cookie is a small text file
placed on your hard drive by our web page server. These cookies do not collect Personal Information, only Aggregate Information.
We can only access the information from a cookie sent by PeopleAnswers. We cannot access other cookies sent by other websites or the information contained
therein. If you are a Client-Employer, PeopleAnswers provides each user in your organization with a unique user name and password that must be entered each
time a user logs on. Candidates also are provided passwords. We do not use cookies to identify the username or password of the user. Additionally, we
cannot learn your email address or any other information about you through the use of a cookie. The only way we would learn such information is when and if
you specifically submit that information to the Site. Further, PeopleAnswers does not use cookies to store other confidential user and/or session
We use cookies to track usage of the Site and further customize your experience when you are visiting the Site. By tracking usage, we can best determine
what features of the Site best serve the users. Without cookies, the Site would "forget" items that may be stored. The session information used by the Site
is deleted when your browser is closed.
Your browser is probably set to accept cookies. However, if you would prefer not to receive cookies, you can alter the configuration of your browser to
refuse cookies. If you choose to have your browser refuse cookies, it is possible that some areas of our Site will not function properly when you view
When you visit the Site, we automatically collect Aggregate Information about your visit. We can tell the type of computer, browser, and web service that
you are using. We also know the date, time, and pages that you visit. Collecting this information helps us design the Site to enhance your experience while
on our Site. We may use Aggregate Information for internal purposes, such as tracking demographic data and providing targeted content to make the Site more
useful to our visitors. The gathering of this Aggregate Information may be accomplished by the use of cookies. In particular, PeopleAnswers may collect an
IP Address from all visitors to the Site. An IP Address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet. We use IP
addresses to help diagnose problems with our server, administer our Site, analyze trends, track users' movement on the Site, gather broad demographic
information for aggregate use in order for us to improve the Site, and deliver customized, personalized content. IP addresses, however, are not linked to
Personal Information.
On those pages of the Site not requiring your account login, you may decline to accept cookies sent by the Site by selecting an option on your browser to
reject cookies. However, some portions of the Site may require account login or account registration in order to access those areas. In such case, we ask
you provide us with basic information on our account set-up page. Cookies enable our server to know that you are a registered user; therefore, our
registration system requires that you accept the cookies from the Site. Other sites linked to the Site also may send cookies; however we do not control
such activities.
In certain instances on our Site, you may be asked to opt-in to the use of cookies before you will be given access. You will only be asked to opt-in upon
your initial visit to those portions of the Site only. However, if you elect to not opt-in to the use of cookies, you may not be able to access those
portions of the Site or your ability to use those Site features will be impacted.
PeopleAnswers also may use a unique assigned number located with the Site's URL to determine the web site from which you navigated to get to the Site.
While this number may not be apparent to you, it does not contain your Personal Information.
How does PeopleAnswers use Personal Information?
We will use the Personal Information provided by you in accordance with good commercial practice and applicable law. If you provide us with your e-mail
address (or have done so in the past), we will send email notifications to you in accordance with the user account preferences opted by you. When you set
up your user account (and at any time thereafter), you will select and control how Personal Information is shared from your account settings. Your email
will be used for notifications only. While you are free to do so, PeopleAnswers does not share your public email address with others in its public forums.
Once logged into the Service, you will take and provide answers to one or more tests. After you complete the test(s), PeopleAnswers will prepare an
Assessment based on your responses and/or answers. You are providing these answers/responses to PeopleAnswers to prepare an Assessment. The Assessment will
be provided to one or more Client-Employers by PeopleAnswers. Your answers may also be used later by PeopleAnswers to prepare different Assessments for
other Client-Employers (ones different than the Client-Employer to which you are currently applying and in connection with which you originally supplied
your answers and responses to PeopleAnswers). PeopleAnswers will not supply your answers to Client-Employers unless expressly requested by
As noted above, we share your Personal Information and our Assessment with the Client-Employers for which you currently work (if you are accessing the Site
at the request of your current employer) or the Client-Employers with which you currently are applying or apply in the future for an employment position.
In addition, we use your Personal Information to assist us in validation research. If you do not wish to have your Personal Information (including test
results/answers) used or re-used in this manner and/or an Assessment shared with any Client-Employer(s), you should not provide us with your Personal
Information (though doing so will preclude you from using the Service or the Site). Please contact the Client-Employer to report that you are not willing
to submit Personal Information through the Site.
We do not sell, give away, or in any way make available your Personal Information for any third-party marketing purpose. However, we may share aggregate,
non-personally identifiable Personal Information that you provide as "Optional Information" with third parties for purposes of research and long-term
validation studies. The Optional Information data is not directly linked with the required Personal Information requested on the Sign-Up page on the Site.
Such required Personal Information is stored and kept separate from the Optional Information.
At the request of a Client-Employer and/or you, we also may disclose your Personal Information to third parties for employment screening, background
checks, credential verification services, and similar services, including verification of the accuracy of your Personal Information and confirmation of
your references. Background screening or similar reports generated by third parties may be shared with us, which we will use and disseminate in accordance
with applicable law. This Privacy Policy addresses the use and dissemination of information that we collect from you and our use and dissemination of any
background screening or similar reports shared with us. To the extent that a Client-Employer requests that we disclose your Personal Information to third
parties, different rules or policies may apply. PeopleAnswers does not control the privacy policies of any third party, and we are not responsible for the
use and dissemination of your Personal Information by any such third parties. Therefore, we encourage you to contact the Client-Employer for the privacy
policies of any such third parties. If you do not wish to have your Personal Information shared with the Client-Employer or such third parties (including
background screening companies), you should not provide us with your Personal Information (though doing so will preclude you from using the Service or the
Site). Please contact the Client-Employer to report that you are not willing to submit Personal Information through the Site.
We may share Aggregate Information with third parties, however, we will only do so in a manner that does not identify the Client-Employer. PeopleAnswers
also may match Aggregated Information on Site users with third party data and disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe our services to
potential advertisers, partners and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes.
This Privacy Policy only addresses the use and dissemination of information that we collect from you and/or your candidates or employees. To the extent
that you disclose any information to third parties through other websites on the Internet linked to the Site or request that we disclose any information to
third parties, different policies may apply. Since PeopleAnswers does not control the privacy policies of any third party, you and your candidates or
employees are subject to the privacy policies, if any, of that third party, and PeopleAnswers shall not be responsible for the use or dissemination of your
candidates' or employees' Personal Information by that third party. Therefore, we encourage you to ask questions before you disclose your candidates' or
employees' Personal Information to others or request that we disclose such information to others.
Does PeopleAnswers share your Personal Information with Others?
As a general policy, PeopleAnswers does not share, sell or trade Personal Information with third parties without permission from the Client-Employer and/or
you. With permission, these third parties include employment screening, background check, credential verification, and other vendors providing similar
services. However, we also may provide your Personal Information without additional permission to third parties directly involved in the operation,
performance, support and/or maintenance of the Site and each service offered on the Site, including our web site designers, hosts, service providers,
technical consultants and business partners. Any Personal Information, however, will be used by such third parties (e.g., web site designers, etc.) only to
perform their functions and/or to provide services in support of the Site and for no other purpose. Aggregate information may at times be shared with
PeopleAnswers business partners and other third parties. Also, as stated above, PeopleAnswers will share your Personal Information (generally other than
test answers) with Client-Employers.
We reserve the right to assign or transfer your Personal Information to any successor in interest to our business associated with the Site by merger,
reorganization, sale of all or substantially all of our assets or equity interests or operation of law. We also may divulge Personal Information if such
information is required for us to comply with any valid legal process, such as a subpoena, search warrant, statute or court order, or if we reasonably
believe that you have committed an unlawful act or acts that may endanger the health or safety of another user or of the general public.
How does PeopleAnswers secure my Personal Information?
PeopleAnswers maintains commercially reasonable safeguards to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of the Personal Information provided by you. Such
security safeguards are intended to be appropriate to the sensitivity of the Personal Information collected. To the extent that PeopleAnswers transfers any
Personal Information to third parties, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to assure that such third parties to whom we may transfer any Personal
Information have knowledge of our Privacy Policy and provide sufficient protection of such Personal Information. PeopleAnswers is committed to properly
securing the Personal Information collected online. To help us accomplish this, we take the following steps:
We employ internal access controls to ensure that the only people who see your information are those with a need to do so to perform their official duties.
We train relevant personnel on our privacy and security measures.
We physically secure the areas where we hold hard copies of the information that we collect online. We regularly back up the information that we collect
online to insure against loss.
We use technical controls to secure the information that we collect online as appropriate, including but not limited to: hash technology, encryption,
firewalls, and password protections.
We periodically test our security procedures to ensure personnel and technical compliance.
Please note that Personal Information stored on the Site will be collected, stored and processed in the United States of America. By this Privacy Policy,
PeopleAnswers intends to abide by the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles published by the United States Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use
and retention of data from the European Union, and the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) regarding the collection, use
and retention of data from Canada. PeopleAnswers has certified its compliance with the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework, including the Safe Harbor Privacy
Principles. For more information on the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework and to view PeopleAnswers' certification, please visit the U.S. Department of
Commerce's Safe Harbor website at
http://export.gov/safeharbor/. Client-Employers who receive Personal Information from us may transfer the information to any jurisdiction in which your
job application (or information related thereto) will be processed or evaluated.
Do I have the choice to opt-in or opt-out of any uses of my Personal Information?
We recognize the importance of providing you with the choice to "opt-out." You can "opt-out" of receiving any email notifications by contacting our Privacy
Officer at the Contact Address. However, with respect to any Personal Information that is sensitive in nature, you may only "opt-out" by declining to
provide us with the information. If you choose to "opt-out" by declining to provide us with Personal Information, you may not use this Service or the Site.
Can I make corrections to Personal Information collected online?
You may request to view the Personal Information collected about you through your use of the Site operated by PeopleAnswers by contacting our Privacy
Officer at the Contact Address. If at any time you wish to change, correct or update your Personal Information, or have it removed from our database, you
may do so by submitting a change request to our Privacy Officer by sending an email to the Contact Address.
Who can I contact at PeopleAnswers if I have questions about this Privacy Policy or any challenges to compliance?
We have designated our Privacy Officer, who can be contacted at the following address ("Contact Address"):
By Mail: Attention: Privacy Officer, PeopleAnswers, a Division of Infor, 14185 Dallas Parkway, Suite 550, Dallas, Texas USA 75254
By Telephone: +1 800.915.3243
By Email: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Our Privacy Officer is accountable for PeopleAnswers' compliance with this Privacy Policy. If you have any challenge concerning our compliance with this
Privacy Policy or if you have any questions about PeopleAnswers' purposes for the collection and retention of your Personal Information, then please
contact our Privacy Officer at the Contact Address and provide a description of your concerns sufficient in detail to permit the Privacy Officer to
investigate your concerns and contact you. It is our intent to make available to you through the Privacy Officer specific information about this Privacy
Policy and our management of your Personal Information as may be required by applicable law.
PeopleAnswers uses a self-assessment approach to ensure compliance with this Privacy Policy and periodically verifies that this Privacy Policy is accurate,
comprehensive for the information intended to be covered, prominently displayed, completely implemented and accessible and in conformity with applicable
laws, including without limitation the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Privacy Principles.
What is PeopleAnswers' privacy policy with respect to children?
Persons under the age of 13 are not authorized to use the Site and PeopleAnswers does not knowingly solicit or collect information about children. However,
PeopleAnswers is concerned about the safety of children and their use of the Internet. Therefore, in accordance with the Children's Online Privacy
Protection Act of 1998, we will never knowingly request or solicit personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without prior
verifiable parental consent. In the event that we receive actual knowledge that we have collected such personal information without the requisite and
verifiable parental consent, we will delete that information from our database as quickly as is practical.
Where does PeopleAnswers store Personal Information?
PeopleAnswers contracts with one or more third parties to maintain and host the Site. Therefore, any information you submit, including Personal
Information, is maintained and stored on a computer server maintained by a third party host. Your use of the Site and any provision of Personal Information
you submit to or review on the Site constitutes your acknowledgement that such information or content could pass through and may be stored in servers
outside the possession or control of PeopleAnswers. You agree that PeopleAnswers has no liability or responsibility for any such pass through or storage of
What about privacy on Internet sites linked to the Site?
You should be aware that other Internet sites to which you hyperlink from the Site may contain privacy statements that differ from our Privacy Policy.
PeopleAnswers encourages you to read and understand such privacy policies and terms of use of any linked sites accessed by you. If you decide to access
such linked sites and/or provide any personal information to such linked sites, you do so entirely at your own risk. PeopleAnswers is not responsible for
such provisions, and expressly disclaims any and all liability related to such provisions.
What else should I know about PeopleAnswers' Privacy Policy?
No transmission of data over the Internet is guaranteed to be completely secure. It may be possible for third parties not under the control of
PeopleAnswers to intercept or access transmissions or private communications unlawfully. If you choose to visit the Site, your visit and any dispute over
privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy, including but not limited to limitations of damages and application of the law of the State of Texas and the
laws, regulations, ordinances and treaties of the United States of America.
What constitutes my acceptance of this Privacy Policy?
By using the Site, you expressly consent to the use and disclosure of information as described in this Privacy Policy and in the separate Use Agreement.
Your continued use of the Site after the effective date of any modification to the Privacy Policy will be deemed to be your agreement to the changed terms.
You agree to review the Privacy Policy each time you use the Site so that you are aware of such modifications.
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Packers: What's up, Doc?
GREEN BAY, Wis. - Aaron Rodgers is not the ideal patient. He's smart, he at least thinks he knows what he's looking at when he examines x-rays and CT scans and MRIs, and by his own admission he's willing to give his non-expert medical opinion – sometimes when he's not even asked for it.
But when it comes to the Green Bay Packers quarterback's relationship with longtime team physician Dr. Pat McKenzie, Rodgers believes there is mutual respect and a healthy back-and-forth between the two men that will decide whether or not Rodgers returns to the field Sunday against the Pittsburgh Steelers after missing the past six games with the fractured left collarbone he suffered Nov. 4 against Chicago.
Rodgers insisted on his weekly radio show on 540 ESPN and ESPNWisconsin.com on Tuesday that the Packers' newfound playoff hope – at 7-6-1, they simply need to win their final two games to claim the NFC North title and the playoff berth and first-round home playoff game that would come with it – will not influence the decision on whether he will be cleared to play.
But Rodgers also said that no new scan is scheduled for this week – his last scan was done last Thursday, and on Friday morning he was ruled out of last Sunday's game at Dallas – and that he does not believe another scan is necessary for him to be cleared to play against the Steelers.
"I think you can probably guess," Rodgers said when asked what another scan would show. "I have an idea what it's going to look like based on the previous one, the amount of days we have between scans, project that forward to a similar amount of days and have a pretty good idea and avoid over-radiation."
Instead, Packers coach Mike McCarthy said Rodgers will be evaluated on Wednesday morning, and the quarterback expects to spend the week not only practicing and preparing as if he'll start against the Steelers but also having extensive talks with McKenzie.
Last week, Rodgers, McKenzie and McCarthy met on Friday, and McKenzie informed the player that he would not be given medical clearance to play. Throughout the process, the team has steadfastly said that Rodgers would not play until medically cleared by McKenzie.
However, McCarthy has been intentionally vague about what would be required for that clearance. Would Rodgers' collarbone have to be 100 percent healed, calcified to its pre-injury form? Or is there a point at which Rodgers could be allowed to play where the bone would be sufficiently, but not completely healed?
According to Rodgers, the decision will be based at least in part on how he feels. The rest, he hopes, is up for discussion.
"I felt good in practice (last week) and a decision was made about my status, collectively, but more on an organizational level -- which I understood. It didn't mean I was happy about it," Rodgers said Tuesday. "But, I understood. I've got a lot of respect and trust in Pat McKenzie; I think he does an incredible job for us. But that doesn't mean I'm not going to battle him, though.
"I think the organization has stated that they're going to do what's in my best interest. I know that's how Pat feels. But, I'd like to think that this thing is going to be healed up at some point to get out on the field."
Asked if he felt he should have been allowed to play after weighing the risk-reward himself, Rodgers replied, "I think the decision last week, based on the evidence that we saw, was definitely in my best interest. And I'll leave that as my response there."
The reason Rodgers was so disappointed with the decision last week was that he felt good in practice – a week earlier, Rodgers experienced unexpected pain and thereby knew he wouldn't be ready to play against Atlanta – and thus felt like he could have played against the Cowboys. He also felt sharp during practice.
If he practices the same way this week, Rodgers would like to have the chance to plead his case to play. And he believes his relationship with McKenzie will allow him to do that.
"I think there has to be on some level the risk-reward conversation. You have to base that off of the evidence you see on the scan, but also how I'm feeling and if I'm able to do normal football movements without pain. That obviously goes into the equation," Rodgers said. "Now a few weeks ago, that wasn't in the equation because I had pain. Last week, I felt more like myself, I think the guys would say I looked like myself out there and I knew I was closer. It's Tuesday here, I haven't practiced yet this week.
"We'll see how I feel tomorrow. This is maybe not what people want to hear, with it being dragged out, but this is how you have to go about the process. It's a combination of a lot of things, and obviously there's strong opinions on what should happen.
"The organization is going to try and do what's best by me. I'm going to try and make it at least a conversation."
Asked what he expects to happen this week, Rodgers replied, "My hope is that I practice tomorrow and experience no setbacks, mentally or physically, and then we'll go from there."
That's where the conversation will come in between Rodgers and McKenzie. The first time Rodgers was examined by McKenzie was after the Packers drafted him with the 24th overall pick in 2005, and McKenzie operated on him in 2006 when Rodgers broke his foot. They also worked through a 2008 injury to his throwing shoulder, when Rodgers was listed as doubtful for a game against the Falcons but threw inside the Don Hutson Center just hours before kickoff and convinced McKenzie to let him play.
What were your emotions when they told you that you couldn't play?
"I have a ton of respect for Pat. He's done an incredible job for us. I've known him for nine years now; he's done surgery on me before," Rodgers said. "I trust him and care about him a lot as a friend and also as somebody that counsels me when I'm injured. We've always been able to have honest conversations and I respect his honesty. Sometimes those guys (doctors) have to save you from yourself. That being said, I'm a competitor and I wanted to be out there (last week).
"I think he trust me and how I'm feeling and I have to trust him. He knows what he's doing. He does a great job. But that doesn't mean I'm not going to battle him from time to time, and he knows that."
Listen to Jason Wilde every weekday from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. on "Green & Gold Today" on 540 ESPN, and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/jasonjwilde.


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White deer advocates rally support at conservation congress
Process described as 'slow,' change needed sooner
BARABOO, Wis. - More than 100 people packed into a University of Wisconsin-Baraboo Sauk County campus auditorium, voting on issues such as banning hunters from killing white deer in the area.
State Department of Natural Resources personnel said they wouldn't release the results of the vote until Wednesday, but said a similar number of conservationists and hunters spoke up.
The session was part of the Wisconsin Conservation Congress public meetings across the state, which the DNR touts as helping to shape state policy.
White deer advocates, who wore "Protect the White Deer" shirts at the event, said they expected the measure to pass the local vote. But the Conservation Congress method takes too long, they said.
"It shows support, but it's slow, and it may not be fast enough for us," said MaLenna Smith of Leland. "People know the deer are there, they know they can shoot them right now, so this is serious. We've got to get them protected."
If the resolution passes the Sauk County vote, it still faces scrutiny from DNR staff, the Natural Resources board, two statewide Conservation Congress votes, and ultimately requires legislative action.
Smith said, as an alternative, the group of white deer advocates are hoping state lawmakers are paying attention to the support in Sauk County.White deer advocates rally support at conservation congress
They said they want lawmakers to act before the deer hunting season begins in November, because hunters could wipe out the rare creatures.
It's illegal to shoot white, or albino, deer except in chronic wasting disease zones, such as the one in Leland. There, a hunter killed one of the white deer in November.
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9.35: Effect of Altitude and Mountains on Climate
Are they worms crawling across the landscape?
This image shows the difference in climate between mountain ranges and the surrounding lands.
Altitude and Mountain Ranges
Air pressure and air temperature decrease with altitude. The closer molecules are packed together, the more likely they are to collide. Collisions between molecules give off heat, which warms the air. At higher altitudes, the air is less dense and air molecules are more spread out and less likely to collide. A location in the mountains has lower average temperatures than one at the base of the mountains. In Colorado, for example, Lakewood's (5,640 feet) average annual temperature is 62oF (17oC), while Climax Lake's (11,300 feet) is 42oF (5.4oC).
Mountain ranges have two effects on the climate of the surrounding region:
- rainshadow effect, which brings warm, dry climate to the leeward size of a mountain range (Figure below).
- separation in the coastal region from the rest of the continent. Since a maritime air mass may have trouble rising over a mountain range, the coastal area will have a maritime climate but the inland area on the leeward side will have a continental climate.
The Bonneville Salt Flats are part of the very dry Great Basin of the Sierra Nevada of California. The region receives little rainfall.
Five factors that Affect Climate takes a very thorough look at what creates the climate zones. The climate of a region allows certain plants to grow, creating an ecological biome (5f, 6a, 6b): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7DLLxrrBV8 (5:23).
- Collisions between molecules increase temperature: where air is denser, the air temperature is higher.
- Rainshadow effect occurs on the leeward side of a mountain range.
- Maritime air may become stuck on the windward side of a mountain range and so is unable to bring cooler air further inland.
Use this resource to answer the questions that follow.
1. What two factors can affect climate on mountains?
2. What occurs on the windward side of a mountain?
3. Describe the climate on the windward side of the mountain.
4. Describe the climate on the leeward side of the mountain.
5. What are rain shadow deserts?
6. Describe the characteristics seen on the windward side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
7. Describe the characteristics see on the leeward side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
1. Why does an increase in altitude cause a change in temperature?
2. What is rainshadow effect?
3. Besides rainshadow effect, how else do mountains affect weather downwind?
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