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Monday, January 4, 2010
Hildy Gottlieb on Outcomes - Open Forum Participant
HG: From my perspective, "What's Next in Outcome Measurement?" is a critical decision point.
Will we continue to consider the effectiveness of individual organizations in a vacuum? Or will we instead find ways to measure the real end purpose of outcomes measurement - the extent to which the quality of life in our communities is improving?
To date, outcomes measurement has focused on the former, based on the assumption that it is important to weigh the relative effectiveness of individual organizations. Among other purposes, this provides data for funders / donors to use in determining which organizations to support.
But in truth, the reason it is important that funders invest wisely is because impact in our communities is all that matters. When viewed against that end goal of community / global change, measuring only the effectiveness of individual organizations falls short of the mark.
Within the context of the ultimate end goal of improved communities, therefore, What's Next would be a system for first measuring the larger context of community-wide improvement, and only then measuring the performance of individual organizations within that larger context.
Ken Berger & Robert M. Penna[1]: The distinction Hildy makes here, between measuring the effectiveness of individual organizations, as opposed to measuring collective improvement within communities, is one that has often arisen in our sector. In fact, Mark Friedman addresses this exact issue in his Results-based AccountabilityTM model when he separates "program or agency accountability," from "population accountability." We agree that communal progress ought to be ascertained. But that cannot be done without having a valid, fact-based sense of the outcomes -positive, null, or negative- of the organizational efforts underway in our communities. As such, this measurement hardly takes place "in a vacuum" as Hildy suggests.
We also differ with Hildy in her implication that, beyond serving as an investment guide, there is little value in measuring the effectiveness of individual organizations. The majority of outcomes experts will tell you that the true importance of outcome frameworks and measures is organizational learning, the opportunity to systematically track progress to ascertain precisely how well a given approach, program, or intervention is working. If you do not know the answer to the question of "What's working?" no matter what you learn about community or population progress, you will never know which efforts to continue and expand and which to end or change. At a time when all nonprofits are keenly feeling the competition for donor dollars, and when the total pot of potential resources from governmental, foundation and corporate sources has shrunk, we believe that it is critically important to be able to ascertain which nonprofit efforts are having the greatest positive results. Efforts to develop community-wide impact measurement are fine, but let's not sit on our hands and ignore the individual organizational efforts in the meanwhile. We should be using the tools we have on hand now.
At present, the accountability and effectiveness of individual organizations is the only basis upon which we can make informed decisions regarding how to invest scarce social change resources. Charity Navigator sees its role as assisting in this decision, by helping to disseminate information on which efforts, which organizations and programs, are having the most beneficial impact in their communities.
HG; cont'd: Community-wide measurement would help whole communities determine what is working and not working. Broadly disseminated results could serve as a learning tool, so communities and organizations everywhere could apply that learning to create even more community improvement.
Measuring community-wide change will require shared commitment, shared discussion of what is important - what indicators whole communities want to measure. It will require improving the skills of all organizations to ensure all community benefit efforts are indeed improving communities.
Such an effort will require shared data (as well as someone to gather, sort and disseminate the data; someone to do record keeping, analysis, investigation and reporting). It will require funding.
And it will require contributions from all organizations working on a particular issue. That last step will ensure what has, to date, been the first (and dare I say only) step in outcomes measurement - that we have a tool for measuring the performance of individual organizations.
But we will no longer be measuring individual performance for the primary purpose of measuring those individual organizations. We will instead be measuring the effectiveness of those organizations for the sake of whole communities holding themselves accountable for creating a better future for our world. We will have placed individual monitoring within the context of the only thing that matters - community-wide measurement of community-wide change.
What's next for outcomes measurement is therefore a critical decision.
Will we continue to measure the individual parts of the whole, with virtually no regard to the ultimate outcome - community improvement? Or will we devote the considerable brain-power of this sector towards developing indicators and systems that measure what we really want to see - improvement in our communities?
The choice - and the results of that choice - are what I see as What's Next. It is clearly one of the most important decisions this sector will make.
KB&RP: We think it is a mistake to view our sector as a monolith. Most of us speak of the "nonprofit sector," as shorthand by which we refer to a variety of actors and institutions. But in fact, the "sector" is composed of a spectrum of interests, organizations, efforts and funders. It includes roughly 1.9 million nonprofit organizations and is the engine for as much as 10% of our country's GDP. Within this trillion dollar+ sector, organizations focus upon targeted needs and activities precisely because they believe that the focus of their particular mission has not gotten the attention it requires in the face of matters the larger society of activists, residents and funders believes are more pressing.
So too are our communities themselves far from monolithic. Prioritization and the allocation of resources are always contentious issues. Therefore, a preliminary and exclusive focus upon "community" improvement is a misleading and perhaps dangerous one. Furthermore, there are numerous issues, from the environment to challenges facing the disabled, which cross the borders of communities. For example, the issue of drug abuse will never be solved in one community if the supply of those drugs goes on unabated half a county, half a state, or half a continent away.
In conclusion, communities are important; we agree. But people make up those communities and a macro focus on community measures can very often mask the very real problems these people have. Much of the nonprofit sector is focused upon the issues facing individuals and families. Knowing which organizations' efforts most effectively help them is invaluable to practitioners, donors and our society as a whole.
So we wish Hildy well in her advocacy for community wide assessment of outcomes. But we do not believe it is the logical first step. In the end, , we hope that we can work in tandem and find areas of collaboration as we move forward together to focus nonprofit resources on those efforts that provide the greatest benefits to our communities.
[1] Dr. Robert Penna is an independent outcomes consultant and is assisting Charity Navigator in managing this Open Forum. He is the author of Outcome Frameworks and the forthcoming Outcomes Toolbox.
16 comments:
- Bonnie Koenig said...
I don't believe that Hildy is saying that outcomes measurements for individual orgs and communities are an either/or - she is wisely saying that they must go together, and that the latter has not been given the focus that the former has. We have a tendency in our society (as we have become more specialized in our education and professions) to segment what are in reality integrated/holistic challenges that call for integrated/holistic approaches and solutions.
The evaluation of individual organizations is certainly important for many of the reasons that you have outlined but individual organizations do not (and should not) exist, operate, nor develop programs, policies and services in a vacuum. To what end they are doing their work (improvements of their communities) should be a crucial part of outcomes measurements.
- January 4, 2010 at 11:49 AM
- JaneG said...
I agree with Bonnie - Hildy is in fact a very strong supporter of organizational effectiveness measures and is certainly not suggesting dropping that activity in favour of only community-wide measurement. However, as she has noted, traditional measures have often focussed mostly on internal efficiencies when external results are far more important.
Another important reason for an emphasis on community-wide measures is that often change is initiated and maintained by groups of people who are not even associated with any formal organization. Their efforts are critical, but they are completely missed when only organizations are considered.
I understand the resistance. We have struggled to have good tools and resources for organizational effectiveness, and want to use them. And we should. Our tools for community-wide effectiveness are not only newer and less tested, they are also more community-driven. Experts have to give up some of their power, and realize the wisdom is in the community. Is the community is changing it desires to, or not?
- January 4, 2010 at 1:08 PM
- Gayle L. Gifford said...
I'm with Hildy and Bonnie on this.
While I'm an avid champion of data, measurement and organizational learning, I also know how incredibly complex this measurement of societal outcomes is. I have repeatedly seen first hand that no NGO is an island onto itself. And I'm repeatedly reminded that a critical part of being effective is having effective implementers at the helm.
Just coincidentally, this past week I've been reading Michael Pollan's "In Defense of Food". Pollan's discussions of the inadequacy of the science of nutritionism to make us healthier reads as a cautionary tale for those of us who are are embarking on the same scientific reductionism around NGO outcomes.
Pollan points out that despite all the "scientific" analysis and altering of food and eating, our Western diet (including the foods, the farming, and the processing) has only proliferated the diseases that result from insulin resistance, obesity and other factors with unknown impact on our health (e.g. antibiotics and hormone additives).
Pollan notes that new studies appear almost daily that contradict past definitive studies on what we should or shouldn't be eating.
Pollan writes:
"Scientists study variables they can isolate... yet even the simplest food is a hopelessly complicated thing to analyze, a virtual wilderness of chemical compounds, many of which exist in intricate and dynamic relation to one another, and all of which together are in the process of changing from one state to another. So if you're a nutrition scientist you do the only thing you can do, given the tools at your disposal: Break the thing down into its component parts and study those one by one, even if that means ignoring those subtle interactions and contexts and the fact that the whole may well be more than, or maybe just different from, the sum of its parts." (p62)
Pollan is not necessarily suggesting that we shouldn't continue with science, but he raises alarm bells at science that does not appreciate or study the interactions of complicated systems.
One could easily apply these same words to NGOs.
Like Hildy & Bonnie, I am very worried that the complex interactions between nonprofits, their people, and their communities will be ignored and lost in a reductionist rating system that rewards isolated actions.
I am also concerned about harmful unintended consequences that can't be measured in the short term, or a failure to measure or value positive unintended consequences that are not necessarily the primary mission of a particular NGO but are valuable secondary outcomes nonetheless (e.g. development of community leaders), about the capacity of the richest NGOs to game the rating systems while the least resourced continue to be starved of funding, or the ignoring or devaluing of important societal outcomes that may only occur at the most micro levels (e.g. human dignity, leading a fulfilled life) (see my story "Hope, Dignity and Quality of Life are also valuable outcomes -- even when measured in hours." http://bit.ly/8iYuEk)
Yes, what Hildy is suggesting is hard, but it is very much worth doing. If the goal is making beneficial societal change, then funders need to reward community-wide learning systems by funding them.
While I know that Ken is approaching this much more thoughtfully than most, I have deep concerns nonetheless. I can see a rating system that notes whether NGOs are attempting to measure outcomes, but I am very, very concerned at rating systems that definitively ascribe societal outcomes to any particular NGOs.
- January 4, 2010 at 2:32 PM
- Maureen said...
I agree that both community assessment and the effectiveness of individual organizations are important to building a better future. It is imperative that we have the tools to sort out the effective nonprofits from the ineffective nonprofits, supporting those who are doing the most good.
I think that funders may have a role to play in ensuring that the community aspect is addressed. All funders have a focus for their grantmaking. Community Foundations have a regional focus, many large private foundations are focused on a number of program areas. If funders can take a more active role in 'taking the temperature' of their funding communities and sharing that information with the world. If we can find a way to match that information with our list of effective nonprofits. If we all take responsibility for our communities, finding the gaps and seeking to fill them - oh what a world it could be!
- January 4, 2010 at 3:38 PM
- Ken Berger said...
Bonnie, Jane, Gayle and Maureen,
We are pleased to hear that Hildy is a strong supporter of organizational effectiveness measures. When we read her book and her blogs we do not find it highlighted anywhere to the degree that community-wide measurement is. Given the sorry state of affairs in the NP sector, where most do not measure themselves, we believe it is going to be a long time coming before individual measurement happens for most, let alone community-wide measurement! We believe that this individual effort MUST come first before we can talk in a substantive way about community measures, not the other way around.
We agree that the most effective NPs are fully engaged in their communities with other NPs, government, business and their supporters. We also understand the value in setting community-wide measures to coordinate efforts. However, given where most NPs are at and the resources available to them, individual performance management and measurement should be the first priority.
Let us agree to disagree on this. As we said in our original response to Hildy, we only wish you well in these efforts. We are happy to work in parallel and collaborate with you whenever we can.
- January 5, 2010 at 12:13 PM
- Ingvild Bjornvold said...
Ken is right that we need to start with the individual nonprofits. How can we possibly expect to measure progress at the community level if we can't even do so at the organizational level? And how can community level measurement be meaningful without understanding whether the efforts of individual organizations are helping or hurting?
- January 5, 2010 at 5:31 PM
- Hildy Gottlieb said...
Ken et al:
Thank you for this lively debate. I am sorry I have been in full-day sessions and unable to participate since this posted.
I just want to address Ken's suggestion that my work does not address individual organizational effectiveness within community effectiveness. I guess to say I am surprised is beyond understatement.
My entire book, The Pollyanna Principles, focuses on building organizations that are effective in all ways - externally and internally. Our website is filled with dozens of articles on organizational effectiveness, as is my blog. We have a YouTube channel that addresses how organizations can hold themselves accountable for both end results and then the means to accomplish those results.
As I am sadly in a rush and heading into another full day of strategy, I will provide those links and then unfortunately have to run.
The bottom line is this: if we want our communities to improve, we must aim at that improvement, and only then use organizations as one among many tools towards that improvement. If we aim only at the tools - the organizations - we are missing the opportunity to create the kinds of visionary community improvement that is possible.
- January 7, 2010 at 10:08 AM
- Ken Berger said...
I point to a sample of notions suggested in the Pollyanna Principles book:
"1. What indicators will show a community that feels spiritually whole and integrated?
2. Imagine that the norm in measurement is celebration and reflection!
3. Funding everyone. Collective capacity building rather than individual capacity building."
All of this to me seems pointing toward a lack of MEANINGFUL!, individual accountability for performance.
- January 7, 2010 at 11:28 AM
- Teri Behrens said...
This discussion is a great example of why NGO's, funders and evaluators could benefit from systems-thinking based approaches to program design, implementation and evaluation. In any community and with any social issue (hunger, homelessness, etc.) there are many organizations, polices, relationships, and resource allocations that are both part of the problem and part of the solution. One important outcome that should be assessed by/for any NGO is how well it understands and works within the community's systems. The American Evaluation Association published a book on systems thinking last year (Systems Concepts in Evaluation); the current issue of The Foundation Review has an article by David Stroh on systems thinking tools.
- January 7, 2010 at 5:15 PM
- Steve said...
Ken and Hildy:
I was impressed by your statement on measurements based on improving the communities quality of life.
One of the programs the Silver Star Families of America operates is a Hospice Program.
Our Chaplain distributes Prayer Blankets to our dying veterans.
Can we measure this? Yes I suppose we can count blankets.
Does it get to the "root of the problem?"
Mercy I don't know.
But I DO know that it improves, not the community, but individuals quality of life and we are proud to be involved.
Maybe some things are not meant to be measured.
- January 9, 2010 at 8:34 PM
- Ken Berger said...
I commend your wonderful work. Providing blankets is a measurable activity (although not an outcome, some programs are output focused and that is more than fine). I suspect that there is much more that could be measured such as the amazing psychological boost you may give to people who have served our country.
- January 10, 2010 at 10:05 PM
- Renata Rafferty said...
I've always been in firm support of "outcomes" assessment at the organizational level. The standards I suggest may be somewhat atypical, and ultimately I believe that a common sense "360" can often tell us as much "truth" about an organization's effectiveness as any set(s) of numbers. That's why I am a major cheerleader for CN's trip down the path less traveled by other ratings entities.
But simply substituting a different measuring stick -- which we're all still struggling to define -- will be as limiting (or misleading) as the financial ratio mirage if we continue to assess organizations on a silo basis.
Frankly, I think Hildy Gottlieb has jumped the shark on the rest of us. When -- and if -- we ever settle on some commonly understood and respected organizational outcomes assessment methodology (what a mouthful!), we will then inevitably need to move on to where Gottlieb has already landed ... that is, how important is simply measuring the independent outcomes of disparate organizations?
Ultimately, isn't our goal as the avant-garde of changemakers, as "social" venturers and entrepreneurs, and (gasp) as philanthropists, to improve communities, and ultimately the community of the human race and the global environment in which we live?
I think Hildy's point is "let's get to the point." And she has attempted to -- if not define a standard of measurement of that scope -- at least develop and put into practice an approach to community change that leapfrogs to that endpoint where the rest of us will eventually follow.
In my own work with philanthropists and foundations, I stress the importance of tying one's philanthropic investment to one's most basic beliefs about the inalienable rights granted by our very humanity.
And though we may give in order to effect some small or specific change, ultimately, it's about moving the ball toward some large, ultimate and presumably shared goal and vision for humanity.
The "world" is too big for us to take on, but we can take on the lofty goal of changing the fabric of our own community to more closely approximate our vision for humanity.
Frankly, that's way too big of a concept for which I would ever try to develop an evaluation methodology.
Whether Gottlieb can, will or even wants to be successful at developing systems for outcomes measurement at that level remains to be seen.
But, hell, I applaud her for pushing -- and exciting -- us to think about and measure our work against the ultimate goal line and not just at the "first down" marker (okay, so it's Superbowl month, I couldn't resist).
This has been a fascinating discussion -- thanks for bringing this controversial topic to the blogosphere!
- January 11, 2010 at 10:23 PM
- Ken Berger said...
Thank you for your thoughtful (as always) comments. I too wish Hildy well on her endeavor. I think we all have a full plate!
I just want to clarify how we frame the issue. No one I know who focuses on individual NP measurement assumes that they are not intending to have it result in "community improvement" as it has been incorrectly characterized by some on Twitter. Rather, it is a question of where to begin to make community progress.
A good example is the Harlem Children's Zone that, as an individual organization, is very much concerned about the entire Harlem community and how it can make it a better place through its efforts, block by block or zone by zone.
Also, it is understood that a high impact organization is fully engaged with the community and providing catalytic energy to advocate, educate and fully engage others in the effort (government, business, other NPs and individuals in the community, etc.).
- January 12, 2010 at 9:43 AM
I've always been in firm support of "outcomes" assessment at the organizational level. The standards I suggest may be somewhat atypical, and ultimately I believe that a common sense "360" can often tell us as much "truth" about an organization's effectiveness as any set(s) of numbers. That's why I am a major cheerleader for CN's trip down the path less traveled by other ratings entities.
But simply substituting a different measuring stick -- which we're all still struggling to define -- will be as limiting (or misleading) as the financial ratio mirage if we continue to assess organizations on a silo basis.
Frankly, I think Hildy Gottlieb has jumped the shark on the rest of us. When -- and if -- we ever settle on some commonly understood and respected organizational outcomes assessment methodology (what a mouthful!), we will then inevitably need to move on to where Gottlieb has already landed ... that is, how important is simply measuring the independent outcomes of disparate organizations?
Ultimately, isn't our goal as the avant-garde of changemakers, as "social" venturers and entrepreneurs, and (gasp) as philanthropists, to improve communities, and ultimately the community of the human race and the global environment in which we live?
I think Hildy's point is "let's get to the point." And she has attempted to -- if not define a standard of measurement of that scope -- at least develop and put into practice an approach to community change that leapfrogs to that endpoint where the rest of us will eventually follow.
In my own work with philanthropists and foundations, I stress the importance of tying one's philanthropic investment to one's most basic beliefs about the inalienable rights granted by our very humanity.
And though we may give in order to effect some small or specific change, ultimately, it's about moving the ball toward some large, ultimate and presumably shared goal and vision for humanity.
The "world" is too big for us to take on, but we can take on the lofty goal of changing the fabric of our own community to more closely approximate our vision for humanity.
Frankly, that's way too big of a concept for which I would ever try to develop an evaluation methodology.
Whether Gottlieb can, will or even wants to be successful at developing systems for outcomes measurement at that level remains to be seen.
But, hell, I applaud her for pushing -- and exciting -- us to think about and measure our work against the ultimate goal line and not just at the "first down" marker (okay, so it's Superbowl month, I couldn't resist).
This has been a fascinating discussion -- thanks for bringing this controversial topic to the blogosphere!
- January 12, 2010 at 2:50 PM
- Alan Arthur said...
Folks -
Every donor makes their own individual determination about whether the purpose/goals of a particular nonprofit are relevant to their lives and giving goals, or not. They also make their own determination about whether an organization's purported progress towards their organizational goals is appropriate, based upon either emotive evidence or outcome data.
Most donors probably require some reasonable portion of both, but I think research definitively shows that most current donors lean towards emotional or relational decision-making.
Organizations like ours must always do their work in the context of a broader set of community needs and goals, but I doubt seriously that most donors are going to be emphasizing that perspective in their giving, even if they should.
The impact of Charity Navigator and other rating systems helps donors make better choices, but its greatest impact is in helping nonprofit organizations themselves spend more time thinking about the important issues of effectiveness and efficiency. Those who consistently address effectiveness and efficiency will perform better, and have a higher chance of doing their work longer. And should.
Best Always,
- April 7, 2010 at 12:16 PM
- Ken Berger said...
I agree with your characterization of the state of things as it stands at the moment.
However, one of our goals is to educate donors as to the importance of results and effectiveness of charities. Over time, we hope that the awareness that, "not all charities are equal" and that identifying the most high performing charities is vitally important to maximize your charitable support, will become much more common place.
- April 7, 2010 at 12:23 PM


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n ARMAGH: Armagh gets in on the action this Easter too with the exciting and unique Three Little Pigs @ Navan event (until April 2). Visit the three little pigs in their houses made from straw, wood and stone and see what will happen when the big bad wolf comes calling. Children are encouraged to come dressed up as their favourite story-time characters.
n LIMAVADY: Celebrate Easter in Limavady with the Roe Valley Easter Storytelling and Crafts event which takes place tomorrow at the Roe Valley Arts & Cultural Centre. This is suitable for children aged five to nine years old and admission is free.
n MONEYMORE: Easter events at Springhill House in Moneymore on Easter Sunday and Easter Monday include lots of activities for children, including an egg trail, crafts, balloons and face painting.
n DOWNHILL: Children young and old can get outdoors and celebrate Easter at Downhill Demesne on Sunday and Monday, where they can play detective by hunting high and low for clues around the beautiful surroundings of Mussenden Temple, which will lead them to a delicious chocolate treat.
n CO DOWN: Get on a roll this Easter with lots of events and activities at Castle Espie Wildfowl and Wetlands Centre's Giant Easter Bunny Hunt (until April 7). Follow the maps and clues provided and search for the large coloured bunnies hidden around the site. As well as picking up one of the many prizes children can also leave their mark on the bunny board and make free bunny crafts.
n STRANGFORD: The Easter fun continues at Castle Ward with the annual Easter Fair on Sunday and Monday, which boasts horse and carriage rides, children's activities, local crafts and food.
n BANGOR: Bangor promises to come alive on Easter Monday with the Easter Parade and Family Funday, jam-packed with activities and attractions for the whole family including a giant birthday cake to mark Bangor's 400th birthday.
n SAINTFIELD: Follow the Easter Chick Trail in Rowallane Garden in Saintfield on Tuesday from 10.30am-3pm and explore the nooks and crannies around the beautiful garden while following the clues to find an Easter surprise.
n ENNISKILLEN: Join in the Easter Madness at Castle Coole in Enniskillen on Easter Sunday for a day of treats and fun for all the family.
n ENNISKILLEN: This weekend sees the Easter Sunday Treasure Trails at Florence Court take place, where visitors can enjoy a great day out around the grounds following the trails for hidden chocolate treasure.
n NEWTOWNBUTLER: Crom Castle in Newtownbutler gets in on the action on Sunday with a children's Easter Egg Trail, where they can follow paths around the estate to find chocolate prizes.
n ENNISKILLEN: Enjoy a Picnic in the Park on Easter Monday as Forthill Park welcomes families to explore the beautiful Victorian park while enjoying music, an Easter egg trail and family games.
n OMAGH: Easter celebrations are taking place at the Ulster American Folk Park on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. This special Easter event offers a host of traditional outdoor activities for all the family including butter churning, basket weaving, spinning and rope-making. Visitors can also roll up their sleeves to help feed baby chicks, participate in the egg 'n' spoon race and join the toe-tapping fun at the spring hoedown in the Pennsylvania Barn.
n DUNGANNON: Anglers can show off their skills and compete in the special Easter Monday Angling Competition where the first prize of £150 is sure to put a spring in your step.
All events accurate at time of publication. Please be sure to contact the locations mentioned here directly to check the event is still happening.


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LINCOLN, Neb. Jordan Lybarger has had what you would probably call a bad week.
He got a call Wednesday that he had to turn himself back in to prison that evening because he hadn't served his complete sentence - and he was told that he was let out by mistake.
But Lybarger, had already served time and left prison in 2013 so he was confused about how this could even happen.
"They said they miscalculated my time...I was working," said Lybarger.
But luckily, Lybarger was in prison for one night before he was told to pack up again and go home. He was given his freedom and told that it was all a mistake.
"How can you mess up on a mess up?" said Lybarger.
This is just a small part of the confusion surrounding the process that law enforcement will be conducting as they bring back inmates who were let out prematurely because of a mistake made by the Department of Correctional Services.
Lybarger's father, Kevin, said that this week has been traumatizing and he and his family have been on "pins and needles."
"We don't know if he's here to stay," said Kevin Lybarger.
And Lybarger isn't the only inmate who has been left wondering if he'll be wrenched away from his life at any second.
Pierce Williams got out of prison in July 2011 - and got the same call on Thursday. His first instinct? Go to the Capitol and ask a senator for help.
Williams did just that and ended up finding a senator who was able to make some calls and delay the process.
Williams hasn't committed a crime since he was discharged from prison and now he's confused as to why anyone would ask for him to return.
"I mean it's scary to be taken from your family you know, especially when you're the bread winner you know, and you have a stay at home mom you know, it's real troubling to us," said Williams.
Now these men say they're living in fear - that prison is just a call away.
Jordan Lybarger said even though he's already back with his family, he still wonders if he will get another call. "I was telling my family too...they were saying well 'can they call you back' and I said I don't know."


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As you can se the scope on my ar 15 is sitting on the barrel. It is not pulling or stuck on there tightly it just fits perfectly on top. But im worried about it. Will it damage the scope when i fire or pit it off sight at all since it is touching? Sorry if i explaned yjis odd but im new (ish) to guns. I can more details if needed.
If your seeing the picture upside down its because i took it with my cell phone sideways i apologize
What about getting a riser for it...?
It can throw yoir shots off. It wont damage the scope shooting 223/556 but you should get a little higher set of rings
Won't it interfere w/ the barrel as it flexes? And if so is it even a problem?
It would probably be best for you to get a one piece scope mount that is designed for AR platforms. For about $60 you can get a high rise cantilever scope mount from RRA, or the Burris PEPR mount for about $90. It looks like you are using individual Weaver rings, which can cause problems such as what you are seeing, as well as possible eye relief problems.
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Joe Bob's is a site vendor/sponser and I highly recomend them. Excellent service and quick shipping. Here's a link to the scope mount I bought from them:
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They also have the Burris PEPR for around $70:
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I don't have the large aperture bell on the front of mine like you do, but you can see how it will work well with one.
Thanks for the Joe Bob link. I too am looking to mount a scope on my AR. Now..... what scope to buy?
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Tired of the same old egg nog mixes and endless bottles of beer you consume during the holiday season? Well try a classic that is a great departure from the norm, because its warm and tastes good without the alcohol. Everyone including the kids can have a Tom & Jerry, just don't get the glasses mixed up. This Tom & Jerry drink recipe from Drink of the Week serves 4 and you'll need…
3 eggs
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1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
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4 ounces dark rum
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First separate the egg whites and yolks. Beat the egg whites until stiff and in another bowl beat the allspice, sugar, cinnamon and cloves into the yolk. After, mix in the whites to make batter. For each of your four glasses pour 2 tablespoons of the batter into one ounce of cognac and add another ounce of dark rum. Don't forget to omit the booze for the kids and once done, fill the glasses with hot milk and top off with cinnamon or nutmeg. Might have to put the family up on this one but meanwhile, check out Drink of the Week for this and other delicious drink recipes.
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I dreamed I was in a nude cabaret with a married couple I didn't know. They wanted to tell me about a new book they'd written, but it was hard to communicate because the music was loud and we were distracted by the naked lady who was rubbing her crotch against a pole just to our left.
Except it wasn't a dream. Nicole and Michael Sebastian thought it would be amusing to meet for drinks at the Dream Palace, a scary Scottsdale bar featuring an all-nude-girl revue. We met there because the Sebastians are professional dream interpreters who've authored Trust Yourself: Master Your Dreams, Master Your Destiny, and this bar had the word "dream" in its name. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
The Sebastians call themselves the Dream Dudes, although Nicole looks less like a dude than an off-hours Playboy bunny. While nude women gyrated nearby, the Sebastians and I talked, sometimes in circles, about waking and dreaming and the true meaning of Fay Wray.
New Times: What are dreams, really?
Michael Sebastian: They're a memory of our travels in the other dimension. The reason we don't remember them very well when we awaken is because we've gone to places we aren't very familiar with.
Nicole Sebastian: Yes. When we go to sleep, we shut this reality down and hook up to an inner consciousness.
NT: No kidding.
Michael: In our book, we go into quantum physics, and use it to explain how everything in the world is part of a large matrix, where A equals B equals C. I'm hooked up to you, we're both hooked up to Nicole, and we're all hooked up to the distant neutron star in Alpha Centauri II. It's all one. So if I tell you I know exactly what you are thinking right now, it's not so unusual, since we're all connected.
NT: So each of us is connected to some greater intelligence, which is communicating with us while we're asleep? Wouldn't it be better to communicate with us while we're awake?
Nicole: No! When you're asleep you don't have mental things to block the message. When you go to sleep, there's just pure information coming in -- we call it a dream. So in the morning you write down the dream, you decipher its message, and you have the answer.
NT: What if there's no question?
Nicole: That's fabulous! Let me tell you about waking dreams. They're messages from the universe. I came home one day and the clothes rod in my closet had broken. Do you know what that means?
NT: You own too many sweaters?
Nicole: No! It was the universe telling me I have too many hang-ups! Get it? Hang-ups!
Michael: It's like if you're driving and you spill hot coffee, it means you're about to get burnt by someone in your life. Or if you're driving too fast and a cop pulls you over, it means your life is moving too fast in a direction it shouldn't. That's waking dreams.
Nicole: Yes! You get a flat tire, it means your life is out of balance. Your car battery goes dead, it means you're out of energy. Everything means something! It's all parts of a puzzle, and that really makes life cool. I've been sober for 10 years, and what allows me to stay sober is that life is a really entertaining puzzle. I'm constantly working on my own personal puzzle, so I never need to watch TV!
NT: Here's my theory: Dreams are built on things you thought about or saw not long before you went to sleep. Period. Nothing mystical.
Michael: Well, that's true. But there are also important messages in your dreams. Like when we were trying to decide whether to move here from Austin last year. We started seeing synchronicities: I'd see Phoenix license plates; I'd turn on the radio and there'd be a story about the weather in Phoenix; I'd see symbols of phoenix birds everywhere I went.
NT: Speaking of birds, what does it mean when I dream I can fly?
Michael: You're out of your body. Flying dreams are when our energy is traveling to another place. You're in an altered state.
NT: What about the one where I'm back in school, but I'm only wearing Jockey briefs?
Michael: Everyone has that one. It's about feeling vulnerable, and the being in school part means you have some more life lessons to learn. Some issues you didn't face.
Nicole: Sweetie here met me in a dream five years before we actually met.
NT: Did you recognize her when you met her awake?
Michael: Not at first. Because in the dream she was a personal trainer.
Nicole: A year later I became a personal trainer. Isn't that incredible?
Michael: Dreams are like déjà vus. Have you ever had a déjà vu, like, "Oh, I've been in this place before"?
NT: Well, not in this place, I assure you. So, what's a nightmare?
Nicole: It's a strong message that's telling you that you need to pay attention. They usually start out as recurring dreams, and then if you don't pay attention they come back as nightmares. Someone turns up the volume on the dream, and it scares you and then you pay attention to it.
NT: My sister keeps talking about "visitation dreams," where dead people from your life come visit you after they die.
Michael: We call that "connecting," and in our seminars we teach how to do it.
Nicole: Yes, and you don't even need that Crossing Over dude, what's his name? All you need is you! It's so beautiful! When you dream, you have the ability to leave your body, just like you do when you die. So your energy form goes where the energy forms of the deceased people already are.
NT: So I think I'm sleeping, but I'm actually hanging out with corpses.
Michael: You're on a journey. You can visit anyone. I often visit my dog, who's dead, and my father, who died not that long ago.
NT: I keep dreaming that my teeth are falling out.
Nicole: Oh! Oh! That's so common! It means there's a situation in your life that you don't understand yet. The teeth falling out means you haven't digested it completely.
NT: Hey, what about wet dreams?
Michael: Nicole asked me that once, when she was in my sociology class.
Nicole: They were the first words I ever spoke to him.
NT: I know a woman who keeps a notepad by her bed. First thing every morning, she writes down her dreams. What's her deal?
Michael: It's a good idea. If you can write them down without moving, that's even better. Because you're in an altered state of consciousness, and if you don't move around a lot, you can really hold the dream until you get it down on paper. Everybody dreams four to six times per night.
Nicole: Unless you're into cocaine psychosis or something, okay?
Michael: Drugs'll mess with your dreams. When I first met Nicole, I was walking her to her car and I looked at her license plate, and it was KRW 975. KRW was the initials of my ex-wife, and I knew it was a message about Nicole: Either this was going to turn into something significant and good, or I was gonna get slammed!
Nicole: Tell me that's not beautiful! Oh, my! I mean!
NT: Here's one: Last night I dreamed that Carol Burnett called me on the phone to ask if she could borrow a photograph of Fay Wray. It turned out that Carol lived in Sunnyslope.
Nicole: That's the dream? What does Sunnyslope mean to you?
NT: Well, a lot of ugly houses.
Nicole: You can score a lot of meth there, too. So, okay. We've got Carol Burnett, and we've got Fay Wray.
Michael: She was in King Kong. So, what did you think about the dream when you woke up?
NT: I thought maybe I shouldn't eat cheese doodles so close to bedtime.
Michael: Well, Carol Burnett called you in the dream. That could be a good thing.
Nicole: Yes, but there's unpleasantness in the dream: Sunnyslope. It's almost like good and bad at the same time: Fay Wray, Sunnyslope.
Michael: Only you know what the dream really means.
NT: Me? You're the Dream Dudes. Okay. Here's another one from last week: I dreamed that Mark Turvin was throwing salsa at me.
Nicole: Who?
NT: He's this guy who wants to be a theater critic, except all his friends are actors, so he can't review plays. We've been having this ongoing discussion about ethics for the past several years.
Nicole: Well, throwing hot sauce is an unethical thing to do.
Michael: Salsa means hot comments.
Nicole: Oh, that's good! Yes!
NT: There aren't many subtle metaphors in dreams, are there?
Nicole: Wait. I want to go back to Carol Burnett. You've got to deliver a picture to someplace unpleasant. But it's Fay Wray! And that's all good, you see? I think it means something. The dream is telling you that something cool is about to happen, even though it might seem kind of unpleasant.
NT: Got it. Okay, how about this one: I dreamed that I went to a KISS concert. The opening act was Dolly Parton. When KISS and Dolly dueted on "Detroit Rock City," I left. In the arena parking lot, an old woman sold me a smoothie and then put a curse on me when I didn't tip her. What does it all mean?
Nicole: Ego stuff! You weren't interested in the concert, you left; you bought a smoothie, and then you didn't even tip the old lady. What's wrong with you? Only you know.
Michael: Things in the dream could have gone smoothly . . .
Nicole: Smoothie!
Michael: Right, the dream would have gone smoothly if you had tipped the old lady, but you didn't, so you ended up with a curse on you.
Nicole: Hey, but listen, you don't really have a curse on you. It's just a symbol.
NT: That's a relief. Okay, now you tell me your dreams and I'll interpret them.
Nicole: Good! I'll go first: We moved to Phoenix, and we needed car insurance. So I dreamed I met with a really young insurance agent and he was rude to me.
NT: It means if you don't let go of your fear of encyclopedia salesmen, someone will run over you with their SUV.
Michael: The other night, I dreamt about bees buzzing around me.
NT: That means you should eat some honey real quick or you'll die.
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Michael: No. It means I should get busy on projects I've been putting off. I need to get busy as a bee.
Nicole: Here's one: I dreamed that a friend of mine went on a date with John Travolta, and he was acting like a lunatic. He kicked down her door, he yelled at her, he pulled down her skirt.
NT: This means you will meet a journalist who will take you to a titty bar and ask you a lot of rude questions. And then he will leave suddenly, and a woman with no blouse on will bring you a clean ashtray and try to sell you a lap dance.


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I am from Bulgaria and have information about certain criminals in my country who want to kill me. I have already given this information to other government agencies. I am afraid the criminals will find out what I have told the United States government. What does it mean that my asylum interview is confidential?
Information about asylum applications and information obtained during an asylum interview is confidential. This means that the asylum officer cannot disclose any information about you, your application or your claim to any "third party" without your written permission. They are not even allowed to tell anyone that you applied for asylum. (See 8 C.F.R. 208.6.)
In practice, this means that the officer can tell certain other U.S. government officials about your case, such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials or anyone in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The good news is that the mere fact that officials may learn about your case doesn't mean they will share the information with others. This would be done on a "need to know" basis. Most officials only need to know your information if your case comes before them, such as when you might apply for a green card or if you apply for naturalization. If asylum information is shared, the new official must continue to keep it confidential.
There are certain foreign governments that have an arrangement with the United States regarding the sharing of asylum information. For example, the United States and Canada have an agreement that refugees seek asylum in the first of these countries they enter. There are very few countries that fall into this category.
Asylum Officers take confidentiality very seriously. They are trained to understand the importance of keeping your information, and the fact that you are seeking asylum, from reaching anyone who might endanger you or your family. Officers realize that some governments will threaten their citizens after learning where they are or that they applied for asylum. There is even a name for a person who becomes a refugee while in the United States because their government sees or hears them do something—refugee sur place. Officers also understand that your family back home might be in danger if the fact that you applied for asylum was discovered.
A bigger concern to do with confidentiality arises if your case is not approved after the asylum interview. At that point, it's also possible that certain judges may learn about your case, namely Immigration Judges and federal court judges who hear your asylum claim after a referral or upon appeal. (Filing an appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) or, after that, to a federal circuit court, are options if the Immigration Judge does not grant your case.)
Also, although most published court decisions refer to the asylum seeker as "respondent" or by the person's initials, there is a possibility that the court decision -- which is publicly available -- could include your name, even in its title. This is not likely to occur for many years, however, given how long it usually takes for a case to work its way through the system.
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Hi, I have some unexplained upper chest pain. It has been with me for about 5 weeks now, off and on, but more frequent in the last 3 weeks. I am a female, age 47. I have been in stellar health for most of my life with no sick days from work in the last 9 years. I hardly ever get even a cold. The pain can be described as a tightness or heaviness, that worsens when I hold my breath and expand the chest cavity. It also hurts in my arms, upper back, occasionally in my jaw and ears. I had a chest Xray, a Chest CT with contrast, and an echo stress test, EKG and tons of bloodwork. All of this came back fine, and doctors don't think it's cardiac. I do not have shortness of breath or nausea or fever. But...it hurts and I am not anxious, under stress, or otherwise concerned about anything except of course this, because nobody likes to have chest pain. I know two women who had heart attacks in their 40s, and hate it when doctors say "you are too young for heart issues." Nobody is too young. While I am relieved at the good test results (forgot to mention my FSH was 126 so they tell me I am beginning menopause) I take really good care of myself and don't understand why this pain persists. I am a vegetarian, I take magnesium, Vit D, Vit C, Folic Acid, and B-complex vitamins. I am very frustrated because I just want to fix this and get on with my life. I am following up with my GP next week but has anyone heard of this sort of chest pain? It seems to be in the lung area yet my chest X ray and listening to my lungs shows they are clear. I do have a massage scheduled tomorrow and plan to see a chiropractor too in case it could be pinched nerves or out of alignment vertebrae, though I would be surprised. The holding my breath and feeling pain tells me that MAYBE it could be chest wall related, but I had no injury and this has gone on very long. I am baffled, but want to be sure nothing serious is missed.
Edit: I should add that my blood pressure is normal, usually around 117/72 give or take a few points at different times during the day. When the pain is there, it doesn't matter if I am at rest or moving. It doesn't change the severity of it. At times, I think that it gets worse in a sitting position (like driving) and possibly decreases a bit when I lean back or lie back, but I have had it during those times as well. It is not constant, but is there for several hours each day. Sometimes it seems a hot shower makes me feel better, but not always. Adding this info so you have more to work with, thanks!
Any thoughts? Thanks for your time.
Hi, thank you for your reply. You did mention cardiac causes...As noted in my initial question, this was my primary concern so I have already had Chest X-ray, many hours of bloodwork, EKG, Chest CT scan with contrast to rule out aortic dissection and cardiac stress test, all negative. I have had no palpitations. BP has been normal. EKG was normal. Chest CT showed normal aorta.
The chest Xray and Chest CT scan ruled out pulmonary embolism according to the doctors. They did not find any lung issues except for one granuloma in the lung which they said is not significant. You did mention some other causes which I have not heard before so thank you, ***** ***** check those out. As noted, I am not having any panic attack. I have a very low stress job and am very happy in my personal life. I am usually a very calm person.
I have confidence in my doctors but am looking for as many medical opinions as I can get because of the strange nature of the pain. In your opinion, how confident would you be that cardiac causes are ruled out with all of the negative testing I have had? Do you feel any of this pain could be related to my entering menopause? Thanks!!


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The Central Michigan University softball team swept intrastate foe Oakland University on Tuesday in a non-conference doubleheader.
The Chippewas (18-16) took game one, 9-1 in six innings and held off a late rally from the Grizzlies (3-30) in the nightcap, sweeping with a 7-6 win.
A six-run, third inning proved to be the decisive blow in the first game for the Chippewas. CarolAnn Sexauer led the inning off with a single up the middle and scored two batters later when Brittney Horan reached on a fielder's choice. Summer Knoop also scored a pair of runs when her single drove home Horan and Macy Merchant.
Kara Dornbos (9-8) started in the circle for CMU, pitching four innings while giving up three hits and fanning four Grizzlies. Morgan Yuncker pitched the final two innings in relief, giving up just the one run on two hits.
Merchant went 2-for-2 at the plate with two runs, while Knoop was 1-for-3 with two RBIs.
In the nightcap, CMU held off a late, three run rally by the Grizzlies to complete the sweep. Trailing 7-3 with two outs and no runners on base, the Grizzlies mounted a furious comeback to chase the reliever Kristen Kuhlman.
Dornbos was then called upon in the save situation and got the next batter to groundout to the shortstop to earn her second save of the season.
Chelsea Sundberg (5-5) notched the win for CMU, lasting four innings while giving up three runs on five hits while sending four Grizzlies packing.
Sexauer went 2-for-2 with one RBI, while Ashley Gilson went 2-for-3 at the plate with three runs for the CMU.
The Chippewas travel to the University of Toledo on Friday for a conference doubleheader.


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Many people are planning trips to Italy because they're in love with the foods in Italy, its culture and beautiful scenery. There's plenty to see and do and one of the most convenient ways of organizing a journey is through Italy vacation packages.You can know more about florence italy tours via various websites.
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Online University of Minnesota Graduate Education Catalog - Graduate Degree Programs and Requirements
The IBS Program is an all-University M.S. degree program (Plan A only) and Ph.D. degree program which provides training in integrative biology through the following mechanisms:
A first year course sequence required of all students and which includes courses in integrated systems approaches in biology, advanced evolutionary biology, experimental design, a course in either animal or plant physiology, and professional practice and ethics;
Student research/journal clubs;
Colloquia in current topics of research interest of the faculty;
Specialization in either a Cell, Molecular, and Physiological Biology emphasis or an Ecology, Organismal, and Population Biology emphasis. Student examination committees will be chosen from faculty in both concentrations.
The Cell, Molecular, and Physiological (CMP) Biology Emphasis
The CMP emphasis of the Integrated Biosciences Graduate Program provides students with a broad base of knowledge to investigate questions in biology from the molecular, biochemical, cellular and organism physiology levels. Through coursework in biochemistry, molecular biology, cell biology, physiology and statistics, students obtain the basic knowledge required for critical analysis of research questions in the biosciences.
Elective courses provide more specialized information in specific areas of research. Students choosing the CMP emphasis are required to take some courses from the Ecology, Organismal and Population Biology emphasis and are encouraged to pursue it as an internal related field. Areas of research include diverse topics integrating knowledge in such traditional disciplines as molecular biology, physiology, biochemistry, cell biology, pharmacology, pathology, and microbiology. In addition, participation in program seminars and coursework in conjunction with students in the EOP emphasis provide CMP students with a unique perspective regarding population biology and the influence of the environment on the structure and function of the organism.
The Ecology, Organismal, and Population (EOP) Biology Emphasis
The EOP emphasis provides students with a broad curriculum in ecology, statistical analysis of ecological data, and mathematical analysis of theories and models. Students choosing the EOP emphasis are required to take some courses from the Cell, Molecular and Physiological Biology emphasis and are encouraged to pursue it as an internal related field.
Thesis topics that cross disciplinary boundaries are encouraged. Examples of such topics currently pursued by students and faculty include use of genetic markers to quantitatively describe population structure and dynamics, the physiological basis of material and energy transfers between organisms and their environment, and mathematical analysis of complex behaviors of populations and ecosystems, such as bifurcations, catastrophes, and chaos.
The Chemical Biology (CB) Emphasis
The CB emphasis provides students with an in-depth knowledge of the chemical and biochemical aspects of structure-function relationship of biological systems, and technical skills necessary to solve complex biological proglems using integrated approaches. Students who choose the CB emphasis will be required to take classes in biochemistry, molecular and cell biology, physiology, ecology, and statistics for critical analysis of research.
In this interdisciplinary IBS/CB track students will gain fundamental knowledge and skills to function at the interface of chemistry, biochemistry, medicinal chemistry, physics, and biology because the molecular underpinning of all biological systems and functions are governed by tightly regulated changes in chemical structures of biomolecules, intermolecular interactions, and networks of coupled chemical reactions. Students will also be equipped with analytical and theoretical tools that are essential to undertand complex biological processes and ultimately their medical impact. Electives will also assist with more specific knowledge in the field and in thesis research.


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The month-long World Cup is the most widely viewed sporting event on the planet. It begins next month in Brazil. The U.S. men haven't made it past the quarterfinals in more than 80 years.
The coach, "60 Minutes Sports" correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi reports, is hoping to rebuild from the top down.
Jurgen Klinsmann was a legendary soccer player in Europe. Now he's putting his mark on the U.S. Men's National Team.
Right away, he shook things up, stripping players' names from their jerseys, saying they had to earn them back, then moving players around to different positions, even openly criticizing his star players and the way Americans play soccer in general.
The U.S. Men's National Soccer Team is stacked with stars from Major League Soccer, such as Seattle Sounders' Clint Dempsey, and top American players from European teams, like forward Jozy Altidore and goalie Tim Howard.
But the hope for the United States in the World Cup may rest even more on their German coach. Klinsmann is an intense 49-year-old who may know the American public better than they know him."Americans want special moments," Klinsmann said. "They want the Olympics. They want the Super Bowl. They want, you know, the NBA finals and all that stuff. The World Cup is something similar to that. So, eventually, we want to make this game grow. We want to make this game, not competing now with the big three, you know, baseball, football, basketball; we want to make them understand that this is beyond America. This game is the only game that connects everybody globally."
Klinsmann knows a thing or two about the World Cup. He won it as a player and came in third when he coached Germany's national team.
But he's been publicly critical of his own U.S. team and U.S. soccer in general. He says American players lack the confidence and aggressiveness they need to compete at the highest level.
Asked about Klinsmann's comments that U.S. players need to play nastier, goalie Howard said, "I think he's right. When you look around at the rest of the world, there are teams who will stamp their authority on the game, who will be in your face, who will kick you. There are other teams who, in a very clever way, will dive and roll around and get the referee on their side. And I think we're just, as Americans, we're just very honest."
He continued, "You know, when it comes to soccer we'll kick someone and help 'em up, or we'll get kicked and our leg's falling off, but we want to be tough, and we jump up and we- and there's little moments that we can be probably more clever."
Klinsmann is not only trying to change the way the U.S. team plays but redefine the way soccer is played at every level in America. Could the goal-driven German be the one to finally pull it off?
That sense of fair play may not serve the Americans well as they enter the World Cup. They will face some of their toughest opponents in the first round, so bad it's being called "the group of death."
Klinsmann is exceedingly optimistic, but he's a realist. He knows the U.S. may not win the World Cup, but he's hoping to win over the country.
Watch Sharyn Alfonsi's full report tonight at 9 ET/PT on Showtime.


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F. Farah ETEMAD, Plaintiff-Appellant,
BOARD, Defendant-Appellee.
No. 95-56238.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Jan. 21, 1997.*
Decided Jan. 27, 1997.
NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel.
Before: O'SCANNLAIN, LEAVY, and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges.
F. Farah Etemad appeals pro se the district court's judgment for the California Water Resources Control Board ("Board") following a bench trial in Etemad's Title VII action against the Board alleging gender, race, and national origin discrimination. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.
Etemad contends that the district court erred by (1) denying her motions for additional discovery and appointment of counsel; (2) failing to find that Tom Mitchell, a Board employee and Etemad's former supervisor, had improperly destroyed evidence; (3) implicitly finding that Mitchell was a credible witness; and (4) denying her motion for a jury trial. These contentions lack merit.
We review for clear error a district court's factual findings following a bench trial and its legal conclusions de novo. Magnuson v. Video Yesteryear, 85 F.3d 1424, 1427 (9th Cir.1996). We review for abuse of discretion a district court's decision to deny a motion seeking appointment of counsel pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(d), Terrell v. Brewer, 935 F.2d 1015, 1017 (9th Cir.1991), and its decision to deny a party additional discovery, see Goehring v. Brophy, 94 F.3d 1294, 1305 (9th Cir.1996).
Because Etemad has not demonstrated actual and substantial prejudice, we conclude that the district court did not abuse its discretion by denying her motion seeking additional discovery. See id. Specifically, Etemad has not indicated how and why additional discovery of specific material would have altered the outcome of the trial in her favor. See Martel v. County of Los Angeles, 56 F.3d 993, 995-97 (9th Cir.) (en banc), cert. denied, 116 S.Ct. 381 (1995).
Because Etemad failed to demonstrate that she lacked the legal knowledge and sufficient ability to articulate her claims pro se and that she would likely succeed on the merits of her claims, we conclude that the district court did not abuse its discretion by denying her section 1915(d) motion seeking appointment of counsel. See Terrell, 935 F.2d at 1017.
Upon our review of the record, we conclude that the district court did not clearly err by (1) finding that Mitchell had not intentionally destroyed evidence to obstruct justice; and (2) implicitly finding that Mitchell was a credible witness. See United States v. Murdoch, 98 F.3d 472, 475-77 (9th Cir.1996); Magnuson, 85 F.3d at 1428.
Because Etemad's action accrued when Title VII plaintiffs were not entitled to jury trials, we conclude that the district court properly denied her motion for a jury trial. See Landgraf v. USI Film Prods., 114 S.Ct. 1483, 1505-08 (1994); Chenault v. United States Postal Serv., 37 F.3d 535, 537-38 (9th Cir.1994).


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Things are not entirely back to normal on the set of CBS's top-rated CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, which last week was rocked by the firings – and subsequent re-hirings – of costars George Eads and Jorja Fox, who were both reportedly demanding a salary hike.
The latest snag involves series lead William L. Petersen, who did not show up for the first day of filming for fifth season because of a recently diagnosed heart condition, reports the Los Angeles Times.
The actor, 51, notified CBS before shooting began that he would miss the first few days of work because of the condition. Petersen's rep, confirming that his client was dealing with "health-related matters," did not offer specifics.
According to CBS, Petersen was expected to return to work by Wednesday, along with Eads and Fox.
"Billy and the rest of the cast are expected back on the set this Wednesday," said network spokesman Chris Ender. "Everyone is excited to resume production and get started on the fifth season."
Petersen, who has been seeking a pay hike, earns an estimated $350,000 per episode, including a producer's fee, for the show. Two years ago, once the success of the show was assured, he received a substantial salary boost.
His absence, the Times reports, is by no means a "sickout" in an effort to re-negotiate his contract.


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Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis on Fighting School Closures
The city of Chicago is planning to close 61 schools this year, arguing they are half-empty and too costly to keep open. But parents, teachers, and students are fighting back. The Real News recently sat down with a woman helping lead these efforts, Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago Teachers Union.
We started off by asking her about comments by former Obama chief of staff and Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, who said the closings are a done deal.
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Have Parenting Questions? Ask a Parenting Counselor for Answers
Thankyou for your question. I think the best way forward is for You and the daughters mother to sit down and discuss things with her. From this you should form strong boundaries of discipline which you both need to follow through On. When she is honest and tells the truth you should give her lots of praise.


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Jane Person, 101, of Stanchfield, passed away peacefully May 3, 2012 at her home.
Jane was born April 22, 1911 in Philadelphia to James Frederick and Helen (Simpson) Martin. The family lived in Philadelphia until 1919, and then moved to Fox Chase, Pa. In 1929 they moved again to Three Tuns, outside of Ambler, Pa.
Jane graduated from Sweet Briar College in Lynchberg, Va. in 1933 with a degree in English Literature. She went on to earn a Master's Degree in Elementary Education from Columbia University, N.Y., and in Child Welfare from State University of Iowa. She started her five year teaching career in 1935 at the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind. Jane worked as a governess for the Zeckendorf family in New York City the summer of 1935. During the summer of 1938 and 1939, she traveled in Europe with fellow teachers.
From 1940 to 1941, Jane taught faculty children at Columbia University. From 1941 to 1942 she taught at the Booth School in Wayne, Pa. In 1942 Jane was employed at the National Union Radio Corporation, in Landsdale, Pa. where she hired women to manufacture "classified" radar tubes for the war.
In 1941, Jane met Army Sergeant Harold E. Person from Minnesota, who was stationed at Fort Belvoir, Va. They were married in October of 1943 at the Martin family home. After Harold's discharge in 1945, they settled on a farm west of Stanchfield where they spent 51 years of marriage together and Jane, the rest of her life. After raising three children, Jane worked as a research librarian for the East Central Regional Library in Cambridge from 1961 to 1972. Jane was active in the Braham P.T.A., Cambridge AAUW, MADD, Lutheran Library Association, Jacob's Hope Foundation, and helped with many 4-H and DFL projects.
Jane was a member of the Braham Evangelical Lutheran Church, which was her spiritual home for many years. She was grateful for her church family and many pastoral visits in her later years.
Jane loved reading and sharing books, and enjoyed conversation and coffee with friends and family. She especially enjoyed crossword puzzles every evening with Kathi. Jane was a dedicated, loving, patient wife, mother, and grandmother. Her family was always her first love and priority.
Jane was preceded in death by her husband Harold; sisters Helen Martin and Ruth (Laurie) Schiebner; brother Alfred (Jane) Martin.
She is survived by daughter Kathryn (Harold) Conrad of Stanchfield; sons Bruce (Louise) of Coon Rapids and Douglas (Janice) of Isanti; 12 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren.
A Memorial Service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 19, 2012 at the Braham Evangelical Lutheran Church with Rev. Rich Chronis officiating. A Memorial Visitation will be held 1 hour prior to the service. Interment was in the Fort Snelling National Cemetery. Arrangements are by the Rock Ingebrand Funeral Home of Braham.


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Ruben Amaro Jr. addressed the media on Wednesday after making the signing of starting pitcher Roberto Hernandez official. The team also shared news that they brought catcher Lou Marson back to the organization and parted ways with the once highly touted catching prospect Sebastian Valle.
Ruben says he still believes in the talent of his ball club but points out that if they can't stay on the field and battle through serious injuries for much of the season, they'll be in trouble.
It's been a tough go of it for Amaro this offseason. No matter what he says or does, fans seem to be unhappy with the direction he's chosen to take the club in.
That's why I think that creepy Christmas display with a mesmerizing moving candle is strategically placed to hypnotize us into buying what he's saying.
And you all thought Ruben didn't have a strategy.
In addition to Marson, the team also signed Tony Gwynn Jr., right-handed pitcher Sean O'Sullivan, and outfielder Dave Sappelt to minor league deals with invites to spring training in Clearwater.


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Rabid skunk captured, warning issued
Copperas Cove Animal Control issued a rabies warning after a rabid skunk was captured on West Washington Street.
Residents who had contact with a skunk recently or whose pets have encountered a skunk recently should contact Animal Control. Residents should not approach, touch or have any contact with wild animals and keep their pets away from them. Trash cans should be covered, and pet food should not be left outside. Anyone seeing a wild animal acting strangely should contact Animal Control at 254-547-5584.
Wendy Sledd
Sausage Fest moves to Civic Center
Trinity Lutheran Church's Annual Sausage Fest, which is scheduled for Nov. 2, is relocating from the church to the Cove Civic Center due to major damage to the church building caused by a water pipe bursting.
The festival, which celebrates the traditions and spirit of German heritage, is slated to operate from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 2 or until the food runs out.
Guests will have the opportunity to enjoy traditional German cooking, music and activities in a family fun environment.
The price for adult meals is $8 and children younger than 12 eat for $5.50.
Bulk sausage will be sold for $6 per pound, and desserts are individually priced. The Copperas Cove Civic Center is at 1206 W. Avenue B. Call the church at 254-547-2225.
April Lawrence Grant
Copperettes plan flapjack fundraiser
The Copperas Cove High School Copperettes will have an all-you-can-eat flapjack fundraiser breakfast from 8 to 10 a.m. Saturday at Applebee's, 2525 E. U.S. Highway 190, Copperas Cove.
Tickets are $8 and can be purchased at the door.
Alexandra Cole
Copperas Cove High School students perform play Sunday, Monday
Copperas Cove High School students will perform the award-winning play "The Crucible" at 2 p.m. Sunday and 7 p.m. Monday.
Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for students. Children younger than 12 should be accompanied by an adult.
The play is not advised for children under 6. Contact: Olga Peña at 254-547-1227.
Alexandra Cole


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For Immediate Release – June 9, 2006
Garrison, New York—May 21, 2006—SavATree conducted a kids tree climbing activity in support of Riverkeeper's 17th Annual Shad Festival held at the Historic Boscobel Restoration. Hundreds of children tested their strength and enjoyed a tree's eye view of smiling parents as they climbed 8 ropes overlooking the Hudson River. The main goal of the festival is to raise awareness of the poor conditions and improve the health of the Hudson River. The day long program of family-oriented activities, environmental education, and entertainment are also aimed to raise awareness of healthy lifestyle choices.
SavATree Bedford Branch Manager Ralph Robbins said, "SavATree's rope climbing is one of the most exciting events there because it is adventurous and interactive." SavATree also handed out "Timely Tips" newsletters to parents in an effort to raise tree care and organic lawn care awareness, and children's T-shirts that read Junior Arborist. Riverkeeper event coordinator Teresa Walsh stated, "SavATree's tree climbing is one of the most beloved attractions at the event. Every year there are always long lines of children who look forward to it." SavATree has consecutively participated in the Shad festival for the last five years.
Over 1500 families throughout the Hudson River Valley, NJ, CT and NYC come to the Shad Festival each year, making it one of the largest community events in the tri-state area. The event originally started with Robert Kennedy Jr. hosting it in his back yard, and eventually grew into a larger festival at Boscobel. In addition to SavATree's children's harnessed tree climbing, featured activities included yoga, boat building, kayaking, and landscape photography. Carolin Serino, Executive Director at Boscobel said, "It was a wonderful day in spite of the rain. The clouds disappeared, the sun came out and it was festive as always." Teresa Walsh added, "SavATree is an extremely respected organization…we have supporters of all kinds, and we hope SavATree will always want to participate in the event." For more information about SavATree's participation in the Shad Festival, contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com or (914) 241-4999.
About SavATree: SavATree has been providing environmentally sensible tree care, shrub and lawn care to residents, businesses and historic properties for over 20 years. SavATree currently operates in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia, and Washington D.C. Industry certified arborists provide clients with expertise in tree care and help clients maintain a healthy, safe and beautiful landscape. SavATree's services include tree pruning, disease diagnosis, removal, insect and mite treatments, organic lawn care, integrated lawn care and more. For more information, please contact us.
About Riverkeeper: Riverkeeper's main goal is to protect the Hudson River. For over 35 years, Riverkeeper's mission has been to safeguard the ecological integrity of the Hudson River as well as to protect New York City and Westchester County's water supply by tracking down and stopping polluters. Since 1983, they have investigated and brought to justice more than 300 environmental lawbreakers. For more information, please visit www.riverkeeper.org or call 1-800-217-4837.
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