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Events set at the library
The Hussey-Mayfield Memorial Public Library has planned the following events.
• Food for fines — now through Thursday, Feb. 28. Erase over due fines by donating a nonperishable food item for each dollar in overdue fines owed to the library. All items collected will be donated to the Zionsville Food Pantry.
• Pop into a book for prizes — Now through Sunday, March 3. Read anything and write it on a challenge sheet. Submit it by Sunday, March 3, to try to win a prize basket.
• AARP Tax-Aide — 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. every Thursday from now through April 4. Reservations required.
• Game On — 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays, Feb. 18 and 25, teens and college students. Join in the Teen Area to play Wii and Xbox Kinect.
• Baby and Preschool Storytimes — March 11 through April 19. Registration begins at 8 a.m. Registration open.
• Single Session Toddler Time — 9:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, ages 1 through 2. Walkers and talkers can come to the library to enjoy stories, songs and finger plays.
• Introduction to Excel — 10 a.m. to noon Thursday, Feb. 21, adults. Free computer class introduction to Microsoft Excel 2010.
• K-Plus: Celebrate Lincoln — 4:30 p.m. to 5:15 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 21, ages 5 and 6. Celebrate the life of Abraham Lincoln through crafts, songs and snacks.
• Pink Party — 11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 22, ages 3 through 6. Put on a pink outfit and enjoy pink festivities.
• International Flair — 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23. Join local residents and area friends in celebrating their diverse backgrounds and nationalities at the library's International Fair.
• Busy Bags — 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 25, parents only. Join the Friends of the Library for $10 per year and attend our Busy Bag workshop to assemble 12 different busy bags for a child.
• Let's Workout — 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, grades fourth and fifth. Enjoy staying healthy and fit at the library with Zumba and other workouts and healthy snacks.
• FAFSA Completion Night — 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 27, teens, college students and parents. Fill out the FAFSA form online. Bring social security numbers, completed federal tax forms and W-2 forms of both the student and parents.
• A box storytime — 10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, ages 3 through 6.
The Hussey-Mayfield Memorial Public Library, 250 N. Fifth St., can be reached at 873-3149 or visit www.zionsville.lib.in for more information.
BCSSI sponsors events
Boone County Senior Services, Inc., can be reached at 765-482-5220 or 873-8939. The organization has a location at 1100 W. Oak St. and 515 Crown Point Drive, Lebanon.
•Independent Consultation Computer Class — 10 a.m. to noon Wednesdays, Feb. 20 and 27 and March 6, 13 and 20, in the Narthex of Zionsville United Methodist Church, 9644 Whitestown Road. Cost is $20.
• Cards — 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesdays, Feb. 20 and 27, March 6, 13 and 20, at the Boys and Girls Club of Zionsville, 1575 Mulberry St. Bridge and euchre will be played.
• Fun and Fit for Over 50 — 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Thursdays, Feb. 21 and 28 and March 7, 14, 21 and 28, at the Boys and Girls Club of Zionsville, 1575 Mulberry St.
• Van trip — 9:15 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 18, for a Benjamin Harrison home tour. Van trip attendees must call BCSSI at 765-482-5220 or 873-8939 for more information or to sign-up prior to trip departure. Meet at BCSSI for departure. Transportation fees and meal costs are the responsibility of the attendee. Call BCSSI to schedule personal transportation appointments.
• Van trip — 9 a.m. Friday, Feb. 22, to Tippecanoe Mall. Van trip attendees must call BCSSI for more information or to sign-up prior to trip departure. Meet at BCSSI for departure. Transportation fees and meal costs are the responsibility of the attendee. Call BCSSI \to schedule personal transportation appointments.
• Lunch and Learn — noon to 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22, in Zionsville Town Hall, 1100 W. Oak St. The discussion will have representatives from Witham Health Services.
• Van trip — 9 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, to Greenwood Park Mall. Van trip attendees must call BCSSI for more information or to sign-up prior to trip departure. Meet at BCSSI for departure. Transportation fees and meal costs are the responsibility of the attendee. Call BCSSI to schedule personal transportation appointments.
• Art Class — 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Feb. 26 and March 4, 11 and 18, at the Boys and Girls Club of Zionsville, 1575 Mulberry St. Cost is $5 per class. Instructor Shirley Luttrell will work with any level of student and any medium.
•Independent Consultation — 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26. Cost is $20. Work on your own projects with an instructor available for assistance. Call BCSSI at 873-8939 to register.
• Support Group — 10 a.m. to noon Tuesday, Feb. 26, at the Boys and Girls club of Zionsville, 1575 Mulberry St. Facilitators Rachel Gerrish, Franciscan visiting nurses at St. Francis and Serge Monperous, Peoplefirst Homecare and Hospice, will offer engaging and educational presentations to assist caregivers in developing supportive relationships.
• Van Trip — 9 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 28. Travel to a destination of choice. Choose from Home Goods, Red Lobster, JoAnn Fabrics, Marshalls, Olive Garden, Target, or Hobby Lobby. Van trip attendees must call BCSSI for more information or to sign-up prior to trip departure. Meet at BCSSI for departure. Transportation fees and meal costs are the responsibility of the attendee. Call BCSSI at 765-482-5220 to schedule personal transportation appointments.
Nature Center sponsors events
The Zion Nature Center offers the following upcoming events:
• Backyard tree tapping and maple sugaring — 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, ages 7 and older. Learn how to make maple syrup and sample some local syrup. Dress for the weather as the program will be outside for a hands-on demonstration of tree tapping.
• Raising Backyard Chickens — 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, ages 15 and older. Master Gardener Jane Deidrich will show how keeping a small flock of chickens is a great way to recycle food scraps while improving both gardens and diets.
The nature center, 690 Beech St., can be reached at 873-8950 or visit www.zionnaturecenterfriends.org for more information.
Zionsville chapter of Tri Kappa announces scholarship applications for current college students and are available at www.zionsvilletrikappa.com.
Women's self defense courses available
Women's Self Defense Training course is available from now through March 25 for women in grades nine through 12.
The class meets on from 8 p.m. to 9:15 p.m. Mondays in the Zionsville Middle School North Gymnasium, 900 Ford Road. The cost is $36.75.
The eight week course will assist in preparing college bound women with focus on personal protection and self-defense. Women will learn types of awareness, prevention, risk reduction, physical power, and how to reduce their chances of becoming a crime victim. Parents are encouraged to attend course sessions. Dress code is normal school clothing and shoes.
Preschool registration begins
Preschool registration for fall enrollment in the Early Childhood Ministry at Christ Church, 600 County Road 1000 East, has begun.
ECM uses a Christ-centered developmentally appropriate curriculum that upholds the basic early childhood concept that all young children learn best when they use their senses.
New this year is the acceptance of toddlers who are 15 months old by Sept. 1.
Contact Laurie Highsmith at 873-3232 or visit www.zionsvillelutheran.org/index.php/preschool/purpose for more information.
Church offers community lunch
The Zionsville Christian Church 120 N. Ninth St. will host a free community lunch from 11 am. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23. The church is just off the corner of Oak and Ninth streets on the walking path. All are welcome. Anyone who needs a ride or a carry- out meal should call 873-5301 before the event.
Church hosts movie screening
Christ Church, 600 N. Ford Road, will be hosting the Heartland Roadshow at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 24.
The screening, Three Day Test, was the 2012 Heartland Film Festival's marquee family movie event.
Refreshments will be available, and there is a suggested donation of $10.
All proceeds benefit Heartland.
Call 873-3242 for more information.
ZEF sponsors fashion show
The Zionsville Education Foundation will sponsor an In Style Fashion Show and luncheon Friday, March 1, at Boone Meadow Elementary School, 5555 Main St., Whitestown.
Guests will enjoy a reception, light lunch and style show of fashions from Zionsville retailers Lesley Jane, Lilly's Boutique Gallery, Nikki Blaine Couture, Akard True Value, Wildcat Creek Outfitters and B.Wright Ltd., as well as perennial partner the Secret Ingredient. A silent auction featuring donations from local merchants will kick-off the event.
Funds raised benefit all Zionsville schools in the form of teacher grants for innovative educational opportunities.
This year's raffle will feature the opportunity to win $500 toward Myra Perrin jewelry from Robert Goodman Jewelers or a stay at a Ft. Myers, Florida condominium. Raffle tickets are $20 each or 6/$100. Winners do not need to be present to win and raffle tickets can be purchased from ZEF volunteers or the ZEF office via cash or check (Raffle ID 130083).
Tickets for the luncheon and style show are $55 each.
Contact Tracy Phillips at 733-4805 or firstname.lastname@example.com or visit the ZEF website at www.zionsvilleeducationfoundation.org for more information.
NatureFest returns March 2
Join friends and support the Zion Nature Center at the 3rd annual Friends of Zion Nature Center NatureFest. From face painting and a "gourmet" cake walk to classic carnival games and educational activities, NatureFest will have something for all ages. New this year is a petting zoo.
The event will take place from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, March 2, at the Zionsville Town Hall, 1100 W. Oak St.
Admission is $3 per person, or $10 per family. Children two and younger are free. Tickets for activities and games are .50 each or 12 for $5.
Help the Zionsville Food Bank
The Zionsville Food Bank, 4775 W. 116th St., and Mothers of Preschoolers will sponsor a family night out event from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, March 9.
The Hunter Smith Band will play a concert during the event.
Proceeds from the event will provide food to the food bank and allow other mothers the opportunity to participate in MOPS. Childcare will be available.
Tickets may be purchased at http://bit.ly/Y71PZh.
Lebanon library hosts roundtable
The Lebanon Public Library will host the War Years Roundtable in the top floor meeting room on Monday March 11, 2013 at 6:30 p.m.
Dan Gamble, Sergeant, U.S. Army 1st Cavalry Infantry Division will present:
1969 -1970 Vietnam Battlefield Report including the Invasion of Cambodia and the Battle of Phoc Long Province. NVA (North Vietnamese Army) battle gear will be on display. Gamble is the recipient of the Bronze Star, an Air Medal and the Vietnam Campaign Medal.
The War Years Roundtable is a military discussion group open to adults and students. The public is invited to attend.
For more information on this program, contact the Ralph W. Stark Heritage Center at the Lebanon Public Library, 765-482-3460 ext.261 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Optimists Club offers scholarship
The Zionsville Optimists Club is offering a $1,000 vocational scholarship to graduating ZCHS seniors to be used for tuition at schools offering degrees in trades or specialized fields, such as barber and beauty schools, electrical work, and similar programs.
Email email@example.com of the Optimists Club for more information.
Blood drive is March 11
The Indiana Blood Center will sponsor a blood drive from 3:30 to 8 p.m. March 11 at Countryside Christian Fellowship, 600 W. County Road 500 N., Lebanon.
It is the only IBC blood drive scheduled for March in Boone County. For the latest information, or to schedule an appointment, visit www.donorpoint.org or call 800-632-4722 and choose option four.
Study group
welcomes visitors
Community Bible Study is hosting a Visitor's Day on March 14 for the study of Ephesians, The Wisdom of Solomon, and James. The study group is an interdenominational, international ministry whose purpose is to make disciples in the community through a caring, in-depth Bible study available to all.
The local class consists of approximately 110 women from 20 different churches that meet Thursdays during the school year from 9:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m., at Traders Point Christian Church.
Registration can be completed on our website http://indianapolisnorthwest.cbsclass.org or contact class coordinator, Liz Simmons at email@example.com 769-6142 for more information.
Photo club to meet
J.D. Nolan will be the guest speaker at the Zionsville Photo Club meeting, 6:30 p.m. March 13, at Black Dog Books, 115 S. Main Street.
Nolan will present large format photography. He will demonstrate how his view camera works. Nolan will also show black and white photos that he took in England last year.
R.S.V.P. by calling 733-1747.
Meet state legislators
Local state elected officials will be at a Legislative Breakfast and discuss legislative issues at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, March 16, at the Hussey-Mayfield Memorial Public Library. The event is coordinated by the Boone County Chamber of Commerce and sponsored by Indiana Farm Bureau and Witham. Doughnuts and coffee provided.
The deadline for Community Calendar announcements is 5 p.m. Fridays for the following week's publication. Boone County-related announcements are welcome.


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Mr. Reuben Olembo, Deputy Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP)
This Summit is a wake-up call the world has long needed. In the past the world food problem has been dramatically presented and then quietly allowed to drift from the minds of those who were concerned. This Summit has before it the challenge that this does not happen again, that the world's attention will be constantly focused on the need to make fundamental improvements, that ways to achieve sustainable and universal food security will receive full attention at all times of governments and institutions.
Hunger is still rampant but it often remains invisible. Hunger becomes globally visible when images of starving refugees flash across our television screens. We hear about hunger when urban populations revolt against hikes in the price of food. The face of hunger lies concealed behind the faces of poverty, war, desertification and degradation of land. Hundreds of thousands of people are hungry because some disaster has uprooted them from their homes, but mostly they are hungry because they are poor and their land cannot produce enough food. Indeed, drought, war and other cataclysms only serve to magnify food insecurity.
A common factor linking virtually every region of acute poverty, virtually every rural homeland abandoned by destitute squatters is a deteriorating natural environment. Ecological degradation is, to a great extent, the result of economic, social and political inadequacies; but it is also, with growing force, a principal cause of poverty. If the ecosystem's capacity to meet human needs is crippled, the plight of those living directly off the land worsens, and recovery and development become all the more difficult.
Indeed, we live amidst a startling paradox: the world has technological, institutional and infrastructural capacity to produce enough food to ensure adequate nutrition for all, not only today but in the future, yet it is a world in which chronic hunger and malnutrition thrive.
We can no longer afford to gloss over the specific efforts required to achieve sustainable food security in the areas where hunger is chronic. The challenge is of staggering proportions. It is also complex. It has to be addressed realistically, and systematically, along several fronts: production, consumption, trade and investment; social, economic, technical and institutional; and at various levels - global, regional, national and local. Any effective approach to addressing it has to recognize the diverse and specific concerns of the countries and the communities involved. International trade in food will have to play a vital role in advancing food security. At the same time, low-income food-deficit countries have to fully mobilize policies, institutions, technologies and civil society's efforts to enhance their capacities to produce food sustainably.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is gratified that environmental and natural resource considerations occupy a central place in the Summit's Plan of Action. Clearly, each country has to determine and pursue its own specific path to achieve food security. And the world community has to support that task in every possible way. The Summit's Plan of Action provides a pragmatic framework for such collective endeavour.
A most complex challenge that we face is in addressing transboundary environmental issues of land, water, forests and fisheries management which have a direct impact on food production. These in turn encompass a variety of issues, biodiversity conservation; control of desertification; control of deforestation; control of over-fishing and unsound fishing practices; protecting coastal waters and seas from pollution; and sound management of river, lake and groundwater basins. National governments will need to develop and implement consistent and mutually supportive policies and programmes to ensure sound natural resources and ecosystem management to achieve food security, cost-effectively and sustainably.
Another daunting challenge we face is increasing food production significantly and sustainably, in the face of scarce arable land, water, and insufficient energy use. There is often no alternative to more intensive cultivation of available agricultural land, through increased irrigation and its better management, better technology and cultivation practices, and environmentally-sound use of fertilizers, pesticides, genetic resources and traditional inputs.
Food aid needs to be related, where possible, to restoring and conserving the natural resource and environmental foundation of food security. Agricultural development should be related, in design and implementation, to measures aimed at achieving environmental goals. The win-win avenues to achieve, in mutually supportive ways the social, economic and environment objectives must be explored.
We need a new Green Revolution to achieve higher and sustained levels of land, water and input productivity while conserving biodiversity, protecting environmental quality and health, and controlling and reversing, where possible, resource degradation. A Green Revolution without losing ground. And this new green revolution has to embrace all countries - food deficit and food surplus alike.
Commitment Three of the Summit's Plan of Action calls for an integrated approach to addressing this challenge and outlines several avenues of action. The United Nations Environment Programme, in collaboration with FAO and its other United Nations partners, has been active in promoting some of these. They include for example early warning based on environmental assessment and monitoring, proper use of pesticides and biodiversity conservation and sustainable use. Governments can therefore continue to rely on UNEP's catalytic and consensus-building capacities and scientific, technical and policy expertise to forge agreements to address some of the issues I have mentioned.
The challenge of ensuring food security early in the next millennium is not simple, but it is a challenge which can be met. The United Nations Environment Programme hopes that this Summit will galvanize and sustain action at all levels to make rapid progress in achieving food security for all. It is my sincere hope that this World Food Summit will serve as a vital link between those who possess the resources, the techniques and the vision to alleviate hunger and those who are poor and hungry.

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Dillon talks more on Deacon commitment
Thomas Dillon made the Wake Forest coaching staff "very happy" with a commitment on July 15th. The 5-foot-11, 175-pound defensive back, who had offers from the likes of BYU, Colorado, and Fresno State said the Deacons offer was the "toughest to get" and made his commitment to Coach Derrick Jackson just after returning home to Houston after a visit to Winston-Salem.FULL STORY
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Restraining Gas Exports (and Prices)
Interfering with trade to influence prices is a slippery slope.
Michael Lynch is the president and director of global petroleum service at Strategic Energy & Economic Research.
Calls for a ban on natural gas exports are perhaps the surest proof of the success of "fracking," or hydraulic fracturing of shale, which has seen a boom that has depressed wellhead prices by 75 percent, bringing major benefits to both residential and industrial consumers. The benefits to the overall economy include lower inflation, a better balance of trade, and more money in the pockets of consumers. Banning exports of natural gas to keep prices low, as some have suggested, would seem to be a win-win for both the economy and consumers. What could go wrong with the government trying to manipulate commodity markets?
[Obama Exaggerates Role of Federal Government in Natural Gas Boom.]
Well, recall the caverns full of government-owned cheese in the 1980s. That mess was trivial compared to the 1978 Natural Gas Policy Act, which tried to micromanage natural gas production by setting various price levels according to estimated production costs. There were different prices set for old gas, new gas, deep gas, tight gas, and so forth. Granted, one sector of the economy benefited—the lawyers—who made a mint trying to untangle the chaos that ensued.
Once deregulated, increased drilling brought prices down for a decade and a half, just as economists predicted (or should have, though most didn't). Despite a couple periods of elevated prices, to say nothing of peak oil advocates decrying the imminent collapse of production, the United States has benefited economically from fuel that was significantly cheaper than prevailing prices in Europe or Japan.
[Limiting Natural Gas Exports Sets A Dangerous Precedent.]
But this doesn't mean that we should restrict exports to maintain a glut. Consider such a strategy applied to other commodities: the U.S. exports 40 million metric tons of corn every year, about ten percent of production, which raises domestic corn prices and thus, meat prices. Why not ban corn exports? It would lower food costs for Americans, reduce inflation, increase economic growth: the perfect policy, no?
Perhaps that's a bad example, given our history of corn policy. More probable is the government trying to boost consumption. Corn bread could receive a large tax break, for example. If that doesn't work, why not require bakers to blend a certain amount of corn meal into all wheat products? This is what the government does with gasoline.
[Rising Foreign Demand Keeps U.S. Gas Prices High.]
Of course, farmers who produce corn are "good" whereas companies that produce gas are "bad." Except, like Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters says, "I'm fuzzy on this whole good-bad thing." That is an issue for another day, but interfering with trade to influence prices is a slippery slope that would lead us to a very bad place, and it is shocking to think that some industries would support it for their own benefit.


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By Joe Mahoney
The Daily Star
---- — SCHOHARIE — Some 30 activists opposed to hydraulic fracturing staged a "flash mob" demonstration Monday at the office of Assemblyman Pete Lopez, R-Schoharie, criticizing him for opposing legislation that would have extended the moratorium on drilling for two years.
Robert Nied, the director of the Center for Sustainable Rural Communities, accused Lopez of "ignoring the strong concerns of a good portion of the citizens in his district."
"He's just not listening," Nied said. "We wanted to turn up the volume a little and get him to understand that this is a very important issue for a lot of us."
The Assembly, controlled by Democrats, voted last week to put a freeze on hydrofracking permits until May 15, 2015. A similar measure is pending in the state Senate, but appears to face an uphill climb. Gov. Andrew Cuomo suggested Monday the Senate measure is doomed.
Lopez was one of 40 Assembly measures who voted against the legislation in the lower house. The bill carried easily, with 103 Assembly members on board.
Lopez said that he opposed the Assembly bill because it was an "overreach" and "more aggressive" than similar legislation he backed in 2010. The new bill, he said, would have restricted all gas drilling, not just the controversial high volume hydraulic fracturing method that environmentalists are trying to stop.
Lopez said he remains supportive of developing renewable energy, energy conservation initiatives and other steps that will make the nation less reliant on "global energy cartels and giant utilities."
The assemblyman was in Albany while the protest was held outside his regional office.
Nied also criticized Lopez for not taking a definite stand on the proposed Constitution Pipeline, a $750 million natural gas transmission system that some environmentalists claim will attract hydraulic fracturing in communities it would traverse.
"If he doesn't deal with it, people are going to be looking for someone else in that position of leadership," he said.
Lopez has recommended that the pipeline be placed along the Interstate 88 corridor to minimize the potential impact on local landowners.
Lopez has proven to be a popular incumbent. Despite a realignment of his district lines, he handily defeated Democratic challenger James Miller, a former Albany police officer, last November.


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Storytime: Last night, during Monday Night Football's presentation of the Seattle Seahawks versus the Green Bay Packers, an insane thing happened that illustrated exactly why the NFL's referee strike is a very bad thing for the game (as great as it is for ratings). In the last seconds of the game, Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson threw a 24-yard Hail Mary to the end zone, where Green Bay safety M.D. Jennings caught the football half a second before Seattle receiver Golden Tate got his own hands on it -- after Jennings pulled the ball into his chest, establishing possession (aka "MINE!"). What you see pictured is a screenshot of one referee signaling a touchdown for Seattle. The other referee is signaling an interception by Green Bay, meaning the touchdown didn't happen. As a result, the Seattle Seahawks beat the Green Bay Packers, 14-12 -- the Green Bay Packers. After the jump, the insane play, followed by the incredibly bad call. Packers fans (including my Uncle Bobby): my deepest condolences.
Here is the video of the play, followed by another angle (video link):
And a different view (video link):
I'm not saying that professional referees are immune to making bad calls. It totally happens. But this? This is what you might call "a doozy," and since we all know the people officiating the game are non-professional replacements, it makes them look like farcical baby dumb-dumbs who don't understand the rules they are tasked with enforcing (or, as they're more commonly being called, displaced Foot Locker employees) while the real refs sit back and laugh and wait for NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to get over himself and pony up. Because it didn't end there -- the call was reviewed for almost ten minutes, at which point, another replacement official said that the touchdown call from the field will stand, and everyone had to come back on the field for the extra point. Meanwhile, Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll thought it would be totally cool to conduct a post-game interview before the actual end of the game, but this morning said that yeah, maybe the real refs should be brought back. You know, after they hand him the game. Either he feels guilty about his dubious win, or he has brought new meaning to the phrase "Monday/Tuesday morning quarterback."
ESPN has a more detailed rundown (in the video) of how bad this call really was, and how it ranks among the NFL's worst calls ever. (Hint: It's up there.) But Bill Plaschke at the LA Times has put it in a pretty neat nutshell:
Want to know my favorite statistic of Week 3 before Monday? Sixteen of 20 coach's challenges resulted in overturned calls, meaning officials made the wrong decision on 80% of some of the biggest plays. Think about that.
Want to know my second-favorite statistic? When you crunch the numbers, if the NFL gave the locked-out referees everything they wanted, it would cost about $100,000 extra per team per season. That equals about four games' pay for one of a team's lowest-paid players. The owners are watching their sport burn because they won't improve the officials' compensation by about one-fourth the amount they would pay a backup guard? Think about that.
OK, real quick, I've got a third-favorite statistic from last weekend. There were 13 penalty first downs in the game between the Patriots and the Ravens, which is only the most in the history of the NFL.
Yeah -- time to pony up.
Seahawks Defeat Packers, 14-12: Disputed Replacement Referees' Call Results In Golden Tate TD [Huffington Post]
$150M-$250M in MNF bets shifted [ESPN]Discuss
117 Responses to "And now, the ballad of the the NFL ref strike, as performed by the replacement refs at the Seahawks-Packers game"
Russell Walks says:
One quick point:
The referees aren't on strike. They were locked out – There's a big difference there.
Also, the right call was that the touchdown didn't happen. The refs eventually decided that a TD DID happen, thus giving the Seahawks the points they needed to win.
The TD is the bad call, and the call stuck. It's unclear in your article which is the bad call and which isn't.
In addition, it wasn't Pete Carroll's fault that he was doing interviews, the idiot refs called the game over and forgot about the extra points.
Worth updating these things.
acerplatanoides says:
Hiring scabs was the bad call in this particular case.
ComradeQuestions says:
Eh, I dunno, I'm not convinced that Jennings had possession as clearly as people are saying, particularly from this angle: http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1427857/refss.gif
What that angle makes clear, and what is important is that Golden Tate, the Seahawks receiver, CLEARLY doesn't have possession, as his arm flails out and he desperately tries to grab the ball out of Jennings's grip. So the call is EITHER an interception or an incomplete. So whether Jennings had possession or not is moot – there is no scenario in which Tate has possession that makes sense with the video. Either way Packers should have won.
ComradeQuestions says:
That isn't so clear to me. It looks like he had his arms wrapped around the ball in the same manner as Jennings when he hit the ground, which would make it simultaneous possession, and mean they get the TD.
Ian Savage says:
You have got to be crossed eyed, on meth, and a seahhawks fan
Diogenes says:
Glad to see you're open-minded about it.
L_Mariachi says:
"…But I repeat myself."
graou says:
Well, I don't know anything about NFL nor the cities playing, thus I think i'm pretty fair, and what I see in this gif is the ball landed on the blue guy's hand while the yellow one put his hand on it, then they fight for it as they fell down. Not sure if the yellow guy would have grabbed the ball if the blue guy's hand was not there.
Anyway, the big mistake in there is that you call that game football, as it should be called soccer (or anything else but football).
Mike Perkowitz says:
Focusing on one blown call misses the point. The proper refs blow calls sometimes — what happened in this game, and most of the other games so far this season, is bad calls from start to end. WIth one blown call you can say, okay, if it had gone the other way the outcome would have been such-and-such. With the current situation, you literally have no idea what the game would have been like if it had been called even 90% properly.
acerplatanoides says:
It still would have been a -game- though, right?
axlrosen says:
How could it be incomplete – the ball never touches the ground.
The issue, I believe, is whether Jennings has possession before Tate, or whether they get possession simultaneously. Tate doesn't need to get it first, because tie goes to the receiver. So Tate doesn't have to have possession in this clip we see – he could get it afterwards, simultaneously with Jennings. From this clip, I can see how the ruling on the field would stand (there's too much doubt about whether Jennings getting possession *before* Tate, which would be required to overturn it).
I can't believe we're talking about this on boingboing.
graywh says:
The rule states that if the defender possesses the ball first and the receiver grabs it after, it's not simultaneous possession. Jennings gets both hands on the ball immediately; Tate is barely touching it until they hit the ground. Interception.
The NFL rulebook Article 3, Item 5:
Simultaneous Catch. If a pass is caught simultaneously by two eligible opponents, and both players retain it, the ball belongs to the passers. It is not a simultaneous catch if a player gains control first and an opponent subsequently gains joint control.
axlrosen says:
But, it doesn't count as a catch for Jennings until he's (1) gotten control, (2) hit the ground, and (3) keeps possession long enough for him to "make a football move". Clearly, Tate might not have his hands on it initially, but he clearly has his hands on it by the time that ALL THREE of these things have happened. I think the NFL's response is spot on – it was a catch: http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/statement-on-final-play-of-green-bay-packers-seattle-seahawks-game-092512
Antinous / Moderator says:
I can't believe we're talking about this on boingboing.
It's like trying to moderate a post on Sumerian adverbs. I have no idea what anyone is talking about.
Ian Savage says:
You must be kidding. Or you must be a LBJ fan.
Green Ghost says:
I've seen several replays from different angles. Its clear to me Jennings has caught the ball and Tate has Jennings ARM and is touching the ball after the catch. If just touching the ball mean simultaneous possession, it will make for an interesting change in strategy by the defenses of the NFL!
grimc says:
This is about union-busting, pure and simple. It's as much about union-busting as it was for Wisconsin teachers.
mccrum says:
Irony that Wisconsin team came out the loser? :)
grimc says:
Poor cheeseheads just can't catch a break.
Church says:
No, irony is that Walker wants the union refs back
IronEdithKidd says:
That is just dripping with delicious irony. Still, Walker can go fuck himself running.
Full disclosure: not a football fan, but they inject you with something when you're born in Wisconsin that makes you a Packers fan. For life. No matter what. So weird.
Theranthrope says:
It's the cheeeeeese…
mccrum says:
Whoa. Now that's something to write a song about, holy cats.
LintMan says:
re: "union busting"
That must be it. I had been wondering why the NFL would lock out the refs when arguing over increased expenditures for the refs (rather than wanting to cut back on the status-quo like with the player contract), so I'd have thought that had there been no lockout, there'd be a chance they could continue play using the existing contract structure while a real deal was being negotiated..
Navin_Johnson says:
as performed by the replacement refs scabs at the Seahawks-Packers game.
gwailo_joe says:
Terrible call. The grasping, ungracious owners and the league High Command acting like wishy-washy dickwads is sadly no surprise.
Labor is an expense to be whittled down at all costs and to hell with the consequences…
Or as my friend put it last night: "This is Great! Totally random penalties and blatant botched calls makes everything more exciting and mysterious. Now football…is like boxing!"
Gyrofrog says:
"Now football…is like boxing!" Indeed: a former co-worker refused to place any wagers on any professional sports as long as Don King was still around.
Theranthrope says:
…or FIFA, but since EVERY team is American the refs don't know which team they're fixing for.
kartwaffles says:
Welcome to the NFL.
lafave says:
The scabs made an earlier bad pass interference call that extended a Packers drive that resulted in a GB TD. In my eyes, the bad calls evened themselves out. Although, I'm from Chicago and wish more bad things would happen to Green Bay regularly.
I do agree with the general thesis. The scab refs are consistently horrible.
mcheshire says:
True, but they also made two more bad calls, a roughing the passer call that negated a Seahawk's lost fumble and a defensive pass interference( that was clearly offensive pass interference) call against G.B. that extended the Seahawk's game winning drive. The "Refs" handed the game to Seattle.
Gotta be honest here. I haven't ever been this entertained by football, I say keep em around a little longer.
Jeffrey Karter says:
I would say that the scab refs are *inconsistently* horrible, which is arguably worse.
MarkV says:
Do most boingboingers care about NFL games? I know I don't. A google search shows previous mentions of "NFL" on boingboing were related to copyright, security abuses, etc., not games or league play or whatever.
Navin_Johnson says:
I do. Go Bears!
acerplatanoides says:
Antinous / Moderator says:
A lot of football players are bears. Mmm, bears.
gwailo_joe says:
Yup. Forty Niners I like.
groovyeyal says:
I do. Cheese-head for life.
Antinous / Moderator says:
Whose idea was it to call fans by a name that sounds like a men's hygiene problem?
John Napsterista says:
You'd be hard-pressed to find a full day's worth of posts here which "most" boingboingers all care about, and that diversity in interest is one this blog's greatest strengths. Lots of boingers do actually care about sports in general, and/or the NFL in particular, and lots of others occasionally find that sort of thing of interest. I dunno about you, but I'm specifically here to learn of things I didn't know of before, I suspect many –maybe even most –others are, too.
MarkV says:
"You'd be hard-pressed to find a full day's worth of posts here which "most" boingboingers all care about, "
While I'm sure that's true, they're in the same general areas, and boingboing nevertheless has a certain demographic. If we were listing characteristics of "happy mutants"–boingboing's self-applied label–"watches the NFL" would not be among them. That is, boingboing is not and never has been an avenue for mainstream news like this. If you want that, you can go to, well, mainstream news. It's bad enough that reddit has been flooded with this stuff.
Sirkowski says:
Could you try to be a worse hipster cliché?
MarkV says:
Sorry, what? I'm not a hipster. And even if I were it would have nothing to do with this. That's a completely irrelevant thing to say.
I consume lots of mainstream news, and I come to boingboing for stories you don't see there.
This type of sports news is simply not what boingboing has been for. I would point out the same disparity if I saw this story posted on, say, Ars Technica, or an article about Apple vs. Samsung on ESPN.
Navin_Johnson says:
Diogenes says:
Think of it as a technical analysis involving slow-motion video. That's right up BoingBoing's alley!
LintMan says:
I care about NFL football. But beyond that, I think this situation is unique and interesting enough to be worthy of attention, even if it was for a sport I cared nothing about.
What we have here is the number one sports league in the US, a multi-BILLION dollar industry, locking out its refs and bringing in non-professional refs from third tier colleges, high schools and "the lingerie league" to oversee the NFL games, to the detriment of the players, the fans, the teams, and the very reputation of the league itself. And for what? $3.3 million dollars in benefits for the refs. Total.
It's just insanity.
mappo says:
It's not insanity, it's Business Management 101. The NFL has realized that you, the fan/consumer, are going to buy their product no matter what, so why should they spend more money to produce it than is necessary?
If you're still watching, then they're right.
LintMan says:
Well, Business Management 101 is rather short-sighted, then. In the long term this will cost the NFL fans and popularity. But more critically, it's starting to look like the poorly run games are endangering player's health: more on-field fights and roughing not being "handled" by the refs, illegal hits not getting called, etc. The last few years, the NFL has been desperately trying to appear like it really cares about player health because it's only a matter of time before there's a class action suit by ex-players over concussions and other long-term negative impacts on their health. Being too cheap to spend a relative pittance on the better refs to keep the game under control and protect the players will look really bad in court.
Navin_Johnson says:
Watching has little to do with it. Not buying tickets maybe, but most fans are clueless on these issues. It's really the players that should be taking action in solidarity. They have the most to lose, particularly from getting hurt by another player who knows the refs won't catch some excessive hits etc.
Reedley Smith says:
It is unfortunate, then, that the players signed a collective bargaining agreement just last year that prevents them from engaging in precisely this form of solidarity of labor action.
What I believe all fans can do in lieu of not watching and not going to the games (which is still admittedly the best form of signalling to the owners) is to boycott the advertisers of the NFL and its broadcast partners.
That action would have an immediate and powerful signalling effect, almost as strong as the boycott of the games themselves.
Navin_Johnson says:
Really, I hadn't heard that. I have a hard time believing that tbh.
So you're suggesting that the players contract somehow forbids them from doing anything. Can you source that? I'd like to see it. Thanks.
Donald Petersen says:
You got a point there, mappo. I'm a native San Diegan, and there's never been much of a percentage in being a pro-sports fan of any league in SD, at least not since the Sockers packed it in about sixteen years ago. Our climate and lifestyle makes us the ultimate fair-weather fans: during those rare occasions when the Padres or Chargers make it to postseason play, we might pay halfhearted attention, but the rest of the time we'd rather go outside and play a pickup game ourselves.
Still, I consciously gave up on MLB during the 1994-95 strike and never looked back. I haven't purchased gas from an Exxon or Mobil station since the botched cleanup of the Exxon Valdez spill 23 years ago (not that my personal embargo has made any difference to the company). I bailed on Facebook several privacy scandals ago, despite continuing familial pressure to get over myself and come back to FB. And though I've never been an NFL fan, this story interests me enough to pipe up and mention that due to things like this, I never will become an NFL fan. The Chargers often threaten to leave San Diego if they don't get a new stadium. I'd tell 'em to not let the door hit 'em where the Good Lord split 'em.
I kinda like watching football, but the NFL has been too corrupt to interest me for decades. The NCAA has befouled itself almost beyond redemption by now, too. For all I know, even high school football is more tainted than I suspect. But what can anyone do? It's easy for me to give up on the NFL; they never made any real money off me anyway. What kind of scandal will it take before the NFL turns off a sufficient number of actual game-attending, memorabilia-purchasing, jersey-wearing, satellite-package-buying profitable fans to make a negative impact on their bottom line?
We're nowhere near that point, I bet.
MarkV says:
What is the situation and how is it unique and interesting?
lintman says:
Well, I stated it above in that same post, right after that sentence. TL;DR: vast megacorporate parsimony and arrogance, mainly to its own detriment, on a very public stage.
OK, that's sadly not all that unique, but I think it is interesting/notable and certainly well within Boing Boing's purview.
Antinous / Moderator says:
Green Ghost says:
This isn't just about football. Its a major event in American history, like the assassination of a president or a declaration of armed conflict/police action. I think this rises to the level of Boingboing coverage! A turning point in history. And yes, one can be a football fan and a boingboinger!
MarkV says:
"Its a major event in American history, like the assassination of a president or a declaration of armed conflict/police action."
Please tell me this is sarcasm. If not, I must retreat to seclusion and weep.
Antinous / Moderator says:
I must retreat to seclusion and weep.
That might be a good option.
bzishi says:
Green Bay just lost a game due to a bad call. If the game was against the Lions, Bears, or Vikings, then the Wisconsin National Guard would be on the march. In fact this is why the Lions always play so bad — Wisconsin is just looking for the excuse to annex the Upper Peninsula.
mcheshire says:
E-A-G-L-E-S Eagles. Eagle's fans can even spell.
Adam Coe says:
but apparently they don't know how to use apostrophes.
mcheshire says:
Thanks for pointing that out, I guess they ocassionally make punctuation errors as well. Feel better about yourself?
MG says:
It's worth noting that there was an entire game leading up to that play and many other horrible calls. Claiming that this one call "gave the game away to seattle" or "cost the packers the victory" is moronic and short sighted.
retrojoe says:
I watched that game and there were a lot of bad calls. However, none of them came under as much review and scrutiny as this one. None of them were so universally assigned one way by sportscasters/fans/players while the refs decided to go another.
This isn't the one and only mistake they've made. It's the most egregious and the straw that broke the camel's back. It would be moronic and short sighted to think that all bad calls are equal.
LintMan says:
Yeah, there were lots of bad calls in that game (and in many many other games), and all of those can contribute to one team winning or losing a game, but for those, you could always at least say that the other team had some amount of time afterwards to try to compensate and overcome the bad call.
In this case, on this one critical final play of the game, the refs (1) failed to call the blatant offensive pass interference by Seahawks receiver Tate, then (2) screwed up the call on the interception, and then (3) screwed it up again on the replay review. The refs had three chances to get it right and blew all three. The Packers had no chance to compensate or overcome that.
It was the refs and their the bad call (and non-call), and not the actual play on the field, that literally decided the winner of this game.
mmrtnt says:
Did you folks get permission from the NFL to include those clips?
Because, as we are all warned by a stern voice during every game, "This telecast is copyrighted by the NFL for the private use of our audience. Any other use of this telecast or of any pictures, descriptions, or accounts of the game without the NFL's consent, is prohibited."
Chuck says:
I'm seriously thinking this might be the year that the Piggers win it all.
DoctorDJ says:
As a life-long Packer fan (and long time BoingBoinger to boot) I find no enjoyment in watching a contest in which the rules are not those I (and millions like me) understand, and are liable to change from play to play.
I am voting with my TV clicker and am turning off the NFL (including my beloved Packers) until the "real refs" are back. I'm reclaiming my Sundays!
Donald Petersen says:
I smile when I think of the productivity our species could attain if Sundays were universally reclaimed from pro sports and churchin'.
Then again, I spent last Sunday finishing Mass Effect 3, so what do I know.
Tom Rombouts says:
Hi -
Sure, it is odd for American Football to be featured here on boingboing, but as some others have pointed out this is not really a football story, but yet another attempt by a group of large corporations (each NFL team is worth roughly a billion dollars or more) to further rollback what few benefits American workers might still have. As far as costs, I think the NFL gets many billions a year in TV money, yet as I recall this issue with the officials is over roughly five _million_ a year, almost a rounding error in scope.
Here is an article from today's L.A. Times focusing on the corporate / economic angle of the dispute: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-packers-seahawks-referees-hiltzik-20120926,0,2570919.column
- Tom, Redondo Beach, California
Russell Walks says:
One more thing:
It doesn't matter who caught the ball; the play should've been negated by the obvious offensive pass interference committed by Tate. Had that penalty been called (and the NFL today admitted it should've been: http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000066164/article/nfl-supports-decision-to-not-overturn-seahawks-touchdown?module=HP11_headline_stack ), the game would've ended, and the completion/interception controversy would moot.
sweetcraspy says:
This. Tate gave Shields a mighty shove before jumping up. It was really blatant.
RedShirt77 says:
Hey Green Bay, threaten not to show at the next game… NFL will fold and end the lockout in about 20 minutes. The refs pretty much just want a few pennies compared to what everyone else gets.
Oh wait, you cant do that because money is more important than the game.
Jeez, I guess we should all complain on the internet.
mccrum says:
Given that tickets have already been sold and the Owners have their money, I don't think the Owners would give a damn.
But boy, that would be a pretty amazing sight to see two hundred guys standing around an empty stadium playing for security and the guys that sell hot dogs…
Bersl says:
The Packers not showing up next week is probably our only chance to win.
The real problem is that as stated up above, the players have already signed a collective bargaining agreement that includes a clause that prohibits them from striking in solidarity with the refs. In the movie industry we had similar clauses in our contracts when the writers struck.
They may seem like inconsequential things when the contracts are negotiated and everyone is scared to lose their pension, but I guarantee if they weren't there various industries could bring management to their knees in seconds. It's a shrewd move by management – get them to concede what appears to be a minor clause in exchange for not fighting on perceived big things like health care and pay scales, profit later when the players are helpless to assist the refs.
c b says:
As a Seahawks fan, I'll totally sympathize with GB fans on this one – I'd be pretty bummed if it went the other way. But I've got beef with the this post. Quite a few factual errors as pointed out above, but the tone is what gets me – like the suggestion that somehow it was more egregious because the 'Hawks beat the almighty Packers. Or that these things never happen when the "real" refs are involved.
pox says:
It's not exactly clear that it was a bad call. This angle shows both players holding the ball, but the Seattle player's both feet are down, inbounds, while the Green Bay player is still in the air. For Jennings to be credited with an interception, I believe he'd have to have control of the ball and his feet inbounds. That makes a strong case for at least simultaneous possession, if not an outright reception, which would favor the offense. Also, the booth review was done by a full-time NFL employee, not a replacement ref. He had the power to reverse the call and did not. They did miss calling offensive pass interference, and that was a legitimate mistake, IMO, but PI was a *very* flexible concept throughout the game. That non-call was not review-able.
sweetcraspy says:
My understanding is that the booth official does not have the authority to challenge the refs, but can only decide very specific objective facts of the play, such as whether the player went down in bounds or not.
pox says:
Or who had possession? I'm no expert. While I'm a Hawks fan, I get no joy out of winning with an asterisk. It's a shame the whole first half will be forgotten, when the Seattle defense was shoving Green Bay all over the effin field. That did give me joy. It's the first season I've felt optimistic in a long time, so it's no fun to see it marred.
pox says:
Also, I was with some people doing a thing, and we had the game on, muted. After the missed pass at 2:00, we *turned it off*. "Oh well, @#$! Hawks are back to normal." Talked some more, packed up my stuff, went to my car, THEN heard the neighbors cheer. Turned on the radio and was all, "WTF?"
sweetcraspy says:
I'm not an expert either, I'm relying on SA's Sports Argument Stadium thread. The jist of the discussion was that the judgment call on the field was "dual possession". The only thing the booth could do in this situation was determine whether the ball was caught (i.e did it touch the ground for a split second before some one had possession), whether the catch happened in bounds, and whether any obscure rules affect the play as it was called. Who had possession is in the purview of the field refs.
pox says:
Thank you. In that case, I shall cling to the photo above, choose to believe it was dual possession, and try to forget the pass interference.
Reedley Smith says:
I've heard many fans and paid commentators making this (or a similar) point.
My response has and will continue to be "so what?"
The NFL should simply change the rules of the game (even if it's only during the lockout) so that the booth officials have the full authority to exercise judgment in support or in contradiction of the referee and other on-field officials.
It's only the NFL's rulebook that prevents the booth official from doing so today, not some law or regulation, so it can easily and readily be changed (and then changed back once the lockout has concluded.)
Jeremy Powers says:
As anyone in Seattle will tell you, the Seahawks are no strangers to bad officiating.
BrianP says:
To be fair to Pete Carroll, at the end of the game he hadn't seen the replay of the videos like we all had. The only thing he had to go one was refs calls and replay decision. Likewise, he like a lot of people probably didn't realize the game wasn't quite over yet.
I'm surprised Green Bay actually came back out on the the field. That was a classy move, but I kind of wish they hadn't in protest.
Tadas Jelinek says:
As a guy from Europe I have no idea what's this post about.
mccrum says:
Think of Henry's uncalled handball against Ireland: It's like that but some officials can watch a replay of only the goal itself, not the handball that everyone else saw.
That should give you a good idea.
Not even the same at all.
pox says:
As I understand it, different countries sometimes have different "sports." Whatever the details of the sports, they serve the same function in every country: to divide people into simulated tribes and give them proxies to fight each other in a way that avoids permanent damage. This is one of those, except the fairness of the conditions are in dispute, which affected the outcome of the battle. One tribe feels robbed of a rightful victory, while the other tribe wants to enjoy the victory, but will enjoy it less because the conditions were unreliable. The possible unfairness is the result of a labor dispute. (Surely that's a familiar concept to a European fellow.) Ironically, some of the members of the defeated tribe have historically been aggressive in suppressing organized labor, and they now feel the need to publicly state support for organized labor in regards to their tribe's defeat. I hope this helps clear it up.
mccrum says:
I'm in the States and this certainly makes a lot more sense than what I've seen on ESPN…
MarkV says:
This theory presupposes that humans possesses an innate and inalienable blood lust that must be sublimated lest actual violence occur. Interesting.
Antinous / Moderator says:
Yup. We're mammals. Even sheep battle each other.
replace "must be sublimated" with "can be exploited for profit", and then delete the rest.
Antinous / Moderator says:
Whatever the details of the sports, they serve the same function in every country: to divide people into simulated tribes and give them proxies to fight each other in a way that avoids permanent damage.
It appears to be universal.
Nicholas Gates says:
Actually, Wisconsin has historically been *pro* Union. Milwaukee–my town–had Socialist mayors for about half a century. It's only been lately with Mr Walker where that's been reversed.
Guillaume Dargaud says:
I did not understand a single word you wrote. What language is that ?!?
Green Ghost says:
In the future, I think we will all remember where we were when "THE CALL" was made. And what junk food we were eating off our chest in the recliner.
mccrum says:
I'll never forget how many Doritos I spilled on my Snuggie.
EH says:
Almost spilled my Mtn Dew
mccrum says:
Nicholas Gates says:
Hats off to Seattle. They're a good team, and Wisconsinites like me should find no shame in a fair loss to them. There was indeed the rest of the game, which was close the whole way. But still. Dude.
Also, what hasn't been brought up is how seriously devoted we Wisconsinites are to the Packers. They're sort of our version of the Queen, if the Queen was also the Statue of Liberty, who was cradling the Baby Jesus. Suicides in Wisconsin are positively correlated to Packers losses the previous week. Basically, the Packers *are* Wisconsin. This call was hardest for us here, because we are taking it super personally.
pox says:
In one way, this is better. At least this week, instead of Seattle and GB fans having to hate *each other*, we can share a common enemy!
Nicholas Gates says:
Indeed. Down with the scabs!
AdamJ23 says:
It's not the scabs fault- it's the NFL's
EH says:
Let's see how much abuse NFL fans will take. How bad can the game be made before people stop watching?
Gyrofrog says:
Back in '87, didn't they bring in pro wrestlers as scab players? I can't remember people's reactions, other than Bloom County made fun of it. That season was also the last time I bet on a football game; someone talked me into squares and I came out $20 wiser.
mccrum says:
I recall NFL players in pro wrestling here and there, but nothing vice versa for '87…
Of course, I recall a Fridge Perry GI Joe figure from that era as well, so I'm not sure what to believe anymore.
Interestingly, the NFL was moved to be classified from a sport to "entertainment"
bolivar13 says:
The thing all these articles about how stupid the lockout is seem to ignore is that the major hangup in the negotiations between the NFL and the ref's union is that the NFL wants to add more teams of referees so that they can remove the referees who perform poorly during the season.
It's not the money. Truly. It's not the money. That should seem obvious.
The irony here about poorly performing referees makes for a pretty interesting story but no one seems to want to talk about that, only the money. It's especially noteworthy that Scott Walker is supporting the referees union given the parallels…
That said, the NFL needs to just give it up and end the lockout already, this is just getting ridiculous.
DMStone says:
Yep. Bad refs are bad and more accountability is needed. I hope the NHL (if they every play again) switch to the ref team system with regular performance assessment. The way it is now there is often indecision between the different refs on who is to call what because they don't regularly work together.
NoneofYourPenguins says:
The greatest irony is that Boeing's SPEEA (new hire) engineers are being offered the same kind of 401K pension package as the NFL referees. After the Great Recession? Yeah, let's throw the newbie engineers and NFL referees under the bus! 'Effin' scabs!
And why are the NFL players crossing the picket line? 'Effin' scabs! The only redemption might be to prove the case for why NFL owners, Boeing, and scabs are all dumb beeves.
Mark Peterson says:
Here is the problem, the average fan does not know the rules. The pass is completed, as you know because of the change made to the reception rule because of Calvin Johnson, stay with me here, that states, THE RECEPTION IS NOT FINISHED UNTIL THE PLAYER HITS THE GROUND AND MAINTAINS POSSESSION. tHINK ABOUT THAT FOR A MINUTE. Who cares if Jennings had it in the air, when they hit the ground and shortly there after, who had possession? They both did. This is one reason why from DAY 1 of football instructions they tell you to knock it down, Jennings went for the interception and got burned, bet he knocks it down nexttime
Eric Franklin says:
That "Sixteen of twenty challenges were reversed" is VERY misleading – coaches won't challenge a call unless they think it is likely to be reversed.
dbergen says:
Not just misleading, wildly inaccurate too.


text:
By BRIAN SMITH
A number of volunteers were honored for the work they do in Weatherford during Tuesday night's council meeting.
Parks and Recreation Director Danielle Felts honored her First Monday committee, a group of volunteers that has worked together for the last five years to bring the popular event back to its heyday. The group has been "committed to all aspects of the weekend" according to Felts.
For their dedication to the cause, a bench and plaque will be placed in front of the new Event Center building, Felts told the crowd. Committee member Woody Stovall said First Monday is a "vital" part of the city and he is glad to be a part of bringing it back.
"The last two months we've had the biggest crowds I've ever seen, so it's been good," Stovall said.
Stovall thanked Felts, First Monday Coordinator Karen King, and Main Street Coordinator Kim Thieme for their work. Committee members said First Monday is a part of the city's heritage.
Don Johnson said he has been coming to the event since his parents brought him in the 1950s. He said everyone that comes to the event, be it the first time or multiple times, enjoys it.
City Manager Jerry Blaisdell said the committee has had the utmost in patience waiting for the council to get the event going again.
"We were telling them 'it's coming, it's coming', so all this success is owed to you," Blaisdell said.
In a related item, the council approved a proclamation honoring national volunteer week April 21-27. Mayor Dennis Hooks said more than 50 Weatherford residents serve on the city's boards and commissions and he thanked them for their work in making the city a better place to be.
In other activity during the 55-minute meeting:


text:
A memorial service for James Farrell was scheduled for 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23 at St. James Episcopal Church on Grosse Ile.
Farrell, a township public works employee, died after a trench collapsed on top of him while he attempted to fix a broken water main. He was trapped under ground for nearly 14 minutes.
Farrell was transported to Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit where he died on Jan. 28.
Farrell is the father of Brandon, brother of Jack (Carole) Hayward, Jean (Bob) Beaubien, Judy (Ricco) Righetti, and John (Barb) Farrell. Farrell is also survived by his friend Donna Darin-Volz, as well as numerous nieces and nephews, according to Martenson Family Funeral Homes, Inc.
Memorials may be made to James E. Farrell Estate.
Grosse Ile Township officials, friends of Farrell and strangers offered prayers and thoughts for the Farrell family, since he was injured on Jan. 24.
- Grosse Ile officials said, "Jim, a lifelong resident of Grosse Ile, worked for the Township for over 11 years. His positive attitude, upbeat demeanor and cheery "Good Morning" will be missed by the staff of the Township and the entire community. Sincere condolences go out to friends and the entire family of James Farrell."
- LINDA J HARMON: We take all these for granted. Prayers to you all.
- Kimberly Ariganello: Prayers for him and his family.
- Jeff Jones: Prayers for this worker, his family and the rest of the GI DPS guys. These guys know their stuff, but this is dangerous work!
- Dawn Barnsdale: Prayers going out- I know him and his son- very tragic.
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Thursday, 12 January 2012
A touch of pink
I love a touch of neon worn with casual jersey and denim. Today I have a busy day of appointments and editing in the office so I've opted for a comfy layered jersey look and I'm wearing my favorite neon pink T-shirt. Add a touch of pink to your outfit with some of these favourite buys or opt for More great Neon buys here
Max Mara coat, Petit Bateau sweatshirt, J.Crew T-shirt, Lofli jeans, Christian Louboutin loafer and Chanel bag
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- Anonymous said...
sorry laura, I love it when you mix it up but this is too mixed up for me - the sweat is creased and with the MM coat and shoes its all just a bit too 'Hollywood star dashing out for a pint of milk!'
Still i love your courage in putting things together. Dont despair at the 'fails' on this one.
- 1/12/2012 12:14 pm
- SIENA.STYLE said...
I love your look
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- 1/12/2012 6:11 pm
- Anonymous said...
Yep, sorry hun, no amount of Chanel bag makes up for not putting the iron over your top.
Off to buy some dotty Topshop trousers this weekend, wish me luck! X
- 1/12/2012 8:19 pm
- Veebers said...
Love the Shourouk necklace. Wowzers it's lovely. Not diggin' the outfit for once honey, but those shooooes, those shoooooes, i just utterly adore them so it totally makes up for it! Vx
- 1/14/2012 9:45 pm
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Bullying has become a common topic in the news, and a hot topic in many school districts. It is occurring at all grade levels across the country.
Bullying occurs when one person has an imbalance of power over another, and repeated negative or aggressive behaviors are directed towards the victim. Bullying is not a one-time occurrence, it happens repeatedly over time. Unfortunately, bullying is happening in our schools on a daily basis.
What can we do to recognize the symptoms, or better yet, create effective programs to decrease the number of bullying incidents? Who can we turn to in the school system to provide support and guidance? Studies have proven that bullying can have lasting negative effects to one's self esteem, increased rates of eating disorders, physical complaints, difficulty forming relationships (even into adulthood) and increased rates of depression and suicide.
Programs to raise awareness about bullying must begin at early ages. Many elementary schools begin teaching children about "Bully-Free" zones in kindergarten, and expand on the programs as the children get older.
Teachers and other school staff now attend workshops and information sessions about bullying, including how to recognize the characteristics of both victims and their aggressors.
Many schools in New Jersey celebrate a week in the fall to raise awareness about respecting others. Bullying assemblies are held in most schools throughout the school year.
Although teachers spend many hours a day with their students, it is often the school nurse's office where victims of bullies tend to designate as a "safe haven". The school nurse may be the first person to identify a potential bullying problem.
The school nurse is in a pivotal role when it comes to students who are
bullied. Children often gravitate to the nurse because the rapport with her is different compared to that of other school staff. The nurse is not viewed as a disciplinarian, and children will often confide in the nurse.
The school nurse is often on the front line of dealing with bullying.Children who are being bullied often go to the nurse for a variety of somatic complaints from headaches to stomach pains. The nurse can monitor absenteeism and identify problematic patterns. It is often the nurse who will identify a pattern of their visits, and may begin to suspect bullying and will initiate the initial investigation.
One of the roles of the school nurse is to promote the well being of children and provide a safe environment. Often the nurse is on a schools safety or anti-bullying committee, and can be a great resource for teachers as well as parents to broaden the awareness of bullying.
When surveyed, students regularly designate the school nurse's office as one of the safest spots in school. Knowing they have someone to confide in, who also has the power to do something about a negative situation can be very reassuring for students. The school nurse often leads prevention efforts, contributes to school wide anti-bullying programs, and assists with the training of faculty to identify bullying and how to effectively intervene.
School nurses are usually eager to work with individual students and their families to overcome a bullying situation. If you are a parent and you suspect bullying may be occurring, even if your child may be the bully, reach out to the school nurse, they are there for you.
Advances in technology have skyrocketed the newest form of bullying is, "cyber bullying". The use of cellular phones, the internet and social media outlets have contributed to some of the most harmful cases of bullying. No longer does one write graffiti about someone on a bathroom wall. Now within the click of a mouse hurtful words and rumors can be spread to thousands of people.
The school nurse is in a position to teach children strategies for dealing with bullies who are using electric forms of communication to be aggressive towards them. The nurse can also teach them how to safely use these devices; such as not giving out their cell numbers or passwords, deleting unwanted emails and encouraging them to report problems to a parent or teacher. When parents consult with the school nurse, they can learn ways to monitor their children's electronic world, tips to keep communication lines open with their kids.
We live in a time of modern technology, and most of us can barely keep up with the gadgets, websites and apps our kids use. From the days of Florence Nightingale, when one could turn to a nurse for guidance and support, that concept has not changed! Utilize your school nurse as a bullying resource to arm yourself with the knowledge to keep your kids safe. The nurse is an advocate for you and your child, with a goal of promoting their healthy development, the school nurse is a lot more than Band-aids.
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"Can you keep a secret," James Spears asked jokingly as he looked around to make sure the coast was clear. A moment later Spears lifted up his argyle sweater to reveal a Superman T-shirt given to him by his daughter.
Spears, too, is a super man.
A constant contributor to his community, Spears was recently named the 2012 Patch Community Service Person of the Year by the Trenton-Grosse Ile Patch. Spear's daughter, Jodi Williams, nominated him for the award in November 2012.
Spears and Superman have a few things in common. They both wear glasses and they both help the helpless. While Superman uses super-strength to save the day, Spears relies on his faith in God.
"I still stop and fix flat tires," Spears said. "If I see someone struggling or look like they're in need of a ride or a coat or something to eat, I'll stop to offer that."
Spears, 65, keeps men's and women's coats in his car in case he sees someone who might need one.
Spears moved to Trenton from Kentucky when he was 19 years old to take a job at the Ford Motor Company's Woodhaven Stamping Plant. He retired from the plant about 10 years ago.
While living in Trenton, Spear's married his high school sweetheart and wife of 46 years, Madlyn, and raised two children. They currently raise their grandson, Todd, 21, to whom they became primary guardians when he was 22 months old. He is currently enrolled at Wayne State University. He wants to be a doctor.
Spears saves the day (again and again)
Each Christmas season Spears and his wife send between 10 and 12 checks out to local organizations like the Trenton Goodfellows and the Salvation Army, and to people across the country.
Through a friend, Spears heard about a sick boy in Arkansas and, just before Christmas, sent him a check for an amount he preferred to keep to himself.
While driving one day a few years ago, Spears noticed a man stranded on the side of the road. The man's truck had a flat tire. Spears drove back to his house, picked up a spare tire and gave it to the stranded man.
In 2012, Spears met a single mother of two without a place to live or means of transportation. He, with the help of the Trenton Church of Christ, helped the woman get an apartment and get signed up for the Trenton Food Pantry.
Occasionally, Spears will drive to the woman's apartment to drop off food from the pantry.
Spears owes his benevolent nature to his faith in Christ
"All of this is made possible by the grace of God," Spears said. "That I am healthy enough and that I am financially capable of doing these things."
Like Superman, Spears doesn't ask for anything in return.
"I think that we were put here to save souls," Spears says. "To lead people to the Lord...it seems like I get presented with those situations and you have to make the decision of doing something or not doing anything."
See Spears accept the Patch Community Service Person of the Year Award at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 19 at the Trenton City Awards held at the Trenton Village Theatre. Contact the Trenton Parks and Recreation Department for ticket information.
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Emmett Till, a Chicago teenager who went to visit relatives in Mississippi and wound up lynched for whistling at a married white woman. His case would become a rallying symbol for thousands of Americans hungry for justice.
No one was really surprised that they weren't sorry, but it makes one wonder how many other murders' phony expressions of remorse got them leniency with a judge.
Real people who took the law into their own hands.
In a move that reportedly threw a small town in the African country Ghana into chaos, the ghost of a dead man possessed a woman and performed a citizen's arrest of the fetish priest who was allegedly responsible for his mysterious and untimely demise.
The 1933 kidnapping and subsequent murder of popular, attractive young man Brooke Hart, 22, so angered the people of San Jose, California, that on November 26, a mob over 5000 strong stormed the jail and lynched the suspects.
From our friends at The Daily Dot: When two sisters slammed an anti-pedophile group for naming-and-shaming a suspect who later took his own life, the vigilantes turned their attention towards the siblings with threats that left them fearing for their safety.
On August 30, 1985, "Night Stalker" Richard Ramirez tried to steal a car, but was captured and beaten by an angry mob, who recognized his photo from a police handout. Ironically, it was the police who, by arresting him, rescued the serial killer from the people. He was charged with thirteen murders.
Villagers in Central Bolivia's Town of Colquechaca have taken justice into their own hands, burying a suspected rapist and murderer alive, alongside his alleged victim.
The trial is ongoing in the case of four people from Romford, Essex, in England, charged with brutally beating a man to death, exacting vengeance for a rape that seems never to have occurred.
In a crime reminiscent of that of vigilante Michael A. Mullen, also from Washington State, Patrick Drum, who said he was standing up for a belief by seeking out registered sex offenders and killing them, was sentenced after hearing from the victims' families. As did Mullen, Drum stands by his actions.


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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- New year, similar story for Alabama's offensive line.
The Crimson Tide heads into the 2014 season with two open spots along the line.
Anthony Steen's graduation and Cyrus Kouandjio's early departure for the NFL have left vacancies at right guard and left tackle.
So once again, the Tide's offensive line has to fill holes and chemistry to gain before the season begins. That process starts in the spring.
"It's a little bit different, yeah, anytime you lose guys like Cyrus and Steen in the fall," junior center Ryan Kelly said. "It's just different playing with new guys. But obviously here that's something we've been pretty successful in reproducing. This is a big spring. A lot of guys rotating, just kind of getting the camaraderie. They had to adjust to it when I came in there, too. The older guys (have) to be understanding that the young guys are still learning. But also demanding if they run with the 1s, that's how they have to play."
Through four practices, the first offensive line group has featured the three returners with Kelly at center, senior Arie Kouandjio at left guard and senior Austin Shepherd at right guard. Joining those three are Leon Brown at left tackle and Alphonse Taylor at right guard
Brown, a senior, played in nine games and started one. A former junior college star, Brown was recruited to play tackle, but made his lone start at right guard in place of Steen during the Sugar Bowl.
Taylor, a junior, saw time in eight games last season. Listed at 6-foot-5, 328 pounds, Taylor is a massive human being who is light on his feet.
"If you look at how big he is, he's actually really athletic -- can bend really well and he's got a lot of power," Kelly said of Taylor. "Another young guy, doesn't have a whole lot of experience, obviously, playing games. But I think this spring's going to be really big for him. It's only day three and he's doing a lot of good things. We've just got to keep him rotating with the 1s and getting acclimated to the speed of it."
Another player who could factor into next season's rotation is freshman Cam Robinson. Robinson was the nation's top prep offensive tackle in the 2014 recruiting cycle. He's been working with the second or third group during the media's viewing period. Kelly said Robinson "has a lot of ability."
"He's a big guy, can bend really well, long arms," Kelly said. "Obviously he came into an offense where we kind of transitioning into a new style or new plays, stuff like that. So he never really learned the old one. Anytime you're coming from high school to college it's going to take a while to kind of get acclimated to it. Older guys have been helping him along the way, kind of showing him the ropes, because it can be eye-opening at times, coming from high school to college."
Alabama's biggest issue among the offensive line was its lack of communication. It was a recurring problem from week to week and the Tide never seemed to build any consistency along the line. But the Tide is making changes to avoid that this season.
"All 11 guys have to be on the same page," Kelly said. "That's why those meetings are so important. Especially, it starts with the offensive line. One of the things we're trying to emphasize is get up to the ball, get down, get set. Last year, look at it, we were running the clock down to five, four seconds every time. The faster that we can get to the line, get set, let the quarterback look at what he's got to look at, the more time we can have and we're not rushing to make calls last-minute."


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EVANS, Ga. --- Another company is getting hit hard in this economy.
Club Car is laying off 50 employees world wide, and 40 at the Evans location.
The company tells us they are helping to get the displaced workers with professional placement services and get them severance packages.
The golf cart manufacturing company is a division of Ingersoll Rand.
It employs 900 people globally and 850 in Evans.


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The members of the Port Edwards Public School Community believe that we offer a unique and competitive educational opportunity. Nestled along the Wisconsin River our village and surrounding townships offer a family friendly atmosphere. We serve our youth and residents through a beautiful park system, intercity bike trails, and a community YMCA. This small suburban school district has a dedicated staff and an open flexible attitude toward instructional innovation. These qualities are key and allow us to address the academic and social needs of every student in an academy-like atmosphere.
The District considers the residents of the Village of Port Edwards, the Townships of Seneca and Cranmoor, and the Moccasin Creek Mobile Home Park to be loyal Blackhawks. Our communities take pride in the traditions of the school district and take seriously our commitment to meeting the changing needs of today's students.
Our high school of approximately 150 students offers college preparatory classes through rigorous classroom instruction, collaborative programs, postsecondary options, and virtual instruction. The high school curriculum includes a full range of mathematics, science, social science, and language arts offerings. The vocational education departments play an important role in our services to students and include courses designed to prepare students for life, technical colleges and the work force. 77% of the graduating class of 2010 exited with plans for a postsecondary education.
Our middle school students have access to career exploration courses and foreign language courses beginning in sixth grade. Our experienced middle school team works with the individual student to ensure that they are fully prepared for high school and the developmental transitions that are a part of adolescent growth.
Our elementary school maintains small class sizes. For grades 4K-5 this ensures a personalized and successful start for our young learners. In cooperation with the YMCA our four-year-old kindergarten is located at John E. Alexander South Wood County YMCA. Our program is half days and is in session five days per week.
The Port Edwards School Technology department is directed by a full time technology expert and our technology standards are integrated throughout the curriculum. Our buildings house four computer laboratories and a portable computer system in the middle school area.
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Negative Reviews for the American Smoothing Treatment
After I originally reported on the CHI Enviro American Smoothing Treatment, I was excited to hear from my readers about their experiences. I literally performed dozens in my salon with great success. The reviews started to come in, mostly good, but a few not so good and some rather negative. People were reporting that the treatment didn't work, or their hair felt gummy, greasy, and disgusting. I was honestly dumb founded, not to mention sad for all these people that had the treatment done and hated it. How could they hate it? My clients were in love. A recent class with CHI educator, Alissa Crespo gave me the answers.
The process of applying the CHI Enviro American Smoothing treatment isn't rocket science. It's pretty basic and straight forward, honestly, but sometimes the simplest set of directions can be deceiving. While simple, the application process is very specific and failing to understand how to apply the product, cure and process the hair could lead to negative results. In order to make sure that you love your American Smoothing Treatment, it's important to choose a stylist that knows how to apply the product properly.
How to Choose the Right Stylist for Your Smoothing Treatment
- Ask your stylist if she's attended a class on the treatment process. If she hasn't, you may want to consider another stylist. Classes are available, but not required to use the system. If your stylist is "winging it", your hair may pay the price.
- Your stylist should ask you a series of questions about your hair before preforming the treatment. She should know your chemical service history and you should be very honest about any previous services that have been done on your hair. Previous treatments or chemical services will not likely result in not getting the smoothing treatment done, but could alter the product formulation chosen for your hair.
- Your stylist will cure the product into your hair with a CHI Made in America 4-Button flat iron. This is very specific and important that she uses the proper flat iron. An original CHI flat iron will not work properly, nor will a flat iron made by another company. This specific flat iron and the ceramic plates it's made with are the only flat iron approved for use with the smoothing system.
- Ask for referrals. If your stylist is confident about using the system, she should be able to provide referrals or pictures of previous results.
What to Do If You Hate the Results
If you do end up in a pickle and for any reason hate the results of the CHI Enviro American Smoothing Treatment, don't panic. Luckily the results are temporary and, with repeated washing, it will eventually go away. I would highly recommend visiting your stylist if you experience negative results to ask her advice and discover what went wrong.
Some people complained about the smell of the product and the shampoo. Like any fragrance, some people will like it and some will hate it. I had one client that wasn't fond of the smell, and a few emails from people that complained about the smell. You shouldn't experience a strong smell after shampooing the product 24 hours after application of the treatment. If you do, it is my educated guess that the curing may not have been performed properly.
Client Reviews
My clients have been raving about the CHI Enviro American Smoothing Treatment, and I thought I'd share some of their comments here:
After riding the motorcycle, standing in the 90+ degree heat and humidity, sitting by the river, and more bike riding, my hair still had NO FRIZZ! My natural curl came out, but not in the normal bad way; it actually looked really cute. - Terri
I am loving my hair. I was out all weekend in the heat and NO frizz! - Kimberly
After blow drying my hair is so much less frizzy and definitely takes less time and fewer sections to straighten. The best part is that sometimes my head starts to sweat while flat ironing, and I used to have to take a break so the sweat wouldn't cause it to frizz up. Now even if my head starts to sweat, my hair stays nice and flat. My hair feels really nice and I LOVE the Enviro Smoothing Serum. - Brooke


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A Fox Point man has had five citations claiming violation of Fox Point's time-share ordinance dismissed.
The ordinance, enacted in 2011, requires all time-share properties to meet state statutes and to be part of the village's Planned Development Overlay zoning.
William Andrew Kops received at least 11 municipal citations related to rental of his property at 721 E. Daisy Ln. over a 2-year period, but saw the most recent five of them dismissed, according to Fox Point's court clerk office.
Kops had hearings over the citations moved to Glendale, and there a municipal judge dismissed the tickets.
"We homeowners have property rights, and those property rights have to include the right to rent out one's property," Kops told Patch. "A time-share ordinance is not relevant to renting out property."
Kops said he is actively contesting the other six citations he received from Fox Point police claiming time-share ordinance violations.
"We are happy with this decision on the part of Fox Point, because it clarifies and openly allows villagers to bring in guests," he said.
Kops said he will continue to rent out the property.