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Caroline Wilson
Caroline Wilson has been chief football writer for The Age since 1999. She was the first woman to cover Australian Rules football on a full-time basis and the first woman to win the AFL's gold media award. She has won the AFL Players Association's football writer of the year (1999) and the AFL Media Association's most outstanding football writer and most outstanding feature writer (2000, 2003, 2005). She also won a Melbourne Press Club Quill Award in 2003.
One bye, October grand final on cards
Caroline Wilson AFL players look certain to revert to just one bye round in the 2015 season with an October grand final also near certain in the AFL's determination to launch the season late – in April at the...
Black Caviar says neigh to grand final gig
Caroline Wilson Black Caviar has refused an invitation from the AFL to play a starring role in what would have proved a pre-game extravaganza on grand final day.
Fans witness a great heist on grand final day
Caroline Wilson Most premierships are foregone conclusions by the time living minutes become dying seconds in the twilight of grand final day. Many are anti-climactic and usually the short-priced favourite gets up.
Etihad grand final a costly move for AFL and Brisbane
Caroline Wilson AFL's decision to rob Brisbane of NAB Cup grand final a shocker on so many levels.
AFL has rethink on grand final acts
Caroline Wilson Andrew Demetriou concedes that Meat Loaf's disappointing performance hurt reputation of grand final.
Fairer finals clause comes back to bite AFL
Caroline Wilson The MCG's move to host four of international soccer's most glamorous clubs in a three-game competition in the middle of a traditional AFL Melbourne winter comes one decade almost to the day that the...
Timing of priority pick request as ill-judged as the decision to seek one
Caroline Wilson The political layers beneath Melbourne's poorly timed decision to apply for a 2014 priority pick appear as complex as the national draft that the AFL is working to simplify.
Free agency will widen gap between rich and poor clubs, says Taylor Walker
Caroline Wilson Adelaide star Taylor Walker has spoken out against free agency in the belief the recently relaxed player movement rules will ultimately harm the competition and widen the gap between the rich and...
AFL charter inoffensive, generic and mildly disappointing
Caroline Wilson The AFL's much-vaunted charter was a worthy exercise ultimately watered-down to appease football's extensive multi-layered competitions, the purists and the evolutionists – not to mention...
Andrew Demetriou kicked goals - and behinds
Caroline Wilson It was during an early February afternoon tea in New York, overlooking a snow-covered Central Park, that Andrew Demetriou's resignation from Australian sport's most powerful job became official.
Fears over AFL future of GWS Giants captain Phil Davis
Caroline Wilson Phil Davis remains in hospital after suffering a kidney injury during the Giants' historic win on Saturday.
Neale Daniher's biggest battle
Caroline Wilson You may or may not locate Neale Daniher's familiar face at the MCG today in the West Coast coaches' box.
Buddy lucky that no one was hurt in latest driving mishap
Caroline Wilson It is now beyond dispute that any suggestion Lance Franklin and his rockstar lifestyle would be left to their own devices in a big city not obsessed with Australian football was fanciful.
How Gillon McLachlan got to be the AFL's No. 1
Caroline Wilson Gillon McLachlan's journey to the AFL's top job can be charted back to the day some 18 months ago that he sat opposite his old boss Andrew Demetriou with his head in his hands unable to speak.
Tiger tales: the powers behind the glories of Tom Hafey's years at Richmond
Caroline Wilson One of Tom Hafey's premiership players pointed out on Friday that in the week of Hafey's death the Richmond coaching legend has never seemed more alive.
Lyall Gorman in frame to replace Greg Swann at Carlton
Caroline Wilson One of the most dynamic bosses in Australian soccer, short-listed for the vacant CEO's position at Brisbane Lions, has also entered the frame to replace Greg Swann at Carlton.
Mick Malthouse confronted umpire over contentious free kick
Caroline Wilson The AFL has played down a pre-game incident during round two in which Mick Malthouse confronted a senior umpire about a costly and contentious free kick he had awarded in 2013 against the Blues.
Pre-season picks 'a circus'
Caroline Wilson Radical plan to introduce a ''captains' pick'' representative game on eve of 2014 season slammed as ''circus and a sideshow'' by one club chairman.
St Kilda: a club in crisis
Caroline Wilson While the Scott Watters debacle has proved the headline issue, it remains just one of so many unresolved problems.
Bombers push for Daniher as boss
Caroline Wilson Essendon targets Neale Daniher as it sets about rebuilding the club.


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Jeff Sugg is a Brooklyn-based projection designer. Selected theater credits include: Broadway: Magic/Bird, 33 Variations, Chinglish (co-design). Off-Broadway: Tribes, Compulsion, The Book of Grace, Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island, The Truth: A Tragedy, The Accidental Trilogy. Tour: Bring It On: The Musical.
Sugg has also worked with many renowned companies and artists including Cynthia Hopkins, Jim Findlay, Laurie Anderson, and The Wooster Group. He has won a Lortel, an Obie, a Bessie, and two Hewes Awards.

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In one of the least populated counties in the east, a wealth of beauty awaits travelers who make the trek through the Allegheny mountains to visit. This Virginia county, nestled between the West Virginia border and the Shenandoah Valley, consists of 416 square miles and fewer than 3,000 residents. Due to its high elevation, the climate is similar to upstate New York. A pristine land of sheep and cattle farms, maple syrup production and jaw-dropping scenery, Highland County is timeless and unhurried, and it awaits all who seek its rural charms.
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SOUTHERN INDIANA (WAVE) - Thursday morning means back to school for many students in Southern Indiana and those parents waiting until the last minute for school supplies just might be paying more.
Every year, Huntington National Bank looks at the cost of school supplies. Its backpack index shows prices jumped this year about 7 percent; far outpacing inflation at 1.8 percent. For some parents the prices are pure sticker shock.
"The new thing this year has been ear phones or ear buds. That's never been on our list before and I didn't realize how much that would be," said Kristy Burton who was shopping for her daughters.
The best piece of advice is to comparison shop and focus on what is really needed; skip the "cute" stuff.
School supply lists can typically be found in major retail centers or can be printed from school district websites.
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VELIKA IVANCA, Serbia — He went from house to house in the village at dawn, cold-bloodedly gunning down his mother, his son, a 2-year-old cousin and 10 other neighbors. Terrified residents said if a police patrol car hadn't shown up, they all would have been dead.
Police said they knew of no motive yet in the carnage Tuesday that left six men, six women and a child dead in Velika Ivanca, a Serbian village 30 miles southeast of Belgrade.
After the rampage, police said suspect Ljubisa Bogdanovic, a 60-year-old who saw action in one of the bloodiest sieges of the Balkan wars, turned his gun on himself and his wife as authorities closed in. Both were in grave condition at a hospital in the Serbian capital.
In the small lush village surrounded by fruit trees, the suspect's older brother Radmilo broke down in tears, unable to explain why the massacre had happened.
"Why did he do it? ... I still can't believe it," he said sobbing, covering his face with his hands. "He was a model of honesty."
"As a child, he was a frightened little boy. I used to defend him from other children. He couldn't even slaughter a chicken," he said.
But he said his brother had changed after serving in the army during a brutal Serb-led offensive against the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar in 1992 — the worst bloodshed during Croatia's 1991-95 war for independence.
"The war had burdened him," Radmilo, 62, told The Associated Press in an interview. "He used to tell me: God forbid you live through what I went through ... Something must have clicked in his head for him to do this."
Twelve people in the village were killed immediately between 5 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. and one person died later in a Belgrade hospital, Serbian police chief Milorad Veljovic said.
"Most of the victims were shot while they were asleep," Veljovic told reporters. "The most harrowing scene discovered by police was the dead bodies of a young mother and her 2-year-old son."
The suspect had lost his job last year at a wood-processing factory, the police chief said.
Although such mass shootings are relatively rare in Serbia, weapons are readily available, mostly from the 1990s wars in the Balkans. Media reports said the suspect had a license for the handgun.
Residents said Bogdanovic first killed his son and his mother before leaving his house and then began shooting his neighbors. They expressed deep shock, describing the suspect as a nice, quiet man.
"He knocked on the doors and as they were opened he just fired a shot," said villager Radovan Radosavljevic. "He was a good neighbor and anyone would open their doors to him. I don't know what happened."
"I never saw him angry, ever," said Milovan Kostadinovic, another resident. "He was helping everybody, he had a car and drove us everywhere."
Still, neighbors said an entire five-member family was shot dead in one house, including the small boy who was the suspected killer's cousin.
Kostadinovic said the suspect was confronted by police while en route to his house.
"If they didn't stop him, he would have wiped us all out," Kostadinovic said, standing in front of his two-story, red tile- roofed house. "He shot himself when police stopped him."
His wife Stanica said their small white-and-brown dog Rocky had gotten very nervous early in the morning and was barking and jumping up and down. She said when her husband opened their door, a policewoman shouted: "Get back in!"
"He was shooting everybody. Police saved us," she said.
"I never saw him angry, ever," said his first neighbor Ljubomir Kostadinovic. "He was helping everybody, he had a car. And drove us everywhere."
Ljubomir's wife Stanica Kostadinovic said on the fatal Tuesday morning, their small white-brown dog Rocky got very nervous, barking and jumping up and down. The husband opened the door and a policewoman shouted: "Get back in! He was shooting everybody. Police saved us."
The suspected killer owned a gun but neighbors and his brother said he never hunted or shot weapons, even at weddings or celebrations as is traditional in the Balkans.
"He was quiet as a bug," Stanica Kostadinovic said.
Nada Macura, a Belgrade hospital spokeswoman, said the suspect had no known history of mental illness. Stanica Kostadinovic said the man's father had hanged himself when he was a young boy and his uncle had a history of mental illness.
Aleksandar Stekic, 29, was fast asleep when his mother was killed. He heard the shots but "thought I was dreaming."
"When I got up about half an hour later, I found her dead on the doorstep," he told the AP.
Stekic said he went to the next house and found the same scene there, and then again in the next one.
"At that moment, I no longer knew where I was," Stekic said, adding that a policeman had handcuffed him while he roamed outside, thinking that he was the shooter.
Police blocked off the village while forensic teams and investigators in white protective robes took evidence from homes where the shootings took place.
Doctors said later Tuesday that the suspect's condition was critical but his wife — who had called the police before she was shot —was able to communicate with the hospital staff.
Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic said the killings showed that the government must pay more attention to gun control and other social problems facing the Balkan nation, which is still reeling from the 1990s wars. His government held an emergency session and was expected to proclaim a national day of mourning.
Serbia's last big shooting spree occurred in 2007, when a 39-year-old man gunned down nine people and injured two others in the eastern village of Jabukovac.


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Is Pimco's Bill Gross a jerk?February 25, 2014: 3:29 PM ET
Is the bond king a dictator?
Bill Gross, co-founder of Pimco and manager of the world's biggest bond fund (PTTRX) became the subject of a scathing article on the front page of the Wall Street Journal Tuesday.
The 69-year-old billionaire investor is known for being praised by the media as one of the most influential players on Wall Street, with investors around the world listening for his views on financial markets and the economy. But the Wall Street Journal article sheds a different light on Gross, and the factors that may have led to the resignation of Pimco CEO Mohamed El-Erian.
"Mr. Gross — by his own admission, a demanding boss — had long showed respect for Mr. El-Erian and indicated that the younger man eventually would take over the world's biggest bond firm," the WSJ story said. "But one day last June, the two men squared off in front of more than a dozen colleagues amid disagreements about Mr. Gross's conduct, according to two people who were there."
Related: Bill Gross on credit, bacon, and marijuana
The article went on to cite two witnesses who were there during the conversation saying that Gross highlighted his "41-year track record of investing excellence," and asked El-Erian what he had to show.
In response, El-Erian reportedly told Gross he was "tired of cleaning up your s---."
The colorful article, which cites a number of "individuals close to both men," along with former Pimco employees, says the rising tension between the two executives was among the chief reasons for El-Erian's sudden departure.
The villainous portrayal of Gross became a hot topic on Twitter, with opinionated and successful venture capitalist Marc Andreessen coming to the defense of Gross' management style in a dozen consecutive tweets.
While the Silicon Valley heavyweight admitted he doesn't know Gross and doesn't work with him, he said "the behavior described is completely typical of any highly-successful, high-functioning organization in any field I've ever seen."
6/High-functioning business organizations aren't Disneyland. There's always stress, conflict, argument, dissent. Emotion. Drama.—
Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) February 25, 2014
Andreessen went on to say after reading the Journal story, he thought to himself, "Boy, that sounds like Apple (AAPL), Oracle (ORCL), Intel (INTC), Google (GOOG), Amazon (AMZN) and Microsoft (MSFT)."
12/To quote Jim Barksdale, "This isn't a family and I ain't your daddy". But together we can build great things & make our grandkids proud.—
Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) February 25, 2014
Others had a similar sentiment, with one trader recalling that the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs was also known for his brash personality.
Bill Gross seems like a bond market version of Steve Jobs. Not uncommon for talented people to be short-fused.—
Jesse Livermore (@Jesse_Livermore) February 25, 2014
But others were less forgiving.
LOL Bill Gross sounds like the biggest douchebag—
Mr. Solo Dolo (@Bob_Loblaw420) February 25, 2014
He's a brilliant manager with a stellar long term track record, but I thing Bill Gross has lost it...—
Reinman_MT (@reinman_mt) February 25, 2014
Bill Gross seems like such a normal guy on CNBC but this WSj article makes him sound like a total prick! m.us.wsj.com/articles/SB100…—
outlawz (@outlawz616) February 25, 2014
Bill Gross sounds like a bundle of joy to work for—
Patrick Crutcher (@chasingthealpha) February 25, 2014
Reuters' Felix Salmon suggested it might be time for Gross to step down, but others were less convinced.
i find nothing about the Bill Gross El Erian story remotely surprising nor is it obvious that Gross should resign/retire—
(@econhedge) February 25, 2014
Gross also took to Twitter using the firm's handle to address the takedown.
Gross: Clients come first. Performance and service that's our mission. Always has been. Always will be.—
(@PIMCO) February 25, 2014
Later Tuesday afternoon, during a phone interview on CNBC, Gross called the Journal's characterization of an autocratic style and the conflict between him and El-Erian "overblown."
He said the two are friends, recalling that he and Pimco's investment committee hired El-Erian twice -- first in 1999, and then again in 2007, after El-Erian had completed a two-year stint managing Harvard's endowment.
When asked if there were any factual errors in the article, Gross said he didn't want to "quarrel" with the Journal's Greg Zuckerman and invited him to see the environment at Pimco firsthand.


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By JOHN CORYER
---- — PLATTSBURGH — With the Oswego women's soccer team in town to play Plattsburgh State on Saturday, Lakers' freshman Bailey Waterbury spent the previous night at home with her mother, Karen, the head coach of the Cardinals.
"It was a little awkward at breakfast this morning," said Bailey. "We're both pretty competitive. She wanted to win the game and so did I."
"I was thinking about waking her up every hour or so to get her tired for the game or give her some bad food for breakfast," joked Karen.
As it turned out, Bailey played a strong game on defense to help the Lakers record a 2-1 win in SUNY Athletic Conference play at the Field House Soccer Complex.
"I had some jitters before the game started," said Bailey. "I've been looking forward to the game. Plattsburgh is dear to my heart and I know the girls on the team.
"But I was more pumped for this game and wanted to beat them."
Her mom tried to coach it like it was any other game, but had trouble doing so.
"I wanted to take it like it was any other game," said Karen. "But I kept hearing her talk to her teammates out there or hear them calling her name. It's tougher when you have someone that you care that much about on the other team."
Bailey, a former standout at Beekmantown Central School, has scored a couple of goals so far this season and is proving to be a player that head coach Brian McGrane, a former standout player for Chris Waterbury's Plattsburgh State men's soccer team, can count on at different positions.
"I've been playing different positions — I'm pretty versatile," said Bailey. "I've played at forward this year and played stopper today. I never know where I'll be playing."
"Bailey's a competitor and played very well today," said Karen. "She's getting good playing time. I think they used only one sub today.
"I'm proud of her and happy for her. I knew it was going to be a win-win situation for me today because we care too much for one another. But, I wanted to win the game."
The Cardinals have been struggling of late, especially on the offensive end, and Bailey wasn't about to get into any trash talking with her mom following the game and what was a tough weekend for Plattsburgh.
"I was happy to win the game, but I still feel sorry for her," said Bailey. "I want her and her team do have a good season."


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The long, black car came to a stop at the opposite end of the football field, away from where the Washington Redskins were running through a series of player-organized drills. The driver stepped out of the car and opened the door for someone many of the players did not recognize at first. He was a shell of the man who had coached them the year before, and in little more than a month he'd be dead of colon cancer. Vince Lombardi could only stand to watch his former team practice for a minute before escaping back into the car where he wept. As his wife, Marie, shared with the players later, Lombardi was moved to tears because he believed the discipline he'd been trying to instill in the men had taken hold. They were a unit now, no longer a group of individuals.
It was the end of an era for professional football. There would be no more men like Lombardi, and the game Lombardi knew would never be the same after that summer of 1970. Pro football's two rival leagues were finally ready to merge into one league of two conferences, and the stronghold management had maintained over employment for the league's first half-century would be challenged seriously for the first time. …
As NFL players and owners prepare for a third month of the lockout, it seems clear the balance of power is well proportioned. Player salaries account for an estimated 59 percent of the league's annual operating budget, while the vast majority of NFL franchises have a net worth of more than $1 billion, according to Forbes. Both sides are holding firm at the moment — the players on the strength of their iron-clad union and Minnesota judge Susan Nelson's ruling, and the owners thanks to an expected $5 billion in promised network television dollars whether the season is played or not.
Their squabbling aside, times are good for both parties, all things considered.
The history between NFL labor and management was once a lopsided story. Up through the 1960s, players were instructed not to share the terms of their contract with other players, and each man was considered the property of the organization that first secured his rights until that team no longer had a need for him. It was the slavery Curt Flood and Marvin Miller spoke of while trying to crack Major League Baseball's reserve clause, only pro football's system was far more unjust. The life of an NFL player was a fraction of that of a professional baseball player, and the aftereffects of a career in football were far more severe. And even after television and the Super Bowl had helped the NFL to reach unimagined heights, the men whose blood was being shed on fields throughout the Midwest and East Coast had no plan to protect their financial futures or long-term health needs, nor was there a structure in place for the men to argue for one. Meanwhile, NFL owners reaped all the rewards, in large part because they proved much better at playing politics and won every labor dispute by a blowout.
NFL players first organized as an Association in 1956, and three years later negotiated the league's first pension plan (albeit not a very good one). In 1968, the Association went on strike for the first time, but the dispute was brief and was settled before the start of training camp.
Two years later the players were again back at the bargaining table, this time faced with the dubious task of trying to negotiate a better pension plan and benefits while trying to blend both NFL and AFL Player Associations into one.
Seven soldiers (and a lawyer named Garvey)
Serving as a player representative in the 1960s and early 1970s was a potential death sentence. There was no protection from teams bullying or cutting those players that stood on the front lines. Say the wrong thing to management and you were bound to get bounced throughout the league, possibly blacklisted from pro football altogether. Within 12 months of the 1968 strike, six team representatives had been traded, sold or cut. At one Players Association election, the first five nominees declined the honor.
"That was the general practice," says Kermit Alexander, who became a casualty when San Francisco traded him to the Rams prior to the 1970 season. In an attempt to discourage teams from this, the Association began encouraging star players to step forward with the assumption that management would be far less likely to cut or trade one of its most talented players. "It turns out they didn't care," Alexander says. "They did it to stars like they did it to everybody else."
Alexander was one player who had witnessed enough. When the NFL Players Association merged with the AFL Players Association prior to the 1970 season, Alexander was named to a seven-member Executive Committee along with fellow NFL at-large representative Pat Richter (Washington), AFL at-large representatives Nick Buoniconti (Miami) and Tom Keating (Oakland), vice presidents Ken Bowman (Green Bay) and Ernie Wright (Cincinnati), and president John Mackey (Baltimore).
Mackey came into power thanks to a deal he struck with AFL leader Jack Kemp. If the Association would agree to have Kemp's good friend, Alan Miller, serve as general counsel, Kemp would guarantee Mackey that the AFL players would vote him president.
Kemp had his motives. Mackey was a more moderate pick than the NFL's Association president at the time, Ed Meador. Besides, as the Association's other labor lawyer, Ed Garvey, put it, "Kemp's politics and philosophy of government made him a welcome person to the NFL owners and the commissioner. Kemp was a believer that the Association should be exactly that — not a union but an association." Miller operated on the same wavelength.
"It was a concession on our part," Bowman says. "There was a general feeling that the old league, the National Football League, now the National Football Conference, had a stronger Association. Kemp's group was viewed as, 'Gee, what are you guys going to give us.' " Whether that's a fair assessment is difficult to say, but midway through the 1970 proceedings Miller's views on organized labor meant very little; his voice had been drowned out by Garvey, a spirited young lawyer who later would serve as the Association's Executive Director from 1971-83.
Some would say the left can't lean far enough for Garvey, who went to work for Bobby Kennedy's presidential campaign in 1968 while finishing up a law degree at the University of Wisconsin. After Kennedy's assassination, Garvey joined Bronson La Follete's failed gubernatorial bid before searching for a firm that fit his liking. His mentor at Madison connected him with Minnesota firm Lindquist and Vennum, for whom he began work in late 1969. A year later, when the Players Association contracted with the firm to assist in the 1970 labor discussions, Garvey was asked by Leonard Lindquist to help in the proceedings. Lindquist had never been to a pro football game in his life. Laughs Garvey, "I was selected, in part, because I knew the shape of a football."
Garvey's knowledge of the game did not concern the players much (although it should be noted that he did play football in high school). Instead, they were immediately taken by his passion and wit. "Quick with a phrase," Bowman describes. "On one occasion, he said Pete Rozelle was ethically and morally bankrupt. He had some great lines."
Owners refused to acknowledge Garvey at the table. During one mediation session in Philadelphia, Garvey addressed Cowboys president Tex Schramm, who turned to Mackey and said, 'We're going to talk to you, John. We're not going to talk to anybody else, because we're trying to make a deal.' Undaunted, Mackey replied, 'Well, he's our guy, so you better talk to him.'
If the owners thought they'd have it any easier dealing with Mackey, the men sorely underestimated the legendary Colts player. He might not have had a law degree like Bowman and Richter, but Mackey had a great deal of fight in him, and he'd need every ounce of it that summer.
A worthy opponent
Rozelle was the perfect politician. It's difficult to believe today, when Roger Goodell is so clearly identified as a management guy, but in 1970 Rozelle had successfully convinced pro football outsiders that he was the impartial voice of reason between players and management. The media loved him. He was, after all, the guy who had helped pro football to explode in the age of television, and the man who had restored peace after a decade-long war between his NFL and the AFL. "All of the sportswriters had this idea that Pete Rozelle walked on water," Alexander says. "There was this conception that he walked the tough line between management and players. No such thing. He was clearly in management's pocket, just like Goodell is."
Every player understood this. Rozelle was hired by management, paid for by management, and sat on management's side of the table during labor discussions. The players would have liked for him to serve both sides; it just wasn't the reality. Recalls Richter, "We even offered at one time to pay half his salary. We said, 'Well, if he truly is the commissioner for everyone, let us pay half his salary.' That didn't fly."
A good guy in public, Rozelle sometimes resorted to cheap tricks behind closed doors. He spoke of progress when addressing reporters, then helped the owners orchestrate delays during the months leading up to the start of the season in an attempt to drain the Association's resources and weaken their foundation. In a 1980 Sports Illustrated article, Mackey recalled one occasion when Rozelle demanded the NFLPA president sign the Collective Bargaining Agreement "in a hurry because Vince Lombardi was going to die and that would upset the owners so much that they wouldn't negotiate anymore. So I was supposed to sign immediately. Incredible. I didn't give Vince Lombardi cancer." Lombardi probably wouldn't have cared; both Bowman and Richter admit Lombardi was cordial when it came to their duties as team representatives.
In another example of how Rozelle tried to manipulate the players, he invited Mackey and the Executive Committee to New York for a talk with owners. Rozelle asked that no lawyers be present for the meeting, but when the players arrived they were introduced to legendary labor lawyer Ted Kheel. Rozelle tried to convince Mackey that Kheel was merely there to educate the players and management on what lie ahead.
What the players hoped to accomplish at the meeting was to get recognition for the right to negotiate on the players' behalf. Rozelle then put the offer out: The NFL would recognize the NFL Players Association for collective bargaining if they were willing to waive in perpetuity the right to negotiate preseason pay. At that time Mackey excused himself to call Garvey. "He said, 'What do you think of that?' and I said, 'What do you think?' And Mackey said, 'I don't know what in perpetuity means, but it sounds like a long time,' " Garvey recalls.
Garvey admits the largest obstacle in 1970 was learning what was important to the membership. Without the structure of a union, there was no way to construct a list of demands. "If you go back as far as 1960, there really wasn't any way to know exactly what the players wanted because there hadn't been any preparation for collective bargaining — any surveys taken, or meetings held, or listing of priorities — frankly it was just an Association from the merger," says Garvey. "The guess was the players were primarily concerned about pension, insurance, disability benefits and things of that nature." The players were also growing tired of the Rozelle Rule, which all but froze player movement, but the players understood that battle would have to be fought another day.
NFL owners did their best to derail the Executive Committee's agenda. Rozelle encouraged Mackey to organize a brainstorming session in Chicago with the NFL's marquee players. Convinced the outcome would prove favorable to management, the NFL offered to cover all expenses. Recalls Garvey, "For the first part of the meeting it looked like the players were going to say, 'Let's not worry about a pension, let's go back to work.' But it got to Bart Starr, who said he was going to stay out as long as Ken Bowman told him to because he was the guy making it possible for Bart Starr to make more money than he deserved compared with Ken Bowman." With that, the NFL's elite sided with Starr.
"Suddenly, the NFL was faced with a problem," Garvey says. "They had no plan in mind, other than a collapse, because they were so confident the superstars would reject Mackey's call for a continuation of negotiations and a strike, if necessary."
In July, the owners briefly locked out the players, then lifted the lock prior to the start of camp. On July 30 the Association went on strike. Only a few players crossed over, the most notable being Baltimore Colts LB Mike Curtis. "Football is my profession, not negotiating contracts," Curtis told Sports Illustrated. He agreed with the players, just not their methods.
For Alexander, changing the way players viewed themselves was yet another obstacle in the Association's fight against management. "A segment of our guys thought an association was all we needed and 'union' was a dirty word. But that's because those guys didn't really appreciate that they were laborers. They were guys who were given a job and were expendable with no protection."
The strike started to crack before it began. A week before, Kansas City Chiefs players were granted permission by the Association to take part in the annual College All-Star Game in Chicago, and there had been unrest by many of the veterans about what missing part or all of the preseason would mean to their income.
On Aug. 3, the players agreed to go back to work. The players negotiated a four-year deal which offered a better pension plan that lowered the retirement age and included retro-contributions for benefit-eligible players who had played in the years 1959-69. The deal also increased the average salary for veterans and rookies, and provided dental benefits.
"They got what they wanted in 1970," Bowman says of management. "They got their four-year deal. They bought peace with some pocket change into the pension plan."
Actually, the pocket change was a $4.2 million contribution, but how that money has been handled is somewhat of a controversy to this day. The players' actuary calculated that the fund would produce an annual growth of six percent, generating estimated retirement-age payouts of roughly $100 per month per player for those who played in the 1970 season; $105 per month for those who played in 1971; $110 per month for those who played in 1972; and $120 per month for those who played in 1973. But the market yield through the years was far better than six percent, suggesting lost benefits for many retired players. Bowman and Richter served as the two player reps on the NFL Pension Board after the 1970 talks and both agree it was designed to be a lump sum contribution and not a defined benefit, meaning that retired players should have benefited from the growth of the fund. "We were negotiating dollars, not benefits," Richter says. "Somehow it moved in that direction."
Laughs Bowman, "The crazy thing about that is, I just got a notice from the NFL Pension Board and they're now saying it is under-funded for even the defined benefit. I guess they get the benefit of the market when it goes up, and the benefit of the market when it goes down, too." [Author's note: Commissioner Goodell recently released a statement which assured retired players that their pension money was secure.]
Willing to make the ultimate sacrifice
The deciding play of the 1970 season might have been Mackey's catch in Super Bowl V — a tipped pass that found its way into his hands before the 29-year-old raced the rest of the way for a 75-yard touchdown. What Mackey could not have known in his moment of triumph in Miami was that it would be his last proud moment on an NFL field. In 1969 Mackey had been voted the greatest tight end of the league's first 50 years, and had been selected to five Pro Bowls in his first seven seasons. But by 1971 he was all of a sudden over the hill and unwanted. His catch total dropped from 28 to 11 that season, and in '72 he was traded to the San Diego Chargers, for whom he recorded a career-low 110 yards and didn't score a single touchdown.
Injuries were credited with ending Mackey's career; Bowman claims he knows better.
"Here you have a guy who was the best tight end in the NFL for its first 50 years," Bowman says, "and only had eight or nine years in the league at that point, and all of a sudden he loses a step and gets traded to San Diego? John told me stories of what happened, of how they took the spirit away from him."
Despite his 331 catches, 38 touchdowns and 5,236 yards receiving, Mackey was not enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame until almost two decades after he was ushered out of the league.
Adds Bowman, "If they can do it to John Mackey, they can do it to anyone."
And they did, say player representatives — the list of league-shortened careers too long to include in its entirety …
Knowing things were not going well for him in Washington prior to the 1971 season, Richter asked to be let go so that he could catch on with another team. "I was picked up by Dallas for a few weeks, but I think it was a surprise to Tex Schramm. When he saw I was there I think he said, 'Wait a minute, what the hell are you doing here?'" Richter was cut a short time later, ending his career in pro football.
Following the 1971 season, the Rams traded Kermit Alexander to Philadelphia. A year later, Oakland traded Keating to Pittsburgh. Like Mackey, Wright was shipped to San Diego for the '72 season — his last.
When the four-year deal the players had negotiated in 1970 expired, talks between management and the players intensified again. That summer, Bowman and 20 of his Packers teammates were arrested for picketing. Soon after, the league got rid of the center who had been one-half of the most famous block in pro football history. "They diagnosed a mystic back injury that strangely enough has never resurfaced again," Bowman laughs, "and I was waived through the league." Bowman finished his career with the Honolulu Hawaiians of the World Football League — his back in perfect playing shape, he says.
"Those players put their jobs on the line," Garvey says. "Guys like Ken Bowman, Pat Richter and John Mackey knew they were sacrificing their careers on behalf of other players, because they were dealing with NFL owners and the commissioner who play hardball.
"I'm sure, like all of us, they thought we would win. But they were willing to run that risk."
Patience, then progress
Victory? On the surface, the 1970 labor talks were another victory for management. The owners' delay tactics had worked, and it is largely believed that had the strike lasted any longer than four days the Association would have begun to crack. In terms of player rights and benefits, the Association accomplished very little; the pension was still grossly under-funded and few players believed they were fairly compensated.
But, with regard to future impact, the 1970 NFL labor talks might have been the most important single step in the history of the NFL players movement. The talks convinced the majority of players that an Association was no longer enough; more players were in favor of a union, and within a year they would be recognized as one. And albeit brief, the strike served as fair warning to management that change was on the horizon.
Years after he had filed his famous lawsuit challenging the Rozelle Rule, Mackey said of the 1970 talks: "They gave us what they wanted to give us, made us smile and say 'thank you.' But from that day forward, we decided to build a legitimate union. All efforts since then have been designed to develop our strength. Now we have the strength to take them on."
Reflects Alexander today, "It was analogous, in a lot of respects, to the civil rights movement — players trying to gain their rights, players to get recognition so that they can have a chance to get a fair wage for their labor."
It started with sacrifice. It started with seven men who were willing to put their necks on the line so that their future brethren could experience better working conditions. And much like that 1970 Redskins team that brought Lombardi to tears, NFL players for the first time began to act as a unit instead of a group of individuals.
Thanks to those efforts, the sacrifices today's NFL players speak of are trifling when compared with what Mackey and his compatriots faced.
Several months ago, when asked how NFL players would get by if locked out in 2011, Colts center and NFLPA representative Jeff Saturday said, "We've told them, 'Don't go out and buy a new boat. Don't go out and buy a new car. Pay off whatever debts you have.' These are things we've been learning from history."
From sacrificing careers to sacrificing life's luxuries … that's progress.


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DURHAM — A prayer vigil to honor Jesus Huerta, the teenager who died in police custody Nov. 19, will be held Sunday at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church.
The vigil is sponsored by Huertas family, the church and community organizations.
A separate event has been announced by the organizers of two earlier Huerta protests that turned violent. A "Justice for Chuy" march against police behavior is scheduled to form at 5:30 p.m. Sunday and end at the church in time for the vigil.
An announcement of the march advised those coming, Bring your anger, your solidarity, your fierceness and your passion.
Gathering place for marchers was announced as the Immaculate Conception parking lot, but Father Bill McIntyre, one of the church's clergy, said he has asked the organizers to meet elsewhere and was told they would.
"Recently we became aware of another march to or from the vigil," McIntyre said in a formal statement. "The parish, (vigil) organizers and the Huerta family are not participating in this other event. No organizers asked for nor received permission to use church property to gather.
"Lord Make Me An Instrument of Your Peace!"
Durham police this week released their report on the Dec. 19 protest, in which officers used tear gas to disperse marchers from CCB Plaza. It concluded that police used a minimal amount of force and only after protesters demonstrated assaultive behavior approaching the level of deadly force against officers and bystanders.
The report capped a week of new developments in the case.
Durham County District Attorney Leon Stanback announced that the State Bureau of Investigations report on Huertas death provided no probable cause for criminal charges.
But the Durham Police Departments internal investigation continues, and Huerta family attorney Alex Charns said the family has questions it wants answered.
We have an item, an area of inquiry, upon which we will ask the SBI to follow up, Charns said Wednesday. It is an investigative avenue that we want pursued.
Not searched well
Charns would not say what that avenue is but said he was pleased by an announcement from the state Attorney Generals office that SBI agents are available to meet with the Huerta family, and with Stanbacks office, if asked.
Stanback, though, said his office is done with the matter. We dont deal with anything other than criminal charges, he said.
Charns and City Manager Tom Bonfield have declined to comment on possible civil action, and police have said they are still investigating possible policy violations by Officer Samuel Duncan, who arrested Huerta on an outstanding trespassing warrant.
Duncan did not have his patrol cars interior video camera running at the time of Huertas death, which police policy requires.
Huerta was not searched well and had a gun concealed, Police Chief Jose L. Lopez wrote in a text message to Bonfield at 3:32 a.m. Nov. 19, about 30 minutes after Huerta was found dead in Duncans car and a .45-caliber semiautomatic handgun was found on the cars rear floorboard.
Police investigators who released preliminary findings from the internal investigation Jan. 10 described Duncans search of Huerta as cursory a frisk.
What police knew
Huertas family members remain skeptical of the police conclusion that Huerta had the gun when he was arrested, though police say Duncan had searched the car before going on patrol and found no weapon.
The family and Charns said police should have been more careful in their treatment of Huerta because they had been told he was a suicide risk.
Huertas sister called 911 to ask for help finding her brother, who left home that night after a confrontation with his mother over his drug use. The sister told the 911 dispatcher that Huerta previously tried to kill himself.
Police said that information was not relayed to officers on patrol, and recordings of police communications show that officers considered him only a runaway, not at risk.
However, those communications also include comments that Huertas mother might be planning to have him committed because he had a real problem with taking pills and smoking and stuff.
Reports of SBI investigations are delivered to the district attorney who requested the investigation. Stanback said he did not intend to release the Huerta report, per standard policy in his office, but he said the Huerta family and their attorney would have access to it and could do with it as they wished.
On Thursday, Charns said in an emailed statement that he had yet to receive a copy of the report, but he and the family have been provided access to it.
We look forward to meeting with the SBI so they can follow up on the additional investigative area that we identified, Charns wrote.
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// my problem was that a Rails Find :order(ed) on :description (a text field) was putting Upper case values ahead of all the down case values. This was written using the Ruby sort_by code. Perhaps someone will come behind me and post how this could have been done in 1 line. I welcome it.
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Kentucky State Police at Morehead are looking for Shannon R. Burgher
Date of News Release 02/27/06
The Kentucky State Police at Morehead are investigating the death of Donna F. Burgher, 36 of Stanton. She was located in a motor vehicle on KY 15 near Stanton, Powell County. Burgher was pronoucned dead at the scene by Powell County Coroner Carl Wells, Jr. as the result of multiple gunshots. Autopsy to be performed next date at the State Medical Examiners Office in Frankfort. Next of Kin notified by Coroner. Apparently Donna Burgher was attempting to flee from Shannon Burgher because of an earlier argument when she wrecked and then was shot in side of her vehicle.
Kentucky State Police at Morehead are looking for Shannon R. Burgher, 30 of Stanton for questioning in relation to this investigation and the fire of his residence on Mill Knob Road in Powell County. Burgher is described as a white male 5'6" tall, weighing 140lbs with green eyes operating a Black 2001 GMC Pickup with KY registration 4152ND . Burgher is considered armed and dangerous.


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Thread: Dear Summer, Please Go and Die
Dear Summer, Please Go and Die
Dear Summer, Please Go and Die
I took my kid to a playground the other day and it smelled like football. If you've ever played football (or any fall sport, for that matter, but I associate it with football because that was the fall sport I happened to play), you'd recognize that smell. Smells like clipped grass mixed with condensation mixed with OH FUCK YEAH FOOTBALL WOOHOO GODDAMN RIGHT BITCH!
You walk onto any local high school football or soccer field early in the morning right around this time of year and you can pick up that scent, especially if you put on a helmet and lie face down on the grass. When I rode the bench in dipshit prep school, sometimes I'd just sit there with my helmet on during team stretches and stare at the ground, my head suspended in the air by my chinstrap. Sometimes I'd forget to stretch anything and the position coach would come and yell at me and tell me I was a gash. I was not a good athlete. But man, I loved that smell. It's basically there to tell you that fall is arriving, and summer is about over. Thank fucking Christ, summer is over.We're bringing purple back.
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Before this one i had listened to 50 self-help classics, it was good, but this one was great!
While i did not enjoy all 50 there is atleast 50%-75% of books that i will be looking into further.
For those of you who have never done the 50 classics series it's like cliff-notes for 50 books in that genre.
I think one reason i liked this one so much:
1. Great book selection
2. Great info (notes) on the books
3. Had some up-to-date books (in the year 2000's)
Overall if your looking to make more money and have prosperity in the future this is a GREAT place to start, make sure you have a note pad with you!
Great work!
p.s. i'm now working on 50 Psychology classics
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If your willing to put in the work this book is going to push you in the right direction.
Any time a book starts off by saying it's not your 'average self help book' you know your in for an average self help book with re-hashed info. This started that way and quickly changed, this isn't a book that you can read and get a few ideas from. You have to be willing to put in some work and after that you will find yourself in a better place. I will admit there are a few spots I glazed over, but overall I was quite impressed with the delivery and structure along with the exercises included.
Well worth the read, I actually bought the hard copy for my wife to read (she doesn't like audiobooks lol)
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Bottom line: this is a great book with REAL WORLD applications that can be used not just in negotiations but in ANY human interaction.
I wasn't sure about this book at first, but it had a lot of great reviews so I gave it a shot... I was first frustrated with the book because it would tease a lot of info or revisit points already covered and/or seemed 'obvious'.
Getting deeper in the book it started to make sense. A lot of the things this book covers seem pretty obvious but it works, I recently found this out:
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I'm now looking at more opportunities to utilize this information. I've read at least 4 different books on negotiation and another 4 on persuasion along with my BA in psych etc; this is a great book with REAL WORLD applications that can be used not just in negotiations but in human interaction.
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A Miami Dolphins fans live thread for the Dolphins Thanksgiving Day game against the Dallas Cowboys.
A look at the Dolphins win over the Cowboys 18 years ago when Leon Lett slid in and kicked the ball following a blocked field goal. The Dolphins recovered the ball and kicked the winning field goal.
A quick look at the Dallas Cowboys defense - specifically DeMarcus Ware - as the Miami Dolphins prepare to face the Cowboys.
A look at the recent play of Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo ahead of his 4:15pm match up with the Miami Dolphins. Romo has a 125.4 passer rating over the last three games.
A look back the Dallas Cowboys' overtime win over the Washington Redskins. The Cowboys hosts the Miami Dolphins later today.
The NFL Game Capsule for tomorrow's Miami Dolphins at Dallas Cowboys Thanksgiving Day Week 12 game. The Dolphins lead the all time series 7-4.
The NFL's official press release for this Thursday's games. This Thanksgiving, the NFL continues its six year old tradition of holding three games on the holiday: Green Bay Packers at Detroit...
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First look: iPhone OS 3.0 is better for business, but IT won't be satisfied
My iPod Touch slowed to a crawl, making the many useful new iPhone update features hard to use -- at firstFollow @MobileGalen
For graphics and for protected text on the Web, copy and paste work a little differently: Tap and hold on the item you want to copy or cut, and it becomes highlighted. On a Web page, a paragraph or div may be highlighted. Tap Copy from the menu that appears. Some items open additional menus, such as Save Image or, for a hyperlinked item, Open in New Window. The iPhone OS makes the device act more like a computer in these basic content operations.
The other big change is the inclusion of Spotlight, Apple's search technology for on-device content. Its location is nonintuitive -- you swipe to the left of the Home page to open the Spotlight page -- but once you know where it is, it's easy to get to and use. Enter your search term, and all content on your device that contains the search term is listed. Click an item and the appropriate app opens up with the content in question. Easy. And you can search your mail separately with the new search window when looking at your inbox or any folder in it -- just be sure to scroll up past the top of the window to make it visible. There's also a preference setting to determine exactly what is searched and what is not. If you use Exchange 2007, Spotlight can search the server's folders as well.
Many people wanted the iPhone OS to support Mail, Messaging, Notes, and Safari in landscape mode, which it now does. And the touch keyboard also works in landscape mode, making its buttons bigger and easier to press. It works perfectly well, but note that the landscape mode screen depth leaves little room for seeing what you are typing, so you may let more mistakes go unnoticed. Or you may make fewer mistakes in the first place.
Mail and calendar capabilities are nicely, but not fully, improved. You can now respond to Exchange invitations from your device -- and invite others -- but only if you use Exchange. And you can specify which mail folders are automatically synchronized, no longer limited to the inbox (before, other folders were synced only when you opened them). The iPhone still cannot open .ics invitations that come from or into non-Exchange e-mail accounts. Sorry, but we don't live in an Exchange-only world, so even if your workplace uses Exchange, many business colleagues will use something else.
You can now sync both Exchange wirelessly and your personal calendars via iTunes, so you don't have to put your personal business on the company's servers to make it accessible to your iPhone, as had been true previously. There's also more control over what calendars you're viewing, so you can mix or separate work and personal business very easily.
Beyond these big-ticket items are a host of small improvements, particularly around Mail. For example, you can now set preferences to load or not load remote images in e-mails, to require or not require confirmation before deleting messages, and determine how far back you sync calendar entries.
There's a bit more customization available as well. You can now set what a double-click of the Home button does: go to Home screen, open a Spotlight search, or open the iTunes (iPod) app.
What business users will find lacking still
Apple's gone a long way to addressing business users' needs in the newest iPhone OS. But big gaps remain.
For example, you can't set out-of-office notifications from the iPhone, despite the tighter integration with Exchange 2007. You can't synchronize tasks or manage folders, and you can't move calendar entries from one calendar to another once you've saved them.
But what really pains me is that I still can't open zipped file attachments, even though they contain files the iPhone can display, such as Word documents and PDFs. I'm not at all a fan of the BlackBerry, but this is one thing it does very well that the iPhone OS has no excuse for not doing.
A year ago, when iPhone OS 2.0 came out, I listed 13 things that Apple still needed to fix. I'm happy to say that iPhone 3.0 fixes about half of them: copy and paste, voice dialing, synchronization of notes, simultaneous support of Exchange and local calendars, support for a plug-in microphone (Skype over Wi-Fi here I come!), and the ability to support additional formats such as PNG and RTF.
But I'm also sorry to say that several key needs from that year-old list of 13 items remain unfulfilled:
- The ability to save attachments.
- On-device encryption.
- The ability to add a physical keyboard.
- The ability to comment on PDFs files.
- Native support for GroupWise and Lotus Notes (since neither Novell nor IBM seems to be serious about stepping up, or perhaps because Apple has been getting in their way as part of its Exchange 2007 lovefest with Microsoft; note that IBM says it's now in beta testing of its iPhone-supporting version of Notes).
- Easier e-mail account switching.
- Support for .ics calendar invitations.
Why IT still won't be convinced
BlackBerry users and compliance-fearing IT pros love to complain about the iPhone's lack of security features, despite its VPN, WPA-2, and passcode support. If you manage the iPhone through profiles -- something you can install using authenticated enrollment -- you get the controls you'd expect over passcode length, use of letters and not just numerals, unacceptable patterns, and password lifetimes. (You set these up in the Apple iPhone Configuration Utility, then distribute via e-mail, a Web site, or a USB connection.)


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The pipeline to a STEM career is not an easy. The fact that one immigration law everyone agrees on is the need to bring in 50,000 STEM workers a year tells us that STEM careers are not being pursued by enough of our young people. Interestingly, research indicates that a strong interest in becoming a scientist or engineer in late elementary and early middle school is a stronger predictor of who goes on to a science or engineering career than grades in math and science in high school. These ideas reveal how a STEM mentor can be a positive force in a young person's life. Math, science and technology classes are challenging. The work is hard and sometimes doesn't yield the expected results. The resilience that a young person develops through the support and encouragement of an adult gives them the skills they need to keep trying, ask for help, and master math and science learning. An adult who brings interesting, real life experiences in science and engineering to youth ages 8 to 14 might be engaging them in a life-long passion for STEM. Adults who can bring their talents to in -- and after-school programs, 4-H clubs, Scout troops and other settings could be providing life changing experiences for youth and, not incidentally, leading more of them to STEM careers.
What STEM topics are integrated into your work or hobbies? Medical-related work, food safety, computer work, public safety jobs, geography, caring for water or the environment, every phase of agriculture, mechanics, energy, communications -- almost every job you can think of has some elements of STEM that can be shared with youth. Hobbies such as shooting sports, woodworking, horses, cooking or art all require STEM knowledge. You don't have to be an expert to awaken a young person's interest in science. Volunteer to mentor a youth in a special STEM project or put together a field trip or science event. Even making time to look for the science or try out the technology together can make a big difference in a young person's life.
While there are lots of ways to get involved in connecting youth to STEM, the 4-H program provides a structure for adults to become STEM volunteers. You can help develop our next generation of STEM professionals by becoming that caring (STEM focused) adult in a child's life.
To find out more about adults and STEM, contact me at the CSU Regional Engagement Center, (970) 522-7207. To learn about or become a 4-H volunteer, contact Brian Kailey at the Logan County Extension Office, (970) 522-3200, Ext 281.


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Food for thought: Hampton joint managers Paul Barry, right, Darren Powell have plenty to think about ahead of the new year
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THOUSANDS disconnected from their cell phones and laptops for at least one hour on Sunday, October 2, thanks to DaytoDisconnect, the campaign created by Ohr Naava, a Brooklyn based educational organization.
In August, Rabbi Zechariah Wallerstein, the founder and director of Ohr Naava, launched a campaign to encourage people to switch off their mobile devices for at least one hour on Sunday October 2, and to connect with people face-to-face instead.
He chose that date since it was the first Sunday of the Jewish New Year, an opportune time to begin enhancing personal relationships.
In a few short weeks, the campaign received worldwide attention. It registered people from over 28 countries including Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada/Quebec Country, Chile, Columbia, England, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Hungary, Israel, Italy, India, Indonesia, Mexico, The Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, Ukraine and USA.
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Elisheva Perlman, the Executive Producer of the campaign, said, "We were shocked by the response. Emails, Twitter mentions, an Youtube comments poured in from people of all backgrounds, religions and ages. People thanked us for doing this and jumped on board."
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Colorado's road woes continued into Friday night, as they fell to the Baltimore Orioles in a lopsided affair. The offense continued their trend of leaving their bats in Colorado and spoiling another decent outing by the starting pitching.
Ahem. That would be a fairly typical summary for the Rockies' play in road games this year, but this was far from a typical game. The Rockies offense found a strong foothold at Camden Yards, and four Rockies belted homers on their way to a 6-3 win. After falling behind by two runs through the first four innings, the offense came back late in the game to out-slug and out-score a team which is still in the playoff picture for the AL East.
Nolan Arenado drove in the first run of the game with a slapped single in the fifth inning. Charlie Culberson tied the game with his first career home run, a solo shot to left field. Wilin Rosario, the team's designated hitter, added a 2-run shot to the opposite field to put the Rockies up. Charlie Blackmon's homer in the 8th was the hardest hit of the night, and Helton hit his 8th home run of the year for the sixth run of the game.
Juan Nicasio pitched six good innings, where he allowed two runs on four hits, including a Nate McClouth home run to lead off the bottom of the first. Rex Brothers allowed a solo home run to Matt Wieters, while Josh Outman and Matt Belisle each pitched perfect innings.
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is bob arum racist or imcompetent..., when it comes to promoting black fighters?
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he's had some great black fighters over the years....but ali was a finished product that didn't need much marketing. same can be said for leonard. he guided floyd early in his career but imo did not promote floyd as well as he could have or half as much as he promoted dlh or pacquiao. is he just not in touch? or does he just not care? rigondeaux has displayed exceptional skill like we haven't seen in quite some time. this guy has some amazing accomplishments on his resume.
world unified champion in just 10 pro fights
2 time gold medalist
2 time pan am gold medalist
2 time world cup champion
had almost 400 fights as an amateur with only 12 losses and hasn't been defeated in 10yrs.
he just beat the fighter of the year '12 very convincingly and he's going to be a hard sell??? is arum serious? the opposition is out there for rigondeaux to stake his claim at greatness. we have an opportunity to see another truly great fighter accomplish great things.
fights i'd like to see that are very doable.
if he should move up...
gary russell
mickey garcia
those are just off the top of my head. in my mind....we just saw a megafight. the two very best in the division and rigondeaux proved he was a level above the fighter of the year. so now he has to suffer because arum is either incompetent or racist? bullshit!!! push this guy!!! don't punish him for his greatness. give the fans what they deserve and stop with the bullshit agendas.
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I think that Bob Arum is a racist in some sense of the word. There was a statement where he said something to the tune of black and hispanic fighters go out there and kill each other while he collects the checks. I don't think he's incompetent. I think he just has his own agenda. He's in business for himself not for the sport or the fans. I must say that as of lately, Bob Arum and Top Rank have put on some sensational shows. He seems to be on board with the VADA testing and all we need now is for TR and GBP to work together so some of those Ring Magazine Championships fights can be contested between the best fighters regardless to whom their promoter is. I'd like to see Leo Santa Cruz vs Mikey Garcia. That's an example but you guys get the point.
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Jake is not an elite LT
Hartline is NOT a #1 WR
Smith is not an above average CB
Bush I'd like back for the right price.
Either way this team will ONLY regress if Tannehill regresses.
Jake is not an elite LT
Hartline is NOT a #1 WR
Smith is not an above average CB
Bush I'd like back for the right price.
Either way this team will ONLY regress if Tannehill regresses.
Personally, I'd be excited to see the backfield of Miller, Gray, and (insert 5th/7th round draft choice here).
However, I have that deep sinking feeling that Daniel Thomas will still be a featured back next year... Obviously I'd love for him to set the league on fire, but ehhhh I don't see it happening.
2014 NFL Dolphins Draft
1) CJ Mosley, ILB, Alabama
2) Ju'Wuan James, OT, Tennessee
3) Trai Turner, OG, LSU
4) Robert Herron, WR, Wyoming
5) Khyri Thornton, DT, Southern Miss
6) Spencer Long, OG, Nebraska
7) Dexter McDougle, CB, Maryland
I think Bush will walk most likely.
We have a very promising Miller, the hope that D-Thomas matures, and a (hopefully) healthy Jonas Grey coming to camp to make some noise.
The only guy I absolutely want back is Starks. Maybe also Hartline at the right price. I think Miller/Thomas and/or rb from draft will produce better than Bush. Our O-Line is not great but I didn't notice a huge drop when Long went out. It was inconsitent with Long and w/o Long. He's not worth the money he is asking for and the money we would save not signing him will go a long way towards improving several positions. Smith is average and soft. If Hartline goes we surely will be able to replace him with Jennings/Bowe and then also be able to draft a young speedster. I think Ireland is assesing all these players exactly as I would and I'm pretty excited about that.
Let these guys go, draft Millner and a wr or two, sign Jennings or Bowe = faster, tougher, younger, less egos and playoff bound.