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The Shelby County School Board approves more Transition Planning Committee (TPC) recommendations, this time regarding teachers' health care plans.
The big issue approved: The recommendation that teachers will have to pay more for their health insurance. School Board Member Martavious Jones gave the example that if teachers are currently paying $200 per month for a $1,000 family plan, they would have to pay $250 or so a month under the changes.
The Memphis Education Association (MEA) says this increases family costs and can negatively impact students whose family members are teachers.
Jones says the proposal is not solely because of the school merger. He says health care costs continue to rise and, if there was no merger, Memphis and Shelby County would have had teachers pay more regardless. He adds that it's a way to lower the costs for the district.
Another health insurance recommendation approved will be not allow health insurance to be provided to spouses of school employees if the spouse can provide their own.
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Albany -- Some of the top science students from 16 counties showed off their smarts at Darton College.
Exhibits at the regional science and engineering fair ranged from a project studying the drought's effects on cotton, to this student-developed hovercraft.
About 180 students competed.
About 40 of them will go on to compete in the State fair in Athens.
A Darton chemistry professor says they couldn't pull off the event without help from the community.
"We get a lot of help from the community with judges, and support from businesses and we thank them very much for their support," said Mike May, Ph.D., Darton Professor of Chemistry.
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Nascar Nazi's .. I thought we were in america .. They've always had the you need us more than we need you attitude .. I'd like to see what happens to racing if Everybody decide to take thier cars somewhere else to race. it will never be iat the level of baseball or football its not a commission of people ensuring equality amongst all the teams etc. its a conspiracy of a few .. it doesnt ensure that the teams survive only the people running the company known as nascar..
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NASCAR's secrecy creates doubt in the Mayfield case
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By Richard Allen
Jeremy Mayfield says that the only drug he took before his positive drug test in Richmond was the allergy reliever, Claritin-D. Depending on the allergy sufferer's location, the medication may be acquired over-the-counter or by prescription.
Doctors with knowledge of such things say that Claritin-D can cause a positive drug test.
Brian France says that Mayfield tested positive for a performance enhancing or recreational drug, not Claritin-D or any other prescribed or over-the-counter medication.
"We had a serious violation of our substance-abuse policy, which gets you, in our situation, an automatic indefinite suspension,†the NASCAR boss said Friday at Lowe's Motor Speedway. "That is where we stand with Jeremy today.â€
I don't know what type of drug Mayfield tested positive for. I have not seen the results of the test and would not know how to read the results even if I did see the report.
I do know, however, that NASCAR is not helping its cause by keeping secrets. Major League Baseball and the National Football League reveal what substances were found when one of their competitors fails a drug test.
By running their organization with all the openness of the Nixon White House, NASCAR sets itself up for conjecture at the least and outright claims of incompetence, conspiracy and favoritism at the worst.
This past week the internet was abuzz with claims that Mayfield had indeed only taken Claritin-D and that NASCAR was involved in a cover-up operation to protect Claritin, one of the sport's major sponsors.
At first, I thought those claims were merely the rants of conspiracy theorists who were simply looking for dark shadows to chase down. Now, with Mayfield's claims and with NASCAR's secrecy, I'm not so sure.
Maybe Mayfield is telling the truth. Maybe France is telling the truth. Maybe the truth lies at some point between the two.
By maintaining their policy of not telling the whole story, NASCAR allowed Mayfield to take the offensive and thus score a huge public opinion victory. And just like in the world of politics, if one side can convince the public that they are the side of truth, the real truth may not matter so much.
NASCAR has made it too much of their daily routine to operate this way. As one example, they call speeding penalties on pit road but won't allow anyone to see the data they use to determine the infraction.
When NASCAR was a smaller, more regional sport with far fewer media types hanging around, they could get away with such behavior.
Now, the organization wants to be treated like a major player in the sports world with big television contracts and massive sponsorship deals, but they want to revert to the old way of doing things when it is convenient to do so.
NASCAR can't have it both ways. Decades of being run as a family business has led to feelings of invincibility and superiority. Those are the very things that will spur the media to action. And as the old saying goes, "You should never take on people who buy ink by the barrelâ€.
Last Saturday in Darlington when NASCAR sent spokesman Jim Hunter to the media center to announce that Mayfield and two crewmen had tested positive and had thus violated the sport's substance abuse policy, they could have saved themselves a great deal of trouble if they had allowed him to say what it was that was found. Instead, they decided to fall back on their default position of keeping secrets.
So, did Jeremy Mayfield test positive for a recreational drug or did he test positive for Claritin-D which sent NASCAR into cover-up mode? I don't know and neither does anyone else, save a select few in the ivory tower.
Richard Allen is a member of the National Motorsports Press Association. His weekly column appears in The Mountain Press every Wednesday.
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Just to play devil's advocate and look at this from a different perspective, perhaps the reason Nascar did not want drug testing in the first place, is because, to some, wrecking is what Nascar is about. It wouldmake them look like hypocrites. Wrecks are the reason Nascar worked long and hard with testing and R&D, and spending a fortune, to develop the safer COT.
My problem with all of this drug testing hullabaloo is that one would think the reason for the drug testing is to keep other drivers safe on the track, which I am all for. My problem comes in when Kyle can wreck Colin Braun, and I believe that it was Brian Scott in a race, as he did in the Friday night truck race, deliberately, and ruthlessly, why have a drug policy…? To be consistent…one would think that Nascar would greatly encourage all of the drivers to come "skewed†on either drugs or alcohol to make a more fun and exciting race and fill the seats, I am just being facetious here.
When Kyle deliberately wrecks people, the media goes nuts and says what an "exciting†and "fun†driver he is to watch, "the next great driverâ€, in effect, encouraging him to do more of it, that rather than be a racer and perform with finesse and skill and patience, he should be a wrecker. It worked against him Sat. night. Maybe Nascar should award 20 points to whichever driver finishes a race with the "cleanest" car.
I was raised in the old Dutch Reformed Calvinist tradition, straight, and it seems to me that the greater "sin†is Kyle's, willful destruction without regard for life at all. Was Kyle tested for drugs when he came off the track after Friday night's wreck? If I were a driver, what real difference would it make if the driver who wrecked me is on drugs…? I read through the comments sent in to the articles on the truck race and many said that Kyle is going to kill someone, he has done this same type of wrecking many times before. He was not parked, or suspended as Mayfield is, or even held on pit road for a few laps. All he got was sent to the back of the longest line. It seemed to me that Kyle was seeing if he could get away with wrecking and taking out 2 competitors and get away with it. So which competitor is he going to take out next…?
I am just trying to express a little food for thought here….
Marybeth Wallick
PS By way of disclaimer; I have never once tried drugs in my life…which may explain why I sound like I don't know what I am talking about to some. I stand with Marilyn Quayle when she said that "not all of us turned on, tuned in, and dropped out".


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Parents of autistic children feel duped by puppy trainer
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And this wasn't just any puppy. Bella the blue-eyed husky would be specially trained to protect Faith and ameliorate some symptoms of her autism. An organization based in downstate Illinois, Animals for Autism, would provide the dog at a fraction of the usual cost, which typically starts at about $15,000.
Around the same time, Animals for Autism founder Lea Kaydus entered the Pepsi Refresh Project grant competition with the stated intention of placing 10 free service dogs with 10 lucky families.
Kaydus urged families in the autism community to vote 10 times a day for the project, to buy Pepsi products bearing codes so they could cast "power votes" and to get friends and families to do the same. "We need the support of the ENTIRE autism community to succeed," Kaydus wrote in emails that parents provided to the Tribune.
It worked. Families sent in extensive applications — including a video of their child — in hopes of winning a dog, and by June the Animals for Autism project had scored a $50,000 grant from Pepsi. Soon the 10 winning families, including the Creightons, received pictures of puppies that Kaydus said would join their families by spring 2012.
"I cannot possibly describe how excited we are," one Wisconsin family wrote to Kaydus.
"It is such a wonderful feeling to bring so much joy and hope to so many amazing families!" Kaydus wrote back.
That was the high point of a relationship that has degenerated so much that many of the families worry their kids may never see the promised dogs.
By August, "the organization had stopped sending us any updates," Creighton wrote on a blog. "No pictures nor any real training updates. When we would ask, they said they were too busy, but maybe later."
Frustrated by the lack of communication, the families started looking more closely at Animals for Autism (now based in Glenarm, near Springfield) and began sharing information. Among their discoveries:
•The nonprofit tax number Kaydus supplied to families for use at fundraisers is invalid. According to the Illinois attorney general's office, Animals for Autism submitted an incomplete application in November and is not a registered nonprofit.
•Although Animals for Autism claimed 25 years of experience in training service dogs, parents could find only one family in possession of such a dog. When the Tribune asked to contact that family, Pepsi Refresh's grant manager, Global Giving, said it couldn't share the information.
•The Pepsi Refresh voting site stated the grant would go to "train and place free service dogs with autistic kids," but the terms of the grant do not require delivery of the dogs. According to Pepsi and Global Giving, the grant money may be spent on items that go "toward realizing the spirit of the grant," such as building kennels, caring for the dogs and buying training tools.
•Siberian Huskies are not ideal service dogs for young children. "They tend to be independent and were bred to pull sleds, not to please people like, for instance, golden retrievers," said Toni Eames, president of the International Association of Assistance Dog Partners, a consumer advocacy group for people with service dogs.
Autism service dogs provide companionship and can help calm children with autism and prevent them from wandering, a common problem.
Eames said that only about 50 percent of the best-bred and -selected dogs graduate from service dog training. "You cannot possibly take 10 puppies and promise them as service dogs to 10 people," she said. "It doesn't work that way."
Seeking explanations for these irregularities, parents say they called and wrote to Kaydus repeatedly in the summer and fall without any solid response. When they posted complaints on her Animals for Autism Facebook page, the site was taken offline, then restored in December without the comments. At press time it was unavailable again.
Kaydus did not respond to multiple requests from the Tribune to see the dogs or speak with her or her attorney.
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(WMC-TV) - At least one person is injured after a late night crash in Memphis.
An eighteen-wheeler crash near the intersection of Tonto Road and South Third Street sent one person to the hospital.
There is no word yet on the cause of the crash nor if anyone has been cited for the incident.
The accident occurred after 10:30 p.m.
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Well, things were going really well getting ready for my son's birthday party yesterday, when I was down mowing in the bottoms with my 154. Somehow I ran over a tree that was hidden in the tall grass and ended up watching my 3260 mower deck rise up and poke a hole in my oil pan. I knew they put that light on the dash for some reason.
Thankfully the engine didn't run long with the oil light on, I turned it off right away. I checked it a bit latter and I could still turn the engine by hand. Well, I guess this is a good chance to fix that oil drip on the 154.
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The cost of keeping the lights on in Naperville homes and businesses will go up at least 2 percent again on May 1, as it did last year and is scheduled to do once more in 2015. But the extra revenue brought in by the three planned rate hikes won't keep the city-owned electric utility from going more deeply into the red.
Rates could soon be headed up considerably more sharply than that, thanks to a yawning gap in the electric department's budget for fiscal 2014.
The expected $14 million shortfall in this year's budget can be traced to an array of causes, officials say, and they emphasize that none of them is related to the shift to a smart grid for distribution of electricity. They'll be looking at an array of potential remedies to shrink the shortfall when they meet in a work session Monday evening.
The sluggish economic recovery and a volatile energy market were among the variables responsible for the substantial difference between the sum the city expected to pay as the largest shareholder in the Illinois Municipal Electric Agency and what the utility has wound up paying to the state cooperative for the electricity it sells to Naperville customers.
There also has been an unusual pattern of weather in the past couple of years, including a cool summer last year that meant less air conditioner use and lower income for the utility. Officials say inefficient use of energy by electric customers shares the blame as well.
The city's 2011 rate study anticipated an expense of $99.1 million for the energy the city would buy from IMEA in the 2013 budget year. The eventual cost for the energy topped $112 million.
City Manager Doug Krieger noted that IMEA's energy portfolio includes a variety of sources, among them coal, natural gas and nuclear, but nearly one-quarter of its power is purchased on the open market.
"The last three years have been extremely volatile, and kind of blew the rate study out of the water," Krieger said.
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Sporadic usage patterns also contributed to the higher energy bills. The producers of the electricity bought and distributed by IMEA determine their pricing on the basis of peak usage.
"Daytime usage is always higher than night time, because that's how people use electricity," Krieger said.
The peak tends to occur at 6 p.m. on a hot summer day, he said, when utility customers crank up the air conditioner, turn on the plasma TV and toss in a load of laundry.
When the rate study was done, consultants predicted average usage at about half the peak.
"What we actually experienced was about a 44 percent load factor," Krieger said.
The city was obligated to pay on the basis of top usage nonetheless.
The 2007 commitment to the IMEA, which took effect in 2011 and extends until 2035, was meant to protect the city's interests over a long time frame.
"We got into it because we've had the utility for over 100 years and we hope to have it for another 100," Krieger said.
Not everyone sees the arrangement as entirely protective.
"The biggest factor is that we hitched our wagon to IMEA for 30 years. And whatever the (price is), we have to go along with it," Councilman Bob Fieseler said. "The idea was that at least we'd be hedged, in terms of understanding what the business model is for IMEA, and having those apply to us so we wouldn't be completely at the mercy of the market."
Plant problem
Construction costs at the Prairie State Energy Campus, which ran 25 percent over budget, didn't help much. IMEA bought a 15.17 percent share of the new-age 1,600-megawatt coal plant near downstate Lively Grove, Ill., shortly after Naperville joined the electric cooperative, when the under-construction facility was expected to cost $4 billion. The IMEA was on the hook for $150 million of the $1 billion that eventually was added to the campus' price tag through construction overruns. As more than one-third of the IMEA's mass, Naperville will end up covering more than $50 million of the inflated bill over a period of several years, Fieseler said.
"Maybe they went along with some cost overruns that could have been avoided," he said. "All I know is we have not been as vigilant in influencing IMEA decisions as we could have been."
That's changing, Krieger said. Electric Department Director Mark Curran is on the executive board and board of directors for Prairie State, but his voice for the city has gained volume recently as the city assumes a stronger role in controlling the cost increases at the plant.
"They're on a very short leash," Krieger said.
The project's increased cost led to higher expenses for debt service and delayed the benefit from the utility partnership for the city. Krieger said "working the bugs out of it" lasted into the start of this year; throughout 2013, the plant was generating at 63 percent its total capacity.
"Eighty to 85 would be the norm," Curran said.
In the past couple of months, generation has been in the low 80 percent range.
"The message has been sent down there, and it's a strong one, that they need to get their act together or things are going to have to change," said Krieger, who noted the higher generating numbers are encouraging. "Doesn't mean the problem's solved, but at least it appears we're on the right track."
Bigger bills?
In the meantime, City Council members will be weighing their options for closing the budget gap.
Deputy City Manager Marcie Schatz said steps already taken to reduce the utility's expenses have included cutting capital and operating costs, including overtime and planned capital projects. Staff positions have been eliminated as well, Schatz said. The department has shaved its annual spending by $7.6 million, but the shortfall remains.
"There's really no place else to go," Krieger said."The last place where we could (save) was through rates."
Replacing the 2 percent increase with a 6 percent hike would enable the deficit to shrink to $4 million in the next two years. While he emphasized it's "a long-term problem," Krieger said the increase would reverse the current trend.
"It rights the ship and starts bringing us back to normal," he said.
If council members opt to increase the rate by 7 percent, the cash shortfall would be eliminated over two years. Under that scenario, a household that consumes the city average of 923 kilowatt hours per month would see its May 2015 bill, now projected at $96.11, increase to $104.62.
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Judge Dietz in Austin has ruled that the Texas school finance system is neither efficient nor constitutional. Of course, the Republican Attorney General Abbott is expected to appeal to the Texas Supreme Court.
Dietz ruled that the state had not provided adequate resources to lift students to the state's new high standards.
"We either want increased standards and are willing to pay the price or we don't," Dietz said.
He also found that wide disparities had emerged school districts between school districts that are considered property poor and their wealthier peers. And he said the Legislature had effectively imposed a statewide property tax in violation of the Texas Constitution.
For the first time, charter schools joined in the school finance litigation and argued that the lack of state funding for classrooms and other school facilities is unconstitutional as is the current cap limiting the number of new charter operators. Dietz said the the Legislature has discretion over both of those issues and thus did not violate the constitution.
Here's some reaction:
Sylvia R. Garcia, Democrat for State Senate District 6: "I'm happy that Judge Dietz recognized in his ruling today that our public schools have been drastically underfunded, but this fight isn't over. It's important that we have people in the Texas Legislature standing up for public schools and our children and families, and that's why I'm running for Texas Senate."


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Patient and Family Conference
Register now for Cadence Health's Parkinson's Patient and Family Conference, led by some of the top Parkinson's doctors and experts in the area. The full-day educational event will be held Saturday, September 20 at the Oakbrook Marriott. Topics will include Neuroimaging, Nutrition, How to Treat Anxiety, Deep Brain Stimlation Surgery, Parkinson's Medications and Research, and much more. For more information about this free educational event, call 630-933-4234.
Partners in Parkinson's: November 1
Registration is now open for the Partners in Parkinson's event coming to the Chicago area on Saturday, November 1 from 8:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, 9291 Bryn Mawr Ave., Rosemont, IL
Whether you are newly diagnosed or have lived with Parkinson's disease for a long time, you will benefit from attending this free event designed by the Michael J. Fox Foundation to empower patients and their families to be proactive about partnering with their medical team to develop the best treatment plan for their Parkinson's symptoms.
Seminars and panel discussions will emphasize:
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I hope you will join us on Saturday, September 6, for the APDA Midwest Chapter's 24th Annual Walk to "Ease the Burden - Find the Cure." All proceeds will go to APDA New York (national headquarters), which annually allocates more than $2.5 million to support scientific research aimed at finding a cure and another $2 million for direct patient and caregiver support and education.
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We will keep walking until we find the cure
Date:Saturday, September 6
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Cost: $25 suggested minimum donation per person gets you a Walk 2014 t-shirt
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You make this possible by bringing family, friends, neighbors and co-workers to walk with us -- raising awareness of Parkinson's disease, and partnering to find the cure. What have we accomplished for all of the miles walked and funds raised over the years, you may ask. Have we found a cure? No, but we are getting ever closer. Have we discovered new medicines to "ease the burden" of living with Parkinson's? Yes. Is there surgery that provides some symptomatic relief? Yes.
Our greatest strides have been made in the introduction of new medicines that provide increasingly better symptomatic relief in a wide range of areas. As proud as we are of this, we will not have achieved our goal until we find a cure. And so we keep walking together to raise funds to support the scientific research that will lead us to the cure. We may not know when, but we all know it is coming... and sooner rather than later.


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CATEGORIES Action, Casting, New Releases, Fandom, Politics, James Bond, Daniel Craig, Movies, New Releases, CinematicalAfter the historic election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States, naturally everyone's mind turned to the next logical step: Does this mean a black man could play James Bond, too?
At least that's where current Bond Daniel Craig's mind went. At a Rome press conference for Quantum of Solace, which opens in the U.S. on Friday, Craig said, "After Barack Obama's victory I think we might have reached the moment for a [black]* 007. I think the role could easily be played by a black actor, because the character created by Ian Fleming in the '50s has undergone a great deal of evolution and continues to be updated."
He also joked that the idea of a black 007 might have Fleming spinning in his grave. Fleming was considered by many to be racist -- just Google the words Ian Fleming racist to find plenty of people making that assertion -- and the U.K. Telegraph observes that his Bond novels "were laced with the racial prejudices of his era."
Surely there's nothing specific about the Bond character that couldn't just as easily apply to a black actor. There have been a few black Bond Girls romanced by white Bonds. Race doesn't generally play a part in the stories, at least not in the last several films. Then again, some people freaked out when Daniel Craig was cast solely because he was blond (if you can imagine the heresy). Would a complete makeover totally ruin it for the purists? What do you think? And if they did go with a black 007, who should play him?
*The word he actually used was "coloured," which apparently isn't quite as offensive and outdated in Europe as it is in America, as none of the news outlets covering the press conference expressed surprise over Craig's usage of it. He obviously didn't mean it with racist intent, anyway, so let's not dwell on it, mmkay?


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Anonymous Denies Sony's Evidence Against Them
Posted on Thursday, May 5 @ 10:34:12 Eastern by Nicholas Tan
In Sony's lengthy response to Congress, the company provided supposed evidence that Anonymous was responsible for hacking into Sony Online Entertainment's servers. They claim that one of the files on the server was named "Anonymous" with the phrase "We Are Legion."
But Anonymous, via a press release, explains that Sony is full of it:
I'm not sure if Anonymous is the best practitioner of "gaining public support", but who can we believe at this point? This could be a flat-out fabrication by Sony, or this could just be more Anonymous shenanigans.
Actually, I believe that this mysterious "Anonymous" file is a red herring planted by third-party hackers as a convenient decoy. I don't even think Anonymous would be dumb enough to leave an electronic paper trail as obvious as that.
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Decided to stop by and ask if anyone else'd seen the sheer idiocy on the NFL network yesterday...
I dunno if anyone was watching the NFL network's coverage toward the end of the second round, but they decided to 'revisit' the Broncos' situation (apparently they led with it, too). They put up a chart, which showed a 3 WR, 1 TE formation and had our "starters" from '09 at those positions up, then showed the 'massive turnover'. The whole point of the narrative was that we were making big changes at our receiving positions--according to them we were returning only one starter of the bunch (Eddie Royal).
There's just one problem: they listed Scheff as a starter, and apparently Gaffney just disappears? Marshall is replaced by Thomas, Scheff by Graham and Gaffney by Stoke. Apparently, Graham was a backup last year (at least, according to the caption under his picture).
I watched intently to make sure they weren't joking, puked when I realized they weren't, then realized I was watching teams I could care less about draft players I could care less about and went folfing.


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The Bengals have won by 40 or more points three times in their history. They beat Houston 61-7 on 12/17/89 at Riverfront in a game in which Sam Wyche was using a late onside kickoff and FG in order to embarrass hated rival Jerry Glanville. They also beat the Oilers 55-41 in Houston on 11/6/83. So today was the third largest margin of victory in team history and the largest in the Marv era. If you haven't noticed, Marv Lewis does not like running up scores and embarrassing opponents. A simple win for Lewis will do. So a blowout win like this is simple domination that is so profound that it couldn't be tempered down even a little bit.
Marvin Jones, if you hadn't heard, also set a new team record with 4 TD receptions in a game. That beats the record formerly held by several Bengals (according to the team's 2013 Media Guide) with the last to do it being Chad Johnson on 11/25/07. Dalton's 5 TD passes tied second place in team records behind the 6 TDs Carson Palmer had in the 51-45 loss at Cleveland in 2007. At his current pace Dalton would set a new team season record for passing yardage and tie the record for TD passes.
This is the kind of game that allows fans to beat their chest and wonder what the heck is going on (in a good way, of course). What was going on? I'd say that we watched the best of the Bengals and the worst of the Jets all on one day. I'd also say that we saw today how good this Bengal team currently is. The Jets are only 4-4 right now, but they had the 4th best Defense in the league anchored by the best D against the run and a middle-of-the-pack pass D. Maybe the run D is particularly good (rated by yards per game) because it is so easy to pass against them? Maybe Andy Dalton, Jay Gruden, and the Bengals O are really turning the corner? Maybe some of both.
I've been critical of the Dalton-Gruden duo in prior weeks. It's not because I have anything against either guy. In fact, I want to see them do well and prove my negative hunches incorrect. The last three weeks they have illustrated a trend that hopefully becomes a new standard. Time will tell, and we'll discuss that below.
We have a short week to get ready for Miami, and injuries are now mounting. That's another discussion below. One other thing that continues to be a bright spot is the leadership and chemistry this team is showing.
Last Weeks Top 5 Considerations
1. DB injuries
2. Mohamed Sanu lack of production
3. Running Game lack of production
4. Need for more big plays and turnovers on D
5. Dalton-Gruden: Is the jury still out, or was I just wrong?
This Week's Top 5 Considerations
1. Injury Meter / Roster: It's time to reassess the roster for depth and STs. We have lost thus far LDE Robert Geathers, CB Leon Hall, Nickel WILL LB Emmanuel Lamur, and rookie LB Sean Porter. Andrew Hawkins might return to the roster this Thursday to replace Leon Hall, and that would give us 7 active guys at WR (when we usually only carry 6). We have seen a continued trend in injuries to CBs Dre Kirkpatrick and Brandon Ghee. We've lost Safety / STs guy Jeromy MIles in our early season roster shuffling when the Ravens claimed him. Today we sustained injuries to Andre Whitworth (knee), Rey Maualuga (knee/concussion), Taylor Mays (shoulder), and Mohamed Sanu (shoulder). We'll have to wait this week to see the relative seriousness of these as they might impact the next game and/or the rest of the season. We should mention that we are relatively light at LB, Safety, and QB where an injury to any of these starters puts us at a real disadvantage with a backup playing. If Maualuga misses the Miami game, I'd think that we would bring JK Schaffer back onto the roster and hold off from activating Hawkins. If Mays misses the Miami game, we're really hurting on passing downs where Mays has played very effectively in a LB/S fusion role. Since Sanu's production hasn't been overwhelming, his absence would be manageable. We really didn't get to see Kirkpatrick or Ghee be challenged today, so those outcomes remain to be seen. The team reportedly would love to find another CB or LB. However, a trade seems unlikely, while available talent at this time of the year is very limited. I think it is very accurate to say that at this point of the season given our current depletion from injuries that any further injury on D would be very detrimental to this squad. On O we have a lot more depth at most positions. A further injury at OT (if Whit misses any time now) would be tough to endure, but we're pretty thick at TE, WR, and Interior OL. We can't replace Dalton or Bernard. On STs the coverage and return teams have struggled compared to 2012 with the thinning of some of our core guys and the injuries to guys like Miles, Hawkins, Ghee, Kirkpatrick, Lamur and Porter.
2. Team Identity: We know what we are on D, right? We put pressure on QBs, manage the run reasonably, and cover man-to-man primarily. Can we add to that description that Vontaze Burfict has become one of the top Interior LBs in the NFL? I'm going with that after watching this guy play like an All-Pro this year. He quietly just gets it done and is starting to get notice around the league. I think he is now our identity on D as the heart and soul of the unit. How about the O? We weren't sure for a while. When the year started, we were going to throw it all over and use all sorts of formations. That had some early problems, and then we were going to become a run-first team. But Andy Dalton then has thrown for over 1000 yards in the last three games, so what are we now? I want to think that this team can beat you either way depending on what you want to take away. This will be helpful during the regular season, but will we be able to run on bad fields come playoff time? Finally, STs have been steady, but they aren't impacting games in 2013 in either a positive or negative manner.
3. What Players Seem to Be Missing Expectations: We mentioned Sanu last week, and we have to still wonder about him a little. I think the problem with Sanu is that we're expecting too much from him. He's a possession and slot guy who can feed off his teammates. He's still learning the game and trying to figure out how to best contribute, while Gruden is trying to figure out how to use him. Meanwhile, draft peer Marvin Jones is obviously figuring it all out and is taking advantage of the 1-on-1's that he gets when lining up opposite A.J. Green. When we get Hawkins back and add that great speed to the slot, we might be toxic with the trio of Green, Jones, and Baby Hawk. We can also dominate in short yardage situations with double TEs or with inclusion of route runners like Sanu, Sanzenbacher, and/or Hawkins. At this point it seems that Whalen may be on the bubble once Hawkins returns to the roster. Moving over to RB, we see that the Law Firm has had trouble with consistent production this season. This seems to be a function of run blocking on our OL where we struggle sometimes especially on the left side with Cook and Whit. I would be incomplete here if I failed to mention the sudden non-use of Orson Charles as the FB/H-Back and the lack of Rex Burkhead on the game day roster thus far.
On the other side of the ball, some note that Geno Atkins hasn't had quite as many sacks. However, he is getting a lot of pressure on QBs and is on target for 10 sacks this season. Opposing QBs have gone to 3 and 5-step drops to beat our pass rush, and this has limited sacks while also reducing opponents YPA. Overall, this helps us quite a bit on D even though it is not as exciting as putting the QB on the turf. Speaking of reduced production, however, we have to mention Michael Johnson who only has 1.5 sacks this year. Where is the difference from last season in this regard? I'm open to suggestions here but think that it's a combination of scheme (Zimmer likes to play run-first in many downs for the DE) and the fact that 2012 was a probably a peak year for MJ with respect to sacks (just as 2006 was for Robert Geathers). At LB the one mention goes to James Harrison who had his second sack today but hasn't been as dominant a factor as he was in Pittsburgh's 3-4 for so many years. What we need to face with respect to Harrison are the facts that he is nearing the end of his career and that the Bengal SAM role limits a LBs ability to make plays as he functions to seal the end on runs and blitz only occasionally vs. the pass. As for DBs, we all are anxious to see whether Ghee and/or Kirkpatrick can stay healthy and can contribute. One or both eventually will need to contribute significantly before the end of the season with Hall out for the year. As well as George Iloka has done at Safety, Shawn Williams has been a disappointment at the same spot. Maybe that expects too much from a 3rd Round rookie draft pick? Maybe Iloka just has played so well that Williams won't get a chance for a while? With Crocker back and contributing heavily though, Williams might not get any chances in 2013 barring major injuries at that position.
4. Team Chemistry / Leadership: In today's game Reggie Nelson showed his leadership in stopping Pacman from retaliating against a Jet cheap shot. We saw a couple of big plays from Crocker and Pacman. Burfict has taken the defensive play caller role. Newman is a calming influence. The Fisher Price kids bring energy. Whit is the elder statesmen. The Law Firm leads by example. Andy Dalton is a guy who sets a great example for teammates. There aren't a lot of show-offs or big talkers. Guys are bad mouthing others in the press. It's fun to be a Bengals fan right now.
5. The Dalton-Gruden Axis: After an erratic start to 2012, Andy Dalton has settle down nicely the last three weeks. Are there mistakes still? Sure. Are the deep balls consistently underthrown? Yes. But the bigger picture isn't the limitations. It's that Gruden is starting to figure out who to use and how to use them most effectively. Dalton has started to take a few more chances by getting the ball into crowds and letting athletic players make plays instead of sticking to very conservative throws on every down. This has resulted in a very slight increase in INTs but also a dramatic increase in explosive plays. All together this represents a huge positive improvement as Dalton has spread the ball around more effectively and has found niche players to fill certain roles that complement the do-it-all guy A.J. Green. Last week I stated that Dalton would not be an elite QB, and many objected stating that we really don't know this. I based my comment more on physical abilities that are unlikely to improve rather than mental knowhow that definitely can get a lot better. Many have pointed out Joe Montana as a QB who didn't have the great athleticism but was a Hall of Fame winner. I'll also point out QBs Ken Anderson and Bob Griese who each made Super Bowls while playing the QB spot without a lot of flash or athleticism. Dalton showed today against a good D that he can produce, and Gruden did a nice job for the most part of mixing up the calls and using the passing game as a weapon when the running game was very limited. We'll have to wait and watch as Dalton goes back up against top 12 pass Defense teams such as Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Indy over the next 2 months. In the end it takes consistency to be considered elite, and I'm not sure that Dalton can dominate against upper tier coverage. We're about to find out, though, whether Dalton has taken a permanent step forward or whether he's just on the crest of a current wave.
The Final Word
The Bengals dominated today to go 4-0 at home for the first time since the 1988 Super Bowl season. This follows two last second road victories and illustrates that this team can win in a number of different manners. However, the common denominator is that the team is winning, and we'll definitely take that. Andy Dalton seems determined to prove me and many others wrong. While there will always be complainers regardless of the level of success, it will take consistency for Dalton to have me riding his bandwagon. Maybe Dalton will struggle against the top 5-10 pass Defensive teams. Is that a crime if you're doing quite well against the other 20-25 teams in the league? Thinking about this, I drift back to the thought that Andy Dalton is the 15th or so best QB in the world. In the end that's pretty damn good no matter how you slice it. Still, there is room for improvement and need to continue looking into the mirror for faults. Dalton needs to get the body language improved, be consistently accurate on the short stuff, throw the long ball as early as possible to avoid underthrows, and limit the number of sacks he takes. One other thing that seems inconsistent on O is the use of Eifert and Bernard. Maybe we're just taking what is given, and this week that was the outside stuff rather than that up the middle. We have to question whether we're peaking too early (as we did in 2012) and whether we can sustain this energy. I remember the Super Bowl year of 1988-89, and the energy build up was monumental as the season wound down. I'm not sure that we're ready for something like that in Cincy right now, but it would be nice to give it a try.


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CATEGORIES Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Disney, Scripts, Family Films, Johnny Depp, Remakes and Sequels, CinematicalDid you have trouble following the plot of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest? Well, get ready to be more confused by the next installment, which arrives in theaters May 25. Entertainment Weekly has a cover story about the movie in its latest issue, hitting newstands (and my mailbox) today, which includes quotes from stars Orlando Bloom and Johnny Depp and director Gore Verbinski. All three seem to be in agreement that audiences and critics are going to have just as tough a time with Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.
Bloom goes so far as to joke that writers Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio can't even explain what's going on in the new movie. Verbinski claims he doesn't mind if people are confused, though. He says the Pirates movies are made to be watched multiple times in order to be fully clear to the viewer. Of course, he seems to think that having a convoluted story means having a deep and intelligent story, because he goes on to tell the magazine that he doesn't want to dumb the movies down to where they are "processed cheese". He wants us to think about Pirates of the Caribbean afterward. Funny, I am one of the few critics who was able to enjoy Dead Man's Chest, but I never once thought about it afterward. Except maybe to tell someone how cool the Davy Jones character looks.
As for the critics, who universally panned the second movie (I didn't review it, unfortunately), Depp says they are going to attack At World's End just as much if not more. He understands the reasons why critics took "a dump" on the previous film, predicts that they'll "go below the belt" with the new film, and he says it's all "cool". The villains from the movies had a bit to say on the subject, too. Geoffrey Rush says that when you're doing such complex stunts and action sequences, you can't be thinking of the critics. Bill Nighy adds that the grosses point to the idea that the movies are doing something right, implying that the minority opinions of film reviewers don't seem to matter. Of course, Nighy will never have to worry about what critics say about him, as he's one of the most enjoyable actors working today. And Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End will likewise not have to worry about negative reviews, because it will make a bundle regardless -- that is, as long as enough people don't care about being confused again.


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If wishes were fishes we'd have a school (or maybe 12 schools). We can only hope that the upcoming Mtn West Conference meetings might conclude with an action plan for the future that would provide a solid foundation for both long-term stability and a competitive environment for the individual member institutions as well as for the entire conference. The plan should not be based solely on what other conferences might, or might not, do in the future nor should it be perceived as simple reaction to what other conferences have already done in the past. It is time for leadership of member institutions and the conference to create a vision of what can be; and, then execute the actionable plan to achieve that vision.
The vision must include having the Mtn West Conference achieve national recognition for academics, athletics, and integrity for every constituent affected by the conference. The Mtn West Conference institutions should be attractive to athletes, students, faculty, administrators, fans, competitors, and coaches.
The best conference configuration for football competition and scheduling is to include 12 member institutions with 2 six team divisions concluding with a conference championship game each season. For all other sports, the 12 member conference works equally as well. At last count, the Mtn West Conference has 10 member institutions for football with 9 member institutions for all other sports. The University of Hawaii becoming a "football only" member.
There are a number of potential institutions that could be invited to Mtn West Conference membership. There are two institutions that could be "non-football" members to balance out the Hawaii effect. The University of Denver or Brigham Yound University could be invited to Mtn West Conference membership for all sports except football. Either choice has merit; however, BYU brings long standing rivalries with many Mtn West Conference members. I'm certain there could be much debate in this single issue.
There is an opportunity to invite two more institutions to full Mtn West Conference membership. I believe the Mtn West Conference should constrain its geographic footprint to the Mountain and Pacific time zones with the exception of Hawaii. The University of Texas at El Paso fits the geographic footprint of the Mtn West Conference with long standing rivalries with many Mtn West Conference members. The other candidates are currently in the Western Athletic Conference. Louisiana Tech is eliminated by geographic location which leaves the University of Idaho, San Jose State, New Mexico State or Utah State University. Utah State University would be a reasonable choice for a Mtn West Conference invitation.
If BYU, UTEP and Utah State each accepted their respective invitations to Mtn West Conference membership, there would still be the need to define the division alignments. There are two simple geographic approaches for football divisions (not the Big Ten approach).
North South or Mountain Pacific
Boise State UTEP UTEP UNLV
Wyoming New Mexico New Mexico Hawaii
Colorado State San Diego State Air Force San Diego State
Utah State Hawaii Wyoming Fresno State
Air Force Fresno State Colorado State Nevada
Nevada UNLV Utah State Boise State
The potential for Mtn West Conference expansion and long-term stability will only come to fruition if the leadership of the member institutions and the conference will "lead". In the meantime, it is fun to speculate!


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See Current Inaugural Dresses for the First Lady and daughters, 2005
Most Americans can't debate the fine points of Social Security's future. But they know an ugly dress when they see it.
That's why even armchair fashionistas lament First Lady Laura Bush's frumpy suits and wait to see if her style metamorphoses from clueless to chic.
A big part of Laura's new start was The Dress.
The Inaugural Ball gown sounded great on paper: red, scoop-necked, sparkling with Austrian crystals and designed by Dallas native Michael Faircloth (whose other claim to fame are his styles for the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders.)
Bush's ruby confection was accessorized by a Judith Leiber purse, Stuart Weitzman shoes and more than 40 carats of rubies.
"The first lady's inaugural gown represents the personal attitude the incoming couple and specifically, the first lady, has about her role and the way she wants to be perceived," said Washington Post fashion editor Robin Givhan to ABC News.com.
Pantone, the color authority, has this to say about red: "Red creates the highest arousal threshold. So, from nighties to sportscars, it is true that red literally can turn you on! The person buying the red sportscar subliminally believes that he or she will be magically transformed into a sexy, dynamic and daring person."
Bush looked great in a peacock blue coat and skirt for the swearing in Saturday morning, also designed by Faircloth. (Blue, incidentally, signifies qualities like trust, stability and integrity). Lynne Cheney, the Vice President's wife, wore a camel colored, fur-trimmed coat.
CNN reported that Bush would don a hat for the swearing in, but she went hatless in the end. She followed in mother-in-law Barbara Bush's footsteps because she was one of the few who went hatless for her husband's Inauguration.
No one is looking for the new First Lady to spark fashion trends with her early outfits.
But after Hillary Clinton's transformation from headbands to Vogue covers, all eyes are on Bush to shed her matronly suits for something younger (like Hillary's uniform of chic black pantsuits paired with bright blouses).
With her curvy size 8 figure and good coloring, Bush could carry off everything from strong colors to shapely cuts.
Bush's twin daughters decided on daytime styles from Lela Rose, a New York designer. Susan Dell of Austin (wife of Dell Computers' CEO, Michael Dell) designed the Inaugural Ball dresses for the girls.
Faircloth, who has been designing Bush's size 8 clothes for seven years, uses European fabrics and does all the beadwork and embroidery in-house, with prices ranging from $3,400 to $7,500 (although, presumably, the Inauguration gown cost would be considerably higher), according to Town & Country.
After the Inauguration, Bush's gown went to the Smithsonian to become part of "The First Ladies' Gown Collection."


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The federal government has released previously sealed documents connected to the public corruption investigation of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price.
And according to the documents, investigators seized $500,000 in cash from Price's home and monies made from the sale of land in southwest Dallas.
That information was made public now because Price's attorneys are contesting the forfeiture $229,500 specifically taken from a safe in his home. But the government did not want to disclose any of its evidence until after the primary, not wanting it to appear as if the government was interfering with elections.
The documents said the FBI agents used electronic surveillance of bank records, emails, confidential informants, wire taps and undercover officers to gather evidence.
The government asserts Price and his assistant, Daphney Fain, conspired to commit money laundering, engage in monetary transactions in property derived from specified unlawful activity, bankruptcy fraud and theft or bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds.
"The real detail here is the pains the government's gone through, especially the FBI, to detail the date, transaction, amount and the source of the funds. If the jury or a judge sees this overall as a large shell game, the government may be exactly where it's wanted to be on this case," said Matt Yarbrough, a former federal prosecutor who has read through the government's complaint against Price and the FBI affidavit.
"But for Mr. Price documents don't get on the stand, witnesses do. And that's gonna be really the thing, that Mr. Price and his lawyers are gonna have to try to explain these transactions," Yarbrough added.
In the documents the government also claims that Kathy Nealy, a political consultant, funneled monies to Price from companies that she landed contracts with and that cars in her name were used by Price and really belonged to him.
The FBI said Millennium Art Gallery money was used to conceal income from monies solicited from persons and companies with business matters in Dallas County and to conceal Price's conversion of campaign funds to personal use.
Price's attorneys said they were not yet ready to comment on the newly released documents.
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You'll love to spend your vacation in the Bethany Beach pet friendly rentals. These beach-side cottages afford you with the kind of quiet, peace, and luxury you look for in lodging as you enjoy a beautiful vacation at the beach. The beach is one of several that are found in southeastern Delaware and if you choose to stay in these cottages you can visit all of the beaches near here, including South Bethany and Fenwick Island.
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Bethany Beach pet friendly rentals also allow you close access to the town where you can explore various local shops and restaurants. Enjoy local activities including --volleyball, basketball, and arcades. If you're looking for a bit of romance and quiet, you can take a lovely nighttime stroll along the boardwalk. And, if you're in Bethany Beach for the summer the city of Bethany Beach always has extra events planned; musical concerts and performances are scheduled at the city's boardwalk bandstand. And, there is a large celebration during the fourth of July, as well as an arts festival and Surffishing competitions.
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The Life and Death of a Real Estate CDO
Deutsche Bank is winding down a troubled $1.25 billion CDO that it set up with two partners in 2006 to invest in commercial real estate debt.
The transaction was unusual for real estate CDOs because it involved only three players Deutsche, Norinchukin Bank of Tokyo and Otera Capital of Montreal. They divvied up the $144 million equity position and all $1.1 billion of bonds floated by the CDO, called Spring Asset Funding, 2006-1.
The investment vehicle primarily acquired B-notes and mezzanine loans, as well as some senior debt. Among its purchases: $75 million of mezzanine debt on the 1,332-unit Independence Plaza apartment complex in Manhattan and rake bonds backed by a $37.8 million B-note on the 2.3 million-square-foot Palisades Center mall in West Nyack, N.Y.
But the investments were made as the real estate market was peaking, and many of the assets subsequently declined in value. That left the collateral pool with large potential losses, even though the payments on the CDO bonds continued as scheduled.
Commercial real estate CDOs have generally performed better than their counterparts in the residential and asset-backed markets, incurring significantly lower default rates. But the Spring Asset deal reflects the fact that some real estate CDOs that are technically performing are saddled with underwater collateral loans that will eventually lead to bond defaults.
A change in accounting rules appears to have forced the hand of Deutsche, which underwrote the CDO and served as collateral manager. The rules would have required the bank to consolidate on its books either all of the CDOs $1.25 billion of assets or, under one interpretation of the guidelines, the whole balance of loans for which it held only subordinate positions a far greater amount.
Faced with the burden of having to hold capital against the consolidated assets, Deutsche mapped an exit strategy. It bought out the positions of Norinchukin and Otera late last year, giving it full control of the collateral, and then started liquidating assets.
At issuance, the CDO encompassed $869 million of triple-A bonds, $237 million of bonds ranging in grade from double-A to double-B-minus, and the $144 million equity position.
Deutsche and Otera each took down 40%, or $57.5 million, of the equity piece. Norinchukin bought the remaining 20% interest. Deutsche also acquired $569 million of triple-A notes. Norinchukin bought the remaining $300 million of triple-A bonds and $209 million of subordinate paper from almost every other class of the deal. And Otera held $28 million of paper from the two most-junior classes.
The losses incurred by the trio are unknown, but appear to be substantial. According to market players, Deutsche bought out Oteras position at a steep discount in October and acquired Norinchukins interest for about 55 cents on the dollar about three months later.
On the plus side, the partners did receive interest payments on the bonds for about four years, plus a 14% annualized return on the equity investments.
Whats more, Deutsche mitigated losses by switching the vehicles investment strategy during the darkest days of the credit crunch. As loans in the collateral pool matured or were liquidated in 2008 and 2009, Deutsche reinvested the proceeds in high-grade commercial MBS, which were then trading at rock-bottom prices.
The strategy, developed by Deutsche director Mark Berry, the CDOs portfolio manager at the time, led to the purchase of about $250 million of CMBS that subsequently rose in value substantially, boosting the returns on the deals equity piece, according to market pros. Berry, who left Deutsche last August, declined to comment. Deutsche also declined to comment for this story.
But the rebound in CMBS prices blocked Deutsche from continuing to employ the strategy. Meanwhile, losses on the much-larger batch of loans in the collateral pool were a ticking time bomb that would eventually eclipse the CMBS gains.
Word has it that most, if not all, of the CMBS were the first assets to go when Deutsche began selling collateral early this year. Its unclear how much Deutsche has already liquidated. It hasnt conducted any bulk offerings, as other CDO managers have done when unwinding transactions. That suggests that the bank is selling off individual assets opportunistically.
One indication of the activity came in a report filed by the CDOs trustee, U.S. Bank, which said that almost $550 million, or 63%, of the triple-A notes were paid off in the first quarter. That presumably reflects sales by Deutsche, which now owns all of the CDO bonds.
Moodys, which never downgraded the CDO, withdrew its then-moot ratings on May 24.
Before buying out its partners, Deutsche made an unsuccessful attempt to sever its relationship with the CDO about a year ago, when it sought to transfer management of the vehicle to 650 Capital, a unit of Ranieri Partners of Uniondale, N.Y.
When Otera and Norinchukin balked, Deutsche considered hiring 650 Capital as a sub-advisor instead. But that never happened either, most likely because it wouldnt have provided the desired accounting relief.
Meanwhile, Otera wanted out of the CDO because it was moving away from investments in structured products in order to focus on originating and syndicating construction loans for commercial properties in Canada. Deutsches trading desk tried selling Oteras stake in the secondary market before the bank ended up buying the interest itself.
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Vaporooter pioneered the chemical root control industry over 40 years ago to extend the useful life of sewer systems while eliminating maintenance costs.
ISCO Industries, the nation's largest distributor and supplier of high density polyethylene (HDPE) piping products, has announced the acquisition of Wright Water & Waste based in Solon, OH.
HOBAS Pipe USA has promoted Kimberly Paggioli, P.E., to the position of vice president of Marketing and Quality Assurance.
NASSCO (National Association of Sewer Service Companies) has completed a state of the art guideline for the use and handling of styrene based resins in the cured in place pipe (CIPP) rehabilitation process.
The city of Huntsville, AL recently completed one of the largest sanitary sewer chemical root control projects in the country.
The Pipe Line Contractors Association (PLCA) experienced a "phenomenal" year in 2008, said association President Robert Johnston (pictured).
Despite turmoil in the financial markets and oil prices that are the lowest since 2003, the U.S. natural gas industry appears likely to remain one of the stronger performers in the energy sector. Supporting this is the Energy Information Administration's (EIA) report, Additions to Capacity on the U.S. Natural Gas Pipeline Network: 2007.
The city of Houston Public Works and Engineering Department Director Michael Marcotte addressed the December luncheon of the Gulf Coast Trenchless Association on Dec. 10. About 150 people were on hand to hear the presentation.
That NASSCO (National Association of Sewer Service Companies) has become an influential force in the sewer rehabilitation industry was clearly evident in 2008, said current association President Marc A. Anctil as he reviewed NASSCO accomplishments in the past 12 months.
The International Pipeline and Offshore Contractors Association (IPLOCA) recently hosted its annual convention in Athens, Greece with 630 attendees.
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In 2007, Keith John Sampson, a middle-aged student working his way through Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis as a janitor, was declared guilty of racial harassment. Without granting Sampson a hearing, the university administration - acting as prosecutor, judge and jury - convicted him of "openly reading (a) book related to a historically and racially abhorrent subject."
"Openly." "Related to." Good grief.
The book, "Notre Dame vs. the Klan," celebrated the 1924 defeat of the Ku Klux Klan in a fight with Notre Dame students. But some of Sampson's co-workers disliked the book's cover, which featured a black-and-white photograph of a Klan rally. Someone was offended, therefore someone else must be guilty of harassment.
This non sequitur reflects the right never to be annoyed, a new campus entitlement. Legions of administrators, who now outnumber full-time faculty, are kept busy making students mind their manners, with good manners understood as conformity to liberal politics.
Liberals are most concentrated and untrammeled on campuses, so look there for evidence of what, given the opportunity, they would do to America. Ample evidence is in "Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate" by Greg Lukianoff, 38, a graduate of Stanford Law School who describes himself as a liberal, pro-choice, pro-gay rights, lifelong Democrat who belongs to "the notoriously politically correct Park Slope Food Co-Op in Brooklyn" and has never voted for a Republican "nor do I plan to." But as president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) he knows that the most common justifications for liberal censorship are "sensitivity" about "diversity" and "multiculturalism," as academic liberals understand those things.
In recent years, a University of Oklahoma vice president has declared that no university resources, including email, could be used for "the forwarding of political humor/commentary." The College at Brockport in New York banned using the Internet to "annoy or otherwise inconvenience" anyone. Rhode Island College prohibited, among many other things, certain "attitudes." Texas Southern University's comprehensive proscriptions included "verbal harm" from damaging "assumptions" or "implications." Texas A&M promised "freedom from indignity of any type." Davidson banned "patronizing remarks." Drexel University forbade "inappropriately directed laughter." Western Michigan University banned "sexism," including "the perception" of a person "not as an individual, but as a member of a category based on sex." Banning "perceptions" must provide full employment for the burgeoning ranks of academic administrators.
Many campuses congratulate themselves on their broad-mindedness when they establish small "free speech zones" where political advocacy can be scheduled. At one point Texas Tech's 28,000 students had a "free speech gazebo" that was 20 feet wide. And you thought the First Amendment made America a free speech zone.
At Tufts, a conservative newspaper committed "harassment" by printing accurate quotations from the Quran and a verified fact about the status of women in Saudi Arabia. Lukianoff says Tufts may have been the first American institution "to find someone guilty of harassment for stating verifiable facts directed at no one in particular."
He documents how "orientation" programs for freshmen become propaganda to (in the words of one orthodoxy enforcer) "leave a mental footprint on their consciousness." Faculty, too, can face mandatory consciousness-raising.
In 2007, Donald Hindley, a politics professor at Brandeis, was found guilty of harassment because when teaching Latin American politics he explained the origin of the word "wetbacks," which refers to immigrants crossing the Rio Grande. Without a hearing, the university provost sent Hindley a letter stating that the university "will not tolerate inappropriate, racial and discriminatory conduct." The assistant provost was assigned to monitor Hindley's classes "to ensure that you do not engage in further violations of the nondiscrimination and harassment policy." Hindley was required to attend "anti-discrimination training."
Such coercion is a natural augmentation of censorship. Next comes mob rule. Last year, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the vice provost for diversity and climate - really; you can't make this stuff up - encouraged students to disrupt a news conference by a speaker opposed to racial preferences. They did, which the vice provost called "awesome." This is the climate on an especially liberal campus that celebrates "diversity" in everything but thought.
"What happens on campus," Lukianoff says, "doesn't stay on campus" because censorship has "downstream effects." He quotes a sociologist whose data he says demonstrate that "those with the highest levels of education have the lowest exposure to people with conflicting points of view." This encourages "the human tendency to live within our own echo chambers." Parents' tuition dollars and student indebtedness are paying for this. Good grief.
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Moonraker (film)
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Moonraker is a 1979 film in which James Bond investigates the mid-flight theft of a space shuttle and discovers a plot to commit global genocide.
- Directed by Lewis Gilbert. Written by Christopher Wood, based on the novel by Ian Fleming.
Hugo Drax[edit]
- [To Chang] Look after Mr. Bond. See that some harm comes to him.
- [addressing his staff aboard the space station] First there was the dream, now there is reality. Here, in the untainted cradle of the heavens, will be created a new super race, a race of perfect physical specimens. You have been selected as its progenitors; like Gods, your offspring will return to Earth and shape it in their image. You have all served in public capacities in my terrestrial empire. Your seed, like yourselves, will pay deference to the ultimate dynasty which I alone have created. From their first day on Earth they will be able to look up and know that there is law and order in the heavens.
- Mr. Bond, you persist in defying my efforts to provide an amusing death for you.
- Allow me to introduce you to the airlock chamber. Observe, Mr Bond, your route from this world to the next. [opens airlock door] And you, Dr Goodhead, your desire to become America's first woman in space will shortly be fulfilled.
- [sharing a champagne toast with Dolly] Well, here's to us.
- Bond: Excuse me my name is Bond, James Bond. I'm looking for Dr Goodhead.
- Dr Goodhead: You just found her.
- Bond: A woman!
- Dr Goodhead: Your powers of observation do you credit, Mr Bond.
- Dr. Holly Goodhead: This evening I'm giving my address.
- James Bond: Then can you think of a reason why we can't go for a drink afterwards?
- Dr. Holly Goodhead: Not immediately. But I'm sure I shall.
- James Bond: Oh, I suppose you're right. We would be better off working together. Détente?
- Dr. Holly Goodhead: Agreed.
- James Bond: Understanding?
- Dr. Holly Goodhead: Possibly.
- James Bond: Co-operation?
- Dr. Holly Goodhead: Maybe.
- James Bond: Trust?
- Dr. Holly Goodhead: Out of the question.
- Dr. Holly Goodhead: You know him?
- James Bond: Not socially. His name's Jaws, he kills people.
- [Bond dangles from a cable car a thousand feet up]
- Dr. Holly Goodhead: Hang on!
- James Bond: The thought had occurred to me.
- Hugo Drax: Why did you break up the encounter with my pet python?
- James Bond: I discovered it had a crush on me.
- [at a pheasant shooting, one of Drax's henchmen hides in a tree, waiting to shoot Bond. Bond fires, killing the henchman]
- Hugo Drax: Oh, bad luck. You missed. [the dead henchman falls from the tree]
- James Bond: [smugly] Did I?
- Dr. Holly Goodhead: Have you broken something?
- James Bond: Only my tailor's heart. [Goodhead kisses him] What was that for?
- Dr. Holly Goodhead: For saving my life.
- James Bond: Remind me to do it more often!
- [after shoving Drax into an air lock and ejecting him into outer space]
- Dr. Holly Goodhead: Where's Drax?
- James Bond: Oh, he had to fly.
- Dr. Holly Goodhead: James?
- James Bond: I think it may be time to go home.
- Dr. Holly Goodhead: Take me 'round the world one more time.
- James Bond: Why not?
- M: [watching Bond and Dr Goodhead having sex] Double O Seven...!
- Sir Frederick Gray: My God, what's Bond doing?
- Q: I think he's attempting re-entry sir. [Bond looks up and smiles at the camera before unplugging it]
- Moonraker Is Out Of This World
- Where all the other Bonds end . . . this one begins!
- Now outer space now belongs to James Bond 007
- The girls are out of this world
- The villains are out of this world
- Outer space now belongs to 007
- Roger Moore - James Bond:
- Michael Lonsdale - Sir Hugo Drax
- Lois Chiles - Holly Goodhead
- Toshiro Suga - Chang
- Richard Kiel - Jaws
- Corinne Clery - Corinne Dufour
- Bernard Lee - M
- Lois Maxwell - Miss Moneypenny
- Desmond Llewelyn - Q
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- Walter Gotell - General Gogol
External links[edit]
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Operation Elveden: police officer from Barnet arrested as part of investigation
Updated 3:01pm Monday 4th February 2013 in News By Natalie O'Neill
A police officer from Barnet has been arrested as part of an ongoing investigation into inappropriate payments to police and public officials by journalists.
The 33-year-old was arrested at his home on suspicion of misconduct in a public office as part of Operation Elveden at around 5.45am this morning.
The serving officer is in the MPS Specialist Crime and Operations command based in central London, and is the 59th person to be arrested as part of the Elveden investigation.
He is being interviewed at a North London police station and his property is being searched.
Scotland Yard said today's arrest is the result of information provided to police by News Corporation's management and standards committee.
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