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The Department of Environmental Protection says it send out letters to 99 natural gas operators and service companies asking them to report air emissions from operations for a statewide inventory.
The agency told me last month they delayed the move by a year to better craft its ask.
The new reporting deadline is March 1, and the data to be included involves 2011 emissions including carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, particulate matter of a certain size, sulfur dioxide, volatile organic compounds and total hazardous air pollutants from:
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The adorable little boy would have turned two in September. He's the youngest of three children, who brought so much joy to the Budhu family, said his parents.
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Ragdoo found Andrew in the swimming pool and pulled him out of the water.
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Britain's beekeepers are at war over their association's endorsement for money of four insecticides, all of them fatal to bees, made by major chemical companies.
The British Beekeepers' Association has been selling its logo to four European pesticide producers and is believed to have received about £175,000 in return.
The active ingredient chemicals in the four pesticides the beekeepers endorsed are synthetic pyrethroids, which are among the most powerful of modern insect-killers.
The deal was struck in secret by the beekeepers' association executive without the knowledge of the overwhelming majority of its members.
After news of the deal emerged, some members expressed outrage and others resigned.
The beekeepers have now said they will end their pesticide endorsements – but have left the door open to future deals with agrochemical companies.
The battling beekeepers will have a showdown this weekend at the National Beekeeping Centre at Stoneleigh in Warwickshire.
An open letter signed by prominent figures in the world of the environment and agriculture condemns the British Beekeepers' Association for its commercial relationship with the German chemicals giants Bayer and BASF, the Swiss-based Syngenta and the Belgian firm Belchim – and demands that it permanently sever commercial links with agrochemical companies.
"A charity that claims to have the interests of bees and beekeeping at heart should never put itself in a position where it is under the influence of corporations whose purpose is to sell insecticides which are able to kill bees," said Philip Chandler, a Devon beekeeper and one of the organisers of the open letter, which has been signed by the botanist David Bellamy, the author and television wildlife presenter Chris Packham and Lord Melchett, policy director of the Soil Association, the organic farming body. "It is the equivalent of a cancer research charity being controlled by a tobacco company," Mr Chandler added.
The beekeepers' executive, which effectively controls all the association's affairs, has thus far fended off attempts by its membership at getting the policy reversed.
The beekeepers' association's deal with the chemical companies had been running since 2001, and it received £17,500 a year for endorsing four pesticides: Bayer's Decis, BASF's Contest (also known as Fastac), Syngenta's Hallmark and Belchim's Fury.
The British Beekeepers' Association referred to the pesticides on several occasions in the newsletter BBKA News as "bee friendly" or "bee safe". Yet a 2003 study in the Bulletin of Insectology on modelling the acute toxicity of pesticides to honey bees found that cypermethrin, the active ingredient of Fury and Contest, and deltamethrin, the active ingredient of Decis, were in the top four most toxic to bees of all the 100 substances evaluated. Cypermethrin was second most toxic, and deltamethrin was fourth. (The active ingredient of Hallmark, lambda-cyhalothrin, was not included in the test.) Other studies confirm these conclusions.
Protests have mounted as the revelations came out. Such has been the anger of grass-roots beekeepers that the executive announced a strategic review of its links with "the plant protection industry", which concluded that endorsement and "related product specific payments" would cease "as soon as practically possible".
Yesterday the British Beekeepers' Association president, Martin Smith, confirmed the pesticide endorsements had finished, although he said there might still be some pesticide packaging in circulation bearing the BBKA logo. "We would expect that to be withdrawn within three months," he said.
Mr Smith said that the deals had been originally done as a means of developing good practice in relation to bees with the pesticides when they had been introduced, but that this aim had been achieved – so they were no longer necessary.
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At this weekend's meeting a motion put down by the Twickenham and Thames Valley Beekeeping Association stipulates that "the BBKA cease any commercial relationships with agrochemical or associated companies, including all endorsement of pesticides".
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The beekeepers executive is trying to head off the move by inserting its own motion ahead of the Twickenham and Thames Valley one, which asks delegates to support them in the way in which it "should manage its intellectual property". It goes on: "This includes the use of its logo and maximises the benefits which can be gained from these assets and its reputation."
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Valtteri Bottas has expressed his enthusiasm after another impressive display on the final day of pre-season testing in Bahrain today.
Bottas finished in second place on the timesheets, just seven-tenths of a second behind Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton. After Felipe Massa finished as the fastest driver on Saturday, Bottas' pace suggests that Williams will be one of the teams to beat at the opening round of the season in Australia in two weeks' time.
"I think our final day of testing was very good, right up to a very unlucky failure just one run before the end," Bottas explained. "Overall, it was a still a good day as we had no other issues throughout and made a lot of progress with the car set-up.
"I think with this amount of testing we are as prepared for Melbourne as we can be. The team has done a great job and thank you also to Mercedes-Benz. We still need to work very hard in these next two weeks but I overall I'm happy with how testing has gone for us."
Bottas' sentiments were shared by engineer Rod Nelson, who expressed his delight with the reliability of the FW36 car.
"With an overall team total of 936 laps under our belt, we are still pleased that that is the only time the FW36 has stopped on track throughout testing," Nelson explained. "We end the pre-season running feeling very happy with the car, power unit, drivers and team. Everything is working together as it should and we are pleased with the direction that the team is going in."
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By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan
Albert Woodfox has been in solitary confinement for 40 years, most of that time locked up in the notorious maximum-security Louisiana State Penitentiary known as "Angola." This week, after his lawyers spent six years arguing that racial bias tainted the grand-jury selection in Woodfox's prosecution, federal Judge James Brady, presiding in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana, agreed. "Accordingly, Woodfox's habeas relief is GRANTED," ordered Brady, compelling the state of Louisiana to release Woodfox. This is the third time his conviction has been overturned. Nevertheless, Woodfox remains imprisoned. Those close to the case expect the state of Louisiana, under the direction of Attorney General James "Buddy" Caldwell, to appeal again, as the state has successfully done in the past, seeking to keep Woodfox in solitary confinement, in conditions that Amnesty International says "can only be described as cruel, inhuman and degrading."
Woodfox is one of the "Angola 3." Angola, the sprawling prison complex with 5,000 inmates and 1,800 employees, is in rural Louisiana on the site of a former slave plantation. It gets its name from the country of origin of many of those slaves. It still exists as a forced-labor camp, with prisoners toiling in fields of cotton and sugar cane, watched over by shotgun-wielding guards on horseback. Woodfox and fellow inmate Herman Wallace were in Angola for lesser crimes when implicated in the prison murder of a guard in 1972. Woodfox and Wallace founded the Angola chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1971, and were engaged in organizing against segregation, inhumane working conditions and the systemic rape and sexual slavery inflicted on many imprisoned in Louisiana's Angola.
"Herman and Albert and other folks recognized the violation of human rights in prison, and they were trying to achieve a better prison and living conditions," Robert King told me last year. "And as a result of that, they were targeted." King is the third member of the Angola 3, and the only one among them to have finally won his freedom, in 2001.
King went on: "There is no rationale why they should be held in solitary confinement—or, for that matter, in prison. This is a double whammy. We are dealing with a double whammy here. We are not just focusing on Herman's and Albert's civil- or human-rights violation, but there is question also as to whether or not they committed this crime. All the evidence has been undermined in this case." Since his release, King has been fighting for justice for Wallace and Woodfox, traveling around the U.S. and to 20 countries, as well as addressing the European Parliament.
The devastating psychological impacts of long-term solitary confinement are well-documented. Solitary also limits access to exercise, creating a cascade of health complications. The Center for Constitutional Rights is challenging the use of solitary confinement in California prisons, writing: "Ever since solitary confinement came into existence, it has been used as a tool of repression. While it is justified by corrections officials as necessary to protect prisoners and guards from violent superpredators, all too often it is imposed on individuals, particularly prisoners of color, who threaten prison administrations in an altogether different way."
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In Plain Language: 'Gone with the wind'
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This year marks the 75th anniversary of the epic film Gone With the Wind.The grand, sweeping drama revolves around the spoiled daughter of a wealthy Southern plantation owner – played by Vivien Leigh – and her dashing beau Captain Rhett Butler, played out against the backdrop of the American Civil War. It captivated audiences worldwide and won numerous awards, including Oscars for best picture, best director, best actress and best supporting actress (which went to Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American ever to win an Academy Award).The film, the most successful in box-office history, is based on Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller published three years earlier.Gone With the Wind – the only book Mitchell ever wrote – is considered to be the second-favorite book by American readers, just behind the Bible, and has to date sold 30 million copies. The movie has been seen by hundreds of millions of people, graphically bringing home the trauma and tragedy of the War Between Brothers, the bloodiest conflict in the history of the United States.Throughout the film, Scarlett faces numerous personal crises, including disease, failed romances and the loss of Tara, her plantation. But rather than deal with them frontally and directly, she prefers to procrastinate, deflect the problems and put them off ad infinitum. "I'll think about that tomorrow" is her constant mantra.It seems to me that Israel, all too often, suffers from "Scarlett O'Hara syndrome." Rather than follow the famous advice of Ethics of the Fathers – "Who is wise? He who sees that which is yet to be born" – we rush willy-nilly, without a great deal of forethought, into the most complex of situations, allowing the problems that result from them to fester and ferment, only beginning to react when we have already entered panic mode.Take, for example, the burgeoning conversion crisis. We knew full well, when we opened the gates to immigration from the former Soviet Union, that a large percentage of these olim – anywhere from 20 percent to 30%, depending on whose figures you accept – were not halachically Jewish. But in our understandable rush to absorb our Russian brethren – who were the last, greatest reservoir of Diaspora Jews willing to join the state – we downplayed, if not outright ignored, the demographic time bomb that lurked within. We chose to close our eyes and open our borders because we knew that whole families would simply not come here unless they could also take their non-Jewish family member(s) along with them.But we were only delaying the inevitable crisis.Now, as this population has become firmly embedded within our body politic, we face two decidedly imperfect options: Either we ignore the halachic criteria, and allow the non-Jewish Israelis to marry into the Jewish community, or we assign them "spiritual second-class citizenship," carefully screening our sons' and daughters' suitors so as to protect our "Jewish pedigree."What should have happened is that we should have been well-prepared for all this. For years, we fought hard to force Russia to lift the Iron Curtain, sincerely believing that our efforts would succeed and that these compatriots of ours would ultimately "come home." We should have organized, right from the get-go, committees of tolerant, enthusiastic Orthodox rabbis – of the Tzohar or Beit Hillel type – who would have taken the "new recruits" under their wing and guided them slowly but surely into the fold. Utilizing a more lenient halachic approach, rather than taking the strictest line possible, we could have bestowed a proper conversion upon thousands of these people.Instead, we abdicated our responsibility and meekly passed the problem along to the rabbinic establishment, which – wonder of wonders! – dug in its heels and did nothing.Then there is the current battle over universal conscription. In the early days of the state, there were no more than several hundred yeshiva students who sought, and were granted, an exemption from military service. That was the right time to lay down the law and make concrete a policy that would have equalized the commitment of every sector and instilled in every citizen a sense of attachment to his or her country. We should have insisted that every able-bodied man and woman devote a segment of their lives to either army or national service; if they refused, they would be denied the privileges of state, including the right to vote and monthly stipends for their children.We could have created a network of appropriate service for even the most observant of young people, who could have administered the synagogues on army bases, supervised the kashrut and prepared Shabbat and holiday meals and activities, or even taught courses on Jewish philosophy. Indeed, no less a figure than the late Grand Rebbe of Gur – a hassidic leader far ahead of his time – appealed to the yeshiva world to break down the wall of separation and allow yeshiva students to do their fair share in "giving back" to the nation.If they did not, he warned presciently, they would eventually provoke major animosity and resentment from the general public, resulting in a terrible hillul Hashem, desecration of God's name.Tragically, the rebbe's plea was rejected, the number of yeshiva exemptions grew exponentially, and the problem was left to simmer and boil. Now, the polarization and hatred it has created has divided our nation and been laid bare for all to see.And let us not forget the aguna situation. Here, too, the numbers widely vary as to just how many women are "chained" to their former husbands, unable to receive a get and begin to live full and free lives again. But the numbers are not really the issue; every woman who cannot get justice suffers immeasurable anguish and injury, and must be rescued from her plight.And here, too, a solution was within our grasp.While Jewish law prevents the courts from forcing a man to divorce his wife, we could have made his recalcitrance awfully painful. We could have legislated that just as all brides are required to immerse in a mikve prior to the wedding, so all marriages conducted by the Chief Rabbinate be accompanied by a prenuptial device. This would have required get-refusing husbands to continue to pay their wives' expenses, including rent, food, clothing and utilities, until they underwent a religious divorce.In the US, where I served as rabbi for many years, I insisted on such a document, which was approved and promoted by the Orthodox Rabbinical Council of America. While it did not completely prevent agunot, it reduced their numbers significantly. At the very least, it provided civilly divorced women with an ongoing income and a modicum of self-respect.But again, we fell flat and did nothing.The good news is that the solutions to each of these crises are still absolutely available. The government – which for the first time in many years is not being held hostage by Shas and the haredi parties – seems finally determined to dismantle the ultra-Orthodox "state within a state" and integrate the yeshiva students, hopefully to be followed by the Israeli-Arab community, into the workforce and national service. Grassroots organizations such as Beit Hillel are steadily pushing the envelope on a "kinder, gentler" approach to halachic conversion. And Tzohar, feeling the pressure from below, recently declared that from now on, its rabbis will be required to employ a prenup at weddings at which they officiate. As get-advocate Rachel Levmore, who has helped pioneer the "mutual respect" agreement between couples in Israel predicts, "Little by little, the people will compel the establishment to finally take action."Yaakov Kirschen of Dry Bones fame once wryly observed that "Israel never really solves any of its problems; it just finds new and different problems that make us forget the old ones!" But the downside to continually shoving our problems under the rug is that eventually, the piles get so big we end up tripping on them, and we fall.Far better that we make a determined, proactive effort to solve our most pressing issues, as early as possible, rather than hoping that we will just wake up one day and find they are, well, gone with the wind. The writer is director of the Jewish Outreach Center of Ra'anana; firstname.lastname@example.com, www.rabbistewartweiss.com.
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Crocs (CROX) trades at $16.16 and is 12% from its 52-week low. Crocs have been called a fad, a momentum stock, but here they are still trading today and with respectable numbers. Crocs (CROX) shares are now trading with a P/E Ratio of 12.2 and EPS of 1.32. Summer always means sales for Crocs dumb footwear, for all ages.
Back in March, Crocs fearless leader CEO John mcCarvel said he expects Crocs to double sales in less than 5 years. A very bold prediction. A month later the company reported Q1 revenue of $272 million. Crocs is here to stay and its a great bounce candidate while it trades close to its 12 month low.
Priceline.com Inc (PCLN) shares trade at an amazing share price of $670.82. PCLN shares are now trading with a P/E Ratio of 30.7, EPS of 22.14 and are 15% under its 52-week high. No matter what happens, Priceline always seems to recover and always ends up increasing in value. It defies the laws of everything. Priceline.com is the juggernaut of the travel industry and it cannot be killed. Bow down to your Priceline overlords!
Skullcandy Inc (SKUL) is down 34% since its IPO last year. Skullcandy is similar to a 2007 version of Crocs. That was when Crocs was over $60 a share and everyone was high on cocaine saying it was going to be the next Nike (NKE). However, the fundamentals are there, with a forward P/E of just 9.26. Not bad for a stock that has a whopping 70% short interest. IF the company can successfully expand into Asia and get every teenager there to buy a set of headphones (and this is a big IF), growth could continue for quite some time. But what's with the company name??
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While still not available by default, the Nouveau NV10/NV20 Mesa DRI driver can now handle S3TC texture compression support when available.
landed in Mesa Git master yesterday by Viktor Novotný for added general support for compressed formats to the Nouveau DRI driver (read: their pre-Gallium3D driver for the oldest NVIDIA fixed-function hardware) and that was followed up by actually added in the S3TC support for the NV10/NV20 class hardware (
the second commit
The Nouveau NV10 class hardware is the GeForce 256, GeForce 2, and GeForce 4 MX GPUs. The NV20 is the GeForce 3 and GeForce 4 Ti series.
Using S3TC for these older NVIDIA GPUs or any of the other open-source Mesa/Gallium3D drivers still requires the external
library. You won't find this DXTn library part of Mesa or shipped by tier-one distributions due to patent concerns about S3TC texture compression support. The same goes for the other newer Mesa/Gallium3D drivers too for Nouveau/Intel/Radeon where there can be S3TC support exposed, but it's not by default in this open-source code.
Additional information on the Mesa S3TC status can be found from
this Wiki page
while the S3TC library code remains at
this Git repository
As well, I was recently explaining this lack of S3 Texture Compression support by default in open-source Linux graphics drivers to a major game developer. He found these patent concerns to be silly to even the point of pure stupidity and will be looking at what can be done to resolve these concerns so there could be this support "out of the box" seeing as how many modern OpenGL games require this texture compression functionality.
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Nick Buckles tells MPs G4S will claim its multi-million management fee despite Olympics shambles
2012 07 18
Nick Buckles
The chief executive of G4S has insisted his company will still claim its £57 million management fee for security at the Olympic Games, even though the company has presided over a humiliating shambles.
Nick Buckles faced repeated criticism from a committee of MPs as he struggled to explain how the company had failed to fulfil its contractual obligations to provide more than 10,000 security guards for the Olympic Games.
That failure has forced ministers to assign thousands of soldiers and police officers to basic security duties. Mr Buckles told the Commons home affairs committee that his firm would meet all the Governments additional costs for those deployments, and was prepared to fund bonuses for troops assigned to Olympic duties if commanders thought it appropriate.
However, he made clear that he believed his firm was still entitled to its fee for managing the security arrangements for the Games. G4S holds a £284 million contract to provide security staff for the Games, which includes a £57 million management fee. Challenged to waive that fee, Mr Buckles insisted it should still be paid.
Weve managed the contract and weve had management on the ground for two years, he said. We still expect to deliver a significant number of staff. Keith Vaz, the Labour chairman of the committee, told Mr Buckles his stance on the fee was astonishing.
That exchange followed questioning in which Mr Buckles offered an abject assessment of his companys performance over the Games. When it was put to Mr Buckles that the affair had become a humiliating shambles, he replied: I cannot disagree with you.
The chief executive also faced personal embarrassment during his 90-minute appearance, frequently appearing hesitant or uncertain about details of the security operation. At one point, Mr Buckles said he was unable to say if his staff spoke fluent English because I dont know what fluent English is.
G4S employs more than 600,000 people worldwide, and Mr Buckles insisted that the £284 million contract was financially not a huge issue for his firm.
Instead of hoping to make money, he said, the company bid for the Olympic work to enhance its global image.
Instead, the debacle has become a worldwide embarrassment for the firm, whose shares have fallen by almost a fifth since its Olympic troubles were revealed last week. Mr Buckles admitted the affair had left his companys reputation in tatters.
As a result of the London experience, G4S will now not bid for security work at the 2014 football world cup or the 2016 Olympics.
Mr Buckles told the MPs he was deeply sorry for the companys performance, but rejected their suggestions that he should resign over the affair.
He said: Its not about me; its about delivering the contract. Im the right person to ensure that happens.
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... edge of the dark brown "fruit cake".As the sun strikes the ice it turns glassy blue.It looks almost funny as it teeters on the edge of the mountain ,the front layer staring death in the eye but gamely clinging onto life,but that certainty is sure.A great booming sound bellows and echoes off the walls as some where out of sight from us a great slab of hanging glacier falls to meets its maker.In this case it joins a white river of previously fallen ice ,its ...
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... stomachs have grown by 5cms from all our eating! Apart from strolling around the city, resting our bodies and feeding our stomachs, we spent a lovely afternoon out on the Haneck family farm, horse riding for a few hours. The sister picked us up, the brother took us on the horse ride, the mother provided us with the most delicious homemade afternoon tea, and the father helped us eat the afternoon tea, while we chatted by the fire! It was a real family business and we loved it. ...
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Afterall, there are a lot on our minds these days, like the cleanup of Superstorm Sandy, the Conneticut school shooting, and the fast-approaching fiscal cliff.
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Board games are tainting LPSS super search. By Heather Miller
Some called it a "miscommunication." Others went a step further and deemed it "misinformation." But the events leading up to a heated Lafayette Parish School Board meeting Oct. 25, at which the board voted to widen the superintendent candidate field from 10 to 11 applicants, were nothing less than "troubling," says board attorney Jimmy Simon.
Dr. Pat Cooper, one of 10 superintendent applicants selected by the board to be interviewed for the district's top administrative slot, confirmed last week that if selected for the job he would be unable to start full-time until May 2012, five months later than the start date outlined when the board advertised for the position.
School board member Mark Cockerham
Board games are tainting LPSS super search. By Heather Miller
Some called it a "miscommunication." Others went a step further and deemed it "misinformation." But the events leading up to a heated Lafayette Parish School Board meeting Oct. 25, at which the board voted to widen the superintendent candidate field from 10 to 11 applicants, were nothing less than "troubling," says board attorney Jimmy Simon.
Dr. Pat Cooper, one of 10 superintendent applicants selected by the board to be interviewed for the district's top administrative slot, confirmed last week that if selected for the job he would be unable to start full-time until May 2012, five months later than the start date outlined when the board advertised for the position.
When he learned of the potential conflict, board President Mark Babineaux, who also sits on the three-member Superintendent Selection Committee, called fellow committee member Tommy Angelle and school board Vice President Shelton Cobb to meet over what to do with the latest news. Cobb doesn't sit on the super selection committee, but because the third committee member, school board member Hunter Beasley, was out of state, Cobb was called in Beasley's place.
From the office of LPSS Marketing Director Angie Simoneaux, Babineaux called board attorney Simon for advice on how to proceed.
"The word disqualification remained in the back of my mind," Babineaux said during the Tuesday meeting. "Mr. Angelle and myself both felt that it was obvious because it started on Jan. 1, not any time later, and the fact that if we make an exception then we should possibly have to reopen the application process. Others might have submitted their application had they known we would make an exception."
Simon, however, said in a later email to board members that the decision wasn't Babineaux's to make.
"I told Mark B at that time that an 'emergency meeting' including all board members should be held to decide whether this person was to be disqualified, and how his slot would be filled if so," Simon wrote in that email.
Babineaux decided to call an emergency meeting of the committee, not the full board, scheduled for 2:30 p.m. that Friday. Because Beasley was unable to attend, Board member Mark Cockerham was chosen to take his place as the third committee member.
But sometime in between Thursday's phone call to Simon from Simoneaux's office and Friday's 2:30 meeting, Cooper had mysteriously withdrawn his name from the search, leaving the three committee members tasked with recommending someone to replace Cooper's application to keep the field at 10 candidates. Cockerham was unable to attend the meeting, which left the committee with no quorum and therefore unable to take any action.
Unbeknownst to Simon — and apparently to most board members — Cooper had received a phone call from Simoneaux before the scheduled meeting, informing Cooper that the board's wishes are for the new superintendent to start in January. The phone call to Cooper was made without formal meeting or vote from the board ever taking place.
"It is my legal opinion that, short of something to the contrary in writing, it takes a vote of the entire board to have someone removed from this list. Mark C told me that there are several board members that did not know what was happening last Friday. I find this very troubling, and I hope it is not the case," Simon wrote in the email to board members. "The entire board should be included in any decisions of this nature."
School board President Mark Babineaux
Confused over Cooper's withdrawal, Cockerham, who says he views Cooper's application as one of the strongest on the list, called Cooper to learn what prompted him to abandon the application process.
"I had a feeling something happened to make him pull out," Cockerham says. "I called the number on his resume the next day and just asked him what happened. He said he got a phone call from Angie saying it would inconvenience the board, and he didn't want to inconvenience us. I was livid. The only people that can disqualify a candidate is with a vote of the board."
What's more disturbing for board member Tehmi Chassion is that not only were he and other board members unaware of a scheduled committee meeting on Friday, but he also received a thank you card in the mail over the weekend from Scott Middle Principal John Pate, who had already been informed by either Simoneaux or Babineaux that he would replace Cooper in the list of the top 10 candidates.
"I found out that a recommendation had pretty much been made, and Mr. Pate was going to be included in the top 10 on the news that night," Chassion says. "It hit me like a brick in the head. In my eyes [Cooper] was one of the stronger candidates. But it wouldn't have mattered one way or the other whether it was the number one candidate or the number 10, to inform someone that we have issues with your application without getting a majority vote of the board is just wrong. If you're going to make it fair and gain the trust of the community, if we want to one day see taxes passed to rebuild the facilities, we've got to get the simple things right when it comes to a superintendent search."
The board took Simon's advice and "put the issue to rest as quickly as possible" with a 5-3 vote Tuesday to reinstate Cooper's application and also include Pate in the field of candidates.
Trahan, Babineaux and Angelle voted against Cooper being allowed back into the race. Beasley, Cockerham, Chassion, Cobb and board member Kermit Bouillion voted in favor of the measure.
Board member Greg Awbrey was absent.
Coincidentally, Babineaux and board member Rae Trahan did not vote for Cooper as one of their top 10 candidates. Angelle was absent for the top 10 list vote due to an unavoidable family conflict, but he did tell The Advertiser recently that if he would have been present, Pate would have been included in his list of 10 candidates.
"I know with the [board] president being in the minority on a lot of things, it's a little tricky," Cockerham says. "I don't think he speaks for us. It's just one of those things. We're really just lucky to get [Cooper] back in the race. My goal was to get him back in. That's all I wanted to do. I don't have a problem with him starting later if selected. I think if this is the person we choose to lead this system, that position is so important. If we gotta wait a couple of months to get that person, so be it. For what we're trying to do in this system, it's too important to just draw the line in the sand and say sorry, if you can't start here, you're out."
Timeline remaining on superintendent search and final selection:
Oct. 31 - Nov. 4 — Board holds second set of candidate interviews, selects three finalists.
Nov. 7 - Nov. 18 — Board visits the communities of the three finalists.
Nov. 30 — Board holds public forum with finalists.
Dec. 7 — Board selects superintendent.
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The village now says the ordinance will likely be overturned and authorities will more vigorously enforce existing leash laws.
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Fate simply wasn't ready to give the New Orleans Saints a break from longtime nemesis Steve Smith.
Lafayette Police have had a busy day.
Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration will use $130 million in patchwork financing from a tax amnesty program, insurance settlement, uninsured motorist penalties and other excess funds to close most of the state's midyear budget deficit.
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Gay-rights advocates challenging Louisiana's same-sex marriage ban announced Thursday that they have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review their case before it is heard by a federal appeals court.
Thinking himself the "son of God," the man charged with the 2013 killing of an officer of the Chitimacha Tribal Police will not stand trial following a ruling Thursday on his mental competency.
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NOV 26 Zach Kopplin, who we came to know and love when he was a Louisiana high school student lobbying for the continued inclusion of science stuff in science class, pens this post in The Atlantic about a "textbook" available for social studies instruction in Texas that discusses how Moses contributed to the Constitution. (Oy! Texas rednecks love Jews. Who knew?)
NOV 26 Finally, mad people on the interwebz is a good thing! World wide webby outrage has caused the village of Moreauville to reverse its plan to confiscate pit bulls and Rottweillers and euthanize them simply because of their breed, WAFB reports here. The plan? They're going to enforce the leash law. Well, that would have been a good place to start.
NOV 26 Jim Brown, like many of us Louisiana voters, seems fed up with out of town know-it-alls trying to tell us what to do. Bill Cassidy can't make it through the day without flying someone in to "tell us political retards" how to vote, he says.
NOV 26 Blogger Tom Aswell is writing about the behavior of the two finalists in the 6th Congressional District race: Edwin Edwards and Garret Graves. Edwards has come out swinging, but Graves' campaign seems bent on snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, Tom says.
NOV 26 Blogger CB Forgotston is confused, he says, because Governor Bobby Jindal said higher education wouldn't get cut, but it looks like it is being cut. CB's asking: When is a cut not a cut?
NOV 26 Unless you're in Virigina, you shouldn't count on seeing our Governor on Election Day. Mark Ballard writes in the Advocate's political blog that Bobby will be appearing at a GOP love fest of some kind there, instead of spending the day here.
NOV 26 This post on The Lens takes a look at the ongoing dispute in New Orleans over the banners about the upcoming tax election for the school system. The banners are hanging on schools, and some feel they are promotional, which is not allowed, instead of educational - which is allowed.
NOV 26 Not all college students are focused on football games and parties at this time of year. This post on DIG Baton Rouge recounts an LSU student group that tries to make sure that those who are hungry and homeless are not forgotten by those of us who aren't.
NOV 25 Edwin Edwards took off the gloves on Monday, this post on WAFB tells us. At a Press Club appearance, he wondered how his 6th Congressional District opponent, Garret Graves, could be an expert in all the areas in which he claims to be - when he has no college degree in anything. (Five years - FIVE YEARS - in college, but no degree. Huh?)
NOV 25 Blogger Mike Deshotels offers this primer on predatory charter schools and how they operate, specifically in Louisiana. They're not just profiting from our tax dollars, they're using children and shortchanging them to do so, Deshotels says.
NOV 25 Here's a link to the petition that has been created to save Zeus, a family dog who is targeted for death by the learned fathers of the Avoyelles Parish village of Moreauville. They passed an ordinance based on nothing that outlaws pit bulls and Rotweillers. As of Tuesday morning, the petition had more than 230,000 signatures - a number that's a wee bit higher than the village population of 929.