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Style: TKD, judo, MT noob--
so to everyone who says that this country needs muay thai or sanda or just regular kickboxing, i like to point to the kickboxing matches they still play on ESPN 2/classic. they are AWFUL, just the worst example of two people fighting for points and not the knockout. i really think that is the reason that more complete striking competitions have not made a comeback in the US. I personally like the WCL (though in the beginning it was a little light on talent), and think something like it but slightly less cheesy in production value would be great, but i dont see it happening for another few years until people forget the days of chuch norris and bill wallace
--Originally Posted by MaxThunderstone
I think as far as the record thing goes, you do see some mis-matches early in people's careers - and there are a lot of MMA people who try it about 3 times and change their mind about it being for them. Anybody with less then about 3 fights vs anybody else with <3 fights is going to be a coinflip most of the time.
That's NOTHING like the grooming that goes on in boxing. The careful padding of records in boxing is pretty obvious.There's no choice but to confront you, to engage you, to erase you. I've gone to great lengths to expand my threshold of pain. I will use my mistakes against you. There's no other choice.
This article does undermine several of the problems with modern boxing:
The insistence on having an undefeated record and the mindset that one loss will forever tarnish a fighter.
The lack of any real, modern marquee crossover stars, with maybe the exception of Mayweather (which will be touched on more below).
The loss of watching a solid fight on free TV, a major fight on Pay Cable and an Earthshaker on PPV, all the major fights are on PPV.
The weak undercards on most big ticket fights, shown on PPV which won't soften the blow of the first round blowout.
The governing bodies run the promotions and has led to underhanded dealmaking and has led to the dilution of championship and weak champions. Decent champions can and will go a year or more between title defenses.
MMA's PPV cards are overall stronger then modern boxing and features several high quality fights and will show solid cards of free TV.
With a pretty much clockwork like schedule of PPVs, MMA's major competition will come from pro-wrestling, which also has monthly PPV shows, designed to give the fans a feeling of coming away with a sense of fulfillment from dollar spent.
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--What's your exposure to the sport? I don't know very many people who make it into an MMA match with no training, unless they lie about it.
As for my exposure, I'm a jiujitsu instructor and have taught MMA before. Also got a fight.
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Sacred Duty
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It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a UFO, it's Superman or…it's an indication of humanity's mystical imagination, so contends author and professor Dr. Jeff Kripal. In his new book Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics and the Paranormal Rice University's religion chair Prof. Kripal surveys comic books, horror, the paranormal, film and popular […] [Read More]

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What's New with Ariba?
6/12/15 Failed Receipts - there was a glitch on 5/28/15 and I am still posting receipts from that day. Any failed receipt after that date has not been posted yet. I manually post them in the order they fail. I'll update this page as I post the receipts until I get caught up. To know if a failed receipt has been manually posted, look for a reply in the comments to the failure comment. I will indicate I manually posted the receipt or it eventally posted on its own in SAP.
6/12/15 Receipts in Submitted status and waiting on P_Manual Supplier Team, we are working to catch up the processing these receipts. We are around the beginning of June.
4/17/15 RESOLVED: Receipt failures - Procurement Services is working to post all failed receipts since 10/6/14. We have posted all back receipts. We are keeping up and posting any failed receipt the next day. There are a few in there with issues. Check the failure notification on the receipt, we are replying with a message when the receipt is posted in SAP.
4/17/15 RESOLVED: A user notified the helpdesk of an issue with receiving less than a whole number, such as 4.75. The ability to receipt less than a whole number is by unit of measure. Hours is now in the list as acceptable. Contact the P2P Heldpesk if this errors happens.
2/3/15 FAQ: Q: I need to get the reconciler role added for Rhonda Reconciler for org unit 00438. She has the role already but not for our org unit, how do I do that?
A: The instructions are in the Attribute Request – Manager Self Services – Invoice Reconciler – Ariba QRC on business@purdue website under Procurement->Ariba.
2/3/15 REMINDER: Do NOT refer Invoice Reconciliation Exceptions to anyone. It just increases the number of approvals needed and no value. The refer box appears when all exceptions are not cleared or accepted and the Invoice Reconciler or Level 1 Fiscal Approver is trying to submit the IR document. All exceptions must be cleared or accepted before the IR document may be submitted. Check the status on each line item with an exception. If the status field is blank, the exception has not been cleared or accepted.
11/19/14 REMINDER: ERP PUSH FAILED emails on receipts are worked on by Procurement Services staff. No action is needed by receivers. Receivers may stop Ariba from sending emails by changing their email notification preferences. A QRC is posted on the business@purdue website under Procurement->Ariba. Edit Receipt Email Notification Preferences for Receivers in Ariba QRC.
1/16/15 RESOLVED: We have had an increase in the volume of failures in the past month. IT is currently working on yearly upgrades to SAP and Ariba, so they will investigates the increase in failures late December/early January.
11/19/14 REMINDER: Do NOT refer Invoice Reconciliation Exceptions to anyone. It just increases the number of approvals needed and no value. b@p news article coming out Thursday 3/27/14. It's best not to add anyone in the approval flow of the exception. The refer box usually appears when not all exceptions are cleared or accepted and the Invoice Reconciler or Level 1 Fiscal Approver is trying to submit the IR document. All exceptions must be cleared or accepted before the IR document may be submitted.
9/17/14 Issue reported that the commitment for 2 lines was not resolved when the receipt contained both a quantity on some lines and zero quantity for other lines and the close order was marked yes in Ariba. Please send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com with the PO number and description of commitment not relieved with receipt closed. Procurement Services has a manual work around to relieve the commitment until a fix is implemented.
9/17/14 If a receiver is trying to process a receipt and the error "On behalf of is deleted" appears, this means the requester is no longer active in Ariba. Contact the Procure-to-Pay Helpdesk email@example.com or by phone 765-49-47279 and we will activate the user for the day.
7/14/14 Error message on requisitions: "Value type 51 in grant 205395 is blocked for posting." means the grant is not open. Either use another account assignment or contact SPS to determine why grant is not open. This error message appears at the bottom of the email for the EP Push Failure and also in the comments on the requisition in Ariba. The status of the requisition will b composing.
7/14/14 - RESOLVED: Issue will receipts not posting in SAP beginning 6 pm 7/11/14. No action is required by Ariba receivers or business office. There may be an increase in the number of lines on the blocked invoice report.
6/24/14 - Receipt issue when lines 11 and higher do not post in SAP has been resolved as of 6/20/14. There is a batp news article published on 6/24/14.
6/5/14 - There is an issue with incorrect account assignment on some invoices that cause the invoice to go to paying failed status. Accounts Payable Team is handling these manually and posting in SAP. The status in Ariba will be "paid", once they have posted the invoice in SAP.
4/29/14 RESOLVED. UPDATE: We posted receipts where the invoice posted date is through 4/21/14. 4/25/14 UPDATE: We have posted receipts where the invoice posted date is through 4/2/14. If your invoice posted date is after 4/2/14, we are posting receipts in the order of the invoice posting date. 4/21/14 - There are several invoices on the SAP Blocked Invoice Report and the GR/IR Report due to the receipt not passing from Ariba to SAP. Procurement is working to post those receipts in SAP as soon as possible. The receipt in Ariba would be dated 4/1/14. I will post an update as the receipts are completed.
4/10/14 The vendor naming standards (abbreviations) that were used when SRM went live back in 2007 are located here. The abbreviations have not been followed completely. When searching for a vendor make sure to search using these abbreviations and without abbreviations. When the clean up of the abbreviations is complete an announcement will be made.
4/7/14 Work has begun on creating the Invoice Reconciler Role. This role will allow users that are not Level 1 Fiscal Approvers the ability to reconcile exceptions prior to being approved by the Level 1 Fiscal Approvers. Work has also begun allowing requesters to use the Amount feature in Split Accounting.
4/3/14 - We've had some Ariba PO's that are appear on the GR/IR report with a quantity issue The GR quantity is 1 and the IR quantity is just under 1 (like .998). If there is a PO on your report like this with a posting date more than a week old, please send an email to the Procure-to-Pay Helpdesk with the PO number and GR/IR quantity issue.
4/2/14 - UPDATE: All receipts have been manually posted in SAP. 4/1/14 - Posting period 2014/10 was not opened as scheduled last night, so all receipts processed today failed to pass to SAP. An email to receivers indicated an ERP PUSH FAILURE. There is no action needed by receivers, Procurement Services is following up on all receipt and verifying they do post in SAP today.
3/28/14 - If a receipt is processed with a ZERO quantity, the P_Manual Supplier Team is added to the approval flow. They will cancel the PO in SAP, if the close order is YES and put a note on the receipt. Make sure if you are processing a receipt and want to receive the items, that the accepted field is completed with the appropriate quantity to be received.
3/26/14 - Open PO report in SAP - If a PO number is on the report, but not found in Ariba; contact the Procure-to-Pay Helpdesk by email firstname.lastname@example.com or by phone 765-49-47279.
3/25/14 - Do not REFER Invoice Reconciliation Exceptions to anyone. It just increases the number of approvals needed and no value. b@p news article coming out Thursday 3/27/14. It's best not to add anyone in the approval flow of the exception. The refer box usually appears when not all exceptions are cleared or accepted and the Level 1 Fiscal Approver is trying to submit the IR document. All exceptions must be cleared or accepted before the IR document may be submitted.
3/25/14 Several questions about Invoices being blocked in SAP, even after exception approved in Ariba. SAP still has the same blocking rules as with SRM PO's. We have not turned that feature off. Accounts Payable is manually clearing these invoices on a weekly basis. Contact Maura Kennedy for more information.
3/25/14 Several questions about Ariba PO's being on the GR/IR report even if the exception was approved in Ariba. The same rules apply to the GR/IR report as with SRM PO's. Accounts Payable is manually clearing these on a weekly basis. Contact Maura Kennedy for more information.
3/24/14 ERP PUSH FAILED emails on receipts are worked on by Procurement Services staff. No action is needed by receivers. Receivers may stop Ariba from sending emails by changing their email notification preferences. A QRC to be posted soon on the business@purdue website under Procurement->Ariba.
3/18/14 - RESOLVED: Removed accounting information from the network PO forms.
2/20/14 RESOLVED: Restricted split accounting to a single decimal place to avoid failures to SAP. If you try and use more than one decimal place the requester will receive an ERP PUSH FAILED email and will need to make the change and resubmit the requisition.
2/20/14 RESOLVED: Work Order and Assets file transferring newly created accounts hourly to Ariba. Any account closures are still happening overnight.
2/4/14 UPDATE: The requisition line limit was increased to 100 lines per requisition per vendor. 11/13/13 UPDATE: The 20 line limit went in place to help reduce the stress on SAP. The number of these "Stuck PR's" has decrease and the P2P Helpdesk is contacting the requester if this happens now. 10/31/13 If there is a PR in ordering status and no PO# is listed on the orders tab, a new requisition will need to be created. Larger line PR's are one type of PR where this issue is occurring . If possible limit the number of lines to less than 20 to reduce the possibility of not getting a PO# in Ariba. 10/29/13 The supplier search screen currently only lists the supplier name. Testing is taking place to add additional fields to help identify locations easier.
12/6/14 UPDATE: Account assignment is back on the requisition form. 11/21/13 UPDATE: Ariba is working on getting the account assignment back on the requisition form. Once the solution is in our TEST system, it will need to be tested prior to moving to production. Hoping by next week we will have the solution in TEST.
11/11/13 WORKAROUND The P_Manual Supplier Team is added to the approval flow of receipts to manually process a cancel in SAP. Ariba has opened a enhancement request to investigate. 10/25/13 When closing a PO with a zero quantity, the transaction is not currently going to SAP to relieve the commitment.
10/28/13 University Stores reservations in ordering status will still go to Stores to be filled. Not being marked ordered does not delay the receipt of the reservation. Procurement Services is working to mark the reservations ordered.
10/21/13 Firefox version 24 is currently not compatible with Ariba. When users have changed to version 17, they are able to use Firefox.
10/18/13 RESOLVED in February, however if the invoice was submitted earlier than the issue will still appear. Level 1 Fiscal Approvers may need to select a remit to address when approving an invoice reconciliation exception. Please send an email to email@example.com with the vendor name and an explanation that you needed to manually select the remit to. Procurement Services will work with the vendor to correct for future invoices.
10/17/13 Requisitions cannot have any $0 line items. PO's can't be created in SAP with $0 line items. This is part the Ariba Deferred Project beginning soon.
10/16/13 For help to reduce the number of emails coming from Ariba, please view the Edit Email Notifications in Ariba QRC.


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This is Government on Crack
Go ahead and tell yourself it can't happen here if it makes you feel better.
Yeah, I didn't think it would:
During the period that Labour has been in office, mass immigration has simply changed the face of Britain. The total number of immigrants since 1997 is pushing three million.
Ministers claim that immigration policy has been driven principally to help the economy. They have always denied that they actually set out deliberately to change the ethnic composition of the country.
Well, now we know for a certainty that this is not true. The Government embarked on a policy of mass immigration to change Britain into a multicultural society – and they kept this momentous aim secret from the people whose votes they sought.
Worse still, they did this knowing that it ran directly counter to the wishes of those voters, whose concerns about immigration they dismissed as racist; and they further concealed official warnings that large-scale immigration would bring about significant increases in crime.
The truth about this scandal was first blurted out last October by Andrew Neather, a former Labour Party speechwriter.
The 'driving political purpose' of this policy, wrote Neather, was 'to make the UK truly multicultural' – and one subsidiary motivation was 'to rub the Right's nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date'.
It was done in the full knowledge that the people actually wanted immigration reduced.
And we also discover that those who expressed such concerns were dismissed with utter contempt as racists….
Can you believe that? A government set out with the deliberate intention of changing the culture of its country, covered up its intention, lied repeatedly, and accused anyone who opposed it of the most heinous hate crime imaginable.
Well, I can believe it.
It can't happen here? Yeah, right. (Via Five Feet of Fury)


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July 30 2015 Latest news:
Matthew Symington
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Parents could be fined up to £120 if their child misses just one session of school, if tough new anti-truancy rules are introduced by Suffolk County Council.
Proposals put before the local authority's cabinet suggest an overhaul of the current Penalty Notice Code of Conduct – which some head teachers described as no longer "fit for purpose".
Currently children have to miss 10 unauthorised sessions before being referred to the local authority, at which point parents are sent a letter of warning. If the pupil has a further unauthorised absence a fine will be imposed.
But these rules are described as out of date and no longer effective in a paper prepared for the council's cabinet.
Council officers now want permission to issue an immediate fine of £60 per parent upon receiving a referral from a school informing them of an unauthorised absence.
Further unauthorised absences would be subject to the Education Welfare Service or, in the case of academies, referred directly for prosecution.
The council also said it was "not acceptable" that 229 schools didn't use the current Penalty Notice Code of Conduct.
The proposed change was in response to the requests of schools, according to the council report.
Last night Howard Lay, head teacher of Samuel Ward Academy, said he was fully in favour of the proposal.
"It might sound punitive but I believe the more children miss school the more they miss out on achieving good grades which helps them in the future, and the more detrimental that will be to them," he said.
"Schools generally do a really effective job at improving a young person's capability in many areas, not just academic but vocational skills. For a child to miss out on that is potentially catastrophic.
"You look around the world at many countries where parents and pupils will do quite significant things to access education. Pupils walk miles and miles. In Britain it's free."
He added: "The more power the LA has to ensure that pupils are in school and not disengaging the better."
However the secretary of the National Union of Teachers in Suffolk said fines weren't the way forward.
Graham White added: "I don't think that fining parents for taking their children out of school is going to have any impact at all.
"One of the reasons parents take their children out of school is holidays because it's more expensive to take them away during the school break. But the savings that they make from doing that are greater than the fine.
"For me I don't think it's the right way forward, we need to educate parents and make the educational arguments about why children should be in school."
Councillor Lisa Chambers, Suffolk County Council's cabinet member for education and skills, said: "As a busy parent myself, I know that it can sometimes seem necessary or desirable to take your child out of school.
"We have an excellent education welfare service in Suffolk and our staff work hard with police to educate parents about the need to ensure their children are in school.
But sometimes tough action is needed to enforce the point that a child's education must always come first.
"If parents, teachers and head teachers combine their efforts in discourage truancy, educational standards in Suffolk will improve."
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T Doff.... Not sure why you think losing pay is a sufficient penalty for going on strike. Don't know anyone to get paid for not turning up for work. The issue here is that when teachers don't work then pupils don't get lessons. If introducing fines for parents is to stop children missing lessons then surely someone else needs to be fined if they can't go to school because the school isn't open.
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Why is there never any common sense applied to these situations. Yes excessive leave should have punnishments. However surely holidays, have there benefits. Children can learn so much on holidays be it in the uk or abroad. Geography, history, foreign languages. Only so much can be learnt in a classroom. I left school a few years ago now but despite what may be popular belief I have learnt a lot outside of school. I must also assess that those proposing this fine increase have no issues in financing there summer breaks. I can hear the argument for oh it will effecy there qualifications brewing. Just ask Richard Branson or Alan Sugar if qualifications are required to succeed in life.
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
And if the child "feels unwell" and doesn't want to go to school, and is biggerstronger than the parent what can the parent do? I recall one example when mother drove her child to school and the daughter refused to get out. I think I would have entered the school explained the situation and asked them what I should do? A fine is not necessarily the answer, especially if for whatever reason the family are unable to pay.
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Malcolm's mate. I am a tax payer who resents my tax being wasted on providing education for people too selfish and arrogant to bring their children up properly. There are far too many children & their parents wandering gormlessly around Ipswich shops on school days
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Sudders you do not know what you are talking about. As a teacher I can tell you that all schools are obliged to run 5 training days a year - this is to keep up-to-date with latest teaching practice, etc. I can also assure you that the majority of teachers would rather not have to do these and would much rather be in the classroom teaching their students. I hate PD days. However I also resent your comment about the 6 week holiday - the majority of teachers I know, myself included, work several hours each evening, and many more on top of that each weekend. In fact I work 4 days a week officially but actually work about 60 hours. My husband is also a teacher - we spend our evenings not communicating because we are both so busy working. Therefore those of us who sacrifice their much of their family life for work, really need their holiday - and many of us will spend a sizeable chunk of that holiday preparing for the next academic year. In fact this summer my treat will be to rewrite all schemes of work for Key Stage 3 to take into account all of the curriculum changes the government is bringing in. You also need to realise that the majority of teachers also do not believe that parents should be fined. Finally amsterdam81 teachers generally don't take unauthorised days off - you have to set cover lessons (which at 6am is a miserable affair) and then have to deal with the fallout when you return to work - it's easier just to go into work! I realise that some teachers are lazy but the majority of us are not and do not deserve to be tarred with the same brush!!!
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
@Malcolms(sic) mate: it looks as if you took far too many days off school yourself. You might have been able to write better English if you hadn't.
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Correction School holidays
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
As a tax payer shortly I am entitled to decide when I want a holiday with a family. Not every employer can give schools to there staff. I take it that the idiots who make the rules up are all single people .
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
A better idea.... why not just tag all the children so that their location can be monitored 247... make Big Brother's job even easier. You could also take the fines directly from salary or benefit payments - who cares if the parents won't be able to afford to feed them when they do get home from school, so long as those boxes are ticked and those fines are collected...
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
@ T Doff I think he was referring to the numerous 'training days' that teachers delight in taking on a Friday at regular intervals. Why they cannot fit the training into the 6 week summer holidays has yet to be satisfactorily explained.
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
all of a sudden children will be ill for a week. Unless they are going round to houses to check on the sick of course!
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
@amsterdam81 - If teachers go on strike, their pay is docked i.e. they are fined. Other than sickness, I'm not sure what other "unauthorised days off" may be. If they are not bona fide, then a teacher stands to lose his or her job; in common with practice in other public and private sector employment.
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Could this just be revenue raisng Scheme for local Government in these times of Austerity ??
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Couldn't possibly be a just an easy "revenue raising" scheme for local Authority in these times of "austerity" could it... Easy Taget really...
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
oh for goodnes sake, never has the addage about giving a little man a little power been more ture than when it comes to looking at these people. Of course if there is a problem with a child's attendance action should be taken, perhaps including a fine. But a fine for a single day off ? The press are full of examples where heavy handed jobsworths try to stop children attending family funerals etc. If the headmaster feels attendance is becoming a problem then sure, refer the parents to the local authority, but give the professional the judgement call, not mandate a number of days or the criteria for granting leave.
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Parents !, just remember these types of 'laws' in May 2015 ! and which party brought them in !
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
How about introducing fines for teachers who take unauthorised days off?
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
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VAN METER — Friday night's game between Class 1A second-ranked Mount Ayr and eighth-ranked Van Meter was one of just four matchups statewide pitting unbeatens against one another.
The Bulldogs came out of the matchup unscathed, as Mount Ayr was its own worst enemy in a 14-0 loss.
The Raiders drop to 5-1 for the season and 2-1 in Class 1A District 7, while Van Meter takes control of the district title race at 6-0 overall and 4-0 in district play. Ogden is also 2-1 in the district, while Pella Christian currently occupies the fourth spot at 1-1 in district play.
Mount Ayr co-head coach Delwyn Showalter said one of the keys for his team going into the game would be cutting down on its number of penalties, especially when going up against a tough opponent like Van Meter.
The Raiders did just that, committing just three penalties for 22 yards. But, the Raiders turned the ball over five times.
Both Van Meter touchdowns came off of Mount Ayr turnovers.
"That's probably the beginning and the end of the story right there," Showalter said. "I don't know that we ever had a chance to really get going offensively, just because the turnovers never let us get on track."
Mount Ayr's initial drive started at its own 1-yard line, and the Raiders quickly moved the ball to the 42, before a false start turned second and four into second and nine, stalling the drive out.
The Raiders forced a Van Meter punt, and were driving down the field again early in the second quarter, when a Jacob Sobotka fumble was hopped on by Van Meter at midfield.
On the ninth play of the ensuing Bulldog drive, quarterback Brandon Brittain connected with Grant Hoppes for a 15-yard touchdown on third and 11, putting the Bulldogs up 7-0 with 4:42 left in the first half.
With :34 seconds left in the first half, junior Lincoln Martin fielded the punt deep in his own territory and returned the ball, but fumbled it at the 22-yard line, where Van Meter once again hopped on the ball.
After Mount Ayr was flagged for pass interference on the first play, Brittain found Logan Crawford for an 11-yard score with :11 left in the half, to make it 14-0.
"The one right before the half, I'm kicking myself for that one," Showalter said. "I'm thinking, well it's a slick ball and a wet field, and maybe the punter's going to mishandle the snap, but the ball was just as slick for us, so we give it right back to them down there. If we don't give them that one, then we're coming down here at the end looking for the tying score, and who know what happens then."
Showalter was referring to Mount Ayr's best scoring chance on the final drive of the game, when the Raiders marched from their own 19-yard line down to the Van Meter 13-yard line before time ran out.
"Two scores up is always better than one score up," Van Meter head coach Eric Trudo said. "We were trying to get that third one in the second half, but they're a good football team. No doubt about it. Well-coached, great players. But that (touchdown) certainly made a huge difference that we were able to capitalize on that turnover."
Mirror image
This year's game was almost a mirror-image of last year's game, in that Brittain finished with the exact same number of passing yards (136) and nearly the same number of rushing yards with 51, compared to 54 last year.
The difference this time around was that it was Mount Ayr turning the ball over five times, whereas Van Meter committed five turnovers last year.
The Raiders also racked up 352 rushing yards in the 25-13 win last year, but managed just 77 rushing yards Friday — the team's fewest in a game since picking up just 61 yards against Council Bluffs St. Albert last year in the state quarterfinals.
Sobotka finished the game 20-of-31 passing for 156 yards with two interceptions. Kyle Dolecheck caught eight passes for 63 yards, while Erik Freed added six for 38 yards and Lincoln Martin caught five passes for 52 yards.
Freed led the team in rushing with nine carries for 46 yards. Cody Stackhouse ran the ball four times for 22 yards. Sobotka was held to just eight rushing yards on nine carries.
On the other hand, Van Meter finished with just 90 rushing yards last year, but picked up 134 rushing yards on Friday, led by Cody Blackwell's 73 yards.
"They're a good offense. It's certainly the best offense we've gone against this year," Showalter said. "I think at the beginning of the game, we were probably overly concerned with their quarterback's ability to run the ball and we weren't quite getting enough of a pass rush on him. I thought in the middle of the second quarter, we got a little better at getting pressure, and then I thought we did a much better job after that."
Moving forward
Mount Ayr now sets its sights on a rivalry game at Central Decatur on Friday, in a game of great importance for Central Decatur's playoff hopes.
"We've said every week our opponent is ourselves, and we need to make sure we are getting better," Showalter said. "I don't know that we got better this week. Regardless of what the scoreboard said, we didn't accomplish what we needed to do, so we need to make sure we learned from what happened tonight.
"We've got a tough one, a rivalry game coming up next week with Central Decatur," he continued. "And our focus has got to be on that."
Van Meter 14, Mount Ayr 0
2nd quarter
VM — Grant Hoppes 15 pass from Brandon Brittain (Bryce Godwin kick), 4:42
VM — Logan Crawford 11 pass from Brittain (Godwin kick), :11
Individual leaders
Rushing: MA - Erik Freed 9-44, Cody Stackhouse 4-22, Jacob Sobotka 9-8, Grant Staats 3-3, Riley Weehler 1-2. VM - Cody Blackwell 16-73, Brandon Brittain 19-54, Grant Gordon 1-7.
Passing: MA - Jacob Sobotka 20-31-2 for 156 yards. VM - Brandon Brittain 12-19-1 for 136 yards.
Receiving: MA - Kyle Dolecheck 8-63, Erik Freed 6-38, Lincoln Martin 5-52, Cody Stackhouse 1-3. VM - Logan Crawford 4-51, Cody Blackwell 2-21, Grant Hoppes 2-23, Jake Koch 2-7, Ben Flaherty 1-38.
Tackles (solo-assists): MA - Riley Weehler (6-4), Cody Stackhouse (2-8), Mason Mercer (1-8), Caleb Schnoor (1-6), Jacob Taylor (5-1), Jacob Sobotka (2-3), Tucker Winemiller (2-3), Joe Ricker (1-4), Kyle Dolecheck (2-2), Jed McCreary (1-3), Lincoln Martin (1-1), Jake Ricker (1-1).
Interceptions: MA - Jacob Sobotka 1.


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Agree that it's a good poll question but it raises another question. What were those teams missing? It certainly wasn't the fans. That's why the whining about todays lack of attendance is such a joke. What did those 455 sellouts net the fans? Nothing! Not one championship.
I think Cleveland sports fans have simply evolved to a level where they don' t get too excited anymore. Certainly not about a baseball franchise that happens to find itself in contention every five years or so. We consider the "good old days" to be the Browns of the late 1980s or the Indians of the late 1990s or the LeBron Cavaliers. Each one of those teams left us with our hearts torn out. NONE of those teams one ANYTHING and yet we shower them with platitudes of greatness.
Really it's remarkable that fans show up at any of the games at all after what we've been through since 1964. It's a testament to the fact that Cleveland IS a good sports town. Every year we are Charlie Brown hoping that Lucy is going to let us kick that football. Oh well, maybe next year.
Exactly!!!! Has anyone told Manny, or any of those who question why attendance is low at the stadium, that the games are all TELEVISED? Why would ANYONE in their right mind go to Jacobs Field when they can sit at home and watch close up views WITH REPLAYS OF CLOSE PLAYS AND BALLS AND STRIKES?
There may someday be a long, intense playoff system in Div I College footbal but don't expect the NFL draft quality players to participate. They're simply NOT going to lay their futures on the line so that you morons can have something to lay on your couch and watch.
Cliff Lee WAS sent down in 2007 but that's NOT what straightened him out. In the off-season he hired his own personal pitching coach who realigned his mechanics. The following season was his Cy Young year. When Lee left he had no use for the coaching staff or the fans who booed him mercilessly in 2007.
I'm going tonite but last night was too cold. That being said I would like to point out that the Indians have created a product that is best viewed at home. Since they refuse to show replays on the big board, home is the place to be. And for those who wonder what has changed since the sell-out string, remember that most home games were NOT televised back then.,
Actually, according to the rules of this ranking, Brian Sipe should be #1. He was taken in the 13th round (!) and ended up being an NFL MVP. Talk about the economy of a pick...
Hey ReadyforH&Htogonow and randyosu, there's only two things you guys need. The first, is a clue. Second, is a life. Neither one of you has the slightest idea what you are talikng about.
Interestingly enough, Damon is in good shape because he has been on teams with good conditioning programs. If nothing else he can show the Tribe players how to prepare for a game and avoid those nasty pulled muscles that plague most Indian players.
The price of taking the family to the ballpark has always been high. Adjust todays pricing by inflation and then try to figure out how our parents were able to take us when they were working for $2/hr.
What has really changed the dynamic is Television. Not only are ALL the games televised but the at home experience has surpassed that of actually "being there". Baseball at home (with Big Screen and DVR) is much more enjoyable than sitting in the upper deck at the Jake especially when one realizes that MLB will not allow instant replays on close plays to be shown on the scoreboard.
Also, when comparing home Indians home attendance figures to the sellouts of the 1990s remember that home games were NOT televised back then.
McCoys antics? Speaking to high school kids about faith and sports is "antics"?
The fact is that no manager knows whether or not a reliever is going to have his "stuff" when he is called out of the bullpen. It was clear from the first pitch that Perez did NOT have his stuff. Isn't there a buulpen coach who could have let Acta know that Perez wasn't ready?
To pull a starter after only 99 pitches so that the ball can be handed to a closer who hasn't really pitched all Spring is really rolling the dice. For Manny Acta the roll came up snake-eyes.
As Mike Hargrove once snapped at a reporter when asked why he put in his closer to pitch the ninth when the opponent had shown NO sign of being able to solve the previos pitcher, "Because he's the closer!".
It's called managing by the book. It's also called intellectual laziness.
It seems obvious that these professional athletes do not have the slightest clue how to prepare their bodies for physical competition. Is it time to fire the training staff and hire some professionals in this department?
"No fans would have jumped ship ..." Oh yea? Well here's one.
Bud, I love your writing but you allowed yourself to get caught up in the RG3 hype that St.Louis did such a great job of drumming up. Of course, you're not alone. Many fans (short for fanatic) followed your lead.
Obviously none of these "fans" have ever heard of Ryan leaf, Akili Smith, Jamarcus Russel etc. Every year there is a "QB of the decade". This time last year no one had ever heard of RG3. I'm wondering who next years RG3 will be.
Although H&H have to contend that they were serious in their trade offers, I offer that the whole thing was a ruse orchestrated by St. Louis (Shurmers old team) to bilk Washington out of their entire draft future. Look for some "trade considerations" to come the Browns way from the grateful people of St.Louis.
H&H aren't going anywhere, Ready4h&h2goNOW. And RG3 wasn't worth the number 4 pick let alone a whole bushel of #1 picks.
Sorry Dennis but you're wrong again. You might want to check out that flushing sound. It might just be your credibility circling the drain.
tribe37, I know of no Colt McCoy fan who thinks he's the "second coming". They do, however, see something in him that you are not capable of. They see in him the capability to be a Drew Breese or a Brian Sipe.
To say that sticking with Colt McCoy guarantees another 4-12 season is a moronic statement.
twinsdays, climb out of your hole and find a clue. Terry is responding to the emails he gets and the sports talkshows who have been pounding the Manning drum since yesterday.


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Sign Painters is about the people, practices and art of sign painting and hand lettering. The book is comprised of transcribed interviews and images Faythe Levine and Sam Macon collected over two years of filming with working sign painters across America. The conversations, ruminations and thoughts expressed by these working sign painters communicate the history, the current state, and the future of this oft overlooked trade. Though the book will be a great read for the sign painting community, the book is more directed at your average aesthetically minded citizen. Anyone interested in art, design, public space, community, etc. should find this book of value. Sign painting occupies an interesting cross section of art and commerce, design and utility, artistry and labor, and this book tells this unique story.
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Since graduating from High School Faythe Levine hasn t stopped working on project after project. Her interest in outsider communities, artists and the stories and people whom often get overlooked have propelled her to travel extensively. The constant in Faythe s 20 years of creative work is her dedication to documenting her day to day life and travels through photographs and correspondence (once handwritten letters, now more commonly through social networking sites). This dedication has allowed her creative community to have an international reach full of a variety of both famous and infamous people of all types. Sam Macon is a filmmaker. He directs television commercials, music videos, short form documentaries and Web based video content through production company Radar Studios. He also helms commercial projects in Paris through Cosa Productions and in Moscow with Bazaleves Films. He is currently working on the feature length documentary Sign Painters. In addition to directing, Sam has taught video production at the Chicago Portfolio School and has been a guest lecturer at DePaul University and Syracuse University.
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"Every now and again, a book comes my way on a topic that is utterly and completely unexpected. Faythe Levine and Sam Macon's Sign Painters is the sort of artistic celebration that should be commonplace on the shelves.this is graphic design at its best; these signs command attention, enliven the landscape, and bring customers in... good stuff, and damned inspiring." -- Bookslut
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ANNOTATED TABLE OF CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Foreword: artist Ed Rucsha (former sign painter)--to be confirmed; Preface: authors Faythe Levine and Sam Macon; Introduction: Glenn Adamson, deputy head of research and head of graduate studies at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V 1. Rey Guise; 2. Steve Powers; 3. Caitlyn Galloway; 4. Justin Green; 5. Bob Dewherst; 6. Ira Coyne; 7. Sean Barton; 8. Jeff Canham; 9. Ernie Gosnell; 10. Norma Jeanne Maloney; 11. Keith Knecht; 12. Colossal Media; 13. Mark Oatis; 14. Rose Oatis; 15. Ralph "Doc" Guthrie // LA Trade Tech; 16. Nick Barber; 17. Gary Martin; 18. Bob Behounek; 19. Mike Myer; 20. John Downer; 21. Forrest Wozniak; 22. Phil Vandervaart; 23. Steve Powers; 24. Josh Luke; 25. Damon Styer; 26. Sean Starr; Illustrated Glossary reprinted from Wagner School of Sign Arts; Contributor Biographies: Faythe Levine, Sam Macon, Josh Luke, Ira Coyne, Travis Auclair; Resource Index.


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SROI is the most reliable tool for either developing a business case for funding for an initiative, or for evaluating the success of existing innovations, projects and services.
SROI is a special form of Benefits Management. It stands on the shoulders of evaluation frameworks that have gone before, so it recognises Cost/ Benefit analysis, and extends this to cover the cost/benefit of outcomes that may not have a direct financial benefit - it assigns a financial equivalent.
I've compared all of the different evaluation methods in the pages that follow - but read about SROI here!
The problem with the IS/IT investment is that people often don't think about the benefits - "of course we need it". Ward and Daniel illustrate this from a survey reported in 2003 (Lambert and Edwards – also at Cranfield University) as follows:
· 55% of respondents think that an appraisal of the IS investment is important
· Only 22% have a process to perform this appraisal
· Only 10% consider the implications of business change from their IS investment
During the last government and the Thatcher one that preceded it, government did its best to take as much government spend off balance sheet (ie so it wouldn't show) through a series of Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and Public Private Partnership (PPP) deals. Yes we know that we, and our children, and our children's children will be paying the bills for decades.
Always a delight to hear Steve Jenner (CIO for the Criminal Justice Department, and advisor to the Cabinet Office of UK Government) speak, but I've heard him a number of times and I was afraid there would be nothing new. I was surprised and pleased!
Nobody actually realises benefits
Which is better - private funding or public? Which gives a better outcome for the individual (* clinical outcome, * user experience, * cost-effective, * sustainable) and is there a clear picture?
One way to examine this question is to look at different countries in the world and see what works for them. I tackle this in the latest blog on Technorati.
Earned Value Management is not a new concept -- it's been around, but often not properly implemented, since the 1950s.
But what actually is it?
Earned Value Management (EVM) is a combination of continually realising benefits and performance managing a project.
In the run-up to the general election, all the political parties trying to win your vote using the NHS card. They make all these wild promises, but what is going on behind the scenes? Labour -- Gordon Brown's health team is promising something for everyone: the public can have whatever they want
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So you want the opportunities to find you. You want to promote your business without putting any effort in - or at least you want some business coming to you instead of chasing it all the time. You may be fed up witll filling in Pre-Qualification Questionnaires (PQQ) and never getting selected, or a scatter gun approach to responding to tenders.
I spoke with an experienced Project and Programme Manager today, and it reminded me just how far apart P3M (Portfolio, Programme and Project Management) and Benefits Management are.
Bringing jobs to the North East, to the English Regions, to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, is going to take a bit of imagination. Our focus needs to be on infrastructure, on creating links with the rest of the world and on demonstrating that the United Kingdom is, in fact, United.
This can be done with Infrastructure - high speed rail links linking not the cities, but the airports. So a commercial traveler passing through can stop in two airports (one for arrival, another for departure) and talk to two lots of suppliers or importers, and the jobs will follow those conversations.
An app on my smartphone shows the way.
The public sector in UK will spend £730.4 billion[1] over 12 months 2013/14. A bit of digging suggests that around 37% goes to the independent sector[2]. That's £270,248million (£270billion) paid to independent companies – commercial organisations and voluntary/ community sector and charities – to provide goods, works and services.
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I was called in to do a SROI (Social Return on Investment) report on the National Specialist Family Service at a very difficult time – they had almost no referrals.
For a Social Return on Investment (SROI) analysis, the auditor has to do primary research. This means that it's the beneficiary (or victim), the Social Workers themselves, who confirm how much benefit or return on investment that they get. It isn't someone else "answering" on their behalf.
Social Return on Investment, or SROI, asks beneficiaries to put a value on the benefits to themselves. In traditional Cost Benefit Analysis, the project manager decides on the value and who it accrues to, and this has led to a certain amount of optimism bias in business cases and a general avoidance of independent evaluation. So SROI figures are not only more conservative/ cautious, but also endorsed by the beneficiary who will ultimately have to demonstrate that they have gained that value. It all starts with identifying the main beneficiaries.
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No free passes on quit jobs with boxing fans. Vitali quit with a torn rotator cuff, and still gets ripped for it to this day. I've never torn my rotator cuff, but from what I understand it's a potentially career-threatening injury. Vitali chose to fight another day rather than risk severe injury, and he still gets ripped.
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When we first heard of BF4, we all wondered at first what was going to be new? To start off, BF4 is going to be run off of the new Frostbite 3 engine. Which we all know means, better graphics, better game play, ect. Another thing that got people's attention was the "Commander mode" in which a player has control of various missiles and can command the players on his or her team. More recently the BF4 team said that there will be more thing to "Blow up" and change the way one might capture an area. One of these things I'm very excited about is the road blocks that you can activate, which block the path for tanks. One thing i do wonder about this is, if the tan is on top of the barrier when it's activated, will the tank blow up? Oh and don't forget about the sky scraper in Dow n town Hong Kong falling over. Now that they are introducing "Theater mode" into BF4 making Lets plays and reviews is going to be so much easier now. I hope theater mode is going to be included in Campaign, like Halo.
Given all this, BF4 should be a great upgrade from BF3, but the one thing that take all the realism of the Battlefield series, is the introduction of kill cams. This is not something that should be in BF4. What i loved about the Battlefield series what that i could hide and snipe with out and anyone finding me from the kill cams. I really do hope they take that out before release day.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. — At the request of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS), the parties met Tuesday and Wednesday. At the conclusion of today's meeting, the parties have agreed they require additional time to review their options. In the interim, they have agreed to an FMCS request that they refrain from any public comments regarding the status of negotiations conducted under our auspices. No additional meetings have been scheduled at this time.
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**Lehigh in the News** {online press clippings from other news sources}
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Gels Gain Life-Like Motion
Researchers from Lehigh University and the University of Cambridge in England have
shown that it is possible to make a strip of hydrogel mimic the movements of a snail,
inchworm, and snake. The ability could lead to new motion techniques for tiny
machines, including robots that inspect difficult-to-get-to nooks, and for manufacturing
processes that involve moving substances across surfaces.
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The Morning Call (Circulation 130,360)
Fighting The Gift-List Battle Over Video Game Sanity
Cindy O'Brien, student at Lehigh, wrote an article on what video and computer games on
the kids' Christmas lists will be allowed under the tree on Christmas morning.
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The Morning Call (Sunday Circulation 167,191)
T-Networks Welcomes a Stint of Hiring
T-Networks is doing something few startup companies in the area are doing: hiring
manufacturing employees. Lehigh University's Center for Optical Technologies is seeing
an increase in activity as well. T-Networks was a founding member. Now, the center has
signed seven other companies, including TriQuint Semiconductor, which bought Agere's
fiber-optics components business; Infinera of Allentown; and Corning.
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Pennsylvania: Post a New Slogan Here
Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell is looking for a new state slogan and has called upon
the populace to "Penn a phrase for Pennsylvania". Lehigh University researcher Martin
Harmer proposed — ''Pennsylvania: Just Say Nano.'' Harmer, director of Lehigh's Center
for Advanced Materials and Nano Technology, sees a growing future for the region and
the state as nanoscale technology makes computers smaller and leads to advances in
biotechnology and cancer-fighting drugs.
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Deafness Hasn't Hurt Lehigh Swimmer
As Linda Hendrixson, Lehigh University sophomore, admits, ''eighth grade can be a
tough year for any typical 13-year-old trying to growing up.'' But when she was in eighth
grade, Hendrixson's life became much tougher than she ever expected.
Hendrixson, then a student in West Chester, had to cope with the sudden loss of her
hearing. Despite her hearing deficiency, she is one of the premier swimmers in the
Patriot League.
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Lehigh Pride Shows in New EMS Vehicle
Until recently, Lehigh University EMS members relied on an unreliable vehicle to get
them and their equipment to emergencies on the school's hilly campus.
Their 12-year-old Dodge Caravan was rickety, slow to start and sported a peeling brown
paint job, said Eric Sze, a junior at Lehigh and the EMS captain. And although the van
was appropriately marked, "you couldn't recognize it as an emergency vehicle," Sze said.
So the university EMS, a student-run organization that provides services during the
university's fall and spring semesters, appealed to school administrators for an early
Christmas present -- a new vehicle.
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Volunteers Find Joy in Serving
Prisca Vidanage and her family were busy Christmas morning volunteering at New
Bethany Ministries' annual Christmas brunch. Vidanage's husband, Sudantha, and her
two daughters served food at the buffet line. Her daughters, Nishika, 20, and Serena, 19,
are Lehigh University students.
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Chester County Prepares to Welcome New Judges
Edward "Rusty" Griffith, who studied law while at Lehigh University, was named
one of Chester County's newest judges.
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Leader of the Pride
Joe Anastasio always seems to end up alone. Among the things Anastasio learned from
his father, Paul, an All-American tight end for Lehigh University in the late 1970s and
early 80s, was preparation. You can change what you can control, and you decide how
much work you put in off the field. It started in second grade when his youth football
coaches stuck him at outside linebacker because, he says, he was a "reliable tackler." One
ball carrier, Lord knows how many blockers ... and one linebacker out there in the flat,
dragging him down.
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When it comes to natural gas, Jack Partridge is on the budget plan.
The president of Columbia Gas of Ohio said it is his way of dealing with high gas prices.
"It helps me to spread things out," he said. "I live with four women and we bought an older home and renovated it. I do more than my share of contributing to paying gas bills."
He said he shares consumers' feelings on the gas bill, because he has one, too.
Angry Toledoans
"Customers have been receiving bills reflecting December weather and they go 'Ouch,'" he said. "And I did, too."
In Toledo, it sounded more like a scream.
"I think in some ways [natural gas companies] are easy targets," Partridge said.
Consumers held up gas bills for media cameras and news radio WSPD called for a Jan. 27 town hall meeting called "Heat or Eat."
"Sad to say but … a lot of Toledoans are making that choice," WSPD's Bob Frantz said in an interview with Bob Reinbolt, Mayor Finkbeiner's chief of staff, prior to the Mayor's State of the City Address Monday.
WSPD invited Columbia Gas, a NiSource Company, to join in the town hall meeting, but Partridge said the meeting will not be a place where Columbia Gas can address the concerns or work on the confusion.
"We are frankly refusing to go," Partridge said. "It's not a healthy place to go."
In the State of the City address, Finkbeiner called gas rates in Toledo the highest of any region in Ohio and Michigan.
"This is a major obstacle to growth of industry in our region," he said.
Reinbolt echoed the Mayor's feelings shortly before the speech.
"We wind up losing residents just over the line because of lower rates up there," he said in WSPD interview. "Just across the border is a strong incentive for people and business to go up there."
Finkbeiner described the formation of a "tough-minded" six-person Utility Rate Committee to examine the reason for the gas prices.
Natural gas history
The reasons gas prices are high aren't tough for Partridge to find, but does involve a history lesson.
"Until the recent past, natural gas has been one-choice, one-option [for provider]," he said, adding Toledo was a major player in changing that.
Prior to the 1970s, the natural gas business was fairly simple since prices were held artificially low by the federal government, he said. At the time, natural gas prices were regulated at the source.
"That finally caught up with everybody," Partridge said.
Incentives for new exploration and well-drilling dropped, and when the winter of 1977-78 hit, a shortage occurred.
"What that meant for us at the retail end was we had to curtail our commercial customers," he said, adding that Columbia Gas pushed all of its supplies to the "human need," meaning homes and hospitals. "There naturally was a reaction from the government. They were in the right church, but the wrong pew."
The government deregulated the price of gas, but kept other regulations, which resulted in a disproportionate share of expensive gas in the pipelines. It resulted in spikes of up to 20 percent a year, he said.
Because Columbia Gas is regulated not to profit on the sale of gas, but instead on the delivery charges, the company spent much of the 1980s filing nearly annual to increase rates — a months-long process including hearings and public comment.
"That didn't help on any fronts with our customers," Partridge said. "Nobody wins in a rate case."
The company chose a different approach in the early 1990s. Columbia Gas opened its doors to a management audit, with no major findings. He said the process removed the stigma of malice surrounding the company.
The company also invited the parties opposed to the rate increases to form a collaborative group to reach an agreement.
"Everyone around the table would use, as their judgment, the premise, 'Would I do better in a rate case?'" he said.
Among those working to reach an agreement on rate increases were concerned Toledoans, including Kerry Bruce, Toledo's public utilities commissioner.
In 1994, with the urging of Toledo, Columbia Gas froze its rates on delivery charges and agreed to maintain the freeze until Oct. 2008.
The company took a step further in 1997 with a voluntary program allowing marketers to sell gas to consumers. Partridge said it was designed for the best results for customers. Unlike Columbia Gas, the marketers can sell the gas to consumers for a profit, but can also keep rates lower by directing gas to the market that most needs it at a given time and limiting the gas directed to less-needed areas.
The first phase of Choice began in Toledo in 1999.
"We decided we need to do this in a discreet area first, then roll it out statewide," Partridge said. "It exceeded even our wildest dreams."
The marketers offered a variety of programs beyond the basic budget plan offered by Columbia Gas. The gas retailers offered fixed rates and discount offers. Toledo responded, and currently 59 percent of Toledoans purchase their natural gas through a third-party marketer.
"The Choice program really gets into that final frontier of the market, which is residential," said Suzanne K. Surface, director of regulatory policy at Columbia Gas. "We help them sort through their choices and help them understand [the Choice program]."
Even Choice couldn't compete with the "double whammy" that hit the natural gas industry in 2005.
Partridge said the natural gas industry is constrained in the U.S. by lower-producing wells and an inability to drill or explore 85 percent of the U.S. coastline. That was the first hit.
The second was weather. A particularly hot summer placed extra demand on natural gas, which is used in part to generate electricity. Then, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita shut down natural gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. A warm November offered a quick dip in prices, but December 2005 was cold and demand was high.
When the situation resulted in higher gas bills in Toledo, residents pointed their fingers at Columbia Gas.
Natural gas mythology
"There is misinformation out there," Partridge said. "And it's become an emotional issue now that we're in a high-cost environment."
The result is myths the company is trying to combat. Probably the most frequently repeated myth, according to Partridge, is that when the price of natural gas rises, so do Columbia Gas' profits.
"People lump us in with the big oil companies, not realizing we don't profit on the commodity," he said.
The money Columbia Gas makes is based on delivery charges, which is based on how much gas a person uses. When customers conserve energy, Columbia Gas actually loses money, according to Partridge.
He said the company also combats the false ideas Columbia Gas manipulates or controls the price of natural gas.
The gas price on the bill? That's what Columbia Gas paid on the open market, Partridge said, dollar-for-dollar. He said most industrial and commercial natural gas customers purchase their natural gas from alternative suppliers that buy on the national market, meaning the oft-repeated saying that natural gas prices drive businesses away from Toledo isn't necessarily true.
Similarly, Toledoans are often told they have the highest rates in Ohio. But, by law, Columbia Gas has one statewide rate.
"By no means are we the highest gas in the state," Partridge said. "It's just difficult to counter those statements."
Seeking dialogue
Getting information to people is a problem.
"That's why we're seeking a dialogue," Partridge said.
He said he's weary of the impact paid ads with such information would make and said he prefers to keep Columbia Gas' paid ads focused on environmental messages.
Columbia Gas plans to continue sending information on winterizing and minimizing gas costs along with bills.
He said he's not sure just how to get the message out, but he knows he needs to be more visible in Toledo.
"I want to be more active in Toledo," he said. "I've got to get up there and we've got to do more to educate."
He said he also wants to increase awareness of the Columbia Gas staff that is already involved in the community.
"I just want to survive this winter, and I just want our customers to survive this winter," Mr. Partridge said. "The days are gone when we'd all be smiling at each other when it's a cold winter."


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Walking through her pre-fall collection, Tory Burch points out that for a while now, women haven't been dressing as seasonally as they used to. Sure, they might have to buy a coat because it does get cold. But why not wear it over a light-as-air chiffon dress? Layering is Burch's solution, laid out in jacquards with metallic hints; coated yarn that makes way for twisted raffia in an almost ombré effect; and printed denim.
Burch has never been one for minimalism, and this showing for sure has a "more is more" feel. One particularly pretty dress is covered in blue and olive beads making a floral pattern (the designer did most of her "prints" out of embellishment). Then at the hem is a row of cotton fringe, oversize rhinestones, and more beading. The maximalist theme continues with accessories: big colorful jewelry and bags and shoes spangled with bold beading. She's continued the midi-skirt length she offered in spring, paired with pointy-toed flats or kitten heels. And those coats? "We haven't done military recently," Burch says. "And I was kind of missing it." Time and again she goes back to her mother Reva's wool coat that Burch has been wearing "all her life." Here, it's reimagined in light brown with navy and deep-crimson piping. An oversize men's-inspired cotton coat is decorated with wood beads, bugle beads, and sequins.
It's the first time Burch has shown pre-fall (though it has been a longtime part of her business). It's becoming more important to her company, which is making moves in Europe and Asia. Imagine all the climates that includes. With this not-quite-summer, not-quite-fall collection, the world should be all set.
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5 1/2 cups
all-purpose flour
4 teaspoons
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2 teaspoons
ground cinnamon
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1/2 teaspoon
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1 cup
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I have found this type of cookie is one that folks either love or hate. My grandmother, who was German, made these for my dad. She lived in Michigan and would always ship them to us in Georgia every Chrismas. When I was about 12, she taught me how to make them and gave me her recipe. She died about ten years ago and since then, I've been the one to make these cookies. Today, Christmas Eve, 2002, I went to bake the cookies for my Dad, and found the recipe had been torn out of my book and is gone. It was such a relief to find this recipe here. This is her exact recipe, except she didn't use nutmeg. This recipe is a wonderful recipe and the moister the batter, the better the cookie. Also, you CANNOT over-cook this cookie. If you do, you lose the entire flavor. So, bake for exactly the amount of time alloted, or a little less. Thanks so much!
Merry Christmas from Jill in Atlanta, GA
The recipe was pretty bland and I really would not make them again. Also, the cookie dough was too sticky to roll out so I dropped them by the spoonful in a bowl of sugar to coat and then baked them.
8 Ratings
For a long time I have been looking for a recipe for a soft molasses cookie that wasn't too sweet. This was perfect! They were easy to make, have a great soft texture and the flavour is even better after a day or two. Next time I might try adding 1/4 cup more molasses to make them even richer. Overall a great recipe!
These were delicious! I made the recipe exactly as written. They remind me of a soft gingersnap. Per another reviewer, I made an "optional" cream cheese frosting to serve with them for added flavor, but most people said they liked them every bit as well without the frosting. Thanks for the recipe Rini- we really enjoyed these!
I'm sorry to say we didn't really enjoy these cookies. The flavour was pretty bland and the texture was dry, even though we only cooked them for the recommended amount of time. I think the large amount of flour in the recipe may have contributed to this. They might taste better as frosted molasses cookies. More traditional drop molasses cookies with sugar on top taste better and have more flavor.
Very good cookies! I didn't have buttermilk or shortening, so I put my own little spin on it. I used cold butter in place of the shortening and used regular whole milk in place of the buttermilk. I then chilled my cookie batter for 5 to 10 mins to make sure the butter was nice and chilled. I also didnt have ground cloves so I just used more nutmeg (I did for 36 servings so it called for 1/4 teaspoon each and I used a 1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg) I also added a pinch of salt!
I am wheat intolerant, so I substituted wheat flour for spelt.......I think I needed to reduce the splet flour a little more it was a tad dry.
Came out really nice and very well liked. We did add about 1/4C dark brown sugar and 1/4C honey to the dough, and used half butter/half shortening. Instead of cutting, just rolled the chilled dough into balls, coated in white sugar, then flattened with a glass to 1/8". Took about 11 1/2min to bake up and worked better for us to cool on the cookie sheets about 10 minutes before removing to a baking rack. Chewy, soft, lots of flavor, not 'cakey' at all.
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Servings Per Recipe: 72
Amount Per Serving
Calories: 86
Calories from Fat: 27
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