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You've been there before: standing motionless as your boss screams at you, his spit sprinkling your face as peers watch in terror.
For most sailors, this memory dates to boot camp, where flurries of yelling, cursing and berating are a time-honored treatment to transform teenagers into sailors. But many sailors say this kind of behavior happens all too often in the fleet.
One officer said a former commanding officer on an attack submarine routinely swore at and demeaned the navigator before his sailors and the wardroom, yelling things like "What the f---, Nav?" for minor errors. The lieutenant, who asked to remain anonymous, said the CO's harsh behavior convinced him to leave the Navy: "I refuse to put myself in the position where I must serve under such a disagreeable person," he said.
Recent, high-profile cases have cast the problem of toxic leaders back into the limelight: A ship's executive officer explodes on his officers and chiefs. A destroyer's commanding officer bullies his. A one-star select runs his shipyard by F-bomb.
Severe leadership is a common thread in Navy reliefs. At least four of the 15 CO firings this year stem from this or what officials term "poor command climate," a catchall for problematic leadership that is typically on the hostile side.
And it remains an undercurrent in the fleet. Three out of every 10 sailors feel their command leaders have a negative effect on morale, according to the Navy's latest personnel survey. And as post-incident reports show, toxic command climate is a frequent culprit in the run-up to a mishap.
Sailors and experts say the Navy is not doing enough to dislodge a cultural practice that sows disruption and frustration, impedes retaining the best, and is out of step in a Navy where sailors are more educated and professional than ever before. The Navy could take cues from the Army, which now asks soldiers in an annual survey if they serve under a "toxic leader" and has instituted reviews across the service that let soldiers rate their officers.
"If you're getting abused day in, day out, … you're going to have a sicker crew, which means turnover is going to be worse, which means re-enlistments are going to be worse," said Dr. Donnie Horner, a retired Army lieutenant colonel who's now a management professor at Jacksonville University in Florida. "Who stays in that environment?"
It will require full-scale cultural change to stamp out abusive behavior and personal misconduct by COs, according to Navy Capt. Mark Light, a military professor who recently studied a decade of misconduct by COs and declared it an integrity crisis.
"Alarms should be sounding at the highest levels of Navy leadership," said Light, a naval aviator, in an article recently published in the Naval War College Review.
The Navy says toxic leadership isn't tolerated, arguing that it's monitored via periodic surveys and toxic leaders are fired or reprimanded. Navy officials point out that about 98 percent of commanding officers finish their tours successfully and that the limited number of harsh leaders doesn't require an institutional change. The Navy tightened the standards in June, adding a command exam and requiring officers from all branches to be screened before taking over as a CO.
"We're hardwired in the United States Navy to produce good leaders. It doesn't always happen that way," said Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Navy's top spokesman. "For every case of a commanding officer being relieved, there's probably 100 different reasons that individual went off track. But I can assure you that one of the reasons is not because there's some kind of systemic failure to address leadership in the Navy."
The Navy's top officer says that severe treatments are generally inappropriate. "I can't imagine the screaming or cursing, but there's different ways to get someone's attention, and a raised voice may be that. It works for some people," Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jon Greenert said in a short interview. "But there's a line, and it's difficult to write down where it is.
"It's like a lot of things: You know when you're there."
The Command Leadership School in Newport, R.I., which trains soon-to-be COs, XOs and command master chiefs, does not teach harsh leadership methods, officials said. They aren't able to spell out when a severe tactic, such as screaming, crosses the line.
"Every seminar we conduct here is an opportunity for us to work with our prospective command leaders and for them to develop their leadership knowledge or skills," said Capt. Michael Slotsky, director of CLS, in an interview. "We enable students to share ideas about building environments that will reinforce the standards of authority, responsibility and accountability. Our legacy and tradition in the Navy is hundreds of years old of strong, positive leaders."
'Rocks and Shoals'
Harsh treatment has long been another hallmark of Navy life. The young republic's Navy earned a reputation for severity, largely because of whipping.
"The captain was God and ran his ship however he chose, usually with fairly liberal uses of corporal punishment," said Jim Valle, a former Delaware State University professor and expert on 19th-century naval discipline. This authority stemmed from the Articles for the Government of the Navy, a law that came to be known as "Rocks and Shoals."
When Congress abolished the lash in 1850, ship captains faced a dilemma: How were they to rein in their crews?
"They tried to devise punishments that would be similar to flogging or have the same effect as flogging but not be flogging," said Valle. Over time, these evolved from physical punishments to a CO taking away liberty privileges, docking pay or busting rank.
Severity was one of the tactics that officers relied on in this era. "You had to confront your men with an iron face, as it were," Valle said. "If they thought you were just an unyielding … officer, presumably, you had less trouble."
Abrasive leaders continue to be a problem today across a stubbornly high swath of the Navy. Roughly 30 percent of sailors said their command leaders had a negative impact on their command's morale, according to the latest Navy-wide Personnel Survey, or NPS, conducted five years ago and released in 2011. The next survey is scheduled for 2013.
Providing a shade brighter outlook is the Navy's 2011-2012 Quality of Life Survey, which cites only 27.8 percent of sailors saying command leadership had a negative impact. This survey report, still in draft form, was provided by Navy public affairs and may not directly compare with the personnel survey. Results of past quality-of-life surveys were not immediately available.
Unlike the Army leadership survey, the NPS does not ask service members whether they served under a toxic leader or have them specify what behaviors they view as toxic.
The NPS focuses on morale. About 17 percent of enlisted respondents said their immediate boss doesn't deal well with subordinates. That sentiment is echoed in responses to a question about tone, which the survey defined as a measure of how sailors feel about their job, career, quality of life and the overall direction their command is headed on a scale from high to low. Fully 35 percent reported their command's tone was "low," outstripping both the "medium" and "high" categories.
Command enforcers
Strains of the Rocks and Shoals mindset can still be found in the Navy's DNA. Nowhere is this more evident than the Navy's second-in-commands, who've earned reputations through the ages as command enforcers.
One recent case of this occurred on the cruiser Bunker Hill. Cmdr. Michael Hill, a former No. 2 on the cruiser, embraced his role there as the command's bad cop. The Naval Academy grad's temper flared early and often during his XO tour from 2008 to 2010, according to the Navy's investigation of his conduct, which was completed in March. Navy Times obtained a redacted version of this 114-page Naval Inspector General report, through the Freedom of Information Act.
Hill, who was not fired, raged at his subordinates habitually, even during complex ship evolutions. While the ship was exiting San Diego harbor in early 2009, Hill told a junior officer of the deck, then running a checklist, to keep it down so other reports could be heard.
A few minutes later, the officer inadvertently spoke too loud for Hill again. The XO stormed over to him, grabbed him by the collar and said, "If you don't lower your voice, I'll f------ kill you," this officer later recalled to the IG.
Asked about this abusive behavior by the IG, Hill said that, in early 2009, the ship had been coming out of a yearlong overhaul and that he used "forceful direction" to snap his crew back into a sea-duty mindset.
Hill, who retired in February, according to the LinkedIn networking website, did not respond to phone messages seeking comment.
In assessing Hill's behavior, the IG sought to determine whether his screaming crossed the line to abuse: "Persons in authority are forbidden to injure their subordinates by tyrannical or capricious conduct, or by abusive language," states Article 1023 in Chapter 10 of Navy Regulations.
Screaming in some emergency situations may be warranted, said the IG, which labeled this "acceptable yelling." This category of yelling "necessary to complete a mission or avert a harm," the IG said includes emergencies, like screaming "Right full rudder!" at the helmsman or shouting at a seaman to avoid stepping in the bight of a line.
Outside of these sorts of situations, screaming is less acceptable, the IG continued.
If an "ordinary reasonable person" who doesn't know the officer's manner thinks he might hurt someone, then the officer has an anger management problem, the IG said. It concluded Hill had used "unjust severity."
Hill's boss, perhaps not coincidentally, also used questionable language on the cruiser.
Capt. Dom DeScisciolo, the ship's CO, had a larger-then-life personality given to extremes. DeScisciolo swore profusely when upset, the same IG report found.
DeScisciolo called his officers "d--- f---," "d--- weed," and "f------ dumb ass," according to the report. When his temper flared, he screamed and threatened his officers, saying things like: "I can have you off the ship tomorrow!" When one of them turned on the wrong navigation lights on the ship which other mariners rely on at night to determine the ship's type and heading DeScisciolo pointed at this officer and said, "You extinguish those lights, or I'll extinguish you!"
The IG determined DeScisciolo had sworn at his officers but noted that context is important. Most of this foul language happened during stressful operations off Haiti in 2010, while Bunker Hill was one of the ships rendering aid to the earthquake-torn island. His cursing stemmed from incidents where he saw a performance problem. Still, DeScisciolo crossed the line, the IG concluded.
DeScisciolo, now assigned to the Naval Mine and Anti-Submarine Warfare Command in San Diego, did not respond to emails seeking comment.
'Bullies breed bullies'
Only the best officers get a shot at the Navy's most prestigious job: command. Pressures are intense on officers, particularly commanders and captains. Their records must be flawless even to be selected.
That doesn't stop once they attain command. With more and more benchmarks to scrutinize their leadership, pressures continue to mount on COs, one former Navy clinical psychologist said.
"I've seen plenty of times that really competent, good leaders succumb to the pressures and they start to develop an assortment of physical conditions, as well as some mental health conditions," said retired Cmdr. Mark Russell, who left the Navy in 2009 and is now a psychology professor at Antioch University.
Russell said he counseled a number of officers at the breaking point. But he said many, many more senior officers were afraid to come in at all. They feared the stigma of seeing a mental health professional. Russell said the Navy needs to do more to help them.
"They haven't gotten the resources to help them cope when they are feeling under the pressure," Russell said. "You could almost see a little support group full of COs in a room."
This stress and the lack of avenues to relieve creates a culture where severe leadership is respected, even emulated.
The problem is ingrained in the Navy's culture, said Horner, the management professor at Jacksonville University, who explained that the unusual aspects of any culture are most apparent to a new person. The visitor eventually adjusts to it.
In any culture, the new person blends in to survive, said Horner, a West Point grad. In the case of a toxic climate, where a leader demeans a subordinate to reinforce his status, Horner continued, the new arrival accepts the harsh treatment as part of the culture.
The next phase is adoption. The sailor notices that those who get the "attaboys" and best evaluations are generally those who act like their leaders, Horner said. "And so what happens is ... you actually start taking on, assuming the characteristics of these bullying leaders," said Horner, who researched this trend in 2009, when he was a leadership professor at the Naval Academy.
He said one former surface warfare officer student of his told him at the time: "'Doc, you do this as a matter of survival. And once you've been there a while, you actually get rewarded for becoming the person who at first you never wanted to be.'
"So there is replication here," Horner continued. "These bullies breed bullies."
There's only one way to break this suck-it-up culture, Horner advised: Change from the top.
"If the Navy is serious about changing these behaviors as it relates to bullying and so forth, it will require a fundamental cultural change with an institutional variety," Horner said. "And that has to start with the CNO."
Not all experts agree that the Navy needs to do more. Retired Marine Col. Art Athens, director of the Naval Academy's Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership, pointed to the fact that the CNO has already stressed the importance of character and integrity in speeches and articles and said the service was taking effective action.
"I think the Navy is very serious about tackling these issues because they're holding people accountable," noted Athens, who retired in 2008 after 30 years of service.
The Army, meanwhile, has taken more aggressive steps.
The service now asks soldiers about toxic leaders in an annual survey. And officers have to complete 360-degree reviews, where seniors, peers and subordinates rank an officer's conduct and performance. These reviews are not included in the officer's official record, but those who opt out of it will have that noted on their officer evaluation record, the Army equivalent of a fitness report.
These reviews are intended to show officers it's important to understand how they are viewed by their subordinates. While not part of their official record, the evaluations help officers assess and improve upon their leadership skills. Army leaders, including the Army's top general, have emphasized that these reviews will build better leaders and urged the officer corps to embrace them.
That's similar to the full-scale change advocated by Light, the Navy faculty member at the Army War College, who says the Navy needs to do more than fire bad COs: It needs to focus on developing ethical COs, a message that must be broadcast by the Navy's senior leaders.
"Unfortunately, beyond public firings, there has been no fundamental effort on the part of senior leadership to elevate the issue to a level that will produce meaningful change," Light wrote in the Naval War College Review, Summer 2012 issue. The article, he added, "is an effort to try to spark that sense of urgency."
Short of something like this, the Navy will continue to bleed talented people who refuse to become tough guys and screamers, said Horner, who warned that this cycle could harm the Navy's retention and enlistments over time. It could also lead to mishaps.
On the attack submarine Hampton, for example, a CO who set impossible standards, berated officers and distrusted sailors laid the conditions for the boat's 2007 cheating and gundecking scandal, a Navy investigation found. In the aftermath, retention collapsed among enlisted and officers, with nearly all of the sub's junior officers getting out, one former crew member recalled.
"I wish that the senior leaders of the Navy would speak to some of the junior officers that have to serve under toxic leaders," said Lt. Ryan Haag, a former Hampton officer who transferred to information warfare. "It's not just a numbers game for officer retention. There is a definite price that the Navy pays."
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Mike Tomlin took exception to a recent newspaper story that referred to free safety Anthony Smith as a thug, and the Steelers coach made it clear that he is still simmering over what he said is a mischaracterization of Smith.
"He's not a thug," Tomlin said at a news conference today. "He's a young professional football player who is trying to be at his best who happens to play the game very physically. I was offended by that reference to him."
Smith is one of the Steelers' fiercest hitters, and he has occasionally belted one of his own teammates in practice even though the team almost never tackles during drills.
Smith collided with Hines Ward last week in practice, knocking the veteran wide receiver to the ground after he had made a catch during a 7-on-7 drill. Ward did not comment after practice on the hit but he clearly wasn't happy about it.
Smith said the two have talked and everything is fine between them.
"He didn't take it personal," Smith said. "He knew it wasn't personal so what is there to be mad at?"
Tomlin said today Smith shouldn't have hit Ward. However, he said a line was crossed when Smith was labeled a thug.
"We understand that perception all of the time is not reality," Tomlin said. "But something things are written or said that are hurtful."
In other news, cornerback Deshea Townsend (groin) won't play Thursday night when the Steelers take on the Bills in Toronto. Others that won't play in the 7:30 p.m. game include free safety and Woodland Hills graduate Ryan Mundy (ankle), linebacker Mike Humpal (stinger), defensive tackle Kyle Clement (knee) and strong safety Troy Polamalu (hamstring).
Byron Leftwich, who signed with the Steelers Sunday, will play against the Bills, Tomlin said.
The Steelers signed Leftwich to back up starting quarterback Ben Roethlisberger after Charlie Batch broke his right collarbone.
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Justin Hartwig will work with the starters while Sean Mahan will play with the second-team offensive line. The two are battling for the starting job at center.
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Ray Marsh
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May 14, 2001 06:55:00
To continue on the AS400 vein. What's your take on it's future?
I'm not real confident in IBM�s backing. It's hard to tell what they're doing.
Other subjects.... Websphere, Web enabled RPG, RPG converters, ILE...
I have dozens of questions along these lines, have discussed them endlessly with my colleagues.
the AS400 survives, do you see
as it's primary development language?
Here's my take. IBM throws down the gauntlet to M$ by making Linux the primary OS on the AS400 platform, with the ever reliable OS400 running in the background. Thereby inviting the modern programming world into the fold. Java will be the primary language, Webshpere the web-platform. The 400 will be a web-server for intra-net applications and 5250 emulation will disappear over the horizon.
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Nanhesru Ningyake
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May 14, 2001 19:18:00
Ray, I don't know anything, I am just a consultant here
But my gut feeling is, the future looks good. The mood is very upbeat here. We know we have a solid, reliable system; and with every release we've been adding great features; and giving our competition some serious sweat on their brows.
And with the system slowly shedding its "green screen"
, it is bound to gain wider acceptance. Companies have been replacing networks of hundreds of NTs with a single iSeries system; giving unimaginably greater stability to their applications.
>do you see Java as it's primary development language
This might happen when Java can be as fast as RPG! But then there's always the issue of what'll happen to "legacy" RPG and Cobol code; and ofcourse training of existing programmers in Java and OOP can be another big headache, don't you think?
Or perhaps like Jerry Maguire reveals to us, it could be C*, which mixes C++, Cobol, ADA and RPG
Who else would think of rehashing RPG
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Eager Beaver
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May 14, 2001 22:41:00
Hey Ray / Nanhesru,
I don't see myself as a contributor to your discussion but merely trying to find a direction for myself in this ever-in-flux world of IT. I am a small fish with 3.5y of IBM m/f experience and though bitten by the java bug I am wary of severing my ties with the big blue technologies. I would soon be attending a formal training in websphere at my organization. How are the prospects in websphere world.Is weblogic a strong competition. Looking for some enlightenment.
Ray Marsh
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May 15, 2001 06:25:00
Eager... This is a new arena and the big boys are battling it out for their piece of the pie. Keep your ear to the ground. Watch the trade journals and read the technical news. When the smoke clears, its anybody's guess who'll be left standing.
Websphere is a legitimate contender. Has been the leader from time to time, depending on who's refereeing
Can't tell you which direction to head in. 10 years ago people were announcing the death of the AS400. I've made a good living on a "dead" platform. Like Mark Twain said... "The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated!" ... or something like that.
Nanhesru... The points you raise are valid... re-tooling is expensive, re-training is expensive. However, maintaining cumbersome, procedural, legacy code is also expensive, in the long run. The question is� What�s the best path to get your systems upgraded to where you can utilize new technologies and deploy modern applications? The AS400 recently posted the top Java performance numbers. I can't find the article, right now. I'll add it if I can locate it.
The answers will reveal themselves in due course. Like you guys, I'm trying to position my career to be ready for the changes.
Joel Cochran
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May 15, 2001 09:20:00
I am primarily an RPG programmer, so the 400 has been my bread and butter. I'm learning Java, but I have no intention of using Java on the 400, at least not until they overcome the GUI problems. Java on the 400 is NOT the same as Java everywhere else no matter what Rochester says. I also think GUI is too hyped. Show me one heads down data entry person who would prefer using a GUI over a green screen and I'll be amazed.
I also think they'll have a hard time convincing people not to use RPG/COBOL on the 400, just like they've had a hard time replacing DDS record level access with SQL. It simply is not a better solution, so programmers won't make the move!
I do think that eventually RPG will become a shadow of Java in that you can expect a fully free form, Object Oriented version sometime in the next few years. I expect it to look and feel like Java with the functionality of RPG. RPGILE was a good first step in the right direction, and I truly enjoy that language.
As with most 400 types, I love my platform. I am a die hard fan. Check out
and you'll see what a 400 can do on the web all by itself. But even so I don't think the 400 (i-series, whatever!) will carry me to retirement, so I'm branching out. It's also become a problem with potential clients that we are tied to one platform, hence my interest in Java.
As for WebSphere, it is supposed to be a good tool, but once you use IBM tools it is hard to change to anything else! I would look at open source
{FREE} before I paid 5 figures for a fully functioning WebSphere environmetn. But, all of this is changing I understand with V5R1, with web-facing and other improvements. I guess IBM is trying, but I also think it is too little too late.
Sorry so long!
I'm a soldier in the NetScape Wars...
[This message has been edited by Joel Cochran (edited May 15, 2001).]
Wait a minute, I'm trying to think of something clever to say...<p>Joel
Ray Marsh
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May 15, 2001 10:02:00
Joel... I agree with most of your statements. You're predictions are plausible, as well. IBM has dragged their feet with the AS400 and tried to force the consumer to have things their (IBM's) way. They should take a lesson from Burger King... give the customer their way!
I didn't realize that Java was different on the 400. That's typical, IBM puts their twist on everything they touch.
The future of the AS400 is in IBM's control. If it dies it will be because they either killed it purposefully, to steer their customers in a new direction ala Silverlake/AS400 from the SYS36, or it will die of neglect.
What the face of IT will be in the next 5 - 10 years is the question that keeps coming back to mind. There are so many factors, so many possibilities.
Terminal emulation will disappear due to financial reasons not efficiency. I agree green-screen programs are much faster for keying than GUI. I myself, navigate on the PC with the keyboard more than the mouse. It is a waste of time to remove my hand from the keyboard to use the mouse. I think programs will be written with the keyboard in mind rather than the mouse and the efficiency can still be there with GUI, if the applications are designed correctly.
I believe that web-enabled applications are going to be the norm. Large servers will handle the database chores. At least that's where app/dev appears to be headed. To me that's a good thing, platforms become less relevant. The 400 is a rock solid, fast, reliable database server and would shine in an environment like that.
This won't happen if M$ or IBM gets their way. They're two peas in the same pod. They want to lock you into software and/or hardware that keeps you dependant on them. Don't believe their flowery claims of interoperability or Sun's for that matter.
Joel Cochran
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May 16, 2001 08:36:00
Hey Ray, seems we also are two peas in a pod. I too rely on the keyboard a lot more than the mouse (bugs my wife to watch me use our home computer !) I should have clarified that my opinion of the efficiency of GUI applications is not because of any lack of capability but rather a function of design. I also think that keyboard intensive GUI applications can be written, they just haven't been yet!
One of my purposes in learning Java is to re-engineer our green screen product line in 100% Java (MVC Architecture) but still use the 400 as our primary DB server, with the option to access other DBs as well so that neither us nor our customers are locked in to one platform. You are so right, the 400 would absolutely shine in this role! I think we could even sell more 400s as a result.
As far as the Java/400 goes, to be fair the language itself is no different (except there is no support for awt or Swing and who knows what else...), it is really the implementation that is different, and from what I understand a bit hairy. Not to mention that IBM only wants you to use WebSphere and VisualAge. Oh well, at least the Java ToolBox for the 400 is free!
Ciao my kindred spirit!
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Ray Marsh
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May 16, 2001 11:11:00
Joel... What you're working on sounds fascinating. That's the basic model I've visualized. I'm very envious that you are able to actually work on it. We are currently in a budget crisis, staff reductions, and no money for anything except the very basics. We are essentially reduced to babysitting legacy code. Kinda, sorta, no actually... really really stinks. Looking forward to a chance to improve our systems instead of patching them.
Don't get me started about those stupid
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The Canadian Eskimo Dog is an Arctic breed of dog (Canis lupus familiaris), which is often considered to be North America�s oldest and rarest remaining purebred indigenous domestic canine. Other names include Qimmiq (Inuit for "dog").Although once used as the preferred method of transportation by Inuit in the Canadian Arctic, traditional working dog teams became increasingly rare in the North after the 1960s. This is often cited a result of snowmobiles becoming more popular, however it may also be the result of the alleged organized and systematic mass slaughter of Inuit sled dogs in the Eastern Arctic between 1950 and 1970 by the RCMP. Appearance The Canadian Eskimo Dog should always be powerfully built, athletic, and imposing in appearance. It should be of "powerful physique giving the impression that he is not built for speed but rather for hard work." As is typical of spitz breeds, it has erect, triangular ears, and a heavily feathered tail that is carried over its back. Males should be distinctly more masculine than females, who are finer boned, smaller, and often have a slightly shorter coat. Its superficial similarity to wolves was often noted by explorers during the Coppermine Expedition of 1819�1822. They noted that the ears of the Eskimo dogs they encountered were similar to those of American wolves, and their forelegs lacked the black mark above the wrist characteristic of European wolves. The most sure way to distinguish the two species was said to be through the length and posture of the tail, which was shorter and more curved in the dog. Coat and colour The coat is very thick and dense, with a soft undercoat and stiff, coarse guard hairs. The Eskimo Dog has a mane of thicker fur around its neck, which is quite impressive in the males and adds an illusion of additional size. This mane is smaller in females. Eskimo Dogs can be almost any colour, and no one colour or colour pattern should dominate. Solid white dogs are often seen, as well as white dogs with patches of another colour on the head or both body and head. Solid liver or black coloured dogs are common as well. Many of the solid coloured dogs have white mask-like markings on the face, sometimes with spots over the eyes. Others might have white socks and nose stripes with no eye spots or mask.
There is significant variance in size among Canadian Eskimo Dogs, and the weight and height should be proportionate to each other. The average size of Canadian Eskimo Dogs is:
Height (at the withers)
Males: 58 � 70 cm (23 � 28 in)
Females: 50 � 60 cm (19� - 23� in)
Males: 30 - 40 kg (66 - 88 lb)
Females: 18 � 30 kg (40 - 66 lb).
The Canadian Eskimo Dog's temperament reflects its original work and environment. It is loyal, tough, brave, intelligent, and alert. It is affectionate and gentle, and develops a deep bond with its owner and is intensely loyal. When used as sled dogs, they were often required to forage and hunt for their own food. Consequently, many Canadian Eskimo Dogs have stronger prey drive than some other breeds. Owing to their original environment, they take pure delight in cold weather, often preferring to sleep outside in cold climates. Like most spitz breeds they can be very vocal.
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Canadian Eskimo Dogs need a very large amount of exercise. They cannot just be walked, they need higher intensity work, requiring more exercise than many dog owners can give. This need for work and stimulation also makes them well suited for dog sports, such as carting, mushing, and skijoring. They are very trainable and submissive, unlike many spitz breeds, as well as intelligent. The Canadian Eskimo Dog is best kept in a cold climate, and is prone to heatstroke. Its coat is fairly easy to care for most times of the year, needing brushing only one or two times a week. However when it sheds (which happens once a year) it will need grooming every day.
Historically, Inuit would put their dogs to the harness as soon as they could walk, and would acquire the habit of pulling sledges in their attempts to break free. At the age of two months, the pups would be placed with adult dogs. Sometimes, ten pups would be put under the lead of an older animal, coupled with frequent beatings from their masters, which would educate the pups.
The Canadian Eskimo Dog is known to have been resident in the Arctic for at least 4000 years. The Canadian Eskimo Dog was first bred by the Thule people, while research has shown that it is related to the Greenland dog, with very little significant genetic differences. It is sometimes considered the same breed by authorities, although the Greenland dog can be criticized for lacking any proper breeding program, questioning its validity as a pure breed. Inuit never considered the dog as part of the animal kingdom (uumajuit), but merely as a tool for human existence. It was, and still is (to a very limited extent), used by the Canadian Inuit as multi-purpose dogs, often put to work hunting seals and other Arctic game, and hauling supplies and people. Explorers noted that the dogs were capable of tracking a seal hole from a great distance, and were occasionally used to hunt polar bears. The dogs were reported to be so enthusiastic in hunting bears that, sometimes, their handlers shouted "nennook" (their name for the bear) to encourage them when pulling sledges. The dogs however would not pursue wolves, and would howl fearfully at their approach. Frozen dog urine was used by Inuit as a medicine, and their fur was more prized than that of wolves, due to its greater resistance to wear. In times of famine, the dogs would be used as an emergency food source. Though once assumed to be a tamed wolf or wolf-dog hybrid by explorers, including Charles Darwin due to similarities in appearance and vocalisations, genetic testing has shown that the Eskimo dog has no recent wolf ancestry.
There is some debate surrounding the decline of the breed. Often the introduction of the snowmobile is cited as the main contributing factor. In the 19th century and early 20th century this breed was in demand for polar expeditions. When snowmobiles came into use, the population numbers started rapidly declining, because snowmobiles are faster and need less care. In the 1920s there were approximately 20,000 dogs living in the Canadian Arctic, and the breed had been accepted for showing by both the AKC and CKC; however, in 1959 the AKC dropped the breed from its registry because of extremely low numbers. Inuit communities have gone on record for blaming the breed's decline on mass killings that occurred during the 1950s to 1970s. Many claim that the RCMP and other persons in authority killed Inuit sled dogs systematically and determinedly. It is proposed this was done to disrupt Inuit culture and way of life. Though there there is no major consensus, by 1963 there was supposedly only one dog registered with the CKC, and when this dog died there were still no others registered.
It probably would have gone extinct if not for the Eskimo Dog Research Foundation (EDRF). The EDRF was founded in 1972 by William Carpenter and John McGrath and was largely funded by the Canadian Government and the Northwest Territories, with some support from the CKC. The EDRF purchased dogs from the small (about 200 dogs) population remaining in the Canadian Arctic from remote Inuit camps on Baffin Island, Boothia Peninsula, and Melville Peninsula. The EDRF then began breeding dogs in order to increase numbers.
The Canadian Eskimo Dog is still very rare; however, it is becoming more popular in Arctic tourism, with an increasing number of sled dog teams that entertain tourists. This new-found popularity is because tourists often enjoy seeing the dogs in their natural environment doing what they are meant for. On May 1, 2000, the Canadian territory of Nunavut officially adopted the "Canadian Inuit Dog" as the animal symbol of the territory, thus sealing the name of their traditional dog, qimmiq in the Inuktitut language. This was recorded in the Hansard 01/05/2000 of the Legislative Assembly of the Nunavut Territory.


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I'm considering the above combination- basically I'm looking for a better "standard zoom" than the 12-50 mm kit lens. How would focusing speed compare between the 2 lenses? It's my understanding it will autofocus on the OM-D, correct? Another possible option would be the 12-60mm f/2.8-4 ED SWD. I don't mind the increased size/weight, but I don't want to lose auto operation/focusing speed... and I don't want to go with a Panasonic lens, as I shoot JPEG- and don't want to deal with CA issues. Thanks for any advice!
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When the crts have completed evolution to be as competitive as factory bikes they would realise there is no such thing as cheaper gp racing, as ELECTRONICS ARE NEEDED. If electronics helped calm a PBM ART bike it means there is no way u can be competitive on a gp bike without aid. U can have the best of everything but if the bike is uncontrollable everything is useless. U can even put rossi or lorenzo on it n it will still be at the back.


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URLyBird [...] take bookings only within 48 hours of the start of room occupancy.
Did your instructions have anything extra?
Did you put anything in your design decisions about the 48 hours?
What did the examiner say in their comments?
Anyway, we'll be graded by human beings. With a "MUST-BE-ONLY" development, it's possible that your grader thinks "Great ! The shortest assignment I ever saw, I'll save time with that guy !" and that you get a high score thanks to that. The same grader on another mood (or another grader), could "Mmh... This guy really did the minimum in all areas" and ... (I let you guess ).
I documented all my reasoning regarding this very well in both the choices document and the user guide.
"This application fails because it does not meet the application specifications. The sepcification states that "URLyBird" is a broker of discount hotel rooms. They take bookings only within 48 hours of the start of room occupancy. The submission does not meet this requirement. The application allows bookings for any rom an any time with no date checking. It even allows users to book rooms for dates in the past."
This application fails because it does not meet the application specifications. The sepcification states that "URLyBird" is a broker of discount hotel rooms. They take bookings only within 48 hours of the start of room occupancy. The submission does not meet this requirement. The application allows bookings for any rom an any time with no date checking. It even allows users to book rooms for dates in the past."
Bookings should only be taken within 48 hours of the start of room occupancy. You should consider this rule before booking a room. The current release of this application will not prevent you from booking a room outside of this 48-hour window. However, you need to take this into account before choosing to book a room.
A 48-hour business rule was mentioned in the specs. I decided not to implement this in the application. Instead, I include this business rule in the User Guide and expect the CSRs to handle this rule manually. My application allows the booking of any room that has not already been booked for the following reasons: 1. Many rooms in my database file are either for rooms way in the future or way in the past. Implementing this business rule would allow for not very many rooms in my database to be booked. 2. There is currently no GUI administration type of function in this application that would allow updating the available date of rooms. Also, there is no GUI functionality for adding new records. The scope of the assignment deals strictly with searching and booking, so once a room is booked, it stays booked with no updates to either the owner or date available fields. 3. The instructions say the "marking process will expect the exact same data without any changes". I wanted to make sure that there will be records out there in my database that the user/grader can successfully book. 4. There also could be many issues dealing with different time zones that would need to be researched before implementing date functionality. I would need to talk to the users more to gain a better understanding of their requirements before coding this rule. This 48 hour booking restriction could certainly be a future enhancement that is implemented at the same time as enhancements for administrative type functions.
I posted a separate posting regarding my appeal frustrations. (separate appeal posting) Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get them to respond to me? I have no idea if they are actually considering my appeal or not. I have heard nothing back, despite multiple emails requesting a status.
I have sent an appeal to Sun regarding my 48 hour autofailure. However, I am very frustrated because I have heard nothing back from them. This whole thing started back in February. I'll put the timeline of what has happened below. 2/20 - received initial auto-fail in database 2/20 - emailed high level appeal to the who2contact email 2/23 - a Sun rep sent a question to my grader and he responded 2/23 - Sun rep sent response back to me (I disagree with his response) 2/23 - I sent a detail appeal request back to this Sun rep 3/8 - sent email requesting status to same Sun rep 3/14 - sent email requesting status to who2contact address (w/email trail) 3/18 - talked with a new Sun person in Educational Services (Colorado) and sent him the email trail - he was going to chase it down 3/25 - talked with a different Sun person in Educational Services. Found out that the original Educational Services guy was now on vacation for a week. She asked me to send her the email trail Ughhhhhh!!! Will this ever end? Is this typical? I would expect that they would tell me if they were not considering my appeal, but I don't know. Does anyone have any other ideas on how I can get them to respond to me? I really don't want to dump the $$$$ for resubmission if I don't have to. I just want to find out if they are still considering my appeal or not. Ideas anyone??? Thanks. TJ
I think that Phil has gotten slightly ahead of himself on this. Terry, I am sorry to know that you have to go through all this. Both myself and Vlad have implemented the 48 Hours rule in our submitted assignment. If you do a search on my name or the memeber id, you will find the thread where Vlad actually suggested an alternate strategy for me to parse the date field. I actually have implmented the check for both 48 Hours range as well as to disallow the booking if the date is in the past.
Phil, the thread that you have mentioned above, I was trying to caution Linda not to go overboard in terms of implementing an administrative GUI front-end to manage the date data.
Just focus on all the MUSTS in the problem statement. What I did is that I extracted out all those MUST statements and made a separate document. I kept referring to this document throughout my SCJD effort to keep myselft focused. These are the things that you MUST absolutely do. Don't worry about "nice to haves."
Nicholas: I am pretty sure that Vlad did not implement the 48H rule as I have sent him a private message on Dec 17, 2003 regarding this issue after he received his result.
URLyBird takes booking only within 48 hours of the start of room occupancy. However, based on the data given in the database file, we think that this requirement should be a business background process, rather than implementation requirement. Thus, we decide not to add this constraint to the system, and we assume that there is another program which caters for updating the database file, such that the data inside the file fits the 48-hour booking requirement. The system relies on this program to display data and book the rooms without further checking.
In our assumption, we have not added the 48 hours booking constraint into the system although it is easy to be implemented by the following ways: Option 1: The system displays only records with data available that within 48 hours. Users can only book those displayed records. Option 2: The system displays all available records in the database file. However, when the user clicks the book button to book a particular record, the system checks whether the record fits the 48 hours requirement. The booking will be succeed if the requirement is fit. The booking will be fail otherwise. However, since the CSRs are not allow to create new records or update existing records (except the owner field), we consider that the 48 hours booking constraint as a business process background information, which is ensure by another program that generates the records in the database file, rather than the implementation enforced in the system.
Vlad: However, I would not use arguments, that others have done the same and passed: - it is not a good argument - Sun can always say: "So what, we didn't see it. If have seen it the others would also fail".
Terry: If I do get to a point where they are not listening to my arguments, I may push them to find out if the criteria which cause auto-failure is objective or subjective (i.e. the whim of the grader). This would indirectly deal with the fact that others have passed, but yet not use an argument that really wouldn't get me anywhere.
What's really frustrating me now though is that I can't get anyone at Sun to give me a status on what's going on. I don't know if they are still considering my appeal or not, and it's been since 2/23.
Five weeks ago I disagreed with my Sun Certified Java Developer certification Exam result and sent a full description of my reasoning and a request for review. I have heard nothing back despite repeated attempts to get a basic status. Can someone please respond to these questions: 1. Is my request in the process of being reviewed? 2. Will I hear back via email when a decision has been made? Thanks.
Last night I sent another email to the general who2contact email:
Sun responded: "Your assignment is being reviewed again. I will contact you with the assessor's response within 5 business days."
The application allows bookings for any room an any time with no date checking. It even allows users to book rooms for dates in the past."


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JOSEPH — Wolfe Fleece & Clothing Company of Joseph is changing its name to Tempting Teal.
Owner Deve Wolfe opened her original business, Wolfe Fleece, when she started making and selling socks in a tiny rented space in Joseph. In its 15-year history the small boutique that has occupied a number of Main Street locations has evolved into a full-scale clothing and accessories store.
"Our initial focus was handcrafted fleece, and the entire business model was based on that," said Wolfe. "But as the market for fleece became more and more saturated we included clothing and accessories, and then shoes."
Wolfe said the name change came about due to the confusion of visitors who still think the store is focused on fleece products, or sells rolls of fleece fabric.
"We'll still have the same products, the same brands, just a new name," said Wolfe, who also wants customers to know that their two favorite fleece products — their signature socks and the popular line of baby products — will still be available. "Those are still great sellers for us, and we will keep stocking those for our customers."
Wolfe built her business by stocking brands that customers recognize and love from Fox Croft no-wrinkle blouses, to Jag and Silver Jeans, to Rocket Dog, Sanuk and Riecker shoes.
"Living in Wallowa County, we may not have the need to dress up all the time, but women still want to look good," said Wolfe. "We try to help them do that."
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As a realtor in Portland Oregon I am aware of many different types of loan programs, bonds, grants, etc that are available to encourage home ownership. Recently, I was involved with a new client who wanted to buy a home in Portland Oregon. Unfortunately, like a lot of first time home buyers she didn't have money for a down payment until she went through the necessary steps and was awarded the Down Payment Assistance Loan (DPAL). The Down Payment Assistance Loan (DPAL) Program is a homebuyer assistance tool designed for first time, low-to-moderate income homebuyers interested in purchasing a home in the Interstate Corridor or Lents Town Center Urban Renewal Areas.
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- Combined liquid assets cannot exceed $10,000 at closing. (basically you cannot have more than $10k available to you)
- Buyer must invest at least $1,000 into transaction (can be owned funds or gift funds)
There are more details of the loan that you should know, but those are the main points of the program for now. For additional info you can call or email me today. I will post Down Payment Assistance Loan (DPAL) in Portland Oregon part 2 later this week which will give you additional info and how to get started!
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I manufacture a device that uses a 0-5V TTL data input to a 4N35 optocoupler. I have a 47 ohm resistor and T 1-3/4 LED in series with the optoupler to give me a visual input status and current limit. All works fine in normal use, but it blows the resistor, LED, and/or resistor when customers accidently connect the 24V power supply input to the data input connector. I need to come up with reliable overvoltage/overcurrent protection on the data input. A fuse is not an option since the device will be potted in epoxy. I was thinking that replacing the 47 ohm resistor with a PTC would be a good option. Is there a better way to do this?
use zener diode 5v before 47 ohm resistor for limit input v.
Resistor + PTC + zener across LED, protects from reveres polarity. Your 47 ohm unless is 12watts will not last long at 24V.
If you're still looking for a solution I'll post one here. From your description the circuit you have is not really TTL "legal." It might not respond at a minimum legal logic 1 input.
To be fully TTL compatible yet withstand continous 24 volts will require a more sophisticated input circuit.


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Gift Basket Auction for Senior Center
Let the bidding begin- the annual "It's a Basket Case" silent auction at the Hammond Street Senior Center, is going on now. More than 240 gift baskets are on display at the center this week from 8:30 to 4:30.
Each basket is filled with merchandise that's been donated by local businesses, organizations, and community members. Everything from sweet treats to weekend get-aways are up for bid this year, and each penny earned from the auction goes directly to the senior center's operating costs. If you can't make it during normal hours, there will be a special Thursday night session at 6 PM with refreshments. The bidding will wrap up around 1 PM on Friday, December 7th.
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|Mike Thompson (Photo: Jim Wilson/The New York Times)
If you missed it, Lipton's report suggests that Thompson has benefitted financially by his twofold role as farmer and congressman. For one, according to the article, two wineries paid Thompson $500,000 for sauvignon-blanc grapes from his 20-acre vineyard in Lake County during a stretch when their executives were appealing to Congress on various legislative matters. The Times didn't have to dig far to get these figures; they're in a financial-disclosure form Thompson completed two years ago.
The article suggests that at least one of the wineries, Bonterra in Mendocino County, overpaid Thompson for the grapes, thereby hinting that maybe he got a bonus for his steadfast support of the North State's wine trade. Bonterra paid $978 per ton for the fruit when the Lake County average for sauvignon blanc was $877. Never mind that the article doesn't say that Thompson ever interceded on behalf of Bonterra in these matters. On top of that, lots of factors could explain the disparity in prices - the quality of the grapes, their sugar levels, the ability of seller to persuade or outwit the buyer about the nature of his fruit. An average is just that, an average; no doubt, some growers in Lake County got a lot less than the average for their sauvignon blanc while others got a lot more. (Last fall, the price paid for sauvignon blanc grown in Lake County ranged from $200 per ton to $2,800, according to state tabulations; Thompson told The Times that his vineyard last year brought him just an $18,000 profit.)
The article also claims that Thompson stands to gain financially if federal authorities designate the Big Valley area in which he grows his grapes an American Viticultural Area, a proposal he supports. The theory behind this allegation is that small appellations like Big Valley are more prestigious than larger appellations like Lake County, and therefore command more money for their grapes and wines. I think the theory is more wishful thinking than reality, but I sure would like to see members of the American Association of Wine Economists undertake a study to address the issue.
Lipton raises issues that deserve to be aired. He could have been more fair to Thompson and Times readers, however, had he done more reporting. He could, for example, have reported on the full range of prices paid for Lake County sauvignon blanc in vintages when Thompson was selling his grapes. And he could have explained why Thompson's vineyard has increased in value from the $228,000 he paid for it in 2002 to its current assessed value of about $775,000; it wasn't planted with grapes when he bought it, you think?
And in one paragraph that had me almost gagging on my morning coffee, he quotes Craig Wolf, president of the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America, as suggesting that Thompson's twin roles violate Congressional ethics rules. Couldn't Lipton find anyone more credible to offer that thought so high up in the story than Wolf? Wolf and Thompson are longtime adversaries, with the wholesalers doggedly trying to monopolize the sale of alcoholic beverages to their own benefit while Thompson advocates more freedom in how Americans go about buying wine. The article would be more convincing had Lipton found other critics of Thompson, especially within his congressional district. When you look at a map of that district, which includes at least parts of Yolo, Napa, Sonoma, Lake, Mendocino, Humboldt and Del Norte counties, including thousands of acres of wine grapes and hundreds of wineries, you can see why Thompson is so supportive of the wine trade. But it's an area rich with environmentalists and others who question the wisdom of converting so much open land to vineyards, and yet Lipton apparently couldn't find anyone to suggest that Thompson has been less than thoughtful and fair in accommodating their concerns.
Thompson has been curiously quiet in the wake of Lipton's article. Maybe he's shrugging it off because the piece simply didn't build a strong case that he's done anything wrong. Nonetheless, I'd like to see a specific accounting and justification for the $1.2 million Thompson has taken in campaign contributions from the alcoholic beverage industry during his seven terms. And I do think he should recuse himself from any involvement in deliberations concerning whether Big Valley will be an officially designated American Viticultural Area, even though I question whether any vineyard within such an appellation would benefit significantly by the designation. Overall, though, Thompson looks to be guilty of nothing more than bringing home to his district various cuts of Washington pork, which, ironically, generally pairs quite nicely with sauvignon blanc.


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Meizu MX Quad-core official with Exynos, Android 4.0
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Meizu MX Quad-core ups ante
Meizu started its week in China with the MX Quad-core. The design promises to be one of the fastest phones on the market, partly through its using a Samsung chip instead of the NVIDIA Tegra 3. While shy on details, Meizu mentioned it as an Exynos based on a 32-nanometer ARM Cortex-A9 design, likely making it the Exynos 4412 and giving it a 1.5GHz clock speed.
The company claims the move to quad-core will actually be more power efficient, reducing power use by about a fifth. To hedge its claims, however, it has increased the battery capacity by 100mAh to 1,700mAh.
Several other upgrades are coming over the original MX, including Android 4.0 out of the box with the Flyme OS interface already in place. Storage has also doubled and now starts at 32GB. Colors get their own boost, as the plain white original hue is being joined by four pastel back covers.
The four-inch, 640x960 LCD and eight-megapixel back camera stay the same as before.
Pricing comes in at roughly the same prices as the MX did when it first shipped, starting at 2,999 yuan ($476) for a 32GB version in mainland China and 3,999 yuan ($635) for a 64GB edition. The two will ship in June. Hong Kong residents pay $3,099 HK ($399 US) or $4,099 HK ($528). The original, dual-core MX is now either 2,399 yuan or $2,599 HK ($381 or $335).


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the ULTIMATE POOL PREVIEW 03-04 is now up for grabs!!!
There it is, poolers, the ULTIMATE POOL PREVIEW!!!What is it, again? Well basically, it's a tool for all the poolers outthere that can complete or even replace all the 10$ hockey guides you can find.
340 players with individuals 2002-2003 stats including ice-time average and PP time average plus all the projected points by guides such as: The Hockey News, McKeen's, Forecaster & The Sporting News (TSN).
You'll also be able to quickly see if a player is in his final contract year or his first contract year. There are also team rankings and goalie rankings with last year stats and next year projections. All the unsigned and injured players are clearly listed as well.
New feature this year: I added a "Top Players" section where you can easily find the top-6 forwards, top-3 d-man and #1 goalie of each team for quick searches when drafting in a live pool.
Like I stated in the previous post, it really works: I have the stats to prove it, it comes really close to what kind of season the players will have next year and it's why it is the ULTIMATE POOL PREVIEW!
As a long time pooler myself, I included all the little things that make the difference, all the things that will help help you win your pool or help you quickly choose between 2 players for example.
even though it took me weeks of efforts and cost me a bit of money, I am gladly giving it away to whoever might be interested, the only thing I ask for is that the person receiving it might be kind enough to review it and give me his/her thoughts so I can upgrade it even more next time. So far I only received great comments from people who reviewed it so check it out and see for yourself!
you can ask for it by PM'ing me or Mikster or you can also drop me an email to email@example.com and I'll send the file to you all.
Satisfied customers so far:
"After only a quick look i have only 1 thing to say WOW. This looks great." -Trademan
"It is an interesting mix of stats and projections. The wildly different player
projections does seem to give a good mix" -CWThrash
"I think you did a more than….spectacular job. You really hit it bud, awesome
job." -Mikster
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WORTHINGTON - The Southwest Crisis Center is seeking the public's help to furnish a room for children at the center. In the past when an adult came in to speak with an advocate regarding domestic violence or sexual assault, there was no place for a child to sit or play or even nap. Sometimes when a parent leaves a home in a hurry because of domestic violence, they bring nothing more than their children and the clothes on their back. A room at the crisis center has now been designated as a children's room, but they need help furnishing it. Here at Radio Works, we decided to give them a hand in getting the word out and collecting items.
Here's a list of items the Southwest Crisis Center is looking for to furnish the children's room:
~ A Pack n Play type portable crib would be a wonderful addition to the children's room. Somewhere to safely put an infant or small child down for a nap.
~ They already have a TV, DVD player and VCR for the children's room, but they need family movies that are non-violent and suitable for ages toddler to mid-teen. DVD or VCR format will work.
~ Non-violent board games, please make sure all parts and pieces are included.
~Simple craft and art supplies to keep children occupied, including family-type color books and crayons.
~ Bean bag chairs, new or gently used toys for children infant through mid-teens.
~A Wii counsel, controller and non-violent games.
~ Socks in all kid sizes from infant to mid-teen.
~An artificial Christmas tree.
~Kids' journals
~ Gift cards to local merchants to purchase basic clothing, toys or gifts for children victims.
~Gift cards to book stores.
For more information, please contact the Southwest Crisis Center at 376-4311 or email email@example.com. Items can also be dropped off at Radio Works at 28779 Highway 35, Worthington.
Please bring the items to Radio Works or contact the Southwest Crisis Center about delivery by October 25. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, so this is a great way to show your awareness, clean out a few gently used kid items and offer comfort to a traumatized child. Contact email@example.com or give me a call at 376-6165 with any questions.
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PITTSBURGH—A Pittsburgh man serving three life terms deserves a new trial in the death of three city firefighters, but the retrial will be delayed while prosecutors appeal the judge's decision.
Allegheny County Judge Joseph Williams on Wednesday ruled 36-year-old Gregory Brown Jr. deserved the new trial because prosecutors didn't reveal that the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and firearms paid one witness a $5,000 reward.
That witness testified he wasn't promised any money for his testimony, which Williams said could have been used to impeach his credibility had Brown's defense known about the reward.
Brown was 17 when he allegedly set the Feb. 14, 1995 fire for the insurance money. Firefighters Thomas Brooks, Patricia Conroy and Marc Kolenda died in the blaze.
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Have you ever wondered why you get so much SPAM (junk mail) in your email inbox? Where do they get your address from, and why do they send it? There are essentially two reasons. First is the same reason that Pepsi pays $25 million for a thirty second Super Bowl ad: exposure equals sales. Secondly, […]
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The first time I signed into a chat room, nearly 16 years ago, I don't think I realized how young World Wide Web actually was. At that time I knew about America Online, Netscape Navigator, and CompuServe; in fact I thought everyone knew about those things. The reality is, I was there during the infancy […]
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(CENTRE DAILY TIMES) — A Centre County jury will hear the child sex abuse case against Jerry Sandusky, a judge ruled this morning.
Senior Judge John M. Cleland denied prosecutors' request to bring in out-of-county jurors.
Prosecutors had argued that the intense publicity surrounding the case and residents' deep connection to Penn State would taint a potential jury pool. Sandusky and his attorney argued they want an in-county jury and disagreed with the prosecution's rationale.
They laid out their arguments during a hearing Friday.
In his order, Cleland said it's not possible to know if a potential juror can be fair until he or she is asked.
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You probably already know that lending money to friends or relatives can be fraught with risk. Your generous offer of a personal loan may lead to resentment, anger and even cause cherished relationships to end. Yet you're going to do it anyway.
OK, we won't try to talk you out of it. But at least be smart about it. Often, people will fork over cash with minimal discussion or agreement. That approach may avoid uncomfortable conversations, but it is a surefire recipe for misunderstandings and frustration, say experts.
A better tack is to ask some important questions of yourself and the borrower, lay out a clear written agreement, then follow up regularly.
Not sure where to start? This four-step guide will help you handle requests for money from friends and relatives:
Step 1: Ask questions of yourself
Don't be rushed into a hasty decision. After being asked to lend money, it's OK to take a little time to evaluate the request and revisit it after having time to think. The questions you should ask yourself include:
"I say to people, 'Recognize that you are becoming a bank,'" Chomakos says. "If you're not willing to go enforce that to make sure you get repaid, then you may not want to do this."
For instance, Maggie Baker, a licensed psychologist and author of "Crazy About Money: How Emotions Confuse Our Money Choices and What to Do About It," says she once discounted a fee for a client who said he couldn't afford the full price of a session. But the next time he showed up, she noted that he drove a Lexus and wore an expensive leather jacket, which made her second-guess her decision to cut him a break on her fee. The same dynamic applies to personal loans.
Baker says a lot of people simply lend money without thinking through the potential consequences to their relationships. "I understand the temptation of that, but I would advise people to look at the complexities of what they're getting into," she says.
Step 2: Ask questions of the borrower
The potential borrower is your friend or relative. You are being asked for money. Although it is uncomfortable, you have a right to ask hard questions and have an honest discussion. For example, you should ask:
"Use your personal experience and history with this individual to make a wise decision," advises Timothy Burke, founder and CEO of National Family Mortgage, which manages home-financing arrangements between family members. "We tend to know if the folks in our lives are on the responsible side or the irresponsible side. Do they take their responsibilities seriously, or do they tend to make excuses?"
The same is true if the borrower wants money to start a business: Make sure he or she has a well-developed business plan that sounds plausible and has a chance to succeed, says Sean Castrina, author of "8 Unbreakable Rules for Business Start-Up Success."
"That way, you honor the friendship and stay engaged, but you also put up your own need not to do this," she says.
Step 3: Craft a written agreement
You'll want a written agreement, called a promissory note, that spells out how and when you are to be repaid. Having such an agreement doesn't guarantee the borrower will pay you back. However, it helps remove ambiguities about the financial arrangement and serves as evidence should you decide to sue to recover money you are owed.
The promissory note solves one of the biggest problems in these friendly loans: divergent recollections of the terms of the arrangements. A 2012 study in the Journal of Economic Psychology showed that borrowers were more likely than lenders to remember the money as a gift, rather than as a loan. Recollections also differed on whether the loans had been repaid.
"You should absolutely have a promissory note because that will be your best evidence about repayment," Chomakos says.
A simple IOU is better than nothing. There are plenty of forms on the Internet, too: both free and paid (from legal-services sites such as LegalZoom or RocketLawyer, and sites that focus on personal loans, such as LendingKarma and LoanBack). Or you can use the free sample promissory note form developed by CreditCards.com in conjunction with a lawyer. For simple arrangements, these forms will work fine.
The agreement should be clear on the following points:
Also, know that you won't be able to report loan payments to credit bureaus. They are not set up to accept reports from individuals.
Step 4: Follow up
If you have followed the previous steps -- asking the right questions and devising a loan agreement that works for both of you -- the borrower should know you're serious about being repaid.
Rather than hounding the borrower every month, you might suggest he or she set up a recurring payment from a bank account. Or if you want someone else to deal with the billing and payment reminders, online services such as LoanBack and LendingKarma specialize in personal loans and offer the ability to send email reminders and monitor loan payments.
If the borrower starts missing payments, that's when your tough decisions start. Think of how a bank would handle it: Reach out to the person and see what the problem is. Maybe you can find a new arrangement that satisfies you both. But if the borrower is consistently missing payments, you might have to go to small claims court or hire a lawyer.
That sounds like a drastic step, and maybe one you choose not to take because you value the relationship. But you will have prepared for it by being professional and having made the borrower aware of the risks.
Says Burke: "The attitude you really need to take is if you truly value the relationship, you need to treat the arrangement like a business transaction."
See related: How to say 'no' to loved one's money requests, Mom's on the hook for co-signed student loans


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New York isn't willing to go seven years (yet) for Cliff Lee as two other mystery teams have done so far, but GM Brian Cashman is gearing up to make a big six-year offer that lands in the $140 million to $150 million range as SI.com's Jon Heyman reports. That would place an average annual salary of $23 million to $25 million on the deal, which would make him the second-highest paid pitcher in history when looking at AAV. Current Yankee CC Sabathia has $23 million on the nose, which Lee likely will eclipse. The highest-paid pitcher is Roger Clemens and his ridiculous $28 million AAV for the Yankees in 2007, although the deal was pro-rated as Clemens signed in midseason.
The Rangers probably can't hang with Lee on the total numbers, but president Nolan Ryan expressed optimism that the club could retain Lee, saying that he values winning which may make the seven-year offers -- depending on which teams offered them, of course -- invalid. In addition, Texas has no state tax which would allow it to make lower offers but still hang with the Yankees on total actual dollars.
Here's Joe Girardi talking about Lee and Derek Jeter:
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Northeastern Louisiana has thawed out from the February freezes, and there are slight signs that spring will soon return.
Jes' Ramblin' takes this opportunity for a late winter salute to the local men and women serving in the United States Armed Forces.
Air Force Airman Jacari D. Davis graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas. Davis is the son of Regina Craig of Rayville. He is a 2012 graduate of Rayville High School. ...


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Key Zimbabwean Opposition Leader Set Free
But real progress remains elusive.
4:23 PM, May 10, 2010 • By JOHN NOONAN
There was big, though somewhat underreported, news out of Zimbabwe today. Roy Bennett, an opposition leader jailed for bogus terrorism charges, was just acquitted by a high court in Harare. I've written about Bennett before--and his persecution by a malevolent Mugabe government--pointing out that the government's case was beyond absurd. His imprisonment nearly gridlocked power-sharing proceedings between Mugabe's ruling party and Bennett's Movement for Democratic Change, unnecessarily holding up economic and social reforms that were desperately needed.
Though Zimbabwe's population is still anguishing under Mugabe's brutal, totalitarian regime, there's some cause for optimism here. For the first time in years, Zimbabwe's courts have demonstrated a degree of autonomy -- ruling against the government in a major, highly publicized case. Add to this the fact that an enormous hurdle to the aforementioned reforms has been lifted, somewhat easing tensions between the feuding political parties.
Unfortunately, beyond those two small rays of light, Zimbabwe remains Zimbabwe. The only real solution to the nation's woes is to somehow dislodge Mugabe and his ZANU party from power, allowing for real, meaningful reforms to help the small African nation stand again.
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