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Rondo for Dwight Howard ?
What a terrible , horrible idea.
Dwight Howard is the most overrated player in the NBA and he'd never sign a contract extension with Boston. You're gonna trade Rondo and hope Dwight Howard keeps his word ?
This is the idiot who destroyed the Orlando franchise. All he had to do was play out his contract but he opted in for the final year at the last minute ? Then he forces Orlando to trade him , they do him a favor by sending him to the Lakers and he can't handle the spotlight ? Does anyone think he'd be able to handle the spotlight in Boston ? Or play for Doc Rivers ? Or cope with the insane Boston sports fans ? Or live in Massachusetts ?
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Wilmington | Wilmington police are investigating a home invasion Tuesday night in which three men and two women stormed an apartment near UNCW.
The incident was reported at 10:40 p.m. at The Glen Apartments off Tulane Drive near the University of North Carolina Wilmington campus, said Linda Rawley, Wilmington Police Department spokeswoman.
Rawley said a tenant heard a knock at the door, and when he opened it, several people rushed inside. The occupants -- five men and one woman -- were then tied up and the suspects took electronics and money before leaving.
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Owings Mills, MD (Sports Network) - The Baltimore Ravens have listed running
back Bernard Pierce as questionable for Sunday's tilt with the Cleveland
Pierce has been limited in practice all week by a thigh injury. The compliment
to starter Ray Rice ran for 22 yards on nine attempts during Baltimore's 49-27
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Wednesday, could see action if Pierce can't play.
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Alabama fire marshals are surveying the damage from a fire at Choctaw County High School in Butler.
The school was badly damaged in the fire reported about 7:45 p.m. Tuesday.
The fire appeared to heavily damage the west wing, which consists of mostly classrooms, the science lab and computer room.
The fire was contained at about 2 a.m. Wednesday, but small flames were still visible at that time. Fire breaks prevented the blaze from spreading further. Some of the walls in the building had started to lean.
The Alabama State Fire Marshal's Office began surveying the scene after the heat of the fire subsided about 9 a.m. Wednesday. The cause was not immediately known.
Classes were suspended Wednesday for the high school but school was held as normal at other district campuses.
Choctaw County High School was built in 2005.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. – Iowa State men's golf made a move in round two of the NCAA Columbia Regional this afternoon, carding a 2-under 286 tally. ISU's solid round jumped the Cyclones up to sixth place in the team race with their two-round 579 total.
The top five teams at the regional will advance to the NCAA Championship, May 23-28 at the Prairie Dunes Country Club in Hutchinson, Kansas. Arizona State currently occupies the fifth and final spot at 576, just three strokes ahead of the Cyclones with the final round tomorrow.
Arkansas and Oklahoma State are the 36-hole leaders at 559.
The Cyclones posted consistent and steady rounds from Ruben Sondjaja (70), Scott Fernandez (71), Sam Daley (72) and Collin Foster (73) en route to the fourth-best round of the day.
Sondjaja, a freshman from Sydney, Australia, is currently tied for 13th at 142 (72-70) to pace the Cyclones. The rookie went 3-under in his final 14 holes this afternoon.
Fernandez, an All-American who is competing in his third-straight NCAA Regional, is currently tied for 16th at 143 (72-71). Fernandez's round was aided by an 11-hole stretch where he went 4-under. He had five birdies on his card today.
Daley is in a tie for 27th at 146 (74-72) and Foster is tied for 31st at 148 (75-73).
The tournament concludes tomorrow with 18 holes.
Team Scores
1. Oklahoma State 272-287=559
Arkansas 288-270=559
3. Missouri 281-280=561
5. Arizona State 291-285=576
6. Iowa State 293-286=579
7. San Diego State 294-288=582
8. Iowa 291-294=585
9. Virginia 285-303=588
10. Middle Tennessee State 301-292=593
11. Denver 300-301=601
12. Loyola (Md.) 308-294=602
13. Ohio State 308-303=611
14. Bryant 316-316=632
Iowa State Scores
T13. Ruben Sondjaja 72-70=142
T16. Scott Fernandez 72-71=143
T27. Sam Daley 74-72=146
T31. Collin Foster 75-73=148
74. Jack Carter 81-81=162
Top Individuals
1. Hunter Kraus, Missouri 68-69=137
2. Taylor Moore, Arkansas 71-67=138
Jordan Niebrugge, Oklahoma State 65-73=138
Max Rottluff, Arizona State 71-67=138


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I didn't see any discussion regarding the issue of the Zimbra Connector for iSync running on Leopard's latest release, 10.5.5. I googled this and found a couple of others reporting the same problem however there was no resolve.
I have been using the Zimbra connector with Mac Mail and it works fine. Since 10.5.5 my computer has constantly been grinding away and looking at the activity monitor I see "ZimbraHelper" consuming a lot of the CPU and also Virtual Memory. If I force quit the process, my computer returns to normal.
However I have mine syncing my Calendar and Address Book every minute, so each time it sync's, the same thing happens all over again.
Right now I have mine set to sync manually, and I guess periodically I will Sync and then kill the process off in Activity Monitor. My mail is unaffected of course as it doesn't use the connector and is set on its own in Mail - Preferences to sync every minute.
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Author and journalist Isabel Wilkerson will discuss her book "The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration" on Feb. 29 at North Central College. The New York Times and national bestseller follows the story of African-American families leaving the Jim Crow South during the Great Migration.
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Day 1 in Newton IowaWritten by on June 5, 2010
Day 1 of the 2010 Hot Rod Power Tour started out with some rain. But that won't stop the 2500 or more participants! Iowa Speedway track officials brought out the track druvers to get the water off the parking area for the cars. Then promptly at 9 am cars started rolling in.
So the 2010 Hot Rod Power Tour is underway. And you'll find coverage here. We'll live streaming video, Facebook updates, Tweets, and plenty of photos right here at HotRod.com. Don't miss any of it!
As day one of the 2010 Hot Rod Power Tour continues Lucas Oil and E3 Spark Plugs have setup their dyno and are looking for serious horsepower. Each day the participant with the highest horsepower number wins a leather jacket. This 2010 Gran Sport Corvette was first on the dyno in pursuit of the leather jacket.
Miss Hot Rod, Veronica Jensen, is at the Painless Performance booth signing autographs. She'll be in every city so don't miss your chance to get your autographed poster!
Because of the earlier rain the drag racing was delayed. Once the track was dried cars lined up to test their meddle on the 1/8-mile infield track.
We'll have more videos and photos as the day goes on!
During the afternoon in Newton, IA on the 2010 Hot Rod Power Tour master car designer and builder Chip Foose stopped by the Magnaflow rig and signed autographs for teh crowd. We heard people waited up to three hours for their opportunity to meet Chip.
Every day on the Tour the Austin Hatcher Foundation will be hosting a PInewood Derby wuth eliminations and finals. Stop by and get your derby car, build it and race it for a good cause. While you're there you see the 2010 Hurst Special Edition Mustang Pace Car. Built for the Ford Racing Mustang Challenge for the Miller Cup racing series, this car is full of Ford Racing goodies.
GM Performance Division brought a paddock full of cars this year, including a Gran Sport Corvette and several new Camaros. Here in Newton Linda Vaughan was in GM's booth signing autographs.
Along with the drag racing earlier today, participants had the opportunity to take a few laps around the 7/8-mile Iowa Speedway. The proceeds from the ride are going to the Iowa Speedway Foundation.
Wrapping up day one of the 2010 Hot Rod Power Tour in Newton, Iowa we focus on the activities on the stage. All day we kept an eye on the clouds as storms threatened to end activities. We lucked out about made it through the day with no rain until after day one wrapped up.
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Chase Worthington bought this '71 Suburban three years ago and now that he's graduating from high school this year, his parents, Bill and Debbie, decided to take him on the Power Tour for his graduation present.Wayne Russell of DeKalb, IL built this '65 Comet over the last seven years building the car. He's been through every inch turning the Comet into a show stopper! It includes a D.S.S. Racing 331-inch stroker small block, Auto Meter gauges and electric exhaust cutouts.
The Power Tour always presents challenges to participants. We found Bill Andy and his original-owner '68 Chevelle being worked on by Comp Cams......The new 496ci stroker and TCI transmission were put in the car two hours before he left for the Tour...Everybody knows the stage is where you want to be in the afternoon. For most of the giveaways on Power Tour you have to be there to win.
While on stage he helped Magnaflow give away a complete stainless exhaust system from Magnaflow to Howard Moon for his Chevy short bed.Hot Rod Publisher Jerry Pitt had a special prize for those who bought a brand new car within the last year.Sr. Vice President and Group Publisher of Hot Rod Doug Evans, introduces Craig Schontz of GM Performance Division Presenting Sponsor of the Hot Rod Power Tour.


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These fragrance-free facial cleansing cloths are a good option for those with normal to dry skin, with one strong caveat that applies especially to those with sensitive skin, which we find ironic given that Simple's skin-care products are aimed at people with sensitive skin. On the positive side, the detergent-free formula contains an emollient (cetearyl isononanoate) to do the "cleansing," along with lesser amounts of ingredients known as emulsifiers, which remove excess oil and dirt and some also help moisturize the skin.
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Weaknesses: Poor selection of products for oily, acne-prone skin; no options for those with discolorations; several products that claim to be great for sensitive skin but contain ingredients that will make sensitive skin worse; mostly unexciting, dated moisturizers.
Simple is a United Kingdom–based skin-care line whose self-described claim to fame is that they're the "pre-eminent brand of skincare and toiletries products developed especially for sensitive skin." They also claim to be the United Kingdom's No. 1 skin care-brand, as measured by units sold, and given the line's wide distribution and low price point, the sales figures are probably accurate. But, although their sales claim may be accurate, Simple's claims about their products being good for sensitive skin are spurious at best because too many of the ingredients are completely inappropriate for sensitive skin.
Simple skin care states the following: "Our philosophy is: Simple says - never use perfumes, dyes or harsh irritants that can upset your skin. Simple says - settle for only the purest possible ingredients. Simple says - trust the natural goodness in all of our products especially for sensitive skin." Although that's a good philosophy, most Simple products don't live up to their lofty goals. There are fragrant ingredients in many of their products, they use potentially irritating preservatives in some of their products, their sun protection products use synthetic sunscreen ingredients which aren't the best for sensitive skin, and many of their ingredients are not natural (we know their claim of natural goodness doesn't say outright that they only use natural ingredients but many consumers will think that's what's being implied)
Unfortunately, there are no standards in Europe or anywhere else that regulate which cosmetic products can be deemed suitable for sensitive skin and which cannot. Therefore, any company can make that claim for its products, regardless of what the products contain. It's not all bad news though, as several of Simple's products are fragrance-free, which is a key starting point for all skin types, especially sensitive skin.
As mentioned above, the price point for Simple is low; in fact, it is one of the least expensive cosmetic brands you'll find in either the United Kingdom or the United States. We are all for consumers getting more for their money, but in most cases with Simple you're being shortchanged, and that's not the way to save money. Most of their products are either very basic or the frills and good ingredients are but a dusting in an otherwise ordinary formula. There are few outstanding products in this line, which is similar throughout the industry.
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Fancy uzing an aiming system/method which makes things more komplikated, and more diffikult to learn, and more diffikult to remember, and less reliable.
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And it iz probly unreliable -- ie kondition of bedkloth makes a big difference to squerve.
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AMES, Iowa- The Iowa State soccer team heads to Austin, Texas to take on the Texas Longhorns Sunday at 1 p.m.
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Iowa State dropped their conference opener 2-1 against No. 15 Texas Tech in a tightly contested game. The Cyclones were led by sophomore Haley Albert, who scored a header in the 82nd minute to make a late game comeback a possibility for Iowa State. Texas Tech had only given up three goals this season prior to facing the Cyclones.
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The key matchup for this game will be how Iowa State attacks the Texas goal. The Cyclones will look to continue a potent offensive attack that took 11 shots on goal against Texas Tech in their conference opener. The Cyclones have not lost a game this season when scoring two or more goals.
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1968 Plymouth Road Runner - Junkyard BuilderWritten by on March 1, 2011 Ravaged Runners
Whether you dig Mopars or not, we must all respect the Plymouth Road Runner. No, it wasn't the first muscle car, but it was the first to be marketed to kids. While other midsize muscle cars of the day-Chevelle SS396s, Fairlane GT390s, Cutlass 442s, Pontiac GTOs, and so on-were geared toward more mature audiences and bank accounts, Plymouth appealed directly to the kiddie set. This was done in two steps. The first was by working a deal with Warner Bros. to license the Road Runner image and "Beep Beep" voice, a popular Saturday morning TV and theatrical cartoon character since 1949. The second was to price the car at $2,870, well within the range of any hard-working high school punk with a valid driver's license.
Best of all, while Plymouth could have gone soft and slapped the Road Runner stickers and horn on the base 318 Belvedere (maybe adding a four-barrel and dual pipes to spice things up), each and every '68 Road Runner came standard with a 335hp 383 wedge, a heavy-duty A833 four-speed transmission, a bulletproof 8 3/4 rear axle, 11-inch manual drum brakes, F70-14 tires, and a police/taxi suspension. And while few were built, the 426 Street Hemi was the lone engine option.
Rolled together in the aforementioned base Belvedere sedan body with a bench seat and rubber floor mat, the 383 Road Runner was a very serious performance machine that could run mid-14s at the strip, top out at 130 mph, do 0-60 in less than 7 seconds, and most of all, it could stop (the 9.5-inch standard drums installed under GM muscle cars were a joke by comparison). Total first-year sales hit 44,599 units, and surveys showed that nearly 20 percent were purchased by high school kids.
Over the next 12 years (Road Runners were offered until the end of the '80 model year), the formula matured and the legend grew. Today, Road Runners are revered by collectors, and prices are too high for most of us. That's why it was such a shock to discover this horde of ravaged Road Runners in the spring of 2010. Don't worry, they're not going to the crusher anytime soon. They're all tucked away safely at Gary Laplante's Milford, New Hampshire, salvage yard. Let's take a tour.
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•The first Road Runner cartoon was titled Fast and Furry-ous and debuted on September 16, 1949. Eat that, Vin Diesel.
•The Road Runner's unique "Beep Beep" sound was part of every episode, from the very first to present day. Veteran voice actor Paul Julian played the Road Runner from 1949 to 1995.
•Road Runner's nemesis, Wile E. Coyote, was silent until 1952 when creator Mel Blanc finally gave him a voice.
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In the trunk of this '69, we spotted hand-scrawled grease pencil markings similar to the red '68 in this roundup. But this car's mark reads 70W, indicating it was originally built with white line tires-a no-charge alternative to the Red Streaks.All '68 Runners came standard with F70-14 tires with either white or red stripes. The grease pencil marking inside the PP-1 Matador Red trunk lid was scribbled by the Lynch Road line workers as a trigger to make sure the car was equipped with an F70-14 Red Streak spare tire. This way it'd match the rest of the tires. With the optional chrome Magnum 500 wheels, this red Runner was a stunner.Up front, the black-painted "Beep Beep" horn has rusted bare and sits next to an ancient Mallory coil. Dig the moss sprouting from the juice box. For 1969, Plymouth changed the horn color from black to purple for greater eye appeal.The brushed-aluminum trunk panel tells us this '68 383 four-speed hardtop (no fixed B-pillar) was built with the Road Runner Décor Group, a $79.20 option. The same panel was standard equipment on Satellites-minus the wide, red paint stripes along the upper and lower borders of the panel.Inside, we see a vintage Sun tach and an aftermarket Hurst shifter. The OE Hurst stick was much longer and used a round woodgrain plastic ball. The general hopped-up vibe of the car led us to hope we'd stumbled onto a rare '63/'64 426 Max Wedge treasure, but the loose cylinder head is a 906 casting-common to all 383 (and 440) engines in 1969 regardless of horsepower rating. It's still a good piece, though.The '69s rear side glass carries this faded Mike's Speed Equipment sticker. The "Home of Midnight Productions" slogan refers to the many street races Mike's used to host right in front of the shop-which was located at the start of a mile-long stretch of Route 9 just outside Amherst, Massachusetts. Man, we wish this car could talk! The former Mike's Speed is now a Kubota tractor store, and Mike's has gone to horsepower heaven.Many say the best Road Runners were built before the smog police went nuts in 1972. But we're still digging this '73 400 big-block in Petty Blue (aka Basin Street Blue). With 17,443 built, '73 Road Runner sales nearly tripled the 6,159 sold in 1972. All coupe and convertible body styles were eliminated when the Plymouth B-Body was totally redesigned for 1971. Thus, all Road Runners are hardtops from 1971 onward.Don't be fooled by the flat Satellite hood. This hulk's RM23H0 VIN prefix verifies it as another '70 383 Road Runner hardtop. Total sales for 1970 shrank to 41,484 units (15,716 coupes, 23,009 hardtops, 1,935 Superbirds, and 824 convertibles) thanks to growing numbers of "me too" budget muscle offerings from the competition.Inside we get a rare look at an unmolested, base-level '70 Road Runner interior. Dig the bench seat, manual transmission floor hump, and standard three-spoke padded steering wheel. The round gauge instrument panel was first used in '68 Dodge Chargers but was adopted as the sole instrument panel for all '70 Road Runners.
The bucket seats are not correct inside this former bench-seat, column-shift TorqueFlite-automatic-equipped 400 car, but the rest of the interior is super sweet. Dig the original rubber floor mat-you paid extra for carpeting. The pair of rectangular vents in the center of the dash tell us this one was ordered with A/C.Some say this lowly 318 two-barrel-equipped (G-code) '73 isn't worthy of the Road Runner name. Just don't tell the VIN prefix, which still carries the legendary RM23 Road Runner-specific body code-as would all Runners built before 1975. At least Plymouth made sure these 318 two-barrel-powered Road Runners still carried standard dual exhaust.Based on the new F-car platform with its transverse torsion bar front suspension, the '76 was the first Road Runner not to utilize a VIN starting with the letters RM. This '76 318 coupe was smacked just hard enough to split its badly rusted frame, but we still dig the fact that Plymouth was at least trying. Packed with the base 145hp 318 two-barrel (G-code), the only alternative was a 170hp 360 two-barrel with 280 lb-ft (K-code). Clean Volares (and their Dodge Aspen cousins) are getting hard to find, but more folks than ever are warming up to their taut lines and compact dimensions.


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Probably the most exciting wine portfolio from a single vineyard in the Margaret River region
Churchview Estate has built a reputation for both quality and affordability. The estate was established by Spike and Lanie Fokkema in the late 1990s.
Now a major producer in the region, the team grow 16 different varieties on the estate which allow us to produce wines for all occasions.
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ATLANTA -- Whether it's a burnt out bulb or missing copper wire, Atlanta's interstate lights have left drivers in the dark for months. On Tuesday, 11Alive received a copy of a system wide audit, detailing the extent of the problem.
"I know that there is a need out there to make significant repairs," Public Works Commissioner Richard Mendoza told 11Alive on Tuesday.
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The city hired Brooks-Berry-Haynie & Associates to drive its network of lights, checking each one for damage and assessing repair costs. Mendoza estimates the total bill will reach close to $1 million. He says he has $250,000 right now to begin the work but will have to get council and the community's approval to spend the rest next year.
One reason for the hefty cost is wire theft. After adding up the audit's repair reports, 11Alive learned nearly 10 miles of copper and aluminum wire would be needed to replace what thieves had stolen. That's enough wire to reach from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to City Hall.
The audit also blames outages on basic maintenance, something Mendoza admits he's been unable to keep up with given staffing and budget cuts in recent years.
"The City of Atlanta for the past few years has gone through some challenging budget years like many cities throughout the nation," Mendoza said. "I think the timing is right now to start looking at our transportation infrastructure. I think you'll begin to see some investments made in transportation overall, not just street lights."
To be fair, there is no legal requirement the city provide interstate lights. Drive around metro Atlanta and you'll see there are hardly any lights anywhere on 285, not even through the heavily populated regions of Sandy Springs and Dunwoody.
DeKalb County spends about $46,000 a year to contract with Georgia Power to maintain nearly 800 lights along I-20 and the I-285 interchange.
The city of Marietta manages its own lights along I-75. It has 471 interstate lights between South and North Marietta Parkway, as well as the Delk Road interchange. The city says it spends about $33,000 a year on upkeep.
When 11Alive drove through both communities Monday night, the majority of the lights were in good working order. But as soon as you drove into Atlanta, regardless of the freeway you were on, the lights went off.
"The requirement for communities is public safety," Mendoza said. "When you have an urban core and a high volume interstate system, such as we do, street lights are a valuable asset to have to make sure the roadways are as safe as possible."
He plans to focus initial repairs on the high mast lights along the city's core and lights around freeway ramps and interchanges. The city plans to use more secure hardware and installation techniques to deter thieves in the future.


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Five months ago, I had the idea of doing a hybrid tower defense/rpg game with 'tolkien maps' esthetics. Discovering the cartographers guild website, I saw amazing work out there and I decided to make that idea a reality by using map brushes from Schwarzkreuz and Ramah to edit levels. The game is now put on steam, where it waits to have a sufficient number of steam users to vote for it so that it can be published (see link at Steam Greenlight :: Defender Story: Episode 1).
In its present state, the game works on windows, mac, linux and android. I am presently polishing the html5 version and I will probably make an Ipad/Iphone version if I can afford the apple developer license later...
I will make the game available for download in a couple of weeks on a website, on google play, and on the chrome web browser shop.
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I feel a bit bad that the present esthetics are not as good as they could be, but I had limited funds. If enough people vote for the game on steam, and I can get a little bit of money from it, I will be able to make a sequel. In that case, I will organize a 'map' competition for 25 maps where each map will represent a game level where each selected map author will receive a commission.
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ESPN's Chad Ford has ranked the top-10 impact players likely to be traded, and here's the full list, in order (with my comments) :
Of the group, I don't want Jennings (lacks 3 pt shot and can't penetrate), Gay (just too expensive) or Granger (too expensive plus unknown recovery from knee injury). I would only be interested in Bledsoe (could be acquired cheaply) if Rondo (# 10 on the list) is traded. Everyone else on the list could make a big impact for the Celtics.
- Josh Smith, Atlanta Hawks (probably will require Rondo, we'll need another trade for PG)
- Rudy Gay, Memphis Grizzlies (pass)
- Al Jefferson, Utah Jazz (depends on the deal)
- Danny Granger, Indiana Pacers (PASS)
- Marcin Gortat, Phoenix Suns (Best fit for Celtics. May require young talent like Sully or Bradley)
- Andrea Bargnani, Toronto Raptors (depends on the deal)
- Brandon Jennings, Milwaukee Bucks (pass)
- Eric Bledsoe, Los Angeles Clippers (backup to CP3 is young and has alot of talent and potential)
- DeMarcus Cousins, Sacramento Kings (My number 1 choice. We become a championship team)
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The Turnover Myth
Jeff Chambers, vice president for human resources at SAS Institute, based in Cary, North Carolina, will tell you quite frankly that measuring turnover costs is a waste of time. In another equally heretical moment, he will tell you that he doesn't care if SAS is sued for wrongful termination. But he cares a great deal about performance management and is willing to tolerate turnover costs and the risk of a lawsuit to drive financial results.
The overall turnover rate for the software company's 9,300 employees is low by industry standards, but the overall rate masks the sharp truth that appears when the number is segmented. Voluntary turnover at this legendary employer of choice is minimal, but involuntary turnover is quite high.
Total turnover at SAS for 2004 was 6.34 percent, up from 5.06 percent in 2003. What is remarkable, however, is that two out of three separations at SAS are involuntary, roughly double the common proportion. The involuntary rate jumped from 3.28 percent in 2003 to 4.15 percent in 2004.
"Involuntary turnover is rising because we are being more aggressive," Chambers says. "We've removed the institutional impediments and let managers know that we want to get the right people on the bus. If employees can't do the job, we cut them loose." Chambers believes that his performance-driven approach to turnover at SAS is clearly reflected in the company's 15 percent revenue growth for 2004.
Chambers' thinking is apparently untouched by the volumes of material produced by self-proclaimed turnover experts and human resources executives who fixate on minimizing turnover in all cases and measure its costs down to the last dime. The single-minded focus on turnover reduction sold well during the "war for talent" in the 1990s and spawned a mini-industry of consultancies, conferences and cost calculators that reinforced the perception of turnover as a money-sucking evil. Turnover reduction became an end in itself, disconnected from business outcomes.
The current economic environment requires a far different approach, however. Like many workforce trends, turnover rates track employment growth. In this new era of ongoing soft labor markets and unusually low quit rates, the pressing issue at many companies is not whether voluntary turnover is too high, but whether it is too low to provide opportunities for introducing new talent and resetting salaries. And with a heightened fear of wrongful termination lawsuits emanating from the general counsel's office and increasing managerial reluctance to discharge poor performers, involuntary turnover may be too low to ensure the high-performance workforce needed to meet global competition.
Achieving optimal turnover means understanding both the financial costs and gains incurred as well as controlling who stays and who goes. Although many workforce management executives are satisfied with simply minimizing turnover and measuring it against broad industry benchmarks, others have mastered turnover as a tool for achieving a maximum return on the investment in human capital.
Aggressive approach
SAS' aggressive stance took shape after a massive infusion of new talent during the dot-com crash, when the company snapped up talent by hiring 600 highly qualified employees who had been laid off at other firms. Adding these new people raised the performance bar in some areas. The recent increase in involuntary turnover reflects the terminations of new hires who were not a fit and of existing employees who could not meet the higher standards.
"We considered a forced ranking and other techniques, but decided to leave it up to the managers to get rid of poor performers," Chambers notes. "But we did remove the institutional shackles that keep managers from acting. The biggest shackle was related to budgets. We typically slow down hiring toward the end of the summer, and managers were afraid they would lose the position if they terminated an employee." Human resources solved the problem by making it clear to managers that the positions would be preserved.
Chambers was general counsel at SAS before he was appointed to head up human resources in 1999, so he understands the risk of litigation. When terminations are necessary, "human resources has to commit to doing what's right and help managers deal with it," he says. "I don't care if we get sued; I care if we win. We give employees with performance problems a chance to correct the problem, and we do that in a way that any third-party fact-finder or agency can understand." In 80 percent of the cases, the low performer corrects the problem, but in the remaining 20 percent, the company acts decisively.
James Hatch, partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers-Saratoga, believes that most human resources executives make it far too difficult for managers to terminate low performers. He also believes that human resources overestimates the potential for employee lawsuits. "High-performance companies look at the bottom of the deck every year and take out the bottom 2 percent to 5 percent," he says. "Most companies terminate only 1 percent of employees on an annual basis. It's difficult to deal with performance-related terminations, so companies wait for a downturn and sweep employees with performance problems into the layoffs."
Optimal turnover is not the lowest turnover you can achieve. Optimal turnover produces the highest long-term levels of productivity and business improvement." --Jamie Hale, senior consultant and leader of the workforce management practice for Watson Wyatt
This practice undercuts the message that the organization is performance-driven. At SAS, Chambers uses turnover to reinforce the company's performance culture.
The financial threshold
While low overall turnover rates suit SAS' purposes, high overall rates generate the greatest financial returns at IndyMac Bank. Overall turnover rates at the Pasadena, California-based bank have averaged nearly 30 percent for the past three years, ranging from highs well above 40 percent for sales and operations staff to the low teens for professionals and management. The bank's overall rate is five to 10 points above industry benchmarks. According to traditional turnover analysis, IndyMac should be hemorrhaging money. Instead, it outperforms its competitors by substantial margins and reported 23 percent earnings growth in 2004.
Jeffry Higgins, vice president for performance management, accountability and compensation at IndyMac, can tell you the average turnover rate for a bank teller with a "meets expectations" performance rating, or a programmer with an "above expectations" rating. In fact, he can tell you the turnover rate for every position at every performance level for the bank's 5,000 employees.
Most important, he knows the exact point at which the costs of turnover for any position are canceled out by savings that are rarely documented in turnover analyses. With this knowledge, Higgins runs a performance-driven culture with extraordinarily low turnover rates for top performers, high turnover rates for low performers and superb financial results for the company.
Higgins did not reach this point through a careful reading of turnover studies. His initial research on turnover turned up little of value. "At IndyMac, we searched for wisdom on turnover for three years," he recalls. "After reading the literature, we were not only unsatisfied, but frustrated. Most of the numbers and approaches we have seen don't hold up under financial scrutiny. There are financial benefits to turnover, but none of them are reflected in any organizational or analytic tool." Financial analysis stands at the core of Higgins' work; he was a CFO before he signed on at IndyMac.
Higgins' quest is to identify the true costs and benefits of turnover and use that data to drive performance management. He is building workforce segmentation tools, beginning with the top seven job categories and then digging deeper to create turnover profiles for 30 job families.
"Based on three years of company data, we know that there is a break point where the financial benefits of turnover outweigh the costs," he says. "It's different for each job category and for performance levels within each category, but it can be calculated and documented for any position in the company."
Optimal turnover rates for any position lie within a range that Higgins describes as green-yellow-red. The green band covers the rates at which turnover is financially beneficial for the firm. Within the yellow band, turnover is cost-neutral and has minimal impact on the organization. This is the broadest band. Beyond this, as turnover climbs to higher levels and into the red band, it begins to significantly hurt the organization.
Turnover in low-impact, nonexempt positions within operations, for example, generally falls into the green and yellow bands, where high turnover is acceptable. When an employee leaves one of these jobs, other employees pick up the workload for the 30 to 60 days that the average position is open, and the bank pockets the savings--plus additional savings when an annual bonus is not paid out or when a replacement is brought in at a slightly lower salary level.
But at the opposite end of the spectrum, turnover among high-impact professional and managerial employees can cause a six-month delay in a multimillion-dollar project. "For high performers in key roles, the cost of turnover is larger than any estimate I've seen," Higgins says. "It could run into the millions."
Finding the financial threshold for each position hinges on two factors: the performance level and the compensation level, including how the position is paid relative to market. The performance level is weighted by specific productivity measures that may include sales, volume or projects completed on time and within budget. The bank uses steep performance-based pay differentials to maintain low turnover among its high performers and high turnover among its low performers.
As Unemployment Rises, Turnover Falls
Turnover generally rises during economic expansions and falls during recession, in an inverse relationship to the unemployment rate.
|Source: Turnover rates from the Bureau of National Affairs Inc.; unemployment rates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Resetting pay
One of the largest financial benefits of turnover is that it provides a rare opportunity to reset salaries.
"Driving turnover among employees who have reached the high end of the pay structure generates substantial cost savings because the company can typically bring in a replacement at a lower rate or promote from within and lower the rate for that employee's replacement," says Jamie Hale, senior consultant and leader of the workforce management practice for Watson Wyatt in Dallas.
In addition, employers who are able to negotiate two-tier pay systems or reduce benefits for new hires can boost turnover with buyouts or bonuses to move more employees into the lower cost structure. When Safeway Inc., the giant grocery retailer, installs a two-tier wage plan in one of its locations, for example, it often offers buyouts to workers at the higher wage level and brings in new employees at the lower scale. Employers must ensure that their two-tier pay and benefits systems and buyout programs do not create a pattern of discrimination, but the substantial savings generated justify the cost of a careful review.
An extraordinarily effective program for using turnover to reset salaries stemmed from a detailed analysis of turnover by the Texas State Auditor's Office. At the request of the Legislature, the auditor's office conducts an annual analysis of turnover among the state's 143,000 employees. The state's overall turnover rate of 14.8 percent for the 2004 fiscal year is not far out of line with the relevant benchmarks, but the state suffers from two common problems: Turnover among young employees is too high and turnover among retirement-eligible employees is too low for maximum cost-effectiveness.
"The audit found that on an annual basis, an average of only 3,000 employees retire out of a pool of 12,000 to 14,000 retirement-eligible employees," says Floyd Quinn, a human resources consultant in the auditor's office who heads up the turnover analysis team. Faced with large budget deficits and high salary costs, the state launched an incentive program to encourage retirements. Employees who retire within one month of eligibility receive a bonus equal to 25 percent of their annual salary.
When the employee retires, the state cuts the salary for the position by 35 percent, so the long-term cost savings generated by retirements are huge. When an employee retires from a position with an annual salary of $76,000, for example, the salary is reset at $49,400. The state saves $7,600 in the first year after paying the bonus and $26,600 for each year after, plus any benefits savings related to the lower salary. In the first full year of the incentive program, the state paid out $68 million in incentives and the number of retirements doubled. The cost of the incentives was easily offset by the salary reductions for the first year alone.
Apart from realizing financial gains through open-position savings, driving performance management with higher turnover or using turnover to reset salaries, companies may benefit from higher turnover in any number of situations created by today's fast-moving business environment. "Optimal turnover is not the lowest turnover you can achieve," Hale says. "Optimal turnover produces the highest long-term levels of productivity and business improvement."
Up or out
In other cases, employers must replace old skill sets with new ones as technology or the customer base changes. And in some situations, companies must reshape the workforce for a different demographic mix or for a better distribution of age groups. "Or a company may simply need to move out low performers and upgrade talent," Hale says. When the typical annual performance review process is too slow to create significant organizational change, she advises companies to adopt semiannual or even quarterly reviews to speed up the process of terminating low performers, including employees who cannot step up to meet new needs.
Law firms are famous for churning talent to reduce labor costs and generate high performance. In the industry's up-or-out model of workforce management, four out of every five associates hired never make it into permanent partner positions. "Healthy turnover benefits a firm," says Karen MacKay, partner at Edge International, a global consulting firm for professional services. "It means that the firm is actively evaluating employees and making decisions. Low turnover means that the firm is working around existing people instead of constantly pulling in new people with new ideas to build the organization. At successful firms, turnover becomes a business advantage."
At the law firm of Bowman and Brooke, based in Gardena, California, associates work in a 7½-year up-or-out career path that feeds the firm's need for high-powered trial lawyers. "Associates who do not belong on the partner track are counseled out of the firm within their first three years on the job," managing partner Robert Miller says. Outright terminations are rare. With associate billing rates averaging roughly half of partner rates, the up-or-out model allows the firm to control labor costs and skim the best talent from a pool of qualified and closely watched candidates.
The up-or-out model is not suited to every workplace, but the broader strategy of creating churn to meet specific needs is applicable across industry sectors. In an economy marked by negligible job growth and turnover well below normal recovery-phase levels, many workforce management executives are looking out over a dead pond. And unless their performance and salary management systems are extraordinarily effective, they are living with bloated labor costs.
Excessive recruitment and training cost money, but so does a workforce filled with stale managers and somnambulant employees--all at or near the top of their pay range, covered by costly legacy benefit packages and protected by an overblown fear of litigation. Despite the recent flurry of warnings about the return of the "war for talent," labor markets will likely remain soft for the foreseeable future, and conditions are ripe for managing turnover for positive financial results.
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Maximizing the Value of a Gift
Albert A. Apicelli, MD, '65, believed it was his duty to help.
"I am what I am, and I've become what I've become because of Albany Medical College," said Dr. Apicelli of Slingerlands. "I received a great education there, and I wanted to give back."
So he and his wife Susan created an Endowed Fund for Classroom Renovation and Technology Support, by donating "appreciated securities," which are stocks and bonds that have grown in value over time.
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1932 Ford - Build And BarterWritten by on May 12, 2014 Contributors: Jorge Nunez Much like raising a child, it takes a community to create a hot rod—so you know this Ford was built with a lot of help.
Much like raising a child, it takes a community to create a hot rod—so you know this Ford was built with a lot of help. The chrome plating came from a shop that needed an axle fixed, a friend traded the Strombergs to repair a roof on his '59 Chevy, and the interior came from an upholstery shop that needed a transmission fixed. When Tom Leonardo couldn't do something himself, he traded, bartered, or swapped services to build this blue '32 for $4,800—less than we've paid for non-running heaps.
I do all my own everything.
Tom, a tall, slim Southern California native who's always dressed in a clean white shirt tucked into blue jeans, has worked as a plumber most his life. He doesn't have a lot but takes pride in what he has. His passion for hot rods manifested itself into 20 pieced-together cars piled in his backyard and handful of machining tools. "The only reason I buy old cars is because I couldn't afford new ones," Tom says.
When Tom wasn't trading work for parts, he utilized leftover plumbing supplies: stainless steel pipe for the frame horns, copper tubing from an industrial kitchen-range hood as the fuel lines, and the radiator hoses are "two P-traps, like you find underneath a sink. I flipped them, turned them, and welded them together," says Tom. "A lot of old parts and pieces are from my job. I put it all together myself. There's not a whole lot [of money] in the car."
Tom purchased the Ford almost 40 years ago for less than $1,000—when untouched '32s were more plentiful. The owner only sold him the body and drivetrain, but Tom didn't mind because he already had the right chassis. He stashed the '32 body between his Model A roadster and '37 Ford, which were surrounded by a pile of swap-meet finds in his garage. After sitting for a couple years he pieced together a roadworthy, primered, unchopped hot rod with wire wheels and full fenders. He drove it for a few years, and then once again shuffled it back into his garage, moving onto other projects. "I let it sit for a long time and kids would come around wanting to buy it," Tom says.
He pulled the '32 out of his rotating collection of cars for a makeover five years ago. He started with a 2½-inch chop, "I was hesitant to cut it because it was such a nice body. Oh well," says Tom.
When he originally purchased the Ford he'd left the contemporary engine with the previous owner because he desired a period-correct hot rod. "I wanted it back to the way it was when I was a kid in the mid-'60s," he says. Using a parts car was another big cost saver. "I ruined a nice '63 Impala," Tom confesses. He pulled the 327 and Muncie four-speed from the car for his '32. As far as he's concerned, it's "the perfect mid-'60s hot rod combination."
With only a vague mental image of what he wanted, he built the project in steps as money and time allowed. After the chop came rebuilding the engine. National Automotive and Machine Shop in Lake Elsinore, California, bored the 327 0.030 over, then Tom assembled it, finishing it with a 280-degree Isky flat-tappet cam—another speed part from years of swap-meet finds—and flattop pistons resulting in 10.5:1 compression. Outside, the engine received a makeover by way of white enamel.
"Those Chevys have their seeping points. It's easy to find a leak when it's white," Tom says. He built the headers himself, one bend at a time, and when he couldn't bend a particular piece he went to another friend's shop, Anchor Muffler in Anaheim, California, with a bent wire in the preferred shape.
With a new drivetrain, the primer-brown paint had to go. Tom visited hot rod friend, painter Stan Betz of Betz Speed and Color in Orange, California. The two mixed a bucket of paint in the alley behind the shop. After they found the right mix, Stan tossed in a bottle of flake. Now it was perfect. Tom painted the coupe in his backyard, spending the following weeks buffing and polishing.
I just get in it and drive. Stop when it needs gas.
Conveniently, Stan's neighbor happened to be an upholstery shop. Tom struck a deal with the owner for transmission repair in exchange for upholstery of the door panels, a headliner, and a '31 Ford bench seat. Tom wanted white vinyl mixed with a metallic-flake blue that you'd normally see on a bass fishing boat. "The upholstery shop kept asking, 'Are you sure? Are you brave enough to put that in there?'" After finishing the paint, Tom says he was disappointed with the lack of metallic flake. "So I got brave with the upholstery and put the flake inside the car instead."
When Tom finished the build, he ran it without mufflers. "I'm a little too old for that noise anymore," he says. Now it has small glass pack muffler hidden underneath. Tom says, "I just get in it and drive, and stop when it needs gas."
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the Radir Wheel Pie-Crust slicks measure 15x8.5 inches and were the single most expensive purchase for the car. The Baby Moon hubcaps are 60's original.The taillights are from a '49 Pontiac that Tom had in his pile of parts, but in poor condition. He fitted them, but found it was cheaper to buy reproduction replacements than to restore the originals to this condition.The previous owner retrofitted the car with '40 Ford brakes. Tom enjoys putting the miles on it and says, "You just got to drive it right."These headlights came with the body when Tom bought it; they're aftermarket parts. The mounts are leftover plumber's pipe with the wires hidden inside.


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Controversial comic Roseanne Barr is heading back to TV to narrate a documentary about crazed mothers.
The funnywoman, who starred in her sitcom "Roseanne" for nine years before fronting her own chat show, will lend her voice to creepy new series "Momsters: When Moms Go Bad."
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WEST UNION - Weir's Kristen Mastrantoni and Alexis Virtue will be returning to state after posting top 10 finishes at Doddridge County High School.
Mastrantoni was second behind St. Mary's Maggie Drazba. Virtue was seventh.
Wheeling Central's Emily Gordon (fifth) and Oak Glen's Kelsey Chambers (fourth) are also headed to state.
Williamstown, St. Marys, North Marion and East Fairmont earned team berths on the girls' side.
Magnolia's James Haught (seventh) and Tyler Consolidated's Dylan Reynolds (ninth) punched their tickets on the boys' side.
Fairmont Senior, Doddridge County, St. Marys and Williamstown advanced as boys' teams.