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Jackson Ends 13-Year Career With NBA as Thorn Joins From Sixers
Stu Jackson, executive vice president of basketball operations for the National Basketball Association, is leaving the league after more than 13 years, Commissioner David Stern said.
Stern also said Rod Thorn, president of basketball operations for the Philadelphia 76ers, will return to the league office to replace Jackson.
"Stu has made enormous contributions to the NBA over the past 13 years," Stern said.
Jackson, 57, was in charge of all on-court and international basketball operations, including game rules, conduct, discipline and analytics.
"The NBA has given me an extraordinary opportunity to work with some of the most talented people in sports and I am extremely proud to be associated with the remarkable global growth of the league, which couldn't be in better hands with Rod coming in to lead basketball operations," Jackson said in a statement released by the NBA.
In 1989, at age 33, the New York Knicks promoted Jackson to head coach after he worked for two years as an assistant to coach Rick Pitino. At the time, he was the second-youngest head coach in NBA history and compiled a 52-45 record.
Thorn, 72, as league president, will oversee both basketball and referee operations, reporting directly to the commissioner. He spent 14 seasons with the NBA before executive stints with the Nets and the 76ers.
Stern is retiring in February and will be replaced as commissioner by his deputy, Adam Silver.
"As the NBA turns increasingly to analytics and continues to tap into its growing fan and player base on a global basis, there is much work to be done," Thorn said.


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garcia the fighter is growing on me
he wont be the last guy i'm wrong about. i thought khan was going to roll right over him.
the kid has courage under fire. you dont teach that. he behaves like a seasoned pro at 24 with few fights. you dont teach that either.
nice chin on him, solid power (enough to get respect and hurt a guy,) finishing instincts, decent technician with the left hook (his dad's got to teach him how to throw a right hand straight, but that will come,) decent timing, and he sets smart pace.
his dad, as much of a bonehead as he is, knows how to train a boxer. garcia is pretty damn good, actually.
khan looked like the newbie and garcia behaved like the seasoned pro.
Roach is a great trainer. not a good one, a great one. that being said, i think that khan will change trainers or head back to ariza. he'll also head to WW. they'll look for something or somebody to blame to help amir's confidence, even if it's amir's merit's as a fighter and his limits that are really causing his shortcomings.
one thing is damn sure, khan's days as a "potential star" are over.
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Garcia is like Bradley. He does everything very good, solid, but does nothing special. Garcia is really really tough though. He is really determined, and you can't go to war with him. If you try to trade with him, it's not that he'll knock you out, it's that he has these short winging punches that from the outside looking in you would say "Oh he can be countered with straight punches". But the thing is look how he keeps his elbows tucked into his ribs, and his gloves close to his face to protect him from this. Garcia doesn't have the wins he has for being reckless and average. He knows exactly what he's doing and why he does it, and how to protect from getting countered from it.
I think people are looking too much in to Khan's success against Garcia in the first two rounds. Holt clearly won the first two rounds against Garcia, before Garcia swept the rest. Morales if I remember correctly, won the first two rounds also and seemed to be schooling Garcia. Then he picked it up and adjusted. It's not that Khan just became worse after round 2, it's that Garcia picked it up, adjusted, and knocked Khan out. Khan couldn't do anything else. He only has one style, and if that doesn't work, he's done for the fight, he'll start fleeing away from his opponent. He did the same thing with Peterson with his Ronald McDonald trunks, luckily Peterson couldn't punch hard to save his life but Garcia definitely did hit Khan with some well-placed, well-timed and hard punches.
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When fans start saying "well so-and-so could easily beat this guy", you know you're doing something right lol. Garcia is officially one of my favorite young fighters, however flawed and vulnerable he may be.
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Lucas would ko Garcia in 5 rounds....
Garcia should enjoy it while it lasts as the 140 boys are not all hot heads like Khan....
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I would love to see this fight in the future..Not right now..Garcia is in a hot div right now,with plenty of very good fighters to make money with...Alexander is a WW now and he has fights to be made as well...But I hope to see this fight in the future..
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What I do know is Alexander's trainer, Kevin Cunningham out of St. Louis would be a great trainer for Amir Khan.
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Doesn't matter how many can beat Garcia. Dude is making the best of it with his seemingly limited skills. He knows how to win and is getting it done, ala Malignaggi in a sense. He'll probably lose to the top dogs in the sport, but no shame in that. He's young, hungry and can take it. He's better than he seems. I'm never super impressed with him but he keeps winning. Cant hate on that. His dad is a d ick though lol.
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cesar rene cuenca is the real king of 140, we all know this. 43-0 baby!
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Alexander is getting overrated. Devon should have three L's on his record.
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Maybe, but this idea hasn't been done before. This is simple, clear, and gets the idea across succinctly. It works, and that's what is important.
Not all of weeee areeee boredddddddd.
(Btw, do you have any critical commentary on any of the ads, or are you just gonna breeze in on every ad and dis it?)
Have to disagree with you there, bigbadfatmadafaka, I haven't seen this before, and I think its pretty good.
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Lice can spread from human to object to human, but it's more common for lice to spread by human-to-human contact.
Removing lice from objects such as combs, clothing, and furniture is not a necessary part of treatment for head lice, but some people choose to do this as a way to help prevent lice from spreading to other household members.
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King's people have disappeared, and a mean Uncle has abandoned King at the pound. Being a resourceful dog King comes up with a plan on finding his people, the only fly in the ointment? How to escape from the pound.....King's dilemma is solved when Connor and his Mom come and adopt him. His elation is short lived, when Connor disappears Buddy puts his search for his family on the back burner to find his new friend.
This is an engaging story, meant for a girl or boy from kindergarten to around third grade. This story would provide the start for both fun and serious conversations with kids when read together about strangers, divorce, moving, puppies, deductive reasoning and how people are defined by there smells (according to the dogs in the story). While touching on serious topics King's or Buddy as his new family calls him, enthusiasm keeps the story from becoming to heavy for a young reader. I would recommend this for anyone looking for a fun chapter book for a young reader!
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While searching for his mysteriously lost human family, King the dog detective is adopted by another family, who names him Buddy. Buddy succeeds is solving the mystery of their missing boy. Illustrations.
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Author Ted Ford likes a good puzzle, even one driving by at 60 miles per hour.
Ford, 51, has been hooked on personalized license plates since he was in ninth grade.
"Coming up with the right plate is kind of like a cattle brand," he said. "It's pretty permanent, so it better be good."
His new book, "America's Funniest License Plates: The Baby Name Book for Your Car" (Bonneville Books, $9.95), is an exercise on the do's and don'ts of picking plates.
Ford estimates that there are 10 million vanity plates in America. While it's hard to confirm that number, there's no doubt that these smile-producing metal rectangles spark interest.
"There are three kinds of drivers," Ford writes in his book. "Those who have personalized plates, those who read them and those who think all the good ones are already taken."
His book makes plenty of suggestions, based on your occupation, your marital status -- even your religion.
Dentists might pick 2THMKER or FLOS-M or IFXSMLS. Female letter carriers go by FEMAIL or MAILGRL.
Personalizing plates "crosses all ethnic lines, all social and economic lines, all gender and age lines," he said. "I like that part."
This is his second book on the subject. In 1989, after two years of scouring DMV lists, he wrote "California Traffic Talk." It got him exposure on late-night TV talk shows.
About a year and half ago, Ford was talking to a doctor friend, a cosmetic surgeon, who asked him to help him craft a perfect vanity plate. That got him thinking about doing a second book.
Ford, who lives in Salt Lake City, shares some of his favorites.
nPONOMO. Inching along in gridlock on Interstate 405 in Southern California, he came up behind a black Porsche convertible with a tall man inside. Ford assumes he was a basketball player. Asked about his plate, he said, "I used to be poor, but I ain't poor no more."
nNETYMQT. A blond woman in a red Mustang. It's "any time, cutie."
nNEDKCME. He lost a bet on this one. He was talking with his brother at a Las Vegas casino about license plates when another patron overheard them and challenged Ford to figure out his plate.
"Within 30 seconds, I knew I was in trouble," he said. The man told him, "I'm a dentist. It's 'any decay, see me.'" And he took Ford's brother's $50.
Susan Lister has been collecting vanity license plates -- on little scraps of paper -- for more years than Ford.
She's a loyal contributor to the Vanity Fare feature, a personalized plate of the week, which has been published in the Mercury News for about 10 years.
She has sent in hundreds of plates in e-mails (and in phone calls and typewritten notes before that).
"My interest in tracking them is that I enjoy people's creativity and want to share their creativity," she said.
California has two varieties of vanity plates, according to Steve Haskins, a spokesman for the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Special-interest plates are those with unique backgrounds (a whale's tale, Lake Tahoe, UCLA, firefighters, California kids). As of June 2004, about 295,000 of these were on the road in California.
What most people call vanity plates are described as environmental license plates (ELPs) by the state. That's because the money raised from them benefits various state environmental programs -- to the tune of more than half a billion dollars since 1970, Haskins said. There were about 761,000 of these in use as of last June.
California has "a rigorous screening process" to make sure that personalized plates aren't offensive, Haskins said. Requested plates go from DMV field offices to a committee in Sacramento where they are reviewed.
"We have people here who are up with all the slang and pop culture," he said. They keep regular dictionaries as well as slang and foreign slang dictionaries on hand.
And if they can't figure something out, they ask the applicant.
If something untoward sneaks through, and another driver complains, DMV will take another look at the plate. If they agree a plate is objectionable, they'll pull the plates. If the owner disagrees, the matter might end up before an administrative judge.
"Most of the time they lose," Haskins said. "California is the most diverse place in the universe. We're not in the business of offending anyone."
In all, Haskins said, more than 19 million cars and trucks are registered in California. Throw in motorcycles, commercial vehicles and buses, and there are 45 million vehicles in the state, he said.
Here are some of his favorites.
HI DEBT on a red Ferrari 355 GTS
O PUHLEZ on a Mercedes sedan
SCCR WDW on a Chevy TrailBlazer
B(heart symbol)RBIE Q on a Toyota SUV
MY PMKN on an orange VW New Beetle
1AN1EQ3 on a Lexus
BPBP YEA on a Chrysler minivan
I AM YOU on a black Mercedes station wagon
BA X2 on a black Jeep
PC HUMR on a Toyota Prius
VC CHIC on a silver BMW 540i
LTR 26 on a Nissan 350Z
GRVYMOM on a white Cadillac
POPDTOP on a red BMW convertible
TOE MATO on a red SUV
SNEEKRS on a gray VW bug
MOTEL 3 on a VW camper
NO TURTL on a red Porsche
SUR+ IQ on a Hyundai
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I'm writing a short script to push out a new line to everyone in my domains hosts file in a GPO - don't ask why we're not doing this via DNS, the reasons are both fun and extensive :)
For the most part, this is simple, however I'm hitting upon a somewhat obstinate problem with comparing strings in variables, namely, it doesn't seem to do it. The strings don't seem to match, despite the fact if I echo out the strings they are identical. With the strings not matching, it just keeps adding a line to the end of the hosts file ad infinitum.
For reference, this is the process I want the script to follow:
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Set compare value -> Search hosts file for existing entries and save output to variable -> Compare variables if match, do nothing, else
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@echo off
SET compare=10.1.1.1 test.testing.com
FOR /F "usebackq delims==`" %%A IN (`findstr /c:"10.1.1.1 test.testing.com" %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts`) do SET search=%%A
if NOT "%search%"=="%compare%" echo Do Something >> output.txt
If I change:
It works fine. If I echo the output of %search% and %compare% I get:
10.1.1.1 test.testing.com
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Man Harrison I got some really bad Itchy Poop Ass because I didn't wipe properly today. I am going to have to leave work and take a shower.
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Their faces :,)
Their faces! X'D
I laughed way too much because of this omg
Nice shift from fairly detailed to flat. I love how it emphasizes the corniness.
I love you. Seriously, I do.
Ahahahahaha awesome xDDD
Mais c'était drôle! *blizzard*
Ne serait-ce que pour la tête de John à la fin, ça valait le coup de sortir cette vanne... \o/
Ne serait-ce que pour la tête de John à la fin, ça valait le coup de sortir cette vanne... \o/
LOL omg
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3
Omg, I love John so much.
can't stop laughing xDD
Bless him XD
LOL! oh man i actually laughed out loud for this in real life! i love super bad jokes!
John's expression in the last panel is too great!
Oh, John. You dork. XD I really like your coloring style. I wish I could do that. All my sketches are better off black and white. :3
Oh it's only a question of experience ! The more your try the better it looks ! But it is long. >_____<
I love their faces in the last panel
John... "you're simply the best" x) !
yes! WIN
Why U so cute, John Watson?
John's face in the last panel IS THE BEST!!! xDDDDD
Omg laughing so loud scared my cat omg this is the best<3
John's face omg.
This is the best. If this was a TV show, I would watch it. I would watch the piss out of it.


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"This world is delicious!"
Pls more with that ;W;
Good god....That booty is rivaling Frostblade Irelia's!
after that, i wanna see your version of Cho!
Can I request a red version of this? Cus Khas OP.
About that uh... There IS a red version you see, but it's a bit... Ya know. What I'm trying to say is I'm not going to put a link for it on dA.
dude you need to start your own hentai site if your this good!
i love fighting with kha'zix nice to see he(or she) has a soft squishy side
nice ass
amazing is all I need to say!
that's hot
man look at the booty.
sexy! °(≧ω≦)°
so sexy and so scary makes go bananas nice art dude is cool
Awesome work! thats so sexy!
wow really nice... makes me think lustful thoughts
too much sexy. stahp
can I use this pic?
I guess the only thing that Kha'Zix had to evolve was tits.....
I'm digging this though, I can't believe how attractive you got this killer voidling to be.
I'm digging this though, I can't believe how attractive you got this killer voidling to be.
nice, male or female? = =
so0o0o clean and crisp excellent coloring
omfg, i wasent really being serius, nice job
I love the coloring of dis :3 shes cute to x3 <3
O_o you just made kha'zix look cute o_O you've got my respect ^^
btw, what tool did u use to do the lineart? very inspiring...
dat ass
Wiat what?
Well, it's super well drawn at least xD
Well, it's super well drawn at least xD
rawr.. sexy
awww yeahhhhhh !!!!
Super sexy!
Whoa...and i thought Kha'zix couldn't get better...she looks really nice
woah, this is amazing!
Are you going to make more rule63 art? Or more league of legends art in general?
Are you going to make more rule63 art? Or more league of legends art in general?
...note: eat hot girl next time I jungle Khazix, will become much more attractive.
wat did he eat to evolve that? lol XD
:Love: 1.- AWESOME 2.- she looks hungry =w=' 3.- Dat... nvm XD 4.- GOOD job, amazing drawing there!


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He rode a blazing saddle.
Facts of the Case
I rememba back in 1874, our little town of Rock Ridge were unders attack by a gang'a hornswogglin', cattle rustlin', flim-flam, rigga raggers! Theys may have killed our sheriff, but we were dang blang mad, an' there's no way theys were gonna run us off'n our land! So's we all voted to stand an' fight, and we wired the Governor to sends us a new sheriff! Only that slimy, sidewinding, sigger sucker Hedy Lamarr (that's Hedley!) sends us a ni…
I'll take it from here, Gabby Johnson. Sheriff Black Bart arrived in town to fanfare, a laurel and hearty handshake, and shock from us all. He may have tricked us into letting him stay, but we did everything in our power to send him packing. As if things couldn't get any worse, the evil Mongo came riding into town. Now we were really done for!
Stop being so melodramatic, Reverend Johnson. Bart captured and tamed Mongo, sobered and deputized the Waco Kid, wooed and captured the heart of the deadly beautiful Lili Von Shtupp, and earned enough of our trust to come together and save our town from that damn Hedy Lamarr (that's Hedley!).
Well, I'm not gonna tell you everything. Buy the damn movie and see for yourself!
Oh, Howard Johnson…quiet down, eat your beans, and let the nice film critic finish his review.
You go right ahead, dear.
The Evidence
Thank you, Harriet Johnson.
Unlike his first two feature films—The Producers and The Twelve Chairs—Mel Brooks did not originate the idea for Blazing Saddles. Andrew Bergman's story, Tex-X, came to Brooks by way of agent David Beagleman, after an attempt by producer Richard Zanuck, director Alan Arkin, and star James Earl Jones failed to get off the ground. Hesitant about taking on a project he didn't write, Mel assembled a team of writers to develop the script, in a manner much like the golden days of television. His team included Bergman (Striptease), a young comic named Richie Pryor (yes, that Richard Pryor), a lawyer named Norman Steinberg (Johnny Dangerously), and his writing partner, dentist Alan Uger (Family Ties).
With the script complete, now came the casting challenge. Mel wanted Pryor to play Bart, but the studios wouldn't take the risk. Instead, Mel signed classically trained actor Cleavon Little, whose comedic timing and sweet disposition made him a cast and crew favorite. The other trouble came in casting the Waco Kid. Mel wanted grizzled veteran Dan Dailey to play the role, but Dailey's health and poor vision prevented him from signing on. Next on the list was John Wayne, who turned it down because the film was "too dirty." Finally, Brooks signed actor and recovering alcoholic Gig Young to the role. On the first day of filming, hanging upside down in the jail cell, Young went into seizures and was taken from the set by ambulance. A panicked phone call to New York found Brooks's good friend Gene Wilder—he had been reading the script and lobbying for the part during the writing process—who hopped on a plane and, less than 24 hours later, was on the set and ready to go. The rest, as they say, is history.
Blazing Saddles was awarded the #6 slot on the American Film Institute's list of Top 100 Comedies, and deservedly so. This film redefined the concept of feature film comedy for generations to come. A year before the debut of Saturday Night Live, and six years prior to the release of Airplane!, Brooks schooled American audiences on a new brand of in-your-face humor. Drawing from years of experience writing for Sid Caesar and Carl Reiner, Mel fuses raucous Catskills standup with modern political satire and the idiosyncrasies of the human condition, to create a whole new form of funny. Never before have we seen characters reveal their hypocrisy and innermost thoughts so freely and uninhibitedly: Lamarr's devious and skillful manipulation of the dimwitted Governor LePetomaine; Taggart and Lyle's blatant disregard for the health and well-being of their second-class workers; and the citizens of Rock Ridge's disdain for anyone whose last name isn't Johnson and who doesn't fit nicely into their lily-white redneck community. Brooks proves that humor (in words and song) can be a powerful tool to both entertain and educate by holding up a mirror to the ridiculousness of ourselves.
The true genius of Mel Brooks is in his attention to detail. Instead of a film moving from one punch line to the next with nothing but empty space in between, Brooks fills each moment with little laughs, satire, puns, homages, commentary, and in-jokes…
• The rear view wedding portrait hanging in Lamarr's office.
These are the little things that most directors would never even bother with. For Brooks, these details are the glue which hold the bigger laughs together, creating a rich tapestry of human foibles. All the more for audiences to enjoy.
The performances here are all top-notch. Cleavon Little's delivery is smooth as silk, executing each and every one of Brooks's jokes with maximum impact and making it all look so easy. Gene Wilder is brilliantly understated as the Waco Kid, a stark contrast to the neurotic nebbish Leo Bloom in Brooks's The Producers. Building upon his brilliant TV work, Harvey Korman steals every moment, whether it's toying with Taggart and the Governor or trying to outsmart Bart, he takes everything so seriously, you can't help but laugh. The beautifully funny Madeline Kahn does a dead-on impersonation of Marlene Dietrich, taking everything one step over the top while never venturing beyond the bounds of believability. Alex Karras elevates the classic dumb-jock persona into an art form, as the lovably misunderstood Mongo. Slim Pickens and Burton Gilliam exemplify every idiot redneck ever captured on celluloid.
Presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen, this new digital transfer is probably the most impressive presentation of Blazing Saddles ever released. Granted, there is still evidence of dirt, scratches, and the occasional flicker effect, but the grain has been kept to an absolute minimum and the colors bring back the vibrancy of the 1970s. The remastered Dolby 5.1 Surround track isn't quite as impressive as its video counterpart, with most of the action still taking place in the front three channels. Forget about the rear speakers or the subwoofer; they won't be needed. Alternate French and Spanish tracks have both been included, even though the packaging only lists Español.
As for the bonus features, this is where Warner Bros. stumbles and falls. If you are going to tout something as a "30th Anniversary Special Edition," you might want to follow through. Instead of an expensive anniversary present or the obligatory flowers and candy, we get a leftover cake from a wedding that never took place.
These are the so-called "special features…"
Scene-Specific Commentary by Mel Brooks
Two Blazingly Boffo Documentaries
• Back in the Saddle is a 28-minute featurette culled from interviews with Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, Harvey Korman, Burton Gilliam, producer Michael Hertzberg, and co-writer Andrew Bergman, showcasing clips used from the G-rated televised broadcast. It's a nice look back at the film and its genesis, but again, don't sell chopped liver as prime rib. And don't steal things from other releases to pad your bonus materials! This one was taken from the 2003 Special Edition VHS release.
• Intimate Portrait: Madeline Kahn is a four-minute excerpt from Lifetime Television's Intimate Portrait series. Why Warner didn't include the entire hour-long episode is beyond me, especially if they're labeling this as a documentary.
Additional Scenes
Black Bart: 1975 Pilot Episode
Round out the package with an original theatrical trailer and unimpressive menus, and you have a 30th Anniversary disappointment. Then again, we came for the reception, not the party favors.
Closing Statement
From Frankie Laine's opening title track to Bart and Jim driving off into the sunset in a Cadillac limo, there is not one inch of this canvas left unpainted, which is why Blazing Saddles seems untouched by time. Each viewing makes for new discoveries, and new appreciation for this comedic masterpiece. At $19.97, there is no reason why this title shouldn't be a part of your DVD collection.
The Verdict
This court exonerates Mel Brooks and company from any charges leveled against them. However, Warner Bros. executives and those responsible for this 30th Anniversary release are sentenced to 30 years of hard labor in the California desert for lying to, cheating, and hornswoggling an unsuspecting public. This court is adjourned.
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22 May 2012
In 2009, Ann Arbor became the poster child for critics of Michigan's public safety binding arbitration law, as a labor settlement cost the city $1.5 million in retroactive pay raises. The judgment came as police and fire departments consumed 55 percent ofAnn Arbor's budget and the city stared down a $2.4 million deficit.
The case neatly encapsulated a conflict facing municipalities across Michigan: The cost of public safety colliding with long-term fiscal stability.
A political remedy was presented in 2011, when the Legislature revised Public Act 312, the law barring public safety strikes and mandating binding arbitration to resolve a labor dispute between unions and local municipalities. The key change makes a local government's ability to pay the primary consideration in an arbitrator's decision when a local government and public safety union are at odds.
Less noticed was the narrow passage last year of another measure — PA 54 of 2011 — that bars a public sector arbitration panel from imposing retroactive wage increases after expiration of a contract. Union advocates fought it as an affront to bargaining rights, losing that battle when Lt. Gov. Brian Calley cast a tie-breaking vote in the state Senate.
"It's been sort of the surprising star in terms of pushing along labor negotiations with our membership," said Samantha Harkins of the Michigan Municipal League. "Unions don't like PA 54."
Mark Docherty, president of the Michigan Professional Fire Fighters Union, said it unfairly penalizes members by freezing their wages for a year or more:
"That person can be stuck at that wage for a long time. It penalizes our members in a way it wasn't meant to do."
Bridge graphic: Per capita fire protection costs for Michigan's 51 largest communities
Harkins sees these measures through the prism of local governments struggling to get a handle on expenditures they can no longer afford. MML lobbied for years to change PA 312, put in place in 1969 as an alternative to strikes by public safety unions.
"I think this will help to give our managers more control. It's something our members really pushed for, being able to have more certainty in the arbitration process," she said.
Eric Lupher, director of local affairs at the nonpartisan Citizens Research Council of Michigan, isn't so sure.
"I don't think it will have a great effect," he said.
Lupher said the changes leave in place a system he sees as flawed in its blind reliance on binding arbitration. Lupher said it undercuts the motivation to reach a mutually beneficial collective agreement, "leading to the contentious nature of bargaining."
"They've kind of tinkered around the edges. Many cities continue to operate in the old industrial model of us versus them and then you come down to the line," he said.
Docherty said firefighters are giving back wages and even adding to their pension contributions in labor negotiations.
Earlier this year, Grand Rapids reached a deal with its firefighter union to cut total employee compensation by 8.2 percent. Among the concessions: a wage freeze, elimination of a daily food allowance and higher health insurance and pension contributions. It reduced pension benefits for those hired after January 2012.
The agreement spared jobs that would have otherwise been cut.
The Jackson Fire Department is a painful example of what happens when fiscal problems meet a failure to collaborate. In 2011, the fire department lost 18 of its 34 positions as the city struggled to balance its budget.
With any further layoffs, "There's no sense in even having a fire department," Fire Chief David Wooden said.
Even after the cuts, police and fire accounted for 66 percent of the city's general fund budget.
Ted Roelofs worked for the Grand Rapids Press for 30 years, where he covered everything from politics to social services to military affairs. He has earned numerous awards, including for work in Albania during the 1999 Kosovo refugee crisis.
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HHHHHHHHMMMMMM. The per capita cost is a very interesting metric. However let us not be too quick to assume that the circumstances are the same in all the municipalities—in some cases they are vastly different. Some smaller communities have a lot less "suspicious fires" or have less distance to travel or less overhead. The metric is a good starting point for discussion (Exactly why is there such a disparity???). Answering that question honestly would shed light on some POSSIBLE ways to reduce the costs of service delivery. A good start but there is still a lot of work to do. Enough said.
Mr. Plumpe, you said volumes with the word "HONESTLY". That seems to be the problem in most of the discussions currently taking place in Michigan. Trust and honesty is sadly lacking.
I fully agree norm but let's be careful that we don't assume that "someone isn't telling the truth" merely because their analysis does not agree with the conclusion we've arrived at. Democracy is often not pretty or easy but it is democracy. Would you want someone "in charge" to say "This is what will happen because I say so"???It certainly doesn't work real well all the time but then we are human aren't we???And at least in a democracy we have some input and some say. I'll take the difficulty so I still have my say (and so do you) rather than the classic "I had no freedom to do what I wanted but it was nice that the trains, planes and buses ran on time and I had plenty of simple food and all the gasoline I needed". Enough said.
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Denesh Ramdin has replaced Darren Sammy as West Indies Test captain.
Sammy has retired from the five-day arena in the wake of leaving the post but will continue to skipper the Windies Twenty20 team.
Wicketkeeper-batsman Ramdin has played 56 Tests for his country and had served as Sammy's vice-captain before being appointed to the top job.
His first assignment will be the home series against New Zealand beginning on June 8.
"It is an honour to be named as captain of the West Indies Test team," he said. "This is a huge opportunity and as a unit we are capable of representing the people of the West Indies.
"It is something very special to represent the people of the West Indies and to be named to lead the Test team and chart the course forward is humbling and extra special.
"I thank the WICB for affording me this incredible opportunity and I also thank the TTCB for the opportunity to lead Trinidad and Tobago.
"I am taking over from Darren who did a good job while he was at the helm. He is a very humble and hardworking cricketer."
Sammy made his Test debut in 2007 and became captain three years later having played just eight matches.
The 30-year-old skippered the side to two series victories over Bangladesh as well as triumphs over Zimbabwe and New Zealand.
But four losses in the last five Tests against India and the Black Caps prompted the West Indies Cricket Board to make a change.
Congrats to Ramdin on being name test Captain. God's speed brother as u look to take us forward. Thanks to all for the support.
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"We thank Darren for his energetic and resolute leadership over the past four years and we continue to see his role as the Twenty20 captain as a critical one," said WICB chairman Dave Cameron.
"We wish Denesh consistent success and commit the full support of the board as he takes on the mammoth responsibility of Test captain."
Sammy announced his Test retirement soon after he was removed as captain but had words of encouragement for his successor.
"Congratulations to Ramdin on being named Test captain. God's speed brother as you look to take us forward," he said. "Thanks to all for the support."
Sammy will remain available for one-day international selection under skipper Dwayne Bravo. This will be the first time that West Indies have had separate captains in all three formats of the game.


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OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) President Barack Obama honored the valiant dead and the "sheer improbability" of their D-Day victory, commemorating Saturday's 65th anniversary of the decisive invasion even as he remakes two wars and tries to thwart potential nuclear threats in Iran and North Korea.
Obama hardens U.S. stance on North Korean defiance
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CAEN, France (AP) His patience tested, President Barack Obama on Saturday promised a new and stronger response to defiant North Korea, saying that while he prefers diplomacy he is now taking a "very hard look" at tougher measures. A Pentagon official said no military moves were planned.
Obama's blunt language seemed to point toward nonmilitary penalties such as financial sanctions against North Korea, either within the United Nations or by Washington alone. U.S. allies in Asia may consider new moves to improve their own military defenses.
"We are not intending to continue a policy of rewarding provocation," he said, alluding to recent North Korea nuclear and missile tests.
North Korea presents a challenge for Obama, already burdened with wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and concern about Iran's nuclear ambitions. The North poses a military threat to South Korea, with large artillery forces capable of striking Seoul with little or no warning, and previous diplomatic approaches to the North have failed to rid it of nuclear weapons or halt its building of missiles.
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Administration officials have talked in recent days of possible further penalties against North Korea, already one of the most isolated nations. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has advised Asian allies that additional military defensive measures might be warranted in light of North Korea's pattern of defiance in advancing its missile and nuclear arms programs.
On a different front, Obama won support from French President Nicolas Sarkozy on seeking a Mideast peace that provides for Israeli and Palestinian states, and on the need to thwart Iran's disputed nuclear ambitions.
The State Department said Friday the U.S. is considering imposing its own financial penalties against North Korea, in addition to whatever punishment the U.N. takes in response to the North's recent nuclear test.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with South Korea's foreign minister, Yu Myung-Hwan, in Washington on Friday amid indications the reclusive communist government was preparing to test a missile that could reach U.S. territory.
The North recently conducted a barrage of missile launches and an underground nuclear test that violated previous U.N. Security Council penalties. Clinton told reporters that U.N. diplomats were making progress on new penalties.
In his remarks Saturday, Obama was more blunt about the limits of U.S. patience.
"North Korea's actions over the last several months have been extraordinarily provocative and they have made no bones about the fact that they are testing nuclear weapons, testing missiles that potentially would have intercontinental capacity," the president said.
Earlier Saturday, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak delivered a stern warning to the North in a nationally televised speech honoring the country's war dead. "I would like to make it clear that there will be no compromise against things that threaten our people and security," Lee said.
At an earlier point in the long-running struggle to put a lid on North Korea's nuclear ambitions, President Bill Clinton's administration in the mid-1990s discussed with urgency the possibility of taking military action. That seems less likely now, since the North evidently is nuclear-armed and other nations are focused first on searching for a nonmilitary solution.
While traveling in Asia last weekend, Gates said North Korea's behavior was "reckless" and that while Obama was open to dialogue with adversaries, he is "not naive."
"We will not stand idly by as North Korea builds the capability to wreak destruction on any target in the region or on us," Gates said. In meetings with South Korean and Japanese officials, he said it was time to think about additional defensive moves they could make, collectively or individually, to prepare for the possibility of North Korea continuing to develop its nuclear capability.
Gates mentioned no specific possibilities. One possible option could be to put more Navy ships in waters near the Korean Peninsula to provide more capability to shoot down hostile missiles.
Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said Saturday that the U.S. is not moving toward military action against North Korea.
"That's not the focus of our efforts," Morrell said. "Everyone's preference is to prevail upon the North Koreans with diplomatic or economic pressure. But Secretary Gates on his most recent trip to Asia urged our allies Japan and South Korea to begin thinking about prudent defensive measures that might also be taken should we fail in dissuading the North Koreans from pursuing" ballistic missile and nuclear bomb capabilities.
Morrell said the U.S. is not planning to send additional troops to South Korea, where there already are about 28,500 on station.
Obama mentioned that Russia and China, two of the six nations in the disarmament talks, responded more forcefully to North Korea's recent tests than they had in the past. He said this was an indication that Moscow and Beijing share the U.S. view that North Korea's repeated defiance of international demands is destabilizing the region.
"My preference is always to use a diplomatic approach," Obama said. "But diplomacy has to involve the other side engaging in a serious way in trying to solve problems. And we have not seen that kind of reaction from North Korea. So we will continue to consult with our allies."
The U.S., Russia, China, Japan and South Korea are seeking to get North Korea back to the bargaining table, with little progress so far.
Obama did not mention it, but the Bush administration agreed to remove North Korea from the U.S. list of terrorist states after the North said it would dismantle its nuclear weapons facilities. It later refused to go forward with the dismantlement.
Obama spoke after a private meeting with Sarkozy, who told reporters that on the matter of North Korea, "we have total convergence of views with the American president."
Later the two presidents flew to the Normandy coast to mark the 65th anniversary of the D-Day invasion that turned the tide of World War II in Europe.
On Iran, Sarkozy said "we do not want military nuclear weapons to spread and we are clear on that." On Wednesday he had met with Iran's foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, and told him "to take this hand stretched out by Barack Obama."
Obama reaffirmed that there must be "tough diplomacy" with Tehran and said Iran's actions are contrary to its leaders' insistence that the country does not seek nuclear weapons.
The young U.S. commander in chief, speaking at the American cemetery after the leaders of France, Canada and Britain, held up the sacrifices of D-Day veterans and their "unimaginable hell" as a lesson for modern times.
"Friends and veterans, what we cannot forget what we must not forget is that D-Day was a time and a place where the bravery and selflessness of a few was able to change the course of an entire century," he said.
"At an hour of maximum danger, amid the bleakest of circumstances, men who thought themselves ordinary found it within themselves to do the extraordinary."
Obama opened the emotional day by meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in the nearby picturesque village of Caen. Their wives, dueling style icons in similar attire, met separately at the elegant French Prefecture.
Appearing with Sarkozy before reporters, Obama displayed growing impatience with North Korea and what he called its "extraordinarily provocative" nuclear and ballistic missile tests. He suggested that the North is testing international patience as diplomacy has failed to persuade the reclusive communist government to abandon its nuclear weapons program.
"Diplomacy has to involve the other side engaging in a serious way in trying to solve problems," he said. "We are going to take a very hard look at how we move forward on these issues, and I don't think that there should be an assumption that we will simply continue down a path in which North Korea is constantly destabilizing the region and we just react in the same ways."
Obama also took on Iran, suspected by the West of seeking to build its first nuclear bomb, an accusation Tehran denies. The president has said military action remains on the table, but has offered to change U.S. policy and engage in talks with Tehran. He said Saturday, though, it must be "tough diplomacy."
"We can't afford a nuclear arms race in the Middle East," Obama warned. Sarkozy said he worries about "insane statements" by Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
At the same time, Obama is directing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan seeking to end the first and stepping up U.S. engagement in the second. Both have lasted longer than the U.S. involvement in World War II.
This D-Day anniversary assumed special significance because veterans of the battle are reaching their 80s and 90s and their numbers are dwindling. One American veteran, Jim Norene, who fought with the 101st Airborne Division, came back for Saturday's ceremony, but died in his sleep Friday night.
"Jim was gravely ill when he left his home, and he knew that he might not return," Obama said. "But just as he did 65 years ago, he came anyway. May he now rest in peace with the boys he once bled with, and may his family always find solace in the heroism he showed here."
Joined by Sarkozy, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Obama stopped first at the gray granite visitors center and then at an overlook where the leaders talked at length with two D-Day veterans waiting at the top of the once-bloody bluffs.
The sunny sky, crashing waves, lush vegetation and pleasant breezes created a scene of seaside tranquility at the spot one D-Day veteran recalled as mostly "darkness and confusion."
"I lost a lot of pals on D-Day," said Norman Coleman of Manchester, England. He marked the day by visiting several other burial grounds scattered around the region, where soldiers were buried as they fell in pitched battles over 12 decisive weeks.
Julien Marchand, a 40-year-old carpenter, spontaneously embraced Coleman in an outburst of gratitude on the streets of Caen, nearly knocking over the elderly veteran. "Thank you, thank you, merci," Marchand exclaimed.
The ceremony at Omaha Beach, on what is technically U.S. soil at Colleville-sur-Mer, took place under an American flag flying from a metal pole hundreds of feet high. The crowd of thousands spread far back from the leaders' platform and colonnade engraved with these words: "This embattled shore, portal of freedom, is forever hallowed by the ideals, the valor and the sacrifice."
With clusters of young people sprinkled among the graying heads and wheelchairs, the audience spilled down the path that cut between some of the nearly 10,000 perfectly aligned white crosses that mark the graves of U.S. dead. A mother breast fed an infant on the lawn. French adolescent girls whispered excitedly about the chance to see Obama.
Issac Phillips, 84, recalled having little idea what he was getting into in the dark early morning hours of June 6, 1944, as a private in the U.S. 22nd Infantry regiment who crossed the English Channel and landed at nearby Utah Beach.
"The water was cold, the boat was going like this" his arms spiked up and down "and some of them fell in the water. We are all close together and we can't move very much at all. They say if you stay close together, you don't get seasick. You get seasick anyway."
Allied forces charged the shores of five beaches on France's northern coast, facing German land mines, machine guns and heavy artillery. Some 215,000 Allied soldiers, and roughly as many Germans, were killed or wounded during D-Day and the ensuing three months before the Allies captured Normandy, opening a path toward Paris that eventually took them to Germany and victory over the Nazis.
Before Obama delivered his 16-minute address, the U.S. presidential seal was placed on the lectern.
"You remind us that our future is not shaped by mere chance or circumstance," the president said to the gathered veterans. "You could have done only what was necessary to ensure your own survival. But that's not what you did. That's not the story you told on D-Day."
A 21-gun salute lent an acrid smell to the air that grew grayer and chillier as the ceremony ended. Taps played. A 12-plane flyover of French, British and American jets boomed above.
There was a personal side to the wartime memories for Obama. He mentioned his grandfather, Stanley Dunham, who came ashore at Omaha Beach six weeks after D-Day. Dunham's older brother, Ralph, hit Omaha on D-Day plus four. Another great uncle, Charles Payne, helped liberate a satellite prison of the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945 and accompanied Obama to Normandy.
After the ceremony, Obama and his wife, Michelle, returned to Paris to reunite with their daughters, Sasha and Malia, for a family evening in the City of Light. They planned sightseeing on Sunday before Obama returns to Washington from his trip, which also took him to Saudi Arabia and Egypt. The first lady and the girls planned to remain in France until at least Monday.
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Brand new to blogging and I'm no code warrior, barely competent. I'm a photographer and writer. I would greatly appreciate a critique on my K2 site:
Suggestions for improvement are most welcome.
Thank you for looking.
Brand new to blogging and I'm no code warrior, barely competent. I'm a photographer and writer. I would greatly appreciate a critique on my K2 site:
Suggestions for improvement are most welcome.
Thank you for looking.
WOW, your site is fantastic!
I really like the theme you used. It goes really well with the photos.
I like it. Normally I won't spend more than a few seconds on black themed sites since it is always hard to read and navigate. But yours isn't bad. But, it *is* hard to read.
Suggestions would be to get more contrast in the text so old folks like me can read it. And you might want to loose the WP version text, it isn't needed and it can invite the wrong folks that look for specific versions.
And, funny that you have the word "butter", I use the word as well on mine. :)
I like it, but it's a bit hard to read. I'd say bump up the gray text just a little brighter.
Also your server was a bit laggy, might want to look into that.
I love dark designs, and yours is very nice. I do have some suggestions:
You should either make the text brighter or make the headlines and links less brighter. That might make the blog more readable.
Perhaps you could play around in Photoshop or whichever photo-editing program you use and chose a color from the header image to use as a color for the headline. The red you are using don't quite fit in, in my opinion.
Also: Your photographs are amazing!
Pretty much unreadable. Sorry.
Thank you all! Very, very helpful and greatly appreciated... I agree on the text color and the idea of using color from the header image for the headlines ... yes! Now I'll just have to find where to change that body text color amidst the sea of CSS. Sigh, like I said I'm no code warrior ....
Hmmm, I'm using bluehost as the server but some of the images are linked from smugmug, which I suspect is the issue on speed. I'll be uploading images directly to the server from now on.
Thanks again! and any more tips would be appreciated ...
It's k2 with colors changed. meh.
you seem to be missing a good deal
alt= tags that ought to be being used when you display your images.
I actually like the dark design, goes well with the pictures. But you definitely need to crank up that font color a little, just make it white or very light grey. Maybe crank up the font size a little too.
Cranked up font size and color. Trying to change primary font to TrebuchetMS but no luck ... keep trying.
Thanks for all the great input.
The pictures are beautiful.
The white on black text is very tough on the eyes. May want to rethink that color scheme.
I'd say you have a very professional looking main website - and beautiful photos. The photos are excellent in the blog, too... it's pity that you settled with an unprofessional look for the blog.
Bluntly? You are as bad at blog design as good you are at photography :)
I'm a moron when it comes to blogging...pretty new at this. As an average moron...I can tell you your site is awesome. Love the scheme and your photographs. I found it easy to read, clean and very organized.
Moshu, LOL!
I appreciate bluntness ... Okay, you're the Mod ... give me input how to make it better.
Color, text and background?
Other issues?
Suggestions for a theme?
I am asking ...
I find digging into CSS not fun and frustrating. I'm used to WYSIWYG of page layout programs so all the tweaking in code seems ... bizarre and archaic ... uh oh, now I've done it
There is nothing archaic about using text coding. It is the first step to purity, clarity and efficiency.
Root ... I understand, but there are things I want to do and things I don't, things I'm good at and things I'm not ... I want the easiest method of posting possible with the greatest amount of flexibility ... I just want it to work well and easily ... I want my cake and to eat it too ... and not have to work for it ... I'm an American after all. Thought that might get a reaction, lol
I'm an American after all.
Hmm.. collectively wanting our cake and to eat it too has gotten us into a lot of trouble of late. Sans China.
Arguably, wanting to have cheap prices has gotten cheap products -- oh and unsafe products too.
Is there a parallel? I dont know.
There is something unusual about web dev. The pros use as few do hickeys as possible. The big secret they are sitting on is that this makes their life even easier. I say even because their first secret is that they get their computers to do all the work. Automating your own job without anyone noticing is one of the great joys of an IT career:)
I doubt if I could get Dreamweaver even installed. But I can produce a 8 page php site in pure text; written in valid xhtml with separated css in under 10 minutes. Latin content. Not much style. But fully operational. It is the difference between auto focus and manual. One gives control.
You are a truly gifted photographer. But your work deserves a better frame. We are just trying to encourage you. Good luck anyway and welcome to WP.
Being a mod it doesn't mean I know things better than others - we are only "traffic directors"... :)
All I know is that many organizations and individuals, if they have a web presence with character (i.e. like your elegant main website), they wouldn't spare energy and/or money to have a blog that looks like their main site to get a seamless transition for the visitors. In other words: they design a theme based on the main site.
Thank you for the input ... I do understand, and I am encouraged ... and discouraged with what I perceive to be the hassle involved - I'll start looking for a new theme more friendly to text while still providing a pop for photos, I can't author CSS and don't have the time to learn.
I did like this site very much (wordpress, k2, vader) ... but it wouldn't seem to fit in with the critique here.
Thanks again for the input, I always had problems picking out a good mat for photos and frame until I went with plain white, sometimes with an inset black, with a simple black frame ... elegant, simple.
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