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NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., March 22, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — TEAM Nation Holdings Corporation ("TEAM") (OTCBB:TEMN) is pleased to announce the establishment of TEAM Lender Solutions, a Division that will focus on providing settlement services and ancillary real estate services to high volume lenders and mortgage brokers serving the national marketplace. Mr. Raymond Arias, a 28-year industry veteran who joined TEAM on January 6, 2010, has been named President of the Division and will focus on the proliferation of TEAM's settlement and ancillary services to lenders and mortgage brokers transacting more than 50 loans monthly. TEAM Lender Solutions will combine its settlement services platform with additional ancillary services from appraisal and pest control, to mobile notary services, creating a value added benefit for its lender clientele……..
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See, this is what happens when Jon leavesKatie Allison
I told y'all that things would not go well for me with Jon out of town for an entire week. I knew there would be problems. It turns out that I am definitely Jon-dependent, at this point.
Here's what I mean…
1 – I had lost my debit card before Jon left, and the new one had not come yet, so when Jon headed to Chicago, he left me $100 in cash and told me to just go to the actual bank and withdraw money via the actual teller when I needed more cash. (We are trying not to use credit cards at all 'til all our mountain of medical bills from last three years are paid off) Well, I keep failing to get to the bank during business hours, which means that so far this week, my neighbor Jerry has loaned me $50 in cash after hours, and my sister Betsy gave me her last $3 in change so I could buy enough gas to get home from her house.
2 – I accidentally left both doors to the SOLID GOLD MINIVAN wide open all night, and I did not discover my oversight until the next morning when I went out to my car to drive to my office for the day (and amazingly, nothing had been taken from the car).
3 – I accidentally left our house FOR WORK wearing two different shoes, and I did not discover this until I stopped for a Diet Pepsi at Weigels' (which is like a 7-11 store, for those of you who don't live in Knoxville, TN), where a crotchety woman with a bad perm pointed it out to me.
Here's photographic evidence. (And yes, I do need a pedicure…)
Our house is also kind of messy at this point….
Jon returns this weekend. Thank God.
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Implementing CompStat: Critical Points to Consider
Phyllis P. McDonald, Ed.D., Director of Research, Division of Public Safety Leadership, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
As I prepared the book Managing Police Operations: Implementing the New York Crime Control Model—CompStat (Wadsworth, 2002), it became apparent that a law enforcement agency would need to ask several strategic questions if it desired to become a contributing part of the change in police history. The following pointers are designed to provide guidance in implementing CompStat.
What Is the Change in Leadership Required by the Police Chief?CompStat requires that a police chief or sheriff undertake a significantly different role to provide leadership. He or she must formulate a clear vision expressed as objectives or goals for the agency since operational goals and objectives set priorities for members. The chief or sheriff must be able to coach commanders in developing innovative strategies and tactics to meet objectives. The leader must be able to accept failure and use it to modify or replace tactics rather than punish staff (unless serious incompetence is evidenced). The ability and willingness to reallocate resources, support creative solutions to problems, track progress, and integrate functions within the agency require relentless pressure gently applied, along with all the technical competencies described above.
A word of caution is necessary in establishing an outcome. Law enforcement measures are often stated as percentages for reduction. When a percentage is provided as a target, members will focus on meeting the percentage target only. They will look for easy routes to meeting the target, and once the target is achieved will stop pursuing the objective. By expressing an exact percentage the leader is establishing not an outcome but an output. Outputs are measures of productivity and not effectiveness. In other words, once a percentage target is introduced, creativity is narrowed and effectiveness set aside. Although this may appear as a minor detail in using words, the ultimate meaning conveyed is critical.
Crime data identifies three problem areas. One problem is the so-called hot spot where criminal events are identified in a relatively small geographic area. The hot spot can have the same type of criminal offense repeatedly or several different types of offenses simultaneously. The common element is the geographic location.
The second problem area identified by crime data is the crime pattern in which a certain type of crime is committed in several areas and by the same person or persons. The common element of a pattern is the criminal offense occurring in several locations rather than in one hot spot.
The third is a crime trend, where crimes have certain characteristics in common. One example of a trend would be an increase in juvenile offenses such as vandalism, drug use, and after-school burglaries.
Engaging the CompStat process to develop and enact crime control strategies can help agencies of all sizes to address hot spots, patterns, and trends; CompStat is not just for big cities. When it comes to data applications, CompStat becomes a critical thought process.
What Are the Important Characteristics of Crime Data?There are five characteristics of crime data that are most important to decisions makers:
The information must be timely; daily, real-time availability is preferred. Crime patterns and behaviors of offenders change rapidly, and if the police are responding swiftly and effectively, the patterns will also change quickly. To offset the changes, the police must have critical and timely information to allow for rapid adjustment of responses.
The volume of data, the availability of personnel, and the computer programming will dictate the crime data availability. In well equipped, well trained, and adequately staffed departments, a crime analyst can handle a high volume of data and provide information on hot spots, patterns, and trends almost instantaneously. In other departments, employees must compile and analyze data manually. The important factor is that the data is being compiled, analyzed, and reported to commanders and other members as quickly as possible.
In addition, the same information at the same time intervals must be shared with everyone involved. Failing to share complete information in a timely manner diminishes the accountability process and can give the impression that the purpose of CompStat is simply to get the commander in trouble. To be meaningful and usable, the data must thoroughly identify when, where, and how the crimes are occurring and who the suspects are. Incomplete data is not helpful. Although data begins with official crime reports, other sources need to be included. Bringing in data developed through calls for service, information from the public, field contact reports, debriefings of arrested persons, parole and probation records, other agencies' sources, informants, and citizen observations all help in developing a clear view of the crime problem in an area.
Accuracy of the data is essential. Checking and cross-referencing the data is time consuming, but it is the most basic and essential need to make CompStat work. For example, a call for service may come in to a 911 center as a citizen reporting a robbery. The actual investigation, however, reveals it is a burglary. The citizen may not know the difference in crime categories, but accuracy is essential to lead to the appropriate analysis of the data, and design the appropriate police response.
What's More Important: Crime Problems or Geographic Areas?Focusing on a specific crime problem within a defined geographic area provides the best results for several reasons. An important element in CompStat is fixing responsibility so that action will occur. Effective command imperative begins with full responsibility for a defined area and every issue within it 24 hours a day. When the patrol commander is responsible and has access to all other specialized units for support, strategies can be comprehensive and results are apparent.
In the past, a patrol commander was responsible for a geographic area but had separate and independent drug squads, robbery squads, or sexual assault squads operating in the same area. Often the traditional patrol commander did not know which unit, which offender, or what type of strategy was being employed. Each unit had separate objectives, separate accountability, and separate tactics and shared little information with each other or the patrol commander. Most often the patrol commander's responsibility was ensuring that calls for service were answered—a true silo organization with little impact. CompStat has shown that solving crime problems usually occurs by winning one street, one neighborhood, or one shopping center at a time. When the patrol commander is responsible for a geographic area, strategies can be comprehensive and address more than one issue or incident at a time.
The CompStat leader must be capable of providing a role model to midlevel commanders by investing considerable time and energy in reviewing crime data, generating creative strategies and tactics, and thereby setting standards for others. When a CompStat leader knows more about a crime problem in a geographic area than the patrol commander, the lack of motivation or skill level of the commander becomes apparent and requires mediation and improvement.
Follow-up as to impact of a strategy or tactic is equally important. If a strategy is not working the response should not be criticism of the commander but an attempt to modify and change the strategy to obtain desired results.
Holding commanders accountable for implementing agreed-upon strategies and following up on the results clearly demonstrates an urgent concern on the part of the leader. This concern can spur a commander to action.
How Should the Public Be Involved?The community will learn about the CompStat process through three sources: experiencing and observing more effective policing, comments by community leaders and elected and appointed government officials, and media reports. Of these, the most meaningful will be the actions by police in the streets. CompStat is a system designed to manage police operations to get results. It reconfigures the relationships between patrol, investigations, specialized units, and support units to focus the department's priorities on the most pressing crime problems affecting the quality of life of citizens. When CompStat is implemented correctly, results will be evident.
When explaining CompStat to the public, be it through official briefings to government officials and community leaders or the news media, the important message to deliver is that CompStat is an integration of police operations driven by scientific analysis of data to abate identified crime problems and community issues.
NYPD CompStat Model Basic Principles
The New York City Police Department uses crime data to identify and analyze crime problems, patterns, and trends and to engage department personnel at all levels in developing creative strategies and tactical responses to the identified problems. the following explains the four basic principles of the NYPD CompStat model.
Accurate and Timely Intelligence
If the Police are to respond effectively to crime and to criminal events, officers at all levels of the organization must have accurate knowledge of wen particular types of crimes are occurring, how and where the crimes are being committed, and who the criminals are. The likelihood of an effective police response to crime increases proportionally as the accuracy of this criminal intelligence increases.
Effective Tactics
Effective tactics are prudently designed to bring about the desired result of crime reduction, and these are developed after studying and analyzing the information gleaned from accurate and timely intelligence. In order to avoid merely displacing crime and quality-of-life problems, and in order to bring about permanent change, these tactics must be comprehensive, flexible, and adaptable to the shifting crime trends we identify and monitor.
Rapid Deployment of Personnel and Resources
Once a tactical plan has been developed, an array of personnel and other necessary resources are promptly deployed. Although some tactical plans might involve only patrol personnel, experience has proven that the most effective plans require that personnel from several units and enforcement functions work together as a team to address the problem. A viable and comprehensive response to a crime or quality-of-life problem generally demands that patrol personnel, investigators, and support personnel bring their expertise and resources to bear in a coordinated effort.
Relentless Follow-up and Assessment
As in any problem-solving endeavor, an ongoing process of rigorous follow-up and assessment is absolutely essential to ensure that the desired results are actually being achieved. This evaluation component also permits us to assess the viability of particular tactical responses and to incorporate the knowledge we gain in our subsequent tactics development efforts. By knowing how well a specific tactic worked on a particular crime or quality-of-life problem, and by knowing which specific elements of the tactical response worked most effectively, we are better able to construct and implement effective responses for similar problems in the future. The follow-up and assessment process also permits us to redeploy resource to meet newly identified challenges once a problem has abated.
Source: http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/nypd/html/chfdept/chief-of-department.html
From The Police Chief, vol. 71, no. 1, January 2004. Copyright held by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, 515 North Washington Street, Alexandria, VA 22314 USA.


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Annaly Capital (NYSE: NLY ) will be reporting first-quarter earnings soon, when investors will get a glimpse of how 2013 has been treating the mega mortgage REIT. With that in mind, I thought it would be a good idea to take a look even further ahead in the year, since several political issues are on tap that concern mREITs in general, and Annaly in particular.
So, without further ado, here are three factors that I feel might trip up Annaly later this year.
1. Concerns about an mREITs bubble
Regulators have been peering at mREITs for some time, wringing their hands over the amount of assets they own and worrying that a failure of these trusts might put the economy at risk. Recently, these trusts were on the agenda of the Financial Stability Oversight Council, as that body considers various financial entities that could pose a threat to the economy.
Under particular scrutiny is Annaly and its fast-growing peer, American Capital Agency (NASDAQ: AGNC ) , which together, hold nearly $235 billion in assets. Despite their relatively small participation in the mortgage-debt market, mREITs could find themselves facing new rules that limit their use of leverage -- and as a result, their stellar returns.
2. Congress is eyeballing the REIT sector's special tax status
The U.S. Congress is currently going over the tax code with a fine-tooth comb looking for loopholes, and the REIT industry's special tax status is coming under review. Though The Wall Street Journal notes that a change in the law that allows REITs to avoid corporate taxes on income as long as they pay out 90% of earnings isn't certain, neither is it out of the realm of possibility -- possibly making dividends like those paid by American Capital Agency and its hybrid cousin American Capital Mortgage (NASDAQ: MTGE ) a lot less hefty.
3. Shareholders may balk at Annaly's new management paradigm
Annaly's management will have a big question for its stockholders at this year's annual meeting, asking for their blessing to segue from being an internally managed company to using an external management team -- one made up of the very people that now rule the roost.
Of course, many mortgage REITs are externally managed, such as the aforementioned American Capital Agency and American Capital Mortgage. However, this proposal seems to behoove Annaly's management more than its shareholders -- and, as my colleague John Maxfield has pointed out, will also protect the board members from having to publicly disclose their salaries. If a large enough contingent of investors questions the wisdom of this move, the meeting could turn into a rumpus that could damage Annaly's credibility.
This latter scenario will play out next month, while the political issues will likely take longer to simmer. Meantime, Annaly continues to work on its acquistion of CreXus Investment (UNKNOWN: CXS.DL.DL ) , the purchaser of commercial mortgage-backed securities that Annaly hopes will help relieve some of its QE3-inspired malaise. If there is one thing Annaly investors can count on, it is that the rest of 2013 won't be boring.
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SAUGUS — Three men were arrested this week in a drug bust after Massachusetts State Police troopers assigned to a drug task force and a Drug Enforcement Administration task force from New Hampshire teamed up for a surveillance operation at a Peabody hotel.
According to a press release issued Saturday by troopers, Thursday afternoon the team set up shop outside a hotel on Route 1 after developing information that there were three men with ties to a Mexican drug ring trafficking drugs out of a room there.
"Surveillance teams observed two of the suspects leave the hotel with a large duffel bag and drive away," troopers said in a statement. "After stopping the car on Route 1 in Saugus, police found four kilograms of heroin in the duffel bag and placed the two men under arrest. The third suspect was located a short time later driving a separate car and was also arrested."
In total, police say they found the significant amount of heroin as well as two kilograms of crystal methamphetamine in the hotel room after executing a search warrant there. Troopers estimate the street value of the drugs around $1 million.
Arrested were Juan E. Nunez, 37, of New York City; Jose Morales, 43, of Haverstraw, N.Y.; and Alfredo D. Lopez, 33, of Van Nuys, Calif. All three men were charged with trafficking narcotics and conspiracy to violate the Controlled Drug Act.
Troopers say the trio are part of a drug ring with ties to Mexico which has allegedly been helping fuel the supply side of the heroin crisis in the Northeast U.S. by delivering product to Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire. Also confiscated was a van registered in New York and a car registered in California.
The men were arraigned in Lynn District Court on Friday but arraignment information wasn't immediately available Saturday afternoon.


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Jim Matheson at the Edmonton Journal reports that Oilers GM Steve Tambellini said he has not received a call from anyone interested in Souray.
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Mark Spector at Sportsnet reports that the Rangers are actively scouting Edmonton Oilers defenseman Sheldon Souray, and could begin the process of acquiring his services within the next few days…
"Rangers pro scout Kevin Maxwell is credentialed for tonight's game in Atlantic City between the Hershey Bears and the Albany Devils, and another Rangers scout is on his way to Hershey for back-to-back Bears games Saturday and Sunday against Manitoba.
Rangers general manager Glen Sather has already passed through Hershey to have a firsthand look at Souray, who is healthy and back playing for the Bears, after suffering a pair of injuries this season."
Souray, who comes with a cap hit of $5.4 million a year (contract ends in 2012), can be claimed by the Rangers for half price if the Oilers decide to place him on re-entry waivers.
Souray is 3-10-13 in 19 games.
…very conflicted with Souray. The Rangers could desperately use his bomb of a shot from the point on the power play and at half the price it makes him even more appealing.
…on the other hand whose spot is he taking in the lineup? McDonagh's? Eminger's? And how effective can he be at this age and after all of his injuries?
…after thinking long and hard, I hope the Rangers pass. Even at half the price he still costs $2.7 per and the Rangers could really use that cap space to re-sign players and maybe bring some in this off-season. Would also hate to see one of the Rangers young defensemen lose valuable playing time. Bottom line, Souray is not the missing piece for a Cup run so bringing him in would be very reminiscent of the bad moves Sather made in the early 2000s. Can you imagine how bad the move would look next year?
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"Zhou Yu's Train" gives us the story of a ceramics painter (Gong Li) who lives in a small town in modern China. A couple times a week, she catches a train to another town to hang out with her boyfriend, a poet named Chen Ching (Tony Leung Ka Fai). On her way to meet him one weekend, she runs into a veterinarian, Zhang Jiang (Sun Hong Lei), who's younger, and frankly, more fun. Soon she's catching another train to be with him. So, yes, the translated title of this exasperatingly pokey love drama should actually be "Zhou Yu's Trains." Not that it matters: They both mosey along.
But that doesn't stop the movie's co-writer and director, Sun Zhou, from doting on them. If we get one shot of a train pulling out of a tunnel, we get a thousand. In fact, doting appears to be Sun's big skill. This is one of those languid numbers where slow motion -- and there's lots of it -- is meant to signify poetry, and a line like "I know my lake is artificial, but it's full of water" is supposed to seem lyrical. But all they do is give the picture a fake air of rapture.
Apparently, the director was so psyched to nab megastar Gong Li that he's given her a second role, which you'll just have to see for yourself. Be aware that she often looks bored in both parts. But like France's Emmanuelle Beart, emoting is really beside the point for Gong. For this movie, she looks typically great. Her hair's been teased into an alluring frizz and she wears the same loose-fitting linens and sandals that your favorite art teacher might. The movie's strategy is to show her in action, and by "action" I mean taking long walks, running for the train, panting, hauling trays of bowls, then running for the train some more. (For a change of pace, she does catch the bus once.)
Gong also gets down with her two men, sort of. Even so, there's a stupendous lack of sex. Sun seems determined not to whet our appetites over her indecisiveness and her flings. So the absence of eroticism is not entirely inappropriate for a movie that seems to be about the naughtiness of pleasure. But this might be where Gong can learn a thing or two from Beart, who seems contractually obligated by her nation to fog windows. Instead, Gong is required to sleepwalk her way through the movie's narrative fog.
If "Zhou Yu's Train" won't give us anything satisfying on the physical level, then we at least deserve satisfying drama or satisfying personalities or satisfying train travel. Who knows what these people are thinking or feeling, let alone where they're going. Instead, we get obvious insights ("A lover is a mirror through which you can see yourself more clearly") and insultingly tasteful shots of clasped hands, pensive glances, and parchment flying over the sea. These are not the marks of true cinema; they're the makings of a droopy karaoke video.
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You may want to think twice before opening certain emails this Valentine's Day.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a press release Tuesday that a virus called the "Storm Worm" may be hidden in fake electronic greeting card messages.
The email directs the recipient to click on a link to retrieve an e-card but instead it downloads viruses. Once the user clicks on the link, the computer becomes part of the Storm Worm "botnet," a place you may not want your personal information to be.
"Botnets are usually set up to facilitate criminal activity such as spam e-mail, identity theft, denial of service attacks and spreading malware to other machines on the Internet," the FBI's statement said.
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FD intersection to be closed
May 22, 2016 The intersection of Eighth Avenue North and 16th Street will be closed Monday, according to the Fort Dodge Public Works Department. City crews will be replacing a water valve there. more »»
South Seventh Street remains closed
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Shadi Hamid is Director of Research at the Brookings Doha Center & Fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. He has written an excellent piece at The Atlantic on the lessons of the Libyan intervention. I say excellent because he says exactly what I thought and wrote about it all along, but he has more knowledge on the issue naturally.
He states correctly that the rebels winning against Qaddafi was never much in doubt, it was just how quickly and how bloody it would be.
…we should be careful not to overstate the strategic benefits of President Obama's chosen course of action the past six months. Foreign Policy's Blake Hounshell argues that the administration's strategy of "leading from behind" now "seems utterly vindicated." It is unclear why this would be so. If anything, it could be argued, as I did in March, that Obama's excessive caution made a bad situation even worse. If the U.S. and the international community had intervened sooner — rather than at the very last moment when rebels were making their final stand — Qaddafi would have fallen sooner and without such loss of life and destruction.
This, lest we forget, is how the rebels themselves saw the situation in March. They were literally begging the United States to take action. When their calls were met with silence, Iman Bughaigis, spokeswoman for the rebels, fumed that "[The West] has lost any credibility." In a veiled but obvious reference to the fence-sitters, she continued, "I am not crying out of weakness … But we will never forget the people who stood with us and the people who betrayed us."
With the Obama administration dragging its feet, French foreign minister Alain Juppe conceded that it was perhaps too late for military intervention. In other words, what seems like such a success now was then very much in doubt. Even after NATO stepped in, the complaints continued; NATO could do more but wasn't, rebel officials argued, in part due to U.S. insistence on "letting others lead." There was also an (understandable) reticence on the part of the Obama administration and its allies to more pro-actively arm and train Libyan rebel forces. But such hesitation, however prudent, came at a cost.
Hamid has great hopes for Libyans to rebuild their nation after such a brutal rule. I hope he is right. All people on this earth deserve freedom. It is what our founding fathers knew that all souls thirst for. Our fear is that other corrupt oppressive groups will lead. I hope that is not the case. Freedom is having a domino effect in the Arab world. Iraq was that first domino, whether liberals like to admit it or not.
Next up. I am sure the Occupy protest will erupt in outrage over this…or not.
Eric Wesoff of Green Technology reports that Solyndra's top executives awarded themselves substantial bonuses — on top of their already lavish salaries — just months before the solar company declared bankruptcy in early September 2011. Upon reviewing Solyndra's 277-page bankruptcy document, Wesoff found the following:
- Karen Alter, senior vice president of marketing, received two $55,000 bonuses on April 15 and July 8 of this year, on top of her $250,000 annual salary.
- Ben Bierman, executive vice president of operations and engineering, received $120,000 in bonuses this year on top of his $276,000 salary.
- Paula Camporaso, vice president of information technology — $80,000 in bonuses on top of her $107,000 salary.
- Dave Sanat, vice president of supply chain — $80,000 in bonuses on top of his $111,000 salary.
- Bill Stover, the company's CFO who took the fifth before Congress at a September hearing, was awarded at least $120,000 in bonuses on top of his $367,000 salary.
Isn't this special? Taxpayers give to government, government gives to Solyndra, Solyndra goes into bankruptcy, but not before paying themselves lavishly. All for the "green" movement. Oh, yes, and there is that little something where Steve Spinner, the former Energy Department official who pushed for a fast decision on the loan to Solyndra, is a major Obama fundraiser while his wife's law firm represented Solyndra. Just the kind of thing the Occupy movement hates, right?
I'll be waiting right here for the outrage.
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My son has a PhD and has over $100,000 in student loan debt and his salary is about $60,000/year. He is an associate instructor/research asssistant at a medical school. He is in deferrment because his debt to income ratio is so high.
When I first went to college in 1976, since my father was deceased and a 20 year veteran of the Air Force, I was receiving $240/month social security and $70/month from the VA as long as I was a full time student.
The tuition at our local state college was free for state residents. They had what they called an "activity fee" of $300 a semester. So the government was paying me $300/month to go to a college that was costing me $300/semester.
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Monthly Archives: February 2008
Worship Video
Just saw this and it will probably keep me awake for the next couple of hours, so I thought I'd share.
St. Teresa and Prayer
I'm reading some interesting OLD stuff on prayer tonight for seminary. This is a quote from St. Teresa of Avila–from "The Way of Perfection" dealing with prayer:
"To recite the Paternoster [The Lord's Prayer]… or any other petition you like, is vocal prayer. But think how harsh your music will be without what must come first; sometimes even the words will get into the wrong order. In these two kinds of prayer, with God's help, we may accomplish something ourselves. In the contemplation which I have just described we can do nothing. It is His Majesty Who does everything; the work is His alone and far transcends human nature."
I've been wrestling with this question, and wanted to see if anyone had some thoughts.
Who is your church targeting?
And follow that with:
Are they reaching who they're targeting?
I'm just curious. I think that many times we can end up simply feeding the fat… pouring into the church-hoppers or Christians who've been around forever, while much of the world continues to head for Hell. I know it's strong, but I'd just like to get your thoughts.
Fun Ride Home
Here's video of Malia and me on our ride home tonight after church. It was a pretty rough night for us musically at church and this just kind of served to remind me that sometimes I take myself to seriously. We were letting each other know how cold it was.
ER and God
Just saw this clip on my Evangelism professor's blog and thought it was great in approaching the spirituality we so often get today.
First Worship Weekend
I'm backstage waiting for communion at our 9 am service. This is my first of many weekends leading worship here at the Chapel. It's weird to not be doing youth ministry–a little sad–but exciting. I'm really praying God does a new work here in this community. I started a new blog for the arts of the church. If you get a chance check it out… I'll be updating it regularly.
Where Have I Been?
Mainly reading and job transitioning. I'm trying to work my way out of Jr. High and into Worship ministries at our church, and it's pretty interesting. I'm also reading a whole lot of church history stuff.
Last night though, I was here:
I'm a full-fledged Blue Man Groupie. This was my second time seeing them, and I'm always fascinated by how creative their show is–weaving themes throughout. If you ever get a chance, go see them. It's worth every penny.


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Four years ago, the East Tennessee State University communication department created an opportunity of a lifetime for foreign students through the form of an articulation agreement with a Chinese university.
In 2008, an opportunity arose to formalize an agreement that allowed ETSU to set up a program for students at North China University of Technology in Beijing. The program constructed by Maria Costa, director of international programs, allows them to complete a degree in advertising with a minor in English.
An articulation agreement is a transfer agreement that allows students to begin their undergraduate work at one institution, and then transfer to another one to complete their degree. These agreements are common between ETSU and area community colleges.
In this case, the agreement enables foreign students to study at the institutions in their home countries and then transfer to ETSU to finish their degrees.
These students know which courses they are to take and total hours required at their institutions in their home countries to receive not one but two bachelor's degrees, one in their home country and one here at ETSU. It also lets students know which ETSU courses to take after the transfer to complete the bachelor's degree in their major.
"We predetermine the requirements to fulfill the courses that are here," said Associate Professor Stephen Marshall of the communication department here at ETSU.
For example to take Advertising Graphics here at ETSU, a transfer of NCUT would need to take a course in Computer Graphics as well as Type Settings course to satisfy the requirements," Marshall said.
It may seem as if the requirements aren't equal, but this is because the credit hours don't match up between the two institutions. For example, a course here would be a two-credit-hour course and the other two courses in the foreign institution would be a one-credit-hour course, which leaves a two-for-one situation.
If the agreement is followed completely as it is outlined between the two institutions both in the home country and here at ETSU, then the student will meet the requirements for the first two years of an ETSU bachelor's degree.
In 2008, Marshall played a significant role in finalizing the agreement.
"With this agreement, students would take two years of English in their home countries and two years of advertising here at ETSU," Marshall said.
This might seem like something new that ETSU is doing but ETSU has been involved with this for decades now.
"We've had a partnership with foreign institutions since the 1980s," Costa said, "and it came about when one of the chemistry professors here did research with some colleagues from some of the foreign institutions, from that they expressed interest in collaboration efforts."
Over the years, Costa has seen significant changes in the program that she has constructed.
"Numbers are growing," Costa said, "and I think it has the tendency to continue to grow more."
Even the teachers that have the opportunity to teach these students have seen the growth from the program.
"The number of students that I teach has tripled over the past two years," Marshall said. "We have 22 students studying with us now with the largest Chinese cohort on campus."
The graduation rate for these students that come to study here is at 100 percent.
"They (the students) all graduate on time," Marshall said. "A larger group of the students upon graduation continue on to graduate study."
"A lot of my students are now studying at the University of Florida, University of Iowa, University of Michigan," Marshall said, "I even have a former student that is now working on the Mercedes-Benz account in Beijing."
"We are so lucky and fortunate in the mass communication department to have these exceptional students," said Deborah J. Roberts-Jessee, lecturer and marketing director at ETSU. "They've added a lot to the classroom, brought diversity and gave other students a unique prospective."
The professors also make extra efforts to help the students adapt and transition well with the other students through activities such as team-building exercises.
"We do what we can to help acculturate the students," Marshall said, "their culture plus their exposure to American culture makes them amazingly marketable."
This program has shown growth and progress over the past four years and have been both beneficial for not only the students but for the teachers as well.
"This has made for a nice teaching experience," Jessee said, "We need to continue to recruit to other institutions from all over."


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Tariq Ali in a powerful essay, covering most bases:
The New York Times:
The cost of providing electricity from wind and solar power plants has plummeted over the last five years, so much so that in some markets renewable generation is now cheaper than coal or natural gas.
So let me add: fuck you nuclear, and your malignant, cancerous apologists. Fuck you gas fracking and the outright poisoning of our vital aquifers. Fuck you oil drillers, destroying the Gulf of Mexico as if it was yours to destroy. Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you.
Looks very chaotic, pointless and dangerous. Chants include, "Revolution," and the old standby, "Our Streets."
But what are they about?
…Explosions are heard now, as I post. Police response.
"Revolution" is a recipe for disaster. You need to build a better alternative and not tear down what exists. Mindless calls for "revolution" are as stupid and dangerous as the warmongers you claim to oppose. There is still a means for achieving power and making change legitimately, but it's a lot harder than making a bunch of noise in the street once a year. You have to build a political movement to show up at the polls.
Ineffectual marches don't change anything. What is the cause and effect? You make the politicians notice you? And? They notice challenges to their jobs a lot more. That's where these mindless movements fail, and I suspect it's by design. They claim to be leaderless, but someone decided what sort of protest would happen and on what day. As this is the only venting avenue in sight the disgruntled fall for it. It won't work. It won't change anything. But it manages to grab people and send them out marching in a pointless display. Tomorrow it will be over, and that's that.
Build the alternative, or forget about it. You're being played, million mask marchers. Your efforts are in vain.
by Eric Wahlberg
The Square, a documentary about Egypt's January 2011 uprising, provides glimpses of most of the players but gives short shrift to the Muslim Brotherhood, the main player that was then targeted by the deep state headed by the military.
The Square, the Academy Award-nominated Egyptian-American documentary film by Jehane Noujaim, depicts events in Egypt from January 2011 focusing on Tahrir Square. It is neither "Egyptian" nor "American" in any meaningful sense, as the Egyptian "government" has banned it, Noujaim's mother is American, and she was raised more in Kuwait, has lived in Boston since 1990, and as such is far from typically American in outlook.
Furthermore, she financed and produced the film independently, raising funds from kickstarter.com, where supporters around the world can pledge funds to help finance such projects, and it premiered on Netflix, again for worldwide distribution (except, of course, Egypt). It is very much a film of the new international age, where nationalism is less and less meaningful, where forces of both repression and resistance are increasingly international.
Given these handicaps/advantages, Noujaim has produced a remarkable documentary, which will surely stand as the most powerful and riveting expose of what lay behind the immediate upheavals that began in 2011 and which will continue into the foreseeable future in Egypt.
This is not to say that it is objective, since that is impossible anyway, as any journalism, any writing, any film inevitably reflects the standpoint of the author. So it is no surprise that the Muslim Brotherhood, though unavoidably prominent throughout the film (at least as a specter), is given short shrift. Or that the secular youth dominate the film and are portrayed as the main force and the most appealing protagonists of the revolution.
What astounds the viewer, whether secular or Islamic, is the military and police violence against the people, both Muslims and Christians. It is too easy to forget their overwhelming responsibility for the post-revolutionary violence—in league, of course, with the old guard and the openly criminal elements in Egyptian society.
By highlighting some of the worst episodes of violence in the past three years and winning prominence for her film, Noujaim has done a great service. She has made it impossible for thinking people to ignore the military's bloody past and present actions. The film uses actual footage of security force atrocities to document the unceasing and unapologetic recourse to murder and torture by the military and police.
Interspersed with these horrible scenes are interviews with senior military figures, one of whom smugly admits that the so-called revolution was actually carried out by the military itself to prevent Mubarak from passing on the presidency to his son Jamal, and that when it is time, it will be cut short. His prophetic words were echoed by worried revolutionaries, who were constantly looking over their shoulders, expecting a coup, and in the end—unbelievably and to their shame—actually calling for one.
This plot was well-known even before the events of January–Feburary 2011. But the revolution seemed to take events out of the military's control. Suddenly the military was faced with a mass uprising, not so easy to quell as they thought. How would it rein in these powerful forces that it had unleashed—to put the genie back in the bottle? Egyptians quickly matured politically, demanding genuine elections and, as soon became clear, an Islamic government. What was the poor military to do?
Here, The Square pleads "Not my job!" sticking to its human interest angle. Fair enough. We can fill in the blanks: in addition to its ongoing episodic violence, intended to intimidate everyone, the military hobbled Islamic activists at every step, disbanding the elected parliament and stripping the president of his powers, in hopes that they could cow them into accepting a subservient role in the new order.
When it became clear to all—Islamic groups, Christians, old guard, secuarlists—that Islamic groups were ready and able to chart a new course for Egypt based on the Quran, the military's only weapon was … weapons. Up the violence! Kill, torture, terrorize, and then, when Egyptians of all stripes were pleading for "security", take control. Very clever.
This clear scenario is only hinted at by The Square. Most of the film's protagonists spout the nonsense that the Brotherhood was in a cynical pact with the military, and the only Brotherhood actor featured in the film is Magdy Ashour, a dissident within the Brotherhood who disobeys his higher-ups defiantly at crucial moments, even disowning the Brotherhood at one point. No legitimate Brotherhood spokesman articulates the views held by most members—that the MB was pursuing a more patient, realistic, and less confrontational path to civilian democracy.
The film was originally released in January 2012 and immediately won the Audience Award for World Cinema Documentary at the Sundance film festival and the People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. With the July 2013 coup, Noujaim returned to Tahrir to update the film, swallowing the secularist line about "the largest demonstration in history" precipitating the coup and actually celebrating the coup (through the joy of the film's actors — excluding Ashour). The film ends with the naive secular hero, ex-street kid Ahmed Hassan, phoning Ashour, traumatized, tortured and in prison, to wish him well and say there is nothing personal in their disagreement over the coup. Crocodile tears.
Noujaim, as channeled by Ahmed and the other main protagonist, British-Egyptian actor Khalid Abdallah, while not happy with the coup in retrospect, rationalizes it as a step toward their goal of a nice, secular democratic Egypt, a lovely fantasy, which the cynical military and the Brotherhood both know to be a false goal.
The Pinochet of Egypt, General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, overthrew the legitimate government headed by President Mohamed Mursi in July 2013, ordered the slaughter of thousands, and has since been promoted to Field Marshal by his quisling interim President Adly Mansour. El-Sisi has never actually commanded troops in any "war," except the war against his own people, making the title ludicrous. Yes, Pinochet became president of Chile and continued his reign of terror for 17 years, but he was eventually arrested and is remembered now as a cruel and unjust tyrant, not Chile's savior. Read your history, Sisi.
Noujain did not make this logical conclusion, though we, the viewers, can. Like all cultural artifacts, The Square is a product of its environment, its maker, and demands an intelligent viewing. It is to be recommended as a surprisingly honest depiction of events. The fact that it raises the ire of just about everyone shows that it is not pulling any punches. Only the secular socialists can enthusiastically commend it, but then that is Noujain's milieu. We can at least be thankful to her for providing a precious compilation of historic footage, interspersed with "the human stories of specific individuals caught up in the revolt", but especially for revealing the military monster eating away at the heart of the revolution.
"This film is sort of a love letter to those ideas that were put forth at the start of the revolution. Some may say that what is happening now is a tragedy, but it is still an open-ended story." With the deletion of "some may say that," Noujain has the pulse of Egypt's revolution. Good luck to Noujain at the Oscars.
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Provincial Minister, Fr. Charles Polifka visits Novices Bros. Jason and Marshall in California
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Bros. Charles Polifka, Christopher Popravak and Mark Schenck were in California this past week for a meeting with the leadership of other Capuchin Provinces. During their trip they visited the novices in Santa Inez, California.
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MIDDLETOWN—The location of a new Middletown Amtrak station is still under discussion, but a decision is expected in weeks, officials say. An engineering consultant will be meeting with borough officials Tuesday, David Clouser, interim borough manager, told council this week.
Clouser said he believes the preferred site is at the former A. P. Green warehouse property at Main and Ann streets, if cost and other issues can be worked out. The other site under consideration is at Harrisburg International Airport. The existing station has problems with access for handicapped persons.
Still to be decided is whether a parking garage or lot will be part of the project, whether the Pennsylvania Air National Guard will be involved in some related work, and whether the borough highway garage may move as part of the plan.
A site decision is expected by early September, said Erin Waters said, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation spokeswoman. Clouser said it could take two to three years before a new station could be open.


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Skip to comments.White House Move to Collect 'Fishy' Info May Be Illegal, Critics Say
Posted on 08/08/2009 12:40:26 PM PDT by Typical_Whitey
The White House strategy of turning supporters into snitches when they see "fishy" information about the health care debate may run afoul of the law, legal experts say. "The White House is in bit of a conundrum because of this privacy statute that prohibits the White House from collecting data and storing it on people who disagree with it," Judge Andrew Napolitano, a FOX News analyst, said Friday. "There's also a statute that requires the White House to retain all communications that it receives. It can't try to rewrite history by pretending it didn't receive anything," he said. "If the White House deletes anything, it violates one statute. If the White House collects data on the free speech, it violates another statute."
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Oh, sh*t. That is too damn funny.
Gotta love a narcissist.
have you heard if anyone has begun to legally challenge this or if anyone is at least thinking about it? this administration has 1930's nazi germany written all over it and it is only gonna get worse.
The White House wants so much information on us, yet won't release anything on Obama himself.
I think they always knew this would be illegal. But now the email address is out there.
HERE'S THE QUESTION: WILL THE REPUBLICANS FIND THE B@LLS TO FIGHT FOR INVESTIGATION/IMPEACHMENT? Only if LOTS of people get mad and pressure them...even then it's a long shot.
Illegal? So what.. /s What now? or better yet, what's new?
Well I emailed them that I heard that O said they were going to give everyone healthcare and not raise taxes and pay for it in savings from medicare. But the CBO said the program will cost over $1trillion and the saving at best is $300 million. It doesn't add up, so someone must have lied to me.
I have yet to receive a response...so yeah...we know he's lying with this answer. They need to press the White House to answer all those emails...that should tie them up for a while.
D'oh... how they going to get out of that one?
White House Spy Program Violates .Gov Domain Guidelines And Privacy Act of 1974 Updates And Who To Contact
"Just a long talk with Lee Ellis, policy administrator of the GSA Federal Acquisition Service which assign .Gov domains and creates the guidelines for the use of .Gov domains.
Mr. Ellis was very cordial, mentioning he was up until 9:00 pm last night after being inundated with emails. I would like to extend many thanks to my readers who emailed me after contacting Mr. Ellis. Your words of support were encouraging. Dont letup and keep sending those emails, but please be very cordial as Mr. Ellis is a very likable gentleman. Mr. Ellis will be the person who will re-write the guidelines if necessary.
Mr. Ellis informed me the legal office of the GSA Federal Acquisition Services (FAS) has been contacted. The White House site will not be taken down, which should come as no surprise due to its importance in providing vital information to the public. However, the use of the whitehouse.gov blog is in violation of the guidelines.
The White House may be asked to either remove the offending material of put up a disclaimer which states the site in question violates .gov second level domain guidelines by allowing for campaign content in this case the campaign to pass health care legislation. Mr. Ellis is not a lawyer and I have not yet received a reply email from him, which I requested during our interview. However keep your eyes on the site dotgov.gov website, which is the GSA FAS official website for any announcements. Again, keep up the pressure.
To understand the structure involved here, the federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) Vivek Kundra has authority over all other CIOs. I could not find any contact information for Vivek Kundra, so if anyone can dig this up and place it in the comments, I will add it to the post.
I did a little digging and found the current White House CIO is Macon Philips. I dont have a phone number, so if anyone out there does, again please provide it in the comment section. It took a lot of research, but I was finally able to find an email for Macon Philips email@example.com. Still looking for a phone number.
Macon Philips, the man behind whitehouse.gov and the website calling for the turning in of citizens is also known as the White House Director Of New Media."
Does he want to see my birth certificate?
Well since Mr. Gibbs said that they are just responding to people who want to know how obamacare will impact them...I just emailed them again asking them how it will impact me.
So I'm wondering how long until I get a response...
These emails have to be kept in the nat'l archives.
Let's all send emails documenting the fall of our republic.
Oh' geez, that is so pre-Obama.
Obama transcends Law, after all, he is a attuned being straddling the planet like a god
We have a SRM sycophantic lapdogs of the Administration, complete Democrat control of Congress, Justice Dept. run by a racist, Homeland Security run by a imbecile, A drunk for a VP.
We should start a huge class action lawsuit and get good attorneys to represent us.
He'll never get impeached no matter what he does. Can't impeach a black man — that's racist
'have you heard if anyone has begun to legally challenge this or if anyone is at least thinking about it?'
I think a good first step would be for the White House to release the names collected so far (Freedom of Information Act, perhaps?). Then, if someone appears on that list who never corresponded with the White House, I would think that they'd have cause to file a lawsuit. JMO.
That's the best idea I've heard yet. Only problem is, the top class action attorneys in the country are democrat lobbiests. We need conservative lawyers.
Is THIS what will wake up a sleeping America? Incredibile!! The fact that this is even out there is enough to send me chills. WAKE UP AMERICA!! I have emailed my "keepers in office"here in Illinois (Dick Durbin et all) and quietly told them I have had enough and WILL work to bring them down!! ENOUGH!
That it is ILLEGAL will NOT deter "DEAD FISH" Emanuel nor Dictator OBOZO HUSSEIN in the least! In fact, it probably excits them even more, jussssst as doing Pleays in their Pink Tu Tus in ballet classes used to turn them on!:-)
The law is meaningless if nobody is willing to enforce it.
I wonder if one could do a FOIA request to see if they have any information on you?
What about the health care survey on Brad Ellsworth's website? Are his staff submitting that info to flag?
And who are the other congressmen that have a similar survey on their websites?
Bill (the Gasbag) O'Reilly jumped on Judge Andrew Napolitano, claiming that Obama just wanted what was said reported to him, not who said it.
You know...from websites where all you have to do is insert an email address and the WH will end up on their mailing list. There are lots of them...fill the WH email box with spam from stores, kids sites, joke sites, (whatever your "evil protestor" mind wants to send, LOL). Easy enough to do...just insert the email@example.com email addy into the sites area requesting an email addy for future mailings.
Well then the Natl archives will be full of newsletters from every vile/funny/off beat site on the internet. I know lots of folks have been signing the WH up to receive them.
Well, I don't see what the fuss is all about...the ACLU said it was no big deal.
FOIA Alert!
I would sue....but I'm told I don't have "standing."
Yeah, I'm sure Eric Holder will get right on that.
Surely congress or the AG will jump right on this.
I sent them an email self-reporting that I'm "fishy" on Obamacare.
I wonder which of these laws they broke? Did they collect my data and break the law, or did they delete my data and break the law?
Time to sue.
on me? oh no!! I love obama, they don't have to look for anything on me!!!.....
Sen Cornyn started the process with his letter to the kenyan. If u havent seen it, do so. Its very good.
"The Lives of Others" is the English version. It's about life under the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, a.k.a., Stasi.
There is ZERO difference between flag@ and the main action of the Stasi, getting citizens to inform on each other for not following the ruling party.
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Supporters of the Marcellus Shale industry on Thursday hailed Pennsylvania's natural-gas boom for launching a veritable economic revolution but cautioned that much work still needs to be done to convince skeptics that drilling can be conducted safely.
At the Shale Gas Insight conference at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Marcellus Shale drilling was credited with generating $11 billion in value-added economic impact in 2010, supporting 140,000 jobs, and contributing $1 billion in state and local tax revenue.
"Wherever we look, we see energy development creating multiplier effects that ripple through the U.S. economy," Jack Williams, the president of XTO Energy, the shale-gas subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corp., said in a keynote address.


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Allegheny River Diary. WCO Bill Martin. Sep/Oct 99, page 54.
American Shad, Shad Fishing
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Amphibians, Reptiles
Amphibians in Crisis? Linda Steiner. Nov/Dec 99, page 44.
Poaching and the Illegal Sale of Reptiles and Amphibians. Karl Blankenship. May/Jun 99, page 26.
Seeing Spots: The Northern Leopard Frog. Andrew L. Shiels. Jan/Feb 99, page 58.
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Pond and Stream Study Guide. Jan/Feb 99, page 49.
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Bass in the Slow Lane. Vic Attardo. Jul/Aug 99, page 6.
Eastside Story: Capital Waters Smallmouth Bass. Vic Attardo. Sep/Oct 99, page 16.
Give Me a Break for Lake Erie Smallmouths. Mike Bleech. Mar/Apr 99, page 44.
Late-Fall River Smallmouth Bass. Vic Attardo. Nov/Dec 99, page 10.
Ace Cards for Canoeing Big Water. Cliff Jacobson. Mar/Apr 99, page 34.
All About Bilge Pumps. Alex Zidock Jr. May/Jun 99, page 18.
All About Gasoline. Alex Zidock Jr. Jan/Feb 99, page 28.
Boat Hull Design. Alex Zidock Jr. Jul/Aug 99, page 16.
Building a Mobile Boat Maintenance Kit. Jeff Knapp. May/Jun 99, page 52.
Collecting Mahogany Masterpieces. Terry Brady. Mar/Apr 99, page 20.
Enhancing Outboard Jet Performance. Chris Gorsuch. Sep/Oct 99, page 24.
Fixing Fiberglass Canoes and Boats. Cliff Jacobson. Jul/Aug 99, page 18.
Getting the Most from Your 9.9HP Outboard. Jeff Knapp. Nov/Dec 99, page 33.
Jetboat Success. Chris Gorsuch. May/Jun 99, page 42.
Outboard Engine Maintenance. John P. Kaufman. Jan/Feb 99, page 44.
Selling Your Canoe. Cliff Jacobson. Nov/Dec 99, page 26.
Sonar and Fish Finders. Alex Zidock Jr. Nov/Dec 99, page 24.
Caddisflies. Karl Blankenship. Sep/Oct 99, page 20.
Casting Lines with Dave Wolf
Caution: Fishing May Be Addictive. Mar/Apr 99, page 37.
Delayed Seasons. May/Jun 99, page 47.
Ice Palaces. Nov/Dec 99, page 23.
Imagine. Jan/Feb 99, page 32.
Overlap. Sep/Oct 99, page 23.
Seed, The. Jul/Aug 99, page 55.
Catfish, Catfishing
Fishing Patterns for Flathead and Channel Catfish. Mike Bleech. Jul/Aug 99, page 35.
Fish, Fishing
Circle Hooks. Seth Cassell. May/Jun 99, page 48
Great Fall Fly Fishing Memories. Charles R. Meck. Nov/Dec 99, page 6.
Fishing Traditions. Dudley Parr. May/Jun 99, page 40.
Top Fishing Prospects for 1999. Mike Bleech. Jan/Feb 99, page 6.
Fishin' from the Kitchen
Baked Stuffed Walleyes. Wayne Phillips. Nov/Dec 99, page 62.
Bluegill Crepes. Wayne Phillips. May/Jun 99, page 62.
Breaded Rainbow Trout. Wayne Phillips. Mar/Apr 99, page 62.
Brown Trout Gratin. Wayne Phillips. Sep/Oct 99, page 62.
Hazelnut-Crusted Crappies. Wayne Phillips. Jan/Feb 99, page 62.
Oven-Roasted Catfish. Wayne Phillips. Jul/Aug 99, page 62.
"Fishing and Boating Memories Last a Lifetime" Contest Winning Entries
Home Waters. Brian E. Wagner. Mar/Apr 99, page 31.
Lake of a Lifetime. S. James Miller. Jan/Feb 99, page 30.
Fishing Stories
"The Day I Didn't Catch a Shad." Terry Brady. Jan/Feb 99, page 43.
Flies, Fly Tying
Black Ghost, The. Chauncy K. Lively. Jan/Feb 99, page 46.
Breadcrust, The. Chauncy K. Lively. May/Jun 99, page 24.
Golden Stone, The. Chauncy K. Lively. Mar/Apr 99, page 57.
Pseudocloeon Nymph, A. Chauncy K. Lively. Sep/Oct 99, page 30.
Squiggly Leech, The. Chauncy K. Lively. Nov/Dec 99, page 42.
When Torn and Tattered Flies Work Best. Charles R. Meck. May/Jun 99, page 34.
Which Fly Should I Use Today? Charles R. Meck. Jan/Feb 99, page 24.
Lake Erie
Lake Erie Surprises. Linda Steiner. Jul/Aug 99, page 41.
Mahoning Watershed
Mahoning Watershed's Wonderful Fishing, The. Jeff Knapp. Sep/Oct 99, page 48.
Nockamixon Lake
Nockamixon: Best It's Ever Been. Vic Attardo. Jan/Feb 99, page 10.
Progress with Paddlefish Restoration. Dudley Parr. Jan/Feb 99, page 13.
Panfish, Panfishing
Eastern Pennsylvania's Panfish Pleasures. Vic Attardo. May/Jun 99, page 6.
Seldom-Seen Sunnies. Rob Criswell. May/Jun 99, page 14.
Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission
1999 Expanded Trout Fishing Opportunities. Tom Greene. Mar/Apr 99, page 43.
1999 Inseason Trout Stocking Schedule. Mar/Apr 99, page 49.
2000 PA Trout/Salmon Stamp and Print Competition. Jul/Aug 99, page 52.
2000 Seasons, Sizes and Creel Limits Poster. Sep/Oct 99, page 32.
Abele Memorial Glen, The. Terry Brady. Nov/Dec 99, page 14.
Angler Award Program. Mar/Apr 99, page 19; and Sep/Oct 99, page 29.
Boating Courses and Boating Safety Certificates. Jan/Feb 99, back cover.
Commission Staff Awards. Mar/Apr 99, back cover.
Daily Trout Limit Set at Five Beginning in 2000. Sep/Oct 99, page 60.
Day at the Hatchery. Walt Dietz. May/Jun 99, page 60.
Economics of Fishing and Boating in Pennsylvania, The. Tom Ford. Mar/Apr 99, page 32.
Fish Salvage at Tamarack Lake. Richard A. Snyder. Nov/Dec 99, page 37.
Index to Pennsylvania Angler & Boater Volume 68. Nov/Dec 99, page 53.
Line of Duty, The. Jay Osman. Jul/Aug 99, page 11.
New Federal Funding Proposal for Wildlife. May/Jun 99, back cover.
PFBC Annual Report Executive Summary and Financial Statement. Mar/Apr 99, page 13.
PFBC Directory. May/Jun 99, page 55.
PFBC Photography Contest. Nov/Dec 99, page 52.
PFBC Strategic Plan Summary. Mar/Apr 99, page 15.
PFBC Waterways Conservation Stamp. Jul/Aug 99 and Sep/Oct 99, back cover.
Rebirth of a Trout Stream. WCO Christopher D. McDevitt. Nov/Dec 99, page 22.
Rivers Conservation and Fly Fishing Youth Camp. Bill Porter. May/Jun 99, page 17.
Trials and Tribulations of a Rookie. WCO R. Vance Dunbar. Jan/Feb 99, page 53
Who's Getting Things Done in Berks County? Terry Brady. Sep/Oct 99, page 43.
PLAY Newsletter
Fall 1999 issue, Sep/Oct 99, pages 35-42 (Why Fish Need Trees, Aquatic Leaf Eaters, Aquatic Insect Word Search, Gimme Shelter, Protecting Trees, Parts of a Hook, Strainers).
Spring 1999 issue, Mar/Apr 99, pages 23-30 (Spring Cleaning, Supermarket Baits, This Fish Has a Scale to Tell, Spin-Cast Rod or Spinning Rod: Which is Best for You, Tool Box, Catch and Release, Carmen Fishiego).
Summer 1999 issue, Jul/Aug 99, pages 27-34 (Beautiful Bufo, Fish Get Sick Too, Fish Parts, Tool Box, Pocket First Aid Kit, Casting Cans, Carmen Fishiego).
Winter 1999 issue, Jan/Feb 99, pages 33-40 (Is the Ice Safe, Ice Safety Chart, Focus on Habitat: Largemouth Bass, Which Lures Imitate Which Real Bait, ENA or ELPA).
Pollution Abatement
Reclaiming Schuylkill County Streams. Robert L. Petri. Jan/Feb 99, page 17.
Protect-Conserve-Enhance by Executive Director Peter A. Colangelo
Breaking Ground for the Future. Jul/Aug 99, page 2.
Clock Ticks, The. Nov/Dec 99, page 2.
Conserve 2000. Jan/Feb 99, page 2.
Fall 1999 Concerns. Sep/Oct 99, page 2.
"Green" Hatchery Initiative. Mar/Apr 99, page 2.
Growing Greener Requires Raising Greenbacks. May/Jun 99, page 2.
SMART Angler's Notebook
Clams and Mussels. Laurel Garlicki. Sep/Oct 99, page 34.
Dino-Fish. Carl Richardson. Jan/Feb 99, page 23.
Safe Fishing Checklist. Heidi Milbrand. May/Jun 99, page 30.
Snails. Laurel Garlicki. Nov/Dec 99, page 57.
Steelhead Techniques for Lake Erie Tributaries. Tim Trainer. Nov/Dec 99, page 30.
Shortnose Sturgeon. Karl Blankenship. Nov/Dec 99, page 49.
Trout, Trout Fishing
Allegheny River Trophy Trout Fishing. Mike Bleech. May/Jun 99, page 10.
Elk County Trout Streams. Robert L. Petri. May/Jun 99, page 20.
Minnows for Trout. Mark A. Nale. May/Jun 99, page 31.
Opening Day in Northeast PA. Robert L. Petri. Mar/Apr 99, page 6.
Southcentral PA's Autumn Trout Hotspots. Robert L. Petri. Sep/Oct 99, page 11.
Summer Trout. Robert L. Petri. Jul/Aug 99, page 22.
Trout: More Than Just a Fish. Linda Steiner. May/Jun 99, page 36.
Trout Unlimited
TU and Pennsylvania Trout: More Than a Trout Club. Linda Steiner. Mar/Apr 99, page 38.
Walleyes, Walleye Fishing
Crankin' for Walleyes. Mike Bleech. Sep/Oct 99, page 6.
Just a Jig & Minnow. Mike Bleech. Nov/Dec 99, page 19.
Lower Allegheny River Warm-Weather Walleye Tactics. Jeff Knapp. Jul/Aug 99, page 47.
Modern Walleye Patterns. Jeff Knapp. Jan/Feb 99, page 20.
"Writing Readers"
The Big One I Never Caught. William W. Phillips. May/Jun 99, page 29.
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Andy Kopplin has served as First Deputy Mayor and Chief Administrative Officer since May 3, 2010. In this capacity, he oversees the day-to-day operational functions of City Hall. The Deputy Mayor also leads the Mayor's effort to improve the performance of city government, and the Mayor's charge to return the city to fiscal stability. Kopplin previously worked at Teach For America from 2008 - 2010, where he most recently served as senior advisor to the Founder & CEO. From October 2006-January 2008, Mr. Kopplin served as Founding Executive Director of the Louisiana Recovery Authority (LRA), the agency charged with leading the state's recovery efforts after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, where he developed the strategy and built the bipartisan coalitions that more than doubled congressional appropriations for Louisiana's rebuilding, from $13 billion to $28 billion. Before heading the LRA, Kopplin was Chief of Staff to two consecutive Louisiana governors, Democrat Kathleen Babineaux Blanco and Republican M.J. "Mike" Foster, Jr. He joined Foster's staff in 1996 as Policy Director, and in that role led the pioneering effort to create the state's community college system by building a collation of Republicans, Democrats, business, labor, educators, and students. Mr. Kopplin holds a bachelor's degree from Rice University; a master's in Public Policy from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and is a 1986 Harry S. Truman Scholarship winner.
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Judy Reese Morse serves as Deputy Mayor of Citywide Initiatives. In this capacity, she oversees the Mayor's Office and is responsible for overseeing policy development and strategic planning for economic development, education, social innovation, international affairs, coastal and environmental affairs, and cultural economy. Ms. Morse most recently served as Co-Chair of Transition New Orleans and as the Chief of Staff in the Office of Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu. Prior to joining the Lieutenant Governor's Office, she worked at National Public Radio in Washington, DC. There, she served as director of corporate communications, focusing primarily on attracting new audiences as public radio listeners. Her career also includes work on the federal level. Ms. Morse was selected as a Presidential Management Fellow serving at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Resolution Trust Corporation. She also worked on Capitol Hill in the office of former Congresswoman Lindy Boggs as a special projects assistant. Morse has an undergraduate degree in Communications from Loyola University in New Orleans and a Master of Public Administration from American University in Washington, DC.
Berni began his work with the City in May 2010 as Press Secretary and later Communications Director, where he managed media, public relations and special projects and events for the City of New Orleans. In 2013 and early 2014, he served as campaign manager for Mayor Landrieu's successful re-election campaign. He returned to City Hall as the Senior Advisor to the Mayor, leading citywide policy and public affairs initiatives including the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. In late 2014, Berni took a leave of absence to manage former United States Senator Mary Landrieu's re-election campaign in its final months. Prior to working at City Hall, Berni served as Chief of Staff for political strategist James Carville, based in Washington, D.C. There, he directed Carville's media, research, writing, and business development operations, as well as served as a consultant to international political clients across the globe. He also served in various capacities with the Louisiana Democratic Party. Berni holds a degree in political science from Louisiana State University.
Cedric S. Grant serves as the Executive Director of Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans. In this capacity, he oversees the City's capital development, infrastructure projects, and community development initiatives. By coordinating the efforts of the Capital Projects Administration, the Department of Public Works, Property Management, and the Project Delivery Unit, the Deputy Mayor enhances the city's recovery effort and helps integrate both the rebuilding of roads and buildings as well as their ongoing maintenance. By also overseeing the city's ongoing efforts at community development, the Deputy Mayor connects the recovery with ongoing projects to help build the strongest neighborhoods possible for all citizens. Mr. Grant comes to City Hall after serving as Chief Administrative Officer of Ascension Parish, Louisiana, where he was responsible for management and oversight of all governmental operations. In 2004, Governor Blanco appointed Mr. Grant as Deputy Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, where he served until 2008. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Grant was employed by Parsons Corporation in Atlanta, where he managed road and highway infrastructure projects. Prior to his Parsons employment, Mr. Grant held numerous managerial and administrative positions in government over thirty years, most recently with the City of New Orleans as Chief Administrative Officer. Mr. Grant also served as Planning Manager for the Port of New Orleans and Director of Capital Projects for the New Orleans Downtown Development District. Mr. Grant served his country in the U.S. Army and completed 23 years of active and reserve service, retiring in 1995 with the rank of major.
Rebecca Dietz serves as City Attorney. In this capacity, she is responsible for directing and supervising the legal affairs of the City of New Orleans. Dietz began her work for the City in 2012 in the City Attorney's office. Dietz served as the head of the Contracts Division where she provided oversight, review, and negotiation of City contracts, as well as served as liaison between City department leadership and numerous contractors, including local and national businesses, non-profit organizations, community partiers and quasi-governmental entities. In 2014 Dietz accepted the position of General Counsel and Deputy Director of Legal Affairs for the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. Dietz's work for the Airport included oversight of all legal matters, including procurement of the Construction Manager At Risk for the new North Terminal Airport Project. Prior to joining the City Hall team, Dietz was a partner at the law firm King, Krebs and Jurgens where she maintained a litigation practice focused on oil and gas and environmental litigation. Dietz represented oil companies and corporate clients in all aspects of regulatory compliance, oilfield contamination and remediation litigation, property damage, toxic tort litigation and incident response. She also worked with her clients through all stages of mediation and settlement. Dietz is a 2002 graduate of Tulane Law School where she earned a Specialization Certificate in the field of environmental law. Dietz is an active member of the Louisiana Bar and an inactive member of the Maryland and District of Columbia bars.
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Howie Mandel: Howie Mandel has made a sideline on The Tonight Show with Candid Camera-style segments, using glasses that have a camera hidden in the bridge. His new Bravo series, Hidden Howie, premiering Aug. 18, gives the joke a Curb Your Enthusiasm twist: Mandel plays an obsessive-compulsive comic who dons the glasses to spring pranks on real-life victims.
HOW DID YOU GET THE IDEA? "I carry the glasses with me, and I annoy from coast to coast. It's a wonderful country! But a lot of the [hidden camera] segments never end up on TV—there's anger and yelling and embarrassment. Instead of leaving it at that, I said, 'Hey! There's a show!' Half hidden camera, half reality, half sitcom. Wait, there are too many halves."
YOU'RE OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE? "Not about everything. I have a germ phobia, that's a big thing, so I can't shake hands. I have a lot of weirdnesses."
WHY DOES AN ACTRESS, JULIE WARNER, SUB FOR YOUR YOUR REAL-LIFE WIFE? Because for Terry Mandel, a clothing-store owner, "life is embarrassing enough just being married to me. I have a personal marital restraining order to not do any of these segments within a five-mile radius of where we live [or near] the people we have to socialize with. Apparently I'm an eyesore to the community."
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Wings looking to sign Drury?
Posted 03 July 2011 - 03:28 PM
::A tribute to my friend Steve Shoen:: - I'm going to miss you forever.
Posted 03 July 2011 - 03:58 PM
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Posted 03 July 2011 - 05:19 PM
No, please. He was bought out for a reason.
He was bought out because he was a $7 mil cap hit. I think at $1 mil or less, he would be worth it.
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Posted 03 July 2011 - 05:27 PM
That is the best response I have seen in sometime!! I use to bartend in Pontiac and we would get women in there like that! Too funny!!
Kenny, please stay away from him, like you would the "friendly" girl at the bar with the "cold sore" on her mouth...
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"All done? Five bucks." - Pavel Datsyuk after an interview
"Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings." - Steve Yzerman
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Posted 03 July 2011 - 09:11 PM
Maybe Drury has something in the tank but who knows. Modano added squat to the team last year when healthy. I would have rather seen Mursak get a chance.
Posted 04 July 2011 - 01:06 AM
Yes. I was a fan of them a few years ago, and even the Modano signing, but so far all our young guys are shaping up to be bottom 6 guys. We have a LOT of depth in this way. THe problem last year was a lack of a consistent, reliable scorer outside of Zetterberg and Datsyuk due to injuries and bad seasons by individuals. If we add any forward, it needs to be a Top 6, reliable scorer, not a declining vet who might pot a few on and off throughout the year.
I have to agree with this entirely. What happened to the MIX of wily vets and kids with potential? The speed/pace of the game is such that the +32yo guys aren't keeping up deep in the playoffs like the -32yo's are. In the cap world teams are now forced to replace guys with younger, more cap friendly players and often finding gems along the way. Not saying we start following instead of leading but idiosyncrasies of the game do change. I'm a huge fan of the Ilitch's loyalty as long as it doesn't get in the way of winning Cups.
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Posted 04 July 2011 - 10:18 AM
...and hookers
Ken Holland kicks tires everywhere though. Almost as much as Jiri Hudler kicks puppies of Red Wings fans.
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...and hookers
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Welcome to the playoffs....where the games get better and the officiating gets worse.
Posted 04 July 2011 - 01:57 PM
What, no +1 for that post?
...I tell ya I get no respect
Posted 04 July 2011 - 02:08 PM
What, no +1 for that post?
...I tell ya I get no respect
Don't worry I got ya.
And you.
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Posted 04 July 2011 - 02:20 PM
and you
Don't worry I got ya.
And you.
...mostly for the Sheen picture. I think Charlie would make an excellent depth signing up front for the Wings
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Posted 04 July 2011 - 10:50 PM
Hmm, how much would it take to sign your dog, and is he/she injury prone?
NO NO NO NO!!!!!!!!!! I'd rather have my Dog (2 Year Old Giant Schnauzer) play forward instead of Drury.
Posted 05 July 2011 - 10:11 AM
Remember, a 1 year contract would actually be 7 in dog years & those pure breeds suffer from hip dysplasia a little too much for my liking.
Hmm, how much would it take to sign your dog, and is he/she injury prone?
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