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The Robert B. Turner Elementary choir performed at the Kentucky School Boards Association conference at the Galt House in Louisville on Feb. 23.
Music teacher and director Monica Drury said she had sent in an application to sing back in November, and the choir was accepted in December.
The songs the choir sang include "It's Always a Good Time" as performed by Owl City and Carley Raye Jepsen and "It's all About Music" by Ethan Bortnick.
Second graders in Mrs. Barnes', Drury's, Harley's, and Wilder's rooms at Saffell Street Elementary recently had a writer's celebration. All second graders researched and wrote "All About Books," and they also wrote "How To Booklets." Each child illustrated his or her books and booklets as well, and invited the entire school and family members to the celebration.
Through a $1,200 grant from the VSA Kentucky's Art in Inclusion program, students in Angela Champion's sixth and seventh grade art classes recently worked on murals under the instruction of artist Alfredo Escobar.
According to a press release from the middle school, Champion led students in the study of famous mural artist Diego Rivera by creating timelines and analyzing Rivera's iconic murals and helped each class brainstorm and draft themed murals of its choice.
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In case you haven't heard, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer has a new book out that is currently atop the New York Times Best Seller List.
I recently had the privilege of discussing the book as well as other topics with one of the conservative movement's favorite commentators (video follows with transcript):
NEWSBUSTERS: Charles Krauthammer is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Fox News political commentator whose weekly column is syndicated to more than 400 newspapers worldwide. He has become one of the nation's top conservative commentators and is beloved by NewsBusters readers across the fruited plain. After almost 30 years, Charles has a new book out entitled "Things That Matter." Please give a rousing NewsBusters welcome to Charles Krauthammer. How are you doing, Doctor?
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Doing great.
NEWSBUSTERS: Great. You know, other than your 2004 "Democratic Realism" – which was the text of the Irving Kristol lecture you gave at the American Enterprise Institute that year – this is your first book since 1985's "Cutting Edges: Making Sense of the Eighties." What made you want to write a book after roughly 30 years, and what were you trying to accomplish?
KRAUTHAMMER: Gambling debts. I put my money on the Cubs, and it didn't turn out too well.
NEWSBUSTERS: Well, and I've also heard you say you put your money on ObamaCare working.
KRAUTHAMMER: Well, ObamaCare, of course. That was another winner. And the Nationals this year. I've had a bad streak. I've always wanted to do a collection. I've sort of hesitated over the years, and I sort of thought that the body of work now would justify it. And also, there's a sort of historic and chronological arc because I began writing at an historic time.
The first day I began my journalism career, I joined the New Republic magazine on the day Ronald Reagan was sworn in in 1981. So it kind of is an historic turning point. And from there to Obama, deep into the Obama presidency, I felt kind of covered this arc of history, and it was a good time to collect the best of what I had written and to see whether I could make sense of it. And I do write an original introduction, which is quite autobiographical – something I rarely do – which does try to put it all in a kind of historic perspective.
NEWSBUSTERS: What I found interesting about that introduction is in the very first paragraph, you mention things that matter to you, and your list included, and I quote, "the finer uses of the F-word." Why do you see this as important, and would you care to elaborate?
KRAUTHAMMER: I would. In fact, it is my favorite column in the book. I wanted to start the book with it, and when my publishers heard that, they wanted to have me psychiatrically committed. So you'll find it in chapter three.
But you might remember that Dick Cheney used the word on the floor of the Senate in a famous incident about six or seven years ago when Senator Leahy sort of accused him of financially benefiting from his connection to the Iraq War. That's a major accusation. Then Cheney just let loose. So this caused a bit of a twitter and a scandal in Washington.
And I thought Cheney, of course, did exactly the right thing. But, rather than just defend Cheney, I speculated as to whether he might have used two of the variants of the word: the two-worder which ends with "you," or the three-worder which begins with "go." So I have this long disposition on the finer uses, the shades of gray, and how these are to be used, and when you deploy one or the other.
Anyway, I had a lot of fun writing it. A lot of the columns in the book are just fun.
I've got another. Do you remember that guy who was arrested by the TSA yelling, "Don't touch my junk" when he was getting the old pat-down? So I portray him, of course, as another great American hero, like a Paul Revere. "Don't tread on me," the Revolutionary slogan, is a little more elegant than "Don't touch my junk," but it's basically the same idea.
So, a lot of the book is this kind of looking at what's happening in the culture and sort of taking it lightly. A lot of the book is quite serious, of course, but I don't want to downplay the light parts. Otherwise you won't be able to get out of bed in the morning if you don't see the humor and the ironies that abound. And I write a lot about the ironies in my book.
NEWSBUSTERS: Well, also in your opening chapter, you wrote how everything must bow to the sovereignty of politics. Yet most Americans have little use for, interest in, or knowledge of politics. In fact, the vast majority of Americans loathe politics and politicians. How do you square that?
KRAUTHAMMER: Well, that's exactly the theme of the book, and that is – I'm glad you pointed it out – that is exactly the point I want to make. For precisely the reason you say, that the practice of politics is so grubby and grasping, so cynical and manipulative, and, as a result, people have correctly mostly tuned out and disdain it as a profession. Given that, I try to make the case that you have to remember one thing. For all of its grubbiness, for all of its lack of elegance, and for all of the beauty of the other things in life, the things that really matter – arts, science, poetry and music, and all the greatness of the culture, which is the stuff I write about in part of the book – in the end you have to remember one thing: politics is what all those other things depend on getting the politics right.
Politics is the mote. It is the wall that protects us against the barbarians, and I don't just mean external barbarians. I also mean the internal barbarism. Politics you have to get right. You can have the most efflorescent and glorious culture, and if you get the politics wrong, everything disappears. And you don't have to be theoretical about this. You just have to think Germany in 1933. China, the cultural revolution, where in half a decade, they tried to destroy 5,000 years of Chinese culture. And you don't even have to go back to history. You can just look today at North Korea. They got the politics wrong. They're ruled by a mad kind of Stalinism. And the result? A nation of slaves and a land of utter spiritual and material desolation.
So the point I want to make is, yes, you have a right to be disgusted with the practice of politics. But you have to remember one thing: we need to get the politics right because all the other stuff - the beautiful stuff, the elegant, physics and math and chess and sport and all the expressions of human excellence – they all stand to be swept away if we get the politics wrong. And that's why even though I intended to do this book only on stuff other than politics – I was going to call the book "Politics Isn't Everything" - in the end, I had to do half of the book on politics, and half on the beautiful and elegant stuff because in the end, it all depends on getting the politics right.
NEWSBUSTERS: Well, speaking of getting the politics right, I was surprised to see you thought Winston Churchill was the most important person of the 20th Century. I agree with you that Albert Einstein is well-qualified but the wrong choice. However, even as a conservative, I would say FDR was the person of the century for getting us out of the Depression, winning WWII – albeit Harry Truman was president at the end. And regardless of what we conservatives think about New Deal legislation, they are an important and virtually daily part of our lives. So I'd have to give the honor to FDR. How do you respond? And where do you fit Reagan into that discussion?
KRAUTHAMMER: Well, I think the reason that it has to be Churchill is because there was one moment, Britain's finest hour, 1940, Britain stood alone. America had not joined the war. Europe had already fallen entirely to Hitler. This is the first time since Napoleon that the continent had fallen to a tyrant, and Hitler was a different order of magnitude than even Napoleon. And in that one moment, that one year, Churchill was able as they famously said to mobilize the English language – and of course to mobilize the English people – to resist and to prevent a darkness from falling over Western civilization that would have been destructive to absolutely everything the West had stood for. And I don't even know whether America in isolation could have in the long run resisted or survived. I don't know about physically survived. But spiritually, to live in a world with that kind of darkness would have been intolerable.
So FDR was a great president, and probably the greatest of the 20th century. One of the three, four, five greatest presidents ever. And what he did for America was incalculable. But what Churchill did for the world, and for the civilization in the West that was 2,000 years old, was indispensable. And when you have one man who is indispensable, I think he has to be the man of the century.
NEWSBUSTERS: And how do you put Reagan and even a Margaret Thatcher into that equation?
KRAUTHAMMER: I think they were the greatest figures of the last half of the 20th century. There is no question that the collapse, the overthrow, the defeat of communism was the great achievement of the West in the second half of the 20th century. It was an event of Biblical proportions. And Reagan was the one who led it. Reagan is the one who sort of gathered the energy and the spirit of the West to do that final push at a time when much of the West was ready for an accommodation, a kind of armistice, a kind of truce with communism. And he had a vision that communism was to end up in the trash heap of history, and he put it there – with Thatcher, with Helmut Kohl, and with, of course, John Paul II. These were the great heroes of the Cold War.
So, I put him in the pantheon as well, and I think that puts him among the highest rank of American presidents.
NEWSBUSTERS: Well, maybe the most surprising column in your book for me was from 1995 titled "Myth of the Angry White Male." You wrote, "In the 10 years before the November 1994 election, there were 59 Nexis references to angry white men. There have been 1400 since." Tell us about this "myth" and how the media brought it back to castigate the Tea Party.
KRAUTHAMMER: That is exactly right. That is the echo that you get. It is precisely repeated with the Tea Party. And here's what happens. You've got the liberal media. In 1994, liberals, Democrats, who've controlled the House of Representatives for 40 years. So all is right with the universe. And then comes Newt Gingrich and these conservatives who overthrow the perfect order of being as seen of course by liberals.
So, how do you explain this? How could you possibly explain that you, a liberal - the one whose heart bleeds for the disenfranchised and the poor and the destitute, the tribune of the people, the person who understands the essence of human nature more than anybody else – how do you explain the overthrow in this revolutionary election? The only way that liberals could understand it was not that conservatives actually had a better idea, that there was a crisis of the welfare state that liberals had to build, and that it had to be resolved with a whole new way of thinking. They couldn't countenance any of that as a possible explanation.
So they could only explain it at the baser instincts of human kind had emerged and had overthrown what is right – meaning the Democrats, liberals in control of government. And as a result, they created the myth of the angry white male. I actually at the time looked at all the polls surrounding that election, and what I found is that there was not a scintilla of evidence to support this angry white male created by the media. If anything, white males were no more or less angry in any of the polls than anybody else.
And then when you get the Tea Party, you get exactly the return. People are saying, how could this be, this spontaneous movement of people who want to restrict government at a time when Obama and Pelosi and Reid are expanding it? Huge amounts of spending with the stimulus. Enormous intrusiveness in taking over healthcare, one sixth of the economy. Attempting to takeover energy with Cap and Trade. All of these things that they're trying to do creates a reaction instead of understanding what it clearly was – a reaction to the overreach of liberalism, and the natural American response to say, "Hey, this is not who we are. We're not Western Europe. This isn't a social democracy. Yes, we look after the poor and we have a safety net, but we don't want to redistribute income like the Europeans do. We don't want the government to control that much the way it is in Europe. We think that is not conducive to growth and to freedom."
Instead of understanding that is the view and that is the reason that the Tea Party arose, they have to attribute it again to the basest human extincts: angry, white, isolated, resentful, pitchforks, marching in the streets, torches and all this. So that I think relates exactly to what I was writing in the book in that column on "The Myth of the Angry White Male." It always lives in the heart of liberals because they cannot countenance the fact that a free people would actually choose more limited government. They have to explain it as anger, greed, resentment, and of course, at the very end, the trump card, racism.
NEWSBUSTERS: Yep. Well, speaking of the Tea Party, how do you think today's Republicans should navigate the split between social conservatives, the Washington elite, and Libertarians?
KRAUTHAMMER: I think this is fairly overblown. There have always been these different streaks and strains within conservatism. I would have expected the big breakup to have happened in the early 1990s because one thing that held the disparate elements of the coalition in place was the glue of anti-communism. When that dissolved, when communism disappeared essentially, you would have expected the breakup, or at least the increase in friction, to begin to manifest itself. And I think it's rather remarkable it took a lot longer for that to develop.
I think these strains have always been there. There's always been a Libertarian strain among conservatism that clashed with the social conservatives. There's always been the internationalist wing that would clash with the more isolationist wing. And I think what's generally happened as those kinds of conflicts get mitigated when people face the larger issue, which is the threat to freedom, and the threat to solvency of the ever-growing, ever-intrusive, ever-expanding leviathan state.
So I do think that the overriding issue that brings all of us together in the conservative movement is this notion of more limited, more constitutional government. And the intramural fights that we have are more about either tactics, or details, or limits, or tendencies. And this will always be true of a major coalition party or major movement. And I do think that those who want to purify, so to speak, the movement by casting out those who disagree with them say on gay marriage, limits of abortion, these kinds of things, are making a huge mistake. The threat is the overriding state, and I think a conservative movement at heart is the resistance to that.
NEWSBUSTERS: Back in September, the Media Research Center honored you with a William F. Buckley award for Media Excellence. What did that mean to you, and tell us your thoughts about Buckley?
KRAUTHAMMER: Well, to receive any award named after Buckley is really a distinct honor. Buckley I didn't really know until very late in his life. I got to know him I guess the last fifteen years or so when he would organize a meeting of some conservative writers and people active in conservative politics. We'd meet twice a year, once in New York and once in D.C. I guess that was the beginning of the establishment, which, as you know, we now meet in the Masonic Temple on the full moon at midnight. We all wear robes and chant and spread incense. But this was a separate time when we just sat around and talked.
So, he was obviously the great engine of modern conservatism starting with National Review. And one of the many great services he did was to purge the movement of anti-Semites, Birchers on the extremes, which was extremely healthy and led to the remarkable, inexorable growth of conservatism over the last half century.
NEWSBUSTERS: Were you surprised at the tremendously warm reception you got? I was there, of course. Did that surprise you? Do you expect it? How did that impact you?
KRAUTHAMMER: Well, it was a conservative audience. In most conservative quarters, not all, but in most I get a very friendly reception, and these are folks who have been in the trenches. Imagine having to watch mainstream television for a living in order to call out the stuff. They should get commendations for hazardous behavior. Too much of that and they'll end up in the infirmary. So, I give them credit for that, and they really do important work because what happens on mainstream television and other media is really quite remarkable, and somebody has to do it to find it out and publicize it.
NEWSBUSTERS: Well, speaking of hazard pay, a few weeks ago you went on Comedy Central's Daily Show to be interviewed by the perilously liberal Jon Stewart. Why did you do that? It seemed to me you had a lot of fun with Stewart. Would you rather be interviewed by a conservative that mostly agrees with you or a liberal that doesn't? Why?
KRAUTHAMMER: I've never shied away from debate. In fact, I do in Washington, I've been doing for 21 years a syndicated television show called Inside Washington on PBS where it's basically tag team wrestling except that I don't have a team. So, it's three liberals and me. That's kept me in fighting shape for all these years. I kind of enjoy that. I think it's good to go up against the opposition, and he's a really smart, well-informed guy, and a funny guy. So he's kind of the perfect opponent. That's heavyweight stuff, and I like that kind of arena. I found it was a very good discussion, and I'm glad I did it. I would do it again.
NEWSBUSTERS: I don't know whether you saw. I had written about that, and it turned out that he edited something that you said from the broadcast version that ended up getting put into the online version, but in reality it was edited out of what was broadcast. It was kind of peculiar. I don't know whether you had seen what he had done.
KRAUTHAMMER: No. After leaving the studio from doing it live to tape, I never saw it again. I heard about it, and I did read what you said, and tried to follow the transcript. I couldn't quite remember that incident, but I do remember saying what you said was edited out. I'm not really sure the motive. Maybe it was to fit it into the TV portion so that it would be coherent. I think it was a funny line. As long as it ended up somewhere online it's okay with me. It is a peculiarity, and I just, I'll give it the most benign explanation – they wanted it to fit into the format.
NEWSBUSTERS: You're being too gentlemanly, but that's okay. That's what we expect of you. So give us your take on the state of the media today. Do you think liberals still dominate like they have for decades, or is the existence of Fox, conservative talk radio, and the blogosphere leveling the playing field? Will the playing field ever be level, or are conservatives destined to always be on the losing end when it comes to media?
KRAUTHAMMER: Oh, we'll never level the playing field. We'll always be outnumbered, overwhelmed. You know, the British were outnumbered I think ten to one at Agincourt by the French, and we all know how that one ended. So I'm not too worried about the odds. It's in the nature of the media to attract liberals. It's a kind of self-selection process. Maybe there's prejudice in hiring, but even without that it would be weighted towards the left.
The whole difference is that if you compare us to when Ronald Reagan won election in 1980, then the left had a monopoly. Three networks, and that was basically it. And now there is an opposition on television – Fox. There is an opposition – talk radio. There are think tanks that are conservative think tanks. I don't think you can say there are very many universities, but think tanks function as an intellectual bulwark. We have our journals, and I think with that I do believe the intellectual firepower on our side really evens the playing field.
So, as long as there's a place for our voice to be elucidated and for it to be heard, I'm not too worried. I think we're right, so that in the end, I think we're going to prevail.
NEWSBUSTERS: At the news outlets other than Fox, who do you consider the best news people in the major outlets? What news outlets do you most rely on?
KRAUTHAMMER: Frankly, the thing I watch on television is sports. So I go with the Red Sox and the Cardinals as the best. I get my news from reading papers, going online and reading journals and stuff. If I ever do watch mainstream news, it's to examine the bias – just to see how they do it and how slanted they are, and at what point do they get so embarrassed by covering up for Obama that they give up the cover up or they give up the softball treatment.
So that interests me, but that's not where I go to get the firsthand information. There it's mostly online, and there you have to filter. If you're reading liberal media, you have to provide a bit of a filter, but in the end you can get a fairly good idea of what's going on. And then you draw your own conclusions.
NEWSBUSTERS: So what websites do you rely on most for what you think is going to give you the most accurate information of the current events?
KRAUTHAMMER: Well, I read the major papers. I get them all in hard copy. I tend to scour them even more deeply. The Post, the Times, the Wall Street Journal. Online I go through Real Clear Politics of course, because then I have sort of a choice of what's being written so that it can be from oddball publications. I like their weird science stuff about new discoveries in quantum mechanics, not that I understand much of it, but it intrigues me. Time travel, you know, that kind of thing. I read the National Review, the Corner. It's wonderful, probably the best of the group blogs. I read the Weekly Standard. I'll occasionally read the New Republic where I used to work to get a more liberal perspective. I read Mickey Kaus in the Daily Caller, who's one of the best liberal writers if not the best bloggers around.
So that's where I pick up information, but I sort of go link to link. So I'm often finding myself serendipitously places I've never been, and I learn things.
NEWSBUSTERS: Which media outlets today disappoint you the most?
KRAUTHAMMER: Well, I must say I find the New York Times editorial page unreadable. Even the headlines are hard to read. Once you've read a headline, there's no need to read inside. I just find it so metronomically predictable that it's uninteresting. That's a place where it could really have influence and yet it's such an echo chamber for the administration.
I love the way when everybody in the media was admitting that Obama, when he said, "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan period," everybody was calling it an untruth. The only question was whether it was a deceptive one or he was ignorant or deliberate, meaning a lie. The New York Times referred to it as "he misspoke" as if he tripped over a syllable. Misspoke is a word invented, if I'm not mistaken, by Ron Ziegler who was Nixon's press secretary, especially during Watergate. So that's the level of apologetics that you get to at the New York Times editorial page.
NEWSBUSTERS: We've seen, though, with the exception of the New York Times and MSNBC, the media clearly have turned as it pertains to ObamaCare, and in particular, the nice little lie or the "misspoke." Why do you think the media have turned, and do you think that this is a temporary thing? Why do you think they're here at this point, because it's rather surprising?
KRAUTHAMMER: At a certain point it gets embarrassing to try to create cover stories for this administration. The guy says, "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan," and then he says the word "period." That's death by punctuation. Period means no caveats, no exceptions, no context, no stories, no waivers, that's it. And then they've spent the last two weeks giving you caveats, exceptions, waivers, interpretations of the law, saying they failed in the crafting, which is an outright falsehood. They deliberately crafted it to kick people off their plans.
At a certain point, there's a certain honor in journalism. You know, if you believe in a president, I can understand that. You give him the benefit of the doubt. I would imagine conservative journalists might have done that in the Reagan days. But at a certain point, you have your journalistic integrity, and then you've got to call it like you see it.
NEWSBUSTERS: Do you think there's also an element here that they helped spread the lie years ago supporting the president on all of this?
KRAUTHAMMER: Yeah, but in some sense they did it innocently. You know, when Mary Landrieu, the Senator from Louisiana repeated almost word for word "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan," she hadn't read the whole bill. She should. She voted on it. But certainly if you're a member of the press and you're a journalist, and you're covering 50 different stories, you're not going to read it. There's not a person who read the 2,200 pages and lived to talk about it. So, you wouldn't really know, and you sort of accept that premise. You might have heard some rumblings otherwise, but there was a lot to cover. So, yeah, you feel that you were deceived as well.
NEWSBUSTERS: Do you think that there's any hope for ObamaCare succeeding at this point, or do you think it's going to get worse? Is there an upside here, or is the downside going to keep getting worse?
KRAUTHAMMER: I think it's likely to get worse. It's not certain, it's possible they'll fix the website. It's possible they'll be able to deflect the anger of the tens of millions who are now going to lose their plan. We're only up to five million. Wait till the employers begin withdrawing their health coverage. So when that avalanche of discontent comes, I'm not sure they can withstand it. But I'm not 100 percent certain that it will fail. It is possible that they'll be able to get enough positive coverage, enough people testifying to wonderful outcomes that it will sort of balance out the people who are hurt. I don't know that that will happen. I doubt it will happen.
So, I do think it is likely to begin to unravel to the point where it's Democrats who are going to want to do away with it, and that's the ultimate irony, and that's what I think conservatives ought to be working towards.
NEWSBUSTERS: Interesting. Well, I would be remiss if I didn't take the opportunity to congratulate you for being number one on the New York Times nonfiction list. How does that feel?
KRAUTHAMMER: It feels pretty good, actually. I waited 30 – let's see, how long is it? - I waited 28 years to write a book, and it's done very well, so I'm very gratified. A lot of people worked hard to make that happen, and I'm glad I'm being read. When you write a column, you know that it wraps fish every Tuesday. You kind of wonder about what you've spent your life on. So, I always wanted to put the best of my writings between hardcover not knowing if it would get an audience or a reception. And it has, so that is extremely gratifying.
NEWSBUSTERS: Well, we at NewsBusters and the Media Research Center couldn't be happier for you, sir.
KRAUTHAMMER: Well, thank you, I really appreciate that, Noel.
NEWSBUSTERS: Thank you for your time, sir.
KRAUTHAMMER: Pleasure.


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Alright we know that jins die after Bijuu gets extracted. (Exception Uzumaki Clan). Then Why did not Obito Die. Reasons are Simple. Obito got his Bijuu Chakra Severed. But he still is the Jin of the juubi, only void of chakra.
Obito is not gonna die, He will Turn good. Discuss


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To: Mayor Allen Green
Vice Mayor Dennis Kennedy
Council Member Bob Ford
Council Member Donald Burnette
Council Member Robert Pohlmann
From: Kenneth W. Parker, City Manager
Subject: Agenda Commentary for Regular City Council Meeting of
December 13, 2011
Date: December 8, 2011
Prior to the meeting on Tuesday evening, the City Council is hosting the annual Boards and Commission Reception. During the reception, the Council will recognize members for their years of service. Service Pins will be presented to individual members.
This is the last meeting of this calendar year. If you count all the district meetings, new resident meetings, workshops and special City Council Meetings that have been conducted during the past year, the City Council has average more than one meeting a week. In looking at the 2012 calendar, it appears that the City Council will be meeting roughly the same number of times during the upcoming year. In looking at the calendar, there will be 36 regular City Council Meetings with at least 10 budget workshops being conducted before the budget is submitted in July.
Additionally, the Council has acting as the CRA will be meeting at several times during early 2012 in working sessions related to Town Center RFP and reviewing all submittals. The RFP that the CRA and Council authorized was side tracked because of the Veolia lawsuit. What is remaining in the CRA RFP is final legal review to make sure that it complies with the statutory legal requirements. I would like the Town Center CRA to meet on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 to review the RFP. If the RFP meets with the CRA and Council approval, I would like to place it on the street sometime around January 17. I would like for the proposal to be on the street for 30 day with proposals being received in mid to late February. That would mean the CRA and City Council would meet on or about March 13, 2012 to review any and all submittals and determine which one, if any, would be accepted. Also, on January 10, 2012, I would like for the CRA to review the park plan that was developed to allow immediate use of the city owned land at Riverwalk. On that same date, I would like to discuss with the Council and the CRA an option of moving the 4th of July to the river this year.
This is the year that we are required to re-bid the golf course management contract. That will mean in March, we will want to conduct a workshop with the City Council to review the Request for Management Proposals for the Golf Course. Further, it will mean in late April or early May, the City Council will review the proposals received for managing the courses. It is my goal to have the contact in place by the end of July. This will allow for an orderly transition should one be required.
Additionally, 2012 is an election year. Qualifying occurs in June with the primary election occurring the second week in August. The General Election is the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Elected Council Members will takes office the first Tuesday in December.
I know that throughout the year, there will be items that will require additional workshop sessions. It looks like 2012 will be an extremely busy year for the City Council.
Item 1 - Pledge of Allegiance
Item 2 - Silent Invocation
Item 3 - Roll Call
B. CITIZEN PARTICIPATION (Agenda)
Item 4 - PFM Asset Management, LLC Presentation to City Council – Annual Investment Performance Review Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2011
Annually, PFM comes before the City Council to report on investment performance. This is for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2011. Quarterly, the City's Investment Committee meets with PFM and reviews the quarterly data. Copies of those reports are provided to the City Council.
C. CITIZEN PARTICIPATION (Non-Agenda – 15 Minutes)
a. December 6, 2011 – Special City Council Meeting
b. December 6, 2011 – Regular City Council Meeting
Attached are the City Council meeting minutes from the meetings held recently. Should you have questions, please feel free to contact Robin or me.
Item 6 - Staff Reports – Building Activity Report and Monthly Development Activity Report for November, 2011
The attached Staff Reports include the Development Activity Report and the Building Activity Report. These reports provide information on proposed development, projects under construction, commercial code enforcement activity and monthly building permits and inspection updates.
Staff recommends Council accept the Staff Reports (Building Activity Report and Monthly Development Activity Report).
Item 7 - Written report from KemperSports Management regarding Cypress Head Golf Course
At this time, a representative of KemperSports will make a report to the Council regarding the activities of the golf course.
Item 8 - 2011 Concurrency Management Report
On November 17, 2011, the Planning Commission recommended to accept the 2011 Concurrency Management Report as presented by Staff. As indicated in the report, the City's position with respect to concurrency is at sufficient levels for FY 11/12.
Staff recommends Council accept the 2011 Concurrency Management Report, as recommended by the Planning Commission.
Item 9 - Water System Replacement Bid Award, #B-12-01
The Water System Replacement 2012 Project encompasses the replacement, and abandonment of several potable water mains and several hundred water service lines. Construction areas include Ravenwood, Deep Forest, Twin Gates, and Springwood Square. The majority of these water lines and water services are in excess of 30 years old. This project also includes the replacement of several hundred water meters in these same areas. In addition, the project includes utility adjustment work at the Herbert Street/US1 intersection in advance of turn lane improvements planned by FDOT. Restoration of all areas disturbed is also included.
It is important to note that the contract documents have provisions to extend this contract for one additional year. The advantage to the City is that it locks in the unit prices enabling the City to take advantage of the favorable marketplace. Furthermore, the multi-year contract reduces future administrative and engineering and costs while expediting similar work to be completed in accordance with the FY13 CIP.
The initial project was recently publicly advertised and a required pre-bid meeting was attended by eleven prospective bidders. Bids were then publicly opened on November 29th, 2011. Upon a complete review and evaluation of the four bids received, it has been determined that Hazen Construction is the lowest responsive bidder. Hazen Construction is well known to us being an established local utility contractor which completed many successful utility projects for us in the past.
We request your approval in awarding this contract to Hazen Construction at this time in the amount of $329,386 so that the necessary work may be completed in a timely manner. Funding for this project relies upon multiple sources. The Herbert Street/US1 work uses URL007 Miscellaneous Utility Relocation and the 403 fund. The 403 fund exists to comply with the bond covenants mandating that a minimum of 5% of revenues be re-invested back into system maintenance. The upsizing of the Ravenwood water main is funded from UCP001 City Cost Participation relying upon the 405 impact fee fund. Finally, the majority of the project is funded from URP001 Water System Replacements. Due to a lack of dedicated 403 funds, we must rely upon the discretionary funding of the 421 deferred construction fund and the carryover of operating fund savings in the 401 fund to finance the renewal & replacement of the aging water services and meters.
Staff recommends approval of the total base bid and alternate bid award for the Water System Replacement 2012 Project, Bid Award # B-12-01, to Hazen Construction, in the amount of $329,386 and to authorize the Mayor and City Manager to sign and execute all required contract documents.
Item 10 - 2011 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant
The Port Orange Police Department has been awarded grant funds from the U.S. Department of Justice, Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program in the amount of $10,000.00. These funds will be utilized to purchase five portable fingerprint scanners for patrol.
Five Fingerprint Scanners @ $2,495.00 each $12,475.00
Funding Source:
Account #001-3200-521-52-09 Grant Operating Supplies $10,000.00
Account #607-3200-521-52-00 Police Forfeiture Trust $ 2,475.00
Staff recommends approval to allow Staff to accept the grant funds from the U.S. Department of Justice, Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program in the amount of $10,000.00 for the purchase of portable fingerprint scanners.
11 - Engagement of Legal Services relating to Veolia ES Solid Waste
Southeast, Inc. vs. Waste Pro and the City of Port Orange
The legal services of S. LaRue Williams are available at his hourly rate of $300.00 for governmental cases on behalf of the City.
Staff recommends approval of the attorney services of S. LaRue Williams, Esquire relating to litigation case Veolia ES Solid Waste Southeast, Inc., vs. Waste Pro and the City of Port Orange and authorizing active representation on behalf of the City of Port Orange.
City Manager Comments: La Rue Williams represented the City of Port Orange at the recent hearing related to the temporary injunction sought by Veolia against the City and Waste Pro. He was extremely valuable to the City in preparation for the hearing as well as handling cross examination of Veolia witnesses during the hearing itself. Although we do not know if Veolia plans to appeal the decision of the Court or to file suit against the City and Waste Pro, it is good to have Mr. Williams on board to advise the City on legal issues related to the case. I would encourage you to speak with Margaret before Tuesday night on this item.
12 - Acceptance of settlement in the case of Jerome Schrock vs. City of
Port Orange
As a result of injury sustained on June 15, 2010 relating to an accident involving a motorcycle driven by Jerome Schrock and a Port Orange Police Department patrol unit, the parties recommend a settlement and the release of all claims against the City for payment of $25,000.00.
Staff recommends authorizing the settlement of the Jerome Schrock vs. City of Port Orange, Case No. 2011 30865 CICI pursuant to the terms as asset forth by the City's insurance carrier.
E. FINANCE (John Shelley)
Item 13 - First Reading – Ordinance No. 2011-37 – General Employee's Pension Ordinance
The General Employees' Pension Committee has been working with Public Employees Association (PEA) and Legal Counsel to update the General Employees Pension Ordinance. Changes include a new Defined Contribution Plan (DC) and a modified Defined Benefit (DB) option.
The new DC Plan is similar to the existing DC Option with ICMA; however, plan assets will be monitored by the General Employees' Pension Committee with application of the same vesting period as the DB Plan. The modified DB Plan is unchanged for current employees; however, after the effective date of this Ordinance, DB Plan is optional for new PEA employees. New PEA Employees may also choose the DC Plan option. Once the choice of Plan type is made by the employee, it is irrevocable. The new DB Plan provides new employee retirement benefits similar to those of the Florida Retirement System.
Please see the attached Ordinance and Actuarial Impact Statement for details.
This Ordinance has been reviewed and approved by Lewis, Longman and Walker, P.A., the City's pension legal counsel.
Staff recommends approval.
City Manager Comments: These are the changes that were negotiated in the recent PEA contract. As you know, for more than a year, new Civil Service covered employees can only be members of a Defined Contribution Retirement Plan. When the PEA contract was negotiated, there were major changes made to the Plan. First change related to providing the employee with an option of being a member of a Defined Contribution Plan or a Defined Benefit Plan. The second change was to the Define Benefit Plan structure for new employees. It lowered the modifier from 2% to 1.6%. It increased the years to 33 years which is consistent with FRS. We will continue to monitor the Plan Performance.
F. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (Wayne Clark)
Item 14 - Second Reading – Ordinance No. 2011-32 – Land Development Code Text Amendments/Pain Management Clinics (Case no.: 11-25000001)
At its October 27, 2011 meeting, the Planning Commission recommended approval, 5-0, of the administrative request to amend Chapters 2, 12, 17, and 18 of the Land Development Code to add "pain management clinics" as a permitted use with special development requirements within the "PO" (Professional Office) zoning district and to provide accompanying and clarifying regulatory requirements and definitions. Please see the attached staff report for more information.
Staff recommends adoption of Ordinance No. 2011-32, amending Chapters 2, 12, 17, and 18 of the Land Development Code (LDC), as recommended by the Planning Commission.
Item 15 - Second Reading – Ordinance No. 2011-34 – Adoption of the 2011 Capital Improvements Element (C.I.E.) Annual Update (Case no.: 11-27500001)
On October 27, 2011, the Planning Commission recommended approval to adopt the 2011 Capital Improvements Element Annual Update.
Every year local governments are required to update their Capital Improvements Element (CIE), including the Five-Year Schedule of Capital Improvements (Schedule). The purpose of the C.I.E. and the Schedule is to identify the capital improvements needed to implement the Comprehensive Plan and ensure the adopted level-of-service standards are achieved and maintained for concurrency-related facilities. These facilities include water, sewer, stormwater, solid waste, roads, parks, and schools.
The amendments to the C.I.E. are attached for review and include the updated Schedule and other various text amendments to update data related to the Schedule and other statutorily required information, such as:
· Projects included in the Transportation Planning Organization's (TPO) Transportation Improvements Program (TIP) that the City relies on for concurrency; and
· The Volusia County School District Five-Year Work Program.
All of the required public facilities meet the City's adopted level of service standards. Therefore, these proposed amendments to the CIE primarily include improvements that will help maintain the level of service standards into the future.
Staff recommends adoption of Ordinance No. 2011-34, amending the Capital Improvements Element of the City's Comprehensive Plan, in accordance with Florida Statutes.
Item 16 - Second Reading – Ordinance No. 2011-36 – Code of Ordinances Text Amendment/Foreclosure Registry, Case no. 11-2500007
It is the purpose and intent of the City to establish a process to address the amount of abandoned real property located within the City. It is the City's further intent to specifically establish an abandoned residential and commercial property registration program as a mechanism to track abandoned properties and protect residential neighborhoods and commercial districts from becoming blighted through the lack of adequate maintenance and security of abandoned properties.
The foreclosure registration program is designed to:
Staff recommends adoption of Ordinance No. 2011-36, amending Chapter 42, Article II, Nuisances, of the Code of Ordinances, by adding Section 42-33, titled Abandoned Real Property, to create new regulations related to and address maintenance of abandoned real property.
Item 17 - First Reading – Ordinance No. 2011-33 – Code of Ordinances Text Amendments/Pain Management Clinic (Case no.: 11-25000001)
At its October 27, 2011 meeting, the Planning Commission recommended approval, 5-0, of the administrative request to amend Chapter 18 of the Code of Ordinances to add a definition for "pain management clinic", application requirements and the amount of fees or taxes owed at the time of application. Please see the attached staff report for more information.
Staff recommends adoption of Ordinance No. 2011-33, amending Chapter 18 of the Code of Ordinances, as recommended by the Planning Commission.
Second Reading: January 3, 2012
Item 18 - First Reading – Ordinance No. 2011-38 – Code of Ordinances Text Amendments/Simulated Gambling Devices (Case no.: 11-25000006)
At its November 17, 2011 meeting, the Planning Commission recommended approval, 3-0-1, of the administrative request to amend Chapter 18 of the Code of Ordinances to add a definition for "electronic gambling devices", prohibit the use of simulated gambling devices, establish exemptions, provide enforcement and civil penalties, and remove language pertaining to adult arcade amusement centers. The staff report is attached for more information.
To adopt Ordinance No. 2011-38, amending Chapter 18 of the Code of Ordinances, as recommended by the Planning Commission.
Second Reading: January 3, 2012
Item 19 - First Reading Ordinance No. 2011-39 – Land Development Code Text Amendments/Simulated Gambling Establishments (Case no.: 11-25000006)
At its November 17, 2011 meeting, the Planning Commission recommended approval, 3-0-1, of the administrative request to amend Chapters 2, 12, 17, and 18 of the Land Development Code to add a definition for "simulated gambling establishments", remove language pertaining to adult arcade amusement centers, and provide accompanying and clarifying regulatory requirements. Please see the attached staff report for more information.
Staff recommends adoption of Ordinance No. 2011-39, amending Chapters 2, 12, 17, and 18 of the Land Development Code (LDC), as recommended by the Planning Commission.
Second Reading: January 3, 2012.
Item 20 - First Reading – Ordinance No. 2011-40 – Ordinance Rezoning & Approving a Master Development Agreement & Conceptual Development Plan/Altamira Shopping Village PCD (Case no.: 11-65000001)
At its November 17, 2011 meeting, the Planning Commission recommended approval, 4-0, of the request to rezone approximately 33.2 acres, located on the east side of Dunlawton Avenue., north of Taylor Branch Road, from "F-C" (Flood-Plain Conservation), "A" (Agricultural), and "ICD" (Interchange Commercial District) to "PCD" (Planned Commercial Development). If the rezoning request is approved, the MDA and CDP will provide the regulatory framework for the development of a shopping center on the subject property, and associated site improvements on the property located off Taylor Road. The staff report is attached for more information.
Staff recommends approval of Ordinance No. 2011-40 rezoning and approving the Master Development Agreement (MDA) and the Conceptual Development Plan (CDP) dated November 30th, 2011, as recommended by the Planning Commission.
City Manager Comments: We have been working on this project for a number of years. It is now ready for City Council action. As you know, the canal will be relocated as part of this project. Also, Yorktowne Boulevard will be constructed as part of this project. The City will cost participate in the construction of the Yorktowne construction between Dunlawton Avenue and Taylor Road. Yorktowne extension will provide an alternative to the Taylor Branch and Dunlawton Avenue intersection. It will provide a longer transitional area to get to the Interstate. Further, it should lessen the some of the congestion that is now experienced at Interstate 95 and Dunlawton west bound. The City's participation funds are budgeted.
Item 21 - Resolution No. 11-69 – Supplemental LAP Agreement for design of the Herbert Street sidewalk between Golden Gate Circle and Nova Road
The FDOT has agreed to provide an additional $6000 in funding for the design of the Herbert Street sidewalk project which will cover surveying costs and design costs indexed for inflation. FDOT has requested the City execute the Supplemental Local Area Project (LAP) Agreement and Resolution for the design of a sidewalk along the south side of Herbert Street from Golden Gate Circle to Nova Road. This will supplement the previous Agreement of August 5, 2011 and provides an additional $6,000 to fund the design costs. The FDOT has agreed to fund the costs for design in an amount not to exceed $22,000.
Staff recommends approval of the Supplemental Local Agency Program (LAP) Agreement and Resolution No. 11-69 for design of the Herbert Street Sidewalk, south side, from Golden Gate Circle to Nova Road and authorize the Mayor and City Manager to execute the Supplemental Agreement and Resolution.
G. PUBLIC WORKS (Warren Pike)
Item 22 - Second Reading – Ordinance 2011-35 – Granting Exclusive Franchise for Collection and Disposal of Solid Waste, Yard Waste, and Recyclable Materials – Waste Pro
The Ordinance grants an exclusive franchise to Waste Pro of Florida, Inc., for the collection and disposal of solid waste, yard waste and recyclable materials within the City of Port Orange. Waste Pro of Florida, Inc., as Franchisee, has the necessary equipment, personnel, and experience to properly perform the work and has been awarded the contract pursuant to City Bid B11-08.
Staff recommends adoption of Ordinance No.: 2011-35, granting an exclusive franchise to Waste Pro of Florida, Inc., for the collection and disposal of solid waste, yard waste and recyclable materials within the City of Port Orange.
Item 23 - Award Solid Waste Contract to Waste Pro
Staff recommends award and approval of the Contract with Waste Pro of Florida, Inc., for the collection and disposal of solid waste, yard waste and recyclable materials within the City of Port Orange pursuant to City Bid B11-08. Waste Pro of Florida, Inc., has the necessary equipment, personnel, and experience to properly perform the work and has been awarded the contract pursuant to City Bid B11-08.
City Manager Comments: All the documents have been received from Waste Pro. The proposed contract is ready for Council consideration. If the contract is approved, the Mayor and City Manager will be authorized to execute the contract on behalf of the City of Port Orange. Waste Pro has executed the contract.
H. ADMINISTRATION (Ken Parker)
Item 24 - Resolution No. 11-65 – Volusia ECHO Water Access Land Acquisition Grant (Acquisition of the riverside property east of 3900 Halifax Drive)
The County Council made changes to the Volusia ECHO grant program to include the purchase of property on waterways. The City seeks to acquire property within Town Center Riverwalk on Halifax Drive with funding assistance from the Volusia ECHO Water Access Land Acquisition Grant program. The application will be submitted in partnership with Halifax River Partners, LLC and Port Orange Riverwalk, LLP & LLC. Below are the identified properties and a map of the project area is attached.
Parcel #1: 6303-04-00-0010 (portion east of Halifax Dr.) 9,000 sq. ft.
Parcel #2: 6303-10-02-0024 13,400 sq. ft.
Parcel #3: 6303-10-02-0041 88,080 sq. ft.
Parcel #4: 6303-16-00-0011 (portion east of Halifax Dr.) 1,800 sq. ft.
Parcel #5: 6303-16-00-0010 (portion east of Halifax Dr.) 25,890 sq. ft.
Parcel #6: 6303-11-02-0031 (portion east of Halifax Dr.) 2,250 sq. ft.
Total 140,420 sq. ft.
The 2009 Town Center Riverwalk Master Plan details the uses of these properties as civic green, public water access, and the Riverwalk Boardwalk. The boardwalk serves as a walking trail on the Port Orange Pathway (POP!) and is part of the East Coast Greenway Trail that runs from Maine to Key West, Florida.
Staff recommends approval of Resolution 11 -65 authorizing the City Manager to submit a Volusia ECHO Water Access Land Acquisition Grant application to acquire property and riparian rights on Halifax Drive. In addition, authorize the Mayor and the City Manager to execute any agreements or contract and provide a match.
Item 25- Legislative Support Contract
During the 2011 session, the City, in conjunction with Pittman Law Group, filed a local bill relating to expanding the Southeast Volusia Hospital District to provide Port Orange residents living within the District an opportunity to serve on the governing board. This legislation passed and is now in effect. Pittman Law Group was also responsible for having $1.25 million placed in the legislative budget to fund the construction of the State Road 421 (Dunlawton) Flood Control/Evacuation Route project. The full amount was passed by both houses, but ultimately vetoed by the Governor. This project continues to be a priority for the City and recently garnered the full support of our local delegation. At their annual meeting, the delegation voted to send a letter of support on the City's behalf.
Additionally, Pittman Law Group tracks legislation impacting the City of Port Orange, such as pension reform and TABOR, support our efforts in Tallahassee, and sets meetings between key leadership members and the City Council and staff as needed. The contract covers the calendar year and is in an amount not to exceed $40,000. Funding has historically been provided through the carry forward budget.
Staff recommends Council employ Pittman Law Group to track legislation on the City's behalf and to work in support of our legislative priorities, including funding for the State Road 421 (Dunlawton) Flood Control/Evacuation Route project and to authorize the Mayor and City Manager to execute all associated documents.
City Manager Comments: This is a policy decision of City Council on whether to retain a lobbyist or not. For the past several years, the City Council has included funds in the carry forward budget for the lobbyist rather than budgeting for the lobbyist as part of the regular budget. That allowed the City Council to make a decision on using left over funds to pay for this expense. If the City Council decides to employ a lobbyist to represent the City's interest during the upcoming legislative session, we will bring back an appropriation resolution for City Council's consideration. There are two policy questions. The first is whether to retain a lobbyist. If the answer to question one is yes, then the second policy question is who. Pittman has served as the lobbyist for the past six legislative sessions. The Council has the alternative of receiving proposals from firms if it so desires. On the east side, Ormond Beach, Daytona Beach, South Daytona, and the County all have lobbyist who represent their governments in Tallahassee.
Item 26 - Comments/Concerns from Council Members
At this time council members may discuss various matters or concerns.


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From: Dora Smith <>
Subject: blindness, personality, Samuel Morse of Sherborn family
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 20:47:46 -0500 (EST)
I am working on the descendants of Samuel Morse of Sherborn, and
investigating a report by someone of the Morse Society that a tendency to
go blind between one's thirties and old age runs or ran in some parts of
that family. I posted a request for anything about it including what is
the cause (somethign like that would wear a definitive clinical diagnosis,
possibly glaucoma, by this time) to the Morse list, and got NADA response.
I have two questions; one; does anyone have any knowledge about a tendency
to blindness in that family?
Two; I'm finding that most Morse's I hear from appear to rather
pronouncedly share certain personality and character traits with my
brother-in-law and his father, and some of them are writing to me that the
OTHER Morse family who are descended from cousins of this Morse family
have some of these traits. Are Morse's characteristically obstinate,
intense, formal in tone, snobbish cowardly or nice-nice or something that
looks that way, and reticent? And what is it about them that causes this
peculiar response to mentioning any genetic disease? My brother in law and
all of his family are the same way; mention something to them they don't
want to deal with, and they make no response as if they hadn't heard you.
In my experience, members of most family groups lie or get angry and
insulting! And some members of the family nearly always share the
information because they know that it is critically important.
An example:
In response to "I am researching the Morse family of Samuel, came to
Massachusetts about 1635. ...I am interested in learning more about the
personalities and temperament of this family."
>From someone who uses his first initial with middle name (as distinct from
simply using his middle name if that is what he wants to do):
"I visited your site and examined your MORSE line.
"You give the wife of Joseph (b. Mar. 1745) as Mary Martin (Leonard). Are
you using the parentheses to indicate that "Leonard" was a maiden name or
a married name? Thre seems to be no uniform practice in this respect. The
Morse Geneaogy (1903/1905 ed.) says "Mary Marton Leonard", which is also
ambiguous but if Leonard is the maiden name then Marton would be a middle
Do you know her parents? That would solve the puzzle."
My response:
"It could mean either; I usually use the unmarried name if I know it with
a former married name in parentheses if I have that choice. While I
research it, exactly what is your interest in Mary Leonard/ Martin?"
His response:
"Just to tidy up the file... But who knows...she might be in my line. I'm
stuck at g-grandfather Otis Morse (b. abt 1829-35, d. 1895, res. Erie Co.
Understand, my file contains a number of women with one surname followed
by another in parentheses! This entire exchange could have taken place
with my brother-in-law; the man is his CLONE! Including the implausible
answer when I asked simply what is his relationship to Mary Leonard/
Martin! Given the personality he expresses, one doesn't know whether he
is actually uptight enough to worry about an obscure minor ambiguity in
this manner, or he does NOT want to tell me his relationship to Mary
Leonard/ Martin, and when cornered makes implausible efforts to weasel out
of it (my brother-in-law does it constantly) or he is simply too uptight
and too formal not to ALWAYS express himself very formally! His letter is
written in the format of a formal genealogical inquiry, in standard
intellectualese form.
I"m wondering if this is characteristic of this family group or of members
of this particular list and to some degree the Morse Society; I thought
that perhaps I would learn more by posting to lists that reach a wider
variety and greater number of people.
Dora Smit
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"No, that's all execution right there. That's all that is," Jennings said on Wednesday of the offense's struggles against the Giants, in particular, and throughout the season.
A healthy Jennings, however, can make a big difference. Without him. Jordy Nelson and James Jones lack the short-area explosion to consistently get open, and Jermichael Finley's consistently been inconsistent. That's left Randall Cobb to be more and more of a focal point for quarterback Aaron Rodgers, and defenses have adjusted accordingly.
Jennings is one of the NFL's best receivers in getting off the line of scrimmage, which should pay immediate dividends.
"He's dangerous," Rodgers said of Jennings. "I mean, he's a guy that can play inside or outside. He's always been great after the catch. He's been great when the ball's in the air, very intelligent, understands route concepts, timing. He's been there before. I mean, he was a polished guy when he got here, he's gotten better every year, and I think just the name recognition alone merits the respect. I think just having him out there gives us another weapon."
Jennings has played in only about 10 quarters this season and has missed the last seven games. Rodgers and Jennings obviously have built a rapport over the years but Rodgers has been trying to get the duo back on the same page.
"We've worked on some stuff last week and today he looked great," Rodgers said. "I've been trying to go to him a little bit more in some of the walkthrough stuff where it's actually pretty quick tempo and in practice, looking for him, just making sure we're on the same page. We played a lot of football together so I'm not worried about that."
On Tuesday, coach Mike McCarthy hinted that Jennings might be on a snap count. That would be the wise approach, considering Jennings hasn't played since Sept. 30 and had surgery Nov. 1 to mend his abdominal injury. Jennings, however, said he's in "great" shape after spending last week running with the scout team and even on the kickoff coverage and punt return units for extra conditioning.
"If I had a say, I would just say just let me go. I'm good," Jennings said. "There's no need for that. But I can't control that part of it. When my number gets called, I'm going to be ready to go."
Packers injury report
Out: CB Sam Shields (ankle); DB Charles Woodson (collarbone). Did not participate: WR Donald Driver (thumb); LB Clay Matthews (hamstring); DT Ryan Pickett (quad); RB Johnny White (concussion); DE C.J. Wilson (knee). Limited: S M.D. Jennings (rib); LB Terrell Manning (shoulder); T Marshall Newhouse (wrist); TE Andrew Quarless (knee). Full: WR Greg Jennings (groin/abdomen).
Packers coach Mike McCarthy said he does not "have a high level of concern" for Newhouse.
Vikings injury report
Did not participate: TE Kyle Rudolph (concussion/shoulder). Limited: LB Jasper Brinkley (shoulder); WR Percy Harvin (ankle); T Phil Loadholt (knee); S Harrison Smith (concussion); CB Antoine Winfield (knee). Full: DE Jared Allen (shoulder/back); DT Letroy Guion (foot); P Chris Kluwe (left knee); RB Adrian Peterson (shoulder).
"We're hoping," Vikings coach Leslie Frazier said of Harvin during a conference call. "We've all got our fingers crossed. He's made some progress. He's going to try and do a little something today. I watched him try to move around yesterday. We're all hoping we get him back. We need him."
Smith and Rudolph were cleared of their concussions.
Four-point stance
— The Packers have more injury concerns on defense, a major issue with Adrian Peterson coming to town.
— Sunday is Dec. 2, which means the sense or urgency is heightened with the stretch run to the season about to begin. "Urgency is definitely part of our theme, there's no question about it, regardless of what happened in New York" McCarthy said. "It's heightened, obviously, because of our performance in New York. But we have great urgency for the Vikings. It's a division game. I really don't think you need to say anything else but that. This is a game that we need. I'm sure this is an important game for them. We're back home, and we're looking forward to getting out there."
— Rodgers' mustache is in honor of "Movember," a month-long event to draw awareness for men's health issues, specifically prostate and testicular cancer "Today is what, the 28th, so we've got two days left. Can't have this for my birthday on Sunday. I've got to look good for that. It's great when you can raise awareness for something, something bigger than yourself. I've obviously enjoyed working with the MACC Fund. I'm doing it and proud to be a part of a lot of guys doing it."
— This is a big game for the Vikings, who at 6-5 would be in deep trouble with a loss on Sunday. "I think everyone knows what this game means and it's a rivalry game," quarterback Christian Ponder told reporters in Eden Prairie, Minn. "These are the ones that you live for. These are the ones that when you're playing in pee wee, you dream about, playing in the NFL against your rival. Vikings-Green Bay that's a huge game and obviously what's at stake makes it even bigger. At that same time, we aren't going to put extra pressure on ourselves. I think everyone's motivated to come in, work hard and get better from last week."
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They have Olympic medals at home, world championships on their resume and between them eight Olympic appearances, making former 49ers Danielle Scott-Arruda and Tayyiba Haneef-Park two of the most honored Olympians in Long Beach State history.
But ask them what their greatest accomplishment is and they'll reach into their bag and pull out baby pictures.
Both women were a part of the 2008 Olympic team that won a silver medal, and both women then took 2010 off to work on a bigger task - starting families.
On March 7 of 2010, the 6-foot-7 Tayyiba gave birth to Ajani Jamal Park, who checked in at a sizeable 9 pounds, 21 inches and perhaps will someday follow mom's path to a volleyball court. On April 17, the 6-2 Danielle welcomed Julianne Arruda into the world.
Tuesday, the two moms did the Disneyland thing, Danielle bringing Julieanne, several nieces and nephews and other family members while Tayyiba left her toddler at home and came with her dad, Mo, and his array of cameras for the park's official parade and sendoff for the U.S. Olympic volleyball teams. Spikes and digs were put aside as families took a ride on "It's A Small World" and let the kids play with Mickey and Minnie.
In Danielle's case, the biological clock was ticking on having a family with her husband Eduardo, a former volleyball player and coach from Brazil she met while playing there professionally.
"I really wanted a child," said the native of Baton Rouge and a middle blocker in the U.S. national program since 1994. She has two siblings and six nieces and nephews, so family was important to her.
"I think having and wanting my daughter at that time ... I wasn't worried if I could still play after having her, but wondered if I could come back at a high level.
"The idea of her seeing me play has been a motivation for me."
She rarely needs motivation to play. She is headed to play in her fifth Olympics, the first U.S. woman to do so in the sport and one of just three all-time, and she's open to the idea of a sixth.
She turns 40 in October, but doesn't feel her age. The 2016 Olympics are in Brazil, her husband's home and a place she loves. "I speak Portuguese fluently, so it would be great to be there, maybe as a coach if not a player."
She already has Olympic baggage stickers from Atlanta, Sydney, Athens, Beijing and now London. That's four continents, leaving her three shy of a world traveler's grand slam. Brazil would give her five.
Tayyiba, 33, didn't want to wait any longer to have children with her husband Anthony Park, a U.S. Air Force pilot. She worried about what it would do to her physically knowing she was coming back for the 2012 Games, so she threw herself into private workouts after giving birth.
"I did the PX90, the `Insanity' DVDs, went to the gym on my own," she said. "I heard other women athletes say they felt stronger after having babies, which calmed my nerves a bit. The pain tolerance now is definitely higher."
Unlike Danielle, she's going to leave the sport after 2012.
"I'm done," she said. "I love it, but I love my son more and I want to be there with him through all the special moments."
Both women starred at Long Beach State before compiling accomplishments on the national team, and both have launched new off-court ventures besides their families.
Danielle, who has played several positions, was a three-time All-American at Long Beach State and in 1993 led the 49ers to the national title and was named national player of the year. She led the 49ers to the NCAA Final Four three times and had 1,778 career kills, 604 blocks and a .421 hit percentage; the blocks and hit percentage remain school records.
The 17 years on the national team have given her the chance to play in more than 40 major international events. In the 2008 Olympics, she averaged 2.17 kills and .57 blocks with a .549 hit rate. She had a team-high 15 blocks in the 2004 Games; 101 kills, 33 blocks and two digs in 2000; and moved into the starting lineup in the final matches of the '96 Olympics.
She's already started transitioning careers, going back to school to earn an advanced degree and has started a non-profit foundation that connects education, the arts and sports for children.
"Education is so important to me and I want to help kids reach those goals through arts and sports programs," she said.
Tayyiba, the lean outside hitter, came to the sport late and was a two-sport star at Long Beach as a volleyball player and track high jumper. She was a three-time All-American in the high jump - she finished 10th in the 2000 Olympic trials - but found her future on the volleyball court after earning All-American status in 2001, leading the 49ers to 33 consecutive wins before a NCAA title match loss to Stanford.
She started national team play in 2001 and became a starter the following year. She had 84 kills and six blocks in the 2004 Games, and averaged 2.73 kills per set and .40 blocks in 2008 Tayyiba is working on a master's in business in a U.S. Olympic Committee program with DeVry, with a goal of launching a new fashion line. "I've always sewed my own clothes and have made some things for my teammates," she said. "I think there's a market for good fashion for tall, athletic women."
The 2012 team is the first they've been on that is considered a strong gold medal candidate, so it would be very fashionable for the two 49ers to leave London with a gold medal.
And it'd be a nice trinket to add to the mobiles for Ajani and Julieanne.


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10 Below but Miles Above
It might be snowing on the rest of Central Oregon, but there's plenty of color to be found at 10 Below. The restaurant in the new Oxford Hotel, Bend's only four -star boutique lodging, is tucked away in the basement (hence the name—10 NW Minnesota Ave, below ground). But that secluded location only makes this bright space feel all the more separate from the rest of the world. Separate, in a very good way.
The chic urban space, rich with uber-creative touches (ever seen white ceramic antlers made into light fixtures?) is truly unlike any other in Central Oregon. Many restaurants have claimed in the last five years to be Bend's most metropolitan, but 10 Below's totally unusual, completely cool décor is the first to really put itself out on a limb. And you might feel like you are out on a limb, with tree cross-sections on the wall, tree motifs on the curtains, and shades of green all around.
The two lunches I recently enjoyed at 10 Below were a tiny slice of hip, delicious heaven. On my first visit, I ordered the chop-chop salad, comprised of mixed greens, cucumber, cous cous, heirloom tomato, free-range chicken, toasted pine nuts and tzatsiki dressing. It was completely yummy. But on my second visit, I decided to take a friend's advice and go whole hog for the BLTA. The grilled rustic toast, thick-cut bacon, tomato, avocado and smear of maple aioli is a perfect example of why sweet, fat and salt have always been some of our favorite things. I saved my virtue by ordering the green salad on the side, which was very fresh and ample in size.
10 Below vows to use as many local products in their dishes as possible, and the list of local vendors on the back of the menu is very impressive. Come summer, look for Executive Chef Sam Reed wandering around the Drake Park Farmer's Market, gathering ingredients straight from the farm to put into your dinner special. But don't wait until then to stop by. 10 Below's fresh look and fresher cuisine is the taste of spring we've all been waiting for on the east side of the mountains.
10 Below at the Oxford Hotel
10 NW Minnesota Ave, Bend
about author Kim Cooper Findling
Kim Cooper Findling grew up on the Oregon Coast and became a Central Oregon girl in the mid-90s, taking in the sunny skies and never looking back (except a few wistful glances at the ocean). She is the editor of "Cascade Journal" and the author of "Bend, Oregon Daycations: Day Trips for Curious Travelers," "Day Trips From Portland: Getaway Ideas for the Local Traveler" and "Chance of Sun: An Oregon Memoir." Catch her around the state sampling microbrews, hiking river trails, walking beaches, and hanging out with her family. www.kimcooperfindling.com
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