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I'd rather die standing up than live on my knees.
-Emiliano Zapata
So how bout you just agree with something I say? Didn't I just say I consider the Celts better? That would mean I would favor them to beat us in a playoff series. The Pacers have a lot to prove before they can move beyond Celts in terms of deep playoff potential. I think it will be very difficult to move beyond them in a head to head series, particularly due to the fact we have no answer for Rondo. But those other guys are important factors too.
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Granger is overrated by some on this board. He's a solid player who deserved his one AS appearance, but, IMO, a one-time AS is not enough to merit definitive enshrinement in the pantheon of star players. He is a somewhat above - average NBA player for his career. Multiple AS appearances are required before we get into star or superstar territory. Additionally, leading one's team to conference finals and/or finals wouldn't hurt.
So, I appreciate and recognize what he's done during a frustrating period of Pacers NBA hoops. But my feeling is that if he's the top dog on our team, we won't be legit deep playoff contenders. He is probably best suited to be a 2nd or 3rd option on a championship contender.
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I see the Celtics as a really SMALL team.. Our back court is going to give them A LOT of problems! I too don't see the Celtics as much better than us...
One thing that I think is vital to us, is the fact that we have our main set of guys ALL back again, they're all close friends, and they're all still YOUNG and IMPROVING.. Our boys are HUNGRY, they got that taste last year, and they're gonna continue to grow.. WE have a great team guys.. We should be very proud of what we have here..
Teams like BROOKLYN, are going to be a good up and coming team, but I really dont think they can mess with our unison..
A lot of teams have the problem of losing a key player- and they're SCREWED! we have a healthy team, and we're very deep. We can play through whatever injury bugs come our way.. We are going to be a GREAT regular season team.. These East is vastily improved- but so are we.. We're going to be competitive and that's all we can ask for..
It's obvious no one is messing with LAKERS VS HEAT in the finals this year (unless there is injuries).. But I know I'll have fun watching this team IMPROVE, and continue to GROW together.. I'm just excited to see the growth.. I really wanna see what everyone is doing this off season!
Granger was never on the Olympic team...... ... He was on the World Championship team and rode the pine because Coach K wouldn't let him near the court because he is a lousy defender. He is basically a spot of three point shooter and that is all he is. He doesn't get many assists because when he gets the ball, it is going up. He can't move with the ball, he is a less than adequate rebounder and he still is a lousy defender and all though he goes through the motions of putting more effort into it, he basically coasts on that end of the floor. Granger is the second most overrated player (by fans) in Pacers history...... ... That, of course, is my opinion after watching him for years and years.....
SOMEONE has to balance out the old man's obvious anti-anything-Indiana bias. I call BS and loudly state that the Pacers are better than the Celtics and will finish with a better record than them AGAIN this year.....*stupid sunglass smiley icon*
Not really. I'd be a big fan of signing Kenyon Martin, but doesn't seem like that's likely. K-Mart only drinks strawberry milk. Not like he's still able to shut down longer wings and give stout defense on the block or anything. I mean hell, who wants Roy to be able to take his eyes off the ball for a split second when it's getting swung around the perimeter?
I have nothing at all against Mahinmi. But he better be a MAJOR cog, starting immediately.
Iverson averaged over 20ppg for his career and many here think is garbage, somebody has to average big numbers on an NBA team and on the Pacers case Danny has been that guy.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Or throw in a first-round pick and flip it for a max-level point guard...
While I agree that somebody has to average numbers on a team, not EVERYBODY can average 20ppg. No matter how bad the team is.
EDIT: for someone that thinks Monta Ellis is a very good player, its almost blasphemous to call Iverson garbage when they are essentially the same player..the only difference? Iverson actually played, and played well, in the playoffs...
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Balance away but the Pacers are not even close to being the Celtics and even if they did have a better season record, the Celtics would quickly send them home in the playoffs. You don't get it, the Celtics improved a lot in the draft and with deals they made. The Pacers only added some bench strength. The result is the Celtics are better than the Pacers. But I will give you a pass for your youth as an excuse for your lack of knowledge..... ...
Oh? Who is the leading scorer for the Pacers? Reggie Miller. Say wasn't he a three point shooter too only a lot better at it than Granger? ...
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Reggie, Ray Allen, those types of players aren't spot 3pt shooters. They move around screens, and at times they can even create their own offense by driving the lane or simply pulling up from mid range. You can focus your offensive attack around those players, you don't create your offense around a player whose sole purpose is to stand in the corner and knock down wide open 3s when they come--ya know, kinda how SPOT 3pt shooters are supposed to do
And Iverson was garbage for his last 4 or 5 seasons... He was near unstoppable before that...
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And here are Stonedar and Rokkon, based on the concept above:
I wanted to take on this challenge for a long time, but it was all the Sorceress's wings debacle that made me go back to my old ideas and finalize it.
Not without twisting it a lot, just because of what happened with Sorceress
Without hopefully offending anyone at Mattel, I think transforming figures aren't exactly their thing, and while my first idea was to create a fully transforming figure, keeping the tooling budget low, I realized that maybe in MOTUC they should be executed differently.
Of course, the 4H surely doens't need my input for Stonedar and Rokkon, so, while down below you will find my ideal designs for them, this thread is meant to explore how to make the Rock People work as action figure in the MOTUC line
The philosopy:
scrapping the idea of fully transformable figures, I had to find another way to make them able to change from humanoid form to meteor form.
And hopefully show Mattel these guy can be done propertly without sacrificing their gimmick completely (and maybe havign a separated rock form to display)
The Soul of Chogokin method, with snap-on parts, would probably work better: I found myself accepting that as MOTUC figures are not really supposed to have real working action features but only emulate the action features (IE, Tallastar's extensions).
The transformation:
As showed in pics 2 and 3, it can achived by simply folding down the figures, which have nothing different than any other figure articulation, exceped the extra neck-torso articulation. Then a set of rock plates can be attached to the folded figures to complete the rock form
A separated set of smaller rock plates can be attached to the humanoid forms, to complete the vintage toy look. But even without those, the figures would be cool too, as they would look a lot like the cartoon version!
The tooling:
yes, those figures have a lot of new tooling. Almost all the pieces are new.
On Stonedar, only the hands and the shoulders exist already. Depending on how the thighs are executed, the could just have the red pieces glued to them, but I doubt Mattel would go that way, especially if the rock plates attached to the body with pegs.
On Rokkon, the reused parts are the shoulders, the upper arms, the hands and the feet.
Both figure share the same chest/neck/abdomen part, covered by different "armors".
But here is the catch: all those new parts can probably be creatively reused for New Adventures characters! Even the rotating neck could be reused for Butthead!
Please also notice that I referenced cartoon's helmets to shape them and Rokkon has two silver tones: one for the armor and one for the rock and skin
I hope you like them!
And here are Stonedar and Rokkon, based on the concept above:
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Pure awesome.
But... I have to prepare myself to be disappointed in how Mattel actually does this!
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Wow. I had been trying to figure out for myself how they were going to achieve this. This is awesome! Dollars to donuts we get separate rock accessories though... OR do you think with all of the new tooling and two sets of rock armor, the figures could wind up costing as much as a beast SKU does? Maybe a two pak even...
Great job Emiliano
Wow, you did a fantastic job figuring out how that could function. Excellent work!
I really like (*edit - LOVE*) the attachable armors, those are totally awesome-tastic! If any part of that concept serves as inspiration, I hope it is that. Now, let me go ahead and throw out the minority/unpopular opinion (I'm predicting at least)...
I'd be okay if they don't transform. I never had them before so there is no nostalgia for me if they transform. Also I'd be very disappointed if the figure sculpt suffered to implement a transforming feature that did not transition well from that well thought out concept to design and implementation. Rounding it out, I don't see myself displaying them in rock form or buying two just to do it.
That being said, I love your designs and they always turn out super-groovy. Hell, if it were legal you could probably put a collection of them together on a poster and sell them for profit.
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Simply amazing! So wish you were on Matty's payroll cause with designs like these. The MOTUC line would be perfect!
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wow. that's really cool. i was wondering how they might do those figs.
but i think it might work better if the rock transformation pieces connected to each other rather than the figure's legs and arms. the legs and arms are going to move around and my experience with transformers has shown that sometimes it's really hard to get the legs/arms to get in the exact position you need. therefore if you just crumpled your figure into position, you could just piece the rocks around him - connecting them to each other. then the arms/legs don't have to be juuuuuust right.
If you had asked me before this installment of MOTUC visions how I wanted to see these two, I would have insisted on having a true action feature with the rock parts being a part of the sculpt or at least have a separate rock form if they couldn't make it work with the sculpt. I think this is probably better though, because they're still kinda-sorta transforming. Now where's Jewelstar? heh
WOW! This has to be your best Vision yet. I would be so please if they looked like this in MOTUC.
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Now THAT is a genius idea for the execution of the rock people! Absoltely rockin' fantastic. I'd buy those two in an instant! Until I saw this design I wasn't really looking forward to the Rock people because I thought the would never be able to incorporate the action feature without compromizing the articulation. Great work!
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truly amazing designs my friend. good reuse of certain parts make for alot of possibility for customization!
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found a small mistake. not a big deal, but when folding it up isnt it "rotate" the waist 180 degrees, not 360. 360 would leave it in the same position as it starts with.
these things are very very well thought out. its sad Mattel doesnt have engineers like you buddy. great work.
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i LOOOVE the idea of folding the guys
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Well thought out Emil! Remarkable, I hope this is the route they take for the Rock People!
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Beautiful work Emiliano, nice to see some support for the Rock People!! Very clever way to handle the Comet Warriors (if only they could make it into the MOTUC line.....)
Just one question: if you had to do Granita along with these guys, would you reuse parts from The Star Sisters?
PERFECT! Seriosuly, these are perfect! Awesome designs Emiliano! I really hope this is the the type of design we get for the Rock People. They'd be such awesome additions to the collection, and I really think this would work out perfectly!
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I absolutely agree with the others' sentiments. That's a great design.
Simply amazing work! I LOVE those designs!
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They look awesome! I wouldn't mind if they couldn't transform as long as the figures look as good as your designs.
Now this would make for a great figure 2 pack! Only thing I wonder is what about Granita? Make it a 3 pack and have it cost more than the Star Sisters. Have it part of the sub! I would be very happy!
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Absolutely amazing hope this is how they do them and that they include Granita. I agree I would buy them as a three pack in a heartbeat.
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Debrah Lewis a founding member of the Trinidad & Tobago Association of Midwives. She is Midwife/Director of the Mamatoto Resource & Birth Centre, where they started doing births in 2008, including waterbirths. Her goal for international midwifery: "To see a network in my region—the Caribbean—and ultimately the world."
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Amicus Maternity Center: Part I
Located in the small double island democratic republic of Trinidad-Tobago is one of the most unique birthing practices, possibly in the world. Named Amicus Maternity Center, from the Latin words for love and friendship, it is located on the island of Trinidad, seven miles off the east coast of Venezuela. Amicus has flourished as a result of the strength and perseverance of one midwife who founded it thirty five years ago.
Venus Mark, a brilliant and dynamic nurse-midwife, opened this full-service birth center on July 23, 1970. She continues to mother it and to work there. Often only one strong, tenacious individual is needed to manifest a great idea. In the world of midwives, doulas and activists, many such determined people are working with heart and soul for the good of motherbaby. That is certainly true in the case of Amicus, which is a replicable model.
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REDWOOD CITY — Three Bay Area men face attempted robbery charges in a heist at a Peninsula jewelry store that came to an abrupt halt when they heard the owner cock his pistol, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
The men allegedly rushed into Plaza Jewelers on Middlefield Road in North Fair Oaks on Jan. 16 armed with a gun, a hammer and a club. But seconds later ran, they from the store after the owner pulled back the slide on his gun, said San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe.
Raymond Lewis Bradford, 27, of East Palo Alto; Rodney Lavince Mitchell, 21, of Newark; And Robert Wheller Jr., 25, of Hayward pleaded not guilty Friday in San Mateo County Superior Court to attempted robbery charges. They remain in jail. After three men bolted from the jewelry store and sped away in a car, clerks from the jewelry store called police and tailed them, Wagstaffe said. Police then took up the chase and were behind them when they crashed their alleged getaway car, Wagstaffe said.
A massive manhunt involving police dogs, officers from surrounding cities and a California Highway Patrol airplane arrested two suspects. A third was arrested a day after the attempted robbery.
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Losses due to weeds have been one of the major limiting factors in soybean production. Weeds compete with soybeans for light, moisture, and nutrients, with early-season competition being the most critical. Most of the yield reduction due to weed competition occurs during the first six weeks after planting; therefore, major emphasis on control should be given during this period. However, producing a good crop of soybeans is only half the battle and will not be profitable unless the soybeans can be harvested. Late-season weeds can result in inefficient equipment operation and excessive harvest losses. Weeds can be controlled in soybeans; however, this requires good management practices in all phases of soybean production. Good soybean weed control involves utilizing all methods available and combining them in an integrated weed management system.
Crop Rotations
Crop rotations may be beneficial since many of the most troublesome weeds in soybeans can be more easily controlled in a crop such as corn. If the full benefit of the rotation is to be achieved, weeds must be controlled throughout the growing season of the rotational crop. Seed produced late in the season of the corn will be available to germinate and compete with the succeeding soybean crop.
The major goal of the rotational crop for weed control is to reduce the number of weed seed available for germination the following season. Other benefits of crop rotation may include reduction in insects, diseases, and nematodes.
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Crop competition is one of the most important, but often one of the most overlooked tools in weed control. A good stand of soybeans, which emerge rapidly and shade the middles early, is helpful in reducing weed competition. This involves good management practices such as choosing a well-adapted variety, good fertility, maintaining proper soil pH, adequate plant populations, and using row spacings as narrow as practical. Utilizing these good management practices is necessary for producing good soybean yields and is also an aid in weed control.
The plant that emerges first and grows most rapidly is usually the plant that will have the competitive advantage; therefore, everything possible should be done to ensure that the soybeans, and not the weeds, have this competitive advantage.
Cultivation is still a good and economical method of weed control; however, for cultivation to be effective in controlling weeds in the row, the soybeans must be taller than the weeds. The major reason for cultivation is weed control; therefore, if good weed control has been achieved with an herbicide, delay cultivation until weeds are present.
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— Part one in a five-part series—
Everyone wishes to be independent, whether they are 2 or 102 years old.
The way we age has changed considerably over the years. Many of us live to an older age and many of us are able to maintain independent, busy lifestyles to an advanced age.
The greater share of Americans are choosing to age in place, opting to live in their own homes as long as possible.
Nursing homes were once regarded as the last stop for an elderly person. That is no longer true, with nursing homes and other elderly care facilities offering not only skilled nursing care but rehabilitation care that often returns them to their homes in an independent atmosphere.
According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the older population, those 65 and older, numbered 39.6 million in 2009. These seniors represented 12.9 percent of the U.S. population, about one in every eight Americans. That figure is expected to represent 19 percent of the population by 2030.
It is projected nationally that by 2030, there will be about 72.1 million older persons, more than twice the number in 2000. By 2020, it is expected there will be more seniors turning 65 or older than students in our Minnesota school systems.
This all means there will be more demand for elderly care options in the coming years. Assisted living facilities and independent living apartments are choices that many of our elderly are choosing today.
Elderly care touches all of us, whether we are the one termed elderly or whether we are caring for elderly family members.
Let's take a look at nursing home care in Minnesota. It is difficult to know where to begin, in describing nursing home care, said Loren Colman, assistant commissioner for continuing care for the Minnesota Department of Human Services. He has held that post since 2003 and has directed efforts of many programs that serve the people of Minnesota. These include aging and adult services, disability services, deaf and hard of hearing services and nursing facilities.
Colman has provided focus and leadership for Transform 2010, designed to prepare Minnesota for the age wave of retiring baby boomers. He considers himself a boomer.
Colman has provided additional focus on consumer-directed initiatives that will allow Minnesotans to have more decision-making options on where, who and what services they need. Other interests have been employment and housing options for people with disabilities. He has more than 25 years of operations experience in directing and managing long-term care facilities.
Minnesota DHS administers funds to nursing homes through the Medical Assistance program and is also responsible for developing and interpreting policy concerning nursing home services, quality of care and rates. Policies are ultimately decided by the Minnesota Legislature. Lawmakers look to the DHS for recommendations.
Minnesota has 375 licensed and Medicaid-certified nursing facilities with 30,468 beds in active use as of Aug. 1, 2012.
Of all Minnesota nursing facilities, 28 percent are for-profit, 61 percent are nonprofit and 11 percent are owned by a government entity. Occupancy rate of active beds for the year ending Sept. 30, 2011, was 90.2 percent. Median length of stay in a nursing facility is 27 days.
Changing of consumer preferences and implementation of incentives and restrictions by the state has led to a 37 percent reduction of the state's nursing home industry in the past 25 years. Since there is more of an emphasis for home and community-based services, approximately 11,300 nursing facility beds have been closed since Oct. 1, 1999.
Minnesota DHS reports $2.32 billion was spent on nursing home care in fiscal year 2011. That's not just state funds but rather a combination of state dollars, federal dollars and private-paying dollars, Colman said. It represents about a third from state appropriations and medical assistance, a third from federal assistance and a third from private pay, Medicare and insurance.
Colman is the first to point out that the use of nursing home facilities is changing. Many of our communities will attest to the fact that nursing homes have become a part of a spectrum of care, he said. At one time, nursing home care was the only opportunity for long-term care.
Now, elderly care comes in a variety of forms – nursing homes, assisted living, in-home care and independent senior housing. Nursing homes have become more specialized, more focused on a particular service, Colman said.
Transitional care, post-acute care and rehabilitation care are now offered following hospital stays. Many facilities have become specialists in memory care or dementia care, Colman said. This leads to staff being trained differently to provide a high quality of service.
Many facilities have been downsizing over the years, Colman said, to adjust to demands in communities. The nursing care has also become flexible, allowing residents to enjoy single or private rooms and have more of a neighborhood like environment, Colman explained.
"They have been reinventing whom they serve and how they serve them," he said.
A number of nursing home facilities have closed in the state during recent years due to a variety of factors, usually, but not exclusively, due to outdated buildings and the facility requiring a substantial investment in upkeep. For some this has forced closure or consolidation into one new facility, Colman said.
Many investments have been made in technology, with the acquisition of safety equipment, adoption of new electronic health records and addition of new call systems that allow employees to be more flexible and responsive to consumer needs. Colman said more investments have been made in upgrading the environment by providing more private space, which makes it easier to accommodate quality care.
Investments have also been made, Colman said, in clinical technology that allows nurses and therapists to do a better job in rehabilitating people. New therapy areas, therapy pools and swimming pools for hydrotherapy have been added, he said. Wellness centers have also been introduced to the nursing home environment, Colman said.
Nursing homes have become full-service providers to seniors in the community, offering wellness and swimming programs.
Every older person, since the beginning of time, has always wanted to be independent, Colman said. This has become more of a focus strategy at DHS, he said, by consumer advocates who help individuals maximize independence.
Seniors want to stay in their homes, Colman said, and wish to stay engaged by volunteering and being part of the family.
"They want to live their lives," he said. "This is a positive trend."
There does come a time, however, when seniors need support. That support may come from living in a nursing center for a short period of time or for an extended time.
Elderly care is also provided in a campus-like setting on the same property. It can feature nursing home beds, assisted living apartments and independent living apartments. It is then not necessary to change caregivers. Many care centers become full-service senior care providers, Colman said.
"We also have a different attitude emerging about seniors with the consumer being in charge. It use to be where the nursing home decided when a resident got up for breakfast, when the resident would watch TV and when to do anything during the day. Now, the consumer is in charge and decides when to have breakfast and even decides a menu."
Minnesota has nursing home facilities as small as 15 beds and as large as 500 beds, Minneapolis having the largest at the Veterans Home. The average nursing home facility has 80 beds, Colman reported. The largest concentration of nursing homes is in the Twin Cities seven-county metropolitan area. Hennepin and Ramsey counties have about a third of the beds in the state, Colman said.
Looking to the future in nursing home care, Colman said he envisions these changes:
–More downsizing of nursing homes.
–More closures.
–Continued growth in senior housing; it's a bit saturated now, Colman said.
–Different models of service will emerge. Seniors and boomers won't be as interested in senior-specific housing as we see it today, Colman predicted. People will want to see more integrated settings. Seniors will desire to live with accessible services, such as banking, groceries and entertainment, within a reasonable distance to where they live.
–Transportation is important to seniors. There are features in new cars that will extend the ability of individuals to drive.
–Technology is yet to explode in how seniors receive support in the home, for example, there is emerging technology that monitors whether individuals are taking pills, getting the right food in their diet, going to the bathroom and getting up in the middle of the night. Some of this technology is now available in the seniors' own homes and will help ensure that seniors remain independent and have the quality care they deserve, Colman said.
The ability to communicate is very important to seniors as well as to boomers and younger people, Colman said. People now can communicate visually, and this allows seniors to be supported long-distance by their children, he added.
How does the Minnesota DHS rate Minnesota nursing home care centers? Colman said he believes Minnesota has demonstrated a higher quality of care than what one may see in a number of other parts of the country.
"Minnesota is very open to change, in improving and in providing several programs where we provide support to facilities to improve their outcomes," Colman said.
DHS works with nursing care facilities on report cards, which allow for ways to improve various elements of care.
"We interview residents of nursing homes as part of our quality initiative," Colman said.
"Are they perfect?" he asked. "There are always areas to improve."
The Minnesota Legislature during the past session also did its part in providing some rate increases to nursing home facilities. A 5 percent increase was granted to nursing facilities across the board. A portion of that rate increase has to be dedicated to employee compensation and benefits. It is effective Sept. 1.
Howard Lestrud can be reached at [email protected]


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Less than a year ago, Adrian Peterson tore up his knee. This season, Peterson is tearing up the NFL.
How can that happen? Explain how an all-time great running back gets even better so quickly following major knee surgery. It seems unfathomable, but Peterson is doing it. What Peyton Manning has done after neck surgery is impressive, but Peterson should be the Comeback Player of the Year. In fact, Peterson should get strong consideration for MVP if he leads the Vikings to the playoffs.
COUNTERPOINT: Peyton Manning should be Comeback Player of the Year
Find somebody outside the Vikings' organization who expected them to be 6-4 through 10 games. Find somebody who expected Peterson to lead the NFL in rushing.
Watching Peterson run is as breathtaking as ever. He breaks tackles with explosive power. He makes violent cuts that leave defenders grasping at air.
People wondered if Peterson would still be a home run hitter when he returned. Fear not. His three longest runs have come during the past three weeks—a 64-yarder against the Buccaneers, a 74-yarder against the Seahawks and a 61-yarder Sunday against the Lions.
Peterson is getting stronger as the season progresses, not weaker. He leads the NFL in rushing with 1,128 yards. Marshawn Lynch (1,005 yards) is the only other back over 1,000 yards.
Early in the season, Vikings coach Leslie Frazier worried about giving Peterson too much work too soon. Not anymore. Only Arian Foster and Lynch have more rushing attempts than Peterson, who hasn't missed a game while remaining a workhorse back.
It's not like the Vikings have this great passing game to take the pressure off Peterson either. Christian Ponder played well against the Lions on Sunday, but he's had two games in which he passed for fewer than 100 yards. Opponents load the box to stop Peterson every week. Doesn't matter. They can't contain Peterson, even when they know he is coming. Vikings star wide receiver Percy Harvin was out of the lineup Sunday, so simply carried more of the load, with a season high-27 carries for 171 yards.
During a normal season, Manning would be the hands-down best comeback story. Manning is also an MVP candidate and the Broncos look like a legit Super Bowl contender.
However, Peterson's comeback season is extraordinary. At a position where losing even half a step can end a career, Peterson hasn't lost anything. He was already a marvelous running back. Now Peterson is a medical marvel as well.


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The APS Society-wide election is now in full swing, running until the end of June. Every APS member should have received an email notice with instructions on how to vote online. Below are capsule biographies of the candidates for the various positions. The person elected as vice-President will join the APS Presidential Line, serving next year as vice-President, then as President-elect, President, and past-President over a four-year cycle.
Homer A. Neal
Homer A. Neal
Stewart Smith
Beverly Berger
Patricia McBride
Dolores Bozovic
Nadya Mason
Kiyoshi Ueda
Mu Wang
Nadya Mason
Kiyoshi Ueda
Mu Wang
More complete information about the election, including expanded candidate biographies and statements, can be found on the APS General Election web page.
Homer A. Neal is the Interim President Emeritus and Vice President for Research Emeritus at the University of Michigan. From 1987 to 1993 he was Chair of the University of Michigan Physics Department. He served as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost at Stony Brook (1981-86) and Dean for Research and Graduate Development at Indiana University (1976-81).
Neal was the principal originator of both the D0 and ATLAS groups at the University of Michigan. Neal has served as Regent of the Smithsonian Institution. His service on numerous advisory committees and directorships include: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, MIT Visiting Committee on Sponsored Research, Board of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Argonne National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and Fermilab. He is currently the PI for the Michigan-CERN REU Program allowing US students to spend a summer of research at CERN.
He is a member of the Board of the Ford Motor Company and currently chairs its Committee on Sustainability. He is a Director of the Lounsbery Foundation and is currently a member of the Council for the Smithsonian Museum of African American History on the Mall, and has served as a member of the NRC Board on Physics and Astronomy. He served as a member of the APS Panel on Public Affairs.
Stewart Smith is a particle physicist whose major research interest is the BaBar experiment at SLAC. As Spokesperson (2000-02) and Technical Coordinator (1999) he had central roles in BaBar's 2001 discovery of CP-violating asymmetries in B meson processes. For these achievements he shared the APS Panofsky Prize in 2011. Previously, Smith carried out experiments at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Fermilab, and at the Brookhaven AGS.
Smith received BA and MSc degrees from the University of British Columbia and his PhD degree from Princeton University in 1966. After postdoctoral work at DESY, he joined the Princeton faculty in 1967, chairing the Physics department from 1990 to 1998, and spending 2000 to 2002 as Visiting Professor at Stanford University. In 2006, Smith was appointed Princeton's first Dean for Research, bringing under his umbrella several previously separate administrative departments. Several major campus research centers report to him, as does the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). This summer Smith will take on a new university position as Vice President for PPPL.
Smith chaired the APS Division of Particles and Fields in 1991 and later served on the Physics Planning Committee. He has worked on numerous advisory committees over the years for the DOE and for National Laboratories in the US, Canada, and at CERN.
Chair-Elect, Nominating Committee
Beverly K. Berger retired from the US National Science Foundation where she was Program Director for Gravitational Physics from late 2001 through 2011. Previously, she had spent 24 years as a faculty member at Oakland University (Michigan). Her research field is theoretical gravitational physics with recent emphasis on singularities and other properties of cosmological spacetimes.
In 1995, she founded and was the first Chair of the APS Topical Group in Gravitation (GGR). She was elected again to the Executive Committee as vice-Chair in 2012. She was a member of the APS Council and chaired the Committee on the Status of Women in Physics, the Publication Oversight Committee, and the selection committees for the Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics and the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics.
She is currently the secretary of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation, a member of the Editorial Board of Reports on Progress in Physics, a member of the International Scientific Advisory Board (Fachbeirat) for the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, a member of the External Advisory Board for the College of Sciences of Rochester Institute of Technology, and a member and ombudsperson of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration.
Patricia McBride is a Senior Scientist and Director of the CMS Center at Fermilab and a collaborator on the CMS experiment at CERN.
She has been a member of the scientific staff at Fermilab for nearly 20 years. She was a member of the scientific staff at the SSC Laboratory in Texas before joining Fermilab. In 1995, she was awarded an NSF Visiting Professorship for Women to spend a year teaching at Princeton University.
Her main research interests are in the areas of experimental particle physics, scientific computing and instrumentation. She was the Deputy Head of the Fermilab Computing Division and served as the deputy computing coordinator for the CMS experiment at CERN during the commissioning and startup phase of the experiment.
She was elected Chair of the APS Division of Particles and Fields (DPF) and serves as a member of the APS Physics Policy Committee.
She served as the Chair of the Commission on Particles and Fields (C11) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) and was a Vice-President of the IUPAP Executive Council. She is currently the Chair of the US Liaison Committee for IUPAP.
She has served as a member of various committees and advisory groups.
The Bozovic lab focuses on problems at the interface between physics and auditory neuroscience. Her laboratory is interdisciplinary in nature, with experimental and theoretical tools from different fields integrated to address the open questions. As a teacher, she has focused on incorporating instrument-building with biophysical measurements, and has received teaching awards. She has been a mentor for a number of undergraduate research programs for underrepresented minorities, as well as a research mentor for Marlborough School, a mid- and high-school for young women.
General Councilor
Dolores Bozovic received her PhD in Physics in 2001 from Harvard University, on electron transport in carbon nanotubes. She switched fields for her postdoctoral training, joining the Sensory Neuroscience Laboratory at Rockefeller University on a HHMI fellowship. From 2005 to the present, she was Assistant and then Associate Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the California NanoSystems Institute, at University of California Los Angeles.
Nadya Mason is an associate professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a principal investigator at the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory.
Her research focuses on the electronic properties of low-dimensional materials and the unique behavior they exhibit due to confinement, strong electron interactions, and material structure. Mason is an advocate for diversity in physics; she has actively engaged and mentored women and underrepresented minority graduate, undergraduate, and high-school students. She chairs the Physics Diversity Committee at Illinois (2011–) and is a current member of the APS Committee on Minorities (2013–2016). She also served as co-organizer of the condensed matter sessions of the National Conference of Black and Hispanic Physicists (2007–2011).
Mason participated in the College of Engineering Ad-Hoc Leadership Committee (2012), co-organized an Aspen Winter Conference (2012), and chaired the Facilities Committee at the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory (2011–).
International Councilor
Kiyoshi Ueda is a professor at Tohoku University. He was also a visiting scientist at University of Maryland (1985-87), an invited senior scientist at Daresbury Laboratory in the UK (1992-1993), and an invited professor of Université Paris Sud in France (1998). He has also occasionally played the role of an opponent for the PhD thesis in some universities abroad, such as Uppsala University in Sweden and Turku University in Finland.
His research centers on photoionization and photofragmentation of atoms, molecules, and clusters by synchrotron radiation, femtosecond lasers, and short-wavelength free-electron lasers (FELs).
In the last decade, he has organized a series of international conferences and workshops and also served as an international advisory board member and/or a program committee member for many international conferences. He served also on a program/proposal review panel for FEL facilities and as an advisory and/or review board for relevant facilities. He also serves on the editorial board for J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys.
Mu Wang is the Cheung-Kong professor in condensed matter physics and the Director of the National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures at Nanjing University (NJU), China.
As an experimental physicist, Mu's research interests focus on the fundamentals of interfacial growth and the optical properties of microstructured materials.
Mu has been the member of the Standing Committee, the Council of Chinese Physical Society since 2004, and a member of the Commission on Structure and Dynamics of Condensed Matter (C10) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) since 2011. He is an APS Fellow, and also a Fellow of the UK Institute of Physics.
As the Director of the Laboratory, he endeavors actively to promote exchanges and cooperation between different countries with diverse cultural backgrounds, exemplified by the exchange program he helped establish between Johns Hopkins University and NJU and the "dual-degree" program between NJU and Louisiana State University.
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Staff Science Writer: Michael Lucibella


text: World 16 May 2013 Miliband's agenda lacks a whole lot more than an EU referendum The Labour line that Europe is a needless distraction would sound better if the opposition had more to say on everything else. Sign up for our weekly email * Print HTML The fury that some Conservative MPs feel towards the European Union and the contempt in which a hardcore of them hold David Cameron is now familiar. It is unusual but not surprising that 116 Tories last night supported an amendment to the Queen's Speech, expressing regret that their government's legislative programme didn't include plans for an EU referendum. Arguably the more peculiar feature of last night's vote is the fact that the motion was defeated by Labour. Conservatives who didn't want to look actively disloyal to the Prime Minister abstained. The opposition rode to Cameron's rescue, marching through the "no" lobby in an expression of implicit satisfaction with the Queen's Speech in the form read out by Her Maj. Of course that isn't the point Labour was trying to make. Ed Miliband wanted to disagree with the specific view that there ought to be a referendum bill in this parliament. That doesn't mean he endorses everything else the coalition plans. Quite a few Labour MPs are unimpressed by that subtlety. Parliamentary combat of the kind played out last night doesn't lend itself to nuance. The opportunity was there to wound Cameron more than he ended up being wounded. If Labour had supported the amendment it would have implied a screeching U-turn. Miliband has said he doesn't think an EU referendum is currently a priority, so he could hardly start voting for one. We'll come to the disputed wisdom of that position in a moment. Meanwhile, Labour could still have abstained, declaring that the whole soap opera was a private coalition grief in which the opposition felt no need to intrude. The line that Miliband would rather be thinking about ways to deliver jobs and growth than banging on about the EU and chasing alliances with Ukip would not have been contradicted by Labour MPs standing aloof from the Tory rebel amendment. Instead, they put their parliamentary muscle into opposing it. Had it passed, Cameron would now look close to crushed. An old convention holds that a Prime Minister should resign if his or her Queen's Speech is defeated. That notion has since been made obsolete by the fixed term parliament act, which makes more explicit the circumstances in which a government falls. But there is still a unique depth of humiliation contained in having a legislative flagship holed. As things stand, Cameron looks weaker as a result of last night's vote but not, technically, defeated. One Labour MP told me there were Tories laughing at the opposition trooping through the "no" lobby in defence of the Prime Minister, with only Lib Dems for company. The mischievous jeer from the Conservative side is that, had the roles been reversed, raw opportunism would have been embraced with glee. What is the opposition for if not to injure and eventually kill the incumbent government? It is a question that Tories posed in mockery and some Labour MPs asked themselves in despair. The response from Miliband's allies is that Labour should aim to look like a responsible government-in-waiting; that it should not be indulging distraction from the core questions of the economy and the rising cost of living and that, as one shadow cabinet minister likes to put it, "our problem is hardly that we don't look opportunist enough." It is a view with some merit. Indeed, I've blogged before in defence of Miliband's position on an EU referendum. There are some voters who are obsessed with this question and who will stride into a polling booth with the express aim of facilitating a plebiscite on relations with Brussels so they might then vote to end them. But those people almost certainly aren't voting Labour anyway and won't be swayed if Miliband performs a desperate U-turn. According to this argument, authenticity – that most cherished of modern political virtues – resides in sticking with a principled position. There are two problems. First, if Miliband's principled position is support for British membership of the EU, he could just as easily say he agrees that a referendum has become inevitable and declare himself up for the fight to secure an "in" vote. Yes, it might be a distraction from more pressing matters and, yes, Labour shouldn't have to customise its putative governing agenda to suit a neurosis on the right wing of the Tory party. But there is clearly some appeal to opposition MPs in having a leader who will come out and say: "Come on then. Bring it on! You want this bloody referendum so much, Cameron, so call it. You say you think Europe can be reformed and that the UK can stay on board. Let's settle it. We'll fight for the pro-European cause together and we'll win." After all, it is clear that no amount of renegotiation of membership terms will satisfy Tory rebels. The ultimate question is whether or not Britain sees itself as inside the European project. Cameron doesn't want to be the man to take Britain out of the EU; much of his party wants a leader who will do just that. By supporting a referendum sooner rather than later, Labour could force the Prime Minister to either campaign against his own party or share platforms with Ukip and announce himself as a wobbly facsimile of Nigel Farage. Miliband would have the quiet but sensible wing of the Tory party on his side along with the Lib Dems, the overwhelming majority of British business, trade unions and, for what it's worth, Barack Obama. What, then, of the claim that Labour would be better off talking about something else? That is the strongest argument for Miliband's current position. Europe is not most voters' number one concern. It isn't usually in the top ten. If swivelled-eyed fixation on Brussels makes the Tories look out of touch, Labour should certainly not be swivelling its own eyes in pale imitation of fringe mania. Rise above it, goes the argument, and concentrate on a programme for sensible government that meets the concerns of the masses. That position would be a whole lot stronger if anyone really knew what Labour's programme for government might involve. This isn't a question of specific policy. (The case for not revealing that hand a full two years before polling day has been made ad nauseam, but it remains sound.) The shortage is not in detail but direction. Not enough people can say with certainty what kinds of things a Labour government would prioritise. There is some clarity about what the opposition is against – tax breaks for millionaires, cutting "too far, too fast". It is less obvious what Miliband is for. The One Nation message describes a vague aspiration towards solidarity, with an implicit attack on the government for pursuing nasty policies of social division. It tells voters that Labour wants everyone to get along. It hasn't been fleshed out with an account of how Labour would make everyone better off. Meanwhile (as I wrote a couple of weeks ago) Miliband isn't making much progress winning big arguments on the economy, public spending and welfare, which are sure to be the fields of battle at the next general election. How does this relate to the debate about how to handle Euroscepticism? The way one Labour MP described it to me after last night's vote, there seems a lot less to lose from being mercenary and opportunist when there isn't much of a responsible government-in-waiting image to sabotage. It may sound defeatist, but there is a feeling in some quarters for the party that if Miliband doesn't really look like a lofty statesman poised to serve as Prime Minister he might as well get down into the trenches and start hurting the Tories any way he can and at every available opportunity. According to this view, no-one will care or even remember what Labour's exact position on a Queen's Speech amendment was one Wednesday night in 2013, but if the outcome of that vote is to hasten the coalition's demise, the opposition is winning. Or, to put it another way, the strategy behind last night's vote springs from a kind of delusion that Miliband can soar above the dirty business of parliamentary game-playing because his mission is loftier. That would be a more plausible approach if the mission was comprehensible beyond his most loyal supporters. That is a pretty bleak account of Labour's prospects for the rest of this parliament. With two years to go, Miliband might yet supply the missing parts of the picture and become the candidate of visionary, optimistic change and national unity that he and his closest allies are sure he is capable of being. It is true that consistency and authenticity are political commodities of more enduring value than an appetite for short-term tactical sabotage. There is still time, but not much and the ticking clock provokes anxiety on the Labour benches. If the party felt it had a whole bunch of popular, election-winning things to say, it wouldn't be sweating the absence of an EU referendum in its offer to the country. Miliband's problem isn't his reasonable refusal to follow a Conservative/Ukip agenda on Europe. It is his difficulty in articulating a Labour agenda on everything else. 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Flying is going to become more costly and constrained, if the U.S. government persists in efforts to tax business aircraft operators and limit their freedom to operate in the name of security, not to mention FAA actions that are causing more work for everyone.
Writing in the Inside Washington column in the National Air Transportation Association's second-quarter 2012 Aviation Business Journal, Eric Byer, NATA v-p of industry and government affairs, pointed out that government agencies are circumventing the rulemaking process by issuing guidance material that becomes "considered mandatory even though technically it is not."
For a long time, we have worried about the Transportation Security Administration's plans to impose regulations on business aircraft operations. While the TSA claims to have evaluated the security risks posed by general aviation, it has refused to share the tiniest scrap of information with the stakeholders, those who operate aircraft. Without any real information, we are left to assume that the TSA is simply seeking ways to justify growing its bloated bureaucracy by regulating GA security. The TSA keeps promising to issue new proposed regulations on GA security, covering large aircraft operations, so watch out.
The FAA seems to generate its own procedures to over-regulate GA regularly. This appears not only with the guidance material that Byer aptly describes, but also with arbitrary requirements that have no safety benefit. For example, an avionics manufacturer told me of vibration requirements to meet helicopter certification standards. This particular unit has to be able to withstand a vibration so severe that any human occupants in the helicopter would be torn apart. Ummm, OK, so the avionics survived but the pilots were killed? Right.
Another example: the growing proliferation of Letters of Authorization required for operations that any skilled pilot can easily handle. Did you need an LOA to shoot your first ILS approach? Or to fly your jet at extremely high altitudes? Or to land at John F. Kennedy Airport at rush hour? All these LOAs do is increase your costs, add to the FAA's burden (more bureaucracy, please) and do nothing to improve safety.
Now we have the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which is ignoring decades of rulings and legislation in a reinterpretation of what type of operators pay the so-called "ticket tax."
It is abundantly clear in reading the legislation that created the ticket tax that it applies to commercial flight operations, which means airlines and charter flights. And previous IRS rulings support that claim. Yet in March, the IRS Office of the Chief Counsel issued an internal memo, a Chief Counsel Advice (CCA) document, that justifies applying the ticket tax (Federal Excise Tax or FET) to Part 91 operations, specifically aircraft managed by management companies. As Byer noted, "Although the CCA is not technically able to be used or cited as precedent, it has already widely circulated within the agency and will certainly influence how ongoing and future audits are approached. The general aviation industry has enough to worry about nowadays, let alone an IRS fishing expedition that has legally been repeatedly shot down and is simply a free-time activity for a bunch of pencil pushers."
So what should you do about government over-reaching, not only into your and your owner's wallets but also the abuse of your rights and basic freedoms?
Just say no.
When the IRS says that it wants FET for a private flight by an aircraft owner in his or her airplane on his or her own business, say no. The rules clearly do not require a tax on Part 91 flights.
And when the FAA tries to tell you that guidance in an advisory circular or inspector policy document must be followed, just say no. Rules are rules and must be complied with, but FAA inspectors are not allowed to make up their own rules. Period.
And when the TSA issues the next version of the Large Aircraft Security Program, read the proposed regulations carefully and submit your comments. If the rules don't make sense, that is, they do not specifically improve the security risk posed by GA operations, then say so, loud and clear.
And, added Byer, "I strongly encourage you to take action! Write your members of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate." Both NATA and NBAA have handy online tools for contacting your legislators.
We have let our government consolidate too much power and we are allowing agencies to chip away at our freedoms. "I wonder," wrote NATA president James Coyne in a recent President's Letter, "if our founding fathers could even imagine how much regulatory power their limited federal government would one day command."
Frustrated Inst... (not verified)
May 25, 2012 - 12:31pm
The damage has already been done. None of this is going to make much difference, when you consider that aviation businesses (other than the airlines who are catered to by the FAA and the rest of the government, and large flight schools who are subsidized by the airlines) are dropping like flies right now(or moving to China).
How may manufacturers are left? Aside from Jets, what are they selling? For how much?
In this area, where there were at one time 7 flight schools, there are now two, though one of them might not be operating in another year. The flight school that I worked for just packed up and quit too, so now I've nowhere to instruct. Go to one of the other flight schools? Yea, tried that. They have their own problems keeping thier current flight instructors busy. I guess I'm just going to quit flying.
I'm actually trying to find an airplane I can buy to start my own school, but the fees and regulations and whatnot appear daunting to my over-strained budget.
Good thing I have a day job...
Dave Bundy (not verified)
May 25, 2012 - 12:47pm
Keep up the good work. If we don't fight harder to preserve our libertys as Americans and GA aviators they will be eliminated. It is apparent that our government wants our country to be like other more socialistic country's that regulates an individuals every turn.
Daniel (not verified)
May 25, 2012 - 3:22pm
There is a lot of items available to the LSA community that would greatly enhance GA but we cant use these items because the FAA requires them to be TSO's where as the LSA community doesnt have that hurdle. Just think, a full glass cockpit with built in GPS that would greatly increase situational awareness as well as full engine monitoring at an affordable price. Or electronic ignition and fuel injection for the little cessna's beechcrafts or pipers. The technoligy is already there yet because of the FAA we are limited in what we can use in our GA aircraft while the LSA people are able to enjoy all these items with no oversight.
One day we might be able to enjoy these items without the FAA hassle but it will take people bonding together, contacting their elected officials and putting massive pressure on the FAA for they covet their power and wont lightly give in. Already their are many grumbling about this and talk of action but so far its only talk. maybe with the EAA and AOPA trying to get medical requirements relaxed will be the first step on our way to getting the FAA to see reason. But I dont hold much hope.
Recently i sent a proposal to the FAA to allow aircraft owners who hold an A&P to be able to perform their own conditional inspections on GA aircraft that was not used for hire instead of an annual. The FAA answer was that an A&P mechanic wasnt able to determine airworthiness. As a 25 year A&P and a pilot, I was shocked but thats the way the FAA thinks when they feel like they might loose some of their authority.
Mark Renaud (not verified)
May 25, 2012 - 3:50pm
The best way to stop the constant proposals of raising current fuel taxes and the current admistration asking for a European style tax on every flight is to write and call your Congressman and Senator, and keep calling and writing. Do not let up! It is the publics silence that has let the over taxation and over regulation of our every day lives creep into our society. We as the public deserve the government we have because we have not been active enough in letting our politicians know how we feel. It is not to late to start right now and not let up!
Ryan Biggs (not verified)
May 26, 2012 - 6:52am
I'm going to go out on a limb here and invite you all to shout me down.
I think the TSA is a bunch of nonsense as much as the rest of us, and I'm for fuel taxes and not at all for user fees. Hell, I don't like regulations. I'd rather be able to drive 100 mph all the time.
But personally I think that there is a role for the FAA and the feds. It's not impossible for government to be a positive thing. A lack of government is just anarchy. It just has to be good government, which we don't have right now because everyone is too busy shouting their truisms like "down with regulation!"
It's fashionable to condemn any sort of regulation right now, but step back and realize most of the FARs are written in blood. And if you think "the liberals" are what's killing GA and the well being of the average working American, well, just don't expect things to get any better until we wise up.
Never mind that the TSA got all this power during the Bush years and the conservatives just demanded we all salute. The liberals are as inept as they always have been and don't really run anything. The reason I'm not flying any more isn't because of too many regulations. I'm not flying any more because the economy sucks. The economy sucks because too much financial power is in the hands of inept financial industry institutions that don't contribute to the physical economy but have more power over peoples' lives than most governments and have been using that power to further their own interests at the expense of ours.
I think the reason we are all so pissed at regulations and taxes is that we are already facing countless restrictions and financial pressures coming from other directions, so government demands seem like the last straw. Fine. At least the government is accountable to us. Let's take it over. But if we just want to abolish it all -- well, good luck attaining that upwardly mobile lifestyle we all want while living in a plutocratic banana republic.
Unless you're a plutocrat. In that case, by all means...
William Robertson (not verified)
May 26, 2012 - 8:03am
Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that government is responsible for limiting individual pain and suffering. The laws of nature and common sense should entice a person to act responsibly, not regulation. I advocate personal responsibility over the rule of law any day. Because with responsibility comes freedom. We often forget that as we drift toward the system of taxation and regulation our forefathers fought to be freed from.
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. "
Benjamin Franklin
Terry (not verified)
May 29, 2012 - 12:31pm
Think GA has it bad, try earning a living driving a truck. Less hours to drive for safety reasons but the NTSA's own numbers disprove it. So they will do it anyway while it is re-examined. Then the attemp to put electronic logs in trucks that can be queried by cops driving next to you. You get to pay for this even though it was thrown out in court. All the bureaucrats in D.C. who couldn't get a real job are now regulating the companies that wouldn't hire them are justifying their position by coming up with rules. Preach what you Practice. You live by conservative rules and raise your children with conservative goals. Stop voting for liberals and stop expecting the Federal Government to solve your or other folk's problems. Some people just suck at life and your money will not help them. Get your head around the fact that the Federal government is different from any other local government. Why has following laws, honoring the Constitution and giving personal value to an Oath become such a radical idea? How about integrity and honesty, that is the only platform the Tea Party calls for. After that the rest gets easy.
Gerard Binnendijk (not verified)
May 30, 2012 - 1:21am
Just look where the Europeans got themselves by JAA (JAR-FCL)
Simply killing GA. In Europe there are "Men at Work" that have no clou about aviation (read AOPA News letters) and email@example.com. The GA biz is in a large decline but the administrators of EASA "have done a great job". If we get lucky the Britts and French Aviation Admins can maybe safe GA for the future. Presently it looks grim. So stop any over regulating in the US. The FAA system is still the best in the world "common sense" method.
matt (not verified)
June 21, 2012 - 1:47pm
Since the TSA and Secret Service have no intention of re-opening DCA (Reagan National) to real GA operations, I think it is time for AOPA and EAA to say no and demand that no AIP funding or any other GA taxes go toward DCA. Let the airlines pay for DCA themselves since they are the only ones allowed normal access. Maybe that will stir the pot and get some attention to the over-regulation problem in aviation.
Mediatorjet (not verified)
December 16, 2012 - 4:45pm
A pilot flying Carolinas Heathcare aircraft in Charlotte, NC was terminated because the pilot objected to being forced by CHS unlicensed dispatchers in the hospital distpatch department to fly 30 hours straight without sleep in violation of the Federal Aviation Agency's (FAA) maximum mandated 14 hour ON CALL 14 hour work duty period. CHS does not even have an FAA air carrier license to charge patients to fly on CHS aircraft but uses a "wavier" which allows CHS to use the FAA Air Carrier Certificate of a private, for-profit air charter company that charges $8,000 per flight to CHS to defer crash liability away from CHS. When you see the CHS helicopter and jet fly over, please remember the CHS aircraft are being piloted by an air charter company that charges an extra $8,000 per flight just to let CHS use their air carrier license to charge & carry CHS patients/passengers and the Mecklenburg County NC taxpayers & Medicare is being hosed for the extra $8,000 per flight. The pilot's lawsuit is in the public records at the Mecklenburg County Courthouse. Remember, if you or your family are ever a patient on a CHS aircraft and it crashes, you will have to sue one of the two private, for-profit air carrier companies, Landmark Aviation in Winston Salem, NC who operates the fixed-wing aircraft and/or sue Air Methods who operates the rotor-wing helicopters from Colorado. The FAA & DOT is aware of the pilot rest & other safety violations on CHS aircraft but allows the violations to continue due to political pressure per Ed Timberlake of the Charlotte FAA FSDO office. Ask your doctor if he/she can operate without their own medical license by simply paying a fee to use the license of another doctor. Ask your attorney if he/she can practice law without their own law license by simply paying a fee to use the license of another attorney. Ask USAirways if they can operate without their own FAA Air Carrier Certificate by simply paying a fee to use the Air Carrier Certificate of American Airlines. Until the FAA and DOT rescind the waiver that allows a hospital to pay another private, for-profit air carier to operate the hospital aircraft, Mecklenburg County and Medicare will contunure to be billed and extra $8,000 to fly on CHS aircraft that are operated illegally by being flown overweight and by pilots who are required by CHS Pilot/CEO Mike Tarwater to either violate pilot rest rules or be terminated or sit at the airport for 7 days a week for 12 hours per shift. CHS CEO Mike Tarwater is a hospital charter pilot himself and is aware that the pilot rest rules are being violated. Landmark Aviation stated they would have to hire and bill CHS for another 18 fixed-wing pilots in order for CHS to legally advertise that aircraft are availabe 24/7 but CHS did not want to pay the salaries of another 18 pilots. If you do not believe me, look up the lawsuit in Mecklenburg County NC courthouse against Piedmont Aviation, now named Landmark Aviation.


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Don't miss out on a lower price on this hotel
Get an overview of this hotelFamily-friendly hotel with 3 restaurants and 2 outdoor pools
Popular property highlights
This family-friendly George hotel is located near the airport, within 3 mi (5 km) of Fancourt Golf Estate, Redberry Farm and George Golf Club. Kingswood Golf Estate is 3 mi (4.8 km) away.
Hotel Features
3 restaurants, 2 indoor pools, and 2 outdoor pools are available at this hotel. Free English breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free valet parking are also provided. Additionally, a full-service spa, a golf course, and 2 bars/lounges are onsite.
Room Amenities
All 68 rooms boast deep soaking tubs and offer free WiFi and balconies or patios. 24-hour room service and DVD players are standard, as are flat-screen TVs with satellite channels. Private bathrooms are not ensuite.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Fancourt features a full-service spa, a golf course, 2 outdoor swimming pools, and 2 indoor swimming pools. Dining is available at one of the hotel's 3 restaurants. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the hotel's bars, which include 2 bars/lounges and a poolside bar. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning. A computer station is located on site and wireless Internet access is complimentary.
Business-related amenities at this 5-star property consist of a business center and meeting rooms. 7 meeting rooms are available. This luxury hotel also offers a children's pool, a seasonal outdoor pool, and a spa tub. For a surcharge, the property provides a roundtrip airport shuttle (available 24 hours) and an area shuttle. Limited complimentary onsite parking is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Fancourt has designated areas for smoking.
- Babysitting or childcare (free)
- Children's club (free)
- Supervised childcare/activities (surcharge)
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 68
- ATM/banking
- Babysitting or childcare
- Golf course on site
- Tennis on site
- Number of bars/lounges - 2
- Business center
- Free breakfast
- Conference space
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Fitness facilities
- Full-service spa
- Hair salon
- Computer station
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Designated smoking areas
- Pool umbrellas
- Number of indoor pools - 2
- Number of outdoor pools - 2
- Designated smoking areas (fines apply)
- Children's club
- Luggage storage
- Arcade/game room
- Concierge services
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Shopping on site
- 24-hour front desk
- Laundry facilities
- Number of floors - 2
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Meeting rooms 7
- Multilingual staff
- Free valet parking
- Parking (limited spaces)
- Poolside bar
- Porter/bellhop
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Free self parking
- Pool sun loungers
- Free long-term parking
- RV, bus, truck parking (surcharge)
- Conference center
- Outdoor tennis courts - 4
- Area shuttle (surcharge)
- Number of restaurants - 3
- Number of meeting rooms - 7
- Sauna
- Spa tub
- Steam room
- Children's pool
- Outdoor seasonal pool
- Wedding services
- Free WiFi
- Garden
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Indoor pools
- Outdoor pools
- Children's pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Outdoor tennis courts
- Children's club (free)
- Laundry facilities
- Babysitting or childcare (free)
- Babysitting or childcare
- Arcade/game room
- Playground on site
- DVD player
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free long-term parking, Free self parking, Free valet parking, RV, bus, truck parking (surcharge), Parking (limited spaces)
Room Amenities
- Balcony or patio
- Air conditioning
- Access via exterior corridors
- Phone
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free bottled water
- DVD player
- Turndown service
- Slippers
- Separate bathtub and shower
- Bathrobes
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- In-room safe
- Desk
- Satellite TV service
- Private bathroom (not in room)
- Flat-panel TV
- In-room massage available
- Free newspaper
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Daily housekeeping
- Deep soaking bathtub
- Room service (24 hours)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Free WiFi
- Blackout drapes/curtains
Where to Eat
A complimentary English breakfast is served each morning between 6:30 AM and 10:30 AM.
La Cantina - This restaurant specializes in Italian cuisine and serves dinner only. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. A children's menu is available. Reservations are required.
Henry Whites - This restaurant serves dinner only. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. Reservations are required.
Morning Glory - Overlooking the golf course, this restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and light fare.
Club Bar - Overlooking the golf course, this lobby lounge specializes in American cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, dinner, and light fare. A children's menu is available.
Late night fare is available from 24-hour room service.
Nearby Things to Do
Guests can play rounds at the 36-hole golf course and enjoy other recreation facilities including outdoor tennis courts. 2 outdoor swimming pools and 2 indoor swimming pools are on site. In addition to a seasonal outdoor pool, other recreational amenities include a spa tub, a sauna, a fitness center, and a children's pool.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Rafting nearby
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Mountain biking nearby
- Skydiving nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Scuba diving nearby
- Snorkeling nearby
- Ecotours nearby
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Fishing on site
- Golf driving range on site
- Golf lessons on site
- Golfing on site
- Hiking/biking trails on site
- Pilates classes on site
- Playground on site
- Tennis lessons on site
- Volleyball on site
- Yoga classes/instruction on site
- Game viewing nearby
- Game drive nearby
- Boat tours nearby
- Rock climbing nearby
- Ziplining nearby
Spa Services
Fancourt Spa has 12 treatment rooms including rooms for couples. Services include deep-tissue massages, hot stone massages, sports massages, and Swedish massages. The spa is equipped with a sauna and a steam room. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy, hydrotherapy, and reflexology.
- Hot stone massage
- Deep tissue massage
- Swedish massage
- Prenatal massage
- Steam room in spa
- Reflexology
- Sports massage
- Detoxification wrap
- Number of treatment rooms 12
- Couples treatment rooms
- Manicures and pedicures
- Body wraps
- Body scrubs
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Hydrotherapy treatments
- Sauna in spa
- Massages
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Roll-in shower
- Accessible bathroom
Hotel Policies
Check-in time ends at midnight
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Up to 2 children 12 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for ZAR 0.00 per stay.
- Pets not allowed (service animals welcome)
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Optional extras
- Airport shuttle fee: ZAR 145 per person (roundtrip)
- Rollaway bed fee: ZAR 0.00 per stay
Hotel Name
- Fancourt
- Fancourt George
- Fancourt Hotel
- Fancourt Hotel George
We should mention
This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details 72 hours prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Reservations are required for golf tee times, massage services, and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Up to 2 children 12 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
Awards & Affiliations
- The property is a member of the Leading Hotels of the World.
National Rating
Quality Graded by the Tourism Grading Council of South Africa (TGCSA) – South Africa's official quality assurance organization.


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This program is not a part of State Government. It is an independent
non-profit corporation that was organized in 1984 by citizens concerned for
Alaska's fish and game resources. They believed a citizen group, working in
connection with Alaska Wildlife Troopers, might help curb unlawful fishing
and hunting in Alaska. Wildlife Safeguard's purpose is to promote fish and
game protection by providing a toll free hotline for reporting violations,
and funding a reward program for callers. It operates much like Crime
Stoppers in that regard.
The Division of Alaska Wildlife Troopers is not formally related to this
non-profit corporation; however as the agency charged with investigating
wildlife related crimes, they receive and act on the information provided by
hotline calls.
Essentially, a person calls the 1-800-478-3377 hotline number to report a
That call is received by an attendant who completes a hotline tip form,
following some guidelines required by WSG (Wildlife Safeguard). First they
are asked if they want to remain anonymous, and they are cautioned if they
don't, their identity can become part of an official investigation and
"discovered" during a later prosecution. Second, they are asked if they want
to be considered for a reward. If they do, and wish to remain anonymous,
they are given a code of colors and numbers and the tip number to refer back
to. After the tip information is given, the tip is faxed to the trooper
having jurisdiction for investigation. The original is forwarded to the WSG
liaison for review to see that it was forwarded to the correct post, and
then it is sent to the WSG Board where they catalog and maintain all
After an investigation is complete, the trooper conducting the
investigation routes information describing what happened as a result of
their efforts to the WSG liaison; and they may recommend or not recommend a
reward. The WSG liaison then forwards it to the WSG Board to help them
during their reward deliberations.
No, that is the function of the Wildlife Safeguard Board. They try to
meet once per month to review cases. The investigating trooper can make
recommendations based on his assessment of the tip and how it helped or
prompted an investigation.
For Wildlife Safeguard to remain, as a viable anti-poaching program
requires the public to actively participate. In its current condition a
handful of sportsman are keeping this program alive. They give much of their
free time to conduct board business and to operate information booths at gun
shows and sportsman's shows. Clearly, they need help and we encourage
concerned citizens to write or call them for more information on the program
and its membership. We encourage people to use the hotline to call in
observed violations. The Alaska Wildlife Troopers we have in this state need
all the eyes and ears they can get. Their effectiveness is absolutely
dependent upon that kind of help.
This very worthwhile program has become less active due to much reduced
funding in the last 3-4 years. Although the organization has continued to
operate its toll free hotline, reduced donations have forced a slow in
organization business, interest has waned considerably and rewards have been
paid out at reduced levels and sometimes, less timely.
There are actually three regional boards, one in Southeast, one in South
Central and one in the Interior. At this point only the south-central board
remains active, although there is a resurgence of interest in Juneau and
Fairbanks. Having one Board act on all issues statewide is less efficient
than if all Boards were active.
Sometimes the troopers we have in this state are not available to
investigate these calls immediately. Many are in remote one-man posts or in
busy recreation hotspots where they are already inundated with other
labor-intensive responsibilities like congested sport fisheries, contentious
commercial fisheries and game patrols that can take them away from phones
for extended periods. But, they do the very best they can to address
complaints as quickly as they can.
This cooperative program is vital in helping State government protect its
fish and game. It is clear that many Alaskans and visitors to Alaska do not
agree with or understand the moral significance of wildlife violations. A
program designed to give some monetary incentives to report violations
results in reports that may not otherwise be received, and that is a very
good thing.


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