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A Summary of Christian Doctrine
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Just as Louis Berkhof's Systematic Theology is outstanding in its own field, his book A Summary of Christian Doctrine is unequalled as a popular handbook of Christian doctrine, written from an evangelical and reformed standpoint. Systematically arranged and helpfully sub-divided, … Learn MorePaperback $9.00 $8.10 Add to Cart
Institutes of Christian Religion : 1541 Edition
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The Institutes of the Christian Religion are Calvin's single most important work, and one of the key texts to emerge from the Reformation of the sixteenth century. The book accompanied the Reformer throughout his life, growing in size from what … Learn MoreHardcover $38.00 $30.40 Add to Cart
Inerrancy and Your Church: 2015 Winter Conference at Reformation Bible College
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During Dr. R.C. Sproul's time in seminary and the early days of his ministry, he saw first hand Abraham Kuyper's observation that biblical criticism has become biblical vandalism. Sadly, we are seeing such vandalism even in our evangelical churches today. … Learn MoreDownload Audio & Video $14.00 $12.60 Add to Cart
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Spirit-seeing Kat has pretty much overcome her fear of communicating with ghosts. Author: Elizabeth Cody Kimmel Series: Suddenly Supernatural Reviewer: Bra-Lynn
I haven't read this one but after I watched the author's video below – I thought it looked pretty good. I love Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator, so I'm thinking I'll like this series too. Creepy and fun when characters can communicate with the dead! Besides, Bra-Lynn says it's good!
Summary from the Online Catalog: "Kat accompanies her best friend Jac to a musicians' conference at the Whispering Pines Mountain House, where she works to free the spirit of a dead medium and helps Jac resolve a serious conflict."
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Early registration is now available for the Animal Agriculture Alliance's 12th annual Stakeholders Summit May 1-2 in Arlington, Va.
This year, the Alliance's showcase event will explore the theme of "Activists at the Door: Protecting Animals, Farms, Food and Consumer Confidence."
The Summit is a one-of-a-kind conference that is attended by a diverse group of decision makers, including representatives from farms, ranches, food processors, restaurants, grocery stores, legislators, universities and government agencies. The Alliance welcomes Tom Brand, Executive Director of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting, as the 2013 Summit moderator.
Video and audio recordings from the 2012 Summit are available online. The 2012 Summit explored the role tradition and technology play in modern agriculture.
Early registration for the one-and-a-half day event is $325 for Alliance members and $375 for non-members, $275 for those in government or academia. Media and students interested in registering should contact Emily Meredith. Registration materials and a full event schedule (as of February 15, 2013) can be found on the Summit website.
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Leland is considering whether to ban or impose some rules on keeping bees in a residential area.
Here's the buzz: Honeybees may be tiny, but they have an important job in nature. They fan out to forage for nectar, picking up pollen on their tiny legs all the while and thus helping cross-pollinate plants. They produce scrumptious honey that tastes a little different based on the flowers favored by a particular hive.
But diseases, development and invasive species threaten this population of productive workers. Backyard beekeepers, as well as commercial ones, are part of the solution to saving the helpful insects.
As beneficial as they are, however, most people have some fear of the little stinger on the bees' backside, and bee stings can be dangerous to someone with a severe allergy to bee venom. That's one reason Leland is considering whether to ban or impose some rules on keeping bees in a residential area. Town officials should work toward a balance that helps safeguard the community but that also encourages hobby beekeeping.
The Cape Fear region has a few dozen active beekeepers, and most of them have hives in their yards. Among them is optometrist Michael Goins. Two StarNews photographers have kept bees – the honey was delicious.
The key to coexistence between beekeepers and their neighbors is to be considerate. Goins doesn't visit the hive when his neighbors are having a backyard get-together, for example. No need to stir up unnecessary trouble. And for the most part, he thinks folks will be fine if the beekeeping neighbor encourages them to learn more about the amazing insect. (Additionally, gift jars of honey might help sweeten their disposition.)
The optometrist/backyard apiarist said he even had a neighbor ask what kind of flowers his bees preferred so that she could make sure her garden was attractive to them.
Honeybees generally spread out and may fly miles to find their preferred nectar. They can sting, but then they die.
Without backyard beekeepers, Africanized bees might establish themselves here and mate with native bees before they're noticed. Beekeepers would quickly discover if their hive was invaded by the pretenders. The solution, unfortunately, may involve killing off an entire hive to prevent the invasive species from taking over.
Bees aren't livestock, and they certainly aren't pets, so local governments may wonder exactly how to categorize them. But any rule making should be done in a manner that allows the beekeeper to coexist harmoniously with tremulous neighbors.
We may fear their sting, but we need those pollen-gathering honey producers as much as they need backyard beekeepers.


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What's so "Super" about the Super Bowl?
For football fans, it's a holy day. For others, it's just an excuse to pig out and down some brewskies. But, no matter the age, gender or motive, the Super Bowl represents a profound experience that makes it an "unofficial" holiday in our American culture. As each year passes, it seems as if the brains behind the Super Bowl operations look for the next big idea to take fans' experience to the next level.
This year, the land of Peyton Manning, Touchdown Jesus and Bobby Knight is the new home of the Super Bowl and the first-ever social media command center created by the Indianapolis Super Bowl XLVI Host Committee to provide visitors with a whole new type of game-day experience. (It's in Indiana if you're still in the dark with those sport references.)
The Game Plan
The new social media experience angle of this year's big game is spearheaded by a group of individuals from Raidious, an Indiana-based social media company, who are committed to giving "Hoosier hospitality" to fans and visitors of Indianapolis by monitoring social media outlets and answering questions about local attractions, parking and other Super Bowl-related topics.
The social media platforms which will be monitored include Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and Foursquare. The command center is giving others the play-by-play now through Super Bowl Sunday.
The Drive
But, there's more to this social media-savvy event. The command center goes for a two-point conversion with its SEO efforts, and in my eyes, really puts those extra points up on the board. Not only will the individuals manning (No pun intended, but go Giants) the center monitor conversations occurring on various outlets, they will also use SEO to highlight keywords and phrases people are searching with to obtain certain information. According to FastCompany.com, a list of about 300 keywords will be used to monitor all social media outlets as well as the Twitter hashtag, #Social46.
The End Zone
Here's the bottom line: it's all about customer satisfaction, which directly relates to the individuals' experience. No matter what business you're in or which event you're preparing for, you want outsiders or customers to walk away with the "wow" factor. It's like Thanksgiving dinner when your mom seems as if her head is going to pop off faster than the cork on a champagne bottle just because she wants everyone to have a great time full of memories.
This social media command center accomplishes that same goal because it reaches out and makes a connection with Super Bowl attendees and tourists visiting Indianapolis. By serving as the scouting team, individuals are left feeling valued and taken care of because the command center has the ultimate Super Bowl playbook. The best offense is a good defense, and by being a step ahead of the game, you are almost always guaranteed to cross the goal line. So whether you're tuning in for entertaining commercials or watching to see which team will clinch the Vince Lombardi Trophy, remember it's all about your experience and the memories you take away.


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Growers Eric and Ryan Jensen have pleaded guilty in the 2011 cantaloupe-related listeria outbreak that killed 33 people.
But they want a jury to decide if Primus Labs and its subcontracted food safety auditor are guilty of negligence and breach of contract for giving their Colorado operation an almost perfect score just before the 2011 shipping season.
The brothers are free on bonds, awaiting a Jan. 28 sentencing hearing in Denver. Sentencing guidelines included in the Jensens' plea agreements are very broad, suggesting each might serve 4 to 27 months and pay up $1,000 to $250,000 in fines.
"The guidelines are advisory only," said Jeff Dorschner, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office in Denver. "The judge can consider other factors."
The maximum possible sentence each face is six years, one year for each of six federal misdemeanor counts. The maximum possible fine the judge could impose for each brother is $1.5 million, or $250,000 for each of the six counts.
Or, Dorschner said, the judge could opt for probation of up to five years, with no prison time. If the Jensens are sentenced to jail time, it will be served in a federal facility.
The 2011 listeria outbreak killed at least 33 people, caused one woman to miscarry and could be the cause of at least another 10 deaths, according to the plea agreement, which the U.S. Attorney's office posted online.
Case against auditors
A week before they pleaded guilty, the Jensens filed a case in Prowers County, Colo., against Primus Labs, Santa Maria, Calif., seeking unspecified damages. The Jensens hired Primus to perform food safety audits on their growing, packing and shipping operation.
Primus subcontracted the job to Bio Food Safety, a Texas company, which sent auditor James Dilorio to Jensen Farms, Holly, Colo., on July 25, 2011, according to the Jensens' complaint.
The attorneys representing Primus declined to discuss the case until they have reviewed it.
The complaint also states that the Jensens' distributor, Frontera Produce, Edinburg, Texas, "required that the Jensen cantaloupes Jensen sold to Frontera be 'Primus Certified.' " The Jensen brothers contend the audit should have identified problems that Food and Drug Administration investigators found at the packing facility after the listeria outbreak had begun.
"The purpose of the audit performed by BFS, on behalf of Primus, was to ensure that the cantaloupes produced by Jensen were of high quality, fit for human consumption, free from contaminants, and in compliance with the appropriate standards of care concerning the production of cantaloupes, including, but not limited to, good agricultural and manufacturing practices, industry standards, and relevant FDA industry guidance," the Jensens lawsuit states.
The Jensen brothers also used part of the U.S. Attorney's case against them as support for their case against Primus.
"According to James R. Gorny, Ph.D., at the time a senior advisor for produce safety, Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition at the FDA, Jensen deviated from industry standards by failing to use an anti-microbial, such as chlorine, in the packing of their cantaloupes during the summer of 2011," states the Jensens' complaint, quoting directly from the case against them.
"…Dr. Gorny opined that the Primus Labs subcontractor that conducted the pre-harvest inspection of Jensen Farms, and provided a 'superior' score of 96% for the audit upon which Jensen Farms relied, was seriously deficient in its inspection and findings."
The Jensens contend Primus is guilty of negligence, breach of contract, negligent hire, negligent misrepresentation and unfair and deceptive trade practices.


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Hi all
I have a small snippet of PHP below which for some reason is printing array instead of the value.Can anybody see what I'm doing wrong?
The first snippet prints ok, its the second one(field_event_location) thats printing array.
$build['node_'.$node->nid]['title'] = array(
'#type'=> 'markup',
'#markup'=> l($node->title,drupal_get_path_alias('node/'.$node->nid)),
'#weight'=> 0,
$build['node_'.$node->nid]['field_event_location'] = array(
'#type'=> 'markup',
'#markup'=> $node->field_event_location,
'#prefix'=> '
',
'#suffix'=> '
',
'#weight'=> 1,
Thanks, cb
hi What do you use to echo the value?
when u use [] after a variable name it will automatically create an array.
Thanks, and good question.This is taken from another post I've been working on for Drupal CMS.Tell you the truth I'm not to sure myself (:
The code above is wrapped inside a function and then added to a block which displays the results.
$block['content'] = eventlist_block_eventlist();
function eventlist_block_eventlist() {
$build['node_'.$node->nid]['field_event_location'] = array(
'#type'=> 'markup',
'#markup'=> $node->field_event_location,
'#prefix'=> '
',
'#suffix'=> '
',
'#weight'=> 1,
You can see the full script here if that helps http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?1199612-Entity-Field-Query-and-Module
Cheers peanuts
If it's printing "Array", you're not going deep enough into the multi-dimensional array
For example, the value of$build['node_123']['field_event_location']['#type']is 3 deep.
Thanks Mittineague
If I change from
'#markup'=> $node->field_event_location,
'#markup'=> $node->nid,
'#markup'=> $node->title,
It works. Array is then removed and replaced with the id number/title of that node.Though I still have the below code above it.
$build['node_'.$node->nid]['field_event_location'] = array(
It must be to do with the field name.I'll have to investigate further unless you can see the problem.
This also works
$build['node_'.$node->nid][] = array(
'#type'=> 'markup',
'#markup'=> $node->title,
'#prefix'=> '
',
'#suffix'=> '
',
'#weight'=> 1,
Can anybody help with this?
I'm also running the Devel module which funny enough shows the correct value of field_event_location.
Just can't figure out what I'm doing wrong or how to dig deeper into this as Mittineague mentioned?
$build['node_'.$node->nid]['field_event_location'] = array(
'#type'=> 'markup',
'#markup'=> $node->field_event_location,
'#prefix'=> '
',
'#suffix'=> '
',
'#weight'=> 1,
Cheers, cb
You're not getting syntax errors from the extra comma at the end of the array? i.e.
$array = ( '1' => '1', '2' => '2', );should give some kind of "expected" message no?
I was just updating the post as you posted, if this helps which was taken from the devel Module output.
und(Array, 1 element)
0(Array, 3 elements)
value(String, 9 characters) Location1
safe_value(String, 9 characters) Location1
und(Array, 1 element)
0(Array, 3 elements)
value(String, 9 characters) Location2
safe_value(String, 9 characters) Location2
update:No errors, it just prints Array still?
If I remove the comma it says:Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting ')' in...
If this helps?
The exact path to the value inside field_event_location as above:$...['elements']['node_480']['field_event_location']['#markup'][0]['value']
That's because it is yet another array. "und" looks a bit odd, "and"?And if that doesn't make it deep enough it's an array containing a single array (Cheesh!)
So you need something like
$build['node_'.$node->nid]['field_event_location'] = array(
'#type'=> 'markup',
'#markup'=> $node->field_event_location['#markup'][0]['safe_value'],
'#prefix'=> '
',
'#suffix'=> '
',
'#weight'=> 1,
(or just value depending)
"und" looks a bit odd
I know, still trying to figure out where this fits in, something Drupal adds.
ERRORNotice: Undefined index: #markup in eventlist_block_eventlist() (line 82 of...
I've tried both which give the same error
'#markup'=> $node->field_event_location['#markup'][0]['value'],
'#markup'=> $node->field_event_location['#markup'][0]['safe_value'],
Devel is now showing:
#markup (NULL)
? (:
I just searched for "devel Module und" and guess what, another level!Try
'#markup'=> $node->field_event_location['#markup']['und'][0]['safe_value'],
'#markup'=> $node->field_event_location['#markup']->und[0]['safe_value'],
I just searched for "devel Module und" and guess what, another level!
:lol: that made me laugh
I've been at this for well over a week (:
Nothing has changed. Everything still NULL as before.I did try the second option but gives an error referring to non-object though I think the first way is the prefered way after much reading.
I'm now wondering if the first line has anything to do with it?As I said in an early post, I can remove the reference to ['field_event_location'] altogether and it was still working.
Start a fresh tomorrow unless your still online, and thanks for your time Mittineague.
I just searched for "devel Module und"
It got me thinking and I done a search myself earlier
'#markup'=> $node->field_event_location['und'][0]['value'],
We just needed to remove ['#markup']I can't believe how long I've been working on this, though got there in the end Mittineague, feels great
But already, a few other problems have become exposed. If you get chance, might start another thread if needed.
Ok, I've cloned the location snippet above and will be using the date of the event to do further querying.As you can see below, the date condition is set between two dates.
How do I replace the first date 2014-03-12 with NOW() so I don't have to keep editing the file?
->fieldCondition('field_event_date_and_time', 'value', array('2014-03-12', '2014-03-31'), 'BETWEEN')
I thought something like this though gives errors.
->fieldCondition('field_event_date_and_time', 'value', array(NOW(), '2014-03-31'), 'BETWEEN')
Thanks again, Barry


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This School May Cause Cancer
Bordered by plywood and chainlink fences and occupied by a large trailer, the heart of the Deerfield Beach Middle School campus might seem like a construction site. But it's really a destruction site. While the school is packed with 1500 seventh and eighth graders, it's undergoing what the School Board of Broward County, facing critical overcrowding throughout the district, calls a "phase replacement" -- it's being demolished and rebuilt while students attend the school.
That was the plan, anyway. Instead the site is eerily silent these days, a dead zone. Buildings that were supposed to be torn down months ago still stand, empty. Two years after the contract was signed, nothing much has yet been renovated. The project is some 275 days behind schedule and hundreds of thousands of dollars over budget.
A clue to the cause of the costly inactivity can be found on the doors of Building No. 2, a large 35-room building that is now abandoned and slated for flattening. On those locked doors are the ripped remnants of cardboard "DANGER" signs. Before the signs mysteriously disappeared, they'd warned of asbestos contamination.
"CANCER AND LUNG DISEASE HAZARD," the signs had cautioned, "RESPIRATORS AND PROTECTIVE CLOTHING ARE REQUIRED."
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Though the signs were gone, the carcinogen remained. It was in crumbling ceiling tiles and broken chips of cement. It was in the dust in the dark building, scattered over piles of trash, furniture, and old text books. It was in the building's dank air. Students weren't allowed to go into the building, but kids, of course, have a way of popping up in places they aren't supposed to be. And there were occupied buildings right next to the contaminated building. Students sometimes walk by the building, right past the doors where the signs had once been. There's no hard evidence that any child has broken into the building since contamination. But one chainlink fence is bent down from someone climbing on it.
Despite the potential health hazard in the school building, it sat contaminated for months because the school board refused to clean it up. By law all asbestos-containing material -- or ACM -- must be removed to protect the area from a potentially harmful dust cloud when the building is leveled. Air tests must also prove that the building is safe before demolition begins. Instead of cleaning the building, school board staff disputed tests showing high levels of asbestos in the air of the building and in ceiling tiles littering the floor. The staff disregarded the findings until the federal Environmental Protection Agency independently proved early this month that the building was, in fact, contaminated with crumbling ACM.
The building's interior wasn't the only concern; outside, broken pieces of asbestos-laden cement littered the schoolyard, left behind after an asbestos abatement in May. That discovery led the county to charge the board with breaking federal environmental laws. The county also cited an asbestos contractor hired by the school board, Decon Environmental and Engineering, with a civil violation.
The asbestos problems don't stop there. The construction company that won the $8.5 million Deerfield Middle contract, Pass International, is claiming that the school board broke numerous Clean Air Act laws and that the board's asbestos management plans -- which are essential for protecting students from asbestos dust -- are grossly inadequate. Pass also asserts in court filings that chunks of asbestos-laden cement still litter school grounds. Early this month a walk on the school site revealed thin pieces of white cement full of fibers, a possible indication of asbestos, outside Building No. 6, which is also due to be demolished. During a visit to the construction site, two students in ten minutes were seen walking through the off-limits area. They shouldn't have been there but apparently gained access by simply walking out the doors of nearby occupied buildings.
County health officials deny even the possibility that ACM could still be littering school grounds.
"That just can't be," says Jarrett Mack, the supervisor of the county's Air Quality Division. "We've been out there so many times. There can't be any asbestos out there."
Russell Thompson, Decon's foreman, also says it's impossible. "Did you have it tested?" he asks. When told no, Thompson says, "Then how the hell do you know it's asbestos?"
So a sample of the suspicious material -- which was picked up right off the school ground -- was tested at Advanced Industrial Hygiene Services (AIHS) in Miami, the same lab often used by the school board itself. The tests concluded that the sample contained 15 percent asbestos, which means it is considered potentially hazardous and falls under federal regulations.
Other pieces of ACM could be found scattered about Building No. 6 at Deerfield Middle, some of them on ledges around the building, others on the sidewalk and grass. While the cement chips are unlikely actually to harm anyone (it's in the open air and doesn't crumble very easily), they represent pieces of a larger puzzle that reveals numerous asbestos-related violations at Deerfield Middle. A New Times investigation has found that the school board has repeatedly violated EPA rules and that the board's own asbestos management plans -- key to protecting children from asbestos exposure -- are often terribly incomplete. County environmental officials are also at fault, misinterpreting federal regulations and inadvertently encouraging the school board to break at least one law. In the case of Deerfield Middle, the school board somehow overlooked thousands of square feet of asbestos-containing material. What that means is that students, teachers, maintenance personnel, and school board contractors could have been exposed to asbestos dust over the years and nobody would have known.
In November, school board staffers knew there was asbestos contamination in a storage area of Building No. 2 when half the building was occupied with students. Students and teachers were in the other half of the building and therefore likely not put directly at risk. But a full week passed before anything was done to contain the contamination. Numerous safety rules were broken.
And it was kept a secret.
On November 4, 1998, Deerfield Middle maintenance workers did something they are expressly forbidden by law to do: They handled asbestos-containing material. By federal law only trained asbestos workers in the employ of certified and licensed asbestos specialists are allowed to handle ACM in schools. The board's own Operations and Maintenance Plan states, in set-off capital letters, "MAINTENANCE WORKERS ARE NOT QUALIFIED TO PERFORM ANY ACTIVITY WHICH MAY DISTURB ASBESTOS-CONTAINING MATERIAL WITHIN THE SCHOOL."
But school board reports show that maintenance staff, while doing unspecified work in the unoccupied half of Deerfield Middle's Building No. 2, did disturb asbestos-containing pegboards, floor tile, and countertops -- causing what is called a "major asbestos fiber release episode." Such an event is defined as any disturbance of three square feet of ACM or more. The workers almost certainly were exposed to high levels of asbestos at the time. Students and teachers filled the other half of the building.
After this occurred school board staffers called EnHealth Environmental, the school board's asbestos consultant, to test the air in the building. One air sample came back showing 218 asbestos fibers per square millimeter of air -- a dangerously high level. To put it in perspective, federal law forbids reentry into a school building undergoing asbestos abatement if the inside air has an average of 70 or more asbestos fibers per square millimeter of air. The average of five air samples taken in five unoccupied classrooms on November 4 was 73 asbestos fibers per square millimeter of air, failing that standard. The building was, in common construction parlance, "hot."
When such an episode occurs at a school, numerous rules must be followed to ensure the safety of workers, teaching staff, and, of course, students. For instance, school board officials are supposed to evacuate students in the "area" of the asbestos episode. It is up to the asbestos consultant's discretion exactly what that area entails -- be it a room, a portion of a building, an entire building, or more. The area must then be sealed off, and work to clean the air must begin. According to Deerfield Middle's asbestos management plan, the board is also required to notify the appropriate state and federal officials, along with the Parent Teacher Association, of the incident.
Extensive federal regulations are in place to keep children safe from airborne asbestos, which is formed from naturally occurring minerals and can cause lung cancer. The inhaled asbestos fibers can't be dissolved in the lung. Instead those hard fibers stay in the lungs as tiny irritants, microscopic splinters. It normally takes 20 years or more for asbestos contamination in the lungs to progress to actual disease. Asbestos workers -- who used to be exposed to extremely high concentrations of asbestos dust over periods of years -- comprise the vast majority of the more than 170,000 documented asbestos deaths in the United States. Asbestos is currently the subject of much consternation in Europe, where hundreds of thousands of deaths are projected, and nine countries recently banned asbestos altogether.
It is unlikely that anyone at the school, including the maintenance workers directly exposed to unacceptably high levels of asbestos in the air, will contract cancer from what has happened at Deerfield Middle. But those strict regulations are in place for a reason. While it almost always takes a high level of exposure to asbestos over a long period of time to cause disease, there is one type of malignant cancer, mesothelioma, that scientists have determined can strike people who've had extremely limited exposure. These rare, wild-card cases are what have prompted the federal government to maintain that even a single asbestos fiber in the air is potentially harmful.
Buildings constructed before the late 1970s are generally still full of ACM. Asbestos was once known as the "magic fiber" for the strength, durability, and heat-resistance it gave to building products. Since the turn of the century, it has been put into thousands of building materials from ceiling panels to countertops to floor tiles to insulation to roofing. Those old buildings are generally safe today so long as the ACM isn't crumbling or broken, conditions which allow the harmful fibers to fly into the air, where they can invade lungs. That is why the federal government puts a high premium on knowing exactly where the ACM is in schools and places strict regulations on how it is removed.
Rather than follow its own regulations on November 4, board officials took a different tack: They did next to nothing, according to records. No student was removed from the building, no official was notified. Phil Swinford, the PTA's vice president and the father of a Deerfield Middle student, says he never heard a thing about the November incident.
And nothing was done to seal the storage half of the building to keep the asbestos fibers from escaping to other areas until November 11, when the board hired the asbestos-removal firm Decon to seal off four affected classrooms in Building No. 2. Oddly, a daily field report filed by Decon shows that Room No. 145 -- which had the extremely high 218 reading -- wasn't one of the rooms sealed. Two days later, on a Friday morning, Decon workers came back to the school, put on their own protective suits and facemasks, and removed 870 square feet of asbestos-containing countertop from an art room in the unoccupied section of the building, according to reports. Records also show that Decon removed asbestos-containing countertops that had previously been dismantled by the school's maintenance workers. The countertops, according to EnHealth field reports, were found "under a trash pile" in the building.
Final air tests done at the school on November 13 came back showing low levels of asbestos fibers, well under the 70-fiber limit. But rather than take five air samples, which is the industry standard, records indicate that EnHealth did only two indoor tests -- one in the "center" of Building No. 2 and the other in the "east center." Strangely, none of the affected classrooms seems ever to have been retested.
"It sounds like an ugly picture," says Mike Rothenberg, an independent, certified asbestos consultant based in St. Petersburg, who adds that the prudent thing would have been to "shut the building down" altogether and to evacuate the students. "When you're messing with asbestos and children, it only makes sense to take the highest road you can take. You're hard-pressed to justify what they did. I mean, you look to the school board to be a protector."
Equally questionable was the way the incident was recorded in school board files. On October 12, 1999, New Times requested from the school board a complete copy of EnHealth's report on the incident. When the report was released, it included a letter written by EnHealth president James Litrides dated the day after the New Times information request. Litrides claimed in the letter that he'd learned of several inaccuracies in EnHealth's original report on the November 4 incident. Litrides explained that the introduction to the original report had now been rewritten and corrected. The new introduction was essentially the same as the original -- except that all references to school board maintenance personnel handling ACM were deleted.
School board construction project manager Rodney Williams says there is still confusion about exactly who caused the asbestos episode. He says that both maintenance personnel and Decon workers were in the building at the time and "nobody is really sure who did what." Even EnHealth, in both the original and altered reports, states that Decon was in Building No. 2 on November 4, removing the countertops. Yet Decon's own field reports include no mention of Decon workers being in Building No. 2 on November 4. Instead the field reports show that Decon was doing unrelated work at the school's gymnasium on the other side of campus on November 5. The countertops, according to Decon, weren't removed until November 13. Other than foreman Thompson, who said he didn't remember the details of the November job, Decon and EnHealth officials, including Litrides, refused to clarify the inconsistencies and contradictions in the report.
School board officials also declined to explain the matter. All asbestos in Broward's public schools ultimately falls under the responsibility of environmental coordinator Louis Gonzalez. Gonzalez's position is mandated by the federal government, and he is charged with making sure that the school board follows all environmental laws. Working closely with Gonzalez on asbestos issues regarding Deerfield Middle has been Israel Rodriguez-Soto, a school board construction manager. Under Gonzalez is Alan Black, a site manager who supervises asbestos field operations for the school board. It's Black's job to coordinate the work of EnHealth, Decon, and other asbestos contractors. Millions of dollars have been spent complying with asbestos regulations at the school board -- EnHealth and Decon have made more than $80,000 between them at Deerfield Middle and that amount is rising on a weekly basis. While there is no evidence of corruption, the business of asbestos removal in the school district has nepotistic elements. The EnHealth employee who handled the November 4 incident is Dan Norton. Dan Norton is the brother of Roy Norton, a former asbestos supervisor for the school board who is currently employed as a school board maintenance manager. A third brother, Lee Norton, works on the school board custodial staff. In addition to this familial knot, the school board's Black is a former employee of Decon, the board's favored asbestos abatement contractor. Both Black and Dan Norton refused comment.
All decisions regarding asbestos at Deerfield Middle were made outside the purview of elected school board members. Board member Stephanie Kraft says staffers have said very little about the Deerfield Middle asbestos situation and have given the board the impression that it isn't serious and is "under control." Board member Bob Parks, whose district includes Deerfield Middle, didn't return phone messages from New Times.
The November 4 episode provides a prelude to the ensuing battle over asbestos between the board's construction department and Pass International. It was Pass' duty to demolish Building No. 2 after students were moved out of it in February. But before any building is demolished, everything in it containing 1 percent or more of asbestos -- which is the government limit -- must be properly removed. The school board construction staff, led by Gonzalez, assured Pass that the building was free of asbestos material and ready to be torn down.
Gonzalez was wrong.
During the '80s the EPA mandated that every public school in the country have an asbestos management plan. The plans would document where ACM was located in the school, and would include records of all asbestos removal and anything else that was pertinent to child safety. In addition, school boards are required to reinspect each school every three years to make sure that no ACM has been overlooked or is crumbling and possibly contaminating the school.
In 1988 the Broward school board hired consultants to inspect every school in the district for asbestos-containing material. A surprisingly small amount of ACM was found in the 1959-built Deerfield Middle; just flooring tile, those countertops, and other odds and ends. In the past year, officials have learned that the plan was missing thousands of square feet of asbestos-containing cement and ceiling tile. School board officials shouldn't be surprised by this oversight: The management plan itself states that the board "recognizes" the plan is "incomplete." The same goes for other schools in the district, including Deerfield Beach High School. In the Deerfield High plan, there are also about a dozen instances of ACM mysteriously disappearing between inspections, with no record indicating what happened to it.
In its lawsuit Pass is demanding that the school board reinspect not only the Deerfield Beach schools but every public school in Broward. The suit also demands that the board complete all management plans in the district. Doing that will prevent "exposure of students and faculty to previously undiscovered and unreported asbestos," according to the lawsuit. Pass officials claim they aren't looking to profit from the lawsuit but instead just want to be compensated for delays. While school construction officials won't comment publicly on the Pass lawsuit, a department insider says it's the board's position that Pass has done a poor job from the beginning and is using the asbestos issue as a way to recoup losses and get out of the contract.
Whatever the roots of the conflict might be, it was Pass' environmental manager, Jorge Diaz, who uncovered the systemic problems at Deerfield Middle. Diaz is a former certified asbestos management planner who has conducted more than 1000 inspections. Diaz says he became suspicious during the planning stages of demolishing Building No. 2, when board staff refused to sign a required form stating that the board was aware of all federal regulations and its own responsibilities and was accepting them. The board instead insisted that Pass take responsibility for all asbestos in the building, Diaz says. The school board also took months to give Pass the school's management plan, and the first plan that the school board provided turned out to be the one for Deerfield Beach High School, says Diaz. "Warning signs were just firing off," Diaz says.
On April 5, Pass was informed in writing by board representatives that there was no federally regulated ACM in Building No. 2 and that it was ready to be demolished. Pass officials, now suspicious, had an asbestos inspection done that found 6420 square feet of cement panels with asbestos inside the building above the school's drop tile ceilings. Pass notified the school board that the cement was made of up to 50 percent asbestos. Faced with this evidence, the school board agreed to have the asbestos removed prior to demolition.
On May 20, according to county records, EnHealth president Litrides called the county's Department of Planning and Environmental Protection (DPEP) and asked if the asbestos-laden cement could be removed without filing federal notification forms. Precisely why EnHealth wanted to forego the notification, which is required by law, is unknown. The Clean Air Act dictates that any time more than 160 square feet of ACM is going to be broken and removed, the government must be notified at least ten days in advance. With 6420 square feet of ACM, which was to be broken into bits, notification was clearly required. But county environmental engineer Bill Hahne told Litrides to go ahead and remove the ACM without notification.
It's a strange situation: The school board was told by a county environmental official that it could, in effect, break a federal law. How could this happen? Records show that Hahne, who has handled asbestos issues for the county on and off for more than a decade, was misinterpreting federal regulations.
Hahne says he has developed a formula to determine how many "ragged edges" will result from breaking cement. Then, he says, "you have to round up all those ragged edges" and total them, which renders, in Hahne's judgment, the amount of dust that results. Hahne says his formula shows that less than one square foot of ragged edges would result from breaking up 6420 square feet of cement. When asked to explain his formula, Hahne said he would supply it, but instead Hahne's boss, Jarrett Mack, intervened and admitted that Hahne's interpretation of federal regulations was wrong. The EPA said so in a letter to DPEP. "This is an incorrect interpretation of the regulation," wrote EPA air enforcement chief Dick Dubose. Adds Mack: "I believe [Hahne] came up with those numbers incorrectly, and that is not the way we regulate asbestos today."
Without notifying the government, Decon, the school board's contractor, removed the asbestos-laden cement panels at Building No. 2 on May 27, prompting the school board once again to demand that Pass demolish the building. But during a walk-through of the building, Pass officials saw the results of Decon's work: a mess. In areas that should have been meticulously cleaned during a professional asbestos abatement, there were broken pieces of the asbestos-laden cement strewn about inside and outside the building. Piles of dust-covered trash were also left behind. When Pass notified the school board of the mess and asked that it be cleaned up prior to demolition, the school board downplayed the incident and continued to demand that Pass demolish the building. That's when Diaz complained to the county, prompting county environmental inspector Art Pennetta to visit the building, whereupon he found pieces of ACM. In addition to the ACM, Pennetta noted "debris consisting of desk drawers, papers, old textbooks, broken furniture and several drop ceiling panels which were wet and moldy," according to county reports, which also indicate that plastic and filters used during the asbestos abatement were left behind.
Pennetta's visit sparked a county investigation that led to civil charges filed against the school board and Decon on August 20. The county, which is considering fining both the board and Decon $15,000 each for every day that there was a violation at the school, has yet to sanction either party. School board officials had a disciplinary hearing with the county, originally set for last Thursday, continued until next month.
The county didn't charge the school board with failure to notify the government, because Hahne "contributed" to the decision not to notify, according to county reports.
The controversy surrounding Building No. 2 was still, however, far from over. Another dispute -- this time over that wet and moldy ceiling tile -- was about to consume the Deerfield Middle project and, Pass contends, again put the school's students and staff at potential risk of asbestos exposure.
The ceiling tile in Building No. 2 is red on its back side and stamped "fire-rated" -- both signs, Diaz says, that it contains asbestos. Diaz says there is an untold amount of the red-backed tile -- potentially thousands of square feet -- at Deerfield Middle, and none of it was ever listed in the school's asbestos management plan. If the tile is, indeed, full of asbestos, school board staff may have been handling it -- and possibly breaking it -- in the presence of students for years. Ceiling tile is known to spread asbestos fibers in more abundance than any other building material, simply because it crumbles easily into dust. PTA vice president Swinford says that several of Deerfield Middle's roofs have leaked rain over the years and that ceiling tile surely has been replaced. "You know what happens when ceiling tile gets wet -- it crumbles," Swinford says.
Pass had tests done on the ceiling tile. The tests showed that it had contained as much as 5 percent asbestos, which puts it within federal regulations. When Pass demanded that the school board have the ceiling tiles removed prior to demolition, the board refused to approve the costly procedure. Instead EnHealth, on June 22, did its own tests on the ceiling tile. All of those samples, which were collected by EnHealth's Dan Norton, came back showing that the ceiling tile contained less than 1 percent asbestos -- though at least one came back at 0.9 percent, according to records. Then Hahne collected samples of the ceiling tile, and tests of those samples showed either only small traces or no asbestos at all.
Hahne, meanwhile, seemed to be taking an aversion to Diaz's inquiries -- which ultimately exposed Hahne's faulty asbestos formula. Hahne filed a complaint with the state Department of Business and Professional Regulation stating that Diaz was handling asbestos after his certification had expired. Supervisor Jarrett Mack says he told Hahne not to file the complaint, as it would look like Hahne was retaliating against Diaz for raising health concerns at the school. "That complaint had absolutely nothing to do with the county, this agency, or myself," Mack says. "That was Mr. Hahne acting on his own." Hahne says he was just doing his duty by reporting Diaz. The DBPR threw out the complaint on October 8 and took no action against Diaz.
Pass continued to find disturbing information about asbestos in Building No. 2. In late June an asbestos consultant hired by Pass determined that one sample of air taken from the building contained 300 asbestos fibers per square millimeter of air -- more than four times the accepted 70-fiber reentry limit. Five air samples averaged more than 125 asbestos fibers per square millimeter of air. EnHealth responded to this information by doing its own tests, which showed only very small amounts of airborne asbestos. On July 30 EnHealth president Litrides declared in a letter to Gonzalez that the tests commissioned by Pass were "meaningless and of no value." Litrides also wrote that he doesn't consider the 70-fiber limit a "health" standard. Hahne also says he doesn't give credence to the 70-fiber limit -- though it is the widely accepted threshold of safety in the construction industry and the EPA maintains that any level of asbestos in the air at all is potentially unsafe. Even Rodriguez-Soto, the board's construction manager, says the 70-fiber limit is clearly the accepted standard for the entire construction industry.
As the battle over Building No. 2 deepened, the EPA stepped in to determine once and for all if there was a health risk at Deerfield Middle. EPA officials obtained ceiling tile samples from Pass, the school board, and the county and then conducted independent tests on each using the most accurate testing method available, which consists of burning off everything on the sample but asbestos. By weighing the asbestos left behind, the true percentage of asbestos in a material can be determined. Until then all the samples had been tested using an older method called Polarized Light Microscopy (PLM), which is a visible estimation made by a scientist looking through a microscope. The school board's own test results include a disclaimer stating that PLM test results are "subject to significant numerical uncertainty."
Gonzalez apparently didn't want to wait for the EPA results. In written correspondence school board officials and consultants directed Pass to demolish the building, repeatedly writing that Building No. 2 had been "rendered harmless." Hahne, too, gave his blessing to demolish the building, according to reports. Mack once again distanced himself from Hahne's actions, declaring that he felt all along that the school board should have removed the suspicious ceiling tile from the building. But Mack himself wrote in a letter to the school board's Gonzalez on July 26 -- at the height of the controversy -- that Building No. 2 could be demolished.
Pass continued to refuse the school board's demolition demands, however, and complained that tearing down the building would spread asbestos fibers throughout the schoolyard, harming anyone there. But records show that the construction company was flexible. Pass owner Roger Rex gave the school board an option: He told officials at a July job-site meeting that he would demolish the building as long as the board signed federal forms authorizing the demolition and took "full responsibility" for any legal or health fallout from it. Rodriguez-Soto told Rex that the board would consider the proposal. Board staff never agreed to it.
At the end of August, summer vacation ended and students filed back onto the Deerfield Middle campus. Not only had Building No. 2 never been properly cleaned after the alleged illegal and sloppy asbestos abatement by Decon in June, but now there was evidence that the air inside the empty building was contaminated. Students, teachers, and staff, however, were not notified of the full extent of the problems with Building No. 2 or the nearby Building No. 6. According to the Pass lawsuit, Decon removed 1800 square feet of ACM from Building No. 6 at Deerfield Middle in May, again without notifying the government, and left more ACM littering school grounds, a piece of which New Times had tested.
In mid-September the EPA released its findings to the county and the school board: The red-backed ceiling tile was potentially more harmful than even Pass had imagined. The EPA tests showed that school board samples collected by Norton were laden with as much as 13 percent asbestos. The EPA determined that a sample collected by Hahne -- in which the county found no asbestos -- actually contained about 7 percent asbestos. A total of ten samples that either the school board or the county found harmless were proven by the EPA to contain unsafe amounts of asbestos.
The EPA's results using the less-accurate PLM method were mixed -- about half came back showing more than 1 percent of asbestos. But even when the EPA's most sophisticated tests showed that the building had ACM in it, the county and the school board balked and still resisted cleaning it. Hahne wouldn't recognize the EPA results. "To me that is completely meaningless -- those [EPA] tests mean nothing to me," he says. The reason: The EPA's test is more sophisticated than what is called for by federal regulations and therefore shouldn't hold legal weight.
Earlier this month EPA officials from Atlanta and Washington, D.C., got county and school board officials on a four-way call, Hahne says. EPA officials told the school board that they had to demolish the building, says Hahne. Decon is now in the process of removing the ceiling tile and cleaning out Building No. 2. Pass' concerns about Building No. 6, however, still haven't been addressed, Diaz says. And the pieces of cement with asbestos that litter the school grounds are still, as far as is known, lying there.
The asbestos "DANGER" signs were put back on Building No. 2 -- and this time they haven't been ripped down.
The PTA's Swinford has dealt with the school board for years. His daughter is an eighth grader at Deerfield Middle, and he's currently the chairman of Deerfield Middle's Advisory Forum, which makes recommendations on child safety. Like most people who are outside the school board's tight facilities-department loop, Swinford wasn't informed of the asbestos problems at Deerfield Middle. He says it doesn't surprise him, as anytime parents have concerns about the renovation project, they've been "stonewalled" by school board staff.
Swinford did say something interesting when he learned of the November 4 episode. He says he was "amazed," but not surprised. Swinford has dealt often enough with the vast school board bureaucracy -- which has a $2.2 billion annual budget -- to know better than to expect sound decisions and forthrightness from it. The construction department is currently being reinvestigated by the State Attorney's Office after an extensive state grand jury investigation two years ago that uncovered corruption and tens of millions of wasted dollars but produced no criminal charge. School board members themselves often complain that they don't trust officials in the construction department and new Superintendent Frank Till is pushing to have a private company come in and take over.
"This board isn't about children, and I don't think it ever has been," Swinford says. "You would want them to put education and safety of children first, but they don't. It's power they care about."
Swinford wasn't the only one kept out of the loop. Deerfield Middle principal Walter Cooper also says he has little understanding of the complex asbestos issues at his school.
"Of course I'm concerned," Cooper says of the asbestos problems. "A lot is being said about the building and about the school. But I can't get myself involved in something I can't control."
And the school board is still, to borrow Swinford's word, stonewalling. School board officials have steadfastly refused comment on Deerfield Middle asbestos issues. When asked if he would explain the school board's actions at Deerfield Middle, Gonzalez said, "Absolutely not." Gonzalez and other officials are staying quiet, they say, because of the Pass lawsuit. School board attorney Ed Marko says he made the recommendation that officials keep mum on the issue. But school board member Kraft, when she learned of the problems, said she's going to find out more.
"It's disturbing," she said. "I'm certainly going to look into it."
Swinford also says it's his obligation, as a parent and PTA official, to get more information. He says the Advisory Forum will begin its own investigation into the matter and determine what, if anything, should be done, saying: "We need to get answers."
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New Orleans--Tomorrow, Mayor Mitch Landrieu, NOPD Superintendent Ronal Serpas, City Councilmembers, City Officials and FEMA will break ground on the new NOPD Fifth District Police Station at 3900 North Claiborne Avenue. The new 17,600 square foot police station will support hundreds of officers and provide critical support to the St. Claude and Lower Ninth Ward communities. The total cost of construction is $7.2 million, with funding coming from FEMA public assistance, insurance and City bonds.
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I read with interest that the frozen food industry is planning a "makeover" ad campaign designed to warm consumer perceptions of their products.
Why does frozen food need this "makeover"?
Consider Wendy's tagline for its burgers: "Fresh, never frozen." When a fast food restaurant creates an ad that encourages consumers' chilly attitudes toward frozen, public relations professionals are about to earn a big payday.
From the report in NPR's "Salt" blog, we find that frozen food manufacturers are "alarmed" that the U.S. public equates fresh with healthy.
One nutritionist with Con-Agra Food confided in the story that what consumers think of as "fresh" in the supermarket is better thought of as "raw."
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Contrast the weeks-old "raw" veggies to what she called "nutrient-rich" frozen version and what right-thinking American wouldn't lean to frozen?
Advertising Age has reported on a new prospective ad campaign that could approach $50 million by what is called the Frozen Food Roundtable. That group includes ConAgra, General Mills, Heinz, Kellogg and others.
In my view, the frozen food folks would like to blunt the effective appeal of "fresh" on U.S. consumers. Make no mistake, the fresh produce industry, which has been so generous to processors in the context of "all forms count" messaging – will be losers if they succeed.
How should the fresh industry respond to this shot across the bow? This may be the time and opportunity for a "fresh only" collective promotion campaign for fruits and vegetables.


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The short answer is we can't. We live with this until something major ( or drastic ) changes and pray that the other team doesn't shoot the ball well.
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We're a fast break, run and gun, shooting team thats gonna give up points. At least they did one of those parts well tonight.
"It's just unfortunate that we've been penalized so much this year and nothing has happened to the Pistons, the Palace or the city of Detroit," he said. "It's almost like it's always our fault. The league knows it. They should be ashamed of themselves to let the security be as lax as it is around here."
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Unclebuck, no this isn't better. I'm one who has yanked your chain a few times, but I hope I've never said I'd accept "losing if the team plays a wide open" game. I want the Pacers to win.
I want the Pacers to be able to get stops when they need to. I want them to be able to protect a lead. I want them to be able to contest shots effectively and make the other team earn every point. But I'd rather see them win and score 100+ as opposed to see them win and score less than 80. I'd love the Pacers to consistently exceed the other team in rebounds, blocks and steals. I disagree with you about the other aspects of "good" defense. I suppose you'd like to see the other team blocked out and waste the 24 seconds without a shot, while I'd prefer them to take their shots and make a slightly lower percentage of them than the Pacers do.
And I hate the Pat Riley/Bruce Bowen aspects of defense. I hate the shoving and holding and elbowing.
I'm happier about this team than last years' team. It is good that they can score at a high clip. That alone is not enough, and the Pacers aren't going to be a very good team on just that. But explosive offensive potential is one good thing. Only one: there's still a lot wrong with the offense. But I'm happy knowing the Pacers can score.
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I am with you. It is sick. I wish we traded for Marice Evans.
Daniels and Granger are the only consistent defenders. Shawne will be better once he gets more PT and understands each player he is defending. He simply has not played players like Pierce and Kobe to be considered a reliable defender against them.
JO has slighty better trade value than Chris Webber did with the Sixers. There is no team with the right pieces out there to trade and get what we need. It would be better if he opts out by taking a buyout. Bynum tore him apart on both ends. But to JO's credit if Farmar, Kobe, and Fisher did not blow past their so called defenders he would have been in better position to at least have a chance.
With Bynum the way he is now I still think that the Lakers are stupid for not using him in a trade for Jason Kidd. Kidd can rebound better than anyone on that team.
David Harrison needs to put two games back to back. If he is solid again then we may be able to use him in a trade with JO.
So far the Rush and Diener project is failing. It is just November and I can't see any reason why Diener got that long contract. I know he is injured, but it is ridicoulous how much he looked like Saras tonight.
I would like to see better defense coming off a long layoff. Tommorrow should be interesting since Tyson Chandler won't be playing. He tore us apart last year.
And interesting stat though.
We give up more points than any team not in Memphis or Oakland. We give up more points than any team in the East. What is even more sad is that when your take the average Points scored of all of our opponents it is lower than the points that we give up. By 6 points.
Our defense is the main reason why we are failing. It may come around but we do not have the players that can assure that. A backcourt shake up is needed if we want to make the playoffs. Which means we may have to give up Shawne or Danny to get that.
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How does JO manage to snag 3 measley boards? Hell the ball boy could do that for a hell of a lot less cash.
With regards to JO, I think it's clear right now that you have to stick with him, hope he gets/stays healthy, and then reassess his trade value at that point. It would be a huge mistake to trade him now.
After watching the game last night, if Bynum was truly on the table, and Indy was holding out for Odom AND Bynum, I have to say that that was a bigtime mistake. Again, IF he was on the table, Pacers bras should have pulled the trigger.
As for the Bynum for Kidd trade, I think some don't realize that it was more than just Bynum. Kwame Brown and another player or two would have had to be included to make that deal work. So, having Kobe and Kidd would be nice, but do you really think that that team makes any serious noise at all in the western Conference with Brain Cook or Ronny Turiaf starting at center? I think not. To trade for Kidd, LA wouldn't have had any big men left.
I agreed with everything you said but what I quoted above was the reason they lost they game.
It was the same thing against the Lakers that we saw against the Clippers, Nuggets, Wizards, and Raptors - slow rotations to the open man. The goal is to trap the pick and roll and shut down the middle but neither has been to effective in those 5 losses in particular. They were running around like chickens with their heads cut off and the Lakers kept drilling wide open "practice" jumpers.
I'm starting to think that they should stop trapping the pick and roll and stick to man to man defense unless they can do a better job of rotating.
they fell into his hands by mistake!!!!
Isn't it interesting to note that this summer JO possibly traded to LA for Bynam + and now we couldn't even trade him straight up for Bynum.
The best exercise of the human heart is reaching down and picking someone else up.
The best exercise of the human heart is reaching down and picking someone else up.
Well first the good.
Shawne, brilliant, confident, superstar in the making if he keeps this up. I'd pay to watch him play. He was a big surprise last year with how ready he was and his fast progression continues.
Danny. Forced some shots, and sometimes settled instead. But ultimately he made a couple of impressive defensive efforts against Kobe and showed some ability to score on the dribble drive. Wasn't always pretty, but it was an effort to get it going and to expand his game. He doesn't shine like Shawne, doesn't have that spark or something, but he's a damn good player. To me this was not really a great night for him and it was still pretty good.
Harrison. Yes, Harrison. Didn't just avoid fouls by avoiding plays, he defended pretty well at times without fouling. If he could just add a bit more discipline to his defensive instincts, not go chasing the homerun block or steal, he'd really be a guy you could count on. His post offense is a great asset.
But most of all his effort to keep his cool and stay in games must be commended. He's got a fair ways to go still, but at least he finally seems to understand which way he's supposed to be headed. I really hope he keeps it up and that this isn't just a one week wonder.
Okay, that takes care of the good. Now the bad.
Remember the offensive movement vs Utah. Neither do the Pacers. It was horrible and it's not a JO thing. Things actually got worse after JO hit his knee and went out.
JO. Got brutalized by Bynum and you just have to hope it was because his leg was hurting after getting it smacked hard. He didn't win battles on the glass, he didn't really stop people inside very often, and Bynum got deep in his head with those shot blocks. I do agree that he was hung out to dry because he was forced to constantly help on dribble penetration. One time Farmar flat out posted up Tins and then went up and under on him which JO had to cover, and that left Bynum free for a dunk.
Tinsley. Mel Mel was tossing the rock around with wreckless abandon. I'll admit that I kinda like that, but when those passes are getting stolen or leading to poor plays it's pretty frustrating. He also had some trouble scoring. But his defense was where he got rung up as bad. He was a serious liability at that end.
Troy. Ugh. Luke Walton, all-star thanks to Troy. Here's some money, buy a shot. At least he was active on the glass at times which did help out a few times.
Mike. Mike did play, right? Yeesh. When he's going he's a big help, but he goes invisible man much faster that McKey ever did. Well, on offense that is.
Quis. Well it wasn't for lack of effort, but he missed some of his classic inside ugly shots and obviously had big time trouble stopping Kobe, who just shot right over him a couple of times. Really more of a meh than a bad game.
Foster. See Quis. Meh, but still good hustle. Of course it was classic Jeff with several missed tip-in/put back attempts.
Diener and Rush. Where's all this sweet shooting? Diener did nothing helpful till the game was about 25 points, then hit a couple of meaningless shots. Diener was also abused at the defensive end which hurt.
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I'd like to add that I sat with Gnome and Mal and not only did Mal and I not come to blows, we were in total agreement that the defense was not particularly horrible overall. Perimeter defense is still a big issue, but team defense wasn't terrible considering the power of weapons like Kobe paired with Bynum.
Frankly the Lakers shot their way to that offense, not unlike the Pacers in the first few games this year. Kobe busting contested 3s with his 32% rate or whatever he came in with? Come on. That running sideways jumper by Farmar. That falling over leaner layup by Odom.
If the Pacers were putting up s*** like that I'd be PO'd, even if it was going in. They got some good looks out of their offense too, don't get me wrong, but that 130 was built on some pretty hot shooting too.
The Pacers offense was horrid. Not bad. Horrid. Stagnant, confused, intimidated by Bynum. It was the polar oppostive of what we saw vs Utah, and that led to the poor FG%. They weren't taking the same types of shots (um, were there any lane cutter layups at all?) and weren't getting shots in the same kind of rhythm.
All i have to write is, man that JO/?/? for Bynum/odom/? is probably sounding a lot better now.
The key to our offense besides ball movement is rhythm.
I sat with my wife, does that count?
Just wanted to add I wasn't as down about this game as most. To me, it's little more than a very hot shooting night by the Lakers. The Pacers had trouble closing out, but LA still had to make the shots.
The thing that concerns me is that we're playing a type of defense that allows the opponent to get into such a good rhythm that they're hitting tough shots. It reminds me of our defense right after we got Peja. Ouch.
Otherwise, the Lakers have been playing very well lately. I was courtside when they dismantled the Pistons in the 4th last Friday. Also beat Houston earlier that week.
BTW, Fox Sports needs to invest in a better camera. I watched the game on LA's "WB4", and the quality of the footage was 10Xs better.
Good game tonite...too bad that Chris, Clark and the TV director were more interested in talking to the Hornets GM and showing people in the stands when the game was going on.
LOL since this game we're 6-3 and the Lakers are 4-5
The great Andrew Bynum just had two points and two rebounds in 26 minutes. ...while Marcus Camby had 20 rebounds in that same game.
I know the guy is young and everything, but he is several years from being that effective. He will NEVER be anything close to a Shaq franchise type player. Not even close. The Laker fans will be very disappointed when he plateaus to a pumped up version of Brendan Haywood.
The Lakers should deal that young man and whatever other assets they have to make a run....while Kobe and Lamar Odom can help win a championship.
I don't disagree. But that's not a bad thing. A solid big man who patrols the lane, converts easy buckets, plays D, and has a decent post game good for a couple buckets a night is nothing to sneeze at. Bynum could become that guy.
But then, so could David Harrison.
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I'm not gonna say that Bynum is gonna be the next Shaq or anything.....but it was just 1 game against a decent defender like Camby. If I'm not mistaken, this was the day after he sat out due to a stomach flu.
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Third down was a key defensive shortcoming for the Chargers last season, and on Tuesday morning, they'll work to turn it.
The offense and defense will, for the first time all offseason, square off in 11-on-11 drills when they begin organized team activities (OTAs). This is the third and final phase of a nine-week voluntary workout program, running 10 days over the next three weeks.
Players will wear helmets, but they'll be in shorts without shoulder pads.
"It's obviously all non-contact," coach Norv Turner said, "but we're going to spend a lot of time on third downs because it's important. We were great on offense on third down, but we weren't good on defense. If we can work on it together, we can help each other get better."
The Chargers allowed opponents to convert 49.2 percent of third-down attempts, the worst mark by any NFL team since 1995.
They've since made some changes.
Greg Manusky is out and John Pagano is in at defensive coordinator. Linebackers Jarret Johnson and Demorrio Williams were among the veterans signed, and the Chargers opened the draft with three defensive players: outside linebacker Melvin Ingram, defensive end Kendall Reyes, and safety Brandon Taylor.
Health helps, too.
Defensive end Luis Castillo (leg), outside linebacker Larry English (foot), and inside linebacker Jonas Mouton (shoulder) combined to appear in just six games in 2011. Mouton was limited early last week with a hamstring injury, but all three are expected to be full participants Tuesday.
The offense has a different challenge.
It went 48.8 percent on third down, second best in the league, and will work to maintain, if not build on, that success despite a new look.
Last year, running back Mike Tolbert had the team's most rushes (16) and receptions (19) on third down while wide receiver Vincent Jackson had the third-most catches (16) for a team-high 290 yards.
Both left via free agency.
Running back Ryan Mathews will see an expanded role, and between adding wide receivers Robert Meachem and Eddie Royal, the maturation of second-year wide receiver Vincent Brown, and a deeper group of tight ends, the Charger hope to find that lost production.
But OTAs won't be all third down, all the time.
When not doing individual and special-teams sessions, the Bolts will focus on their two-minute and red-zone scenarios, Turner said.
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