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A top El Paso Independent School District administrator said the state's highest education official refused his pleas two years ago for the Texas Education Agency to investigate transcript irregularities at Bowie High, despite looming accusations of cheating.
James Anderson, assistant superintendent of high schools for the EPISD, said in an interview with the El Paso Times that then-Education Commissioner Robert Scott and other Texas Education Agency officials stymied his requests in June 2010 for the agency to investigate grade-level manipulations that could have artificially boosted the campus's performance on federal accountability measures.
"To me I was taking it to the highest level," Anderson said. "We work for the state of Texas. This is TEA. It went all the way to the commissioner of education."
In an interview last week with the El Paso Times, Anderson spoke publicly for the first time about the EPISD cheating scheme, including charges from current and former school district employees who accused him of either turning a blind eye or acting as a willing surrogate for then-Superintendent Lorenzo García.
Anderson said he felt compelled to respond to questions from the El Paso Times after the newspaper obtained documents through the state's Public Information Act in which he claims to have reported possible wrongdoing at Bowie High.
In an affidavit filed this summer as part of a grievance hearing for former Bowie High School Principal Jesus Chavez, Anderson said he talked in June 2010 to a TEA official and "asked if TEA would come to EPISD to do an independent audit," but his request was rejected by state officials.
His allegations suggest that state education officials knew about and perhaps willfully ignored possible grade manipulations at least at one EPISD school when they cleared the district of wrongdoing on two separate occasions in 2010.
TEA officials declined interview requests for this story, citing ongoing federal investigations of the cheating scheme. Scott, who stepped down as the head of the agency in July, did not respond to requests for an interview.
State Rep. Marisa Marquez, D-El Paso, has filed several bills for the coming legislative session in an attempt to address the cheating scandal, which shocked a community that seemed hardened by years of political corruption. Marquez said that if Anderson's allegations are true, TEA must share in the culpability.
"If there was gross negligence, meaning people knew exactly what was going on and did nothing about it and did not alert anybody, there should be some accountability for TEA with regard to EPISD," Marquez said.
She said that she expects the state's new education commissioner, Michael Williams, to follow through on his request last week to have an external auditor investigate the agency's failure to catch the cheating scandal.
Williams, who took office in September, last week requested that the state auditor examine how the TEA investigated EPISD in 2010.
The state auditor said his agency couldn't perform such an investigation until fiscal year 2014, but TEA officials said they will probably seek another independent investigator to perform the work sooner.
Marquez said Anderson's request for help from the TEA did not absolve him of his duty to stop a scheme that forced some students out of school, prevented some from enrolling and kept others in the ninth grade even if they had enough credits to be classified as sophomores.
"Anderson is claiming to have had all these conversations. Maybe the lesson to be learned there is he should have pushed forward," Marquez said. "He should have tried to go to his board. He should have tried to go to the public because there were students at stake."
Capturing cheating
On May 19, 2010, then-state Sen. Eliot Shapleigh began publicly accusing EPISD of "disappearing" low-performing students at Bowie High by deporting them, transferring them, failing them, changing their grade levels or sending them to charter schools to keep them from taking the sophomore test that counted toward federal accountability.
Around the same time, former Bowie counselor Patricia Scott began receiving calls from Shapleigh and the news media trying to find out what she knew about wrongdoing at the campus. Scott didn't respond to the calls from Shapleigh or the media, but she reported the phone calls to her boss, Kathleen Ortega, who advised her to talk to Anderson.
Anderson said it was in early June that he learned that eight months earlier, Ortega had stowed away 77 transcripts that Scott had given her, which proved grade and grade-level tampering at Bowie.
Anderson said that after reviewing the transcripts, he met with Bowie High Principal Jesus Chavez, who was unable to explain why grades and grade levels had been changed. Anderson said he pushed for an external audit of the transcript discrepancies in a meeting on June 11 with then-Superintendent Lorenzo García and EPISD Chief of Staff Terri Jordan, but the two said the investigation would be handled internally.
Anderson said he took a different approach after numerous failed attempts to persuade García and Jordan to seek an outside investigator. He said he decided to report the discrepancies to the TEA.
"Something like this, that to me indicates that there is some sort of manipulation or cheating. To me, I thought because we are being looked at by all sources, it just makes sense to go outside, but they didn't agree with me and when they didn't agree with me, I said, well, if you're not agreeing with me on the external, then I'm going to report to TEA," Anderson said.
The mention of reporting possible cheating to the state initially met resistance from García, according to Anderson, but eventually the then-superintendent relented. Anderson said García told him that he had a "buddy" at the TEA and that he would have his friend call Anderson about the matter.
"He did tell me that he knew someone at TEA who would be calling me," Anderson said. "I said, 'OK, but I'm still going to call.'"
Anderson said he eventually learned the name of García's friend -- Ray Glynn, a deputy commissioner at the state agency. Glynn, who is now the executive director of the Region 8 Education Service Center in Pittsburg, Texas, didn't respond to requests for comment.
Phone records obtained by the Times show that Glynn called García on May 19, 2010, the day Shapleigh filed his initial complaint with the U.S. Department of Education.
Those phone records show that Glynn called Anderson on June 15 -- the same day Anderson called the phone number of Cathy Kline, the director of test administration for TEA. He said that though Kline never called him back, he received a phone call on June 18 from Emi Johnson, the education agency's inspector general.
Phone records show several calls between her and Anderson that day, and also several calls between her and García.
Anderson acknowledged that his tone softened when he reported the discrepancies to Johnson and he did not go as far as to say he suspected cheating at the campus. But the EPISD administrator said he pointed out concerns about grade manipulation that could affect whether the test scores of certain groups of students, including those with limited English skills, were counted in determining federal accountability ratings.
He said he asked Johnson to conduct an independent investigation of transcripts submitted by Patricia Scott, but she refused.
"She said, 'There's no cause,' " Anderson said. "I said, 'I'm giving you cause. I'm on the phone with you. I'm telling you there's cause. Come out here and do an audit.' And she says, 'No, we would have to have a letter.' I said, 'Fine, I'll send you a letter,' and she says, 'Do not send a letter to request it.' So, I'm telling her we'll send a letter and she says, 'No, don't do it. We're not going to do it. Don't send me a letter.' "
Anderson said he continued insisting even when Johnson, during a separate telephone conversation, told him that then-Education Commissioner Robert Scott determined that the TEA would not perform the external audit he was seeking because it was a local matter.
He said agency officials said EPISD needed to conduct an independent audit, which could be performed by the district's internal auditor. Anderson said that in a conference call on June 21, TEA officials Johnson, Glynn and Ryan Franklin approved a rubric the district had laid out for conducting the internal audit. He said García, Jordan and Ortega participated in the phone call.
Franklin declined an interview request. Jordan and Ortega did not return phone calls seeking comment.
Anderson never sent a letter to the TEA. The only written documentation he has of his exchanges with the state agency are notes he took himself or from a message left by his secretary letting him know that Johnson called his office. He referred to those notes frequently during his interview with the Times.
School district and state agency phone records obtained by the El Paso Times through the Texas Public Information Act confirm that the calls Anderson detailed did take place, but what happened in those calls is a point of contention between Anderson and Johnson, the TEA inspector general at the time.
Debbie Ratcliffe, spokeswoman for the TEA, said Johnson does not dispute that she spoke with Anderson, but she has a different version of the discussions. Johnson recalls Anderson calling and asking her to review an audit of transcripts that he was already performing, Ratcliffe said.
"We couldn't help with an audit that was ongoing," Ratcliffe said. "The audit was not complete. It was an unusual request. So she asked him to send us the completed audit and said that if he needed some guidance on how to proceed, he should consider talking to his internal auditor."
"My impression is that she didn't come away with the impression that it was as significant an issue as it's turned into," Ratcliffe said.
Johnson declined an interview request from the El Paso Times to answer questions that would require her to further elaborate on her discussions with Anderson. She cited an ongoing FBI investigation.
"She would really like to discuss our side in greater detail but because of that ongoing investigation, she just doesn't feel that she can talk," Ratcliffe said.
Failure to act
The U.S. Department of Education on June 30, 2010, asked the Texas Education Agency to begin an investigation into possible wrongdoing at Bowie High, based on Shapleigh's May 19 letter to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan. That was less than two weeks after Anderson contacted the TEA with his concerns.
Johnson was assigned to conduct the TEA investigation. The El Paso Times has not obtained any evidence that suggests Johnson approached Anderson to ask for the information about grade manipulations that he claims he reported to her weeks earlier.
In fact, in a July 1 letter, Shapleigh asked then-Commissioner Scott to compile information on investigations the agency had conducted on EPISD during the past two years after learning that it rejected a request for a review of testing data from EPISD.
"Per your conversation with me, Analisa Cordova, my chief of staff, and Juana Padilla in my El Paso office, you stated that Superintendent Lorenzo García of EPISD called two weeks ago and asked that your agency review and confirm an audit that he was doing at EPISD regarding TAKS data," Shapleigh wrote to Scott. "You refused to do so and stated to Superintendent García that it was inappropriate for TEA to get involved and that he should get an independent third party to audit the data. To date, the TEA has not done any audit, report or other written review of the Bowie or other TAKS data that is in controversy now."
Documents show that on July 20, 2010, Shapleigh expanded the scope of his cheating accusation beyond Bowie High to include other low-performing campuses known as "priority schools."
Johnson eventually issued two reports -- one in September 2010 and another in October 2010 -- absolving the district of wrongdoing.
"There is no indication that one or more Bowie High School students were prevented the opportunity to attend school and participate in the statewide testing," Johnson wrote in her Oct. 8 findings. "This investigation report does not find areas of non-compliance with (federal) requirements associated with adequate yearly progress at Bowie HS."
García repeatedly used the TEA reports to dismiss allegations of cheating and to accuse Shapleigh of hurting children.
But Johnson never received a copy of the district's internal audit into transcript discrepancies at Bowie, nor does it appear that she ever asked about the findings despite knowing it was focusing on some of the same accusations Shapleigh had made in May 2010.
Records obtained by the El Paso Times show that EPISD internal auditor Joe Yañez began interviews into the cheating allegations in late June 2010 and published a draft of his findings on Aug. 2, 2010. But his 10-page findings report was not finalized until May of the following year. He filed his report on the same date that the Department of Education had established as a deadline for the district to provide documents for a federal audit.
Yañez's audit report said he found grade changes from passing to failing on student transcripts that caused students to be demoted from 10th to ninth grade. He also found unexplained promotions for some students from ninth to 11th grade.
Tenth-grade test results are used to determine federal accountability ratings, and Shapleigh had accused the district of rigging accountability measures by keeping students from taking the 10th-grade test.
One of Yañez's recommendations in the May 2011 report was that the district self-report the audit findings to the TEA.
Documents obtained by the El Paso Times show that the school district did not report those findings to the TEA until May 2012 -- a month after the Times obtained the internal audit and reported that the district had failed to send it to the state agency.
Jordan, who was the district's interim superintendent at the time, sent Johnson a letter in May claiming that the district had been waiting for the culmination of outside investigations by federal agencies before self-reporting the internal audit findings.
The El Paso Times began detailing the cheating scheme in April of this year after obtaining thousands of documents through the state's Public Information Act.
García is now serving a 3å-year federal prison term after pleading guilty in June to two counts of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, including scheming with at least six unnamed co-conspirators to manipulate the federal accountability system.
Anderson said he did not know whether he was considered one of the six people who helped García.
Shapleigh has long alleged that García had a friend at the TEA who helped him cover up the cheating scheme. Shapleigh said he recalls García bragging to his cabinet and community leaders that "TEA had us covered."
"Sure enough, García's friends at TEA covered up in Austin while he 'disappeared' kids here," Shapleigh said. "How did TEA let that happen? Commissioner Williams has a duty to find out and fix it. And (the) U.S. Department of Education now has a duty to make that happen."
Anderson said that while he noticed grade manipulations at Bowie High, he did not suspect a broader cheating scheme.
He claimed that although he was in charge of high schools at EPISD, he did not receive a directive from then-Associate Superintendent Damon Murphy requiring that all foreign students be held in the ninth grade for a year even if they had enough credits to be sophomores. The directive -- which EPISD officials later said violated state law -- was sent to numerous high school principals and other employees.
Anderson said he did not think that the emails he was receiving from then-Pupil Services Director Mark Mendoza about students being denied enrollment at Bowie and other schools were connected to the discrepancies that he saw when reviewing transcripts that showed grade manipulations at the South Side campus. And he said he did not see similar patterns when he reviewed a sample of transcripts of students from El Paso High and Coronado High.
"I had no indication that it was any sort of widespread thing or even on that campus (of) it being a way of not allowing kids into school, and I still don't know to this day if that's the case or not the case," Anderson said.
Shapleigh said the failure of the TEA to catch the cheating is becoming clearer as accounts from Anderson and others surface. Still, Shapleigh said he is leery about the intentions of some administrators coming forward who claim they worked to stop the scheme.
"What is now going on is everyone is covering for themselves when it's clear that dozens have liability for their actions at EPISD," Shapleigh said. "Every man is out for himself."
El Paso Times reporter Hayley Kappes contributed to this story.
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Eric Bledsoe has gone from dud to stud, according to a recent story in The New York Times on the NBA's most-improved players in 2012-13. Bledsoe joined fellow point guard Jrue Holiday of the Philadelphia 76 ers and Larry Sanders of the Milwaukee Bucks on the Times' list.
That wasn't exactly front-page news, as far as the Clippers are concerned.
"I really think he's going to be a star," teammate Chauncey Billups said before the Clippers defeated the Toronto Raptors on Sunday.
Billups also called Bledsoe "a freak athlete" and added, "I haven't see many players with the athleticism he has. I see something new from him every night.
"It's a gift from God."
Bledsoe always had the physical part within him, as evidenced by his raw skills. What's new this season is his ability to think a little better.
"Experience is always the best teacher," said Billups, a guard playing his 16 th season in the NBA. "I can tell him to look for this. Be ready for this. Or they're going to do this. He'll come back and say, 'Dang, Chauncey, you know what they did?' And I'll say, 'I told you to look for it.'
"The more minutes he plays, the more situations he's in, in games, he sees it for himself. Because he's waiting on it. Maybe he missed it. (But) he'll pick it up and he won't get beat again. It's been a joy to see his development."
Bledsoe, who turned 23 on Sunday and is playing his third season with the Clippers, continues to develop a sound Earth-bound game to go with his high-wire act. His perimeter jump shot, like that of teammate Blake Griffin, is something of a work in progress.
"When he gets more consistent with it, he's going to be impossible to guard," Billups said. "He's going to be a nightmare matchup. You get right up on him, and he'll just go right by you."
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Here's some of what The New York Times wrote about Bledsoe:
"In his first two seasons in the NBA, Eric Bledsoe was largely an unproductive bench player for the Clippers. Entering this season, his true shooting percentage - a measure of scoring efficiency that takes into account 2-point field goals, 3-pointers and free throws - was .489 for his career.
"To make matters worse, he was turning the ball over on about 26 percent of his plays (a play is defined as an offensive sequence that results in a shot from the floor, free throws or a turnover), one of the worst rates in the league over that time.
"The Clippers were not ready to write off the 22-year-old Bledsoe, and he has rewarded them for their patience: his true shooting percentage this season has improved to .563, and he has reduced his turnover rate to 16.7 percent.
"Bledsoe has managed to become a much more efficient player despite taking on a larger role in the offense, as his usage percentage - the percentage of team plays a player uses while he is on the floor - has improved from a career average of 18.1 percent entering the season to 26.3 this season."
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Whether you're looking for a bargain or a place to donate gently used clothing and household goods, try God's Attic Thrift Store in Heath Springs.
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May is National Pet Month, a time to celebrate the furry, four-legged companions that can be more like family members than just mere pets. For most pet owners, the worst possible scenario would to be to lose that valued member of the family. But there are several resources that can increase the chances of reuniting with a lost dog or cat.
Driving through the South Carolina countryside, you will occasionally see a green and white diamond-shaped sign declaring a property to be part of the American Tree Farm System. What does that mean?
The American Tree Farm System (ATFS) is the country's largest and oldest network of family-owned forests. More than 83,000 members are managing 26 million acres of America's forests.
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Fran Gardner, a professor of art and art history at the University of South Carolina Lancaster, will spend three weeks in July as the artist-in-residence at Chaco Culture National Historical Park in Chaco Canyon, Nageezi, N.M.
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The third annual race for the 5K Race for Literacy is at 8 a.m. May 5 at the University of South Carolina Lancaster.
The Literacy 5K race is a charity event created to raise awareness of literacy programs supported by Carolinas Literacy Network. Money raised by the Race for Literacy are used by Carolinas Literacy Network to guide collaboration of learners, literacy providers and supporters toward improving regional literacy levels.
Katawba Valley Land Trust
The Katawba Valley Land Trust received two conservation easements that protect an additional 380 acres.
A 187-acre conservation easement was donated by the Stoneboro Plantation LLC in the Stoneboro area of southern Lancaster and northern Kershaw counties.
The donation is the second easement donated to KVLT by the Stoneboro Plantation LLC.
The total protected acreage is 751 acres on the heavily wooded property, which protects the headwaters of Little Beaver Creek.
Lancaster Soil and Water Conservation District
The Lancaster Soil and Water Conservation District board of commissioners presented the Rev. R. A. Morrison with an exceptional service award on Feb. 6.
The award was in recognition for his 16 years of service as a chaplain for the district.
Morrison a pastor, farmer and family man at one time headed a sweet potato farming cooperative, and continues to farm with family members on his farm near Steele Hill AME Zion Church.
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When spring fever hits, it's easy to feel a little overwhelmed with all the things you want to do in the yard. Here's a simple list that will help you get your garden ready for good weather.
You can start with this checklist as soon as weather permits.
If you can get these things done in the coming weeks, you'll be well on your way to enjoying spring when it gets into full swing.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
April 6 is the deadline to apply for the Conservation Reserve Program from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency (FSA) and the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). Late applications will not be accepted.
The Conservation Reserve Program retires erodible row crop land by planting trees, grass or wildlife foods and the program also benefits pastureland in streamside areas.
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The public is invited to the official opening of the nature trail at the University of South Carolina Lancaster at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, March 22. The trail is the result of the combined work of USCL, the Catawba Master Naturalist Association and Boy Scout Troop 71. The half-mile of gently sloping trail meanders through pine forests, bottom-land hardwoods, stream-side habitats and upland hardwoods with various plant and animal life.
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Gyorko, Ross handed new uniforms, numbers
SAN ANTONIO -- One of the perks of making the Major League roster is trading in that high-numbered Spring Training jersey for something that isn't more akin to an offensive lineman.
For the Padres, two of their newcomers -- infielder Jedd Gyorko and pitcher Tyson Ross -- wore their old Spring Training uniforms on Saturday for the very last time. For Gyorko it was No. 68 and for Ross it was No. 66.
Gyorko, who will start at second base on Opening Day on Monday against the Mets, was given No. 9 to wear. Ross, the Padres' fifth starter, will wear No. 38. Finally, infielder Cody Ransom has opted to keep No. 1, the number he wore all spring.
Gyorko said there was no specific request on his part for No. 9.
"They just gave it to me," he said.
There has been some number shuffling since the end of last season, as Saturday's pitcher Jason Marquis is now wearing No. 21. That number belonged to backup catcher John Baker last season. Baker now has No. 8.
Corey Brock is a reporter for MLB.com. Keep track of @FollowThePadres on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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It's true, sadly. Despite the best efforts of industry and government, per capita consumption of fruits and vegetables has slipped lower in the past decade.
In the U.S., U.S. Department of Agriculture statistics show that all forms of fruit showed a decline in per capita availability from 285 pounds in 2000 to 258 pounds in 2010. Fresh fruit per capita availability was virtually stable at about 128 pounds in both 2000 and 2010.
In the vegetable category, the USDA reported all forms of vegetables showed an erosion of consumption from 424 pounds in 2000 to 393 pounds in 2010. For fresh vegetables, the USDA reported per capita availability dropped from 200 pounds in 2000 to 187 pounds in 2010.
I've uploaded the data sets to The Packer Market. Check out the vegetable spreadsheet here and the fruit spreadsheet here.
A recent Rabobank report address the issue of fruit and vegetable consumption (all forms) in the U.S. and Western Europe and said that observes the decline and proposes a few reasons why. A news release about the report said that lower incomes and perceived price increases, along with competition from processed and convenience foods, were the biggest factors in the erosion of demand.
It is a little counter-intuitive that the Rabobank report urges the industry to move away from marketing based on health benefits. I don't agree, for example, that ignoring the health benefits of blueberries or citrus is a winning formula. True, most consumers "already know" that fruits and vegetable are good for them. But shouldn't fresh produce marketers try to maximize the health message to consumers rather than leave it unsaid?
Obviously, creating more convenient ways for consumers to access fruits and vegetables is critical (fresh cut apples can take a bow at this point) and implementing marketing campaigns that highlight the "convenience, taste, enjoyment and versatility of fruits & vegetables" seems logical enough.
But does the collective industry have the resources in place to accomplish such ambitions? Recent Produce for Better Health research showed that only 26% of moms were familiar with the brand. Though that is up substantially from a few years ago, the "Fruits & Veggies—More Matters" brand has not been backed by significant consumer advertising dollars.
Given the favorable winds of government support and consumer motivation to change their health outcomes, it seems incongruous that per capita consumption of fruits and vegetables is still declining. Yet it is so.
Government messaging has been stellar. Yet unless there is a massive and collective industry self-help effort to promote fruits and vegetables to consumers, there is little reason to be believe the trend of declining consumption will reverse itself.


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To promote Family Centered Care.
Partnership with families is the foundation of Patient and Family Centered Care. Patient and Family Centered Care is an approach to health care that recognizes that the family is the center of the patient's lives, in and out of the hospital setting. Hospital staff and families work together in an environment of respect and support.
To help families.
The hospital can be a frightening place for patients and families. The Family Advisory Council works on projects in the hospital to bring a family and patient point of view of the planning and delivery of healthcare services at Women & Children's Hospital.
Parents participate and collaborate in several staff orientations, committee meetings, and are or have been involved in video production, planning trainings, website development, and several other projects.
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text: Live Life Fully: Need to detour from the high road? By Linda Arnold June 15, 2013 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- I don't like going against my core instincts. None of us do.Lately, though, it seems that challenges that can affect our behaviors are popping up everywhere.Crises we hear about every day in the news. Disruptions in the planetary alignments. Global competition. We're navigating some uncharted waters.No wonder we lose perspective from time to time, even with the best intentions. My general nature is to be compassionate, to be trusting and to give everyone the benefit of the doubt until they show me otherwise. Lately, I've found myself being a little more guarded.I still look to take the high road. Our intent is what's important. There's definitely a balance though, and that's what can be tricky.Therapist and author Martha Beck cites clients who took a high-road approach with difficult people in their lives. Yvette stayed politely silent when a co-worker, Fred, brazenly stole her ideas. Jane cleaned up pizza boxes and drinking glasses left by her college-age daughter, Emily, as complacently as she'd once changed Emily's dirty diapers. And Cynthia and Rob's romance was based on lots of give and take: Cynthia gave -- back rubs, compliments, gifts -- and Rob took full advantage without ever reciprocating.These examples don't describe the high road. Rather, they depict a grim, well-trod path that leads from passive behaviors to aggressive behaviors -- through long, horrible stretches of passive-aggressive actions. The real high road requires something quite different -- the courage to know and to follow your own truth. If anyone in your life is exploiting your courtesy and goodwill, Beck cautions a closer look. Rather than tolerance and abiding love, she explains to O magazine, the behavior is likely rooted more in fear -- fear of anger, of conflict, of losing control or emotional abandonment. So we resort to ORC behavior: opaque, reactive and closed.For example, when Fred stole Yvette's ideas, her silence didn't come from inner peace, but from a fear that speaking up would ruin her reputation as a team player. Or, to cite a familiar rationalization, "They might not like me if I do that."Jane didn't realize her real reason for catering to her daughter was to keep Emily from wanting to move out, which would cause Jane to face her own dread of living in an empty nest. Cynthia was unconscious of her fear that Rob would leave her unless she constantly fulfilled his every wish. Yikes!When this opaque behavior disengages us from our inner truth, we stop acting on our own desires and become purely reactive instead, focused not on what we want, but on what we think others will think, say or do. It's not always easy to tell if we're in ORC territory. Beck cites some red flags. Red flag No. 1: a tendency among the people around you to become increasingly selfish, exploitative and unfair. Red flag No. 2: a growing disconnect between your own feelings and your actions -- directly proportional to how badly you're being treated and how far you've managed to stray from the truth.Take a look at the following chart to gauge how your feelings and actions can escalate over time if not held in check, leading to obsessive thoughts. As the old saying goes, "If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."Feelings and actionsDisturbed -- You easily brush aside your feelings and continue your nice, polite behavior. Displaced -- You appear cooperative around the offender, still pushing away resistant feelings, but now fussing grumpily to yourself or to others.Hurt -- You may actually increase niceness to hide the fact that you're feeling seriously wronged.Resentful -- The offender's misdeeds begin to occupy more and more of your attention. Complaining about him or her becomes a daily pastime.Seething -- The offender's bad behavior becomes a central feature of your thinking. You complain constantly to others. And, despite controlled "niceness," you seek to undermine him or her with passive-aggressive strategies like the silent treatment, backhand compliments and gossip.Homicidal -- You daydream about thrashing the offender. You have knots in your stomach and can't sleep. You're irritable and depressed. You may occasionally lash out at loved ones in what appears to be irrational rage.If you recognize yourself anywhere on this chart, you may want to reflect on one of my favorite quotes by author Anaïs Nin: "We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are." You can reset your GPS and still take the high road, while also standing up for your own principles. Remember: We teach people how to treat us.Linda Arnold, M.A., MBA, is a certified wellness instructor, counselor and chairwoman/CEO of The Arnold Agency, a marketing communications firm with offices in West Virginia, Montana and Washington, D.C. Reader comments are welcome and may be directed to Linda Arnold, The Arnold Agency, 117 Summers St., Charleston, WV 25301, or emailed to email@example.com. 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For the people that are promoting trading Tinsley I have a question:
Who would you get to replace him and how would do it?
I'm looking for a specific name and scenario, not "trade up and draft one".
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Wow! It's really fun to give away all these goodies, but geez, picking names is hard!! Even if I do let Random.org make the choices for me, I truly do wish I had a prize for all of you. I'm probably one of those folks who would give ribbons out to all race participants just for participating. But until Bob gives me a bigger prize budget- LOL- you'll have to settle for taking chances.
Here are the winners:
Gluten Free Macroons:
Ashley Megan: Gift Set #2
Veronica Franco: Gift Set #2
I was so happy to see how cute everyone thought these were. I'm sure Nicole from Cookies by Cartier will be pleased as well. I'll be in touch with each of you to get your shipping addresses.
Tricolor and Whole Wheat Pearl Couscous Set:
1. Christine Kadra McDonough
2. Shelley Grosjean
3. Kristen Hansen
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For this one, I did count everyone who was unable to paste a link on Facebook.
Congrats to our winners! We have even more, even bigger giveaways coming up, so keep an eye here and be sure to enter. In fact, I think we've got one to announce tomorrow. As always, if I don't hear from the winners within a week, we'll pick new ones. I urge everyone to please, please read the instructions for entering thoroughly. I hate not including people because they didn't follow the instructions or didn't enter in time.


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Benjamin wrote:I would be quite lost without a living teacher. This is why Thanissaro, Brahm, Amaro, Chah, Sumedho, etc. are in my opinion indispensable. .
Your point is a very good one, but Ajahn Chah has been dead for over 20 years. The rest are apparently alive and in good health!


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I'm trying to start a Dharma group/Sangha in my town. I started a group on meetup.com. We have had one meet up so far and have another one on the 5th. Basically I have no idea what I'm doing. I don't know where this group will go, or what it is all about. A few of the other members gave the impression that I should be the leader of the group or something. I feel very uncomfortable with that because I consider myself I beginner as far as Buddhism goes. I have been studying Buddhism on my own for 7 years, have never had a teacher, and the only temples I've ever been in were while I was on vacation in Japan. Another problem is it seems like all the members are from different Buddhist traditions. I respect all Buddhist traditions, but I just think it may be difficult with different backgrounds, and ideas. Basically I want this group to work out, be a place for the Dharma to be introduced to my area.
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Also I'm trying work it out to meet at a Unitarian church once a month or so. I like this idea because it could give us a place for group meditation.


text: Board backlog a symptom of inaction on worker safety By Ken Ward Jr. August 10, 2013 Story Share AP Photo This April 18, 2013, file photo shows an aerial view of the remains of a fertilizer plant and an apartment complex to the left, destroyed by an explosion in West, Texas, that killed as many as 15 people and injured more than 160. AP Photo The U.S. Chemical Safety Board has yet to complete an investigation of the December 2010 explosion and fire that killed three workers at AL Solutions in New Cumberland, W.Va. Courtesy photo Chemical Safety Board Chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso warned lawmakers during a Senate hearing in June that his agency's resources were stretched too thin. AP Photo In this April 21, 2010, file photo, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns in the Gulf of Mexico, more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip. CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- When a series of leaks at the DuPont Co. plant in Belle left one worker dead in January 2010, local political leaders pushed for an investigation by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board.Agency investigators already were looking into a fatal explosion two years earlier at the Bayer CropScience facility in Institute. Sens. Robert C. Byrd and Jay Rockefeller, both D-W.Va., publicly pressed for the board to deploy a team to DuPont also.CSB officials agreed, but board member William E. Wright warned at the time that the DuPont probe would delay efforts to complete other investigations, including the one at Bayer. At the time, the CSB had 17 open investigations, the largest number in agency history.Within months, the workload would get even worse. CSB deployed when seven workers died April 2, 2010, at the Tesoro Refinery explosion in Anacortes, Wash.Weeks later, again under pressure from Congress, the board launched a probe of the April 20 Deepwater Horizon oil rig blowout that killed 11 workers and caused a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.Since then, a tragic list of other industrial disasters and near-disasters has been added to the board's docket: an ammonia leak at an Alabama warehouse and distribution center that sent 130 residents to the hospital; a California refinery fire that prompted 15,000 plant neighbors to seek medical attention; the massive explosion at a West, Texas, fertilizer plant that killed 15 people, injured hundreds, and flattened part of the town; and a Louisiana plastics plant explosion that killed two workers.Today, the board is under fire for a backlog of unfinished investigations. The agency's Inspector General wrote a tough report alleging mismanagement. Lawmakers questioned why investigations of workplace accidents in their own districts drag on uncompleted.Longtime advocates for improved safety and environmental protections at the nation's chemical plants and other industrial facilities, including some who have closely watched the board for years, say the CSB's problems are really just a symptom of broader troubles and misplaced national priorities -- of frequent indifference to worker safety and public health issues by the political system.The board remains a tiny federal agency, with just 43 employees and an annual budget of only $10.5 million. Promised increases in funding aimed at helping with the massive Deepwater Horizon probe and adding a fourth investigation team never materialized."The CSB's leadership, past and present, has to take some responsibility for biting off more than it can chew in adding more investigations to its platter, but its motives for doing so are noble," said Celeste Monforton, a public health researcher, worker safety activist, and former Labor Department staffer. "It is the only federal agency charged with making recommendations to help prevent worker fatalities and injuries, and its size reflects larger disinterest in worker health and safety problems."Indeed, the board's budget has remained relatively flat over the last five years. The Obama administration has never asked for any significant new money to help -- let alone expand -- the agency. The five-member board remains two members short, with one Obama nomination still awaiting Senate confirmation and another slot not yet filled by the White House."We'd like for the CSB to do more in the way of investigative capacity and also recommendations for improving things," said Rick Hind, who follows chemical plant safety issues for Greenpeace. "But I find it hard to bash too hard on them as an agency. They've had to basically triage which accidents they will investigate."Modeled after the National Transportation Safety Board, the CSB has no real regulatory authority. It doesn't write safety rules, issue citations or levy fines. Instead, board officials investigate industrial accidents and make recommendations to industry and government for making plants safer for workers and nearby residents.Early legislative proposals called for the CSB to have an annual budget of about $12 million, about half of NTSB yearly spending at the time. Now, lawmakers give the CSB just one-tenth of what is appropriated every year for the NTSB. And while Congress created the chemical board as part of the 1990 amendments to the federal Clean Air Act, inaction on appointments and budget appropriations delayed its becoming operational until 1998. As a result, the board has over the last 15 years been periodically criticized by government auditors, labor organizations and environmental groups, usually not so much for what it does, but for what it doesn't do. For example, the CSB has not used its legal authority to write regulations to set up a new system to require chemical accidents to be reported to the board. And the board has never come close to fulfilling its legal mandate to investigate and report on "any accidental [chemical] release resulting in a fatality, serious injury or substantial property damages."In both instances, the board has cited the staffing constraints caused by limited congressional financial support."The board feels the agency has responded to its understanding of current congressional intent and has utilized the limited resources available for its mission," the CSB said in response to a 2004 Inspector General's audit.Last month, a new IG report harshly criticized management of the board, noting especially that the agency "has steadily fallen behind in accomplishing its objective related to timeliness" of its investigations.In 2007, the board completed 10 accident investigations, which was its goal for that year. Last year, the agency finished just two probes, compared to its goal of eight investigations for the year.The IG report, which covered data through May 2013, listed six unfinished investigations that have been open more than three years. It did not include Deepwater Horizon, the Tesoro Refinery, or the uncompleted investigation of a July 2010 explosion and fire that killed two workers at the Horsehead Holding Co. zinc recycling facility in Monaca, Pa. In all, the board lists 15 pending investigations that involved the deaths of 27 workers and one member of the public."Closing its backlog would allow the CSB to provide to the community and other stakeholders its findings and recommendations, which would help reduce the occurrence of similar incidents and results in the protection of human health and the environment," said the 43-page IG report issued July 31. "Closure would also provide more time for investigative management to focus on recent and new incidents."Daniel Horowitz, the board's managing director, said the agency's actual count of unfinished investigations is likely much higher. Over the years, accident investigations were dropped for a variety of reasons, ranging from workload to missing evidence to legal challenges that delayed fieldwork. And it's impossible to predict the timing or scope of industrial accidents that can quickly shift agency priorities."It's been a consistent part of the process," Horowitz said. "There's such a large amount of unpredictability in the work. You have to balance the workload."The IG report complained that the board has not identified a specific period of time for completing investigations, but also noted that teams are often interrupted during a probe to be deployed to another -- often at the request of Congress or "other external stakeholders" -- adding to delays.Government auditors have in the past also criticized the board for not doing more to spell out how it would prioritize which accidents the agency will -- and won't -- investigate.In West Virginia, the CSB has been praised by citizen groups and some elected officials for its detailed reports on the Bayer explosion in 2008, the DuPont incidents in January 2010, and a 2008 propane explosion that killed four people at a Raleigh County convenience store.But among the investigations the CSB has never completed is a probe of a December 2010 explosion and fire at AL Solutions, a small metals recycling plant in West Virginia's Northern Panhandle. Two brothers, Jeffrey Scott Fish and James Eugene Fish, and a third worker, Steven Swain, were killed in the incident along the Ohio River in New Cumberland, Hancock County.Last week, CSB spokeswoman Hillary Cohen told the Gazette-Mail that the team working on the AL Solutions probe is now assigned full-time duty investigating the April fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas."Obviously, this is a very time- and resource-intensive investigation and the team has not been able to work on AL Solutions," Cohen said in an email message. "We have not dropped the case, but I don't have an answer to give you regarding the completion."Horowitz traces much of the board's backlog problem to taking on the Deepwater Horizon investigation, a massive and complex probe where the board has faced legal challenges questioning its very authority to get involved in the first place. Board members asked Congress for an additional $5.6 million for Deepwater Horizon alone. But the CSB lost even the additional $2 million promised by the Senate when lawmakers opted to fund 2011 government operations through a series of continuing resolutions, rather than an actual budget bill.In a prepared response to the IG audit, the CSB's official position was to insist the agency's productivity has not declined."Operating within the constraints of static or reduced budget, the CSB nonetheless believes that the investigation reports that have been issued in the past five years constitute some of the most important work the agency has done," the board said.But in a budget request report to Congress, the board offered a more straightforward explanation of the situation the agency faces."In recent years, serious resource constraints have created a backlog of open major accident investigations and prevented the CSB from investigating more than a small percentage of the most serious incidents each year," the budget request said. "The CSB continually tracks and monitors high consequence chemical incidents that result in deaths, hospitalizations, property damage in excess of $500,000, large evacuations, and/or off-site damage. CSB staff recorded an estimated 282 incidents in 2011 and 334 incidents in 2012."Board members asked for nearly $11.5 million for the new budget year that starts Oct. 1. That's an increase of about $1 million over the current year, which was cut along with other federal spending by the budget sequestration."The CSB must maintain its current level of operations or risk an increased backlog and the inability to take on emerging safety concerns throughout the industry," the board said in its request.And during a Senate hearing in June, board Chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso warned lawmakers, "the CSB has no capacity beyond this point to undertake any new investigative work, beyond what has already been promised and begun."Currently, the Democrat-controlled Senate is proposing to meet the CSB's request. The Republican-controlled House wants to give the agency $8.96 million.In West, Texas, the CSB has been hampered by a problem that has come up repeatedly in the past: Other agencies, including the Justice Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives and the Texas State Fire Marshal's Office refused the board access to the accident site and to key witnesses.On Aug. 1, President Obama issued an executive order that created a new "working group" of various agencies to examine a variety of chemical plant safety issues. Among other things, the group is charged with examining interactions between the CSB and other agencies, to try to clear up these sorts of problems.Moure-Eraso praised the president's action, saying, "increased coordination, communication, and data collection amongst federal, state, tribal and local agencies should result in action and assist community members and emergency responders in helping to prevent and respond to chemical incidents." 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Happy election day, everyone. Glad you made the choice to stop by the ol' BYU blog today. I just posted video of BYU football coach Bronco Mendenhall's post-practice news conference from Monday night yeah, that's me yelling questions from the back of the pack for your viewing pleasure. But if you don't want to sit through 7-8 minutes of video, here are a few highlights from the session: * Mendenhall said the Cougars are already anxious to play another game, anxious to practice and anxious to get back to work and anxious to finish the season strong (he uses the word 'anxious' when he really means eager). He said the focus of the bye week was getting players healthy."You know, we focused hard on it. And so from what I saw today, they looked fresh, and were ready to practice. I can't say there was a slew of players coming back in. But the ones we had looked fresher and more healthy." * He said the Cougars can get better. "We have a lot to improve as a football program and as a team. So our focus is on how much better we can get," he said. "Haven't looked ahead much, so we had a full day on Idaho today. We will worry about our next opponent after that. But we have a lot to improve on. So that's really what the focus is on." * Interim Idaho coach Jason Gesser is just 33-years-old. The former Washington State and Utah Blaze quarterback has a "great responsibility" and a "neat opportunity," Mendenhall said, noting he can't remember how old he was when he got his first head coaching gig (at BYU). He was 38 when he got the job, 39 when he coached his first game. "Idaho is a team that has struggled with consistency, both on offense and defense. In stretches they show capability, and then they have had issues turning over the football and maintaining a high level of execution from the beginning of the game to the end of the game. I think that's been their biggest challenge," he said. * Mendenhall said he doesn't know yet when offensive lineman Braden Hansen will return from a groin tear. "Hopefully [soon], but probably too early to say," he said. * Mendenhall field the obligatory Jamaal Williams question with this: "I would say from the early signs, yeah [he could develop into an elite running back]. He is still really young, just 17 years old, and a lot of work to still do. But the way he runs the football, the confidence he runs it with, the physical nature he runs it with, is really a nice start for a true freshman." * Here's Mendenhall's response when he was asked how recruiting is coming and whether coaches were out on the recruiting trail during the bye week: "We are in really good shape recruiting. Still a few pieces to finish up, with the offensive line issues that we have. But our finding pool has been really good, and we have made a lot of progress. And I am really comfortable with where we stand right now. Still a few pieces we have to land, or have come in, but it was a real productive week. Some [assistants] were out of state, and some were in. We are running short on evaluations, so we have to pick and choose really carefully." * It sounds like the 24 seniors who will be honored Saturday night in their final home games will receive their blankets before the game. "A little bit different format. Normally, I am able to be with them after the game. But with an eight-something start, that is going to be really late. So what we will do is we will honor them more pregame, and then what I normally do after the game I will do at the banquet this year, just because of how late the start is," Mendenhall said.
Here's the list of 24 seniors who will be honored Saturday night.
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Green is absolutely a score within the offense guy. That's why he's struggling so much, because the offense isn't being run, and he hasn't even been given the correct role. Anytime you give Green the ball and tell him to play outside of the offense is when you see massive mistakes.
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Time for a true Christmas classic!
As Christmastime rolls around again, with all of its attendant merchandising and commerciality now firmly and sadly attached, I always make it a point to watch the 1938 version of Dickens' classic tale A Christmas Carol, directed by Edwin L. Marin and starring Reginald Owen as Scrooge. The story has been burlesqued and retold countless times, but this traditional version from MGM, made in the waning days of the Depression, carries more emotional resonance for me than any other version.
Clicking on the image above will take you to a curiosity — a 2:45 minute trailer for the film, as introduced by Lionel Barrymore, who played the role of Scrooge on radio during the 30s and 40s nearly every Christmas, but who, by 1938, was confined to a wheelchair, and unable to handle the leading role in anything but a radio drama. It was Barrymore who suggested that Owen take over the role for this film version — a very generous gesture, giving Owen one of the finest roles he was ever to have — and while the film is deeply traditional, it also radiates an honest sentiment and cheer that continues to brighten my holiday season, year after year.
The 1951 version, ably directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, starring Alastair Sim as Scrooge, also has its adherents, and justly so; it's an excellent rendition of the classic story. But the 1938 version seems cheerier, more compact — much like the story itself — and full of the optimism and hope that characterizes the best of the holiday season. See it for yourself on TCM, where it runs regularly at this time of year, or buy it on DVD — it's a Christmas tradition for me, and always will be.
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This week has the Premiership rugby's salary cap rise by £500,000 to £5m.
The move is seen as an attempt to try and bridge the gap between English clubs and their counterparts across the channel.
However, as the French big spending continues, will this increase make any difference?
In domestic competition this rise in spending power could create a divide between the clubs that can afford to keep up with the every increasing wage packets and those who just don't have the financial backing.
The Aviva Premiership is a league in which promotion and relegation still takes place.
Those who gain promotion from the Championship have a short turn-around before commencing pre-season training and often find it difficult to pull together resources when most of the transfer business for the upcoming season completed months before.
They do not have the same finances as a club in the Premiership and only receive a minute fraction of central funding in comparison.
How can a newly promoted club compete with the likes of Saracens who have the capacity to spend the whole up to the limit?
The rise in spending power that has now become available to the Premiership clubs is said to allow them to bolster their squads.
In an ideal world this would free up funds to by a few more players in areas they are needed, for example, a decent tight head prop, something that is seen as gold dust in modern times.
However, what is there to stop existing players simply demanding higher wages?
Clubs could end up in a situation where they are unable to make additions to their squads because they are simply trying to keep hold of the individuals they already have.
The salary cap may have increased but this does not make playing in France any less attractive.
The possibility of a change in lifestyle and playing with some of the best players that not only Europe but also the world has to offer is a massive draw to many and who can blame them?
Rugby is a short career and you would grab every opportunity that came your way.
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Isn't that what Vogel's mentor said too? We all saw how that worked out!
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Isn't that what Vogel's mentor said too? We all saw how that worked out!
I never expected the Pacers to beat the Thunder at home. I am disappointed in some individual players results.
On the bright side the team doesn't play until Wed, and they are playing Cleveland in BLF. I would expect a win and back to .500 at 11-11. If not, I'll be highly disappointed and upset.
Perfect game to try out Ben, and maybe Plumlee. If they don't do well out starters should still be able to pull out a victory.
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"I had to take her down like Chris Brown."
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"Look, it's up to me to put a team around ... Lance right now." Kevin Pritchard press conference
Is he really? We can not catch a break this year.....
Will be back tomorrow night for their game against LAL.
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We don't have the talent to continue to rely on DJ and expect to pull it out in the end against half good teams. So your point is meaningless.


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TheDhamma wrote:I found this video link over at Dharma Wheel:
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The bearded man does not make any points against the Suttas and just goes on a rant against Ajahn Brahm. To me, it sounds a lot like a Red Herring, Guilt-by-association, and maybe also a couple of other logical fallacies such as ad hominem, for using the b.s. term (how profound).
Buddhism does not require acceptance of Ian Stevensons' works, nor any of the other statements made in the clips from Ajahn Brahm. They were just that monk's views and points. They might be weak, but don't say anything one way or the other as to the value or validity of Buddhism.
I have seen this before. Same stuff that others have put out and he is just as rude about it as the others. Clearly he is mad that he didn't turn out to be a Richard Dawkins or Sam Harris, people whose idea are worth a look and a little respect. It's sad to see seniors suffer after such a long life of suffering.