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Information technology and resources include, but are not limited to: computers, software, databases, files, computer accounts, networks, Internet access, and electronic communication. The following are guidelines for acceptable use of information technology at Doane University.
The use of information technology and resources is a privilege extended to Doane University students, faculty, and staff. That use is restricted to academic, educational, research, and/or administrative purposes. These resources may not be used for commercial or business income purposes unless specific, written authorization for such use is given by the college. Any reselling of Doane's network services is prohibited.
All use of information technology and resources must comply with federal, state and local laws, licensing and purchasing agreements, and Doane policies. Users of outside facilities such as libraries, Internet, or other electronic communication facilities must also comply with the acceptable practices and restrictions established by those facilities.
Individuals may not use institutional resources without proper authorization from the assigned user of the resource. Individuals may not use another user's computer account or user I.D. or change another user's password. Users are responsible for their use of computer hardware, software, accounts, user I.D.s and passwords. Users are responsible for all resources assigned to them even if another person uses them.
Users must not access, copy, view or change private files without authorization. They may not change, create, or delete public files or directories without proper authorization. Users do not have the right to create or receive unauthorized copies of software. Users must not attempt to modify software, data, or systems in an unauthorized manner.
Information technology and resources must not be used to make unauthorized entry into other communications, computational, or informational devices or resources. Accessing restricted databases requires authorization.
Violations of the Doane University acceptable use policy are subject to action by the college. Violations will be referred to the Vice President for Information Technology, who will report issues and problems for review by the appropriate Administrator or the Dean of Student Leadership and the Academic Dean, and will be referred to the appropriate administrative or judicial proceedings. Violators may be billed or fined for unethical or illegal use of information technology. They may also be subject to dismissal, suspension, loss of network and computing privileges, and/or legally prosecuted.
Students found in possession of illegal copies of software (either copies they have made or acquired by other means, or copies of software designated for use in class sessions or through the library that have not been issued to a student) will be subject to disciplinary action.
All users are expected to abide by the end user licensing agreements for all other software that is either purchased through the Doane University Bookstore or installed on Doane University computers.
All food, drink, and tobacco products are strictly prohibited from entering the computer labs. Students who do not comply with this regulation run the risk of exclusion from the labs for the remainder of the semester in which the violation occurred.
Computers acting as servers or running server services are not allowed except where approved by the Office of Technology.
When there is no evidence of an appropriate use violation or threat to the Doane University system or network, computer users have the right to expect that their materials remain private. No person, regardless of status (i.e., including the system manager, faculty member or college administrator) may view, change or remove another user's files without the user's permission, whether the material exists on network media or on a user's own media. An exception exists for class accounts which are owned and managed by an instructor or system manager and which exist strictly for a class project and which exclude personal electronic mail. In these cases, the administrator of the account is allowed complete access, but persons outside of the class are not. Documents stored on public use computers (labs) have no expectation for privacy and documents may be deleted at any time.
Files which reside in a user's account on a network drive or on a user's personal computer are to be considered private except where a runaway program that could be either accidental or an intentional hack, or a virus is in the process of causing damage or is inhibiting the work of others. In this case, it may be necessary for a system manager to inspect the file that is suspected of causing the problem.


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teachers and coaches. The insurance coverage is provided under the
auspices of Swim Ireland through the Institute Of Swimming (IOS) in the
U.K. Swim Ireland operates, administers and manages the scheme in
Ireland. This insurance is renewed on an annual basis.
Candidates who hold a certificate are covered only within the role of their
certificate for insurance purposes and they must act within that role to
ensure insurance coverage. Where a teacher operates outside the remit of
their role the insurance is null and void. Teachers and Coaches are only
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undertaken the equivalency procedure). You must hold relevant teaching
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Kai Ryssdal: The politics of energy were front and center at the White House today. President Obama met with 11 governors, many of them from coal-producing states, trying to get them to sign on to his energy policies and shift away from fossil fuels.
Sarah Gardner reports from the Marketplace Sustainability Desk, it's not going so well.
SARAH GARDNER: Obama wants the country to use less oil and coal and more alternative energy. So, he's pushing hard for tax credits for solar and wind and loan guarantees for nuclear. He also wants Congress to repeal billions in subsidies for oil, gas and coal.
Coal state lawmakers are already decrying the proposed changes as a jobs-killer. Oil and gas companies are casting them as a new tax.
Rayola Dougher is with the American Petroleum Institute.
RAYOLA DOUGHER: It really will translate into less investment, fewer jobs, and especially fewer American jobs. And we think that's exactly the wrong way to go.
Obama hopes to win farm state support for his energy proposals by shoring up biofuels. Today he announced a new plan aimed at boosting biofuel production.
Matt Hartwig is at the Renewable Fuels Association.
MATT HARTWIG: The ultimate goal of the renewable fuel standard is in the year 2022 that the United States is using 36 billion gallons of renewable fuel.
Currently the U.S. produces only a third of that. Some environmentalists criticized today's biofuels announcement. They say the EPA underestimates the global warming emissions from corn ethanol.
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Written on: 09/07/2014 by Asando (2 reviews written)
After reading reviews of lowcost I booked a week holiday to lanzarote for all my family, booking service was excellent, the representative efficient and friendly , then after several weeks the airline cancelled the flights and advised us, at this point I contacted lowcost and asked them to rearrange flights, lowcost told me I needed to contact the airline directly as they ( even though they booked it) couldn't deal with the airline? I explained I had booked through them and as an agent I expect them to offer an alternative ( they did not offer any , only a refund from low cost) I now have to arrange flights and try and get a hotel with dates to suit. I have emailed customer services multiple times asking for assistance with NO response , I have found secondary addresses and still NO response.
For anyone booking and needing any customer service do not book with this company as they take your booking and then ignore you , better book it yourself or with a repuatable company
Written on: 10/07/2014
Hello there
I am sorry that your experience did not meet your expectations. Unfortunately, Review Centre does not allow us to post links and email addresses but I do know that all of the emails from in main inbox we use for customer queries have been responded to (I'm looking at it right now).
If you private message us on Facebook or Twitter, along with your booking reference number and a summary of the issues, we will get back to you, as we always do with all of our customers that contact us via online methods (I can't speak for our call centers, as I do not work in those).
I look forward to your message and to resolving your issues as soon as possible.
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COLUMBUS — The lawyer for an inmate whose execution was halted after an unprecedented two hours said trying to put him to death again in a week could be a disaster.
Romell Broom is still recovering from Tuesday's prolonged execution attempt and is physically and emotionally traumatized, his attorney, Adele Shank, said Wednesday.
"It went so badly when he was walking in without injured veins, to go forward so soon afterward just seems to be inviting disaster," Shank said.
Gov. Ted Strickland's decision to stop Tuesday's execution and grant a one-week reprieve appeared to be unprecedented since capital punishment was declared constitutional and the nation resumed executions in the 1970s.
Inmates in several states have experienced delays with the injection of lethal chemicals, but those executions have always proceeded the same day.
Shank said one option was to ask Strickland to consider a request for clemency and to commute Broom's sentence.
Strickland said he is reviewing the incident and consulting with prison officials and others about the next step.
"That does not mean there will be a review of the larger issue of lethal injections," Strickland said Wednesday. "That's been settled. Obviously yesterday demonstrated that we have a problem with this particular set of circumstances."
A prison log released Wednesday blamed Broom's past drug use for problems finding a usable vein.
The log indicates that executioners made the observation at 3:11 p.m., more than an hour after first trying to find a vein.
"Medical team having problem maintaining an open vein due to past drug use," said the log reviewed by The Associated Press.
Broom said at one point he was a heavy heroin user, but then said at another time that he wasn't, prisons spokeswoman Julie Walburn said Wednesday.
Shank said she was unaware of any such drug use.
"If there's such a thing, it's got to be at least 25 years old," she said. "I don't think it should be having an impact at this late date."
Broom, 53, has been placed in a cell in the infirmary at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville where he is on close watch similar to the constant observation of death row inmates in the three days before an execution.
"It was the right place to keep him," Walburn said. "The less we can transport an offender, the better."
Death row inmates are housed in a Youngstown prison and executed in the death chamber at Lucasville. There's no precedent for housing an inmate whose execution didn't work.
The night before his scheduled execution, Broom told his brother over the phone that he was ready to die.
"He is tired of being in prison and having people tell him what to do every day," according to the prison log.
Broom was sentenced to die for the rape and slaying of a 14-year-old Tryna Middleton after abducting her in Cleveland in September 1984 as she walked home from a Friday night football game with two friends.
Richard Dieter, director of the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center, said he knows of only one inmate who was subjected to more than one execution attempt.


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Kristen Marie Pueschel became the bride of Xiaolei Hua in a November 12, 2011, ceremony at Abbey Chapel, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley. A reception followed at The Delaney House in Holyoke.
The bride is the daughter of Liane and Robert Pueschel, of South Hadley. The bridegroom is the son of Yuhua Li and Haiyan Hua of Cambridge.
Deirdre Smith attended her sister as matron of honor. Wenchee Hua, brother of the groom, and Keith Smith, brother-in-law of the bride, served as best men.
The bride earned a bachelor's degree from Providence College, RI, and a master's degree in business administration from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is employed as an assistant vice president-secondary market officer with Peoples Bank in Holyoke.
The bridegroom earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is employed as a commercial credit officer with Peoples Bank in Holyoke.
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OTRS is a platform independent Web-based help desk system that supports service organization of any kind (e.g. IT service, customer and technical product service, complaint management, public services, etc.) to increase their efficiency. It increases transparency as well as service quality and lowers your total cost of ownership. It has been certified ITIL V3 compatible by PinkVERIFY for incident, problem, change, service asset and configuration, request fulfillment, and knowledge management. Other ITIL processes like service catalog and service level management are supported as well.
PeerProject is a versatile peer-to-peer filesharing client and file manager. It's intuitive and aesthetic while supporting many networks and features, including BitTorrent, G2, Gnutella, eDonkey, DC++, IRC, HTTP/FTP, and more. It's a mainstream fork of Shareaza p2p, for Windows and WINE.
Perl Audio Converter is a tool for converting multiple audio types from one format to another. It supports the following audio formats: 8SVX, 3G2, 3GP, AAC, AC3, ADTS, AIFF, AL, AMB, AMR, APE, AU, AVR, BONK, CAF, CDR, CVU, DAT, DTS, DVMS, F32, F64, FAP, FLA, FLAC, FSSD, GSRT, HCOM, IMA, IRCAM, LA, MAT, MAUD, MAT4, MAT5, M4A, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, MPP, NIST, OFF, OFR, OFS, OPUS, OGA, OGG, PAF, PRC, PVF, RA, RAM, RAW, RF64, SD2, SF, SHN, SMP, SND, SOU, SPX, SRN, TAK, TTA, TXW, VOC, VMS, VQF, W64, WAV, WMA, and WV. It can also extract audio from the following video extensions: RM, RV, ASF, DivX, MPG, MKV, MPEG, AVI, MOV, OGM, OGV, QT, VCD, SVCD, M4V, NSV, NUV, PSP, SMK, VOB, FLV, WEBM and WMV. Parallel Processing, a CD ripping function with CDDB support, batch conversion, tag preservation for most supported formats, independent tag reading and writing, service menus for KDE Dolphin/Konqueror, a Gnome Nautilus script, and action scripts for Nemo/Thunar are also provided.
Pootle is a Web-based translation and translation management tool. It provides a rich set of features for mangaging a translation project. It integrates components of the Translate Toolkit to provide error checkers for translation messages and the ability to download files in a number of formats: PO, XLIFF, CSV. Pootle can also provide compiled PO files for download. You can use it to assign work to translators in your team, and you can define goals to help focus the efforts of your translation. Pootle can run without a Web server or be proxied through your existing Apache server.
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Sancho fumes at Crouch goal
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Last Updated: 01/01/70 1:00am
Brent Sancho claims he was fouled by Peter Crouch before the England striker scored.
Trinidad and Tobago defender Brent Sancho claims he was fouled by Peter Crouch before the England striker scored in the opening goal in their 2-0 defeat.
Crouch grabbed the crucial breakthrough for England against T&T when heading home from David Beckham's cross seven minutes from time.
Sancho was unhappy that Crouch's goal was allowed to stand after German television appeared to show Crouch tugging on Sancho's dreadlocks before scoring.
"The first goal was definitely a foul by Crouch. He was all over my back," fumed Sancho.
"Crouch was all over me. He was definitely pulling me back and that meant I couldn't get to him.
"But don't forget, we are tiny Trinidad and Tobago and there is no way that the referee was going to blow that whistle and disallow the goal."
"We are gutted, just gutted with the result. It was really heart-wrenching.
"The second goal (from Steven Gerrard) came when they hit us on the break as we tried to get back - but the first one was the crucial one so late in the game and I was fouled."


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More than a year ago Dana and Robert Hedengren started noticing a gritty white dust accumulating frequently on their vehicles and other surfaces around their East Savannah home.
It's most prominent when the wind blows out of the north, as it did Thanksgiving week.
"It sticks to the side of the house," said Dana Hedengren, who lives on Goebel Avenue in the Twickenham neighborhood. "It's not just on flat surfaces, it's all surfaces. It'll be on doors. I can sweep the side of the house and it'll come off. Sometimes it's more powdery. Sometimes sandy. Sometimes dustier. I wash the stuff off all the time. Last week it was every day."
The Hedegrens aren't the only ones to notice.
Residents of the adjacent Pine Gardens neighborhood are also bothered by white dust on their cars.
And not far from the Hedengrens on Goebel Avenue, homeowner Dallas Phelps has seen the same thing. Phelps, a plant operator at a local asphalt refining company, thought he recognized the material as kaolin, a clay mined in middle Georgia. It's used in a variety of industrial processes, including some at nearby BASF, an East President Street factory that makes products used in refining oil.
Phelps lodged a complaint in late September with state regulators saying he thought the dust was coming from BASF.
Phelps' next-door neighbor, retired Savannah Fire Operations Chief John Rintoul, who once served as interim chief, has also contacted the Environmental Protection Division. The dust leaves a white residue on his red porch floor and tracks white footprints through his house in wet weather.
EPD Coastal District Manager Bruce Foisy confirmed there's an ongoing investigation of the complaints.
Environmental Engineer Chris Beranek has inspected the BASF plant and found no permit violations. A transfer pipe that was found to have a break in it was fixed, but the dust in the neighborhood was unabated.
A check of the federal environmental compliance history online (ECHO) database shows no air, water or hazardous waste violations issued for the plant in the last three years.
It is permitted to release annually to Savannah's water and air more than 1 million pounds of chemicals listed on the federal Toxics Release Inventory. About a third of that is air pollution.
EPD has not analyzed the dust and, instead, handed over a sample to BASF for it to analyze. That's not unusual in cases like this, Foisy said.
"If we have a suspect facility, just to be expeditious we try to get the facility to do the analysis," he said. "It's hard to know how to analyze a sample unless you know what you're looking for. There are many, many things you can analyze for starters."
BASF spokeswoman Donna Jakubowski said company officials have responded each time a neighbor has complained and the company is cooperating with EPD.
Analyses inconclusive
The analyses have proven inconclusive, she said.
"In most cases we found it was not related to materials at the site," Jakubowski said. Some of the analyses showed "regular dust or dirt you'd find in the roadway," she said.
"Again, we've been working with EPD and with the neighbors," she said. "We don't suspect it's anything directly related to the site."
As a "goodwill gesture" BASF has given some neighbors vouchers for car washes. Phelps received a $60 voucher, he said. BASF, which employs 92 people and paid $443,000 in property taxes last year, also offered a phone number for neighbors to call if they have a dust concern.
EPD officials don't think the material is either kaolin or gypsum, two pet theories among neighbors. Kaolin was dismissed because the dust doesn't seem to get slick when wet, which would be the expectation with clay. Nor does its gritty, sandy texture seem consistent with gypsum's chalkiness.
Beranek has looked into possible connections to backyard fires, street sweepers and the nearby Savannah golf course but has found no links.
"We haven't ruled anything out," Foisy said. "We haven't ruled anything as the source."
Air-borne pollution is especially difficult to trace to a source, Foisy said.
"You can't put it under a microscope and determine what it is and where it's from," he said.
To help in that sleuthing, Rintoul, the retired firefighter, kept a 16-day log of dust accumulation, wind speed and direction. He sent it to EPD then stopped logging because it was "apparent that the material is falling all the time," as he wrote to the regulators.
He hasn't received a response to the log, he said, though regulators indicated they're aware of it.
Foisy said he has no reason to suspect the substance is hazardous. He hasn't received complaints of illness connected to the dust, nor does it have a strong odor associated with volatiles that could be hazardous. He's alerted the air toxics branch to see if anything of concern has been detected at its air sampling station on East President Street.
"Right now they're not tracking any," he said.
There's no anticipated end date to the investigation. EPD will keep it open until it comes to a conclusion, Foisy said.
Neighbors would like more certainty that the dust is innocuous.
Daisy Harrison, who lives in the adjacent Pine Gardens neighborhood, said her car is coated with white dust every morning. She's beginning to wonder if it's making her allergies worse.
"For me, I noticed it around September," she said. "That's usually the time seasonal allergies kick in. This time it's not going away."
But even if it's proven benign, the neighborhood would rather not deal with it.
"I know it's a nuisance," Phelps said. "I don't know how much of a health hazard it is."
The Hedengrens keep their windows closed to protect their home's interior and have watched as the clear coat on Dana's car disintegrated, another problem they suspect is related to the dust.
"Even if it's not a health problem, we'd like for it to stop," Dana Hedengren said.
BASF spokeswoman Donna Jakubowski said the company is committed to addressing residents' concerns about its operations. Anyone with a question or concern about BASF can call the site at 912-644-3856.


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by Sam Collins | December 24, 2013 1:54 am
Apple (AAPL[1]) — This has been one of our most successful stocks in 2013. I recommended traders short it on Feb. 28[2] at $440, with a downside target of $500 to $450. I flipped to the buy side on July 9[3], with the stock near $410, saying, "All shorts should be covered in light of a possible saucer forming."
And on Sept. 27[4], I said, "The bullish saucer formation has continued to develop, a golden cross has formed, and MACD triggered a buy signal. The final bullish signal would be for AAPL to close above the resistance line at $500, but those who wish to take a modest risk could take positions now with a trading target of $570 and a stop-loss at $455. Apple has become a moving target, but a well-placed arrow here could result in a bushel of profits."
Most recently, on Nov. 27[5], I said, "AAPL has since closed above $500, and then consolidated along a line at just under $540. This is the new resistance, and a close above that line on higher volume should result in a quick hop to our trading target of $570, and then to the January target of $600."
My colleague, Josh Levine, editor of ChangeWave Investing, supports the buy recommendation. He said, "Clearly, Apple ends 2013 on a strong note and will enter 2014 with increased momentum to introduce anticipated new products (e.g., iWatch, iTV)."
On Monday, AAPL executed a breakaway gap from its 20-day moving average, setting a new closing high for the year. My target remains $600.
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Ugh, my last review pales in comparison to what you put out Tom... Pos.
Digging: Summoning - With Doom We Come
Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound OffThanks a lot dude.
It's not the masterpiece it should've been, then, but it's still an impressive and oftentimes brilliant experience, that all Bowie fans should try at least once before they decide to throw its splintered, complex carcass on the rubbish heap with his other misguided efforts, because Outside, despite itself, is far from deserving such a treatment.
Love that ending.
Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound OffCheers, dude. The carcass analogy was meant to link in with the album's death theme; glad you like it.
Awesome review! I've been listening to pretty much nothing but bowie since you started posting these!
Album sounds ridiculous! I'll probably give it at least a listen once I get through the remaining of his "classic" albums.
Album Rating: 3.5double post
Album Rating: 3.5Great read Tom, I'm really kind of excited to give this a try now.
Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound OffThanks guys. Interesting album this, but i'm not sure how people will react to it.
Death as a conceptual stepping stone.... I do wish I liked more than a few tracks by Mr. Bowie.
So what's next after the Bowie reviews? Just out of curiosity...
I have no idea how you can write this much about the same artists and keep things sounding fresh
great work
Really enjoyed this review. As if I have to say anymore : )
Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound OffThanks a lot to everyone who dropped a nice comment - appreciate it guys. As for what i'll do next; who knows? Nothing planned as yet...
tackle the big Joy Division and New Order releases?
Ooh Joy Division would be interesting!
Album Rating: 2.5The concept is not hard to grasp; it's just rather silly. Why didn't someone stop him in the studio and say, no, David, no. Too far!
Plus points - Heart's Filthy Lesson, I'm Deranged, No Control, and We Prick You. Really wonderful music.
Minus ponts - most of the rest; daft nonsense from folk who should have known better.
If you want a great Bowie concept album; go back to 74's Diamond Dogs.
Album Rating: 4.0I actually really enjoy this album. I do agree with you though- the album is a little too long. I can listen to the whole thing while I'm doing something else, but when I'm on the bus I skip the monologues and just listen to the songs. Maybe 'cause I like experimental metal I'm more open to this album. Some people will scream about how I'm wrong and how most of the music is shit, but it's best to ignore them and enjoy what you enjoy. Oh, and my favourite songs are The Heart's Filthy Lesson, Outside, I Have Not Been To Oxford Town and We Prick You.
Album Rating: 3.5I really wish the other two albums saw the light of day.
Digging: Converge - The Dusk in Us
Album Rating: 4.5Great album, take away the spoken word segues and about two other songs and the rest is great.
I disagree with JohnP, slightly prefer this to Diamond Dogs
Digging: Cathal Coughlan - The Sky's Awful Blue
Easily Bowie's best album since 1980 (to date).
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Storm Truly Donovans Team
"Ive been with teams where they dont seize the moment, and I'm definitely feeling that was the case this season. We had momentum, we were the second-best team in the Western Conference. Sacramento was picking up momentum, Minnesota with every game picked up momentum, and for us to feel like we didnt seize it when we had it, that was very frustrating for me as a coach. That, I think, is a lesson that weve learned this year. Obviously, we have players that still have a lot of time left. How much of that lesson they really take to heart will be proven next year when were in the same situation, when there are expectations for us again - and there will be - how we respond."
- Seattle Storm Coach Anne Donovan, 8/26/03
Donovan's celebration after Game 3 was well-deserved.
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- Storm guard Betty Lennox, 10/12/04 (after Game 3 of the WNBA Finals)
A little over a year later, Donovan got the answer to her question. Lesson learned (by a player who wasn't even on the roster last August). Moment seized. Championship won.
Make no mistake. While Lennox herself was the MVP of the Finals; Lauren Jackson, a year ago, the MVP of the league and Sue Bird an Olympian, no one figured more prominently into the Storm's development into WNBA Champions than Donovan.
With the possibility of a lockout resolved just days before the start of training camp, Donovan spent most of her first season in Seattle trying to implement her systems at both ends of the court and her philosophy. That worked until center Kamila Vodichkova went down with a sprained foot in early August and the Storm dropped five straight games to slip out of the playoffs, the part of the season Donovan discussed in the quote above.
There was a certain concern on Donovan's part that the Storm didn't have enough veteran leadership and, well, toughness down the stretch. Enter Lennox and Sheri Sam. While Donovan had not previously coached either player, assistant Jenny Boucek had in Miami and Donovan had more than enough experience coaching against both Lennox and Sam to know they could provide what she needed.
With the additions of Lennox and Sam, Donovan also added more of the veteran presence and leadership she enjoyed in Charlotte with Dawn Staley and Andrea Stinson in the backcourt, while improving the Storm at the defensive end of the court (always an important goal for the defensive-minded Donovan).
Early in training camp, it was apparent that year two would go much more smoothly for Donovan, as she no longer needed to spend most of camp teaching her offense and defense to players completely unfamiliar with it. It was also apparent that Lennox and Sam would prove exactly what the Storm needed to complement Bird and Jackson.
All season long, Lennox was there as a scoring alternative when Bird or Jackson was in a funk. And "crooked number" Sam did everything the Storm needed, be it scoring, rebounding, passing or playing defense. It was only during the WNBA Finals, however, when the Connecticut Sun devised a defensive scheme to slow Bird and Jackson that Donovan's plan proved itself completely. While the Storm defense was controlling Connecticut at one end of the court, Lennox was providing the needed firepower at the other end, averaging 22.3 points per game.
That might never have happened had it not been for Donovan's ability not only to gather talent, but get the most out of it.
"I want to thank Anne Donovan," Lennox said after Game 3. "She is the first coach that believed in me. She brought more out of me than I knew I had in myself."
Within the context of a game, Donovan is as skilled as any coach in the league at pushing the right buttons and making the key adjustments (or not making them), as she demonstrated throughout the playoffs. In Game 2 of the Storm's Western Conference Semifinals series against Minnesota, Lynx Coach Suzie McConnell Serio, looking for a spark, went to a big lineup with 6-2 Tamika Williams - Minnesota's starting center most of last year - at small forward. Donovan didn't flinch, sticking with her players, and the Storm went on the decisive run that finished the series even with Bird on the sidelines because of a broken nose.
While Donovan experimented with a big lineup of her own against the supersized front line of the Sacramento Monarchs in the Western Conference Finals, her faith in her team's talent - "We're the better team," she repeatedly told the media - kept her from overreacting with unnecessary adjustments, a strategy proven correct when the Storm exploded for a 20-0 run midway through the second half of Game 3 to finish the Monarchs.
Donovan's work with Lennox was key to the Storm's championship run.
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Donovan switched up her team's defensive alignment to better control guard Lindsay Whalen and center Taj McWilliams-Franklin. Whalen had nine assists in Game 1, just nine in Games 2 and 3 combined. McWilliams-Franklin went from 10 points in Game 1 (most of them early) to a combined 12 in Seattle.
When Thibault refused to alter his defensive matchups to do a better job of stopping Lennox, Donovan turned her loose and watched her win Finals MVP.
Donovan is the first coach to lead a team to a WNBA Championship without a Coach of the Year award already in hand. Like Jackson with MVP, it's a trade-off Donovan would happily make. And no award is necessary to know that Donovan is the league's best coach.
Donovan is also the first woman, a fact which shouldn't be downplayed.
"It's something that we've been striving for," she said after Game 3. "I think there's a lot of great women's coaches out there. In order to get the next level of respect, we have to win championships, we have to win conference championships, WNBA Championships, and I think it will help."
At the same time, Donovan didn't want to win the championship because she's a woman and none had done so before. She wanted to win because that's the focus of every coach on every sideline in every league. At some point, the questions asked of her before the game took on a Doug-Williams-as-the-first-African-American-quarterback-in-the-Super-Bowl surreality. Donovan is a female coach, but she is a coach, first and foremost. The best coach in the WNBA.
On Tuesday night, the Seattle Storm seized the moment, just as Donovan taught them to. In so doing, Anne Donovan's team made itself and her forever a part of history.


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Rep. Collins open to tax reform ideas
Rep. Charlie Collins, R-Fayetteville, chairman of the House Revenue & Tax Committee, said he plans on not rushing his committee's efforts to reform the state tax code.
In an interview with Talk Business Arkansas, Collins said he doesn't want to pass a lot of legislation for it to be parked in the Senate because it will diminish his House caucus' role in overall negotiations.
"That's what happened last time," said Collins, referring to the quick passage of a number of tax-cutting measures by the House. "The Senate had much more leverage to pick and choose which bills could move forward."
This session, Collins said he wants there to be a three-way conversation in tax reform negotiations – the House, Senate and executive branch.
As for what those tax reform measures may be, Collins said "nothing is dead on arrival" at this point, including targeted business tax cuts, the grocery tax reduction, and income tax reform. Could all of these tax cutting proposals pass in this legislative session?
"Yes," said Collins. "To some degree for each and all of those things."
Collins acknowledged that individual income taxes constitute nearly half of the state's general revenue budget. He contends that incremental change in this area can be accomplished by working the numbers in conjunction with revenue growth or flat budgeting.
"I feel strongly we need to dramatically lower the burden on the lowest income workers, more modestly lower the burden on middle income workers, and then slightly lower the burden on the highest income workers and job creators," said Collins. "We can do this by slowing the growth of spending versus our historic norms."
Sen. Jake Files, R-Fort Smith, chair of the Senate Revenue and Tax Committee, has said he wants tax cut proposals pushed through his committee to show revenue neutrality.
Files, during a Jan. 17 interview, said he hopes to work with the House in an effort to alter income tax brackets in the state. He wants to see relief for middle-income tax earners, but is not supportive of a tax increase on the wealthy.


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The Three Stooges - Hapless Half-Wits (2007)
These Jewish boys from Brooklyn stick it to the anti-Semites before anyone else in Hollywood had the balls to do so.
The Three Stooges - Hapless Half-WitsDistributor: Sony
MPAA rating: Unrated
Studio: MGM
First date: 2007
US DVD Release Date: 2007-02-20
Before Sasha Baron Cohen was accused of bad taste for the way he made fun of anti-Semites in Borat, a different group of Jews vulgarly took the Nazis to task. The Three Stooges were the first people in Hollywood to crudely show the world what Hitler and his band of thugs were like. This new four short-film collection does not include the Stooges' initial anti-Hitler flick You Nazty Spy (made nine months before Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator), but this one-disc DVD does contain the hilarious follow-up I'll Never Heil Again (1941).
I'll Never Heil Again grossly parodies Germany before the United States entered the Second World War. Moe Howard (nee Horwitz) plays the Adolf Hitler-like Moe Hailstone, the dictator of Moronica, complete with a toothbrush mustache and a coat of arms that reads "Moronica Uber Alles". Larry Fine (nee Louis Fineberg) and Curly Howard (Moe's real life younger brother) broadly portray the Minister of Propaganda and Field Marshal Herring in ways that clearly echo the Nazi leaders whose roles they parallel. The short is chock full of silly one-liners and sight gags and allows its American audience to feel superior against an enemy that proclaimed itself a race of supermen.
The superfluous plot serves as an excuse to make fun of the Axis' desire for world domination. Not only does the film poke fun at the Nazis; the climax features doubles depicting the leaders of Italy, Japan, and the Soviet Union plotting a global takeover that breaks down into a hilarious pseudo-football game, which includes everything from a rumba dance to a Statue of Liberty play.
While the inclusion of this flick alone makes the The Three Stooges: Helpless Half Wits DVD worth purchasing, the other three shorts are also very good, especially Brideless Groom (1947) and Dopey Dicks (1949), which are the first Three Stooges movies to feature Shemp Howard. Moe's younger brother Curly was in all of the Three Stooges films until he suffered a stroke in 1946. Curly still starred in Beer Barrel Polecats (1945), but he doesn't seem his vital self, probably because he was quite ill. Like most of the Three Stooges films, Beer Barrel Polecats relies on slapstick comedy to be humorous.
The Stooges were always rude, crude, and out of control as they vainly attempted to be the opposite. While high brow/low class Hebrew entertainers like the Marx Brothers made fun of high society in a manner that even the snobbish poet T.S. Eliot could enjoy (wasn't that Margaret Dumont at Prufrock's cocktail party chatting about Michelangelo?), the Stooges tried mostly just not to arouse the suspicions of the common people and cops they encountered in their daily lives. The Stooges provided physical comic relief during the Great Depression years, and with the exception of the anti-Nazi films, they continued relying on pokes in the eyes, kicks to the butts, and other gross gestures to be successful comedians.
Shemp was the oldest of the Horwitz brothers and had a thriving career as a character actor when Curly got sick. In many ways, Shemp was a much better actor than Curly. He could play the more debonair speaking roles and serve as a straight man for the Three Stooges' gags, which he does to great effect in the other two shorts included here. Brideless Groom recycles the common plot of a man (Shemp) without a steady beau who must marry within seven hours to claim a rich family inheritance. The short relies on two comic conceits. Shemp plays a music teacher. His lessons to a talentless and plain looking pupil provides a steady source of fun (he tells her to "gargle with old razor blades"). Plus, the women who Shemp tries to woo serve as constant foils. The most colorful instance of the latter occurs when actress Christine McIntyre learns that Shemp is not the person she thought so she slaps him around, punches him, and knocks him through the door. She actually broke his nose in the process. This scene was included in the movie.
Dopey Dicks makes fun of the detective movies and horror films that were popular at the time. The short begins as the Stooges move furniture into private investigator Sam Shovel's office and ends with them escaping from a mad scientist in a car driven by a headless robot. That sort of sums up the zaniness involved, but again it's Shemp who steals the movie from his two cohorts because he can simultaneously seem sophisticated and a doofus. Moe and Larry never seem more than simpletons, despite whatever airs they put on.
The DVD Hapless Half-Wits contains no extra bonuses, but it uses "ChromaChoice" technology that allows viewers using a remote to toggle back and forth between original black and white and colorized versions of the film (so that there are actually eight shorts here; four in black and white and four in color). The black and white masters have been remastered in hi-definition video that looks great. The colorized versions have a sepia tone that fits in with the period from which the movies were originally made.
These four Three Stooges discs stand among the best work the act ever made. Sure the jokes can be as stupid as someone getting whacked in the head with a mop or taking a pratfall into a bathtub full of beer, but it's more fun than watching someone wrestling with a naked hairy, fat man in their hotel room. And in the case of I'll Never Heil Again, these Jewish boys from Brooklyn stick it to the anti-Semites before anyone else in Hollywood had the balls to do so.


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Christian Bale Guns for Oscar in Brutal 'Hostiles' Trailer (Video)
Actor plays an Army captain in a Western that got rave reviews at Telluride
Actor plays an Army captain in a Western that got rave reviews at Telluride
Telluride Film Festival: Scott Cooper's 19th-century drama offers an echo of hope amid the darkness
Movie is directed by Amma Asante and written by Guy Hibbert
Film based on true story will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival
Jason Clarke, Rosamund Pike, Jack O'Connell and Mia Wasikowska are attached to star
Academy Award nominee to star opposite "Mad Men" actor in political thriller
Chris Pine, Kevin Hart, Felicity Jones, Rosamund Pike, J.K. Simmons also receive invites
Mia Wasikowska and Jack Reynor also join Cedric Jimenez-directed film
John D. MacDonald mystery adaptation also stars "Gone Girl" Oscar nominee Rosamund Pike
An overly familiar premise takes a dark, degrading turn in a nasty, unfun film that'll benefit neither Heigl nor Wilson's careers
"Gone Girl" star follows up Oscar nomination with James Mangold-directed thriller
The actress steamed up the red carpet at the 87th Academy Awards but shared an uncomfortable back-and-forth with her mother
Best Picture goes to "Birdman"; Alejandro G. Inarritu takes Best Director; Best Actor and Actress go to Eddie Redmayne and Julianne Moore
Live coverage starting 3 p.m. PT/6 p.m. ET, includes real-time reports, winners list, red carpet photos, video and tweets from TheWrap's team. Bookmark this page for all the awards action — as it happens
Netflix scores big with "Orange Is the New Black" and "House of Cards," while "Birdman" takes best cast honor on the movie side
"Gone Girl" actress tells TheWrap she's glad for the recognition the role brought: "But of course, it's hard to follow Fincher"
"Selma" secured a Best Picture nomination but its writing, directing and acting wasn't recognized
And can "Selma" recover from a bad showing with the Hollywood guilds to grab some Oscar redemption?
"Boyhood" takes home Best Motion Picture – Drama, "The Affair" was tops in the genre for TV
TheWrap was on the scene as Sony's Michael Lynton, Miles Teller, Chris Evans, Amy Adams, Rosamund Pike, Lee Daniels party with Stefano Tonchi, Lynn Hirschberg and Andre Balazs at the Chateau
A new "Planet of the Apes" movie hits on July 14, 2017, while "Assassin's Creed" is coming Dec. 21, 2016
The heat-seeking actress had never been offered anything like Amy Dunne — but knew just what to do with it
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Keira Knightley, Michael Keaton, Amy Adams and Emily Blunt among those who are "excited" and "surprised"
Hefty selection of awards hopefuls includes a number of frontrunners, as well as films picking up strong word-of-mouth after recent screenings
In previous years, honor has gone to Lupita Nyong'o and Marion Cotillard
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U.S. Envoy: Israel, Palestinians Tackling Tough Issues Up Front
The two leaders now holding their third meeting in two days; Israeli source says talks in Sharm yielded number of ideas for breakthrough in direct peace talks.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hosted Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at his official residence in Jerusalem on Wednesday, in what special U.S. envoy George Mitchell described as a sign that both leaders believe a peace deal can be achieved.
The meeting in Jerusalem was the third consecutive session between the leaders over the last two days, a continuation of the direct negotiations that began last month.
Following the meeting, Mitchell said that Abbas and Netanyahu had discussed difficult issues "up front" and seemed to be making progress on the contentious issue of settlement construction in the West Bank.
"They are tackling up front ... the issues that are at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," Mitchell told reporters. "I will say that the two leaders are not leaving the tough issues to the end of their discussions ... We take this as a strong indicator of their belief that peace is possible."
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took center stage prior to the meeting between the two leaders, which followed a round of negotiations in Egypt a day earlier.
During their meeting, Netanyahu reiterated to the two that Israel's temporary freeze in West Bank construction would indeed expire as planned at the end of the month.
A day earlier, Israeli sources said that the Israeli leader had implored the Palestinian president not to let the end of the freeze foil the long-awaited resumption of peace negotiations.
When asked prior to their meeting in Jerusalem if they had made progress during their two sessions of meetings at the Sinai resort of Sharm El-Sheikh, Netanyahu told reporters: "We're working on it ... It's a lot of work. And I am glad to have the opportunity to welcome President Abbas and Secretary Clinton here pursuing peace, and I think we should get on with [it]."
It was Abbas's first visit to the official residence in Jerusalem of Israel's prime minister since the right-wing Netanyahu took office 18 months ago. He had held talks there before with Netanyahu's predecessor, Ehud Olmert.
"Today I returned to this house after a long period of absence in order to continue the talks and the negotiations, in hope of arriving at an eternal peace in all the region, and especially peace between the Israeli people and the Palestinian people," he wrote in the visitors' book.
Washington has set a one-year target for reaching a framework peace agreement aimed at ending a decades-long conflict and establishing a Palestinian state.
But a 10-month Israeli moratorium on new housing construction in West Bank settlements, which Netanyahu imposed under U.S. pressure, expires on Sept. 26 and Palestinians have said they would quit the negotiations if building resumes.
Clinton to Peres: Israel and Palestinians getting serious about peace
The secretary of state earlier Wednesday met with President Shimon Peres and Defense Minister Ehud Barak for separate talks. Clinton told Peres during their meeting that it seemed Israeli and Palestinian leaders were "getting down to business" and tackling the main issues of the Middle East conflict.
"They have begun to grapple with the core issues that can only be resolved through face to face negotiations," she said. "I have spent many hours in conversation with them and I believe they are sincere and understand the consequences of their actions."
Peres responded by telling Clinton that he believes the direct peace talks have gotten off on the right foot. "The faster we move, the better it will be for all parties," Peres said. "A few months ago we did not think we could move to direct talks and it happened."
The United States has stepped up pressure on Netanyahu and Abbas to resolve the crisis over the looming end of the settlement freeze. During talks between the two leaders with Clinton in Sharm on Tuesday, a number of ideas were raised in an effort to achieve a breakthrough.
A senior Israeli official said that Netanyahu had made it clear to Abbas that the construction freeze in West Bank settlements would come to an end as scheduled on September 26 and would not be extended.
However, the prime minister said that construction will be limited and will not exceed that which was carried out under the tenure of former prime minister Ehud Olmert, with whom Abbas held direct talks.
"The end of the settlement freeze must not be allowed to foil the talks," Netanyahu told Abbas. "We have taken on an ambitious mission of reaching agreement within a year and we must focus on that."
Among the ideas for achieving a breakthrough on the issue of the settlement freeze was to hold intensive talks on the question of borders for a future Palestinian state and setting a three month deadline for agreement. In return the Palestinians would agree to continue the talks despite a return to building in the West Bank.
Mitchell, who has been present for the negotiations but refused to elaborate on the content of the talks, said that there was also discussion of the core issues of a future permanent settlement, describing the atmosphere as "serious" and the talks as "detailed."
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Mick Jagger: I'm Hooked On Facebook
I'm sure Mick's not alone on this. As cool as social media is, it's too often habit forming, or simply gets in the way of getting things done.
Mick Jagger says that he has become hooked on social media to the point that it distracts him from making music.
"I spend way too much time on the computer and not enough time playing the guitar," says the Rolling Stones frontman. "There's an underlying problem of this screen life taking over all of your life. It's easy to keep in touch with people, some of whom I wish I'd never kept in touch with. But there they are on Facebook! You can spend a lot of time on that when you should be doing something else."
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The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is looking into allegations against a Jackson County prison warden to decide whether to charge her with theft for allegedly using inmates as personal movers and illegally spending county funds, a GBI official said.
The allegations against Jackson County Correctional Institute Warden Vickie Underwood came in the county's recently released 2006 audit report.
Underwood and one of her assistants, Stephen Jones, were relieved of their duties June 29, when they were placed on paid administrative leave while the allegations are investigated.
Interim Jackson County Manager Leonard Myers first said county officials were investigating the matter, but last week acting Piedmont Judicial Circuit District Attorney Allison Mauldin asked to GBI to assist in the probe.
Mauldin asked the GBI to investigate whether the warden and her assistant committed theft of county property, according to Mike Ayers, assistant special agent in charge of GBI's Athens field office.
The Jackson County Correctional Institute is a medium-security prison in Jefferson that houses state inmates who do landscaping, road and building maintenance and other work throughout the county.
When Underwood was hired as warden in 2001, she moved into a county-owned house outside downtown Jefferson that was traditionally used as the warden's residence, according to Myers. She had to move from the taxpayer-funded dwelling into her own house in May 2006, after the county decided to convert the warden's residence into a conference center, he said.
According to the audit report, prepared by the Bates Carter & Co. accounting firm, "There were reports to the county manager that inmates had been used to move the warden from a county-owned residence in which she was no longer entitled to live to a private residence."
Underwood not only allegedly misused inmate labor, the audit report states, but she never submitted invoices to show she had spent the $5,000 the county had given her for moving expenses.
The auditors recommended the county add that amount to Underwood's taxable income since "this was an unsubstantiated allowance."
After Underwood moved from the warden's residence near Hurricane Shoals Park, the report says, Underwood reportedly billed the county for items bought at The Home Depot for her new home. The report did not specify how much the warden supposedly spent at the home-improvement center.
Underwood also used taxpayer dollars to buy eyeglasses, according to the audit report, and she and two of her senior staffers each were paid $1,100 in uniform allowances, but never submitted invoices to substantiate that the money was used to buy uniforms.
The auditor also recommended that the uniform allowances be charged to Underwood and her staffers as taxable income.
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A literature review of dialogue and relational leadership with a focus on the work of Martin Buber. An explanation of the chosen methodology; co-operative inquiry and some emerging themes from my work.
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Two-Time Emmy-Nominated Series Continues Tuesday, November 19 at 9:00 PM ET
Features Interviews with Dan Fouts, Joe Namath, Roger Staubach, Mike Martz, Chuck Klosterman & More
What do Teddy Roosevelt, Knute Rockne, George Carlin, the Atomic Bomb, the Hail Mary Prayer, Marcia Brady's broken nose and "American Pie" all have in common? The Forward Pass.
As ubiquitous as it is now, throwing the football was once unimaginable. For the first four decades of football's existence, the Forward Pass was illegal. However, with rising safety concerns surrounding the game of football, President Roosevelt intervened. It was his demand that rules makers open up the game by legalizing the Forward Pass that saved football from abolition and created the sport we love.
NFL Network's two-time Emmy-nominated series continues Tuesday, November 19 at 9:00 PM ET with The Forward Pass: A Football Life. The one-hour documentary examines the implementation of the Forward Pass into the game of football and the profound affect it has had on the game and its players, as well as on how football is viewed in society. The Forward Pass: A Football Life tells the story of one of America's greatest inventions and how it transformed football from a lackluster rugby-style game of running and kicking into the uniquely American spectacle it has become.
Among the topics discussed in the documentary are:
- The role President Theodore Roosevelt played in legalizing the Forward Pass and how it ultimately saved football
- Knute Rockne's "invention" of the Forward Pass in a 1913 game between Notre Dame and Army, and Hollywood's role in mythologizing that event
- How football coach and innovator Clark Shaughnessy's T-formation transformed the quarterback from a blocking back into the hero of every football game
- Former NFL MVP Boomer Esiason demonstrates how the evolving shape of the football made it easier to throw the Forward Pass by throwing footballs from throughout history
- Former NFL quarterback Doug Flutie demonstrates how the Forward Pass eliminated the Drop Kick
- How Don Coryell and Bill Walsh utilized and revived the Forward Pass
- What is the meaning of Don McLean's use of "The Forward Pass" in the lyrics of "American Pie"?
Emmy-nominated actor from CBS' The Good Wife, Josh Charles, narrates.
The Forward Pass: A Football Life includes interviews with the following people and more:
Bill Belichick – New England Patriots head coach
Dan Fouts – Hall of Fame quarterback
Joe Namath – Hall of Fame quarterback
Roger Staubach – Hall of Fame quarterback
Steve Young – Hall of Fame quarterback
Mike Martz – Former NFL head coach
Boomer Esiason – Former NFL quarterback
Doug Flutie – Former NFL quarterback
Brian Billick – Former NFL head coach
Joe Gibbs – Former NFL head coach
George Seifert – Former NFL head coach
Michael Oriard – Author, Reading Football
Chuck Klosterman – Author, Eating the Dinosaur
John J. Miller – Author, The Big Scrum
Provided below are some select quotes from The Forward Pass: A Football Life:
– "Americans are great innovators; we have a great history of invention…The Forward Pass when you think about it fits nicely into that tradition. It's a great innovation that turns a sport like rugby into American football." – John J. Miller
– "There weren't many options for how to move the ball. Every play kind of looks like what you would expect from a goaline surge during a blizzard. People are just sort of hammering into each other trying to incrementally move the ball…Punting seemed like half of the game." – Chuck Klosterman on the game of football before the introduction of the Forward Pass
– "It's like throwing a weighted basketball with laces." – Boomer Esiason on the rugby football used before the introduction of the Forward Pass
– "In 1913, we had Columbus coming to America in terms of football and that's when Notre Dame showed up to play Army on the East Coast." – John J. Miller
– "Everyone knows that [the quarterback is] the center of the game. If Tom Brady was a slot receiver, would he date Gisele [Bundchen]? It's possible he might – it's very possible Wes Welker could have ended up dating Gisele, but it doesn't seem like it. Joe Flacco has a better chance to date someone like Gisele than Wes Welker." – Chuck Klosterman
– "Throwing the bomb and hitting that long pass is just electrifying. It still is just thinking about it. You get goose bumps." – Joe Namath
– "It was very prevalent that passing was too risky, and it was the way that they were thinking about it. But the way Bill [Walsh] talked about it – the short passing game – it was the extension of your running game." – Steve Young
– "You take a look at the greatest plays of the last 50 years, it's hard to come up with anything like a comprehensive list without going back time and again to the Forward Pass." – Michael MacCambridge
Following the episode, Jenn Brown hosts A Football Life: Backstory at 10:00 PM ET, a 30-minute show that provides a deeper look into the lives and story of each subject, features interviews with relevant individuals, and includes material that did not make the final edition of the episode.
Viewers will also have the opportunity to interact and offer their thoughts on Twitter by following @NFLNetwork and using the hashtag #AFootballLife.
Viewers can also interact with and follow the series on their phones and tablets with A Football Life Xtra. Located within the new NFL Mobile app, A Football Life Xtra features producer commentary, photos and artifacts from the NFL Films archives, and career stats and unique facts, as well as trivia games and polls on NFL legends. Visit NFL.com/xtra on your mobile device to download NFL Mobile. Additionally, every episode of A Football Life – as well as all NFL Network programming – is streamed live on NFL Mobile from Verizon, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Below is the broadcast schedule for upcoming episodes of A Football Life:
- November 26 – Steve Gleason
- December 3 – Great Wall of Dallas
- December 10 – Houston '93
- December 17 – Marty Schottenheimer
- December 24 – Vince Lombardi, Part 1
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SAN JOSE — Todd McLellan was blunt about the task that lies ahead.
"We haven't accomplished anything," the Sharks coach said after Monday's morning skate. "We didn't get our work done in L.A., and that put us behind the eight ball. The fact that we won Game 3 — that's great, but we still are behind in the series, and the series is getting shorter."
The best-of-seven matchup with the Los Angeles Kings continues with Tuesday night's Game 4 at HP Pavilion, and statistical history explains the importance of San Jose evening things up with a second victory:
Only 9.2 percent of the 262 NHL teams trailing a series 3-1 have come back to win it.
"We've just got to find a way to get even," McLellan said. "If our intensity or urgency drops because we've won a single game, I would be disappointed in our group."
His players know where they stand in the series, of course. But that is somewhat offset by the sense that they have more than held their own against the defending Stanley Cup champions.
"We felt we've been the better team through three games and unfortunately we're down 2-1," defenseman Dan Boyle said. "I think we're going to see a better team Tuesday night from their side, so we're going to have to raise our game even more."
Both coaches were dealing with lineup changes, though only the Kings' Darryl Sutter was ready to make a commitment, declaring forward Kyle Clifford is ready to play after dealing with an upper-body injury.
For the Sharks, McLellan indicated he might use seven defensemen and go with Jason Demers as the replacement for once-again injured forward Marty Havlat. Demers practiced on both the blue line and up front Monday, and McLellan indicated he could be used in both spots.
"I'll go in wherever they want me to right now," said Demers, who has not played since suffering an ankle injury April 18. The defenseman has played a few games at forward before, late in 2009-10 and the postseason that followed.
While his defensemen have stayed healthy and out of trouble, McLellan's forwards have provided the challenge with problems created by injuries to Havlat and Adam Burish as well as the suspension of Raffi Torres.
"It affects us in a few different ways," McLellan said of missing 25 percent of his forwards. "Pairs that we've used on a regular basis for penalty kill and power play units, that kind of stuff. But, every team is going through it."
With two days off between games three and four, the Kings chose to fly back to Los Angeles after Saturday night's overtime loss so they could sleep and practice in familiar surroundings. They returned to San Jose on Monday afternoon.
Boyle didn't see that extra travel giving the Sharks any kind of an edge.
"No, it's such a short flight," he said. "I think I read that their flight was just as long as them getting home after a game anyway. I don't see any advantages for anybody there."
The extra 24 hours did give players on both sides a little more time to recover from the usual "bumps and bruises" at this time of the year. Logan Couture, for example, stayed off the ice as he recovers from his a leg problem that caused him to miss the bulk of the second period of Game 3. But McLellan said again Monday that Couture would be playing.
Overall, players appeared to be ready for the puck to drop.
"At this time of the year they're like horses," McLellan said. "They want to run and they want to play."
Traditionally, teams make adjustments throughout any series, and McLellan said that was the case with this one as well. But because the teams are Pacific Division rivals who know each other well, there may be fewer adjustments than usual.
"There's very little that gets changed," Boyle said. "It's just about game plan versus game plan, and usually they're pretty similar. It's just about who's going to do it better."
For more on the Sharks, see David Pollak's Working the Corners blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/sharks. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/PollakOnSharks.
GAME 4: Los Angeles at Sharks, 7 p.m., NBCSN
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Tags Booms and BustsGlobal EconomyMonetary TheoryProduction Theory
China has experienced one of the great economic transformations in the history of the world, owing to economic reforms that unleashed astonishing productive capacity that had been bottled up for long period of state controls. And yet this transformation has been endangered by the bane of all booms under fiat money: money and credit creation. The question is whether China's boom will settle softly or coming crashing down.
The latest data indicates that strong economic activity remains intact. Thus the 3-month moving average of the yearly rate of growth of industrial production jumped to 20.6% in April from 16.6% in March.
The growth momentum of the production of steel continues to display buoyancy. Year-on-year steel production stood at 28.3% in March versus 27% in February. Also, car production displays buoyancy. The yearly rate of growth of car production stood at 40% in March against 48% in the previous month.
Although the pace of investment in fixed assets eased slightly in April it nonetheless remains very strong. The yearly rate of growth of fixed asset investment stood at 42.8% in April against 47.8% in March.
Furthermore real GDP grew year-on-year in Q1 by 9.8% after expanding by 9.9% in Q4 last year. Retail sales have continued to display strength. The yearly rate of growth of retail sales jumped to 13.2% in April from 11.1% in the previous month.
Since April last year, Chinese authorities have introduced various measures to cool off economic activity. The central bank raised the amount of cash that banks must keep in reserve requirements by 0.5% to 8%. Also, China's central bank has expanded open-market operations to twice a week from once weekly. These measures are starting to show some effect on the rate of growth of bank loans. Thus after rising to 23.9% in August 2003 the yearly rate of growth loans fell to 19.8% in April. Furthermore, after rising by 52.5% in January last year, year-on-year lending for construction activities fell by 6.6% in April.
For the time being, however, the growth momentum of money M1 continues apace. The yearly rate of growth of this monetary measure stood at 20% in April against 20.1% in the previous month.
Meanwhile the effect of strong increases in the yearly rate of growth of money M1 can be clearly seen through the growth momentum of the consumer price index (CPI). After falling to 2.1% in February the yearly rate of growth of the CPI jumped to 3.8% in April.
Should this rise in CPI growth momentum intensify further it is quite likely that the Chinese authorities will be forced to introduce much tougher measures. For instance, some Chinese officials have suggested that the central bank may lift the one-year lending rate, which is currently stands at 5.31%.
Here is where we find the most severe risk. This possible increase in interest rates runs the risk of bursting the bubble and plunging the economy into a recession.
Chinese authorities, however, believe that they can stage an orderly deflation of the bubble and thereby prevent an economic bust. However, it is questionable as to whether an orderly deflation of the bubble i.e. a soft landing, is possible. There is a high likelihood that due to the aggressive lowering of interest rates by the central bank from 11% in 1996 to 5.3% at present a severe misallocation of resources has occurred. We suggest that this makes the economy so much more vulnerable to any tight monetary policy.
Should the growth momentum of money supply contract sharply on account of a possible sharp fall in bank lending, economic activity will follow suit. For example, a fall in the yearly rate of growth of money M1 from 54% in Q2 1993 to 14% in Q2 1996 plunged the nominal GDP rate of growth from 69% in Q4 1994 to 2% in Q4 1997.
In sum, it seems that a bust is more likely than Chinese authorities are currently admitting. A possible bust of the Chinese economy is likely to be bad news for the US and other world economies. There are already indications that the rate of increase of China's imports is slowing down. After rising to 76.7% in February the yearly rate of growth of imports fell to 42.7% in April.
In this respect, the growth momentum of imports from the US fell sharply in March. Year-on-year the rate of growth fell to 29.4% from 92.2% in February. The yearly rate of growth of China's imports from Asia fell to 43.4% in March from 73% in the previous month.
To prepare for the possibility of a genuine bust, there is only course of action for China: it can and should be mitigated by further liberalizations of capital investment rules and even more privatization. This is the only "countercyclical" policy the government should consider, since all efforts to reflate are doomed to fail.


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Stephen Schwartz, best known as the enormously successful composer behind "Godspell," "Pippin" and, of course, the megahit "Wicked," is also a fledgling opera composer, and his first effort, "Seance on a Wet Afternoon," opened this week to decidedly mixed reviews.
But whatever headaches he may have suffered reading the morning papers must surely have melted by nightfall Thursday as Kristin Chenoweth, Raul Esparza, Ann Hampton Calloway and emcee Victor Garber celebrated his career during New York City Opera's spring gala at the David H. Koch Theater. They were joined by two stars of his current opera, Lauren Flanigan and Todd Wilander.
The actors regaled the audience with anecdotes about the composer, and at one point, Chenoweth, the original Glinda in "Wicked," became so choked up, she could barely sing the phrase, "Because I knew you, I have been changed for good" — from "For Good," the emotional climax to "Wicked."
"Stop crying," instructed Schwartz, ever the pragmatist, at the piano.
Esparza gave his all to perhaps Schwartz's best-known song, "Defying Gravity," the empowering anthem sung by the green witch Elphaba. He also sang two songs from the long-ago hit "Pippin," and teamed up with Garber for a few numbers from another 1970s golden smash, "Godspell." (Garber starred in the 1973 movie.)
As for Chenoweth, who recently starred in "Promises, Promises" and found TV fame in an occasional role on "Glee," she sang the ever-popular "Popular" from "Wicked," along with the wistful "Lion Tamer" from "The Magic Show."
Before the show, Schwartz reflected in an interview on his experience branching into opera — when he surely no longer needed to prove himself.
"Yes, but that's what was so nice about it," he said, while acknowledging that his first outing had been harder than expected. "It gave me an opportunity to do something I'd never done before," he said. "It was very exciting to enter new territory."
He responded to criticism that his opera, based on the 1964 British thriller of the same name, tried too hard to be accessible to its audience.
"I fall on the side of the argument that opera SHOULD be accessible," Schwartz said. "There should be times when the audience comes out humming. I don't know why that suddenly became old-fashioned."
Next up for Schwartz is something totally different: a DreamWorks animated film, "Monkeys of Bollywood," for which he's writing lyrics to music by A.R. Rahman ("Slumdog Millionaire").
And will there be another opera? Schwartz didn't rule it out.
"I don't think in those terms," he said, "I do what's interesting that's in front of me."
Thursday's gala was conducted by Steven Osgood. "Seance on a Wet Afternoon" runs through May 1, the last production of the season for a company said to be struggling financially.
Schwartz, of course, is suffering no such troubles. "Wicked" continues to be the No. 1 show on Broadway after more than seven years and is a hit around the world.
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