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The Steelers and James Farrior agreed to a new 5-year, $18.25 million deal today. It includes a $5 million signing bonus.
I have mixed feelings about this deal. On one hand, I do not like the idea of giving out third contracts to players over 30 years old. This is how teams get into cap hell, because they will ultimately face the prospect of being hamstrung by an underperforming aging veteran with a bloated salary cap hit.
On the other hand, the money seems okay. It's not a whole lot. The Pittsburgh Tribune Review is reporting that Farrior will have base salaries of $1.8 million, $2.975 million, and $2.825 million in 2008, 2009, and 2010, respectively. Add in the $1 million prorated signing bonus each year (5-year deal, $5 million bonus), and you get cap hits of $2.8 million, $3.975 million, and $3.825 million in the first three years. Those numbers are certainly manageable, and in this day and age of free agency Farrior probably would have gotten more money on the open market. The base salaries in his last two years are probably around $2.5-$3.5 million, so this is not some backloaded deal that will force the Steelers to release Potsie because of an inflated base salary.
With James being 33 years old, I highly doubt he plays out this entire contract. I think he probably has 3 good years left in him, so there's probably a chance the Steelers release him in the offseasons of 2011 or 2012 and eat the $1 or $2 million cap hit. Those are palatable numbers that won't kill the Steelers salary cap. But still, you always would like to avoid those "dead money" situations, and with the length of this contract I don't think it's avoidable.
All in all, this crosses off a need that the Steelers would have had to fill in the 2009 offseason. They can now focus on the offensive line, defensive line, and secondary. I wouldn't mind seeing extensions given out to Kemoeatu and McFadden. It remains to be seen if those will come to fruition.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Steelers, Farrior Agree to New 5-Year Deal
The Steelers and James Farrior agreed to a new 5-year, $18.25 million deal today. It includes a $5 million signing bonus.
Posted by Dave Wannstache at 1:14 PM
Labels: James Farrior, Pittsburgh Steelers
4 comments:
- August 21, 2008 at 1:30 PM
- Dave Wannstache said...
Yeah, that's his nickname.
I don't know where it originated, though.
- August 21, 2008 at 3:24 PM
- bgsteelfan said...
I think its a good signing. Both the team and Farrior have hinted that he has about three years left, and I think there is a good chance he retires before the contract is up.
- August 21, 2008 at 11:37 PM
- Jay said...
we're still waiting for that whitney apology article, sam
- August 22, 2008 at 11:02 AM


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JULESBURG, Colo. – DENVER – The Republican lawmakers who represent northeastern Colorado in the General Assembly are finding little to cheer about from the 2009 version of the 120-day session that adjourns Wednesday.
The Republicans, who make up only one-third of the Legislature's membership, were unanimous in their disdain for Senate Bill 228, which easily made their short list as the worst bill of the session.
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SB 108 – the so-called FASTER bill – increases vehicle registration by at least $41 per vehicle to raise funds for roads and bridges.
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"With FASTER, we made more money available with a regressive tax on all drivers in the name of roads and bridges, and by repealing Arveschoug-Bird, we took away all the guarantees for funding transportation going forward," Priola said.
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Great stat about Burrell, you got a plug from L.A. and Scott on the broadcast. He picked a great time to top those number w/ the winning runs.
The ratings and sell outs are fantastic but not a surprise w/ this team. Peter Gammons even commented this morning on Mike and Mike how the Phillies are the funnest team to watch in baseball.
The Phillies organaztion deserves a lot of credit for the attendance too. The promotions, discounted and even free ticket offers in Sept. spiked attendance as well. The organization made the largest effort I can remember to encourage fans to come out and cheer on the Phigtin Phil's. Let's go Phillies!
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When the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center opened in New York City in 1986, New Yorkers were baffled by its location on the far West Side of Manhattan. Standing alone in what was a vast concrete wasteland, the location was not near any hotels, restaurants, or subway lines, and the neighborhood was generally dicey.
Fast-forward to 2014, and a few things have changed. When you visit New York City for Interop on Sept. 29-Oct 3, you'll see that the Far West Side of Manhattan is undergoing a radical transformation. While the area still lacks luxury business hotels, it does feature the High Line park, and there are plans to extend the No. 7 subway line all the way to 12th Ave. There's also a fantastic bike/walking path along the Hudson River, and the Chelsea Piers offers sports, restaurants and river cruises.
That said, when it comes to food, Javits still sits alone on its island of concrete, with very few quality dining options within close walking distance.
Most folks attending a convention here quickly retreat back to their midtown hotels, where restaurants are plentiful. But if you do that, you'll miss out on all the richness Manhattan has to offer when it comes to dining experiences. I did my best to keep these alternative options within about a 20-block radius of Javits, encompassing the neighborhoods of Chelsea, Hell's Kitchen (don't let the name fool you), and Midtown East/Murray Hill. These establishments will have you exploring neighborhoods you may have overlooked on other visits.
I've chosen a mix of business-friendly restaurants, where you won't feel out of place in a suit and tie, as well as casual dining experiences that are too good to be missed. An added bonus: I've listed only restaurants in which I've personally dined. I don't pretend to be a foodie, but I would never send my friends to a place I hadn't visited first.
Have some of your own favorite New York restaurants near Javits? Tell us about them in the comments section below. And don't forget to let us know if you'll be joining us at Interop New York, where you can feed your mind all day and your stomach at night.Susan Nunziata leads the site's content team and contributors to guide topics, direct strategies, and pursue new ideas, all in the interest of sharing practicable insights with our community.Nunziata was most recently Director of Editorial for EnterpriseEfficiency.com, a UBM ... View Full Bio


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It Is All About BTC, LTC, ETH, ZEC mining as well as other alternative crypto currencies
An interesting announcement coming straight from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) about the lauch of the first exchange-calculated and disseminated bitcoin index – NYSE Bitcoin Index (NYXBT). The new NYXBT Index will represent the U.S. dollar value of one bitcoin unit based upon actual transactions occurring on select bitcoin exchanges which have been evaluated and meet NYSE's quality standards. The NYSE Bitcoin Index will initially feature data from transactions from the Coinbase Exchange, an exchange that NYSE made a minority investment in earlier this year.
"Bitcoin values are quickly becoming a data point that our customers want to follow as they consider transacting, trading or investing with this emerging asset class," said NYSE Group President Thomas Farley. "As a global index leader and administrator of ICE LIBOR, ICE Futures U.S. Dollar Index and many other notable benchmarks, we are pleased to bring transparency to this market. By combining our technology infrastructure with our expertise in index calculation and data management, we will continue to launch complementary products based on our rigorous standards and proprietary index methodology."
NYXBT utilizes a unique methodology that relies on rules-based logic to analyze a dataset of matched transactions and verify the integrity of the data to ultimately produce an objective and fair daily value for one bitcoin in U.S. Dollars as of 16:00 London time. The index will be published within a short period of that time via the widely-distributed NYSE Global Index Feed (GIF) as well as made publicly available for an initial period on the NYSE index page.
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CINCINNATI (AP) — A woman accused of helping her 15-year-old daughter beat another teenage girl at a high school is countering a police department's version of the fight and says she and her daughter are the ones who were attacked.
Precious Allen told The Cincinnati Enquirer that the other teenage girl attacked her and her daughter on Feb. 7 at Withrow High School and that the teen was bigger and taller than both of them.
Allen, a 31-year-old mother of five, said she was talking to a teacher when the girl cursed at her and charged and she's confident school videos will prove her and her daughter's innocence.
"I won't be charged," she said.
Allen's story is significantly different from what police have described.
Police said that Allen burst into a classroom, held the other teen down and told her daughter to hit the girl in the face with a combination lock. The girl, who also was kicked and punched, suffered cuts and bruises, and police say Allen's daughter also gave a teacher a black eye.
Allen faces charges of felonious assault and trespassing. She's been released on bond.
Her daughter is charged with assault, felonious assault and trespassing and is in juvenile custody.
Allen said she had gone to the school to withdraw her daughter and pick up her personal things. She said she did not force her way in but a student opened a door for her and she spoke to a security guard.
Allen said she was waiting for an administrator in a classroom when the teenage girl charged her.
"My daughter pushed me out of the way, and the girls started fighting," Allen said, adding that she didn't know her daughter was carrying a combination lock.
Her daughter said she carried the lock for protection because some girls were threatening her.
Allen said she didn't fight the other girl but pulled both girls apart by their hair to stop it. She also said she didn't know how teacher Kim Kilby got a black eye.
Cincinnati Public Schools officials declined to comment on the case and denied a request to view videos that may have captured the fight. Police also declined to make videos available.


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All liberal studies courses are three credits. Thirty-six credits (12 courses) are required to complete the degree. Normally a student will complete the required 12 courses within the Loyola liberal studies program.
Two curricular options exist for students in liberal studies. Under the first option, the student takes all her/his twelve classes in the LS program. The remaining option permits students to "import" up to six credits, or two classes toward the degree. Independent study courses are seldom permitted and then only very late in the student's program of studies when the student has a well-developed research plan in mind and has discussed it with a faculty member who has agreed to monitor it. The capstone project option encourages students to engage in extended, cross-disciplinary research and to present a sustained composition and a public presentation as the final course in the program.
All students must complete at least ten courses or thirty credits within Loyola's liberal studies program. No more than six credit hours in total from courses outside the Program or outside the University will count toward the Loyola M.A.L.S. degree.
Students who are accepted to the graduate program in Liberal Studies may be permitted to transfer up to six credits (two courses) toward their degree for graduate courses taken at other institutions. These courses must have been taken in an accredited school's graduate program within five years of the date of admission to Loyola University Maryland, and the student must have received a grade of "B" or higher. Only courses whose content and workload are consonant with the goals and learning aims of the Liberal Studies program will be considered. Students are not eligible to apply for advanced standing credits until they have successfully completed three courses in the Liberal Studies program and are in good academic standing. Requests for transfer of credits must be made in writing to the Director of Program Operations using the multi-form and instructions provided on the "Graduate Program in Liberal Studies" team site accessed through the link provided on the Inside Loyola homepage. This request should be accompanied by an official transcript, a copy of the syllabus for the course, and an explanation of how this course fits into the Liberal Studies curriculum. Applications for advanced standing credit must be submitted before a student enrolls in his or her ninth course.


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Earlier we told you how to Stretch for Better Running with a focus on three primary static stretches. Now we look at one stretch in more depth and how you can progress the stretch over time.
In the seated glute stretch - the target is your Gluteus Maximus or to put it in layman's terms - your bum! The glute muscles are the largest in your body and if they are tight then it can have negative effects on your running (lower back pain after a run is one example), it is therefore a good idea to stretch them out and strengthen them as part of your running regime. This stretch is one that can be easily carried out wherever you are and will help to strengthen your glute muscles and increase your flexibility.
On floor method
You should feel this stretch in the large muscle that joins your bottom to your thigh.
Sit on the floor or a mat with legs straight out in front of you, cross one leg over the thigh of the other. Lean back slightly and bend the knee of your lower leg so that just your heel is on the floor. Grasp the upper foot with one hand and the knee with the other. Lean forward by pulling your torso toward your legs. Hold the stretch for at least 20 seconds and do not bounce. Repeat with opposite leg.
Remember to keep your spine straight throughout the stretch.
As you continue with this stretch you will find it becomes easier and your muscles will not be getting the benefits they once did. By tilting your pelvis upwards and/or bringing your outstretched leg closer (heel closer/knee higher) you will intensify the stretch and give your muscles the work out they require.
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GE Aviation plans to add 105 jobs in Ashe County
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GE Aviation has announced plans to expand its West Jefferson plant and add 105 jobs.
The facility, which machines rotating parts for jet engines, plans to add the jobs by 2017 as part of an 80,000 square-foot expansion.
GE also announced it plans to add 242 jobs at four facilities across the state by 2017, including at a new 125,000 square-foot composites plant near Asheville.
The company plans to invest $195 million toward expansion in exchange for up to $5 million in state incentives over 12 years.
Pay for the new jobs will average nearly $48,000 a year plus benefits, said officials with the North Carolina Department of Commerce.
The company currently employs 1,300 in West Jefferson, Asheville, Durham and Wilmington.
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Affidavit: Colorado rape suspect believed he was member of secret society, could have sex with anyone
The suspect in a series of sexual assaults in the Denver area and Washington state believes he is a member of a secret society in which the world is divided between "alphas" and "bravos," and that because he is an "alpha," he can have sex with anyone he wants, according to an arrest affidavit from Snohomish County, Wash.
Marc Patrick O'Leary, 33, has pleaded not guilty to 32 counts, including sex assault, kidnapping and burglary, for assaults on women in Golden and Westminster and an attempted assault in Lakewood. As we reported yesterday, his public defender is in the midst of complex plea negotiation with prosecutors in Jefferson County's first judicial district. A deal could be ready to present to Judge Philip McNulty at O'Leary's next court date on Aug. 18.
O'Leary's defense attorney said the deal has been complicated because of charges filed in Washington in April. As we reported a few weeks ago, the victim in that case was charged with false reporting, in part because her attacker was so meticulous in cleaning up evidence. According to the affidavit for O'Leary's arrest there, the victim, who was 18 at the time, also recanted her story at one point.


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Museum ornithologist Frank Chapman used habitat dioramas to call attention to the plight of endangered birds. In 1903, he persuaded President Theodore Roosevelt to establish the first Federal Bird Reserve, on Florida's Pelican Island.
Florida's Cuthbert Rookery, depicted here, was the scene of the 1905 murder of a game warden by commercial plume hunters. In response, President Roosevelt appointed more wardens in Florida and assured the Audubon Society that he was committed to ending the sale of endangered bird feathers for fashion.


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When I think of genuine ethnic restaurants in Louisville, I often associate them with Louisville's South End neighborhoods. There is one gem, however, nestled in East Louisville that offers authentic Cantonese cuisine with a traditional Chinese dining experience.
Jade Palace, located in Westport Village, serves up delicious Cantonese style Dim Sum. Dim Sum is a style of food consisting of small plates. It is traditionally known as Yum Cha (or drinking tea) and can begin as early as 5AM in China. Lucky for us, Jade Palace serves Dim Sum all day so you can even have it for dinner! Prices range from $2.80-6.99 and include everything from dumplings to noodles.
For an authentic experience I recommend the following small plates:
Cheun Kuen - spring rolls fried crispy and flaky with vegetable filling
Har Gow -steamed shrimp dumplings
Siu Mai – small steamed dumplings with shrimp and pork often topped with crab roe
Char Sui Bao – steamed fluffy buns filled with Cantonese style bbq pork
Char Sui So – puff pastry filled with Cantonese style bbq pork
Lo Bak Go – cake made with mashed turnips
Harng Sui Kwok – fried dumplings with 5 spice chicken and sweet rice
Don Tot – sweet tart with egg custard
Dim Sum is all about sharing so you can't go alone! A group of four to six people is the best size but you can manage with just two. Make sure to order some of these other delicious items with your small plates. I would recommend Singapore Rice Noodles, Steamed Chinese Broccoli, Chinese Roast Pork, and Beef with Rice Noodle in Black Bean Sauce.
This menu is typical of what my family orders every time we get together at Jade Palace for dinner. Dim Sum is comfort food to us and once you try it, it will become comfort food to you too. Just ask my husband! (He grew up in the US and has never been to Hong Kong but is obsessed with Dim Sum just like me)
I grew up overseas and have spent a lot of time in Hong Kong, so I feel confident in judging Cantonese style cuisine. Believe me when I say that Jade Palace offers an authentic taste of Hong Kong and Southern China to the Louisville community.
Jade Palace is located at 1109 Herr Lane.
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911 calls released in toddler pit bull death
DA will not file criminal charges
Police have released their investigation report and the 911 call for help in a pit bull attack that killed a toddler.
For the first time, the public is getting to hear the frantic 911 calls from a woman who was baby-sitting Daxton Borchardt when he was mauled by two pit bulls.
"Dogs, dogs, dogs ...," the woman is heard saying on the 911 recording.
"They attacked a baby," the dispatcher said.
"Yes!" said the sitter.
The report details how the baby sitter let her two pit bulls out in the backyard to go to the bathroom while caring for the Walworth County toddler. She was carrying the Daxton in her arms when a 65-pound female pit-bull jumped on her; knocked her to the ground and ripped her jacket.
The woman told police the boy fell out of her arms, and the male pit bull attacked. The sitter said she kicked the dogs and poked one in the eye before finally being able to scoop the boy up and run inside.
She told the dispatcher that the dogs were running loose outside.
"There are two pit bulls ... they are running around outside ... they may encounter them ... they can do whatever they want to them, they can shoot them, I don't care," she is heard telling the 911 operator.
The report said one of the first deputies to arrive on the scene noted that when he approached the home, the baby sitter was still on the phone with 911 screaming in terror. He tried to ask her where the toddler was or if the pit bulls were locked up. The deputy said one of the dogs came toward him, so he grabbed his weapon for protection.
The dog just sniffed the officer and turned back toward the apartment.
Deputies used pepper spray on the dogs several times to get them into cages. The animals were euthanized at a local veterinarian hospital.
The baby sitter told police she had cared for Daxton about 20 times before as well as other infants and the dogs had never shown any signs of aggression. The report noted the dogs were kenneled at night and sometimes during the day.
The district attorney has decided no criminal charges will be filed.


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According to Klout, I am a specialist. "You may not be a celebrity, but within your area of expertise your opinion is second to none. Your content is likely focused around a specific topic or industry with a focused, highly-engaged audience." I have a Klout score of 48 and a true reach of 267. That data may not mean much to most people right now, but I'm firmly in the camp that says these stats will soon become the go-to barometer for brands looking to target their marketing and outreach efforts to influencers based on … well, influence. Not to mention social media teams trying to prove the power of their campaigns, and all sorts of other uses as well.
Of course, as anyone with actual social media experience (and no, I'm not talking about the 'experts' and 'gurus' who think that being able to successfully bot and spam their way to 1,000 Twitter followers makes them qualified to consult about social media for a living), will tell you: the numbers are great and all, but in the end, quality will always matter more than quantity.
Whether it's the quality of your interactions with your followers, the quality of your expertise in your field, the quality of the links you curate or a combination of the three, people will always reward quality over quantity. So, while I'm happy that my Klout score seems to be pretty decent and growing with every refresh, and while I totally been geeking out over the accompanying stats, I know it's not everything.
This weekend, I hit the 2,000 Twitter follower mark. Not gonna lie, that was pretty cool. But, what's even cooler is that I can go down my list of followers and pick out plenty of names of people who I actually interact with on a regular basis and who I count amongst the many voices that help make my days better, richer and more interesting. Thanks to Twitter, not only do I now have the ability to broadcast my social media messages to 2,000+ people, I also have the ability to listen and learn from all of them, plus the people I follow as well. Which of course is what social media really should be about.
So, while Klout may provide some amazing metrics for marketers to better hone in on their core audiences — a path the brilliant Peter Shankman outlined very well recently — I hope those marketers (and the users they're marketing to) remember that the quantity of someone's scores and stats is a good way to narrow down your focus. But, it's the quality of their overall social media stream that really tells you who is worth focusing in on.
Or, as I put it in a recent Tweet to my friend Srinivas Rao of The Skool Of Life (a perfect example of someone who Twitter helped me get to know better, and whose friendship I'm very happy to have because of it) "the size of your score isn't as important as the motion in your Twitter feed. Or something like that."


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Christmas Day is the NBA. The NFL has Thanksgiving, the NBA has Christmas.
And this year's five-game slate hardly disappointed. First The John Wall-led Wizards opened by thrashing the Knicks and further reminding New York fans that their team is not good — not even a little.
Then Russell Westbrook put on a show in the Thunder's win over the Spurs in San Antonio.
Then a vintage Dwyane Wade dropped 31 to spoil LeBron James' Miami homecoming — which included video tributes for James and then almost everyone else on the floor.
Then came the Kobe Bryant-less Lakers vs. Bulls, which was of interest in large part because Derrick Rose is playing scary good again, but also because Nick Young continues to provide ridiculous comments.
And then, to finish it all off, the Clippers hosted the Warriors, a West Coast battle featuring two of (or maybe just the) league's best point guards, Chris Paul and Stephen Curry.
If you missed any of the games: A) What were you thinking?, B) Relax, we're here for you. Here were some of the high points (and low points) from each game.
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I would like to share with you the outcome of one of our first MeshWorks application at the large scale which you can read here.
Given the nature of our emerging problems, we are seeing Problems "G" and even Problems "H" that require what we call Second Tier Conditions which, in turn, will require systems "T" and even solutions "U." This use of many of the HU-Turquoise thought structures will be without the heavy metaphysical elements that many are now relying on, for good reason to them. I will write on that situation a bit later, because it is so clear what is happening in "spiritual" communities as they are now talking about "culture" and even values systems. Amazing.
As more and more functions in this country, at least, are moving into a situation where "the government" is beginning to own many of our resources that were once in the domain of the invisible hand of the free market, this means that new criteria for complex decision-making will require new processes. We will, at first, bring back the old wineskins to deal with the new wine, but they will leak. We have yet to create these new wineskins. We will soon describe
in greater detail, along with Transpartisan methodologies.
Of course, Clare Graves predicted all of this in his rather innocent title to his 1974 article in The Futurist publication of the World Future Society, "Human Nature Prepares for a Momentous Leap." That statement, in itself, caused me to make contact with Professor Graves because I knew intuitively that here was something unique and powerful. I could not put that concern into words, but I acted anyway. I doubt if any of us would have heard of Graves otherwise. I once asked him when this sort of thing would be required, did he have a time frame, and he responded: "Well, Don, no, I can't tell you when but you will know when it happens. You will feel it for sure."
I feel it now for sure, as are many of you. Many are constructing global-wide happenings, or gatherings that bring together the "wise ones" – usually those in the elite Orange-Green "enlightened" league who will meet in circles, express individual perspectives, "view with alarm," and then begin to generate a list of things to do which, alas, are based on certain assumptions regarding the capacity of people and their habitats to actually do things. We will see these meetings proliferate all over the place and that is a good thing, of course.
Yet, I have a strong sense that these collective processes, as in Theory U and others, will be unable to get to the core problems and solutions.
For example, the same group that was so proud of the role it played in the scenario process in the early 1990s in South Africa have now returned because their processes simply found ways for the privileged few who had tickets to the negotiation table to enrich themselves. The needs of the vast population were not met in housing, education, health care, and standards of living.
Reality has now returned after the euphoria of the bloodless "revolution" and the magic of Mandela, as the crime rate has escalated and political instability appears to be on the horizon. The African National Congress has now split into two camps and will be warring against each other. Unhappily, I had in my mind's eye the image of the sinking of the Titanic as the wealthy class climbed on the life boats but the "second class" were locked down in steerage class and could not escape.
That thought and image continue to haunt me. It spells "revolution" in no uncertain terms and I wonder if we are seeing the evidence of that also in the violence in Greece. I don't think all of that is about the death of a 14-year old boy. And, have you seen the new taxes in New York which will be put on the population, much like a taxation without representation from an earlier day in our history. An 18% tax on a soft drink? Wow! And on bottled water?
I believe we are at a major tipping point. Our financial systems are presently frozen because, among other things, the lack of trust, the high levels of deceit and corruption, dirty money, and the repression of technologies that need to be released. Clearly our entire educational complex needs to do some serious soul searching. We still have options but they will come at a price.
Either we step over into a new paradigm or we hang back with at least one foot in the old one, often because of our financial need and fears, and our lack of being able to answer the question: Change FROM what but TO what?
We all know that President-Elect Obama can't walk on water, in spite of some expectations, but come January 21 he, too, will confront a reality. I see some evidence of complex thinking in him in how he has selected cabinet members and even presenters at the Inaugural event on January 20. That is reassuring to me but I'm no fool when it comes to national politics and, of course, the media. We probably should invest in concession stands in Washington, DC because I have an idea the mall will be full of demonstrations on the part of people and groups who have had their expectations raised for a better life, only to have them dashed by the spring or summer.
We have inherited and, to some extent, benefited from a "bubble economy" in that worth and value were not connected to the "reality economy." We were trading in hypes. This has been so clear in Iceland where our SDi colleague Bjärni Jonsson and others are really struggling to find a new basis for survival in that difficult place. It was all "bubble."
Solutions will come out of families, communities, counties, churches, and other groupings and will ultimately reach state-wide and country-wide domains. This is the revolution that needs to happen. Our current system simply cannot be reformed. It is passing away quickly and short term fixes only waste precious resources on a sinking ship.
What kind of future do you think our post-teen kids are seeing for themselves? That age group in Chile has come up with a novel approach based on what they call the Penguin Revolution. Apparently, the high schoolers virtually shut down the schools recently and because their uniforms looked like Penguins, they were identified as the Penguin Generation. We have early plans to respond to that fear and desperation as soon as we can.
The world, now, is full of unique "change" opportunities if we just had the wisdom and resources to respond to them. They are everywhere.
In any case, there are tough decisions just ahead and we might as well get ourselves ready to play a positive role. People know that I am a very positive person with great optimism for the future, but I also have a historic memory of the Great Depression in the 1930s because of stories my parents and grandparents used to tell me. To his dying day my dad would NEVER use a credit card for anything other short-term needs. He would only pay cash for a new motor car, and simply had no debt.
It is within this context that new decision-making models MUST and WILL appear; at least, they will be generated by these Life Conditions, and it will be up to leadership, if we have any today, to see the opportunities, grasp the moment, and be courageous enough to enter the fray. And we must be in a position to get involved ourselves. Maybe things are not yet bad enough while we enter the festive season, but if the Dow reached 500 sometime in '09 we would all feel the pain.
It might take that, alas.
This is why I want to applaud the Center for Human Emergencein the Netherlands, for Peter Merry and Anne-Marie Voorhoewe for their leadership, and for the role of others to push ahead with the new models, usually against both political correctness and vested interests, even in the NGO and governmental worlds.
It is also timely that Dr. Marilyn Hamilton's new book on the Integral City is now in the marketplace since so much of it reflects this new model, especially, the MeshWorks design and implementation.
No one can predict the future, or identify the most probable trend-lines, but we can certainly begin, now, to prepare ourselves to respond to any contingency.
It makes no use to play the "blame and be blamed game," or even the false security assumptions behind gated communities with a "live and let live" philosophy.
Only the values and methods of the "thrive and help thrive" mentality can see us through. MeshWorks is one of those processes.
Be of good cheer.


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Election authorities in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt said Monday that Karamba Diaby won a seat in the lower house for the Social Democrats, Germany's main center-left party.
The 51-year-old Diaby moved to the city of Halle in 1986, receiving a scholarship to study in East Germany at a time when communuist rule was slowly unraveling. He gained German citizenship in 2001.
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Why you should add Spain to your Indie/RTW tripWith its warm coastline, rich history and thriving nightlife, is it really any wonder that Spain is one of the most visited countries in Europe. Every year, millions come to Spain to sit in the sun, to drink a little sangria, to get chased by angry bulls, to see some famous paintings and to dance the night away.
- If you are not from Spain, you might picture it as one country, but really it is not. Spain is a nation of regions, each with their own cultures and customs.
- While Spain is very much a part of modern Europe, it still moves at a slower, more traditional pace.
- The two-hour long siestas are not universal anymore, but they do still exist, and as a traveler you will enjoy the quiet time, especially if you adapt to the Spanish time zone, which means most things don't really kick off until around midnight.
- The food, my God, the food. Enjoy the long, drawn out meals, the tapas, the seafood, the jamon, the cava, and everything else that is glorious about Spanish food.
- Variety. There are bustling cities in Madrid and Barcelona, mountainous areas in the Sierra Nevadas and Pyrenees for hiking and trekking, and beaches along the coast for R&R.
- The transportation in Spain is fast, efficient, and easy to use - perfect for those adding it to their longer trips.
- If you're into nightlife, Spain is going to be appealing to you. From the DJ's and clubs in Ibiza to the late nights in Madrid and Barcelona, you'll be partying til dawn during your time in Spain.
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- The Basque Country in the north holds strongly to its independence and features a language and a culture that you will find fascinating.
- Catalonia, home to Barcelona, is also a unique region and one where large numbers speak Catalan.
- Madrid, the capital of Spain, is a region unto itself. It is a fast moving city that seemingly stays awake all night.
- Regions such as Valencia and Navarra also have their own look and feel, helping to make Spain a country that holds new possibilities with each city and area you visit.
- The Pyrenees separate Spain from France and are littered with quaint little villages and outdoor opportunities galore.


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Mr. Hurwitch is the Project Manager on a technical assistance contract for DOE's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy programs and has assisted these DOE programs continuously for more that 25 years. Under this contract, Sentech provides technical and analytical assistance to many of the DOE energy efficiency and renewable energy programs including Solar, Wind/Hydropower, Geothermal, Biofuels, FreedomCAR, Hydrogen Fuel Cells and Infrastructure, Buildings, and the Federal Energy Management Program.
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If you had to rank the challenges you face in business – what would you put top? A recent RICS survey asked people running small property companies and professional services to do just that. They answered as follows:
- Cash flow 41 per cent
- Access to contracts 19 per cent
- Red tape 11 per cent
- Bank support 10 per cent
- The rest were a mix of smaller issues
What does this tell us? First, money is very tight. Secondly, finding work is hard. Thirdly, bureaucracy makes life difficult. No big insights there perhaps.
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I never really paid attention to Cary Williams until the post season. I watched the superbowl with my bro in-law (Whinerfan). He said during the SB that Williams is Sherman like in his aggression and punkish attitude. Coming from a 9er fan I'd expect that thought. Then I paid attention to Williams.
He was very physical, very vocal. He almost caused a fight, he was in the WRs ear. Hell, he made Harbit*h cry on the last play. He is a corner cut from our clothe. I loved watching him. I didn't even realize he was a FA.
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Public Health and the Leadership Imperative
Government leaders long ago took up the challenge of protecting the public from deadly diseases. New challenges are testing that resolve.
Who thinks about the broad needs of our society? Private-sector leaders focus on the bottom line and their products. As individuals, each of us is consumed by our personal responsibilities, goals and challenges of daily life.
That's why it's so important for government officials to take a leadership role to advocate for future generations. Who else has the capacity and orientation to rally the public to make essential investments in infrastructure, education and the general welfare? Foresight may, in fact, be the most important skill set in the public leader's toolbox.
Take public health. A hundred years ago, cities faced massive public-health challenges, with high death rates from tuberculosis, bubonic plague, smallpox and malaria. Local-government reformers and the first city managers tackled these challenges with passion and rigor. When community leaders found evidence that strategic investments could dramatically improve public health, they built water and sewer systems and brought together community resources to tackle contagious diseases.
In 1923, for example, Louis Brownlow, city manager of Petersburg, Va., reported dramatic results after public and private agencies coordinated their efforts under the leadership of the city's health officer: The general death rate had decreased from 19.2 per thousand people in 1920 to 16.64 in 1922 and infant mortality had dropped from 189 in 1920 to 106 in 1922. "After two years it is almost impossible to discover ... what part of the health center work is done by the city, what by the Red Cross, the Kings Daughters, the Tuberculosis Society, [or] the Milk Fund," he wrote in the yearbook of the City Managers' Association.
Similar results were reported in Beaumont, Texas, where City Manager George J. Roark wrote that he had hired "the best sanitary engineer" to improve the city's water supply. Consequently, by 1922 malaria had been reduced by 50 percent and tuberculosis in the milk supply had been eliminated.
Where are we today? Just as budget cuts during the Depression years threatened public-health efforts, new strains on health-department budgets threaten to reverse some of the gains of the past century.
Of particular concern is the impact on the public-health workforce. Research released in November by the Center for State and Local Government Excellence and the University of Illinois at Chicago found that local health-department leaders are particularly concerned about recruitment and retention. Retaining funded positions has become especially difficult, and opportunities to promote well-qualified people are limited due to human-resources rules and regulations.
The study, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), reinforces worrisome state-level findings released last month by the Trust for America's Health and RWJF: Two-thirds of the states decreased public-health funding over the last five years, eliminating 40,000 public-health jobs, according to that report. And just two states and the District of Columbia have met the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services benchmark to provide whooping-cough vaccinations to at least 90 percent of preschool children.
These are serious issues, ones that simply don't lend themselves to private-sector or personal solutions. At the end of the day, we count on government to sound the alarm and assume leadership responsibility. If government lacks the wherewithal or the will to effectively address an issue as broad and important as public health, who will?


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Republicans, medical organizations defeat bill that aimed to protect patients from unexpected physician charges
Republicans on the Senate Business, Labor and Technology Committee Monday defeated a bill with a party-line 5-4 vote that would have protected patients from unexpectedly high, uncovered bills from doctors.
Bill opponents said it would give insurance companies unfair leverage in negotiations with health care providers.
Insurance plans pay differently for health care that is provided in-network vs. what they designate as out-of-network care. Even patients who choose to go to an in-network hospital or clinic to avoid these higher costs are sometimes treated by an unknown out-of-network provider and hit with surprise charges.
Sen. Irene Aguilar, a primary care physician, said she wrote Senate Bill 259 to protect patients against such practices, which critics equate with consumer fraud.
Family physician Robin Dickinson lobbied for the bill because, she said, even she was hit with these unexpected charges although she was knowledgeable about the issues and risks.
Dickinson suffered a tear in an artery in her neck that clotted and sent two clots to her brain causing two strokes, she said.
"I had high-deductible insurance so carefully watched all the bills that came in," she said in emails to generate support for the bill. "The ER doctor and neurologists, who SAVED MY LIFE, billed a reasonable couple hundred dollars. But the hospitalist, who basically filled out paperwork (I've done his exact job numerous times myself and it's not difficult or time-consuming), billed me $900!"
She said when she called his billing office she learned he was out of network. But it wasn't her insurance company picking up the tab, she said. It was her responsibility.
"I had no idea that he was out of network, or I would have kicked him out of my room," Dicksinson said. "I consider this fraud and manipulation."
Aguilar described the bill's augmented standards for disclosure as requiring providers to:
"Inform a patient seeking covered services at an in-network facility about legal protections against 'balance billing.' Balance billing is defined as billing a person with coverage the difference between what the insurance company pays and what the provider charges.
Inform the covered person that balance billing is possible if treatment comes from an out-of-network provider at an in-network facility.
The out-of-network provider must inform the patient that they are seeking treatment from an out-of-network provider. They must also provide the billing charges or an estimate to the patient on request, in writing.
The out-of-network provider may not 'balance bill' the patient, unless the person has agreed to pay the difference in advance.
Insurance carriers must provide written notice to their clients about their out-of-network obligations.
Emergency services are exempt from the bill."
Yet the bill had some heavy-hitter opposition, including the Colorado Medical Society.
Opponents outlined the issues this way in the legislative alerts they circulated:
"The out-of-network provider, who doesn't have a contract with the health plan, is required to submit a bill to the person's health plan and not collect any payment from the patient, beyond deductibles, copayment and coinsurance, and is prohibited from any further balance billing of the patient.