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The Inside Story on Coach Bo's Latest Prank
By Randy York
A week ago today, Bo Pelini was looking for a unique way to tell his players that they were working so hard that he'd decided a Friday night movie was in order. The movie – Two Guns starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg– would be a worthy reward and replace last Friday night's scheduled practice. To make the announcement even more fun and inspiring, Pelini wanted drama, impact and celebration. So he came up with a plan and plot to match his passion. Why not take his team down a notch before dramatically building it back up? Wouldn't that make the movie even a bigger treat than it already would be?
"Bo wanted to surprise the players," said Mike Nobler, Nebraska football's video coordinator who worked with Pelini at Oklahoma before he joined Bo at Nebraska. Somehow, Pelini decided the best way to surprise his players was to fake out the whole team and then, at the end, say Got Ya! The result is Bo's latest prank, which went viral early Friday afternoon, locally, regionally, even nationally. It was Bo at his best, orchestrating a scenario that clued in only one player – Thad Randle, a 6-foot-1, 290-pound defensive tackle from North Shore High School in Galena Park, Texas. Randle's a smart, no-nonsense young man who graduated earlier this month with a bachelor's degree in ethnic studies.
You might question that statement when you watch the video, but it's true. Ron Kellogg III became a Huskers.com video-shooting partner for this year's Fan Day, and we asked him to shoot a team meeting as well, thinking it might be cause for celebration when a movie would replace that night's practice. Only Bo, his coaches and Nobler were clued in on the real script. Kellogg knew something was going to happen but had no idea what it would be. Players also were unaware there were hidden cameras in the front of the room and in the back.
There's no need to break down the plot because the video stands on its own. Nobler thinks Pelini could not have picked a better player than Randle as his supporting actor. "It was all Bo's idea, and it worked," he said. "I mean, I was in on it and felt the tension myself." In the script room, a.k.a. Bo's office, Nobler asked Bo a simple question: "How long do you want me to wait before I hit the screen with the Got Ya!'" he asked Bo, who replied: "You'll kind of know when to do it. Just give the rest of the players enough time to get really nervous."
Watch the video, and you'll understand why it works and why it has drawn more than 135,000 views in its first 10 hours. The real inside story is this: The phone that rang in Randle's backpack in the video was Bo's cell phone, and the call was made by Nobler, who pressed the button on his own phone sitting behind the lectern where he usually stands in team meetings while running slides or showing video. The phone that Bo pulled out of Randle's bag at the peak of his anger and hammered away on was an old phone of his that he no longer used. It's intriguing, if not compelling to see a room full of players sit in stunned silence. When they realize they've been hoodwinked by their own head coach and a trusted leader, jubilation erupts and exultation reigns. Kenny Bell goes as gaga as anyone, racing around the team's auditorium with a victory lap so animated he looks like he just struck Olympic gold. Watch the video all the way through. Near the end, you'll see the calmest person in the room – Taylor Martinez, still sitting by himself in the front row while everyone else is standing up, slapping shoulders, raising their voices, laughing, celebrating. T-Magic's smile says it all, and it makes you wonder who could possibly enjoy tension and pressure as much as he does, even when it's manufactured and has an ironic twist at the end.
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Today is a very special day for me. I am happy to announce that my book Great Gluten-Free Vegan Eats is available now on Amazon. No more pre-sale; this is the real deal, guys.
So, first! Huzzah!!! I'm so excited to launch this book off, and even more excited for all of the support I've been getting lately: the emails, the tweets, the posts on facebook. I am incredibly grateful for it all. Thank you. So so so much.
I'm really pumped about it finally being available, and hope a few people find it helpful in expanding their idea of vegan and gluten-free cuisine. It includes a really great comprehensive set of recipes, with accompanying full page photos to each recipe. Chapters include: Basics, Main Courses, Sides & Appetizers, Soups & Salads, and Desserts & Beverages. There's even nutritional info, plus a section up front laying down the basics of a gluten-free vegan diet.
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Third, I'm sharing two recipes from GGFVE:
The first one is not only one of my favorites, but a fave of many of my amazing cookbook testers as well. I decided to go with a soup, given the popularity of the soups listed on my blog; they all get so many hits! More than the desserts even. So, I figure you guys must like soup. A lot. Plus, this recipe has only a handful of ingredients and is pretty good for you; so eat up!
Minted Green Pea Bisque
- 1 small sweet onion, minced
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 2 tablespoons (30 ml) water
- 1 teaspoon sea salt, divided
- 3 cups (450 g) frozen or fresh green peas
- 2 tablespoons (12 g) minced fresh mint leaves
- 1 cup (235 ml) nondairy milk, plus more if needed
- Fresh cracked black pepper to taste
Yield: 2 servings
In a small frying pan over medium-high heat, sauté the onion and garlic in the water until translucent. Season with 1⁄4 teaspoon of the salt. Reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer until the onions are caramelized, about 10 minutes. Remove from the heat and let cool.
Bring a medium-size pot of water to a boil, and then add the peas and cook until tender, about 5 minutes if frozen or 2 to 3 minutes if fresh. Drain well and then rinse under cold water until the peas are cool to the touch.
Transfer the peas to a blender and add the sautéed onions and garlic, mint leaves, nondairy milk, and remaining 3⁄4 teaspoon salt. Blend for 5 minutes or until super smooth. Add more nondairy milk if the soup seems too thick for your taste.
Warm gently over medium heat, sprinkle with fresh cracked black pepper, and serve.
The second recipe has been a favorite comfort dish of mine for a while now. I was inspired by the Korean cucumber Banchan I used to gobble up frequently as a kid and young adult. When developing this recipe, and I added a hefty twist of my own culinary voice into the mix to create this salad. The combination of the two makes an unexpectedly tasty dish!
Eggplant & Cucumber Salad (photo up top)
For Eggplant Mix:
- 3 Japanese eggplants (about 1.3 pounds, or 600 g), peeled, halved, and cut into large bite-size pieces
- 1⁄4 cup (25 g) chopped scallion
- 1 tablespoon (10 g) minced garlic
- 1 tablespoon (4 g) minced fresh oregano
- 2 tablespoons (30 ml) olive oil
- 1⁄4 cup (60 ml) water
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon (15 g) horseradish (freshly grated or jarred, not powdered)
For Cucumber Mix:
- 1 large English (or thin-skinned) cucumber, diced
- 2 tablespoons (8 g) chopped fresh oregano
- Zest and juice of 1 lemon 1 teaspoon sea salt 2 tablespoons (30 ml) olive oil 1 tablespoon (15 ml) agave nectar
Yield: 4 servings
To prepare the eggplant mix: Combine the eggplant, scallion, garlic, oregano, and olive oil in a medium-size saucepan and cook over medium-high heat until soft, about 8 minutes.
Add the water, salt, and horseradish and cover with a tight- fitting lid. Reduce the heat to medium-low and cook about 10 minutes longer, stirring occasionally so that the eggplant doesn't stick to the pan. Remove from the heat and let cool to room temperature.
To prepare the cucumber mix: In a large bowl, combine the diced cucumber, oregano, lemon juice and zest, salt, olive oil, and agave. Cover and let rest in the refrigerator for about 20 minutes, allowing the eggplant to come to room temperature as you wait.
Drain the excess liquid from the cucumber mix and toss with the eggplant. Serve at room temperature or chill before serving.
For the giveaway: just leave a comment below letting me know you'd like to be entered and I'll pick 5 random winners Friday, May 11th. I'll announce them in the following post. Again, the first winner chosen will get 2 prizes!
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A stylish piece of cabin luggage that is versatile and lightweight. The large zipped opening gives full access to the total volume of the luggage for packing ease. Multiple zipped storages spaces allows for flexible organization. Features include, zipped wet-pocket, internal compression and 2 external zipped pockets.
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900D Plain weave polyester is tear resistant, durable and water resistant.
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SizeWidth: 32 cm / 12.6 in
Height: 55 cm / 21.65 in
Depth: 23 cm / 9.06 in
Volume: 40 L / 2440.95 cu in
Weight: 2.95 kg / 6.5 lb
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Well, me gots this in my head. First, use your head. I'll use any dang vane I want and I will get good arrow flight. About the only vane I haven't tried is the Bohning Micro Blazer. Doesn't any difference the game either, not for me. I used Mini Blazers for indoors and long range. I've used Blazers fletched full helical out the 80 yards and no issues whatsoever. I've 4 and 5" vanes for indoors, Outdoor target, and Field. They both performed like magic.
Not wanting over steer and what I would call a unbalanced arrow, I do watch FOC. But! I've never seen the time I needed anything over 10% FOC for target or hunting. Some of my most accurate target arrows have FOC down to about 6%.
Actually, if the bow is set up correctly, it will fling a mulitude of arrows and different vanes with no effect or dang little. And I even tried that staggered stuff and different placement other than factory.
And then he related that I hadn't fletched a lot or I'd known better. Well, since I returned archery and started fletching for myself and at the shop....So for about 3 years straight I fletched a dozen arrows a week average and myself, there's a couple thousand. And then figure 7 years on my own and my testing, probably total around 5,000.
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Traditionally, income would be seen as a positive influence and expenses a negative in beef herds.
In the cow business, opportunity exists on both sides of the profit equation.
Product value may be increased and product expenses decreased, so let's set a goal to increase product sales by $100 per cow and lower expenses by $100 per cow.
Any producer can participate. However, struggling producers must participate.
Why? The cow business must compete with other food businesses. Current levels of bottom-line income are positive but could increase, particularly for the average cow-calf producer. Positive net returns in the cow business generally are discussed based on a per-cow concept.
Keep in mind, the actual net return over direct and overhead expenses per cow should be divided by the number of acres of land used to support the cow.
Depending on the location of the cow herd, the amount of pasture, grass, hay and cropland utilized to support the cow will vary. However, the return per acre will be significantly lower than the net return per cow, regardless of where the operation resides.
For example, in southwestern North Dakota, if a producer stocks early spring, cool-season pasture at one acre per cow, followed by summer pasture at 2.5 acres per cow for five months, and then requires three acres to produce enough winter forage for the remaining six months, 16.5 acres are needed to support the cow.
Before anyone points out the difference between cows and animal units, let's keep this discussion on a per-cow basis and realize that acres, cows and stocking rate need to be properly evaluated to be applied to the appropriate grazing systems.
The bottom line: If the cow has averaged an annual net return over direct and overhead expenses of $90 for the last six years, the cow is returning $5.45 per acre of land utilized in this example. By increasing sales by $100 and decreasing expenses by $100, the returns per acre would triple. The tripling effect may be what is needed to keep cattle on land where there are other options.
Are these real possibilities? Well, returning to records provided by the North Dakota Farm Management Program (NDFM, http://www.ndfarmmanagement.com) that are available on the FINBIN site (http://www.finbin.umn.edu/) from the Center for Farm Financial Management at the University of Minnesota, the answer is yes and the goal is achievable.
If we look at the spread between those producers who are the top 40 percent in net return per cow versus those who are the lower 40 percent, we can get a feel for how much some producers are leaving on the table at the end of the day.


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As from 1 December 2009, the date on which the Treaty of Lisbon entered into force, the European Union has legal personality and has acquired the competences previously conferred on the European Community. Community law has therefore become European Union law. In the following presentation, the term 'Community law' will nevertheless be used where the earlier case-law of the General Court is being cited.
The General Court is made up of at least one Judge from each Member State (28 in 2013). The Judges are appointed by common accord of the governments of the Member States after consultation of a panel responsible for giving an opinion on candidates' suitability. They are appointed for a term of office of six years, which is renewable. They appoint their President, for a period of three years, from amongst themselves. They appoint a Registrar for a term of office of six years.
The General Court has jurisdiction to hear:
The rulings made by the General Court may, within two months, be subject to an appeal, limited to points of law, to the Court of Justice.
The General Court has its own Rules of Procedure. In general, the proceedings include a written phase and an oral phase.An application, drawn up by a lawyer or agent and sent to the Registry, opens the proceedings. The main points of the action are published in a notice, in all official languages, in the Official Journal of the European Union. The Registrar sends the application to the other party to the case, which then has a period within which to file a defence. The applicant may file a reply, within a certain time-limit, to which the defendant may respond with a rejoinder.Any person and any body, office or agency of the European Union, who/which can prove an interest in the outcome of a case before the General Court, as well as the Member States and the institutions of the European Union, may intervene in the proceedings. The intervener submits a statement in intervention, supporting or opposing the claims of one of the parties, to which the parties may then respond. In some cases, the intervener may also submit its observations at the oral phase.During the oral phase a public hearing is held. When the lawyers are heard, the Judges can put questions to the parties' representatives. The Judge-Rapporteur summarises, in a report for the hearing, the facts relied on and the arguments of each party and, if applicable, of the interveners. This document is available to the public in the language of the case.The Judges then deliberate on the basis of a draft judgment prepared by the Judge-Rapporteur and the judgment is delivered at a public hearing.The procedure before the General Court is free of court fees. However, the costs of the lawyer entitled to appear before a court in a Member State, by whom the parties must be represented, are not paid by the General Court. Even so, an individual who is not able to meet the costs of the case may apply for legal aid.
An action brought before the General Court does not suspend the operation of the contested act. The Court may, however, order its suspension or other interim measures.The President of the General Court or, if necessary, another Judge rules on the application for interim measures in a reasoned order.Interim measures are granted only if three conditions are met:
1) the action in the main proceedings must appear, at first sight, to be well founded;2) the applicant must show that the measures are urgent and that it would suffer serious and irreparable harm without them;3) the interim measures must take account of the balance of the parties' interests and of public interest.
The order is provisional in nature and in no way prejudges the decision of the General Court in the main proceedings. In addition, an appeal against it may be brought before the Court of Justice.
This procedure allows the General Court to rule quickly on the substance of the dispute in cases considered to be particularly urgent.The expedited procedure may be requested by the applicant or by the defendant.
The language used for the application, which may be one of the 24 official languages of the European Union, will be the language of the case (without prejudice to the application of specific provisions).The proceedings in the oral phase of the procedure are simultaneously interpreted, as necessary, into different official languages of the European Union. The Judges deliberate, without interpreters, in a common language which, traditionally, is French.
Written procedure
[Interim measures][Assignment of the case to a formation composed of a different number of Judges (single Judge, 3, 5, 13 or 28 Judges)]
Service of the application on the defendant by the Registry
Notice of the application in the Official Journal of the EU (C Series)
Assignment of the case to a formation
Nomination of the Judge-Rapporteur
Defence[Objection of inadmissibility]
[Reply and rejoinder][Other pleadings]
The Judge-Rapporteur prepares the preliminary reportChamber conference of the Judges[Measures of inquiry]
[Application for legal aid]
Oral phase
[Report for the hearing; hearing]
Judges' deliberation
Optional stages are shown in brackets.Documents which, in principle, are public are shown in bold type.
From the beginning of its operation until the end of 2008, the Court ruled on more than 6,200 cases. Its case-law has developed in particular in the fields of intellectual property, competition and State aid.A few examples will give a good idea of the type of cases brought before the Court.
The company Henkel applied to the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM), which is responsible for promoting and managing trade marks valid in all the Member States of the European Union, for registration of a trade mark for a washing powder or dishwasher tablet. The three-dimensional trade mark applied for was in the form of a round tablet with two layers coloured white and red. The application was rejected by OHIM and the applicant brought an action before the Court for annulment of the decision.According to a Community regulation, it is not possible to register a trade mark which is not distinctive. In this case, the contested trade mark was made up of the form and arrangement of the colours of the product, that is to say by the appearance of the product itself.
The Court took the view that that trade mark would not allow consumers, when choosing which product to buy, to distinguish between the goods covered by the trade mark and those made by another manufacturer. Consequently, it dismissed the company's action, since OHIM had been right to conclude that the three-dimensional trade mark was not distinctive (judgment in Henkel v OHIM, 2001).
In the case of Piau v Commission, the Court reiterated that competition rules could, on some occasions, apply to sport.In that case, the Commission had rejected, on the ground of lack of Community interest, the applicant's complaint against a rule of the Fédération internationale de football (FIFA) governing the activities of players' agents. In its judgment in 2005, the Court found that football clubs and the national associations of which they are members are undertakings and associations of undertakings respectively within the meaning of Community competition law, so that FIFA itself, whose members are the national associations, constitutes an association of undertakings within the meaning of Article 81 EC, now Article 101 TFEU. Those preliminary considerations enabled the Court to hold that the rule governing the activities of players' agents constituted a decision of an association of undertakings. Those activities are intended regularly and for remuneration to bring a player and a club into contact with a view to conclusion of an employment contract or two clubs with a view to conclusion of a transfer agreement. It is, therefore, a commercial supply of services which is not specifically a sporting activity as defined in case-law.
Airtours, a British company selling package tours from the United Kingdom, wished to acquire a competitor, First Choice. The Commission was informed by Airtours of this proposed merger. The Commission declared the merger incompatible with the common market on the ground that it would have led to Airtours having a collective dominant position.Airtours brought an action before the Court for annulment of the Commission's decision.The Court stated that, pursuant to the relevant regulation applicable at the material time, a merger may be prohibited if it will lead directly and immediately to the creation or reinforcement of a dominant position, significantly distorting effective competition in the market over a long period.The Court concluded that, because the Commission had made a number of errors of assessment, it had not shown sufficient evidence of the negative effects of the merger on competition, and the Court therefore annulled the contested decision (judgment in Airtours v Commission, 2002).
European Union law prohibits all agreements between companies, all decisions by associations of companies and all concerted practices which are likely to affect trade between Member States and which are intended to or have the effect of preventing, restricting or distorting competition within the common market.Following a complaint, the Commission made certain checks and, in 1998, adopted a decision finding that a number of companies participated in a set of prohibited agreements and practices in the European district heating market. The Commission imposed fines amounting to a total of around EUR 92 million on the companies participating in that cartel.The Court dismissed almost entirely the actions for annulment brought against the Commission's decision, after finding that there was proof of, firstly, the existence of the various elements constituting the overall agreement and, secondly, the individual involvement of the companies in the anticompetitive conduct for which they had been held liable, except with regard to the length of time one of the companies participated in the agreement and the geographical range of the agreement as regards another company.The fines imposed by the Commission were, moreover, on the whole confirmed by the Court in the total sum of EUR 83 410 000. However, the fines imposed on two companies were reduced (judgment in HFB and Others v Commission, 2002).
By a Law of 1991, a banking organisation owned outright by the Land of North-Rhine Westphalia and having the task of granting financial assistance for the building of housing was transferred to a banking organisation governed by public law. The Land received as payment a sum much lower than the market price.The Commission decided that the transaction was unlawful State aid, incompatible with the common market. According to the Commission, the difference between the market value and the amount paid was the sum of around EUR 808 million, and this constituted unlawful State aid. The Land and the two banking organisations then sought annulment of the Commission decision before the Court.The Court ruled that the Commission, which is subject to a duty to give reasons, had failed to give sufficient reasons for its estimate of the market value. The Court therefore annulled the Commission decision (judgment in Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale and Land Nordrhein-Westfalen v Commission, 2003).
Ms Hautala, a member of the European Parliament, had asked the Council of the European Union to send her a report on arms exports. Relying on its power to refuse access to such a document in order to protect the public interest in the field of international relations, the Council refused to release the report because it contained sensitive information, the disclosure of which might harm the relations of the European Union with non-Member States.In this situation, Ms Hautala brought an action before the Court seeking annulment of the Council's decision refusing to send her the report in question.In its judgment, the Court restated the principle that the public must have the widest possible access to documents, exceptions to that rule having to be interpreted and applied strictly.It said that the Council should have considered the possibility of editing certain pages likely to harm international relations and therefore looked into whether partial access to the document could be authorised. Since the Council had not taken that step, the Court annulled its decision (judgment in Hautala v Council, 1999).


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The Sporline ® Qlip Any Wear pedometer comfortably clips to your clothing to accurately monitor your steps, calories burned and distance traveled. Using the Infiniti Motion Sensor, you can track your workout and get the ultimate results with this pedometer's sleek design and petite size. Tuck it away in your pocket or clip it anywhere for efficient monitoring of your entire workout.
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Rated 2 out of 5�by Joanne123 Pedometer I thought I would pay a bit more for a pedometer since the cheaper ones don't last. When I received this one I noticed that there are 2 white buttons to push on it. In the picture you can see what the buttons say "reset" and "adjust". However on the actual pedometer it is in white making it nearly impossible to read. I took it back because it was too hard to read and I felt for the money it was cheaply made. May 30, 2014
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Rated 4 out of 5�by jj Sportline Pedometer works well This pedometer is small enough to go anywhere with you and still officially count steps, which is what I need it for. The main disadvantage is also its best benefit. It is small, and I don't wear a clip for it. So if I don't have a pocket, sometimes it's hard to find a place to put it. April 26, 2013
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Mises University 2014
Austrian Economics
- The Program
- Apply Now (The deadline for scholarship applications is April 8)
Rooted in the tradition of Carl Menger and Ludwig von Mises, as well as Murray Rothbard and F.A. Hayek, the Austrian School offers a rigorous and logical approach to economics that gives free markets their due and takes full account of the reality of human choice.
More than a field within economics, the Austrian School is an entirely different approach that dissents from the mainstream on method, theory, and policy. It views economic actors as unique, conscious, and freely choosing individuals, not as undifferentiated data to be manipulated mathematically or politically.
The Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics. Since 1986, it has been the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.
The program offers courses, seminars, and reading groups on the whole range of the discipline. A core curriculum presents economic foundations, and more than fifty elective classes explore the entire range of economics, in all levels of advancement. The program ends with a Mündliche Prüfung, an optional exam for an honors certificate and cash prizes for the most learned. Subject areas cover market behavior, competition, value and utility, money and banking, business cycles, industrial organization, method, economic history, the philosophy of science, financial economics, and more. You attend what most suits your interests and level of advancement.
Classes are interspersed with reading groups, discussion seminars, faculty panels, and plenary lectures. There are special sessions on economic history, economics and ethics, and political philosophy. Nightly social hours allow time to meet and discuss it all with faculty and other students.
Through the generosity of Mises Institute Supporters, there is no registration fee at Mises University for students who are accepted (Sponsor a Student). Acceptance is highly selective. All students who are accepted on full scholarship receive complimentary admission to all sessions, refreshment breaks, a double-occupancy dormitory room for 7 nights, transportation between the dorm and the Mises Institute each day, and meals beginning with dinner on Sunday July 20 and ending with dinner on Saturday July 26.
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Fired parks and rec director says she was on city manager's 'target list'
SALISBURY — Gail Elder White says she was fired May 8 from her job directing the city's Parks and Recreation Department because new City Manager Doug Paris is cleaning house.
Since Paris took over city management in July 2011, five top administrators have left, including City Engineer Dan Mikkelson, who said his sudden departure earlier this month came after Paris asked him to retire.
White also defended her former department's method of tallying participation at parks and recreation events, saying the city's financial services team helped come up with the measurements five years ago.
After Paris was asked last week by the Post to expound on the "unsatisfactory results" he noted in White's termination letter, he said parks and rec had been inflating participant numbers for years.
However, Paris later emphasized the numbers were not the reason he fired White and Jeff Holshouser, the parks and rec program manager, and eliminated their positions. Paris said their jobs were cut in a management consolidation that allowed him to redeploy $240,000 toward parks and rec improvements.
Paris said this week he would have eliminated the positions regardless of participation numbers.
"Our parks centers have been resource-starved," he said. "We needed more revenue."
Dr. Dale Roenigk, director of the North Carolina Benchmarking Project at the UNC School of Government, said Salisbury's parks and rec participation numbers look "abnormally high" when compared to other cities.
Salisbury is the smallest of 13 cities in the School of Government's new parks and rec benchmark program. So far, seven cities have sent participation statistics from last year, and Roenigk said Salisbury's are the highest.
'Target list'
White said Paris has been getting rid of department heads he inherited from the former city manager.
"I have always felt that I was on the target list since I was one of David Treme's department heads and the current manager's systematic removal of others from service to the city," White wrote in an email. "But to remove Jeff was totally uncalled for."
White, 57, worked for the city for more than 17 years. Holshouser, 47, was a city employee for more than 22 years. Both had six years until they were eligible for retirement.
Holshouser had back surgery the day after he was fired.
Five top administrators have left since Paris took over city management — White, Mikkelson, public information officer Karen Wilkinson, Fibrant Director Mike Crowell and Planning Director Joe Morris.
Wilkinson resigned and could not be reached for comment. Crowell, Mikkelson and Morris retired.
Morris said he chose to retire and take a new job. Crowell said he had no comment.
Mikkelson said Paris asked him to retire. After an hour-long discussion with Paris on April 26, Mikkelson said he agreed.
The city sent a memo to employees within an hour announcing the retirement, Mikkelson said.
A 30-year veteran of city government in Salisbury and Charlotte, Mikkelson said it was Paris' prerogative to ask him to leave to save money and build a new management team, and he is satisfied with the way he was treated.
Paris said he never asked Mikkelson to retire.
Unprofessional or analytical?
Mikkelson said while he understands a management decision to consolidate the parks and rec department, Paris then attempted to discredit White and Holshouser. He said White is well-respected nationally as a parks and rec leader, and the department was a finalist in 2011 for one of the most prestigious awards in the nation.
He had retirement to fall back on when he left the city, Mikkelson said, but White and Holshouser didn't.
"The way that the city manager treated Jeff and Gail is inexcusable, unprofessional and immature, and it shows Doug's greatest weakness — his lack of experience," Mikkelson said.
Paris said Mikkelson's criticism is sour grapes after a disagreement over re-striping Statesville Boulevard.
Mikkelson wanted to eliminate a vehicle lane and add bike lanes to slow traffic, which would have adhered to the city's new bicycle master plan.
Paris decided to keep four vehicle lanes, saying there wasn't enough time before a state repaving deadline to seek community consensus. Many residents opposed the change during a heated public forum last year.
Mikkelson said while he was passionate about the bike lanes, he did not resist once Paris made the decision.
Mikkelson's assessment of his retirement and the job eliminations at parks and rec are "opinion and speculation," Paris said.
"What I'm doing is very analytical," Paris said.
When he became city manager, Paris consolidated four positions into two, eliminating Wilkinson's vacant post and his old assistant city manager position, to free up $180,000 for employee raises, he said.
"We need to reward our employees," he said.
Parks and rec
Now, he has consolidated three positions into one, saving $240,000 in salaries, benefits and administrative overhead to spend on parks and rec centers, Paris said.
Parks and rec is supposed to bring in enough revenue to cover 15 percent of its costs, but the department has missed the mark for several years, Paris said.
He provided a chart showing cost recovery hovering between 8 percent and 10 percent from 2010 to 2012 and now trending downward at 6.8 percent.
He also provided a comparison between Salisbury and Apex, which have similar populations. Apex reported that 31 percent of residents participated in parks and rec programs last year, while Salisbury reported that 241 percent of its population participated.
The discrepancy was larger for youth participation — 47 percent of Apex youth and 459 percent of Salisbury youth.
The same person was counted multiple times in Salisbury, giving a total greater than 100 percent.
"The numbers speak for themselves," Paris said.
Paris said he asked the new leadership — parks and rec now reports to Assistant City Manager Zach Kyle — to improve the revenue recovery rate and make sure participation is accurately measured.
"Our focus from this point forward will be on improving the services delivered by the programming division to our citizens," Paris said in a statement.
Inflated numbers vs. 'definition problem'
Roenigk, the professor with the School of Government, said he doesn't know why Salisbury's numbers are high and had planned to meet with parks and rec staff from all cities, including Salisbury, participating in the new benchmark program.
Roenigk said he needs to better understand how cities define participation and collect and report data.
"When we see numbers stick out like (Salisbury's), they don't seem right," Roenigk said. "It raises concern that we did not define everything correctly. We are trying to make sure we all collect data in same way."
So far, Salisbury's cost recovery is the second-lowest among cities that have submitted numbers, Roenigk said.
In Apex, the cost per participant last year was $32.90, while in Salisbury, it was $249, Paris said.
Roenigk said the participation numbers reported to the School of Government are preliminary. But Paris said Salisbury's numbers are not preliminary, and because they are inflated, they skew the department's efficiency and effectiveness measures.
Roenigk said he anticipated that parks and rec would be one of the toughest services to compare between cities because they may count participation differently, and free events can attract large crowds where attendance is estimated.
Like Salisbury, a city could have a rate higher than 100 percent if it counts participations, not people, Roenigk said. In that case, the same child would be counted multiple times if he plays in a basketball league, goes to the city pool and takes an arts and crafts course, he said.
"Salisbury's numbers look abnormally high," Roenigk said. "We could have a definition problem."
All 13 cities received the same instructions in August 2012: Count the number of participants in organized programs and sports fields, Roenigk said.
"Participants means participations, so one individual may have multiple participations," he said.
Still, Salisbury's numbers were higher than any other city so far, he said.
Roenigk said he doesn't know if that's because Salisbury is doing a great job, using a different definition or misreporting numbers.
"We just don't have the information yet," he said. "We haven't had the discussion about, are we counting this in the same way?"
'Misrepresentation of the facts'
Paris said he didn't give White and Holshouser a chance to address participation numbers before he fired them because eliminating their jobs had nothing to do with the statistic.
He said he had talked to parks and rec for more than a year about improving the performance.
But White said she presented two different improvement plans to Paris in February and received no feedback. Holshouser said he repeatedly asked the city's marketing team to help promote parks and rec events, but his emails often went unanswered.
White and Holshouser have hired Charlotte attorney Nicole Gardner to represent them in a potential lawsuit against the city for wrongful termination.
"The manner in which participations were counted is consistent with widely-recognized best practice and is utilized by many cities across North Carolina. It has been used in Salisbury for years," Gardner said in an email. "Mr. Paris owes both of these individuals a public apology, and he ought to reinstate them immediately."
White said the idea that the city's financial services team had just discovered that parks and rec was using participations as a measurement "is truly a misrepresentation of the facts."
"They have been involved and actively helped create that benchmark," she said. "Also, parks and recreation staff has never been advised that this method of tracking was not acceptable to the city manager."
Holshouser said several factors have had an impact on the parks and rec budget, including the city's decision to pull in the landscape and cemetery divisions, as well as two years of staff cuts that decreased the department's ability to generate revenue with programming.
Despite the changes, Holshouser said he thought the department was doing better financially, and he was working to increase revenue by attracting more tournaments to the city-owned park on Hurley School Road.
Paris said he asked Kyle to recommend how to spend the $240,000 in savings from White and Holshouser's jobs. Paris suggested putting air conditioning in a gym in the city's West End neighborhood.
White said she's been requesting that project for years.
"I hope the salary savings will indeed be used for air conditioning in Hall Gym," she said. "We have been requesting that for years, and it will greatly improve the services delivered to the citizen of Salisbury."
Contact reporter Emily Ford at 704-797-4264.


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20 Fun and Unusual Stocking Stuffers for Cooks!
It's usually pretty easy to find things for a cook's holiday stocking. The culinary world is full of little bits of kitchen gadgetry and smartly packaged foodstuffs. But if you're searching for something beyond a clutch of vegetable peelers and Trader Joe's Gift Cards*, then take a look at this roundup of fun and unusual little gifts for the cook.
*not that I wouldn't want these, too!
First Row
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• Recipe Cards, $10 for 16
• Winter Citrus Soap, $8.00
• Linen Origami Food Sacks $22 for two
• Long Handled Spoon, $32.49
Second Row
• Red Mini-Cleaver, $13.95
• Mulling Spices, $6.00 makes 3 gallons
• Antler Tea Towel, $36.00 AUS
• Baker's Twine, $2.25 for 30 yards
• Handmade Pot Holders, $16 for two
Third Row
• Kewpie Mayonaise, $4.95
• Horse Head Bottle Opener, $14.95
• Cake Flags, $25 for bundle of 10
• Rancho Gordo Bumpersticker, $1.00 and
• Christmas Lima Beans, $4.95
Fourth Row
• Unusual spices such as malab, pink peppercorns and grains of paradise
• Double-Layer Red Stripe Dish Cloths, $5.95
• Vegetable Garden Seeds, $1.50 - $3.50 per pack
• All-In-One Spatula, $5.95
• Handmade Anchor Pocket Knife, $39.70
Do you have any favorite stocking stuffers? What do you like to slip into a cook's Christmas stocking?
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one of each please!
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