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▼▲Format: DRM Protected ePub Vendor: Thomas Nelson Publication Date: 2010 | ISBN: 9781418583927 ISBN-13: 9781418583927 Series: Songbird |
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▼▲It begins with a little red envelope . . .
. . . the one Jade doesnt want to send. The envelope that invites her mother, Beryl, to her weddingand opens up more of her past than she cares to deal with. Jade has worked so hard to put her hardscrabble childhood behind her.
And shes found everything she wanted in the beautiful green hills of Whisper Hollow, Tennessee. A thriving vintage shop all her own. A lovely one-eyed shepherd dog named Roscoe. And Max, the almost-too-good-to-be-true man she plans to marry in just a few weeks. For the first time in her life, her heart feels at home, and she cant wait to step out into their beautiful future.
But can she really have a sweet by and by if she cant come to terms with yesterday?
Author Bio
▼▲Multi-platinum recording artist Sara Evans has garnered such honors as ACMs Female Vocalist of the Year, CMAs Video of the Year, one of People Magazines "50 Most Beautiful People,' and the first country star to compete in ABC's Dancing with the Stars. This is her first fiction series.
Rachel Hauck is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA TODAY bestselling author of The Wedding Dress, which was also named Inspirational Novel of the Year by Romantic Times and was a RITA finalist. Rachel lives in central Florida with her husband and two pets and writes from her ivory tower. Visit her online at rachelhauck.com Facebook: rachelhauck Twitter: @RachelHauck
Author Bio
▼▲Ive been a Believer since I was 21. My faith has been everything to me in my life since then. In my marriage, my motherhood, my career, and just dealing with everyday life, God is my constant companion and friend. I find myself praying constantly prayers of gratitude and guidance. As a mom and a career woman, my life is filled daily with choices and decisions to make that will affect lots of people. So I rely on God to guide me!
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Eileen Elertson5 Stars Out Of 5Sweet By and By by Sara Evans & Rachael HauckAugust 27, 2014Eileen ElertsonThis review was written for The Sweet By and By, Songbird Series #1.Thoroughly enjoyed this book.
HoneyBear1968Age: 35-44Gender: female5 Stars Out Of 5Great bookFebruary 3, 2012HoneyBear1968Age: 35-44Gender: femaleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5This review was written for The Sweet By and By, Songbird Series #1.I thoroughly enjoyed this book, it was one that I couldn't put down. A story about love and trust and heartache, I am really looking forward to reading the next 2 books in the series.
Robin PraterMissouriAge: 35-44Gender: female4 Stars Out Of 5An Enchanting Journey of GraceOctober 16, 2011Robin PraterMissouriAge: 35-44Gender: femaleQuality: 4Value: 4Meets Expectations: 4This review was written for The Sweet By and By, Songbird Series #1.Grab yourself a cup of coffee and get cozy. You will be in for a long night of reading and you won't need the coffee to keep you awake. This novel will take you on a journey through the life of Jade Fitzgerald. A young woman trying to move forward, but forever stuck in yesterday. She has many regrets caused by poor choices. Many pains brought to her from simply coming from a broken family. Many memories that haunt her.
We journey from her past to her present. I have read books that take us from yesterday to present time and have had a struggle keeping up, but this one just seems to flow. From reading of today and then taking a glimpse back in time, we get to see the full view of Jade and her many mysteries to be uncovered.
Who knew, Sara Evans, could write? Rachel Hauck is at the top of my favorites list. Now, both of these ladies together bring a story of redemption and grace. I had purchased, Softly and Tenderly, the second book in the Songbird Series at the ACFW conference this year. I began reading and realized it was part of a series. I quickly got on line and ordered, The Sweet By and By. I waited patiently for it to arrive and was not disappointed at all. I encourage you to read them in order. The Sweet By and By is the backbone of the series.
This story takes us into the heart of Whisper Hollow, Tennessee. Here is something I love. Jade is almost hollow inside. She has carried such pain for so long and all she needs is to hear the whisper of God. Faith was always near Jade. It flowed from her grandmother's heart. But Jade felt she wasn't good enough for God. She thought she had made too many mistakes in life. Who of us hasn't been there? I know I have, but that is where the sweet grace of Christ comes in.
This is a journey of not just one woman, but many characters that jug at your heart as we watch them move through each trial of life. On some level you will fall in love with each of these broken people. This story opens with Jade inviting her mother to her wedding. A choice she isn't sure of, but one that will change her life. It's awesome to see how each choice Jade makes brings her closer to a God she didn't think loved her at all.
To say I loved this book simply isn't enough. It is one that you read and pass on to your friends. It's just that good.
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The Phantom ParagrapherTauranga, New ZealandAge: 18-24Gender: female5 Stars Out Of 5One of my All-Time Favourite Books :)May 23, 2011The Phantom ParagrapherTauranga, New ZealandAge: 18-24Gender: femaleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5This review was written for The Sweet By and By, Songbird Series #1.Review : The Sweet By and By - Book #1 Songbirds Series - Sara Evans and Rachel Hauck - Jan 2010
Jade Freedom Fitzgerald's life is for once looking up - she owns an antique shop called The Blue Umbrella, she has a good set of friends and she is about to get married to lawyer Max Benson. Jade wants a nice, quiet intimate wedding but her interfering mother-in-law is planning an extravagant event including expensive red-enveloped invitations. The story starts with Jade contemplating whether to send an invitation to her hippie mother, Beryl, who's still living like it's the 1960s. As the wedding nears, all Jade's secrets from her past start to surface, such as ex-fiances, her estranged father and her dysfunctional family. Armed with her two close friends whose dreams are to go on Oprah, her trusty one-eyed dog Roscoe and her quirky antique shop, can Jade move forward into married life without losing who she really is and will she fit in with her husband-to-be's socialite friends and family or will it just be too much for her to handle? This collaborative effort by country singer-songwriter Sara Evans and Christian author Rachel Hauck is an amazing read which tells a story about chasing dreams, travelling endless miles to get where you want to be and having the faith that no matter how much you focus on the future, you have to open and accept the past in order to move forward. -
Rambling Reader4 Stars Out Of 5October 11, 2010Rambling ReaderQuality: 5Value: 4Meets Expectations: 4This review was written for The Sweet By and By, Songbird Series #1.As a fan of country star, Sara Evan's music and Rachel Hauck's novels, I was excited to discover that both women have joined forces and released an inspirational novel. The Sweet By and By is a collaborative effort that successfully blends the emotional story lyrics present in Sara Evan's songs with the character development and humor that defines Hauck's novels.
In The Sweet By and By, Jade Fitzgerald is a young woman who is the owner of a vintage, antique shop and just weeks away from marrying Max Benson, a successful lawyer from an upper-class family. With pasts that they both wish to forget, they agree to live in the present while embracing the future. After Jade reluctantly sends a wedding invitation to her estranged mother, Beryl, memories from the family's past set ripples of pain and regret into motion. These ripples soon turn into a wave of emotion that they must confront. While the women struggle to reconcile their past, Max also faces the return of his former fiance and a secret that he wishes to keep from Jade. Will Jade's and Max's love for one another surmount the obstacles that they face?
The Sweet By and By skillfully displays the complexities of family relationships and the power of forgiveness as individuals struggle to come to terms with their past actions and decisions. While reading this novel, I was drawn to the unfolding story of Jade's and Beryl's tumultuous relationship. Like this story, real-life is complex with no "perfect" endings. Our lives are always a work in progress.
I look forward to Sara Evan's and Rachel Hauck's upcoming novels in the Songbird series. Hopefully, readers will once again re-visit the lives of some of the characters in The Sweet By and By, especially Jade's younger sister, Willow.
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OK, so here is another "tip". I'm not sure if this will work for everyone, but here is what I did.
I rented this game before and got all the achievements except for the stupid Kobe one. I decided to rent it again and give it another go. I had already deleted the game info. from my hard drive for this game (which I do for most games when I'm done with them). Anyway, I load up the dunk contest and select LeBron James, Tracy MacGrady, Jason Richardson and Vince Carter as my contestants. I controlled all four. I do the up up dunk for every single dunk in the contest, never making one until the final dunk overall. I don't hit any buttons and let the game go through it's stuff after the final dunk (as mentioned before by others in other threads). Kobe shows up the first contest I do! He hits his first dunk for a 93. I figure "here we go again" and I try to do the hard dunks, but I don't hit them so I score very low. Kobe missed his second dunk and I was unable to win because I couldn't pull off the second dunk! Grrrrr! It had been a while since I played! So, I decide to delete the game info. and see if he shows up the first try again. I do the same stuff I mentioned before. Kobe shows up again and missed his first dunk! I'm ready this time and just do a basic dunk that scores me a 79. He gets a 92 on his second dunk. I score 74 on my second basic dunk and bam, achievement is unlocked! Like I said, I don't know if this will work for everyone but it couldn't hurt to try. After all beating one dunk by Kobe is much easier than beating two. Good luck all and I hope it works for you!!! |
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I will have to try this and tell you guys how it goes, I am missing only 1 ach in both NBA 2k8 and 2k9 and it's the dunk off ach for each game, hopefully this trick works and Im trying to complete more sports games on mygamercard.net, currently ranked 19th in the world in the sports genre leaderboard on that site, Ill message back if I get this hopefully.
I just wanted to follow up on my previous comment and would just like to say this trick works 95% of the time, I was able to practice the dunks in dunk school when I was evntually challenged by Kobe and after 17 or so attempts of him challenging me, I would try around 3 tries a day and he got an 84 his 1st dunk, I got an 85 my 1st dunk and I was like please mess up or something on the next attempt and he did, he had to use a replacement dunk and got an 82 and on my 2nd try I get my 1st 100 dunk that I ever tried and ach unlocked :) 1000/1000 now in NBA 2k8, now I will try the last ach in NBA 2k9 soon, this little guide here works awesome.
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Worked perfectly...he got a 79 his first try and i just made an easy up and down dunk over a fence to score an 89. He than scored 85 and i got the down and up dunk over the fence for 82 and pling, cheevo popped up! 2nd try :D
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When the timekeeper calls "Seconds out, round one" at a packed O2 Arena in south-east London at about 2am next Sunday, it won't be so much a matter of ringing thebell as lighting the fuse. We could be in for another early-hours earth tremor as the two biggest punchers in British boxing slug it out to settle who is the world's best cruiserweight.
If nothing else, this perfectly balanced unification battle of Britain, between David Haye and Enzo Maccarinelli, will be as explosive as it is expensive. Not since Benn and Eubank knocked bits off each other back in the early 1990s has a domestic dispute generated as much intrigue. Those forking out £1,000 for a ringside seat or £9.95 for their Setanta subscription cannot afford to blink.
The Londoner Haye has threatened to knock out the Welshman in the first round. He may well do. Equally, he could get chinned himself before the echo of the bell has faded, such is the anaesthetising potential of this engaging pair of power punchers. Between them they have had 50 fights, and 40 have failed to go the distance.
Haye has halted 14 of his 21 opponents inside three rounds and Maccarinelli 16 of 29 in three or less. Altogether, they have 15 first-round wins. So both can bang, and both can be banged out. They have lost one apiece but have also climbed off the floor to win, as Haye did when acquiring his World Boxing Council (WBC) and World Boxing Assoc-iation (WBA) titles from the Frenchman Jean-Marc Mormeck in Paris three months ago.
Haye vowed afterwards he would never again fight at cruiserweight, claiming he had not had a proper meal in 17 weeks to make the 14st 4lb limit. Instead, a future loomed as one of the world's most exciting heavyweights in a division bereft of the sort of charisma and clout he carries into the ring. But a purse of almost £1 million has changed his mind, somewhat worryingly so if he has againhad problems shedding the couple of stones that he puts on between fights.
This may be one reason why Haye decided to move his training base to the humidity of Miami, although he says it is so he can be in the same time zone that sees the fight start in the early hours for American TV.
Haye tells us: "I know I said after the Mormeck fight I would never go through that again, starving myself to make the weight, but I just feel it's going to be worthwhile. If you want to work on your legacy, you've got to make sacrifices, and my sacrifice for this fight is that I'm taking it at a weight I normally wouldn't want to fight at again.
"One of the things that makes it so appealing is that people think it's a dangerous one for me; it's like them wanting to see a car crash. Everyone knows he punches real hard and we've both been knocked down by lesser punchers, so someone's going to get hurt, someone's going to get knocked out. I don't believe it's going to be me."
Not that Haye, a one-time wild child on London's luvvie circuit, is all crash, bang, wallop. A boxer, he says, was all that he ever wanted to be. "Mum tells me I was born with a black eye and with my fists clenched."
A former World Amateur Championships silver medallist, Haye can box speedily and with style. "The sort of guys I've struggled with are not those like Maccarinelli but the shorter ones who come forward and try to get under my jab," he says. "He's taller than me so I won't have to go looking for his chin, it's going to be right there in my face. I don't think I'll have a problem getting to him."
The Boxing Board have been monitoring Haye's weight regularly but he claims: "The only way the weight factor could be a problem is if the fight is a long, gruelling one. But I don't think his chin is good enough for it to go late. He will be put under so much heat early doors. But I might hold him up for a few rounds and put on a bit of an exhibition to show I'm not just a one-punch pony."
Haye says he has been offering his $200-a-round sparring partners $1,000 if they can knock him down. "They've all been trying to chin me, but none have."
For his part, the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) champion Maccarinelli, the stablemate, sparmate and best mate of fellow Italian-Celt Joe Calzaghe, promises "12 of the most brutal rounds in British boxing history", adding: "Everyone goes on about his weight situation, but that's the same with a lot of boxers. Look at Ricky Hatton, even Joe [Calzaghe] has to lose a couple of stones before every fight.
"Come fight night, after the weigh-in, David will probably be a stone heavier than me, regardless of what he's put his body through, because he will be able to put a bit of it back on. All this talk about weight seems to be an excuse if he loses.
"The public demanded this fight and now they've got it. If it goes 12 rounds, I'll be fighting at the same pace as I was in the first, but will he? He is a fine champion, but if he thinks he can beat me he's delusional. I'll punch a hole in his head."
Haye has less to lose than Maccarinelli because, whatever happens, his future is with the heavy mob. The bookies favour his Hayemaker landing on Maccarinelli's chin early on but if not, with the stamina ebbing from his legs in the later rounds, he may get clobbered himself.
Will he who draws first bethe last man standing in thering's High Noon? It's a question weighing heavily on the mind.
How they measure up
David Haye
Born: London
Age: 27
Height: 6ft 3in
Reach: 80in
Record: 21 fights, 19 KOs, 1 defeat Titles: WBC, WBA
Aka: The Hayemaker
Trainer: Adam Booth
Best shot: Right uppercut
Weak spot: Stamina
Odds: 4-7
Enzo Maccarinelli
Born: Swansea
Age: 27
Height: 6ft 4in
Reach: 81in
Record: 29 fights, 21 kos, 1 defeat Title: WBO
Aka: Big Mac
Trainer: Enzo Calzaghe
Best shot: Left hook
Weak spot: Suspect chin
Odds: 5-4
Great British bouts
Nigel Benn v Chris Eubank, Birmingham, 18 November 1993
Their first clash, for the WBO middleweight title, was one of the most savage fights in British boxing history, with Eubank taking terrible punishment before stopping Benn on his feet in the ninth. "I had to keep asking the Good Lord to help me out," said a bloodied Eubank.
John H Stracey v Dave 'Boy' Green, Wembley, 29 March 1977
One of the most ferocious wars ever staged at Wembley saw the Cockney ex-champ Stracey, his left eye closed, rescued from the clubbing fists that country boy Green called his "muckspreaders" in the 10th round of a final eliminator for the world welterweight title.
Ken Buchanan v Jim Watt, Glasgow, 29 January 1973
Sauchiehall Street on a Saturday night has never seen a more pulsating punch-up than this 15-round classic between two Scottish warriors for the British lightweight title, witnessed by just 600 fans in a hotel ballroom. The newly deposed world champion Buchanan just edged his younger opponent.
Henry Cooper v Joe Bugner, Wembley, 16 March 1971
"Our 'Enry", 37, lost his long-standing British and European heavyweight titles in his last fight to the 21-year-old Hungarian émigré Bugner on a highly controversial points decision. "I thought I nicked it, 'Arry," Cooper complained to the referee, Harry Gibbs. "Champions don't nick nothing," replied Gibbs, who later sued Cooper over comments made about the verdict in his autobiography.
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There have been heatwaves in Slovenia and Australia, snow in Vietnam and the return of the polar vortex to North America. Britain has had its wettest winter in 250 years but temperatures in parts of Russia and the Arctic have been 10C above normal. Meanwhile, the southern hemisphere has had the warmest start to a year ever recorded, with millions of people sweltering in Brazilian and southern African cities.
According to the UN's World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), which monitors global weather, the first six weeks of 2014 have seen an unusual number of extremes of heat, cold and rain – not just in a few regions as might be expected in any winter, but right the way around the world at the same time, with costly disruptions to transport, power systems and food production.
"Melbourne, Adelaide and Canberra have all had record heatwaves, while temperatures in Moscow were 11C above normal. Germany and Spain were 2C above normal for January and this month has seen so far six major depressions develop over the Atlantic," said the WMO in its latest assessment of world weather.
"Both equatorial and polar regions have experienced extremes. There has been unusually heavy snowfall; in the southern Alps, monthly temperatures were extremely high; from eastern Mongolia to eastern China and in the southern hemisphere, Australia, Argentina and Brazil have experienced extended heatwaves. The unusually cold weather in the eastern US coincided with severe storms in Europe," it says.
Some climate scientists argue that there is nothing unusual in winter global temperature extremes but Omar Baddour, chief of the WMO data division, says the recent phenomena are almost certainly interlinked, with new computer models suggesting increased evidence of climate change.
"We need more time to assess whether this is unusual [on a global level] but if you look at the events in individual regions, like the heatwave in Australia or the cold in the US, it looks very unusual indeed. Next month we will publish a major report showing the likelihood of extreme heatwaves is increased 500% [with climate change]."
There is no connection between northern and southern hemisphere phenomenon, says Baddour, but the intense cold and heatwaves in the northern hemisphere appear to be linked by "planetary waves", or giant meanders in high-altitude winds like jet streams.
"A low pressure in one part of the world may be linked to a high in another. The two hemispheres are divided by the equator and not connected but, from a global perspective, climate change affects both. The global cause [of the extremes] can be the same," he said.
The WMO assessment coincides with exceptionally warm air and water this month in the Arctic. The sea ice, that forms and melts each year, would normally be still growing strongly in mid-February, but has dramatically slowed in the last two weeks and now covers 14.36 million square miles – the lowest extent ever recorded in February.
"The Arctic is pretty warm everywhere. If I look at temperature anomalies, there's a huge anomaly over the Barents Sea and Sea of Okhotsk of about 10C (above normal) compared to 1981-2010," said Julienne Stroeve, a senior scientist at the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre at Boulder, Colorado.
"We are living in a time where the climate is changing quite rapidly. There is reason to expect that the changes in the sea ice will have large local effects. Further investigation will improve our knowledge of whether or not the effects of sea ice decline and broader changes in the Arctic have global effects," said leading US meteorologist Jeff Masters.
The first two months of 2014 appear to back up last year's UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report report, which stated that the number, frequency and intensity of hot days and heatwaves was increasing, along with an increase in the intensity and number of heavy rainfall events.
Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics, said the science linking weather extremes to climate change was becoming clearer.
"We are seeing the extremes move into new territory. The pattern of extreme weather events that we have seen across the globe over the past 12 months bears the unmistakable fingerprint of climate change, with high temperatures recorded in many parts of the world," he said.
"We are also seeing some unusual phenomenon, such as the polar vortex in North America, that is bringing unusually cold weather, which would not be automatically be considered to be due to climate change. However, there is some evidence that such unexpected surprises are also due to global warming."
But some scientists are cautious about linking extremes to climate change. "Looking for a signal of climate change in short-term weather does not make much scientific sense … There is however evidence for increasing heatwaves and in some measures, increasing precipitation," said Roger Pielke Jr, professor of environmental studies of the Centre for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado.
"Human-caused climate change is real, poses risks and we should take action in terms of both mitigation and adaptation. [But] extreme events are a bad place to look for climate signals."
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Trying to remember now, where I found your blog! But I've been reading the archives, I'm at August 2011 right now. For what it's worth I think you're a great momma :)
Lamp is an absolute doll-baby. And just cannot get over that cute face! Every time I see one of her pictures I want to melt.This post made me cry:) Best post evah!
I miss you and love you, and totally agree about NYC memories and frequent moves~! I am also living in a small southern town with lots of people who have lived here for generations, and have a little trouble reaching out to newbies:( Miss your face, and your amazing family:) XOXO
P.S. Backyards are fun.I had a large close knit circle of friends back in the UK, now I have just a couple of friends! I get out with the kids and meet people, join library programs and all of that good stuff but somehow it feels harder to connect to other moms now. Like no one want to get past "hi how are you? How old is your kid?" I long for a friend I can invite over without cleaning the house top to bottom etc, a friend I can be truly comfortable with without trying you know? Your family is adorable by the way and I trying those grilled potatoes this week!


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The house itself is my personal retreat (although it's close to everything, it's very quiet) and has been in my possession for 7 years now. During this time it has been completely renovated, and I continue to use it as my getaway home.The house itself feels cozy, yet is spacious with an 'indoor-outdoor' feel, and is suitable for children. The property is completely fenced, with gardens galore. The entire focus of my residence is of tranquility, relaxation, romance and laughter...
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Here's what's on tap for the next Community Board 3's SLA & DCA Licensing Committee meeting on July 20:
Butter Lane is back on docket. (It was scratched from last month's agenda.)Iggy's, which is taking over the Five Rose's space, is applying for a license. A few interesting transfers (maybe!) at 40C and Cafe DeVille...
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Why an MBA oath?
Craig Smith |
Business schools have become an easy target as the butt of jokes about the causes of the current economic crisis. A recent segment on 'The Daily Show,' an American satirical television programme, explored the theme of MBAs being to blame for the crisis and the MBA oath as a possible remedy. Its presenter feigned surprise that not all students were willing to sign up to an oath that said: I will act with utmost integrity and pursue my work in an ethical manner. No doubt the view that MBAs would have difficulty in making such a commitment is more widespread and yet it seems such a straightforward commitment to make. So in answer to the question, 'why an MBA oath?', one response surely must be: 'Why not?' Why should it be so difficult for MBAs to commit to behaving ethically?
Why an oath?
There are various reasons why an MBA oath can be difficult in practice. In essence, these are implementation challenges that can be overcome. More fundamental is the view that it is not necessary-that there is no need for an oath expressing MBA commitment to ethical behaviour. Proponents of the MBA oath view it as a long-overdue initiative, necessary to make management a true profession. They point to the abundant evidence of managerial misconduct - by MBAs among others - showing why an oath is needed. For example, Joel Podolny, the former dean of Yale University (and former professor at Harvard and Stanford business schools), writes of a need for radical change in business schools including, but not limited to, greater attention to ethics teaching and the adoption of an enforceable code of conduct or oath.
Fact is, so deep and widespread are the problems afflicting management education that people have come to believe that business schools are harmful to society, fostering self-interested, unethical, and even illegal behavior by their graduates. (Podolny, 'The Buck Stops (and Starts) at Business School,' Harvard Business Review, June 2009, p. 62.)
While many arguments are advanced in favour of the MBA oath, the most basic is the argument of management as a (putative) profession committed to a set of professional values that have been demonstrably absent in recent years. While I can only briefly summarise this argument here, I refer readers to more detailed accounts available elsewhere, most notably by Podolny (in the HBR article mentioned above) and by Harvard Business School professors Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria ('It's Time to Make Management a True Profession,' Harvard Business Review, October 2008, pp. 70-77).
Khurana and Nohria observe that managers have lost legitimacy with a widespread breakdown of trust in business in the last decade, a claim endorsed by Podolny and supported by an HBR survey included in his article, as well as many other sources. Khurana and Nohria write that they believe that business leaders must embrace a way of looking at their role that goes beyond their responsibility to the shareholder to include a civic and personal commitment to their duty as institutional custodians ... it is time that management finally became a profession. (Khurana and Nohria, p. 70.)
As part of what it means to be a profession, management requires codes of conduct - an MBA oath would be one example:
True professions have codes of conduct, and the meaning and consequences of those codes are taught as part of the formal education of their members. (Ibid)
They position these codes as operating consistent with a social contract. Society consents to managers being allowed to engage in their profession and in return managers commit to being worthy of society's trust and to acting with integrity:
Through these codes, professional institutions forge an implicit social contract with other members of society: Trust us to control and exercise jurisdiction over this important occupational category. In return, the profession promises, we will ensure that our members are worthy of your trust - that they will not only be competent to perform the tasks they have been entrusted with, but they will conduct themselves with high standards and integrity. (Khurana and Nohria, p. 72.)
Khurana and Nohria's view is that misconduct in business - which has been all too apparent of late - would be reduced if management was more of a profession, because moral behaviour is an integral part of the identity of professionals and this is an identity that they are motivated to protect. Moreover, drawing on sociology, Khurana and Nohria observe that codes more specifically have enormous influence because they provide guidelines for how an occupant of a role ought to behave. (Khurana and Nohria, p. 75.) Research in social psychology supports this view. For example, recent studies by Mazar, Amir and Ariely found that cheating behaviour was reduced when participants were exposed to a moral code. (Nina Mazar, On Amir, and Dan Ariely, 'The Dishonesty of Honest People: A Theory of Self-Concept Maintenance, Journal of Marketing Research XLV (December 2008), pp. 633-644.) The clear parallel that Khurana and Nohria draw is with the Hippocratic oath in medicine. This is not to suggest that all medical practitioners are perfect, but given their power over life and death it has long been deemed socially desirable, as well as reassuring to their patients, that physicians have committed to being part of a profession that includes an oath to act in their patients' best interests.
Khurana's research documents how the idea of management as a profession dates back at least one hundred years to the founding of the first business schools. (Rakesh Khurana, From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession, Princeton University Press, 2007). However, as Khurana and Nohria observe, management is far from being a profession today and the modern-day business school a long way from contributing to that aspiration. However, they say, there is no reason why management shouldn't strive to be a profession and business schools would be an appropriate starting point for the realisation of this vision, with the oath as a key part. The oath they proposed in their article served as the inspiration for the MBA oath promulgated by Harvard MBA students earlier this year.
It is not necessary to accept Podolny's hard-hitting critique of business schools or to embrace the Khurana-Nohria professionalisation project in its entirety to believe that an MBA oath is one of a number of appropriate responses by business schools to business misconduct. A more modest proposal builds on the ideas of management as a profession but makes a slightly different argument. It takes at face value the espoused purpose of business schools.
Business schools are organisations with values which its members are expected to respect, as with any organisation that an individual freely chooses to be associated with. An MBA oath would simply be a statement of those values and a way of making explicit what the school - and thus its members - stands for. For example, INSEAD says its mission, in part, is the following: Through teaching, we develop responsible, thoughtful leaders and entrepreneurs who create value for their organisations and their communities. If it believes this to be the case, surely there should be no objection to asking its students to express their commitment to this goal?
Moreover, from a more self-interested perspective, shouldn't requiring such a commitment also serve a school's interest in preserving its reputation? A school can more readily disassociate itself from graduates whose actions are inconsistent with the professed values of the institution to which they promised to adhere. As important, they may be less likely to act contrary to those values in the first place, if it means exclusion from a community of which they wish to be part.
Why not?
Having addressed the core objection that an MBA oath is not needed, we can turn to the various objections that may be raised around its implementation. The wording of the oath is obviously crucial and some argue that the MBA oath initiated by Harvard Business School students this year is too broad in scope or potentially ambiguous in some of its provisions (e.g., I will strive to create sustainable economic, social, and environmental prosperity worldwide). Schools with more internationally diverse student bodies such as INSEAD also may have a greater difficulty in securing agreement, not only around a particular set of words but with the idea of making such a commitment if the oath is seen as espousing a culturally-specific set of values. However, these problems are hardly insurmountable. There are many examples of global organisations that have identified and articulated their values - values that their members are expected to follow. (Rosabeth Moss Kanter, 'Transforming Giants,' Harvard Business Review, January 2008, pp. 43-52.)
Another implementation problem is who should administer the oath. A voluntary, student-led initiative has the advantage of providing the choice of whether to participate, but it also runs the risk of failure, if not derision, if it is inadequately supported. The initiators of the Harvard oath were careful to claim that their goal was to get 100 HBS students to sign; they managed to get four times that number with just over 50 per cent of the graduating 2009 class signing up. (More than 1,600 students from various schools are now listed as having signed up. See: http://mbaoath.org/list-of-oath-signers/). A similar proportion signed up to a more modest pledge at INSEAD in December 2002. The pledge, signed by 226 students of the graduating class, stated: I _____________ pledge to explore and take into account the social and environmental consequences of any job I consider and will try to improve these aspects of the organizations for which I work. (See: http://www.insead.edu/mba/clubs/indevor/events/pledge.cfm.) However, no doubt in both cases, widespread attention to business misconduct (as a result of the financial crisis and, earlier, the collapse of Enron and WorldCom) were factors in the response.
An alternative approach is for the institution itself to require commitment to ethical conduct. Columbia business school requires its students to sign up to its honour code, which states: As a lifelong member of the Columbia Business School community, I adhere to the principles of truth, integrity, and respect. I will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. (See: http://www0.gsb.columbia.edu/honor/resources.html) Thunderbird business school asks students to sign its oath, something that forms part of the application process and the curriculum. (See: http://www.thunderbird.edu/about_thunderbird/inside_tbird/oath_of_honor.htm) School administration-based approaches, whether compulsory or voluntary, have the benefit of being likely to secure much higher levels of compliance and, if they are clearly announced as part of the application process, cannot legitimately be objected to by students who might otherwise assert that the oath imposes values different to their own or encroaches on their freedom. The oath would reflect core values of the community which student applicants are seeking to join and accepting a commitment to these values is a condition of entry. Of course, this is not so different - and in many cases far less constraining - than what students must do in joining an employer on graduation.
A further implementation problem is how to respond to violations of the code. Podolny insists that schools should withdraw degrees for violating codes of conduct, with the decision made by a committee responsible for the code and monitoring adherence to it. This wouldn't prevent the ex-MBAs from managing businesses, but there would be consequences because:
... they wouldn't be allowed to list the degree on their résumés, remain members of the school community, or be invited to reunions. They would, hopefully, be shunned by those who do adhere to the school's code of conduct. Most important, the governing groups would provide business schools with a mechanism by which they could communicate to the public their disapproval of MBAs who break their code and so demonstrate that the schools' values do accord with those of society. (Podolny, p. 67.)
In practice, however, this might be difficult to enact - though not impossible - and potentially also might entail a risk of litigation. Perhaps such sanctions would be unlikely, except in the most egregious cases where someone has been successfully criminally prosecuted. In such cases, arguably, the attention given to the individuals involved already has likely been sufficient. However, a broader impact might be achieved if the school has some way of clearly disassociating itself from the individual involved.
Would it make any difference?
Assuming the case is made of the need for an oath and that these implementation problems can be overcome, one might well ask whether it would make any difference. Would it change behaviour? Theory and research from sociology and social psychology suggest that it could and, more broadly, there is the example and experience of professions such as medicine and the law. Equally, it need not be a major undertaking and so could well be worth trying in light of the criticism of business practice and the blame ascribed to business schools specifically. One might also argue that it is worth doing because it has intrinsic value in and of itself, as an articulation of what the organisation stands for and in contrast to the moral relativism - the anything goes - that exists absent any organisational commitment to values. Finally, it need not be the only response by business schools to the current challenge to their legitimacy. An oath should form part of a broader initiative to strengthen attention to ethics and values, including greater attention to ethics in programme applicant selection criteria, as well as throughout the curriculum.


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Personnel File – Indianapolis Colts
Personnel leader: Vice Chairman Bill Polian – he's been building pro football rosters since 1978, when he spent five years as a pro scout for the Chiefs. He later worked in the CFL and USFL, before helping build the Buffalo teams that went to four Super Bowls and the expansion Carolina Panthers. Polian took over as Colts GM in 1998. He's a six-time winner of the league's Executive of the Year Award.
Key aides: Vice President and General Manager Chris Polian and Director of Player Personnel Tom Telesco.
Personnel department: 14 executives and scouts.
Personnel philosophy: build the roster through the draft and undrafted free agents, filling in the holes with veteran free agents.
Salary cap status: as of October 1, Colts had $5.4 million remaining under the cap.
Big money contracts: QB Peyton Manning (5-year, $90 million), DE Dwight Freeney (6-year, $72 million), TE Dallas Clark (6-year, $36 million), LB Gary Brackett (6-year, $33 million), RB Joseph Addai (3-year, $14 million).
Soon to be free agents – Current starters without 2012 contracts are WR Reggie Wayne, DE Robert Mathis, C Jeff Saturday, WR Pierre Garcon and RG Ryan Diem.
Roster This Week (starters in bold)
Draft choices (30)
- 1st Round (9): QB Peyton Manning (1998), WR Reggie Wayne (2001), DE Dwight Freeney (2002), TE Dallas Clark (2003), RB Joseph Addai (2006), WR Anthony Gonzalez (2007), RB Donald Brown (2009), DE Jerry Hughes (2010), LT Anthony Castonzo (2011).
- 2nd Round (3): C Mike Pollak (2008), DT Fili Moala (2009), MLB Pat Angerer (2010).
- 3rd Round (4): OLB Phillip Wheeler (2008), CB Jerraud Powers (2009), CB Kevin Thomas (2010), DT Drake Nevis (2011).
- 4th Round (4): RG Ryan Diem (2001), TE Jacob Tamme (2008), WR Austin Collie (2009), RB Delone Carter (2011).
- 5th Round (3): DE Robert Mathis (2003), OT Michael Toudouze (2006), TE Brody Eldridge (2010).
- 6th Round (4): FS Antoine Bethea (2006), WR Pierre Garcon (2008), QB Curtis Painter (2009), CB Chris Rucker (2011).
- 7th Round (3): P Pat McAfee (2009), OLB Kavell Conner (2010), DT Ricardo Mathews (2010).
College free agents (7)
- LS Justin Snow (2000), LB Gary Brackett/IR (2003), DB Melvin Bullitt/IR (2007), CB Jacob Lacey (2009), SS David Caldwell (2010), WR Blair White (2010), OT Jeff Linkenbach (2010), SS Joe Lefeged (2011), LB Adrian Moten (2011).
Waivers (3)
- G Seth Olsen (2011), HB Chris Gronkowski (2011), FS Jermale Hines (2011).
Unrestricted free agent (1)
- K Adam Vinatieri (2006)
Street free agents (12)
- C Jeff Saturday (1999), DT Antonio Johnson (2008), OT Joe Reitz (2010), DE Tyler Brayton (2011), LB A.J. Edds (2011), FS Stevie Brown (2011), DE Jamaal Anderson (2011), QB Kerry Collins (2011), CB Terrence Johnson (2011), QB Dan Orlovsky (2011), LB Ernie Sims (2011), OT Quinn Ojinnaka (2011).
Overview – Consider that all those seasons with double-digit victories has had the Colts drafting at the bottom of the first round in the last decade. They aren't perfect, but the Colts have not missed on many first round picks over the last 10 years. They've also found some gems in the later rounds, a true sign of a good personnel department, choices like 6th-round picks like FS Antoine Bethea and WR Pierre Garcon. They found both of those players not at big schools but at Howard (Bethea) and Mt. Union College (Garcon).
And consider this: in the last 10 seasons, the Colts have had 15 players earn 48 trips to the Pro Bowl. They drafted 13 of those 15 players.
However, recent first-rounders have not been immediate contributors like the team saw in the past. They drafted WR Anthony Gonzalez out of Ohio State in the first round in 2007, but later picks like Garcon and Austin Collie have gotten more playing time. In 2009, they drafted RB Donald Brown in the first round from UConn, but he's played in 28 games, touching the ball 238 times for 1,152 yards.
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October 6, 2011 - el cid says:
Wow, from 1998 to 2010, Polian was Exec of year six time and Pioli 4x, this is the battle of the execs sunday. Anyone, do they have more than one exec during any given year?


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Government offices closed for Thanksgiving In observance of the Thanksgiving holiday, all government offices, banks and schools will be closed on Thursday. Shelby County Public Schools also will be closed today and Friday.
Jeana Searcy, charged in the traffic death of her best friend a few days before graduation, and Timothy Carpenter, who was sitting in a truck when a friend was fatally wounded, have pleaded guilty in Shelby County Circuit Court.
The scene on the Shelbyville Bypass was hectic Wednesday afternoon, with engineers, traffic personnel and contractors running around all over the place.
Excitement was definitely in the air – after years in the works and after one setback after another, the Big Moment had finally arrived – the long-anticipated highway was about to open.
There is a major breakthrough in veterinary medicine happening in Kentucky, and it's not in Lexington or Louisville, but here in Shelby County at Finchville Animal Hospital.
Dr. Cathy White and her staff are at the forefront of an in-house stem cell procedure that is showing remarkable results on animals, and bringing a lot of attention to Finchville.
A simple four-minute piece on WAVE 3 has spread all over the country.
Did you know that the cranberry used to be called the "craneberry?"
When the colonists first learned of this berry from their American Indian hosts in the New World they thought the blooms of the native shrub looked liked the long neck and bill of the crane. Eventually, as language goes, it was shortened to cranberry.
Information was gathered from previous years of The Shelby Sentinel, The Shelby News and The Sentinel-News. You can reach the writer at email@example.com.
When the Shelbyville Bypass finally opened Nov. 3 after an often frustrating half-decade of construction, some drivers were surprised to find a single oasis of commercial activity already in place on a mostly barren stretch of road.
Alyson Myatt still gets choked up when she talks about the night she ran barefoot through a burning house to rescue a 5-year-old boy.
Though he is very young, Aden Gray Hawes already knows the meaning of trust more fully than most adults ever will.
And you can't imagine how much of that trust was at play last March, when Myatt dashed through flames and pulled Aden from his bedroom in the home owned by his guardian on Golden Rod Court in Shelbyville.
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After reading on Not Quite Nigella about the $30 three course meal available for Friday lunch, I immediately put it on my list of things to do. So, the first Friday after uni exams finished, I ventured off to Assiette in Surry Hills with Sir D, Queen Chu, Captain Awesome and BLT for a celebratory lunch.
We're shown the a la carte menu and the prix fixe menu, and being poor students we of course select the prix fixe menu, which has some lovely sounding dishes for the bargain price of $30! Since I love to have a taste of everything, Sir D and I decide to order all the dishes between the two of us and do a plate swap.
After ordering the waiter brings some sourdough so fresh out of the oven that it nearly burns my fingers when I pick it up. As expected, being a blogging noob, I forget to take a photo of it. It's nice and crunchy on the outside with soft fluffy insides, and our resident bread-lover Captain Awesome is very pleased.
The minestrone soup arrives first and it is green which is quite surprising as I've only ever had tomato-based minestrone soups. It's a hearty soup with kidney beans, celery, potato and other vegetables, and towards the bottom of the soup I find some chewy round balls which remind me of tapioca balls but are white and floury. Queen Chu describes them as 'gnocchi balls', which is a pretty accurate description, but they're a bit more chewy than your typical gnocchi. The soup is accompanied by a crunchy garlic toast and it's delicious.
I didn't know what champ was when reading the menu but upon consulting my trusty resource Wikipedia I find out that it is "made by combining mashed potatoes and chopped spring onions with butter and milk". I only try a bit of this since Sir D doesn't like risotto but the lamb rump is tasty and unctuous with a nice amount of fat in the meat. There is a disc of meat underneath the slices which seems to be shredded lamb that has been breaded and fried, but no one is quite sure what it actually is. Queen Chu and Captain Awesome think that there is a bit too much fat on the meat, but Sir D loves his fat and loves the dish. Which begs the question as to why he never gains any weight...
The girls are feeling quite full at this point but there's still dessert to come. The vanilla pannacotta is very very wobbly and those who ordered it (especially Sir D) seem utterly amazed by its ability to stay upright despite attempts to uproot it from its spot on the plate. The pannacotta is creamy and sweet and complimented by the freshness of the sorbet and the crunchiness of the crumble.
The brownie is gooey and chocolatey - just the way it should be - and the ice cream has a nice caramel flavour but I can't really taste the macadamia in it. I'm not sure what the crumbly bits are on the side but it tastes like chocolate biscuit crumbled with nuts. A great way to finish off the meal.
Upon leaving the restaurant, everyone is satisfied and all smiles and comments on the great meal that we've just had. Despite the fact that the dishes looked quite small, we are all reasonably full after the delicious 3 courses. And for $30, it doesn't get much better than that.
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-- Destination America posts double-digit growth among key demos --
(Silver Spring, MD) - Destination America garnered double-digit growth in Prime and Total Day for May 2014 vs. May 2013 among key demos, including P2+, HH, and P/W25-54/18-49 in delivery. With hit series Mountain Monsters, BBQ Pitmasters, and Buying the Bayou, Destination America earned its best May ever in Prime and Total Day. The network has now experienced 24 consecutive months of year-over-year delivery gains in Prime among P25-54 and has ranked among cable's top five fastest-growing networks in Prime delivery among key demos P2+, HH, P/W 25-54 and P/M/W18-49 for YTD.
Destination America's May 2nd premiere of hit series Mountain Monsters garnered the networks second highest rated telecast ever among M25-54. Mountain Monsters also helped Destination America rank as the 5th ad supported cable network in its timeslot among M25-54 coverage ratings.
Destination America beat out competitors in Prime delivery among P25-54 for the month, including Cooking Channel, IFC, Esquire and BIO.
May'14 vs. May'13 Primetime Delivery: P2+ +30% HH +38% P25-54 +22% M25-54 +23% W25-54 +20% P18-49 +27% M18-49 +27% W18-49 +23%
May'14 vs. May'13 Total Day (M-Su 6a-6a) Delivery: P2+ +27% HH +31% P25-54 +15% M25-54 +4% W25-54 +32% P18-49 +24% M18-49 +4% W18-49 +53%
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I had a colonoscopy a week ago out of town with my sisters doctor who is supposed to be an "expert" at finding ibd and chrohns disease. I had the colonoscopy due to occasional bleeding while having a bm. The doctor found 3 benign polyps and removed them but other than that he found nothing wrong other than hemhoroids and IBS.
Everything was ok untill today while having a bm I had more bleeding and mucous as well as what looked like a few blood clots mixed in. I called his office and he returned my call saying I should go to the emergency room asap. I'm really hesitant to go to the emergency room since the colonoscopy turned out pretty normal with no serious diagnosis. Could this bleeding be from my hemhoroids? Wouldn't something more serious have shown up during the colonoscopy if there was something wrong with me?
I also had an abdominal ultrasound the day before the colonoscopy which showed a few cysts on my kidneys which have been there for years now and have been checked out a couple of years ago and weren't a problem. The doctor freaked out and ordered a CAT scan that same day which also found a cyst on my ovary. The report also called it a "complex mass" that he is acting real worried about as well as being worried about the kidney cysts. I went to my obgyn and he read the report and said not to worry that ovarian cysts are normal at my age and that is is too small to worry about. He said he would do a ultrasound in 3 weeks to see if it's still there and said that CAT scans commonly word things as complex, and mass's even if they are a normal cyst. It just seems like this doctor overreacts a lot and scares me to death.
I'm really scared and don't know what to do now. I'm starting to hate going to the doctor in fear of what they will find and don't want to overreact if it's just my hemhoriods bleeding. Help!
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The bleeding could be from further up in your GI tract, like in the ssmall intestine or stomach. Your doctor is covering his bases by having you go to the ER. You might call back and ask about further testing, such as an upper endoscopy. I hope you get this figured out!
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I also had a colonoscopy recently and everything was "normal" however I still have the very painful symptoms and weirdly enough the week before my colonoscopy I ended up in the ER due to severe pain and they found a ovarian cyst. I'm so frustrated - this is my 3rd colonoscopy and they never follow through with what tests etc. should be done next.
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A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
old admonition continues to tug at my consciousness. Its cautionary
advice about something imminently dangerous approaching — just over the
horizon — is more than a little compelling. You know — the admonishment
that warns: "Eat, drink, and make merry, for tomorrow we die!" (You may recall several different versions found in the Bible.)
We are headed as straight to a third world war as a Martin flies to its gourd.
That fact, and I do believe it is a fact, is an unwelcome one. Nevertheless, tis true.
dear reader, our President is a humiliation to, not just the US, but to
the free world! He has proven to be a weakling, a pushover, a wimp, an
international embarrassment. And he is going to start a world war.
folks in Eastern Europe know it. The folks in Western Europe know it,
the folks in Israel know it, heck, the entire Middle East knows it!
Ukraine is gone -- at least the eastern region and, most likely, the
entire country. Just as the Crimea fell to Russian might, so will the
Ukraine. It has already begun. Next up -- the Baltic States Estonia,
Latvia, and Lithuania.
Look. A complete blithering idiot can
deduce that Czar Putin is recreating the old Soviet Union -- right
before our eyes -- while our boy/man "fearless leader" sits in the Oval
Office sucking his thumb.
I must tell you, it has been an
extremely long time since I have been as humiliated by a president as I
am today with Obama. Honestly, I didn't think it could ever get as bad
as it did with Jimmy Carter, but, gentle reader, Obama makes Carter
look like a LION!
History teaches that every time a president
cowers in the White House, we end up at war somewhere, with someone.
Remember how the White House declared we would not get involved in what
turned out to be World War One? Remember how the White House promised
we would not become involved in World War Two? Uh-huh. Get the picture?
So here we are, staring down the barrel of World War Three, and the White House is doing everything it can to avoid involvement.
have a boil on your body? Remember the continual pain from that boil?
What to do? Lance it. The instant the blade touches the boil the pain
is excruciating. The next instant, there is copious relief as the
pressure is relieved and the corruption is drained.
Putin is that boil on the derriere of the free world today. He needs to be lanced. But the man who holds the scalpel is no where to be found. It is shameful.
our friends in Europe we'd like to remind you that THIS is why so many
of us conservatives in the US voted against Obama. We warned of his
empty suit, of his inexperience, of his Marxist agenda. We would have
warned of his cowardice had we known at the time.
But, as I recall, much of Europe supported Obama for the US Presidency.
Some of you learned of your folly early on as evidenced by the following:
Europe got the American president it wanted – the one who would present
no threat to its own delusions. The United States is now officially one
of us: an Old World country complete with class hatred, ethnic
Balkanization, bourgeois guilt and a paternalist ruling elite. And it is
locked into the same death spiral of high public spending and
self-defeating wealth redistribution as we are. Welcome to the future,
and the beginning of what may turn out to be the terminal decline of the
West." … Janet Daley, The Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-election/9668774/America-has-become-an-Old-World-country.html
Ms. Daley figured it out.
I say ALL this to say simply this: Europe, you're on your own! The
hungry Russian bear is at your door -- and there is no one, no big
brother across the Atlantic, to come to your rescue -- again!
Oh. Don't misunderstand, Europe. We're here, its just that have no leader -- and we won't have for at least ten more years!
You have to understand Mr. Obama. See, he's a bully -- in the classic sense. If you allow him, he will run roughshod right over the top of you. However, if you stand up to him, he wilts much like a shrinking violet. THAT
is what Czar Putin has discovered about Obama -- and that's what the
Russians are exploiting. And it's working brilliantly.
US needs to put that missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic --
for starters. Put some American boots on the ground in the Baltic
States. I don't mean troops to act as a speed bump, I mean combat
tested, hardened, veterans along with the artillery and tank killing
munitions and whatever else it will take to make a heck of a lot of
noise and do a tremendous amount of damage should the Russkies let slip
the dogs of war in the Baltic States.
the Brits are already bolstering their forces there now. Other NATO
countries will follow suit, but, let's face it, the backbone of NATO is
the US. Unfortunately, Precious Flower, Obama, is leading from behind (as far behind as he can manage) once again.
It is depressing as heck to watch the people of that region cast beneath the shadow of the Russian bear.
independent countries, including Russia, emerged from the Soviet
Union's disintegration. Six of them—Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and the
three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania—are in Europe, and
all of them have a complicated relationship with modern Russia. Seven
other countries once belonged to the Warsaw Pact, the Soviet Union's
military alliance in Eastern Europe. With the Cold War's end, none of
them had faced the threat of military intervention by the communist
superpower's successor state—until now." -- SOURCE: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/03/russias-seizure-of-crimea-is-making-former-soviet-states-nervous/284156/
Can there be any question that Putin will make a grab for all those former members of the Warsaw Pact?
Putin must be stopped. Words won't do it. It is obvious he doesn't respect the US. I propose we make him FEAR the US. STOP TALKING TO HIM ... PERIOD!
Put our SOG troops to use. Turn them loose on Putin's forces within
Ukraine and where ever else they may have stepped over their border.
Aggravate the living daylights out of them. Get their attention. Put
them on the defensive. But DON'T TALK TO THEM. Keep 'em guessing.
experts at all this are less than an hour from where I sit as I write.
They're the best in the world. If ANYONE can put fear into the hearts
of the Russkies, these guys can do it.
We have all those drones
with missiles aboard. Surely they are not ALL occupied with searching
out and killing terrorists. Why not begin knocking out bridges all the
way from Estonia south at least to the Moldavia/Romania border.
Of course, aircraft don't use bridges, but tanks do -- and the Russkies love their tanks.
point is the US should at the very least, set Putin's forces back on
their heels a bit. As it is, they have an open field and nothing stands
between them and the end zone.
That's wrong -- on so many levels.
Look, I don't want war, either. But the nub of it is -- we're going to have a war whether we want it or not. Plus -- the plain truth is that when Americans and Russians begin exchanging gunfire it will instantly become a world war.
we said above, the Ukraine is effectively gone. The moment Russian
forces set foot in the Baltic States they will face resistance from NATO
troops. The US will be committed -- as an attack on ANY NATO member is considered an attack upon all NATO members.
THIS is what timidity in a US leader will bring. War.
J. D. Longstreet
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Looking dapper in a finely fitted suit, the proud hubby took time to sign some autographs before heading inside the Ziegfeld Theater to catch the show.
Stepping out to support a friend, Doutzen Kroes attended the " Beyonce : Life is But a Dream" premiere in New York Tuesday night (February 12).
Donning a navy blue mini dress with multiple straps, the Dutch beauty struck a pose on the arrivals carpet before heading inside the Ziegfeld Theater.
Dialing up the glamour to promote her HBO documentary, Beyonce Knowles arrived at the Zigfield Theater for the "Life is But a Dream" premiere in New York City on Tuesday (February 12).
The "Run the World" singer dazzled in a sparkling sleeveless gown with a sheer center cutaway as she waved at fans and photographers before heading inside.
She's thrilled about her forthcoming fifth solo record, and Beyoncé Knowles has scheduled a performance at the 2013 Essence Festival in New Orleans.
The "Crazy in Love" songstress will take the stage at the Superdome along with acts like LL Cool J, Maxwell, Charlie Wilson, New Edition, and Jilly Scott.
Out for a family bonding session, Beyonce and Jay-Z grabbed some lunch with Solange Knowles on Monday afternoon (February 11) in Venice, CA.
Keeping casual in leather leggings and an oversized sweater, the "Run the World" songstress and her little sis arrived ahead of her man at Gjelina restaurant to meet up with a few friends.
After a sucessful night at the 2013 Grammy Awards, Beyoncé Knowles' stunning Vogue March 2013 cover hit the web.
Before her interview with the mag, the 31-year-old singer posed with celebrity photographer Patrick Demarchelier. After the fun photo shoot, B opened up about everything from her upcoming HBO documentary to having more children.
With the fabulous extravaganza coming to an end, the 55th Annual Grammy Awards named the year's big winners during an extremely entertaining presentation at the Staples Center on Sunday (February 10).
Taking home the top prize tonight was "Mumford and Sons" winning Album of the Year, while other tremendous victors included Adele, "The Black Keys", and Carrie Underwood.
Bringing her lovely self out for a swanky evening, Beyoncé Knowles arrived at the Staples Center in L.A. on Sunday (February 10) for the 55th Annual Grammy Awards.
The "Single Ladies" singer looked absolutely stunning in a black and white Osman jumpsuit while posing on the red carpet for a few photos before heading inside for the night's event.
They performed together for the first time in years at last weekend's SuperBowl Halftime Show, and Destiny's Child looks to be back for real.
Beyonce Knowles, Kelly Rowland, and Michelle Williams posed for some silly candid photos that ended up on Beyonce's Tumblr page as a show of sisterly solidarity.
Making sure everyone knows about her upcoming concert dates, Beyonce appears in a major campaign dressed as a queen for her Mrs. Carter Show World Tour.
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2013 county cricket season preview: Derbyshire
- 1st (County Championship Division Two)
- 4th in Group C (Clydesdale Bank 40)
- 5th in North Division (Friends Life T20)
- IN: Richard Johnson (Warwickshire), Billy Godleman (Essex)
- OUT: Jake Needham (retired), Garry Park (released), Matt Lineker (released), Hamza Siddique (released)
- OVERSEAS: Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Wayne Madsen
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Chesney Hughes
- 16/1 (County Championship)
- 50/1 (Yorkshire Bank 40)
- 28/1 (Friends Life T20)
According to the bookmakers, Derbyshire fans should prepare themselves for a long and frustrating season. The favourites to go straight back down to Division Two in the County Championship, The Falcons are not expected to make much noise in the shorter formats of the game either.
But the coaches have been shrewd in many of their appointments. Picking up former world number one batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul, who has an excellent record in England, could be an inspired move. Aside from his batting Chanderpaul will be looked upon to provide guidance for Derbyshire's talented youngsters including Dan Redfern and Ross Whiteley.
Perhaps the most exciting player could be Chesney Hughes, whose progress has stalled in recent seasons but still possesses a lot of raw talent.
Despite a decent top order, Derbyshire could struggle in the difficult early-season conditions in the middle order, which lacks experience. There is also a shortage of depth in both batting and fielding.
For Derbyshire this season is about concentrating on remaining in Division One and blooding in their academy youngsters. If they can achieve these targets they will consider it a successful season.


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How about using the "I" word for Integrity?
The 'S' word eh?
Just bet that before November 4th the idiot from Alaska Sarah Palin will use the 'N' word.
Obviously the GOP can't stand it and this election will go down in history as the worst and nastiest.
However it will no McCain/Palin and the GOP no good since Obama is still going to win everything anyway and the nastier it gets the more people will go towards Obama/Biden.
It amuses me to watch and try to figure out which planet Palin is on. It aint this one for sure
Earth to Palin Earth to Palin do you read?
No! Never got out of the fourth grade.
I agree! Enough already. McCain is obviously desperately trying but with no avail. He needs to remember it was his party that has the USA is the mess that they are in. The only people listening to him are the wealthy and the wanna be wealthy. We need a change a big change and that means Obama!
I am voting early, straight Democratic ticket. I will then put on the cartoon network and watch looney toons, oh thats right – that would be the same as listening to the Republicans!
These people do not even know what the word "socialist" means, much less "communist". Obama's policies would place him well to the RIGHT of center if he were European. McCain's campaign just looks desperate, slinging their last pieces of mud from the very bottom of the barrel.
Erik – Thank you for reminding us all of the true definition of socialism.
That being said, it seems that Bush and McCain are the true socialists. McCain's mortgage gimmick seems to definately fall into that definition. Once again, he is projecting.
Sarah Palin is a theo-facist.
The Republican party is trying suppress the Democratic party vote
McCain is old, sooo old.
If there is an Republican attempt to stop the election or overturn the results favoring Democrats, and riots break out, the Northern Command steps in and Bush declares martial law. Who runs the Northern Command? Why right wing military theo-facists put in place by Bush.
It ain't over until the Republicans and Bush are removed from power.
Okay, I can't take the media (and especially CNN, the self-proclaimed leader in journalism) not questioning Obama on his statement about tax breaks for 95% of Americans...How can you do that when 40 MILLION Americans do not even pay income taxes!!!! How is that possible and why is nobody calling him on it???
What he will do is take my money and give it to these 40 million people so we can "spread the wealth around." Call it wealth redistribution, neighborliness or being patriotic or whatever you want, it is socialism, and I pray to God Americans see through this facade before it is too late.
The republican party has turned ugly with their rhetoric of hate and fear. It's a great ploy to turn away the focus of the past 8 years from the republicans to the democrats. McCain has set the tone for his campaign and if people logically think about it , it's not a profile of someone who is able to work across party lines.
Eric, Obama's Healthcare plan and tax plan DO fall under socialism. I'm a Democrat and I could admit that. I was just hoping McCain would not attack Obama on it. But I'm not even shocked it took this long.
MacCain hould be using the word "C" on hos shirt .... BECAUSE HIS CAMPAIN BECAMED A CIRCUS LONG TIME ... NOW THEY ENVITED A NEW ARTIST " JOE". MACCAIN ...PLEASE STOP JOKING WITH AMERICAN'S LIFE'S ON YOUR CIRCUS
It appears that the majority of Americans have rejected McCain's robo-campaign. Obama remains at above 6% nationally and has solidified the swing state vote.
The only working people who are actually voting for McCain live in parts of Confederate USA.
Should robo-man win, however, the Confederacy will quickly find how much McCain & Co. love Joe Sixpack.
They love you once every four years, Joe.
My friend.
Wow, McCain's campaign reeks of desperation. Screw the "S" word, I'm waiting for him to use the "N" word.
I'm glad that America is no longer buying into the Republican BS propaganda. They are starting to wake up to the truth, that they had been had by a party that offers them hot-button issues but really only cares about the wealthy. This election could be the start of something great, my friends.
Where is the article in Kansas City Star that shows this...
Pressed if he considered Obama a socialist, McCain shrugged and said, "I don't know."
Who is running John Mccain's campaign? I think He hired Karl Rove!!!!!
Lets see – first he was an elitist. Then he was a populist. Then he was a racist. Then he was a terrorist. Now he's a socialist.
I can't wait until Nov. when he becomes a Presidentialist.
the HONORABLe John McCain should be ashamed. Joe (Sam) asked Obama a question he answered it. Obama walked away. Are we forgetting it was the JOHN MCCAIN who introduced JOE to 55 Million views on 15 Oct 08. The man and his history would have been a mute point minus a few media clips. Now the McCain camp wants to blame Obama for people digging into this guy's private life. The height of HYPOCRaCY. After apologizing to Joe on David Letterman the next day MCcain again throws Joe name around again. So why is it okay for him to publicize this guy's name and now be upset because we all know more about him than we care too?
McPhuddle and McPhailling =If they were playing darts and ran out of darts they would then pick up anything no matter what and throw it hoping it stuck .
They are both liars and crooks with diarrhia of the mouth .
Tell Your Friend Joe The Plumber To Pay His Taxes! Or Does He Just Want To Spread Our Wealth Around?
About darn time someone addressed the "elephant in the room" that has been generally ignored so far this election...
Obama's plan *is* a step towards socialism. Anyone who doesn't see this fact either doesn't understand the definition of "socialism," or is too hung-up over trying to get Barack into office for whatever other reason to care.
Seriously, Joe CNN-Comment-Poster, take the weekend off. Step away from the computer. Go to your local library. Curl up in one of the big comfy chairs in the corner, and read Jonah Goldberg's "Liberal Fascism." It'll be easy to spot. The little smiley-face on the spine should really catch your attention... It'll open your eyes.
HEY McCain,
I see the KKK is getting your message out in Oklahoma. Good Job! How much are you paying them. Probably a lot since you have an extreme out of money donated from fortune 500 companies. You say "Country First", but yet the companies who fund your campaign put their country(USA) LAST!!!!!
People you do not have jobs because every company wants to be the most profitable company in the world. The only thing that matters in a business is the bottom line. If ethics didn't have some sort of affect on the bottom line.. well even morals and ethics wouldn't matter in business. If I have to lay off 30,000 American workers and transport that sector of business to India or China and add 300 million to my bottom line then that is what will take place.
Guess who owes favors to these companies. Yep you guess it. The old son of an Admiral, McCain. If you elect McCain, prepare to get your ticket for the bread line and make plans to move in with your parents or live in your car b/c you will not have a home or a job to speak of. America economy falls due to the greed factor in capitalism. China powers build along with Iran.
Umbelievable! How it is possible. McCain lost the respect of all the decent people, who know that what they are saying is not true. America, will be very bad if this ticket is elected.
how about cnn reporting on sarah palins and her husbands ties to the alaskan indepence party or mccains ties to gordon liddy?? why are members of the media such cowards?
John Sidney McCain!
Finally, they are using the senator's middle name to.
wait a minute was that 100,000 thousand people at Obama Rally Today?????????? I think it was.......keep calling him a socialist... thats helping our cause!


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Number: 61
Height/weight: 5-11, 180
Age: 21
Hometown: Lac Etchemin, Que.
Season notes: Leads the Walleye in scoring with 62 points. … Rookie has scored 22 goals. … Leads the team with 40 assists. … Selected to play in the ECHL All-Star game. … Has a team-high seven power play goals. …. Has scored on 22 percent of 99 shots. … Scored the first goal in franchise history.
Career notes: Younger brother of NHL forward Alex Tanguay. … Selected by Chicago in the third round (69th overall) of the 2007 NHL draft. … Played fiveseasons in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. … Led Victoriaville with career highs in goals (26) andassists (40) in 2008-09. … Had 60 points (24 G, 36 A) for Rimouski in 2006-07.
Hockey player you admired growing up:My brother, Alex.
Favorite sport other than hockey: Golf.
Favorite type of music: Country.
Favorite food: Sushi.
Favorite movie: Youngblood.
Favorite TV show: It's a French TV show called Lance et Compte about hockey.
Nickname: Tang.
Person you most admire: Both of my brothers (Alex and Vincent).
If you were commissioner of hockey for a day, what would you do? Change the game to 4 on 4.
If you could meet an athlete, dead or alive, who would it be? Maurice Richard.
Favorite way to spend time away from the rink: Playing cards.
Do you have any superstitions or routines?I have a lot of routines, but I am superstitious so I don't want to talk about them.
What was your first job? Waiter.
What sporting event would you most like toattend? The Masters.
Do you have a hobby? I love watching movies (comedies).
Who's the best player you ever faced? Sidney Crosby.
If you weren't a hockey player what would you be doing? I would love to be a pro golfer or maybe work in finance.
What do you see yourself doing in five years? I hope to still be a hockey player or being part of the hockey world as a coach.
Where's your favorite vacation spot? Anywhere South where the sun is hot and maybe with a plage (beach) and a lot of golf courses.
Something nobody knows about you: I don't know. I am transparent.


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I was ready to rant about Tiger's puppet-like performance yesterday, but this pundit said all I wanted to say in a more articulate way. Instead, I'm choosing to share something that was emailed to me by a friend. You may have already seen it but, if you haven't, I can't think of a better way to start a weekend.
This is the Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning think-piece about perception, tastes and people's priorities. Read it through; it's exquisitely written. Here is a video of the actual experiment:
Media-bashing seems to be the sport du jour these days, but there's a lot of creative, thought-provoking work being done by journalists, and I'm proud to be one of them.
Meanwhile, the question remains: What else are we missing by moving too fast?