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Number of fatal overdoses up to 142 in RI in 2014
The number of fatal overdoses from heroin and prescription drugs in Rhode Island has climbed to 142 this year.
The Providence Journal reports that state Health Director Michael Fine on Thursday called overdoses a major crisis during a seminar on the issue at the Health Department.
Fine says more than 1,000 people have been saved with the antidote Narcan or naloxone and an additional 250 people's lives were saved at emergency rooms.
Traci Green, a professor of emergency medicine and epidemiology at Brown University, said nearly 16 percent of Rhode Island residents are taking pain relievers for non-medical reasons. That's much higher than the national average of 9 percent, and ranks it first in New England.


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Hi Wendy, thanks for stepping in. I really do need an answer - especially since having lived out of UK for so long I haven't followed changes in law etc. It's not urgent - obtaining the necessary information is a precaution.
Thank you for your efforts.
I asked the question because I need the answer!!! If you don't have an expert with the necessary knowledge that's another matter ... let me know?
Hi Wendy,
Thank you for all your efforts. Nonetheless I think your advertised claim of 100% satisfaction needs to be revised to perhaps a more honest 90%? Which would be a very good score anyway, in view of human fallibility. You state you have "experts" - which to me means people with much more knowledge than myself, and to date I'm not finding that to be so more than in 70% of the replies I've received - although I always credit your experts for replying.

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I recenty had a blue peel on my face, neck and chest. Most of my face & neck didn't peel at all or had very light peeling (like a sunburn). My chest hasn't peeled and doesn't seem at day 5 that it's going to peel.
I had a few patches on my face that formed dry brownish skin that peeled & left pink skin. This is what I expected all over. I feel that something went wrong in my application. What in the application process can limit results (timing, uneven application, limited time on skin)? Thanks.


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When the Patriots of New England take on the Giants of New York—a game that could be decided by kicking a oblong ball made of pigskin through a giant "H" for a most ripping victory—thousands of football fans will converge on Lucas Oil Field and the surrounding areas for Super Bowl XLVI. The vast majority of attendees are sure to use mobile devices to disclose various details of their fun during a full week of events. An unprepared city could experience a social media logjam, but the city of Indianapolis has taken all of this into consideration.
We all know about the importance of the commercials during this annual event. Advertisers who are able to pay the price for any multiple of 30 seconds in between the hard-hitting action gladly do so in order to communicate their messages to a captive audience of millions. Additionally, recent history has shown that viewers have used Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and different blogs to vote on, share and otherwise interact with these spots. As important as that is to these advertisers, this is not the only proof of social media's importance today. When the Patriots of New England take on the Giants of New York—a game that could be decided by kicking a oblong ball made of pigskin through a giant "H" for a most ripping victory—the thousands fans will converge on the Lucas Oil Stadium" the most wired stadium in the country.
Social Media at Your Command
Since social media is the medium by which so many people communicate nowadays, a digital team will be monitoring the Super Bowl Week conversation via numerous platforms from the day after the Pro Bowl through Sunday, February 5th. This team of strategists, analysts and other techies will also tweet directions to fans in search of parking, direct visitors to Indianapolis's best attractions, and stand by to provide information in case of a disaster.
The digital marketing company, Raidious, will be in charge of handling all of this as well as measuring all of the analytics making a great study of how to prepare for and handle major events of like this as well as how many people have checked into the Super Bowl on Foursquare.
Can You Tweet Me Now?
Verizon has joined in on the fun reinforcing their own network from 3G to 4G LTE to WiFi by adding:
- 9 Antennas that are part of a Distributed Antenna System (DAS) outside the stadium to handle increased downtown traffic.
- 400 Antenna Internal DAS to handle 3G and 4G LTE voice and data inside the stadium.
- 600 Antenna WiFi system capable of handling 28,000 simultaneous connected users. Free for Super Bowl XLVI.
- 3 Cell on Wheels (COWs). Stand alone generator powered cell towers to handle the extremely high demand areas.
While these additions vastly help those lucky enough to watch the game live and in person, there could easily be a time when someone int the stands needs to chat with their friend at home about whether or not the previous play should be challenged as they both watch the television coverage up close and personal. #humblebrag
Why is This Important?
Believe it or not, it's 2012 and somehow there are still people out there who don't think social media is an important part of a marketing mix. Because the Super Bowl is one of, if not the most important day of the year to advertisers, paying attention to how customers receive information is imperative. The statistics collected here will determine how they reach out and touch those who they are trying to influence to buy. Plus, a few extra shares never hurt anybody.


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|On May 29,2012 I took my 21 yeaar old daughter to see Harvey for her birthday. She was more excited about Jim Parsons then the story. I on the other hand I LOVE Jimmy Steward and was very excited to see how the production would be. Well Mr. Parsons reached in and touched my heart with his preformance. Also the cast was awesome( Jessica Hecht so funny, Charles Kimbrough & Carol Kane not enough words to say, and all the rest were top shelf). After the show we went stage door and Mr. Parsons was very sweet to everyone. I reached out to him and told him that I thought Mr. Steward was smiling down on him. Mr. Parsons made the charactar his own but also had a piece of Mr. Steward in there. The show lifts your spirits, you find yourself laughing and crying. I would reccomned this to everyone who wants to come out of the thearter feeling warm all over. My daughter is now very excited to see the movie :)
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Hi. I am an admin for WeRelate. It's my job to help people learn to use the website. You have created some very nice articles. There is no problem leaving your pages as they are. They are wonderful resources to contribute to the WeRelate community.
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Sharon, So enjoyed your page regarding Caroline A. MacAskill. We live in Eagle, Idaho. I am the daughter of Sybill Amelia Sego Loomis, daughter of Amelia MacAskill (Millie) whom you discussed in your write-up. I remember your grandfather, Dan (Donald). Charlotte, granddaughter of Christine and Irene, daughter of Mary MacAskill, visited today and we want to organize an Idaho picnic for the MacAskill relatives. They have access to the Pearl Cemetery. Please call me at 208-315-1075. Amelia Loomis--Ameliabeth 18:10, 9 May 2009 (EDT)


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Riding Out a Dot-com Downturn
George Molho is hurtling down U.S. 59 South in his black Land Rover SUV, the one he drives because he "likes to be up high." He is a large doughy man with a moon face, dark hair combed forward and dark eyes to match. Just last week he turned 30.
The beginnings of a bad cold are starting to set in, but that's not preventing George from talking. If there is anything George can do well -- and George figures he can do lots of things well -- it's talking. As he drives, he says things like:
"There are some people who are meant to blaze a trail and some who are meant to settle. I'm not meant to settle."
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"I enjoy fighting the impossible fight. That's when I'm at my peak: when there's no way to win and death is imminent."
George is talking a lot about the impossible fight these days, and the odds for victory for the company he helped found: Acesync.com. Even as dot-coms tank around him and the phrase "the new economy" begins to sound as faddish as "my pet rock," George insists the odds for Ace are very good.
George and some of his buddies from as far back as junior high founded Ace in November 1999. Their business plan calls for them to provide schools with a product line of tests and tutorials that students and teachers can use on-line -- in the classroom and at home. George is the president of the small company, and he and the brain trust at Ace say they're unique because their software was developed with the guidance of teachers and superintendents from the Houston area, making Ace's product something teachers will want to use.
But what does not make Ace unique is that like so many dot-coms before, it is struggling to stay alive. There is no funding. There are no investors left. Nobody is getting paid. The bit of money remaining to pay the rent on their office space will last for just a handful of months.
Even though George knows this and admits it to be true, as he drives he has nothing but positive things to say about Ace. About most everything. He talks in exclamation points, as if the steering wheel in front of him were really a pulpit and the sermon for the day -- for any day -- is that George Molho never gives up.
"Look at marathon runners," George is fond of saying. "What's the difference between the one who wins and the ones who don't? They all train the same. The one who wins has heart! The one who wins wants it!"
It is the day after the Fourth of July, and George is one of the few Ace staffers in the office. Ace is on the fifth floor of an office building at the corner of Richmond and Montrose, across the street from a Diamond Shamrock and several floors above a bank. The rent is $4,000 a month. Most of the furniture is standard IKEA fare, and many of the desks were purchased used. It is clean, spacious, color-coordinated and nice, but not too nice. Unlike the legendary dot-com start-ups of the mid- to late '90s, there are no foosball tables or vending machines stocked with free food.
"We did everything the right way," George says. "We used our money wisely, or we wouldn't be here now."
George is talking about the $1.3 million in initial capital Ace gathered from friends, personal savings and investors. The money is gone now, but that isn't stopping George from trumpeting how much he believes in the future of Ace. He says he and his partners are "on the side of the angels," because they want to help kids. They just can't fail.
The genesis of what was to become Ace got its start in the early '90s when George and his old high school friend Tim Heckler would sit out on their balcony along Memorial Drive overlooking the park. Smoking cigarettes, they'd brainstorm about businesses they could go into together as George took notes.
In 1995 Tim went on to co-found Hypercon, which grew into one of the city's largest Internet service providers. George was working for his uncle's chain of health clinics, and he left to work for Tim in the Web development department until Hypercon was sold in mid-1999. A few months later Tim, George and a few other folks from Hypercon decided it would be the perfect moment to birth Ace.
It was a heady time. George, Tim and the four other founders -- Ali Davoudi, Keith Yezer, Kathy Pounds and Sean Stoner -- would gather in Sean's apartment in the Rice Lofts downtown. They drew up detailed business plans. It was the dot-com glory days, and start-ups everywhere were rolling in venture capital money like pigs in you-know-what. The NASDAQ peaked just as Ace started pulling in its first round of funding. Fresh-faced kids just out of college were suddenly worth millions, at least on paper.
It felt like a good time to be starting a dot-com.
The group would stay up until three or four in the morning making plans. Wives and girlfriends would call and wonder why they heard music playing in the background. They said they needed it to think. Seeing as how many of them had known each other as young kids -- had ridden bikes to each other's houses and played Dungeons & Dragons together -- the mood was upbeat. Hopeful.
"It was a fun time," remembers Keith, another former high school friend.
They all brought something to the table, says George. Sean and Tim knew how to draw the road map, the mechanics of the product. Keith, who would go on to serve as finance officer, could merge creativity and numbers well. Kathy was "the Rock of Gibraltar," says George. Ali could be the pit bull when need be, and George considered himself "the heart and the soul and the face."
"We each have a body part and we complete each other," he says.
"Like Voltron," says Ali.
Even before the Ace task force began to develop their product, they spent plenty of time with 35 superintendents and 130 teachers from several school districts in the Houston area. They got Jack Christie, former chair of the State Board of Education, to sit on their board. And instead of approaching them all as traditional salespeople with a product already in hand, the Ace employees asked the teachers and superintendents to tell them what kind of educational software they wanted and didn't have.
"I was surprised at how knowledgeable they were, and how they approached the problem," recalls Hank Wheeler, who was introduced to George by a mutual friend. Wheeler, a consultant to the Texas Association of School Boards and the retired superintendent of Spring Branch ISD, helped put Ace in touch with some of the leading superintendents in the state for a two-day meeting at the Doubletree Hotel downtown.
"Superintendents are usually a very hard sell," says Wheeler. "But [Ace] gave them the opportunity to express ideas and ask any questions they wanted to. They were very impressed, and these are salty veterans."
Ace even developed a partnership with the nonprofit organization Technology for All, to make their product available at all TFA sites so that students who did not have home computers could still work with the system.
Then the Ace employees moved into their office space. They didn't pay themselves. They figured that would come later.
It's been over a year since they settled into that office, and no one's seen a paycheck yet.
As George talks about the company, he slips easily into telling stories about his own life. It seems difficult for him to separate Ace from George. That could be partly because George enjoys talking about himself. It could also be that George has been gearing up for the impossible fight his whole life.
As a small child growing up on the southwest side of the city, George was educated in persistence by his grandmother and grandfather, Soula and Charles Molho. Both were native Greeks who had survived Auschwitz and told George story after story of survival against the worst odds. Before being shipped to the camps where she would meet her husband, Soula and her family hid British soldiers in their basement as a part of their involvement in Greece's resistance to Hitler's regime. When the Gestapo discovered them, 17-year-old Soula and the rest of her family were beaten. She was given boiled eggs to keep in her hands and a gun was held to her head. If she dropped the eggs, she was told, she would be shot.
"She never dropped the eggs," George says reverently.
As a young boy, George was odd, says his mother, Beatrice. He liked Mozart and Big Wheels equally. Beatrice says she would sometimes get the feeling she was talking to a boy who knew more than she did, or at least who thought he did.
When George turned seven, he began to talk about a vacation he was going to take with his father. George's parents had divorced, but it seemed an amicable separation. Beatrice thought her son was making up stories, as most children do. She knew nothing of a planned trip. Not long after his seventh birthday, George's father, a Greek citizen who was living in Houston, came to pick up his son after school. They drove to the airport and boarded a plane out of the United States.
George's father said it would be just a short trip to London and that when they got there, if George didn't like it they could come home. George said all right. But a few weeks in London turned into a few weeks in Amsterdam, then France. Finally George and his father settled in his father's native country of Greece, in a small mountain town near the Bulgarian border. George's family in America was frantic. The months stretched into a year, then a year and a half. George's father got angry when George would speak in English and talk of wanting to return to his mother. By the fourth month, George's father began to beat him with a belt every night and tried to get him to say he didn't love his mother. But he never gave in, George says. Not once.
George tried to remember his grandmother's stories and how much they had meant to him. "I felt like Superman," he says. "The more I could take, the stronger I was."
When they discovered his whereabouts, George's relatives traveled to Greece. Under Greek law his father had sole custody of George, but some strong-arming by his relatives convinced his father to give him back.
Today his father still lives in Greece, and George has no contact with him.
When he returned to America, George was first a boy -- and then a man -- on a mission. He began to believe success was his birthright.
George attended St. Thomas Episcopal, where he read Plato and would stage one-man protests when he thought a teacher or student was mistreated. As he got older, he thought he might want to be an actor. At the time, Channel 2 had a local kids television show called the Two Country Kids Show. For three years George would come home from school every day and call the producers, asking to be given a shot. Finally the station relented, and George got a spot on the show. He was the star of a movie review segment not surprisingly called "In My Opinion."
After high school, George shunned traditional college and decided to pursue his acting dream by attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena, California. There, instructors wanted him to take lessons in dance as well as acting. This did not sit well with George.
"I told them, 'If you want a dancer, get Liza Minnelli. I'm gonna be an actor,' " he says.
But it was there that George hit a stumbling block. It seemed that as hard as he tried -- and he tried very hard -- he was just a lousy actor. Not that he would admit that to himself. He figured he was probably fantastic. The instructors said he was egotistical.
"I said, 'I have talent, I have charisma and presence,' " George recalls. "And they said, 'You don't have shit, son.' "
George kept trying, but he eventually decided to return home to Houston. He doesn't think it was a total loss. He concedes he may not have talent, but he knows the charisma and presence are still there. Acting might even be in his future again someday. Politics too.
Back in Houston he worked for his uncle's clinic chain, Houston Pro Medical Management, as government liaison and vice president. He moved in with Tim and helped think up Ace. Shortly after going to work for Tim at Hypercon, George married his longtime girlfriend, a personal trainer, and moved to a home in Bellaire. Then he got geared up for Ace. Success seemed to be going as planned.
In the reception area of Ace, there is lots of reading material on the coffee table: art books, technology magazines and a copy of Star Wars Episode One: The Visual Dictionary. A handful of hard candies sits in a dish by the couch.
"We don't know how old those are," warns Ali as he motions to the candies. "We bought them when we had money."
"When we had money." It's a phrase the Ace founders say often.
They hadn't been in their new offices long when the dot-com nightmare began nationwide. Employees lost jobs, investors pulled out, and people started visiting sites like fuckedcompany.com to place imaginary bets on which dot-com would die next. But Ace didn't consider itself to be at all like the legendary dot-com disasters such as Webvan.com or kozmo.com. Those companies had based their hopes on the flimsiest of business plans. They had lost billions of dollars. Ace had a solid plan and hardly any money at all. They were in the educational field. They just happened to be on-line. But times got hard. And Ace certainly wasn't -- and isn't -- alone.
"It's definitely a tough time to be a dot-com anywhere in the nation," agrees Gray Hancock, senior development manager for the Houston Technology Center, a self- proclaimed "business accelerator and resource center" dedicated to promoting and supporting young companies in Houston's technology sectors. According to Hancock, because Houston was never as dependent on the dot-com sector as cities like San Francisco and Austin, the death of many dot-coms in the past nine months didn't hurt as much as it could have. But the general economic downturn nationwide certainly has not made it an easy time to be part of a start-up, he says.
"The venture capitalists have stepped back and are looking at more established companies with an established management team and revenue," says Hancock. In addition, Ace has the added obstacle of working with on-line education.
"On-line education has been a hot topic for a while, but it's been a tough boat to row," says Hancock, citing the difficulties of small companies negotiating with the oftentimes thick bureaucracy of the public school system. "Venture capitalists got burned out on it."
But Ace is still here. At least for now. Most of the founders, including George, and their five employees are living off savings and side projects. Kathy has to work full-time at another job to make ends meet. They show up to the office, work hard, come in on weekends. They talk about October, when the software that Tim has been sweating over will be complete. They think those teachers and superintendents they impressed months ago will want to buy it. They are glad to be friends, because they say that's what makes it bearable. They crack jokes. Ali, the biggest joker, says misery loves company.
"And we're all miserable," he says.
George says they're going to make it. He doesn't doubt it. He offers up analogies about prizefighters and marathon runners and so on. Sometimes he asks his grandmother Soula to read her coffee grounds, an old Greek tradition of telling the future. Tim says Soula told him that he would make a lot of money, then not make a lot of money, then make a lot of money again. Tim hopes she's right.
George and Ali still meet with potential investors. Ali says every time they ride the elevator down after a meeting, George says, "They loved us!" and Ali has to explain that they probably were just being polite. George has been trying to make a connection with the CEO of Cisco Systems, but he can only get through to the director of government affairs. George says he told her he just wants ten minutes with the man. He says he told her, "Let's cut through the crap I'll fly up there, he'll meet with me, he'll love me, we'll save the world." He's still waiting to hear back.
He called up Ned Hill of Sternhill Partners, a Houston-based venture capital firm. Ned told him, politely, that Sternhill didn't work with companies like Ace. George proceeded to e-mail him 12 times after that, until Ned finally agreed to have breakfast with George and look over Ace's demo. But he still said he didn't think Sternhill could help.
"There seemed to be a passion," says Ned, recalling the meeting. "And there's a lot to be said for passion."
When they first started the company, George likes to say, the boys from Ace dined at Solero and Cabo downtown. But today, on this rainy Friday afternoon, they have just finished eating a lunch they had delivered from Lucky Burger down the street. Although it is almost the weekend, a day when most workers across the city squirm in their cubicles with giddiness, a glumness to match the weather pervades the office.
Ali is in pain. He thinks he has a herniated disk. For the past few weeks he's been showing up to the office hardly able to move his neck. He's leaving early today for an MRI he has finally managed to schedule.
"Doctors are just like mechanics," he complains. It seems that whenever Ali needs either one right away, they always want to see him four weeks from now.
Tim fears he has picked up George's cold and is lying on the IKEA couch in the television room. George has a five-o'clock shadow and still sounds congested. In the corner Sean is on the phone saying, "If it is a company, a start-up like this one is, with no cash flow they will not guarantee the loan."
Keith pokes away at his keyboard.
"It's a one-foot-in-front-of-the-other day," he says.
Even while the others are quiet, George seems constantly primed for something, anything that will allow him to get up and move or talk a little more or deliver a line of advice he has deemed important. At one point he wanders over to Keith and pokes him in the arm with a pen, pleading almost childishly for a cigarette. Keith resists, but then George recalls that he left one in his car. He runs out for it.
Earlier in the day, in the conference room covered in flowcharts and papers, George delivered one of his standard monologues on persistence and success. He moved his beefy arms with excitement as he spoke.
"Anyone can smile on a sunny day, but show me where you are when the tempests rage," he said. "Why did the other dot-coms go down? It was the sunny day. But now is the time when the cream rises. The tempest is here, but the caliber of the crew is going to see it through."
As George talked, it seemed fitting that the shades of the conference room windows were drawn. There was no way for him to look out and see the dark clouds hanging in the sky.
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Root resorption
Two words: Root Resorption! Osteoclasts skimming not only jaw bone, but tooth root!
I`ve been reading some research papers and sites, and listening to sources. Is root resorption truly something to fear?
Is it more likely in older patients?
How about genetics? Is there much genetic support for the cause of root resorption?
And are there ways of prevention like a good diet? Exercise? Chewing?
Could you also give me some links for more information? -Thanks!
The causes of root resorption are unknown. I have seen nothing in the literature that pin points the cause. At one time it was thought that orthodontics caused root resorption. Certainly if the forces used are excessive, it can possibly lead to some root change. Therefore during orthodontics lasting more than a year or year and a half, it is my recommendation that monitoring radiograph be taken.
It has been shown that patients who have not undergone orthodontics have shown evidence of root resorption as well. One concern is roots of teeth that are very thin and tapered or have a small apical curvature are more likely to have small root change. Every orthodontist discusses this possibility with their patients in the form of informed consent.
Yes, it is a risk, but almost always if there is any change it is in the form of 1-2 mms - that in no way effects the long term stability and the potential risk does not warrant not treating. The very malocclusion itself may tend to contribute to root resorption due to unbalanced forces while chewing. Most standard texts on orthodontics have bibliographies that include the subject and will lead you to further information.
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Kyle Field netting to keep out bats
Published 11:17 pm, Sunday, March 10, 2013
Some fan areas at Texas A&M's Kyle Field have become the offseason home to thousands of roaming Mexican free-tailed bats.
Pest control experts since December have been installing nets over about 40,000 square feet of concrete public areas.
Randy Lee with RP Lee Termite & Pest Control said the nets allow bats to get out of areas but not return.
Parts of the College Station stadium have had the furry creatures on and off for years and efforts were made to remove bat waste. Lee said the growing bat population has raised sanitation issues.
A&M associate athletic director Kevin Hurley puts the eradication and cleanup cost at about $100,000.
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Clearing of Atlantic Yards' Site Proceeds as Legal Thicket Grows Denser
By ANDY NEWMAN
Published: April 5, 2007
Out on the cold damp streets of Brooklyn, work on the Atlantic Yards project is under way, and you don't even need to peek through a knothole to see it.
In the raw drizzle yesterday, a man and a woman in blue hazardous-material suits ducked in and out of the former headquarters of the Tasty Provision Company on Pacific Street. They were removing asbestos from the building in preparation for its demolition.
Across the street, in the Long Island Rail Road yards that give the mammoth $4-billion-dollar project its name, a raked expanse of dirt testified to the recent removal of an old bus parking lot.
But even as preliminary work proceeds on one of the biggest construction projects in the city's history, new questions are being raised by Atlantic Yards' opponents, new facts brought to the surface and new suits filed in courts across the city. All are aimed at forcing the developer, Forest City Ratner, to substantially scale back its plans, which currently call for erecting 8 million square feet of high-rise housing, office space and a basketball arena on a 22-acre swath near Downtown Brooklyn.
Much of the wrangling, not surprisingly, revolves around money. More than three months after the state approved the project, some questions remain unanswered, some numbers unknown. Without knowing the figures, critics of the project say, it is impossible to have a discussion about how big the project needs to be.
In the budget it unveiled in January, for example, the Bloomberg administration quietly doubled its direct subsidy to the project area, to $205 million from $100 million. The difference is bigger than the entire annual budget of the city Buildings Department.
''Are these subsidies that help put the developer over the top so that he can build the project?'' asked Daniel Goldstein, a spokesman for Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn. which opposes the scale of the plan, ''Or are they to help him make a superprofit, as we suspect?''
Then there are the lawsuits -- at least four.
The most recent was filed last month by Assemblyman James F. Brennan, who is trying to force a state agency that approved the project, the Empire State Development Corporation, to release any Forest City business plan for Atlantic Yards that it has.
The agency denied his earlier requests, he said, on the grounds that the plan consisted of ''interagency materials'' not subject to the Freedom of Information Law. Early this year, Mr. Brennan said, officials at the agency conceded to him that they did not have a financial plan for the project. They had relied, they said, on an analysis done by auditors that were unable to persuade Forest City to reveal its complete financial plan, either.
Mr. Brennan characterized the information vacuum as bizarre, as well as in violation of an agreement that directed Forest City to submit its business plan to the authorities.
A spokesman for the Empire State Development Commission, Errol Cockfield, took mild issue with Mr. Brennan's complaints yesterday. ''We did not receive a document labeled 'financial plan,' but the information we received, taken together, constitutes a financial plan,'' he said.
He added that he did not mean to get bogged down in semantics. ''The important distinction,'' he said, '' is to point out that the project was approved by the previous administration, not this administration. The horse has left the barn.''
Mr. Brennan said it was not too late, though, to lessen the project's impact on nearby neighborhoods.
''Even though the project has been approved,'' he said, ''we face a 10-to-15-year window for implementation, and the information is relevant for many years to come in any discussion about amendments or modifications to the plan.''
He added, ''How do you know what alternatives and mitigations are possible if you don't know what's financially feasible?''
A spokesman for Forest City, Loren Riegelhaupt, said that the company was ''not able to make our business plan public'' for ''proprietary reasons.''
The filing of another lawsuit is planned today in State Supreme Court in Manhattan by a coalition of opponents challenging the environmental impact statement that the authorities used in evaluating the proposed project. Mr. Goldstein of Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn said that the development corporation had failed to adequately consider traffic problems and security concerns that the project would raise, among other things.
Another suit, a constitutional challenge in federal court by tenants and property owners aimed at halting the condemnation of buildings on the project site under eminent domain, was deemed a matter for state court by a magistrate judge in February. But last Friday, the federal judge who has control of the case heard several hours of arguments on whether to keep the case in federal court.
Even the work being done on the site now is being duly litigated. George Locker, a lawyer for several residents, said he would take the state development corporation to court next week claiming it was flouting a requirement to have an independent environmental monitor on hand.
Mr. Cockfield, the development corporation spokesman, said that providing a monitor for the asbestos work, at least, was Forest City's job. Mr. Riegelhaupt of Forest City said that the company did have an air monitor on the site.
Not every interaction between Forest City and the government has been condemned by the Atlantic Yards' critics. Yesterday, Norman Oder, who runs a blog devoted to Atlantic Yards issues, noted approvingly that the state development corporation had closed its local office on the ghostly third floor of Forest City's Atlantic Center mall, for which the agency had been paying Forest City $30,000 a year.
The community offices ''weren't getting too much foot traffic,'' Mr. Cockfield said. ''They weren't worth the taxpayer investment to keep them open.''
Photo: Asbestos is being removed from a building on Pacific Street that will be demolished to make way for the Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn. (Photo by James Estrin/The New York Times)


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to mention this to someone at work or just leave it?(47 Posts)
I have ummed and arred about this but as I am still thinking about it..
Anyway I was in the office (for once) today and someone was asking me about Christmas in Germany (I'm half German which due to the nature of my work -and my name- it is obvious). At the same time a few contractors were in the office.
So I was telling him and one of the contractors who was near at the time pipes up "didn't realise Nazis celebrated Christmas"
Apart from being shocked he just butted in to the conversion I just assumed he was asking if christmas was celebrated by Nazis in the third reich. I begin to say yes, they did.
But then he continues saying (basically) that it is 'awful that all of you Nazis took christmas and that we shouldn't be allowed to celebrate Christmas'
I must have recoiled in shock. He laughed (like he thought he was really clever) and said 'don't worry love I know the Nazis don't let women in they put them in the kitchen, only good thing your lot do'
But then the collegue, sort of laughed and smiled and said that 'I must get that all the time and that it's sort of funny, isnt it?'
Obviously I told him it wasn't and just walked away. The last time someone called me a nazi I must have been about 13 and doing WWII in school. The teacher went ape-shit. (plus he laughed at woman being in the kitchen)
Anyway. I realise it was today and maybe I should just tolerate it (I know my dad has) but WIBU to go and speak to the colleague tomorrow and actually say something to him about it? or do I just leave it and stay away from that particular contractor?
Omg REPORT
FWIW I agree with the consensus - the contractor's behaviour was completely unacceptable and you should complain to HR.
As your colleague is just out of school he might not have known quite what to do about the discussion and not felt confident enough to shout the contractor down. Maybe a quiet word with him would be the better option?
Shocking. This needs to be addressed. And too bad if your colleague is young, it is still very appropriate.
Disgusting behaviour from the contractor and work colleague, definitely report them for it. Their ignorance is boggling. In respect if your work colleague, he's obviously young and impressionable (not very bright being swept along by the Contractors comments). Personally I'd mention it to HR as well, he won't go very far if he finds that behaviour acceptable or gets away with it. This kind of behaviour needs nipping in the bud, HR could handle it tactfully, speak to them about it.
Report the contractor. The colleague is young and was embarrassed. Tried to make light of an awful situation.
I hadn't really understood about the young colleague; I was all about the contractor!
I think you are right about him; a word to explain the contractor was totally wrong and that if he [colleague] colludes in future you will report him to HR, which may result in dismissal. Or if you do want to impress the gravity of it, perhaps ask HR if they can give a first written warning. You may have to mention no names and see if it's feasible. I hope HR would consider the victim's wishes in cases like this, but it is such a serious thing they may be bound to act regardless.
I know exactly what you mean, my family is German and we celebrate Christmas the German way (which I love, German Christmas is beautiful) but I get a lot of stupid comments such as these. I even had a few idiotic remarks from my MIL.
It's not on, the war and the nazis happened a long time ago, I don't think anyone in civilised society believes in what they did, and no civilised individual believes what your foolish colleague does either. You need to pull him up on it and tell him that this sort of attitude is not on. Like people have said, if you were black / Asian / anything other than German really, these comments wouldn't have been tolerated!
I hope you get it sorted
Fucking hell! Yes, say something. Report him - in fact I reckon you could lay a criminal charge against this fuckwit. I am South African originally and some stupid twat called me a kaffir. She landed up in court. (There were a million other things that this woman had done, but this was the final straw).
What a wanker, absolutely report him. I suspect the colleage was embarrased and didn't know what to say but shame on him for not standing up for you.
Absolutely report the git. And have words with your colleague too.
I agree you need to report the contractor, and yes perhaps a strong chat with your colleague. If he's young like you say, he needs some guidance on what's acceptable.
I'm sorry you were faced with this. I'd never tolerate anyone working for me spouting those attitudes off.
Report it please. I had comments made at a job I had last year of a sectarian nature - along the lines of religion "I don't care who they give the new houses to as long as its not the Catholics, I'm not living next to them, they'll not last long" etc. It was such a shock to hear someone so young say it, that I just walked away but didn't mention it to anyone (I had already handed my notice in) but I really regret now not reporting it.
I'd report the colleague as well, TBH. You can make clear to HR that you think he was more embarrassed than anything else and perhaps needs a firm chat rather than strong sanctions, but I think it's HR's job to have the chat.
Agree this is unacceptable and that you should report the contractor. Also have a word with your colleague.
Report it.
A couple of years ago I had to put up with a lot of anti-British comments (I don't live in the UK) from people I worked with. It was all done in a jokey style but really wore me down. Most days I'd come home and cry, I felt so isolated and they really made me feel like I didn't belong.
I started avoiding them as much as possible which helped, as did snapping at one bloke (who was making yet another joke about English girls wearing belts to go out at night ha ha ha, they all dress like prostitutes ho ho ho) who was and I think he told the others to lay off me.
I didn't report it but I came very close. My problem was that I didn't think it'd be taken very seriously as it was just jokey comments about British stereotypes and I'm almost the only non-French person in my company.
(I should add that I've lived in France for over 8 years and over 80% of the negative comments I've had came from that group of people in the space of a month, so it's not the norm here. The other 20% of the comments tend to be about the British weather ).
That's awful!
I can take banter with the gobbiest of them, but that's not banter, it's aggression, and what's more - the moron thinks he's entitled to behave like that. He isn't, and you should definitely tell someone who has some influence, about the exchange.
I would report the contractor but maybe give your colleague the benefit of the doubt. It sounds like he was embarrassed by what this guy was saying and trying - naively - to laugh it off on your behalf. It's not his job to defend you, especially as a junior.
Tell him you were really pissed off with the comments though and that you've reported the other guy so he knows it's not acceptable.
That's awful! Yes, definitely report it to HR. Those sort of comments have no place anywhere, but to hear them in the workplace is especially shocking. Hopefully HR will give him a warning and he'll realise that his comments are racist. I'm surprised your other colleague didn't say anything. I suppose they were probably shocked, I know I would have been.
I'd report him. Asshole he is.
My best friend is also half German and I get so angry on her behalf when people think comments like this are funny!
I would report the contractor and the colleague, emphasising their different roles in the incident - so perhaps the colleague will be guided to respond more appropriately to such stuff in future and the contractor will (hopefully) be in serious shit.
You shouldn't have to put up with that.
When I was in secondary school, our German teacher was German (well, obviously...). We were 13, and a right shower of immature, nasty bastards. We still didn't make any remarks like that though. I can't believe an adult would think that's OK.
I would report both, tbh. Being young isn't an excuse for being a racist twat. If the colleague waa embarrassed and didn't know what to say he would've kept quiet, not laughed and agreed. and if he really is just incredibly thick then maybe a word from his boss on what's appropriate would be helpful to him.
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- Over 30 percent of all Nobel laureates who have won their prizes while working in the United States were foreign born.
- Between 1995 and 2005, a quarter of all US high tech startups included an immigrant among their founders.
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- Among the ten universities that produced the most patents, more than three out of every four patents involved at least one foreign-born inventor.
- More than five out of six (84%) information technology patents in 2010 listed a foreign national among the inventors.
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For the past year, I have been engaged in a study of the impacts of US visa and immigration policies on foreign scientists, engineers, and STEM students in light of the increasing globalization of science. Through this study, I've identified a number of important priorities that will help the United States respond to these developments and prepare for the future.
Take, for example, the section of US immigration law known as 214(b) that requires consular officers to treat every person applying for a US visa as an "intending immigrant." In practice, this provision means that a person being interviewed for a nonimmigrant student visa must persuade the consular officer that he or she does not intend to remain permanently in the United States. Just stating the intent to return home following completion of one's educational program is not enough. The applicant must present evidence to support that assertion, generally by showing strong ties to the home country. Such evidence may include connections to family members, a bank account, a job or other steady source of income, a house or other property. For a student, especially one from a developing country, this is often not a straightforward matter. It is not surprising, therefore, that the most common reason for denial of a visa application, including student visas as well as other major visa categories is 214(b), failure to overcome the presumption of immigrant intent.
Section 214(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act dates to 1952, an era when foreign students in the US were relatively rare. In 1954-55, for example, there were about 34,000 foreign students in the United States. In contrast, in 2011 there were nearly 765,000 foreign students in US higher education institutions, nearly two-thirds of them at doctorate-granting universities. In those early post-World War II years, the presence of foreign students was regarded as a form of international cultural exchange. Today, especially in STEM fields, foreign graduate students and post-docs make up a large and increasingly essential element of US higher education.
It's time to re-examine the application of 214(b) to STEM students in light of the fundamental changes in science and higher education that have taken place over the past 60 years. As NAFSA, the Association of International Educators, states in a recent policy brief, "Educated students are exactly the kinds of immigrants we should encourage to stay in the United States. We should not force them, before they even start their studies, to say that they have no intention of staying, working, and contributing to our country after they graduate."
The presumption of intent to immigrate is not the only hoop through which we put STEM students and potential science and engineering visitors. Others include the security review process code-named "Visas Mantis," the limits on H-1B visas (for foreign workers in specialized occupations), and the unnecessarily complex rules that govern J-1 visas (for exchange visitors).
Visa applicants who work in or intend to study certain technical fields or are from certain countries are frequently referred by consular officers to a security review involving nearly a dozen federal agencies. The "Visa Mantis" review is currently applied to about 10 percent of technical visitors, it is largely opaque, keeping applicants in the dark about their status, subjecting many innocent individuals to lengthy delays, and tarnishing the image of the United States as an open, welcoming society. Adding more consular officers with scientific or engineering training could facilitate screening applicants at the consulates and reduce the number of unnecessary Mantis referrals, allowing security officials to focus on serious security risks. Keeping applicants informed of the status of their applications during Mantis reviews would also help.
The H-1B visa category covers temporary workers in specialty occupations, including scientists and engineers in R&D. The program is capped at 65,000 each fiscal year, but an additional 20,000 foreign nationals with advanced degrees from US universities are exempt from this ceiling and all H-1B visa holders who work at universities and university and government-affiliated nonprofits, including national laboratories are also exempt. Presumably intended to strengthen US science and engineering capabilities by bringing in international talent, the program has been exploited by firms (mainly from India) that outsource information technology workers (programmers, software developers) to US clients. One relatively easy fix for this problem might be to expand the exempt subcategories of H-1Bs to include all PhD scientists and engineers engaged in R&D, not just those at universities and nonprofits, thus putting them in a separate class from those using the program for outsourcing of IT personnel.
The J-1 exchange visitor visa, which covers research scholars and professors, is entangled in a maze of rules and regulations. There are restrictions on how long a visitor may remain in the United States that depend on the dates and durations of previous visits. There is a two-year home country residence requirement that applies to some visitors and there are 12 and 24 month bars that prevent visitors from returning to this country, again depending on various factors. There are reasons behind each of these rules, but together they create an unnecessarily complex picture to potential visitors and those who would invite them to US labs and classrooms.
Up to now, we have still managed to attract large numbers of top STEM students, postdocs, and senior scientists and engineers. But other nations are not just standing by idly and watching. They know how important scientific and engineering talent is to their futures. China, India, and South Korea, among others, have set up programs to draw expatriate scientists back home. They are offering attractive salaries and funding to set up labs and hire staff. In 2011, China established a "Thousand Foreign Experts Program" explicitly aimed at foreign scientists and entrepreneurs. Korea has opened a "one-stop" center to help foreign researchers immigrate. Canada has created a new visa program to attract foreign entrepreneurs. Australia, Chile, and Brazil are among the other nations with programs to attract international scientists. As US federal agencies and universities see their budgets shrink and the US visa and immigration system remains locked in the past, the appeal of such programs to scientists who might otherwise come to the United States grows. The changes advocated here and others explored in this study can help level the playing field and maintain the position of the United States as a world leader in science and technology.
Albert H. Teich is Research Professor of Science, Technology & International Affairs, Center for International Science & Technology Policy, George Washington University, Washington, DC.
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Perhaps the finest NFL play-by-play guy of my lifetime. Obviously, he is inseparable from his long-time booth partner, John Madden, and there were few who could be a capable foil from Madden's mush-headed stylings. That became all too apparent when Summerall retired after the 2002 season. Just watch below and quickly realize how much it sucks that Buck and Aikman are still FOX's A-team in the booth.
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By: FordBrothers04.16.2013 @ 5:14 PM
"There's a man down!"
By: Balls of Steel04.16.2013 @ 5:48 PM
Summerall should have never "retired". They forced him out because the networks are stupid and react to the lowest common denominator and thought his drinking would cause some tight asses to boycott advertisers. Bullshit.
He was the best football broadcaster we will ever know.
By: Cuntler04.16.2013 @ 6:06 PM
He was very good. He was pretty shaky towards the end, though, and would misidentify players, schemes, the score, teams, etc, so I thought he left the game at about the right time. For what it is worth, old rambling Pat Summerall was much better than young sober Joe Buck is.
By: r0nald mcmexico8604.16.2013 @ 6:54 PM
agree, pat was the best and joe's gotta go.
By: Balls of Steel04.16.2013 @ 8:15 PM
@ Cuntler – You are right, but drunken senile Pat >>>>> Buck
By: Sophia04.16.2013 @ 5:49 PM
Holy crap, Ape – thank you for posting this. I had forgotten how great he was – and that video sent me right back to our old house, watching the games with my dad in the basement. Awesome.
RIP, Pat Summerall. That video reminded me that you were the voice of football; I had sadly forgotten. Thanks for all the fun times.
By: JamaalCharlesRepairedKnees04.16.2013 @ 5:59 PM
Pat Summerall was unfortunately before my time but I've never heard a disparaging remark said about him from anyone whose opinion I even remotely respected. RIP good sir. I just wish I had got to experience some quality booth work for once.
By: El Cunado04.17.2013 @ 12:29 AM
Reading that you never heard him live makes me sad. I will forever remember truly discovering football in time to hear his voice every Sunday on the "big game" for that week…
By: jackin4beats04.16.2013 @ 6:07 PM
RIP Pat Summerall. I used to watch games on CBS when he and Madden were the #1 team and couldn't listen to anyone else because they all sucked in comparison. At least he can join Jon Facenda up in heaven and call games from above.
By: ohTHATJosh04.16.2013 @ 6:08 PM
Goatee'd Favre looks like Larry The Cable Guy.
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By: sarah04.16.2013 @ 6:18 PM
There is no equal to his talent in the booth. I personally learned so much about the game from his broadcasts, feels like we lost football's grandpa.
By: Tim Tebows Roommate04.16.2013 @ 6:21 PM
My favorite moment…
And can we split up Aikman and Buck, FOX? I should've stabbed my earholes clear through my brain with the C team they give the Seahawks by Week 10!
/RIP Pat
By: Andrew Daisuke04.16.2013 @ 6:21 PM
He's calling the games on god's field now.
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For those of us who grew up on NFC East football, real football
where you could hit your opponent, this is a sad day. 4:00pm
on CBS, RFK Stadium, The Vet or Giants Stadium you knew it was big.
Watching this clip I'm still amazed at how he makes his points on the Rice
fumble and Owens reception without sounding like a clown. To Nantz, Buck
and the rest of the wannabe's take notes. Part of my childhood is gone. Coming
up after football 60 Minutes, Murder She Wrote and the CBS Sunday night movie.
Thank you Pat, there's a reason I watch games with the volume low, most
of these assholes have nothing good to say.
By: WhyEaglesWhy04.17.2013 @ 6:59 PM
Word. I was going to say how much he and Madden helped make the NFC East of the 80s and 90s as fun as it was. When those guys were doing your game, you felt like it was an event.
By: Enrico Pallazzo04.16.2013 @ 6:39 PM
Straight-on kicker, I believe, what a talent.
By: William Charles Schneider04.16.2013 @ 6:43 PM
The broadcast booth in the sky just got that much better.
By: Hobo Spices04.16.2013 @ 7:35 PM
When a dancing robot became a featured part of a football telecast, you knew guys like Summerall wouldn't be heard again.
One of the greats, and he will be missed.
By: Upstate Underdog04.16.2013 @ 7:51 PM
I feel bad for the younger fans who never got to hear Summerall call a game. Sometimes being old has it's advantages.
By: antennaman196904.16.2013 @ 7:52 PM
Yes, almost the last in a line of greats….Curt Gowdy (if you were in an AFC market) on NBC, Summerall on the 4 o'clock game-back when the NFC East was wall-to-wall something; and Cosell with Frank Gifford (Dandy Don Meredith was just out of hand by the 4th quarter) on MNF.
By: fleshwound_NPG04.16.2013 @ 7:52 PM
Yep, football announcing, as an art, died today. Glad I was JUST old enough to catch him and Madden during the CBS era, the golden years.
Here he and Madden announce the best game of my favorite Bear:
By: antennaman196904.16.2013 @ 8:00 PM
Agreed. Sadly, no one is picking up the torch…Don't even throw out a name from CBS. I watch FOX with the sound muted- no matter who is calling the game. Al Michaels' larynx can rot out at any time. I'm waiting. Maybe this is just residual Cris Collinsworth hate(go Stillers). Tirico is tolerable until he fawns over star players, thus ruining the play-by-play. I do enjoy his trying to reel in Gruden.
By: Culliver Glove04.16.2013 @ 8:13 PM
How brilliantly they let the crowd noise/excitement fill in the blanks instead of ranting about the "storyline."
Also any chance to see Favre each a four-inch hot dog is always welcome.
By: Bo Higgs04.17.2013 @ 9:28 AM
Yes and yes.
By: phreshone04.16.2013 @ 8:16 PM
I can remember Summerall calling the late game with Tommy Brookshier for CBS in the 70's
He will be missed. It's too bad, he had been looking better the last few years following the liver transplant.
By: Otto Man04.16.2013 @ 8:26 PM
Oh well, at least we still have Tony Siragusa, right? Right?
By: Titans4Eva04.16.2013 @ 9:48 PM
Pat's gotta be in heaven, 'cause down here is telecast hell.
By: Cuntler04.17.2013 @ 11:06 AM
And his sideline Man Cave! UP TOP, BROSEPH!
By: jetsrkillinme04.16.2013 @ 8:28 PM
What a sad loss. It reminds me of how far we've fallen into the hell hole of ESPN's malignant influence on today's television.
They used to actually treat us like sports fans and not drooling retards.
By: El Cunado04.17.2013 @ 12:31 AM
+all the 1s
By: Carl Spackler04.17.2013 @ 8:44 AM
Yep. I actually stopped paying for DirecTV because I couldn't stand the television announcers anymore. Now I watch RedZone Channel with sound off and tune in to local game broadcasts via internet. I'm proud to say I haven't watched one minute of ESPN (other than MNF with the sound off) in several years. I only wish channels on cable/Fios/Satellite were a la carte so I could cancel ESPN.
By: KidFlash04.16.2013 @ 8:33 PM
Honestly, I was never a huge fan of his – I always preferred the more energetic announcers (maybe it was because the Bills were on NBC – Charlie Jones RIP). But seeing this clip again for the first time since broadcast, it's shocking how smooth he and Madden sound.
By: Japanimal04.16.2013 @ 9:03 PM
Summerall and Brookshier, just hearing their voices reminds me that a book report or some form of homework was still left undone. Oh well, I can always start it during 60 Minutes.
RIP Pat.
By: WellBlowMeDown04.16.2013 @ 9:23 PM
Poor young pups….prior to his broadcasting career Summerall was the kicker for the glamerous (for the era) Yankee Stadium NY Giants teams of Frank Gifford, Sam Huff, Kyle Rote, Charley Connerly, Andy Robustelli and others. Remember: these teams had Tom Landry (played safety) as defense coordinator and Vince Lombardi (Fordham grad! Woo-hoo!!!) as the offensive coordinator.
It's also the reason Manhattan-based Mad Men took a liking to the NFL which led Pete Rozelle to create the game we all love.
Pat Summerall was far more than just a play-by-play announcer.
By: MastaSplyce04.16.2013 @ 10:19 PM
Rest in Peace Pat Summerall….but by god, that clip embedded above was atrocious. John Madden was fucking terrible. I think he always represented what was the worst part about professional football: the punch-drunk, meathead approach of his was football genius; and those of us outside the sport took infinitely greater pains to think about what was going on. I imagine that what John Madden sounds like in this clip is what Peter King would sound like were he in an announcing booth…Summerall does make a great foil, with his restraint and concise delivery. Were it just him broadcasting the game, I imagine it would be sublimely perfect.
By: E Buzz Miller04.17.2013 @ 6:41 AM
No one has ever compared to the lineup of Brookshier/Sumemrall. They talked football, but the realities of the game as told by Brookshier were too much for the candy asses at the networks.
Maybe Cope/Fleming was as good.
By: phreshone04.17.2013 @ 2:11 PM
Brookshier was moved to a play-by-play spot, so Madden became Pat's analyst. Then Tommy got fired a couple of years later for a comment about the IQ's of the Louisville B-Ball team during an in-game promo (they went on to win the NCAA that year)
By: antennaman196904.19.2013 @ 11:28 PM
Bill Fleming and Bill Hillgrove should get medals for keeping Myron on the rails as long as they did!
By: phisherman04.17.2013 @ 8:38 AM
My first memories of football were watching Giant's games with my dad, Summerall and Madden in the booth. Best announcing team ever, RIP Pat.
By: Culliver Glove04.17.2013 @ 9:23 AM
I think we're glossing over the real problem here. Most football fans are not fans at all, and the corporations sold out this game as a celeb reality show long ago. (Otherwise PK column could not exist.)
By: Carl Spackler04.17.2013 @ 10:54 AM
Oh great, the "who's a real fan" argument again.
By: Surly Duff04.17.2013 @ 11:56 AM
It also includes a little of the "it's not the media's fault the news/reporting sucks, it is because people want it dumbed down". I don't buy the argument that TV, be it national or local news or our sports reporting, like ESPN, has to appeal to the lowest common denominator to be effective.
By: SonOfSpam04.17.2013 @ 11:44 AM
Summerall was a classic, and I had forgotten just how "Captain Obvious" John Madden was doing color. "The good thing here is, they got a first down, which was a big play for them."
By: Hornfrog04.17.2013 @ 1:29 PM
"It's a first down, which gets them a fresh set of downs."
By: Surly Duff04.17.2013 @ 11:52 AM
Frankly, I would enjoy just having FOX use old Summerall clips from previous broadcasts during current games. Basically, just use his computer-generated voice-over as if it was a Madden 97 game.
By: shepps04.17.2013 @ 1:45 PM
sad of his passing iv'e met the man at the gho sad to say the man is a pompus asshole


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Wed 23 Nov 2011 in Norwich:
A pig farm near Earsham, Bungay, Norfolk, UK.
Expedition - Fail[edit]
Neil came within 22 metres of the hash but there was a thick hedge and a field of pigs beyond it. -- Sourcerer @52.4416,1.3980 19:05, 23 November 2011 (GMT)
It was a very dark overcast night close to the new moon so it was hard to see anything. The pigs could be heard grunting and squeaking as pigs do. There might have been a way through the hedge but mixing with pigs is not that great an idea. Introducing disease would really harm the farmer so I kept well away.
Don't murderers dispose of bodies by feeding them to the pigs? I preferred not to see if that was true. In any case I was heading for a meeting in Norwich and wanted to arrive without a coating of manure!
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Expeditions and Plans
|Mannheim, Germany
|Karl 77
|On the premises of a company in Ludwigshafen Rheingönnheim
|Norwich, United Kingdom
|A pig farm near Earsham, Bungay, Norfolk, UK.
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The world into which Noah was born was worse than any society that has ever existed, which means that it must have been pretty bad. With people living for almost a thousand years, it is not difficult to see how evil could become ingrained in society to the point that God became sorry that He ever created people to begin with!
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Five-sided boulder with strange depressions
Piperstown standing stone (No.205 - Archaeological Survey of Co. Louth) O 0811 8277
This huge block of stone is strange because of its shape - it is a five-sided stone with a broad section and a flat top. It is situated on gently-sloping pasture in a townland called Piperstown, where in recent years the remains of a medieval village have been excavated. To the south there is a cairn, while to the north lie the three standing stones on the slopes of Carnanbreaga at Drumshallon. Also lying nearby, near the site of the medieval village, is a motte.
The eastern face of the stone, which is by far the largest, is littered with circular crater-like depressions, some of which are up to three inches in diameter.
|Buckley and Sweetman (Archaeological Survey of Co. Louth) state that these depressions resemble cup marks, "but these appear to be natural solution-holes. Some of these can be seen in the photograph below.
Some of the 'cup-marks' on the eastern face of the Piperstown standing stone.
A very large fissure runs down this face of the stone, opening to a couple of inches in places. There is a further series of cup-mark-like holes running vertically down this side of the stone. I was able to count 17 holes which for the most part form a vertical line down the stone. Towards the top right of this face is a series of smaller holes which appear to form a curve, almost like a semi-circle.
The south-western face of the stone also features some of these holes, which form the shape of an arc. There are also some small thin grooves or notches on this face, and a denuded series of platform-like raises on the southern edge of this side.
Looking from the north.
Looking from the north-west.
|The western face of the stone is very wide at the top, narrowing considerably at the bottom, and with a very straight edge along the top. The north-western side, visible in the picture above right, slopes outwards and narrows considerably from about five feet at the bottom to about two and a half feet at the top. There is a thin fissure running down the centre of this face, which has also suffered some graffiti. There appear to be more denuded depressions on this side of the stone, with one obvious circular depression which has a flat interior surface and resembles a moon crater.
Looking from the east.
Some of the holes on the eastern face.
|One amusing aspect of this stone was the fact that if you stand about 20 feet from it and shout aloud you can hear the echo coming back! It is a strange feeling in the middle of a wide open field to hear an echo.


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(By Our Constantinople Correspondent, Mare Regenstreif)
The recent reorganization of the Grand Rabbinate in Turkey so that it has lost all its power and the present intention of the Jewish leaders here to renounce the minority rights of the Jews, are not mere unrelated incidents. They are due regrettably to a change in the traditional policy on the part of Turkey to its Jewish citizens and reflect in general the anti-Jewish sentiment which has reached at last even this country where the Jews had enjoyed for centuries all rights and privileges.
The first definite stage in the new policy was the order of the Turkish government, following soon after the separation of religious and secular matters in the Jewish community, that all instruction in the elementary Jewish schools should be given in the Turkish language only. Then came another development, supplementary to the regulation about instruction in the Turkish language and of an equally serious nature, namely, an order making it compulsory for private schools to have seventy-five per cent of their staff Turks. When the government says Turks it means Moslems. The question therefore arises: what will the Jewish children do when they are grown-up? They will know no language but Turkish and as Jews they will be debarred from employment in practically every field, for the regulation about seventy-five per cent of the private school employees being Turks applies to all other undertakings, including business firms, as well.
In addition to this the economic policy of the government has been such that, although it may not be directed especially at the Jews, it has nevertheless hit the Jews most. Thus the general economic position of the Jews in Turkey is deplorable. Engaged in commerce and small trade they have suffered greatly from the monopolistic policy of the Government. The Turkish Government has in this respect followed the example of Russia with which it recently concluded a treaty and has monopolized practically everything: petrol, oil, matches, sugar, tobacco, cigarettes, paper, slaughter-houses, beer, alcohol, ice are already monopolized and it is expected that many other branches of commerce will have to follow suit. In addition to this forcible exclusion of the Jews from the commercial life of the country the taxes levied on property are exorbitant and numerous and quite out of proportion to the earning capacity of the Jews.
Concurrently with this policy of the government a wave of anti-Semitism has passed recently over the whole country, filling the Jewish communities with dismay and despair. The movement began as far back as December 20th, when an anti-Shechita agitation was set on foot in a number of Turkish newspapers. The papers contended that since the slaughtering of animals was now carried out under the best of sanitary and humane conditions there was no further need of Rabbis in the slaughtering houses to supervise the slaughtering of animals. This first indirect anti-Semitic move was soon followed by a direct violent attack on the Jews in almost every Turkish newspaper in the country on the alleged ground that the Jews had sent a message of loyalty to the Spanish king. While it is known by all well informed persons that this charge is false, the incident indicates the trend in Turkey today.