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SportsDay's 2012 mock draft: Rainer Sabin breaks down all 32 first round picks
1. Indianapolis Team Needs: QB, WR, TE, OL, DL, CB Andrew Luck; QB; Stanford
Andrew Luck is considered the best quarterback prospect to enter the draft since 1998, when Colts legend Peyton Manning was taken with the first overall pick. Now, Luck is expected to replace Manning and be tasked with trying to revive a franchise rebuilding in almost every area imaginable. The Stanford quarterback who threw for 9,430 yards and 82 touchdowns in his career seems up for the challenge.
2. Washington QB; OL; ILB; S; CB Robert Griffin III; QB; Baylor
To put themselves in a position to draft the 2011 Heisman Trophy winner, the Redskins surrendered three first-round picks and a second-round selection. It was a bold move, but one Washington was willing to make to acquire a player with the potential to be the first franchise quarterback to work in the nation's capital since Sonny Jurgensen or maybe even Sammy Baugh.
3. Minnesota OL; CB; LB; DL; WR; RB Matt Kalil; OT; Southern Cal
The Vikings' offensive line is in a state of flux after the team released guards Steve Hutchinson and Anthony Herrera last month. Kalil, who comes from a family of blockers and played at a college program known for churning out quality blockers, would help stabilize Minnesota's front and protect second-year quarterback Christian Ponder's blindside.
4. Cleveland QB; WR; RB; OL; CB Trent Richardson; RB; Alabama
In this age of the NFL, when passing numbers have skyrocketed, the value attached to running backs has been reduced. But durable, fast, physical ball carriers are rare finds, and for that reason Richardson is highly-coveted. After tearing up the Southeastern Conference, Richardson appears capable of blasting through NFL defenses like a wrecking ball. With Peyton Hillis gone, the Browns could use another bruiser.
5. Tampa Bay RB; OL; LB; S; TE Morris Claiborne; CB; LSU
The top-rated defender in the draft, Claiborne is a playmaker. Physically-gifted and armed with good instincts, he made 11 interceptions the last two seasons at LSU. Of course, the Buccaneers should have intimate knowledge of Claiborne's profile. They hired his position coach, Ron Cooper, to supervise the defensive backs.
6. St. Louis QB; WR; OL; DL; LB; S Justin Blackmon; WR; Oklahoma State
A two-time Biletnikoff winner, Blackmon is a physically-gifted receiver with sure hands. He's type of player the Rams desperately need. Once known for having one of the most productive offenses in the NFL, St. Louis is bereft of playmakers to help quarterback Sam Bradford. They especially need a wideout after they lost Brandon Lloyd in free agency.
7. Jacksonville WR; DL; OL Melvin Ingram; DE; South Carolina
In today's NFL, a premium is placed on players who can protect the quarterback on offense and attack him on defense. Pass rushers are extremely valuable these days and Melvin Ingram - a hulking 6-2, 264-pound prospect - is considered the best of the bunch in this draft class. Ingram should help Jacksonville, ranked 25th in the NFL in sacks last season, increase the pressure it applies to opposing quarterbacks.
8. Miami QB; WR; OL; DL; LB; CB; S Ryan Tannehill; QB; Texas A&M
After experiencing another losing season and then a coaching change that was awkwardly executed, the Dolphins organization already seemed to be in the throes of turmoil. But then Miami traded away their best receiver, Brandon Marshall, and failed to acquire any big-name players during free agency. The Dolphins have holes in a lot of areas, but they especially need a quarterback. Tannehill, a starter at Texas A&M since October 2010, is the best available.
9. Carolina DL; OL; TE; LB; WR Dontari Poe; DT; Memphis
Dontari Poe has soared up draft boards across the league after an eye-popping, jaw-dropping workout at the NFL Combine. After bench-pressing 225 pounds 44 times and completing the 40-yard dash in 4.98 seconds, Poe was seen as a prospect with boundless physical potential. The Panthers, who drafted the athletically-gifted Cam Newton last season, seem like a team willing to take a chance on the otherwise-undistinguished Poe. Plus, they need help in the interior of their defensive line.
10. Buffalo OL; LB; CB; WR; QB Riley Reiff; OT; Iowa
The Bills made a series of aggressive moves in free agency to fortify their defense. The additions of Mark Anderson and Mario Williams, one of the NFL's prized pass rushers, have given the Bills the latitude to upgrade their personnel in other units, particularly the offensive line. The loss of left tackle Demetress Bell has created a need at a premier position and Reiff may be just the guy to provide help.
11. Kansas City QB; OL; DL; CB; S David DeCastro; G; Stanford
In the past, teams have generally shied away from drafting interior linemen early in the first round. Guards and centers, after all, are not valued as highly as tackles. But the consensus is that DeCastro, a highly-skilled pass protector, is worth the investment of a high pick. The Chiefs, who need to enhance the depth within their offensive line, could put DeCastro to good use.
12. Seattle OL; WR; DL; LB; CB; Luke Kuechly; ILB; Boston College
The departure of David Hawthorne leaves a big void in the middle of Seattle's defense. Boston College standout Luke Kuechly could be the one that fills it. Before forgoing his final year of eligibility, Kuechly collected 532 tackles and seven interceptions. He could be a force while playing for a defensive-minded rah rah guy like Pete Carroll.
13. Arizona OL; WR; LB; S; QB Cordy Glenn; OT/G; Georgia
Only St. Louis yielded more sacks than Arizona did last season. The Cardinals' offensive line leaked like a sieve, allowing opposing defensive linemen and linebackers to barge into Although Arizona re-signed left tackle Levi Brown last month, the unit still needs improvements. Cordy Glenn, a versatile blocker with tremendous size and athleticism, could help alleviate the Cardinals' greatest problem.
14. Cowboys OL; WR; CB; DL; S; TE Fletcher Cox; DL; Mississippi State
After watching the Giants' defensive front storm through opponents' lines and leave a path of destruction on its way to a Super Bowl title, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones expressed his desire to develop a pass rush with similar might. He's already got outside linebackers DeMarcus Ware and Anthony Spencer. Now he needs a defensive end who can attack. Look no further than Fletcher Cox, a versatile and accomplished player with a track record of improving one year to the next.
15. Philadelphia OL; S; DL; RB; LB; TE; QB Michael Brockers; DL; LSU
After the Eagles finished 8-8 last season, the mediocre record seemed inexplicable based on the talent that had been assembled. To this day, the Eagles have few holes in their starting lineup. But if there is one, it exists in the interior of the defensive line after tackle Trevor Laws left via free agency. Brockers, an impressive athlete, has the potential to develop into a playmaker alongside veterans Jason Babin and Cullen Jenkins.
16. New York Jets WR; OL; LB; CB; S; RB Quinton Coples; DE; North Carolina
A 6-6, 284-pound prospect with a blend of power and speed, Coples has the physical dimensions that make him one of the most highly-coveted pass rushers in the draft. But there are questions about his motivation and desire to give maximum effort every play. A potential marriage of the talented Coples and the Jets' fiery Rex Ryan could be a perfect one. Ryan, who loves to apply pressure, could help Coples realize his full potential.
17. Cincinnati WR; OL; DL; LB; CB; RB Mark Barron; S; Alabama
In a weak class of safeties, Barron stands out from the rest. A physical player, Barron distinguished himself while providing support for one of the premier defenses in college football. During his career at Alabama, he accumulated 235 tackles and 12 interceptions - impressive stats that offer more evidence of his productivity. Cincinnati, which released starting safety Chris Crocker earlier this month, is in the market for a defender with Barron's skill-set.
18. San Diego CB; LB; OL; DL; WR Whitney Mercilus; OLB; Illinois
Not too long ago, San Diego had one of the most feared defenses in the league. But last season, the Chargers' pass rush was rather feckless. The Chargers collected only 32 sacks - an underwhelming figure considering that only eight teams recorded fewer. Mercilus appears capable of helping San Diego increase that total. After all, no college player tallied more sacks than Mercilus did last season.
19. Chicago OL; DL; CB; TE Stephon Gilmore; CB; South Carolina
Last season, the Bears surrendered 254.1 passing yards per game - the fifth-highest average in the NFL. Many attributed Chicago's frequent defensive breakdowns to an inconsistent pass rush. But problems existed on the back end as well. That's why the Bears may turn to Gilmore, a defensive back with size, speed and excellent cover skills.
20. Tennessee CB; WR; LBl DL Dre Kirkpatrick; CB; Alabama
Playing for one of the best college defenses in the recent past, Kirkpatrick was a standout. A physical defensive back, he was groomed by secondary whiz Nick Saban, who employed a system that incorporated both zone and man coverages. For that reason, Kirkpatrick should be able to make a smooth transition to the pro ranks and help a team like Tennessee that is in the market for a perennial starter at cornerback after Cortland Finnegan ditched the Titans in free agency.
21. Cincinnati WR; OL; DL; LB; CB; RB Michael Floyd; WR; Notre Dame
After quarterback Andy Dalton and wideout A.J. Green developed a strong connection during their rookie campaign last season, the Bengals would like to fortify a receiver corps that lost Andre Caldwell to Denver and could be without unrestricted free agent Jerome Simpson, who began serving a jail sentence earlier this month. Floyd, an accomplished player with size and speed, could work well within an offense that has the potential to be outstanding in the near future.
22. Cleveland QB; WR; RB; OL; S; CB Jonathan Martin; OT; Stanford
Cleveland's pass protection was shaky last season. Just ask quarterback Colt McCoy, who suffered a serious concussion last season. Even so, the Browns released right tackle Tony Pashos and created a vacancy within their offensive line. Martin, a sturdy blocker who has quick feet and the requisite athleticism needed to contend with pass rusher, could fill that void.
23. Detroit CB; WR; RB; LB; OL Mike Adams; OT; Ohio State
The Lions are no longer a laughingstock in the NFL, which is why they in this particular spot in the draft. In recent years, they have assembled a collection of talented players and this year they would ideally be in a position to take a cornerback. But the best cover man expected to be available at this point is Janoris Jenkins, whose sketchy background presents too much of a risk. So, the Lions may go a different route and take Adams, who can provide support to the offensive line.
24. Pittsburgh OL; WR; DL; LB; CB; TE Dont'a Hightower; ILB; Alabama
Hightower fits the profile of a Steelers defender. He's big and powerful and has the speed and instincts to hunt down running backs. Having refined his skills at Alabama, where he was a team captain, Hightower is capable of playing immediately in the NFL. And with veteran James Farrior no longer on the team, the Steelers wouldn't hesitate to plug Hightower into their lineup.
25. Denver DL; WR; OL; LB; CB Jerel Worthy; DT; Michigan State
It's never an ideal situation to draft a player based on need. But the Broncos will have shallow reserves in the middle of their defensive line entering next season Brodrick Bunkley left via free agency and Ryan McBean was released. The addition of Justin Bannan won't preclude the Broncos from seeking a potential starter like Worthy, a 308-pound prospect with quick feet.
26. Houston OL; WR; LB; DL; CB Stephen Hill; WR: Georgia Tech
The Texans find themselves in unfamiliar territory. They are picking near the bottom of the first round and are not in desperate need of finding a starter. Things are definitely better in Houston, but that doesn't mean the Texans don't need reinforcements, especially within their offense. Receivers Kevin Walter and Andre Johnson both will be 31 this season and Houston appears eager to find a young receiver they can help groom. Stephen Hill, who shined the at the NFL combine, is a logical choice.
27. New England DL; LB; CB; S; RB Courtney Upshaw; OLB; Alabama
Although New England's defensive struggles may have been a bit overdramatized, the Patriots appear interested in upgrading a unit that allowed 293.9 passing yards per game. A player who could help their cause is Upshaw, a dynamic pass rusher who played for Bill Belichick disciple Nick Saban. A versatile defender, Upshaw could thrive in the Patriots' multifaceted system.
28. Green Bay S; CB; LB; DL; WR; RB; OL; Andre Branch; DE; Clemson
The consensus around the league is that the Packers need to find an outside linebacker to complement linebacker Clay Matthews. Branch looks to be a perfect candidate for the position. He excels as a pass rusher and should help a defense that saw its sack total plummet last season. Branch, who excelled at the NFL Combine, can be a disruptive force for Green Bay.
29. Baltimore S; WR; OL; DL; LB Peter Konz; C; Wisconsin
The Ravens are still reeling from losing Pro Bowl guard Ben Grubbs to New Orleans, which swiped him away during free agency. To fill the hole left by Grubbs, the Ravens could turn to Konz, rated the best center in the draft. Konz could immediately play guard and transition to his natural position when the aging Matt Birk rides off into the sunset.
30. San Francisco OL; DL; CB; WR Kendall Wright; WR; Baylor
The 49ers find themselves in a strong position only months after advancing to the NFC championship game. San Francisco has no glaring needs that will force the 49ers to draft a player who will be immediately plugged into the lineup. Wright, a gifted receiver, seems to be about as good a pick as any. But the 49ers' choice, at this point, is anything but obvious.
31. New England DL; LB; CB; S; RB Harrison Smith; S; Notre Dame
The Patriots' pass defense was surprisingly atrocious last season as New England relied on a patchwork secondary stocked with no-name players. New England needs to upgrade the personnel within the unit and it could look to Harrison Smith, who isn't universally considered a first-round talent but is seen as the second-best safety in this class.
32. New York Giants WR; OL; DL; LB; TE Coby Fleener; TE; Stanford
The Giants signed Martellus Bennett in free agency, but they must have some doubts about whether he can be a receiving threat after he failed to catch a touchdown pass in each of the last three seasons. As a result, they could look to Fleener, a player who excelled in Stanford's Pro-Style offense and made 34 receptions for 667 yards and 10 touchdowns as a senior.


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On February 2, 2016, an order regarding the application for interim approval of professional compensation was filed in the bankruptcy case of Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. and its affiliates.
The filing was assigned docket number 1422 and is described on the court's official docket as follows:
Order Granting First Interim Application of Deloitte Tax LLP for Compensation for Services Rendered and Reimbursement of Expenses as Tax Advisor to the Debtors for the Period August 10, 2015 through October 31, 2015 (Related Doc # [1099]) (Luedecke, Tammy)
Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection, or had an involuntary bankruptcy petition filed against it, on August 3, 2015. The bankruptcy case is pending before the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia . The case number for the lead bankruptcy case is 15-33896. The bankruptcy case is currently assigned to United States Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Huennekens. The law firm of Jones Day LLP is acting as lead bankruptcy counsel to Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. in the bankruptcy case.

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Alice Senora Soffa, 92, of Elk River, died Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011.
She was born on a farm between Preston and Lanesboro, Minn. on Feb. 21, 1918, to Selmar B. and Alma Larson.
She was educated at Clear Grit Rural, Lanesboro High School, Preston Normal Training and Winona State, where she earned bachelor's and master's degrees. She taught for 24 years, the last seven as teaching-principal.
She and Joseph Soffa were married at the Lanesboro Lutheran church parsonage on Dec. 21, 1936.
She served as Sunday school superintendent, Ladies Aid president, church treasurer, Sunday school teacher and vacation Bible school teacher. She also used to conduct spelling bees at the school located inside the Fillmore County fair grounds in Preston. She also taught quilting and gave quilting demonstrations.
In 1999, Mrs. Soffa moved to an apartment in Elk River. She continued to be an active quilter for her church in Union Prairie and started to quilt for Central Lutheran Church in Elk River.
A couple of years later, she moved across the street to the assisted living apartments, where she enjoyed many activities there, such as bingo, 500, afternoon coffee and tutoring elementary math kids into her early 90s.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 56 years, Joe; her brother, Ralph; granddaughter, Mary; and grandson, Shane.
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Turvey is a village and civil parish on the River Great Ouse in Bedfordshire, England, about 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Bedford. The village is on the A428 road between Bedford and Northampton, close to the border with Buckinghamshire. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 1,225.
Turvey was originally an ancient parish in the Willey Hundred of Bedfordshire, England. It was an ancient parish with no subsidiary chapelries or townships.
It was made a civil parish in 1866 and in 1894 it became part of the Bedford Rural District. Since 1974 it has been in the non-metropolitan Borough of Bedford.
Turvey is recorded in Domesday Book of 1086 as a parish in the Hundred of Willey. There are eight separate entries for Turvey, including a total of 44 households. The Mordaunt family obtained the manor by marriage in 1197 and were ennobled as Barons of Turvey in the 16th century. The Mordaunt family house, Turvey Old Hall, was replaced by Turvey House in 1792, by which time the estate had passed to the Higgins family. It was extended in the 19th century and still stands. There is a second large house in the village called Turvey Abbey, which was historically a family house, but is now a Benedictine monastery.
The Church of England parish church of All Saints has Saxon origins but is almost certainly a post-Norman building. It is the largest church in the deanery of Sharnbrook and was in the Diocese of Lincoln until it was transferred to the Diocese of Ely in 1837. Since 1914 it has been in the Diocese of St Albans. It has a 13th-century door with its original ironwork, a Norman baptismal font, a wall painting of the crucifixion and some notable monuments, including monumental brasses.
Turvey has a strong history of lace-making: there is evidence of a 19th-century lace-making school.
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Evening of recognition acknowledges exemplary students and staff
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by JULIA MARTINEZ, staff reporter
Last Wednesday night at the 16th Annual Evening of Recognition, 33 students, staff and faculty were recognized for their contributions to the university and were presented with awards.
Three students, Brock Wolitarsky, Jacqueline Korn and Ryan Gregson each left the SURC ballroom with two awards each.
Wolitarsky, a history major, was the recipient of the Student Academic Senate Award and the Provost/Academic & Student Life Vice Presidential Student Award.
"I walk in the SURC with him and he turns like 30 heads and I can't talk to him for more than two seconds because everyone who knows Brock is bound to love him," said Jaclyn Sperlich, head of the Student Academic Senate.
Recipient of the CWU Student Employee of the Year Award and Business and Financial Affairs Vice Presidential Award, there was much to say about Korn and her accomplishments. Korn works in the office of grants, contracts, investments and fixed assets accounts and plans to pursue a fifth year study in a master of professional accountancy program.
Gregson, also a history major, received the Student Success Dean's Award and College of Arts and Humanities Dean's Award for planning workshops and events, such as the Amazing Race event and the Grow Campaign, which aims to put a stop to child hunger.
"From the moment he arrived in Ellensburg, Ryan has jumped into involvement on campus and in the community," said Dean of Student Success, Sarah Swager.
Halfway through the night, the Associated Students of CWU Board of Directors took their oath of office.
"What I'm really looking to do is improve student engagement with the BOD, I think it's very critical that we have an environment within the BOD where students can approach us and we can address their concerns," said newly elected BOD president, Bryan Elliott.
There were two recipients of the Associate Dean of Student Development award, Saeed Mohamed and Arturo Arellano Jr. Both were recognized for their efforts and involvement with Central's students.
"It was an honor to receive the award, however, I could have gone without the public recognition," Arellano said.
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Bryan Elliott, Jacob Wittman, Mary Orthmann, Kelsie Miller, Spencer Flores, Scott Kazmi and Cassandra DuBore
Awards and Recipients
RHA Member of the Year Award: Karly Jo Harris
NRHH Member of the Year Award: Rachel Border
ASCWU-BOD Award: Kendra Ford
Student Academic Senate Award: Brock Wolitarsky
Organization of the Year Award: Filipino American Student Association
Club of the Year Award: Central Washington Technology Education Association
Student Serving with Integrity Award: Ryan Galindo
Most Inspirational Faculty Award: Robert Hickey
Most Inspirational Faculty Award: Blaise Dondji
Most Inspirational Staff Award: Jesse Y. Nelson
Most Inspirational Student Award: Tom Potter
CWU Student Employee of the Year Award: Jacqueline Korn
Dorothy Purser Award: Marcy Hjellum
Library Services Dean's Award: Jillian Shafer
Associate Dean of Student Achievement Award: Celina Venegas
Associate Dean of Student Living Award: Neil Turnley
Associate Dean of Student Development Award: Saeed Mohamed
Associate Dean of Student Development Award: Arturo Arellano Jr.
Student Success Dean's Award: Ryan Gregson
Student Success Dean's Award: KJ Stilling
College of Arts and Humanities Dean's Award: Ryan Gregson
College of Business Dean's Award: Brittany Waskom
College of Education and Professional Studies Dean's Award: Donald Galatis
College of the Sciences Dean's Award: Troy Kilburn
Graduate Studies & Research Dean's Award: Krista Evans
Graduate Studies & Research Dean's Award: Andrea Blume
Business & Financial Affairs Vice Presidential Award: Jacqueline Korn
Provost/Academic & Student Life Presidential Student Award: Brock Wolitarsky
Presidential Staff Award: Kenneth G. Young
Presidential Faculty Award: Patsy Callaghan
Presidential Administrator Award: Linda Schactler
Presidential Administrator Award: Bill Yarwood
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With Kobe Bryant joining LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony in the starting lineup, the Americans figured to look impressive in the opener of the Olympic qualifying tournament.
And they did -- eventually.
Anthony scored 17 points, Bryant added 14, and the United States rolled to a 112-69 victory over Venezuela Wednesday night in the FIBA Americas tournament in Las Vegas.
The Americans were dominant for the final three quarters after scoring only 21 points in the first. Bryant, the NBA scoring champion the last two seasons, didn't even score in the opening period.
"We can still improve," James said. "We know we didn't do as well as we could on the offensive end, even though we scored a lot of points, but we're going to get better."
They were still pretty good. The Americans quickly overcame their sluggish start and shot 55 percent from the field while putting seven players in double figures.
"I think tonight we really wanted to be aggressive from the get," Anthony said. "That was real important. I think tonight that was our main goal, to go out there and dominate. Not try to embarrass, but dominate, and I think we did a good job at that."
Argentina 90, Uruguay 69 -- Luis Scola, one of the few Argentina stars playing in the tournament, scored 16 points to help the defending Olympic gold medalists beat Uruguay yesterday.
Canada 80, Venezuela 73 -- Philadelphia 76ers center Samuel Dalembert, who was born in Haiti and recently became a Canadian citizen, scored 18 points, 6 in the final 2:05, to lead Canada to its first win in the tournament.
Puerto Rico 108, Panama 67 -- Carlos Arroyo rebounded from a dismal opening game with 16 points and eight assists, leading Puerto Rico over Panama. Ricardo Sanchez scored 19 points and Carmelo Lee had 17 for Puerto Rico (1-1), which looked sharp the day after being upset by Mexico. Arroyo was the biggest problem in that game, scoring 4 points.


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Locals Fear 'Curse of Cameron'
Is David Cameron bad luck?
Nearly every time the British prime minister has shown up at an Olympic event to root for British athletes at this year's games, the U.K. has fallen upon misfortune.
What has been dubbed the "Curse of Cameron" began rearing its head on the first day of competition. The prime minister arrived at the cycling road race, intending to watch Mark Cavendish score the first U.K. gold medal of the games — only to watch the British favorite finish a woeful 29th. Two days later, Cameron took to the Aquatic Center to cheer on Tom Daley, a high-profile expected medallist in synchronized diving. Daley and partner Peter Waterfield finished fourth, just missing out on a medal. Then, the prime minister showed up to watch the finals for men's and women's judo along with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday. Putin watched a Russian man win. Cameron watched a British woman lose.
From there, it was on to see track cycling at the velodrome. "Oh god. Cameron's in the #olympic velodrome. Expect disaster," British journalist Simon Ricketts tweeted when the prime minister showed up. Others chimed in, too. "NOOOO! David Cameron just took his seat at Velodrome—there were a few boos and whistles," British sports commentator Caroline Cheese tweeted.
Earlier, star British cyclists Jess Varnish and Victoria Pendleton had been disqualified for passing on the track illegally. "Was Cameron aka Typhoid Mary at the velodrome today?" a Londoner tweeting under the handle @loftspace asked after seeing the result. It's unclear if the prime minister had stopped by at any point before the disqualification took place.
As the U.K.'s men's cyclists moved into the finals Thursday night, British fans crossed their fingers that Cameron's presence wouldn't affect the top-rated British team. Some wondered: Could the presence of Princes William and Harry, perchance, counteract the curse? The answer was yes. The men's team took a gold medal, retrieving Cameron — at least for the moment — from the netherworld of bad-luck charms and spells.


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It sounds like your son has a commitment phobia, where everything goes really well for a while and then all of a sudden he starts finding things maybe little things that are wrong with the woman and then changes his feelings for the girl. A person who is commitment phobic fears and avoids having to commit to a relationships. Usually the person with the commitment phobia will be critical of their mate in the relationship. They will set out to sabotage the relationship even if its going well and progressing well they find things that may be wrong as a means to break up. Some commitment phobics really want to meet the right mate and get married, but will often have somewhat unrealistic ideals regarding what that person should be like because they want to be able to make it look like it's the other person and not them.
The causes of this phobia are sometimes associated with a loss or trauma of some kind such as an absent father whether it be physically or mentally. Maybe as a child they had a bad relationship with their father or someone they trusted hurt them very badly. This can have an effect on their approach to adult relationships. Often, at the heart of the fear, is the fear of rejection by others. If he gets scared he will reject first so that he won't be rejected, they will distance themselves and their mate to feel safe. What he needs to find out is where the root of the problem is and then take the steps to get over these issues, most of the time it will require some professional help so that they can help him to find out where those feelings stem from and then and only then can he figure out a solution for that issue.
Since this is a repetitive behavior with him and his relationships it will only continue to happen until he can get the help he needs to overcome his phobia for commitment, a commitment phobic craves what he fears most: love and connection, they avoid committing to long term relationships such as marriage. Previous abusive relationships, intimacy issues or traumatic childhood experiences could be causes for this kind of commitment avoidance. Another possibility is that the child might have witnessed, or been a victim of, absent role model, or even abusive relationships during those formative years. Not surprisingly, this can affect the way they feel and handle relationships as an adult.
By no means was I saying you were the reason for his issues now, I was just trying to give you examples of what might cause this type of behavior I also included the fact that he may have had a relationship that ended badly where he didn't want the relationship to end but the other person did and there for he felt rejected but in most cases not all an absent father is the cause of commitment phobia. He could also be afraid that if he gets serious with a woman then he has to lose his own identity to make her happy and if the woman is truly in it for the long haul then she will support him no matter what he chooses to do. If this is something he has done before then he has to want to stop this no one else can and as much as you want him to be happy and with someone that loves him he has to feel that he deserves to be loved and wanted without the added pressure of fear of commitment. He asked this woman to marry him for a reason there was something about her that actually made him want to settle down with her but what you need to find out is why he has had a change of heart before you can even begin to work on the issue. Was it something about her? Did she do or say something that changed his mind? Is she always supportive of what he wants and vice versa? These are questions that need to be asked but if he has gone to counseling and nothing helped then he may not have gone long enough or may not have opened up about his commit issues and what caused it.
What you may need to do is, make him understand that to change his behavior, he first needs to change how he feel about commit and long term relationship inside. It's not difficult if he realizes one thing: if he is commitment phobic, then he is committed to the behavior of being afraid of relationships so he can also change that so that he is committed to being with one person and be assure that they love him unconditionally and wants him to be happy. I think the only person that can change his mind about commitment and marriage is his fiancee, if he knows that she is in it for the long haul he will be more apt to give it a try but there is something that is scaring him away from committing, she may be talking too much about the wedding plans and the future instead of living for the here and now. Maybe she is keeping him from doing something he wanted to do and now feel he cannot because she is in the picture that is why it's important for her to always be supportive.
What you can do as his father is to explain to him that relationships are not perfect and they have their ups and downs and that it's normal to have issues in a relationship but as long as he and his mate work at those issues anything is possible he has to know that break ups are not failures and it's a normal process to finding your soul mate or the right person for you, what he may have done was gotten his heartbroken and then blamed himself and thought it was something he did and now he breaks up with them before the have a chance to break up with him. What he has to realize is it may not have been him and it's just a process of dating and finding that special someone. Now that he has found that special someone he has to want to make it work and commit to being with her and marrying her and giving the relationship a chance.
Reading your further response leads me to believe that you may benefit better talking to one of our psychiatry experts they may be better equipped to give you some ways and guidance into how to handle your sons situation I think it is more of a mental issues as to why he cannot commit. I'm sorry I was unable to help you with your issue. Please let me know if that is what you rather I do or would you like for me to continue working with you on your son's issue?
You're quite welcome! Good luck to you!
I am Nancy and I saw this question open up in Psychiatrist/Mental Health.
I just want to recap to see if I am correct- yuor son dated a girl but after a few dates lost all feelings for her - then, continued to date her and proposed - but now regrets it.
Is that right? I am really looking for the timeline - just to see if that's right.
Thank you for clarifying. That information helps a lot. I just want to mention first - that when people *are* commitment phobic - that it doesn't always stem from childhood neglect or abuse. But that's not what is going on with your son.
What is going on with him is that he has become detached from his feelings. He has simply shut down - emotionally- which is what you are stating over and over. People do this for many reasons (which are, for right now, unimportant). They intellectualize their feelings- and mistake their feelings for thoughts - and eventually can say they feel, but you can see and hear that they are not expressing or actually making decisions based on their subjective experience of their own feelings. When some engages in intellectualization - they sometimes think they are feeling, but when you ask them about how they feel, they aren't sure - that is the litmus test of a disconnect to their own feelings.
Treatment starts with counseling to help him identify his feelings and reconnect to them. Most people who do this are fairly analytical in nature - are usually of above average intelligence and are quite popular in their peer group.
Again, for right now - the reason this has happened is unimportant - it will become important again when he is fully engaged back with his feelings, but until then, he doesn't need to worry about hwy it happened, just that is has.
This is not uncommon, it is not pathological, and does not indicate any mental illness - for now, think of it as a simple disconnect for which there is an easy solution - he just needs to start really paying attention to his feelings. We usually start by simply focusing on identifying feelings.
With a good therapist, he could fully resolve the unconscious disconnect within 6 weeks and be able to identify all of his feelings in every situation.
I hope this helps. Please feel free to email back with any other questions or comments.
Yes, I can continue this conversation - if not Sunday during the day - Sunday night or Monday.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Good morning!
Unfortunately, since JustAnswer is a question/answer site, I cannot work with him - but any Doctoral level therapist who practices Cognitive-Behavioral therapy should be able to make some headway in this time frame.
My only other suggestion is to now ask your son to do the work - if he is going to see someone, he needs to find them. If he is going to really take ownership of this issue and deal with it - he needs to be the one - fully engaged in seeking treatment :-)
I am sorry I can't do more.
I wish you the best of luck!
Hi C.,
You are very welcome!
You can try this link: http://findatherapist.com/results.php?State=NY
Or you can pick up your local Yellow Page Phone Book and call people - most will chat on the phone with you for a few minutes, and if you like them you can set up an appointment.
Good questions to ask include where they went to school, what their training is, what their theoretical orientation is (you want to hear cognitive-behavioral, and you don't want to hear Jungian, Psychoanalytic, REBT). Ask about their fees and how they accept payment (credit cards, checks, cash), and if you don't like them on the phone, assume you won't like them in person :-)


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I often find myself looking for destinations on Sunday (my day off!) to give an excuse to make trips to smaller-town/city eats but find Sunday eats hard to locate.
Many BBQs are closed. Plenty of hideous chains open for biz: yuk.
About the best I've found is the famous Clarks Outpost in Tioga but that's almost a Dallas suburb at this stage. For more rural parts of TX (eastern half really is my stomping ground: I am a private pilot so can hit most places east of the Pecos on a day flight from Houston) wondering about places where people have been going for years, either after church, or after fishing or whatever Sunday endeavors they favor.
Particularly for Sunday breakfast/lunch/brunch.
Looking for something a bit special, however any cuisine or variety is fine.
I know they are out there but these sort of places are hard to find. Another good one is Pete Harris Cafe in Shreveport (yes this could spill over into W LA too) but smaller towns are more to my taste.
Thanks for any hints. A bit of an offbeat request I know, but any help is always appreciated, so long as it's open Sunday :-)


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Food labels scream out health claims. Store signs boldly shout out price specials. Add that to the cacophony of grocery carts, price scanners and other shoppers, and it's enough to make you want to live on take-out. With so many choices lining supermarket shelves, how can you confidently decide which foods to drop in your cart and which to pass by? Follow us on an aisle-by-aisle guided tour, and you'll never see the grocery store in the same way again.
Pile on the Produce
For good health, disease prevention and ready-for-a-run muscles, half of your plate should be filled with fruits and vegetables. So start in the produce section. Bring home a bag of mixed salad greens to reap the benefits from various types of lettuce. Select crunchy veggies in different colors to toss into your salad. Rich in phytonutrients and antioxidants, your salad will help repair tired muscles and fend off ills such as heart disease, diabetes, age-related eye problems, Alzheimer's and cancers of the lung, mouth, esophagus, stomach and colon.
Plan to have at least one fruit and/or vegetable at each meal and most snacks. Experts recommend that you eat something from each of the five major fruit/veggie color groups daily since each contains different nutrients and disease fighters. Grab the standard carrots and tomatoes, but also get creative with more exotic ones such as jicama, purple bell peppers and rutabagas.
Make Meat Count
The protein in fish, poultry, beef and other meats helps promote recovery and rebuilds muscles after a tough workout. Go for variety in this department too. The American Heart Association recommends at least two servings of fish per week to lessen the risk of heart disease. Look for fish rich in omega-3 fatty acids, valued for their heart-shielding effects as well as their possible roles in lowering risks for certain cancers, Alzheimer's disease, asthma, depression and diabetes. Plus, omega-3 fatty acids can ease the inflammatory symptoms of arthritis, psoriasis and Crohn's disease. Dine on salmon, lake and rainbow trout, herring, sardines, anchovies, American shad, albacore tuna, tuna steaks and Atlantic, jack and Pacific mackerel. A note of caution: Women who may become pregnant, are pregnant or are nursing should limit albacore tuna and tuna steaks to six ounces per week because elevated mercury levels may cause birth defects.
Beef can be your best source of the minerals iron and zinc. Iron helps transport oxygen, and zinc is necessary for normal immune function, wound healing and amino acid metabolism. Be sure to go lean. Some cuts of beef are loaded with saturated fat, linked to high cholesterol, heart disease and insulin resistance. When a label touts 80 percent lean, it's another way of saying 20 percent fat. Buy ground meats no less than 90 percent lean. The leanest cuts of beef usually have round or loin in the name (top round and tenderloin). When choosing pork, look for loin (as in loin chops). Poultry is a great source of nutrients too. Lose the skin to dump half the fat. Look carefully at labels for ground turkey or chicken--frequently the skin is ground in with the meat.
Do Dairy Right
Go fat-free or low-fat at the dairy case, another saturated-fat landmine. Whole milk is about 3.5 to 4 percent fat-by-weight and provides a whopping five grams saturated fat in an eight-ounce glass. Skim milk is a great choice with no saturated fat. Use butter and fat-rich cheeses and spreads sparingly to stay within the recommended maximum of 20 grams saturated fat per day if you eat a 2000-calorie diet. And watch out for hidden trans fats (also linked to heart disease and other ills) in foods such as margarines and some spreads. Even though the label touts "no trans fats," federal regulations say the product can still contain up to 0.5 grams. So look out for partially hydrogenated oils in the ingredients and limit your intake as much as possible.
The dairy case is overflowing with yogurt--non-fat, full-fat, reduced-fat, artificially-sweetened, fiber-added, with granola or cookie crumbles toppings, and on. Watch out for saturated fat and added sugars (and calories). Kid-friendly yogurt usually means loaded with sugar. For something different, try delicious Greek yogurt, thick and creamy and perfect for tzatziki, cold cucumber soup and other Middle Eastern favorites. For a dose of friendly bacteria that may protect your digestive system, select yogurt bearing the "live and active cultures" seal. Products such as Dannon Activia and Breyers Light! Probiotic Plus Yogurt are designed specifically to increase favorable bacteria.
Break Some Eggs and Add Oil
Once shunned for its cholesterol content, the egg has made a comeback. The American Heart Association now recommends up to one egg per day, which will give you about 10 percent of your daily protein needs along with a sizeable dose of lutein for your eyes. Some designer eggs are fortified with omega-3 fatty acids and may be a good choice for people avoiding fish and other sources of these health-enhancing fats.
All vegetable oils are 120 calories per tablespoon and have 14 grams of fat, most of it the healthy unsaturated kind. Olive oil is a good choice for its heart-friendly monounsaturated fats. Both soybean and canola oils have respectable amounts of omega-3 fatty acids, also heart-healthy. Choose the one you like best or vary them for different recipes.
Crave Cereal
A bowl of cereal can be a great meal for carb-hungry muscles or simply a bowl full of fortified sugar and refined grains. Linda McDonald, M.S., R.D., editor of Supermarket Savvy, recommends cereal (and breads) with a whole grain listed first in the ingredients. "Don't take for granted that 'made with whole grains' means that it's a good source of whole grains," she says. A healthful-sounding cereal or bread might contain just a small bit of whole grains and a larger amount of refined grains. "A full serving of whole grains is 16 grams," she adds. Many products bear the Whole Grain Stamp (wholegrainscouncil.org), indicating the amount of whole grains in a serving. Federal guidelines encourage at least three servings or 48 grams whole grains daily. Vary your grains. Choose cereal and breads made with whole oats, whole barley, whole wheat and whole corn.
Food labels don't differentiate between added sugars and the natural sugars in fruit. Compare cereal labels for sugar, but expect cereals with raisins or other fruit to be higher in sugar than cereal without fruit. Even though it has more sugar, Mini-Wheats (frosted or not) with raisins is a much better choice than the highly processed, lower-in-sugar Rice Krispies.
Stock the Pantry
It's true. You can get good nutrition in a can. According to a University of Illinois study, canned fruits and vegetables pack as much fiber as their fresh counterparts. Canned pumpkin has 20 times the vitamin A as fresh pumpkin because it's more concentrated. And compared to fresh, canned tomato products have more available lycopene--a carotenoid thought to be important in cancer prevention--because the body absorbs it better from cooked tomatoes.
Canned fruits, vegetables, beans, soups, tuna and chicken can each fill a nutritional gap and help you throw together a speedy meal. Always keep some on hand for power outages and emergencies. According to the Canned Food Alliance, canned food lasts at least two years. After that, taste and texture may deteriorate, but nutritional quality and safety remain. To find the age of a canned food, call the toll-free number on the product label and report the code stamped on the can.
Jill Weisenberger, M.S., R.D., C.D.E., is a registered dietitian and certified diabetes educator for Hampton Roads Center for Clinical Research in Norfolk, Va.


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Female MMA veteran Julie Kedzie was kind enough to take some time out of her busy schedule to chat with BJPenn.com radio's Late Night Cageside this week to talk about her upcoming bout with Brazilian Bethe Correia in Australia this December at UFC Fight Night 33.
Late Night Cageside caught Julie lazing around her house with her dog Bailey to talk travel, training, and redeeming her loss in her first UFC event.
Julie has been moving in a very positive direction in training after her loss to Germaine de Randamie at her UFC debut. Julie was excited to say that she feels super confident, and assures fight fans that she will not be a "deer in headlights" like she was in the Germaine fight.
"I feel ready," she said. "(I had) stars in my eyes about the UFC" and she promises not to forget that "a fight is still a fight". However, it seems like the MMA veteran is well prepared for her fight in December, and makes it sound like she is on the top of her game.
Late Night Cageside's Shawn McClures commented on the last time he has talked with Julie Kedzie saying, "I don't know if you had just killed a shark and ate it raw, but you were in beast mode." He said that she was even calling out male fighters and saying that she'd step in for a fight! Shawn asked if Julie was still in that killer instinct frame of mind.
"I feel happily motivated and very very direct. I'm definitely blood thirsty right now, but it's being channeled more positively" she said.
"(The) killer instinct is…still coming out of me. I'm vicious. My coaches have done a very good job of channeling it lately, and I'm on a pretty hard training routine. So, I'm killing the people right in front of me, but I'm not going out picking fights."
Kedzie expressed her excitement about being a part of Greg Jackson's team and how a mutual friend of the two, Dan Higgins, will be helping her in training. She was also very excited to announce that an idol of hers and "one of the best kick boxers of all time" John Wayne Parr would also be aiding in her preparation for her December bout.
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Lida Rodriguez-Taseff was trying to grab a quick lunch on September 11, 2002, when Keith Hartley cornered her in the Pollo Tropical downtown. He wouldn't let her go until a wad of napkins covered in a girlish scrawl lay piled beside her tray of dessicating chicken. "This was a disaster," Hartley assured the then-president of the local chapter of the ACLU. "I worked the polls on Miami Beach. I saw it all happen."
The day before, Miami-Dade County had managed to top its record for screwy elections with a spectacular show of incompetence that nearly eclipsed the debacle of 2000. It was the gubernatorial primary, the one in which Janet Reno was narrowly beaten by a sweaty, bland lawyer from Tampa, who in turn was easily crushed by Jeb Bush in November. This was the first time the spanking-new voting toys for which the county elections department had laid out $24.5 million were used, and sheer, stark chaos reigned. Precincts opened late, voting machines malfunctioned, hundreds of voters were turned away from the polls, and more than 1500 votes vanished.
Hartley, 44, was one of that day's heroes. A residential contractor by trade, he was inspired by the debacle of the 2000 elections to become a poll worker in his precinct at Nautilus Middle School in 2002. But in the wee, dark hours of September 10, he arrived to discover that the clerk of the precinct hadn't booted up any of the machines. In a scene repeated many times throughout the county that day, the new technology flummoxed an undertrained poll-working population heavily skewed toward the elderly and the unskilled. "I grabbed a book and got the machines up and running," Hartley recalls. "I'm used to computers. The clerk had no clue how to do it. From then to end of the day I ran the poll." Other precincts weren't so fortunate.
After hearing this story, Rodriguez-Taseff called Courtenay Strickland, who coordinates the ACLU's voting rights project. "This is really important," she said to Strickland. "Let's get a group together." A lot of other people in Miami-Dade County had the same idea. Calls flooded into the ACLU offices. Within a couple of days, a loose coalition of activists held a press conference at the Apostolic Revival Center in Liberty City. The talk was angry, with many black voters complaining that, once again, their votes had been, in effect, stolen. "A reporter asked, öWhat are you going to do?'" Rodriguez-Taseff remembers. "Without thinking, I said, öWe are going to form a coalition.'"
Thus was born the Miami-Dade Election Reform Coalition (MDERC). Meetings were (and still are) every Wednesday evening at the ACLU offices on Biscayne Boulevard. A shared outrage attracted dozens of citizens from black, Hispanic, and Anglo sectors. "They came pouring in from all over Miami," asserts Martha "Marnie" Mahoney, a University of Miami law professor and coalition member. "The sense of urgency and desperation, and of there needing to be a citizen response, was intense." Rodriguez-Taseff led the disparate, sometimes unruly mob, verbally arm-wrestling it into a workable crew. With such a large number of people, including members of the NAACP, Miami Workers Center, Brothers of the Same Mind, the League of Women Voters, part of the fight was to remain non-partisan and free of discrediting conspiracy theories. "You have to be willing to indict everybody," Rodriguez-Taseff argues. "Not just one target."
Within a scant two months, the coalition firmly inserted itself into the scrambled efforts of the county to get its shit together for November. Among other things, they demanded and got a concession unprecedented in the United States -- international, independent elections observers, of the sort normally seen trooping into godforsaken places most Americans can't find on a map. "I just thought that was the nuttiest damn thing," admits Rodriguez-Taseff, "but it turned out to be brilliant."
With a massive infusion of chagrin, police help, and millions in emergency cash, the county pulled off a fairly smooth November election. The coalition, which had monitored the process throughout, put out a report on its observations and recommendations. People talked about meeting less frequently, with the idea that eventually the group would fade away. But this is Miami, the nexus of weird within the spiral of political oddities the world has come to know and love as the state of Florida. Things were just starting to get interesting.
Lida Rodriguez-Taseff looks like a fashion model, talks like a sailor, and strategizes like a general. She's actually a harried attorney, at 37, a partner in a big firm in downtown Miami. As lawyer bitches go, she's the kind you want on your side, chipping away at seemingly unassailable defenses with staccato bursts of logic and sarcasm. "Lida will use the F-word if it fits," observes coalition member Bud Gillette, a 72-year-old ex-Army colonel. "She's very direct. I like that." For two years, she's led what she calls "the ultimate garage band" of civic platoons. The members come and go as their lives change, but there are a few constants. Bobbie, Dan, Marnie, Bud, Marta, Sandy, and a dozen more form the core of the idiosyncratic bunch that has managed to make life miserable for the likes of local Supervisor of Elections Constance Kaplan, Secretary of State Glenda Hood, and Jeb Bush. The strain occasionally breaks through, as in June, when the MDERC called on Bush to ask for an independent review of the state's error-prone touch-screen voting systems. The response? "We are not going to engage in every accusation du jour from people whose goal it is to undermine voters' confidence," snapped a Bush spokesman. A Hood spokeswoman echoed a nearly identical sentiment. In general, the pair has taken the position that Florida has its elections well in hand and any criticism must be motivated solely by partisan politics. Likely true in some cases.
In this case, just the opposite is true. If anything, Rodriguez-Taseff is often criticized by left-leaning elections groupies for her militant approach to scouring partisan rhetoric from the organization's efforts. Such criticism occurred at an August meeting in which one new member complained that she was being uncompromising about kicking people off the MDERC Internet listserve for posting even mild political statements. Rodriguez-Taseff was unapologetic. "There's a certain purity to what we do that makes us successful," she explained sternly. "It leads to really unrigorous thinking when people are willing to polarize and say that this party is stealing the election from that party. Al Gore got everything coming to him because he did nothing to ensure every vote was counted. He didn't care about counting every vote. He just wanted to win."
Besides their concentration on the voter rather than the race, the members are remarkably effective because they focus on the nuts and bolts of elections -- everything from poll worker training to voter registration, absentee ballots, the squirrelly voter purge list of ex-felons, access for disabled voters, and of course, the darkest secrets of those troublesome machines. Tied into this last item is tracking the real cost of elections. For instance, during the August 31 primary, the county mobilized thousands of county workers and cops to ensure a smooth election, a cost which was borne by the general fund rather than the elections department budget.
Each member brings his or her own special powers to the endeavor. Marnie Mahoney is a meticulous, obsessive-compulsive law prof the group credits with much of the heavy intellectual lifting in figuring out the technical problems with the machines. Square-jawed, bespectacled Bud Gillette and his Chilean wife Marta have volunteered as poll workers for years, which gives them a street-level perspective and access to elections department gossip.
A strutting blond bundle of energy, 48-year-old Sandy Wayland is a Fendi distributor and chairwoman of the Miami-Dade National Women's Political Caucus. She has become the group's lobbyist in Tallahassee. Or as Dan McCrea puts it, "Sandy understands sausage town." McCrea is a construction consultant by profession, and one-term South Miami commissioner who was briefly the second Green Party member elected in Florida. A doughy, affable man partial to Marlboros and white wine, he's the holistic, practical one, who often helps with writing and dealing with county officials. And then there's Bobbie Brinegar, president of the Miami-Dade chapter of the League of Women Voters. Brinegar, 51, is a bright, disarmingly friendly woman prone to silly jokes and devising button slogans. She's the one they send in to soften up public officials who might otherwise be inclined to dismiss the group, or see it as an adversary. "I'm the county kiss-ass," she quips.
After the 2002 election crisis had passed, Miami-Dade's long-serving supervisor of elections, David Leahy, was quite rightly called to task for the debacle in September. Leahy, a blandly agreeable bureaucrat, had been the appointed supervisor for 21 years (all other county supervisors in Florida are elected). Then county manager Steve Shiver, in a quest to save his own neck, encouraged Leahy to resign, but he planned a sneaky maneuver that would essentially ensure that the status would remain quo.
Shiver trotted out the old political contrivance of doing a "national search" for Leahy's replacement. A selection committee of respectable community types would vet applicants, but Shiver made Leahy the head of the committee. The guy had screwed up so badly he couldn't be trusted with the job, yet he was going to get to help choose his replacement. Shiver had also restructured the elections department to, in effect, take power away from the next supervisor, and give it to -- David Leahy. He planned to keep Leahy on as a highly paid elections adviser (late last year Leahy was moved through the ever-generous county pipeline of jobs to land a gig in the Consumer Services Department, intially keeping his annual $155,000 salary). Oh, sweet irony.
Because of the civic racket the MDERC had been making, Shiver tossed the busybodies a bone, one seat on the selection committee. The coalition sent Rodriguez-Taseff, and backed her up by doing the research on candidates. There were 115 applicants for the job. Over a few months, the committee went through the résumés, and each member recommended his or her top picks. From that, a short list of eight candidates was chosen by vote to interview. Make that nine. "The selection process was the sleaziest thing in the world," maintains Rodriguez-Taseff. "We selected the eight people. The name Constance Kaplan was not among them. But the chairman, Dave Leahy, stands up and says, öOh, we should also interview Connie Kaplan from Chicago. She's terrific.'"
Connie Kaplan spent 33 years with the Chicago Board of Elections Commissioners, the last eleven as its number two, responsible for community services, training, and special programs. She also had experience as an elections troubleshooter in places such as Indonesia, Albania, Zambia, and China. She seemed competent, but coalition members were disturbed by Leahy's last-minute meddling. Especially when they began hearing that the fix was in. "From inside the elections department, people were saying that this woman from Chicago, whose application we didn't even have, was on the fast track," recalls Bobbie Brinegar. "She ended up in the top two." Unsurprisingly, Shiver picked Kaplan over the other sucker the selection committee had also recommended.
But the coalition wasn't going to lie down for this. The group didn't know if Kaplan was aware of what she was walking into, which, given the sly reorganization Shiver planned, would leave her with little power but all of the blame if something went wrong. So they sent Brinegar, with her League credentials, as a friendly emissary. Brinegar sweetly presented the visiting Kaplan with a copy of Leahy's "adviser" contract and the manager's chart depicting the new order inside the elections department.
No fool, Kaplan took a step back. She began asking for a specific job description, and she wanted a contract. The coalition pushed the county commission to give her a three-year contract, and to undo Shiver's reorg scheme. "We wanted to buy her freedom," Rodriguez-Taseff explains, "to do what needs to be done to fix this department." The commission obliged, except the contract was only for one year.
Poor leadership was only part of what went wrong in September 2002. Another significant problem was the voting machines themselves, the 7200 iVotronic systems purchased months earlier after a typical county hall lobby-fest. After the election, Rodriguez-Taseff had gotten a copy of the contract won by Elections Systems & Software, Inc. She spotted the problem with it right off. The contract was written in such a way that the company would be almost completely paid off right after the November election, and likely before any major problems could be discovered. The county initially dismissed this criticism. "They said, öBollocks. You sweet little folks don't know what you're talking about,'" laughs coalition member Dan McCrea.
But a May 2003 report by the county's independent inspector general was critical of both the contract and the performance of ES&S, calling it overall "a bad business decision," on the county's part. The report points out many instances in which the super slick sales pitch of company reps didn't match up to what they actually delivered. For instance, the county needed to have ballot items appear in three languages, and the company promised that its system could do that with no problem. Yet, according to the IG report, ES&S knew that this would require a bit of jury-rigging of the slug-brained machines. In this case, it meant that the machines took much longer to boot up on election day and required the county to buy more equipment for them to work properly.
The report also pointed out the underlying reason the county was and is in the fix it's in. The investigator found elections staff in general to be an incurious, co-dependent lot, disturbingly complacent about the competence and veracity of the vendor. "According to Mr. Leahy, we currently do not have the independent knowledge of how to work the system," the report stated, incredulously. The OIG recommended, "cutting the umbilical cord," of dependence, which the company had clearly fostered in order to milk more cash out of the dimwitted and fecund county.
This sort of thing of course made critics and some county commissioners wonder whether they should ditch the ES&S system altogether. Given the expense, however, the report suggested making do for the time being, with some caveats, including much greater vigilance of the vendor's claims.
Meanwhile, outside the asylum, a buzz was sweeping the nation's elections activists and computer geeks: CAN WE REALLY TRUST THESE INFERNAL MACHINES? The answer depends somewhat on how much you trust your government and the free-market democracy it leases.
The truth is that the standards for accuracy and accountability have always been pretty low in American elections. Until 2000, people generally didn't think too much about whether a few ballots got lost or altered along the way. Elections supervisors nationwide pray for a wide margin of victory, for this conceals a multitude of sins.
Many people argue that the big problem with these systems is that there's no 100 percent certain way to verify that what the voter touches on the screen is what will end up counted at the end of the day. Many things can and do go wrong between the touching and the tabulating, such as software bugs that cause undervotes or overvotes, touch screens worn out by too many jabbing fingers, and the not-at-all-remote possibility of sabotage by system hackers or anarchy-minded voters. In Miami, the reform coalition held town hall meetings in the summer of 2003 and circulated a petition calling for a voter-verified paper trail of electronic voting. Last September, commissioner Jimmy Morales sponsored a resolution calling for a paper trail, but it was downgraded to doing a "study" of the issue, meaning nothing would get done. The coalition also began making numerous public records requests in an attempt to investigate the local history of the touch screens.
Florida scrapped the punch-card ballot system in 2001, but failed to establish a uniform system for electronic voting. The result was predictable. There was a scramble among voting machine vendors to get their whiz-bang technology into county elections departments, ASAP. First the state had to "certify" the systems for use in Florida, a process that unfortunately offers few qualitative assessments. Then, each county was free to buy whichever system it preferred. Of the 67 counties in Florida, 52 bought optical scan systems, in which voters mark a paper ballot and it is scanned into a computer for tabulation.
Fifteen counties, including Miami-Dade, purchased touch-screen systems. These machines produce no paper ballots. In a close election, the only way to recount is to ask the machines to re-add the numbers they already produced. The success of ES&S in securing the contract for the largest county in the state is partly due to the shrewd choices the company made in hiring lobbyists. For instance, it hired former secretary of state Sandra Mortham, who was Jeb Bush's original choice of running mate in 1998, until she was tarnished by a spending scandal in her office. She lost her seat to Katherine Harris, that other darling of voting rights advocates. In 2001, Harris made ES&S's touch-screen system the first certified in Florida. Mortham got a cut of every deal the company made. The company's lobbyist for the sale in Miami was Miguel de Grandy, long a successful suckler at the county commission teat. In January, 2002, a Miami-Dade selection committee headed by David Leahy chose ES&S and the commission approved the contract.
After the elections problems in 2002, the county transferred Orlando Suarez, a division director, from the Enterprise Technology Services Department, where he was a kind of floating expert on various projects, to the elections department, where he was put in charge of the voting machine technology. In June 2003 he discovered bugs in the system from a May runoff election in North Miami Beach that made it difficult to match vote totals to a particular machine. He reported these problems to the vendor. The most significant conclusion Suarez drew was this: "The purpose of my review was to make sure that we could use these reports to 1) audit an election, 2) recount an election, and 3) if necessary, use these reports to certify an election. Unfortunately, if my observations are correct, we cannot use these reports in their present state for any of these purposes."
News of the bugs never made it out of the elections department, however, until the reform coalition began digging into the records of e-mails, memos, and reports. In December 2003 Dan McCrea was pawing through a box of records when he stumbled upon the Suarez e-mail. Later, an October 2003 e-mail from Suarez to Kaplan revealed that he had reviewed the audit logs for the October 7 primary in Homestead, and found that the activity record from five machines on which 162 votes were cast was missing. Big problem.
Connie Kaplan didn't agree. After accepting a "workaround" solution from ES&S, she transferred Suarez out of her department and back to his department. In his place, she promoted computer tech Donald Llopis. This later proved an embarrassment to her, when he "lost" important elections data. Suarez is, by some accounts, an exacting man. But he knows computer and management systems well. His personnel file is thick with commendations for the quality of his work going all the way back to his hiring as a computer programmer in 1977.
Llopis is a different story. The bulk of his career, from 1980 to 2002, was in sales. For instance, from 1998 to 2001, he was a general manager in sales for Café Bustelo, then had a short stint as a regional sales manager for Fedders International. In May 2002, his career took a sharp turn when he was hired by the elections department as a computer tech to work on the new iVotronic machines. An evaluation in his file gives him gold stars for his work ethic.
But why would Kaplan want to replace a competent fellow boasting 30 years of technical experience with a former sales manager who'd spent less than two years on the tech side? Kaplan says that Suarez asked to return to his old department. She adds that she put Llopis in charge of electronic voting because she reorganized the department for more efficiency and that's where his specific experience lies.
It was around this time, about December 2003, that the coalition's relationship with Kaplan took a turn. When the first Suarez e-mail was discovered, members met with her, but, they claim, she was dismissive of the problem. She acknowledged the glitches, but her attitude was that as long as the vote totals were accurate, the audit problems could be dealt with. Kaplan said as much to a reporter from the Daily Business Review, which broke the first stories on the issue, and the same again when New Times asked her. "The tabulation of the equipment has never been in question," she asserts. On her relationship with the coalition, she forces a tight smile. "It's my goal to have a good working relationship with them," she says. "My issues are if I've answered something, and these things that are not true keep getting brought up and brought up."
But Mahoney, the UM professor, had been consulting with computer experts around the nation, and in March 2004 she came to the conclusion that the audits absolutely had to be accurate. That's because there's no other way to determine whether the machines recorded every vote cast. There was, she reasoned, a real danger of undervotes, and no one would know without an accurate audit or a paper trail. There was some evidence supporting this conclusion. In January 2004, there was a special election for a state representative seat spanning Broward and Palm Beach counties. In Broward, about 10,000 people showed up to vote on the iVotronics that county also uses. There was only the one issue on the ballot, yet somehow, 134 of the people who signed in to vote that day, apparently, inexplicably, failed to do so. This was significant because the winning margin was twelve votes.
Mahoney began writing letters about this, including one to Ed Kast, head of the state's Division of Elections in Tallahassee. But up in sausage town, they were in full legislative hijinks mode. A very bad bill, filed on behalf of a state elections department lobbyist with the amusing name of Rivers Bufford III, was oozing through a senate subcommittee that aimed to outlaw recounts on touch screen voting systems. "They had sold the audit trails to us as the reason you don't need the paper ballot," points out Sandy Wayland.
Wayland organized to defeat the bad bill, leaning on a wide network of people to flood senate judiciary offices with calls and e-mails. "We shut down [state Sen. Alex] Villalobos's office for two days," recalls Bobbie Brinegar. "He couldn't take it. Took the phone off the hook." That campaign did the trick, eventually killing the bad language in the bill.
But it wasn't over. The state elections division created an administrative rule to prevent recounts on touch-screen machines. (An administrative law judge threw the rule out last month.) "Why was it so important to them to prevent a recount?" Wayland asks. "Then you go back to the Orlando Suarez memo. They can't do the audit. They can't do a recount. And they don't want everybody to find out."
This slightly paranoid perspective was bolstered in June, when Ed Kast suddenly resigned. Most people attributed it to the embarrassing revelation that state elections officials had known that the list of ex-felons ineligible to vote was seriously flawed in a way that disproportionally affected African-Americans. But Boca Raton congressman Robert Wexler, a Democrat who is suing the state to try to force a paper record for touchscreen machines, alleged that Kast really quit because he'd lied in a deposition about when he learned of a software flaw in the machines Miami-Dade uses. He asked the state's attorney general to investigate, but to no avail.
In July, the coalition again made public records requests, this time for the audits of the September 2002 primary. Donald Llopis, Kaplan's new tech guy, reported back that the elections department computers had crashed twice last year and so they'd lost most of the data files for that election. It later turned out that the lost information was sitting on a disk in a file cabinet. However, the national uproar over the extreme ineptness demonstrated by the department (and exposed by the wicked little do-gooders in the New York Times) finally put a fire under Kaplan's behind.
The flames came from commission chairwoman Barbara Carey-Shuler, who asked the inspector general to assess the department's readiness to conduct an election. Herald columnist Jim DeFede also shamed county manager George Burgess into cutting short a vacation to deal with the issue before the August 31 primary. Burgess, a veteran county man nervous about his prospects when a new mayor is elected in November, threw everything he had at it. There were sweaty press conferences filled with promises, numerous meetings, and a rollout of about a thousand county employees to work polls. On August 31, voter turnout was less than 30 percent. The election ran smoothly.
After the primary, the MDERC collected reports from members who had watched the polls. Mostly, people observed fairly minor violations of elections rules, describing overall a scene reminiscent of a bunch of nervous, eager kids putting on a school play for the first time. There were a few worrisome tales of "human error" -- poll workers using pencils for voter sign-in instead of non-erasable pens, of discrepancies between the number of people who signed in to vote and the number of votes recorded, and even a story about a lady voting in the wrong precinct, then having a poll worker cancel her vote on the machine.
Lynne Kaplan, a community education liaison at the Miami-Dade school district, told the coalition that she saw several violations occur at New Mount Moriah Baptist Church in Liberty City, where she stayed the entire day. For instance, she said, she witnessed poll workers actually helping voters to vote, instead of demonstrating the machine, then letting the voter cast a secret ballot. And there was more, a scene that probably fits the national view of elections in Miami as a perpetual fiesta. "The poll workers were cooking, fish and rice and greens," Kaplan relates. "They had a little kitchen back there and the precinct clerk yelled at one lady because she didn't bring any food to share." Kaplan added that she witnessed a strange phenomenon at the closing, which was that one precinct recorded five more votes than the number of people who signed the poll register. This was particularly odd because only seventeen people had voted.
Naturally, Lida Rodriguez-Taseff nearly got herself arrested. She and Brinegar went to watch the poll closing at Olinda Elementary in Liberty City, along with a documentary film crew from New York. The poll workers instructed the crew to turn off its camera, but Rodriguez-Taseff argued that a poll closing is a public event. They called the cops. Rodriguez-Taseff called Connie Kaplan, who first told her the crew couldn't film without permission from the poll workers, then relented. "The sad part, with all this, we didn't get to actually watch the poll closing," the scrappy lawyer laughs.
There will be time. August 31 was just the rehearsal. The real test, of course, will come in November. Let us pray for a wide margin.
Milestones on the Democracy Highway
Nov. 7, 2000 The closest presidential election in history comes down to a few hundred votes in South Florida, inadvertently showcasing the highly dodgy business of elections.
May 10, 2001 Florida legislature decertifies punch-card machines and orders counties to upgrade to touch-screen or optical-scan voting technology by the 2002 elections. Sandra Mortham, a former secretary of state, is a lobbyist for Elections Systems & Software (ES&S), which is the first company to get its technology certified for use in Florida.
Jan. 29, 2002 Miami-Dade County buys 7200 voting machines for $24.5 million from ES&S, thanks in part to the efforts of lobbyist Miguel de Grandy.
Sept. 10, 2002 A primary election debacle is caused by a combination of glitch-prone technology, poorly trained poll workers, and a complicated ballot in three languages.
Nov. 5, 2002 A smooth, but extremely expensive, election noteworthy, among other things, for independent observers from the Center for Democracy, and the use of more than 3000 county employees, including police officers.
December 2002 Miami-Dade's supervisor of elections, David Leahy, resigns his post but chairs the selection committee to find his replacement. He's also given a well-paid position as an adviser to the county manager through November 2004 to help restructure the elections department. In stark contrast, his eventual successor is given a one-year contract which expired in June 2004.
April 29, 2003 County manager Steve Shiver offers the supervisor job to Constance Kaplan, even though she didn't make the selection committee's list of top picks -- until Leahy insisted she be included.
May 2003 Miami-Dade's Inspector General issues a critical report on the county's contract with ES&S, calling the machines hardly state of the art, and the vendors assertions about its capabilities misleading.
June 6, 2003 Shiver is forced out by an unhappy mayor, Alex Penelas. Meanwhile, the same day, an elections department tech discovers a glitch in the iVotronic auditing system and e-mails an ES&S employee about it.
Oct. 10, 2003 The elections department tech sends an e-mail to Kaplan, notifying her that a review of the Oct. 7 primary election in Homestead found that the iVotronic system's audit log failed to account for 162 ballots cast. The system's audit log did not recognize five of the touch-screen machines used.
Jan. 6, 2004 During a state House election in Broward and Palm Beach counties, 134 electronic ballots are cast without votes for any candidate. Without a paper trail, there is no way to determine whether those 134 voters really intended to make no choice. This seems relevant because the margin of victory was just twelve votes.
May 2004 ES&S admits there's a software glitch in the auditing system of its machines, but proposes a workaround solution for the fall elections.
June 6, 2004 Ed Kast, head of Florida elections division, suddenly resigns his post, reportedly because of mounting controversy over the state's flawed purge list of ex-felons said to be ineligible to vote.
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July 2004 The elections department admits it lost important elections data because of computer crashes, stirring national attention. It later turns out that the data was simply misplaced. But the brief crisis has the effect of focusing county attention on the elections department.
August 31, 2004 Because of a large mobilization of county employees and low turnout, the primary election is relatively smooth and well-run.
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