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Court Vision: Dwyane Wade underwent shockwave treatment for knee tendinitis
• Ira Winderman of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports that Dwyane Wade underwent shockwave knee therapy earlier this summer after being bothered by bone bruises during the Heat's run to their second straight title.
Speaking before the start of his adult fantasy camp, Wade revealed that he underwent OssaTron shockwave treatment a month ago to deal with tendinitis. Wade said the results have largely been favorable, hopeful for similar relief to what he experienced after a similar round of treatment in 2007.
"Feeling a lot better," Wade said at Thursday's event, which included appearances by Heat coach Erik Spoelstra, Hall of Fame forward Rick Barry, comedian Kevin Hart and Indiana coach Tom Crean, who coached Wade at Marquette. "I'm not at 'great' yet. I'm feeling a lot, lot better.
"Right now I have to work on the strengthening part of it. So, I still have time before the season. By the time the season [starts], I think I'll be as good as I've been."
• The Phoenix Suns unveiled three new jersey designs, including an orange, sleeved alternate, on Thursday evening.
• Spike Lee opens up about Michael Jordan, poker and more in an SINow video interview with Maggie Gray.
• The NBA has a whole host of preseason games slated for locations outside the United States and Canada. Here's the list.
- Oct. 5: Oklahoma City @ Fenerbahce Ulker — Istanbul, Turkey
- Oct. 6 Philadelphia @ Bilbao Basket — Bilbao, Spain
- Oct. 8 Oklahoma City @ Philadelphia — Manchester, England
- Oct. 10 Houston @ Indiana — Manila, Philippines
- Oct. 12 Chicago @ Washington — Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
- Oct. 13 Indiana @ Houston — Taipei, Taiwan
- Oct. 15 Golden State @ LA Lakers — Beijing, China
- Oct. 18 LA Lakers @ Golden State — Shanghai, China
• Jonathan Abrams of Grantland.com catches up with Jonny Flynn, a David Kahn lottery pick who bombed out of the league in short order. What went wrong? What's next?
Dave Wohl, Minnesota's lead assistant, remembers arriving in Minnesota and Kahn asking him whether Rubio and Flynn could prosper playing together. Wohl described Flynn as a good, ambitious kid. He also said that Rubio and Curry would have made a better pairing. He didn't believe either Flynn or Rubio could perform at shooting guard. "He said, 'No, no. I want to play Jonny and Rubio. They remind me of [Walt] Frazier and [Earl] Monroe,'" Wohl said.
"When he said that, I didn't know what to say. I actually played during the '70s against Earl and Clyde and there's just no comparison." Wohl told Kahn that he did not think it was an accurate comparison. "He said, 'Yeah, it is. They are two guys who can handle the ball,'" Wohl recalled Kahn saying. "When he started going in that direction, I knew that Kurt was going to have a struggle in him trying to figure out what to do with both those guys when they came because Ricky was clearly a guy who was a great passer and was going to be able to do some things offensively with his passing that Jonny, at that point, wasn't able to do," Wohl said.
• Speaking of lottery misses, Jonathan Tjarks of RealGM.com runs some of 2010′s not-so-finest.
Xavier Henry (No. 11): There might need to be a warning sign for NBA scouts at Allen Fieldhouse: Kansas players are not what they appear. In the last few years, the Jayhawks have had six different Top 15 picks — Henry, Aldrich, Julian Wright, the Morris Twins and Thomas Robinson — underperform in the NBA. Of those six, only Henry and Wright were Top 25 recruits coming out of high school. Bill Self's teams are usually greater than the sum of their individual parts.
An elite athlete with great size (6'6 210), Henry seemed like a safe pick. After shooting 42 percent from three on 4.6 attempts per game as a freshman, he projected as a high-level 3-and-D player, at worst. However, once he got to the NBA, he stopped shooting three-pointers. He took only 45 in three seasons with Memphis and New Orleans. Without a long-range shot, Henry hasn't been an effective player. He's still only 22, but a shooting guard with a career PER of 8.1 has his work cut out for him.
• Scott Schroeder investigates the history of draft-and-stash players for SBNation.com.
From 2002 through 2012, there were 195 "American" players — meaning they either played at an American college or were drafted directly out of high school or the NBA Development League — that heard their names called in the second round.
There are therefore just nine of 195 players in the past 10 years that have succeeded with what this year's draft-and-stash second rounders hope to accomplish. Even then, their results haven't ended with a ton of success.
• Ricky O'Donnell of BlogaBull.com conducts a nice offseason interview with Bulls guard Marquis Teague.
"Our defensive schemes were a lot different than what people are used to learning growing up," Teague said. "You know Thibs has a lot of different things he likes for us to do to make it difficult on the offense. I feel like that's a big part of why we have the best defense in the NBA."
"It takes a second to get everything down. It took me a little while to figure out all the sets we do and all the schemes we're running and traps we gotta do, and there's a lot of names for things. If you mess up your job on defense, you mess up the whole defense. You know, we work on a string. You gotta be ready."
• Kelly Dwyer of Ball Don't Lie has some fun with a reflection on Bulls center Joakim Noah.
It was as if Scottie Pippen was handed a seven-footer's frame and Fernando Venezuela's mechanics with the ball. And, perhaps, Fernando Venenzuela's actual mechanics; because I'm sure Fernando had someone with a pony-tail or giant Rasta bun working on his car at some point.
• ESPN.com's Chris Broussard ponders Stephen Curry's status as a possible dark-horse MVP candidate.
An assistant coach on one of the league's top teams thinks so.
"Name two guys who had a better playoff than him," the coach said. "He was killing guys. If Curry stays healthy [this season] — and withAndre Iguodala there to guard the opponent's most difficult offensive guard — he could lead the league in scoring. He already had incredible confidence, but now that he's done it, this year will be different for him. Now he knows he's better than a lot of guys. He'll definitely make the All-Star team. And the Warriors have improved their team. I'd definitely throw him in as an MVP candidate."
• At TrueHoop, Ethan Sherwood Straus contemplates David Lee's fit with the Warriors going forward.
"Signature significance," as Bill James coined it, dictates that a singular event can be so dramatic as to have some analytical meaning. For example, when James Harden scored an efficient 82 points over his first two Houston Rockets games, you'd have good reason to believe he'd fare well in Houston.
After Lee injured his hip in Game 1 against Denver, the Warriors beat the Las Vegas spread in eight consecutive games. The staggering streak only ended when Stephen Curry badly injured his ankle.
• From earlier this week, All-Star forward Paul George chats with Karan Madhok of Slam Magazine about the Pacers' chemistry.
"We work so well together," George says, "There are no egos, it's not about who's getting shots, who's getting points. We can all create for ourselves and create for one another. I think [Granger's return] just opens up everyone's game. You can't sag off Danny because he shoots the ball so well. And you can't pressure up on Lance, because he has the ability to get to the rim. I think all three of us really have a knack for scoring the ball and creating for one another."
• Don't miss these Eastern Conference power rankings from Sports Illustrated's Chris Mannix.


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October 03, 2011
King County Executive Dow Constantine has unveiled his $5.3 billion proposed 2012 budget for the county, and highlighted a range of efficiencies he said his administration had achieved. The county council will review, possibly amend, and adopt the budget by November 21. There's a way to have your say on the budget. If you live, work or go to school in King County, you're invited to take an online survey by October 16 that will help the county shape its budget priorities. More at Social Capital Review, the mother site of Public Data Ferret.
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September 29, 2011
Only last month, after 12 years and a $3 million public-private fundraising effort, the George Corkery Family Boating Center re-opened at the City of Seattle's Mount Baker Rowing and Sailing Center at Stan Sayres Memorial Park along Lake Washington Boulevard in Seattle's Mount Baker neighborhood. The Rainier Valley Post reported on the milestone. It's a great, community-driven improvement to a government-owned site that's a hub for aquatic recreation in boating-mad Seattle and a focal point every summer for the iconic hydro races of SeaFair. It's now unfortunately also the site of some ugly graffiti which blames "white people" for a U.S. "terror-hate" campaign in Iraq. More at Public Data Ferret.
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September 28, 2011
After holding a public hearing on the controversial topic of regional tolling, The City of Renton Monday night Sept. 26 approved a resolution opposing Initiative 1125, which would restrict highway tolling. Washington voters will decide it in November. Renton, a growing suburban city at Seattle's southern border, is at the junction of a multi-billion-dollar proposed tolling project that would connect Interstate 405 with State Route 167 and add tolled express lanes to both, as part of a broader toll-centric plan to unsnarl traffic and fund highway fixes in the Seattle region and elsewhere in the state. Initiative sponsor Tim Eyman sharply disagreed with the vote by the Renton council. Meanwhile, a new Survey USA poll reported today by KING5-TV in Seattle showed more than twice as many voters for I-1125 as against, but a crucial margin still undecided. More at Public Data Ferret.
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September 27, 2011
On the heels of a mid-July state report that a University of Washington professor took a contract fee from a state agency for work he never delivered, and following another 2011 case which sparked a criminal prosecution against an alleged embezzler in the University's Medical Center, comes an additional indication Sept. 26 of ethical troubles at the state's flagship institution of higher learning. According to a Washington State Auditor's Office whistleblower investigation report just released, a professor in the UW Medical Center's Pediatrics Division of Neo-nataology appears to have violated state ethics law by using her position to get a job for her unqualified daughter as a research scientist and engineer assistant. The professor's name, released by the auditor's office in response to a media inquiry, is Sandra Juul Ledbetter and her daughter's name is Kelly Ledbetter.
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September 26, 2011
A public development authority formed by the City of Seattle in 1972 called the Seattle Indian Services Commission, which has been the subject of several critical city and state audits in recent years, now appears unable to continue to service the $6 million bond debt for its two adjacent properties on 12th Ave. S. in the International District, or to repair an estimated $2.5 million in water damages to one of the buildings, built in 1995. The commission's primary tenant and sole source of debt service revenue is the non-profit Seattle Indian Health Board, and it says it intends to move out unless the Commission conveys title for the properties to the board, which has pledged to assume the debt and fix the water damage. The Commission has refused to approve this offer, so the city council has prepared an ordinance, to be discussed and possibly voted on in committee September 28, authorizing the City Attorney to seek permission in King County Superior Court to impose a trusteeship on the Indian Services Commission which would trigger a title transfer of the properties to the non-profit Indian Health Board. The resolution states this will allow for current services and programs to continue to be provided to Seattle's Native American community. Sponsor of the resolution is City Council Member Nick Licata. More at Public Data Ferret.
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September 21, 2011
Working with U.S. and African colleagues, researchers from the University of Washington's Institute For Health Metrics and Evaluation, in Seattle, integrated data from several dozen qualifiying health surveys in malaria-prone Sub-Saharan Africa and found that the use of Insecticide-Treated Nets helped actually reduce parasitemia and death in young children to a significantly greater degree than previously estimated in clinical trials. Their research, recently published in a peer-reviewed "open access" (online, free) medical journal and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, concludes that the use of the treated nets should be continued and expanded in Sub-Saharan Africa, where the bulk of the world's one million annual deaths from the parasitic disease of malaria occur. More at Public Data Ferret.
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September 17, 2011
With his signature on a state health department disciplinary document, a former nursing assistant at a group home operated in Shoreline by the Washington Department of Social and Health Services admitted he sexually abused a developmentally-delayed 57-year-old female patient in his care, and agreed to surrender his license for 10 years for unprofessional conduct. More at Public Data Ferret.
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September 14, 2011
Attorneys for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a legal complaint Sept. 8 in U.S. District Court in Seattle against Richard A. Finger, 32, of Bellevue, Wash. for defrauding investors in the Kirkland, Wash. securities trading firm he ran of about $4 million over a seven-month period in 2011, through a high-volume, high-risk trading scheme. SEC attorneys allege in the complaint that Finger's investors, mainly family and friends, lost $1.9 million due to his "improper trading" and that he took another $2.1 million in commissions to help fund a lavish lifestyle – while falsifying account balances, underreporting commissions, and forging documentation to a suspicious trading partner. Federal criminal charges of wire fraud were also filed against Finger, punishable by up to 20 years in prison. Finger's attorneys say in a statement issued to Public Data Ferret that he's admitted deceiving customers, apologized to them and will reimburse them as best he can. More at Public Data Ferret.
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September 13, 2011
U.S. adults made only slight progress quitting smoking between 2005 and 2010, and are not on track to meet the nation's formal 2020 goal of only 12 percent of adults smoking, according to a new report released by the U.S. Centers For Disease Control. Almost one in five still meet the definition of "current smoker," down only 1.6 percent over the last five full calendar years. U.S. adult smoking prevalence rates varied by age, income, race and geography, with California and Utah showing the lowest percentages. Washington state was in the second lowest cohort. Because smoking poses annual medical and productivity costs of nearly $200 billion in the U.S., and because quitting has slowed, the CDC report urges consideration of stronger deterrents including higher tobacco taxes, wider smoke-free policies for public places and workplaces, broader restrictions on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship, expanded media campaigns, and better access to affordable and effective smoking cessation programs.
More at Public Data Ferret, the news knowledge base project I founded, which focuses on synopsizing and archiving by jurisdiction and topic recent high-news value public documents and data. It is supported not only by my own work but also that of student interns, a wide range of allies in the community, and the board of its parent non-profit, called Public Eye Northwest.
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September 12, 2011
"According to a report by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Inspector General, a voluntary climate change initiative of the U.S. National Park Service called Climate Friendly Parks is mainly window dressing because it has no consistent accountability and performance measures, and suffers from poor data inputs at the front end. With tough new greenhouse gas reduction goals coming for the U.S. government under an executive order, the initiative might be best consolidated with a broader, and mandatory type of environmental protection program that the parks service and each other federal agency will have to develop and implement, in their own way, to meet those goals." More at Public Data Ferret.
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June 28, 2011
I've been using Intersect since last summer to tell stories, personal and professional. It's a Web and social media start-up company with offices located in the McKinstry Innovation Center south of downtown Seattle where the SoDo district begins to meet the Georgetown neighborhood, home to a piquant farmers market and some serious outdoor sculpture. Using an embed tool the site offers users, here's a map - at bottom - of my Intersect stories. Once you open an account and add some stories, you can use easy navigation tools to pull up your map and then if you want, zoom in to, say, a continent, and get embed code of your mapped and linked stories for just that swath. Or your whole map of stories, as I've done below.
If you're exploring someone's story map on Intersect, or your own, approximate stabs at geography lead to incredibly specific geographic drill-downs. Follow prompts - by clicking on "six stories at this intersection," or "84 stories at this intersection" etc. - then double-click on a story photo icon to survey a contributor's stories mapped literally at neighborhood street level. Single-click on a given story photo icon to enter the story. Make sure to use the navigation arrows to explore a contributor's full map of stories across the globe.
A simple place and time search tool on the main page is another handy tool. Seattle, June 2011? Here's what you get. London 2010? Texas 2010? Once signed up and signed in (it's free) - the situational zeitgeist has some collective oomph. Play around a bit and you'll see.
Intersect's story-mapping is really an intuitive and engaging use of graphic tools to accent blogged and micro-blogged content and photography, with a potentially big crowd-sourcing function layered in as well. Themed story collections are another prominent feature, one well-suited to use by news organizations and others, as Intersect founder and feature writing Pulitzer Prize-winner Peter Rinearson shows in a recent piece at Neiman Reports, published by the Neiman Foundation For Journalism at Harvard University.
A compendium of commonly adopted keywords for searching major story lines would be a welcome addition, given the current, generally sui generis subject-tagging protocol; special, promoted story themes aside.
Intersect is still figuring out how it will become financially sustainable. In the meantime, consider whether it would be a useful tool for your storytelling or that an employer, non-profit organization, or friend you know.
(Disclosure: I am not now and have never been compensated by Intersect, nor do I have any ownership stake. Just a user; fan; and a friend of Mr. Rinearson. My son is an unpaid intern there this summer).
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May 27, 2011
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November 03, 2010
My portrait of Black Panther Seattle chapter founder Aaron Dixon appeared in Washington Law and Politics in the June/July issue of 2002. Here's the just-scanned version. The files are pdf so you'll need Adobe Reader.
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May 02, 2010
After beginning my current job as Director of Countywide Community Forums (CCF) in January 2010, I founded a blog meant to reflect the broader world of the work in which CCF is engaged; public engagement and collaboration in public spheres. Social Capital Review has featured writing by DeAnna Martin, Pamela Kilborn-Miller, Carrie Shaw and myself. As part of my work, I've also founded an independent initiative to help champion citizen engagement in open government, called Public Data Ferret. It's a database searchable by topic and jurisdictions, composed of neutral, blogged synopses of important public documents, and tutorials on user-friendly government databases. More background is available on the Ferret "About" page and the instructions/participation page. Shortly after Public Data Ferret's launch, I began a regular weekly live segment on the "Nine To Noon Show" on KOMO 1000 AM, Seattle, highlighting the latest work at the site. That lasted until "Nine To Noon" was cancelled in September, 2010. The Ferret project continues, however.
The Ferret radio segments to date follow, each in the form of a blog article with an audio link and a full transcript, as well as a link to the original Ferret write-up.
"Public Data Ferret On KOMO 1000: King County, Customer Service, and Public Trust," 8/4/10
"Public Data Ferret On KOMO 1000: Oversight Of Federal Resource Lands Lax, Watchdog Agency Says, 7/28/10
"Public Data Ferret On KOMO 1000: Seattle City Employees Retirement Plan $1 Billion In The Hole," 7/21/10
"Public Data Ferret On KOMO 1000: Regulating The Display Of Human Remains In Seattle," 7/14/10
"Public Data Ferret On KOMO 1000: Global Energy Use And Carbon Dioxide Emissions - 2005-2035," 7/7/10
"Public Data Ferret On KOMO 1000: Beach Water Quality," 6/30/10
"Public Data Ferret On KOMO 1000: Washington Hospital Infection Rates," 6/23/10
"Public Data Ferret On KOMO 1000: Real-Time Crime Data, & Human Trafficking," 6/16/10
"Public Data Ferret On KOMO 1000: State Disciplinary Actions Against Professionals," 6/9/10
"Public Data Ferret On KOMO 1000: Washington State Race Horse Fatalities," 6/2/10
"Public Data Ferret On KOMO 1000: Of Cockatiels And Collaboration," 5/26/10
"Public Data Ferret On KOMO 1000: Police Misconduct In Seattle," 5/19/10
"Public Data Ferret On KOMO 1000: 'Transportation 2040,'" 5/12/10
"Public Data Ferret On KOMO 1000: Consumer Product Recall Database," 5/6/10
"Public Data Ferret On KOMO 1000: Smuggling Weapons & Explosives Into Federal Buildings," 4/28/10
"Public Data Ferret On KOMO 1000" Seattle Database For Tracking Building & Land-Use Permitting," 4/21/10
"Public Data Ferret On KOMO 1000: Restaurant Inspections Database," 4/14/10
I was also privileged to discuss Public Data Ferret, and Countywide Community Forums recently with other guests in a broader conversation titled "Technology And Civic Engagement" on one of Seattle's public radio stations, KUOW-FM. In addition, one of our recent Ferret scoops got a write-up in the Seattle P-I.com. And we've recruited University of Washington communication grad Andrew Hart as Contributing Editor to Public Data Ferret.
You can follow the Ferret on Twitter. And collaborate.
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March 31, 2010
From Social Capital Review: "Civic Intelligence At Open Government West." An excerpt:
Liberating public data and packaging it in useful ways is a must, but savvy advocates and enablers of transparency also heard today at the Open Government West conference in Seattle City Hall that intermediaries are essential too, for "last mile" delivery to community collaborators. Bill Schrier, Chief Technology Officer for The City of Seattle, said governments "must deputize the private sector, non-profits and academics to distribute data" and help drive public engagement around solutions. Bill raises an important point. And while the open government "deputies" include developers of some mighty practical mobile, location-based apps built off government data sets, and developers of online whiteboard tools to collect suggestions for governments, there's a danger of being too government-centric about open government.
Here's the full article.
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|Traded as
Dow Jones Industrial Average Component
S&P 500 Component
|American Telephone and Telegraph Company
|October 5, 1983[1]
|Whitacre Tower, Downtown,
Dallas, Texas, United States
|Key people
|Randall Stephenson
(Chairman & CEO)[2]
|Fixed line and mobile telephony, broadband and fixed-line internet services, digital television
|US$ 128.752 billion (2013)[3]
|Operating income
|US$ 30.479 billion (2013)[3]
|Net income
|US$ 18.249 billion (2013)[3]
|Total assets
|US$ 277.787 billion (2013)[3]
|246,740 (2013)[3]
|AT&T Corporation
AT&T Mobility
Southwestern Bell
AT&T Teleholdings
Aio Wireless
|References: for DJIA listing, http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/djia
AT&T Inc. (stylized as at&t) is an American multinational telecommunications corporation, headquartered at Whitacre Tower in downtown Dallas, Texas.[4] AT&T is the second-largest provider of mobile telephony and the largest provider of fixed telephony[5] in the United States, and also provides broadband subscription television services. AT&T is the third-largest company in Texas (the largest non-oil company, behind only ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips, and also the largest Dallas company).[6] As of May 2013[update], AT&T is the 21st-largest company in the world by market value,[7] and the 13th-largest non-oil company.[8] As of 2014[update], it is also the 20th-largest mobile telecom operator in the world, with over 250 million mobile customers.[9]
The current iteration of AT&T Inc. began its existence as Southwestern Bell Corporation, one of seven Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOC's) created in 1983 in the divestiture of parent company American Telephone and Telegraph Company (founded 1885, later AT&T Corp.) due to the United States v. AT&T antitrust lawsuit. Southwestern Bell changed its name to SBC Communications Inc. in 1995. In 2005, SBC purchased former parent AT&T Corp. and took on its branding, with the merged entity naming itself AT&T Inc. and using the iconic AT&T Corp. logo and stock-trading symbol.
The current AT&T reconstitutes much of the former Bell System and includes ten of the original 22 Bell Operating Companies, along with one it partially owned (Southern New England Telephone), and the original long distance division.[10]
- 1 History
- 2 Political contributions and lobbying
- 3 Landline operating companies
- 4 Corporate structure
- 5 Corporate governance
- 6 Criticism and controversies
- 7 Naming rights and sponsorships
- 8 Global presence
- 9 Enterprise SIP Trunking Services
- 10 Alliances
- 11 See also
- 12 References
- 13 External links
AT&T can indirectly trace its origin back to the original Bell Telephone Company founded by Alexander Graham Bell after his invention of the telephone. One of that company's subsidiaries was American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), established in 1885, which acquired the Bell Company on December 31, 1899 for legal reasons, leaving AT&T as the main company. AT&T established a network of subsidiaries in the United States that held a government-authorized phone service monopoly, formalized with the Kingsbury Commitment, throughout most of the twentieth century. This monopoly was known as the Bell System, and during this period, AT&T was also known by the nickname Ma Bell. For periods of time, the former AT&T was the world's largest phone company.
In 1984, US regulators broke up the AT&T monopoly, requiring AT&T to divest its regional subsidiaries and turning them each into individual companies. These new companies were known as Regional Bell Operating Companies, or more informally, Baby Bells. AT&T continued to operate long distance services, but thanks to the breakup, faced competition from new competitors such as MCI and Sprint.
Southwestern Bell was one of the companies created by the breakup of AT&T. It wasn't long before the company started a series of acquisitions. This includes the 1987 acquisition of Metromedia mobile business, and the acquisition of several cable companies in the early 1990s. In the later half of the 1990s, the company acquired several other telecommunications companies, including some baby bells, while selling its cable business. During this time, the company changed its name to SBC Communications. By 1998, the company was in the top 15 of the Fortune 500, and by 1999 the company was part of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
In 2005, SBC purchased AT&T for $16 billion. After this purchase, SBC adopted the AT&T name and brand. The original 1885 AT&T still exists as the long-distance phone subsidiary of this company. Today, the current AT&T owns 11 of the original 24 Bell System companies.
In 2013, the Spanish Government would have dampened a friendly takeover attempt of AT&T on Telefónica, valued in 122,000 million euros. Such an impediment would be justified in the strategic nature of the company and AT&T would have taken a step backward.[11]
AT&T today is the seventh-largest company in the United States and the 14th-largest in the world. It provides landline phone service, long-distance, mobile phone service and cable television service.
In September 2013, AT&T announced it would expand into Latin America through a collaboration with Carlos Slim's America Movil.[12]
On December 17, 2013, AT&T announced plans to sell its Connecticut wireline operations to Stamford-based Frontier Communications. Roughly 2,700 wireline employees supporting AT&T's operations in Connecticut will transfer with the business to Frontier, as well as 900,000 voice connections, 415,000 broadband connections, and 180,000 U-verse video subscribers.[13]
Political contributions and lobbying[edit]
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, AT&T is the second-largest donor to United States political campaigns,[14] and the top American corporate donor,[15] having contributed more than US$47.7 million since 1990, 56% and 44% of which went to Republican and Democratic recipients, respectively.[16] Also, during the period of 1998 to 2010, the company expended US$130 million on lobbying in the United States.[15] A key political issue for AT&T has been the question of which businesses win the right to profit by providing broadband internet access in the United States.[17]
In 2005, AT&T was among 53 entities that contributed the maximum of $250,000 to the second inauguration of President George W. Bush.[18][19][20]
American Legislative Exchange Council[edit]
Bill Leahy, representing AT&T, sits on the Private Enterprise Board of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).[21]
AT&T supported the Federal Communications Commission Process Reform Act of 2013 (H.R. 3675; 113th Congress), a bill that would make a number of changes to procedures that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) follows in its rulemaking processes.[22] The FCC would have to act in a more transparent way as a result of this bill, forced to accept public input about regulations.[23] Executive Vice President - Federal Relations Tim McKone said that the bill's "much needed institutional reforms will help arm the agency with the tools to keep pace with the Internet speed of today's marketplace. It will also ensure that outmoded regulatory practices for today's competitive marketplace are properly placed in the dustbin of history."[24]
Landline operating companies[edit]
Of the twenty-four companies that were part of the Bell System, eleven are a part of the current AT&T:[25]
- BellSouth Telecommunications (formerly known as Southern Bell; includes former South Central Bell)
- Illinois Bell
- Indiana Bell
- Michigan Bell
- Ohio Bell
- Pacific Bell (formerly Pacific Telephone & Telegraph)
- Nevada Bell (formerly known as Bell Telephone Company of Nevada)
- Southwestern Bell
- Wisconsin Bell (formerly Wisconsin Telephone)
- Southern New England Telephone (sale pending to Frontier Communications)
Former operating companies[edit]
The following companies have gone to defunct status under SBC/AT&T ownership:
- Southwestern Bell Texas – a separate operating company created by SBC, absorbed operations of original SWBT on December 30, 2001 and became Southwestern Bell Telephone, L.P.; eventually merged into SWBT Inc. in 2007 which became the current Southwestern Bell
- Woodbury Telephone – merged into Southern New England Telephone on June 1, 2007.
Future of rural landlines[edit]
AT&T has stated that it will declare its intentions for its rural landlines on November 7, 2012.[26] AT&T had previously announced that it was considering a sale of its rural landlines, which are not wired for AT&T's U-verse service; however, it has also stated that it may keep the business after all.
AT&T would not be the first Baby Bell to sell off rural landlines. Ameritech sold some of its Wisconsin lines to CenturyTel in 1998; BellSouth sold some of its lines to MebTel in the 2000s; U S WEST sold many historically Bell landlines to Lynch Communications and Pacific Telecom in the 1990s; Verizon sold many of its New England lines to FairPoint in 2008 and its West Virginia operations to Frontier Communications in 2010.
Corporate structure[edit]
AT&T Inc. has retained the holding companies it has acquired over the years resulting in the following corporate structure:
- AT&T Inc., publicly traded holding company
- Southwestern Bell Telephone Company d/b/a AT&T Arkansas, AT&T Kansas, AT&T Missouri, AT&T Oklahoma, AT&T Southwest, AT&T Texas
- AT&T Teleholdings, Inc. d/b/a AT&T East, AT&T Midwest, AT&T West; formerly Ameritech, acquired in 1999; absorbed Pacific Telesis and SNET Corp. under AT&T ownership
- Illinois Bell Telephone Company d/b/a AT&T Illinois
- Indiana Bell Telephone Company d/b/a AT&T Indiana
- Michigan Bell Telephone Company d/b/a AT&T Michigan
- The Ohio Bell Telephone Company d/b/a AT&T Ohio
- Pacific Bell Telephone Company d/b/a AT&T California
- Nevada Bell Telephone Company d/b/a AT&T Nevada
- The Southern New England Telephone Company d/b/a AT&T Connecticut (includes former Woodbury Telephone)
- Wisconsin Bell, Inc. d/b/a AT&T Wisconsin
- AT&T Corp., acquired 2005
- Alascom, Inc. d/b/a AT&T Alaska
- BellSouth Corporation d/b/a AT&T South, acquired 2006
- BellSouth Telecommunications, LLC d/b/a AT&T Alabama, AT&T Florida, AT&T Georgia, AT&T Louisiana, AT&T Kentucky, AT&T Mississippi, AT&T North Carolina, AT&T South Carolina, AT&T Southeast, AT&T Tennessee
- AT&T Mobility
- Aio Wireless
- Cricket Communications
Corporate governance[edit]
AT&T's current board of directors:[27]
- Randall L. Stephenson – Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
- James H. Blanchard
- Gilbert F. Amelio
- Reuben V. Anderson
- Jaime Chico Pardo
- James P. Kelly
- Jon C. Madonna
- Lynn M. Martin
- John B. McCoy
- Joyce M. Roché
- Matthew K. Rose
- Laura D'Andrea Tyson
Criticism and controversies[edit]
Hemisphere database[edit]
The company maintains a database of call detail records of all telephone calls that have passed through its network since 1987. AT&T employees work at High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area offices (operated by the Office of National Drug Control Policy) in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Houston so data can be quickly turned over to law enforcement agencies. Records are requested via administrative subpoena, without the involvement of a court or grand jury.
In August 2007, the band Pearl Jam performed in Chicago at Lollapalooza which was being web-broadcast by AT&T. The band, while playing the song "Daughter", started playing a version of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall" but with altered lyrics critical of president George W. Bush. These lyrics included "George Bush, leave this world alone!" and, "George Bush, find yourself another home!". Listeners to AT&T's web broadcast heard only the first line because the rest was censored,[28] although AT&T spokesman Michael Coe said that the silencing was "a mistake."[29]
In September 2007, AT&T changed their legal policy to state that "AT&T may immediately terminate or suspend all or a portion of your Service,[30] any Member ID, electronic mail address, IP address, Universal Resource Locator or domain name used by you, without notice for conduct that AT&T believes"..."(c) tends to damage the name or reputation of AT&T, or its parents, affiliates and subsidiaries."[31] By October 10, 2007 AT&T had altered the terms and conditions for its Internet service to explicitly support freedom of expression by its subscribers, after an outcry claiming the company had given itself the right to censor its subscribers' transmissions.[32] Section 5.1 of AT&T's new terms of service now reads "AT&T respects freedom of expression and believes it is a foundation of our free society to express differing points of view. AT&T will not terminate, disconnect or suspend service because of the views you or we express on public policy matters, political issues or political campaigns."[33]
On July 26, 2009, AT&T customers were unable to access certain sections of the image board 4chan, specifically /b/ (the "random" board) and /r9k/ (the "ROBOT 9000" board, a spin-off of the random board).[34] However, by the morning of Monday, July 27, the block had been lifted and access to the affected boards was restored. AT&T's official reason for the block was that a distributed denial of service attack had originated from the img.4chan.org server, and access was blocked to stop the attack.[35] Major news outlets have reported that the issue may be related to DDoSing of 4chan, and that the suspicions of 4chan users fell on AnonTalk.com (later AnonTalk.se) at that time for doing this.[36]
Privacy controversy[edit]
In 2006, the Electronic Frontier Foundation lodged a class action lawsuit, Hepting v. AT&T, which alleged that AT&T had allowed agents of the National Security Agency (NSA) to monitor phone and Internet communications of AT&T customers without warrants. If true, this would violate the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 and the First and Fourth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution. AT&T has yet to confirm or deny that monitoring by the NSA is occurring. In April 2006, a retired former AT&T technician, Mark Klein, lodged an affidavit supporting this allegation.[38][39] The Department of Justice has stated they will intervene in this lawsuit by means of State Secrets Privilege.[40] In July 2006, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California – in which the suit was filed – rejected a federal government motion to dismiss the case. The motion to dismiss, which invoked the State Secrets Privilege, had argued that any court review of the alleged partnership between the federal government and AT&T would harm national security. The case was immediately appealed to the Ninth Circuit. It was dismissed on June 3, 2009, citing retroactive legislation in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.[citation needed] In May 2006, USA Today reported that all international and domestic calling records had been handed over to the National Security Agency by AT&T, Verizon, SBC, and BellSouth for the purpose of creating a massive calling database.[41] The portions of the new AT&T that had been part of SBC Communications before November 18, 2005 were not mentioned.
On June 21, 2006, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that AT&T had rewritten rules on their privacy policy. The policy, which took effect June 23, 2006, says that "AT&T – not customers – owns customers' confidential info and can use it 'to protect its legitimate business interests, safeguard others, or respond to legal process.' "[42]
On August 22, 2007, National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell confirmed that AT&T was one of the telecommunications companies that assisted with the government's warrantless wire-tapping program on calls between foreign and domestic sources.[43]
On November 8, 2007, Mark Klein, a former AT&T technician, told Keith Olbermann of MSNBC that all Internet traffic passing over AT&T lines was copied into a locked room at the company's San Francisco office – to which only employees with National Security Agency clearance had access.[44]
AT&T keeps for five to seven years a record of who text messages whom and the date and time, but not the content of the messages.[45]
Intellectual property filtering[edit]
In January 2008, the company reported plans to begin filtering all Internet traffic which passes through its network for intellectual property violations.[46] Commentators in the media have speculated that if this plan is implemented, it would lead to a mass exodus of subscribers leaving AT&T,[47] although this is misleading as Internet traffic may go through the company's network anyway.[46] Internet freedom proponents used these developments as justification for government-mandated network neutrality.
Discrimination against local Public-access television channels[edit]
AT&T is accused by community media groups of discriminating against local Public, educational, and government access (PEG) cable TV channels:, by "impictions that will severely restrict the audience".[48]
According to Barbara Popovic, Executive Director of the Chicago public-access service CAN-TV, the new AT&T U-verse system forces all Public-access television into a special menu system, denying normal functionality such as channel numbers, access to the standard program guide, and DVR recording.[48] The Ratepayer Advocates division of the California Public Utilities Commission reported: "Instead of putting the stations on individual channels, AT&T has bundled community stations into a generic channel that can only be navigated through a complex and lengthy process."[48]
Sue Buske (president of telecommunications consulting firm the Buske Group and a former head of the National Federation of Local Cable Programmers/Alliance for Community Media) argue that this is "an overall attack [...] on public access across the [United States], the place in the dial around cities and communities where people can make their own media in their own communities".[48]
Information security[edit]
In June 2010, a hacker group known as Goatse Security discovered a vulnerability within the AT&T that could allow anyone to uncover email addresses belonging to customers of AT&T 3G service for the Apple iPad.[49] These email addresses could be accessed without a protective password.[50] Using a script, Goatse Security collected thousands of email addresses from AT&T.[49] Goatse Security informed AT&T about the security flaw through a third party.[51] Goatse Security then disclosed around 114,000 of these emails to Gawker Media, which published an article about the security flaw and disclosure in Valleywag.[49][51] Praetorian Security Group criticized the web application that Goatse Security exploited as "poorly designed".[49]
Accusations of enabling fraud[edit]
In March 2012, the United States federal government announced a lawsuit against AT&T. The specific accusations state that AT&T "violated the False Claims Act by facilitating and seeking federal payment for IP Relay calls by international callers who were ineligible for the service and sought to use it for fraudulent purposes. The complaint alleges that, out of fears that fraudulent call volume would drop after the registration deadline, AT&T knowingly adopted a non-compliant registration system that did not verify whether the user was located within the United States. The complaint further contends that AT&T continued to employ this system even with the knowledge that it facilitated use of IP Relay by fraudulent foreign callers, which accounted for up to 95 percent of AT&T's call volume. The government's complaint alleges that AT&T improperly billed the TRS Fund for reimbursement of these calls and received millions of dollars in federal payments as a result."[52]
Naming rights and sponsorships[edit]
- AT&T 220 Building – building in Indianapolis, Indiana
- AT&T Building – building in Detroit, Michigan
- AT&T Building – building in Indianapolis, Indiana
- AT&T Building – building in Kingman, Arizona
- AT&T Building – (aka "The Batman Building") in Nashville, Tennessee
- AT&T Building – building in Omaha, Nebraska
- AT&T Building Addition – building in Detroit, Michigan
- AT&T Center – building in Los Angeles
- AT&T Center – building in St. Louis, Missouri
- AT&T Center – building in Charlotte, NC
- AT&T City Center – building in Birmingham, Alabama
- AT&T Corporate Center – building in Chicago, Illinois
- AT&T Huron Road Building – building in Cleveland, Ohio
- AT&T Lenox Park Campus – AT&T Mobility Headquarters in DeKalb County just outside Atlanta, Georgia
- AT&T Midtown Center – building in Atlanta, Georgia
- AT&T Switching Center – building in Los Angeles
- AT&T Switching Center – building in Oakland, California
- AT&T Switching Center – building in San Francisco
- AT&T Building – building in San Diego
- Whitacre Tower (One AT&T Plaza) – Corporate Headquarters, Dallas, Texas
- AT&T Tower – building in Jacksonville, FL
- AT&T Center – San Antonio, Texas (formerly SBC Center)
- AT&T Field – Chattanooga, Tennessee (formerly BellSouth Park)
- AT&T Park – San Francisco (formerly Pacific Bell Park, SBC Park)
- AT&T Plaza – Chicago, Illinois (public space that hosts the Cloud Gate sculpture in Millennium Park)
- AT&T Plaza – Dallas, Texas (plaza in front of the American Airlines Center at Victory Park)
- AT&T Performing Arts Center – Dallas, Texas
- AT&T Stadium – Arlington, Texas (formerly Cowboys Stadium)
- Jones AT&T Stadium – Lubbock, Texas (formerly Clifford B. and Audrey Jones Stadium, Jones SBC Stadium)
- TPC San Antonio – San Antonio, Texas (AT&T Oaks Course & AT&T Canyons Course)
- War Memorial Stadium, AT&T Field - Little Rock, Arkansas
- AT&T Champions Classic – Valencia, California
- AT&T Championship - San Antonio, Texas
- AT&T Classic – Atlanta, Georgia (formerly BellSouth Classic)
- AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic (formerly Mobil Cotton Bowl Classic, Southwestern Bell Cotton Bowl Classic, SBC Cotton Bowl Classic) – played in Arlington, Texas, at AT&T Stadium.
- AT&T National – Washington, D.C.
- AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am
- AT&T Red River Rivalry – Dallas, Texas (formerly Red River Shootout, SBC Red River Rivalry)
- Major League Soccer and the United States Soccer Federation, including the U.S. men's and U.S. women's national teams and the Major League Soccer All-Star Game from 2009
- United States Olympic team[53]
- National Collegiate Athletic Association (Corporate Champion)[54]
- AT&T American Cup, Artistic gymnastics competition. Sponsored by AT&T since 2011.
- AT&T (SEPTA station) – Public Transportation Station in Philadelphia, PA
Global presence[edit]
AT&T offers services in many locations throughout the Asia Pacific; its regional headquarters is located in Hong Kong.[55]
Enterprise SIP Trunking Services[edit]
In 2008, Toshiba announced SIP interoperability with the AT&T IP Flexible Reach service, and this partnership would improve Toshiba's IP-PBX offerings.[56] In 2010, AT&T combined its virtual private network (VPN) service with its IP Flexible Reach.[57]
On October 29, 2012 AT&T announced its support in the PMA (Power Matters Alliance) and its membership in the PMA board, along with Google and Starbucks, in order to create a real-world ecosystem of wireless power and to ensure mobile devices never run out of power.[58]
See also[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to AT&T.
- Aio Wireless
- AT&T Corporation
- AT&T Internet Services
- AT&T Mobility
- att.net
- Bell System
- Bell System Divestiture
- Communications Assistance For Law Enforcement Act
- Cricket Communications
- Hepting v. AT&T
- Lists of public utilities
- Modification of Final Judgment
- NSA warrantless surveillance
- Pacific Bell
- PRX (telephony)
- Regional Bell Operating Company
- Toktumi
- Tying of the iPhone to AT&T
- Information technology in India
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Circa 1960
A pair of vintage textured blue glass lamps. Maker's mark for designer Christer Sjögren for Swedish glassmaker Lindshammar. Due to the antique nature of this fixture, there may be some nicks or imperfections in the glass.
Overall: 20-3/8" h. x 4-1/8" w. x 3-1/2" d.
Height to socket: 14-1/2"
Base: 4-1/8" w. x 3-1/2" d.
Body: 8-3/4" h.
Can be UL listed for use in dry environments
Single Edison socket, maximum 60 watts
1 pair total available. 1 on hold.
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MOUNT VERNON A vibrational healing workshop, led by Jill Mattson of Pennsylvania, will take place Saturday, May 18, from 9:30 to 3:30 p.m. Mattson is an author, musician, composer, artist and expert on sound healing.
The workshop will cover topics to help amplify healing practice such as: grounding and clearing energy blocks with tones, sound and sacred geometry healing, healing sound Reiki, to remove pain, sounds of flower essences, crystal healing with sound, deep meditation with sound, using tuning forks and sounds and more.
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Goodell focused on helping players during and after their careers
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Roger Goodell says he's spent most of his time this offseason on player safety
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EMIGRANT, Mont. -- Now there's a dateline I never thought I'd use: Emigrant, Mont. I came here Thursday at the invitation of Atlanta owner Arthur Blank to moderate a couple of football discussions for Falcons clients and suite-holders at Blank's Mountain Sky Guest Ranch. Now I know why the Spielberg family comes here for a week a year. No TV. No computers. I forded a creek on a horse Friday. ("Forded.'' Always loved that word. Never thought I'd actually do it.)
One of those discussions was with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. And on Friday morning just after 6, we sat on the porch of the main house to discuss the news of the day.
Me: What's been your focus in the wake of Junior Seau's death about what to do with NFL programs for players post-career?
Goodell: "Our focus has been on the total health of our players. We have programs from the time they enter the league, programs while you're in the league, and over the last year or two. Now [director of player engagement] Troy Vincent has been creating programs helping them transition out of the game. It's much more difficult for these individuals than we might think. Talking to the players and talking to professionals, that transition needs some focus in how we provide them the resources. It's not just their physical health, like cardiovascular screening and joint replacements, it's expanding of the mental health resources. How do we help identify somebody that may need help, get that help to them and what are the resources that he has? ... There's still that stigma that mental health is a weakness. It's not. Depression, anxiety, these are very common and can be dealt with in a variety of different fashions. Some with medicine, some with counseling, some with other forms of assistance. When they're not dealt with, they have a tendency to spiral and to become much more complicated.''
Me: London Fletcher told me mental health counseling for players post-career should be mandatory.
Goodell: "Well, at least an evaluation. That's something that's being discussed as a part of your exit physical. Part of that is mental health evaluation to see what it can be. I've heard that from players myself. And we are evaluating it.
Me: What's the most disturbing thing, to you, about Seau's death?
Goodell: "The most disturbing thing is the tragedy itself. That a young man that was so successful and had so much good to learn and had so much promise made the decision to end his life. All we want to do is make sure that we're doing everything we can to prevent another tragedy, to have the resources available to our players and to recognize in talking to the VA, to the National Institutes of Health, that professionals in this area that we've spent a great deal of time talking to say that there's two sides to a very complex issue that involves multiple factors. Speaking with all the professionals, that support system and that structure and the loss of those two factors is very powerful. I hear it from the professionals and I hear it from the players. Some of the players that you and I both know that I respect a lot. I see it in their eyes a little bit -- not having their team, which they consider their family in some ways, and that constant support system and seeing the other guys motivate the other guys. Losing that is a really difficult challenge. Then the structure. As you know, these players are given a very specific structure. 'This is the schedule for tomorrow. This is the schedule for Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.' That's gone all of a sudden. I had a couple of players tell me, 'It's Monday morning and next thing I know it's Friday. Nobody was structuring my life.' Those are all contributing factors to just that transition and what do I do, how do I do that, how do I get myself motivated and moving. When they're not dealt with effectively, that's what makes people spiral downward. You feel less about yourself. I'm not an expert, so I don't want be saying on the record that leads to depression or could lead to depression. It's really that spiral effect that we keep talking about.
Goodell spoke of a relatively new peer-to-peer counseling program, the Ambassador Program, which pairs former players with current ones, discussing preparing for retirement and being available for players after they retire. He said the number of Ambassadors is up to about 50 now.
Goodell: "The reason we think this is so important is peer-to-peer is important because if you've been through it that's usually a big help ... We're focusing on that assistance, so when they [recently retired players] feel that kind of hopelessness or desperation, they have a place to come ... If somebody wants it to be anonymous, we have that option as well. [Eventually] depending on where it goes, the counseling may go completely out of the system. They might be going to a professional that has nothing to do with the NFL, which is the way it should be. That's OK ... One of our biggest challenges is to get the players [to come forward to be able] to teach them.
Me: Meaning?
Goodell: "We've had mental health forums where they could come with their spouses and they could hear different things and different challenges that you might have. What to look for, how do deal with it, how to manage it. Very few players showed up. It's the same old thing. We have a lot of individuals that have tremendous pride and they're not always going to raise their hand and say, 'I may need help.' But we all need help. And we all need assistance.''
Me: Your thoughts on the master complaint from more than 2,100 players claiming the league did too little about head trauma and concussions ... Do you think this endangers the NFL as we know it?
Goodell: "Our lawyers are going to focus on that. We obviously feel very strongly that the complaint is not accurate. We have long made player safety a priority. We have made the game safer and the other games safer. We will vigorously defend litigation and the lawyers will do that in the courtroom. In the meantime, we're going to keep focusing on what do we keep doing to make the game safer and the rule changes and the equipment changes and investing in pioneering research that we think could make significant strides in better understanding of the brain.''
Goodell said he has spent more time this offseason on player safety than on any other issue -- more time, he told me, than on the Saints' bounty program. He also pointed to the National Institutes of Occupational Safety and Health study that said former NFL players lived a longer life than average male citizens as bursting a myth that the life span of football players is shortened by the game.
Me: What have you learned, let's say, since the end of the season that's contributed to your continuing education on head trauma and concussions?
Goodell: "The head, neck, and spine committee met back in early- to mid-February. I think we had 48 professionals in that room, leading doctors and scientists from institutions all over the world, virtually all of them unaffiliated with the NFL. I think the thing that strikes me the most about it is how much more we have to learn as a society, as a medical profession, as scientists. There's still a lot of unknowns about the brain, either brain disease or brain trauma and how it reacts. That's not unusual in science and medicine as you know. You have different findings and medical debates. We could see that in the room. There are some tremendous professionals that are taking a very cautious and conservative approach that are making it safer for our troops, NFL players, girls soccer players and that you can manage the risk of concussions, that we can do more to prevent it and that we can understand it better to make sure you fully recover from these injuries. The first thing to do is prevent it. That goes to rules, equipment. The second is our sideline assessment tools. We have made changes to that. There are some new technologies that make this very soon in the future where on a tablet, you can actually take a test on the sideline to determine (the concussion).''
Me: A tablet? An iPad? This year?
Goodell: "It's possible.''
Me: How do you expect the system to work this year?
Goodell: "The player has to self-report and has to tell professionals. We have spotters, as you know, our ATC [athletic trainers] spotters program, which we implemented late in the season to sort of identify hits that would require an evaluation. That will be expanded and fully in place this season. There's an ATC, which is an athletic trainer who's not active right now, but they'll be upstairs. They will have access to all the video and if they see a hit that involves a significant blow to the head or if a player demonstrates any kind of dizziness or potential slowness to get up, they call down to the sideline and make sure the medical professional has that number and they can go make an evaluation ... Now we have the technology to send the play down to the field, so that if a medical personnel wants to look at that, they can look at the play and that has been very helpful in the playoffs. It's almost like the instant replay setup. You'll see the equipment down behind the bench area. The ATC spotter can actually, just like we do with instant replay, send a play down if the trainer or the doctor wants to see a play. They can look at the play and see what they call the mechanisms of injury. That's the term that's used. Through the mechanism of injury, you can determine, 'OK, I need to look at that.' It's a tremendous tool for the doctors.
Me: Would the Colt McCoy story have been different with this set-up?
Goodell: "He was examined, but they were focusing on his hand, because that's what he was complaining about. There are two or three injuries on that one play that happened in different places ... I have to go back and look, but I'm quite certain we had the ATC spotter when the Colt McCoy hit happened. What was happening though was the doctors were in looking at him [at his hand, not his head], so the ATC spotter said, 'Well, he's being evaluated, so that's fine.' What was the fallacy in it is that they were evaluating the wrong thing. What we're going to do now is to say regardless of whether you see them being evaluated, you are to speak to them and you are to tell them that there is head-to-head contact and here's the play and look at it. You would have seen the Colt McCoy hit and would have said, 'Forget his thumb now. Let's focus on if he had any type of injury to his head.' ... He would not have gone back in after three or four plays. One of the things we're learning about concussions is sometimes the symptoms don't occur for several minutes. We don't know about the brain. It may just not be apparent for some period of time and that's another complicating factor to this."
Me: Next on your to-do list?
Goodell: "Clearly how we want the game to be safer for the current players, the former players and then how do I make the game more exciting for fans? There's fans still looking for new and different ways to engage with the game. Technology is a great opportunity to do that. We've talked about the player and health safety and the initiatives and that's first on my mind, but ... those new platforms, mobile devices, bringing technology into our stadiums, how do we make that stadium experience exciting? Those are ongoing challenges.''
We ended discussing the in-stadium experience. I said I'd learned a lot about the appreciation of the game from watching cricket in England with absolutely no bells and whistles and 105-decibel music -- simply the game. And he talked about how he'd love to find a way to replicate the natural excitement and fan involvement of world soccer, where, among other things, fans break out in song and chants through the game.
Sounds like a great goal for the NFL. To me, the way to do that isn't to bombard people with piped-in noise.
The NFL's a cauldron of news. I could have asked him about 25 other things. Hope you got a few things out of his words.
Here's an angle of the players' head-trauma litigation you haven't thought of.
A source with knowledge of the roster of the more than 2,100 players who have joined the various lawsuits against the NFL for ignoring and/or minimizing the results of head trauma in the pro game says some of the players in the suit will have zero or very little evidence of long-term damage.
I sought one of them out -- Rich Miano, 49, who played 11 years in the NFL, with the Jets, Eagles and Falcons -- and asked why he got involved.
Miano is hardly your typical plaintiff. He doesn't hate the NFL; he's thankful for what professional football did for him. He loves football. He says he doesn't want money. What he wants, other than to raise the focus on the importance of educating players about the risks of head injuries, is the ability to be covered by insurance if the day comes that he begins to suffer from dementia or a similar malady.
"This isn't about a money grab,'' Miano said from his home in Hawaii on Saturday. "It's an education grab. Colt McCoy gets [concussed] last year in a game and goes right back in. Two high school players here in Hawaii got put back in a game after concussions. There needs to be a huge outreach across all levels of football to educate people about the dangers of head trauma and football. Whatever happens -- win, lose or draw -- this is going to be good for every generation, past and future, because it will continue to educate people.''
One of the things Miano hopes, he said, for the next generation of athletes, and their families, is to believe football is safe enough to play. "I really want the soccer moms of America to feel better about football,'' he said.
Miano will be 50 in September. His former Eagles teammate, Andre Waters, would be 50 had he not killed himself. Another safety of their era, Dave Duerson, would be 51 today had he not killed himself. "It's bone-chilling to think about,'' said Miano. "Why am I so fortunate to be in the shape I am today when I played the same position as Andre and Dave? I made 700 tackles in 11 seasons and I seem to have withstood the punishment at least neurologically so much better.''
Miano said if he "takes a turn for worse'' mentally, "at 50 or 52 or whenever, I'd like to be able to be medically monitored.'' Still, the prospect of someone joining in a lawsuit who is asymptomatic to the base purpose of all the lawsuits will prick the NFL's interest, and could give the league a litigation strategy. How many more Mianos are there, and why do you sue an entity you're thankful to have been a part of?
"I go to bed every night knowing I'm in this for the right reasons.'' Miano said.
Things to think about with Darrelle Revis ...
Last week, I said Revis, due to make an average of $6.75 million in the last two years of his contract, would be justified in thinking he should be rewarded for being the best cornerback in football over the last two years of that contract. It's indisputable that he is the best corner in the game. But I doubt the Jets will entertain re-doing his deal for a few reasons.
1. Revis, out of college, signed a six-year contract. This will be his sixth year in the league. The Jets re-did his contract after three years. To address it again after five, with two years on the re-do of the original, would create a precedent GM Mike Tannenbaum probably wouldn't want to create, particularly with the cap remaining relatively flat in the next two years.
2. It's more likely the Jets could renegotiate Revis' deal next season, with a year left on the contract he signed in 2010. That would follow the lead of the Arizona Cardinals with Larry Fitzgerald. When the Cards reworked Fitzgerald's deal last season, it was with one year left on the reworked original contract.
3. It's not believed Tannenbaum ever told Revis or his representatives that he'd open up the contract again after two years.
It'd be surprising, I think, if Revis opened training camp with the Jets in late July. It'd also be surprising if the Jets didn't draw a pretty hard line in 2012.


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It's deja vu for the Rochester Americans.
Last season, they fought to the last day of the season to secure a post-season spot. In the first round, they took on the Toronto Marlies – ultimately being swept in the series. This season? Pretty much the same. The Amerks won 15 of their final 22 games to lock up a seventh seed on the second-to-last day of the season. And guess their opponent? Once again, the Marlies.
Once again, the Marlies are the heavy favorite. Toronto is a two seed, the Amerks a seven. Not to mention the Marlies' dominance over the Amerks over the past two seasons. But the match-up may not be as lopsided as a 7-2 might seem. In fact, there are several advantages that may lead to an upset.
The Amerks have the best goaltender in the American Hockey League. David Leggio made a strong case for the AHL MVP award (that went to Syracuse's Tyler Johnson) by starting 64 games and finishing the year with an outstanding .924 save percentage. Not only is league average around .912, but no goalie in the league started more back-to-back games than the Amerks' netminder. The Amerks have gone through a lot this year losing their coach, captain and one of their top scorers to the NHL in the second half of the year, but Leggio kept the team afloat and at times dragged them to wins.
That's not to say the Marlies don't have a good goalie. Drew MacIntyre has played 21 games for the Marlies and has a .931 save percentage. He has a lot of AHL experience and has been great for Toronto this year. But when Leggio's hot, there's no stopping him. He won a championship in Finland several years ago and could very well put the Amerks on his back and win this series.
Special Teams
The Amerks have the advantage of having one of the best power play players in the American Hockey League in Mark Mancari. The 6-foot-4 veteran scorer netted 18 power play assists this season, good for 14th in the AHL. They also ranked 3rd in the AHL as a team on the power play. They were able to stay at the top of the league despite losing Cody Hodgson and TJ Brennan to the NHL because of coaching strategy and Mancari's presence. On the Marlies side, they are only an average Penalty Killing team ranking 15th in the AHL.
On the penalty kill, Max Legault and the other penalty killers have been stars of wins at times – including their best penalty killer David Leggio. The Amerks are second in the AHL behind only Wilkes-Barre Scranton by 0.2% with an 87% penalty kill rate. The Marlies are 19th on the power play, giving the Amerks a pretty clear advantage.
It would seem the Amerks would want to protect the puck and play conservatively at 5-on-5 where they are overmatched by the Marlies' speed and try to get into a battle of special teams.
If there's a tougher team in the AHL, they haven't come to Rochester this year. The Amerks are experienced up front and have several former NHL'ers who have been tough guys at the absolute highest level of the sport. Nick Tarnasky and Cody McCormick specifically are forces not only during scrums and fights, but in puck battles too. The Marlies don't have many players who can match their intensity or ability to intimidate. The Amerks will need that if their going to slow down Toronto's speedsters like Jerry D'Amigo and Greg Scott.
NHL Players
The Marlies beat the Amerks last season in the playoffs, sure. But they had Nazem Kadri, an NHL star now and Jake Gardiner, an up-and-coming defenseman. This year, the Maple Leafs are in the playoffs and the young stars won't be dropping by in the first round. The Amerks, on the other hand, will be receiving Brian Flynn and Mark Pysyk – two players that made a tremendous impression during their time in the NHL. Flynn was one of the Amerks' top goal scorers while in the AHL and Pysyk has top four NHL talent.
These two could be joined by Mikhail Grigorenko, the Sabres' top draft pick this year. Whether he's in or not, the NHL-experienced players give the Amerks a LOT more fire power than they've had when facing the Marlies at other times during the year. The team's defense has been shaky at times, but Pysyk will bring a calmness that is hard to match, even by many NHL players.
Chadd Cassidy has done an outstanding job. After losing his first four games as interim coach, he got the team's leadership core behind him, helped the young players improve and drove the bus to winning 15 of the last 22 games. Now it's his time to shine. Cassidy is a very bring young coach who is making a case for himself for the gig next year if Ron Rolston doesn't return or for an AHL job elsewhere or even an NHL assistant job. He'll face Dallas Eakins, one of the most highly-thought-of AHL coaches in the business. If Cassidy can out-coach Eakins, he'll put his name in the mix for up-and-comers.
It won't be easy, though. Cassidy is going to have to manage a shuffled roster heading into the playoffs. He'll have to find the proper roles and lines quickly or the Amerks could easily be returning to Rochester on Wednesday down two games.
He'll have to be smart, creative and be a good leader to beat a guy who's already established himself as one. Can he do it? We'll see...


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Being that he's an invertebrate, Gary is understandably a little wary of bones.
He's been eating a lot lately, and it's all gone straight to his shell!
Always the perfect host, Gary never makes his guests lift a finger (especially if they don't have any)!
Gary takes a break after some intense studying for a light snack.
As the old saying goes, 'He who smelt it dealt it', SpongeBob.
Tired of being pursued by his countless fans, Gary went in for a subtle disguise.
Dental hygiene is no joke, but what do you do when it's a toothbrush you have stuck in your teeth?
Sea mice are small potatoes to this snail, he's got his eye on the prize. Only the best for his owner!
Don't bite the hand that feeds you... unless you're really hungry and it's in the way.
After being fooled one too many times, Gary doesn't leave his lunch up to chance.
We did you a favor, SpongeBob, there were a lot of spelling errors. Delicious spelling errors.
What, did you dig that out from under a rock or something? Oh, you did?
Maybe that's why he doesn't get invited to slumber parties often.
C'mon, the vampire-fish was just about to fall in love with the were-whelk!
Gary is a great snail to lean on in hard times, but he's not afraid to draw the line when push comes to shove.
Spongebob will definitely be mad when he sees Gary recorded over his shows with 15 hours of The Real Snail-wives of Bikini Bottom.
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- Each person must post eleven facts about themselves in their journal.
- Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post, and create ten new questions for the people you tag to answer.
- You have to choose eleven people to tag and post their icons on your journal.
- Go to their page and tell them you have tagged him/her.
- No tag backs.
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11 things about me~
1. I have a blanket I've had since before I was born
2. My favorite game is Epic Mickey 1 and 2
3. I love animals
4. I have a severe phobia of the dark :'D
5. I honestly don't watch a lot of anime
6. Favorite color is orange and blue
7. I love mac and cheese
8. I'm lactose but eat cheese anyway
9. I think I'm addicted to tumblr
10. I must sleep with a stuffed animal
11. I swear a lot
Taggers Questions-
1. Whens your birthday?
April 26th
2. Have any artists you look up to on here?
I would doubt it?
3. Who is your favorite music artist?
Rise Against or A Day To Remember
4. What would we do if we could hang out for a day?
Probably level a town lol
5. Do you collect anything interesting?
Stuffed animals? I don't so much collect them, I just love them.
6. What got you into art?
My dad, he has always been good at drawing
7. Whats your favorite thing to draw?
8. How did you meet me?
Through Ride6 a couple years back
9. Whats do you think is the best piece in your gallery?
Uh...I don't have one?
10. What character of mine would you love to meet?
Sebby :3
11. Whats your favorite not-so-healthy food?
Does mountain dew count? If not, then probably cheese balls.