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Book your room at Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center
Deluxe Room
Deluxe Room
Junior Suite, 1 King Bed
A premier hotel in Detroit with stunning views of the Detroit River and Canada.
Downtown RiverWalk Location
Located on the riverfront in Detroit's Renaissance Center, this downtown hotel is less than a mile from the COBO Convention Center, with easy access to dining, casinos, and entertainment.
Access to People Mover
The elevated downtown train stops at the complex. This Marriott has 100,000 square feet of meeting space, complimentary wireless high-speed Internet access, and 24-hour fitness facilities.
High-speed Internet
Rooms at this Marriott have high-speed Internet access, 37-inch flat-screen TVs, and city or river views.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center
- The Overview
The Detroit Marriott is in General Motors' Renaissance Center, a downtown complex that houses businesses, restaurants, bars, retail shops, and a 5-story atrium with river views. The hotel lobby is on the third level, with 70+ floors rising above it. Across the street and accessible by skywalk is the Millender Center, which also has retail shops and various businesses. Both the Renaissance Center and the Millender Center have station stops for Detroit's elevated light rail, the People Mover, which makes a 3-mile loop around the downtown area.
The hotel features Volt, a restaurant serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Starbucks is also located in the hotel lobby.
This Marriott has 35 meeting rooms with over 100,000 square feet of flexible meeting space, including an exhibit hall and two ballrooms. All meeting rooms have complimentary wireless high-speed Internet access and teleconferencing and videoconferencing capabilities. The hotel also has an in-house audiovisual company.
A 24-hour onsite fitness facility has cardiovascular exercise equipment. Complimentary wireless high-speed Internet access is available in public areas. Complimentary newspapers are available in the lobby.
- Concierge services
- Fitness facilities
- Bar/lounge
- Multiple large conference rooms
- Exhibit space
- Business center
- Banquet facilities
- Ballroom(s)
- Audiovisual equipment
- Express check-out
- 24-hour front desk
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Number of floors - 72
- Air-conditioned public areas
- Complimentary newspapers in lobby
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Free Wi-Fi
- ATM/banking
- Multilingual staff
- Total number of rooms - 1298
- Room service (limited hours)
- Meeting facilities size (meters) - 9290
- Shopping on site
- Smoke-free property
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Coffee shop or café
- Doorman/doorwoman
- Elevator/lift
- Event catering
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Parking (surcharge)
- Patio
- Porter/bellhop
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Meeting facilities size (feet) - 100000
- Number of meeting/conference rooms - 35
- Television in lobby
- Wedding services
- Connect
Available in all rooms: Wireless Internet access (surcharge), Wired high-speed Internet access (surcharge)
Available in some public areas: Free Wi-Fi
- Parking
Parking (surcharge), Valet parking (surcharge)
- The Room
- Pay movies
- Air conditioning
- Climate control
- Complimentary weekday newspaper
- Phone
- Coffee/tea maker
- Refrigerator (on request)
- Complimentary toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Premium bedding
- Daily housekeeping
- Shower/tub combination
- Desk
- iPod docking station
- Flat-panel TV
- Wireless Internet access (surcharge)
- Wired high-speed Internet access (surcharge)
- The Eats
Volt - A restaurant serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Starbucks Coffee
- Out and About
Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center has a 24-hour fitness facility with cardiovascular exercise equipment.
There are at least four 18-hole golf courses within 15 miles of the hotel.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Tennis nearby
- Racquetball/squash nearby
- Accessibility
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible parking
- In-room accessibility
The Fine Print for Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center
- Check-in
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
- Check-out
Check-out time is noon
- Pay
Accepted at this hotel: American Express, Diners Club, Discover, JCB International, MasterCard, Visa
- You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Fees
- The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
- Breakfast fee: USD 17.95 per person (approximately)
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: USD 12.95 per day (rates may vary)
- Fee for in-room high-speed Internet (wired): USD 12.95 per day (rates may vary)
- Valet parking fee: USD 25 per day
Awards & Affiliations
- A Green / Sustainable Property - First Party CertifiedThis property has performed a self-assessment, also known as First Party certification, of its sustainable tourism practices through Green Lodging Michigan thus taking steps to understand its impact on one or more of the following: environment, community, cultural-heritage, the local economy. The property's claims have not been independently verified by a second or third party certification program.


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Upcoming Events
First Brown Bag Lunch: Grantsmanship Tips from Washington, D.C.
The first in a series of brown bag lunches will be held at noon on April 24 in Room 141, Cartwright Hall, to provide details of a recent trip to Washington, D.C. by Research and Sponsored Programs staff to meet with federal funding agencies and promote research at Kent State.
Agency leaders raised key issues for faculty researchers to consider:
- It is very important for researchers to contact and establish a relationship with program officers early in the process.
- Early investigators should consider submitting smaller R01 proposals instead of smaller mechanisms such as R03s and R21s.
- Smaller grant mechanisms such as R03s and R21s are not intended to support pilot data acquisition but should be smaller-scale studies that result in deliverables.
- Different institutes were more encouraging of certain grant mechanisms (such as AREA R15 grants).
Learn more at the brown bag lunch. RSVP to Doug Delahanty Ph.D.
Coeus will be unavailable this Friday, April 4 as we apply updates to the system. We expect the system to be down most of the day so please work with your contact in Sponsored Programs to be certain pending proposals are on track.
After updates are applied, approvers should not experience any major changes in the electronic approval process. However, the update does include some new features that may be of special interest to Approvers and Investigators:
Yes/No Questions Reduced
The number of Yes/No Questions (YNQs) required for each proposal will be significantly reduced, as many questions relevant only to federal forms are moving to a new questionnaire while more general questions and those previously identified as important to approvers remain in the YNQ section.
New Smart Grants.gov Questionnaire only for S2S submissions to Federal Sponsors
Questions previously covered in YNQs for the purpose of completing federal forms in system-to-system (S2S) processing will move to a new questionnaire that will only be required when a proposal is being submitted S2S. Your contact in Sponsored Programs will let you know when this questionnaire requires completion.
New Electronic Certification Process for All Involved Kent State Personnel on a Proposal
The new proposal Certification process will look and act a bit differently but the questions themselves remain unchanged. Kent State proposal persons will be prompted to Certify the proposal via email or they can enter the proposal and select a link from either the Proposal Summary or Investigator/Key Person screens.
Each individual will be able to complete only his/her own certification within the system. If a situation arises when a person is unable to access the system, Sponsored Programs will be able to work with the individual in order to access an alternative process offline.
Key Persons Required to Complete Certification Prior to Routing
With this change, Key Persons will now need to complete Certification (which covers Conflict of Interest questions) before the proposal record can be routed for internal approval. This new process will allow us to eliminate paper Conflict of Interest forms at the proposal stage as all Kent State personnel, including Key Persons, will have the ability to complete these questions electronically.
Other Coeus Updates
In addition to providing general enhancements and fixes, these updates will help us restore Grants.gov System-to-System functionality with updated formats for smoother processing of many federal submissions.
Investigators may also notice a section in Coeus Lite labeled My Awards. If you have awards active in the last few years, some data may be available here but please be aware that not all award information will be up to date as our office continues to work on getting this information in the system.
If you have any questions or concerns, you may contact the Sponsored Programs Office at 330-672-2070 or email@example.com.
Sponsor News & Limited Submission Funding Opportunities
Revision /Resubmission of NSF proposals
The National Science Foundation accepts resubmission of proposals that have previously undergone review and not been funded. Declined proposals may be resubmitted, but only after undergoing substantial revision. A resubmitted proposal that has not clearly taken into account the major comments or concerns resulting from the prior NSF review may be returned without review. These revised proposals are treated by the Foundation as new, subject to the standard review procedures.
A new version of the National Science Foundation Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG), (NSF 14-1) has been issued. The PAPPG is comprised of documents relating to the Foundation's proposal and award process. This new version of the PAPPG will be effective for proposals submitted, or due, on or after February 24, 2014. Significant changes include:
· Addition to the certification regarding Conflict of Interest regarding the appropriate disclosure process;
· Reiteration that indirect costs are not allowed on participant support costs;
· Small-scale pilot of a new environmental impacts process with a few programs, prior to NSF-wide implementation;
· Updated process for program income reporting; and
· Numerous clarifications throughout the document.
A by-chapter summary of the changes is provided at the beginning of both the Grant Proposal Guide and the Award & Administration Guide to assist with identifying the changes.
NEW PHS 398 Application Forms
An updated SF 424 (R&R) Application Guide and instructions for NIH and Other PHS Agencies is available and must be used for all applications intended for proposals with due dates on or after September 25, 2013. These instructions incorporate numerous clarifications, updates, and policy announcement that have been released since June 2009. Some changes of note include the following areas:
- Changes in Supplemental Grant Application Instructions
- Notice of Proprietary Information
- Updates to Biographical Sketch
- Research Plans which include Human Embryonic Stem Cells
- Letters of Support
- Appendix
The notice regarding the changes can be found at:
The new forms can be found at:
Currently, NSF's Fastlane allows PIs to start a proposal by copying from a previously submitted proposal or by using a previously created template.
Starting August, applicants will be able to copy only those proposals submitted under the current version of NSF's Grant Proposal Guide. In addition, you will no longer be able to create and save templates in Fastlane.
However, the process for creating new proposals in Fastlane remains unchanged.
National Science Foundation and letters of support
The NSF does not accept letters of support with proposals unless required by specific program solicitations. When requested, letters of support must be unique to the specific proposal submitted and cannot be altered without the author's explicit prior approval. When not requested, including letters of support may cause a proposal to be returned without review.
Letters of collaboration should be included to describe and document substantial collaboration with individuals not included in the budget or as required in program solicitations. These letters of collaboration should NOT include personal endorsements or recommendation of the investigator or any language which would indicate support of the project. The letters should strictly document the nature of the collaboration such as intellectual contributions to the project; permission to access a site, an instrument, or facility; offer of samples and materials for research; logistical support to the research and education program; and mentoring of U.S. students at a foreign site. The project description should document the nature and need for all collaborations. Description of the resources available at the collaborating institution should be included in the Facilities section of the proposal rather than included in the letter.
Depending on the program to which a proposal is being submitted, letters of collaboration which include endorsement language may cause proposals to be returned without review. Other program officers may remove the letters from the proposal prior to review. Our recommendation is to request your letters from your collaborators well in advance of your submission date so that any required changes can be included at the time of submission.
The National Science Foundation Career-Life Balance (CLB) Supplemental Funding Opportunities in support of Postdoctoral Investigators funded by NSF awards provides additional personnel (i.e. research technicians or equivalent) to sustain research while the postdoctoral research is on family leave. These requests may include funding for up to 3 months of salary support for a maximum of $12,000 in salary plus associated fringe benefits and indirect costs.
Special instructions for use by Principal Investigators and Sponsored Programs Office can be found at:
If you currently have an NSF award which includes funding for a postdoctoral employee who is or will be on family leave, and you are interested in submitting supplemental funding request, please contact Becky Hayes at firstname.lastname@example.com.
NIH will be transitioning to updated electronic application forms packages. These packages, identified with a Competition ID of FORMS-C, will be required for all applications with due dates on or after September 25, 2013 with the following exceptions:
- Individual Research Career Development Award Programs (Ks), Institutional Training and Career Development Programs (Ts and Ds) and Individual National Research Service Awards (Fs) applicants will be required to use FORMS-C packages for due dates on or after January 25, 2014.
- Small Business programs (SBIR/STTR) applicants will transition to FORMS-C packages later in 2014, when we can combine these form changes with anticipated form changes relating to the Small Business Authorization Act.
Details of the form changes are documented at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/ElectronicReceipt/files/FORMS-C_Changes.pdf.
Full details can be found at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-13-075.html
The U.S. State Department has released their newest Open Competition for International Visitor Leadership Program Assistance Award. This program seeks to increase mutual understanding between the U.S. and foreign publics through carefully designed professional programs. IVLP projects support U.S. foreign policy objectives. Participants are current or potential foreign leaders in government, politics, media, education, science, non-government organizations (NGOs), the arts, and other key fields. They are selected by officers of U.S. embassies overseas and are approved by the DOS staff in Washington, D.C. Each project will focus on a substantive theme. Some typical IVLP projects themes are: (1) agriculture; (2) counterterrorism; (3) democracy and human rights (4) economic and business development; (5) education; (6) environmental issues; (7) freedom of information; (8) international crime; (9) media; (10) rule of law; (11) science and technology; (12) tolerance and diversity; (13) U.S. foreign policy, and (14) U.S. government and political system, and (15) Women's Issues. Under the International Visitor Leadership Program, DOS permits institutions to submit a maximum of one proposal. Proposals are due June 7, 2013.
The program announcement can be found at:
Due to these limitations, Sponsored Programs is requiring submission of letters of interest by May 13, 2013. If you intend to submit, please forward your letter of interest, to include a brief description of your project, to Becky Hayes at firstname.lastname@example.com . Your letter of interest should be no more than 3 pages. If Sponsored Programs receives more than one letter of interest, an internal review will follow.
The National Institute of Health Centers of Excellence for Research on CAM (P01) – PAR-12-151 encourages applications that propose to conduct research that is of high-priority to NCCAM that requiressynergistic collaboration between outstanding scientists, and the synthesis of multiple research approaches by multi-disciplinary research teams. The CERC mechanism is designed to support research in which the funding of three or four synergistic, highly meritorious projects as a group offers significant scientific advantages over support of the same projects as individual research grants. Each CERC must consist, throughout the duration of the award, of three or four research projects, focused on basic, mechanistic, and/or translational research questions relevant to the research priorities described in the current NCCAM Strategic Plan. Under Centers of Excellence for Research on CAM, NIH permits institutions to submit only one application. Proposals are due September 25, 2013.
The website for a full set of guidelines is:
Due to these limitations, Sponsored Programs is requiring submission of letters of interest by July 12, 2013. If you intend to submit, please forward your letter of interest, to include a brief description of your project, to Becky Hayes at email@example.com . Your letter of interest should be no more than 3 pages. If Sponsored Programs receives more than one letter of interest, an internal review will follow.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) have released information concerning the potential impact of the FY 2013 Sequestration on awards within each agency and the planned operation in the event of Sequestration. The agencies are currently operating under a Continuing Resolution that will expire on March 27, 2013. Revisions to these notices may be necessary.
Under the Sequestration, the FY 2013 appropriations of the National Science Foundation will be reduced by 5 percent. The NSF intends to protect commitments to NSF's core mission and maintain existing awards; protect the NSF workforce; and protect STEM human capital development programs. With these principles in mind, the major impact of sequestration will be seen in reductions to the number of new research grants and cooperative agreements awarded in FY 2013. NSF anticipates reducing the number of awards by approximately 1,000.
In an effort to minimize disruption of scientific research, FY 2013 NSF continuing grants and annual increments for cooperative agreement are expected to be provided funds as scheduled. Overall funding constraints may require reductions to certain major investments that will be handled on a case-by-case basis.
While under the Continuing Resolution, the National Institutes of Health are currently funding non-competing continuation awards at a level below that indicated on the most recent Notice of Award (generally up to 90% of the previously committed level). Funding may be reduced further by the sequestration. In addition, NIH expects to make fewer competing awards. NIH Institutes and Centers will announce respective approaches to meeting the new budget levels.
Upcoming Changes to the Financial Conflict of Interest Policy
The Public Health Service (PHS) has implemented new regulations governing Financial Conflict of Interest (FCOI) policy for PHS funded research (from such agencies as NIH, CDC, HRSA, AHRQ, SAMHSA, Medicare). As a result, Kent State University will be implementing revised Conflict of Interest Policy and procedures incorporating changes for all PHS-funded investigators and investigators funded by other agencies that have adopted the PHS FCOI policy (such as the American Heart Association). This includes PHS funded subawards. Some of the changes in the regulation include additional reporting requirements and the addition of a training requirement.
The revised policy and procedures are required to be in place by August 24, 2012. The policy applies to all individuals who are involved in the design, conduct or reporting of research (including graduate students and post docs as appropriate).
As updates are available and required training modules are created, announcements will be disseminated through research listservs and the Sponsored Programs news page.
NIH Just-in-Time (JIT) Requests
Many federal agencies request additional information after a proposal has been submitted, during the review process. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) makes this request through the Just-in-Time (JIT) process. These requests commonly include:
· Other Support documentation
· Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval
· Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) approval
· Human subject training requirement certification
· Budget revisions and justification
· Subrecipient documentation listed above
JIT requests are not a notice of grant award, but simply a request for additional information for a proposal under consideration. These JIT requests are being sent by the NIH to the principal investigators. If you receive a JIT request, please forward it to the Sponsored Programs Administrator with whom you worked when submitting your proposal or to me. We will work with you in submitting your required documents. All documentation must be approved and forwarded to the sponsor by the Sponsored Programs Office in order to meet the NIH requirements.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Becky Hayes
Assistant Director, Sponsored Programs
USDA Women and Minorities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Fields Program
USDA Women and Minorities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Fields Program (WAMS) supports research and extension projects that have robust collaborations to increase the participation of women and underrepresented minorities from rural areas in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields that are relevant to USDA priorities identified by the Secretary: (i) Promotion of a safe, sufficient, and nutritious food supply for all Americans and for people around the world; (ii) Sustainable agricultural policies that foster economic viability for small and mid-sized farms and rural businesses, protect natural resources, and promote value-added agriculture; (iii) national leadership in climate change mitigation and adaptation; (iv) Building a modern workplace with a modern workforce; and (v) Support for 21st century rural communities. See: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/fo/womenandminoritiesinsciencetechnologyengineeringandmathematics.cfm
NEW – A Thesaurus-Based Search Tool for NIH funded projects
LikeThis is a new search tool which aids investigators in finding other research projects with similar goals and objectives as their own. This can be done by entering specific scientific terms or by accessing their own application or grant and clicking on the new LikeThis link available through eRA Commons. Investigators will be provided a list of similar funded projects and/or publications as well as a list of scientific terms and their corresponding weights within the publications.
Here are some helpful resources to help you navigate LikeThis
Overview <http://era.nih.gov/services_for_applicants/like_this/likethis.cfm>
User Guide <http://era.nih.gov/files/LikeThis_user_guide.pdf>
FAQs <http://era.nih.gov/commons/faq_commons.cfm#XVII
The Dangers in Delay-Office of Extramural Research
National Institutes of Health
As the electronic submission process has improved, so have the potential dangers when submitting an application near the deadline.
One of the most fundamental steps you can take to ensure consideration of your application is to make certain we receive it successfully. This means applying well before the due date. Now we know we preach this often, but it is as true now as ever before.
As people become more confident in the ability of eRA to process applications quickly, we see an increasing backlog of "last minute" applications on submission due dates. For a recent December due date, more than 1,000 applications were submitted in the final hour. Here is the rub. This rush of submissions can create a potential back-log in processing; checking for errors can take up to 4 hours. Remember that a submission must be error free before it can be sent on for review.
What does this mean for you? Take this possible scenario…
- The application is due at 5 p.m.
- You submit at 4 p.m. on the due date.
- Processing takes an hour and 45 minutes.
- Two errors were identified.
You are now 45 minutes past the submission deadline with no chance to correct the errors that were identified. Not good. NIH's late policy will not allow for the consideration of this application. Had you submitted in the morning of the due date, or even the day or two before, you would have had plenty of time to correct the errors and submit a error-free application.
Please, we want your applications. Submit early.
National Science Foundation Announcement
Dear Colleague:
The purpose of this memorandum is to inform you of recent developments in the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). There was a recent change in policy that NSF has decided to reconsider. In particular, the policy concerns what can be expected of Fellows during the three years they receive NSF funding (on tenure). NSF has decided to reinstate the previous policy with respect to this issue while further study is conducted to inform this and other GRFP policies. The policy that will be in effect during the 2011-2012 Fellowship Year is an updated version of the one described in the 2009 Guide (NSF 09-62), which is as follows:
Each Fellow is expected to devote full time to advanced scientific study or work during tenure. However, because it is generally accepted that teaching or similar activity constitutes a valuable part of the education and training of many graduate students, a Fellow may undertake a reasonable amount of such activities, without NSF approval. It is expected that furtherance of the Fellow's educational objectives and the gain of substantive teaching or other experience, not service to the institution as such, will govern these activities. Compensation for such activities is permitted based on the affiliated institution's policies and the general employment policies outlined in this document.
You can refer to the 2011 Guide (NSF 11-031) at http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf11031 for further information about teaching, research, and other work activities during tenure years.
We apologize for confusion these changes may have caused, but look forward to working with you to ensure the GRFP is as effective as possible in helping to ensure the vitality of the U. S. scientific and engineering workforce.
The Graduate Research Fellowship Program Office
Division of Graduate Education
Directorate for Education & Human Resources
National Science Foundation
FastLane will begin automated compliance checking for the data management plan starting January 15th and proposals (including unsolicited proposals) that do not comply with the requirement will be prevented from submission.
We encourage you to familiarize yourself with the new PAPP Guide, and visit the Policy Office website (http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/) for additional information. We have developed an entire suite of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on topics such as general proposal preparation and award administration, Project Outcomes Reports, Responsible Conduct of Research, Data Management Plans and Cost Sharing. The Policy Office updates these FAQs as new questions are raised, to keep the community aware of emerging issues, so please visit our site often to access the latest information on NSF policies and procedures.
If you have any questions regarding these changes, please contact the Policy Office on (703) 292-8243 or by e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com.
NSF Data Management Plan Requirements
Proposals submitted or due on or after January 18, 2011, must include a supplementary document of no more than two pages labeled "Data Management Plan". This supplementary document should describe how the proposal will conform to NSF policy on the dissemination and sharing of research results. See Grant Proposal Guide (GPG) Chapter II.C.2.j for full policy implementation.
More information can be found at: http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/dmp.jsp.

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Maybe Evan Rodriguez will be with the Bears this season.
Maybe he won't be.
If there is one takeaway from Rodriguez's latest missteps it is this: The Bears better not be counting on him.
The Bears have no intention of cutting Rodriguez because of his DUI arrest on Friday. On Tuesday, general manager Phil Emery said the Bears will continue to work toward fulfilling the role they had mapped out for Rodriguez when they chose him in the fourth round of the 2012 draft.
They really have no choice as the collective bargaining agreement prohibits any club from disciplining or cutting a player for violating the NFL's substance abuse policy.
The NFL Players Association is in a particularly feisty mood these days. Stung that the NFL got the better of it in the CBA, and seething over the way veterans have been squeezed, the NFLPA has been contesting almost everything.
That means filing grievances. So if a team cuts a player like Rodriguez for what clearly is a non-performance issue, it better be ready for a court fight.
For all of Rodriguez's mistakes, he never has been convicted of anything.
So it might be difficult, if not impossible, to win a grievance for cutting a player in Rodriguez's situation.
Still, Rodriguez is making it apparent that when the Bears need him most, he could have a hangover or in a jail cell or even suspended. He is likely to enter the NFL substance abuse program soon if he has not already.
And because they can't rely on him to be on the field opening day for whatever reason, the Bears have to start thinking about options.
There is no one else on the Bears roster who can do what Rodriguez can do. And there probably is no one on the street either, though they are bringing in Eddie Williams for a tryout Friday.
Williams is a fullback/tight end similar to Rodriguez who was with the Bears previously. He also spent time with the Redskins, Browns and Seahawks.
Part of the benefit of having coach Marc Trestman at the reigns of the Bears offense is he is very open to adjusting to whatever he has in personnel. He isn't one of those coaches who says, "I must have this, that and the other" for his offense to function.
Last year when Trestman was the coach of the Canadian League Alouettes, he responded to a rash of injuries at wide receiver with outside-the-box thinking rather than finding receivers off the street who could do a poor imitation of what his injured ones could do.
It was a factor in general manager Phil Emery hiring him as he said said in Trestman's introductory press conference.
"It came down to the best players on their roster were tight ends, so what did Marc do?" Emery said. "He adapted to the circumstances, he put three tight ends in the game, he moved the ball and he won games. Not only can he adapt to the personnel, he adapts to situations very easily."
At another point late last season, the Alouettes traveled to Regina to play the Roughriders in a game with postseason implications. On the morning of the game, Trestman learned starting fullback/tight end/h-back Patrick Lavoi would be a late scratch because of a back injury.
So Trestman and his staff put together a new game plan on the fly that featured good dose of four wide receiver formations, and his team prevailed 34-28.
That shows the Bears could attempt to replace Rodriguez not with a clone, but with a combination of players: an extra wide receiver like Joe Anderson, a fleet tight end like Fendi Onubun, a smooth route runner out of the backfield like Matt Forte, a blocking tight end like Steve Maneri and a free agent like Williams.
Maybe it's about a run instead of a pass, play action instead of straight drop back, out rout instead of a shallow cross.
What the latest developments with Rodriguez really tell us is Trestman needs to get his imagination working.
It won't be up to Harvey Unga if Rodriguez needs replacing at some point.
It will be up to Marc Trestman.
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Serta's iComfort Directions line features new gel designs.
Called iComfort Directions, the line introduces what Serta says is the industry's first dual action gel memory foam, Cool Action Dual Effects. It features a new gel that uses phase-change materials encapsulated in gel to capture, store and dissipate heat away from the mattress. It also offers 25% more gel than iComfort's original Cool Action gel memory foam.
Serta says the new design provides enhanced cooling from its surface but also adds individualized support from the core.
The four models in the iComfort Directions line retail from $1,999 to $2,999, and are part of a major push by Serta to maintain the double-digit sales growth the iComfort line has enjoyed. Serta says iComfort, launched two years ago here, has been the most successful product launch in bedding history.
Bob Sherman, Serta's president, said the new line represents "the next-generation of gel bedding." Company officials said they were pleased by the strong response the beds received at market.
The iComfort Directions line features three other new technologies, in addition to the dual action gel memory foam. The line also introduces EverCool Gfx, which Serta says is the first memory foam to incorporate a super-fine infusion of heat-conducting graphene, which offers 25% more heat dissipation ability than the Serta's original Kool Comfort memory foam.
Also new are Pods, a gelactivated support system. The macro gel discs help provide extra push-back support from the lower portions of the mattress, while maintaining a firm seating edge, the company said.
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Even the best meeting can reach a point where energy begins to flag, attention wanes, and stress begins to build. What better way to handle those challenges than with a spa break? More and more planners are bringing the spa to the meeting by incorporating everything from 10-minute chair massages to yoga stretches during the breaks.
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Maria Sawyer, director of sales and marketing at the Canyon Ranch SpaClub at the Venetian in Las Vegas, says that spa breaks are popular, in part, because "companies are becoming more interested in the health of their employees. It's definitely a growing trend," she says. "It's certainly more popular now than when we opened five years ago." She also points out that planners contact her about spa breaks before she has a chance to contact planners.
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It was a countdown to turn on the TV on Tuesday.
I knew that this midterm election was going to be a disaster for Democrats. That this so called "wave" of Republican victories may give conservatives control of both House and Senate. This wasn't something I wanted to see yet I couldn't wait to begin watching election returns.
Perhaps I had some hope that the pre-election polls were wrong. That the Republicans weren't going to get the support that had been forecast. I hoped to see a rejection of the backwards politics of Rand Paul, Sarah Palin and Colorado's own local conservative loser, Tom Tancredo, who was running for governor of Colorado on the Constitution Party ticket.
I went into Tuesday hoping that voters who supported Barack Obama just two years ago could stand strong against the Republican push to keep the country moving in a positive direction.
As it turns out, I shouldn't have turned on the TV.
My gloomy evening of election coverage started with a disturbing victory speech by tea party candidate Rand Paul, who had just won the Kentucky Senate race over Democrat Jack Conway.
"I have a message," Paul screamed into the microphone. "We've come to take our government back." His robot supporters held up signs and cheered. Political canned laughter. "There's a tea party title wave and we are sending a message."
Kentucky was one of the first tea party victories to be called in what would be come a long night.
It was at that point, I asked my wife if we should just go see the new Jackass 3D movie instead of watching depressing election results. Hell, at least the Jackass 3D movie would be somewhat educational in comparison to what I was watching at the time.
It was an unnerving night in Portland, needless to say. The Republican wave had taken control of the House and was very close to taking the Senate.
Even though I have been living in Portland for nearly three months, my focus on the evening had been Colorado. Could the incumbent Senator, who was appointed to his seat, win an election in such a volatile time in U.S. politics as a Democrat against the tea party-supported Ken Buck, who shamelessly compared homosexuality to alcoholism on national television prior to the election. In crazy times like these, even a candidate like Buck has a chance at victory. Completely nerve-racking.
Bennet had started the night off in the lead by about five to six percentage points. Throughout the night, that gap narrowed until Buck took the lead by three percentage points. I looked mindlessly into my computer screen waiting for a result in that race and finally at 1:30 a.m. decided I would try to get some sleep. I laid my head on the pillow expecting to wake up to another Rand Paul-esq victory speech, this time by Ken Buck. It was a reality I really didn't want to face.
My mind raced as I tried to force myself to sleep. Has it only been two years since President Obama won the popular vote of the people with so much hope and progressive ideals? Can anyone remember the time? It was just two years ago. People were in favor of health care reform. For change. Even though the poor economic conditions were handed to him, he still takes the blame. There was so much anger against the GOP just two years ago. Where did that anger go? I liked that anger. I am still angry at the GOP. The Democrats along with the party of "no" weren't able to do everything they set out to do but they did do a hell of a lot considering the circumstances.
Yes, the recession still has a stranglehold on the American people. The unemployment rate is still high at just below 10 percent. But does anyone with any real sense of reality believe that all of those economic problems are going to be solved overnight? Or in two years for that matter? Are the policies of one politician are going to fix those problems immediately? A slumping economy is an out of control beast. No one person has the correct answer on how to fix it.
I guess the problem with Americans is that we expect instantaneous results. We love the fact that we can click a button and rent a movie on our computer instantly. We love instant credit! Instant gratification of a McDonald's Big Mac at a drive through window. Instant love texts on our phones. Brett Favre likes it. Like Veruca Salt, we want it now! We demand it now!
So I guess after two years, half a presidency, the Democrats need to be thrown out of office. "Take out the trash on Nov. 2" as some of you said. Obama didn't fix the economy instantly.
So instead of being reasonable about a timeframe for an economy to recover, the voters have spoken and voted for tea partiers. I sure hope that those tea partiers who did win on Tuesday will hold true to their words.
The tea party's battle cry is "small government, tax cuts, and cut spending" yet they never seem to answer the question of what programs they plan on cutting. (Really what they man is tax cuts for the rich.) Specifically, what programs do they plan to cut? If anyone can get a direct, specific answer out of a tea partier, let me know.
So really, for those conservatives who won on Tuesday that are looking to cut the size of government back, to cut spending, the joke is on them. There is a group of interested voters associated with any and all programs right now. Believe me, the tea partiers are going to have trouble cutting programs like they said they would when they were running for office. Now that they will be in office, lets see how effective they really are.
Already, Rand has said he wants to set up a tea party caucus. As a left-leaning progressive thinker, I say go for it Rand. Go for it. I can't wait to watch the squabbling between tea partiers and Republicans on how extremely right they want to be.
Perhaps there will be a silver lining in all of this for the Democrats who lost on Tuesday. The 2012 race for the White House started on Wednesday. Sarah Palin is foaming at the mouth already. Sweet. You betcha I want Palin in the race again.
For now, I think we can all sit back and watch the ineffectiveness of the tea party/conservative movement. (For God sakes, if they are going to be a real political movement, create a regulated nomination process like all real political parties do!)
And if you voted for them, I hope you hold them accountable to what they said. I, for one, don't believe they have the ability to do whatever it is they have promised.
Oh, yeah. The news for Coloradoans wasn't all bad on Wednesday morning. It was a pleasant surprise to find out that Michael Bennet had finally beat out buck in one of the nation's tightest races. Bennet, I believe, will be good for all of Colorado because he is willing to compromise and reason. Reason is what our government needs right now. Not extreme thinking.


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Of course it did lead to risky lending. Obvious to the least casual observer. A no-brainer.
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I´m sure that this will be the top story on tonight´s newscast at all the media outlets! /s
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So when is Obama going to start blaming (drumroll please) Clinton!
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Obama was the attorney representing a group of low income would be borrowers who sued to force banks to lend to them even though they did not qualify. He is at the heart of the problem.
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Now that they have quietly reactivated the CRA we will get to see history repeat itself.
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A study was not needed. It was obvious.In 1999 I was at a late night party chit-chatting with a guy who was a mortgage lender. He was lowest man on the totem pole in his company. He sold to the borrowers and wrote the paper. But he predicted everything in that fifteen minute conversation. Housing bubble. Pyramid scheme. Home prices inflated. Eventual collapse. Banks in trouble. Many mortgage defaults. And all because they were under pressure to make these loans from multiple Clinton administration departments. Most of which were acting to enforce the CRA. He also claimed that redlining was a fiction. We were talking about it because the Atlanta news had a story about 200 loans which had been done by a local bank a few years before due to pressure from local protesters and all 200 loans had now defaulted. His bosses didn´t want to make the now-known-as-sub-prime loans they were all making but it was either that or the government shut them down.Wish I had gotten his name. I look back now and it was like he had landed from the future. But the truth is - it was all obvious at the time to anyone with a brain. And it was all spelled out in a late night conversation standing next to a pony keg.
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Every bank exam report would include a reference to the very public Community Reinvestment Act report, it would beat up the bank over a low rating. Then, when the loans turned into a steaming pile of you know what, it would downgrade their rating.So, banks got some smarts. Had investment bankers spread the "risk" with swaps, real estate investment trusts (REITs) joined the party.It should have worked, except for one thing: If you have nothing to lose when you buy a property, you don´t care whether you make a payment or not.When that happens, it crashes.
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Gee, Chris Dodd and Barney Franks must be sooooo proud. s/o
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Well duh. Examiners are not your friend if you are a banker. Run a good shop with a clean portfolio and you are caused of not serving you whole market and given an unsatisfactory rating. Have the capital and want to expand, well too bad because you have an unsatisfactory rating.So you loosen your credit standards an what do you know loan quality takes a dump on your balance sheet. Then you are advised to take "prompt corrective action" to cure the deficiencies that only exist because you were trying to get a favorable rating to pursue an expansion. Well that is no longer an issue because you had to replentish your loan loss reserve due to the losses from that special group of loans. Bottom line, don´t let a regulator run your bank.Just a few thoughts from an Old School Banker.
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This is stunning news. Hey, you don´t suppose those Credit Derivatives are not worth as much as they say?Well at least the smashing of the global financial system, the utter destruction of lifetime savings, the dooming of retirees, was for a good cause. The mega ripoff of trillions for corrupt bankers, politicians and their cronies.
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Under the democrats and Obama, common sense is lost. The banks complied with the CRA and immediately sold those mortgages to a greater fool.
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It doesn´t matter. The narrative has been established. "The worst financial disaster since the Great Depression" was caused by tax breaks for the rich and deregulation. More people believe this than know the truth and in our brave new world, the truth is whatever Obama wants it to be.
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McCain had a chance to get Democrat culpability on the record when he was running for President. He demurred with the usual "reach across the aisle" Barbara Streisand.Now the Dems, with kneepad media help have pinned it on the Republicans.I´ll never forgive McCain for that.
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Yeah, we´ve got a high ´duh´ factor here.
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It takes the right blend of good ideas and good leadership to make the CEO of General Electric's own list of Most Admired Companies.
FORTUNE -- We asked three prominent business leaders -- Jeffrey Immelt, Ursula Burns, and John Donahoe -- which companies they hold in high esteem, and why. Immelt, CEO of General Electric, (No. 15 on our list of Most Admired Companies) talked with reporter Daniel Roberts and listed a veritable Who's Who of companies that continually raise the bar. Edited excerpts:
Q.Which companies do you most admire, and why?
A. I'll give you three companies I really admire, because they're different in terms of what they stand for.
First, FedEx. I find that Fred [Smith] and FedEx (No. 6) have been able to maintain a small company feel even as they've grown, and I think it's just remarkable to see what they've done.
Second, I'll give you IBM (No. 5): a 100-year-old company that has continued to evolve a business model over time.
For the third one, I'd pick Google (No. 2). For a 10-year-old company, they've done more things well in 10 years than just about anybody that I've ever seen.
So, one that's new, one that's been able to scale entrepreneurship, and then IBM, a classic American century-old company that has continued to evolve and change.
What are the attributes of these companies that have made them universally admired? A tech company like Google is so young -- is it all about the good ideas, or is strong leadership the key?
It takes a combination of good ideas and good leadership. I think you can never overstate one to the exclusion of the other. The way that Google has driven search and the ancillary products around it has been a great idea. Take the whole business model behind American Express (No. 16). Even if these companies had great leaders, you know it's the business model that does the talking. So I think the best companies have a good combo of the two. When people lean too hard one way or the other, that's when you find your way off the Fortune Admired list. (Laughs)
Are the corporate attributes you admire today the same ones you admired at the outset of your career? If they've changed, what caused it?
What people admire is very much about the times. If you look at the way you think about a company today, having been through the financial crisis and all the other things, I think people have more of an appreciation for resiliency. Every company recognizes that you're not always going in a straight line. It's the people that keep paddling, even when the tide's against them, that have done well.
I look at The Home Depot (HD), right, it's a great company, but it had lots of years where the housing market stunk, and they kept challenging themselves. So I think everybody has much more appreciation today for resiliency than they did in 1997 or 2007, just given the economic times.
It's something that we've all gone through, and that we recognize, and that we want to see in ourselves. Who gets better when times are tough, and who gives up when times are tough? That's a standard we hold ourselves to, but we've also seen others be able to repurpose and change.
Of your CEO peers at other large companies, who do you look up to or look to for influence in how to build an admirable company?
Sam Palmisano of IBM, Fred Smith -- these are great friends of mine. Frank Blake of The Home Depot -- I know Eric Schmidt from Google -- and people like that. We're constantly reaching out to companies that we can learn from. We do a quarterly management meeting, and we always have outside people come and speak. We had Fred Smith come to our GE Capital meeting, and I've had Ellen Kullman from DuPont (No. 37), Dave Novak from Yum! Brands (YUM). Look, everybody's searching for one good idea, right? That's what you want to get.
I also get together quite frequently with a bunch of people in the New York City area, so Sam, Ken Chenault from American Express, Bill Weldon of J&J (No. 12), Indra Nooyi of Pepsi (No. 32) -- I see them, and we have dinner like once a quarter. And then, you know, Jamie Dimon from JPMorgan has been a good friend of mine for quite some time, and I'm constantly reaching out to people like that for good input.
You were saying that what people admire depends on the times. Which companies do you think have handled the economic crisis especially well?
To a certain extent, I look at financial service companies, because they were in the middle of the storm when the crisis hit. You look at JPMorgan (No. 22) or Wells Fargo (No. 45), and you sit back and say "Well, good for them." They were right in the middle of the financial crisis, and yet they've come through it stronger, on a relative basis. So I think it's beyond just the recession itself, but when you look at people that really took direct hits, given where the crisis went, I think you have to give them the extra benefit of the doubt.
In the wake of the Citizens United decision, with the Supreme Court suggesting that corporations are people, what kind of person do you want your company to be?
I think we've always been a good and generous company when it's come to corporate social responsibility around education and things like that. But personally, I think one of the things that this cycle is proving is that without competitiveness, nothing else really matters. I think in the end, GE is a competitive company, and in the end that might be the best source of CSR. It doesn't matter how much you're giving; if you're not able to create jobs, it's tough to be a good citizen today. And that's not a bad perspective to have.
Havas CEO David Jones, in his book, Who Cares Wins, credits GE's Ecomagination program as a beacon of good CSR...
You know, the essence of Ecomagination was that competitiveness and innovation are at the heart, and it's not really CSR-driven. It's more about innovation, and I think the more we can think about it that way, there are less trade-offs and more positive thinking.
So it sounds like Ecomagination's reputation as a responsible, admirable program is just a happy side effect.
That's exactly right.
Do you only benchmark your company against peers in your industry, or is it important to measure your performance against other best-in-class organizations?
We do try to look at a wide range of other companies. At the last management meeting we had, I had Marc Benioff come and speak, of Salesforce.com (CRM). So we try to look at people like that and say, Hey, is it all applicable to GE? No, but the notion of a CEO who can bring his iPad to a meeting and be tweeting about GE with his sales team while he's talking to the GE leadership team -- it's pretty damn cool. Look, we don't have a lot in common with Salesforce.com, but we better be good where they're good and at stuff that counts. So we try to have a broader net than just where our competitors are.
Do you think large corporations are more admired today by the public than they were ten years ago, or less?
In some ways I think it's maybe about the same. If you allowed yourself to talk about the general public being not just the American public but the global public, I think then there's even more of an appreciation of what we do, because we're every place in the world. Maybe it's harder to be a global company in the U.S. today, maybe marginally, but there's more appreciation for it globally. In many cases, I'd say GE (GE) is just one of a number of companies that have had to go out and sell our stuff in every corner of the world. I think people admire that in the end, because they know it's hard.
What are other companies whose global operations you admire?
IBM clearly is a great global brand, for sure. FedEx is growing. Google (GOOG) not as much yet, but IBM for sure. We see them every place, and they're admired every place. They're a company that we benchmark ourselves against in terms of public appeal, really in every country in the world.
I happened to go last summer on a visit to Tunisia and Egypt with Senator McCain and Senator Kerry, and Coke (No. 4) was there, GE, Exxon (No. 27), and other companies. And I thought it was amazing what Coke does in local markets. As a great American brand, it's extraordinary.
Do philanthropic initiatives really matter, and help a company's reputation?
I think as long as they're hooked to competitiveness and innovation, they have amazing pop. So even education, which is important, ties back to innovation and competitiveness. I think if you can link corporate social responsibility to those things that companies do best, which is compete, when you can touch those two, then I think they're particularly strong.
If you're just giving money to an art museum or something like that, I don't think it helps as much. But if you can tie CSR to innovation for the environment, or making secondary schools better or big things like that, then I think it has extra oomph.
A shorter version of this interview appeared in the March 19, 2012 issue of Fortune.
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