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Another game, another 10+ strikeout day for a Giant pitcher. This game was closer, and not as close, as the 7-2 final would suggest. Hard to believe, but true.
- Pablo Sandoval hit the longest HR I've seen at Petco this year with 2 out in the first - 436' to the beach in deep RC. Two innings later he followed up with a moonshot to RF. It's worth wondering what has happened to Tim Stauffer. In his last 31 innings he's been torched, including 12 HR allowed. His 173 2/3 IP this season is more than double the most innings he'd ever thrown at the major league level. Fatigue maybe?
- Stauffer did hang on to finish six innings. I was mildly surprised Bud Black didn't pinch hit for him in the fourth with Chris Denorfia at third and two out. At that point the score was 4-1. Faced with a similar decision on Saturday afternoon Black also chose to stay with Cory Luebke. At least Stauffer went out and pitched two more effective innings; Luebke got lit up in the fifth inning Saturday and was removed.
- Welcome Back Chris Denorfia. The first three balls he hit were hammered, including his double to deep CF in the fourth which missed being a HR by about 5 feet. However, when he struck out against Santiago Casilla in the ninth it meant every Padre hitter struck out at least once on the afternoon. And that does include the lone pinch hitter (Aaron Cunningham).
- Maybe it's me, but it seems every time Cunningham hits he either strikes out or pops up.
- The 4-1 score held through the seventh, which is why I said at the top the game seemed closer than it was. Giant starter Madison Bumgarner retired 12 in a row after Denorfia's double in the fourth, broken by Bartlett's soft single to CF in the eighth, which is why I said at the top the game seemed not as close as it was.
- The top of the eighth is one of the more surreal innings of the year. Newly acquired reliever Jeff Fulchino walked Andres Torres on 5 pitches. Torres stole second, Jeff Keppinger signed softly to center, Fulchino's 1-0 pitch to Sandoval found the backstop sending Keppinger to second. Sandoval was walked intentionally. After getting Darren Ford to hit into a force out (Torres retired 4-2), Cody Ross hit the next pitch into the LF corner for a 2-run double. Cue the RAIN, and Black taking Fulchino out. Josh Spence walks Brandon Belt; Brad Brach walks Mark Derosa, forcing in a run; the second runner is retired at the plate on Chris Stewart's ground ball to third; and Bumgarner strikes out looking to end the inning.
So four walks (one intentional), three pitching changes (including Fulchino relieving Andrew Carpenter to start the inning), two runners retired at the plate, and a rain squall. Surreal. It sounds better if you sing it to 'A Partridge in a Pear Tree'.
Yesterday's game was the 10th time this season a starting pitcher has rung up at least 10 Padres in a game. It's the second time a Giant has done it; it's the second time said Giant has struck out 13. Tim Lincecum fanned 13 on April 6, the fifth game of the year; San Diego was 3-1 going into that game. Seems like a very long time ago.
Eric Surkamp will make his second career start tonight against Wade LeBlanc. LeBlanc has only faced the Giants once at Petco; he won that night.
It would have helped if I had looked at my notes before I finalized this post. Some other things from yesterday's game that I meant to mention:
- Belt rolled a single to RF in the second, sending Ross to third. Jesus Guzman didn't even flinch as the ball went through the infield. It is entirely possible he had no play on the ball - it was to his right, he was holding Ross at first - however the ball rolled closer to him than it did to Hudson, who ran a long way and couldn't get it. I've played a little 1B in my time; I was surprised Guzman didn't move at all.
- Denorfia might have had a play on Ross at the plate in the third inning, but the ball slipped out of his grasp on the exchange from glove to hand so that went by the boards. He then had a play on Brandon Crawford at first (Crawford had taken a wide turn), but his throw to Hudson (who alertly came over to cover first) was a bit behind him and he couldn't get back to tag Crawford in time. Tough play.
- Torres should have scored on Fulchino's wild pitch in the eighth. The ball ended up kicking all the way to the camera well next to the Padres dugout. No idea what Torres was thinking on that play.
- I think Kyle Blanks got an off-speed pitch on a 2-0 count in the first inning, but it was middle-out on the plate and he fouled it straight back off the end of the bat. He might have been off-balance because he was expecting a fastball, but it really looked like he was trying to pull it. I said it before but it bears repeating - Blanks desperately needs to learn to take that outside pitch the other way and not try to pull everything. I can't understand why any pitcher would ever pitch him inside since he can't handle the outside pitch.
- Jason Bartlett almost lined into an other 5-3 DP in the third inning. It would have been the second time in 3 days that had happened to him, but this time the baserunner (Cameron Maybin) managed to get back. Talk about hitting in tough luck. Maybin inadvertently caught Aubrey Huff's glove hand under his body as he dove back in; Huff came up in obvious pain and eventually left the game because of it.
- Bumgarner set a career high for strikeouts yesterday.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
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Where do you live in the 29910 zip code? Greater Bluffton is a wonderful place with diverse people, varied architecture, and a lovely natural environment. Of course, there is a difference between having a 29910 zip code and living in the town of Bluffton. Some people have a Bluffton mailing address, but actually live outside town limits.
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Denver, Colo., Aug 24, 2012 / 05:03 pm (CNA).- Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila has criticized a Denver city councilwoman for withdrawing a proclamation that praised a Catholic-run company, after she learned that the owners filed a religious freedom lawsuit against the federal government.
"Choosing to marginalize the owners of Hercules for their religiosity is an insult to the founding values of our nation," the Denver archbishop said in an Aug. 23 opinion piece in the Denver Post.
"When religious people are marginalized from the public square all of us lose," he said. "Religious values (like those of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., for example) have served as forces for great public good in America. Public shame of the religiously convicted undermines the American ideal."
His comments come in response to the actions of Denver City Councilwoman Robin Kniech, who had initially intended to recognized the Denver-based HVAC manufacturer Hercules Industries' 50th anniversary.
The business' Catholic owners are suing the Obama administration over a Department of Health and Human Services mandate requiring employers to provide no co-pay insurance coverage for sterilization and contraception, including some abortion-causing drugs. They say the mandate violates their religious freedom.
A federal court has granted the company an injunction against the mandate until the case is resolved.
Kniech withdrew the proposed proclamation before its passage, saying she hoped to avoid a "partisan food fight" in an election year.
Archbishop Aquila said the resolution's withdrawal is "unsurprising" but "disappointing."
"By all appearances, Kniech discovered that Hercules had religious convictions, and she sought distance," he said.
He said that the company's religious values compel it to offer "generous health care coverage and benefits" and to support its unionized workforce.
"The same religious values compel them to protect their right to a clear conscience -- to observe the norms of religious morality in their public life," he wrote.
While the Archbishop Aquila said that governments can legitimately protect the public when religious conscience threatens "essential human freedom or dignity," he rejected any contention that the mandate is in this category.
He also noted that there are "increasing threats" to religious institutions and practices, citing a recent report that showed an increase in hostility to religion.
"The HHS mandate is designed to fund private sexual expression -- and even abortion -- from the coffers of American businesses," he charged. "Trading free access to contraception for our foundational reverence for religious liberty is a betrayal of our history -- and a short-sighted plan for America."
In response to Kniech's decision to withdraw the commendation for Hercules Industries, Colorado House Speaker Frank McNulty issued a commendation for the company on behalf of the Colorado House of Representatives. The Denver Post also editorialized against the councilwoman's action.
Archbishop Aquila said Speaker McNulty "rightly commended" the company.
"I pray the Denver City Council will do the same," he said.
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The Big 12 Conference has announced its Scholar-Athlete of the Year recipients for the 2013 fall sport season. The following student-athletes have been selected as the award-winners for their respective sports based on a vote of each sport's head coaching group. Coaches are not permitted to vote for their own student-athletes.
2013 Big 12 Men's Cross Country Scholar-Athletes of the Year:
Reid Buchanan, Kansas, Jr., Manhattan, Kan./Manhattan & Austin Roth, Texas, Sr., Dallas, Texas/Lake Highlands
Buchanan sports a 3.47 grade point average in electrical engineering at Kansas. The junior is a two-time Academic All-Big 12 First Team member and competed for the Jayhawks in the 2013 NCAA Cross Country Championships after earning a 12th-place finish at the Midwest Regionals.
Buchanan sports a 3.47 grade point average in electrical engineering at Kansas. The junior is a two-time Academic All-Big 12 First Team member and competed for the Jayhawks in the 2013 NCAA Cross Country Championships after earning a 12th-place finish at the Midwest Regionals.
Roth is a seven-time member of the Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll and currently holds a 3.63 GPA while majoring in finance at Texas. The Longhorns finished 14th at the NCAA Cross Country Championships this past fall and earned a third-place finish at the 2013 Big 12 Cross Country Championships.
2013 Big 12 Women's Cross Country Scholar-Athletes of the Year:
Marielle Hall, Texas, Sr., Haddonfield, N.J./Haddonfield Memorial & Sarah Martinelli, West Virginia, Morgantown, W. Va./University High
Hall, a three-time Academic All-Big 12 First Team member, maintains a 3.30 grade point average studying government and is also a two-time cross country All-America recipient and the winner of the 2013 Big 12 Cross Country Championship individual crown. Martinelli has been named to the Academic All-Big 12 First Team for the past two years and currently holds a 3.72 GPA in exercise physiology. She finished eighth at this year's Big 12 Cross Country Championships and helped WVU to a 24th-place finish at the NCAA Championships.
2013 Big 12 Football Scholar-Athlete of the Year: Gabe Ikard, Oklahoma, Sr., Oklahoma City, Okla./Bishop McGuinness
Ikard is the recipient of the Capital One Academic All-America of the Year award for footall and a member of the 2013 Academic All-America Team as well as the recipient of the 2013 Lee Roy Selmon Spirit Award. The two-time All-Big 12 honoree is a semifinalist for the Wuerffel Trophy and a finalist for the Senior CLASS Award, both of which honor individuals for their performances on and off the field. Ikard is the first OU football student-athlete in program history to be named Academic All-America of the Year and is the first to be named a three-time Academic All-American. The Oklahoma City native was already named a 2013 National Football Foundation Scholar Athlete Award winner and will receive an $18,000 post-graduate scholarship. In addition, he is a finalist for the William V. Campbell Trophy as the top scholar-athlete in the nation. Ikard graduated with a perfect 4.0 GPA last May with bachelor's degree in multidisciplinary studies with a biological sciences theme and is currently pursuing a second undergraduate degree from OU.
2013 Big 12 Soccer Scholar-Athlete of the Year: Frances Silva, West Virginia, Overland Park, Kan./Blue Valley North High
The 2013 Capital One Academic All-America of the Year recipient for women's soccer, Silva holds a 3.97 grade point average in WVU's sport management graduate program. Silva also collected 2013 National Soccer Coaches Association of America Women's Scholar All-America First Team honors. Named to the NSCAA/Continental Tire All-America Second Team, she was one of 15 semifinalists for the 2013 M.A.C. Hermann Trophy. A unanimous selection as the Big 12 Conference Offensive Player of the Year, she scored a spot on the all-conference first team and led the Big 12 in goals (15), assists (13) and points (43). Silva is also a two-time Academic All-Big 12 first team honoree and earned the 2013 Dr. Gerald Lage award, the Big 12's highest academic honor.
2013 Big 12 Volleyball Scholar-Athlete of the Year: Sallie McLaurin, Oklahoma, Sr., Midwest City, Okla./Carl Albert
A three-time Academic All-Big 12 honoree, McLaurin maintains a 3.73 grade point average and is majoring in health and exercise science. The senior Sooner also competed in all of Oklahoma's matches last fall, leading the Big 12 in hitting percentage and collecting All-Big 12 First Team honors for the third time in her career. McLaurin was also named a 2013 Capital One Academic All-America first team honoree - one of six student-athletes selected nationally on the first team.
The Big 12 Conference established the Big 12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year Awards in 2012-13 to recognize its outstanding student-athletes.
A Scholar-Athlete of the Year will be named in each of the Conference's sponsored sports.
Scholar-Athlete of the Year nomination criteria includes:
•must be a junior or senior (athletic and academic standing)
•cumulative grade point average of 3.20 or higher
•participation in at least 60% of the team's scheduled contests
•minimum of one year in residence at the institution
Each Big 12 institution will nominate one individual per sport, and the winners will be selected by a vote of the league's head coaches for each sport.


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Gallagher, Huberdeau, Saad named Calder finalistsby Brian Compton
Montreal Canadiens winger Brendan Gallagher, center Jonathan Huberdeau of the Florida Panthers and left wing Brandon Saad of the Chicago Blackhawks are the 2012-13 finalists for the Calder Memorial Trophy, the NHL announced Monday.
The Calder Memorial Trophy is awarded to the League's top rookie.Gallagher, who is celebrating his 21st birthday Monday, had 15 goals and 13 assists in 44 regular-season games for the Canadiens. A fifth-round pick (No. 147) at the 2010 NHL Draft, Gallagher has two goals in the first three games of Montreal's first-round series against the Ottawa Senators in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Huberdeau, the No. 3 pick in 2011, finished second on the Panthers in scoring with 31 points (14 goals, 17 assists) in 48 contests. Huberdeau tied for first in rookie scoring with Edmonton Oilers winger Nail Yakupov, who was the No. 1 pick in 2012.
Saad, 20, tallied 27 points (10 goals, 17 assists) in 46 games for Chicago. A second-round pick (No. 43) in 2011, Saad began the 2012-13 campaign with the Rockford IceHogs of the American Hockey League, where he went 8-12-20 in 31 contests.
All of this season's award winners will be announced during the 2013 Stanley Cup Final, with more detail on format to be released at a later date.


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South African Journal of Surgery
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S. Afr. j. surg. vol.47 no.1 Cape Town feb. 2009
Antibiotic prophylaxis for patients undergoing elective endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography. A survey of South African endoscopists and review of the literature
Martin BrandI; Damon BizosII
IM.B. CH.B., M.R.C.S; Department of Surgery, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
IIM.B. B.CH., F.C.S. (S.A.); Department of Surgery, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
BACKGROUND: Antibiotic prophylaxis for endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is controversial. We set out to assess the current antibiotic prescribing practice among South African endoscopists who perform ERCPs, and then reviewed international guidelines and relevant studies.
METHODS: Our audit of South African endoscopists who perform ERCPs took the form of a questionnaire. For the literature review a Pubmed search was performed from 1978 to March 2008, and these findings were compared with the current practice in South Africa.
RESULTS: No specific protocols were being implemented widely in South Africa, and there was a marked difference in the practice between surgical and medical gastroenterologists, with surgeons using antibiotics more often. There was also a wide spectrum of antibiotic types that were being used.
The Pubmed search revealed only 7 randomised controlled trials, with little consensus between them as to the absolute indications for prophylactic antibiotics in ERCP.
CONCLUSIONS: Guidelines on antibiotic prophylaxis for ERCP are based on poor evidence. Varied opinions on its indications in South Africa may reflect the situation in other countries as well.
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A Connecticut judge has ordered Newtown to comply with a subpoena from the state child advocate's office and turn over the school records of 20-year-old Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting suspect Adam Lanza.
Lanza shot himself after killing 26 students and educators at the elementary school the morning of Dec. 14.
Newtown never questioned the validity of the subpoena, originally sent in March, but asked for a judge to become involved. According to the child advocate's office, the judge confirmed Friday that Newtown must hand over the requested documents.
Officials from the Office of the Child Advocate said they hope to have the records in their possession by early next week.
The record request is part of an investigation into Lanza's background by the Child Fatality Review Panel, which reviews the untimely deaths of children. The panel has already obtained some of Lanza's school and hospital records.
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Nearly 90 percent of respondents to this week's RBJ Daily Report Snap Poll say Eastman Kodak Co.'s proposal to pay performance-based incentives to 15 senior leaders is a bad idea.
Kodak filed a motion last week in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, seeking authority to pay the performance-based incentives outlined in its Emergence Performance Plan; together, they could total more than $17 million.
The top executives and managers—including CEO Antonio Perez—would be paid in cash and deferred stock if they succeed in restructuring the company and unsecured creditors recover 10 percent to 100 percent of what they are owed. If these creditors receive all they are owed, Perez, for example, would get more than $4 million in incentive compensation.
Many companies reorganizing under Chapter 11 have asked bankruptcy judges to approve such incentive plans as a way to keep key executives on board and tie them directly to the success of the restructuring. Kodak's motion notes that the creditors' committee backs the proposal.
Critics say, however, that top leaders at the helm when a company went into bankruptcy should not be singled out for bonuses tied largely to paying off debts.
Kodak's motion comes as its critically important auction of two portfolios of digital patents approaches.
Some 72 percent of respondents said they think it is unlikely that Kodak will achieve its goal of emerging from bankruptcy as a profitable and sustainable business, including 18 percent who said it's not at all likely. When the same question was posed soon after Kodak's Chapter 11 filing in January, 53 percent of respondents answered "unlikely," including 12 percent who said it's not at all likely.
Just 2 percent now are very optimistic about Kodak's restructuring, down from 13 percent in January.
Nearly 800 readers participated in this week's poll, which was conducted July 16 and 17.
In your opinion, is Kodak's proposal to pay performance-based incentives to 15 key senior leaders a good idea or a bad idea?
Good idea: 11%
Bad idea: 89%
In your opinion, how likely is it that Kodak will emerge from Chapter 11 a profitable and sustainable business?
Very likely: 2%
Somewhat likely: 26%
Not very likely: 54%
Not at all likely: 18%
As a small-business owner who worked with Kodak, I'm very dismayed about the bankruptcy. I may end up losing more than $50,000 due to purchases they made before filing for protection. I'm angry about any bonuses and hope they do not happen.
—Trish Ruffino
The Kodak executives led the company into bankruptcy and kept their jobs while at the same time thousands of employees lost their jobs. Then, in order to dig the company out of bankruptcy, the creditors' committee backs the proposal of paying the executives obscene bonuses to dig their way out of their own mess? Would the 15 executives be able to do that without the help of the other employees who still remain there, or the ones who left their blood on the front steps on the way out the door? Absolutely not! So where is the bonus for all of those people who have also worked and sacrificed to try to save the company?
—Wendy Castiglione
I hate to say it, but this is what the Occupy movement was all about. The Kodak board and management team have been an abject failure in every quantifiable measure. For the board to now reward management with huge bonuses gives fodder to the critics of American corporate culture that takes care of its own regardless of performance.
—Bob Sarbane
Let's see: Step 1: Wreck the company. Step 2: Hang around through bankruptcy. Step 3: Get lots of money. So if I do an awful job but hang around while the smoldering rubble burns out, I get money, lots of money? Sign me up!
—D. Ehrich, retired
The current executives at Kodak were not capable of keeping the company out of bankruptcy. Now they need to get the company out of bankruptcy or leave. They should not be rewarded for not doing their jobs.
—Doug Flood
Absolutely no way do you give anyone a bonus when you are in and trying to come out of Chapter 11. These are the same guys who got them there to begin with. They need to put every dollar away for reserve, because it isn't going to be a slam dunk once they emerge from Chapter 11. Not until the company is up on its feet with a long-term, proven profit track record do you even consider paying any bonuses. They have laid off thousands of people, and those who are left there work day to day, worrying if they will have a job tomorrow. It seems like the workers in the plant and offices are the ones making all of the sacrifices, and the management is laughing all the way to the bank. What are they thinking?
—Grant Osman
Is it not the fault of the top executives the company went into Chapter 11? If anyone should get a bonus, it should be the non-exempt employees. They are the ones who suffer by staying.
—Ron Borden
Why award those who have already been rewarded for driving the company into bankruptcy, during which time they still collected large bonuses while their divisions were underperforming? My opinion is they already have received a bonus by still having a job while thousands lost theirs.
—G. Keenan, Xerox Corp.
It's ludicrous to believe that the people who had a large part in driving the company into bankruptcy these past years should now be rewarded to try and save this dysfunctional company from its inevitable demise. But that seems to be the corporate game plan for many larger corporations. Look at the banks: They drove the country to the financial cliff, were bailed out with taxpayer funds and then gave themselves huge bonuses. Kodak needs fresh ideas and a fresh start with new faces, not retread ideas from old faces with outsize egos who are overcompensated, overrated and mostly incompetent.
—Michael Thornton, Rochester
About a year ago, I bought some digital inkjet paper at Staples manufactured by Kodak and overseen by these same people who believe they deserve the opportunity to cut up 17 million between themselves. They (i.e. Kodak) promised me a $13.00 per package rebate making the paper a $1 purchase. The paper had an inherent green tint and no amount of tweaking color balance provided the customer with an acceptable print, before I could go through one package, I received multiple complaints and I decided due to the poor quality of the product I would throw away the rest of the paper and change back to Espon papers. Now, more than 8 or more months later, I have not received my rebate, and regretfully I still receive complaints about that paper's quality. I would ask before they divide up the 17 million if they could see to it and mail me my 26.00 that they promised me in a rebate. I'll pay for the postage if they can't afford it.
—Joe Wierzbowski Plymouth Photo Studio
Are you kidding me? This is exactly the kind of thinking that got Eastman Kodak into this problem. Bonuses, perks, golden parachutes, exorbitant pay for top and middle managers for not performing, and a board of directors without a backbone all led to the company's demise. Do you think you would get a bonus if you screwed up anything the way they did? We would be fired! How anyone can think of rewarding poor performance is ridiculous. I know it will only be paid if they successfully emerge from bankruptcy. Guess what, you're asking to reward the same people that created the problem. That's nuts. I also think that giving a bonus to the middle management, those highly skilled people they wanted to retain was also nuts. Again you rewarded those people who created the problem. When is there going to be some sense of normalcy and good judgment in business affairs for all companies and with the bankruptcy court? This company's management should not be rewarded in any way but rather put under further scrutiny and perhaps even managed by some sort of receiver who is not as lenient as the current court. All of the top managers and the board should have their salaries drastically reduced and paid in Kodak stock. Then if they fail, they get what they deserve as well as if they succeed. If they emerge from bankruptcy then the shareholders should demand the resignation of the top managers and the board members. I don't think they will ever again be a viable company. They're in the home printer market too late, they can't sell their high speed printers, they are selling everything for cash, and are disillusioned to think their patent portfolio is worth what they think. The only viable Eastman Kodak organization left is Eastman Chemical.
—Bob Stein
Not only is the bonus a bad idea but these execs that drove Kodak into the ground should repay the company any past bonuses. The company's stockholders and tens of thousands of laid-off employees, who've all suffered from the executives' actions, deserve a refund. Antonio should be ashamed of himself for asking.
—Joanne Greene-Blose, The Project Solvers of America Inc.
They should also commit to an incentive plan for all other employees that is equal to two times the executives' total. This plan should distribute an equal amount to every full time employee on the same day the executives get paid (if they get paid).
—D. Kennedy, Webster
It defies all sense of fairness to pay the people who bankrupted the company, laid off thousands of employees and then pay them performance bonus for sticking around. Talk about lack of integrity!
—J.A. DePaolis, Penfield
Sad, sad state of affairs—however Eastman Kodak management fostered the environment with high wages, bonuses, etc. while sacrificing innovation in product development and delivery.
—J. Becker
At a minimum, if the suppliers get 30 percent, the management should get only 30 percent of a bonus. But as they ran the ship aground, that fact that it is now (barely) afloat does not mean they should benefit.
—J. Nelson, Williamson
The key to me is that Antonio Perez was in charge when the company went in to bankruptcy. He made repeated statements that all was well and even sued suppliers to force them to continue supplying Kodak. He now wants a bonus for not paying Kodak's obligations. That just isn't right.
—Eric Snavely, Touchstone Technology
Bring in Bain Capital; let them chop the heads off the 15 "senior leaders" who were on watch while Kodak descended into bankruptcy. Nothing but rewards for failure.
—Al Kempf
Not only should the leaders at Kodak not get a bonus, they shouldn't be in their jobs in the first place. How the leadership at Kodak has kept their jobs after mismanaging that company is beyond belief. What about the small businesses and employees that have lost money and/or their jobs over this bankruptcy? Just considering this is insulting to every person hurt by this debacle.
—David Wagner
In this job market, there are many qualified people out there who could do a better job for less. Why shortchange the vendors, who provided products in good faith, for the sake of overpaid executives who underperformed?
—Rich Mileo
These are the same executives who oversaw the selloff of some of the most profitable divisions like medical and chemical, and should have realized they could never be competitive in the digital space. In hindsight they should have sold off film and kept the rest. This bonus is a veiled attempt to split up what's left. They should all be replaced with an outside management team who can hopefully find enough solid ground to save what's left. Asking for a bonus is a farce.
—John Malvaso
CEO Antonio Perez and others were brought in to dismantle the profitable parts of the company and then they're going to get a performance-based incentive on top of it all? Why don't they tell us how much each exec have already made in incentives since they joined Kodak? If they do get it, I hope they all invest it with Bernie Madoff like the B&L execs did with their tens of millions incentives when they took the company private. There is some justice in the world!
—G. Palis
Until the ongoing bad decision making Kodak has been a victim of for the last few decades ends, the end of Kodak appears to be imminent. Paying the key senior executives a bonus is ludicrous! Aren't these the same individuals who have been helping guide Kodak to the brink of destruction all along? Instead of laying off the people who actually perform the daily work on Kodak products; the company should have trimmed the fat at the top first. No more high paid CEOs with golden parachutes. Kodak needs to get back to the ideology and innovative thinking George Eastman had when he began the Eastman Kodak journey so long ago.
—L.S. Decker, MVP Health Care
Paying the people who ran a great company into the ground to stay seems crazy.
—Sig VanDamme
It is a slap in the face to the thousands of loyal Kodakers who have lost their jobs to reward these bunglers with a bonus for emerging from bankruptcy. They should be ashamed of themselves for even asking for a bonus. They certainly don't deserve it.
—Frances Reese
So the company is sinking like a perforated ship due to extremely poor decisions during the tenure of the "key leaders," they are actually IN bankruptcy due to the decisions of the "key leaders," and now when they put some thatch in the holes of the ship, they can earn "performance bonuses"? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
—David Muench, Pittsford
The Kodak bonuses are a joke! These execs are the same execs that have put Kodak in the position it's in right now. If you or I performed the way they did/do, we'd be unemployed!
—Rich Calabrese Jr.
Give executives of a bankrupt company huge cash bonuses if the vendors get paid? This is fiscal and moral insanity. Insuring adequate cash flow to pay employees and vendors is a basic part of their job for which they are paid a substantial salary. Another Kodak kick in the posterior to the employees, vendors, shareholders and Rochester.
—Michael Shacket
The audacity of this motion is mind-boggling. How out of touch are these guys? Perez was brought in 2003 to "save" Kodak from itself. Under his leadership the share price has fallen from $25 to $0.25, thousands of people have lost their livelihoods, retirees have lost benefits, and a great American success story has become an MBA case study in how to run a billion dollar company into bankruptcy. Really.
—Duane Piede, North Coast Energy Associates
Bonuses? Really? Was the pay for Perez and the other executives reduced when Kodak went into bankruptcy? I doubt it. Perhaps he and the rest of them should've been fired for going into bankruptcy in the first place. The executives obviously didn't do their jobs well enough to deserve anything. However, I suspect this is all a ploy by them to later refuse or be denied the bonuses so that it deflects how much they've earned during this demise, not to mention the golden parachutes they certainly aspire to receive after they leave or the company ultimately folds. I've heard the argument that these bonuses are so that Kodak can keep and attract "qualified" executives. First of all, where would an executive whose company fell into bankruptcy go? And secondly, what would attract someone to come to a struggling if not doomed company? Oh yeah, undeserved salary, benefits and bonuses.
—Chuck Maloy, Rockingham Property Group
If the thoughts I'm having were translated into words … What I'm confused by is how management has been and is allowed to continue to stay on at Kodak. Any board of directors? Stockholders? Oversight? Regulations? Accountability? When will the charade end? The level of incompetence past, present and lack of vision for the future is stunning. Absofreakinlutely stunning. … I think in the future, when acknowledging these turbulent times, history will reflect on how tolerant we were to allow failure to be the acceptable norm during this era. How tolerance contributed to, if not was solely the cause of our troubles. Hopefully there will an emergence from accepting incompetence to an era of accountability. When management are done milking the Kodak cow dry, I wonder if they'll pause for even a moment to reflect on the former greatness of the Eastman Kodak Co., the history, the legacy, the discoveries, the market share, the production capabilities, the technology, the property, the laboratories, the infrastructure, the workforce, the worldwide brand recognition and then realize the demise of this great industrial icon was on their watch, during their stewardship, under their direction. Two lifetimes to create, a couple of golden parachutes to destroy. It is obvious to even a novice to understand that they are not worthy of the reins handed over to them. The business plan is to demolish buildings, sell property, assets, intellectual property, and patents. Genius! It would be way too difficult to harness all of those complex assets and actually manage them into a successful venture. Why, people that could do that would be able to be compensated in the millions of dollars! The icing on the cake is the wanton display of greed. There should be shame and pink slips, not bonuses.
—Lou Romano
These people are those responsible for the downfall of Kodak. Why would you reward anyone for being a total failure? They all should have been fired years ago along with the board of directors.
—Harry Caruso, Caruso Asset Management
Kodak's executives are already being paid to do what is necessary to get out of Chapter 11. Why give them double-pay? They caused this predicament! Their pay is that they still have a job (how often has that been said to me and others at Kodak!). Future profitable and sustainable business is not at all likely. Kodak's profitable and sustainable businesses were film products. Management has made absolutely no effort to keep this going. This business has no significant competitors, since digital is in its own niche. I presented the specific huge advantages of film imaging over digital since 1999. These are still valid. Around 2000 I got the financial information about Kodak and its digital competitors. Sony, HP and Microsoft together at that time together were $230 billion businesses, vs. Kodak's $10 billion! I presented this in 2006 at the International Imaging Congress here in Rochester, and published the information at in the proceedings. Thus, it should have been known to Kodak's management since the 1970s that they could not win in the digital imaging area. Considering otherwise is utter stupidity. CEO Carp publicly pronounced that he did not understand why Hollywood was still using film (there are excellent reasons) and that he would convert them to digital! No consideration to find out why Hollywood still wanted film! His heirs followed the same lines to kill their only chance to have a sustaining niche. Even now, Kodak management tries to "win" in areas where there are long-time highly effective competitors. If Kodak comes up with a profitable niche, these competitors will copy it, and compete Kodak kaput. With the Kodak leadership in the present and past 20 years, sadly, chances for a surviving Kodak are zero.
—Ingo H. Leubner
Why would you want to keep the key execs who drove the company into bankruptcy in the first place, much less pay them bonuses for selling off profitable items and patents. As usual the board of directors is not doing their job of due diligence.
—J.H. Peters, EK, retired
Antonio Perez and other top managers are already adequately compensated. Those executives who do not wish to stay on board have had since January to consider their options and make a decision. Paying of creditors is a moral obligation that goes with the territory of being a manager, not one to be rewarded or incentivized.
—Mary Lynn Vickers, owner, The Phantom Chef PCS
So the milking continues.
—Patrick Ho, Rochester Optical
These "key executives" were instrumental in leading Kodak into bankruptcy, so they should not be paid to lead Kodak out of bankruptcy. As for fear they will leave if not paid a bonus, I believe there are many competent people who are available that could do as good or better job than these people. Giving them a bonus also insults all the Kodakers who have lost their jobs because of what these managers have done. There should be no room for bonuses in a bankruptcy proceeding. It is a crime what these and other senior executives before them have done to what at one time was a great company.
—Donald A. Dinero, TWI Learning Partnership
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Chris Wood finally ended his European Tour title drought - and in some style - at the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters.
Wood battled back, but came to the par five last one behind Spaniard Sergio Garcia and South African George Coetzee.
The tee had been moved forward 55 yards, and after a booming drive Wood, who finished fifth in The 2008 Open Championship as an amateur and then third at Turnberry a year later, hit a 202-yard six iron over the water and straight at the flag.
It finished ten feet from the hole, and when he nervelessly sunk the eagle putt two fist-pumps showed what it meant after three runner-up finishes and 19 top-tens previously.
"I've been knocking on the door in previous times and it's not happened. To get it today, to get my first win, it's such an honour. I'm so pleased."
He did claim the Thailand Open last year for his first professional success, but still remembered how he lost the 2010 BMW PGA Championship with a closing 77 and the 2011 Iberdrola Open with a 76 after leading by four.
"It feels good. Blimey, I've seen a few mates picking up trophies and I've been waiting patiently for my time," he said.
"I felt like I was due to win for a couple of years." As for the eagle, Wood added: "Nice way to finish!"
His 69 gave him an 18 under par total of 270 and should take him from 142nd on the Official World Golf Ranking into the top 64, who will contest the WGC-Accenture Match Play in Arizona next month, although the cut-off is not for another two weeks.
Coetzee was left as the nearly man once more - this was his 21st top-ten finish on the circuit - despite a superb 65 containing an eagle and six birdies.
The last of those came courtesy of a pitch to five feet on the 18th. The putt took him one in front, but Garcia birdied the final two holes for a 66 and they then sat and waited to see what Wood could produce.
It was a remarkable effort given a start in which he missed a four foot birdie chance on the second and double bogeyed the 223-yard third after he fired his tee shot wide and then hit the rock face in front of him.
Putts from 35 and 18 feet at the eighth and ninth were just the boost he needed, however, and a 15 footer on the 14th kept him in touch as the pressure built.
Garcia would have gone back into the game's top ten for the first time in more than three years if he had won, but he will take a lot of positives from his first tournament of the year.
"Chris hit a great drive and a great six iron and then a wonderful putt," the Ryder Cup star said afterwards.
"Obviously he's been trying for a while and he deserves it, and after the start he had today, it's quite impressive for him to come back the way he did and win. I gave it my best effort."
Swede Alex Noren and England's Steve Webster tied for fourth, while Justin Rose's 68 for joint 16th kept him at fourth in the World Ranking.
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A young man came to his door to find about 20 people including camera men and several staff from Publishers Clearing House on his front porch.
"Come on out Michael," announced Executive Director Dave Sayer. "Guess what? You just won $5,000 a week forever from Publishers Clearing House."
While Miller stood there, stunned his sister screamed: "Are you kidding me?"
Miller is the youngest to win the contest's "Forever Prize". He recently ordered the "World War II" magazine and entered the sweepstakes. Miller, who lives with his mother, was almost speechless – except to say he did not think he was going to win. But, mom had plenty more to say.
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She took a second to breathe.
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"No," Regina answered. "He lost his job last year. Was that, Michael?"
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Just an hour before Michael got his check, the crew from Publishers Clearing House picked up roses and balloons from the Schnucks on Airport Plaza. That is just a few miles away in Bethalto.
Miller said first thing he will do with the money is buy a brand-new vehicle.
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When I studied American Kenpo in San Antonio, TX, my instructor Curtis Abernathy expressed similar sentiments. He said "Make the opponent fight your fight. Don't try to out-punch a boxer. Don't try to out-kick a kicker. Don't try to wrestle a grappler." And so on.
I thought about these concepts today waiting in another airport. I wondered what sorts of strengths network defenders might have, and if we could try forcing the adversary into fighting our fight and not theirs.
Here are some preliminary thoughts on strengths network defenders might have, and how they can work against intruders.
- Knowledge of assets: An intruder pursuing a targeted, server-side attack will often try to locate a poorly-configured asset. The act of conducting reconnaissance to locate these assets results in the opponent fighting your fight -- if you and/or your defensive systems possess situational awareness. It is not normal for remote hosts to sweep address space for active hosts or individual hosts for listening services. Defenders who manually or automatically take defensive actions when observing such actions can implement blocks that will at least frustrate the observed source IP.
- Knowledge of normal behavior: An intruder who compromises an asset will try to maintain control of that asset. This may take the form of an outbound IRC-based command-and-control channel, an inbound or outbound encrypted channel, or many other variations. To the extend that the intruder does not use a C&C channel that looks like normal behavior for the victim, the intruder is fighting your fight. Whenever you constrain network traffic by blocking, application-aware proxying, and throttling, you force the intruder into using lanes of control that you should architect for maximum policy enforcement and visibility.
- Diversity: Targets running Windows systems or PHP-enabled Web applications are much more likely to be compromised and manipulated by intruders. Attack tools and exploits for these platforms are plentiful and well-understood by the enemy. If you present a different look to the intruder, you are making him fight your fight. An intruder who discovers a target running an unknown application on an unfamiliar OS is, at the very least, going to spend some time researching and probing that target for vulnerabilities. If you possess situational awareness, diversity buys time for defensive actions.
- Situational awareness: A well-instrumented network will possess greater knowledge of the battlespace than an intruder. A network architected and operated with visibility in mind provides greater information on activity than one without access to network traffic. Unless the intruder implements his own measures to expand his visibility (compromising a switch to enable a SPAN port, controlling a router, etc.), the defender will know more about the scope of an attack than the intruder. Of course, the intruder will have absolute knowledge of his activities because he is executing them, possibly via an encrypted channel.
These are some initial ideas recorded in an airport. I may augment them as time permits.
Notice that if you don't know your assets or normal behavior, if you run the same vanilla systems as the rest of the world, and you don't pay attention to network activity, you have zero strengths in the fight beyond (hopefully) properly configured assets. We all have those, right?
At the risk of involving myself in a silly debate, I'd like to briefly mention how these factors affect the decision to run OpenSSH on a nonstandard port. Apparently several people with a lot of free time have been vigorously arguing that "security through obscurity" is bad in all its forms, period. I don't think any rational security professional would argue that relying only upon security through obscurity is a sound security policy. However, integrating security through obscurity with other measures can help force an intruder to fight your fight. Here's an example.
I'm sure you've seen many brute force login attacks against OpenSSH services over the past year or two years. I finally decided I'd seen enough of these on my systems, so I moved sshd to nonstandard ports. Is that security through obscurity? Probably. Have I seen any more brute force attacks against sshd since changing the port? Nope. As far as I'm concerned, a defensive maneuver that took literally 5 seconds per server has been well worth it. My logs are not filling with records of these attacks. I can concentrate on other issues.
Now, what happens if someone really takes an interest in one or more of my servers? In order to find sshd, he needs to port scan all 65535 TCP ports. That activity is going to make him fight my fight, because scanning is way outside the normal profile for activity involving my servers. Will he eventually find sshd? Yes, unless my systems automatically detect the scan and block it. Are there ways to make the intruder's ability to connect to sshd even more difficult? Sure -- take a look at Mike Rash's Single Packet Authorization implementations. The bottom line is that a defensive action which cost me virtually nothing has increased the amount of work the intruder must perform to attack sshd.
If I knew my action to change sshd's port could be discovered by the intruder with minimal effort (perhaps they have visibility of the change via illicit monitoring) then obscurity has been lost and the change is not worthwhile.
As a final thought, it's paramount to consider cost when making security decisions. If altering the sshd port had required buying new software licenses, hardware, personnel training, etc., it would not have been worth the effort.
I would be interested in hearing your thoughts on ways to get the intruder to fight your fight. These are all strictly defensive measures, since offense is usually beyond the rules for most of us.


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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Vatican police said Wednesday they found thousands of documents hidden inside the home of Pope Benedict XVI's former butler, including original documents signed by the pope bearing indications they should be destroyed.
The police officers testified in the trial of Paolo Gabriele, the pope's once-trusted butler who faces four years in prison if convicted of aggravated theft for allegedly stealing papal documents and leaking them.
Prosecutors have said Gabriele, a devout 46-year-old father of three, confessed to leaking copies of the documents to journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi because he wanted to expose the "evil and corruption" in the church to help put it back on the right path.
The documents have ignited an uproar, for they revealed infighting and alleged corruption in the Vatican as the pope grows older and more frail. The security breach has been one of the most damaging scandals of Benedict's seven-year papacy.
Gabriele said Tuesday he stood by his June 5 confession and acknowledged he betrayed the pope's trust, but he nevertheless pleaded innocent to the charge of aggravated theft.
The final four witnesses in the trial were heard Wednesday and closing arguments are set for Saturday, when a verdict by the three-judge Vatican panel is expected.
A separate Vatican investigation began Tuesday after Gabriele's attorney complained that her client endured improper detention conditions during his first 20 days in jail. On Wednesday, the officer in charge of Gabriele's care defended his treatment and said Gabriele "repeatedly" thanked him for taking such good care of him and his family.
Wednesday's testimony inside the Vatican tribunal played out against the backdrop of a surreal scene nearby in St. Peter's Square: As Benedict presided over his weekly general audience, a man who eluded Vatican security sat perched on the dome of the basilica with a banner saying "Help! Enough Monti!" — a reference to Italian Premier Mario Monti and his austerity measures that are aimed at taming Italy's massive debt.
The Vatican said the man had refused offers to meet with government ministers if he came down.
Inside the tribunal, Vatican police inspector Silvano Carli told the court Wednesday that of the hundreds of thousands of papers seized from Gabriele's home — they filled 82 boxes — about 1,000 were of interest since they were original or photocopied Vatican documents.
Some came from the pope's office, some carried the processing codes of the secretariat of state, others originated in various Vatican congregations "and some documents concerned the total privacy and private life of the Holy Father," said police officer Stefano De Santis.
He said some of the originals carried the pope's handwriting with a note to destroy them written in German. Some were reproduced in Nuzzi's book "His Holiness: Pope Benedict XVI's secret papers," he said.
The vast majority of the documents concerned esoteric religious issues and academic research into Freemasonry, Christianity, Buddhism, yoga and politicians, as well as the Vatican bank, the officers said.
"'See how much I like to read and study,"' De Santis quoted Gabriele as telling the officers during the May 23 search of his home, which resulted in his arrest.
The Vatican police, who protect the pope alongside the Swiss Guards, emphasized the vast amount of documentation found, listing the subject matter in virtually the same order even though they hadn't heard each other's testimony.
Vatican police vice commissioner Luca Cintia was also questioned about his participation in the May 23 search, but he asked to address the court about allegations that Gabriele had been subject to improper detention conditions.
Gabriele attorney Cristiana Arru says her client spent his first 20 days in detention in a cell where he couldn't stretch his arms fully and where the lights were kept on 24 hours a day.
The Vatican defended its treatment of Gabriele, noting that the cell conformed to international standards, saying that the lights were kept on as a security measure and to prevent Gabriele from harming himself. It said he even asked for them to be kept on so he wouldn't be so lonely.
"He was treated with kid gloves," Cintia testified, adding that Gabriele had "repeatedly" thanked his jailers for treating him and his family so well.
Neither Arru nor her predecessor had ever mentioned improper detention conditions to the press before. Arru said the positive characterization applied after he had been moved to a larger cell and not during his initial detention.
Yet on May 28, five days after his arrest when Gabriele was still in the small cell, Gabriele's then lead lawyer, Carlo Fusco, issued a statement saying his client was "very serene and calm" and made no complaint about his detention conditions.
The Vatican police have warned that they might file a counter complaint against Arru and Gabriele if the Vatican investigation into their allegations is unfounded.
With the last of the witnesses heard Wednesday, part of Arru's defense strategy appeared to take shape: She asked each officer if he had participated in a separate search of Gabriele's apartment in Castel Gandolfo, where the pope spends his summers.
Vatican police are entitled to inspect areas outside of Vatican City without explicit authorization from Italian authorities. But Vatican police not only inspected the Castel Gandolfo apartment, they seized 37 documents from it as well.
The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said no explicit authorization was needed from Italian authorities since the seized documentation concerned Vatican material found in a Vatican service apartment. Regardless, he said, the court won't admit the documentation since it came from outside Vatican City.
Arru has questioned why no inventory of the documentation was ever made.
Arru also asked each officer about a nugget, thought to be gold, and a check made out to the pope for (euro) 100,000 ($125,000) that police said were found in Gabriele's Vatican City apartment. Gabriele testified he never saw the nugget or the check before.


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September 12, 2002
Dr. Dominique Hanssens, professor of marketing at UCLA Anderson, has been selected as the winner of the prestigious John D.C. Little Award for his marketing paper, "The Category-Demand Effects of Price Promotions," published in Marketing Science in 2001. Dr. Hanssens is also holder of the Bud Knapp Chair in Management at UCLA.
This marks Dr. Hanssens' second Best Paper award in Marketing Science; he received his first in 1995 for "The Persistence of Marketing Effects on Sales." His recent winning paper, co-written with professors at Northwestern University, the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium and Tilburg University in The Netherlands, was the lead article in the winter 2001 issue of Marketing Science.
The award is given annually by the College on Marketing of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) and is the organization's highest honor, reserved for the best paper published either in Marketing Science or Management Science. The award's namesake, Dr. John D.C. Little, is considered a founder of marketing science theory and is a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management.
Dr. Hanssens' award-winning paper studies one of marketing's three primary sources of revenue and profitability in consumer and industrial sectors—category demand. Specifically, the paper analyzes to what extent marketers' actions—in particular consumer price promotions—are related to short-term and long-term changes in the consumer demand of a product category.
"Price promotions have increased in both commercial use and quantity of academic research over the last decade, and most of the attention has focused on their effects on brand choice and brand sales," Dr. Hanssens said.
However, he said that little is known about the conditions under which price promotions expand short-run and long-run category demand, even though the benefits of category expansion can be substantial to manufacturers and retailers alike.
Dr. Hanssens asserts that achieving growth in category demand can be attractive for four reasons:
1. The base for growth is large because it involves all industry participants.
2. Harmful competitive reaction may be limited because competitive share losses are hidden in sales gains and therefore may attract less retaliatory action.
3. Growing category demand signals that consumer preferences and willingness to pay may be rising, which can create price and profit margin increases.
4. Retailer revenues are more closely related to category demand than to the sales of any one brand.
To achieve their objectives, the researchers use modern multivariate time-series analysis, which disentangles short-run and long-run effects. They analyze the category-demand effects of consumer price promotions across 560 product categories over a four-year period. One of the principal findings is that category demand is predominantly stationary, and thus not affected in the long run by promotional strategies. The authors also provide precise measures of the over-time effects of promotions and the conditions that make these effects stronger or weaker.
A member of UCLA Anderson faculty since 1977, Dr. Hanssens has served as the school's faculty chair, associate dean and marketing area chair. In addition, he has served as an area editor for Marketing Science and an associate editor for Management Science. He most recently completed the second edition of his book with Leonard Parsons and Randall Schultz, titled Market Response Models, published in 2001.
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POLICE STATE, USAWorldNetDaily
National Guard scraps plans to invade rural town
'This operation could be pretty intrusive to the people'
DES MOINES, Iowa – Following publicized reports that the Army National Guard was planning a military training exercise on the streets of a rural Iowa town, the commanding officers have called off the mock "invasion."
The Guard had planned a four-day urban military operation in tiny Arcadia, Iowa, population 443, sending troops to take over the town and search door-to-door for a suspected weapons dealer.
The exercise was designed as a mock scenario to give soldiers the skills needed for deployment in an urban environment, and military officials stressed that only households that consented to be part of the drill would be searched.
"It will be important for us to gain the trust and confidence of the residents of Arcadia," Sgt. Mike Kots, readiness NCO for Alpha Company, told Carroll's Daily Times Herald. "We will need to identify individuals that are willing to assist us in training by allowing us to search their homes and vehicles and to participate in role-playing.
"We really want to get as much information out there as possible," Kots continued, "because this operation could be pretty intrusive to the people of Arcadia."
Military spokesman Lt. Col. Greg Hapgood, however, told WND that the operation has now been "scaled back" and no longer involves an "invasion" of Arcadia.
And while Hapgood confirmed the Guard had been inundated with objections from citizens concerned about soldiers patrolling the streets of an American town, he said most came from people out of state and unfamiliar with the operation. Iowans, he explained, typically cooperate with the Guard. The change in plans was based on troop evaluation, he said, not public outcry.
"Higher headquarters leadership," Hapgood told WND, "given the unit's status of training proficiency, made a decision to scale back the exercise."
Kots described the original operation to the Herald as set to begin on Thursday, April 2, with reconnaissance and exploratory patrols. On April 4 convoys were to be deployed from the armory in Carroll to nearby Arcadia, where soldiers would knock on doors, showing a picture of the invented "arms dealer."
"Once credible intelligence has been gathered," said Kots, "portions of the town will be road-blocked and more in-depth searches of homes and vehicles will be conducted in accordance with the residents' wishes.
"One of the techniques we use in today's political environment is cordon and knock," Kots explained. "We ask for the head of the household, get permission to search, then have them open doors and cupboards. The homeowner maintains control. We peer over their shoulder, and the soldier uses the homeowner's body language and position to protect him."
The planned drill had also included overhead supervision from a Blackhawk helicopter, crowd-control measures and simulated extraction of "injured" people, culminating in capture of the "arms dealer."
"This exercise will improve the real-life operational skills of the unit," said Kots. "And it will hopefully improve the public's understanding of military operations."
"There are no active duty bases in Iowa, so there are no urban warfare training areas of any size," Hopgood said. "In order to get that larger neighborhood feel or city feel, we have to be creative and partner with our communities."
Hopgood further told WND that in past cooperative exercises with the community, the people of Iowa have welcomed learning how their sons and daughters operate in action.
Plans for the urban operation training, Hopgood explained, are still set to continue, but will be conducted in a smaller, platoon-by-platoon basis in the near vicinity of the Carroll armory.


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Thickness Optimization of a Piezoelectric Converter for Energy HarvestingM. Guizzetti[1], V. Ferrari[1], D. Marioli[1], and T. Zawada[2]
[1]Dept. of Electronics for Automation, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
[2]Meggitt, Ferroperm Piezoceramics A/S, Kvistgaard, Denmark
The conversion of mechanical energy from environmental vibrations into electrical energy is a key point for powering sensor nodes toward the development of autonomous sensor systems. Piezoelectric energy converters realized in a cantilever configuration are the most studied for this purpose. In order to improve the performances of the converter, the geometry has to be properly designed. In this context FEM simulations have been used in order to optimize the piezoelectric layer thickness. A parametrized geometry was created by means of the Moving Mesh (ALE) application mode. The electrical energy generated by the converter under an applied acceleration was computed, finding the optimal thickness for the piezoelectric layer. Different geometries were considered verifying that they do not affect the optimal thickness.


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Witness says man who attacked bus driver on Ariz. highway screamed: 'Everyone's going to die!'
PHOENIX – A late-night Greyhound bus ride through Arizona turned harrowing when witnesses say a man rose from his seat and screamed, "Everyone's going to die!"
Passengers then watched in disbelief as the man began hitting the driver and grabbing the steering wheel. The bus swerved, hurling people from their seats.
"Everybody is jumping and flying and screaming," said passenger Susana Ordinola, 48, of San Bernardino, Calif.
Authorities say several passengers stepped in to subdue the man as the bus ran off Interstate 10 early Thursday, only 50 miles from its next stop in Phoenix. It came to a rest in a median, missing some vehicles speeding down the highway at 75 mph by 6 feet.
The ordeal ended with more than half of the roughly 40 passengers injured — and some of them angry.
The 25-year-old man, who reportedly was hallucinating, ran off into the desert but returned a half-hour later. Some passengers cursed and threw rocks at him before paramedics intervened.
The bus was traveling from Los Angeles to Dallas when it went off the road shortly before 2 a.m. near the community of Tonopah.
The man "basically went berserk in the bus and grabbed control of vehicle," Harquahala Fire District Chief Dan Caudle told KPHO-TV.
The Greyhound crossed the highway median but came to a stop before entering westbound traffic when other passengers restrained the man, the Arizona Department of Public Safety said.
"The passengers descended on him," DPS spokesman Bart Graves told The Associated Press.
The bus remained upright, and none of the 24 people taken to hospitals had life-threatening injuries, the agency said.
Three were airlifted to St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix, but a hospital spokeswoman said one of them was later released. Fifteen people were taken to hospitals in Goodyear and Buckeye, and five were admitted.
The injuries included a broken sternum suffered by one passenger who helped restrain the attacker, said Officer Carrick Cook, another DPS spokesman.
The agency identified the attacker as Maquel Donyel Morris, of Los Angeles.
Ordinola described the experience while waiting for a bus back to California. She said she heard other passengers complain to the driver about Morris during a stop in Blythe, Calif. She then saw the driver talk to him.
After the bus entered Arizona, the man suddenly ran toward the driver. "He screamed, 'Everybody's going to die,'" Ordinola said.
Ordinola said she was sitting right behind the driver and saw Morris grab the wheel.
She added that when the bus came to a stop — after what felt like a roller-coaster ride — she saw people bleeding and in pain.
Morris got off the bus and took off running with a female companion, the DPS said.
When other passengers saw Morris coming back, they started cursing at him and yelling, "That's the guy," Ordinola said. Some threw rocks.
According to Ordinola, Morris' companion tried to shield him before paramedics stepped in.
Graves said Morris reportedly was hallucinating and indicated he wanted to get off the bus. He was arrested at the scene and taken to a hospital for a drug-induced condition, Graves said.
Morris likely faces numerous counts of endangerment, assault and aggravated assault, the DPS said. He does not yet have an attorney.
Greyhound spokeswoman Alexandra Pedrini said the bus was carrying 41 passengers, plus the driver. However, DPS counted 46 passengers.
Another bus was sent to the accident scene to take the nearly 20 uninjured passengers to Phoenix so they could continue to their destinations, Pedrini said.
Ordinola, who had pain in her knees and a rib, was treated at a Phoenix hospital.
"I just want to go home," she said.
A similar accident involving a Greyhound bus occurred in Casa Grande in 2001. That bus, which also originated in Los Angeles, rolled onto its side after a male passenger allegedly grabbed the steering wheel. The wreck left 33 people injured.


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Hollywood Fitness Secrets of 20-Year-Olds
Terrific Twentysomethings
Push it, PYTs. Your strength and speed are at their peak right now.
Find Balance
In addition to regular strength training, Hunger Games: Catching Fire star Jennifer Lawrence, 22, practiced yoga daily, says trainer Mandy Ingber, the author of Yogalosophy: 28 Days to the Ultimate Mind-Body Makeover. Capture your inner Katniss with the Standing Bow: Balance on left leg while lifting right knee forward to hip height. Then raise right leg behind you, bringing right heel to butt. Reach right arm back to grip top of right foot, palm facing out; then reach left arm forward, hinging from hips and pressing right foot into palm. Hold 20 seconds, switch sides.
Build Your Bod from the Ground Up
Get down with your workout, like Hilary Duff, 25. Trainer Harley Pasternak, the author of The Body Reset Diet and a FITNESS advisory board member, often starts the new mom's routine on the floor. "I'll make the moves absolutely killer," says Pasternak, who combines exercises like stability ball hamstring curls (lie faceup with legs extended and heels resting on a stability ball, then bend and straighten knees to roll the ball toward and away from you), bridges with triceps extensions, V-up crunches, and windmills. "Once she realizes that being on her back is more difficult, she wants to stand up and get moving."
Go Off-Road
When she got bored with the treadmill, Les Mis?rables star Amanda Seyfried, 27, turned to celeb trainer Ramona Braganza for a new way to get a sweaty cardio high. "She loves going for walks with her dog, Finn," says Braganza, who has led Seyfried on treks through Lynn Canyon Park in Vancouver, Canada. "Taking your workouts outside every now and then is a good way to feel rejuvenated and to give your muscles a new challenge," Braganza explains. For a butt-shaping bonus, tackle some hills.
Be Fierce as You Firm
Rihanna's sleek, sexy physique is the result of a serious workout ethic. The 25-year-old diva does twice-weekly cardio-and-strength circuits with Pasternak. A small sample of her sweat factors: skater lunges, overhead triceps extensions with dumbbells, and Russian trunk twists with a medicine ball. Perform three sets of 20 reps each for head-to-toe results, Pasternak suggests.
Take Action
Scarlett Johansson, 28, was able to rock a leather catsuit while filming The Avengers by doing loads of functional, power-building exercises. "Scarlett really pushed herself with kettlebell moves, rope drills, and weighted lunges," says trainer Bobby Strom, who worked with the blond beauty to get her ready for the action-hero role.
Rock and Row
"If you want to burn more than 250 calories in 20 minutes, hit the rowing machine," says trainer Johnny Damon, who works regularly with hot new mom Kristin Cavallari, 26. Even short bursts — as brief as 200- to 300-meter sprints — are enough to get your heart rate soaring, plus a whole lot more. "It really opens up your chest, sculpts sexy legs, and strengthens your glutes," Damon says.
Take a Spin
"My favorite workout on tour is riding around town on my bike, seeing the city I'm in and giving out tickets for the show while in disguise," says singer Katy Perry, 28. "I feel best about my body once I get into the routine of waking up early, exercising, getting some fresh air, and meditating." Perry — who, as the new face of Popchips, created her own flavor, kettlecorn — works out three or four times a week, then does something fun, like going hiking, on alternate days.
Hit the Water
Revenge star Emily VanCamp adds a splash to her routine by diving into the pool. "Getting in the water allows your body to move in a completely different way," says trainer Lalo Fuentes. The 27-year-old actress spends at least half of her workouts doing high-intensity aquatic exercises, including Eggbeaters (left leg goes clockwise while right leg goes counterclockwise; at the same time, arms move forward and back to keep you upright). "If your legs stop moving for a second, you start sinking. Emily can do it for 15 minutes straight!"
Hollywood Fitness Secrets of 30-Year-Olds
Thirty Wow!
Families, kids, and multiple career changes may keep these Hollywood stars busy, but training hard means they're staples of the paparazzi's hit lists.
Punch Things Up
Alicia Keys' fave way to melt off more than 600 calories? An hour of high-octane kickboxing with trainer Jeanette Jenkins. "It's a fun way to let out all the stress while toning your entire body, especially if you blast music and do it with a pal," says Jenkins, who often leads Keys, 33, through combos like a front kick, double jab, and cross-body punch, 20 to 25 reps, alternating sides.
Push Yourself
Minka Kelly, 32, is always looking to challenge herself in her workouts, says Anna Kaiser, a trainer for AKT Inmotion. One total-body move that gets the job done: the jackknife. Begin in full plank position with hands on floor and shins on an exercise ball behind you. Keeping legs straight, lift hips toward ceiling as you roll ball toward hands; then roll back to plank. Do 10 to 12 reps. "It's a fantastic full-body move that will work both strength and stability," Kaiser says.
Don't Waste Time
"People think that celebs are working out for four hours a day, but that's not true. They are actually in and out in an hour," says trainer Ashley Conrad, the owner of Clutch in Los Angeles, who has worked with Kate Hudson, 34. "It's not about how long you're working out; it's about how hard you're working out." Try this quick cardio-and-strength circuit: Do 15 seconds of push-ups, 10 seconds of rest; 15 seconds of lunges, 10 seconds of rest; 15 seconds of high knees, 10 seconds of rest; 15 seconds of ice skaters, 10 seconds of rest.
Play Ball
She's known for busting dance moves, but Britney Spears, 31, trained like an athlete to don those curve-hugging minis for The X Factor. "We focus on total-body exercises, like side shuffles while catching a medicine ball," her trainer Derek DeGrazio says. He also makes her play this ab-carving game of toss: As Spears kneels about 20 feet away, DeGrazio rolls a medicine ball to her, which she picks up and throws back to him as hard as possible. "Then she drops onto her hands, does a modified push-up, gets up, and does it all over again," DeGrazio says. Shoot for 20 reps.
Swing It
Megan Hilty, 32, is an accomplished Broadway vet who's in great shape from singing and dancing, so trainer Dasha Libin Anderson says she has to pull out "the big guns" to truly challenge her. One of the Smash star's favorite moves is the Kettlebell Killer Combo: Hold a kettlebell (or any weight of eight to 12 pounds) in both hands at chest level. Squat, keeping body weight over heels, then quickly explode up onto balls of feet while raising kettlebell overhead. Return to start position, then explosively pivot off both feet as you turn to left and lift kettlebell overhead. Repeat on opposite side; do this move continuously for one minute.
Hollywood Fitness Secrets of 40-Year-Olds
Fierce at Forty-Plus
Having an age-defying body and the bragging rights that go with it is all about keeping muscles toned from head to toe.
Get a Booty Lift
It's hard to pick just one part of the perennially fit Cameron Diaz, 40, to admire most, but let's start with her derriere. "For a more rounded, lifted booty, add a heavier weight to lower-body exercises once or twice a week," her longtime trainer Teddy Bass says. Hold a 15-pound dumbbell in each hand while doing reverse lunges and squats. "You shouldn't be able to complete more than 12 reps," Bass says.
Keep It Moving
When working with Jada Pinkett Smith, 41, trainer Darrell Foster uses techniques of the martial art aikido, like this ab- and arm-toning exercise: Stand with feet staggered, left leg pointed forward and right leg back with toes pointed to right, knees bent. Imagine holding an oar with both hands, elbows by sides. Lean forward from hips, extending arms in front of you, then row back. Continue rowing for 30 seconds; switch legs and repeat.
Up the Intensity
Cardio workouts were not something Cougar Town star Courteney Cox, 48, loved to do, her trainer Michelle Lovitt says. "Then I introduced her to interval training." The key is to keep your heart rate in a fat-burning zone without having to do continuous running, as in this 40-minute sweat session: Warm up, then run for one minute; walk to recover for one minute. Do five reps. Then sprint for 30 seconds; walk to recover for 30 seconds. Do 10 reps. Repeat the run-walk section and then cool down.
Balance Your Hourglass
No wonder bombshell Sofia Vergara, 40, favors strapless gowns: She's got the carved shoulders and toned triceps to top off a slammin' figure. Follow her trainer Gunnar Peterson's three-part series to sculpt sexy arms: 20 shoulder presses, 20 triceps dips, and 20 alternating reverse lunges with biceps curls.
Band Together
Use a resistance band to get the sleek, sexy arms you see on the red carpet, says trainer Valerie Waters, who has worked with Jennifer Garner, 41, for years. "It's the perfect tool for opening up your chest, improving posture, and toning your arms." Start with reverse flyes: Place hands shoulder-width apart on a resistance band, with tension, and extend arms in front of you. Keeping shoulders down, bring arms out to sides, squeezing shoulder blades together. Return to start. Do 20 reps.
Get Ripping Abs
Halle Berry's trainer of more than two years, Nat Bardonnet, says the star, 46, works hard for that bod. Try his ab-sculpting Ripper move: Lie faceup on an incline bench with head below legs, holding a six-pound medicine ball. Extend arms behind you, then sit up, bringing ball toward legs; slowly return to start. Repeat for 30 seconds, then twist from side to side while sitting up for another 30 seconds.
More Hollywood Fitness Secrets of 40-Year-Olds
Better Body After 40
Talk about forever hot! These A-listers are out to prove that they've only gotten sexier with each passing decade.
Gwyneth Paltrow, 40, was a yoga and Pilates devotee before she started working with trainer Tracy Anderson more than six years ago. Paltrow still trains up to two hours a day, six days a week, doing sculpting moves with light resistance and about 45 minutes of cardio. One favorite multitasking tool is the mini trampoline; it works her lower body while boosting the calorie burn, Anderson says.
Jennifer Aniston, 44, runs and does yoga regularly. "Jennifer knows that yoga is all about core strength," says trainer Mandy Ingber, who has worked with the actress for more than seven years. Try Temple Squats for a stronger butt and core: Stand with feet slightly more than shoulder-width apart, feet turned out, palms in front of chest in prayer position with elbows out to sides. Squat; hold for five breaths, then press into heels, squeezing glutes to stand back up. Do 10 reps. On last squat, gently pulse hips up and down eight times.
Jennifer Lopez, 43, has been using the Tracy Anderson Training Method for about two years. Try this move: Stand facing the back of a chair, holding onto the corners, and lean body forward so elbows are bent. Bring right knee up toward left shoulder, then extend right leg behind you. Repeat. Do 30 to 40 reps. Switch sides.
Hollywood Post-Pregnancy Weight Loss
Better Body After Baby
These celebs went from bump to back in shape by putting in the reps and the sweat.
Trainer Harley Pasternak came to the rescue of Jennifer Hudson, 31, when she needed help losing baby weight. "Once she started seeing results and getting compliments, it changed her outlook on all the hard work she was putting in," Pasternak says. Hudson mastered Pasternak's 5-Factor workouts, alternating cardio (power walking) with an upper-body move (reverse flye), a core exercise (Superman), and a lower-body move (sumo squat) on her own. Do three sets of 20 reps of each strength move.
Post-baby, pop star Pink, 33, kicked things up a notch with trainer Jeanette Jenkins, the creator of the Bikini Bootcamp DVD. "I love doing Power Jacks with Pink," Jenkins says. "This move recruits your fast-twitch muscle fibers, tones your entire body, and boosts your metabolic rate so you burn more calories throughout the day." Do two jumping jacks; on the third jack, jump as high as you can with arms and legs out wide; repeat.
To get your abs back in action, try a plank with a twist, says Ramona Braganza, who trained Jessica Alba, 32, after Alba gave birth to her first daughter. "Hold a plank for 10 seconds, turn to your right for a side plank; hold for 10 seconds. Return to center; hold for 10 seconds. Turn to your left for another side plank; hold for 10 seconds. Follow with 10 Supermans."
Originally published in FITNESS magazine, May 2013.