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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2002 News Releases > November 2002 > Alumni association to honor five during Homecoming Chapel
Alumni association to honor five during Homecoming Chapel
The Association of Former Students at Wayland Baptist University will present Distinguished Alumni awards to five individuals during homecoming chapel, slated for 11 a.m. Nov. 22 in Harral Auditorium.
Honorees are recognized for their service and support of the university, accomplishments in their chosen fields and for dedication to Christian principles, according to Director of Alumni Services Joe Provence. Honorees for 2002 include Dr. James McKinley Jr. of Kentucky, Dr. Robert Mathis of Fort Worth, Roland Saul of Hereford, Kyle Reese of San Angelo and Lucian Morehead of Plainview.
The Distinguished Alumni Award will be presented to McKinley. A native of Kentucky, McKinley transferred to Wayland and graduated in 1954. After earning a divinity degree from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, McKinley and his wife Betty were appointed as missionaries to East Pakistan, where they served for 34 years as church planters, administrators and development workers. He has written four books about his missionary experiences, including "Death to Life: Bangladesh," which was printed in English, Bengali and Japanese and sold 100,000 copies.
After returning from the mission field in 1992, McKinley served as a consultant for the Kentucky Baptist Convention and has been an organizer of Kentucky International Missions Fellowship, leader of Church Growth Strategy Team for the International Mission Board, and member and chairperson of the Fred Tucker Offering Committee for the Long Run Baptist Association. He has made 12 trips for the International Mission Board since his retirement in 1992 and in the past year has traveled to Tanzania, Indonesia and Bangladesh. He served as president of the Kentucky Baptist Convention for 2000-01. He and Betty have five children.
The Distinguished Service Alumni award will be presented to Mathis. A native of Eunice, N.M., Mathis earned his bachelor's degree from Wayland in 1969. He served in the U.S. Army shortly thereafter, he began pastoring churches while continuing his education at the University of Texas at El Paso and later at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he earned a master's degree and his PhD. He worked at New Orleans Seminary while pursuing a second doctorate from the University of Southern Mississippi, and he began serving as the Director of Institutional Research and Assessment and Professor of Administration at Southwestern Seminary in 1998.
Mathis is called upon often to serve as a denominational consultant, and he serves as vice president of the Southern Baptist Research Fellowship and is a member of the Baptist Religious Education Association of the Southwest and Religious Research Association. He has written for several denominational publications as well. He and wife Odene have a daughter, Karissa.
Saul will receive the Distinguished Leadership Alumni Award. A basketball player from Plainview, Saul earned his Wayland degree in 1970 and continued his education at Texas Tech University, earning his Doctor of Jurisprudence in 1973. He worked as a private practice attorney for several years before serving for 24 years as criminal district attorney for Deaf Smith County. He was named Texas' Prosecutor of the Year in 1998.
He was appointed judge of the 222nd Judicial District Court in August 2002 by Governor Rick Perry, serving Deaf Smith and Oldham counties. He is a member of the Texas District and County Attorneys Association, the National District Attorneys Association and the State Bar of Texas. He and wife Sandra have three children - Kevin, Scott and Dusty - and five grandchildren.
The Distinguished Young Alumni Award will be given to Reese. A 1993 graduate of Wayland, he earned his graduate degree from Truett Seminary and began his pastoral career during study there, serving at Mertens and at Valley Mills. He began his tenure as pastor of First Baptist Church in San Angelo in January 2002 and is one of the respected young leaders in Baptist denominational life.
Reese is secretary of the Board of Advisors for Truett and is secretary/treasurer of the Alumni Association of which he is a charter member. He is a member of the Committee to Nominate Institutional Board Members for the BGCT, the Ministerial Alliance in San Angelo and the Downtown Kiwanis Club. He also serves on the Goodfellow Air Force Base Chapel Task Force. He and wife Amy have three children: Peyton, 5, Hannah, 4, and Wyatt, 1.
Morehead will receive the Distinguished Benefactor Alumni Award. After receiving his associate's degree from Wayland in 1928, he attended Baylor University, earning an A.B. there. He worked for his parents for two years before moving to Austin and earning his law degree from the University of Texas in 1935. He returned to Plainview and established a private law practice where he has worked since.
He has been a devoted financial supporter of Wayland for 75 years, establishing two endowed scholarships, contributing to the Wilder Field grandstand construction and leading in the Spanning the Centuries Campaign. He was honored with the Distinguished Alumni Award in 1997. Morehead and his late wife, Audrey, have two children, three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

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In "The Family: A Proclamation to the World," Church leaders declared, "Parents have a sacred duty to rear their children in love and righteousness, to provide for their physical and spiritual needs, to teach them to love and serve one another, to observe the commandments of God and to be law-abiding citizens wherever they live."
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Good parenting, while very challenging at times, offers great potential for happiness. Parents can experience great joy by building a strong, loving home environment and teaching gospel principles, which can help their children lead righteous, happy, and productive lives. (See 3 John 1:4.)
The Lord has commanded parents to "bring up [their] children in light and truth" (D&C 93:40). This includes teaching them to understand the doctrines of faith in Jesus Christ, repentance, baptism, and the gift of the Holy Ghost (see D&C 68:25) and to love their Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. This teaching should take place primarily in the home, with Church classes and programs supplementing and supporting parents' efforts.
Parents can teach their children formally during family home evening and other family gatherings, such as daily family prayer and scripture study or at mealtimes. Teaching opportunities also come in unplanned moments as parents and children spend time working and playing together. Whatever the setting, the Lord will guide parents as they prayerfully seek to rear their children in love and righteousness.
Prophetic Teachings
An address given at a Brigham Young University Education Week devotional on 17 August 1999. It is important to teach the gospel and life's lessons to children and youth.
"Helping Children Hear the Still, Small Voice"
Parents can help children recognize and cherish spiritual feelings.
"Parenting: Everything to Do with the Heart"
This is an edited version of the talk given by Sister Holland at the parents' fireside broadcast from Temple Square 27 January 1985.
"Teaching Our Children to Love the Scriptures"
Through the guidance of loving parents and dedicated teachers, small children can become familiar with the scriptures and the spirit that accompanies them.
Children learn through gentle direction and persuasive teaching. They search for models to imitate, knowledge to acquire, things to do, and teachers to please.
If you try your best to be the best parent you can be, you will have done all that a human being can do and all that God expects you to do.
"Caring for the Souls of Children"
Tell your children that you love them and that you are so happy to have them in your family. Prepare yourselves spiritually to receive the guidance through the Holy Ghost.
Parents of wayward children can find guidance and strength in gospel teachings.
Parents are often perplexed about how much responsibility they have for young adult children, particularly errant children, and about how best to help them.
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What Can We Look Forward to in HIV Cure Research?
Part Two of a Two-Part Conversation With Research Advocate Richard Jefferys
This past March, the 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) brought an unprecedented flurry of mainstream interest in potential HIV cure strategies. TheBodyPRO.com's Nelson Vergel sat down with leading HIV cure research activist Richard Jefferys for an update on current important aspects, and controversies, in HIV cure research. Jefferys, who coordinates the Basic Science Vaccines and Prevention Project at Treatment Action Group in New York City, is at the forefront not only of gathering data and information from different studies, but also of educating other activists on the new language of immune-based therapies. Read Part One of this conversation.
Let's go into the different issues around cure research. What do you think are the most exciting or promising areas of cure research right now? Can you explain the different concepts that are out there being explored?
Gene therapies historically have sounded kind of space age and exciting, but they have been slow to deliver on that promise. Increasingly, there are signs of progress with gene therapies in a variety of arenas. I think they remain one of the most promising-looking approaches in cure research. There is a certain amount of skepticism about them because of the fear that they would be very difficult to implement and possibly very costly. But I think that can't be used as a reason not to pursue their full potential because, obviously, if there was a breakthrough in gene therapy, then at least that would be something to work on in terms of making it more accessible and user friendly. There are approaches that people are looking at to try and use gene therapy to insert genes into cells that will protect them from HIV infection.
One of the reasons that I think this is potentially particularly important in HIV is because of the almost unique targeting of the CD4+ cell by the virus. The CD4+ cell's job is to coordinate the immune response to things like viruses. So the body is walking a really difficult tightrope with HIV, because the cells that are key to mounting a response to it and coordinating the various parts of the immune response to the virus are the cells providing the virus with a place to replicate. Even if CD4+ cells don't die, the virus is replicating in them and it inhibits their ability to do their job. Although there are approaches like therapeutic vaccines that might boost the CD4+ response to HIV, it's unclear how much benefit they can offer unless that CD4+ is also protected from infection.
So, there are things like Sangamo BioSciences Inc.'s gene therapy, which is trying to protect CD4+ cells by knocking out the CCR5 coreceptor and they are using infusions of modified CD4+ cells. There are also other researchers looking to use stem cells to transfer the modified cells, including the group of Hans-Peter Kiem, M.D., at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center -- also one of the Martin Delaney Collaboratories -- and Patrick Younan, Ph.D., from this group presented a very small study of just four macaques that have received a gene therapy to protect their CD4+ cells, and they seemed to do pretty well against a challenge with an SIV/HIV hybrid virus. Their CD4+ cell responses to the virus showed very high levels of the gene modification, suggesting that their ability to resist infection had actually allowed them to do their job of coordinating the immune response to the virus much better. So there's a basis to hope that gene therapies could have similar effects in people.
Although there was only one presentation that I noticed on the Sangamo gene therapy at CROI, there is longer-term data due from those studies and studies that they've done in people that might be particularly able to benefit from the therapy because they are heterozygous for the CCR5 delta32 mutation (they have one mutation instead of the two required for protection). So I think that's something to look forward to and I hope that it becomes available soon.
Any other approaches or combinations of approaches that you think are promising?
Another idea that's out there -- but nobody has actually done experiments, even in animals yet, to demonstrate whether it would work -- is this idea of combining an anti-latency approach with a vaccine that would help the immune response clear the latently infected cells that are expressing virus. That's definitely worth pursuing. There was talk about that idea at CROI, but I think studies are only just now being planned to look at how well that might work in animals and people.
What do you think are the main barriers to accelerating HIV cure research? How can a regular patient that wants to get involved help in any way possible?
I think there's reason to be concerned about the impact of the sequester on research funding and the funding that goes to networks like the AIDS Clinical Trials Group, which has a bunch of protocols in development that seem to be progressing pretty slowly, at least from an outside prospective. A further hit in terms of funding for those studies is not going to improve that situation. There are trials of molecules like the PD-1 inhibitor that might have benefits that have yet to get under way; those are going to be important studies, I think.
The other issues that people are working to address are making it easier for companies that could have uses in cure research to be able to collaborate with academic researchers to explore the potential of those compounds in ways that won't somehow negatively impact the company that needs to stay afloat to keep making the compound.
There are also regulatory issues, and I believe that the FDA is looking to have dialogues with community representatives about risk in cure research studies. There's a meeting due to be announced in the federal register, to take place in June, which will be open to people who want to weigh in on those kinds of issues.
I think animal research is another issue -- money comes into play there, also the availability of regimens that can suppress SIV, as well as the regimens that suppress HIV in people. There's still a bit of uncertainty as to exactly how best to do that and whether there should perhaps be a more coordinated, larger, systematic kind of effort to standardize animal models that will allow testing of different interventions in ways that will make it easier to compare the results because they will use the same model.
On the other hand, there are groups of people that worry a little bit about prematurely standardizing models that may not be ideal, which is something that has happened in the past in HIV vaccine research. For example, where people adopted a system that turned out to actually not be very relevant to what happens in people.
As you well know, many people are familiar with the case of Timothy Brown, the "Berlin patient." He seems to still be healthy and they haven't really seen or detected any rebound or RNA or DNA of the virus. Are there any other studies that are trying to replicate what happened to Timothy, and see whether or not other patients with malignancies or lymphoma or cancers and HIV can also be cured? Can you tell us whether or not those studies are currently enrolling and what we are expecting or hoping for from those studies?
There was one very small bit of good news about Timothy Brown at CROI. It was from a study looking at what they call lymph node fibrosis, which is something that happens in people with chronic infection. It's particularly bad in HIV where the lymph tissues become kind of scarred by the inflammation and the immune activation that's going on. Even elite controllers have more of this kind of fibrosis of their lymph tissue than uninfected people. But it turns out that Timothy Brown, in his gut lymphoid tissue, his level of fibrosis is exactly comparable to the HIV-uninfected people that they looked at in the study. So that's encouraging, because it suggests that even if those bits and pieces of viral genetic material that were reported to have been found in his system last year were real findings and there are some bits of genetic material there, it really doesn't seem to be doing the bad things that it does in people that are infected. So I think it's going to further support the idea that he really is cured of the infection.
In terms of trying to duplicate the case, there was some bad news at CROI. There's a company called StemCyte which has been banking a type of cord blood stem cells for use in stem cell transplants for people with malignancies. They've been doing that actually since 2001, way before the Timothy Brown case, and they are making those stored units of CCR5-negative cord blood available to people. At CROI, there was a poster presentation about the first two people with HIV that needed transplants for cancer that accessed those units; unfortunately, the first recipient of the CCR5-negative stem cell transplant from the repository relapsed and died from the underlying disease two months after the procedure. There was some evidence that the viral level decayed quickly, but he had complications from both the procedure and the cancer and didn't survive. So that was bad news.
There was also another individual in Madrid who received normal CCR5-positive cord blood units because there were some concerns about the viability of the CCR5-negative cells. So that individual happily is in remission for the cancer, but because it was a CCR5-positive sample, it doesn't seem to have cured the HIV infection.
There are also some patients in Boston that they keep mentioning in meetings I have attended.
Yes, the two individuals in Boston are different in that they also received CCR5-positive (not resistant to HIV infection) stem cell transplants, unlike Timothy Brown, but they remained on HAART during the procedure. They have undetectable levels of HIV reservoirs. The study about them has been published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases. There is some hope that perhaps being on antiretroviral therapy during the transplant that they received for their cancers has prevented HIV infection of their new, transplanted immune system and that they may also be cured, but there's no way of knowing for sure until the antiretroviral therapy is interrupted. They have now got permission to do those studies, but I don't think they've happened yet.
[Editor's note: The two Boston patients have since stopped antiretroviral therapy and showed no signs of detectable virus after being off treatment for eight and 15 weeks, according to data presented at IAS 2013.]
There is also a big, ongoing trial in the Cancer Trials Network in the U.S. that is being led by a doctor at Johns Hopkins, Rich Ambinder, M.D., and it's for people with HIV with cancers that need stem cell transplants. Part of the protocol is that they will search for CCR5-negative potential donors for those individuals to try and duplicate what happened with Timothy Brown. I don't know whether anybody has been successfully found a donor in that study as yet.
How about therapeutic vaccines? Anything exciting -- even in monkeys -- when it comes to actually giving somebody who is infected a vaccine to help them control the virus without drugs? I hear buzz about Louis Picker's, M.D., data a lot.
Probably the most amazing-looking vaccine in monkeys has been created from cytomegalovirus [CMV], a type of virus that's quite common in people and most of the time it doesn't seem to have obvious untoward effects, at least until old age. There's a researcher named Louis Picker who's made a vaccine against SIV using CMV as the vector, and it reliably allows half of the monkeys that receive it to control highly pathogenic challenges with SIV. At CROI, he presented evidence that -- actually, I think it was maybe five or six animals that received the vaccine and were exposed to this high dose of pathogenic virus, and they initially controlled the infection to very low levels. But over time what seems to have happened is they've actually cleared the SIV infection, which has never been reported before.
The evidence that he presented to try and support this idea that they've cleared the infection is that they took very large numbers of white blood cells, 50 or 60 million, from these animals and tried to see if they could transmit the infection to an uninfected animal. They showed that in animals that had their virus suppressed by antiretroviral therapy or in rare animals that are like elite controllers, they could take these samples and use them to infect other animals very easily. But from these vaccinated animals that seemed to have cleared the infection, when they took these large volumes of cells and infused them into uninfected animals, they did not transmit the infection. So that's really quite a remarkable result. He reported that it was associated with these very unusual CD8 T-cell responses that responded to a lot of different parts of the SIV and seemed incredibly effective at eliminating infected cells.
If that can somehow be translated into people, that would obviously be exciting. There is ongoing work now trying to develop that CMV vector so that it can be safely used in people. I believe that's in collaboration with the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute in Florida.
We hear some people saying, "Well, people are not monkeys. We cannot extrapolate data from a monkey SIV study to predict what would happen in humans with HIV." What do you tell those people, and how do you actually convince them that this work using SIV in monkeys is important?
I think it's a reasonable concern. There are limitations to any model. If anything, perhaps SIV in macaques seems to be harder for their immune systems to deal with than HIV, so it's a very stringent model. Really, what people are trying to use it for is to define the best approaches that are also not dangerous that can be tried in people without something disastrous happening, which is obviously not something you want.
Having said that, there are trials that are looking at approaches like therapeutic vaccination in people. There's a company called Profectus Biosciences, which is developing a trial using their HIV vaccine as a therapy. I think Tae-Wook Chun, Ph.D., one of the main reservoir researchers from the NIH, is involved in that study to look at the impact of the therapeutic vaccine on the HIV reservoir. So it's not always necessary that monkey studies precede the human trials; they can also happen in parallel and help cross-reference in terms of what's relevant and what might not be, so that people can refine the systems to make them as relevant to people as possible.
Thank you so much for being a great research activist and educator to some of us trying to learn the new language of HIV cure research.
This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.
Read Part One of this conversation.
Read TheBodyPRO.com's multi-author blog, HIV Care Today.


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April 20, 2012-Bart R. Mueller has announced plans to leave his post as Executive Director of the South Jersey Transportation Authority (SJTA), effective July 1, 2012, to pursue other business opportunities. The SJTA operates the Atlantic City Expressway ("Expressway"), the Atlantic City International Airport ("ACY"), various transportation shuttles in Southern NJ and parking facilities in Atlantic City and at the airport.
A resident of Oaklyn, Camden County, Mueller joined the SJTA in 2003 as a Programs Director in charge of E-ZPass along the Expressway and was elevated to the Executive Director position on January 1, 2007. The Authority has seen significant change under Mueller's leadership, including some dramatic improvements to both the Expressway and at ACY.
The Expressway serves as a vital link to Atlantic City and to the shore points in southern New Jersey. In 2011, toll traffic was over 53 million, generating almost $77 million in revenue. Among the major capacity improvements realized during Mueller's tenure were the addition of a third lane on the Westbound direction of the Expressway and the addition of Express E-ZPass at both barrier Toll Plazas. The enhanced traveling experience provided by projects such as these have allowed E-ZPass usage to increase from 39.5 percent in July 2003, when Mueller started with the SJTA, to 66.6 percent year to date (as of March 31, 2012).
Expressway patrons also benefit from Mueller's safety and beautification initiatives. Mueller implemented the recognizable Emergency Service Patrol on the Expressway, identifying safety and convenience as top priorities under his watch.
"One of my favorite projects was enhancing the beauty of travel with our famous wildflower gardens on the Expressway, which enhances the travelling experience of our customers", noted Mueller.
In addition to the Expressway, the SJTA also owns and operates the Atlantic City International Airport which provides air service to and from Atlantic City and other airports. In 2011, ACY serviced approximately 1.4 million passengers, an increase of almost 450,000 passengers since Mueller became the Executive Director. It has been Mueller's vision to expand ACY to provide additional transportation choices to the region's residents and visitors alike.
"Airport expansion is critical because the airport plays a crucial role in enhancing the prospects for Atlantic City and the entire South Jersey region to experience another much needed boost in its economic forecast, especially now in light of the renewed commitment of Governor Christie, Senate President Sweeney and the Legislature to Atlantic City", Mueller commented.
Mueller's leadership has provided the SJTA the ability to deliver major construction projects at ACY that support the local economy and have allowed for the growth that ACY has already achieved. During his tenure the SJTA has constructed a new parking garage at ACY, began a terminal expansion that is nearing completion that will allow for international flights and broke ground on a new airport firefighting and rescue facility. Projects like these, among numerous smaller projects, will help ensure that the region is appropriately served well into the future.
Since he became Executive Director, the overall revenues of the SJTA have grown to over $106 million. His leadership during difficult economic times allowed the authority to keep expenses in check by implementing innovative ideas, such as privatizing toll collections which saved the Authority over $1 million in 2012. His willingness to think outside the box and deliver on his promises has ensured that the SJTA is well positioned to continue the growth achieved under his watch in both now and into the future.
Mueller and his wife, Paula are the parents of two grown children, and the grandparents of three. Bart commented that he has several business and career options under consideration and will announce his decision at a later date.


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After Duncan Williams got handed his "communicator of the year" award at this month's Memphis chapter of the Public Relations Society of America luncheon, he did something in keeping with the nature of the honor.
He told a story.
It's not a well-known fact about the president of Memphis-based investment firm Duncan-Williams Inc., but Williams said he actually majored in marketing in college.
It's a fact that shouldn't come as a surprise, though, to anyone who knows him. It's true he heads up a full-service brokerage and investment banking firm that serves retail and institutional organizations around the world. But Williams also spends a significant amount of his time on marketing and communicating, instead of just on finance.
"When you have a company with over 200 employees in 14 cities, if you don't communicate, the company will fail," Williams said. "But communication is more than that. How does your customer know they can trust you? How do they know you're always looking out for them?"
His answer to that question was, customers look at what you say and also what you do.
Last year saw Williams step up his and his company's marketing of its brand and of the city at large, not to mention of arts organizations and other local civic assets.
Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell Jr. presented the PRSA award to Williams Wednesday, Jan. 9, in a ceremony at the University Club. The award is traditionally given to an individual for gaining public awareness for an event or effort benefiting either the city of Memphis or a local civic or philanthropic organization.
"One of the things about my job I enjoy the most is doing things like this," Luttrell said before turning the mic over to Williams. "Talking about people who've made a difference. Citizens in our community who through their passion and commitment to all that's good, they've committed themselves to the betterment and progress of Memphis."
For Williams and his investment firm, that philosophy is unmistakable in the new tagline the company unveiled earlier this year: "Do well."
If our customers do well, Williams explained, the company will do well. But his company also can take steps to help the city at large "do well."
Duncan-Williams helps promote and sponsor several prominent civic and arts programs and initiatives in Memphis. They include the Indie Memphis Film Festival, the Live at the Garden concert series and the dragon boat races Downtown.
The firm is making a point of sponsoring and being involved with things not usually associated with a typical financial firm, which might instead sponsor something like a golf tournament.
"We believe in having fun and doing things different than most financial firms," Williams said at the PRSA event.
Luttrell himself lent his image to one of Duncan-Williams' most recent efforts – a social media campaign promoting the latest Live at the Garden concert season. That campaign involved a series of humorous videos promoting each individual concert, and Luttrell and Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. appeared in one of them.
Williams spent a lot of 2012 flying around the country visiting and opening new offices. When he's not doing that, he's also a vocal cheerleader for the city, working closely with groups like the Greater Memphis Chamber.
Nancy Coffee, president and CEO of the New Memphis Institute, also praised Williams at the event. She described him as "one of the most powerful ambassadors for our community I've ever known."
"The financial services industry can be pretty formal, maybe stodgy, sometimes rule-bound," Coffee said. "Duncan brings this creative, youthful energy, this willingness to take risks in everything he does."
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Since news broke last week that the Oakland Raiders were interested in acquiring retired running back Marshawn Lynch, there have been a lot of questions about what Lynch's return would mean for the Seattle Seahawks.
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What needs to happen for Lynch to return?
Lynch filed his retirement paperwork last May and was placed on the retired/reserve list. If he decides that he wants to play again, the first thing that he needs to do is apply for reinstatement. Until Lynch does that, nothing else can happen.
What happens if he's granted reinstatement?
When a player retires, his contract essentially freezes. If Lynch is granted reinstatement, the terms of his last deal would immediately go into effect. That would mean he'd be under the Seahawks' control for two years.
Lynch would be due $9 million in 2017 and $10 million ($7 million salary and $3 million roster bonus) in 2018.
At that point, what would the Seahawks' options be?
They would have three options: keep Lynch on the roster, trade him or release him.
What would need to happen for the Seahawks to trade him to the Raiders?
First, the Raiders would have to come to terms on a contract with Lynch. Would they be willing to acquire him under the terms of his current deal? Given that Lynch would be due $9 million (both salary and cap hit) in 2017, that seems unlikely. If the Raiders really wanted Lynch, they would have to work out a restructured deal with him.
Secondly, Oakland and Seattle would have to agree to compensation. The last time Lynch played in 2015, he missed nine games and averaged 3.8 yards per carry. He'll turn 31 next month and was out of football last season.
Do the Raiders want him so badly that they'd be willing to give up draft capital to acquire him? Or are they just interested in taking a flier on him and seeing what he has left? The latter seems more likely.
Do the Seahawks have any leverage to force a trade?
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The Seahawks could say that they're not going to release Lynch. But then what happens? He shows up to the team facility? They put on a charade and pretend that they're willing to keep him on the roster?
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Why couldn't Lynch play for the Seahawks?
There's been zero indication from either side that this is a possibility. The Seahawks just signed Eddie Lacy and have Thomas Rawls and C.J. Prosise on their roster. Even if the Seahawks wanted Lynch to play for them again, they wouldn't want him at $9 million, and they couldn't force him to redo his contract.
The allure of returning for Lynch appears to be to play for his hometown Raiders.
In other words, this isn't happening. Lynch has played his last game for the Seahawks.
What impact would the Seahawks releasing Lynch have on their cap?
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What about the $5 million in remaining signing bonus that Lynch had on his deal?
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Sustainability is more important in the business world than ever before. So why isn't it working?
Sustainability — it is on almost every corporate manager's mind, but few are putting their thoughts into action. These are one of the key findings of the recent MIT SMR/BCG annual report Sustainability's Next Frontier.
This situation hasn't changed much over many years — the main difference being that, 20 years ago, the very idea of sustainability was foreign to many firms. Most had established safety, health, and environment departments (SHE) to handle growing pressures to take care of the environment and the health of their employees (at least while on the job).
The context changed in 1987 with the publication of the UNCED report (Brundtland report) that both defined sustainable development and placed it squarely in the public eye. The first Rio Environmental Summit in 1992 made it a priority in the corporate sector, with the newly formed World Business Council on Sustainable Development (WBCSD) leading the way.
Early corporate efforts built most of their sustainability efforts (the development half became tacit over the years) around eco-efficiency — that is, providing equal or greater value but with less environmental impact. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) got added along the way. New composite metrics emerged, with John Elkington's triple bottom line (TBL) as the model.
Lurking beneath firms' commitments and resources to sustainability was an assumption that the world would become sustainable as more and more firms reduced their relative burdens. The problem with this idea is that while a company's increase in eco-efficiency is measured by comparing current burdens to past burdens, the deteriorating state of the world comes from the total global burden — that is, the burden of all past plus all present activities.
Using less fuel or producing less waste today does not, unfortunately, erase the products of last year's less-efficient practices; nor does it make up for the increase in output that, efficiencies notwithstanding, must accompany a company's expansion. The WBCSD had overlooked or ignored the limitations of relying on efficiency improvements to reduce ecological destruction.
As a result, the world is more unsustainable now than in 1972 in spite of the sustainability programs of firms worldwide. I have written in Sustainability by Design that what firms are doing is reducing unsustainability, but this is not the same as creating sustainability.
And we are still losing ground. Continued economic growth, coupled with globalization and increasing population, will eventually overcome any reasonably expected efficiency gains.
Sustainability strategies and programs, although meritorious, fail to address the fundamental causes of unsustainability. The proximate cause is economic growth beyond the capacity of the planet to support our affluent lifestyles and levels of consumption. Growth is necessary to bring the poor out of abject levels of poverty, but present economic policies have only increased inequality, leaving many of the poor further behind.
Ironically, the underlying goal of "sustainability" as used in this fashion is to keep growing indefinitely — assuming, as economists do, that the role of business is to provide more and more material wealth, thereby (presumably) increasing aggregate well-being. This goal has been maintained in the shadow of clear signals that this road to sustainability is self-defeating, and against evidence of growing human suffering and environmental degradation.
It took me a while to recognize the connection between sustainability and growth. The word "sustainability" itself is misleading. As a noun, it is meaningless in practice unless it refers to some thing that is to be sustained. It is, in fact, a question in need of answering: can we sustain growth? Can we sustain our population? Can we sustain our lifestyle? Is there an ability to sustain any of these things?
As currently used, sustainability refers to all of these things: growth, population, and lifestyle. There is a hidden teleology in how the word is used: just keep on innovating and growing, and life will become better and better. Given any reasonable forecast of future eco-efficiency gains, growth will have to stop, leaving us mired along the way, if we are to avoid the depletion of all ecosystems on this planet.
It's clear that we have to stop growing at some point — but what point?
My former student and now colleague, Andrew Hoffman, and I have made the argument that it is imperative to pick something other than growth to sustain. Growth is, ultimately, a measure of quantity; we suggest instead a measure of quality. For us, that something is flourishing — a measure of the fullness of life, not some material metric. Flourishing, as our book of the same title proposes, comes when one can say that life's cares are being attended to — when every human being is successfully caring for themselves, other humans, and the non-human world that is vital to our maintenance.
This concept of sustainability as the creation and maintenance of flourishing would require the corporate world to think of its businesses in a fundamentally different way. In this model of economic interactions, business's primary role would be to enable people to flourish — that is, take care of the world around them. Such a world would be very different from what we see today. Eco-efficiency and CSR would still be on the agenda, but the creation of flourishing would come first.
It's obvious this would require radical change. Corporations' basic strategies would move from satisfying needs (or wants) to enabling care. Sustainability practices as understood today would still be important for managers, but would be completely intertwined with and inseparable from whatever basic strategy is driving a firm. There would be no more specialized sustainability surveys, such as the current MIT SMR/BCG report; only composite assessments of contributions to flourishing. While profit would continue to be important to a firm's success, it would take a backseat to the firm's contribution to flourishing.
Today, we are very far from the creation, much less the sustaining, of a flourishing world. Even more than the challenge of being first to market new revolutionary Internet devices will be the offering of the first products designed to enable people to care for themselves and others. When enough such offerings hit the market, then and only then will we be able to talk about sustainability and both understand and mean what we say.


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The weekly EIA gas storage numbers arrived on Thursday and the trend continues. Yesterday's gas storage injection was only 26 bcf (billion cubic feet) against last year's number of 48 bcf and the five year average increase of 61 bcf. In just one week the one year surplus has contracted 1.2% to 18% while the five year excess diminished an even more significant 1.7% to only 15.8%. The storage "shoulder" season as it is known officially runs through the end of October or about 14 more weeks to go.
We now have an even dozen consecutive data points in a row of these stingy inputs to our national gas cache…..and there is no letup in sight. Hotter than normal weather for the Central and Eastern portions of the country is expected to result in power companies increasing natural gas demand to 34 bcf per day or a 6 bcf per day over last year. This represents over a 20% increase.
Some Extrapolations
Now heed the following. Ceteris Paribus should the pace of surplus storage reduction continue at an equal pace from the May 10 peak supra normal stockpile figures of 48.4% and 49.9% of the one year and five year respectively, then the five year average surplus would go below mean just a little over five weeks from now. It would take just under seven weeks to crack below last year's figure. Further extrapolation under the same above assumption suggests that by the official end of the storage season (October 31) the one year and five year storage volumes would be in deficit to their historical averages by 19% and 27% respectively.
Market Is Stressed Now
The gas market is already showing signs of dislocation. "Backwardation" is the market condition whereby the front month of a futures contract sells for more than the next month. The natural gas market went into "backwardation" on Tuesday of this week when the August gas contract traded at a higher price than the September contract. This is quite an unusual state. This is generally a bullish sign (rising prices) as it implies a market supply shortage. The commodity purchasers such as an electric utilities may face excess demand resulting from much hotter than normal temperatures and needs the gas right now, immediately, today, so the spot market becomes stressed and prices gets bid up. Were that not the case, a rational buyer would simply wait a month and purchase the gas cheaper. A normal futures curve for non-perishable commodities like oil and gas is generally in "contango" which simply infers that each month is slightly more expensive than the previous month. This extra monthly premium reflects the cost of storage as well as an implied interest rate to own or "carry" the commodity, in our case gas. So a 'backwardated" market throws out storage and interest carry costs and in a graphic illustration is analogous to an inverted interest rate yield curve.
Answering The Naysayers
A few of the observations on my recently published "We're headed to $8 Natural Gas"criticized my syllogistic logic: Shale wells are depleting at much more rapid rates than they were modeled, which is reflected in production averaging under 64 bcf per day down from 70 bcf in January, which has led to the twelve consecutive below normal injections, which has been exacerbated by seasonally hotter temperatures, which has lead finally to an anxious "backwardated' market structure. In addition, the latest rig count remains barely above 500, stagnated at anemic 13 year lows. I also noted companies like COP and CHK had shut in some production and that most companies have steered drilling capital to natural gas liquids and oil. So several comments fixated on the fact that there are thousands of gas wells drilled but not yet completed and that when gas reaches $4.50 to $5.00 per mcf (thousand cubic feet) these wells will come on line either causing gas prices to fall or at least limiting potential upside. Maybe, but let me explain my disagreement. Firstly, there is no public database or statistics which are indicative of drilled wells that are not in production, so nobody really knows. So other than the majors (XOM, CVX, BP, RDS.A etc.) I just don't think that small to midsize public companies can afford to drill a few dozen wells and not complete them and put them on production. Here's why. These companies are under pressure from shareholders, stock analysts, and their boards of directors to perform from quarter to quarter. They have monthly and quarterly production targets that must be met. These companies don't have the luxury to wait for prices to rise like a COP does. To tie up significant amounts of unproductive capital indefinitely might crush their stock price. And we all know, or should know, that the bulk of CEO pay comes in the form of stock options. I have a sneaking suspicion that many fudge their production numbers. Here's how. Even if gas is $2.00 per mcf a good gas well may come on line at 6 mcf or even 8 mcf per day. All the well data I examined showed in 90 days or less those numbers had already been cut in half and often much more. But if a company only reports the IPR, which translates to initial production rate, then even at $2.00 gas you have a well with a starting gross of $16,000 a day that looks like a winner. In reality, after precipitous exponential declines the company is a giant loser on a well like this. Most of these firms are on a drilling treadmill where the struggle is to meet production metrics with cash flow a secondary concern.
So when, not if, gas reaches $5.00 undoubtedly many drilled wells will be completed. COP and others will resume production on many of its shut in gas wells. Additionally, there will be some switching out of gas back into coal by power providers. Is all this enough to increase the supply to offset the super rapidly declining existing shale wells? Initially, I don't think so. The market is getting stretched beyond a point of no return. An aircraft carrier cannot turn on a dime. It's not even August and we have just seen the first mini supply panic. Gas prices are still perched only around the $3 mcf level. Rig counts for now remain low. So while the market is trying to get to the magic profitable $5 mcf gas, daily production will continue to decline and inevitably as below normal weekly storage injections mount up, the rubber band will get stretched to breaking point. Then one calm morning a catalyst will come. A hurricane, planned turnaround maintenance shutting down nuclear power plants, or in a few weeks when the report comes that gas storage has crossed below 1 and 5 year averages…. and what a about possible a cold winter. The slingshot effect will be sudden and powerful. It always is. Markets don't adjust peacefully. Lock in your gas contracts now. I recently extended my home electricity contract by two years. Prices inexorably go lower than they should and higher than they should. This phase of the cycle is upon us. $8.00 gas is coming, so prepare.


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The joke is on Southeast Texas this month as one of Beaumont Independent School District's highest paid employees made Texas Monthly magazine's annual list of Bum Steer Award recipients. Alongside other notable "bums" named by the magazine such as Randy Travis for his naked DWI arrest while driving a 1998 Trans Am and Lance Armstrong for losing every prize he's ever won due to doping violations, BISD's Taylor Career and Technology Center principal Thom Campbell-Amons ranked among 2012's best of the worst.
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Amons came under public scrutiny when a BISD instructor revealed to The Examiner that Amons was operating the campus with discriminatory practices toward certain members of the community. The instructor, Cequana Clark, said principal Amons advised her he would rather shut down a school program than allow admission to a student he believed was gay. In short order, Amons did in fact shutter the program and unceremoniously relieved Clark of her duties with the school district.
The story was covered in-depth in this news publication, but Texas Monthly offers a brief retelling of the issue in its January 2013 cover story. Under the heading of "School Sucks" that includes a brief commentary, "Sure, Texas education is lousy, but, relax, college will teach them everything they need to know. Right?," staff writers had this to say:
"When he learned that he could not legally refuse to register a student based on his suspicion that the student was gay, Thom Campbell-Amons, principal of the Taylor Career Center, in Beaumont, discontinued the evening cosmetology program the student was trying to register for, even though several students were already enrolled."
Brief and to the point. Of course, BISD administrators offered an alternate rationale for the program's closure: "budget restraints." After weeks of watching the clock for Public Information Request deadlines to become active, some information designed to back up BISD's claim was released; other information was withheld by BISD's legal counsel while the district tried to keep the information from public view.
The information that was immediately available did not, however, showcase any budget issue related to operating the Adult Cosmetology program. Combing through the stacks of paperwork actually proved the opposite.
Laughing all the way to the bank
Budget details released by BISD show that the Taylor Career Center's Adult Cosmetology program would garner in 2013 as much funding as it had the year prior. The budget was made although more students were registering for tuition-based training in 2013 than had been previously enrolled in 2012.
Further information revealed that during the same time that Amons was allegedly cutting back on programs to save the campus budget, thousands of dollars were expended for flower deliveries and staff incentives. Amons also withdrew more than $1,400 from the Student Activity Fund as an advance for a trip to NAASBE to be reimbursed by the school district.
Adding to the funds that were discretionarily paid was $500 given to Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, which is also the church where Amons serves as a deacon; and roughly $20,000 spent for Skills USA competition, typically held on BISD property.
Amons' campus was also awarded more than $46,000 from BISD to operate Computer Repair Technology as part of Vocational Education, according to BISD finance staff Laura Klock. Curiously, she acknowledged that the campus does not offer a course on Computer Repair Technology and the campus would not be billed for any computer repairs to BISD equipment since the products are leased, with repairs covered under warranty.
Hidden punch line
The information withheld by BISD included, according to BISD attorney Melody Chappell, "personal e-mails," "litigation involving the district" and "certain legal matters pertaining to attorney-client privilege." The Texas Attorney General did eventually rule that portions of the withheld information must be released to the public, and with the new year came new information on the subject.
As part of the recently released material, it was revealed that Amons had been in possession of an employee grievance letter e-mailed to him from ousted instructor Cequana Clark detailing allegations that the principal was operating with bigoted intentions. That letter was kept by Amons, according to his e-mail record, and he neglected to forward the grievance to higher administrators within BISD.
The correspondence was dated Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, the day Amons announced BISD's Adult Cosmetology program would end effective Friday, Sept. 14.
"I am filing this grievance because I was informed today by Mr. Amons that … there will be no adult (cosmetology) program at Taylor Career Center," Clark wrote. "I was not given any warning other than yesterday (Monday, Sept. 10), when I had a male student the age of 22 who wanted to enroll in the Adult Cosmetology class and Mr. Amons told me I couldn't enroll the student because he was gay – he said he didn't want riff-raff at the school.
"Mr. Amons (said) that he would close the program down before he let that young man enroll in the school.
"I think it's unfair to the students, and me, the teacher – it's discrimination – and that saddens me as an educator."
While Amons did not immediately forward that e-mail from Clark, the next day he did gather e-mails from Taylor Center staffer Sheryl George from months prior – all relating to instructor Clark. Those exchanges of e-mails were initially withheld from documents requested from BISD as part of the Public Information Act request and required an Attorney General ruling to get them released. The e-mails do detail a contentious exchange between George and Clark from May 2012, wherein both women ultimately agreed to pray for each other as the best recourse of action.
Clark said George was privy to Amons' decision to shut down the BISD Adult Cosmetology program, but George has not confirmed that encounter.


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Pismis 24 and NGC 6357
Pismis 24, NGC 6357, Cl Pismis 24
About 8,000 light-years (2,500 parsecs)
2.4 arcminutes (6 light-years or 1.75 parsecs) wide
This image was created from HST data from the following proposals:
10602: J. Maiz-Apellaniz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain), N. Walborn and E. Nelan (STScI), N. Morrell Carnegie Institution of Washington), and V. Niemela (Universidad Nacional de La Plata)
9857: O. De Marco (American Museum of Natural History), C. R. O'Dell (Vanderbilt University), and R. Rubin (NASA Ames Research Center)
9091: J. Hester, P. Scowen, and K. Healy, (Arizona State University).
F550W (V), F547M (Strömgren y), F656N (Halpha), F658N (Halpha+[N II]), and F850LP (SDSS i)
This image is a composite of many separate exposures made by the ACS and WFPC2 instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope using several different filters. Five filters were used to sample both broad and narrow wavelength ranges. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic image. In this case, the assigned colors are:
Blue: F550W (V) + F547M (Strömgren y)
Red: F656N (Halpha) + F658N (Halpha+[N II]) + F850LP (SDSS i)
NASA, ESA, and J. Maí;z Apellániz (Instituto de Astrofí;sica de Andalucí;a, Spain)


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Wisconsin courts have ruled that the Archdiocese of Milwaukee is on its own to pay any settlement to victims of clergy sex abuse.
The diocese filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in January, but legal experts say insurance coverage—or at least a battle over it—could still come to bear.
"I wouldn't assume the insurance question is dead yet," said Jonathan Lipson, a professor at UW Law School and author of several works on Catholic Church bankruptcies, including a recent article in the Southern California Law Review.
Lipson, who teaches a variety of business law courses at UW, spoke with the Journal Sentinel, The Economist, Milwaukee Shepherd Express, and WKOW about the case.
Insurance issues in clergy sex abuse cases are notoriously complex, because allegations may span decades and involve multiple companies and varying language. Sometimes, settlements include non-monetary requests such as the release of confidential files.
Lipson said opening up the Milwaukee archdiocese's records could be part of a settlement. But it's not certain that a bankruptcy judge could force a religious entity such as the Milwaukee archdiocese to do so.
"These [clergy sex abuse-related] cases push the bankruptcy system to its institutional limit," Lipson explained. "At some level these cases are not exclusively about money. Money is obviously important, but in many cases the plaintiffs want something more than money. They want the names. They want an apology. They want a commitment about future conduct…"
To read The Economist article, click here.
To watch the WKOW interview, click here.
To read the January 19 Journal Sentinel article, click here. For the January 22 article, click here. For the February 7 article, click here.
To read the Milwaukee Shepherd Express article, click here.
Submitted by UW Law News on May 19, 2011
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- Single and multi-player apps let you engage in the virtual world and play in the real one
- Compatible with Bluetooth-enabled smartphones and tablets, including iPhone and iPad (iOS 4.0+) and Android devices with operating system 2.2+
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- Package includes: Sphero robotic ball, inductive charging base, Quick Start card, user manual.
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- LiPo Battery: 60 minutes of drive time after a 180 minute charge
- Sphero 2.0 offers twice the speed, three times the brightness, and increased accuracy over the original.


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NZ, Australia part company as NZ abandons Kyoto Protocol
(BusinessDesk) New Zealand is abandoning its pursuit of a second Commitment Period under the Kyoto Protocol governing global action on climate change, plumping instead for a competing initiative that involves the major emitters seen as crucial to any new global deal: the US and China.
The move, announced by International Climate Change Negotiations Minister Tim Groser, came just hours after Australia - previously slow to the party on the first Kyoto commitment period - pledged to support the Kyoto 2 process.
The reversal in trans-Tasman positions comes as Australia seeks to implement an emissions trading scheme from 2015 which could, in theory, mesh with New Zealand's, and in the same week as Wellington pushed through controversial legislation watering down the local ETS indefinitely.
Groser said "New Zealand "will be aligning its climate change efforts with developed and developing economies which collectively are responsible for 85 percent of global emissions", including the US, Japan, China, India, Canada, Brazil and Russia.
The decision caused immediate dismay among environmental lobbyists, with Greenpeace saying New Zealand was turning its back on Kyoto "to join an infamous club of the world's dirtiest economies and most belligerent climate wreckers" by deciding to take its next commitment under the United Nations Framework Commitment on climate change.
The decision follows Barack Obama's re-election US president this week. Obama lifted activists' hopes by referring to tackling climate change in his acceptance speech, which came days after Hurricane Sandy devastated swathes of the heavily populated north-eastern US seaboard, igniting US public debate about climate change action.
However, the US has never signed up to the Kyoto Protocol and is pursuing climate change initiatives under the UN Framework Convention.
Groser indicated the government would continue to adhere to the international obligations it has signed up to under the First Commitment Period of the Kyoto Protocol, which runs from 2008 to the end of this year. New Zealand expects to report a small surplus of 23.1 million tonnes of carbon, but faces a massive increase in carbon liabilities later this decade when plantation forestry is due for harvest.
It was also New Zealand's "intention to apply the broad Kyoto Framework of rules to out next commitment," said Groser. Such an approach is understood to be essential if New Zealand is to keep access to various special rules it has fought hard to win in Kyoto negotiations, including the right to count carbon sequestered in timber against carbon reduction targets.
The move puts New Zealand on a different path from two of the only other parts of the world with ETS-style carbon schemes. The European Union and Australia are committed to the second commitment period negotiations under the Kyoto Protocol.
Groser acknowledged the difference, saying "Australia currently has a different set of domestic policies in place, at least until 2015, when the fixed priced regime is intended to be replaced by an ETS."
New Zealand would continue to work closely with Australia.
The government remained on track to formally commit to cut New Zealand's future emissions to between 10 per cent and 20 percent below 1990 emissions levels, "once we know exactly what the final rules will be on some crucial technical issues."


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Brecke, of Saukville, passed away unexpectedly on Thursday, Aug. 15,
2013. He was 27 years old. Ben was born in Milwaukee on April 14, 1986,
the youngest son of Howard Brecke and Joan Gasner Brecke. Ben grew up in
Saukville and graduated from Port Washington High School with the class
of 2004. Ben was working toward a degree in environmental sciences at
the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He was an active member of St.
Peter's United Church of Christ in Saukville participating in the
churches music ministry.
Ben loved the outdoors and nature. He could often times be found hiking
at the Lion's Den Gorge in Grafton, cross-country skiing or sitting
around a campfire in his backyard looking over Peninsula Park in
Saukville. Ben was known for being extremely compassionate. He also gave
the best hugs!
Ben is survived by his parents, Howard and Joan of Saukville; and his
two brothers, Matthew (Michelle) Brecke of Port Washington and Andrew
Brecke of Cascade. He is further survived by his special niece and
nephews, Evan, Brodie and Hannah; and his aunts and uncles, Linda
(Elmer) Miller of Plymouth, Bill (Judy) Gasner of West Bend, Frank
(Connie) Gasner of Kewaskum, Susie (Charles) Feathers of Cassopolis,
Mich., Elizabeth (William) Yetter of Westminster, Colo., Mary Brecke of
Hurley, Paula (James) Gardner of Hurley, Charles (Jody) Ulczycki of
Williams Bay, and Jill (the late Marty) Brecke of Chicago; and other
relatives and many, many friends. He is preceded in death by his
grandparents Frank and Dorothy Gasner, Guy and Barbara Brecke and his
uncles Joseph and Marty Brecke.
A memorial service celebrating Ben's life will take place on Thursday,
Aug. 22 at 6:30 p.m. at St. Peter's United Church of Christ, 166 W.
Dekora St., Saukville with the Rev. Brian Damrow officiating. A time of
gathering will take place at the church on Thursday, Aug. 22 from
3:30-6:30 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, memorials suggested to Riveredge Nature Center, 4458
Hawthorne Drive, Saukville WI 53080 or St. Peter's United Church of
Christ in Saukville.
The Eernisse Funeral Home, Port Washington is honored to serve the
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Ariana Grande is lending her heart to fans in need.
As the "Dangerous Woman" singer returned to England less than three weeks after the deadly attack at Manchester Arena for Sunday night's star-studded benefit concert, Grande stopped by the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital to spend time with young girls injured in the bombing.
Grande posted on Instagram about the visit, showing her chatting with a young girl in the hospital.
The girl tweeted a photo of Grande kissing her on the forehead and wrote, "I got to meet my queen today."
The attack, which killed 22 and injured dozens more, prompted Grande to pen a powerful essay announcing the "One Love Manchester" concert, which will include performances from Coldplay, Pharrell Williams, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, Niall Horan, Little Mix and Robbie Williams.
"I don't want to go the rest of the year without being able to see and hold and uplift my fans, the same way they continue to uplift me," Grande wrote. "Our response to this violence must be to come closer together, to help each other, to love more, to sing louder and to live more kindly and generously than we did before."
"I'll be returning to the incredibly brave city of Manchester to spend time with my fans and to have a benefit concert in honor of and to raise money for the victims and their families," she added.
Ariana Grande Is Leaning on Her Family
Tickets for the fundraising event sold out in less than six minutes, with approximately 45,000 jumping at the chance to give back to the victims and their families. Those who were at Grande's May 22 concert when the suicide bombing took place were offered free tickets; the remainder went on sale for $52.
Extra safety precautions will be taken at the Emirates Old Trafford Cricket Ground in Manchester, with additional security checks and increased police presence.
Shortly after the tragedy, Grande returned home to Boca Raton, Florida, to spend time with family and boyfriend Mac Miller.
"One Love Manchester" airs Sunday, June 4, on ABC and Freeform in the U.S. It'll be live on Freeform at 2 p.m. ET and a one-hour highlight special will air on ABC after the NBA finals.
The event is expected to bring in upwards of $3 million, which will benefit the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund, set up by Manchester City Council in partnership with the British Red Cross.


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Wabash Day 2010 - Coloradoby John Panozzo, '89 • October 11, 2010 Share:
Wabash alumni gathered once again on another beautiful fall day in Colorado to participate in our 6th W.A.B.A.S.H. Day event.
Our service project was once again at the Jeffco Action Center in Lakewood. The Jeffco Action Center is human services nonprofit organization which has served the basic human needs of the residents and homeless of Jefferson County since 1968.
Our day involved packaging and boxing complete family Thanksgiving Day dinners (minus Turkey) at their warehouse facility. The Jeffco Action Center will deliver Thanksgiving dinner boxes to over 4,000 families this November. After our work was completed alumni met at the home of John Panozzo, '89 for lunch and alumni fellowship.
Census: Harry Phillips, '65, Tim Gagen, '76, Al Hart, '69, Kai Chin, '71, Todd Mikesell, '87, Doug Ross, '05, Jim Roper, '68, Matthew Roper (age 9), Dave Rosborough, '10, Adam Boushie, '00, John Panozzo, '89


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County numbers had 17 people die in fatalities as opposed to 10 in 2006. Statewide, the figures showed that 1,071 drivers lost their lives in 2007, up 43 from the previous year. South Carolina ranks among the highest in the nation in terms of number of traffic deaths and serious accidents per number of vehicles on the road.
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Films based on actual events have pluses and minuses. The minus is that they tend to over dramatize the story they are trying to tell. The plus is that more often than not you're given a glimpse into an amazing story. The thing I've noticed with most is that the plus almost always outweighs the minus, especially since most of us are privy to the reality that was.
CONVICTION is based on the real story of Betty Anne Water (played by Hillary Swank) and her brother Kenny (played by Sam Rockwell). Coming from a dysfunctional background with a mother who had numerous husbands and worked to the point she rarely had time for her children, we learn their story in flashbacks while the main issue is told in a straightforward manner. That story revolves around Kenny's arrest and conviction for the murder of an elderly woman in their town and Betty's attempt to free him for being unjustly convicted.
The film opens with Kenny being picked up for questioning that he tries to laugh off. Sis comes down to pick him up when he's released and he jokes with her as well. The two are well known with the police since they were always in minor trouble when children. Kenny continued having problems but never enough to do prison time.
We're presented with glimpses of their lives, how both were married and how Kenny was dedicated to his daughter. But that changes when a few months after his initial questioning while attending his grandfather's funeral, the police show and arrest him. Charged with the murder, Kenny doesn't see how he can be convicted. But testimony of two scorned women leads to a guilty decision, a move that will affect Kenny and Betty.
With little or no money on hand to get a well groomed lawyer, Betty decides to go to school and get a law degree herself so that she can represent Kenny. It's slow going but she trudges through it, making a friend (Minnie Driver) in the process but almost losing her children after a divorce brought on by her obsession to see her brother free. Betty is convinced of his innocence while no one else believes.
To tell whether she gets her degree or not would spoil one of the mysteries presented here. Along the way Betty also gets help from a New York lawyer who specializes in unjustly convicted individuals cases. Barry Sheck (Peter Gallagher) agrees to help her, but the case will take months unless she gets her degree and can find evidence on her own. To save her brother, Betty must get her degree at all costs and then locate and find a way to use the evidence from so long ago that will help prove his innocence.
All of this takes more than two decades for her to do, but Betty never waivers. Her love for her brother is strong enough for her to do what she has to to get him released. Both she and Kenny have moments when they begin to fall, but both come back fighting.
The word conviction is not meant just for the fact that Kenny was imprisoned. It also has a twofold meaning for Betty as well. First, her conviction that her brother was innocent and that she would do anything to prove this point. And secondly was her own imprisonment with her attempt to prove this point. Sacrificing her own chance at a different life, at times her own children, as she dedicates herself to his release becomes part of the story as well.
The performances in this film are amazing. Swank does a stand up job as Betty, showing both her beaten down and resilient sides in a manner that is more than anything believable. But while her performance is quite good it is Rockwell that is a sight to behold. From goofy town troublemaker to depressed prisoner, he brings off the right degree of emotion from beginning to end.
Director Tony Goldwyn struggled for years to get this movie made one he heard the story. In the extras on the DVD he interviews the real Betty Anne Waters so viewers get the chance to see her as well. Sadly, Kenny was killed in a car accident shortly after his release. It's nice to see that Goldwyn was able to bring this tale to the world so everyone could see the amazing story of a woman who went through so much because she believed in and loved her brother. Would that we could all make such a claim.


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US Fish and Wildlife Name New Duck Stamp Winner
SIOUX FALLS - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says it has disqualified a 6-year-old South Dakota girl from accepting a $5,000 scholarship after her painting was selected for a federal duck stamp.
Six-year-old Madison Grimm, of Burbank, was selected as the winner of the Federal Duck Stamp contest last week. But the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Friday that she was disqualified after officials learned she had copied it from an image, which is against contest rules.
The original runner up, 17-year-old Peter Coulter of Washington, Mo., has been named the new winner.
Proceeds from sales of the $5 Junior Duck Stamp support environmental education.
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