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Dear Diary Says Show Up Anyway
From left #3, #24, #23. [Fuller]
Come tailgate, support kids. A reminder that you can join us and former players tomorrow at the Go Blue Bowl Tailgate organized by Marlin Jackson's organization (specifically through the efforts of an extraordinary lady named Kat Mills). This is for charity so suggested minimum donation of $5 if you're just coming for the Q&A and more if you plan to drink beer and hang for awhile.
A couple of Marlin's high donors deserve recognition: Huron Valley Financial, the Bank of Ann Arbor, and MDen. Christians Catering is bringing food, and the Beer Grotto in Dexter is providing the beer. Full details at the link.
If you ask me, it's better to go. Everyone wants to do something to demonstrate that Michigan fans are fed up with a director who treats this program like his personal play toy, and that the public who do own this public institution are sick of it being hoarded, and its name besmirched by dishonesty and obfuscation (Best & Worst).
But for the record, I'm not in favor of boycotts, walkouts, late arrivals, or any other form of protest in which the protestors miss a snap, because I think it misses the target while undermining the one thing we all care about the most.
I know after the Minnesota game that Brian called for a boycott of Maryland if Brandon and Hoke were still here, and I know what name's on my paychecks. I know the players aren't made of glass, and that they're well aware that the vitriol toward the people in charge is not directed at them, although they generally take attacks on their coaches personally (they chose them after all).
But I didn't know until fairly recently why it's so important to them that fans show up: To a player, fans equal energy. Human brains are not wired to grant conscious access to the body's full capacity. Put a hungry lion behind the 20th fastest man on the planet and Usain Bolt will be left in his dust. Whatever our expectations for athletes we paid massive sums to see, they cannot escape their own psychology.
CSG president Bobby Dishell's heart is in the right place, but he's wrong: you're not hurting the players; you're hurting their performance.
Athletes draw motivation from the crowd. Michigan Stadium's size is a huge recruiting tool because an athlete brain understands intuitively that 109,000 shouting faces will get more out of him than 84,000. The number gets in their heads, but empty seats do as well. Go watch September baseball at a bad team's venue long after they've been eliminated: it's crap. Every play that your seat is empty contributes a tiny bit to Michigan (and, coincidentally, their opponent) playing a bit worse.
Weigh that against the maximum that you will realistically move the decision of Mark Schlissel. Your empty seat speaks, but you can also be in that seat screaming "Go!" at Blue to the furthest extent of your vocal capacity whenever they take the field or need a boost, and screaming "Fire Brandon!" whenever he starts trying to blast you. I think we can get that message across while taking a cue from old blue, and using this weekend to show the players we haven't checked out on them. You can make a statement with where you choose to put your ass, but that's hardly the most effective communicative tool in your anatomical package.
Here's what I suggest we do tomorrow: From the moment the band finishes marching off until kickoff chant "Let's Go Blue!" as loud as you fucking can. At the end of the the game, win or lose, stand in your seat and chant "Let's Go Blue!" AS LOUD. AS. YOU. FUCKING. CAN. In between, scream your head off on Penn State 3rd downs, boo the attendance lie, and sprinkle in "Fire Brandon!" as necessary.
Let's leave Hoke alone, since it does us no good if he loses the team now, and his fate is sealed to his record (Ron Utah with some candidate grades) so any more dogging from us is superfluous. ST3 made the case that the coaching staff has cost Michigan perhaps three wins with strategic errors: dumb-punting vs. Utah, starting Shane, and giving Rutgers that end-of-1st-half drive. I think it's more accurate to say that these coaching errors put Michigan at a small strategic disadvantage, and that the team is not so good that it can win without every scrap of advantage it can get.
Yes, showing up and laying off the coach is what Dave Brandon wants you to do. Fuck him; we come to root for Michigan.
[Jump: clans, coaches, etc.]
Guess the Score, Win Stuff: Yoots
How this works again:
- Readers predict the final score of a designated game by placing a guess in the comments, preferably in the format of [M score][hyphen][Opp score], for example "41-30" or "35-31 Michigan", or "28-24 Go Blue", or "38-34 Gardner FTW!" or "38-0" etc.
- The three guys who read this part holler at people who post in a different format
- First person (by timestamp) to post a particular score has it.
- If you got it right, I contact you for an address by your MGoBlog account email, and you give me some time to get that to you.
- If nobody got it right we push it to next week or let it go.
- Brian voices displeasure at the puns in the headlines.
About Last Week:
Yay somebody guessed 34-10, though I imagine JBM was thinking it would be like 31-0 by half and then we'd put in the scrubs or something. Don't act like you knew it would be 10-10 at the half. Either way you're getting your print.
This Week's Game:
And On the Line:
From our latest line:
Ann Arbor Torch & Pitchfork has been serving the Michigan community since they lost The Game of Games. To all those who feel like THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE, whether your ticket stub isn't wide enough to hold the price, some dufus just lied to the NCAA for no reason whatsoever, they're running the wrong punt formation, or they've threatened to leave your band behind, we here at Ann Arbor Torch and Pitchfork have the tools you need to threaten to get things done right.
Don't let another fiasco go by with mere grumbles, harshly worded letters, and mood-altering substances. Come on down to AAT&P and gear up with the same tools your ancestors used to rid their towns of demons and upstart agricultural institutions. Peruse our outstanding collection of rakes, scythes, rubber chickens, and other farm tools we totally didn't steal from Big Ten West schools.
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Dear Diary Adds to the Wood Bling
First some housekeeping things:
One: Meet the new tshirts:
The chicken one is a LIMITED EDITION we're printing just for this game, since afterwards there won't be any more of the cluckers around to show it to. We will be collecting orders and shipping out on 9/3. After 9/3 we will print limited run extra but then when we are out we are out, so get on that now. Also recommended: bringing rubber chickens to that game (we're not responsible if they get confiscated.)
Two: Reminder: Next Friday at MGoTailgate (on Berkeley across from the stadium), free beer, meet Marlin Jackson and others, learn things, be social.
On with the show.
There are just…
…and-a-half hours until Michigan football. As such the users have gone into their regular pre-season epic content production mode. Let's just get right to it starting with Diarist of the Week and personal favorite MCalibur.
Wait, first let's do Things You're Not Allowed to See. The first rule of Fall Camp is what happens in Fall Camp stays in Fall Camp, unless some dude spills the beans to his friend and he puts it in a diary and we confirm things like Garder==awesome, Fitz==awesome, Butt==feasible in a Funchess-last-year kind of way, OL looks like 1997's, DL depth charts are deep, Wilson is still learning, kicking==good.
Also the first rule of Mott Scrimmage is what happens at Mott Scrimmage stays at Mott Scrimmage (unless someone writes it up as a Diary that pretty much saw everything I saw). Speaking of scrimmages reshp1 went and UFR'd everything from the scrimmage featured in Countdown to Kickoff last week.
Also also the first rule of Camp Michigania is what happens at Michigania is really boring and I don't want to hear it. Anyway I can already see everything you did because it's on your kid's activity bling:
Yes, Lizzie has been cited for improper logo use and will serve a three-game 'timeout'
Wait, Lloyd? Okay I'm sorry; tell me tell me tell me tell me!!!! Now on to MCalibur.
[…after the jump. Also after the jump: Gardner footwork analysis, Dave Brandon's rape noodle, and other stuff]
Band To Dallas, Brandon On Jerryworld Dollars
Ann Arbor Torch and Pitchfork gets it done:
Michigan marching band received a letter today from Dave Brandon informing them that they will be heading to Dallas for the 2012 FB opener
Also some well-heeled donor or six dropping benjamins. Nickel and dime, nickel and dime.
Meanwhile, David Brandon on the financial realities of Jerryworld($):
Brandon acknowledged that the athletic department would have made more money had it just hosted a game at Michigan Stadium. "If it was just about the money," he said, "we would have hosted a game here."
But the exposure, the primetime slot and the opponent will do wonders for the program. Brandon said there was no way he could have gotten Alabama or a similarly high-profile opponent to do a one-off game in Ann Arbor. And with the Wolverines' 2013 schedule already full, a home-and-home series would not have worked, either.
…says an athletic director looking at a 2013 return game with UConn for a game scheduled in 2010, in a department that waited half a decade to get a return game from Oregon.
Whatever. Even if it's a grim idea financially for both the department and Michigan fans it's better than a MAC game until we're down two touchdowns. I'll be extremely disappointed if this sort of thing happens again, though. Price marquee games appropriately and there's no reason Michigan can't make it work financially with home and homes. No more middlemen, sterile NFL arenas, etc.
Speaking of, Brandon mentioned that Michigan is pursuing a home and home with a Pac-12 team that should launch in before the 2017, when the conferences will play annual games against each other. Hopefully that means a home game in 2014, when Nebraska/OSU/Notre Dame are again on the road. (Michigan at least adds Penn State to the home schedule that year.)
If that's the case, possibilities are:
- Cal. Cal has already scheduled a game at Northwestern, however, and probably wants a couple of bodybag home games to fill things out.
- Oregon. Home date with MSU in 2014 and on the road in 2015. Probably does not want to double up with the state of Michigan, but the schedule seems to work out.
- Stanford. Similar issue to Cal's: Already @ ND in 2014.
- USC. USC ain't scurred of filling up its schedule with BCS teams and has a home game with ND in 2014 plus a game at BC(?!?). They'd probably be willing to take on a challenge since BC is going to roll over and die. Complication: this would be smack in the middle of the period sanctions should bite them and they might want to ease up on the scheduling.
- Utah. Hasn't scheduled anything.
- Washington State. Has a home game against Wisconsin in 2014 and a road game against Nevada. Unlikely they'd want to go on the road that year.
Everyone else is full in 2014. Utah or USC seem like the most likely options. A home and home with a Utah team that has twice come out for one-offs in the past decade would be something of a letdown.
BONUS RANDOM NOTE: It looks like the prophesied resurrection of multiple interesting nonconference games is coming to pass. Body-bags guarantees and rising ticket prices have finally created an environment where it makes sense to keep people on the hook with games against actual opponents. At least there's that.
Exit Brad Labadie
Brad Labadie, football director of operations and person frequently talked to, but not heard from, in the sanctions document dump, has resigned:
"I wish Brad well," Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon said. "He has worked hard and worked incredible hours.
"He's been in a punishing job in terms of hours, and to get into a traditional position with more normal hours and a young family is what works for him now. He's moving out of athletics at this stage."
Brandon added: "I absolutely don't think people should" think his departure has anything to do with the NCAA investigation.
Everyone who's emailed me about Brad Labadie in the aftermath of the document release has started their message off with something about how he's a super nice guy, so let's take it easy on the grave dancing.
That said, Labadie's departure doesn't have anything to do with the NCAA investigation in the same way Jim Boccher's departure doesn't have anything to do with the spread punt fiasco of '03. Many many details can be found in the Heads Should Roll post from earlier this summer. If he wasn't outright axed he was encouraged to find a job elsewhere. You may resume your unbreakable faith in David Brandon's pimp hand.
Names Named, Heads Should Roll
Michigan's epic document dump provides a harrowing window into the world of TPS reports, staplers, and increasingly alarmed emails that is the University compliance environment. I started reading these things and I could not stop, delving deeply to 73-page Exhibits that are little more than compliance folk making heroic efforts not to bludgeon the football administration and hardly getting responses.
A couple things are clear.
Brad Labadie should be fired. Now. I'll leave the decision as to whether he should be put in stocks on the Diag up to Brandon, but I vote yes. The vastly ineffectual management of Scott Draper should also see him go out the door. If either of these individuals had competently executed his job, there is a strong possibility this whole thing never happens.
Brandon said yesterday that none of the seven people who got naughty notes put in their permanent record would see further repercussions. I strongly disagree with this decision.
Here's why:
You Can Take This Job Description And Shove It, Except You Can't Because It Doesn't Exist
The CSO made several attempts to obtain written job descriptions for the quality control staff from Scott Draper and Brad Labadie during 2008 and 2009. A copy of the written correspondence related to these efforts is attached as Exhibit 15. Draper provided the first version of the job descriptions on August 28, 2009 after the University began its investigation following media inquiries. See Exhibits 3 and 4.
Exhibit 15… good lord.
April 2008
Judy Van Horn asks Ann Vollano to get job descriptions for all sport-specific administrative staff. Her only sin here is saying "Let's strategize on how to implement."
July 2008
Van Horn emails Draper about a meeting that Draper may or may not have to attend about "compliance monitoring systems that are under Brad's purview":
There have been some glitches with systems that Brad thought would work better under Rich but haven't as well as times where Brad has felt hounded by CSO staff and CSO staff have felt him to be nonresponsive. I think we need to touch base to make sure we can close out 2007-08 and have a workable plan and strong relationship moving into 2008-09.
In this email Van Horn mentions the CSO is expanding monitoring of QC-type people, a "growing employment area" subject to "increasing NCAA scrutiny and controversy" and they are proactively attempting to get these agreements in place in order to avoid any troubles.
Draper responds:
If there is an issue with Brad, I need to know about it. If he was disrespectful or anything along those lines that is something I need to address. If it is not, then as his supervisor I should be made aware of it and handle it with Rich. … Please help me understand what is going on I am in the dark. If there is an issue I need to be made aware of it. Brad reports to me.
August 2008
Vollano sends a memo requesting job descriptions for all sport-specific staffers in an effort to ensure Michigan is "meeting NCAA coaching staff limit requirements," asking for a response no later than August 22nd.
September 2008
Vollano emails Draper, reminding him to turn in the form requested in August. Draper says he did it, asks Vollano to look for it again. Vollano says it is not present and the CSO has been "on high alert looking for it." Draper says he will re-do it and bring it in in the morning. Rich Rodriguez is CCed on this email. He does not receive further correspondence.
October 2008
Vollano emails Draper having received football's "limitations form" but still needs the job descriptions.
December 2008
I have left a couple of messages but I thought that maybe email would be easier. I want to remind you that I need job descriptions for all of your non-coaching-specific staff members, As you may recall, the "Designation of Coaching Category" form for the 2OO8·09 academic year was changed and to include space for each member of your non-coaching sport specific staff to sign. In addition, a copy of each sport specific staff person's job description was to be attached. I have your form but I do not have any job descriptions for any of the non-coaching sport specific staff. The job descriptions should include the title of the position and a description of duties. Once we have the job descriptions, we will have the staff members sign an agreement related to their role with your sport. The role of non-coaching, sport-specific staff continues to receive increased scrutiny from both the NCAA and Big Ten Conference staff. These agreements will ensure that we are meeting NCAA coaching staff limit requirements. Thanks for your attention in this matter. An Email would be sufficient if it is easier for you, Take care! Ann
P.S. I have attached a copy of the form with all of the signatures and positions that you turned in. lf there are any people missing, please let me know. Thanks!
Labadie responds that he "just listened to the voicemail from earlier where you said you are not taking it personally" and asks for the people who need job descriptions… that Vollano has already told him twice already on the memo.
August 2009
The 28th: Draper submits a job description for QC staffers. It is a hastily slapped-together piece of crap.
The 29th: Free Press report published.
The 30th: Draper submits another job description for QC staffers.
You Say CARA, I Say "Shut Up, I'm Playing Halo"
You know the CARA forms? Yeah… about them:
The CSO made repeated requests for the CARA forms during 2008 and 2009. Most of these requests were made to Brad Labadie by email. See Exhibit 18. Scott Draper received a copy of several of the e-mail requests to Labadie. The CSO also notified Joe Parker, Senior Associate Athletics Director, Development/Corporate Relations, about the football CARA forms issues in early 2009. After the requests to Labadie produced no CARA forms from football, on May 19, 2009, the CSO office again informed Parker about the absence of CARA forms for football. Parker contacted Labadie and Draper about the issue the same day. Van Horn also notified University auditors of the issue, and the auditors found no CARA forms for football when they reviewed CSO records in April and May 2009. …
CSO officials did not meet in-person with Rodriguez to notify him of football's failure to provide CARA forms until July 30, 2009. The University is satisfied Rodriguez was unaware of the problem until he received the auditor's memorandum dated July 24th, 2009.
… The CSO was persistent in its efforts to gather CARA forms from football, including eventually seeking the assistance of the direct of athletics. The University believes, however, t he CSO should have met with Rodriguez to alert him to the CARA forms issue and seek his assistance much sooner than it did. The University believes that had the CSO done so, the CARA forms issue likely would have been addressed at a much earlier date.
The next section details what Rodriguez's part was in this. The U did not believe Rodriguez knew about the specific CARA procedures; RR states that he was not briefed until the summer of '09, but the matter was on multiple rules education agendas. Van Horn stated she and RR "agreed that Labadie and Draper would continue to be the administrators responsible for football compliance issues."
As you'd expect, the compliance issues are sheltered from the coaches as much as possible since they have more important things to be doing. The U is "satisfied Rodriguez did not know that the football program had failed to submit its CARA forms for more than 18 months."
Let's go to Exhibit 18, then. It's 73 pages.
January 2008
"Compliance assistant" Rachel Strassner sends a general email asking for telephone recruiting logs, off campus contacts, and CARA forms for December '07—before Rodriguez was hired. On the 31st, Strassner specifically emails Labadie asking for CARA forms from October, November, and December of '07, telephone logs for December, and a bunch of other stuff. Again: before Rodriguez is hired.
February 2008
Monthly reminder from Strassner. On the sixth, Strassner emails Labadie again requesting missing docs: one week of CARA forms from November, recruiting logs from Mike Debord, December telephone logs from all coaches, and October contact logs from most of the coaches. On the 12th she emails again asking for the missing CARA week, a number of contact logs, and everyone's telephone logs. On the 20th she's still missing the single CARA week and believes one other week has an overage.
March 2008
Reminder ping. Strassner now sending emails with the subject line "Compliance Documents – STILL MISSING". The November 18th week that has been outstanding for months is still outstanding, as are contact logs and telephone logs. Questions about possible overages have not been answered.
A week later, Strassner sends an email to Michael Parrish, cc-ing Labadie and asking for CARA forms for January and February, February telephone logs, and February contact logs. Vollano replies to this, noting the university's auditor will be in on Thursday and "Auditors like to find things missing so they can put them in their reports." A week later, both Vollano and Strassner request the missing logs again. A week later, the email mentions the auditor "is in the process of reviewing football's records"; it does appear that the rogue November CARA form has been submitted along with most of the missing Carr-era documentation and the contact/eval logs from the first couple months of the Rodriguez regime.
April 2008
Ping. Strassner now trying "Compliance Forms Missing – DELINQUENT." We have our first Labadie sighting as he emails that Carr and Rodriguez didn't make calls in certain months and that the CARA forms are "being completed." Quiet month after this.
May 2008
Ping. Apparently everything except the CARA forms has been submitted because Strassner's gone down to DEFCON 3: "CARA Forms – Delinquent" and all the telephone/contact log mentions have been dropped. Unfortunately, as time passes the CARA forms keep building up. Labadie has not submitted CARA forms since January 6th. At the end of the month Strassner asks again. Also, CSO still needs Fred Jackson's telephone log from December.
June 2008
Draper is now getting CCed on "Football CARA forms MISSING"; Strassner has taken the desperate, futile step of using the little doohickey that makes your emails "high" importance. CARA forms and the rogue Jackson telephone log have not been submitted. Getting slightly snippy: "Please let me know when I can expect these."
July 2008
This is the point where Brad feels "hounded by CSO staff" and CSO staff feels he could be a tetch "nonresponsive." The department stops asking about the 2008 CARA logs here so it seems like they were submitted at this point.
August 2008
Michigan sends a memo to all coaches and admin staff reminding them about CARA forms for 2008-09.
September 2008
Strassner has either moved on from a student job or an internship or thrown herself off U Towers, leaving one Roy Shavers Jr the thankless task of attempting to get CARA forms from Labadie. He takes up the monthly pings. The U reduces the submission frequency from weekly to monthly. It is the CSO's hope that this will simplify the process by "avoiding the need to ask you at the end of each year to account for past weeks of your team's countable athletically related activities."
October 2008
Just a ping.
November 2008
Ping, and then Shavers emails Labadie to remind him he needs to turn in CARA forms for August and October.
January 2009
Ping, ping. The U has pinged Joseph Parker at this point and he now (Jan 8) asks Draper, Labadie, and Parrish to get the CARA forms completed, mentioning that "we need to put a process in place to ensure this information is delivered to the CSO staff in a timely manner." Bill Martin is CCed. Labadie responds that he will get CARA "cleaned up" at upcoming meetings/workouts.
Twelve days later, Parker emails Labadie again asking about CARA.
March 2009
Ping, ping. Parker emails on the fifth noting that "as a follow-up to our conversation yesterday, compliance has not received any CARA Forms for football for 2008-09." Draper replies that Brad is acquiring the "last remaining signature[s]" from the seniors.
April 2009
Ping. On April 3rd Vollano asks "any idea when we can get the CARA forms?" Incredibly, she then adds "I do not want to bug you about it but as an FYI, the university auditors are going to start their audit of CARA" instead of "if you do not give me the forms I will chop your head off."
On the eighth Shavers emails Vollano noting that they are missing all CARA logs and the telephone logs from November, December, January, and March. Vollano pings Parrish.
May 2009
Ping. On May 7th Vollano emails Labadie with a last-ditch plea: "I just wanted to let you know that the auditors are here doing CARA. They have an empty folder for football. Any chance you bring them over?" Double incredibly, she ends the email "Thanks for your help" instead of "I hate you so much."
Labadie actually responds here: "Figured out what the voicemail was about. Sorry I've been out this morning and I just got the auto reply that you are out later today." Vollano replies the next day asking for the forms ASAP so the auditors can review them, nothing that their report goes to "Bill, the President and Regents."
Two weeks later, Parker emails that Vollano has been requesting the documents for "several months" and asks if they can submit the CARA forms by tomorrow. Labadie replies "Yep. Had them finished yesterday at workouts and they should have been delivered today."
Poor, sweet Ann G.Vollano the next day:
For this, she has been officially censured. Poor, poor Ann G. Vollano.
August 2009
Van Horn and Draper set up a meeting. Unclear why, but "CARA forms" is on the agenda. A week later, Michigan sends out the annual CARA memo. A meeting agenda with Martin on August 18th summarizes the "formal communication" regarding the 2008-09 CARA Form fiasco, noting that "at the time of audit during may 2009, no football CARA forms from the 2008-09 academic year had been submitted to the CSO," that "all other varsity sports" had submitted the forms, and that an "inordinate amount of communication occurred between CSO, football administrative staff and sport administrators regarding football CARA forms."
A section later it notes that "having student-athletes provide written verification of the time they spend in CARA activities protects the head coach and institution from unfounded allegations."
August 28th: CSO finally receives CARA forms for winter and fall of 2008. They are signed by Rodriguez, but not student-athletes.
August 29th: Free Press report.
August 30th: Vollano emails Labadie a special individual ping stating they need the August 2009 CARA forms. Labadie replies in 21 minutes. Subsequent CARA reports are submitted monthly with student-athlete signatures.
You'll note a few things other than a torrent of email from poor, sweet athletic department compliance personnel virtually begging Labadie for CARA forms: the documentation problems started before Rodriguez even arrived, that Labadie had been "hopeful" the bookkeeping processes would be better under Rodriguez, and not even the freaking auditors being in the office looking at an empty folder could get a response other than "ohhhhh, that's what that voicemail meant." The main document also states that Labadie was the responsible party for the warm-up and stretching time that put Michigan over on Mondays during 2009, although Labadie said that this opinion was based on conversations with Barwis. Why the person in charge of football compliance administration thinks he should talk to Barwis instead of compliance is unknown.
Most importantly, either Labadie lied to Draper when he said he was just getting the "last signatures" from the seniors for the 2008-09 forms or Draper lied to CSO. The main document states the CARA forms, hastily submitted the day before the Free Press report, have no student signatures. Draper, for his part, made zero effort to check up on his employee despite his apparent desire to play Tropico at work all day. He had no idea there was anything going on for months, and complained to compliance that he needed to know what was going on with the person who reports directly to him.
The worst part of all of this is how comprehensive, intelligent, and concerned the compliance side of all this was. CSO constantly badgered Draper and Labadie for the missing documents and was in the process of putting together a system that would hopefully have clarified what the QC assistants could and could not do. They anticipated potential problems with the QC staffers! Judy Van Horn just won a prestigious award and it's not hard to see why: Michigan's compliance department was machine-like in its precision. Its primary flaw was being far too polite to the unresponsive Draper and Labadie—not once did Strassner threaten to mail Labadie's pets to Albania, or shave his head in his sleep, or put him in a bun and leave him on Justin Boren's doorstep. If they had been cut-throat about it and immediately raised holy hell with Martin, Rodriguez, and others this may not have occurred.
Maybe there are things yet unrevealed by 100 pages of emails. Maybe there were behind-the-scenes reasons Labadie could not put the documents together. However, if there were the proper thing to do was to express this. Labadie didn't even get them in when threatened by an audit; it took the freakin' Freep report to get the sloppy, unsigned CARA forms in—the ones that Labadie claimed he was just getting the last signatures on five months earlier. The main document specifically states that when Rodriguez took over it was decided to leave the CARA process exactly the way it was under Carr, and Labadie still completely failed to file reports for a whole year when the system had been in place for several years and was apparently not an insurmountable task for anyone else in the department. Rodriguez's response makes it explicitly clear that no one informed him the already-prepared job descriptions for QC people had not been submitted and that the lack of CARA form submissions was also unknown. Why was it unknown?
Labadie told the enforcement staff that he did not tell Rodriguez that he had failed to submit CARA forms because he did not want Rodriguez to look unfavorably upon him.
There is no possible excuse for the massive breach in protocol here and the missing CARA forms and QC assistant job descriptions are the primary reasons Michigan is reporting major violations instead of a selection of secondary ones. Everyone involved with Michigan football compliance administration has failed massively and should be fired. Now.


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This just in from the Dynamo:
The lower bowl at Robertson Stadium is sold out, and less than 5,000 tickets remain for the Houston Dynamo's Fan Appreciation Day against the Seattle Sounders on Saturday, the club announced today. Houston will host Seattle at (1 p.m. Pacific) Saturday afternoon in the Dynamo's final home game of the 2010 season, presented by Amigo Energy. The clubs built a fierce rivalry with five meetings last year, including the Dynamo's dramatic 1-0 overtime triumph in the Western Conference semifinals on November 8, 2009.
Special ticket deals, including a discounted 4-pack offer, are available at HoustonDynamo.com/tickets. Throughout the week, Fiesta customers may purchase tickets at a $10 discount at participating Fiesta locations. Match tickets are also available through Ticketmaster outlets or by calling the Dynamo at (713) 276-7500. The first 5,000 fans through the gates on Saturday will receive a free Dynamo long-sleeved replica-style jersey, courtesy of Amigo Energy. Season tickets for the Dynamo's 2011 season are also on sale, with prices frozen at their 2010 figures through December 31. The 2011 season ticket package will include 17 MLS regular season games, the Dynamo Charities Cup, an additional international friendly, and a home playoff game. For more information, call (713) 276-7500. The Houston Dynamo are a Major League Soccer club that has won two MLS Cup championships in its first four seasons and represented the United States in international competition in four consecutive years. For more information, log on to www.HoustonDynamo.com or call (713) 276-7500.

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- 3/4 cup sugar
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- 1 cup fresh blackberries
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"Made this once with homemade graham crust and it was mind blowing good. Alittle to sweet so I am making it again with the same homemade crust and will just cut down a tad on the sugar. Its so darn good I ate 3 slices."
"I made one last weekend on Saturday and had to make it again the next day. It went so quickly. The second time I made it I cut the sugar to a 1/2 cup instead of 3/4. The berries are so sweet this time of year, it really wasn't needed. Gave this to two other friends who also made it. Raved about it. Would make it again"


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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Eleven Bucknell University alumni chapters across the nation will complete service projects as part of the first National Alumni Community Service Event April 18-19, including the Neighborhood Thaw-out in Lewisburg.
Responsibility and service
Bucknell alumni chapter community service projects include toy, food and clean-up drives; 5K races and walks; food banks; reading programs and more.
"Bucknell's emphasis on service stays with students long after they graduate," said Laura Denbow, executive director of alumni relations and career services. "That they are choosing to volunteer not only as members of their communities, but also as Bucknell alumni, says a lot about their experience here."
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Brittany Bohn, a 2004 Bucknell graduate, is the community service liaison for the Chicago alumni chapter. "When you volunteer in your community as a part of a Bucknell alumni chapter, you are showing the community what a great sense of responsibility and service Bucknell instills in its graduates," said Bohn. "Coming out and showing your Bucknell pride at an event like this helps people see what a great school Bucknell is, even if they never make it to central Pennsylvania."
Bucknell's Chicago-area regional alumni chapter will volunteer at the Wrigley Start Early Run/Walk 5K/10K/Kids Dash on Saturday, April 18. They will be involved in fundraising, setting up, running and walking the race.
"We hope to serve Prevent Child Abuse America and Voices for Illinois Children, two amazing non-profit organizations that help children live happy, healthy lives with access to a good education," said Bohn. "We also hope to come together with our families and friends to take part in this event and show pride in our alma mater."
Bucknell University regional alumni chapter service projects include:
Baltimore, Md.: Habitat for Humanity Build
Chicago, Ill.: Wrigley Start Early Run/Walk 5K/10K/Kids Dash (benefitting Prevent Child Abuse America and Voices for Illinois Children)
Greater Susquehanna Valley, Pa.: Bucknell University's Lewisburg Neighborhood Thaw-out (bringing students and the local community together to help downtown businesses prepare for spring)
Louisville, Ky.: 28th Annual Wally Bright Bake-off 5K
New York, N.Y.: Manhattan-Seaport area Multiple Sclerosis Walk
Northern California: Removing invasive non-native plants in San Bruno Mountain State Park
Northern New Jersey: Ridgewood, N.J., Multiple Sclerosis Walk
Philadelphia, Pa.: Annual Spring Trails Day (trail maintenance)
Princeton, N.J.: Used Lacrosse Equipment and Spring Cleanup Drive (benefitting the Bobby Campbell Lax Foundation, founded by Bucknell Class of 1982 graduates Ken Foulk and John Morris.)
San Diego, Calif.: United Through Reading Grandparent Program (recording grandparents reading stories aloud to their grandchildren on DVDs for troops); Tour de Cure Bike Race support staff (benefitting the American Diabetes Association); Beach Clean-up (benefitting San Diego Coastkeepers)
Washington, D.C.: Capital Area Food Bank (sorting and sending food to those in need)
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"She had a tremendous heart," said Jackie Elwood of her friend and mentor Netta Meltzer. "She never wanted to see a family or a kid hurt by anything. She would go out of her way to make sure a child had what he needed. Her main idea was to make them happy."
Many, many others echoed Elwood's sentiments about "Miss Netta," the North Bergen resident who for nearly 30 years ran the town's Special Young People program and other initiatives for individuals with disabilities. Although such programs sometimes stop serving children with disabilities when they get older, Meltzer made sure that there were programs for adults too.
Netta Meltzer passed away on Tuesday, March 24. She was 67 years old.
Changing North Bergen for the better
Meltzer's life changed dramatically in 1984. That was the year she lost both her parents and her husband. Feeling the need to go back to work, she became a teacher's aide in North Bergen. Then she got a job at a summer camp for children with disabilities, and the town has never been the same.
Inspired by the children, Meltzer approached the new mayor, Nicholas Sacco, whom she knew as the former principal of Horace Mann School, where her daughter went. Meltzer suggested to him that they develop a program for children with special needs.
"She was an amazing woman and she's going to be missed by so many people." –Jackie Elwood
"Actually a small program existed when I took office in 1985," explained Sacco. "It only had about seven children in it. Netta said that she could build this up into a really good program for children. And that was the beginning of what she established."
Initially hired to assist a teacher who ran the program, Meltzer quickly put her mark on things. By the second year the teacher told Sacco that Meltzer should be running the program.
Over the years the initiative expanded and spawned new programs. "There were so many aspects to it," said Sacco. "At one time, she was running five different programs for me."
Among the programs Meltzer established and ran were holiday parties for hundreds of children. She took kids on trips, including to the Special Olympics.
"She started years ago to help families out throughout the year," said Elwood. "She'd find needy families and give them a Thanksgiving meal or a gift card."
And then there was the summer day camp.
"The summer camp is at the North Bergen Recreation Center on 61st Street," said Elwood of the five-week program. "They have to be in a special ed class to be in the camp. We pick them up, depending on where they live, at 7 in the morning, go till 3 and drop them all off. They play games all day long, baseball, basketball, kickball, and go on trips once a week."
"Some as they grew older became her assistants in the program," said Sacco of Meltzer's children. "She brought up a whole group. They would be supervisors on trips."
Leaving a legacy
"One of the most unique things things she did was create an adult program," remembered Sacco. "She was working with the children and they were growing older and then they were no longer in the program, so she realized there was a need."
Recognizing that need, she filled it, creating a program that still runs from September to June for individuals ages 16 and up, with some participants in their 60s.
"They meet every Wednesday night and organize themselves into officers of the club," said Sacco.
"It's the highlight of their week," added Elwood. "We pick them up in their homes on the bus and bring them to the Nutrition Center and play games, take them to dinner. We go to movies."
"The thing about Netta," said Sacco, "is if the program started at 7, she started at 5 on the bus. Then after it was over at 9 she was on the bus getting everybody home. The same in the summertime. She would be there early in the morning on the bus, making sure everything is supervised. She took it very personal."
And so did her kids.
"She would get phone calls in middle of the night from the police department regarding one of her kids," said Elwood. "The kids wouldn't talk to anyone but her. So she'd leave her house at 4 in the morning to go to the police station and get things straightened out."
"She did a lot for this program, for the kids, for her friends. She was an amazing woman and she's going to be missed by so many people," said Elwood.
Meltzer's legacy lives on not just in the individuals she helped, but the people she inspired. Many of the volunteers who have assisted in running events over the years say they were brought on board as a result of Netta and her enthusiasm.
"We met on the street one day and started talking and she brought me into the program," said Elwood of their first encounter 12 years ago. "Best move I ever made in my life."
Elwood, who had been working closely with Meltzer ever since, took over as director when Meltzer decided to retire about two years ago. The programs have continued essentially unchanged from the way Meltzer established them.
"For Netta to have done done a good job, it shouldn't end," said Sacco. "It's still very effective."
"I'm basically following in her footsteps," said Elwood. "It was her program. It was her life. It was her baby."
Netta Meltzer was the wife of the late Steven Meltzer, the mother of Helen Meltzer-Soto, the grandmother of Gabriel and Justin, and the sister of Sidney and Martin.
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Tony Kynard, left, and Clemmye Owens celebrate after Rogers defeated Brecksville-Broadview Heights in the Division I regional final. The Rams lost in the state championship game.
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At the end of the 2012-13 boys basketball regular season, defending City League champion Rogers, having played perhaps Ohio's most difficult nonleague schedule, was humbled by a 54-53 upset loss to eventual City champion Start in the CL's playoff semifinals.
But the Rams of coach Earl Morris turned that disappointment into an improbable Division I state tournament mission that took them to the brink of becoming Toledo's first state champion in 23 years.
Rogers upset fifth-ranked Three Rivers Athletic League champion St. John's Jesuit (20-4) in a district semifinal 66-55, then pounded ninth-ranked Central Catholic (19-6) in the district final 60-39.
The unranked Rams — led by the senior guard trio of Clemmye Owens, Tony Kynard and DeVonte Pratt — marched on to regional victories over Northern Lakes League champion Anthony Wayne (20-5), 68-62, and Brecksville-Broadview Heights (23-4), 63-61 in overtime, to reach the state semifinals for the second time in three years. In 2011, Rogers lost in the Division II state semifinals.
Marc Loving of St. John's became the third Toledoan to win Ohio's Mr. Basketball award.
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The Rams continued their roll by upsetting third-ranked Cincinnati Walnut Hills (27-2), 58-51, in the D-I state semifinals at the Schottenstein Center in Columbus before ultimately falling 76-67 to eighth-ranked Mentor in the title game, finishing 21-8 overall.
Toledo Area Athletic Conference runner-up Ottawa Hills won the season rubber match against ninth-ranked TAAC champion Toledo Christian (22-3), 65-50, to win a Division IV district title. Coach John Lindsay's Green Bears (22-5), led by the frontcourt combo of senior Lucas Janowicz and juniors Geoff Beans and R.J. Coil, would then beat Colonel Crawford 53-40 in the regional semifinals before falling to eventual state runner-up Lepsic 63-54 in the regional final.
Another highlight was Otsego's Northern Buckeye Conference title, the first league championship for coach Jim Bostdorff's Knights (20-5) since Otsego squads won back-to-back crowns in the former Suburban Lakes League in 2000 and 2001.
Anthony Wayne's NLL championship under coach Bryan Borcherdt was the school's first since 1998, while the Generals won the first district crown in school history.
Bedford won the Southeastern Conference Red Division title won under coach Nick Lowe, the first league title in history for the Kicking Mules (18-4), who were led by Class A all-state player Jackson Lamb.
The Northwest Ohio Athletic League title was shared by coach Doug Krauss's Archbold Blue Streaks and coach Chad Burt's Wauseon Indians.
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Scott (14-10) of the City League reached the D-II district final before falling 50-47 in overtime to Sandusky Perkins (21-6), co-champion of the Sandusky Bay Conference.
Liberty-Benton (22-2) won the Blanchard Valley Conference title, and coach Steve Williman's Eagles were ranked No. 2 in the final D-III state poll before being upset by Spencerville in a district semifinal.
The area had its best collection of talent in one senior class in more than 30 years, and perhaps ever.
The Class of 2013 was headed by St. John's senior Marc Loving, who became Toledo's third player to be selected Ohio's Mr. Basketball, following Macomber's Jim Jackson (1988 and 1989), and Libbey's William Buford (2008). Like Jackson and Buford, Loving will play at Ohio State.
Other notables headed for the Big Ten are Whitmer's Nigel Hayes (Wisconsin), Bowling Green's Vitto Brown (Wisconsin), and Anthony Wayne's Mark Donnal (Michigan), all named to All-Ohio teams.
Toledo Christian senior Eric Cellier was named to the All-Ohio Division IV first team. Whiteford's Colin Lake was named to Michigan's Class C all-state first team.
St. John's Ed Heintschel (609-190 career record, 34 seasons), who became Ohio's 10th boys coach to reach 600 wins during the season, was named D-I state co-coach of the year.
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Sxissinfo reports that the Swiss Catholic Lenten Fund and the Protestant agency Bread for all are calling on consumers to protest against the exploitation of workers and to ensure firms meet their social responsibilities.
The campaign follows an investigation of 27 suppliers in China, Thailand and the Philippines commissioned by the charities. The five brands in the firing line are Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Acer, Apple and Fujitsu Siemens.
"All forms of labour must respect human dignity," Charles Ridore of the Swiss Catholic Lenten Fund told swissinfo.
"But in this sector - as in others - firms are relocating, leading to unemployment in our part of the world and exploitation in developing countries, with the clear aim of maximising profits."
Ridore highlighted the low wages and the health risks faced by factory workers. The campaign group Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour has labelled the electronics industry "one of the most toxic in the world".
Investigators say that during peak production workers put in 12 hours a day, seven days a week, plus mandatory overtime - all for 50 Australian cents per hour.
The charities are calling for a ban on forced labour and child workers, non-discrimination and for staff to be allowed to form a union. They say they are willing to work with suppliers to help them improve conditions.
Ridore said he hoped the initiative would achieve similar results to the fair-trade campaign targeting the textile industry.
The Swiss Catholic Lenten Fund and Bread for all are urging the public not to boycott the multinationals but to send in cards bearing the words, "High Tech - No Rights?"
"We are asking them to recognise their social responsibility along the entire production process and not just in Swiss salesrooms. If they have a code of conduct, they must make sure it is made known to all those participating in the production and assembly of their computers," Ridore concluded.
Charities slam conditions for computer workers (Swissinfo, 28/2/07)
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Teen Arrested After Attack in Sioux Falls Hotel
A 15-year-old Sioux Falls girl was taken to the Juvenile Detention Center Friday night for allegedly assaulting a woman in a hotel on West Russell Street.
Officer Sam Clemens says it happened around 11pm Friday after the 50-year-old Sioux Falls woman heard noise in the hallway outside her room at the Sioux Falls Inn that turned out to be an argument between a male and a female.
Clemens says the woman asked what was going on and the 15-year-old turned on her and attacked her.
Police arrived and Clemens says the attack continued with the victim on the ground and the teen kicking her in the head and elsewhere.
He says the 15-year-old was taken to the JDC on charges that included aggravated assault and a curfew violation.
The victim went to a hospital, but Clemens says her injuries were not serious.


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SAN DIEGO, Sept. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ResMed, an innovator and pioneer in developing products for the treatment of sleep-disordered breathing and respiratory conditions, today announced a new nasal mask, the Swift™ FX Nano, for use with positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy. This mask, available now throughout the U.S., represents a significant breakthrough for the nasal mask category.
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"By combining the headgear design of a nasal pillows mask with the superior seal of a nasal mask we have created something for patients who want an effective mask that takes up less space," said Jon Yerbury, ResMed's vice president, Sleep-Disordered Breathing.
Swift FX Nano Nasal Mask – Combines the Best of Nasal Mask and Pillows
ResMed's Swift FX Nano nasal mask has a new proprietary design that keeps the mask small and unobtrusive without the need for rigid frames or forehead support. The result is a mask that more closely resembles a nasal pillows mask but carries the superior seal and performance of a nasal mask.
Easy to fit, wear and maintain, the Swift FX Nano nasal mask includes features to encourage compliance:
"There's a reason nasal masks are growing in popularity, and that's because they're comfortable and convenient," said Yerbury. "The Swift FX Nano goes one step further by being ultra-compact in size with minimal headgear and great performance."
Like all ResMed masks, the Swift FX Nano is ultra-soft and latex-free.
About ResMed:
ResMed is a global leader in the development, manufacturing and marketing of medical products for the diagnosis, treatment and management of respiratory disorders, with a focus on sleep-disordered breathing. The company is dedicated to developing innovative products to improve the lives of those who suffer from these conditions and to increasing awareness among patients and healthcare professionals of the potentially serious health consequences of untreated sleep-disordered breathing. For more information on ResMed, visit www.resmed.com.
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Paving work to close one lane of I-75 overnight
February 11, 2013
Crews will be resurfacing a short section on the I-75 bridge, southbound near Daniels Parkway (exit 131). Work requires the outside lane to be closed Tuesday morning, Feb. 12, from 2 to 5:30 a.m....
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Saturday, November 20 – Mercury Collection
Residents and city-based HVAC contractors are invited to drop off mercury-containing devices between 7:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. at the City's household hazardous waste collection center, located at 3224 Colvin St. For more information, visit https://www.alexandriava.gov/tes/solidwaste/info/default.aspx?id=19206.
Friday, November 26 - Alexandria Offers Free Parking at City Garages
On one of the biggest shopping days of the year, the City of Alexandria is offering free parking in all City-owned garages on Friday, November 26. Commonly known as "Black Friday," the day after Thanksgiving marks the time when the season for holiday shopping begins, and free parking is a special incentive for shoppers to visit Old Town to make their holiday purchases. Dozens of the City's merchants are opening early, some as early as 6 a.m., and offering deep discounts. For more information, go to www.VisitAlexandriaVA.com.
Friday, November 26 – City of Alexandria Tree Lighting Ceremony
Celebrate the official opening of the holiday season in the City of Alexandria at the Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony. Activities include the lighting of the City's official holiday tree, community caroling, Frosty's Follies dance performance, and a visit from Santa Claus. For more information, call the Events Hotline at 703.746.5592 or the Office of Special Events at 703.746.5418.
Friday, November 26 -- AWLA "Black Friday" Pet Adoption Promotion
This Black Friday, the Animal Welfare League of Alexandria will reduce adoption prices for all-black or partially-black companion animals. This special includes any companion animal at the League, including guinea pigs, rabbits, dogs, cats and other adoptable pets. All League pets are current on vaccinations and have been microchipped and altered. The shelter's adoption areas are open every day except Wednesdays. For more information about this promotion, call 703.746.4774 or visit www.alexandriaanimals.org.
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Support Alexandria's newest film-making talent at the 4th Annual iMovie Mentors Film Festival from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Old Town Theater at 815 ½ King St. Adult male mentors attend a weekly workshop with 6th grade boys to establish mentoring relationships and learn movie-making essentials. The film festival debuts short films that have been created by the boys and their mentors. Attendees are encouraged to arrive by 5:50 p.m. to greet the youth as they arrive via limousine and "walk the red carpet" into the theater. Suggested donation for the event is $5, which includes popcorn and soda. The event is sponsored by the Alexandria Court Service Unit with funding from the Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant. For more information, contact Kelly Robinson at email@example.com.
Style and Identity: Black Alexandria in the 1970s, Portraits by Horace Day
At the Alexandria Black History Museum, 902 S. Wythe St,., view this new exhibition of 32 paintings by Horace Day featuring Alexandria street scenes and portraits of African American Alexandrians. Described as an American scene or regional painter, Day created this body of work at a time when "Black" was becoming "Beautiful," but when media still promoted stereotypical, demeaning images of African Americans. Day's portraits reflect the dignity and beauty he saw in his subjects. Museum is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. Suggested admission is $2. For more information, visit www.alexblackhistory.org or call 703.746.4356.
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The City of Alexandria experienced the loss of hundreds of trees and extensive damage throughout the City as a result of winter snow and summer thunderstorms in 2010. Residents who want to help replenish the City's tree canopy have a variety of options available. Visit www.alexandriava.gov/recreation for more information.
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The City of Alexandria is host to a variety of farmers' markets, including the Old Town Farmers' Market and Del Ray Farmers' Market on Saturday; the West End Farmers' Market and Four Mile Run Farmers' and Artisans' Market on Sunday; and the Upper King Street Fresh Farmers' Market on Wednesday. Markets feature colorful displays of fresh, locally grown, in-season vegetables and fruit, gourmet coffee, fresh squeezed orange juice, meat, bakery items and artisans. For more information, visit www.alexandriava.gov/farmersmarket.


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A Montegut woman was killed Tuesday night in a head-on crash with a stolen car, police said.
A Montegut woman was killed Tuesday night in a head-on crash with a stolen car, police said.
State Police said Gregory Poindexter, 32, of Houma was traveling north on La. 659 just north of La. 3087 around 11:30 p.m. when he tried to pass a car in front of him in a no passing zone.
Police say the 2000 Nissan Maxima that Poindexter was driving hit a 2004 Ford Focus driven by Linda Bascle, 70. The Maxima then hit another car driven by Terri McKever, 18, of Houma.
Police say Bascle, who was not wearing her seatbelt, was pronounced dead at the scene. Poindexter and McKever were treated at Terrebonne General for minor injuries.
Houma Police officers said Poindexter stole the Maxima from the Blue Diamond Lounge on Main Street.
Alcohol use is suspected for Poindexter but not Bascle, though routine toxicology tests are pending.
Poindexter was booked into the Terrebonne Parish Jail on charges of vehicular homicide, vehicular negligent injuring, passing in a no passing zone, no seat belt, no driver's license and theft of a motor vehicle.


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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Attorneys for the former neighborhood watch volunteer charged with shooting Trayvon Martin to death want more time to prepare his case.
Attorneys for George Zimmerman filed a motion Wednesday to delay the case. Spokesman Shawn Vincent says the attorneys want Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial to be moved from June to November. Zimmerman has pleaded not guilty.
A hearing in which Zimmerman will argue he was acting in self-defense is scheduled for April. The judge has said that hearing will be at least 45 days before the trial.
Prosecutors did not immediately respond to an email about the defense request.
Zimmerman attorney Mark O'Mara is also asking the public to donate more money for his defense. O'Mara says Zimmerman's defense fund has raised more than $314,000 since he was charged.
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Tracey Jackson is not the type of person to let the elephant in the room go unnoticed. Not only will she point it out, she might even recommend a good place it could get Botox for its more stubborn wrinkles.
The screenwriter, blogger, and author of the book "Between a Rock and a Hot Place: Why Fifty Is Not the New Thirty," published this year by an imprint of Harper Collins, said that it was essential for her to be honest in the book about what women are really facing when 50 and beyond. The fact that speaking frankly about her life also happens to be funny is an added bonus, and something that comes naturally to her in her work and private life.
"I find that if you are brutally honest and you say things that people are actually thinking and you make them laugh about it, it makes it much easier for them to come to grips with things they may not be comfortable with," she said on a recent spring afternoon over some rather loud atmospheric music and other background noise at Cittanuova in East Hampton. She lives in Sag Harbor part time with her husband, Glenn Horowitz, and their family.
In a chapter on what happens to the sex drive of a menopausal woman, Ms. Jackson discusses her own experience openly, as well as those often funny and awkward moments few are willing to admit to in the bedroom, such as when the family pet takes off with a movable part of a sex toy just around the time things are getting interesting.
"That chapter gets a lot of attention, partially because it's funny and partially because people are really relieved" to hear that sometimes other people "phone it in" or may not be having as much sex as everyone thinks they should be having. "It makes them more comfortable with their own lives."
She said the feedback, whether she is talking to groups on the coast on in the more provincial reaches of the country, has been very positive. "People are saying thank you for saying this. I get many questions about where's the sex shop," the one known for its discreet ambience and upscale accessories where she purchased the aforementioned toy. "I guess I don't have the embarrassment gene," she said.
Readers in the South have been particularly receptive. "I sold more books in Newnan, Ga., than I did in Berkeley, Calif." The less jaded smaller town audiences are excited to have authors visiting and are happy to meet them, she said. "What's another writer in East Hampton? There's about 9,000 on the block right now."
In a film she made about her relationship with her daughter called "Lucky Ducks," she took a similar approach in discussing anorexia in teenagers and her own problems with her mother. She found it liberating, but others found it controversial. "I like to take things out of the closet." She said some of that rebellion is against her own background, one in which her family and friends were constantly promoting the myth that everyone's life was perfect.
"A lot of people walk around thinking of other people: 'Their life is better than mine' or 'They're not going through the same problems as I am or the same issues or feeling the same thing.' " For that reason, while much of the information she has to impart debunks the myth that we can be exactly the way we were at age 30, the book still has a positive message. "It's not a downer. It's just honest. Look down the gun barrel and figure out how to deal with it."
For many who have read the book, which draws on her own experience with estrogen loss and other health-related concerns, she has become the go-to person for questions such as whether to get a face-lift and what to do instead of one, about dating later in life, employability after 50, and getting one's financial house in order.
These are some of the practical issues that Ms. Jackson explores with the help of medical experts and her own dedicated investigations. One can read the book as a tell-all or as a handbook for the type of changes to expect later in life and how to navigate them from a more knowledgeable position. She's like the best friend you didn't know you needed and who won't let you wallow in delusion.
"By personalizing these experiences, I'm able to humanize them." So when she receives requests for advice at readings and in e-mails to her blog, she responds to every one. "I think when you write a book like this there is a responsibility to respond to your readers and I'm willing to take that on," she said, even if it is just to guide them to more information.
On the bright side, she said she had the best year of her life just shy of 53. "I'm all for women becoming entrepreneurial as I have done, because then they can control their future." When women tell her that they are in bad relationships she tells them to move on. "People tend to get lazy and complacent and stuck at this age. I think it's a time to be very active and very proactive." Still, it requires a lot of work and diligence "and facing certain realities you might not want to face."
"I had a great career as a screenwriter for 20 years, but I never owned any of that. I was a work-for-hire person and always relied on my next job by pleasing someone. That's a very uncertain way to live."
To get to your 50s and be in charge of the future is a great way to live your life, she said. "I'm the captain of my ship."


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This video conferencing tool works better than WebEx for collaboration
This winter was brutal throughout the United States. In Washington, D.C., alone, most government agencies shut down during a particularly frigid four-day stretch!
On one of those snow days, when our team was stranded at 30 locations, our COO decided that it would be the perfect opportunity for Optimal Networks to hold an all-company discussion. It was his version of a "fireside chat," and I was tasked with trying to find an easy and effective video conferencing tool for the occasion.
Now, I'm no stranger to the virtual meetings space. I've been researching and testing various solutions for close to four years, but nothing has ever really impressed me. With most tools, the call quality is poor, there are never collaboration features, the audio is consistently delayed, and worse yet, the video freezes.
Every video conferencing tool I tried always had some issue that limited functionality, frustrating everyone involved. Then I tried GlobalMeet.
With GlobalMeet, users are provided with a "room" (essentially, a web address) to distribute to all participants. You can see participants, share your screen, and set up a whiteboard for brainstorming. And, if your webcam is activated, the left-hand corner of your screen will house a video square with a chat window underneath.
But here's where it gets really cool: The system detects when you have the floor and turns your camera on as soon as you start speaking. Plus, GlobalMeet offers a quick-poll feature that alows you to take a read on the group's opinion. It's fun — and it can be funny.
More importantly, it was effective. Our team accomplished a lot and we felt like we were in the room together. Desktop applications like ooVoo feel artificial; GlobalMeet feels authentic. And while WebEx is the undisputed industry leader in the virtual meetings space, it works better in an instructional setting opposed to a collaborative environment (plus, it's expensive).
So, the next time you need to rally your scattered troops, give GlobalMeet a shot. Or test drive another video conferencing tool — you can try most of them for free. If the interactive capabilities are there, video conferencing can strengthen organizational culture and team building. It made the day that our region received over a foot of snow a heck of a lot more enjoyable — and productive.
As CEO of Optimal Networks, Heinan Landa has been providing managed IT services—including a premier corporate cloud solution and business-focused strategic IT consulting—to hundreds of clients since 1991. After earning his BS and MS from Johns Hopkins and an MBA from Wharton, Heinan crafted Optimal's business plan with heavy emphasis on corporate culture. He and the self-professed "Optimalites" use their high spirit to fuel a commitment to unwavering client service and technology guidance.


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To qualify for the European Inventor Award, all entries must satisfy certain formal conditions. Before filling in the entry form, please read the information below. Failure to observe the conditions may result in the candidate's elimination from the competition.
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Global competition, emerging technologies and increased communication have dramatically changed the way business is done. As a result, organizations are in greater need of leaders, managers and workers who are flexible, well-educated team players. Earning a degree in Business Administration at SOU will offer countless opportunities to build the skills you'll need to thrive in this new environment.
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David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that John Voloshin, 56, of Woodbridge, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 33 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for operating multiple fraud schemes that have caused losses of more than $1.5 million to individuals and lenders. Voloshin has been detained since his arrest on November 18, 2011. On January 19, 2012, he waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud.
According to court documents and statements made in court, in approximately 2006, Voloshin asked an individual to loan him $500,000. Voloshin indicated that he was in contract to purchase a house on Martha's Vineyard, but that he needed the money or he would lose a deposit. The victim agreed to loan Voloshin the money. To date, Voloshin has not repaid the loan.
In 2008, Voloshin received a home equity loan in the amount of $250,000 from Webster Bank. In support of his home equity loan application, Voloshin submitted a false federal tax return. As of August 2011, the outstanding balance on the bank loan was more than $252,000.
In 2010, Voloshin defrauded an individual for whom he had agreed to bid on the bank auction of a hotel on Nantucket. Voloshin instructed the victim to send him a check in the amount of $250,000 made payable to the name of the auction company. Rather than delivering money to the auction company, Voloshin deposited the check into a bank account for which he had sole signatory authority and used the proceeds from that check to enrich himself.
In June 2010, Voloshin applied for and received a $520,000 refinance loan from a mortgage lender for a property he has owned on Martha's Vineyard since 1999. In association with the loan application, Voloshin submitted a financial account statement showing an account balance in excess of $3 million at UBS when, in reality, he had no account at UBS. Voloshin used approximately $250,000 of the refinance loan proceeds to pay the victim of the hotel auction fraud scheme.
In total, Voloshin's schemes resulted in losses of approximately $1.52 million.
Today, Judge Chatigny ordered Voloshin to pay restitution in the amount of $1,311,035.67.
This matter was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys David T. Huang and Michael S. McGarry.
This case was brought in coordination with the President's Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force, which was established to wage an aggressive and coordinated effort to investigate and prosecute financial crimes. The task force includes representatives from a broad range of federal agencies, regulatory authorities, inspectors general, and state and local law enforcement who, working together, bring to bear a powerful array of criminal and civil enforcement resources. The task force is working to improve efforts across the federal executive branch, and with state and local partners, to investigate and prosecute significant financial crimes, ensure just and effective punishment for those who perpetrate financial crimes, combat discrimination in the lending and financial markets, and recover proceeds for victims of financial crimes.
To report financial fraud crimes, and to learn more about the President's Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force, please visit www.stopfraud.gov.


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During Tim Goodrich's 40-year teaching career, his approach has been to treat his students like his own children.
During Tim Goodrich's 40-year teaching career, his approach has been to treat his students like his own children.
Imagine how many children he has raised while at Sheets Memorial Christian School the past 27 years.
"I treat them as best as I can. My expectations are big. I want them to succeed," Goodrich said. "I ask all of them 'were you prepared to leave my class for the next level?' The answer better be yes. Then I know I've done my job. Anything I can do to help them … that's what I'm here to do."
Goodrich served in many capacities at SMCS. He taught subjects such as elementary physical education, different levels of algebra, geometry, U.S. history, various Bible courses, physical science, chemistry, drafting and wood shop just to name a few. Goodrich coached baseball for 18 years. He even coached football, baseball, volleyball and soccer at some point. All together he coached a total of 30 years during his career.
He has two state baseball championships under his belt from 1991 and 1995 at Sheets. He realized a couple of years ago during his coaching tenure that he physically couldn't do it anymore. That same reasoning is behind him retiring at the end of this school year.
"My age caught up with me," Goodrich, 62, said. "That's what's happening in the classroom. The Lord showed me it's time to end this chapter."
Goodrich, a Virginia Beach, Va., native, graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University with a degree in health, physical education and driver's education in 1972. He also received a Master of Arts degree in secondary physical education from Hampton University in 1979.
With initial plans of becoming an architect, Goodrich transitioned into the teaching field because of fabulous teachers he had throughout his whole life.
His teaching career started in 1973 in Virginia where he taught until coming to North Carolina in 1984. During his time in Virginia, Goodrich taught health and physical education while also coaching football and tennis and assisting with wrestling. Goodrich came to Lexington after feeling he was being led to teach at a Christian school. He heard about an opening from the then athletic director, Ken Hankins, who was leaving to go to Virginia, and Jimmie Clark, an evangelist at Sheets Memorial Baptist Church.
Goodrich started as athletic director and teacher. His wife, Dianna, came along with him. She has 23 years in the education field. They both taught at the school until 2002 when they decided to go to a Christian school in Saipan, which is near Guam. They returned in 2004 to SMCS.
He mentioned that his two children — Steven Goodrich and Mary Beth Matthews — graduated from Sheets Memorial Christian School. Steven is married to Summer, and they have 5-year-old Gracyn. Matthews, who is married to Zach, has 4-year-old Waylon and another child on the way who's due in November.
Goodrich is not exactly sure what will happen next after retiring.
"I will miss my colleagues," he said. "It's like family here. I will miss the satisfaction of knowing (I) had a part in the students graduating. Our school has a good family atmosphere. I appreciate the ones that taught my children."
He plans to continue working side jobs painting and doing small construction for the school or people he knows through the church. He is a member of Sheets Memorial Baptist.
"The church here has been a good spiritual place for (my family), so we can grow. We're away from our family. The church family was important. Spiritually we have grown here," Goodrich said.
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BioWare, a division of Electronic Arts Inc., will release Dragon Age: Inquisition in stores and for digital download on October 7 in North America and October 10 in Europe. Players will take on the role of the Inquisitor and lead a team of heroes to uncover clues about a potentially devastating event in this role-playing game.
Players can pre-order the game to unlock special bonus content. Dragon Age: Inquisition will be available for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, and Xbox 360.


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It was back in 1958 that a group of civic-minded residents organized at the home of Donald and Dorothy Adams for the purpose of bringing world-class performing artists to San Juan County.
That inaugural 1958-1959 season featured programs by soprano Dorothy Warenskjold; pianist David Able; Lola Montez and her Spanish dancers; and world-renowned pianist Grant Johannesen, who performed on the organization's fine concert Baldwin grand piano which is still in service.
That piano was financed with a loan from Grant Bronson, and the debt was subsequently paid with money earned at annual fund-raising rummage sales.
The list of exceptional programs from the past 50 years is long and impressive; a few standouts would be The Tuscon Arizona Boys Choir, the Utah Symphony, the Annapolis Brass Quintet, Airjazz (juggling and modern dance), The Missoula Children's Theatre, the BYU international Folk Dance Ensemble, child pianist prodigy Janae Codner (her dad hailed from Eastland), Los Hernandos de la Andes, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Utah Opera, The Utah Saxophone Quartet, the BYU Ballroom Dance Company, pianist John Schmidt, the Utah Hispanic Dance Alliance, famous singer Diana Walker, Chinese Golden Dragon Acrobats, Donegal House Band, Sizzling Strings, and the Spencers (magic and theatre of illusion).
A listing of favorites also includes the Annual Spring Gala featuring local talent.
For the 2008-2009 golden anniversary season, Blue Mountain Entertainment presents one of its most ambitious rosters of entertaining programs – a remarkable achievement, considering increasing costs and declining sources of public funding.
The season opener will be Franc D'Ambrosio, a New York singer best known for his 3000 performances as Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera. His resume includes an Academy Award nominated film, three Emmy award considerations, and a National Theatre Award nomination for his stage work.
On November 10, the irrepressible Bar D Wranglers will perform their famous stage show with songs of cowboys, gunfighters, and the Old West, lively instrumentals, and comedy to please the whole family. This is the program experienced when visiting the Bar D Chuckwagon in Durango, Colorado. A generous contribution from Doug Allen and Blue Mountain Foods makes this program possible.
Bringing the Alps to the audience on February 9 will be Salzburger Echo, playing Old World and contemporary folk music from the alpine regions of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Their 12-foot alphorns, Swiss cowbells, holzernes g'lachter and harmony yodeling provide a fascinating variety ofentertainment.
Leaving Monticello some 30 years ago, Alan Barber has distinguished himself as an accomplished pianist. On March 2, he will perform a concert for his home town, mostly classical, but with a few surprises thrown in.
On March 28, the touring-around-the-world BYU International Folk Dancers will make a stop in Monticello. With a beautiful array of ethnic costumes, the world-acclaimed group will present a program of dances from more than a dozen nations, including Ukraine, Russia, Korea, Poland, Mexico, and the U.S.
Blue Mountain Entertainment is grateful to the Charles Redd Foundation for its generous support of this outstanding program.
The season's final program will be the Annual Spring Gala on April 20 when local talent will be spotlighted.
Admission for all these programs, plus six Kigalia Fine Arts programs in Blanding, will be the same as last year! BME season memberships are $45 for families, $18 for adults, and $9 for students.
Season memberships can be purchased from BME board members Derryl & Sally Jack, Doug & Christine Allen, Kim & Cindy Burtenshaw, Randy & Laura Butler, Jeff & Denise Frost, James & Cynthia Muhlestein, Joel & Lois Palmer, Doyle & Marilyn Rowley, and Les & Rebecca Wikle.


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Found these on eBay tonight. This guy has 3 of them for sale, and they're all "buy-it-now" prices of $20 each. Not bad for one of these posters. They're getting pretty hard to find. I saw two others that were over $80 on eBay at the same time.
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These posters are huge, by the way. Had to get some customized side frames and backing material from Hobby Lobby and the local plastics dealer to cut a clear plastic sheet so I could frame mine. Also got it matte laminated and the machine was barely wide enough for it to fit through. I'm big on laminating my posters. It protects them for life and from water (floods are big down here). Kinko's does matte laminating, which is the best I think, because it's not glossy looking and keeps the color crisp and the glare down. Plus, it just looks better with a matte finish. Gloss laminated posters tend to leave scratch streaks from washcloths, if you ever have to wipe them off. I noticed that with my comic book posters, from before I could afford to frame all my posters. Besides, poster frames are pretty cheap nowadays, anyway. You can find them at Wal-Mart and Target all the time now.
Anyways it's late, I'm tired, and I'm rambling. This is for whoever would like one of these. Enjoy guys. Later.
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The Washington Wizards are back in the nation's capital for three straight games, starting with Friday's matchup with the Minnesota Timberwolves at the Verizon Center.
The Wizards went 2-3 on their western swing, which concluded with a 92-88 loss against the Utah Jazz on Wednesday. Martell Webster led the Wizards with 15 points and John Wall contributed 14 points and eight assists. The Wizards are 4-3 since Wall made his season debut Jan. 12.
"We fought our way back after miserable execution offensively in the first half. We started 27 or 28 percent shooting. We were missing good shots through the offense," said Wizards coach Randy Wittman. "Guys tried to make it stop just by themselves. We got into a little bit of non-ball movement in the end."
Emeka Okafor had a game-high 17 rebounds and rookie Bradley Beal finished with 12 points. Beal is averaging 16.4 points, 3.1 rebounds and 2.6 assists in his last eight games. Okafor owns averages of 9.9 points and 11.1 rebounds in his last 13 games.
Washington will also host Chicago and Sacramento on the homestand and is 6-13 in D.C. It is riding a three-game home winning streak.
Meanwhile, the banged-up Timberwolves will play two in a row away from the Twin Cities and are scheduled to visit Charlotte Saturday night. Minnesota has lost five straight on the road and is 6-15 as the guest.
Minnesota dropped a 91-83 decision versus Brooklyn the last time out on Wednesday as Andrei Kirilenko tallied a team-high with 15 points. Dante Cunningham followed with 14 off the bench and J.J. Barea scored 11 with eight assists.
"I don't think we have a problem with effort, which is great," Kirilenko said after the Wolves' seventh loss in eight tries. "It's tough, but we continue working. All we can do right now is stick together. There's not much we can do."
The Wolves are still without forward Kevin Love (hand), guard Brandon Roy (knee), center Nikola Pekovic (quadriceps) and forward Chase Budinger (knee).
Minnesota and Washington are squaring off for the first time since the T'Wolves posted a 93-72 decision last Jan. 8. The Wizards have won six of the past nine matchups between the teams and 12 of 16 at the Verizon Center.


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3 Carey residents arrested in Marion drug investigation
MARION — Three Carey residents were among 39 people arrested Thursday after a large drug investigation in Marion.
Ray Ferguson, 38, and Kelly Morgan, 44, were both charged with felonies in Marion County Common Pleas Court, according to Attorney General Mike DeWine's office.
Ferguson was charged with four counts of cocaine possession and a single count of cocaine trafficking. Morgan was charged with two counts of heroin possession and one count of conspiracy to possess heroin.
Timothy White, 45, was charged through Marion Municipal Court. He faces five misdemeanor counts of conspiracy to cocaine possession and one count each of conspiracy to possess drugs and attempted drug possession.
Most of the others arrested Thursday were Marion residents.