text:
TripAdvisor ratingRead reviews
Holiday Inn MILAN NORD - ZARA
Choose a contemporary stay at the stylish Holiday Inn Milan Nord-Zara hotel, with good transport links to Milan City Centre. Find a relaxing ambiance when you enter the soundproofed Holiday Inn Milan Nord-Zara 's modern Lobby. We're conveniently situated by a local bus route that links to Villa San Giovanni Metro Station , 30 minutes from the centre of Milan. The hotel is just off the A4 highway , 20 minutes' drive from Milan Linate Airport, amid lush greenery and with ample complimentary parking . Our 5 air-conditioned meeting rooms are a bright setting for conferences and training days for up to 110 people. We're a 5-minute drive from Sony and Directline , with your clients at IBM 15 minutes away. You can keep up to date with high-speed Internet in your sleek, minimalist Guest room at Holiday Inn Milan Nord-Zara. Experience racedays at Autodromo Nazionale Monza , 8.5km from Holiday Inn Milan Nord-Zara. You can take the Metro into Milan for breathtaking views from the Duomo . Football fans are a short drive from the San Siro stadium, the awe-inspiring home to AC Milan and Inter Milan. We have environmentally-friendly mini solar-panels on our roof, and an eye-catching black and white-striped lift brightens up the Lobby. Our 1950s-inspired A4 restaurant serves up classic Italian fare, with delicate antipasti and fresh pizza and pasta on the menu.
Accommodation details
Address:VIA CORNAGGIA 44
Check-in Details:
General facilities
- On-Site parking
- Parking
- Free parking
- Wireless internet connection in public areas
- Dry cleaning
- Concierge desk
- Public area air conditioned
- Room service
- Currency exchange
- Restaurant
Plan your holiday
To search for prices and availability simply click the button below.
Pick a departure date
Simply select the number of nights and choose a departure date that suits you.
The total price is displayed below.
- Selected date
- Selected departure date unavailable
- Lowest available price for the month
- Departure date unavailable
Prices shown are based on {0} departures. If you would like to fly from another departure point then please click here
Total price per adult
--- Flights & hotel
Based on 2 adults, night(s).
room. .
Departing from {0}
Can't find what you're looking for? Change:
- Departure airport
- Destination
- Number of nights
- Passenger numbers
- Travel dates
Why BA Holidays?
Plan and book your holiday with British Airways, online or by phone. Enjoy all these great benefits:
- Combine and save - book your flight + hotel or flight + car hire together for the best deals
- Choose from over 12,000 hotels
- 24-hour support helpline
- Earn bonus Avios
- Online deposits
Plan your stay
To search for prices and availability simply click the button below.
Pick a check in date
Simply select the number of nights and choose a check in date that suits you.
The total price is displayed below.
- Selected date
- Selected date unavailable
- Lowest available price for the month
- Hotel unavailable
Total price per room
--- Hotel only
Based on 2 adults, night(s).
Can't find what you're looking for? Change:
- Number of nights
- Passenger numbers
- Travel dates
- Destination
Why BA hotels?
Book your hotel with British Airways and enjoy all these great benefits:
- Over 12,000 hotels to choose from
- Hotels in every destination that BA fly to
- Hotels handpicked by our team of experts
- Accommodation that meets stringent health and safety criteria
- Access to a 24-hour support helpline, based in the UK


text:
Teknisk Support
Her finder du nogle hjælpefulde guides til at holde din Canyon i topform! Du vælger bare den relevante kategori til løsning af dit problem.
Training on the home trainer
All Canyon bikes are approved for use on modern home trainers. However, when using a home trainer you should note the following:
• Do not use clamping systems which are fixed to the frame tubes. Only use clamping systems which are fixed via the quick release on the rear wheel. Alternatively you can use a traditional set of rollers.
• Never get out of the saddle when using home trainers or rollers! The bike could come off the roller due to the massive shift in weight. In addition, the frame is not designed to withstand these loads.
• Canyon mountain bikes are approved for use on home trainers. However, the rider should never get out of the saddle! If you want to use 29" whells on a home trainer, check first, if your home trainer is compatibel with this wheel size.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Reader Note: We've been asked about access to DJournal.com on Tupelo Public School District campuses. According to TPSD officials access to DJournal.com website has been temporarily blocked by the district on school campuses due to it becoming an issue with educational instruction. TPSD has made arrangements for Daily Journal reporter Chris Kieffer to continue to access the site and post on this blog during the Ellis hearing. DJournal.com will continue to cover this important news story. School officials said a full statement is coming soon explaining the reason behind blocking DJournal.com. – Todd Vinyard, Online Editor
UPDATE: TPSD officials inform us DJournal.com is no longer blocked at school campuses. Teachers had requested to see it for educational purposes in the classroom.
Chris Kieffer's blog post …
I will post updates to the bottom. The last update was at 2:12 p.m.
8:32 a.m.
The eighth day of testimony in Calvin Ellis' hearing is about to begin. The hearing has covered all five days this week, plus three days in December. If it is not completed today, it is expected to be recessed until Feb. 13-14.
9:23 a.m.
The hearing has begun. Keith is resuming his cross examination.
Keith: I want to see if you can put all of these in layman's terms so I can understand exactly what you are talking about. Lay people are going to have to understand very carefully what is required of a school system to make sure they do not violate these copyright laws.
Most people are familiar with the fact that there is a copyright law out there that may affect them in some way?
DeSalvo said yes.
Keith: We are talking about custom arrangements of copyrighted work?
DeSalvo: Yes
Keith: Isn't it true it is necessary to get permission of every customized arrangement that you disseminate.
DeSalvo: Yes
Keith isn't it true that making arrangements of copyrighted music and disseminating without permission, can that be a felony
DeSalvo: No
Keith: What can it be
DeSAlvo: Potentially if can be a civil infringement
Keith: Where someone goes to civil court and files a lawsuit
DeSalvo: Yes
Keith: Isn't it true that unauthorized dissemination of copyright material is a violation of the law that may rise to a felony in certain cases
DeSalvo Reproduction and distribution of (an arrangement) can be a felony if a certain dollar amount is met and a certain (number of copies are distributed)
Keith: You are aware that Mr. Ellis arranged some of the songs for the October show.
DeSalvo said yes but said that she does not know which songs Ellis himself arranged.
Keith: For the songs, Mr. Ellis arranged, was he legally required to get copyright permission
DeSalvo said yes. Then said disseminating is a different right.
Keith: Was he legally required to obtain permission from copyright lawyers
DeSAvo he would have had to have permission to have a musical arrangement (of that piece). It depends on what he was using it for. There is an exemption. If he is using it for face-to-face classroom teaching that is exempt. IF it is a performance for educational purposes that is also exempt. The exemption for classroom teaching is also extended to online classrooms.
Are you aware how Mr. Ellis was using the music?
DeSAlvo: I understood students learned the music at school and performed the music at school and they were also going to perform at school.
Keith: You are saying there would be an exemption if that was in the classroom face-to-face instruction and there is a performance exemption. But if it was for preparation for a performance, then it was necessary for him to obtain permission from copyright holders?
DeSalvo he would have had to have permission to make an arrangement. (Talks about dissemination. Said teaching would not have to be in a classroom).
Keith: Put he would still need permission to arrange the song
Ketih: If he did not have permission to arrange he would have violated copyright law
DeSalvo: Technically yes.
Keith asks about the agreement with Anderson. DeSalvo said it is a license agreement. She said if it was a work for hire, it would have required Mr. Ellis or the school district to sign off on it.
Keith said it was signed by Calvin Ellis on behalf of Tupelo High School. Keith asked if the permission to arrange the music had to be obtained by Tupelo High School.
DeSalvo said that is what the document said and it allows Tupelo High School to use the song.
Keith said that on the contract it says that the licensee will submit a copy of the song and the arrangement.
DeSAlvo: I want you to understand what this is. This is what is commonly referred to as label copy. It gives appropriate credit so if anyone wants to use this (in the future, they will know where to go to get it….She said the item of submitting a copy is a matter of the contract, not of copyright law).
Keith said that the document said that until they sent a copy of that music, the agreement is not effective.
DeSalvo: Asks to explain this. She said often licenses go out and people neglect them and don't sign it so often publishes say you have a certain amount of time to get it back to us or the contract isn't valid?
Keith: Do you know if those songs had been arranged and disseminated to the students before this document was signed on Sept. 6?
DeSalvo: I think they were.
Keith: Should he have arranged and disseminated the music prior to signing the contract?
Here is my question. Would you advise your client to have the arranged music disseminated to students prior to the execution of that document?
DeSalvo: No
Butts objects to the form of the question. Does he mean execution by Mr. Ellis or by Cherry Lane?
Keith; You said you would not advise your client to disseminate that music to students prior to the execution of that contract by all students?
DeSalvo: We are kind of splitting hairs.
Keith: I want a direct answer. Would you advise your client to distribute music to your students prior to the execution of the contract.
DeSalvo: It is not a yes or no answer. Mr. Keith is trying to get me to say something I don't want to say.
Butts said the witness should be afforded the latitude to answer the question as she sees appropriate.
Keith: My question is would you advise your client to have the arranged music and disseminate it to students prior to having exhibit 24 executed by the parties.
DeSalvo: It depends on where you are in negotiation of the contract. It is common for the two parties to negotiate the terms, arrange the music and sign the contract subsequently….Had there been no contact with Cherry Lane to use the arrangement and then contact to negotiate later, that would be a different scenario. In that scenario I will tell him (to go further with the negotiation first)
Keith asks if she had any information that Ellis had contract with Cherry Lane first
DeSalvo: No, I think that would have been initiated by Mr. Anderson and not Mr Ellis
Keith: You don't have any knowledge of that
DeSalvo: Yes I do.
Keith asks if DeSalvo had any knowledge of the negotiations.
What information do you have that it was OK for Mr. Anderson to permit Mr. Ellis to disseminate the arranged music to his students prior to the execution of this document
DeSalvo: I can't answer that question. I don't know.
Keith asks if DeSalvo has any facts to show Ellis had obtained that permission by Sept 29
DeSalvo said he complied with the terms of the contract and payment ws paid….Based on the effective date of the contract and it wsa mailed with a check on Sept. 8, 2011. It was mailed with two copies at the license explains. That is all a publisher needs…Once a publisher receives this Mr. Ellis is good to go.
Keith: The use of that music had been taken place prior to Sept 6?
DeSalvo said yes but that is OK. She said that this license (secures any defect)
Keith: When you use arranged music without permission, you are going to have to get permission at some point?
DeSalvo: Yes
Keith: For the songs Mr. Ellis had chosen for other people to arrange, wouldn't it be necessary for Mr. Ellis or the arranger to secure permission from the rights holder
DeSalvo: IT would be arranger's job to do that.
Keith: You have no knowledge of the discussion between the arrangers and Mr. Ellis. There is no agreement. Wouldn't it be necessary for Mr. Ellis and the arranger to ensure the rights had been obtained.
DeSalvo: If Mr. Ellis had been told by the arranger to do that then Mr. Ellis should have done that (Said that without a direct agreement, the arranger is the author of the work and would be responsible for getting the permission)
Keith: You are assuming a lot of facts that should be laid out in an agreement between Mr. Ellis and the arrangers?
DeSalvo: You don't have a written agreement. (Said if you did, it would have been different.)
Keith; Since Mr. Ellis didn't have written agreement with the other arrangers, have you seen any written agreement defining who was required to obtain permissions?
DeSAlvo: In the absence of any document it is the arranger's responsibility.
Keith said there could have been discussions. DeSalvo said that doesn't change the law. That a verbal agreement doesn't change authorship. Said that under copyright law when there is an arranger who is the author, if there is a written agreement transferring the authorship, it would change the responsibility. But she said you can't shift the responsibility without a written agreement.
Keith: When Mr. Ellis asked other arrangers to secure arrangements wasn't it incumbent on him to make sure (arranger was getting permission)
DeSalvo said if he knew about it.
She said with the knowledge she has, even if it wasn't a contractual obligation, she would want to understand that care, but Mr. Ellis didn't have that knowledge….Arrangements are different things….You have a musical composition and you put a fiddle in it, that is an arrangement….When you are talking about cover versions that doesn't require an arrangements…Just putting music with it doesn't require permission
Keith: AS a show choir director, you would at least expect Mr. Ellis to understand that copyrights are an issue and you need to seek help to understand it.
DeSalvo said she thinks every music educator should seek knowledge about copyright.
Keith asks about which songs Ellis had gotten clearance of that she had knowledge of. DeSalvo said she does not know the song titles. Knows he got some through Tresona.
10:01 a.m.
Keith proposes a hypothetical. Suppose a show choir performance goes forward without permission having been gotten for arrangements. Suppose someone films that performance and puts it on YouTube. Would the district be liable for that?
Butts objects, saying there is no evidence Mr. Ellis uploaded anything to YouTube and that it is not factually complete for the witness to answer.
Keith essentially repeats the question
Butts objects again to the form of the question. He asks who the someone who videos is, whether it is a parent, an official of the school district, someone who happened to go.
Keith said he is asking about the potential for risk in that situation?
DeSalvo: It is difficult to answer that question because it depends on who arranged the song. Said the performance itself is not the issue (and would not pose any liability to Ellis or the school).
Keith: Let's suppose Mr. Ellis arranged the song. Could that pose liability?
DeSalvo: Probably if publisher heard that song, if they wanted to, they could get it pulled off of YouTube and contact Mr. Ellis or the school district about licensure. That is generally what the publisher would do because they would rather make money than sue people.
Keith: Where Mr. Ellis arranged the song, that would be a violation by Mr. Ellis and the school district?
DeSalvo: Not by the school district, potentially by Mr. Ellis.
Keith said would the school district be liable if Ellis had done the arrangement when his contract provides a supplement that pays him for the arrangement?
DeSalvo said if there was a direct infringement by Mr. Ellis the only way the school district would be liable would be secondary infringement….(School district would have to know or have reason to know about the violation and contribute to the violation or it would need to be found that the school district had the ability to supervise Mr. Ellis and had direct financial gain as a result of his violation. She said she doesn't see that in this hypothetical.
Keith: Did you say a knowing violation of copyright law can bring a $150,000 fine.
DeSalvo said it is not a fine it is a statutory violation. The maximum fine is $150,000 (for, I think she said willful violation, or intentional violation).
Keith refers to email from Ellis to Greenburg where Ellis said he first became aware of copyright law at the end of the previous school year and that he now knows that it is something every arranger must get.
Keith: Would you read this email as saying Mr. Ellis now understands what is required of an arranger.
Question over who the word "we" in the email refers to.
Keith asked if DeSalvo knows who Mr. DeSalvo worked for. DeSalvo said Tupelo Public School District. She said we would be he and a group of people. Maybe some arrangers.
Keith: Did you ever ask Mr. Ellis what he meant by the word we.
DeSalvo said no
Keith: See where he asks what is the fine for performing songs without permission. I would never purposefully want to do something like this but I am worried about a song being denied.
When Mr. Greenburg used term $150,000, that was obviously maximum fine.
DeSalvo: It is not a fine, it is a statutory damage.
Keith: But the maximum amount is still $150,000.
DeSalvo: Yes, and those are reserved for the most extreme cases.
Keith: Would you advise a school district to go forth in a musical performance in their auditorium if you knew the performance contained songs for which permission to arrange hadn't been obtained.
DeSalvo: Would I advise a school? If I knew them in advance I would probably tell them not to, but the performance is exempt
Keith: Are you aware Mr. Ellis had a contract that paid him a supplement for being a music director?
DeSalvo said she heard that in the testimony.
Keith asked if she was aware Ellis' contract required him to (maintain professional competence though trainings to improve him as a music director)
DeSalvo said no.
Keith asked if DeSalvo is aware that another employee of the school obtained the necessary arrangements for her show choir.
DeSalvo said she had no idea what Ms. Williams did. Keith said it is Dr. Williams.
Keith asks if DeSalvo is aware of music organizations to which Ellis belonged.
DeSalvo said no
Keith refers to exhibit 5. It is an agreement with an arranger.
Keith: If those songs that Steve Anderson arranged and supplied to the school district, if Mr. Ellis never obtained permission but if he used those songs and disseminated them would that have been a violation of the law?
DeSalvo said by Mr. Anderson, not by Mr. Ellis. She said that this isn't a work for hire agreement so that Anderson would be responsible.
(She said that it is a contract, not a work for hire agreement)
Keith: Don't you think it would be incumbent of choral director to ensure that permission would be obtained.
DeSalvo said, if Ellis had knowledge of it. Said that would be a better practice.
Keith: It certainly creates potential for a lawsuit involving both Mr. Anderson and Mr. Ellis and the school district.
DeSalvo said it would for Anderson. She said maybe for the school district involving the contract issue.
Keith refers to another email. Asks DeSalvo if Ellis would at least have a rudimentary knowledge of his requirements for copyright.
DeSalvo said it seemed like he had some knowledge by that date (April 28).
Keith: If he had been to Hal Leonard website by that date, (would it appear he had even more knowledge)
DeSalvo said if he had been to the website yes.
Keith: With the knowledge he had, is it reasonable for him to wait until September to secure permissions for those songs.
Butts objects
Keith: Do you have any evidence he did anything before September to arrange permission to arrange other than the Steve Anderson contract.
DeSavlo: If the contract was signed Sept. 6, it would have had to be in the works sometime before Sept. 6. Sometimes you can turn that around in a couple of days, sometimes it takes longer….Said you don't get permission from the song writers, you get permission from the publishers….two weeks to 30 days is reasonable.
Keith: What documentation do you have to indicate (he started working on copyrights before September).
DeSalvo said the Greenburg emails and those licenses. She said the fact that they were executed on Sept. 6 means that work on them would have had to have begun prior to that.
Hearing takes a 10-minute break at 10 a.m.
10:46 a.m.
Keith is referring to an email in which an arranger had to pay Hal Leonard for not having gotten previous permission in 2009. It includes a contract requiring payment for the license and a fee for not having had the right previously.
Keith refers to an email exchange that it was necessary to clear this up before going forward with anything else.
DeSalvo said she doesn't know if it was from the email but she learned somewhere that something had to be cleared up.
Keith: In this agreement, it assigns the responsibility to Tupelo High School as the licensee, right?
DeSalvo said yes.
Keith asks who paid that $1,000, was it the arranger or the Tupelo High School booster club
DeSalvo said it seemed to her that Alderman said have paid it. But Keith notes the contract said that the school district was the one that was supposed to pay it. DeSalvo said that is correct.
Keith would you agree that this contract clearly indicates that there are some responsibilities to ensure permission for songs you are going to arrange. DeSalvo said yes.
Keith refers to an email from Ellis to Stewart….It said that Ellis plans on using many of the arrangements he did the year before during this year (2011-12)
Do you have any knowledge whether Mr. Ellis had permission to arrange those songs? DeSalvo said she did not.
Keith if he used those songs, would he need permission to arrange them? DeSalvo said yes. She said instrumentation doesn't require permission but if you are changing how the work is performed, you would need permission.
Keith: If Beyonce has a song Mr. Ellis wants to arrange, it would be necessary for Mr. Ellis to obtain permission from the rights holder
Keith: How much are you being paid to do this investigation and to testify.
DeSalvo: I'm not quite sure. I'm not there because Mr. Butts or Mr. Ellis are not able to pay me. When I was down last time, I was paid a flat fee of $2,000.
Keith: Do you have an hourly rate as an attorney when you are engaged in copyright litigation.
DeSalvo: Last year it was $250 an hour and this year it is $275.
Keith: Are you charging on an hourly rate for this or just a flat fee?
DeSalvo: I am keeping time on my hours in case they are able to pay me and I will see if they are able to pay me on that. If they can only pay me a flat fee, I will take that.
Keith: How many hours have you accumulated?
DeSalvo her time is probably in excess of $3,000 and her travel time 11 hours which she did not bill for. This past week she put in in preparation four to five hours plus her testimony yesterday and today. She has also been on standby all week (but she is not charging for that)
Keith: If I told you some of the arrangements had been done by Mr. Ellis during the 2010-11 school year in which he did not obtain permission, would that change your opinion you stated yesterday that you did not have any information that Mr. Ellis violated the law?
DeSalvo: If Mr. Ellis arranged songs without permission during the 2010-11 school year, there is potential liability there if he did that without permission.
Keith is finished with the witness. Butts begins redirect.
Butts: If Mr. Ellis had arrangements during the 2010-11 school year, there would be potential liability to whom?
DeSalvo: To him for direct infringement but it depends on if he used the song. (You can do it in your house and it is fine, but if he took them and used them that would be direct infringement)
Butts: Assume worst case scenario, Mr. Ellis created arrangements that would qualify as an infringement and assume he took that to show choir and taught the show choir the arrangement and then that arrangement was performed in a public performance. Assume there is no contract for hire between Tupelo Public School and Mr. Ellis to do the arrangement and also assuming the arrangement was performed under the arrangements you mentioned for schools, and the worst case scenario, would there have been any liability on the part of the Tupelo Public School District on the part of the defendant.
Keith objects, saying question is too broad.
Butts re asks the question
Butts: I would like you to assume that during 2011, if Mr. Ellis for the performance in 2011, he would have started working on arrangements. I'd like for you to assume he did create arrangements. Assume he did not get copyright permission from the copyright holder to create the arrangement. Assume he took it to his show choirs and taught his arrangements and there was no written contract between Tupelo High School and Mr. Ellis and these songs were performed on the school premise and admission fees were charged and they were performed at competitions but Tupelo High School received no private gain from those performances, would the TPSD have any liability for Mr. Ellis' arrangements without permission.
Keith objects unless Butts includes in his hypothetical that Mr. Ellis is under contract with this school district as show choir director. Butts said there is no contract between Ellis and the school district to arrange music. Compton overrules objection.
DeSalvo: (In the hypothetical) The school district would not be liable for the arrangements Mr. Ellis did. TO be perfectly honest, if it was within the course and scope of his employment to prepare arrangements, the employer could be liable. If there is no specific duty that is required by his job….if it is not something it is specifically required by his job to do, there is no liability.
Butts: In the situation I just gave you, the liability would be Mr. Ellis? DeSalvo said correct.
Butts refers her to agreement where Hal Leonard gave permission to David Alderman for "Ask the Lonely" and "I Drove All Night."
Butts: Is it your understanding there was no contract for hire between Tupelo High School, Tupelo School District and Mr. Alderman for those agreements?
DeSalvo said that is her understanding.
Butts: Would you know why this agreement from Hal Leonard makes Tupelo High School the licensee rather than David Alderman.
DeSalvo said it is because the school will be using the work. She said Hal Leonard and Cherry Lane and others grant permission to the arranger to arrange but make the school the licensee to perform.
DeSalvo said the publisher still owns the arrangement, this is just a license to use it.
Butts: Since Mr. Alderman did not get permission to arrange the songs back in 2009 and there was no contract for the arrangements, who infringed Hal Leonard's copyright in 2009?
DeSalvo said Mr. Alderman.
Butts: From your knowledge of dealing with arrangers, would Mr. Alderman be aware of that fact.
Keith objects and Compton sustains.
Butts refers to correspondence
Keith said the language is clear who paid the fee for not having permission to pay the arrangement (the school district was obligated to pay it by Tupelo).
Butts: Has any fact been brought to your attention on cross examination by the district
DeSalvo: No, although since yesterday. I found this in the email in exhibit 5 when Mr. Alderman said he paid the fee for the song. Yesterday I was unclear about it.
Butts: Do you stand fully on your testimony given in this hearing yesterday?
DeSalvo said yes.
Butts is finished with DeSalvo.
Next witness will be Lynne Johnson.
11:50 a.m.
Johnson has children in the school district.
She lives in Tupelo. She has two daughters at Ole Miss who were in show choir for four years and her son is at the high school. He is not involved in show choir.
Butts: Tell me about your involvement with show choir and the booster club?
Johnson said her girls both became part of Ellis' show choir in the same year. One was a junior and one was a freshman. She was involved for the next four years.
"It the most amazing experience for them and for us."
Johnson said she became known as the snack lady and she was involved in every practice parents could be part of.
She said that it was a lot of work.
Butts: From your observation, what is the work load on the children and Mr. Ellis?
Johnson: I don't know how he physically did it, but he was always there with an amazing attitude and the kids respected him. There were long hard nights getting ready for the competitions and the shows.
The loved working with Calvin. They respected him and looked up to him. There was a lot of sweat put into it but they loved working with him.
Butts asks about the trip to Petal.
Johnson said they arrived at school at 7 a.m. Sound Wave always competes first.
Keith said it would be important here to voir dire the witness about her knowledge of previous testimony. Compton said Keith can do that on cross.
Butts: We'd like to know about your participation.
Johnson said she was in the room with Wave Connection the entire time. She specifically remembers that competition because her daughter was sick.
Sound Wave performed, all of the parents go out, we are so excited because we love our show choir and we love our kids. Then we go out when Wave Connection performs and we wait to see who makes finals.
Johnson: I do remember while we were there the Petal parents were very rude to us. I just don't think they like us. It is just a rival like any sport.
Butts asks about any rules handed out by Petal representatives on arrival
Johnson said she is not aware of any rules
Butts asks about the room. Johnson said they wait to see when everyone leaves that the room is put exactly back in order. She said that just because of the way they were treated, they wanted to make sure room was spotless.
Butts: Was the room our show choir stayed in in Petal trashed?
Johnson: No. When I saw the 23 accusations that came out about Mr. Ellis I was at the Link Centre. I was sitting there reading them and when I saw the accusation that room had been trashed I took that against myself. I am not going to say the room did not get messy. We were in two rooms that were connected to each other. (Two rooms connected by a door. Put girls in back room and boys up front). We are trying to keep these kids comfortable. It is a competition. They are there long hours. The room does get messy….but a group of parents make sure it is always spotless when we leave. We would never want Tupelo's reputation to be anything but the best.
Butts asks about whether boys and girls changed in the same room
Johnson: We do not change in the same room, but I will tell you. The way they set us up, the girls have to walk through the boys room. There may have been times when they walked through that the boys were in their boxers but I do not find that offensive (Said that was because of the way the room was set up. That is why they put the girls in the back room. Said parents were there to make sure nothing inappropriate happened)
Butts asks about her experience in show choir?
Johnson: You can ask my girls to this day, the thing they remembered that left the biggest positive impact on them at high school was Mr. Ellis and the show choir he was in. I love him. He is the best teacher and mentor and person I have ever known. My girls loved it. They worked very hard. They didn't mind being there until midnight.
(I can hear sniffles from people in the audience)
Butts asks if she has found Ellis to not be forthright?
Johnson said all of her friends have always thought of Ellis as honest and forthright and that she hadn't talked to anyone who thought anything else
Butts asks about Mrs. Ellis
Johnson said he always thanked his wife. She thought that union between the couple was so strong. She said Jauna Ellis was always there for the show choir and she is a great lady.
Butts asks about accusations of wasting money. Johnson said it was the parents money and that they knew it was going toward their kids.
Butts: Are you aware Mr. Ellis would have choreography arranged and then have it rearranged?
Johnson said she isn't the best person to ask about that
Butts asks about planned New York trip
Johnson said it was a big deal to be invited to perform. They had several meetings where they discussed how expensive it would be. They fundraised and tried to raise money, but they couldn't make the money. They were told they probably wouldn't be able to go. Then New York contacted Calvin and said we really want you to go and we will try to do something to help you, find a sponsor. We grasped on to that small hope but unfortunately it didn't happen.
Butts asks Johnson if she perceived a lack of supervision. Johnson said never. She said there were 5 or 6 parents who were always there. She said with two show choirs you need help from parents and that he always made sure parents were there. She said that during her four years, the kids were never unsupervised.
Butts asks about Ellis making kids run laps around the PAC
Johnson said that didn't happen while her children were there.
Butts asked if Ellis didn't maintain discipline of the kids. Johnson said no and that if Ellis needed to do something to discipline kids she would have supported him 100 percent.
Butts asked about the experience for her girls being in show choir?
Johnson: IT was such a wonderful experience. I feel very blessed he was our director. Getting to know him as a person .
Butts was Mr. Ellis unfair among the kids for any reason, race or financial condition?
Johnson said never. She said she remembers a student who didn't have financial means and they made sure they got that child and brought that child to practice.
Butts: Did you child participate in hair and makeup nights.
Johnson said they did. She said she never had concern about her kids being there. She said it was a team building event. She said Calvin really wanted tm to participate but he was never like if you don't do this, this is what will happen to you.
Butts: Are you aware of the allegations of this last hair-and makeup night?
Johnson: I am aware of what happened. I think it is ridiculous. AS a mom of two seniors who graduated from the high school, I feel like someone could put me on trail because I had children over at my house the night before school began and I didn't know they had cans of spray paint and spray painted "09" on neighbors mailboxes.
Johnson said that happens with kids. She said she has seen pranks happen and has had them happen to her.
Butts: As a parent of girls, with a prank involving condoms would you be offended?
Johnson: No. Boys are boys. Boys are going to do stupid things. You tell them not to do it and they are going to do it. I don't think it was anything where a teenage boy thought about being sexual. It is but they are just dumb boys. Bananas and condoms? Really? They are so creative. (Laughs)
Butts asks about Ellis' influence
Johnson: We feel very blessed that for the four yeas my girls were involved in show choir, he was our director. He is a wonderful person, a wonderful influence. I would love to see my son involved in show choir with him
Butts: Is Mr. Ellis perfect
Johnson: No one is perfect. He is not prefect. I'm not perfect. The kids were not perfect.
Butts: Is show choir competitive?
Johnson: It is extremely competitive. The thing I loved about show choir is I watched these boys who played soccer and would never think about being involved in show choir get involved. It is very physical but it is not that contact sport where you are running into people. The kids he got were kids who would not have been involved but he saw the talent in them. The reason they did it was because of him, because they admired him and respected him.
Butts: Are the kids competitive among themselves….Have you observed children and their parents where they would like to be on the front row or they deserve a solo
Johnson: When you try out for something you are going to want that. But just like anything, you don't get it, you don't make it. Sometimes you make it and sometimes you don't.
Butts: How would you characterize us being competitive with other schools
Johnson said they were competitive, they worked hard and they wanted to win.
Butts: Was show choir supported by community?
Johnson yes, parents were very involved. WE want to be involved because we loved Calvin as a director and it was a good group of kids. We would have been excited it a principal or someone from central office would come to our shows to see how great they were.
Butts asked about the size of the group
Johnson said it was two large groups and they had a large group of people who came to competitions and when they cheered they were very loud.
Butts: Do you have an opinion whether our show choirs acted appropriated and were a good example of Tupelo High.
Johnson: Because I was always there I do believe we represented our school district in a good way. We were raised to know right from wrong. WE didn't ever want Tupelo High School to come out like they're this or that. We always behaved and that is why we had parents involved. One person can't supervise that many kids. As parents we were always there to make sure our students behaved and did the right thing.
Butts finishes his examination and Keith begins his cross examination.
Keith: Have you ever served on the booster board?
Johnson: No, I just served on the hospitality committee.
Keith: You were as
Johnson: I attended a meeting at the Link Centre when Mr. Butts presented the 23 accusations against Mr. Ellis. The one concern in Petal popped out to me. I told David if he would like me to testify and he said yes.
Keith asks whether Johnson had read the blogs. She said she read about the copyright lawyer and part of Valerie Whitwell's. She said she didn't really read about the pranking. She read some of Mr. Meadow's. Part of Terri Stewart's and part of Mr. Ellis.
She said she is familiar with the testimony that has occurred.
Keith objects to the witness because she has violated law of sequestration.
Butts said the rule applies to witnesses remaining outside the courtroom and that there is no way to insulate witnessed from the newspapers or the blogs or what they made have read. To insist on that kind of sequestration is absurd. Said this witness testified on her personal knowledge and not on the testimony of anyone else.
Compton said he will reserve a ruling on it.
Keith said she knew even before these proceedings that she was going to testify and that Butts should informed his witnesses not to keep up with it.
Compton said he is going to reserve a ruling on it. He will review it and make a ruling this afternoon.
Keith: Were you disappointed in the results from Petal. Johnson said, no. They were very close. They were in second and were very close to the first place team.
Keith asks if Ellis ever told parents that someone from Petal had raised concerns about Tupelo students
Johnson said she heard Ellis ask the boys if they had been disrespectful. She said that the Petal parents were rude to them. She said Ellis told the boys that when an adult talks to you, you need to be respectful of them. Johnson said the parents told Ellis they would keep a better eye on the boys.
Keith: Do you recall where you were when you heard the New York trip had been cancelled.
Johnson said she does not remember. Keith asks about her getting an email about the trip being canceled, was that when she found out. Johnson said she didn't remember.
Keith asks about students running laps around the PAC. She said she heard that happened this year and her daughter graduated lat year.
Keith asks if Johnson went to all of the rehearsals when her daughter was involved. She said she went to most of them. She said she did not go to all of them, there were many rehearsals and a lot of late rehearsals.
Keith asks if Johnson allowed her daughters to spend the night at the hair and makeup night. She said they were allowed to spend the night but if they did not spend the night she called the parent were they were staying and told Jauna that they were not spending the night.
Keith asked Johnson what is her knowledge of the Friday night pranking incident.
Johnson said she heard the girls spent the night at the Whitwell house with Jauna and the boys were at Ellis' house. That the girls wrote things on the boys' cars and the boys bought things and went over and pranked the girls cars. She said she had heard it was all in fun and that the kids were laughing about it and that it got out of control.
Keith asks about pranks that had been pulled on Johnson. She said people had written either 2009 or 2011 on her mailbox.
Keith asks if her children were involved in pranks similar to what happened on Sept. 30. Johnson said they were not.
Keith: Were you at board meeting in May of 2010 when Mr. Ellis stood before board and told where he was over budget?
Johnson said no. She said she did not attend any board meetings.
Keith has no further questions. Johnson's testimony is completed.
Hearing breaks at 11:45 a.m. It will resume at 1:05 p.m.
1:09 p.m.
The hearing resumes in closed session.
1:26 p.m.
Hearing is back in open session at 1:19 p.m. Parent Kim Burleson is testifying. She was also testifying during the closed session.
Butts asks about her daughter's experience
Burleson: I can't tell you how positive it has been for her. She has thoroughly enjoyed all four years….As far as school activities, it has been a major part of her education. (It will be a major part of her high school experience)
She said she has also had a positive experience as a parent. She said her daughter has stepped out of the box under Ellis' guidance.
Butts asks about her observations on his mentoring of the kids.
Burleson: He is an excellent mentor…It always amazed me how he could encourage them all to be part of a group. I was impressed how he could mentor all different kids of kids. He could always get them to bond, kind of like a team.
Butts: Have you found him to be forthright and honest?
Burleson: As far as I have dealt with him yes.
She said he has treated the children fairly regardless of their financial situation of their race.
Butts: Have you ever had an occasion where you had an impression where Mr Ellis failed to supervise these children?
Burleson: No. When you are dealing with a group of teenagers, you can't be one on one with them all of the time. Said has never had a concern.
Butts asked if she had seen Ellis endanger children. She said no.
Burleson said she feels he is an excellent show choir director, as far as her experience goes.
Butts: How would you say his show choirs have performed?
Burleson: Very professionally. I am not sure of the record but I would say that we've placed (in every competition been in).
Butts: Have you ever observed any incident where you felt the students were not acting appropriately or where they brought disdain on Tupelo High School
Burleson: No, not from what I witnessed.
Butts is done with his questioning.
1:30 p.m.
Keith asks if Burleson has ever served on choral booster board. She said she was treasurer for Sound Wave for one year, two years ago
Keith: Did you ever hear complaints about Mr. Ellis' handling of money for show choirs?
Burleson: No
Keith: What about his selection of students for the show choirs
Burleson said just common complaints from parents about their children not making a particular group.
Keith asks about the trip to Petal. Asks if she heard any complaints by Petal officials to Mr. Ellis about behavior of students.
Burleson said she had never heard that complaint.
Keith: The year you were treasurer for Sound Wave, did you end that year in a deficit position?
Burleson said Terri Stewart was treasurer for all groups and each group had its own treasurer. Stewart was the one who had the final figure and she does not know what that was.
Keith: Did you attend any booster club board meetings.
Burleson said yes.
Keith: What about the one in May 2010 where Mr. Ellis talked abut the budget issues. Burleson said no and that she does not recall that discussion taking place.
Keith is finished his cross examination, and Burleson's testimony is complete.
1:37 p.m.
Next witness is Stephanie Maxcy. She lives in Tupelo and has a child at Tupelo High School, a senior.
Maxcy said both of her girls are cheerleaders.
Butts: Tell me about booster club for cheerleaders.
Maxcy said she has been involved with the cheerleader booster club for six years. Said it is literally to boost cheerleaders and support them. We support the coach as needed.
Butts: Asks about nature of cheerleading.
Maxcy said they are athletes like any other sport. They are competitive.
Maxcy said they have camps and competitions.
This year she is treasurer, the previous two years she was president of booster club.
Butts asks if cheerleaders take overnight fieldtrips. Maxcy said they do as part of camps and various competitions. She said that nationals includes overnight travel.
Lawyers have a sidebar conference.
1:41 p.m.
Butts asks Maxcy about the numerous trips that have been taken that require school approval. When you talk about nationals you are talking about going to Disney World?
Maxcy said that is correct.
She said kids have traveled by bus and have flown out of Birmingham.
Butts: Has an administrator from the Tupelo Public School District accompanied the group on the trips?
Maxcy said not any trips that she knows of.
Maxcy said they are going to nationals next week.
Maxcy said they have an administrator going with them this year, on the trip next week. That they hadn't had an administrator go with them in the past. She said it was just recently that she had ever heard that an administrator from the district had to be with the group on its trip.
Keith declines cross examination. Maxcy's testimony is complete.
2:12 p.m.
Next witness is Deborah Bullock. She is a teacher at Tupelo High School. She has been there for 12 years. She is a choral director. She said she has had the same job over the last 12 years.
She teaches guitar, keyboard, music theory, general music, she helps with the two show choirs. She said she assists the show choirs by accompanying them.
Butts: You have been there before Mr. Ellis was there and you have been there since.
Bullock said she has worked with Vicky Wilson and other choral directors, Quinn Harris, Suzy Williams, Debra Atkinson.
Butts: In the last five years, since Calvin Ellis got there,….I understand he came on as an assistant choral director with Vicky Wilson as his immediate supervisor. Bullock said that is correct. She said Wilson was also her supervisor.
Butts asks what coach assistant means in the schedule?
Bullock: It can mean a number of things, it all depends on how we work together. We can take the role while they start the class. Said she has accompanied the class, it can mean working with sectionals or singing with the class.
Butts asks about term assistant choral director. Bullock said she is an assistant in some classes. She is choral director, a music teacher and an assistant choral director.
Butts asks how it is determined who will teach which class?
Bullock said that is determined by the counselors. Usually they are informed during the summer. She said you never know from year to year and it usually depends on how many students sign up for a class and whether that class makes. "It is really not in our hands."
Butts asks how the three choral teachers confer
Bullock said they try to confer with each other as much as they can. Sometimes their schedules don't allow them to do that. They try to work together as much as they can
Butts asked if Wilson was Bullock's supervisor while she was there, and Bullock said yes. Butts asked he took Wilson's position when she left, and Bullock said Ellis did.
Butts: Did he then become your supervisor?
Bullock: I would say so, yes.
Butts: Would he also become the supervisor of the other choral teacher in the program?
Bullock: I would say so yes.
Butts asks Bullock to describe her working relationship with Ellis.
Bullock said she was accompanist for different choirs and show choirs he directed. They spent a lot of time together. They share the responsibility of teaching the structure band group. They each worked with half of them and put them together. They have been to numerous conferences together and have a good working relationship.
Butts asks Bullock about any problems she had with Ellis.
Bullock: I have never had a problem with Calvin. I've worked with a lot of different directors. I have never had one cross word from Calvin since I've been working with him.
Bullock said it has been a pleasant experience working with him. She said Ellis has award-winning show choirs and award winning choirs. She thinks he is a very good choir director.
Butts: You do make a contribution to that.
Bullock: I try
Butts asks Bullock if she would trust Ellis
Bullock: I would trust Calvin with anything. WE have done so much together and he has always been the perfect gentleman to me
Butts asks about Ms. Ellis. Bullock said she has a lot of stage experience and a lot of hair and makeup experience and she volunteers he time to help her husband with all of that.
Butts: Are you aware of any incident where he failed to properly supervise his students?
Bullock: I would say he has always supervised his students to the best of his ability.
Butts: Would you have to agree he has to rely on people like yourself, the other choral teachers, chaperones and parents to help him in that task.
Bullock : I would, it is a tremendous task.
Bullock said she has never known Ellis to endanger a child
Butts: Would you know any reason why you would not want to continue working with him?
Bullock: No, I know no reason why. I'd be glad to continue working with him.
Butts finishes his examination.
Keith begins the cross examination.
Keith: Do you know whether or not Mr. Ellis' contract was changed to reflect director of choral activities after Ms. Wilson left?
Bullock said she does not know, she has not seen Ellis' contract.
Keith asks if Ellis has ever supervised Bullock to evaluate her performance and Bullock said no. He asks whether Ellis gives the administration an evaluation of Bullock's job performance. She said she didn't know, maybe if they asked him.
Keith asks about what awards Ellis's show choir had won. Bullock said she does not know which years.
Hearing goes into closed session at 1:59 p.m.
The hearing opens back up, and Bullock is finished with her testimony.
The hearing is done for today. It will recess until Monday, Feb. 13 at 8:30 a.m. at the Hancock Leadership Center.


text:
Indonesian Students Club
Indonesian Students Club
skip to events
link for robots only
advanced search
Event Detail Information
Date Dec 13, 2012
Time 7:30 pm
Location Krannert Center, Foellinger Great Hall
Cost $5-$31
Sponsor Krannert Center, Champaign-Uurbana Symhony Orchestra
E-Mail firstname.lastname@example.com
Phone 217/333-6280 or 217/KCPATIX
Event type Performance
Views 1158
Originating Calendar Krannert Center
Join the CUSO for the heartwarming cheer of the annual Holiday Concert! Bring your family for an evening of favorite carols, festive surprises, and entertaining guest artists. Lend your voice to the traditional sing-along and let the CUSO and conductor Daniel Black lead you into the holiday season!


text:
Recent Posts
- A New Blog!
- A Crafty Snack for the Feast of the Guardian Angels
- Please Pray a Rosary Novena for the Battle to Save Our Country
- Stepping Out of Safety
- Catholic School or Home School – The Decision
- Transfiguration Crafts
- Great Family Fun
- Catholic School or Home School?
- A Great, Totally Catholic VBS
- Daily Rosary Prayer Tip #4 – Believe
Tag Archives: angel craft
A Crafty Snack for the Feast of the Guardian Angels
OK, so it's not perfect, but for someone who's not crafty, I thought these turned out pretty cute! I noticed as I was making Isaac and Mary Lise peanut butter and jelly for their lunches, that the bread was shaped … Continue reading
Posted in Crafts, Feast Days Tagged angel craft, Guardian Angel Craft, Guardian Angel Snack Leave a comment


text:
Note: This message is displayed if (1) your browser is not standards-compliant or (2) you have you disabled CSS. Read our Policies for more information.
To renew your license by paper you must select a form below. Print and mail the completed form with the required renewal fee to the Indiana Professional Licensing Agency. The address is on the form and checks should be made out to 'Indiana Professional Licensing Agency'.
Registered Veterinary Technician Renewal
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Renewal


text:
Power Team Lures JP Hammer Shad 12pk
When Power Team Lures decided to add a drop shot bait to their lineup, they paired up with the mind of JP DeRose from the World Fishing Network, and created a bait that literally mesmerizes bass with its action. At 3.6" long, the profile of this amazing bait puts it at the top of the menu for both largemouth and smallmouth bass. Combined with its perfected, effortless action and neutral buoyancy, the JP Hammer Shad makes it unbelievably easy for drop shotters of all skill levels to catch more bass. If there's bass in the area you are fishing, you're going to catch them on this bait…as a matter of fact, it would be hard not to. Even wary and negative bass can only take so much of the Hammer Shad quivering in front of them before they inhale it…it's just instinctual to them. The Power Team Lures JP Hammer Shad is also irresistible rigged on a Scrounger Head and fished like a swim bait, or dragged across the bottom on a football head, or even Carolina rigged.
5 Colors
More From Power Team Worms
Customer Reviews
Comments: These things are awesome on a weighted EWG hook. It gives it a nice natural fall and the tail dances around a lot and drives bass nuts.
From: Pat: Worcester, MA 8/8/15
Comments: PTL are the only plastics I use. I've found it's best to settle on a quality manufacturer, learn their line, pick some favorites, and fish them hard. These JP Hammer Shads always produce for me. We use them as swimbaits and also on drop shot. I keep a good supply of these, Sick Sticks, and Craw D'oeuvre's, oh yeah, and some of the big 10" Ribbon Hinge Worms, and never need anything else.
From: Doug: Allendale, NJ
Comments: BEST BAIT I HAVE IN MY TACKLE BOX. I use the Money colour 3.6inch, it is purple flick in low light conditions and goes clear when its bright works perfect for any situation..The way the tail is cupped and the buoyancy of the plastic make the action of the bait IRRESISTIBLE ON DROPSHOT. You will feel bites non stop I guarantee..If you wanna catch bass hook a 1/0 finesse wide gap hook through the chin and out the nose for perfect action. JP DEROSE HAMMER SHAD!!!!
From: Corbin: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Comments: Most versatile soft plastic I've ever fished! I've caught fish on this bait rigged with Drop Shot, Split Shot, Swarming Hornet, Chatterbait Trailer, Nose hooked on the surface, They just FLAT out Hammer Bass! They are very buoyant in the water, and float very well, extremely durable and available in great fish catching colors. My Favorite is Slam shad.
From: John: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Comments: If you like to fish for Flounder/Fluke, this bait is a great immitation of a Mud Minnow/Killifish and slays 'em...
From: Rusty: TX
Comments: GREAT BAIT! the swim action on these drives bass crazy! Definitely worth giving a try.
From: Matt: Castaic CA
Comments: An amazing bait for a multitude of techniques. You can be sure to dropshot or shaky head your way to bass limits
From: Sonny: Wareham, MA
Comments: ridiculously good bait on a drop shot. These caught fish when nothing else would, even a roboworm. I fish from shore, so when I use roboworms on a drop shot, it tends to drop the tail a lot and the action isn't good. With these, the tail floats so the bait sticks out from the line with the tail on plane with the head, and I can just twitch it. I can't wait to use it for more stuff in the summer! (Ex. Jerkbait, T-rig, shaky head, etc.) Awesome lure.
From: Cullen: Ashburn, VA
Comments: This is definitely the most versatile bat I have ever fished! I have been hammering crappie, walleye, smallies and largemouth on it and have caught fish drop shotting, on a football head, scrounger head, weightless and even on a Carolina rig. Super durable as well... It doesn't get any better!
From: Mike: New York State
Comments: this bait is amazing for drop shotting for smallmouth. I caught 2 good sized smallmouth in like 10 minutes of fishing with this bait. I used it in spicy goby and actually later that day I caught a 3 1/2 pound smallie, those little guys don't play around they put up a really hard fight
From: Jared: KY
Comments: This Bait on a jig rig is just killer for Spotted bay bass! Just killer!
Comments: Sick drop shot bait. Really cool action
From: meat wad: dropping


text:
Special Offer
$128.99 Save $13.00
Call (888) 651-9785
Certified photos by travelers like you. What's this?
January 2014
This is the actual space shuttle, not a replica. Very interesting exhibit.
October 2012
We are desperately searching for alligators and other wildlife. SAw only cows and one bird. Perhaps you can tell it was not a very successful day on the everglades. The airboat experience was quite fun.
October 2012
The family in front of the iconic symbol. A great day checking out the space stuff.
Page: 1
Some content licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
© 1997–Sun Feb 26 23:42:06 PST 2017 Viator, Inc. CUR015 - 330204 All rights reserved. Viator is a registered trademark of Viator, Inc.
is a Service Mark of Viator, Inc. Travel with an Insider is a Service Mark of Viator, Inc.
Use of this website constitutes acceptance of Viator's Terms & Conditions.
Viator uses cookies to improve your experience on our website. Learn more about how we use cookies and how to change your cookie settings | Close message


text:
Oregon School Children, USDA "Energize" Earth Day
Last month, USDA Rural Development employees and several partner organizations donated their Saturday to celebrate Earth Day with elementary and middle school-aged children at the Castle Rock farm worker housing complex in Boardman, Oregon.
Volunteers from Energy Trust of Oregon, CASA of Oregon, Sustainable Agriculture and Energy (SAGE) Center, Wind Turbine Industries Corporation, and Kardon Construction joined USDA to lead a variety of interactive educational activities about energy conservation and renewable energy alternatives. Read more »


text:
Poppie Jones Tribeca Satchel
Sorry, this item is sold out!
Looks like you've got more shoe shopping to do - have fun!
Looks like you've got more shoe shopping to do - have fun!
Item # 257703
Be a part of the hottest trends in handbags with the Poppie Jones Tribeca Satchel. This great satchel has all the space you need and all the style you want in your favorite handbag!
- Faux leather satchel with stud and sequin detail
- Top zip closure
- Braided faux leather handles with 6" drop
- Fabric lining with zip pocket and two slip pockets
- Dimensions 13" x 7" x 10"
- Imported
By: Albania01
Location: New Jersey,NJ
January 25, 2013
Oh Poppie!
"I don't even know how to start. I eyed this bag in Ivory, for soooo long trying to decide if I need it, then I put in on my X-mas list but didn't get it; so finally I bought it myself & let me tell you girlfriend, I LOVE It!!! is so beautiful & shiny & high quality. I'm so happy i finally got it. I truly recommend it to everyone who is thinking about it. Go for it, is worth it :)"
By: Ajunior20
Location: Bahamas
October 21, 2012
"This bag is absolutely GORGEOUS. Its a lot bigger than what it seemed in the picture but its still an amazing bag. Perfect for a night out or just a casual day. I got it in the ivory/gold and it can go with almost anything. Its just a GREAT bag!"
By: yeloc
Location: Ohio
October 15, 2012
"I love this bag! I thought it would look gaudy but it doesn't. I can dress it up or down. Perfect happy hour bag."
Click anywhere to close this.


text:
By GARY ARRINGTONSports writer
The Green River Pirates finally put a couple of good games together last week and won their first region game of the year. They started the week off with a big win over neighboring Grand and then defeated Monument Valley in region play.
The Lady Pirates also won a pair of region ball games over Monticello and Monument Valley. The scores for the boys were 51-29 over Grand and 74-44 over Monument Valley. For the Lady Pirates, the scores were 55-48 over Monticello and 60-36 over Monument Valley.
The two wins for the Lady Pirates were their fourth and fifth victories in a row as they appear poised to do well for the rest of the year. Brandi Webster had her third consecutive big game as she scored 27 and 32 points in the two contests. She had scored 24 points against Tabiona a week ago.
Against Monticello, the two teams were tied at 9-9 after the first quarter and Green River trailed at the half 27-24. Monticello extended their lead in the third quarter to 42-37 before Green River owned the final period. In that last quarter, Green River won the period 18-6 to grab the win.
Besides Webster's big game, six other Pirates scored in the game. Crosby Hatt scored 7, Jill Vetere scored 6, Sara Swalberg scored 4, Tracy Engleman scored 3 and Leah Swalberg and Mecham scored 2 points each.
Against Monument Valley, Green River took the early lead and then scored at will through the first three quarters. They won the opening quarter 17-11 and the second quarter 12-4 to lead at the half 29-15. With a 22-2 third quarter, the Pirates won their third region game.
Leah scored 9 points in this game with Jill adding 8 points. Crosby put in 6 points along with Mecham. Tracy, Sara and Bailie Packer each scored 2 points.
Three Pirates finished in double figures in the victory over Grand. Kayden Mecham led the way with 19 points while Jason Johnson scored 14 points and brother Tyson Johnson scored 12 points. Brennan Bigelow scored 4 points and Luis Mendoza scored 2 points.
After leading 13-10 at the end of the first quarter, Green River used a 16-3 second quarter to go up big on Grand. Green River won each of the last two periods to easily win.
Green River easily won three of the four quarters in the win over Monument Valley. The second period was 22-9 for the Pirates and the final period was 24-9 for Green River.
Five Pirates finished the game in double figures with three of them also finishing the game with double digit rebounds. Tyson Johnson scored 19 points and pulled down 18 rebounds. Kayden scored 18 points and pulled down 12 rebounds while Jason Johnson scored 12 points and pulled down 11 rebounds. Brennan scored 11 points and Luis scored 12 points. Earl Nelson scored 2 points.


text:
Test Scores and GPA for American Conservatory Theater
Average cost after financial aid for students receiving grant or scholarship aid, as reported by the college.
More opinions are needed!
Write a review to add yours.
More opinions are needed to display this poll. Take our survey
Take our survey to add your reviewTake Our Survey


text:
"Do It Yourself Videos"
Free Online Help Videos!
Organic Cotton Drapes
Gift Certificates
Ordering is Easy
Why Drapes
Glossary of Terms
Cleaning Instructions
Operating Instructions
Installation Instructions
Hotel & Motel Drapery
Schools & Education Drapery
Hospital & Healthcare Drapery
Casino & Resort Drapery
Our Company
Customer Testimonials
Company Policies
Privacy Policy
Rods with Cords
Operating a rod with a cord should only be done after you have firmly anchored
the rod, cord, and tension pulley retainer to the wall. The tension pulley is
the mechanism that keeps cords for opening and closing the rods neatly out of
site behind the drapes.
Rods without Cords
Tab top drapes are one type of fabric window covering that uses a rod
without cords. Frequently, Tab Tops are placed into a stationary position
solely for custom styling and to enhance the room's décor.
Sometimes, they are held away from each side (or one side) of the window
using "tie backs".
back to top
When a drape is mounted to a rod with a cord, you should never attempt
to open or close the drapes by pulling the drape itself. This method is
not good for the rod mechanism, can stain and cause strain to the fabric
material, and may bend the hooks/pins holding the drapes on the rod. You
should, instead always use the drape cord attached to the tension pulley
behind your drapes to open and close your window covering treatment.
back to top
Carriers – sometimes, the cause for your drapes not
opening or closing (i.e. getting stuck) isn't a malfunction of
the rod.
When you hang a drape on a new or existing rod, the drape hooks/pins
are placed
onto the successive carriers beneath the rod (while always moving extra
carriers towards the ends). Therefore, when you are unable to open
close your drape on a rod, start by determining whether an unused extra
carrier exists somewhere in between two used ones (with drape hooks
them). The extra "unused carrier" may cause your drape not
to open or close properly on the rod.
If you find an extra "unused carrier" on the rod, be sure
to top
A drape can also
become stuck on a rod because either some or all of the "stiffener"
in between the pleats is pushing the top of the drape back toward the
rod. Remember, once the drape has been hung on the rod, be sure to pull
the material in between the pleats at the top of the drape outward toward
you and away from the wall. Simply slip your finger between the back of
the drape and rod, pull the material away from rod, and crease it by hand
in the middle.
to top


text: Gotham Cigars is an online discount cigar retailer of the nation's famous cigar brands. Whether you are looking for filtered cigars, little cigars, machine made cigars, or premium cigars, Gotham Cigars is your choice outlet for all cigar deals. Some of our top selling brands include Swisher Sweets, Dutch Masters, Acid, Padron, Arturo Fuente, Gurkha, and many more. Not only do we have a top selection on Cigars and Humidors but our five star customer service is what sets us apart from other online retailers. From our streamline shipping to our easy reorder process we make sure you the customer is our No. 1 Priority.


text:
Luongo Liability
JP Nikota
April 25 2012 09:44PM
Whether or not Brian Burke should trade for Roberto Luongo (or even Tim Thomas) is contingent on a number of issues that many, (including The Leafs Nation's own John Lofranco) have already discussed. There are a number of potential wrinkles, from cap space, to the asking price, to what the Vancouver Canucks or Boston Bruins currently need.
Before we begin to consider any of those issues however, I think it's critical to assess the risk that Luongo represents as a 33-year-old-goaltender. While it's true that $5.33M isn't a bad price to pay for top-flight netminding, the length of the term on the contract would make it a terrible burden if Luongo performed poorly.
Jump for a couple graphs.
So how do we begin to determine the risk that Thomas or Luongo's respective play drops off dramatically in the not-so-distant future?
Naturally, age will take its toll on the best of players, so it's really a question of 'when', not 'if'.
If we look at the total number of games played by goaltenders that faced more than 1000 shots in a season, sorted by age, we can see a distinct drop-off after the age of 31:
The thing is, Roberto Luongo and Tim Thomas are no ordinary goaltenders. If we look at goalies that see a minimum of 1000 shots per year, but then calculate their aggregate save percentage by age, the results look dramatically different:
We can see from this graph that save percentage doesn't drop off if we only look at the goalies that continue to get ice time as they age, and it only makes sense. Old, bad goalies are going to get the boot when young, bad ones are given second chances. In other words, the only reason you're still seeing significant playing time as as goaltender in the NHL at the age of 34 is if you're still competent.
So, goalies that remain in the league past the age of 31 are generally of a higher pedigree, and therefore don't drastically drag down the aggregate save percentage until the very end of their careers. Even then, the drop-off in save percentage at the ages of 38 and 39 can probably be somewhat accredited to smaller sample sizes.
This gives us some reason to believe that not only could Luongo continue his current level of play, but that he could conceivably maintain it for several years.
Of course, anything can happen to older goaltenders. One injury to the groin, knees, hips, or any other major joint in the body is all it would take to permanently derail the tail end of even the most illustrious career.
Brian Burke has been known to gamble big on trades, and it wouldnt' surprise me to see him roll the dice on this kind of deal, either.
April 25 2012, 09:57PM
Nice work JP. I love a good graph.
Works well with intuition as well - GOOD goalies can be good well into their late 30s, and only goalies who are good make it that long. And Ty Conklin.
But eventually they all succumb to their age... I guess the trick is to not be stuck with the hot potato when their bodies can't keep up anymore. (i.e. Roloson, Khabibulin, ... Brodeur)
Hi, mom. After watching the performances of messieurs Smith and Holtby in the first round of the playoffs, it's clear that finding a stud goalie is a real crapshoot. Check out Mike Smith's career stats and you'll see that his save percentages and frequent flier miles are both right up there. The goalies currently playing for the Leafs' minor league teams all seem to be serious prospects. Time will tell as well about James Reimer. Somewhere within that group is a front-line NHL goalie (I hope.)
April 26 2012, 05:20PM
The problem isn't that he CAN be good for the next decade, its that he HAS to be... well past his prime. Sure, he could live up to the contract, but honestly its a franchise crippling decision if it turns out wrong.
5.3 mil is a lot for a crowded goalie market and becomes ridiculous when you compare the save %'s between a 1-3 mil goalie and a 4+, yes there is a jump, but not a huge swing.
You also have the fun of weighing the fact that Vancouver doesn't even want to play him and when you add an asking price of futures or picks, how can any GM even consider this?
Canucks fan here. Interesting article, love the stats stuff. Canucks Army has a similar blog with great statistical analysis.
Re: Lu. It's not that Canucks didn't want to play him in the playoffs, it's that they were playing so poorly a goalie change was needed to change momentum. And once Schnieder got the net -well he never left, cause he's that good. Lu is still an outstanding goaltender. Having watched every single Canucks game for forever, I can honestly say him and Schneider stole this team the Presidents Trophy this yr. The team in front was playing garbage hockey for the last half of the season, goaltending stole them games. Lu will steal the Leafs games, no doubt about it. The defensemen will make mistakes, the guys infront won't score goals, but you'll still see a win with Lu in net.
As a Leafs fan, Luongo is worth the gamble if the price is right. If I were in Leafs management, I would offer a contract such as Komisarek and a middle-end prospect such as Rynnas. The real benefit for Vancouver is to get Luongo off the books and allocate that money towards another player (Komi only has 2 years left on his contract). Rynnas is a legit prospect and Komisarek is a small salary dump (compared to Luongos contract) that makes the salaries balance and frees up a million or so for Vancouver. In saying that I am not indicating that Luongo is worth Komisarek (obviously that is not the case) but its the way the modern NHL works with the salary cap.


text:
Play hard; sleep hard. After strenuous exercise, get some extra shut-eye to help your body recover. Read More
Morethanmedication.ca is updating its content twice per week. Subscribe to the e-newsletter to stay informed on the new information published on the website. Every 2 weeks, you'll receive an electronic newsletter with highlights from the 4 recently published articles from the past 2 weeks.
morethanmedication.ca will not share or use your e-mail address for any purpose except to send you the e-newsletter.
More Than Medication is a trademark of Pfizer Inc. Copyright © Pfizer inc. 2017. All rights reserved.
Privacy Policy
Terms of Use
Share Stress Lessons film with fellow educators and parents and help more children learn how to manage stress today.


text:
Hush Puppies Chaste Ballet Flat
Sorry, this item is sold out!
Looks like you've got more shoe shopping to do - have fun!
Looks like you've got more shoe shopping to do - have fun!
Item # 297752
Hush Puppies is honoring National Breast Cancer Awareness Month by sponsoring the National Breast Cancer Foundation. You can show your support in the month of October and beyond with the limited edition pink Chaste ballet flat.
- Leather upper
- Pink breast cancer awareness ribbon
- Elastic topline
- Round toe
- HPO2Flex™ comfort cushioned insole
- Synthetic sole
- Imported
- View more Women's Hush Puppies Shoes
By: Bubblygirl
Location: Gilbert, AZ
April 08, 2014
Not your mother's Hush Puppies
"I love this shoe... the color, the material, the fit, the feel. I get compliments every time I wear them. I wear a 7.5 M, consistently, and the fit of this shoe is very true to size and width. The only negative I have is that after walking in them all day, they do get dirty around the sides and bottom portions of the suede because the color is so light. I brush them with a dry wash cloth before putting them back in the box and that seems to clean them up pretty well. I plan to buy more colors of this little gem!"
By: LeantheQueen
Location: Memphis
March 27, 2014
Extremely comfortable
"These shoes are soooooo comfortable, they feel like you're not wearing any shoes at all."
By: Rhee31
Location: New York, NY
March 01, 2014
"These hush puppies resembles more of an isotoner slipper rather than a shoe. It's very comfy but not for outside wear in my opinion. Unfortunately I will be returning these shoes as I have too many slippers for the house."
By: jkb1
Location: San Jose
January 17, 2014
Have 4 pairs
"I have wide feet. When I tried these in store and wore them on vacation, I had to order more pairs in different colors. They are beautifully made and feel like slippers. I wear a shoe liner sock, I don't like to go bare feet in my shoes, and these fit perfectly with those."
Click anywhere to close this.


text:
To determine your size, Click Here.
Garment Measurements:
Below are actual measurements for this garment. Use the above link to find the best size for your figure.
Bemberg brand cupro is a specialty type of cotton. It's produced from a regenerated cellulose fiber derived from the short, downy fiber that enfolds & protects the cotton seed (called cotton linter).


text:
7863 boul. Taschereau, Brossard, QC, Canada, J4Y 1A4
Phone: (450) 678-9350 Fax: (450) 678-4099
Supports Green Practices
"Supports Green Initiatives" designates a hotel's participation in an optional environmental program that includes the use of energy-efficient lighting, guestroom towel/linen re-use, and on-premise recycling. "Supports Green Initiatives" does not represent an official certification of any kind.
The Comfort Inn® South is less than two kilometres from Champlain Mall and the Paladium entertainment venue and close to many other area attractions and businesses, including Charles Lemoyne Hospital, Olympic Park, Montréal Botanical Garden and Pierrefonds Arena.
The hotel is just 10 minutes from downtown Montréal and Quartier DIX 30, and within walking distance of many restaurants and shops. The countryside is nearby too, and nature lovers can observe wildlife at Parc Safari while sports enthusiasts can enjoy swimming, boating, waterside trails, hiking, snowshoeing, cross-country skiing and cycling in the area.
All spacious guest rooms at this pet-friendly Brossard hotel come equipped with cable television and ironing equipment. Some rooms also feature refrigerators and hair dryers.
A multilingual staff and valet cleaning services are available for guest convenience. Be sure to take advantage of the on-site tour desk.
Guests of this Comfort Inn hotel enjoy high-value amenities including:
Check-In Time: 15:00 Check-Out Time: 12:00 Guest Rooms: 98


text:
She arrived early to take apart the campaign office piece by piece, just as she felt so many other things about her life were being dismantled.
Beth Cox wore a Mitt Romney T-shirt, a cross around her neck and fresh eyeliner, even though she had been crying on and off and knew her makeup was likely to run. A day after the election, she tuned the radio to Glenn Beck and began pulling posters and American flags off the wall.
Her calendar read "Victory Day!!" and she had planned to celebrate in the office by hosting a dance party and selling Romney souvenirs. But instead she was packing those souvenirs into boxes, which would be donated to a charity that sent clothes to South America. Instead a moving company was en route to close down the office in the next 48 hours, and her friends were calling every few minutes to see how she was doing.
"I will be OK," she told one caller. "I just don't think we will be OK."
Here in the heart of Red America, Cox and many others spent last week grieving not only for themselves and their candidate but also for a country they now believe has gone wildly off track. The days after Barack Obama's reelection gave birth to a saying in central Tennessee: Once was a slip, but twice is a sign.
If, as Obama likes to say, the country has decided to "move forward," it has also decided to move further away from the values and beliefs of a state where Romney won 60 percent of the vote, a county where he won 70 percent and a town where he won nearly 80.
Among so many Romney voters, perhaps none had been as devoted to the cause — as indefatigable, as confident, as prayerful — as 44-year-old Beth Cox, a member of the school board and a volunteer who had committed to Romney early in the Republican primaries. She had run the small GOP campaign headquarters in Sumner County by herself for six days a week during the past four months. She had been the first in line to vote on the first day of early voting.
Now it was left to her to clean up the aftermath. She stood next to a space heater in a small building in the exurbs of Nashville, taking inventory of what supplies they had left and packing up boxes of red-white-and-blue streamers. She put away the pink Romney shirts, the white Romney-Ryan hats and the GOP bumper stickers with the Tennessee logo. Down came the sign reading "We Built It!" Down came the elephant flag and the George W. Bush commemorative emblem. Down came the signed picture of Romney with a typed inscription that read "This is a great time to be a Republican."
But now Cox was wondering: Was it?
She had devoted her life to causes she believed were at the heart of her faith and at the core of her Republican Party. She counseled young married families at church, spoke about the right to life in schools and became a stay-at-home mom with two daughters.
Now, in a single election night, parts of her country had legalized marijuana, approved gay marriage and resoundingly reelected a president who she worried would "accelerate our decline."
While she took apart the office, a dozen friends and neighbors stopped by to share the same concerns.
"I just don't get it," the county sheriff said.
"I'm worried we won't see another Republican president in our lifetime the way it's going," a GOP volunteer said.
"What country would want more years of this?" asked the newly elected alderman.
Cox shrugged back at them. "I don't know anymore," she said. "What the heck happened to the country? Who are we becoming?"
She turned on her computer and pulled up an electoral map that she had filled out a few days before the election. She had predicted the outcome twice — once coming up with a narrow Romney win and once more with a blowout.
Florida: red.
Colorado: red.
Virginia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin: all red.
Everything in her version of America had confirmed her predictions: the confident anchors on Fox News; the Republican pollsters so sure of their data; the two-hour line outside her voting precinct, where Romney supporters hugged and honked for her handmade signs during a celebration that lasted until the results started coming in after sundown. Romney's thorough defeat had come more as a shock than as a disappointment, and now Cox stared at the actual results on her computer and tried to imagine what the majority of her country believed.
"Virginia went blue? Really?" she said. "Southern-values Virginia?"
"And Colorado? Who the heck is living in Colorado? Do they want drugs, dependency, indulgence? Don't they remember what this country is about?"
It was a country she had thought she knew. As a kid, she had seen it from the back of a station wagon, traveling to 40 states in a blur of peanut butter crackers and Holiday Inns with a mother who taught U.S. history.
"I am not naive. I'm not ignorant," Cox said. She had graduated from the University of Kentucky and lived for a few years in California before moving to raise her family in Tennessee. But suddenly the map on her computer depicted a divided country she could barely recognize.
She blamed some of the divisiveness on Republicans. The party had gotten "way too white," she said, and she hoped it would never again run a presidential ticket without including a woman or a minority. The tea party was an extremist movement that needed to be "neutralized," she said, and Romney's campaign had suffered irreparable damage when high-profile Republicans spoke about "crazy immigration talk and legitimate rape."
But many other aspects of the division seemed fundamental and harder to solve. There was the America of increased secularism that legalized marijuana. And there was her America, where her two teenage daughters are not allowed to read "Harry Potter" or "Twilight," and where one of them wrote in a school paper: "God is the center and the main foundation of my family."
There was the America of gay marriage and the America of her Southern Baptist church, where 7,000 came to listen on Sundays, and where church literature described marriage as "the uniting of one man and one woman."
There was the America of Obama and her America in Tennessee, where last week Republicans had won 95 percent of local races and secured a supermajority in the state legislature.
She could sense liberalism creeping closer, and she worried about what Red America would look like after four more years. Nashville itself had gone for Obama, and 400,000 more people in Tennessee had signed up for food stamps in the past five years to further a culture of dependency. The ACLU had sued her school board for allowing youth pastors to visit middle school cafeterias during lunch. Some of her friends had begun to wonder if the country was lost, and if only God could save it.
She closed her computer.
"God put us in the desert," she said. "We are in the desert right now."
Later that night, she left her two-story house in the suburbs and headed to a church a mile outside of town. It was her place of comfort — the place where she always found an answer. She drove onto the church's sprawling campus, past the children's center, the volleyball courts and techno-lit recreation room for teenagers, and parked in front of a small building. Then she walked up to the second floor to lead her weekly prayer group of 25 women.
It was a demographic that, in so many other places, would have voted for Obama: white women, college-educated and in their early to mid-20s, most of them upper-middle class. But here they had almost all voted for Romney, and they consoled one another as they entered the room. Cox joined them in the circle and bent her head in prayer.
"Yes, Lord," she said. "We are saying yes to honoring you but no to the junk of this world, to the wickedness, the self-gratification, the path that we are just saddened by. We choose your path, Lord."
It was a path that had worked for her, providing strength and stability during her parents' rocky divorce, and then helping her transform from a stubbornly independent woman — the "feminist, I-am-woman, hear-me-roar type," she said — into a mother and a wife who respected what she called the "natural order of the household." She had two beautiful daughters who earned A's and a husband who took time off from his job as a pastor for annual family "playcations" to museums and amusement parks. Local Republicans were encouraging her to run for state office, but she didn't want to give up her volunteering, her scrapbooking, her weekend getaways with her daughters — her "godly life," she said.
It was the same life she wanted for the women in this room — newly married, new to motherhood and beginning to sort out priorities of their own.
"The world will tell you to be so many things," she advised them, and on this night she talked to them about the importance of preserving life, the sanctity of marriage, the advantages of raising children at home, and the importance of "relying on family, and on your core values, and not on the government."
"It's not an easy road to be a Christian, and if it was, everybody would be on it," she said. She passed out blank white notecards and asked each woman to write down a worry to surrender to God. Then, before closing, she asked what they wanted to pray for.
"Our president," said one, and the women in the group nodded.
"Our values," said another.
"All people in our country who are lost."
"The soul of America."
"Amen," Cox said.
She came back into the Romney office again the next morning. The moving truck was waiting outside.
"It's so depressing," she said, walking into the office. "Let's just get it done."
They threw out yard signs, hauled office supplies into storage and donated some furniture to Goodwill. Cox swept the floor and then came outside to watch the mover climb on top of his trailer to take down the "Sumner County Republican Party" banner that had hung on the front of the building. Four months of dedication and work — the sale of 1,600 signs, 500 bracelets, 1,200 buttons and a few hundred hats — reduced to nothing in 48 hours.
She stood in the cold and stared at the two-story building. It had belonged to a doctor's practice that had closed, and then to a newspaper that had downsized, and finally to a campaign that had failed to win office based on its vision of America.
She took out her phone and snapped a picture.
"So that's it," she said. "It's all gone."Reuse content


text:
By PATSY STODDARDEditor
The Utah Mine Safety Commission met recently in Salt Lake for their fourth meeting since being formed by Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. Commission chairman, Scott Matheson said they have not reached a point yet of making any recommendations to the governor. The commission will continue to hear from witnesses and keep an open mind. They will look at all the information in a careful and measured way.
Matheson said the purpose of this meeting was to hear from land management agencies to see the role they play in the mining industry. The first scheduled presenter was the Bureau of Land Management and Matheson said they had notified him on Friday they were not going to appear. Matheson said they had testified in Washington and he will look forward to the time they can present to the mine safety commission.
The State and Institutional Trust Lands was the first presenter. Thomas Faddies, assistant director of hard rock and industrial minerals, said he has a 39 year mining career and was educated in Utah colleges. He spent the first part of his career in the industry and the next years as technical support and energy management, and mine supervision. He joined SITLA nine years ago as the assistant director of minerals. He said SITLA's management style is to use outside consultants because they will never be able to afford to hire experts. In SITLA all of the minerals are, generically speaking, managed nearly identical. He said many mining companies are mining on SITLA leases. These coal leases include the Book Cliffs and the Wasatch Plateau. The Dugout mine, SUFCO, Westridge, Energy West, and others are mining in SITLA leases. The Crandall Canyon mine also had SITLA leases. There are a number of unleased coal tracts including the Cottonwood tract, Book Cliffs and Fremont Junction area and the North Horn tract.
SITLA has large blocks of coal acquired with the land exchange from the creation of the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. The state has managed school trust lands since statehood. When production targets are met the land reverts to federal. There are federal regulations governing the lease of lands. The BLM is the lease operator. SITLA doesn't have the technical skills needed for the governing of the leases so the BLM was assigned that responsibility. They govern these leases on forest service, BLM and SITLA lands. Coal and other minerals are leased on a royalty basis. The lessee submits plans of operation to SITLA. The Division of Oil, Gas and Mining is the regulatory agency for the approval of mine operation plans. Operations can't commence without DOGM approval.
Matheson asked Faddies about SITLA approval of mine plans and what that means. Faddies said SITLA is interested in the resource and recovery and the economics of the leases. One fear they have is when an operator puts a lease into production the cash must flow to the beneficiary, (SITLA). When prices are up then that is easier. The BLM completes the evaluation of the tract and the geological resource to see what the recovery might be. The forest service looks at the plan to see if there is enough resource there to support a mining operation. They also look at the access issues to the mining site. SITLA doesn't have any contact with the Mine, Safety and Health Administration. The operator has those contacts with MSHA. This is the system used for all types of mines on SITLA lands.
Faddies said they rely on the BLM for the technical advice. They rely on consultants to advise them on those matters.
Matheson said he has seen in BLM reports that the BLM had some concerns about the Crandall Canyon Mine. Matheson wondered if the BLM had contacted SITLA about any of these concerns.
Faddies said they might or might not contact SITLA. SITLA tracts are inspected the same as any federal tracts. If something were amiss then SITLA would like to receive a call from the BLM. SITLA doesn't review mine plans from a safety standpoint. Other agencies have the responsibility to do that.
Matheson said they are trying to get a good feel for what the state's role should be in the mining industry. He wondered what SITLA's role could be and if they would take a more active role. "Do you see a potential role," asked Matheson.
Faddies said the short answer is that SITLA should not go there. He believes safety is everybody's responsibility and that primary safety is up to the operator. Utah did have a mine safety agency in the past and Faddies believes it is better handled by the feds. Faddies said he has been in regulatory and mine operation work for many years and MSHA has always been the agency responsible for the regulation of safety and he continues to believe that's the way it should be.
Matheson said from information Faddies has presented that SITLA's primary mission is the recovery from operators on SITLA land, but in terms of BLM; they do react with MSHA, in the course of a review, if red flags show up do people talk about it? Are systems in place to take care of that or are there ways to make it better?
Faddies said, "Is there enough communication? I don't know, there are cases where more communication might help. Sometimes it's a deterrent to getting things done."
Faddies said trainees, apprentices and new workers need to have someone they can go to with their concerns. There needs to be oversight. Some people who work in the mines are similar to people in the military; they might be risk takers. They need good supervision. Miners need to depend on the technical support staff if they don't have an idea of what the pillar configuration should be.
Faddies said when he first started in mining he didn't have any idea how the pillars should be. He just hoped the rock mechanics knew their stuff....and it goes right up the line. The responsibility for safety is all through the layers. Mines are interesting. For years people have told me that open pit mines are more unsafe than other mines. I didn't believe that, but both people are right. You need to work as a team; your actions can kill an entire shift. Open pit is easier to keep out of harms way. You can walk around traffic. Nobody except God could watch out for everybody every second and keep people safe. It's no different than an infantry assault. We can't accept accidents in mining. Nobody wants anybody hurt. No one working across the state, no foreman wants anyone hurt. Safe mines are productive mines. How does the boy get help? Call MSHA. If someone calls SITLA we would call MSHA and tell them a problem had been reported. It wouldn't do any good for a SITLA man to check; they aren't qualified.
David Litvin, commission member said their efforts lie in making sure a Crandall Canyon never happens again in the future. We still don't know what led to the tragedy there. When we look at the safety system, MSHA is primary for operator safety. Is the system done properly or is it in need of repair?
Faddies said it would be good to talk to operators to get that balanced look. In his experience he said the system works. The world is changing rapidly. When he first went to work at Park City there were four people there with college degrees. The last mine he worked out had 200 employees and 100 of them with college degrees.
Supervisors need to look out for their employees safety. Skilled experienced workforces that receive ongoing training is essential. Looking to the experienced miners for guidance is productive. Faddies said an emphasis needs to be placed on research for locating miners in accident situations.
Litvin asked Faddies if he sees an increased role for the state with safety programs. Faddies said at one time he had two supervisors who could never get in sync. He thinks one agency works best. He cited the explosives industry and how when you have a number of entities regulating something, then nobody regulates it.
With MSHA all explosives must be labeled with signs of a specified dimension. The Bureau of Alcohol and Fire Arms says don't label the boxes because then people tend to shoot at them. So when MSHA is here they go down and put the signs on the boxes and when the bureau shows up they take the signs off. So how to store explosives depends on the regulatory agency. "I wasn't impressed when the state had mine inspectors," said Faddies.
Faddies said the state of Utah should lead in establishing training programs. Part of the training is generic and part is site specific. The mine operators need to be partners. Faddies said in talking to the BLM they are having trouble finding a mine geologist. Education is important especially in dealing with the training of young people. Faddies said he did things when he was young that he wouldn't do now that he is older and that's something you can't train for. A man was killed at the face by a burst, and simply put the man wasn't standing behind the safety equipment. You can't regulate that, you can't solve it. Twenty years ago, I didn't wear a seat belt, but I do now. I think the answers lie in education and training and improving the system in place now.
Sen. Mike Dmitrich said he thinks a mine plan should really be looked at before it could be modified.
Price Mayor Joe Piccolo wondered how the state could be involved in a mine plan change after it's been implemented several years.
Faddies said someone submits a mine plan originally and it is gone over quite thoroughly. Things change, maybe the faults aren't where the geologists predicted. Are modifications getting the scrutiny of the original plan? Probably not. Modifications should be reviewed by technical people. MSHA reviews mine modification plans, Utah doesn't have anyone that does this.
Dennis O'Dell, commission member said the BLM was aware the bumps were increasing in Crandall Canyon. Sometimes more supervisors compliment each other. More eyes for miners can be beneficial. This is a great opportunity for the state to take the lead. If the BLM had the authority and the information on Crandall Canyon had been made available then we may not be sitting here today.
Faddies said he respected O'Dell's position and the commission's job is to sort everything out.