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Physical therapy with a trained professional may be useful if pain has not improved after 3 - 4 weeks. It is important for any person who has chronic low back pain to have an exercise program. Professionals who understand the limitations and special needs of back pain, and can address individual health conditions, should guide this program. One study indicated that patients who planned their own exercise program did worse than those in physical therapy or doctor-directed programs.
Physical therapy typically includes the following:
Incorrect movements or long-term high-impact exercise is often a cause of back pain in the first place. People vulnerable to back pain should avoid activities that put undue stress on the lower back or require sudden twisting movements, such as football, golf, ballet, and weight lifting.
Exercises performed after a simple diskectomy do not seem to provide much added benefit over time.
Specific and regular exercise under the guidance of a trained professional is important for reducing pain and improving function, although patients often find it difficult to maintain therapy.
Exercise does not help acute back pain. In fact, overexertion may cause further harm. Beginning after 4 - 8 weeks of pain, however, a rehabilitation program may benefit the patient.
An incremental aerobic exercise program (such as walking, stationary biking, and swimming) may begin within 2 weeks of symptoms. Jogging is usually not recommended, at least not until the pain is gone and muscles are stronger.
Patients should avoid exercises that put the lower back under pressure until the back muscles are well toned. Such exercises include leg lifts done in a facedown position, straight leg sit-ups, and leg curls using exercise equipment.
In all cases, patients should never force themselves to exercise if, by doing so, the pain increases.
Exercise plays a very beneficial role in chronic back pain. Repetition is the key to increasing flexibility, building endurance, and strengthening the specific muscles needed to support and neutralize the spine. Exercise should be considered as part of a broader program to return to normal home, work, and social activities. In this way, the positive benefits of exercise not only affect strength and flexibility but also alter and improve patients' attitudes toward their disability and pain. Exercise may also be effective when combined with a psychological and motivational program, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy.
There are different types of back pain exercises. Stretching exercises work best for reducing pain, while strengthening exercises are best for improving function.
Exercises for back pain include:
Perform the following exercises at least three times a week:
Partial Sit-ups. Partial sit-ups or crunches strengthen the abdominal muscles.
Pelvic Tilt. The pelvic tilt alleviates tight or fatigued lower back muscles.
Over time increase this exercise until it is held for 5 seconds. Then, extend the legs a little more so that the feet are further away from the body and try it again.
Stretching Lower-Back Muscles. The following are three exercises for stretching the lower back:
Note: No one with low back pain should perform exercises that require bending over right after getting up in the morning. At that time, the disks are more fluid-filled and more vulnerable to pressure from this movement.


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$2,846 2 bed 1500 Locust St, Philadelphia PA, 19102
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1500 Locust is a three minute walk from the PATCO Eastbound to Lindenwold and the PATCO Westbound to Philadelphia at the 15-16th and Locust stop.
This apartment is in the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood in Philadelphia. Nearby parks include Rittenhouse Square, Julian Abele Park and Rittenhouse Square.
1500 Locust has a Walk Score of 100 out of 100. This location is a Walker's Paradise so daily errands do not require a car.
1500 Locust is one of the most desirable rental communities in Center City for it's central location and world class amenities. These apartments have recently been renovated with new hardwood floors, granite counters, and stainless steel appliances. The building offers on site garage parking, 24/7 lobby attendant and concierge services, and a rooftop lounge with indoor pool, gym, movie room, and conference room.
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How's the brother act playing in Newark?
Jean Lefebvre
June 23 2009 05:23PM
Well, the expected has happened as Brent Sutter on Tuesday afternoon was officially introduced as head coach of the Flames. And, oh by the way, three semi-new assistants were also presented as ex-Flame Dave Lowry moves down the hall from the Hitmen offices, ex-Flame Jamie McLennan moves in from a scouting and advisory job with the Flames and Ryan McGill moves up from the farm club.
Showing a speed unseen since his playing days, and maybe not even then, general manager Darryl Sutter quickly swooped in when a reporter tried to play the brother card at the presser. Sutter gruffly pointed out that he had coached all four men at the table and that all of their first and last names were both interchangeable and meaningless in the grand scheme of things. So I guess we can say hello to Brent (Noodles) Lowry, Jamie (Pie) McGill, Dave Sutter and Ryan (Pup) McLennan.
The one newish wrinkle to today's news comes from the Swamplands, where Brent Whateverhislastnameis was employed until a couple of weeks ago. The quotes from Devils GM Lou Lamoriello are tinged with bitterness about the process, although the writer implies far greater anger from Lamoriello than is evident from the words alone. There are also a couple of tepid quotes from players.
Judging from the tone of the story, two things are possible:
- Veteran writer Rich Chere has heard a lot of off-the-record bitterness from the Devils about Sutter's defection but couldn't get official quotes to unequivocally support that state of affairs. He was therefore left to drop comments between the quotes that indirectly conveyed the Devils organization's true feelings.
- Chere himself is hacked off and is trying to torque the story in that direction as best he can.
My vote is for Option 1.
The real interesting stuff comes from some of the comments posted by fans including this doozy: "congratulations Calgary.... you just bought yourself early playoff exits and the most painful way to blow playoffs series!"
Of course, the Flames at this juncture are no strangers to early playoff exits, so those ill wishes may be lost on them.
Brain will fit in perfect . Just like most of the Shames coaches great regular season coaches and first round losers in the playoffs. (LOL JUST JOKING ) But I've been a Flmaes fan for four years and cant seem to see the reason they can't take that next step. Does Dion want out ? or are they shopping him ? I'm reading alot about a possible Dion trade at the draft . Any input
I don't know what's holding back the Flames either, but if Brent can tighten up the defense (dmen and goalie) even a bit things could change very quickly. Last season the Flames were flirting with greatness for a pretty good stretch. They just need a little bit to get over that hump.
Yeah they need to give kipper a break once and awhile possibly try to get Josh Harding from the wild and maybe a dman like Orpik
What an exciting press conference! The enthusiasm exuded from Coach Sutter and the other newly named assistant coaches fits in well with the enthusiasm normally displayed from GM Sutter. It was like they were all watching paint dry - or pigs roll in mud at the Sutter's farm!


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June 17, 2013
Today, City Manager Anita Favors Thompson released her recommended $854.5 million fiscal year 2014 (FY14) budget, which includes a $697.3 million operating budget and $157.2 million capital budget, for review by the City Commission. The proposed budget focuses on maintaining the high level of existing services important to citizens, while making necessary financial adjustments that will balance the budget, stimulate the local economy and address critically needed funding for capital projects within the general government area.
"The City of Tallahassee has come through demanding economic times where we saw a loss in revenue, made difficult funding decisions about programs and eliminated approximately 200 positions," Favors Thompson said. "As an organization, we strive to be financially flexible to positively influence our own destiny. In that regard we are in a good position, especially considering many of our peer governments are still struggling with the effects of the recession."
The City Commission will hold a workshop on the proposed FY14 budget on Wednesday, June 19. The workshop will begin at 9 a.m. in the City Commission Chambers on the second floor of City Hall, 300 South Adams St. It will be broadcast live on WCOT (Comcast Cable and CenturyLink channel 13) and also streamed live on Talgov.com.
The total operating budget amount for FY14 is $11.7 million higher than the current (FY13) budget, and the capital budget is $29.6 million higher than the current budget. The proposed budget includes a modest adjustment to the City's millage rate to 3.9999 mills from 3.7 mills. This rate is below the allowable adjusted rolled-back rate of 4.3 mills. At the new proposed rate, an average home with a taxable value of $150,000 would pay an additional $3.75 a month in Ad Valorem. Even at this proposed rate, the City's property tax rate remains one of the lowest of the larger cities in the State of Florida.
The proposed FY14 budget incorporates direction provided over the past year by the City Commission, as well as input received from citizens at the community budget meetings and through the online citizen survey.
"This proposed budget is designed to provide the level of quality services that citizens have told us they want, while maintaining fiscal responsibility and beginning to recover from the effects of the economic downturn," said Heath Beach, the City's Budget Manager.
Continued investment in the community to spur economic development and maintain the quality of life enjoyed by our citizens. Examples include proposed funding for the construction of FAMU Way and a limited trolley service that will connect key business districts in the heart of Tallahassee.
The budget also proposes a 2.5 percent salary increase for non-union employees. Although pension rates have not been finalized, it is anticipated that these will increase in FY14. It is also estimated that the City's portion of the cost of employee health insurance is estimated to increase by approximately five percent, with employees sharing in the increase. Salary and benefit adjustments for Fire are included as provided in the current collective bargaining agreement. The City is currently in negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement with Police. The proposed budget includes a 2.5 percent pay increase for Police.
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If you're a music lover in the NYC area, hopefully you got the chance to attend the first ever Governor's Ball, which went down at Governor's Island on June 18th. The all-day dance party took place under clear skies, but non-stop motion and exciting fashion raised the temp by the hour. Festival goers had one thing in mind aside from being photographed in their element—and that's comfort. It's no secret that denim's durability and easy-to-wear reputation played a part in becoming the style choice of the day, aside from denim's close connection to music. The stylish crowd and performers alike sported colored denim cut-off shorts, skinny jeans, denim jackets, high-waisted shorts… summer basics we can all agree on. The presence of denim was alive and well.
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Little Willie Jackson. Who is he, you may ask yourself? Well, without realising it you could already be familiar with his work, you may even have seen him on BBC TV back in 1983.
He was featured with Joe Liggins and the Honeydrippers in a R&B concert, which included other Blues legends such as Big Mama Thornton, Lloyd Glenn and Lowell Fulson. The concert was especially staged in a theatre in downtown Los Angeles so that the BBC could film these legends for posterity. (How about a repeat??)
Willie Jackson was a multi-talented blind musician who sang and played alto, tenor and baritone saxophone. He was featured on Joe Liggins' million selling R&B classic The Honeydripper (Exclusive 207).
Liggins and Jackson had started working together in the mid 1930s as members of the resident jazz band at the Creole Palace, a hot San Diego night spot. By 1940, both musicians had moved north to Los Angeles to join that city's thriving music scene. In 1944 they got back together to form their own group and a year later recorded the seminal The Honeydripper Pts 1 & 2 which went on to become the biggest selling R&B record of 1945.
In his role as jukebox distributor, Modern Records' Jules Bihari had first hand knowledge of the mega-sales generated by Joe Liggins and the Honeydrippers. Bihari was keen to grab some of that action, however Liggins was out of reach as he was signed exclusively to Exclusive Records. Unable to get his hands on Joe Liggins, Jules did the next best thing and, in 1947, signed Liggins' band leader Little Willie Jackson.
As the Petrillo recording ban was looming, the Biharis rushed Jackson into the Radio Recorders studio, where he recorded a whole slew of material that would hopefully get the coins dropping "right into the slot" for the jukebox trade.
Jackson's band was actually the Honeydrippers and Joe Liggins is believed to be featured on piano on several of these tracks. So here you have 24 classic recordings from the late 1940s, half of them previously unissued, all transferred with loving care from the original master lacquers. Those of you who have heard the Gene Phillips CD on Ace (CDCHD 746) will already know how good the sound from these lacquers can be and that you can trust the studio wizards at Ace to get the best from these great sources.
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Skyrim with some new mods to breath some freshness back into it, a bit of Torchlight 2 and World of Tanks every now and then.
Waiting for Far Cry 3 to come out in a week or two as it's getting fantastic reviews across the board, only problem is that benchmarks are starting to appear and it's performance on the PC is terrible even on the top end GPU's.
Torchlight 2
Waiting in the wings: Batman: Arkham Aslyum
This isn't a signature, you just think it is.
So far Towns, Minecraft and Skyrim have been the non-mmo-games I played the most. In fact, the time I spent on Towns alone is about twice as much as I spent on Aion, Rift, AoC, WH, Lotro, SWTOR and GW2 together. Oddball?
Currently playing Assassins Creed III, I can't get enough of this series.
Also picked up Darksiders 2 recently, liked the first one so this one was on my "I must play" list.
Still messing around in BF3 and still loading up BF2 at times.
And when in the mood NBA2k13, Madden13.
Because i can.
I'm Hopeful For Every Game, Until the Fan Boys Attack My Games. Then the Knives Come Out.
Logic every gamers worst enemy.
"EVE is likely the best MMORPG that you've never really understood or played" - Kyleran
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CoD: Black Ops 2 on PC. Great game but causes me to nerd rage a lot.
How is it? I had BO for ps3 and have to say i hated it. Too many 9 year olds bitching on the mic for back up. Im assuming PC is much more mature in terms of less children talking over everyone on the mic. If i was going to get another Call of Duty game it would be for PC
Kingdoms of Amalur, again but on a fresh toon.
This time on hard mode because I missed the achievement for that the first round... Upping difficulty after you've started a toon doesn't count. *gnashes teeth* Oh and I splurged for the rest of the DLC, along with some other goodies on Black Friday weekend.
Ah well, I love the game so it's no trouble. ^^
About to stop playing TL2 but still playing it a bit. My embermage went too quickly from getting one-shotted to beeing ridiculously OP. Lack of balance, but still fun.
Still playing Skyrim. Over 120 simultaneous mods and I keep checking Nexus from time to time for new ones.
Lucky me, most new games out there are just "meh". Back to playing my guitar every day; my fingers haven't felt this nimble for years and I am considering building a band again.
Jet Set Radioooooooooo!
Sith Warrior - Story of Hate and Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxKrlwXt7Ao
Imperial Agent - Rise of Cipher Nine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBBj3eJWBvU&feature=youtu.be
Imperial Agent - Hunt for the Eagle Part 1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQqjYYU128E
I'm not playing that much atm but when I do it's mainly Path of exile closed beta. I play some Quake live and Unreal tournament 2004 every now and then.
Path of exile: Really good game for those who like more complex ARPG's with character customisation, permanent choices and awesome loot. Still in closed beta but open beta is coming soon.
Quake Live and UT2004: Best FPS games ever made for competitive play imo, long learning curve and very skillbased games. Everyone gets destroyed if they play against people who are significantly better, as it should be in a skillbased game, just do your best and you will keep improving.
Skyrim (again). Trying a more spell-user based character this time around. Hearthfire is great fun.
Neverwinter Nights. Just started up another campaign.
Rail Baron. The boardgame made for computer.
Master of Magic. Still dabble with this from time to time.
After I finish up NWN, I'll start up NWN 2.
Will be getting back into Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (1 & 2) again soon.
- Al
Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse.


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Velma Reid Dunn
Velma Reid Dunn, the mother of Durango resident Patrice Heller, died Friday, Oct. 26, 2012, in the Phoenix area. She was 84.
Mrs. Dunn was the oldest of four daughters born to Harlie and Ottie Lee Barnes on June 12, 1928, in Heflin, La. She grew up in Shreveport, La., graduating from Byrd High School.
During World War II, she married Derril Pilkenton in Louisiana. The marriage later ended in divorce.
In the 1960s, she owned the Shreveport/Draughon-Norton Business School and the first Manpower Temporary Help franchise in the area. Mrs. Dunn was instrumental in establishing statewide training for returning Vietnam veterans. She traveled to other states, including Arizona, to help others start up training for heavy equipment operators.
In the mid-1960s, she married Edward J. Wasielewski.
After moving to Phoenix in 1972, she worked as a real estate broker for many years. Her family said she became an environmental activist during the late 1980s and early 1990s after discovering groundwater contamination beneath a vast swath of homes she was seeking to sell to a commercial developer. She began by going to the Environmental Protection Agency and the legal system to help the homeowners, and eventually she traveled to Washington, D.C., to testify before the Supreme Court. Mrs. Dunn also appeared on 60 Minutes during the controversy.
In addition to their Phoenix home, she and her husband owned a mountain cabin near Prescott Valley, Ariz., where they enjoyed entertaining. Mrs. Dunn also enjoyed caring for their Doberman pinschers and the challenge of new business ventures.
Mrs. Dunn was preceded in death by her husband of more than 45 years, Edward J. Wasielewski, who died one month before she did; and daughter Melodie Rose Reid.
She is survived by her daughters Patrice Heller of Durango and Roatan, Honduras, and Pamela Summerlin of Madison, S.D.; sister Jane Lebon of Pana, Ill.; stepdaughters Mary Wasielewski of Greece, Anne Marie Wasielewski of Milwaukee and Vergie Wasielewski Rogers of Cincinnati; eight grandchildren; five stepgrandchildren; and several great-grandchildren.
No service is planned at this time.
Memorial contributions may be sent to Hospice of the Valley, 16117 N. 76th St., Scottsdale, AZ 85260-1793; or the charity of ones choice.


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Skip to comments.Regulators Vote to Back Volcker Rule
Posted on 12/10/2013 11:18:58 AM PST by oblomovEdited on 12/10/2013 11:20:11 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
WASHINGTONAll five regulatory agencies put to a vote and approved the Volcker rule on Tuesday, ushering in a new era of tough oversight that drills to the core of Wall Street's profitable markets and trading businesses.
The rule will put in place new hurdles for banks that buy and sell securities on behalf of clients, known as market making, and will restrict compensation arrangements that encourage risky trading. The Fed also approved an extension to give banks until July 2015 to comply with the rule, though firms will be expected to make "good faith" efforts to get into compliance earlier.
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I'd rewrite the headline to read "Regulators Once Again Think They are Smarter Traders Than the Weasels Who've Been Doing it for 35 years and who have Guaranteed Immunity Against any Type of Financial Fraud".
I'd rewrite the headline to read: Goldman Sachs is Pissed!
That actually makes me happy.
There are good, common sense reasons to adopt something like the Volcker Rule.
But it should be duly passed by the Congress. Not imposed by fiat by unelected bureaucrats.
They will just extend it again when the time comes. This rule does not do squat anyways. It is just a distraction from what should be done. To put back in place Glass-Steagall. If they had not repealed it then the entire 2007 crash could not have happened.
I thought Congress gave authorization for the rule when they passed Dodd-Frank.
But unelected bureaucrats have done so much good for the world. Why, if it hadn't been for unelected bureaucrats, the Soviet Union would never have collapsed under their weight.
>>If they had not repealed it then the entire 2007 crash could not have happened.
Disagree. You think more regulation will solve our problems? What gives the government the legitimacy to regulate the financial industry anyway? Because five bureaucrats voted that they could?
Why not simply end all mortgage subsidies, and all implicit guarantees behind Fannie/Freddie and the rest of the financial system? The 2008 financial non-crisis was predicated by the expectation that the FedGov would not allow the bankruptcy of Lehman. The market was almost right...
Marxism marches on unimpeded in Obamaland.......
Spot on.
There is scant evidence that Glass-Steagal would have made a difference.
Regulatory agencies voting? They just implement the law already voted on by Congress. This is a slippery slope caused by delegating Congress' legislative powers to the Executive Branch. Not good.
Exactly. They made the USSR ripe for Reagan's plucking.
Glass-Steagal would have prevented the AIG mess, which is what really made the melt-down cause government intervention.
The government was content to allow Lehman to go down in flames. That roiled the commercial paper market something fierce, but the government was still content to sit on the sidelines.
When the AIG exposure came to light, however, then the government jumped in with both feet. And AIG was able to do the stupid-on-steroids that they did because of Glass-Steagal being removed.
Without the implicit government backing of Fannie/Ferddie mortgages, AIG would never have been able to issue CDOs as they did.
We need to abandon "industrial policy" in the financial sphere...
I think NAR and homebuilders would be screaming bloody murder. They would be back to building cookie cutter houses and turning existing McMansions into multifamily housing..
How would G-S have prevented the AIG default? It's not clear to me.
I disagree with posters who say that this is a good rule, or common sense.
The rule prohibits banks from taking risks. It does not define what is risky, and what is not. You just can't define that in a law.
Obviously, banks do not try to make losing risks.
The Volcker Rule allows banks to buy as much sovereign debt (government debt) as they wish. One might ask, is all sovereign debt not risky? How about Greek bonds?
This is the sort of rule that one would expect from a government which does not even understand what is meant by insurance.
The way to handle the banking problem is to let banks who make foolish investments fail. Instead, the government has bailed out some, but not others, and demanded that all the surviving banks agree to take government supervision. Heck, it was government pressure which caused the housing crisis in the first place, but then the banks were blamed. The most careful banks were then taken to courts and shaken down for billions of dollars in fines, as if they (the careful ones) had done something wrong.
This is the government who pretends that a simple rule (don't act risky) will solve everything, as if bankers dont know something about risk.
Millennia ago Lao tse is said to have spoken thus: The greater the number of laws, the greater the number of thieves and brigands. We know where the laws are origination, and that the thieves and brigands are not far away.
There is no law which can tell you what is risky and what is not. This rule is just an excuse for taking to court and shaking down any bank which happens to lose money. So, how likely is it that banks will give loans to investors in new innovations? That would be risky! But if they buy government bonds, that is not risky. At least, but buying only government bonds, the banks diminish the risk of being attacked by the government. Thus all the capital will be diverted (as most of it already is) into covering government debt, and perpetuating the inflation machine. We will be increasing our diet of seed grain.
When I consider moves like this, I really see no way out, and no way to avoid a disaster. The only investment that considered safe by the regulators, will be in government bonds. The only way to build new plants, especially innovative ones (and innovation is always risky) would be to get government grants. Welcome to the socialist future.
"There are good, common sense reasons to adopt something like the Volcker Rule.
But it should be duly passed by the Congress. Not imposed by fiat by unelected bureaucrats."
It was duly passed by Congress, as part of Dodd-Frank. This is just the implementation of the Dodd-Frank provisions.
Good post and Lao tse is ignored to our great regret. At its heart the issue is risk management. Bankers, despite years of experience and training, are human and subject to the same emotions as all of us, including greed.
If the government hadn't intervened interest rates would have skyrocketed, assets would have fallen in price, and some elements of the economy would have slowed and perhaps halted for a time. Is that worse than what we are now experiencing - zombie banks, government crony capitalism and dried up credit markets? The velocity of money, despite the brain trust at the FED is terrible.
Look at what happened after 9/11/01. Airline travel ended, but the country responded and things continued. Like a blocked artery little arteries grew up in response and people found a way. I believe that no government intervention would have cleared the decks, high interest rates would have pulled in capital from the US sidelines and overseas, and low asset prices would have attracted buyers for both properties and businesses.
The losers would have paid and the economy would be back on track, but government isn't neutral. It's made up of politicians who have sponsors and loyalty groups that sustain them. Intervention caused the collapse, intervention worsened the collapse and is currently shackling the economy.
The best government response would have been to "temporarily" lower the corporate tax rate to zero. All that repatriated money would have poured in and secured the market in months not years. GM is still a bankruptcy waiting to happen.
And now Barney Fag is arguing that it should not be implemented. He was for it but that was before he was against it.
"Id rewrite the headline to read: Goldman Sachs is Pissed!
That actually makes me happy."
I'll ditto that. These crooked "investment" bankers have plundered the USA and when they found themselves underwater because of reckless behavior, they had their politician shills in both Parties (except the TP) send the bill to us taxpayers and the US Treasury credit card to China. Their pals in the Federal Reserve even handed the banker's wives newly printed hundreds of millions in cash to do with as they pleased.
The bankers make deals not products. They benefit and we lose. @#$% em.
Obama was as crooked and beholden as they are. They should have been bankrupted and imprisoned along with others like FME. Anything that will prevent a recurrence of their last scam I'm in favor. We still need accountability but they own those who will need to demand it. If we don't start demanding honest responsive government first, instead of infighting about politics, our nation is going to whither away and die.
The 2007 crash was caused by Congress ORDERING banks to end financially discriminating against clients who the banks and anyone with sense knew could not pay back loans.
They're going to wear the skids off those deck chairs!
I see no reason why the government should preference one asset class over others.
I see we have a bunch of bankers here.
Under the old rules there was a complete separation between investment banks and deposit banks. Therefore if an investment bank went down then it mainly took its casino players with it. There was no threat to the banking system as a whole and therefore there would never be any kind of taxpayer bailout.
Of course you Brilliant bankers seem to know more than the congress who created Glass-Steagall to prevent what happened in that day. And in your comments you have declared them idiots for their past effort. And of course it is worthless evidence to you that there was no repeat of the collapse leading to the great depression until your precious bankers got to mix and play with money and mortgages from the once separate banking sector. No collapse until the rules from the depression error were re-established. If Einstein was still here then he would remind you that the definition of INSANITY is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Of course you are either Insane or else it is that your greed hopelessly blinds you.
Ditto, but that is fairytale. TPTB would have to end lobbying and asset manipulation by cartels...
And what you think you know is crap. But it is common crap. The idea that banks should be able to do whatever they want because that is capitalism is pure bull. And for very good reason if you would just think about it. You are being raped every day by them and you don't even know it. Do you know what inflation really is? There is just far too much for me to explain. I don't have the faith in Humanity anymore to do it. But if people would just pay attention then they might have learned something.
Glass-steagall left investment bankers to play in their capitalist world with their casino money. While it put trusted and common sense restrictions on banks that hold your savings, and your mortgages. It totally separated the two types of banks. It did not allow people who could give a Shi* about you to rape and plunder you. But unfortunately most of you chose to be raped and plundered and then call it good old capitalism. Somehow you have been brainwashed into believing that capitalism needs no rules. In such a world. The only ones left standing are those with the most power and biggest guns.
Capitalism creates its own rules, and a pro-regulation attitude has no place in the small government spectrum. Go hang out somewhere that has tolerance for authoritarianism.
Oh, and the phrase "common sense restrictions" gives your authoritarian tendencies away.
"common sense restrictions"
Oh so you think (for example) that restrictions on the amount of leverage a bank can take on while they are holding your funds is an authoritarian tendency. Whereas if they go belly up from that leverage then your funds evaporate and cannot be paid back to you. This is the problem with people like you(and you are far from alone) who think that Capitalism is a system that can exist without rules. Which is untrue because of the nature of Mankind and the fact that predators will take advantage of anyone weaker than they are. And because Mankind contains some very immoral persons who would have no problem taking your life savings out of your cookie jar and calling it capitalism. Which is the kind of capitalism that you advocate.
I think capitalism is great in that those who work hard can be rewarded, and they should be able to keep that reward as long as they achieved it legitimately. I Am an absolute hater of socialism that would say that one person has the right to steal that reward and give it to someone else. And I believe in freedom which is in direct conflict with authoritarian socialism which you accuse me of. But all systems must contain certain authoritarian conditions. If someone were to murder you and the law steps in to punish the murderer then what is that- other than authoritarianism?
The problem you have is in what your definition of capitalism is and your total denial of humanity as a predator. Capitalism does not have to allow others to put your money or your welfare at risk in a way that you did not authorize. It does not have to allow others such as bankers to use your resources in a scheme to get rich from your hard work if you did not explicitly authorize it. And it certainly should not allow bankers to steal from society as a whole through inflation or other bailouts. What that actually is- Is Socialism. You are advocating socialism while calling it capitalism.
Just one problem with liberalism is that it is a thoughtless condition. It is based on an unworkable pie in the sky mush that is separate from all reality. No logical or sensible thought process is required. And as such liberalism is a system that ends in total destruction.
You need to stop living with all the modern mush and start using your thinking process to really think deep and analyze reality. That is what the founders of this great nation did.
Without deposit banks the entire system could not function. It is beyond important that those banks are honest, stable, and reliable. Once again your blindness to common sense that causes you to advocate Anarchy in capitalism is all that you have. Your definition is as unworkable as any liberal idealism ever was. You will be crying when the entire system comes crashing down, as it will. Unfortunately you won't have a clue how it happened. You will still be as blind as Elmer Fudd.
Riiiiiigggghhhhttt. Keep placing faith in your silly regulations and restrictions.
"Predatory tendencies are the only reason capitalism works."
In your version of unrestrained Predatory behavior.. Mad Max comes to mind. I guess that is the kind of world you dream of. For a short time you may even get your way. At least until the next Hitler takes control.
Nope- I am done. Your kind of deeply thought out wisdom, and historical perspective is just too brilliant to be fixed.
Homebuilders. How is it that the size of the average family has gone down and the size of the average house has gone up?
I say follow the money. More money paid to heat, maintain and pay prop taxes. I remember when you had a living room. Now its a family room, a dining room that is used twice a year, a recreation room, rooms rooms rooms and nobody is using them.......well with this new odumbiconomy.....maybe its a good thing since kids and grandkids are gonna be coming home to live lol.
I would guess that with today's housing materials and more efficient environmental controls, energy bills aren't the major consideration they once were. Plus, I think everybody in the housing industry pushes bigger is better. The bigger the house, the bigger the commissions..
"Nothing the banks were doing before or after the crash interferes with the rights of the citizenry."
I felt pretty interfered with when we had an international monetary crisis that cost us how much money(more than a trillion) and put my country and most of the rest of the world into an economic tailspin.
"Without the implicit government backing of Fannie/Ferddie mortgages, AIG would never have been able to issue CDOs as they did."
Why not? They were free to be as stupid as they wanted. And there was big money being made if you ignored the risks. So what if your bank fails if you've been making 10 million a year. Not to mention that most of the supposed security was not from the government, but from the big wall street banks, the financial geniuses who bundled up mixed bags of mortgages, took them to their pals at Standard and Poor, got them rated AAA, and thus gave the credibility for people like AIG to issue the CDO's. All involved made fortunes until the ballon burst and we were left holding the bag.
Reagan and Volcker, as chairman of the Fed, worked together to bring the US out of a decade of economic malaise. I think we should have the same confidence in Volcker that Reagan did.
So the banks had to give loans to anyone? What was the specific provision you are referring to?
Banks traditionally did not give mortgages to people with bad credit histories. Congress ordered them to make the loans available and end economic discrimination, because it supposedly wasn't "fair". So, they made them stop discriminating against historically poor people.
You have no right for your money or property to be worth X amount in a given market.
For the record, the term for what the banks was doing is called Redlining. Economically based redlining should be allowed, as people from poorer neighborhoods are less likely to pay back their loans on time. Congress tried to wipe it out and it ultimately backfired.
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Sheldon Laube focuses on the essentials that still need to emerge to create real improvements in enterprise collaboration.Interview conducted by Alan Morrison, Bo Parker, and Bud Mathaisel
By the time this issue of the Technology Forecast is published, Sheldon Laube will have retired from PwC, where he most recently was chief innovation officer. His career has included stints in C-suite positions at CenterBeam, USWeb, and Novell. Between 1985 and 1995, he was CIO at Price Waterhouse (PW) and was behind the firm's decision to license the first 10,000 copies of Lotus Notes ever sold to an enterprise. After his return in 2003 to what had become PwC, as chief innovation officer he led the US firm's iPlace webbased idea-sharing initiative.¹
PwC: How do people collaborate better and more effectively, especially as teams get larger and more distributed? People on one team often need help from another team in a different place, in a different unit. Maybe these teams don't even know each other.
SL: That's the problem of collaboration. The general problem case is that we've made no fundamental progress over the past 30 years in using tools that help that group of people do their jobs better, other than e-mail.
PwC: How does social networking help solve that problem?
SL: The jump to solving that problem through things like Facebook and Twitter just is not obvious to me. Get rid of the words "social network." Forget that for a second, because when you say it to anyone else who is not in our conversation, they think Twitter and Facebook.
That's why companies get confused. The question is, how do you make teams more effective through the use of technology?
PwC: That's why Notes was brought in back in 1990 or so.
SL: That's why Notes was brought in, and that's what [web pioneer] Tim Berners-Lee had in mind. The web was initially a collaboration environment. The world of collaboration was set back by a mere 15 or 20 years because the web turned into a one-way publishing environment, instead of a collaboration medium.
Back then, there was a domain: computer-supported collaborative work. There were conferences. But soon, all of the money got sucked into a one-tomany publication model.
So what's happened is that because of social media, with people interacting on a more peer-to-peer level, people have started asking about web collaboration once again.
PwC: Every time you try and get off of e-mail, you find yourself inexorably held back.
SL: There have been some attempts. Google Wave was a good example, and now there are new ones. What's being attempted are dynamic communities that are sensitive to your temporal work. In other words, the community would change as you move from task to task.
When I'm doing my timesheet there'd be one community, and when I'm working on a project, there'd be another.
PwC: In 1990, what was the aspiration and how was that aspiration informed by the experience with Notes?
SL: In 1990, remember, most companies did not have e-mail. You dialed up and logged onto a bulletin board system. CompuServe started coming out, but there were bulletin board systems and AOL had just been started.
PwC: The WELL [Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link] had been around.
SL: The WELL had been around, and there had been these places you could go—such as CompuServe and some others like that—and the notion was always exactly the same. It was, "I would like to be able to share something that others could easily see." Those notions were all one to many, or many to many.
Things like the WELL facilitated discussions. You'd read through the posts and maybe somebody had an answer to your question, much like threaded discussions now. That hasn't changed dramatically.
The thing was, I couldn't set up my own discussions very easily. In other words, if I just walked into work and said that I wanted to set up a bulletin board system to discuss the latest tax news, that was not a lightweight operation. From a technology point of view, you'd get a PC and put in a card that had multiple connections to modems so people would dial in. You had to be pretty savvy just to run one of those.
And from an enterprise point of view, it wasn't scalable. The biggest bulletin board systems you could buy maxed out at 64 simultaneous users because the PC had only eight slots—you put these cards in, and each card could support eight modems and whatever it was. There was a pretty clear limit, and of course the notion of security and access never existed.
Ray Ozzie's vision [Ozzie led the development of Notes, and then Groove, which was acquired by Microsoft. He was one of Microsoft's CTOs and then its chief software architect until the end of 2010.] was always about collaboration. It was never about e-mail. The point was, how do you allow people to selfassemble into working groups?
PwC: Notes was the do-it-yourself WELL?
SL: Yes, but Ozzie's vision was bigger than the WELL because it was aimed at companies. Back in 1990, everybody was starting to understand the power of a database, dBASE. That was one of the top popular products. That's what people did with computers. But dBASE was a one-user database.
By comparison, Notes was this magical thing that allowed you to do everything you could do in dBASE, and with no effort it became a completely distributed database that everyone could see and you could simultaneously update it. It was an amazing vision for 1990.
When I first talked about Notes to people here in the firm, I would stand in my office in New York [at Price Waterhouse]. As people would walk down the hall to the chairman's office to pay homage to the chairman—I was on the same floor just by random chance— I'd grab them and say, "Come and take a look at this." And I'd show them Notes on my desk because it was the only copy running.
After five minutes people said, "You know, we could share information like this." I could put in a question and the community could come together and answer questions. Tax people would look at it, and intuitively they understood this notion: There is some community that is thinking about the stuff we're thinking about. How can we tap into each other and share knowledge or collaborate?
Our philosophy in the early days of Notes was anybody could create a database. This was a lightweight operation and it was so simple. The original Notes was like dBASE, just a form, and you basically lay it out and you say, this is a field, and it's either a number or it's a character, or it's a rich text field. So it was very easy for anyone in the firm who had an idea like this. It was very easy to throw together a database and with the press of a button, anybody on any desktop had access to it, without any IT involvement.
It also had enterprise-level security, encryption, and scalability—all of that was in 1990, in the first version of Notes.
Sure enough, it went wild, and with nobody doing anything, other than us getting it out there, we went from no databases to about 200,000. At the great purge of five years ago, there were something like 900,000 Notes databases.
The knowledge management people said, "Oh, this is out of control, it's wrong." It was all about informal knowledge. They said, "How do you know what's right and who is saying what to whom?" A lot of it was out of date, except for the fact that there were people using it in valuable ways—otherwise it wouldn't exist.
You get to 900,000 databases—and those are all mini collaborations—that was the aspiration and it worked. What happened, and it happens over and over again, is the IT people said, "We've got to get it controlled, and then you need to add all of these enterprise application features."
PwC: By 2000, what were the collaboration aspirations?
SL: In 2000, the web itself—even though it was one to many—faced the same set of issues. There were an unlimited number of websites with many individuals—lots of one to many—but when you get a lot of ones, that's still a big number.
In the age of the web, these issues became even more acute to everyone else in the world, because 900,000 websites ain't nothing. I remember when there were still 300, when you could go to wherever the directory was, and each week you'd see more added, right?
But the web really put this problem in relief because you can think of each website as a database, as a wiki, or whatever, just conceptually. It faces the same set of issues. How do you find the right ones? The problem isn't any different.
Back then, there was a domain: computer-supported collaborative work. There were conferences. But soon, all of the money got sucked into a one-tomany publication model.
So what's happened is that because of social media, with people interacting on a more peer-to-peer level, people have started asking about web collaboration once again.
Then there was search. Google and others have shown that through pure computational force you can get pretty good about allowing a lot of people to find information that's useful to them. We can argue about how good it is, but while there might be half a billion people on Facebook, there are billions using the web and Google every day and getting useful—at least in their minds— information out of that.
"Then there was search. Google and others have shown that through pure computational force you can get pretty good about allowing a lot of people to find information that's useful to them.
PwC: Although search inside of enterprises remains very difficult…
SL: Because it's the scale problem in reverse. There's not enough information to allow the techniques that the Google search people developed. The way Google PageRank works is the true law of very large numbers of people independently choosing to link to X, Y, and Z.
Enterprises don't even allow that. It's exactly contrary to their belief. The only links are the ones they approve, right?
PwC: With a social layer of data, there could be a human-assisted element that you could just search. That's what Cisco and other vendors have been talking about.
SL: That's an interesting hypothesis, but there's no empirical evidence that that will get you a good answer.
PwC: If you look at ranking and reputation and all of those qualitative attributes we try to assign to people and things, there is a way to fill the gap that exists when you're not doing the very large numbers.
"Social technology brings people back in around the unknown, which is why it's interesting."
SL: I think you're right. That's a good insight. What we're learning is that social technology lends itself more toward the unstructured problems. In other words, with all of the brute force sorts of things—search, just for example—you're looking for an answer that's a definable answer, that's a small range of answers. The social stuff gets you a range of options about the future or even about today.
What will Egypt look like in five years, for example? The answer is indefinable, but Twitter is very useful in helping you form a thought about that. You watch this stream of discussion and comment, and it lays out a probability cloud of what's happening there, and that gives you some insight.
So social technology brings people back in around the unknown, which is why it's interesting.
¹ See "PwC iPlace—Six Factors Behind Our Success" at the PwC Innovation Blog (http://pwcinnovate.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/pwc-iplace-six-factors-to-our-success/) for more information on iPlace.


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Robert D. Brubaker
Robert Dean (Bob) Brubaker, 88, died at HopeWest hospice in Grand Junction on Saturday, Jan. 11, 2014.
Born Nov. 30, 1925, in Sawyer, Kan., to Silas and Bertha Carlisle Brubaker, he attended Sawyer High School, Pratt Junior College and was a veteran of WWII, Army Air Corp. He married Maryellen Closson on July 20, 1947.
Bob and Maryellen moved to Meeker in 1950; Cortez in January 1970; and their farm north of Lewis in 1977. They relocated to Grand Junction in September 2013. Bob was a partner in Brubaker Equipment, Inc.
Bob was a member of the Cortez First United Methodist Church, where he served as Lay Leader for many years and chief biscuit baker for 40 years. He was instrumental in leading the annual community ecumenical lay Holy Week services. Bob will be remembered for his beautiful voice and his wonderful rendition of the Lord's Prayer; he sang at hundreds of weddings, funerals and church services.
Always active in serving his community, Bob was a Meeker city councilman and mayor from 1968-70. He served as a County Commissioner for Montezuma County from 1991– 94. Bob was a Montezuma County Housing Authority board member for many years and served as chairman for 14 years. He was honored with the dedication of Brubaker Place in 2011.
Bob was an active member of the Boy Scouts of America for more than 20 years, serving as an Assistant Scoutmaster, Scoutmaster and as a district committeeman. In 1967, Bob was awarded the Silver Beaver by the Western Colorado Council.
Bob served as board member for the Lewis-Arriola Volunteer Fire Department from 1980 to 2008. Bob was also a longtime member and president of the Community Concert Associations in Meeker and Cortez.
Survivors include his five children: son Steve and Myra Brubaker, Des Moines, Iowa; son Mike and Sue Brubaker, Hayward, Wisconsin; son Chris and Sandy Brubaker, Grand Junction; son Corey and Tina Brubaker, Lincoln, Neb.; and daughter Tricia and Brian MacInnes, Albany, Ore. Bob enjoyed his 9 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Maryellen; his brother James Brubaker and sister, Nell Kinser, both of Warner Robins, Georgia.
A memorial service is planned for 11 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014, at the First United Methodist Church, Cortez.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to a memorial fund honoring Bob. The Bob Brubaker Donation Account has been established at Vectra Bank, 350 W. Montezuma Ave., Cortez, CO 81321 or Vectra Bank, 499 28 1/4 Rd., Grand Junction, CO 81501. It will be divided equally between the Cortez First United Methodist Church and the Lewis-Arriola Fire Department. Or donate in Bob's memory to your favorite charity.


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8 comments:
- Ray said...
Lovely piece, Frank! Have experienced the whole trajectory you describe and am pleased to live in a post-apocalyptic New York!
Thanks for tweeting this!
Elliott Humrich
- March 23, 2012 at 2:16 PM
- Shawna Murray M.D. said...
Evict The Vatican.
- March 23, 2012 at 2:33 PM
- Dracaena Dinophyceae said...
Nice :) Fear for resources seems to drive the neoconservatives ad their drive for empire. Fear is easy to exploit in fundamentally-religious people, but they are drawing on it from many others, too. Maybe it's just a matter of them and their more fundamentalist backers losing steam, since most people seem to be losing their taste for pre-emptive war.
Sort of related in terms of the U.S. economic empire: yy husband said that since China has a long tradition of workers' rights, from being formerly communist, that that may force the hand of the Chinese government. Unlike ours, their culture isn't steeped in adoration for the capitalists who exploit the most.
- March 23, 2012 at 2:52 PM
- Frank Schaeffer said...
Thanks Ray, Shawana and Dracaena, for the good word. I'm glad you read my piece. Best, F
- March 23, 2012 at 4:04 PM
- Steve D said...
From a piece I posted on Little Green Footballs:
Christians are not shielding America from judgment. America is shielding Christians from judgment. America doesn't prosper because Christians tithe. Christians prosper because Americans tithe. The Old Testament Jews tithed and got nothing in return except a smug, self-righteous, corrupt class of priestly parasites who did nothing at all to benefit the society. I paid more than 10% of my gross salary last year in taxes, and I got roads, schools, airports, weather satellites, national parks, and a host of other things in return. Also I helped pay for efforts to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, give drink to the thirsty and nurse the sick.
Full Piece
- March 23, 2012 at 4:36 PM
- Frank Schaeffer said...
Great point Steve, and your taxes also paid for the thousands of tax-exempt churches and schools and "charities" employing everyone from bishops living in palaces to TV "evangelists" flying over your house in private jets.
- March 24, 2012 at 3:07 AM
- Jim Calhoun said...
I nearly always find your writing thought provoking and stimulating. I'm glad for your perspective and do my best to keep you in my view. But occasionally I am just left with an unaswered question. Perhaps you can help.
You mention Os Guinness as your father's imitator, but wasn't there a time when you were also close to him? I think I had heard that he had been your best man at your wedding.
I can understand how the years and different perspectives and choices in life can create a distance or even break a friendship, but your post reveals no personal history with Guinness. Isn't that part of the story?
- March 24, 2012 at 5:45 AM
- Elyse said...
What happened to the post?
- March 28, 2012 at 11:28 AM


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Two years ago, florist Emily Thompson received a monumental order straight from Washington. The request? Decorate The White House for the holidays. Adorning the Obama's palatial presidential home with towering trees, whimsical wreaths, and festive flowers was a magical moment for the sculptor-turned-florist. Here, she shares how you can recreate her fresh holiday garland composed of unconventional, wild materials admidst seasonal fruit and foliage.
(Left): Thompson at work inside her bustling, yet completely cozy, floral shop. She wears an apron designed by a fellow Brooklyn-based small business, Cold Picnic.
What you'll need to make a 6-foot garland:
-Florist Wire (1 spool)
-Black Pine (1 bunch)
-Western Cedar (1 bunch)
-Sago Palm (5 fronds)
-Blue Juniper (1 bunch)
-Pinecones of different sizes and origins (10-15 cones)
-Pomegranates (6 pieces of fruit)
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More than 200 people attended this year's Education Foundation breakfast on Feb. 15.
The early morning event at Westminster High School was a reminder to the Adams County School District 50 community about the importance of investing in the district's students.
The mission of the Education Foundation is to provide grants and scholarships to staff and students in District 50. Creativity grants are awarded to teachers, staff and parent groups to improve student achievement.
Scholarships are awarded to graduating seniors to encourage their dreams for the future. During the 2011-12 school year, 29 students were awarded scholarships in the amount of $44,600.
Evelyn Flores was a past scholarship winner. She was awarded $1,000 from the Education Foundation. She spoke during the breakfast about how important the scholarship was to her education. She is a 2009 Westminster High School graduate and now attends the University of Colorado at Denver. She is going to school to become a registered nurse.
She said with the scholarship money she was able to go to school full time her freshman year, which really helped her focus on her classes and education.
"Because of the scholarship, I was able to have all my concentration in class," she said. "I'm very grateful for the scholarship. It was probably the best moment of my senior year."
But after the scholarship money ran out and rising tuition costs, Flores now works full time in order to pay for school, forcing her to only attend school part time.
But that hasn't slowed her down. She said she continues to focus on her future and hopes other WHS graduates take advantage of the opportunities provided by District 50.
"I'm a part-time student, and a full-time worker. But that hasn't discouraged me," she said. "The district helped me out very much and I'm honored to come back and do anything for the district. I want the students to take advantage of what they have here, because there will be a time when they won't have this anymore and it's not easy. So I'm very grateful."
Another Westy gradate also spoke during the breakfast. Congressman and 1955 graduate Don Bonker was the guest speaker for the morning. He served in Congress from 1975 to 1989 representing voters in Washington's Third Congressional District. He is an executive at APCO Worldwide, a global communication and consulting firm. He spoke about the importance of investing in young people.
"For a lot of people without a scholarship or financial support, education is going to be very limited," he said. "So by you being here you are creating opportunities for those young people to make a better, more productive life for themselves. You are also enhancing the community and making this country once again become the best that it can and maintain a competitive edge in this global economy."
The Education Foundation also provides low income students access to medical necessities through the Benevolent Fund and matches businesses to schools to provide tutoring and mentoring. For more information on the foundation, visit www.district50educationfoundation.com.


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Reminisce with us as we take a look back at the first day of Project Show, from super-cute animals (what's a trade show without cute animals?) to terrifying shoes and a superior lounge area, complete with ping pong.
Refreshing faces.
Reading about ourselves in the show program. #egoboost
For one fleeting moment, thinking we were on the beach.
Stay tuned for more Project Show coverage this week!
—DT Staff
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Previously: Jackson State, Auburn, Troy, South Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee
This is the final game of an opening stretch that could be very kind to MSU. Assuming the Bulldogs win this game – they should, handily – they could be sitting at 7-0 with a very high ranking heading into the next game. At Alabama.
This will be the fifth meeting between the schools, and MSU has won the previous four, with an average margin of victory of 22.3 points. This will be third Sun Belt Conference opponent of the season for State, if you count South Alabama, which is a transitional team.
Middle Tennessee State Blue Raiders (Oct. 20, in Starkville)
• Conference: Sun Belt
• 2011 record: 2-10 (1-7, 8th SBC)
• Final ranking: Not ranked
• Coach: Rick Stockstill (35-40, six years)
• Returning starters: 13 (6 offense, 6 defense, 1 specialist)
• Last meeting: MSU, 27-6 (Oct. 17, 2009, in Murfreesboro)
• On the Web: goblueraiders.com
MTSU has had only two winning seasons under Stockstill, but last year was by far the worst. The Blue Raiders had their lowest point output (22.3 ppg) since 2005, when they averaged 19.1 per game. The offense averaged 401.1 yards per game, the second-highest total under Stockstill, but a minus-8 turnover margin and porous defense (36.8 ppg, 441.1 ypg) more than offset that production.
The quarterback position was shared by Logan Kilgore and Jeff Murphy last season, with the former getting off to a hot start before struggles cost him the job to Murphy. On the whole, Kilgore saw the most action, completing 58.6 percent of his passes for 2,231 yards, 18 touchdowns and 12 interceptions in 11 games. In nine games, Murphy completed 60 percent for 794 yards, three TDs and three INTs. Murphy tore his ACL in the spring, so the job appears to be Kilgore's for now.
Middle Tennessee was a very respectable 38th in the country in passing offense. The running wasn't quite so good, ranking 73rd with 146.8 ypg, but it should be better this year. A pair of 500-yard rushers, Benny Cunningham and William Pratcher, return to the backfield, but it looks like LSU transfer Drayton Calhoun will take over the starting role. Calhoun was a high school All-American but was moved to defensive back at LSU in 2010.
Two starting offensive linemen return, with 62 career starts lost off last year's squad, including first-team All-SBC center Colin Boss. Big question: Can this group pass protect like last year, when its eight sacks allowed tied for first in the country?
The receiving corps has suffered some losses, including yardage leader Malcolm Beyah 497 yards). But senior Tavarres Jefferson, who led the team with 51 catches, returns.
As I said, the defense wasn't very good last fall. To repeat, the Blue Raiders gave up 36.8 points (111th nationally) and 441.1 yards per game (104th). Stockstill is taking a slightly different approach to things this year, having co-defensive coordinators for the first time. He brought in Tyrone Nix from Ole Miss to join last year's DC, Steve Ellis. Nix will call the plays.
The defensive line should be stronger this year, with only one significant loss. The depth chart has a good mix of youth and experience, and MTSU is led up front by senior end Omar McLendon (6-foot-3, 242 pounds), who made 54 tackles, 2.5 sacks and 4.5 tackles-for-loss last season. On the inside, senior Kendall Dangerfield is coming off a strong season in which he had 31 tackles and 8.0 TFLs.
MTSU gave up 229.5 rushing yards per game, which ranked 114th in the country.
The linebackers have a lot of experience, with the three projected starters making a combined 143 tackles last year. Weakside LB Roderic Blunt had 54 stops, while strongside Craig Allen had 53. The man in the middle, Christian Henry, had 36 stops – he played all 12 games, making four starts. MLB numbers usually are much higher than that, so Henry will need to be more active.
The secondary had a very down year in 2011, as MTSU ranked 98th in pass efficiency defense with a rating of 143.65. The Raiders recorded only four interceptions, and there's a good bit of turnover with this unit, which might be a good thing. Florida State transfer Jajuan Harley is expected to step in and start at strong safety.
Will Middle Tennessee be better this year? Probably, because it's hard to get much worse than what happened in 2011. The Blue Raiders lost their final six games of the season, by an average of 28 points. I wonder if they'll be good enough to give MSU much to sweat about.


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Mickadeit: Memories return at Catholic school
Costa Mesa Mayor Jim Righeimer has been telling me for several years about the institution that is Sister Mary Vianney Ennis of St. John the Baptist Catholic School.
She has been there since 1962 and principal since 1975. Righeimer's kids attend, and he has become a fan of this loving-but-no-nonsense nun who has taught two generations of Costa Mesans. He decided to give her the Mayor's Award for longtime contributors to the city.
When he approached Sister Vianney, he told me, she would accept only if he gave it to the whole school as well. So at Tuesday's City Council meeting, both will be honored. By the way, he asked, have I been to a traditional morning assembly at a Catholic school?
Only every day between 1965 to 1973, roughly the duration of the Vietnam War.
"You're going to love it," he said, inviting me to the daily assembly run by Sister Vianney. "It's like 1958 again."
The school rules state: "The parking lot gates close at 7:53 a.m. – students arriving after this time are too late to be in their classroom lineup on time (without running) and must enter through the front office and be marked tardy." I well remember having to run the office gauntlet of disapproving eyes and tsk-tsks.
I arrive Thursday morning at 7:15. I immediately call Righeimer. "Where are you?" I asked. He and his three daughters eventually roll in with time to spare, although his daughter Ellie pipes up, "When our dad takes us, we're usually late." I'll bet.
The bells ring. We make the assembly in time – though not everyone does. Standing erect in a black coat over a white sweater, a silver-haired eminence – unmistakably a nun even without the habit – takes notice of those still scrambling to line up on the blacktop. Sister Vianney.
"Just because you got to the gate at five minutes to 8 doesn't mean you are on time," she says over the hand-held microphone. "It means you are late."
This was feeling familiar. Nuns have a way of making you feel late even when you are early.
I don't know whether every school in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles still opens its day this way, but both St. John the Baptist and my old school, La Purisima, were in the archdiocese in the 1960s, and remarkably little has changed about the morning rite. I suspect that some of it has to do with Sister Vianney being there the whole time.
The boys still wear blue or white shirts and dark slacks (or shorts), and the girls still wear plaid skirts. They stand in rows by class, and they open with the Sign of the Cross. The pastor, the Rev. Augustine Puchner, reads from Luke and then discusses why we sacrifice during Lent. "We deny ourselves certain things so we might try and find our true self. ... To help us find what is truly valuable, truly important. Lent helps us to do that."
Two students, a boy and a girl, lead the school in Pledge to the Cross, the Pledge of Allegiance, and then a patriotic song. Today it is "My Country Tis of Thee."
After this, the latecomers are released from some sort of assemblage purgatory and allowed to join their classes. I stare as they scurry. Thank God that's not me.
I notice one significant difference from 40 years ago. Students wear sneakers. This was strictly forbidden in my day. Caught once, I pleaded poverty.
"I don't have any dress shoes," I told the nun who stopped me in the hallway.
"What about your brown wingtips?" she said.
My brown wingtips??? How did she know about those?
She wasn't even my nun. Did she have encyclopedic knowledge of the footwear of every one of the 300 students in the school? Years later, I'm still mystified, and my only answer is that she must have thought it a fair bet that any Catholic boy was likely to own a pair of brown wingtips.
Anyway, Sister Vianney now begins reading the names of a few dozen high achievers. They are applauded as they come to the front and receive a certificate from the priest. At the conclusion, Sister Vianney admonishes, "Quite a few of you did not say thank you to Father Augustine."
Being on time. Manners. I remember this.
Tomorrow: I'm granted a brief audience with Sister Vianney.
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U.S. leaders consider the threat of Islamic State as "well beyond anything" they've seen. They say the threat must be handled both diplomatically and politically.
Authorities in France and Morocco detained citizens suspected of joining the Islamic State, but a U.S. intelligence bulletin issued Friday said there are no specific or credible threats on the U.S. homeland from the militant group.
The FBI and Homeland Security Department issued the bulletin as concerns rise that Islamic State supporters in the USA and Europe could attack anywhere with little or no warning.
White House Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes told reporters Friday "we monitor very closely whether or not ISIL will seek to develop plots that are aimed at the West, aimed at beyond this geographic area where they've been operating. We are doing that. We're actively consulting with European partners about how to watch the threat that they could pose to the West. We take their threats seriously, because we have to take every threat that's made against the United States seriously." But he said there is no indication the group is at this point planning a 9/11-type of attack on the U.S.
U.S. law enforcement has been trying to identify Islamic State supporters who would bring the group's brand of violent jihad to the United States. U.S. airstrikes against the group in Iraq intensified after militants beheaded American journalist James Foley. The group called Foley's killing revenge for previous strikes against militants in Iraq.
French authorities on Friday detained two girls, ages 15 and 17, using a security net to find citizens considering travel to other countries to join jihad.
France is prosecuting suspects who try to become foreign fighters, even before they leave French soil. Thousands of European citizens have traveled to Syrian battlegrounds, but there is no unified plan in Europe to prevent them from going or to deal with them when they return.
France, which has a Muslim population of about 5 million — the largest in Western Europe — is leading the way on the continent. French authorities say there are some 900 people from France who have fought in a religious war abroad, plan to join one, or are returning from one. Several dozen have been killed.
A proposed law would allow passports to be confiscated from suspects planning to fight in Syria or Iraq and would create new measures to prosecute jihad wannabes or returnees. France also is planning to join other European countries in blocking Internet sites that espouse the jihad cause.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve pointed to the man suspected of killing four people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels in May as evidence of the need to consider tough new measures to be debated this fall. The suspect, Frenchman Mehdi Nemmouche, fought in Syria.
"Must I wait for a new Mehdi Nemmouche to fire before I act?" Cazeneuve said in a recent interview with online publication Mediapart. Not all the proposed anti-terrorism measures will compromise civil liberties, he said.
Morocco also announced Friday the arrest of two suspected members of the Islamic State. The men, who had connections to foreign extremists, were planning to train in Syria with the group before returning to carry out attacks in Morocco, according to the government statement.
The Moroccan military is on high alert, stationing anti-aircraft missile batteries around major cities, as well as along the borders with Algeria and Mauritania. There has been no official explanation for the sudden high visibility of military units around the country, but the local press has said it is in response to fears of a terrorist attack related to two Airbus airliners stolen recently in Libya.
Morocco says at least 1,000 of its citizens are fighting on the side of Islamic extremists in Syria and Iraq.
Similar concerns occupy authorities in Britain and Germany as well.
"It is impossible to quantify the risk of terrorist attacks by returning foreign fighters," Nigel Inkster, a former counterterrorism chief for Britain's M16 spy agency, wrote Friday on his blog for the International Institute of Strategic Studies. But he said those returning from Syria and Iraq "are likely to be better trained and motivated and more battle-hardened" than those who trained in Pakistan's tribal areas over the past decade.
Contributing: The Associated Press


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Theresa Donnelly, who says she travels "almost every week of my life," shares some secrets for smooth sailing on business trips. USA TODAY
Planning a wedding when you're out of town for work most days of the week isn't what most brides-to-be would envision.
But Theresa Donnelly, 28, a manager for Deloitte Financial Advisory Services, has figured out how to deal with it while she also handles her work at a hotel in Toronto, where she lives four or five days a week.
She communicates with caterers, vendors, bridesmaids, her mother and future mother-in-law through e-mail. She makes sure to talk each day to her fiance through Skype or FaceTime. She also tries to have daily contact with other friends and family.
Her work, which involves advising clients on how to comply with financial regulations, leaves her little time for breaks. So she has to depend on electronic communications.
"If a vendor doesn't use e-mail, I don't use them, since I don't have time to take calls during the day," she says.
Although she's been living on the road for work for only five years, Donnelly is a pro at it. She's adept at using electronic media to keep her house in order even when she's not in her house in Philadelphia. She traverses airline, airport and hotel schedules and rates for the best travel times and prices. She's learned to pack all she needs within minutes.
And perhaps most important, she's learned how to balance everything without going crazy.
Yes, she says of life on the road as a young person, "It's tough. Obviously, you don't want to have to be away from your loved ones."
But it's a sacrifice Donnelly is willing to make for her career. As a student at Drexel University in Philadelphia, she interned with Deloitte. So she knew what she was getting herself into.
"Even though the travel can be difficult at times," she says, "I find the job rewarding, and I don't mind the travel as much."
To make the travel less difficult, she's developed some strategies. Among them:
"I've become ridiculously efficient at packing," Donnelly says.
She only does a carry-on bag. She advises those who decide to check their bags to make sure they have one set of clothing in their carry-on in the off-chance a bag is lost or delayed.
Her other must-have carry-on items? Granola bars, so she can avoid buying unhealthy snacks at airports, an iPod to drown out the noise on the airplane, her Kindle or a book for inevitable delays, her running shoes, phone charger, laptop and travel-size toiletries.
The consummate professional, she also always has business cards ready to hand out. "You never know who you will meet on a plane or waiting at the airport," she says.
Choosing flights
Donnelly is picky about scheduling flights. She tries to choose ones that won't require her to get to the airport during rush hour. She tries to avoid busy ones, such as those departing on Monday mornings. If she can't avoid the busy ones, she prepares herself for having a seatmate and for waiting in a long line.
That's why she leaves for the airport way ahead of time.
"The worst thing you can do is be running and sweating to get to your gate," she says. "Then you're agitated and uncomfortable for the whole flight."
If she has to travel overseas, she tries to take an overnight flight so she can sleep.
Normally, she chooses an aisle seat, but on overnight flights, she chooses a window seat so she won't be disturbed while sleeping. "To have people climbing over you, it can be a little uncomfortable," she says.
She never leaves home without her headphones to drown out the noise of people around her when she tries to sleep.
Choosing a hotel
Donnelly used to bounce around different hotels, depending on price and availability. Now that she goes to the same city all the time, she's found that she can get better deals by being loyal to one hotel.
If she knows she's going to stay at a hotel several days, she'll call and ask to speak to the corporate sales representative. She's been able to negotiate better rates and accommodations.
Even when the hotel has had no availability or blackouts online, she's been able to finagle a room.
"If you make them aware that you are there, they treat you well," she says. "It's really in their best interest … to have someone like me, a long-term business traveler, rather than have 20 different people for a couple of days and have a room empty here or there."
Staying healthy
Donnelly tries to maintain the routines she keeps at home. That means going to the gym regularly.
She usually picks hotels with 24-hour access to gyms so she can hit it at any time.
Trying to eat in a healthy manner is her biggest challenge on the road. "You're really eating out three meals a day, and it becomes difficult to know what you're putting in your body," she says.
To maintain some consistency, she sometimes asks the hotel for an empty fridge to keep some healthy food in her room.
She also looks for salad bars or chains that she knows use fresh ingredients.
"I do online research to find places that are nearby and get the lay of the land ahead of time so I'm not settling for whatever I find," she says.
Enjoying the travel
Donnelly thinks it's a mistake to never see the city you're visiting. So during her downtime, she tries to get out and explore.
Before she lands in a new place, she reads up on its landmarks. Once there, she walks or takes public transportation to them.
"I think it's good to get familiar and comfortable with a city so you can feel safe," she says. "It's silly to go to a new different city and not learn anything about it."
And she doesn't keep to herself just because she's a solo traveler.
Some hotels, she says, will have social hours so that long-term guests can meet each other. She also tries to get together with co-workers for coffee or dinner so she's not always eating alone.
"You spend a lot of time together on the road," she says. "You tend to become quite friendly with each other."
She also gets to enjoy some perks thanks to her frequent travel.
She's accumulated so many airline frequent-flier miles and hotel loyalty points that her vacations are often paid for. "The frequent travel comes with some side benefits," she says.
Her wedding is scheduled for September. Her honeymoon will be in Hawaii. The airfare and hotel all came courtesy of her miles and points.
Top tips
1. Leave for the airport early, even if it means having to sit around the airport reading or doing work.
2. Try to avoid flights that you know are going to be too crowded or that require you to travel to the airport during rush hour.
3. Try to have only your carry-on bag. If you do check a bag, pack an extra outfit in your carry-on in case your checked luggage gets delayed.
4. If you know you're going to spend several days at a hotel, call the hotel ahead of time and try to negotiate a better rate or better accommodations.
5. Get out of the immediate area surrounding your hotel or office. Take advantage of the fact that you're in a new place and try to schedule some sightseeing.


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