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According to a press release issued yesterday, Tony George will no longer have day-to-day responsibility for running his family businesses, including the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, home of the annual Indy 500. Full release below.
Current chief financial officer Jeffrey Belskus will be the new CEO of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corp., and current chief legal counsel Curtis Brighton is the new president and CEO of Hulman & Co. The changes take effect today. Full press release below.
The Board of Directors of Hulman & Company and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway announced June 30 that a new management team comprised of veteran IMS executives W. Curtis Brighton and Jeffrey G. Belskus will head the Hulman-George companies effective July 1.
Brighton, currently executive vice president and chief legal counsel, will become president and CEO of Hulman & Company. Belskus, currently executive vice president and chief financial officer for the companies, will become president and CEO of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corporation.
They will replace Tony George, who will no longer serve as president and chief executive officer of the Hulman-George companies but will remain a board member of the Hulman-George companies.
"Our board had asked Tony to structure our executive staff to create efficiencies in our business structure and to concentrate his leadership efforts in the Indy Racing League," said Mari Hulman George, IMS chairman of the board. "He has decided that with the recent unification of open-wheel racing and the experienced management team IMS has cultivated over the years, now would be the time for him to concentrate on his team ownership of Vision Racing with his family and other personal business interests he and his family share.
"Tony will remain on the Board of Directors of all of our companies, and he will continue to work with the entire board to advance the interests of all of companies.
"Our family and the entire racing community are grateful to Tony for the leadership and direction he has provided since 1990. We are pleased that he will continue to be an important part of the Indy Racing League as a team owner and as a member of our Board of Directors, and we wish him every success."
Mrs. George underscored the confidence in the leadership of Belskus and Brighton, who both were originally hired by Tony George.
"Jeff and Curt have both been with the company for many years in positions of top leadership," Mrs. George said. "Tony, as well as the entire Board of Directors, has the utmost confidence in their capabilities.
"Both of these men have years of experience and leadership within our companies. In addition, each of our companies has effective presidential leadership, and that will remain in place."
Joie Chitwood is president and chief operating officer (COO) of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, LLC. Terry Angstadt is president of the commercial division of the Indy Racing League. Brian Barnhart is president of the competition division of the Indy Racing League. Charlie Morgan is president and COO of IMS Productions. Gary Morris is president and COO of Clabber Girl.
"These changes underscore our family's commitment going forward to all of our companies, especially our commitment to the growth of the Indy Racing League and the sport of open-wheel racing," Mrs. George said. "We believe the Hulman-George family's long stewardship of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, beginning in 1945, and our significant investment in the Speedway and in the IRL demonstrates that we have full confidence in all of our companies and that we intend to grow them in the future."
Jeffrey G. Belskus—President and CEO, Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corporation
In his role with the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Jeff Belskus has had primary leadership responsibility for the financial operation of Hulman & Company in Terre Haute and its subsidiaries, including IMS and the Indy Racing League.
Terre Haute native Belskus joined the company in 1987 and was elevated to treasurer in 1989. Already functioning as the company's chief financial officer, he was promoted to vice president in 1991 and named the company's executive vice president in January 1994.
Belskus graduated with honors in 1981 from Indiana State University, where he received his bachelor's degree in accounting, and earned his CPA designation in the state of Indiana in 1985.
His professional affiliations include the treasurer of the Rose-Hulman's Board of Trustees, American Institute of CPAs and the Indiana CPA Society, and the Indianapolis chapter of the Financial Executives International. Additionally, he serves on the Indiana State University Foundation board, where he is a member of the audit committee. He also serves on the board of directors of the Morris Plan Company of Terre Haute and the Indiana board of The Nature Conservancy.
Belskus and his wife, Debbie, reside in Zionsville, Ind.
W. Curtis Brighton—President and CEO, Hulman & Company
Curt Brighton joined Hulman & Company in January 1994 as vice president and general counsel. Brighton was promoted in October 2002 to executive vice president and general counsel of Hulman & Company, and serves in a similar capacity for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Clabber Girl Corporation and Indy Racing League, the principal operating businesses in the Hulman family of companies.
Prior to joining Hulman & Company, Brighton practiced law in Terre Haute, Ind. In addition to his duties at Hulman & Company, Brighton is a board member of several business and civic organizations, including First Financial Corporation, First Financial Bank, Indiana State University Foundation, Princeton Mining Company, Templeton Coal Company, Union Hospital and United States Auto Club. His professional affiliations include the Indiana State Bar Association and the Iowa State Bar Association.
Brighton's responsibilities have included coordinating the legal, risk management, human resource, real estate and philanthropic activities for all Hulman-affiliated businesses. He is a 1976 graduate of Indiana State University and a 1981 graduate of Drake University Law School.
Brighton and his wife, Linda, reside in Terre Haute.
(Hat tip to Jeffrey!)


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The actual battle gameplay in Game of Thrones is a great idea, but is executed rather poorly. While in battle, enemies and allies will attack each other at a steady pace automatically. However, at any time you can choose to slow down time using the "active pause" system. While this doesn't stop the action outright, it does slow the action down to a crawl giving you time to make decisions, give your allies orders, and use special abilities. This keeps the tension in the battle high, as you never truly get a chance to rest from the action, while still giving you time to fight strategically. It's almost like Xenoblade's battle system, if it had a slow-down-time button.
Unfortunately, the battle system falls apart when you get down to the game's internal balance. Though the game allows you to multi-class your characters, allowing you to choose between several different skills and abilities, only a few are ever needed to get by even the biggest of battles. Combat very quickly boils down to simple flow charting strategies that rarely change. In this respect, I'd say that combat in A Game of Thrones feels more like combat in an MMO than a traditional RPG. There is a set of things you should be doing at any given point and time and as long as you stick to that pattern and keep your health high, you should be fine. It's workable, but boring.
In fact, that's the one word I would use to describe this game as a whole: boring. Everything about the game seems to be crafted in such a way to make the experience as un-engaging as possible. The graphics: poor. The voice acting: dry. The combat: repetitive. The story: uninteresting. In fact, the only thing this game has going for it is the Game of Thrones IP it is attached to, which is par for the course for licensed games. Frankly, there just isn't enough content here to satisfy even the most hardcore fan of the series. It's a shame, because A Game of Thrones truly has the potential to become an amazing console RPG. This just isn't it.
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Run before dawn and other advice from a Native American elder
Born in 1896, Margaret King sits on her cot like a stained glass sculpture. If you parted the Bluebird Flour sack curtains from the window of her HUD house and held all 60 pounds of her up to the sun, purples, reds, blues, yellows and browns would stream through her parchment skin. Her ferocious eyes have retreated so deep into her skull you could balance pennies on her lower lids. Beautiful teeth, huge hairy ears. Soft laugh.
She worked for those exploring brothers, the Wetherills, early in the last century, and she remembers the influenza epidemic of 1917, because her father and so many other people died. Healing plants and ceremonies didn't help.
She lives in an isolated canyon in Utah with a spring that feeds a tidy arrangement of gardens, orchards and sheep. The traditional brace of abandoned cars, including a Studebaker, line up behind the outhouse, and beyond that stretch the canyons of the San Juan River. Navajo Mountain, once called Paiute Mountain, dominates the western horizon while August thunderstorms pummel it.
Margaret King is half Paiute, the rest Navajo, Ute and Zuni. Though steeped in Navajo, wearing the velveteen and these days speaking only Navajo, she says it is her Paiute ancestors, entombed in these canyon walls, that keep her here. This whole region, south of the San Juan and Colorado rivers, was a Southern Paiute settlement in 1907.
Pressure from oil companies, combined with ignorance by the Bureau of Indian Affairs about the Paiutes' nomadic ways, led to the land reverting to the federal government. The oil companies drilled, found nothing and left. The Navajo, along with either sympathetic or ignorant BIA officials, lobbied to have the land returned to the "Indians who have always been here," and as the letters flew, the word "Indian" was slowly replaced by "Navajo."
Now, it's not only part of the Navajo Nation but many Navajo remain convinced that the land has always been theirs, though their forebears probably arrived here in the 1860s.Southern Paiute ancestral lands once ranged from California to the Hopi mesas, including these stunning lands of the Colorado plateau. The Paiutes lost everything because they simply refused to engage the Whites.
In1907,local BIA Superintendent Mathew Murphy wrote to BIA Inspector Frank Churchill: "I reached Kanab, Utah, a few hours after you had left; I could probably have given you some information in regard to the band which sometimes lives in Paiute Canyon. If this is the band you are looking for, they are hard to locate and they will very likely have nothing to say when you do. They ask for nothing but to be left alone."
Margaret King mastered both Paiute and Navajo cultures, whose languages are as different as English and Chinese. She has woven Navajo rugs and Paiute baskets. She has been both a midwife and a medicine woman, taught by her Paiute mother and grandmother.
She wishes this interview had happened years ago, but she's at peace with her vanishing memory, saying she's like a child now. She has not forgotten the powers of the land and moving water. When asked what it is about whites that saps these powers, she begins, "Yaaaaa! Hoodaaa!" and mentions asphalt, electricity and towers on mountains as all disturbing the medicine.
Of the river, she warns that, of course you make offerings before crossing, but don't wear turquoise or you'll become the offering. Mostly though, she marks her life in universal ways, happiest when just married and having her 11 children, saddest when food was scarce and she had to sell off rugs and baskets to survive.
After two hours of rummaging for memories and having her Navajo daughter-in-law Mary hollering in her ear, Margaret King sags and begins to lie down. Then I ask maybe the most important question to ask of someone who's over a century old: What is the secret of long life?"
She jolts back upright and replies: "Run before dawn. Make yourself strong by running every morning. Don't just lie there. I don't see any kids running today. Eat more corn. Now, kids eat only junk food. When the first snow comes, you go out and take a bath in the first snow. You better get out there. Bless the food while you cook" -- she stirs the air with an imaginary spoon. "When you cook your meal, you talk to the gods, ask them for a long life. Now, those gods are probably gone because people die so young. I thank you for listening."


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NFL draft analyst Mike Detillier talks about getting into the business, why hed be a good general manager and whom the Saints should take:
How did you get started at being a draft analyst?
I always had a great interest in the draft even growing up, but it was all listening on the radio for reports. There was no ESPN network to televise the event. It was Hap Glaudi, who was on WWL Radio at that time doing sports talk in the early 1980s and Don Landry, who was the athletic director at Nicholls State, who really encouraged me to go to print with my thoughts.
Whats the most important quality someone in your profession needs?
Understanding that the game is all about the players is first and foremost. Former Saints GM Jim Finks told me that back in the late 1980s, and I always remember that when doing things about the draft. The other part is knowing fit. There are only about five or six players in each draft class, that no matter where they end up, they play at the same level. The other players are fit people. They fit or dont fit well on a team offensively and defensively.
What is the toughest thing to evaluate?
The hardest thing is to gauge a persons work ethic once he becomes instantly rich and a celebrity. That can easily change someones attitude toward working hard and really putting in all that time to be the very best. Is football your passion? That is the key.
If there was one thing you could change about the draft, scouting, testing, etc., what would it be?
The process is way too long. All these workouts tell you nothing if a player can play or not. Sometimes, it looks as though they are looking for the next Bruce Jenner and not the next Bruce Smith. The eye in the sky doesnt lie.
What do you think would spice up the NFL draft even more for people you follow this year round or big fans of their respective teams?
The USFL had a territorial draft. Teams selected players from their region to drum up local interest. If I am the Saints, I am all for that new twist in the draft. Give me the players from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. It would sure cure the defensive ills on this team quick.
Do you think you could have been a successful GM?
In this league, GMs come from all forms of life, and many get their start on the financial part of the world. Yes, I really believe that I could. The key is knowing what is best for your team, personnel-wise. Talent on the field wins for you along with having great chemistry in the locker room.
What evaluation of a player are you proudest of?
The ones I get asked about all the time is my rating Aaron Rodgers over Alex Smith back in 2005. Smith was the first pick in the draft and Rodgers fell deep into Round 1. I never backed off that Rodgers was the best quarterback in that draft class. The other is having TE Jason Witten as a first-round pick in 2003. One Saints scout told me that Witten would be a major bust player in the NFL. He was a superb college player at Tennessee, and he has been a fantastic NFL player for the Dallas Cowboys, and they got him in Round 3. Also, I told everyone that Jake Delhomme could play in the NFL. I could not have guessed how good he really turned out to be, but he had the skill set and intangibles to be a good starting quarterback. He was that type player with the Carolina Panthers.
What evaluation of a player do you wish you could have back?
I had Tony Mandarich rated as the best player in the 1989 draft over Troy Aikman, Deion Sanders and Derrick Thomas. He is still one of the most dominant players I have ever seen at the college level, and he was a difference-maker at offensive tackle. Once he got off the juice, he was not the same player. The other is WR Mike Williams from USC. Same thing. Great college player, who lost his work ethic and got heavy and just bounced around the NFL.
Has any player in the draft told you that you had no idea what you were talking about or words to those effect?
Yes, we all have. Its funny that agents tell them they will get picked much higher than most of us do, and they get upset when they hear something different. But agents and players keep coming back for evaluations, so I must be doing something right.
What should the Saints do with their first-round pick?
They are still in need of a great pass rusher at outside linebacker or defensive end. They have to get a better pass rusher and I would love to see Georgia (outside linebacker Jarvis Jones fall to them. I think Barkevious Mingo will be off the board at that stage. If he is there, I would pick him. A trade down is an option, especially if a really talented skilled player, a wide receiver, would be on the board and maybe you could recoup a second round pick.
Did you ever wish you had hair like Mel Kiper Jr.?
No, I wish my hair would be as dark as his is. My hair is snow white today.
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There is no way I would be a good GM. Hell, I can't even balance my check book.
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The trick is to surround yourself with really good people.
Who the hell is Mike Detillier?
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Originally Posted by Seer1Mike Detillier is entertaining, personable and fairly knowledgable about both the Saints and College players.
He's probably the best thing WWL has going right now.
I like him and look forward to his appearances on what is probably the worst radio show in sports history. But at least its not as bad as when Buddy D was there.
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Originally Posted by SmashMouthHe's got some good stuff. I think some may resent him because because they associate him with Saintsreport.
I like the guy a lot.
We should probably post more of his WWL commentary. Its good stuff. Definitely as good as most local market radio guys.
I find it odd that anyone who follows the Saints doesn't know who Mike Detillier is.
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Ahh, he's an easterner huh? All our stations start with the letter K and the words, "The Broncos..." Bleh
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
Happy Birthday Jen!
I made a gift for my friend who celebrated her birthday yesterday. She loves sunflowers, so I tried to stamp some for her!
I used "From the Desk of" template to package her goodies, Background Basics: Retro for the dotted line background, Life for the sunflowers, and the sentiment comes from Vitage Picnic.
Thanks for stopping by!
"Happy Birthday" card and box
Template: From the Desk of
Stamps: Background Basics: Retro, Life, Vintage Picnic
Paper: Vintage Cream, Dark Chocolate
Ink: Lemon Tart, Summer Sunrise, Dark Chocolate, Ripe Avocado
Other: Dimensionals, Marvy Scalloped Circle Punch, 2" circle punch, Dark Chocolate satin ribbon, Summer Sunrise grosgrain ribbon, Fiskars border punchp
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #13
Here is Dawn's latest color challenge. I love the colors and had an idea to do something floral, inspired by that beautiful tin in the photo.
I used all Vintage Picnic for the stamps...I love that little floral background stamp, so sweet (click to enlarge to see better)! I colored the flowers with my Copic markers and paper pieced the basket with Bitty Box paper in Pure Poppy. The ribbon is Pure Poppy satin. That's about it...thanks for looking!
"Wishing you Well" (all products PTI unless noted)
Stamps: Vintage Picnic
Paper: Berry Sorbet, Pure Poppy, Spring Moss, Stamper's Select White
Ink: Berry Sorbet, Pure Poppy, Spring Moss
Other: Pure Poppy satin ribbon, Fiskars border punch, foam tape, Copics
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Sunday, July 26, 2009
Stamped table
Here is the table that I made for my daughter. I hope that she'll use it for tea and dinner parties, not for climbing and catapulting!
I found the mission-style kids table at Michael's on clearance and used my 50% coupon to get it for $7.50, what a deal! The chairs were $15 a piece. I painted them all with a couple coats of some basic white paint and then used my stamps and regular inks to decorate the table. I sealed the table with a spray sealant to make it waterproof.
I can't leave without a photo or two of the birthday girl, so here she is!
Thanks for looking!
Table (all products PTI unless noted)
Stamps: Everday Classics (Anniversary set), Fancy Flourishes, butterfly (Inkadinkado)
Ink: Plum Pudding, Ripe Avocado, violet (Cats Eye)
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Happy Birthday to my baby!!
Today my daughter turns two! We really can't believe it...
Here is the invite that I made for her small party. She loves Dora so I had to include that (please don't turn me in for copyright infringement!)
Thanks for stopping by and have a great day! I will stop back with some photos of her tea party table after her party!
Birthday party invites (all products PTI unless noted)
Paper: Kraft, Plum pudding, Stamper's Select White, Bitty Dots
Ink: Walnut Stain (Ranger)
Other: adhesive, dimensionals, sewing machine
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Monday, July 20, 2009
Happy Birthday
This card uses "Life" stamp set as I try to channel some to Debbie Olson's talent! I was very inspired by her framed art piece here. I made this for a friend who will celebrate her birthday this Friday, but it's safe to post now because she doesn't read my blog.
I tried to distress the focal image using my sandpaper thingy and inked all the edges.
I hope to be back soon with photos of the tea party table I'm making for my daughter's 2nd birthday.
Thanks for stopping by!
"Happy Birthday" (all products PTI unless noted)
Stamps: Life, Vintage Picnic (for outside sentiment), Heartfelt Basics (for inside sentiment)
Inks: Ripe Avocado, Spring Moss, Hibiscus Burst, Sweet Blush, Raspberry Fizz, Antique Linen and Walnut Stain (Ranger)
Paper: Ripe Avocado, Vintage Cream, Making Memories DP
Other: Raspberry Fizz satin ribbon, sponge
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Life is too short, eat dessert first!
This card is going to my grandma, who lives life by this motto (smart woman)! I made it using Background Basics: Retro for the background dotted lines and Cupcake Collection for the adorable, glittery heart sprinkled cupcake!
I made a similar set of cupcake cards that I added to my Etsy shop if you are interested!
Thanks for stopping by!
"Life is too short, eat dessert first" (all products PTI unless noted)
Stamps: Background Basics: Retro and Cupcake Collection
Paper: Vintage Cream, Kraft, Plum Pudding
Ink: Plum Pudding,Dark Chocolate, Antique Linen and Walnut Stain (Ranger)
Other: Nestabilites ribbon tag die, Plum Pudding Satin ribbon, dimensionals, Doodlebug glitter, Marvy square scallop punch
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Monday, July 13, 2009
Guess what...I made another template!
Sorry if you are getting bored, but yes, I did make another template. They are just so great for gift giving! This one is going to a little baby who probably won't notice it at all, but hopefully his mama will like it!
I used Lauren't captured card case template, but altered the size to fit the book.
Thanks for looking!
Michael card and box (all products PTI unless noted)
Stamps: Polka Dot Basics, Bitty Baby Blessings
Ink: Aqua Mist, Pure Poppy, Rich Cocoa (Memento), Vintage Tea Dye
Paper: Aqua-like color (Bazzill), Aqua Mist, Pure Poppy, Vintage Cream
Other: Aqua mist satin ribbon, pure poppy grosgrain ribbon, dimensionals, Copic Markers
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Monday, July 6, 2009
Another template, another picnic basket!
I seem to be all about making this pack a picnic template for gifts lately. I just can't stop...it's too darn cute! This will go to my friend's new baby. I tried to match up the colors to the outfit and I used Basic Grey's Lime Rickey papers.
I matched the card using some of the circles cut out of the Lime Rickey paper and a background stamp from Background Basics: Retro.
Thanks for looking!
"Sami" box and card: (all products PTI unless noted)
Template: Pack a picnic, Lauren Meader, My Timeless Templates
Stamps: Fresh Alpha, Polka Dot Basics, Simply Stationery, Background Basics: Retro, Everday Classics (Anniversary set)
Paper: New Leaf, Pure Poppy, Stamper's Select White, Spring Rain, and Lime Rickey (Basic Grey)
Ink: Pure Poppy, Lemon Tart, Spring Moss, New Leaf, Summer Sunrise, Spring Rain, Walnut stain distress ink (Ranger)
Other: Pure Poppy grosgrain ribbon, brads (unknown), Nestabilites oval and scallop oval dies, EK Success edge punch, dimensionals, buttons (foof-ala and making memories), embroidery floss (DMC), sewing machine
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20 Stadiums in 20 Days – Coors Field
If you read my last post, you'll recall that I was in Los Angeles. Two days later, the second leg of my business trip took my husband and I to Denver, home of the Colorado Rockies. Whereas our experience at Dodger Stadium had been sunny and warm, our visit to Coors Field turned out to be anything but that. However, it was a great night.
We were apparently following the Dodgers, as we would see them take on the Rockies on September 17, 1996.
This picture is the only one from our visit to Coors. It was not taken the night of the game we went to – note that the sky is beautiful and sunny. Less than 24 hours prior, it was dark, rainy, and cold. So rainy that I didn't even try to take my camera to the game, which is really unlike me.
So why did we go to a rainy night game? Because this was only the second season for Coors Field, and it was still pretty hard to get tickets. I'd ordered the tickets in advance once I knew we'd be in Denver, and was only able to get Rockpile seats for the game. Still, we had the tickets and wanted to use them, considering our flight home left the next afternoon.
It hadn't actually been raining all day, though it was looking threatening. And having just come from L.A., we didn't have anything warm to wear. So a few hours before game time, we ended up in a Gap in downtown Denver, buying jackets with fleece linings in them.
As we left our hotel for the walk to the stadium, it was raining lightly. Once we got to the stadium it continued to rain. Game time comes, and guess what? Rain delay!
Ultimately a two-hour rain delay. Lord only knows why we waited it out, and didn't just go back to the hotel. But we walked around and around the concourse, and eventually it was announced that the game would start. We made our way to our seats.
Not only were they in the Rockpile, the farthest section from the field, they were only a few rows from the very top of the Rockpile. But because of the delay, there were a lot of empty seats, so after an inning or two we moved down to the front of the section.
It never did really stop raining; it just sort of drizzled and misted most of the night. And even though we had our brand new fleece-lined jackets, I still froze my *ss off!
Eventually we made our way over to the first row or two of the left-center field seats. While we were there, we saw a home run hit by the Dodgers' Tim Wallach bounce off some guy's chest, only to be claimed by another guy sitting a few rows in front of him. The first guy tried to argue that the ball should be his because it hit him first, but to no avail.
The Rockies didn't do much that night, losing to the Dodgers 9-0.
So what, you ask, was so great? Hideo Nomo had just pitched a no-hitter at the most hitter-friendly park in the major leagues. And we had witnessed it!
The next day was, of course, beautiful, but we had a late afternoon flight to catch. We walked around the stadium area, so I could take the above picture. A man walking down the street asked us if we wanted two tickets to that afternoon's game, as he couldn't use them. We said "no thanks". After walking another block we could have kicked ourselves, having just realized that we could have gone in at least for a few innings, even if we didn't stay for the whole game. As they say, hindsight is 20/20.
Postscript: we still have the jackets we bought in Denver, and I often wear mine during the winter. And believe it or not, the price of Rockpile tickets is still the same as we paid almost 13 years ago – only $4!
Trivia Tid-Bit! Can anyone tell me what was unusual about this game? (yes, I know, but I want to see if you do)
Up next, The Ballpark In Arlington.


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The Packers looked good yesterday handling a poor Lions team. While fans shouldn't get overly excited about this kind of a victory, one important thing happened: the Packers handled a team they should handle. One the keys to being a championship team is being able to beat up on weak teams. Teams on the rise who aren't at the championship level, often struggle here and there in games they should win. Not the Packers of 2007.
I think it was also functional for our back-up players to have the opportunity to play in a real game in case they are thrust into action in the playoffs. Tramon Williams once again looked good, as did Koren Robinson and Bubba. I think the biggest play of the game though, may have been Jon Ryan's 73 yard punt that was downed at the 1. That was huge for his confidence and hopefully it will serve as a reminder to him that the Bears game was an aberration and that he is actually a good punter.


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Farmingdale State – 95, College of Mount Saint Vincent – 61
Farmingdale, N.Y. – The Farmingdale State men's basketball team defeated the College of Mount Saint Vincent, 95-61, in a Skyline Conference game this afternoon. The Rams improved to 15-5 overall and 11-2 in the conference, while the Dolphins dropped to 8-12, 6-7 in Skyline play.
Junior forward AJ Matthews (Brooklyn, N.Y.) opened the game with a layup for the 2-0 Farmingdale State lead. Mount Saint Vincent tied the game 2-2 on a layup by junior guard Shaquille Cunningham (Brooklyn, N.Y.), before senior guard Joshua Smith (Deer Park, N.Y.) hit a 3-pointer to give the Rams a 5-2 lead and they would never look back as they led by as much as 17 points throughout the first half. Smith led all scorers in the first with 14 points on 6-of-8 shooting.
In the second, Farmingdale shot 52-percent from the field and 41-percent from 3-point territory as they cruised to the 34-point victory. The Rams held the Dolphins to 30-percent shooting.
Matthews and Smith each recorded a game-high 18 points. Matthews recorded his 18th straight double-double as he pulled down 14 rebounds along with four blocks, while Smith dished off three assists and had four steals. Senior guard Dyshaun Flournoy (Brentwood, N.Y.) had 15 points and junior forward Leo Esonwune (Jamaica, N.Y.) scored 12 points and eight rebounds in 12 minutes played. Freshman forward Ibrahim Johnson (New York, N.Y.) grabbed 10 rebounds.
For Mount Saint Vincent, junior guard Sean Caputo (Staten Island, N.Y.) posted a team-high 17 points, including 5-of-6 from long range. Senior forward Cody Gauvard (Rockaway, N.Y.) finished with 11 points, five steals and three assists.
The Rams will now host Yeshiva University on Tuesday night, February 7, at 8:00 p.m.


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1st Technology v. Bodog Entertainment Group, S.A., No. 08-0872, (W.D. Wash. September 30, 2008).
After plaintiff 1st Technology won a $46 million default judgment against defendant BEGSA, 1st Technology began its collection efforts by seeking to obtain possession of thousands of BEGSA domain names registered through the Washington-state based registrar eNom. A state court ordered the domain names transferred to a receiver, but the judge, unsure of the degree of the state court's jurisdiction, did not transfer the ownership of the corresponding federally-registered trademarks associated with the domain names.
Thereafter, BEGSA purported to assign the trademarks to various subsidiaries and related entities. 1st Technology filed a federal lawsuit against BEGSA and these other entities, asking the court to set aside the later transfers as fraudulent conveyances. 1st Technology sought a preliminary injunction to prevent further transfer of the trademarks, and to prevent defendants from using the trademarks in connection with online gambling.
The court granted the motion inasmuch as it sought prevention of further transfer. But it denied the motion as to the use in connection with online gambling.
BEGSA argued, among other things, that the court could not order the forced sale of the trademarks and their goodwill, and that federal trademark law preempted the state fraudulent conveyance law under which 1st Technology sought relief. The court rejected both of these arguments, citing to Seventh Circuit authority providing that the "assertion that a trademark is not subject to an involuntary judicial sale is incorrect." Adams Apple Distrib. Co. v. Papeleras Reunidas, S.A., 773 F.2d 925, 931 (7th Cir. 1985). On the preemption question, the court noted the absence of any authority cited by BEGSA providing for preemption, and looked to the language of 15 U.S.C. §1119, which gives the court broad authority to affect the federal trademark register.
In denying injunctive relief against the use of the trademarks in connection with online gambling, the court concluded that at such an early stage in the litigation, it was not prepared to distinguish which conduct on the part of the defendants was illegal or legal. Of significant importance was the likelihood of harm to both parties if the trademarks could not be used in the way they traditionally had (that is, for online gambling). Defendants argued that "disjoining the marks from their most commonly known use hopelessly dilutes them and destroys their value – to anyone."


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Vermont has a generation gap. Young adults in their 20s are
part of the largest generation ever in America.
But Vermonters ages 20 to 34
continue to leave the state. And a low birth rate means they're not being
Politicians have debated for
years the significance, but most agree the trend is cause for concern about the
economic and cultural well-being of the state.
Vermont Edition delves into this
trend and how it affects the economic and cultural well-being of the state in
the series "Generation Gap."
The Generation Gap Project is made possible by the VPR Journalism Fund.


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Administrator Jackson focusing on impact of perchlorate on children
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson announced that the agency is taking an important step to ensure children's health is taken into account when evaluating the chemical perchlorate. To enhance transparency, the agency is seeking public comment on its reevaluation of the scientific information on perchlorate in drinking water. Under the previous administration, EPA made a preliminary decision not to regulate perchlorate. Jackson directed EPA staff to review that decision and, as part of that review, the agency is putting special emphasis on evaluating the impact of perchlorate on infants and young children.
"It is critically important to protect sensitive populations, particularly infants and young children, from perchlorate in drinking water," said Jackson. "As we re re-evaluate the science around perchlorate, we will seek public input before making a regulatory determination based on the best science."
The analysis presented in the notice more directly evaluates children's exposure to perchlorate. This step takes into account the fact that infants and children consume more water per body weight than do adults. EPA is now considering a broader range of alternatives for interpreting the available data on the level of health concern, the frequency of occurrence of perchlorate in drinking water and the opportunity for health risk reduction through a national primary drinking water standard. These alternative interpretations may impact the agency's final regulatory determination for perchlorate.
In response to a 2008 preliminary determination not to regulate perchlorate, EPA received and reviewed comments from more than 32,000 individuals and organizations. EPA will consider those comments, as well as new comments received during the 30-day comment period on the current notice, before making a final decision on whether to regulate perchlorate under the Safe Drinking Water Act.
Perchlorate is both a naturally occurring and manmade chemical. Perchlorate is used in the manufacture of fireworks, flares and solid rocket propellant.
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During October, the Glasgow Novotel, which is one of the better hotels in the City Centre, is doing a "3rd night free" promotion at weeknds. That means that for a 3 night stay, arriving on a Friday, the cost per person sharing a Twin or Double works out at just under £22 per night which is excellent value.
The offer also applies to Thursday arrivals but the overall rate is slightly higher at around £23.50 per night. Still a good deal though.


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I'm going to indulge in a little reminiscing about historic sites, summer vacations, dinosaurs, and gunfighters. Normally these subjects wouldn't be sharing the same space, but in my case they share a complicated autobiographical conjunction. If that sounds bizarre, well, that's life for you.
For most people who love history, geography evokes the past. Visiting a region or looking at a map will cause your historical mind to kick in and make associations with past people, events, cultures, and so on. The deeper your historical knowledge of a particular place or region, the more richly detailed the mental historical map that you can impose on the actual one. When I look at a map of South Carolina, I see the Revolutionary War playing out. When I drive across Virginia, I see Union and Confederate armies. You probably have your own historical associations that you impose on particular places or regions.
For me, having this tendency is a comparatively recent development. My passionate childhood encounters with history were pretty few and far between. I didn't turn into a full-fledged history nut until I was old enough to vote. Dinosaurs took up all the neurons I could spare. Most young dino fanatics start to cool in their enthusiasm when they become teenagers, but that was the age range in which my dino-fever intensified. Hollywood had a lot to do with it. The first two Jurassic Park films bracketed my high school years; the first movie opened the summer before I became a freshman, the sequel on the weekend I graduated.
In 1993, the same year that Jurassic Park whipped my dino-fixation into a fever pitch, my mom decided to start writing about gunfighters in the Old West. For the next few years, our family vacations coincided with her research trips to the western U.S., a part of the country where none of us had spent much time before. Since the West is also home to some of the greatest dinosaur graveyards in the world and scores of natural history museums, I'd have the chance to indulge my dinosaur obsession along the way. Furthermore, my dad was a history teacher, so we also planned to hit some battlefields and other sites. Something for everybody.
Thus was born a venerable Lynch family tradition, the Great Summer Western Circuits of the 1990's. My parents and I would stockpile books, snacks, and maps into a minivan, generally with one or two other bystanders in tow, and head across the Mississippi to spend two or three weeks at a time on the trail of gunslingers. We usually went southwestward through Arkansas and Texas and then into Arizona and New Mexico, and then made a loop north toward the Canadian border before turning eastward and heading back home, by which point we were all ready to strangle each other from days of close confinement.
We paid homage at the usual tourist Meccas—the Grand Canyon, Mt. Rushmore (which was overrated, I thought), the Alamo—but given Mom's interests, most of the places we visited were gunfighter locales like Tombstone, Dodge City, Deadwood, Coffeyville, Northfield, and Fort Sumner. We saw more restored saloons, dance halls, penitentiaries, and courthouses than I could count if I tried, and paid our respects at every outlaw's last resting place between Montana and Arizona.
Now that I've had time to look back on it, these were my first sustained experiences with historical travel. I had visited historic sites as a kid, but never so many of them in so short a period of time as I did on these vacations. The thing is—and I didn't realize this until recently—these early ventures as a heritage tourist were very unconventional. Sure, I got to see some "mainstream" historic sites, mostly battlefields along with a smattering of forts and writers' homes. (Mom is a former English teacher, so Willa Cather and Laura Ingalls Wilder were on the itinerary.) But most of our destinations involved the West that you see in the movies, the one populated by gamblers, lawmen, and train robbers—all those other figures who cast such a long shadow across the American imagination.
Just as these characters straddle the boundary between history and myth, so these historic sites where people came to walk in their footsteps were hard to categorize. These gunfighter attractions tended to be small, offbeat operations, lying somewhere on the spectrum between legit historic site and outright tourist trap and often much closer to the latter. They had the kind of charming roadside aesthetic you don't get at a place like Mount Vernon or Antietam. The interpretation was heavy on folklore and melodrama, and collections policies were practically non-existent. In New Mexico, we visited a Billy the Kid museum that boasted a stuffed and mounted two-headed calf as one of its artifacts. The small courthouse in Mesilla where the Kid was (unsuccessfully, as it turned out) sentenced to hang, and where the Gadsden Purchase was signed, had become a souvenir shop; I bought an acrylic paperweight with a dead scorpion encased inside of it there, and kept it on my dresser for years afterward. The old Birdcage Theater in Tombstone, AZ had become a quirky museum, crowded with every kind of antiquarian bric-a-brac you could imagine—an 188o's barber chair, old medical instruments, racy photos of Victorian-era prostitutes, and (most bizarre of all) a Fiji mermaid, that staple of nineteenth-century sideshows.
Tombstone was always on the itinerary. What Gettysburg is to the Civil War, Tombstone is to the Old West—a great tourist Mecca where you can't swing a dead cat without hitting some historic attraction or gift shop. The main attraction was the O.K. Corral. The proprietors had walled in the vacant lot behind the stables where the gunfight actually took place, so you had to pay admission and walk through the corral gate to get to it. Garish mannequins representing the participants marked the spot where the shootout erupted, and a recorded spiel with sound effects played at the push of a button. A small fee got you into Boot Hill, where a map handout guided you to all the notable graves. You could drink a Coke in some of the old saloons, or take a stagecoach tour through the streets. You could buy a different Wyatt Earp or Doc Holliday t-shirt for every day of the month. One of the souvenir apparel shops was in a former pool hall where Earp's younger brother took a fatal bullet in the back.
The historic West I saw as a teenager was the semi-mythical West, but at the time, I didn't really distinguish between the conventional historic sites and the kitschy tourist attractions. It was all just filler between the dinosaur stops. I didn't care too much about cowboys, Indians, and vast herds of buffalo; I wanted vast herds of Triceratops. The only history that really excited me was the history of fossil hunting. Indifferent to Mt. Rushmore and the Truman Library, I flipped out when we drove past Como Bluff, WY, one of the nineteenth century's most famous dinosaur burial grounds.
My mental map of the West was very sketchy, my appreciation of its history negligible. It was similar to those old maps that have vast expanses of terra incognita populated by monsters. The difference is that the dragons on my mental map had once been very much alive. I had been to these blank spaces, but they remained blank anyway because the dragons were all I really noticed at the time.
When I looked over the atlases that my dad used to navigate our western trips, and when I watched the landscape zip past the window, I associated places with the dinosaurs that once lived there: sauropods and stegosaurs in Utah, tyrannosaurs in Montana. If geography evoked human history at all, it was only the history of paleontology, as at Como Bluff. What seems funny to me now is how much my frame of reference has changed since then. These days, when I look at a map or drive across a landscape, I see associations with the 1700's and 1800's. The ways I make sense of the world have evolved.
So although I got to travel throughout much of the West, I knew almost nothing of its rich history while I was seeing it. Indeed, the history of the West remained a hazy subject for me even after I finished my master's degree. When I got assigned to teach a survey course on the post-Civil War U.S., I had to do a lot of boning up on the settlement of the trans-Mississippi before I could put a decent lecture together.
My mental map of American history doesn't have quite as many blank spaces now as it did when I was a teenager. I can look at an atlas of the United States or drive through a region and make connections with important people and events; the landscapes I see around me are filled with the bones of people as well as the bones of dragons. Old habits die hard, though, and the dragons are still lurking around. As a history major I had to take a methodology course and complete a major research project, so I wrote my paper on a feud between two nineteenth-century paleontologists, a feud in which the dinosaur graveyard of Como Bluff figured prominently.
I'm a little sorry that, when I had the chance to appreciate the historic West firsthand, I was so obsessed with the prehistoric one that I didn't pay very close attention to anything else. I'd like to spend some more time out there now that I'm armed with some sort of historical sensibility, and pay the dinosaurs a visit while I'm at it. The map isn't blank anymore, but I think there's still enough space for some dragons.


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Commercial (Business) Burglary
Ninety per cent of burglary prevention is physical security (Locks). If your Fulton County complex is locked up and unauthorized entry is made difficult, time consuming, noisy and visible, chances of a successful burglary are kept to a minimum. The burglar will pass up your Georgia business and look for an easier target.
Steps to Take to Prevent a Burglary in Fulton County
Locks on all outside entrances and inside security doors should be double cylinder deadbolts with moveable collars. The deadbolt should have at least one inch throw containing a hardened steel insert and protected by a latch guard.
Padlocks should be of hardened steel, mounted on bolted hasps and always locked to prevent exchange. Serial numbers should be filed off to prevent new keys from being made.
Doors (all outside or security doors) should be of solid construction, metal lined and secured with heavy metal crossbars. Jams around doors must be solid. All exposed hinges should be pinned to prevent removal.
Windows should have secure locks. Burglar-resistant glass treatments are also recommended. An example would be the installation of polyester security film. However, this must be used in conjunction with the alarm's glass break sensor. Heavy metal grates may be used on windows of high vulnerability (such as rear windows). Check with the Fire Marshall for safety requirements.
Lights must provide optimum visibility, both inside and out, with those outside having vandal-proof covers over the lights and power source. Entire perimeter must be well lit, especially the area around doors and other possible entry points.
Alarm System should be supplied by a licensed alarm company or Georgia locksmith with a central monitoring station. Check the alarm system on a daily basis, and advertise its presence to deter break-ins.
Cash Register should be kept in plain view from outside the building so it can be easily monitored and should be left open when empty and not in use.
Safes should be fire proof, burglar resistant, anchored securely and in plain view. Leave it open when it is empty, and use it to lock up valuables when business is closed. Contact a Georgia locksmith to change the combination whenever someone with access to it leaves your employment.
Building Exterior should be checked including the roof, cellar and walls. Secure all openings.
Maintain Good Visibility by not allowing landscaping, boxes, trash bins, vehicles or equipment near building where they might provide concealment or access to the roof.
Perimeter Fences need to be adequate enough to keep intruders out, and at the same time allow good visibility of your business by neighbors and Georgia police (i.e. vertical iron bar fence or 1/8 inch mesh vinyl coated chain link).
Key Control should be done in a responsible manner. A master key system where one key opens all locks may be convenient, but it may not be the best for security. Code all keys, keep them locked up when not in use, and do not allow employees to leave them lying around or make duplicates. Change locks whenever you suspect key security has been jeopardized.
Home Invasions - Be Prepared
For every home, safety and security are highly important. This is absolutely why locks, keys and electronic security devices came into existence. Their invention was purposefully to address the growing need for personal protection of properties and other valuables. Historically speaking, keys and locks were already used in the Biblical times. Using crude wood and metal, people shaped them into slabs attached against the door from the inside by the use of makeshift brackets. Locksmiths play an important role in everyone's lives. Although sometimes unrecognized and taken for granted, locksmiths are the people who keep us safe in our homes and in our cars. Without locksmith services, perhaps the rate of theft and burglary have already risen up to uncontrollable levels.
Residential Locksmith Services.
The most basic service that a locksmith offers is the installation of locks in a new home. Home owners naturally want their personal safety as well as their material possessions secured. This can be done by setting up locks on every window and door in the home. But apart from this, locksmiths also replace or repair locks for older homes. Other related residential locksmith services include key duplication in cases when there is a need for every family member to have their own set of keys, installation of home vaults and safes, repairs and desk lock installation, garage door lock installation and repairs and of course, overall maintenance of house locks whether electronic or not.
Emergency Locksmith Services.
This is perhaps the most demanding type of service for every locksmith, especially for those who are on call 24 hours a day. Basically, emergency locksmiths should be ready to help even at the most awkward hours of the day. People call on emergency locksmiths during home and car lock-outs, during vehicular accidents when their expertise is needed to open a jammed door with a trapped passenger, and during fire disasters when doors have to be unlocked to rescue people inside a burning building In the event of burglary and theft, homeowners need emergency locksmiths to immediately replace all locks around the house. In addition, emergency locksmiths can also pick locks to gain access to important documents and valuables inside a malfunctioning vault.
Home Invasions - Be Prepared
Home invasion is described as the crime of entering a private and occupied property with the intention of theft or violence. It can also be applied to a situation where a homeowner invites someone into his or her house but the guest overstays a welcome, leading to an argument that may involve the authorities escorting the guest out. This is a different crime than theft, though it is similarly motivated and comparable in statistics. Home invasion is particularly dangerous because it may involve several criminals, one or more of which may be capable of great violence. After all, a burglar can plan his or her strategy around not being seen by others. However, home invaders are usually seen by the occupants, which can lead to deadly results.
There have been many cases of home invasion, and contrary to popular belief, not all of these crimes are committed because of soured relationships between known acquaintances and friends. There have been reports of criminals randomly choosing shoppers in malls and following them all the way home. This may be a very different set of circumstances than a typical robbery, because any loud siren noise would only provoke the invader, prompting him to order the homeowner to turn it off. This defeats the purpose of an alarm system. An older model alarm system may be equipped to handle theft but not address the possibility of a home invasion.
However, it's very possible that just the idea of such sophisticated security systems will discourage criminals from even attempting to invade a guarded home. They may be deterred from a warning sign or from other evidence that the premises is being monitored 24 hours a day and seven days a week. Instead, the criminal will turn his attention to a nearby house-one not equipped with an alarm system. Safeguard your home and family with a security system.


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The inaugural Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) all-conference lacrosse teams include seven players from Hope College.
Introduced at Hope as a varsity sport this spring, both teams qualified for the first-ever conference tournament. The Flying Dutch were third in the regular season women's standings while the Flying Dutchmn finished fourth in the men's race.
Named to their respective All-MIAA first teams are junior attack Jacob Kamstra of Zeeland (Zeeland East HS), junior midfielder Katie Sabourin of Flint (Powers Catholic HS) and sophomore defender Molly Greenfield of Georgetown, Tex. (Georgetown HS). Second team honorees are senior attack Maddie Ferguson of Seattle, Wash. (Seattle Prep HS)., senior attack Josh Kamstra of Zeeland (Zeeland East HS), junior midfield offense Niko Pagkanlungan of Naples, Fla. (Barron Collier HS) and junior face off specialist Michael Schofield of Chester, N.J. (Mendham HS).


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Quenya: "She Who Weeps", pronounced [niˈenːa]. The Sindarin form is Ninir ([ˈninir]). Other names of Nienna include Heskil (Q: "Winter One", [ˈheskil]), Núri (Q: "Sighing One", [ˈnuːri]), and Qalmë-Tári (Q: "Mistress of Death", [ˌkʷalmeˈtaːri]). Nienna is also called Fui (Q: "Night", [fuɪ]), though this is more correctly the name of her dwelling.
A Queen of the Valar, the sister of Námo and Irmo, who dwells alone on the western borders of the World. Nienna ranks as one of the eight Aratar, the most powerful of the Valar.
Grief and mourning are Nienna's province; in her halls in the distant west, she weeps for the suffering of Arda. Her part in the Music of the Ainur was one of deep sadness, and from this grief entered the world in its beginning.
She teaches pity and endurance; though she rarely travels to the joyful city of Valmar, she goes more often to the halls of her brother Mandos to comfort and counsel those in the Halls of Waiting. The Maia Olórin, who was later to travel to Middle-earth as Gandalf, learned much from her.
Nienna played a part in the making of the Two Trees of Valinor; she wept on the mound of Ezellohar, watering it with her tears. After the destruction of the Trees by Melkor, she once again wept on their wounded remains, cleansing the filth of Ungoliant, and helping to bring forth the last fruit and flower that were to become the Sun and the Moon.
The pity of Nienna is most clearly seen in her support for Melkor when he sued for the pardon of the Valar. Though she spends her time in the world mourning for the destruction he has wreaked in Arda, when he sued for release after his three ages of Captivity, Nienna spoke on his part.
Of Nienna's appearance we have almost no knowledge. The only hint is in Quenta Silmarillion 9, Of the Flight of the Noldor, where she 'cast back her grey hood'. Given that Gandalf was her student, this might (though somewhat doubtfully) have some relevance to his title, the Grey.
Quenya noun inflection
See Also
| Manwë · Ulmo · Aulë · Oromë · Mandos · Irmo · Tulkas ·
|Varda · Yavanna · Nienna · Estë · Vairë · Vána · Nessa
|Arien · Eönwë · Ilmarë · Melian · Ossë · Salmar · Tilion · Uinen
|Saruman · Gandalf · Radagast · Blue Wizards
|Sauron · Balrogs (Gothmog · Durin's Bane) · Boldogs
|Music · Valarin · Almaren · Valinor · Valmar · Second Music • italics indicates Aratar


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Despite all of India's selling points, the country can't seem to get out of its own way. Since gaining independence from Britain, India's economic growth has so badly trailed that of China and several other East Asian economies that economists derisively called it the "Hindu rate of growth." In the early days of the Indian republic, the country copied the worst aspects of British bureaucracy and Soviet central planning and melded the two into a unique Indian "self-sufficiency" model that virtually guaranteed economic stagnation.
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For Immediate Release
Monday, Oct. 22, 2012
James Hohman, Assistant Director of Fiscal Policy
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MIDLAND — A new study released today by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy finds that if Proposal 1 is defeated and Public Act 4 of 2011 is nullified, local governments and school districts will still be subject to a state-appointed manager if local officials have led them into insolvency. Such managers, retaining considerable powers, would continue to operate under Public Act 72, which was passed by the state Legislature in 1990 with bipartisan support.
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The study, titled "Proposal 1 of 2012: The Referendum on Public Act 4," is online here; the appendix of the study contains the complete language of Public Act 4. For more information on this and other ballot proposals, please see www.MIballot2012.org.
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