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HARRISBURG - State lawmakers received more than $2 million for their lodging and meals during fiscal 2012-13, with the bulk of the taxpayer-funded reimbursements not requiring any receipts for how they spent the money, a Sunday Times analysis of records found.
A breakdown of that amount shows about $1.8 million spent for per diems - daily allowances for lodging and meals that are tax-free and require no receipts for how the money is spent - and nearly $200,000 going for reimbursement of actual expenses for lodging and meals which require receipts.
- Database: PA Senate Per Diems & Expenses for Fiscal Year 2012-13
- Database: PA House Per Diems & Expenses for Fiscal Year 2012-13
- Interactive Chart: NEPA Senators total per diems/expenses for fiscal year 2012-13
- Interactive Chart: NEPA House lawmakers per diems/expenses for fiscal year 2012-13
The delegation of 30 lawmakers who represent 12 counties in Northeast Pennsylvania is about evenly split between those who submit expense receipts and those who collect per diems. Those counties are Bradford, Carbon, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Monroe, Northumberland, Pike, Schuylkill, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Wayne and Wyoming.
Four area senators collected per diems mainly on session days and submitted expenses for non-session days.
A number of lawmakers are putting brief notations in public records explaining what per diems and expenses are for especially on days the Legislature is not in session. Lawmakers do this to show how an expense relates to legislative activity, said Senate Chief Clerk Russell Faber.
Over the years, per diems have become controversial and sometimes are fodder in political campaigns because they are paid automatically without much accounting. Examples of their abuse have surfaced in recent years such as collecting a per diem and expensing meals on the same day.
A political activist said the core problem with per diems is the lack of independent oversight.
"There's a need to offset legitimate expenses incurred by legislators," said Eric Epstein, cofounder of RocktheCapital.com, who has analyzed legislative spending since the 2005 legislative pay raise controversy. "However, too often per diems are tax-free bonuses that legislators can access without oversight."
Per diems are to cover a lawmaker's expenses for lodging and meals while being away from home at the Capitol to attend sessions and committee meetings or to attend a committee meeting in another part of the state. The federal government sets per diem rates for lodging and meals in various cities.
A Pennsylvania lawmaker can get $51 for meals for a day, while a low-income family of four in Pennsylvania receives less than $2.50 through food stamps per meal assuming they eat three meals a day.
Senators received reimbursements of about $5,700 on average, while House members averaged about $8,500. By comparison, Meals on Wheels could serve 120 senior citizens for two weeks for about $8,500.
Statewide, per diems and lodging and meal expenses for the 203 House lawmakers totaled $1.8 million during fiscal 2012-13, while per diems and respective expenses for the 50 senators totaled $285,000, according to a Right to Know Law request filed by the newspaper with House and Senate chief clerk offices.
The Senate breakdown was $224,000 in per diems; $61,000 in expenses. The Senate doesn't have a time limit for paying expenses, so in some cases expenses incurred in fiscal 2011-12 were reimbursed in fiscal 2012-13.
The House breakdown was more than $1.6 million in per diems, $130,000 in expenses.
Legislative spending totaled $307 million in fiscal 2012-13. A lawmaker's base salary was $82,206 in 2012 and $83,202 in 2013.
The amount of individual per diems and expenses collected can vary depending on whether a lawmaker is in leadership, leads a committee or sits on a committee that meets more frequently, such as Appropriations, which holds hearings on the state budget each February and March. Other factors include whether a lawmaker stayed overnight because of the driving distance or in what city a committee meeting is.
Critics say per diems violate Article 11, Section 8 of the state constitution stating lawmakers shall receive salary and mileage for sessions and no other compensation.
A per diem is an unvouchered expense for which no accounting exists, said activist Gene Stilp of Taxpayers and Ratepayers United.
"It becomes a stealth salary that's not provided for in the constitution," he said.
"The Legislature should be subject to independent oversight and an auditor that reviews expenses, gifts and per diems," said Mr. Epstein.
Sen. John Yudichak, D-14, Nanticoke, suggested a state constitutional convention would be the best way to resolve issues concerning legislative expenses. House passage of a proposed constitutional amendment to reduce the size of the General Assembly could be the catalyst for such a convention, he added.
Mr. Yudichak submits receipts for expenses and has introduced bills in the past to end per diems. He said the IRS rules are so open-ended that the public feels there's a lack of accountability with per diems.
Rep. Sid Michaels Kavulich, D-114, Taylor, said submitting receipts for expense is the method he's most comfortable with. He said his food expenses are low because he eats light.
Cases of per diem abuse have made headlines in recent years.
During the 2010 trial that led to a state corruption conviction for former Rep. Michael Veon, testimony was presented that Mr. Veon billed taxpayers $22,000 for meals after nighttime basketball games with other lawmakers and still collected his full per diem. Mr. Veon was acquitted on the specific charge of per diem abuse by a jury.
The Sunday Times published a story in 2010 about a practice, permissible under House rules, where some lawmakers collected lodging per diems while staying at properties they owned in the Harrisburg area.
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The current expense records give an idea of the ebb and flow of legislative activity.
Rep. Phyllis Mundy, D-120, Kingston, spent the most of the Northeast Pennsylvania delegation with per diems totaling $16,344.
She collected 11 per diems totaling $1,749 while participating in House Appropriations Committee hearings last winter on Gov. Tom Corbett's state budget proposal. Ms. Mundy attended because of her role as Democratic minority chairwoman of the House Finance Committee. Efforts to reach Ms. Mundy for comment were unsuccessful.
Sen. John Blake, D-22, Archbald, spent the least of the Northeast delegation. He received one $181 expense for overnight lodging in November 2012 when he spoke at the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work. Mr. Blake submits expenses just for overnight hotel stays, mileage and tolls, said aide Luc Miron.
Mr. Yudichak submitted expenses for meetings related to Hazleton General Hospital, gang task force legislation, a Senate Bioscience Forum in Scranton and the West Wyoming gas compressor station.
The House records include expenses for former Lackawanna County Reps. Ed Staback, Kevin Murphy and Ken Smith who left office a year ago.
Mr. Murphy collected per diems for three days spent closing his Capitol office in October 2012.
The records include expenses for Reps. Frank Farina, D-115, Jessup; Marty Flynn, D-113, Scranton; and Kevin Haggerty, D-112, Dunmore, who took office in January.
Mr. Haggerty submitted a $108 lodging expense in February connected to a meeting with the president of Villanova University in Villanova. A Villanova alumnus, Mr. Haggerty said that meeting laid the groundwork for a Villanova day at the Capitol on Nov. 12 at which students spent time with lawmakers.
Mr. Farina had a $50 overnight lodging expense in March in Renovo. He attended a Pennsylvania Game Commission event on the bear population. Mr. Farina is a member of the House Game and Fisheries Committee.
Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski, D-121, Wilkes-Barre, collected $968 in per diems for four days while attending the 2012 National Conference of State Legislatures in Chicago. The per diem rate for each day was $242 - reflecting the per diem rate for Chicago. Mr. Pashinski said he participated in conference sessions on health care and voter identification.
"There is an exchange of ideas that really opens up your eyes," he said.
Rep. Mario Scavello, R-176, Mount Pocono, stopped collecting per diems at the end of April 2013, and started submitting receipts for expenses after that.
Mr. Kavulich and Reps. Lynda Schlegel Culver, R-108, Rockefeller Twp. and Kurt Masser, R-107, Ralpho Twp., post monthly expenses on their websites. Their tallies include office expenses not covered by per diems. Mr. Kavulich spent $420 on lodging last October. Ms. Culver said she doesn't take reimbursement for meals.
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Requiring that certain contraceptives be made available under the mandated health-care coverage of Obamacare would substantially burden the religious rights of a chain of hobby stores and Christian bookstores and their devout Christian owners, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
The court ruled that the companies, Hobby Lobby Stores and Mardel, Inc., and its owners, the Green family, have a valid claim in their case under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).
But a majority of judges on the court declined to approve an injunction that would allow the company an exemption from paying for contraceptive methods they find religiously offensive.
Instead, the court sent that issue back to a federal judge to determine whether an injunction should be issued to protect the religious rights of the company and its owners.
The company is facing a July 1 deadline to comply.
"We hold that Hobby Lobby and Mardel are entitled to bring claims under RFRA, have established a likelihood of success that their rights under this statute are substantially burdened by the contraceptive-coverage requirement, and have established an irreparable harm," Circuit Judge Timothy Tymkovich wrote for the court.
"But we remand the case to the district court for further proceedings on two of the remaining factors governing the grant or denial of a preliminary injunction," he said.
The 5-to-3 decision by the Tenth US Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver marks the first time an appeals court has examined the issue.
The case is one of 60 that have been filed by individuals, companies, and organizations across the country complaining that the president's health-care mandate will force them to violate their sincerely held religious beliefs.
They charge that the mandate will force them to pay for certain types of offensive contraceptives, including the so-called morning-after pill that they consider an abortifacient.
Of the 20 contraceptive methods required to be offered under Obamacare, the company and its owners objected to four – two types of IUDs and the emergency morning-after pills known as Plan B and Ella.
They object because they believe that life begins when an egg is fertilized. The company and its owners do not object to paying for their employees to use the other 16 contraceptive methods that prevent fertilization.
The Obama administration has refused to issue an exemption to the companies. Government lawyers argue that the contraceptive mandate is no burden on religious belief because it is up to an individual employee to choose which method to use.
The owners disagree. They believe that life begins at conception and that contraceptive methods that prevent implantation of a fertilized egg are causing harm to human beings. The government mandate forces them to subsidize that harm.
Hobby Lobby has more than 500 stores employing 13,000 fulltime workers. Mardel runs 35 bookstores employing 400 workers.
According to the court's opinion, the companies face a difficult choice: Remain faithful to their religious beliefs or pay hefty fines. If they refuse to pay for the offensive contraceptives as part of the mandated coverage, they could face fines of up to $1.3 million a day or $475 million a year.
The opinion noted an alternative: "If the corporations instead drop employee health insurance altogether, they will face penalties of $26 million per year."
Judge Tymkovich noted that government lawyers argue that there can be no claim under RFRA if the alleged government coercion of religious adherents depends on the independent action of third parties – like the Hobby Lobby employees.
The majority judges rejected that view. "Our only task is to determine whether the claimant's belief is sincere, and if so, whether the government has applied substantial pressure on the claimant to violate that belief," he wrote.
"No one disputes in this case the sincerity of Hobby Lobby and Mardel's religious beliefs," he said. "And because the contraceptive-coverage requirement places substantial pressure on Hobby Lobby and Mardel to violate their sincere religious beliefs, their exercise of religion is substantially burdened within the meaning of RFRA," he wrote.
Typkovich noted that government lawyers have said the government's interest in mandating universal health insurance coverage is to advance the twin goals of public health and gender equality. The judge said the government had not explained "how those larger interests would be undermined by granting Hobby Lobby and Mardel their requested exemption."
"Hobby Lobby and Mardel ask only to be excused from covering four contraceptive methods out of twenty, not to be excused from covering contraception altogether," the judge said. "The government does not articulate why accommodating such a limited request fundamentally frustrates its goals."
The case is Hobby Lobby v. Sebelius (12-6294).

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It�s high school reunion season as evidenced by Facebook blurbs hitting my computer and newspaper stories unfolding on my breakfast table. Like most things, schools of the 1950s were light-years different than they are today.
Some of the more surprising differences to me are changes in definitions of crime and punishment. I don�t mean through Dostoyevsky�s eyes but rather in what constituted in-school transgressions and what penalties were attached to them compared to the present.
One huge difference is that I grew up in the age of the paddle, sometimes called the �board� of education by clich� lovers. I was a terrible student by any measure and take misplaced pride remembering that I sampled just about every sanction the system had to offer short of expulsion.
Our school �crimes� were quite different from today�s definitions. Some routine things done back then would�ve brought SWAT teams and news trucks to campuses today.
For example during hunting season virtually every car in the Havelock high parking lot contained guns. We were perpetually on the �hunt.�
I recall, on our way to school, Kelton and I jumping out of the car with guns in hand to chase down a rabbit we spotted in an open field. We ran and cut and pivoted and turned, but these two humans were no match for the little critter.
Looking back I�m smiling, glad the bunny defeated us big lumbering monsters. Good job, rabbit.
During schooldays, trashcans were routinely set on fire simply because they contained trash and we contained matches. It got so pervasive, Moses and Calvin began emptying cans all during the day. Today it�d be labeled �attempted arson� on our warrants.
We were always roughhousing in school. Some of it was games, some just playfulness. Nothing was thought about it, but nowadays it�d be assault, pure and simple.
Bobby Thomas could walk on his hands effortlessly. Sometimes in the hall after the bell, I�d spot two shoes in the air amid a sea of bobbing heads.
That was just Bobby changing classes. Today for such behavior, he�d likely be fed zombie Ritalin or relegated to counseling to �cure� his topsy-turvy tendencies.
With stuff like this going on, you may wonder exactly what wasn�t tolerated. The big no-no was pretty simple: Our teachers didn�t brook material disruptions of their teaching processes.
If a student became an impediment to the class as a whole, teachers typically threw the offending student out. They�d not sacrifice the group so one or two malcontents wouldn�t have their self-esteem dented. Out!
Schools existed only to produce educated kids and did so with flying colors. Against my will and without my cooperation, I graduated high school with a spectacular education because of a wonderful system of empowered teachers.
When I headed to college, none of my course choices contained the qualifier �remedial.� So many things have improved over the past 50 years but clearly not public education.
Somewhere along the way, I suspect education got smothered under the mass of politicians, unions and bureaucrats. It absolutely reeks.
Otis Gardner�s column appears here weekly. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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Praised as a great community leader and aviator, President Dieter F. Uchtdorf was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany during a short ceremony at Church headquarters in Salt Lake City on Oct. 30.
The Order of Merit is the highest tribute that the Federal Republic of Germany can pay to individuals for service to the nation, recognizing exceptional charitable work as well as accomplishments in various other types of social, political and scientific endeavors.
German Consul General Dr. Bernd Fischer lauded President Uchtdorf for his lifetime of service and leadership, including his present work as the second counselor in the First Presidency of the Church.
"For his service in the field of aviation and his selfless service to his worldwide community, it would be sufficient to qualify him for this special award," said Dr. Fischer. "But together, his service in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, his community service, and his service and leadership in the field of aviation, we are three-times pleased to present this award to President Uchtdorf."
In addition, "he has always shown the flag of Germany to the world," Dr. Fischer said to a gathering that included President Thomas S. Monson and President Henry B. Eyring, first counselor in the First Presidency; Sister Harriet Uchtdorf and other members of President Uchtdorf's family; Utah Governor Gary R. Herbert and his wife, Jeanette; and German consular officials.
"Everywhere he goes, he is known as 'The German among us,' as he spreads good will and comfort to millions across the world. He is a marvelous ambassador of good will and hope to those with whom he speaks."
A former fighter pilot in the German Air Force, President Uchtdorf also served the Church as a stake president in both the Frankfurt Germany Stake and the Mannheim Germany Stake. For twenty-six years President Uchtdorf was an airline captain for Lufthansa German Airlines. At the time of his call as a General Authority, he was the senior vice president of flight operations and chief pilot for Lufthansa. He and his wife, Harriet, raised their two children in Germany.
President Uchtdorf said he was humbled to receive the "unexpected distinction."


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44th Pillsbury Bake-Off® Contest´s New "You Be the Judge!" Voting.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
You may remember me posting about the 44th Pillsbury Bake-Off® contest back in March. Well, the contest´s entry period ended in mid-April 2009, but now they need people to help with the judging. For the first time in the contest´s 60-year history, WE can help determine 10 recipes among the final 100 that will compete for the $1 million grand prize!
How does the You Be the Judge! voting work? Judges will select 20 recipes to be placed online at www.bakeoff.com in pairs for a period of two weeks for each pair. Consumers can vote for their favorite recipe in each pair. The recipe from each pair that wins the most votes will earn a spot in the final competition, April 11-13, 2010, in Orlando, Florida.
Voting is limited to one vote per person per each pair of recipes. Voters must be registered members of www.pillsbury.com and 18 years of age or older as of May 1, 2009, to participate.
The first pair of recipes was posted on May 14, 2009 and a new pair of recipes will be posted every two weeks (namely, May 28, June 11, June 25, July 9, July 23, August 6, August 20, September 3 and September 17, 2009). The voting period for the tenth and final pair of recipes will close at 11:59AM CDT on October 1, 2009. Visit www.bakeoff.com for the official rules.
Votes can be cast throughout the summer. To help you decide which recipe deserves a shot at the million-dollar top prize, watch this short video of Jann Atkins, Bake-Off® Kitchens assistant manager, as she shares some tips for evaluating a recipe.
Remember - Through October 1 at 11:59AM CDT, you can visit www.bakeoff.com to vote for your favorite recipe of each pair.
In conjunction with this post, I have a giveaway that you can enter here.
Thanks to MyBlogSpark for sharing this with me!


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The following remarks are devoted to a review of the purpose of audits, what they are trying to accomplish, how they relate to internal control and what a small bank might do to establish or improve an audit program.
The purpose of auditing in banks, large and small, is to insure accurate presentation of financial statements, including the balance sheet and the results of operations. Accurate financial statements are important in safeguarding the stability of a bank, protecting the depositors and informing owners and management of operating results. The various regulators are also interested in protecting the depositor and insuring overall public confidence in the banking and monetary system. These regulators include the Federal Reserve System, the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the various state supervisors. Accordingly, banks are constantly involved with broad-brush audits which are performed primarily to determine overall financial stability. In addition to the audits done by the regulators, other audit work should be done. This can be accomplished using internal audit staffs, outside CPAs or some combination of the two.
The most important way to provide adequate protection for a bank is not by the use of auditing but through the establishment and maintenance of appropriate accounting controls. Many think of internal controls as those expensive, often impractical suggestions made by an auditor or examiner as a result of completing a "yes/no" checklist or questionnaire and that are received less than enthusiastically by management. However, bank management
has really been involved in internal control for years in many ways.
Since the bank's product in the marketplace is money, the commodity most susceptible to fraudulent manipulation, the banking industry has long
Thomas Y. Hartley Partner, Columbus Office
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U.S. Equal Employment
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Trinity Products Manager Sought to Replace Female Employee After She Complained About His Misconduct, Federal Agency Charged
ST. LOUIS – Trinity Products, Inc., a manufacturer of billboards and signposts based in O'Fallon, Mo., will pay $55,000 to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
In its lawsuit, the EEOC had charged that a high-level manager sexually harassed his assistant with offensive language and gestures and requests for sexual favors. Then, the EEOC said, he sought to replace her after she complained to other supervisors about his conduct, resulting in her discharge.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits sexual harassment and retaliation for reporting it. The EEOC filed suit after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement out of court through its conciliation process.
The consent decree settling the suit, filed today for approval by U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri (EEOC, et al. v. Trinity Products, Inc., et al., Case No. 4:09CV01617 CAS), also requires the company to distribute a notice on employees' rights under federal anti-discrimination laws, provide sexual harassment training to all managers, and permit the EEOC to inspect records of internal complaints of such harassment. The decree will remain in effect for two years.
"Federal law mandates a workplace free from sexual harassment and retaliation for reporting such misconduct," said Barbara A. Seely, regional attorney of the EEOC's St. Louis District. "All employers must ensure that employees work in a safe environment without fear of retribution for bringing concerns of unlawful activity to the attention of management."
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information is available at www.eeoc.gov.


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VANCOUVER — It's a great time to be a quidditch player at UBC.
All those young wizards and witches riding broomsticks around the Point Grey campus, chasing Quaffles, Bludgers and Snitches while playing Harry Potter's game, could soon get the recognition and funding from UBC they recently requested on Twitter. Because quidditch players are athletes, too, you know.
And to be an ultimate Frisbee player these days is to possess copyright on the steam engine at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.
The possibilities for sports funding from the University of B.C.'s Athletics and Recreation Department are infinite. Even hackey sackers, should the hippies get organized and form teams and remember which ones they're on, could get hemp T-shirts emblazoned with the prestigious Thunderbird logo.
This is the school, after all, that for a few days in August evicted from its home field the UBC football team because Thunderbird Stadium was needed for an Frisbee tournament.
The university's ongoing Sport Targeting Review, which looks like a social-engineering experiment gone mad, promises to create sporting opportunities for all kinds of marginalized recreationalists.
Opportunities for varsity football and hockey players and many other serious, mainstream athletes? Maybe not so much.
"They have a lot of people involved who, frankly, have no knowledge about varsity athletics," prominent UBC alumnus Marty Zlotnik fumed about the review. "They had an agenda. Their goal was to reduce varsity athletics and improve their wellness program. I don't know where their mandate comes from. I don't think they know what they're talking about. It's all very upsetting."
A brief history of STR: Two years ago, soon-to-be outgoing UBC president Stephen Toope hired Louise Cowin as the school's vice-president of students, a position that gave her oversight of the athletics department.
Longtime athletic director Bob Philip had conducted a review of varsity sports, but Cowin apparently didn't like the report. She commissioned her own review that ended with a new model for athletics.
Cowin put herself on a "think-tank" that included UBC's senior adviser to the president, Dick Price, Canadian Sports Centre Pacific CEO Wendy Pattenden, women-in-sport advocate Marion Lay, and Prof. Wendy Frisby, former chairwoman of women's and gender studies at UBC.
Draw your own conclusions about the composition of Cowin's committee.
The five-tiered athletics model that UBC has adopted puts national/professional athletes at the top, possibly because UBC expects them to be funded by their own national sports organizations. Varsity sports is second. The next three tiers are competitive sports clubs, which is what some varsity sports will become, community clubs and intramurals.
UBC has a stated goal to become the healthiest campus in the world, and to help fund the "wellness" plan the school is targeting its 29 varsity teams to see which can be eliminated to free up money to encourage broader student participation in sports. Quidditch and ultimate players rejoice!
It's important to note that each full-time student at UBC is charged a fee of about $200 that directly funds "athletics and recreation." Cowin's review appears to conclude there is too much athletics and not enough recreation.
To execute her plan, Cowin hired Ashley Howard last summer to replace Philip, who was moved into an advisory position a few months after Cowin arrived. Howard, who left a successful run as chief executive officer of Scottish Swimming to return home to Vancouver, is responsible for pushing along the STR project.
She also happens to be an ultimate Frisbee player.
Howard said the criteria for judging the merits of each varsity sport are close to being finalized and UBC expects to announce the survivors next spring.
And, yes, among the 29 varsity teams, foundation sports like football and hockey are on the table.
And, yes, alumni donors like Zlotnik, a UBC law grad and chair of the Thunderbird Golf Society, are fairly outraged at what is being done to a varsity sports program that has been around for a century and in the last 10 years produced more championships than any other Canadian university.
Howard said during a lengthy interview with The Vancouver Sun that the athletics department can't financially sustain 29 varsity teams. Skeptics note, however, the university recently dumped $11 million from the cost of a new $40-million aquatic centre on to the athletic department books, manufacturing a budget strain.
(A transcript of key portions of Howard's interview accompanies this column on Page F5).
"It's unbelievable to me that a university with the best record in Canada in terms of varsity sports would say: 'This doesn't fit the mould of what we want,'" Zlotnik said. "They want a wellness program for students to reach out and participate in and lead healthy lives. I don't disagree with that at all. But I don't think that has much to do with the varsity athletics program. They're going to marginalize that program.
"Why should I spend all my time supporting a golf program that may not be there in two years?
When people stop giving, there's going to be a quiet revolution. It will take the university a couple of years to figure out what happened, but it will be a financial mess."
Donations, most of them from UBC alumni, are one of the biggest funding sources for athletics, which has received $50 million in contributions in the last decade.
The university's own research indicates that while about one-in-11 former students donates money to UBC, the rate of giving among athletics department alumni is two-in-five.
Honoured by the university in 2008 for his fundraising and commitment to the UBC sports, Zlotnik founded the Millennium Breakfast, the biggest annual fundraising event for athletics. It has generated $9 million over nine years.
But Zlotnik told The Sun that the 2014 breakfast will probably be the last because UBC administration has informed him it will no longer honour former president Martha Piper's pledge to match donations to the athletic department.
The Millennium Breakfast appears to be not just the tip of the iceberg, but the start of a huge ice field facing Cowin and Howard.
"I was approached by someone who has a family trust with $500,000 that was going to go to UBC, but it won't happen if they cut varsity athletics," Dr. Derek Swain, a Vancouver psychologist who is organizing an alumni counter-offensive to the STR, said. "They're cutting off their own noses."
Swain said one of his biggest concerns is that neither Cowin nor Howard has any experience with varsity sports and, new to the university, little appreciation for Thunderbird history and tradition. He echoed Zlotnik's belief there is no mandate for a dramatic change in athletics and this is social engineering driven by a few and affecting many.
Part of Cowin's review process was a survey sent to students and alumni.
"Their survey was based on the assumption there were going to be cuts," Swain said. "It didn't ask about history or tradition and there was nowhere to say, 'No, don't cut anything.' Whatever feedback they've gotten from it is inaccurate because it was garbage-in-garbage-out kind of thing. What they're really doing is massaging data to meet their foregone conclusion."
Doug Mitchell, the former Canadian Football League commissioner and a member of UBC's board of governors, told The Province last week: "I've been told they have a mandate but you certainly can't get it from any of the written information. It seems to be coming from the vice-president of student services (Cowin) through the managing director of athletics (Howard)."
Cowin, responsible for an embarrassing coaching-hire fiasco last winter that left UBC defending itself before a Human Rights Tribunal after Marc Rizzardo was told he had the women's soccer job, then didn't, is selective about media interviews.
She refused to talk to me last year about Rizzardo, and declined, through UBC's communications office, to answer questions about the Sport Targeting Review and her mandate to conduct it.
Ironically, the university boasts online about the "transparency" of its STR.
Notes posted from a STR committee meeting in September pledge transparency while at the same time, comically, urge "confidentiality on sensitive topics."
Cowin did write a letter to the editor insisting nothing about the UBC review has been pre-determined.
But this isn't a mere departmental review. By name, UBC is "targeting" varsity sports and Howard said in her interview with The Sun it will be "wrong" if athletics emerges from this review with the same 29 varsity teams.
It is a difficult time on campus for coaches and student-athletes, who believed when they were making four-year commitments to UBC that the university was equally committed to them. No changes will occur before the 2015-16 school year.
"When you look at everything, I don't see how they could do it," Thunderbird football coach Shawn Olson said. "Cutting the football program would be like cutting the faculty of law or saying we're not going to have a music department. That's not the peer group UBC lives in. Certain things, you need to have."
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How does President Obama's contribution to the national debt compare to those of other modern Presidents?
To answer that question, we're going to express the United States' total public debt outstanding in the more human scale terms of U.S. households, for which the U.S. Census provides data going back to 1967. Our chart below summarizes what we find when we calculate the national debt per U.S. household for each of the U.S. government's fiscal year from 1967 through the just ended fiscal year for 2012, both in nominal and real (inflation-adjusted) terms.
Here's how much each President since 1969 added to the U.S. national debt burden per household on average for each year they were in office, after adjusting for inflation (note: we're omitting the data for 1967 and 1968 since it coincides with only part of Lyndon Johnson's term in office):
After accounting for the effect of inflation, we find that President Obama is racking up national debt at a rate that's nearly three times faster than any other U.S. President in the modern era since 1969.
That's quite an achievement.
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Sebastian Vettel won his first race of the 2012 season after holding off Kimi Raikkonen in an enthralling battle for victory at the Bahrain Grand Prix.
Raikkonen came from 11th on the grid, and in the third stint was right on the gearbox of Vettel, but had to settle for second place ahead of his Lotus team-mate Romain Grosjean at the chequered flag.
The Finn may have stood a better chance if he had passed team-mate Grosjean more quickly at the end of the second stint, but team principal Eric Boullier stuck by his decision to let his drivers race.
Behind the action at the front, Mark Webber took his fourth consecutive fourth-place finish of the season, while Nico Rosberg yo-yoed up and down the field to eventually finish fifth. Paul di Resta made use of a two-stop strategy to take a very well-deserved sixth place ahead of Fernando Alonso in seventh.
Two appalling pit stops meant Lewis Hamilton dropped from second at the start to eighth at the finish as McLaren had a torrid race in which Jenson Button eventually retired with a sick-sounding car and a differential problem. Felipe Massa capitalised to take his first points of the season in ninth. Michael Schumacher rounded off the podium in tenth after starting from 22nd.
Vettel got a brilliant start from pole position and pulled out a 2.2s lead on the first lap as he threatened a repeat of his 2011 dominance. Hamilton had been running second in the first stint but a sticking wheel nut meant he had a 9.9s pit stop and had to drive off the circuit along the second straight to stay ahead of Rosberg as he returned to the track.
Both Lotuses got strong starts and Raikkonen soon moved up to third before closing in on his team-mate Grosjean in the second stint. The Finn was on a fresh set of soft tyres compared to Grosjean's mediums and had the pace to reel in his team-mate on each lap. He lost crucial time to Vettel before finding his way past his team-mate, but it's hard to say whether it would have made much of a difference in the end.
Raikkonen maintained his pace in the third stint on another set of fresh soft tyres and closed in on Vettel. He had one good look down the inside on the approach to turn one, after using his KERS and DRS on the pits straight, but Vettel forced him to take to the outside in the braking zone and he couldn't make the move stick.
In the final stint Raikkonen and Vettel both took on medium tyres, but the Red Bull suddenly looked more composed and pulled out a three second lead that the reigning champion was able to hold until the flag. After crossing the line Vettel was ordered to stop his car immediately and had to run the length of the pit lane to take his position on the podium.
The victory put Vettel back in familiar territory at the top of the drivers' standings after both McLaren drivers failed to live up to expectations. Button struggled for pace throughout the race and a puncture on lap 53 scotched his chances of a points finish before he had to retire with a differential problem three laps later. Amid all the drama Hamilton's second stop was also delayed, and despite a determined fight back through the field, he only picked up four points in eighth.


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The kids ran around the conference room looking for each other, oblivious to the fact that their mom's and dad's were in the other room getting information and building on their skills in order to raise healthier families and better futures.
However, it wasn't all rainbow colored ponies. As I took a small break from the conference and made my way to the bathroom, I caught a conversation between two of the guards on the floor. Both were annoyed at the children. The screaming, laughing, jumping and overall awesomeness was too much for them. Complaints were exchanged about several things. Both agreed that the work environment was being disrupted because of the presence of children (I'll mention that it was Saturday).
Were the kids really bothering anyone? No.
They were simply being kids. How do moms and dads get work done while raising a kid? Easy. They're super heroes.
Maybe, if you opened up your mind and watched these kids laughing and playing you wouldn't be so quick to complain. I had a headache from all the screaming but was able to function perfectly fine. Maybe, a notice should have been put up in the hallway that there was going to be kids on the floor that day. Maybe, if event spaces and public spaces were as welcoming to families as they are to food and drinks, organizers wouldn't have to get creative and turn offices into day cares. Unsafe spaces shouldn't have to transform into play areas only because most spaces are dominated by patriarchy. Bringing a child to a conference or event is not wrong. And feeding your child at an event or public space is not wrong. C'mon. In a country where women exhibit breasts on almost all ads, is breastfeeding really that disgusting?
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1. Solving library connectivity problems within a state will not work, in general, with a bottom up apporoach--that is, by expecting each individual lirbary to independently negotiate with their local phone company representatives. Neither party necessarily has the long range perspective or clout to solve problems.
2. This is "Infrastructure" we are talking about.
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1. State library agencies need to be proactively engaged in setting long term goals, planning, even in negotiating connectivity for the libraries in the their states, with state networks or with phone companies or with both.
2. They can pull together resources into a critical mass, help equalize connectivity costs, and negotiate with more clout.
3. They need staff and authority to do so, as well as funding.
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E-Rate Charge-backs to libraries for connections State funds LSTA Foundation support (temporary and focused on planning and start-up costs)
The issue of state or at least regional planning and organizing for broadband, cannot be emphasized enough. To risk restating the obvious, the data/info collected in this study demonstrates yet again the important role for state library agencies (SLA). In some states, especially those with lots of rural areas and small towns, the SLA is absolutely necessary for much/most of the library development in a state. In other states (those with several or some big urbans/suburbans) the SLA may play a different role but is still crucial, especially for the small, poor and/or rural libraries.
This is not a surprise if we look at the history of E-rate - as well as the decades of all types of "library development" since the creation of LCA and its evolution to LSCA and LSTA. ...where state library agencies have been supportive - there is more involvement in E-rate. ... Where the SLA role is weaker or non existent - less participation.
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Life is not a fairytale. Yes, yes, that was the title of American Idol Season 3 champ Fantasia Barrino's 2006 autobiographical Lifetime movie — don't try to act like you didn't watch it, too! — but it was also a subtitle that could be applied to any possible outcome on Season 12 Top 3 results night.
Indeed, whether you entered the night rooting for a Candice/Kree, Angie/Candice or Kree/Angie finale, there simply couldn't be a 100 percent feel-good happy ending after the credits rolled, the "19" logo sparkled and twinkled and Fox switched over to the season finale of Glee.
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And that's because, almost five months in to this current, often beleaguered Idol season, all three finalists had established themselves as genuinely worthy heirs to Phillip Phillips' throne (and the platinum-selling status that comes with it).
I mean, honestly, try to imagine a finale without Candice Glover, the soft-spoken Southern gal with the awe-inspiring combo of vocal horsepower and almost other-worldly musicality that's allowed her to effortlessly tackle everything from The Cure to Shirley Bassey to Drake. And would you really want to envision next Wednesday night sans Kree Harrison, the Nashville-based demo singer with a tone like 1,000 thread-count sheets and a personality that's like a bowl of hot chili on the coldest winter day? Then again, how could a confetti shower not pour down on the head of Angie Miller, the New England teenager with a fire in her eyes, an undisputed range and the artistry to drive 3.7 million views to a YouTube video of her Hollywood Week rendition of the self-penned "You Set Me Free"?
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None of those options seemed particularly fun — not even to a Candice aficionado like myself. Yet after an incredibly poorly sound-mixed performance by Lauren Alaina and a good rendition of a sleepy song by Alicia Keys, it was time for Ryan to reveal the week's voting tallies:
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As the tears began flowing — for all three contestants, for the fans in the Idoldome, even here at Casa Slezak — Angie gamely attempted to sing a farewell rendition of Colton Dixon's "Never Gone," but she just couldn't get through it. Embraced by her family and her competitors, she giggled and sobbed until the screen cut to black. Whether or not Jimmy Iovine has the good sense to get her to a studio this weekend and cut a rendition of "You Set Me Free" for Christian and AC radio, well, we'll just have to wait and see.
Next week: A Kree-vs.-Candice finale, the one I started dreaming about back in Hollywood Week, allowed myself to verbalize around Top 10, and had pretty much given up on sometime in mid-April. What are the chances? And what do you think of the Season 12 finale faceoff?
Before I pass the mic to all of you, a few other thoughts on the telecast:
* We're not going to discuss that thing with that animated slug crawling across the screen/Ryan Seacrest's face, okay? I know Uncle Nigel has a big lighting bill to pay, but at this rate, next season's contestants are going to have to have advertiser logos tattooed to their foreheads. (Oh Lord, I've just put a Very Bad Idea out into the universe.)
* I can't comment on that group rendition of Selena Gomez's awful "Who Says," seeing how Angie, Candice and Kree's mics didn't appear to actually be working. Or maybe the three divas pulled a fake-out in protest of having to sing a tune so far beneath their collective skill sets? (I'm choosing to believe that unconfirmed second theory until proven otherwise.)
* Is anyone actually going to the American Idol web site to vote on whether the S12 winner gets a Ford Focus, Fusion, Fiesta or Escape? Ain't nobody got time for that! Then again, if only like 11 people weigh in, you and your coworkers could log on and totally skew the outcome. (Fun!)
* When Ryan kicked off the show by noting "We have the news that we've all been waiting months to hear," I thought he was talking about Randy Jackson quitting the show. And then I was all, "Dude, we've been waiting for that announcement for 12 freakin' years!"
* Was there anything more grim than Jimmy Iovine declaring that whoever gets signed to Interscope (presumably Angie, Kree and Candice, at a minimum) are in for a lifetime of his meddling with their song choices? Mariah had a point on Wednesday: When you write your own tunes, you take back a lot of power from The Man (Who Dresses Like Justin Bieber's Stunt Double). Actually, wait, there was something more grim: Jimmy excitedly talking about Kree's heartbreaking story of her parents' death like it was just another marketing strategy. Hashtag: NO!
* It's easy to make fun of Mariah's ridiculous video for "Beautiful," but if I had as little body fat as her, I'd probably film Idology half-naked on the back of a motorcycle, too. (Except then Melinda Doolittle would hit me with her pocketbook.)
And with that, let me turn things over to you. What did you think of Angie's exit? Were you saddened to see her mixture of shock and grief as the news set in? Are you surprised it's come down to Candice and Kree? Who's got your vote next week — or will it come down to their final performances? Sound off in the comments, and for all my Idol-related news, recaps, interviews and videos, follow me on Twitter @MichaelSlezakTV!
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Rail bridge malfunction delays commuters
Kathy Barnett made sure to get to Grand Central Terminal a few minutes ahead of schedule Friday afternoon to catch an earlier train home.
With the weekend ahead of her and the work week behind her, "all you want to do is get home," the Fairfield resident and regular Metro-North Railroad commuter said.
She got about as far as Norwalk.
Then, all of a sudden her train stopped, the conductor announced a delay due to a malfunctioning drawbridge and "everybody got a little restless," she said.
A 117-year-old Walk rail bridge carrying the busy New Haven Line over the Norwalk River had gotten stuck in the open position at about 3:40 p.m., leaving at least eight Metro-North trains idling on the tracks along with Amtrak Northeast Corridor trains, said Metro-North spokeswoman Marjorie Anders.
Four weeks after a New Haven-bound train derailed in Fairfield and another Metro-North train headed to New York crashed into it, sending 76 passengers to local hospitals and snarling the New Haven line for four days, hundreds of rail commuters spent another Friday evening pondering the benefits of car travel.
The similarity was not lost on Barnett.
"The derailment happened on a Friday," she said. "I was in the exact same place when it happened a month ago."
Of course, Friday's delay only lasted about 90 minutes and did not result in any injuries or damage to trains, only the aggravation that comes with sitting in a train car on the wrong end of an open swing bridge that won't close.
The South Norwalk swing bridge did close again at about 5 p.m. after staying stuck open just long enough to throw the entire Friday evening commute in jeopardy.
"We're asking for people's patience. It's going to be a long slog tonight for our outer-New Haven Line commuters," Anders, the Metro-North spokeswoman, said prior to the bridge's closing.
Due to the age of the state's rail bridges, Metro-North requires at least 10 people from the department's various operations to stand by to ensure a bridge functions properly when it is required to open to maritime traffic, she said. Anders attributed Friday's malfunction simply to the bridge's old age.
The Walk bridge is one of five moveable bridges along the New Haven Line and all but one are more than 110 years old. The bridges are owned and maintained by the Connecticut Department of Transportation.
Despite the need to overhaul the bridges, Metro-North and the Connecticut Department of Transportation agreed in 2010 to push back the 2014 start date for projects to overhaul the Walk bridge, built in 1896, and Saga bridge in Westport, built in 1904 to focus on finishing a long-running $878 million project to replace the New Haven Line's aged overhead catenary system.
The DOT now aims to bid out and begin a six- to seven-year project to revamp the Saga and Walk bridges in 2017.
One New York-bound train out of the Fairfield station started its trip west then slowly pulled back up to the platform due to the open bridge, leaving dozens of puzzled commuters milling about with phones pressed to their ears while the occasional newcomer raced to catch a sitting train that would not actually leave for over an hour.
At the Darien station, commuters stranded at the platform grumbled about waiting and waiting with no sense of a timeline.
"They keep announcing the problem is being fixed, but there's no ETA," said James Feigenbaum, who was trying to get to Norwalk with Nicole Kratzer, a resident of Kansas.
"It's been a mess since I got here," Kratzer said. "We don't have transportation like this where I come from and they keep bragging about how great it is here."
They eventually got a lift from Feigenbaum's mother.
Once trains were allowed to cross the bridge, they did so under speed restrictions put in place until all the signal systems could be checked to determine they are working properly, Anders said.
By the time they got to Fairfield, most commuters all but ran to their cars. But not Harry Walpole, who calmly walked through the start of a brief rain shower with an umbrella over his head and a laptop box pressed to his chest.
After more than thirty years riding Metro-North trains back and forth to New York, the Fairfield resident has gotten accustomed to the occasional delay.
"It's just basically kind of the way it happens," he said.
Sure, he had spent an extra 90 minutes on the train by the time he got to his car. But, he said as he tapped the box holding his computer, "I just did work so it worked out for me."
"It's work I don't have to do on the weekend," he said.
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The 2012 USAB National Coach of the Year is Ben Lee, who was also the 2012 USAB Olympic Badminton Coach and owner of Synergy Badminton Club. In addition to this, Lee lives in the San Jose area and works full time as a police officer for the Palo Alto Police Department. Lee began coaching in 1994, while still competing in the sport. He was also among the first to represent the U.S. in badminton at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
The 2012 USAB Development Coach of the Year is Shannon Pohl, owner of Shannon Pohl Badminton Academy in Chicago, Illinois. Pohl has enrolled many students in both private and group lessons. She coaches all levels and ages, helping them to stay involved and develop a lifelong love of the sport. Pohl opened her academy in 2009 after retiring from international competition.
The 2012 Volunteer Coach of the Year is Abi Bautista from Fremont, California. Bautista, currently a Physical Therapist Assistant has been volunteering in various positions from the 80s. She advises athletes of various levels in the areas of coaching, strengthening and conditioning, program development as well as injury prevention. She recently volunteered to oversee the rehabilitation of the Olympic bound athletes – Tony Gunawan, Howard Bach and Rena Wang. She runs her club, Abi's Badminton Club (ABC) and has been coaching as a volunteer coach at the Moreau Catholic High School in Hayward, California since 2000.


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Would that work for you if you're trying to sound less apologetic or trying to interject in a meeting? Leave your thoughts in the comments. You can read the transcript of the interview with Tina Fey here, and listen to it here.
...you describe some of the rules of improv. And one of them is, you know, make statements. Don't ask questions, and put the onus on the other person to come up with something. You come up with something, give it to them, and then they have to react with something....Were you ever in that category of speaking in apologetic questions and having to be more assertive, or speaking all the time in statements that sound like questions?
Ms. FEY: Hopefully, I don't really have that behavior - that kind of...
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Ms. FEY: Once again, I'm maybe a little on the old side? I think that became standard issue in the late '80s. I don't know. I mean, I'm a shy person. And so I definitely learned in those early improv classes to initiate, and to step forward. And you learn so much in those classes because you also, eventually - once you get better at improv, you learn like, you know, when do you step forward? A great - you know - thing, an improv Olympic thing, I think, too -which is another improv - you know, you ask - when you're teaching, you ask improvisers who have been a couple classes in, a couple sessions, whatever you say - here's a question: When do you enter a scene? And people say: Well, when you have an idea. No.When do you enter a scene? When you think of something funny to say. No. And the answer is: When do you enter a scene is when someone needs you. You're only to enter when someone needs you. And so if you feel - if you're observing the scene and you feel it start to lull, or if someone in the scene refers to something that it would be beneficial to see. And so it's this great mindset of contributing, but as a group. You never just come in - I mean, people do because you always make mistakes in the practice of it - but come in just because that scene looks fun and I want to be in it, too, or I've got a great idea for a loud character that could enter this scene.
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Today's guest post is from Elizabeth Strickler, informing us of what is going over at InMediaRes this week (and a wee bit of cross promotional activity). In Media Res is dedicated to experimenting with collaborative, multi-modal forms of online scholarship. Each weekday, a different participant curates a short (less than 3-minute) video clip accompanied by a 300-350-word impressionistic response. We use the title "curator" because, like a curator in a museum, the participant repurposes a media object that already exists and provides context through their commentary. Theme weeks are designed to generate a networked conversation between curators and the public around a particular topic.
For the week of July 26-30th, the theme is "Transmedia Now". The curators are: Christy Dena, Marc Ruppel, Robert Pratten, Brian Newman, and Ted Hope.
They will be discussing what is happening right now in the much-debated term, Transmedia. The subjects covered range from Canadian superheroes to the links between storytelling and mapping. Stay tuned and jump in when it starts. If you don't like what is happening in the independent entertainment industry, this will be your chance to speak up. (You do have to login to comment.)
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On the previous two visits, I located my grandmother's parents, Thomas Leander "Lee" & Samantha Petty Hankins, Lee's mother, Isabella Jane Goodloe Hankins Yates Devault, and Isabella Jane's paternal grandparents, Henry Lewis and Elizabeth Berry Goodloe. But I did not find her father, Jack Goodloe. The third time I found him.
Jack was born in Hopkins County on 25 Mar 1811. His parents arrived in Hopkins County from central Kentucky sometime between 1801, when they were married in Clark County, and 1810. Jack was the fifth of eight children, three sons and five daughters, born to Henry and Elizabeth.
Jack married Eliza Ann Dobyns, daughter of Edward Dobyns and Sarah Mott, on 5 Oct 1836 in Hopkins County. They had four children: Isabella Jane, Elizabeth, Mary Waller and Thomas Henry. Eliza died between 13 Dec 1846, when Tom was born, and 2 Jan 1849, when Jack re-married.
Elizabeth Pettus was Jack's second wife. (That is her surname on their marriage record but not necessarily her maiden name.) They had two children: Emsley and Virginia.
In A Stroll Through Grapevine Cemetery, an article possibly published in the newspaper when it was written in 1909, Rev. W. H. Moore described Jack.
"Uncle Jack, with the disposition of gentleness, full of kindness, all the children of the community loved him. A man of very deep piety always ready to reprove and admonish in a kind way that made me feel that it was done by a friend for good, everybody was his friend."It should be noted that Moore was Jack's son-in-law, husband of his youngest daughter, Virginia.
Jack died on 17 Apr 1899 in Hopkins County. This brief obituary was published in both the Madisonville Hustler and the Earlington Bee a few days later.
"Uncle Jack Goodloe Dead
Uncle Jack Goodloe, who lived near Grapevine, died Monday, and was buried at Grapevine Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Goodloe was one of the old citizens of the county and is well known by all our older citizens. For several years past he has been an invalid. He was a brother of Uncle Kemp Goodloe and Uncle Henry Goodloe. He was a member of Grapevine church for a long period."
Written for 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge at No Story Too Small.
Jack was my 3rd great-grandfather through his daughter, Isabella Jane Goodloe.
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Kyrie Irving out vs. Magic
CLEVELAND (AP) — Kyrie Irving wanted to play in all 82 games this season. Now the Cleveland Cavaliers hope he will only miss one.
The All-Star point guard sat out for the first game of the season Thursday night, missing the Cavaliers' game against Orlando because of a bruised left knee.
Irving, averaging a team-leading 22.2 points, was injured in the third quarter Tuesday in a 91-76 loss at Indiana. Irving felt a "pop" as he fell awkwardly on a drive to the basket, but an MRI on Wednesday revealed he only bruised the knee.
Cavaliers coach Mike Brown believes it's best to be cautious with his star player, who is listed as day-to-day. Cleveland's next game is Saturday at Brooklyn and the Cavaliers host Indiana on Sunday.
"I think he understands what he needs to do to help make sure he takes care of his body long term and not think about the short term," Brown said. "I don't think it's a big problem for him."
Irving, who worked out at Quicken Loans Arena prior to Thursday's game, will receive additional treatment and rest. The former No. 1 overall pick has been injury prone during his NBA career. Irving missed 38 games in his first two seasons with a variety of injuries.
Jarrett Jack started at point guard for the Cavaliers, who have dropped a season-high six consecutive games, including two in overtime and a three-point loss in regulation.
"It's tough because you obviously want to have him on the floor," Brown said. "For us, where we're sitting and the way we've closed games, whether we have Kyrie or not, it's a psychological barrier we have to get over in order to get wins. You'd love to have him but whether he's here or not, it's not an easy task."
Irving's injuries in his first two seasons have included a broken nose, fractured jaw, broken finger, sprained knee and shoulder, and concussion. He played in only 11 games as a freshman at Duke because of a foot injury, and he broke his hand after his rookie season when he slammed a padded wall during a summer league practice in Las Vegas.


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Have you always been super-curious about what goes on behind-the-scenes at some of the biggest food publications in the U.S.?
I'm a sucker for any peek into how something is made, whether it's a chocolate maker, vodka distillery, local urban farm, or major publication that I regularly read. So I was thrilled to join in a tour this week that Cookbook Create organized for Internet Week, at the test kitchens and offices of Bon Appetit, The Daily Meal, and Food52. And hearing about the different recipe testing, writing and publishing processes from their editors. Check out the post with plenty of photos on my other site, Brooklyn Atlas!


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Watch One Kickstarter Creator Self-Destruct As People Call Him Out For Scam Project
from the borderline-scams deptThere have been a few stories over the past year or so of Kickstarter projects simply taking products found elsewhere (often China) slapping a new label on them and claiming they're new. This pretty clearly violates Kickstarter rules, which includes the following:
Projects cannot resell items or offer rewards not produced by the project or its creator.There have been a few cases in the past where this has popped up. Last year there was the Ambiolight and earlier this year there was the machined gamers dice -- both of which were called out by people in the comments as being mere reselling of products made by others already on the market.
It appears that others keep trying to do these kinds of reseller setups, tricking users along the way. A few weeks ago, I saw the projects for "Full of Fuel" external batteries. I have a bit of an obsession with external battery packs, and have been personally using a fantastic Anker Astro Pro 20,000mAh battery -- which looked nearly identical to one of the Fuel of Fire batteries. The other two Fuel of Fire batteries also looked like other external batteries already on the market. Thankfully, plenty of people started pointing out similar things in the comments. The guy behind the project initially defended it, claiming that they had "changed the design" but many didn't believe it. The guy behind the project apparently promised to send a sample to one of the most vocal critics to prove that it was different... but then stopped responding altogether, and the project was cancelled (apparently by Kickstarter).
It appears that something similar is happening with the so-called Rock Smartwatch, which launched with a bit of hype, including some odd claims such as that the watch had 1080p resolution (huh? on a watch?!?) and 4GB of RAM. Some folks quickly pointed out that the watch appeared to be nothing more than a rebranded Z3 watch from China. There was a fair bit of evidence to support this. The creator of the project, "Vak Sambath" first started claiming that he was devastated and suggesting that their manufacturing partner had somehow leaked or made different versions of their work.
Because, he then posted a different, but equally unintelligible comment claiming those first comments in which he defended the watch weren't really from him, but were because his computer got hacked:
Hey Guys... first and foremost... I'd like to apologize for whatever happened to do. It wasn't me. I wasn't in front of my computer all day. Someone got into my account. When it rains it pours guys. This is the real Vak. My account got hacked from some freaking hot mess reason. This hasn't been easy.
We appreciate kickstarter for allowing small companies to enter new markets with new ideas, that may not be popular with a small sector that does not like change.
The rock is taking a more innovative approach that some may find hard to understand since it is a new direction.
On Saturday morning, things took an even weirder twist, as Vak suddenly decided to just start posting over and over and over again in the comments pretending that they were getting lots of "great encouragement" from their backers, and those backers were asking questions. So he started answering them, but each time he posted, plenty of critics just kept commenting about Vak's own ridiculous claims and calling out that the whole thing was a scam. And rather than respond, Vak just kept posting the same exact "email answers" over and over and over and over and over and over and over again, perhaps in the faulty belief that this would somehow drown out all those calling him out.
The other odd thing was that some folks noticed that even as a ton of people bailed from the project earlier in the week, there was suddenly an influx of new buyers, according to Kicktraq's data:
Finally, around noon on Saturday, Kickstarter stepped in and cancelled the deal, at about the same time Vak was insisting the fact that Kickstarter had approved the campaign was proof that it was legit. In an email to backers, Kickstarter's Trust & Safety team admitted that the project clearly violated numbers rules:
A review of the project uncovered evidence of one or more violations of Kickstarter's rules, which include:Vak then went quiet on Kickstarter, but it didn't stop him from continue fighting the bizarre fight on Twitter. First, he pretended that people were just upset because they were "using parts from China." But, of course, that wasn't what anyone was claiming. Then he claimed that what he "learned" from the project is that "what we have isn't for Kickstarter."
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- Misrepresenting or failing to disclose relevant facts about the project or its creator
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Either way, I expect we'll see more of this sort of thing happening over time, but it's kind of neat to see the community itself work all of the details out and help out these questionable projects (even as it's funny to see the project creators try to tap dance around their claims).
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Citroën Cx 25 Gti Turbo changed into flying car
All my photography are printed to a very high quality on Aluminium Dibond, providing tonal richness of Black and White images as well as the high dynamic range of colour images. State of the art printing onto aluminium Dibond material is scratch proof, weather proof.
A high performance 3mm thick aluminium composite material consisting of two sheets of 0.3mm thick aluminium are permanently bonded to each side of an extruded polyethylene core.
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West Athens,Greece - Past Sunday an Albanian immigrant was found dead at his cell in a police department while being kept under suspicion for some minor thefts.The police said that he committed suicide by hanging himself in the cell. His relatives gathered late that night outside the police station shouting and coursing the cops for his murder.
Being an immigrant and especially an Albanian in Greece means that you become target to a racism vastly spread among all the aspects of life and socializing, from your work where you are being fully exploited to your whole life in the Greek society.His story is just another part of the chain of exploitation and racism on immigrants,or it isn't?
Some 300 anarchists marched today(20/4/2007)and smashed the police department , while confronting with the riot police expressing their anger and their will to not accept for longer this barbarity which is an attack towards humanity and society. Marching with confidence, fully aware of their goals and well organized they managed to make the attack without having serious injuries or arrests.
The march began from a central square in that part of Athens (a really poor area of the working class) , passed through the neighborhood of his family, so as to express their solidarity and the went straight ahead to the police station followed by riot policemen. There they began throwing paints and stones (loads of them) at the police station and the police attacked back with gasses back didn't manage to break the bloc which was very united. The people marched back to the square shouting at top of their lungs that these crimes shall not remain unpunished. (athens indymedia)


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Marc Anthony Steps Out with Much Younger Woman
(LOS ANGELES) -- The 44-year-old singer was spotted Tuesday at Disneyland with his new flame, 21-year-old Chloe Green, and his 5-year-old twins, Max and Emme.
Anthony and Green were seen holding hands and cuddling as well as going on rides with the twins. Green, dressed in a denim shirt and jeans, was spotted holding Emme while Anthony pushed Max in a stroller.
Green's father is Sir Phillip Green, the owner of British retailer Topshop. She has her own shoe line and also appeared on a British reality show, Made in Chelsea.
Anthony appears to be a fan of Topshop himself.
"Who ever doesn't know about #Topshop #Topman in LA has to get in on it! Just had the time of my life at The Grove Amazing!" he tweeted Sunday.
Anthony famously ended his seven-year marriage with Jennifer Lopez in July 2011. Lopez, 43, is living with her choreographer, Casper Smart, 25.
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