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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 12:32:43 +0001 (EST) From: Roy Adams
To: iern-l Thanks to Clive Gilson and to Cornell University here is a summary of the main aspects of the Dunlop Report ******************************************************************************************* Report and Recommendations: Executive Summary The Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations was appointed by Secretary of Commerce Ronald H. Brown and Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich to address three questions: 1. What (if any) new methods or institutions should be encouraged, or required, to enhance work-place productivity through labor-management cooperation and employee participation? 2. Wha t (if any) changes should be made in the present legal framework and practices of collective bargaining to enhance cooperative behavior, improve productivity, and reduce conflict and delay? 3. What (if anything) should be done to increase the extent to which work-place problems are directly resolved by the parties themselves, rather than through recourse to state and federal courts and governmental bodies?" Over its twenty months of work, the Commission heard testimony and evaluated the experi ences of many employers and employees, and received advice for answering its charge from many groups and individuals. This testimony, and various survey and other evidence, guides the recommendations and suggestions that we offer to the Secretaries, and to the nation. As reported in the Commission's May 1994 Fact-Finding Report, there is a solid base of experience on which to build more cooperative and productive workplace relations in the United States -- the innovative partnerships in collect ive bargaining and the array of employee involvement programs operating in many workplaces across the country. There are also disconcerting patterns -- increased earning inequality, difficulties for contingent workers, increased litigation, rigid and complex regulations, and conflict in union organizing campaigns. Our recommendations build on the positive experiences with productive and cooperative worker-management relations, support their adoption in additional employment settings, and encourag e further experimentation and learning. At the same time we face squarely and propose remedies for the problems of too much conflict, litigation, inequality, and regulatory complexity. We take an integrated approach to modernizing American labor and employment law and administration for the future. Taken together, these recommendations give workers and managers the tools and flexibility to do what they say they want to do and are capable of doing to improve workplace performance. We recommend flexibility in employee participation while insuring respect for workers' rights to choose unions, if desired. We encourage the development and use of fair systems for resolving disputes quickly closest to their source without going to court or to a government agency. We propose to modernize labor law to deliver through a prompt and simplified process what the law promises: a free choice for workers on whether or not to join a union of their choosing. Our proposals define employees and employe rs in ways consistent with economic reality. We encourage continued learning and dialogue among private and public sector leaders to improve the quality of policy making on employment issues. The Commission could not address all the problems or proposed solutions presented to us. This does not imply that those left out are unimportant or not valid. Instead, some need to be left to other groups and to further discussion. Moreover, the recommendations we offer here are presented as starting poi nts for improving the workplace experiences and results for all Americans. The full set of recommendations are contained in the separate sections of this report. Here we present fifteen key conclusions and recommendations as they relate to each of our three charges. 1. New Methods or Institutions to Enhance Workplace Productivity The evidence presented to the Commission is overwhelming that employee participation and labor-management partnerships are good for workers, firms, a nd the national economy. All parties want to encourage expansion and growth of these developments. To do so requires removing the legal uncertainties affecting some forms of employee participation while safeguarding and strengthening employees' rights to choose whether or not they wish to be represented at the workplace by a union or professional organization. Accordingly we recommend: (1) Clarifying the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and its interpretation by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to insure nonunion employee participation programs are not found to be unlawful simply because they involve discussion of "terms and conditions" of work or compensation as long as such discussion is incidental to the broad purposes of these programs. At the same time, the Commission reaffirms the basic principle that these programs are not a substitute for independent unions. The law should continue to make it illegal to set up or operate company- dominated forms of employee represe ntation. (2) Updating the definitions of supervisor and manager to insure that only those with full supervisory or managerial authority and responsibility are excluded from coverage of the law. We further recommend that no individual or group of individuals should be excluded from coverage under the statute because of participation in joint problem-solving teams, self-managing work groups, or internal self- governance or dispute resolution processes. (3) Reaffirming and extending protection s of individuals against discrimination for participating in employee involvement processes and for joining or drawing on the services of an outside labor or professional organization. These recommendations are linked to those that follow in important ways. In addition to eliminating the legal uncertainties associated with many of the forms of employee participation underway today, these changes allow and encourage use of worker-management participation in applying government regulations to the workplace and resolving disputes through private resolution procedures. Moreover, these changes remove the threat that workers might lose the protections of collective bargaining by taking on supervisory or managerial responsibilities. These changes, therefore, should open up workplaces to a variety of new experiments with employee participation and labor-management partnerships and bring the benefits of these innovations to more workers and workplaces. 2. Changes in Collective Bargaining to Enhance Cooperation and Reduce Conflict and Delay The evidence reviewed by the Commission demonstrated conclusively that current labor law is not achieving its stated intent of encouraging collective bargaining and protecting workers' rights to choose whether or not to be represented at their workplace. Rectifying this situation is important to insure that these rights are realized for the workers who wish to exercise them, to de-escalate workplace conflicts, and to create an overall cl imate of trust and cooperation at the workplace and in the broader labor and management community. Accordingly, the Commission recommends: (4) Providing for prompt elections after the NLRB determines that sufficient employees have expressed a desire to be represented by a union. Such elections should generally be held within two weeks. To accomplish this objective we propose that challenges to bargaining units and other legal disputes be resolved after the elections are held. Beyond the r eversal of the Supreme Court's decision in Lechmere so that employees may have access to union organizers in privately-owned but publicly-used spaces such as shopping malls, access questions are best left to the NLRB. The Commission urges the Board to strive to afford employees the most equal and democratic dialogue possible. (5) Requiring by statute that the NLRB obtain prompt injunctions to remedy discriminatory actions against employees that occur during an organizing campaign or negotiatio ns for a first contract. (6) Assisting employers and newly certified unions in achieving first contracts through an upgraded dispute resolution system which provides for mediation and empowers a tripartite advisory board to use a variety of options to resolve disputes ranging from self-help (strike or lockout) to binding arbitration for relatively few disputes. (7) Encouraging railroad and airline labor and management representatives to implement their stated willingness to seek their own sol utions for improving the performance of collective bargaining in their industries. These changes are essential to de-escalating the level of conflict, fear, and delays that now too often surround the process by which workers decide whether or not to be represented on their jobs. We distilled our recommendations down to these basic and simplified changes in the law and procedures from an extensive array of proposals offered to the Commission in this area. Therefore, it is vitally important to mo nitor the effects of these recommendations over time to see if they are adequate to achieve the goals stated in our national labor law and shared by the American public. 3. Increase the Extent to which Workplace Prob- lems are Resolved by the Parties. The Commission's findings and recommendations regarding workplace regulations, litigation, and dispute resolution fall into three categories: (1) encouraging development of high quality private dispute resolution procedures, (2) encouraging experimentation with workplace self-regulation procedures in general and with specific reference to workplace safety and health, and (3) protecting the employment rights and standards of contingent workers. The Commission endorses and encourages the development of high quality alternative dispute resolution (ADR) systems to promote fair, speedy, and efficient resolution of workplace disputes. These systems must be based on the voluntary acceptance of the parties involved. The courts and regulatory agencies should hold these systems accountable for meeting high quality standards for fairness, due process, and accountability to the goals and remedies established in the relevant law. The Commission also encourages experimentation with internal responsibility systems for adapting workplace regulations to fit different work settings. Accordingly, we recommend: (8) Encouraging regulatory agencies to expand the use of negotiated rule making, mediation, and alternative dis pute resolution (ADR) procedures for resolving cases that would otherwise require formal adjudication by the agency and/or the courts. (9) Encouraging experimentation and use of private dispute resolution systems that meet high quality standards for fairness, provided these are not imposed unilaterally by employers as a condition of employment. (10) Encouraging individual regulatory agencies (e.g., OSHA, Wage and Hour Division, EEOC, etc.) to develop guidelines for internal responsibility sys tems in which parties at the workplace are allowed to apply regulations to their circumstances. America's workplaces must be made safer and more healthful and workers' compensation costs need to be reduced. Workplace safety and health is an ideal starting point for experimenting with internal responsibility systems for meeting public policy objectives, given the long-standing and widespread experience with employee participation and labor-management committees in safety and health matters and t he shared interests all parties have in improving safety and health outcomes. Evidence presented to the Commission shows that properly structured joint committees and participation plans can significantly improve safety and health protection. Accordingly, we recommend: (11) Developing safety and health programs in each workplace that provide for employee participation. Those workplaces that demonstrate such a program is in place with a record of high safety and health performance would receive preferential status in OSHA's inspection and enforcement activities. The growth of various forms of contingent work poses opportunities for good job matches between workers with differing labor force attachments and employers needing flexibility in response to changing market conditions. At the same time, some contingent work arrangements relegate workers to a second class status of low wages, inadequate fringe benefits, lack of training and, most importantly, loss of protection of labor and em ployment laws and standards. This is a very complex set of developments for which adequate data are not yet available to do more than address the most obvious problems. Our recommendations are therefore cautious in this area, recognizing the need to continue to monitor and evaluate the labor market experiences of all forms of contingent work and to derive policy recommendations as these data and analyses become available. Accordingly, we recommend: (12) Adopting a single definition of employer for all workplace laws based on the economic realities of the employment relationship. Furthermore, we encourage the NLRB to use its rule-making authority to develop an appropriate doctrine governing joint employers in settings where the use of contract arrangements might otherwise serve as a subterfuge for avoiding collective bargaining or evading other responsibilities under labor law. (13) Adopting a single definition of employee for all workplace laws based on the economic realities of the employment relationship. The law should confer independent contractor status only on those for whom it is appropriate - entrepreneurs who bear the risk of loss, serve multiple clients, hold themselves out to the public as an independent business, and so forth. The law should not provide incentives for misclassification of employees as indpendent contractors, which costs federal and state treasuries large sums in uncollected social security, unemployment, personal income, and other taxes. Imple menting the recommendations in this report would open up employment policy and practice to a period of experimentation and opportunities for further learning. To channel this learning into constructive policy making we recommend: (14) Creating a National Forum on the Workplace involving leaders of business, labor, women's, and civil rights groups to continue discussing workplace issues and public policies. In addition, we recommend establishment of a national Labor- Management Committee to discu ss issues of special concern to the future of collective bargaining and worker-management relations. We encourage development of similar forums in communities, states, and industries to further promote grass roots experimentation and learning. (15) Improving the data base for policy analysis of workplace developments, evaluation of labor-management experiments in the private sector, and for assessment of the economic condition of contingent workers. This requires amalgamation of existing data sets within the NLRB and Department of Labor, and among these and other agencies as well as coordination of research on workplace topics for the National Forum and other interested parties. The Challenges Ahead >From the views presented to us emerged a vision of the Workplace of the 21st Century that is shared widely across all sectors of society and the workforce. These goals appear at the end of this Executive Summary. Achieving some of them requires updating and modernizing labor and emplo yment law; others can be addressed through changes in administrative processes to give more power and flexibility to the parties at the workplace to govern their relationships and solve problems closest to the source. All will require leadership and sustained commitment to learning and experimentation on the part of individual workers and the labor and management leaders who shape employment practices. We urge that progress toward achievement of these goals be assessed systematically on a continu ous basis and the results shared widely with the American public. We can summarize the challenges facing America to improve the quality and performance of workplace relations quite simply. They are to sustain the momentum underway in the most innovative workplaces, to bring these innovations to and share their benefits among more workers and managers, and to overcome the countervailing forces that stand in the way of achieving the goals of the 21st Century workplace. We see three such countervai ling forces, two of which are reflected directly in the charges to this Commission and in our recommendations. The first of these countervailing forces is the high level of conflict and tension surrounding the process by which workers decide whether or not to be represented by a union for the purpose of collective bargaining. Our recommendations should result in a significant de-escalation of these conflicts and a restoration of workers' promised rights in this area, and thereby improve the over all climate for cooperative labor-management relations. The second countervailing force is the frustration that managers experience in trying to respond to complex workplace regulations and mounting litigation, and that workers experience in trying to enforce their legal rights on the job. Our recommendations provide workers and managers with the tools and flexibility to replace the command and control system of regulation and the litigious system for enforcing rights with opportunities for grea ter self-governance and private, high quality, dispute resolution. The third force limiting the momentum toward higher quality workplaces was highlighted in our Fact Finding Report but its solution lies well beyond the mandate of this Commission. We refer here to the widening earnings inequality and stagnant real earnings that have characterized the American labor market over the past ten to fifteen years. While the Commission makes no direct recommendations focused on this serious problem, a n umber of our recommendations should contribute to reducing this growing disparity. Among these recommendations are our support for increased training at the workplace; increased opportunities for employee participation to enhance productivity, quality, and worker development; protections against the use of contractors or contingent workers to evade responsibilities under labor and employment law; and changes to provide workers the opportunity for representation and collective bargaining if they w ant it. The recommendations of this Report are designed to contribute to the achievement of the goals and relationships required for the 21st Century workplace. vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv Roy J. Adams Ph: 905-525-9140, ext 23965 McMaster University Fax: 905-527-0100 Hamilton, Canada L8S 4C7 "NO REGULATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION" ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


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Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Topsy-Turvy Stand Tutorial Part 2
34 comments:
- Jenniffer said...
Awesome tutorial - thanks for the breakdown!
- September 6, 2011 at 1:42 PM
- sweeteatscakes said...
You are so welcome!
- September 7, 2011 at 11:01 AM
- Cupcations said...
Although I don't make cakes this tutorial really makes me want to lol so cool! Thanks for sharing :)
- September 7, 2011 at 12:17 PM
Great tutorial! Where do you get your acrylic plates from?
- September 11, 2011 at 9:37 PM
- sweeteatscakes said...
The acrylic plates my husband made at his work. You can go to a home improvement store, and buy acrylic, and then have the plates cut or you can just use wood instead.
- September 12, 2011 at 7:13 AM
Hello, great tutorial. Do the cakes resist transportation?
- September 25, 2011 at 7:04 PM
- sweeteatscakes said...
Hi Barbara,
Thanks for your question. I usually transport each tier seperatly and then just stack up the cake when I get to the location. The cakes transport with the pipe inside and then it is easy to stack up. Thanks again.
- September 25, 2011 at 9:06 PM
- M. Belen Agurto said...
Hi, lov e your tutorial.how much you would charge for something like this. A friend requested to mAke her one like this but pricing is my big problem. And more if the structure is more complicated to acComplish.
- November 7, 2011 at 2:33 PM
- sweeteatscakes said...
I don't really like to give out advice on how much you should be charging. you need to look at the cost of your materials, and your time spent. Then decide how much your time is worth to you and price accordingly.
- November 8, 2011 at 2:42 PM
- natsplat said...
I just wanted to say thank you so much for posting this tutorial. My little girl has been wanting a cool cake like this and i can finally do it after a year or so of looking for some help. You are so talented with your hands. I love your detailing on everything. I do have one question, how do you know where to put the whole on the cakes that will be angled on the pipe? I thought you do it in the center, but then i thought well if you do it in the center and put it on the pipe it will rip through the cake. What do you do?
- February 1, 2012 at 5:33 PM
- sweeteatscakes said...
Thanks natsplat! In order to get the cake on the pole at the angle I want, I use the pre-cut pipe as my guide,I hold the cake on the angle of the pipe and use a plastic dowel to start the hole. Then, I widen the hole to fit the PVC through the cake without damaging the cake tier. I hope that makes sense and helps you out a bit. It might take two people inorder to get it to work for you! Thanks again!
- February 2, 2012 at 9:35 AM
- natsplat said...
Thank you so much for explaining that for me. I look forward to trying this. I hope I can get it right :)
- February 2, 2012 at 6:34 PM
- Wellwishes said...
Just found this. Great info! Just a thought - is the weight of the cake an issue against the pipe/pvc? I'm imagining the cake side against the pipe pulling itself through the pipe due to gravity. How is this not an issue? The angle of the pvc cut? Thanks! Ruby
- March 25, 2012 at 3:18 PM
- sweeteatscakes said...
This has never been an issue. Try it out. It won't happen. The only problem I have had so far is a cake getting really hot and starting to melt but it still stayed on the support system.
- April 5, 2012 at 7:36 AM
- NewBlog said...
Thank you so very much for this tutorial! I have a client who would like a cake like this covered in buttercream instead of fondant. Have you tried it before? Would you recommend it? I've never done a cake like this...and I'm sure you can remember how intimidating it is the first go round! Any feedback would be great!
- May 16, 2012 at 10:42 AM
- sweeteatscakes said...
Thanks for your comment. Mostly, I prefer to work in fondant. To answer your question no, I have never attempted this cake in bc. My only thought would be that bc would be harder to work with since placing the tier on the steel post can be messy because cake will get onto the tier. If it is in fondant you can brush the cake off with bc it would be more difficult. Also, since this is your first time you may have to adjust the tiers a couple times so the they sit on the pole the way you want which may be diffcult with a bc cake. I would suggest practicing first before selling this cake in bc to a client. The first time you attempt this it will be tricky until you know what you are doing.
- May 17, 2012 at 10:55 AM
- Nan said...
Hello I find your tutorial very helpful but, is pvc food safe?
- October 1, 2012 at 11:39 PM
- sweeteatscakes said...
Hi Nan,
PVC is used in cake decorating all of the time. I havent done to much research on the food safety aspect however, if the PVC is safe for use in carrying drinking water than it should be fine to use for cake decorating. The PVC will not be in contact with the cake for a long period of time. If you still don't feel safe about using PVC then simply wrap the pipe in syran wrap before putting yuor cake on the pole.
- October 2, 2012 at 6:53 AM
- Deity said...
Great tutorial. You are awesome for posting this
- October 13, 2012 at 4:40 AM
- Artesana said...
Me encanta el tutorial,me quedo por aqui.Un salludo.
- November 28, 2012 at 3:54 AM
- sweeteatscakes said...
¡gracias Artesana
- November 28, 2012 at 7:15 AM
- Kate - The Greedy Baker said...
Hi again! This was the post I originally found your blog on but then I was distracted by your incredible Nutcracker! So more thanks here for sharing - I am so pleased to have found something on this style of Topsy Turvy that can be created in a DIY manner. So far my research had only pulled expensive cake stacking systems that although would be fantastic, would prove a nightmare for myself and my customers in regard to hire fees, security and also return of system. This is feel I can make and simply include the purchase costs in my pricing. Ok, probably too much useless info for you! I am just trying to convey how grateful I am at finding your tute!
Thanks again x
- April 11, 2013 at 11:55 PM
- sweeteatscakes said...
Kate, thanks so much for your comment! It's great to know that people enjoy my tutorials!
- April 15, 2013 at 1:48 PM
- Christine Jeffery said...
Brilliant tutorial. Am I right to assume that the PVC pipe that goes through the cake actually rests on the cake card that each tier is on? Just making sure I don't have to cut a hole through my cake card so that the PVC pipe rests directly on it.
- June 26, 2013 at 1:03 AM
- Gona Sheco said...
Nice tutirial can i know what was the kind of the board was it wood or the cake base??
- July 10, 2013 at 1:36 AM
- Kim said...
Hi Sweeteatscakes! Thank you for your awesome tutorial! I am going to try it this weekend :-)
All questions have been answered, except for one. When you push the PVC pipe through the cake and board, do you start at the bottom or the top? And how do you know at what angle? Regards Kim
- July 25, 2013 at 5:39 AM
- Kim said...
Hi, not to worry, you did answer the question! Wish me luck!
- July 25, 2013 at 6:44 AM
Hi Kim so glad you liked the tutorial. Sorry to not answer your question but I don't always have time to answer all the questions. I try to do the best I can.
- September 3, 2013 at 2:29 PM
- Lena said...
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!
- January 21, 2014 at 4:53 AM
only one comment. It would have been better for you to let the pipe come in contact with the cake instead of the electrical tape. PVC pipes are food grade as they carry drinking water. Electrical tape is not and has many harmful chemicals in it
- February 5, 2014 at 1:30 PM
- Samantha said...
Hi Anonymous,
If you read through the tutorial and looked at the pictures you would notice that at no point did I say to wrap the PVC in electric tape. The pole running up through the middle of the cake is wrapped in electric tape and then the PVC sits between this pole and the cake therefore the cake only comes in contact with the PVC. I hope that I have cleared this up for you and thank you for your knowledge on the chemical components of electrical tape.
- February 5, 2014 at 3:53 PM
- Tina said...
Holy cow this tutorial is amazing! Thank you so much for sharing!
- September 4, 2014 at 12:24 PM
- Juli said...
Hi, thank you for this great tutorial i have a question, your acrylics discs are the same size of each tier above them? please let meknow.. thank you!!
- June 10, 2016 at 8:56 PM
- turba tahir said...
I have a question
When I insert a cake tier do I insert it at the same angle as the PVC pipe? Because if I insert it straight onto the metal rod then the fondant and cake would tear to achieve the tilted angle of the PVC pipe
I hope I made my question clear ��
But I would like to thank you for this amazing tutorial this is the best ever tutorial on the internet for a topsy turvy cake and to build a cake support structure ��
- June 15, 2016 at 12:03 PM

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Limbaugh: Trump's NFL Remarks 'Starting to Make Me Nervous'
By Jenn Gidman
October 12, 2017
For the past few weeks, President Trump has been firing off tweets pressuring NFL athletes to stand during the national anthem—and for the NFL to makethem do so—with his most recent post Wednesday claiming (falsely) that Commissioner Roger Goodell was "finally demanding" all players stand. T
here's one surprising person who's unsettled by Trump's remarks: conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh. "There's a part of this story that's starting to make me nervous, and it's this: I am very uncomfortable with the president of the United States being able to dictate the behavior and power of anybody," Limbaugh said Wednesday on his talk show.
"That's not where this should be coming from." Limbaugh also said he understood the reason for Trump's tweetstorms, and that the president had "pure" intentions and was "in the right" on the subject of standing during the national anthem.
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Olga Robles-Resendez was standing along the track at Hendersonville High's Dietz Field Thursday morning when she saw a sight that put a smile on her face.
Olga Robles-Resendez was standing along the track at Hendersonville High's Dietz Field Thursday morning when she saw a sight that put a smile on her face.
Three of her sons — triplets Fernando, Alejandro and Armando — came through the gate with Hendersonville law enforcement personnel for the traditional opening of the Henderson County Special Olympics.
The trio, who have muscular dystrophy, rolled around the track in their wheelchairs, wearing smiles of their own as officers pushed them toward the torch that would officially kick off the event. Robles-Resendez, who was also at the event with her children Mario and Evelyn, had no clue her sons would be involved in the opening ceremonies.
"I'm really, really happy and excited," she said afterward, hugging her children proudly.
The trio handed off the torch to Alex Suder, who lit the torch and started the games.
Athletes threw softballs and tennis balls and competed in shot put. Wheelchair racing and walking and running events were also held for athletes 8 years and older. There was also an Olympic Village that included a bean bag toss, long jump and ring toss, among other activities.
For the athletes, the chance to get out and have fun in the sunshine was enough to make the day unforgettable. That was the case for Robert Dehond, who was on the Vocational Solutions team.
"I like doing it," he said. "It's fun. The fun part is doing it for the Special Olympics and the shop where I work. It's special to me."
This is the second time around for event organizer Jane Ollis, who is the Special Olympics coordinator for Henderson County.
"It's a lot of hard work," she said. "It's all worthwhile when I see how happy it makes the athletes."
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The USD 490 Board of Education is continuing to look into the possibility of getting a food service provider for the district.
The USD 490 Board of Education is continuing to look into the possibility of getting a food service provider for the district.
During their meeting Monday, the board members talked about their two visits to school districts and the next steps in the process.
One trip was to Ark City.
Norm Wilks, director of fiscal services, said the highlight there was the choice.
"Their meals were all prepared at each of the schools and they had three choices for meals at every meal," he said.
In addition, the traditional snacks and beverages were separate from the reimbursable meals and had to be paid for with cash.
Their choices ranged from a taco bar to sub sandwich to pizzas and hamburgers and a salad bar.
Another school visit was to Augusta.
"The elementary was pretty similar to what we're doing," said BOE Member Bernie Spradling. "They were letting the kids serve themselves on the vegetables and fruits."
They cooked some of the foods throughout the lunch period so the food was always fresh and hot.
"It seemed like the staff they had really adapted well," said BOE Member Cathy Cooper. "They were kind of proud of the fact they made pizza steadily throughout the lunch hour."
Those who visited commented on how good the pizza was and that it was homemade.
Augusta also had a sample plate at each food bar so students could see what they would get.
There is one more site visit later this month.
In addition, Wilks has submitted a request to the state to be able to send out requests for proposal from the food service providers.
In the next week to 10 days the district will receive that information back with approval and they will put out the RFPs in March, getting proposals back in May. Wilks expects to do negotiations in the early part of May, then resubmit to the state department for approval to go forward with a contract.
"Hopefully we will have a contract for your approval in the June or July meeting," he said.
In other business, the board:
• heard an update on Grandview Elementary, which is at 250 students, down about 12 from the beginning of the year, with the free and reduced rate at about 28 percent.
Principal Kim McCune said her professional goal looks at the things surveys were telling them were of concern to parents. That included the behavioral aspect of the Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) program. McCune wants to improve quality and fidelity of tier one support and learn more about tier two and three. As part of that, they are having intentional Positive Behavior Support lessons on a quarterly basis and also are looking to get more parent involvement in the building.
• heard a description of summer school programs. The Summer Academy program will be moved to Skelly Elementary, while course completion programs will move back to the middle school and high school so the principals can oversee those students rather than mixing those two program. The cost of the summer programs will remain the same and the district is looking at collaborating with other entities for summer transportation for youth.
• heard a recommendation from the Evaluation Committee on a program for teacher and staff evaluations. After looking at three programs, they approved the E4E evaluation tool as the staff evaluation model for negotiation.
• heard an update on the KSDE audit and budget. The general fund is up about $531,000 over last year, although $300,000 of that is new facility weights, so it is one-time money. The district is up 41 students from what was published last July. One benefit is that the budget is built on a three-year average, so the increase is enough to carry this year's numbers over to next year. One unknown number is special education, for which they won't know the distribution of until the end of May or early June.
When comparing the operating budget, which is the general fund and the local option budget minus special education and facility weights funding, the net operating budget went from $13.6 million in 2011-2012 to $13.8 million in 2012-13.
One concern with next year is the fact they won't have new facility weights for the middle school because it won't be open until January.
Norm Wilks, director of fiscal services, said they hope to take the additional $200,000 this year that is above the published budget and move it to next year to cover health care costs and staff salaries.
Looking at the longer term trend, the net operating budget was $15.3 million in 2008-09.
• heard an update on the legislature, which included the Senate Education Bill and the session for governmental regulations when they can get together and talk with legislators.
• heard about the textbooks looked at for math for the next six years for K-12. At the elementary level, one of the things teachers liked was the math expressions and that mathematical practices are embedded in every lesson.
"It's not just giving the answer, but why and how," said Julie Jensen, director of curriculum.
It also provides more resources at the high school level to support MTSS.
"Everything we're looking at today is common core," Jensen said.
The board approved the purchase of the new K-12 text books.
• approved the 2013-2014 academic calendar with a start date for the school year of Aug. 14. School will end before Memorial Day.
• approved the low bid from Ziegler Electric in the amount of $26,983 for new lights in the EHS gym. This would replace the halogen bulbs with T-5 bulbs that are cheaper and last longer, as well as are more energy efficient. In addition, the switch for the lights would be moved out of the breaker box.
• authorized the superintendent to sign a three-year renewable contract with the city to operate the activity center on a 50-50 basis for utilities and maintenance costs. The school district had been paying those costs for 18 years to make up the difference in what the city put into the center during construction.
• approved the financial audit contract.
• approved contract extensions for administrative contracts.


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Analyst Pegs Ahold as Most Likely Buyer for Harris Teeter
An acquisitive nature, a desire to move into southern U.S. markets and a mix of union and nonunion supermarkets make Dutch retailer Royal Ahold NV the most logical buyer for Harris Teeter Supermarkets Inc., a prominent supermarket analyst says.
Harris Teeter rivals Publix Super Markets Inc. and Kroger Co. should also be considered candidates to acquire the Matthews, N.C. chain, BMO Capital Markets retail analyst Karen Short told investors Wednesday. But she also offered reasons why those tie-ups wouldn't make sense.
Harris Teeter said last week that it had been approached by two private-equity firms seeking to buy the company and that it had retained J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. to assist it "in conducting discussions with certain highly qualified parties" about potential deals. Harris Teeter, which has a stock market value of about $2.1 billion, did not reveal the names of its private-equity suitors.
The company's announcement came after The Wall Street Journal reported that Harris Teeter, considering a sale, had hired J.P. Morgan.
Update: Harris Teeter is based in Matthews, N.C. An earlier version of this post incorrectly said it is based in South Carolina.


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A retired Onslow county couple is helping keep the merry in Christmas one light at a time.
A retired Onslow county couple is helping keep the merry in Christmas one light at a time.
Ray and Carol Evans of 121 Sail Way, which is off of Peru Road in Sneads Ferry, are celebrating the holidays with an elaborate display of 30,000 Christmas lights and a variety of decorations. The decorations took three weeks to set up. The display is organized into six themes synced with a music box to flash and move in time with various holiday songs.
�People get so engrossed with watching the lights out there that sometimes they don�t even notice us standing right next to them,� Ray said. �Everyone gets so in tune with watching the lights dance and move. They come up, both grownups and children, and just stare. It�s hypnotic�
The project began in 2012 after the Evans noticed families driving by to view their usual Christmas light decorations. After seeing how much joy it brought to the kids last year, they decided to up the ante this December by adding 20,000 more lights, over 300 extension cords, three circuit breakers and a number of other features and inflatables.
�I just love Christmas so much,� Carol said. �When I found out Ray did too, I started buying things and buying things, more and more, and it turned into what it is today. We are a lot closer now because we can share a focus on the season�s meaning and the joy we create for other people.�
As per tradition, Santa will continue to make an appearance a few hours every night to talk to the children and figure out who is naughty or nice.
�We�ve had a bunch of parents tell us they like to come here to see Santa because they don�t like to fight the crowds or wait in line at the mall,� Carol said. �It�s very personal for us. The kids that come through here have really touched our hearts.�
But running such a grand operation does not come entirely without risk. According to Ray, the native squirrel population has proven to be an admirable adversary, chewing through cords and knocking displays down.
�At first we thought someone was coming into the yard and cutting the wires, then we investigated and found out it was just the squirrels,� he said. �There are a lot of them around here and we never knew they would attack the lights, but they have. You deal with it the best you can, but, you know, it is nature and we are probably not going to win that battle.�
Unruly weather and a high power bill also are big threats; however, the Evans family plans to continue their light show every night beginning at 6 p.m. until Christmas. Afterwards, they will waste no time to begin dreaming up their next event, which will be revealed on the couple�s Facebook page, Fun Things to do in Sneads Ferry.
�Winter is always a slow couple of months around this small fishing village, so we are just trying to give back what we can,� Ray said. �There are so many kids that don�t have things out there, but if we can put a smile on their face, then that�s it. Money will come and go, but a smile we will always remember.�
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Ray and Carol Evans have more than 35,000 Christmas lights synced to Christmas music decorating their house at 121 Sail Way in Sneads Ferry. The display will be lit 5:30 to 9 p.m. nightly until Dec. 24. Santa Claus will visit with the kids and pose for pictures 6 to 9 p.m. nightly at the house. For more information, visit the Evans� page Facebook page by searching "Fun Things To Do In Sneads Ferry."


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Xbox 360 reverses plunging console sales trend
Poor month for rivals
Games console sales in the US fell 38 per cent last month when compared to June 2008, market watcher NPD's latest numbers show.
Microsoft alone can take some solace. It was the only console maker to shift more units in June 2009 than in June 2008.
Back then, it sold 219,000 Xbox 360s. In June 2009, some 240,600 were sold.
Xbox arch-rival the Sony PlayStation 3 accounted for 164,700 units in June - well down on the 405,500 PS3 sold in June 2008.
The Nintendo Wii was also a loser, with June sales falling from 666,700 in 2008 to 361,700 in 2009.
Nintendo's handheld, the DS, experienced a much smaller year-on-year decline - 783,000 to 766,500 - but that's the result of the release of the DSi in May. Indeed, the debut of the DSi ensured that it was the only console to sell more units in the first six months of 2009 than it did in H1 2008.
June 2009 PSP sales totalled 164,500 units, down from 337,400 units in June 2008.
Overall hardware revenue totaled $382.62m for the month, down from $617.25m in June 2008.
Software sales slumped year on year, coming in 29 per cent below June 2008's figure of $875,750 to $625,790. That's the fourth monthly decline in a row.
NPD does not think games downloads have had a significant impact on the sales of physical product - which is what the company measures. This implies the sales slump reflects broader economic woes rather than a shift in games buying patterns. ®


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The major human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae plays a key role in several disease states including septicaemia, meningitis and community-acquired pneumonia. Although vaccines against S. pneumoniae are available as prophylactics, there remains a need to identify and characterise novel chemical entities that can treat the diseases caused by this pathogen. S. pneumoniae expresses three sialidases, enzymes that cleave sialic acid from carbohydrate-based surface molecules. Two of these enzymes, NanA and NanB, have been implicated in the pathogenesis of S. pneumoniae and are considered to be validated drug targets. Here we report our studies on the synthesis and structural characterisation of novel NanB-selective inhibitors that are inspired by the beta-amino-sulfonic acid family of buffers.
Synthesis and structural characterisation of selective non-carbohydrate-based inhibitors of bacterial sialidases.,Brear P, Telford J, Taylor GL, Westwood NJ Chembiochem. 2012 Nov 5;13(16):2374-83. doi: 10.1002/cbic.201200433. Epub 2012, Oct 15. PMID:23070966[1]
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WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) Braden Holtby and the Washington Capitals enjoyed their two-game stay in Winnipeg.
Holtby made 30 saves as the Capitals beat the Jets 6-1 on Friday, a victory that followed a 4-0 win against the Jets on Thursday.
``Anywhere you can come and get two wins, it's a pretty good city,'' Holtby said after Alex Ovechkin scored twice for the win that lifted the Capitals past Tampa Bay into third place in the Southeast Division.
``For some reason, we play really well here as a group. Probably three of our best games all year have come in this building. It's good because they're the guys we're chasing.''
That third game was a 3-0 shutout March 2. The Jets managed a 4-2 win in Washington near the start of the season.
Brooks Laich, Troy Brouwer, Jay Beagle and Mike Green also scored for the Capitals and team scoring leader Mike Ribeiro had two assists.
Dustin Byfuglien scored for Winnipeg, which kept its tenuous hold on first place in the Southeast with closest rival Carolina idle.
For Holtby, this could be a turning point. He said the Caps also played well in Pittsburgh before coming to Winnipeg for a rare back-to-back series, although they didn't win.
``We're getting in the groove. You can feel it in the dressing room. the guys are confident and guys are ready to make a push here. It's a good feeling and that's what we've been waiting for all year.''
Byfuglien scored Winnipeg's only goal in the third, winning a standing ovation as he stopped what looked like another shutout.
The Jets outshot the Capitals 31-24 and showed a lot more life than Thursday, although the result was the same.
``What can you say, they scored goals and we didn't,'' said Jets coach Claude Noel who described it as a bump in the road and a learning experience.
``At one point the shots were 30-17 and we were down, 5-1 but that's what you get sometimes.''
He also wasn't as down on the level of play as he was after Thursday, when Winnipeg came out flat and stayed that way.
``We didn't execute some things but for me the will was there, the game was really out of reach. It was a tough game to be part of. ...
``I still like our team and we're still at the top of our division, we're still a team that I believe will make the playoffs and that's where we're going. The world is not going to end tomorrow, I don't think.''
Laich, who only returned to the Capitals on Thursday from an injury at the start of the season, scored first Friday. He raised a shot past Ondrej Pavelec's glove side from the left faceoff circle at 12:10
The Jets had a few more chances at the Washington net but couldn't get past Holtby.
Evander Kane came close, but a few seconds later at the other end of the ice, Brouwer and Ribeiro broke away and Brouwer picked the same corner of the net as Laich.
``We got more pucks to the net, which is something we wanted to do,'' Kane said.
``We had some scoring opportunities but we didn't have enough. Everything they touched kind of went in.''
The second period followed the same pattern as the first.
Beagle scored after taking a pass from Joel Ward in front of Pavelec. It was enough for Noel, who pulled Pavelec for backup Al Montoya at the 5:50 mark. Pavelec finished with six saves on nine shots.
But he didn't fault his starter, who has kept the Jets in a lot of games this season when it looked like they were outclassed.
Pavelec said the Jets didn't deserve to win.
``We have to go back to our plan and play the way we want to play,'' he said.
``It's disappointing, (there's) no excuse for it that's for sure, but tomorrow's another day and another game Sunday.''
Montoya, who had 12 saves, didn't fare any better than Pavelec. Ovechkin fired a screamer of a wrist shot into the Winnipeg net about two minutes after the goalie change.
Green then slapped one past Montoya to start the third period.
Noel tried mixing up his lines Friday night. Chris Thorburn moved up to the third line with Nik Antropov and Kyle Wellwood and later Blake Wheeler was skating with Kane and Olli Jokinen, but nothing seemed to work for the Jets.
It was Byfuglien who broke through with a puck that was fired from the boards near the goal line and sliced past Holtby on a sharp angle to catch the edge of the net.
Ovechkin then slapped one past Montoya on Washington's final power play of the game at 15:58 for his second goal of the night.
Noel had some parting advice for his players ahead of Sunday's home game against Tampa Bay.
``The best thing our players can do is get away from hockey and go see a movie and clear your head, because we've got a game on Sunday,'' he said.
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Scientists recently spotted several bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) near Svalbard where they have only been spotted a few times in the last several decades.
Two weeks of searching on a recent research mission to the arctic waters between Greenland and the Svalbard Archipelago ( Norway) was rewarded with 8 whale sightings, several of which involved multiple whales (3, 3 and 7 plus whales spotted together). The sightings give a glimmer of hope for the recovery of the "Spitsbergen stock" of bowheads, a population that is Critically Endangered.
Bowhead whales were dramatically over-hunted during the earliest commercial whaling in the Arctic in the 1600s. By the late 19 th century, European whalers had brought the Spitsbergen stock to the verge of extinction, but it seems that a few of these long-living whales survived.
The programme to study bowhead whales is a joint venture between researchers from the Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo, the Institute for Marine Research in Bergen and the Norwegian Polar Insitute in Tromsø. It is led by Dr. Øystein Wiig of the Natural History Museum and includes SSC Specialist Group chair Dr. Kit Kovacs. The Spitsbergen population is virtually unstudied because sightings have been so rare, and guesses at the population size range from a few individuals to 100. Most reports suggest 10s of animals, but the reality is that scientists do not know how many there are in this stock. The collaborating team of researchers is hopeful that the success of this pilot project will provide an incentive to support a more intensive census.
Bowhead whales might live to be 200+ years old and are named after their enormous bow-shaped mouths which hold the longest baleen of any whale, sometimes measuring over three meters in length. Baleen is a series of comb-like plates that hang from the upper jaw of all of the "baleen whales'" mouths to sieve plankton and small fish from sea water. These whales live in northern hemisphere waters near the edge of the Arctic ice shelf.
The worldwide moratorium on whaling came into effect in 1986, though bowhead whales have been protected since before then and are still harvested in significant numbers under the guidance of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) by native people particularly in Alaska. They were protected by IWC in the mid 1960s and listed as Endangered in the early 1970s.
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Starting a Business in Canada
Many investors like to either start their own business, or invest into a new startup here in Canada and when one does so there are three major types of business ownerships: sole proprietorship, corporation, and partnership. Each have their pros and cons that should be analyzed in turn.
Sole Proprietorship is the most basic form of business which is owned and operated by a single person under one's own name or as a registered name. Sole Proprietorship business names do not have any extension appended to the end of it like you see for other legal entities such as corporations with "Inc." or "Corp.". Setting up and managing this type of business is relatively easy and inexpensive. There are subtle differences in how this type is setup from province to province. Filing taxes as a sole proprietor is also much simpler by way of including your business income on your personal income tax form. One major disadvantage of this business type is that you are wholly responsible legally for debts and liabilities you may incur during its existence.
Partnerships come in three forms: General, Limited and Limited Liability. When you choose to start a business with a partner(s) it's usually this type of business you look to form. General Partnerships are the most popular of the three and each partner is liable for all debts. Limited Partnership restricts one's personal liability to how much they had originally invested in the company. A limited partner also cannot be involved in the management aspect of the business. If one does then they instead become a general partner. Limited Liability Partnerships are strictly limited to certain types of professions such as lawyers and accountants. Partnerships have the same tax simplicity awarded to sole proprietorships where each partner files information on their own personal income tax forms. One significant disadvantage with partnerships is that situations between partners can become strained due to different viewpoints and beliefs in how the business should operate, and on how to dissolve it.
Because the amount of personal liability is significant when structured as a sole proprietorship or partnership one can look to becoming incorporated as an alternative. A corporation is separate and distinct from its founders and shareholders. No individual can be held responsible for debts or obligations carried by the company. Establishing a corporation can be very expensive and difficult to set up. Tax filings are also much more complicated and have more strict deadlines to meet.
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Mount Rushmore National Memorial may be the most famous landmark in the Black Hills of South Dakota, but it's not the only one.
RAPID CITY, S.D. — Mount Rushmore National Memorial may be the most famous landmark in the Black Hills of South Dakota, but it's not the only one.
Covering approximately 8,000 square miles, the Black Hills are a small, isolated mountain range with a big Native American influence. The Lakota took over the mountains from the Cheyenne in the 1700s and named it Paha Sapa (translated to Black Hills.) The Lakota signed a treaty with the U.S. government in 1868 exempting the hills from white settlers. But when gold was discovered in the mountains, the U.S. government broke the treaty and moved the tribes to reservation lands in other areas of the state.
The Lakota influence can be seen not far from Mount Rushmore in the still-unfinished mountain carving of Lakota warrior Crazy Horse. Farther south, visitors can see buffalo up close as they roam the prairie in Custer State Park.
Here are five free things to do in the Black Hills:
WALK THROUGH HISTORIC DEADWOOD: Established during the Black Hills' gold rush in the 1870s, Deadwood is known for gambling, prostitution and lawlessness. Only the gambling remains today, but street shows and memorabilia at stores lining the brick streets evoke the town's wilder days. Deadwood's history is so unique that it's the only city in the United States to be named a National Historic Landmark.
SNEAK A PEEK AT MOUNT RUSHMORE: There is no entrance fee to see Mount Rushmore National Memorial, but parking will set you back $11. Instead, stop on a nearby side road with a scenic view area to snap a photo of the faces of Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt and Jefferson. The monument may be farther away, but the views can still be just as breathtaking. Head to U.S. Route 16A for a good view.
SPEND A DAY AT THE STURGIS MOTORCYCLE RALLY: Hundreds of thousands descend on the town of Sturgis (population: 6,600) every August for this annual gathering of motorcycle enthusiasts. Alcohol, leather, bare skin and ramped-up engines take over during the weeklong event. Many riders will drive their motorcycles from all over the country for the event, and children and families are invited. This year's rally is scheduled for Aug. 5-11.
STOP BY WALL DRUG: On the cusp of the Black Hills along Interstate 90 in the tiny town of Wall is this sprawling tourist attraction consisting of a drugstore, gift shop, restaurants, a chapel and several other stores. Pharmacist Ted Hustead bought the drugstore in 1931. Business was slow until his wife, Dorothy, came up with the idea to advertise free ice water to parched travelers. Today, signs dot Interstate 90 enticing travelers to stop at the famed drugstore. And the water remains free.
GAZE AT RAPID CITY'S ART ALLEY: Located in downtown Rapid City near the historic Hotel Alex Johnson, Art Alley is a place where artists can showcase their talent through graffiti, paintings and sculpture. Stroll between Sixth and Seventh streets to see how creativity can take hold along a city block.


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ASA Rolls Out New Jensen '14 Series LED TVs
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Elkhart, Ind.-based ASA Electronics announced it is "leading the industry" with the new Jensen 46-inch and 50-inch LED TVs with direct LED-lit illumination, according to a press release.
The introduction of ASA's latest televisions expands the "already exceptional family of high quality and dependable TVs." The Jensen '14 series offers the widest range of sizes available in the RV industry starting with a 19-inch set to a large 50-inch TV.
ASA also supports their televisions with its "Hassle-Free Warranty Program" that is cost effective and provides a quick turnaround in the event an RVer needs assistance.
ASA offers the exclusive Jensen JCOM technology with their top-of-the-line televisions. JCOM provides communication from the TV to a JENSEN JCOM-equipped HDMI DVD player. This feature offers a more uniform, user-friendly platform eliminating the intimidation factor when handling multiple electronics. Each unit also includes a unified remote control and optional table top stand.
ASA stated, "These TVs have been engineered to the JENSEN quality standards the RV industry has come to appreciate from ASA."


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Might this be Braxton Miller's last game for Ohio State against Michigan. The Huber Heights High School product has refused to talk about his future. "He has a skill set to be a pro quarterback," Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer said. "There is no doubt in my mind. I don't believe he's ready yet."
There is always a moment. During the course of a season, even a career, there is a split second when a confluence of events comes together and a quarterback becomes a quarterback.
Urban Meyer saw it happen with Josh Harris at Bowling Green. He remembers when it happened with Alex Smith at Utah and Chris Leak at Florida, and Meyer stands by his word that it happened with Tim Tebow, too.
Last week, it happened with Braxton Miller. Ohio State's junior quarterback has come of age as a passer this season, putting up his best throwing numbers, while still remaining a threat to run the ball.
The moment came early in the fourth quarter. The Buckeyes had a commanding 35-0 lead, but Meyer wanted more. Yes, style points matter.
Ohio State had a third-and-17 from its own 36. The snow was falling and the wind was blowing at Ohio Stadium. Miller, with a linebacker about to blow him up, delivered a perfect pass to tight end Jeff Heuerman for 25 yards to the Indiana 39. Ohio State would go on to score and lead 42-0.
"His best play as a college football quarterback was third-and-17 on the right hash, in snowy conditions," Meyer said. "He didn't panic out of the pocket. He stepped up, delivered the ball. It might be worth going back and watching. It was a fantastic play."
This afternoon at noon, Miller leads the third-ranked Buckeyes against a Michigan team that has had an underwhelming season. If Ohio State's offense revs up and Miller has a productive day throwing and running the football, the Buckeyes could sway a few more poll voters as the regular season winds down.
Might this be Miller's last game against Michigan. The Huber Heights High School product has refused to talk about his future.
"He has a skill set to be a pro quarterback," Meyer said. "There is no doubt in my mind. I don't believe he's ready yet. I certainly get asked that question, 'Can Braxton Miller play quarterback in the NFL?' Absolutely he can. There's no doubt in my mind because he continues to develop."
Miller strained a knee ligament early in the season. After missing two games, he played with a knee brace until last week. For the first time since the season opener, Miller looked like the kind of athlete Buckeye fans expected.
He finished with a team-high 144 yards on 13 carries and two touchdowns running the ball. On both of his TD runs Miller showed his athleticism by taking to the air to get in the end zone, diving from about 3 yards out on one, and doing a somersault on the other.
What makes Miller better this year is his understanding of the offense and trust in quarterbacks coach Tom Herman. He has completed 132 of 195 passes for 1,626 yards with 19 touchdowns and four interceptions.
"Braxton is a different quarterback than he was," Meyer said. "People make the comment about he's having fun, and he is having fun because he knows what he's doing. He's confident in the personnel around him. That was not the case last year. I wasn't here, but I can only imagine his freshman year."
Miller has grown from a confused athlete pressed into action, to a mature quarterback who is slowly embracing the leadership position. Teammates have said he is more comfortable being vocal.
"Braxton is a guy that if he's not comfortable, he's not going to act like he's having fun if he isn't," Meyer said. "He knows where people are. He knows the protections. He's playing quarterback."
The third-and-17 pass to Heuerman? The tight end wasn't the first read on the play. Miller's pre-snap read helped him determine Heuerman would be open, but he looked a safety off before throwing the other way.
Other times, even this year, Miller was more comfortable abandoning a pass play when pressure leaked through the offensive line. Instead of taking a hit throwing the ball, he'd rather deliver one running it. However, that could mean leaving 25 yards on the field.
"That was his moment where he stood right in that pocket — and that's the hardest thing you can ask a quarterback to do — it was right there," Meyer said, so proud and offering to show the end zone coaches' copy of the film. "He's getting hit right in the face and delivering a 25-yard strike on third-and-17."
Spoken like a proud father who sees the growth in his quarterback, but clearly one who believes it is in Miller's best interest to stick around.
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Tiny online meeting company SalesCrunch -- with just 10,000 users and 15 employees -- has made an offer to mighty Cisco Systems for its world-leading collaboration platform WebEx.
Insisting that the offer is not a publicity stunt, SalesCrunch has offered Cisco $1 and a 15% stake in the new company. SalesCrunch said that by acquiring WebEx, Cisco (CSCO, Fortune 500) and WebEx's more than 5 million users will all benefit.
The problem with Cisco's ownership of WebEx, according to SalesCrunch, is that the meeting software is too far outside the company's wheelhouse of switches and routers. Like Skype when it was under eBay's (EBAY, Fortune 500) umbrella, Cisco isn't giving WebEx developers the tools they need to modernize the product, SalesCrunch argues.
Some industry analysts agree.
"It makes sense for Cisco to sell WebEx," said Rebecca Wettemann, analyst at Nucleus Research. "The bottom line is Cisco is not a software company and thus not a great match for WebEx."
Would Cisco go for such a deal? The company wasn't immediately available for comment.
Cisco bought WebEx in 2007 for $3.2 billion to break into the then-burgeoning communication applications space. But the kinds of companies that buy collaboration software are completely different from the ones that buy Cisco's core networking products.
What's more, real-time communication has since evolved and become more integrated with the desktop or browser, as is the case with tools like Google's (GOOG, Fortune 500) app suite or Microsoft's (MSFT, Fortune 500) Lync.
As evidence that Cisco can't properly support WebEx, SalesCrunch points to the fact that Cisco has a history of simply killing off non-core products.
Last year, Cisco terminated most of its consumer product lines, including Flip video cameras and its Umi home teleconferencing system, laying off 16% of its workforce in the process. WebEx had been rumored to be next on the chopping block, yet nothing ever came of that.
"Cisco's innovator's dilemma has extended to WebEx," said Sean Black, CEO of SalesCrunch. "Cisco can't just take all of its customers and launch them onto a modern platform, because WebEx customers would leave the way Netflix (NFLX) customers did."
Yet SalesCrunch's solution is to do just that: The company wants to buy WebEx for its user base, not the technology. Over a period of 12 to 18 months, Black said that SalesCrunch would phase out the WebEx technology, and transition them to the SalesCrunch software.
About 1 million, or 20% of WebEx's customers will leave, Black predicted, most of them switching to rival GoToMeeting, which is owned by Citrix Systems (CTXS).
Black said the reason it plans to leave WebEx for dead -- if it is successful in buying the business from Cisco -- is that it's an outdated technology, with software that can't utilize social networking, analytics, or any modern advances. SalesCrunch, by contrast, is browser-based, so it can be built to incorporate third-party social or analytical software.
Analysts were skeptical of the terms of SalesCrunch's offer though.
"Cash deals draw more serious attention, and this one is for $1," said Colin Gillis, analyst at BGC Partners. "I don't see them parting with WebEx anytime soon. The company's clearly restructuring, but WebEx is not one that they have been telegraphing as up for sale."
SalesCrunch admitted that Cisco wouldn't likely bite at first, and it would take a push from shareholders to force Cisco's hand. But the company also noted that if Cisco were to get rid of WebEx, no other company has stepped up to buy it.
Black said it's unclear how much the 15% stake will be worth, but he noted that it will be "more substantial than if Cisco kills WebEx like they did with Flip." He also said the advantage for Cisco would be that WebEx would come of the company's books immediately.
"The alternative for Cisco is to lay off thousands more people and shut down the most-used online meeting business," he said.
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|2008-12-13, 08:14
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A Proud Lolicon
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: In front of my computer
Age: 31
It's a decent watch if you remove the final ep, though.
I won't rule out this show yet. From the first look you can tell pretty easily that this one will contain lot of fanservice in the shapes of girl and mecha, so why not lower our standard a little and enjoy it?
|2008-12-14, 10:08
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I just knew you were going to reply to that. Sure Mai-HiME is mainstream. I don't think it's crap and the Sunrise series I regard as crap I have watched to the bitter end, so I feel quite entitled to call them whatever I damn like. If that will make you happy, I think KyoAni is over worse offender in the mainstream category and that's without ever watching one of their series to the end except for Fumoffu. Now, that's opinion I would expect to be called upon for good reason.
I didn't say mainstream=crap, it's just that that all of Sunrise's popular (read mainstream)series in the last years that I have watched were rather terrible in my opinion. Not simply because they were popular as you seem to be implying.
|2008-12-14, 13:14
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Mainstream - belonging to or characteristic of a principal, dominant, or widely accepted group, movement, style, etc.. You aren't going to argue that Gundam SEED Destiny or Code geass is not mainstream (among anime series, not TV shows in generla, of course), are you?
|2008-12-14, 16:33
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As for this one, except for lolis and fun-service, which are certain, whether it is worth your time, you'll have to watch it first and certainly not judge from the studio's recent works.
|2008-12-14, 19:42
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mind the gap
So does that mean Yuuka-chan is active again? If yes, §%$(/)%"ing awesome.
Well, I'll watch this anyway, it's Sunrise, lots of cute girls etc. ..the seiyuu are just icing on the cake.
Yukana's character has already captured my heart. Takane-sannn..
|2008-12-15, 01:51
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Lets be reality
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|2008-12-16, 00:51
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Groupthinkers....no...cultures who rarely have anything to add to a conversation that isn't just an assorted collection of the latest internet memes are no better, no more desirable to me, then the hipsters you can find at your local mall buying into every new corporately manufactured trend without regard for how little it's actually going to change who they are or their actual self worth. So stop importing that culture please. And yes it is a culture like any other, no matter how much they think the anonymous thing gives them a sense of individuality.
Alas, sometimes I have to be harsh in making a point, yet I will say this, it's very much possible to run againt the mainstream without having to resort to adopting the beliefs of a counter-culture whose tendencies are just as predictable and braindraining as your average popular cultures. Culture, counter-culture, mainstream, it's all the same to me, you're still sacrificing your independent thought in order to fit in with a crowd and it's still herd behaviour, whether you are the type that professes to like only Shounen, Mecha, Fantasy and explosions, or the type that only likes Slice of Life, Romance and "Realism". So in the end why, why not just be oneself with their own set of self-coined terms, expectations in life and beliefs and ideas to call ones own? That's the philosophy I subscribe too, right down to when I refuse to select from a choice of pre-specified classes in Oblivion and choose to create my own custom class.
That was what I was planning on getting to with my question, and I hope we're all on the same page now. So if people don't mind, I will choose to subscribe to those immortal words of Fleetwood Mac and go my own way, even if I have to call it another lonely day. One month to the debut of this series, and then we can all judge it, not before. Deal?
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|2008-12-16, 07:36
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So you claim you don't give a crap yet whenever someone says anything bad about Sunrise you are always there to refute them? How does that work?
Seriously, call me crazy but I still think most people who bitch about some movie or book or game do it because they quite frankly didn't like it. Not because it's cool or their peers told them to do so. And of course who bitch over the internet are a very small percentage of the number who would bitch if they had to give an opinion but just don't want to waste their time that way. Or think forums and blogs are inventions of the devil.
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|2008-12-16, 17:57
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Sorry for the smilies overload.
Oh, well, if you want to believe that people dislike Gundam SEED Destiny et al just because it is hip to do so, please do. Just don't claim this conjecture is an axiom, please.
P.S. Giving me negative reputation for my initial post did give me a good laugh, though. Should I feel obliged to do the same if you happen to have a negative opinion about a studio that I like?
|2008-12-16, 19:05
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A Proud Lolicon
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|2008-12-16, 22:14
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Absolute Haruhist!
Join Date: Mar 2006
Age: 31
Then there was a case of a bunch of Ranka fans getting anon neg rep just for saying they're Ranka fans.
Anyway its amazing how much criticism a show can get before airing.
Any mecha show is an instant win for SRW fans, from Sunrise means it has decent chance of getting into SRW. And if it gets into SRW, it will be fixed no matter how bad it can get.
|2008-12-17, 00:00
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It's kind of the same deal with what happened with Kyoani where they stepped back from the direction they were headed in towards really making something of themselves in terms of series with variety in themes in order to cater to the moe market and release Key adapation after Otaku pandering Kadokawa adaptation. Sora Kake Girl looks like the same thing at first glance. A moe oriented otaku pander with good looking character designs, but nothing that indicates any sort of substance from what we've seen so far of the trailers and Newtype features. And this following up on the success of Code Geass and other recent properties of theirs......it catches one off guard and makes one more than a little unsure of what to expect. Like it's an attempt to coast or something.
In a rare case of seeing eye to eye with the companie's critics (mostly because what they are saying actually makes sense within the context of logic and reality for a change) I actually have to agree a little, from what we've seen (so far) the show looks like the type to be watched for the fancy animation and moe girls and not for any sort of depth of character or plot. We could be proven wrong of course, but there's really been nothing to give us any reason to believe it's going to be a heavy hitter or a standout. How unfortunate.
|2008-12-17, 04:16
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Part-Time TTK & Master
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Iwakawa base and Chaldea
Age: 38
About mainstream, indie, counter-culture, whatever, Sunrise is about as mainstream as any can get. Thinking otherwise because of the bad publicity it gets in a part of the blogsphere is just plain ridiculous.
|2008-12-17, 05:16
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Lets be reality
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Really I don't know how anyone can convince themselves R2 is hated on the internet when it constantly got mostly 10's even for average episodes and is top ten on ratings databases for ANN, MAL and anidb but hey people can convince themselves of anything.
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