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American Bald Eagle
R. J. Laudenbacher 3/16/2008 3:00:25 PMAbsolutely beautiful! #878976
Jake 3/16/2008 3:12:36 PMBeautiful. Love the way it fills the frame. Great clarity and capture. #5650441
Teresa Pritchett 3/16/2008 3:15:45 PMI love this shot.. I have always wanted to to take the trip to Homer.. what an amazing trip that must have been. Congratulations on a great shot! #5650446
Orsi 3/16/2008 3:23:25 PMBeautiful!!Great shot,Harry!! #5650462
Harry E. Pherson 3/16/2008 3:26:57 PMThank you all for the great comments #5650466
Ellen L. Zaslaw 3/16/2008 4:22:07 PMTerrific ! #5650620
Barbara Waldoch 3/16/2008 4:22:25 PMHow gorgeous, Harry!
Harry E. Pherson 3/16/2008 4:49:40 PMThanks Ellen and Barbara for your kind words. #5650699
Sherran Andersen 3/16/2008 5:21:24 PMBeautiful details in this photo! Sherran #5650811
Christie R. Bielss 3/16/2008 5:22:46 PMBeautiful photo! His 'hair' reminds me of mine first thing in the morning! Great job! #5650817
Sheila D. Robertson 3/16/2008 6:22:41 PMUnusual and great capture. #5651014
Jo Anne Shinn 3/16/2008 6:59:18 PMThis is AWESOME, Harry! Great job! =) #5651165
Harry E. Pherson 3/16/2008 7:05:10 PMThanks Sherran, Christie, Sheila and Jo Anne for your kind words... #5651194
Joan Powell 3/16/2008 7:07:50 PMAmazing capture !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #5651207
Harry E. Pherson 3/17/2008 12:23:22 PMThanks Joan for you kind words...Harry #5653820
Avril Young 4/11/2008 12:26:00 AMwow I want to take photos like this, outstanding photo...sharp, detailed........really STUNNING! #5773364
Lynne Morris 4/11/2008 12:31:56 AMWow from me too Harry, this is an awesome image and worthy of the POTD award, huge Congratulations. #5773385
Toni Riggs 4/11/2008 12:42:06 AMWow! Wonderful image! #5773412
Susie Peek-Swint 4/11/2008 12:46:26 AMMany congrats on POTD Harry ~ fantastic capture .. he reminds me of an old judge with those fierce knowing eyes :) #5773417
Michael S. Lazarus 4/11/2008 1:19:27 AMTerrific photograph Harry! Congratulations on the POTD. Wonderful composition and love those eyes. #5773484
Holly J. Jackson 4/11/2008 1:23:50 AMCongrats on your POTD!!! This is AWESOME!!! ;) #5773492
Michelle Alton 4/11/2008 2:45:48 AMUnbelievably beautiful capture of this eagle, straight from the salon! Ultra-deserving POTD, Harry!
Kathleen Rinker 4/11/2008 2:48:49 AMFantastic image, looks like he stuck his beak in a light socket (lol)!!! #5773621
Denise Denomy 4/11/2008 3:09:28 AMABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL CAPTURE, Harry!!!! THE CLARITY OF DETAIL IS POSITIVELY OUTSTANDING!!!CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR WELL-DESERVED POTD!!! :0) #5773663
Melinda F. Schneider 4/11/2008 3:13:11 AMMagnificent photo, Harry.
Diane Dupuis 4/11/2008 3:32:04 AMgreat capture of one of my favorite subjects!!! #5773714
Josselyne Klecanda 4/11/2008 4:09:02 AMAmazing!Great capture,well done. #5773826
Carolyn M. DAlessandro 4/11/2008 4:12:08 AMCongratulations Harry, Thanks for the information about the Eagles..this one is OUTSTANDING!! Must have been a amazing sight to see. Bravo,well done! #5773831
Thomas E. Dillon 4/11/2008 4:18:25 AMHarry, you did a great job with this one. Truly outstanding. What makes them flare their feathers like this? Oh - and congratulations for the POD! #5773861
Patricia A. Casey 4/11/2008 4:36:19 AMHarry...the best Bald Eagle shot I've seen in ages & ages.....wow.....congratulations & yes I have to make it to Homer...heard much about it....A real winner...all the best in the next round! Patricia #5773917
Shirley A. Kinney 4/11/2008 4:37:48 AMHarry, what an amazing image. How beautiful these birds are and you have captured this one perfectly, even though he appears to be having a bad hair day. Congratulations on your POTD. Well deserved. Priceless capture! #5773921
Steven W. Lepak 4/11/2008 4:50:42 AMBravo Harry! Congrats on your POTD. This image is spectacular - love the shallow dof and eye contact. Keep up the great work. Best Regards, Steven #5773952
Eivor Kuchta 4/11/2008 5:06:58 AMCongratulations on your POTD! So interesting to read some information around the event and the location, thanks for sharing that! This award took me to your wonderful gallery. Amazing! #5774015
Shelly A. Van Camp 4/11/2008 5:08:48 AMAmazing capture and picture of our American Bald Eagle!!! Great job and congrats on POTD! #5774020
Susan M. Smith 4/11/2008 5:18:41 AMHarry, fantastic capture of this interesting pose! Thank you for sharing the info on that area. I'll have to put it on my "list" for sure! Congratulations on a well deserved POTD! #5774057
Kathy L. Clark 4/11/2008 5:23:12 AMHarry congratulations on your magnificent POTD. Bald Eagles are majestic creatures.
I am from Anchorage, but live in Alabama now, I spent most of my vacations growing up on the Homer Spit so I'm just a bit jealous of your trip. I hope to make one myself this summer and Homer will be high on my lists of places to revisit. It is where I hope to retire one day.
Again congrats and God bless. #5774070
Terri L. Scribner 4/11/2008 5:56:32 AMOutstanding POTD!! #5774212
Lisa J. Boulden 4/11/2008 6:00:09 AMWOW!
Jim Britt 4/11/2008 6:04:41 AMhaha nice Hair-Do funny...great shot. Congrats on your POTD! #5774235
Naintara Jain 4/11/2008 6:53:29 AMThe crop belies the baldness, lovely capture. #5774447
Michelle L. Frick 4/11/2008 7:10:33 AMHe's having a heck of a hair day in that shot! Outstanding POTD Harry! This made me smile big time! #5774499
Casey A. Hanson 4/11/2008 7:21:35 AMTruly outstanding work, Harry. Congrats! :0) #5774530
Naintara Jain 4/11/2008 7:21:51 AMThe crop belies the baldness, lovely capture. #5774532
Deborah C. Lewinson 4/11/2008 7:25:02 AMCongratulations on tour POTD for this awesome image! #5774535
Colleen Farrell 4/11/2008 8:01:02 AMWow, amazing capture! Congratulations on your POTD! #5774630
Donna R. Wageman 4/11/2008 8:20:59 AMWhat a beauty! The "hair-do" makes him just striking along with clarity. #5774701
Joy Rector 4/11/2008 8:34:40 AMcongrats on the POTD #5774737
Cheryl Meisel 4/11/2008 9:50:01 AMBeautiful shot of this majestic bird.
Philippe Vieux-Jeanton 4/11/2008 10:26:11 AMGorgeous animal portrait! Which glass did u use? Big congrats for the POPD!! #5775088
Mike Slaughter 4/11/2008 10:33:19 AMThe first thing that came to mind when I saw this shot was "Stunning!" I'm not sure I've seen and eagle from this view point with such emotion. Great shot! Enjoyed your gallery just as much.
Mike #5775103
Donna La Mattino Pagakis 4/11/2008 1:15:32 PMOutstanding potd Harry!! Great details and pov, very inspirational! #5775611
Siete Meeter 4/11/2008 2:29:55 PMCongrats on your POTD!!! This is AWESOME!!! #5775853
Harry E. Pherson 4/11/2008 2:58:17 PMI want to thank everyone (so many to name) for all the kind words and praise.
Bunny Snow 4/11/2008 3:46:02 PMGreat directional lighting. The right image was definitely worthy of the wait!
Great capture!
Amy Weiland 4/11/2008 3:47:53 PMSimply Stunning! #5776156
RC Fritz 4/11/2008 3:55:06 PMAwesome!! Congratulations! #5776175
Margaret Anna Durkin 4/11/2008 4:29:44 PMCongratulations!Amazing image!Beautiful photo! #5776310
Sandy Hawkins 4/11/2008 4:56:14 PMCongrats on this VERY beautiful and deserving POTD!
Sandy :-) #5776413
Jeff Robinson 4/11/2008 6:14:35 PMWhat an Outstanding portrait Harry - Congrats on your Well Deserved POTD!! #5776774
Suzanne R 4/11/2008 9:48:43 PM...a true, "Don't mess with me", shot!
Renee Doyle 4/11/2008 11:42:58 PMIncredible close up Harry!!!! Congratulations on this wonderful POTD!! #5777614
Kathleen R. Struckle 4/12/2008 10:26:09 AMAwesome image. Congrats on your POTD!! #5778871
Chris Ebben 4/21/2008 5:02:29 PMYour 45 minute wait certainly paid off, well done & a big congratulations on this wonderful finalist=^..^= #5819454
Renee Doyle 4/21/2008 5:56:28 PMCongratulations Harry on this wonderful finalist!! #5820228
Donna R. Wageman 4/21/2008 6:05:42 PMI knew it ----------- perfecto ---
Cindy Bendush 4/21/2008 7:10:00 PMSuperb Harry! Congratulations on your finalist! #5821050
Sheila D. Robertson 4/21/2008 7:13:21 PMCongratulations on your finalist. #5821084
Eivor Kuchta 4/21/2008 8:44:42 PMCongratulations on your finalist, Harry! #5821756
Harry E. Pherson 4/21/2008 9:04:20 PMI want to thank everyone for all the kind words and the vote of confidence. Thanks to the judges for selecting the image for the POTD and as a finalist in the Betterphoto.com monthly photo contest...Thanks again to all...Harry #5821855
Michael Umbreit 4/22/2008 3:16:50 PMHarry - Congratulations on your finalist! - Mike #5826279
Holly J. Jackson 4/22/2008 3:50:38 PMGood luck in the WINNER'S CIRCLE!!! ;)
Manos Peponas 4/23/2008 10:18:05 PMCongratulations to you too my friend, it's really an excellent animal shot!!! #5832937
Deborah C. Lewinson 4/23/2008 10:38:42 PMCongratulations on your first place win for this compelling capture, Harry!
Debby #5833009
Colette M. Metcalf 4/24/2008 2:30:38 AMCongratulations!!! #5833474
anonymous 4/24/2008 5:18:32 AMCongratulations Harry on your awesome win! B- #5834248
Nadine A. Lewis 4/24/2008 5:37:18 AMLOL!!!!! This is soooooo AWESOME!!!! I LOVE THIS!!!! CONGRATULATONS, Harry!!!! <>< #5834341
Renee Doyle 4/24/2008 5:52:04 AMWTG Harry!!! Big congratulations on this wonderful win!!! #5834411
Elida Gutierrez 4/24/2008 6:13:50 AMCONGRATULATIONS!!!!
Donna R. Wageman 4/24/2008 6:19:15 AMCONGRATULATIONS !!!!!!!!!!!
Robyn Nielsen 4/24/2008 6:50:51 AMCongratulations Harry for your win with this absolutely stunning image!
A P 4/24/2008 7:59:16 AMCONGRATUALTIONS on this well deserved win. #5835168
Susan M. Smith 4/24/2008 8:17:56 AMA very worthy First Place choice here Harry! Congratulations again, on the honors! #5835261
Sabah Enam 4/24/2008 9:54:50 AMfabulous job done! its a great picture. looks so real,as if the beak is out of the picture. n those eyes, like they r really staring at u! #5835657
Sheila D. Robertson 4/24/2008 9:58:57 AMMany congratulations on this first! #5835678
Susan Heath 4/24/2008 11:11:20 AMWhat an incredible shot - I love this! Fabulous sharp detail! Congratulation of this magnificient winner! #5836023
Dawn M. Schneider 4/24/2008 12:29:40 PMcongrats on the win, this is well deserving, the capture is unbelievable!! #5836482
Mary Beth Aiello 4/24/2008 12:37:40 PMThis brings new meaning to detail. Congratulations on your well deserved win, Harry. Well done. #5836537
JO ANN CLEVELAND 4/24/2008 1:02:42 PMCONGRATULATIONS on this fabulous win!
jo ann c. #5836663
Laurie Daily 4/24/2008 1:58:29 PMCongratulations, Harry! Such a fabulous first place winner!!! #5836961
Claudia Kuhn 4/24/2008 4:27:30 PMBeautiful close up Harry, congrats on your first place win! #5837558
RC Fritz 4/24/2008 5:12:25 PMCongrats on your First Place!!! #5837717
Sam Britt 4/24/2008 5:22:06 PMAwesome winner, Harry! #5837751
Jim Stringer 4/24/2008 5:42:26 PMOutstanding!!! Congrats on a well deserved win! #5837829
Michael Umbreit 4/24/2008 7:14:35 PMHarry - Congratulations on your well deserved win! - Mike #5838182
Donna La Mattino Pagakis 4/24/2008 7:17:14 PMCongratulations Harry, this is truly amazing!!! What a beautiful eagle!!! #5838195
Sharon Sawyer 4/24/2008 7:20:22 PMCongrats on your win, Harry. Stunning ... and well deserved. #5838215
Harry E. Pherson 4/24/2008 7:46:39 PMThanks everyone for your kind words of praise. It's truly an honor to have been selected and thanks to Betterphoto.com for providing such a great enviroment for learning....Harry #5838329
Patrick Rouzes 4/25/2008 7:00:19 PMA big CONGRATULATIONS on your gold medal,Harry!!! #5842525
Vicki L. Filippin 4/26/2008 5:08:46 AMSTUNNING IMAGE!
Ujjwal Mukherjee 4/26/2008 11:14:37 PMTerrific shot,Harry! Well deserved Winner!! Huge congratulations!! #5846406
Tomoya Male Kosuge 4/27/2008 9:53:28 PMHerry E.Pherson.
Kazuki Yuuki 4/27/2008 9:56:36 PMCongratulations,Harry!
Yasuhiro Toi 4/27/2008 10:20:39 PMNice Eagle
Taro Suzuki 4/27/2008 10:22:40 PMvery cool! #5850697
Kathy Koch 4/28/2008 5:58:06 PMtotally awesome shot...congratulations! #5855174
Wanda Knoss 5/1/2008 5:48:29 PMGreat Portrait! Congratulations on your win.
Christine Zipps 5/4/2008 3:24:21 PMThanks for sharing your special experience in this stunning eagle portrait, Harry.
Congrats on your well-deserved win!
Cris #5883292
Mitzie Loland 5/6/2008 11:10:17 PMCongratulations on this amazing photo - great work Harry!! #5893405
David Stegmeir 5/8/2008 8:59:56 AMHarry,
There isn't much that hasn't been said, so I just want to say Bravo. This is the finest Eagle portrait I have ever seen, truely! I have always wanted to go to Alaska and one day Lord willing I will go. Thank you for such and inspirational image and story.
Best regards,
Dave #5900154
Kenneth Mucke 5/14/2008 7:26:54 PMOne of the very best eagle images I have ever seen...amazing intensity #5923749
Vinnie Sandre Jr 5/19/2008 6:00:46 AMThat's the shot that will make you famous, awesome shot. #5941417
Sharon Sawyer 5/19/2008 2:00:38 PMYES !!!! FABULOUS FINALIST!!!! Congratulations, Harry. Your creativity and extra work setting this photo up paid off. Well done. #5945245
Sarah Baker 5/26/2008 8:32:10 AMexellent! congrats #5978739
Alice Fugate 1/14/2009 7:54:56 AMWow what a great shot.... Congratulations!!!!! :-) #7029155
Chris Ebben 1/14/2009 12:12:12 PMAs I said before, your 45 minute wait certainly paid off, well done & a big congratulations on this wonderful 1st place winner, good on you=^..^=
Harry E. Pherson 7/9/2016 8:00:51 PMThanks BP, i'M honored #11494021
Photo was taken during my recent trip to Homer, Alaska in March 08 where the eagles abounded before their annual migration. The eagles congregated at Homer while the eagle lady feeds them during the winter months. This is an experience everyone should see at one time in their life.
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Tucker (BD '52; ThM '56), who served at Louisville Seminary from 1966 until his retirement in 1988, was Professor Emeritus of Church Administration and Evangelism and Harrison Ray Anderson Professor Emeritus of Pastoral Ministry. He served for 10 years as Director of Field Education and seven years as Academic Dean, all while teaching classes in church administration and evangelism.
"He was a person of great commitment to justice. He had a great love for the church and a deep care for students and the enterprise of theological education," said Kathryn Johnson, Paul Tudor Jones Professor of Church History and Professor of Historical Theology at Louisville Seminary.
"He was really a remarkable person of extraordinary conviction and integrity," said David Hester, who currently serves as the Harrison Ray Anderson Professor of Pastoral Ministry, as well as Professor of Christian Education and Director, Doctor of Ministry and Continuing Education. "He was one of the Seminary's 'utility players' called upon and able to do a seemingly endless variety of things."
Driven by a passion for justice, Tucker served as Executive Director of the Presbyterian Community Center (PCC), in Louisville's Smoketown neighborhood from 1962 to 1966 before serving at the Seminary. Tucker's first encounter with what became the PCC was in 1950 when he was a student at Louisville Seminary and serving his second field education assignment to Grace Mission, which offered classes at the community center. In 1962, while Tucker was serving as pastor for both Grace and Hope Presbyterian churches in Louisville, the two African-American churches combined and their community centers were merged to form the PCC. He was inducted into the PCC's Hall of Fame in 2007.
Tucker's tenure at Grace-Hope Presbyterian Church and the PCC occurred during the height of the Civil Rights Movement. He played a key role in a march on Frankfort, KY at which Martin Luther King Jr. spoke. He was the only white pastor to participate in a hunger strike the last week of the legislative session that same year.
In later years, his commitment to justice focused on equality and inclusivity for gay, lesbians, and transgender persons. As an ordained Minister of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (USA) with expert knowledge of the church's Book of Order, he publicly opposed Amendment B, a constitutional provision in the PC(USA) which required that church officers live in "fidelity within the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman or chastity in singleness." The amendment effectively barred openly gay persons from ordination to ministry and has since been significantly modified.
Tucker was named Vice Moderator of the PC(USA) in 1984, having previously served as moderator of his presbytery and synod. He played a key role in persuading the denomination to locate its headquarters in Louisville. In September 2000, at his request as a matter of conscience, he was dismissed from the PC(USA). He subsequently became a member of the Unitarian Universalist Association and a member of the Thomas Jefferson Church of Louisville.
A native of Laurel, MS, Tucker served as a meteorologist in the U.S. Army Air Force before coming to Louisville Seminary. His first pastorate was at Eastminster Presbyterian Church in Lexington, KY. He also served as pastor of Bardstown Road Presbyterian Church in Louisville.
As a pioneer in the field of Congregational Studies, Dr. Tucker developed a church planning questionnaire and served as a consultant to many of the churches that used it. This innovative approach to understanding congregations was employed by more than 700 churches.
Tucker was a Diplomate in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors and held a doctorate from Southern Baptist Seminary, also in Louisville. He was named a Distinguished Alumnus of Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in 1996.
He is survived by his wife, Catherine Breeden Tucker, who resides at the Episcopal Church Home, Louisville, KY; his sister Sarah Miller; his brother, Thornton Tucker; son, Cy Tucker; a daughter, Susan Saint-Lockhart; four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
A memorial service with reception will be held at Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Church at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 16. Neurath-Schoppenhorst, Market Street, is handling arrangements.
Memorial gifts may be made to the charity of the donor's choice.

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U.S. Department of Transportation
The Deputy Secretary of Transportation
Washington D.C., 20590
Dear Public Transportation Colleague:
Over the past year, President Obama and Secretary Ray LaHood have worked vigorously to help put Americans back to work with more than 10,000 transportation projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act). Ensuring that opportunities created by our Nation's investments are shared by all Americans will continue to be a priority for our Administration. To make that vision a reality, the Secretary and I believe it is vital that we work together to provide small disadvantaged businesses and female and minority workers with a fair chance to participate in transportation projects. I urge you to take advantage of existing equal opportunity programs and resources and to create innovative strategies to provide opportunities for the underrepresented. The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) stands ready to assist you in those efforts.
The Department's Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program applies to projects funded both from traditional DOT sources and from the Recovery Act. The DBE program helps small businesses owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals compete, and is designed to support entrepreneurs, the people who create jobs. I encourage you and your local partners to use proven strategies, such as unbundling large projects and establishing and meeting realistic DBE goals to reach a greater number of DBEs.
The Department can also help in other ways. First, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) can provide you with training and technical assistance. Federal transit funds also may be used for educating and training public-sector employees. In addition, the Department's Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization operates short-term lending and bonding assistance programs to help small businesses overcome barriers to participation. That office recently began a training program for women and girls interested in transportation careers.
Even with all of these tools, however, existing programs may not be sufficient to ensure the broadest possible participation in Recovery Act projects. Thus, I encourage you to consider other approaches to meeting these challenges. Some transit agencies, for example, have created partnerships among community organizations, local elected officials, trade unions, contractors and their associations, and other public agencies to identity common expectations and set specific project objectives. In this way, they have used their projects as an avenue to increase DBE participation while developing a workforce that better reflects the diverse skills, talents, and backgrounds of American workers.
One transit agency, Tri-Met of Portland, Oregon, provided DBEs with technical business assistance in important areas such as estimating, financing, business development and job performance, before the bidding process began. Tri-Met also divided construction projects that could have been awarded under a single contract into multiple stages and it allowed DBEs to compete for the resulting smaller contracts for each stage. Tri-Met's innovative approach to unbundling not only gave more DBE firms the opportunity to participate in the project and to support and train their workforces, it also provided multiple DBEs with exposure to, and the opportunity to become familiar with the contracting process. The reduced size of the unbundled contracts also made it easier for DBE participants to obtain the bonds necessary to win the contracts.
Another example is the Regional Interagency Sustainable Communities (RISCO) Partnership created by Denver's Regional Transportation District Workforce Initiative. RISCO developed partnering opportunities with local faith-based and non-profit organizations, local housing authorities and the Community College of Denver to identify, assess and train local members of the community for work on the regional transportation district's initiative and transition into meaningful, well-paying jobs in transportation-related industries. I encourage you and other transit agency leaders to share additional ideas with us so that we can help others learn from your experiences.
Private-sector efforts are important as well. I urge you to encourage large successful contractors to create opportunities for joint ventures with small disadvantaged businesses and to support mentor-protégé relationships to pass along the knowledge and skills needed to succeed long term. I also ask that you actively promote efforts by bonding and insurance companies and lending institutions to take steps to overcome typical barriers that impede small business competitiveness.
Using all available talent and resources is essential to fueling a strong recovery and restoring our Nation's economic competitiveness. The Obama Administration and this Department are committed to helping create opportunities for DBE firms and all workers, including women and minority workers, to participate in this economy of the future. I encourage you and all your private- and public-sector partners to consider adopting strategies like those outlined in this letter, as well as additional, more specific ideas that we in DOT would be happy to discuss with you.
I am also asking you to identify information about DBE involvement specifically in Recovery Act projects. The FTA will soon provide guidance to you concerning how to process that information and make it available. That information is vitally important to ensuring all available talent and resources are utilized in America's job recovery.
Thank you for your dedication to these important goals.
Sincerely yours,
John D. Porcari


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If you don't like Cam Newton after watching him on Sunday against the Falcons, it says more about you than it does about him.
It was such a pleasure to see Newton, the Panthers' second-year quarterback, look like Cam Newton again in Sunday's 30-20 upset of the Falcons. Newton was absolutely amazing, throwing the ball with velocity and accuracy on a 23-yard touchdown pass to Greg Olsen and having one of the best runs in the NFL all season and then doing a flip into the end zone on a 72-yard touchdown. That score gave Carolina a 23-0 lead against an Atlanta team that entered Sunday's game with the best record in football.
The Panthers blowing out the Falcons on Sunday was a big surprise, but this was the Cam Newton I expected to see all season.
Of course, I'm the idiot who picked the Panthers to win the NFC South this season, so perhaps I was a little too optimistic about Newton. But while I may have been too quick to anoint Newton a star after his excellent rookie season, much of the football world was way too quick to jump all over Newton when he struggled at some points this season. The negative stories got really silly, with people getting on his case for everything from supposedly taking too long to get dressed after a game and holding up the team bus (which the Panthers said didn't happen) to allegedly failing to show the proper deference to veterans at last year's Pro Bowl (which was a bizarre story to surface 10 months later). Just as I didn't understand the obsession so many people had with all of his off-field activities when he was winning the Heisman Trophy at Auburn, and didn't understand the pre-draft criticisms of his allegedly fake smile, I don't understand why so many people try so hard to paint Newton in a negative light this season.
It's true that early in the season, Newton's performance on the field did give his critics some ammunition. He had two interceptions in a loss to the Buccaneers, three interceptions in a loss to the Giants, an interception and a fumble in a loss to the Cowboys, two interceptions and two fumbles in a loss to the Bears and two interceptions and a fumble in a loss to the Broncos. He's made his share of mistakes.
But the thing we have to remember is, that's what 23-year-old quarterbacks do. Newton's shockingly good rookie season last year and the success of Andrew Luck, Robert Griffin III and Russell Wilson may have made us forget this, but playing quarterback in the NFL is hard. Really hard. And not many people can walk right out of college football and perform at a high level in the NFL. Newton played at such a high level as a rookie that maybe we should treat a step back in his second season not as an invitation to rip him mercilessly, but as a simple example of regression to the mean.
And after Sunday's game against the Falcons, I'm not so sure that Newton has really regressed anyway. He's now on pace to throw for 3,963 yards this season, just short of his rookie record 4,051 last year. And he's on pace to run for 788 yards, even better than the impressive 706 he gained as a rookie. In the last four games, Newton has a total of 11 touchdowns, zero interceptions and zero fumbles.
The 4-9 Panthers have plenty of problems. Their defense is mediocre, their special teams are terrible, and their much-hyped running back trio of DeAngelo Williams, Jonathan Stewart and Mike Tolbert isn't playing well enough to merit their hype — or their contracts. But one problem they don't have is a question mark at the quarterback position. They answered that question for years to come on the day they drafted Cam Newton.
Newton was the player who impressed me most on Sunday. Here are my other thoughts:
Rex Ryan's decision to deactivate quarterback Greg McElroy tells me a lot about the Jets. It tells me that they think Mark Sanchez is so mentally weak that he would have been looking over his shoulder if the option of benching him for McElroy existed. That's not a good sign. Ryan's decision to go back to Sanchez after benching him for McElroy last week worked, in the sense that the Jets won. But it worked out for the Jets because they were playing the terrible Jaguars, not because Sanchez played well. Sanchez completed just 12 of 19 passes for 111 yards against one of the worst defenses in the NFL in Jacksonville. Ryan won't bench Sanchez, but he should.
We still have some great running backs in this league. The NFL has become, more than ever before, a passing league. But there are still some phenomenal running backs, and two of them got off to phenomenal starts on Sunday: Kansas City's Jamaal Charles had 103 yards in the first quarter against the Browns, and Minnesota's Adrian Peterson had 104 yards in the first quarter against the Bears. Charles and Peterson are both coming off major reconstructive knee surgery, and yet Charles is 11 carries away from surpassing Jim Brown for the NFL record for yards-per-carry average (a record that requires a minimum of 750 career carries; Charles has 739), while Peterson is closing in on a 2,000-yard season.
The officials are using automatic replay reviews as a crutch for getting calls wrong on the field. In the second quarter of Jets-Jaguars, the Jets fumbled and Jacksonville's Dwight Lowery recovered. Lowery was obviously down when he jumped on the ball, and yet the officials allowed him to get up and race to the end zone for a touchdown, without blowing the play dead. The reason? The officials are now letting plays go because they know scoring plays are automatically reviewed, and they figure replay will bail them out if they get it wrong. But that's not what instant replay is intended to do: The officials should call every play as well as they can, not just abdicate their responsibility on the field and waste a bunch of time afterward when their mistakes get corrected on replay.
And sometimes even when they have a replay review the officials get the call wrong. In the second quarter of Titans-Colts, Indianapolis quarterback Andrew Luck threw the ball just as he was being tackled, and Tennessee's Will Witherspoon grabbed it and raced 40 yards to the end zone. Fortunately for the Colts, a replay angle clearly showed that Luck's knee was down before he let go of the ball, so the interception would be overturned, right? Wrong. The referee somehow looked at the replay and allowed the Titans' touchdown to stand. If the officials are going to use replay as a crutch, and then they're going to get the call wrong even when they have that crutch, then the NFL has a serious problem on its hands.
Seattle may be the toughest place to play in the NFL. The Seahawks improved to 6-0 at home on Sunday with their demolition of the Cardinals, and it's a good thing for the rest of the NFC that the Seahawks are probably going to have to go on the road in the playoffs, because I wouldn't pick anyone to beat the Seahawks in Seattle. The Seahawks are winning with a great defense, an excellent running back in Marshawn Lynch and a good young quarterback in Russell Wilson. If only the Panthers could put that kind of team around Cam Newton.


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MIAMI SHORES, Fla. – Barry University is dedicating all of its Homecoming weekend athletic events to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation, beginning Friday. All alumni, family, employees and Buccaneers fans are urged to support this worthwhile cause.
Make-A-Wish is a fundraising initiative of the NCAA to grant wishes to area kids with medical conditions. This year, Barry set a goal of $15,000 to grant three wishes to local children.
To make a donation online click HERE.
In each of the past five years, Barry has raised over $10,000 to grant two wishes. This year, the university increased its goal to fund three wishes.
This weekend, Barry's goal is to raise $5,000 to fund a wish for a local boy, Gustavo, and his family. Gustavo and his family will be on hand for a special presentation between Saturday's women's and men's basketball games versus Rollins. The women's game tips off at 4 p.m. and the men's game at 6 p.m.
All of the proceeds from gate and concessions sales from this weekend's baseball and basketball games will be donated to Make-A-Wish. Donation boxes will also be on site at this weekend's baseball and basketball games. Other fundraising activities are also planned for Homecoming weekend's events.
The following games and activities highlight this weekend's Make-A-Wish efforts:
Friday, February 21
Baseball vs. Wisconsin-Parkside, 6 p.m.
Saturday, February 22
Baseball vs. Wisconsin-Parkside, 1 p.m. (DH)
Women's Basketball vs. Rollins, 4 p.m. (Senior Day)
Men's Basketball vs. Rollins, 6 p.m. (Senior Day)
Sunday, February 23
Baseball vs. Wisconsin-Parkside, noon
Make-A-Wish Star Donations (all weekend)
Silent Auction (at Homecoming Tailgate and Basketball Games)
Barry University Athletics Yard Sale (all weekend)
- All gate and concessions proceeds will benefit Make-A-Wish


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Hampden-Sydney Athletics Similar to Wabashby Sean Clerget • October 26, 2006 Share:
The football season at Hampden-Sydney College, and most of the fall semester builds towards one central event. They call it THE Game.
In the final game of the season HSC's football team takes on its archrivals, Randolph Macon College. The week of build up to the game is called Macon week. Events such as a blood drive and a penny collection (for charity) are held as a competition between the two schools. On Friday night everyone gathers together to enjoy an all-campus bonfire.
It has become a tradition that Classics Professor John Brinkley, who wrote the HSC history book, gives what should only be described as an oration. According to several students, Professor Brinkley quotes several historic texts, but slants them towards the destruction of Randolph Macon. Most notably he recites the book of Revelation where the Lord "brings down all the plagues upon Randolph Macon…"
The students seem to find this speech both comical and inspirational.
You may have noticed that the week is eerily similar to Monon Bell Week. The similarities were noticed throughout the trip to HSC. However, differences do exist. HSC only supports seven NCAA athletic teams, while Wabash has ten. The team that HSC has that Wabash does not is it's very popular lacrosse team. The Lacrosse field is one of its nicest athletic facilities and they even have a practice lacrosse field.
As far as student participation goes, 25 percent of the student body plays an NCAA sport, and 75 percent play an intramural sport. IM teams are divided by living units at HSC. Instead, anyone can register a team, made up of any students that do not participate in that sport at the NCAA level. Basketball and flag football are the most popular of the IM sports. Almost one third of the entire campus participates in IM basketball.
According to the IM director Steve Harrell the students are extremely interested in all sports, both IM's and Varsity. "We get pretty good attendance for the IM games especially in the later rounds". One cool thing they do is hold the IM football championship on the main field, and set everything up like a real game.
One comment was made several times during the trip by several different administrators. When discussing the athletic facilities, both Steve Harrell and Athletic Director Joe Bush echoed the same idea, which is that "we don't have a huge endowment like you do" (just a reminder to Wabash men to remember how lucky we are).
That being said HSC has done a great job with their facilities. If
Wabash facilities were to receive an A ranking, then HSC's facilities
would get a B-plus. The College will begin construction on a new
football stadium at the end of this season, which will do even more to
improve its facilities.
Just like Wabash, going to football games on Saturday is a sort of ritual for Hampden-Sydney men. However, it seems that basketball is the sport that has the most interest and strongest fan following. The gym is usually packed for home games, and a fair number of students travel to the road games.
Several students said the fans at games can get pretty rowdy. Student
Body President and basketball player Drew Phemus agreed. "Yeah they can
get rowdy sometimes, but the best thing about our fans is their
intelligence. They know when to be loud and when not to be loud."
Other students mentioned one of the favorite cheers that their fans use when they are losing: "It's alright, its okay, you're gonna work for us someday!" It seems that the same type of superiority complex exists at both schools (it is warranted of course).
Several students and administrators, when asked about their favorite HSC stories, mentioned the 100th Macon game. The game was attended by over 13,000 people and Randolph Macon came in as the strong favorite. HSC pulled off the upset. The student body rushed the field and tore down the goalposts. After parading the goalposts around campus for what some said was an hour, the students decided that the only logical place to drop them was in one of the campus' three lakes. Everyone seemed to re-tell the story with fond memories. It is one of the many historical stories that HSC men have in common.
In the small school environment, especially an all-male environment, the connections between students are quite strong. If you thought such things only happened at Wabash you are wrong. Drew Phemus described his experience in playing basketball in this way, "you begin to develop a relationship with the fans. You know them and they know you, and everyone sort of becomes a family."
Although Wabash College and HSC have many differences, they share a
unique bond with each other, and one way this bond manifests itself is
through athletics.


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Architectural Building Drafting AutoCAD/Revit - Residential Multi-storey Apartment Building with Basement Car park
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I am a property developer in Melbourne, Australia. My Architect has prepared preliminary plans for the construction of a three-storey residential building containing a 11 apartments (1x one-bedroom, 9x two-bedroom & 1x three-bedroom) and basement car parking containing 12x resident car parking spaces and 1x visitor car parking space which are attached.
I have sent the plans to Council and they have advised there are a number of issues with the plans which resulted in me sketching a new basement plan with modifications shown in red-ink which now provides better vehicle manoeuvring in and out of car parking spaces that comply with the Australian Standards. It also results in an additional 1x car parking space.
However, my Architect has fallen ill and is in hospital and will not be able to continue working on this project. I am therefore seeking a new Architect who can CAD my revised Basement Plan sketch which relocates the stair-well and lift and columns and then prepare new floor plans of all the affected upper apartments on ground-floor, first-floor and second-floor as well as new elevation drawings.
In addition, I will need you to also prepare Shadow Diagrams which are based on the equinox on 22 September.
To assist I will provide you the following information:
1. New Feature and Level Survey and Title Re-establishment Survey in .dwg format
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4. Second-Floor Site Plan. Reconfigured apartment layout as a result of relocated basement lift and stairwell and columns.
5. Elevation Drawings (east, north, south and west)
6. Shadow Diagrams which are based on the equinox on 22 September that shows shadows of the apartment building at 9:00am, 10:00am, 11:00am, 12:00pm, 1:00pm, 2:00pm and 3:00pm onto the neighbouring buildings and private open space
1. Basement and all Floor Plans and Elevation drawings and Shadow Diagrams in PDF format within 4 weeks of engagement/hiring as per Scope of Works. Further final amendments to plans and elevations within 2 weeks.
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3. Live unprotected CAD (.dwg, .dxf etc) or similar digital file of all final plans and drawings in Scope of Works. Copyright of the file is owned by the client.
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6. Roof Plan
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Editor's note: A previous version of this article was unclear about the fiscal cliff's tax implications for Annaly's dividend. The Fool regrets the oversight.
As the stock market continues to react every time anyone of consequence in Washington reflects on the "fiscal cliff," it is critical that you make realistic assessments of what various eventualities mean for both your portfolio and the companies it contains. The mREIT industry, specifically its standard bearer, Annaly Capital Management (NYSE:NLY), is likely to feel the impact on the business level and from the perspective of investors as the company pays out more than 90% of its earnings as a dividend in order to avoid adverse tax consequences. Ultimately, it's taking the necessary steps to remain competitive, making the stock a buy for your core portfolio as long as it fits properly within your tax plan.
The fiscal cliff and dividends
The fiscal cliff refers to the series of automatic tax hikes and spending cuts that are set to go into effect beginning in January unless Congress intervenes. As Stephen Colbert explains, "It's like Congress put a gun to the economy's head and swore it will pull the trigger if Congress doesn't put its own gun down." Humor aside, it is widely accepted that the scheduled shifts in fiscal policy are sufficient to send the economy into another recession. It is against this backdrop that the market is reacting to every nuanced piece of news.
An element of the fiscal cliff is the shift in the treatment of dividend income. Under the current tax law, dividends are taxed at a flat 15% rate, giving this type of income a tax-advantaged status over wage income. As things stand, dividends will be treated as ordinary income for the 2013 tax year, meaning that, at the highest tax bracket, the tax on dividends will rise from 15% to 39.6%. The plan also calls for an income tax hike that will raise this top rate from 35%. The hike will be smaller for those not in the top tax bracket, but in all cases it is significant.
This may sound like a big risk for a dividend payer like Annaly, but as a REIT, the lion's share of its payout is already taxed as ordinary income at the unitholder level. So, if anything, the change in dividend tax rates would improve Annaly's attractiveness when compared with dividends taxed at the current low rates.
Annaly's dividend
One of the primary draws of an mREIT is the large dividend. Annaly offers a dividend yield of 13.6%, while competitors American Capital Agency (NASDAQ:AGNC) pays out 16% and Chimera (NYSE:CIM) 13.8%. The basic business model employed by these companies involves borrowing large amounts of capital in the short-term money market -- typically the repo or corporate paper markets -- and then using that capital to purchase higher-yielding longer-term instruments. In the case of Annaly, its focus has been on buying longer-term agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS).
The Federal Reserve's current policy of perpetual quantitative easing has put agency mREITs under particular pressure because the $40 billion per month being pumped into the economy has come through the purchase of agency MBS. While increased buying by the Fed has driven up prices of these instruments, yields fall when prices rise. The company has been able to maintain its dividend in part by realizing capital gains on the appreciating bonds it owns, but replacing them has become increasingly difficult.
The low-interest-rate environment has two additional impacts on Annaly and other mREITs. When rates are low, borrowers are incentivized to refinance their loans. When this occurs, the prepayment of their existing loans causes the bonds that Annaly holds in its portfolio to shrink. As the company's investments shrink, it must replace them, at which point the second impact is felt. With rates being held artificially low, the new bonds tend to carry a lower rate, which cause the spread between what Annaly must pay on its borrowed funds and what it earns to shrink.
Leveraging the future?
While Annaly has managed to preserve its dividend on a pure yield basis, this has been driven by both asset sales and a falling stock price. The company has been able to maintain cash flows by selling a portion of its appreciating, higher-yielding bonds. This is not a sustainable approach for the dividend because these bonds are being replaced at lower spreads, meaning the appreciation will not be perpetual. The falling stock price has meant that a lower payment maintains the rate.
To address some of these concerns, the company recently announced that it will shift as much as 25% of its portfolio away from residential and into the higher-risk, higher-yielding commercial sector. This isn't a completely out-of-the-blue shift, as it's in line with Annaly's stated mandate. However, that Annaly is taking advantage of this "25% option" has the potential to be important. In conjunction with this shift, and as a part of the same announcement, Annaly disclosed its intention to acquire Crexus (UNKNOWN:CXS.DL.DL) to effectuate the shift. Annaly already holds a 12% stake in the company and would acquire the outstanding shares in the deal.
The trade
Annaly is taking the needed steps to adapt to structural shifts in the tenor of the market, which should be seen as bullish for the stock. Too often management teams refuse to see what is taking place until there is no longer time to react. The fact that Annaly is ahead of this is a positive and why the stock belongs in your core portfolio.
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Reacting instinctively as quarterback Joe Flacco launched a deep throw toward the sideline during an offseason practice, free safety Michael Huff accelerated toward the football to deflect it out of bounds.
It was an example of the range the Ravens envisioned from Huff when they signed the speedy former Oakland Raiders first-round draft pick to a three-year, $6 million contract.
As the replacement for former NFL Defensive Player of the Year Ed Reed, who joined the Houston Texans on a three-year, $15 million contract, Huff doesn't have Reed's 61 interceptions as the NFL's active career leader. However, he is younger and faster.
And the Ravens are hoping Huff's versatility pays dividends for them this fall.
"It's great," said Ravens secondary coach Teryl Austin when asked about Huff's positional flexibility and cover skills. "He has great range. He has really good speed. We all know he has played corner in the past. He has played safety, so he gives us a lot of flexibility matchup-wise.
"He can cover, he can blitz, he can play in the back. We will use that to the best of our ability to try to confuse quarterbacks and try not to line him up in the same place all the time."
Cut by the Raiders prior to free agency when they were unwilling to pay him a total of $8 million this season, Huff is a once-heralded first-round draft pick who hasn't emerged as a dominant player in the NFL like Reed.
Huff, 30, has lined up at free safety, strong safety and cornerback. And Huff is off to a quick start as he transitions to the Ravens' scheme.
"Michael Huff is doing well also, he's playing fast," cornerback Corey Graham said. "He's a rangy guy. He covers a lot of ground. He's making a lot of plays. He's picking it up well."
Huff was selected seventh overall by the Raiders out of Texas during the 2006 NFL draft. He has recorded 453 career tackles, 11 interceptions, 5 1/2 sacks, 57 pass deflections and four forced fumbles.
Huff looks at replacing Reed as an honor, eschewing comparisons.
"I think we know we have big shoes to fill," Huff said. "Obviously, Ed is one of the greatest, if not the greatest ever, to play the game. Definitely, it will be a tough task, but obviously, we are our own players. We just have to go out there and kind of play our game, not kind of live in the past, to start our own legacy. I think we will be just fine. There's only one Ed, and there's only one Michael Huff. So, I'm just going to go out there and play my game."
Huff has had conversations with Reed recently and has known him for years.
"I've talked to him a few times, like I said before, because I've been talking to him for a while," Huff said. "He's been one of my mentors and been one of the guys I watched. Obviously, with Ed, he's one of the greatest to ever play. So, I obviously want to emulate him and make plays like he does."
The Ravens coveted Huff during the 2006 NFL draft, but wound up with Pro Bowl defensive tackle Haloti Ngata in the first round that year.
Now, Huff is getting acclimated to his new football team after years of losing in Oakland.
"I think the adjustment period has been good, because I've had a lot of veterans taking me under their wing," Huff said. "Ray [Rice], Torrey [Smith] and Corey Graham have kind of taken me under their wing. They kind of teach me the ropes on the field, off the field, things like that. The adjustment period has been good."
In a revamped defense without Reed and retired middle linebacker Ray Lewis, Huff is one of several new starters. He prefers to primarily send a message to his teammates through his actions.
"Really just lead by example," Huff said. "Just go out here and work hard every day, show them that I'm here to work. I'm here to carry on the legacy and the tradition. Like I said, just win some games."


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WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (Jan. 30, 2010) - After starting off the season with back-to-back losses the ETSU men's tennis team evened its overall record Saturday to 2-2 as the 60th-ranked Bucs cruised past 71st-ranked Elon 6-1 inside the McCormack-Nagelsen Tennis Center in Williamsburg, Va.
"We played solid today," said head coach Yaser Zaatini. "Elon is a quality team that should again contend for a Southern Conference championship so I'm very proud of our performance this afternoon."
ETSU opened play as 52nd ranked Jesus Bandres (Caracas, Venezuela) and sophomore Sander Gille (Kuringen, Belgium) crushed Elon's No. 2 doubles squad of Eric Turner and Alberto Rojas 8-2.
Senior Daniel Isaza (Medellin, Columbia) and sophomore Robin Akser (Ornskoldsvik, Sweden) then gave the Bucs the early 1-0 lead after they matched their teammates score over Cody McDowell and Thomas Darling.
"I thought today was our best doubles performances of the season," said Zaatini. "That got us on the right foot to start the match and then our guys did an excellent job maintaining that momentum as we head into singles play."
As singles action began Akser opened the scores with a 6-1, 6-4 straight set win over MacDowell. Teammate and 51st-ranked Bandres then added to the ETSU lead with a 6-1, 7-5 victory of Rojas at No. 4.
Buc junior Grega Teraz (Mojstrana, Slovenia) closed out the win as he took on Turner in No. 2 singles action. The 82nd-ranked ETSU second-year player dropped the Elon senior 6-2, 6-1 running the ETSU score to 4-0.
Fellow junior Charles Bottoni (Bois Guillaume, France) widened the ETSU margin to 5-0 after the 89th-ranked Buc outlasted Phillip Nemec 6-1, 7-6 (12-10).
After Chase Helpingstine of the Phoenix dropped Gille in a long three-set match, sophomore Jeremy Bonnevalle (Keerbergren, Belgium) picked up his second win of the season over Carlos Arboldea with a 6-4, 6-7 (5-7), 1-0 (10-7).
"The momentum that carried over from doubles was a huge advantage in singles," said Zaatini. "All our guys played extremely hard. The respect they gave each of Elon's players were vital because that helped us stay focused and not let them comeback in any way. Overall, I'm very pleased with this weekend's effort. Anytime you beat two opponents like Elon and William and Mary on back-to-back days, it's only going to help built the team's confidence as we move forward."
ETSU returns to action with a pair of road matches next weekend, starting with a 2 p.m., contest Saturday against No. 67 Mississippi State in Seattle, Washington.
Attached above are final statistics from today's match.
For more information on the ETSU men's tennis team please visit www.ETSUBucs.com.


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Foster children under state custody are restricted from doing even routine activities because they currently require permission from caseworkers and other supervisory authorities.
LAKELAND | At 17, Caitlin McRae, a junior at Kathleen High School, still searches for a normal life — things like dating, getting her driver license and just hanging out with friends at home.
"I don't think I live normally," McRae told The Ledger. "I'm not allowed to have friends stay over. It upsets me because sometimes I'd like to have my friends over and do what we want to do."
Although McRae has had her driver learning permit for almost a year now, she doesn't feel ready to take the test because she's had only about three hours of practice behind the wheel during that time, she said. She has a boyfriend but is allowed only on "dates" accompanied by his parents.
McRae may look and act like a normal teen, but her status as a foster child under state custody restricts her from doing even such routine activities because they currently require permission from caseworkers and other supervisory authorities.
Supervisors often refrain from giving foster children permission even for such routine activities, including playing school sports, because of concern over legal liability, such as injury, if something goes wrong, said Alan Abramowitz, executive director of the state's Guardian ad Litem program, which provides independent volunteers to advocate for the interests of youth in state custody.
"Everybody knows it's unfair to the children," Abramowitz said of the current restrictions on nearly 8,000 children in Florida's licensed family foster homes or youth group homes. "When you get removed from a parent, all of the sudden, you're around a bunch of strangers. We need to make sure their lives continue as normally as possible."
McRae is certainly not alone in feeling she can't live a normal life. Abramowitz and others in the foster care system told The Ledger many examples of children restricted or nearly so from doing normal activities because of bureaucratic obstacles over permission:
A Polk County girl almost barred from participating in a school music recital because a newspaper photographer would be there. A state law requires confidentiality of foster care records, prohibiting the publication of names or pictures of foster children.
A teen told he could not take a high school band trip because they couldn't do a background check on everybody the band might encounter.
A foster youth could not go on a boat trip with the foster family because of fear of drowning.
Home studies and criminal background checks required before a foster youth could sleep over at a friend's house.
Forbidding a foster child from accepting a ride home from school with a friend's parent without prior approval.
A 17-year-old boy already in college not allowed to date until his foster care provider did a background check on the girl.
"Help is on the way," said state Rep. Ben Albritton, R-Wauchula, whose district includes Mulberry, Fort Meade and southwest Polk.
Albritton sponsored House Bill 215, nicknamed the "Normalcy Bill," which gives greater autonomy to foster parents and group home supervisors to authorize participation in age-appropriate activities for the children in their care.
Albritton's bill unanimously passed the House on March 13 and the Senate in a 38-0 vote on Wednesday. Albritton said he expects Gov. Rick Scott will sign it within the 7 days mandated by state law.
Albritton said he got involved in the foster care system after he and his wife, Missy, explored becoming foster parents. Missy Albritton is now a member of the board of directors at Bartow-based Heartland for Children, the non-profit organization that oversees foster care providers in Polk, Highlands and Hardee counties.
"I saw a problem evolved from the state spending too much focus on the safety of children and not enough on giving these kids a normal life," Albritton said. "Our goal is for the foster care setting to be as normal as possible."
The bill accomplishes that by relieving direct caregivers of legal liability if they act as a "prudent parent" in allowing foster children to participate in the kind of normal activities other children do, including playing sports, dating or sleeping over at a friend's house, he said.
Albritton cited the example of a foster teen who was the kicker on his high school football team that made it to the state championship game. But the young man nearly missed the Friday night game because it took several days to get permission to play after his team won the semifinal game the previous Friday.
"He kicked the game-winning point for his team," Albritton said.
One reason the bill passed unanimously is that nobody, even officials in the foster care system, opposed it, he said.
Florida is only the second state after California in 2005 to adopt the prudent-parent standard in foster care, said Abramowitz, who helped draft the Normalcy Bill with input from foster care providers, guardians and, especially, the foster children.
The reform is long overdue, said Teri Saunders, CEO of Heartland for Children. Even before former Gov. Jeb Bush led the initiative to privatize the state's foster care services a decade ago, the state kept tight restrictions on foster children's activities.
"This needed to be done. Our foster families and child-care facilities need to be empowered to make these decisions," Saunders said. "I think this will empower our caregivers to apply the common-sense lens."
Living in foster care is difficult even under the best of circumstances because children feel different from their peers, said Sue Schultz of Lakeland, guardian ad litem for McRae and more than 50 children during the past eight years.
The obstacles in getting permission for even routine activities only increases the emotional burden.
"It does hamper their ability to hang out with other kids — to be a kid," Schultz said. "It (the Normalcy Bill) is freedom to be a kid."
The three hours of driving practice Caitlin got came through Schultz, the only person who was willing to assume the insurance liability while she was behind the wheel.
Without a driver license, McRae's transition to independent living in June, when she turns 18, will be tougher, she and Schultz agreed. She'll need to provide her own transportation for senior year at Kathleen High and later to college and to a job that will help with school and other expenses.
Mike Holt, 41, a Lakeland foster father, said the new standard would help integrate foster kids into the family. He and his wife, Ann, have had 80 foster children from infants to teens in their home over seven years.
"We treat the foster children as our own children," Holt said. "If somebody asks, 'Are these your children?' we say 'Yes.' They're not our foster children. They're ours."
But the Holts have experienced the red tape of getting permission for their children's activities including sports, cheerleading and stay-overs with friends.
"They're going through enough being foster children," Holt said. "This will give these children a sense of us being the parents. It also will help ease some of the work off the caseworkers, and it will help us parent these kids."
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The University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Academy for Creative Media will premiere its first Hawaiian language and its first animation films at 8:30 p.m. on Friday, October 23, at the 2009 Hawai'i International Film Festival. The festival runs October 14-25 at the Dole Cannery Theatres.
"We're proud of these films that reflect our mission to empower students to tell their own original and authentic stories of Hawai'i, the Pacific and Asia, in the language and medium that expresses their creative core," said Tom Brislin, ACM professor and chair. "We always tell our students: If we don't tell our own stories, who will?"
"Live Tonight" by Kamakaniokaaina Paikai and "Lulu" by Brittany Itsuno, will be joined by five other ACM short films, including one co-produced in China with students from Shanghai University's School of Film and Television. UHM is the only university with a program of U.S. and China student film co-productions, through ACM's SMART (Student Media Art) Exchange.
"Jinxian Junction" is the second in a series of SMART Exchange productions, co-directed by Kevyn Fong of ACM, and Pan Huijia of Shanghai University. "Li Hing Mui, Lilikoi & Lychee," by Lauren Cheape, was shot on Oahu with a mixed ACM-Shanghai University crew, and is also part of the festival program.
Other films are "Watch Your Tongue" by Nasser Marghalani, "Dog & Cat" by Robert Omura, and "Flowers, Chocolates and Candlelit Dinners" by Priscilla Stafford, a winner of ACM's Grace Abernethy Women's Filmmaker Initiative Award.
The ACM films will be preceded on October 23 by the SMART Exchange program of short films from Shanghai University at 5:45 p.m.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 4th May 2013 09:36 UTC
"NeXT Computer (the original 68030 cube) was a high end workstation that was manufactured between 1988 - 1990. Back then it was a very expensive machine as a complete system would start at $6500 (in 1988 dollars). The machine is a 1 foot cube magnesium case that houses the computer. At the time, its performance was impressive, with a Motorola 68030 CPU running at a screaming 25Mhz, a dedicated floating point CPU, and a digital signal processor built into the system. NeXT cubes featured a magneto-optical drive that stored a whopping 256 Megabytes (by comparison, high end Mac systems at the time might have featured a 20 Megabyte hard drive.) In its day, this was the "Ferrari" of desktop systems!" No new information for the average OSNews reader, but lots of beautiful photos for a beautiful Saturday afternoon.
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RE[5]: I miss NeXTstep
by moondevil on Sat 4th May 2013 16:55 UTC in reply to "RE[4]: I miss NeXTstep"
RE[6]: I miss NeXTstep
by oskeladden on Sun 5th May 2013 10:24 in reply to "RE[5]: I miss NeXTstep"
"One's choice of desktop environments on Linux and FreeBSD are not limited in the same way as with Microsoft.
I fail to see the difference with offerings from any other commercial vendor since the dawn of computing. "
Well, take Microsoft itself in its early days. On early versions of Windows, the graphical shell could be replaced and some OEMs shipped Windows with a very desktop environment. Back in the days of Win 3.1, Compaq used to ship their high-end multimedia-oriented PCs with Xerox's TabWorks as the default shell rather than progman.exe. I think they even did this for a while on Win 95. Microsoft ultimately changed the OEM license to stop PCs from being shipped with anything other than the standard GUI.
RE[7]: I miss NeXTstep
by moondevil on Sun 5th May 2013 11:40 in reply to "RE[6]: I miss NeXTstep"
Yeah, but most users replaced it back to the default, because some programs had issues due to DLL conflicts.
And in the other platforms at the time you had the OS in ROM so you could hardly change anything.
The few alternative environments were nothing more than gimmicks patching the live execution of the OS due to lack of memory protection.


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February 28, 2013
After approximately 10 years of work, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have built an inexpensive, portable, easy-to-use device to quickly diagnose HIV/AIDS and other diseases. Axel Scherer and George Maltezos began investigating how to manipulate biological fluids on a chip in 2004. Maltezos then started working on applying these techniques to real-world problems. They applied the technology to diagnosing H5N1 with satisfactory results. Maltezos built a prototype of a less expensive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) machine that performed well in H5N1 diagnostic field tests in Thailand. However, it did not give results quickly enough to make it a commercial success.
Maltezos and Scherer teamed up with David Baltimore, professor of biology, to work on an improved device that would detect other viruses or diseases. By the end of 2006, a newer version of the device could evaluate a sample in 94 seconds, compared to 45 minutes with regular PCR machines. A company, Helixis, was formed to manufacture and sell the device. The first Helixis product was a pathogen-detection PCR instrument called the Eco, which cost $13,000. It was fast and relatively cheap, but its size -- about that of a microwave -- made it too bulky to be easily carried to rural areas of developing countries.
Maltezos teamed up with Baltimore's and Scherer's labs to build a new-generation PCR machine specifically meant for use in remote areas of the developing world. The newest prototype is a push-button model that uses a rechargeable battery. It consists of a chip that can analyze a blood sample to detect different pathogens, including TB, HIV, acute lower-respiratory diseases, diarrheal diseases, malaria, and other conditions. The latest goal is to bring the machine's cost below $1,000 and the cost of each test below $5. According to Maltezos, preliminary results of clinical tests show the device is working well. The next step is to move beyond laboratory testing and into real-world use for those who need it.
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Nov. 5, 2008
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Playing in front of 9,749 fans, its largest regular season crowd ever and the fourth largest regular season crowd in NCAA history, the 17th-ranked UC Santa Barbara soccer team battled visiting No. 25 Cal Poly to a 0-0 double overtime draw on Wednesday night. The tie enabled the Mustangs (10-4-5 overall, 5-2-3 in the Big West) to remain one point ahead of the Gauchos (10-5-3 overall, 5-2-2 in the Big West) at the top of the Big West standings.
UCSB outshot Cal Poly 19-10 overall, but just 5-4 on goal. Mustang goalkeeper Eric Franco-Branagan had five saves for his team, three of which were spectacular. None of his saves, however, were better than his first.
Just 7:27 into the match Gaucho midfielder Peter McGlynn drove down the right side of the box and hit a perfect cross towards the left post. Senior forward Chris Pontius, playing his final regular season game at Harder Stadium, jumped high and got his head on the ball and redirected it towards the upper left corner. Franco-Branagan reacted in a split second, leaped and with his outstretched hand, punched the ball over the crossbar.
Pontius left the match in the 25th minute with a bloody head injury. He did, however, return about 15 minutes later with a bandaged head. Early in the second half, Pontius had another golden opportunity to give his team the lead when David Walker slid a pass to him just in front of the goal, but Branagan-Franco made another outstanding save.
The Mustangs' best chance to score came at 75:18 when UCSB was whistled for hand ball in the box. Cal Poly's Anton Peterlin took the kick with Gaucho goalkeeper Kristopher Minton ready to defend. Peterlin, however sailed the ball high over the center of the crossbar and the score remained tied.
In the 79th minute, UCSB midfielder Luis Silva was red carded when he was called for elbowing Peterlin in the face. As was the case when the teams met in San Luis Obispo on Oct. 17, the Gauchos were forced to play one man down for the rest of the second half and overtime.
"I thought we played better tonight than we did in the last game against them," said Santa Barbara head coach Tim Vom Steeg. "In the first half I thought we really controlled the game and created some great chances. Their keeper (Franco-Branagan) made a couple of great saves."
Wednesday night's tie means that Cal Poly cannot win the Big West regular season title. The Mustangs have 18 points, one ahead of UCSB, but the Gauchos have one league game remaining, at UC Davis (15 points) on Saturday, while the Mustangs have completed their Big West schedule. Any result in the Gaucho-Aggie game would knock Cal Poly out of first since it possesses none of the tiebreakers among the three. UCSB would win the title if it defeats Davis. The Aggies would win the title with a win and a UC Irvine tie or loss at Cal State Northridge on Saturday. The Anteaters have 16 points. UCI would win the regular season crown with a win and a Gaucho tie or loss.
The top two teams will host games in the Big West Tournament which will be played on Wednesday, Nov. 12. The highest remaining seed would host the championship game on Saturday, Nov. 15.


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DirectX 12 introduces the next version of Direct3D, the graphics API at the heart of DirectX. Direct3D is one of the most critical pieces of a game or game engine, and we've redesigned it to be faster and more efficient than ever before. Direct3D 12 enables richer scenes, more objects, and full utilization of modern GPU hardware. And it isn't just for high-end gaming PCs either - Direct3D 12 works across all the Microsoft devices you care about. From phones and tablets, to laptops and desktops, and, of course, Xbox One, Direct3D 12 is the API you've been waiting for.
It's great that DirectX works across "phones and tablets, to laptops and desktops, and, of course, Xbox One", but an important adjective is missing here: Windows. With Microsoft playing little to no role in smartphone and tablets, and the desktop/laptop market being on hold, how much of a plus is DirectX on phones and tablets, really? Doesn't Windows Phone's and Windows 8 Metro's reliance on it only make it harder for game developers and houses to port their iOS and Android games over?
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And I'd have the same response for all of them. Having software be tied to a particular platform is bad for consumers and the software community in general. It leads to lock-in and stifles innovation.
Yes, it still happens, so it's a continuing problem, but it's something that we should strive to eliminate, not propagate.
Lock-in stifles innovation, because it removes the competition factor, since you end up with a monopoly. Fighting to get people locked in doesn't stifle it, because you're competing to get folks to come to your platform in the first place.
The core problem really is that using DirectX ties you to Windows, which almost inevitably leads to your software becoming Windows-specific in a lot of other ways. So, porting to something other than DirectX can be a pain, and you can't distribute your software on other platforms.
Too often, the folks on the Linux side have similar issues, because Windows lacks a lot of stuff which exists on pretty much every *nix system on the planet (and thus almost everything other than Windows). So, it's not just a Windows problem. But those issues can be (and sometimes are) fixed by porting various libraries to Windows, whereas Microsoft isn't about to port DirectX to Linux or any other OS.


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"This game is one of those unexpected little gems glinting from the walls of the dingy cave known as the app store"
"I must come clean and admit that I was informed about Just Fillin' by my mom who is a recent iPhone convert, and I just had to get it after seeing how addicted she was to the game. I highly recommend this game to anyone with an iPhone, or an iPod Touch. You won't regret it!"
"Just Fillin' is one of those simple, frenetic games that seems to eat up so much of my time. It's simple to learn and very addictive"
"Just Fillin' is definitely one of those games that will drag you back time and time again"
"This physics-based bubble game is a good iPhone App for Just Fillin' time"
"Just Fillin' gives you the unadulterated good stuff: pure puzzle gameplay without any fuss or fringe"
"It plays really well and sits in that comfortable pocket where everything seems to have been tweaked just so"
What's everyone doing on their iPhone? Just Fillin'!
Just Fillin' is the best new game on the iTunes App Store, trust me.
Use your fingers to blow bubbles until the screen is filled up. But its not that easy. Vicious spikey balls are flying all over the screen, ready to burst your bubble.
Its an amazing physics and water simulation, Just Fillin' will keep you entertained and addicted for hours or just minutes.
Use advanced techniques like tilting and tossing bubbles to trap the spikeys and clear space to fill the screen. Compete against the world on our online leaderboard. Enjoy!
This version contains UNLIMITED levels, and an diabolical HARD mode. There are also no advertiser messages! (We may from time to time let you know about our other games though).
Check out our other Apps: Aqua Hoops and Aqua Baller.
***AUTOSAVE IS THERE! Several commenters have mentioned the lack of autosave. It is there! If you leave a game in progress, and relaunch the game, you will see a RESUME button on the lower right side of the intro screen. Tap it and you will pick up on the level you left with your previous score intact!