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WASHINGTON — More than half of female Marines in boot camp can't do three pullups, the minimum standard that was supposed to take effect with the new year, prompting the Marine Corps to delay the requirement, part of the process of equalizing physical standards to integrate women into combat jobs.
The delay rekindled sharp debate in the military on the question of whether women have the physical strength for some military jobs, as service branches move toward opening thousands of combat roles to them in 2016.
Although no new timetable has been set on the delayed physical requirement, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos wants training officials to "continue to gather data and ensure that female Marines are provided with the best opportunity to succeed," Capt. Maureen Krebs, a Marine spokeswoman, said Thursday.
Starting with the new year, all female Marines were supposed to be able to do at least three pullups on their annual physical fitness test and eight for a perfect score. The requirement was tested in 2013 on female recruits at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, S.C., but only 45 percent of women met the minimum, Krebs said.
The Marines had hoped to institute the pullups on the belief that pullups require the muscular strength necessary to perform common military tasks such as scaling a wall, climbing up a rope or lifting and carrying heavy munitions.
Officials felt there wasn't a medical risk to putting the new standard into effect as planned across the service, but that the risk of losing recruits and hurting retention of women already in the service was unacceptably high, she said.
Because the change is being put off, women will be able to choose which test of upper-body strength they will be graded on in their annual physical fitness test. Their choices:
—Pullups, with three the minimum. Three is also the minimum for male Marines, but they need 20 for a perfect rating.
—A flexed-arm hang. The minimum is for 15 seconds; women get a perfect score if they last for 70 seconds. Men don't do the hang in their test.
Officials said training for pullups can change a person's strength, while training for the flex-arm hang does little to adapt muscular strength needed for military tasks
The delay on the standard could be another wrinkle in the plan to begin allowing women to serve in jobs previously closed to them such as infantry, armor and artillery units.
The decision to suspend the scheduled pull-up requirement "is a clear indication" that plans to move women into direct ground combat fighting teams will not work, said Elaine Donnelly, president of the conservative Center for Military Readiness and a critic of allowing women into infantry jobs.
"When officials claim that men and women are being trained the same, they are referring to bare minimums, not maximum qualifications that most men can meet but women cannot," Donnelly wrote in an email to The Associated Press. "Awarding gender-normed scores so that women can succeed lowers standards for all. Women will suffer more injuries and resentment they do not deserve, and men will be less prepared for the demands of direct ground combat."
The military services are working to figure out how to move women into newly opened jobs and have been devising updated physical standards, training, education and other programs for thousands of jobs they must open Jan. 1, 2016, said Navy Lt. Cmdr. Nathan Christensen, a Defense Department spokesman. They must open as many jobs to women as possible; if they decide to keep some closed, they must explain why.
Military brass has said repeatedly that physical standards won't be lowered to accommodate female applicants. Success for women in training for the upcoming openings has come in fits and starts.
In fall 2012, only two female Marines volunteered for the 13-week infantry officers training course at Quantico, Va., and both failed to complete it.
But the following fall, three Marines became the first women to graduate from the Corps' enlisted infantry training school in North Carolina. They completed the same test standards as the men in the course, which included a 12-mile march with an 80-pound pack and various combat fitness trials such as timed ammunition container lifts and tests that simulate running under combat fire.
Officials had added specific training for female recruits when the pullup requirement was announced in December 2012, and they came up with a workout program for women already serving.
Military testing for physical skill and stamina has changed over the decades with needs of the armed forces. Officials say the first recorded history of Marine Corps physical fitness tests, for example, was 1908 when President Theodore Roosevelt ordered that staff officers must ride horseback 90 miles and line officers walk 50 miles over a three-day period to pass. A test started in 1956 included chinups, pushups, broad jump, 50-yard duck waddle and running.
The first test for women was started in 1969: A 120-yard shuttle run, vertical jump, knee pushups, 600-yard run/walk and situps.
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Some people think the the rules don't apply to them... including some people who got big and famous amusing us with revelations of the way some people think the rules don't apply to them. It's so hilarious.
IN THE COMMENTS: Crack Emcee says:
What's wrong with you people? James O'Keefe did America a big favor once, and I'll wait to hear what he was fishing for this time before I condemn him or call him stupid. If he has a legal defense fund, I'm in. Why should he pay for doing what the media refuses to do? That kid's a hero. Investigative journalism ain't no "15 minutes of fame" bullshit, it's serious business - y'all need to get serious as well.UPDATE: Patterico reads the government's affadavit and finds the early reports misleading.
I support good people - not goodie-goodie - and James O'Keefe's contribution to this latest incarnation of conservatism - The Tea Party Movement - can't be overstated. It's bigger than Scott Brown's, though Brown was in a better situation to have an impact, because these were kids - acting when nobody else would - proving to the world we were right about the corruption of ACORN all along. That was the crack in liberalism's facade and you know it.
This young man realigned our political world. Like I said, I'm with him until I hear more. The fact the rest of you have to think about it, or are assuming anything already, gives me pause:
What does loyalty mean to you?
He's quite critical of the Washington Post:
What is that reporter doing reporting about James O'Keefe? And isn't it funny that she is leaping to assumptions after she should have read an affidavit that doesn't back her assumptions up?
Look: I wasn't there and I therefore don't know what happened. But O'Keefe has a history of goofy, humorous, over-the-top undercover stunts to make a political point. Wiretapping doesn't seem like his style. And the facts in the affidavit — especially the lack of reference anywhere to any listening devices in the possession of anyone in the building — suggest to me that's not what he was doing.

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Prescott, Ariz. • Nineteen members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, based in Prescott, Ariz., were killed Sunday when a windblown wildfire overcame them north of Phoenix. It was the deadliest single day for U.S. firefighters since Sept. 11. Fourteen of the victims were in their 20s. Here are the stories of some of those who died:
Andrew Ashcraft • An athletic, go-getter
Prescott High School physical education teacher and coach Lou Beneitone taught many of the Hotshots, and remembered 29-year-old Andrew Ashcraft as a fitness-oriented student.
"He had some athletic ability in him and he was a go-getter, too. You could pretty much see, from young freshman all the way, he was going to be physically active."
Beneitone said athletic prowess was a must for the Hotshots. "That's what it takes. You gotta be very physically fit, and you gotta like it, gotta like the hard work."
Robert Caldwell • The smart one
Friends characterized Robert Caldwell, 23, as the smart man in the bunch.
"He was really smart, he had a good sense of humor," said Chase Madrid, worked as a Hotshot for two years, but sat this year out.
"He was one of the smart guys in the crew who could get the weather, figure out the mathematics. It was just natural for him," Madrid said.
It was Caldwell's intelligence and know-how that got him appointed as a squad boss.
His cousin, Grant McKee, was also a Hotshots member and also was killed on Sunday.
"Robert was a gentle giant he was man of few words," said his aunt, Laurie McKee.
He had just gotten married in November, and had a five year old step-son.
"Both of these boys were only interested in having a family life. Robert was newly married, and Grant was engaged. They just wanted the house and the dog," she said.
Mary Hoffmann was grandmother to both boys.
"To have two grandson's gone, it's devastation," she said.
Travis Carter • Strong and humble
At Captain Crossfit, a gym near the firehouse where the Hotshots were stationed, Travis Carter was known as the strongest one out of the crew but also the most humble.
"No one could beat him," trainer Janine Pereira said. "But the thing about him, was he would never brag about it. He would just kill everyone and then go and start helping someone else finish."
Carter, 31, was famous for once holding a plank for 45 minutes, and he was notorious for making up brutal workouts.
The crew recently did a five mile run during wilderness training, then he made them go to Captain Crossfit in the afternoon for another really hard workout.
"The other guys who came in here always said that even though he was in charge, he was always the first one at the fire, the first one in action," Pereira said.
Dustin Deford • Dry sense of humor
Dustin DeFord, 24, tried out for the Hotshot crew in January 2012, telling friends on Twitter that he had passed the physical fitness test and asking for prayers as he moved on to the interview stage of the process.
He moved to Arizona from Montana after he was hired, and he worked to improve his skills on the climbing wall at a gym near the firehouse.
"He listened very well. He was very respectful," said Tony Burris, a trainer at Captain Crossfit. "He kind of had a dry sense of humor."
Another trainer, Janine Pereira, echoed that sentiment.
"You would say something to him, and he would respond with a crack, which was funny because he was so shy," she said.
Soon after he interviewed for the Hotshots, DeFord signed up for the Spartan Race, a rugged, eight-mile challenge through the mud and around various obstacles in Chandler, a suburb of Phoenix.
"I am being amazing," he wrote on Twitter, in reference to the race.
Several months later, in June 2012, he tweeted: "First Fire of the season."
Chris Mackenzie • 'Just like his dad'
An avid snowboarder, 30-year-old Chris MacKenzie grew up in California's San Jacinto Valley, where he was a 2001 graduate of Hemet High School and a former member of the town's fire department. He joined the U.S. Forest Service in 2004, then transferred two years ago to the Prescott Fire Department, longtime friend Dav Fulford-Brown told The Riverside Press-Enterprise.
MacKenzie, like at least one other member of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, had followed his father into firefighting. Michael MacKenzie, a former Moreno Valley Fire Department captain, confirmed that he had been informed of his son's death.
"I can't talk about it," he said.
Fulford-Brown, also a former firefighter, feared for the worst as soon as he heard the news of the Arizona firefighters. "I said, 'Oh my God, that's Chris' crew.' I started calling him and calling him and got no answer," he told The Press-Enterprise. MacKenzie, he said, "lived life to the fullest ... and was fighting fire just like his dad."
"He was finishing his credentials to get promoted and loved the people. It's an insane tragedy.
Eric Marsh • Hooked on firefighting
Eric Marsh, 43, was an avid mountain biker who grew up in Ashe County, N.C., but became hooked on firefighting while studying biology at Arizona State University, said Leanna Racquer, the ex-wife of his cousin. Marsh lived with Racquer and her then-husband during the winters from 1992 through 1996 in North Carolina, but kept returning to Arizona during fire season.
After college, he kept working as a firefighter, eventually landing a full-time job and settling in northern Arizona. He even moved his parents to the state, she said. Marsh was superintendent of the Hotshot crew and the oldest of the 19 who died.
"He's was great he was the best at what he did," Racquer said. "He is awesome and well-loved and they are hurting," she said of his family.
Grant Mckee • Giving nature
Grant McKee, 21, loved to give things away.
"Even as a child, I'd ask him where things were, and he'd say, 'Oh such and such liked it.' And sometimes it really cost a lot! But he'd say, 'Oh he liked it so much,'" said his grandmother, Mary Hoffmann.
"So on his birthday, I started to say, 'I hope you're going to keep this!'" she said.
McKee's cousin, Robert Caldwell, also was a Hotshot and also was killed on Sunday.
"I had four grandchildren, but Grant was the sweetest most giving nature of any of my grandkids," Hoffman said. "We used to think he was a little angel."
McKee's mother said Grant was training to be an emergency medical technician and only intended to work with the Hotshots for the summer.
During EMT training, he would ask for extra shifts at the emergency room. And because his superiors liked him, they would give them to him, Laurie McKee said.
"Grant was one of the most likable people you could ever meet," she said. "Grant was friendly, he was outgoing. Everybody loved Grant."
Sean Misner • 'Tremendous heart and desire'
Sean Misner, 26, leaves behind a wife who is seven months pregnant, said Mark Swanitz, principal of Santa Ynez Valley Union High School in Santa Barbara County, where Misner graduated in 2005.
Misner played varsity football and also participated in the school's sports medicine program where he wrapped sprained ankles and took care of sidelined athletes.
"He was a team player, a real helper," Swanitz told The Associated Press on Monday.
In high school, Misner played several positions including wide receiver and defensive back. He was slim for a high school football player, but that didn't stop him from tackling his opponents, recalled retired football coach Ken Gruendyke.
"He played with tremendous heart and desire," Gruendyke said. "He wasn't the biggest or fastest guy on the team but he played with great emotion and intensity."
Scott Norris • The 'ideal American gentelman'
Scott Norris, 28, was known around Prescott through his part-time job at Bucky O'Neill Guns.
"Here in Arizona the gun shops are a lot like barbershops. Sometimes you don't go in there to buy anything at all, you just go to talk," said resident William O'Hara. "I never heard a dirty word out of the guy. He was the kind of guy who if he dated your daughter, you'd be OK with it.
"He was just a model of a young, ideal American gentleman."
O'Hara's son Ryan, 19, said Norris' life and tragic death had inspired him to live a more meaningful life.
"He was a loving guy. He loved life. And I've been guilty of not looking as happy as I should, and letting things get to me, and Scott wasn't like that at all."
Wade Parker • Another second generation firefighter
At 22, Wade Parker had just joined the Hotshots team. His father works for the nearby Chino Valley Fire Department, said retired Prescott Fire Department Capt. Jeff Knotek, who had known Wade since he was "just a little guy."
The younger Parker had been very excited about being part of the Hotshot crew, Knotek said.
"He was another guy who wanted to be a second generation firefighter," Knotek said. "Big, athletic kid who loved it, aggressive, assertive and in great shape."
"It's just a shame to see this happen," Knotek said.
John Percin Jr. • Strong, brave, amazing
He loved baseball and had an unforgettable laugh. In his aunt's eyes, John Percin Jr. was, simply, "an amazing young man."
"He was probably the strongest and bravest young man I have ever met in my life," Donna Percin Pederson said in an interview with The Associated Press from her home in Portland, Ore.
John Percin Sr., declined to comment Monday. "It's not a good time right now."
Percin, 24, was a multisport high school athlete who graduated in 2007 from West Linn High School, southeast of Portland.
Geoff McEvers grew up playing baseball with Percin and remembered Percin as a fun-loving guy with an unforgettable laugh, The Oregonian newspaper reported.
McEvers said he learned about the Percin's death through friends.
"It's already tragic when you hear about those who died," McEvers told the newspaper, "but when you find out it's someone you know personally, it's tough."
Anthony Rose • 'Blossomed' as fireman
Anthony Rose, 23, was one of the youngest victims. He grew up in Wisconsin and previously worked as a firefighter in nearby Crown King before moving on to become a Hotshot.
Retired Crown King firefighter Greg Flores said Rose "just blossomed in the fire department. He did so well and helped so much in Crown King. We were all so very proud of him."
Flores said the town was planning a fundraiser for Rose and hoped to also have a memorial to honor him.
"He was the kind of guy that his smile lit up the whole room and everyone would just rally around him," he said. "He loved what he was doing, and that brings me some peace of heart."
Jesse Steed • 'Great for morale'
Jesse Steed's former colleagues remember him as a joker.
"He was a character. If you look at all the old photos of him, he was doing things to make people laugh," said Cooper Carr, who worked with Steed in the Hotshots from 2001 to 2003.
"He was good at impressions, and he sang songs; he was just great for morale. He'd just talk in a funny voice and have us all in stiches," Carr said. "And he was strong as an ox."
Carr remembers that Steed once spent the better part of an hour positioning a water bottle just right for a photo so that it would look like Yosemite falls was cascading into it.
Steed was also remembered for his dedication to fighting wildfires.
"He did it for a long, long time. I think he started in 2001, when he got out of the Marines. A job like the Hotshots is hard, hard work, and you don't stay in it if you don't love it," Carr said.
Steed, 36, was one of the older members of the crew. Renton, Wash., police officer Cassidy Steed said his brother "always put his life on the line for people who he knew he would never meet."
Travis Turbyfill • 'Big, huge marine'
Known as "Turby" among crew members, Travis Turbyfill got a fulltime position with the Hotshots when another member's girlfriend asked him to quit.
Turbyfill, 27, often worked with other Hotshots at Captain Crossfit, a warehouse filled with mats, obstacle courses, climbing walls and acrobatic rings near the firehouse. He would train in the morning and then return in the afternoon with his wife and kids.
Trainer Janine Pereira said she recently kidded Turbyfill for skipping workouts. His excuse was that he wanted to spend some quality time at Dairy Queen.
"He was telling me that it's because it was Blizzard week, and he was just going to eat a Blizzard every night," she said.
Tony Burris, another trainer, said he enjoyed watching Turby with his two daughters.
"Because he's this big, huge Marine, Hotshot guy, and he has two little girls, reddish, blonde curly hair, and they just loved their dad," he said.
Billy Warneke • 'Doing what he loved'
Billy Warneke, 25, and his wife, Roxanne, were expecting their first child in December, his grandmother, Nancy Warneke, told The Press-Enterprise newspaper in Riverside, Calif. Warneke grew up in Hemet, Calif., along with his fellow Granite Mountain hotshot, Chris MacKenzie. He was a four-year Marine Corps veteran who served a tour in Iraq and had joined the hotshot crew in April, buying a property in Prescott, near where his sister lived, the newspaper reported.
Nancy Warneke said she called her sister after seeing the fire on the news.
"She said, 'He's gone. They're all gone,'" Nancy Warneke told The Press-Enterprise. "Even though it's a tragedy for the whole family, he was doing what he loved to do. He loved nature and was helping preserve nature."
Clayton Whitted • He'd 'light it up'
Full of heart and determination, Clayton Whitted, 28, might not have been the biggest guy around, but he was among the hardest-working. His former Prescott High School coach, Lou Beneitone, said Whitted was a "wonderful kid" who always had a big smile on his face. Whitted played for the football team as an offensive and defensive lineman.
"He was a smart young man with a great personality, just a wonderful personality," said Beneitone. "When he walked into a room, he could really light it up."
Beneitone said Whitted loved being a firefighter and was well-respected among his crew. He says he ran into Whitted about two months ago and they shook hands and hugged, and talked about the upcoming fire season.
"I told him to be careful," Beneitone said.
Kevin Woyjeck • Following in his father's footsteps
For 21-year-old Kevin Woyjeck, the fire station was always a second home. His father, Capt. Joe Woyjeck, is a nearly 30-year veteran of the Los Angeles County Fire Department. Keith Mora, an inspector with that agency, said Kevin often accompanied his dad to the station and on ride-alongs, and always intended to follow in his footsteps.
"He wanted to become a firefighter like his dad and hopefully work hand-in-hand," Mora said Monday outside of the fire station in Seal Beach, Calif., where the Woyjeck family lives.
Mora remembered the younger Woyjeck as a "joy to be around," a man who always had a smile on his face. He had been trained as an EMT and worked as an Explorer, which is a mentorship training program to become a professional firefighter.
"He was a great kid. Unbelievable sense of humor, work ethic that was not parallel to many kids I've seen at that age. He wanted to work very hard."
As he spoke, Mora stood before an American flag that had been lowered to half-staff. His own fire badge was covered with a black elastic band, a show of respect and mourning for those lost in the line of duty.
Garret Zuppiger • A red beard, and a sense of humor
Garret Zuppiger, 27, loved to be funny, said Tony Burris, a trainer at a gym where many of the Hotshots worked out.
Burris said the two bonded over their hyper-manly ginger facial hair.
"We both had a red beard and so we would always admire each other's beards," he said. "We also had a few conversations about beer."
Zuppiger's humor was evident on his blog where he wrote about his grandmother's one-eyed Chihuahua, his "best hair day ever" and a hike with his mother on Camelback Mountain in Phoenix. There's also photos of a tongue-in-cheek project to build a "ski-chair," in which a living room recliner was placed atop two skis.
"Garret Zuppiger turns 25!" he wrote in a post several years ago. "Everyday is like a gift!!"
Also among the 19 who died on Sunday:
Joe Thurston, 32
Associated Press reporters Raquel Maria Dillon in Seal Beach, Calif., Sue Manning in Los Angeles and Hannah Dreier in Prescott contributed to this story.


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Christie Concedes 'Mistakes Were Made' In Bridge Scandal
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, engulfed in scandal over the politically motivated closing of bridge access lanes and questions about how he spent federal Hurricane Sandy aid, pledged Tuesday to "cooperate with all appropriate inquiries."
In his annual State of the State speech from the State Capitol in Trenton, the two-term Republican governor made quick work of the George Washington Bridge controversy, which hopelessly snarled traffic in the city of Fort Lee for days. The circumstances surrounding the episode have clouded the prospects of a potential presidential bid in 2016.
"The last week has certainly tested this administration," Christie said at the outset of his speech to a packed legislative chamber. "Mistakes were clearly made and as a result we let down the people we're entrusted to serve.
"I know our citizens deserve better, much better," said Christie, who also serves as chairman of the Republican Governors Association. He has steadfastly denied involvement in the lane closures, including during a two-hour press conference last week at which he announced he had fired top aide Bridget Anne Kelly for allegedly "lying" to him about what she knew.
Recently released documents revealed Kelly wrote, "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee," to a Christie loyalist who worked at the agency in charge of managing the bridge.
"I'm the governor," Christie said Tuesday. "I am ultimately responsible."
Christie, who received a generally warm welcome as he entered the chamber behind two state troopers, pivoted quickly from the controversy to a laundry list of economic successes New Jersey has racked up during his administration.
"What has occurred doesn't define us or our state," he said, before ticking off improved employment rates and job creation, and bipartisan efforts that led to balanced budgets, "pension reform and tenure reform" and a cap on property taxes.
The so-called "Bridgegate" scandal may not ultimately define New Jersey any more than other previous state scandals, but it has come perilously close to defining Christie — and in a much different way than the bipartisan, straight-talking persona he has sought to cultivate as governor.
Accusations that Christie's top aides exacted political revenge by closing two of three George Washington Bridge entrance lanes from Fort Lee after the city's Democratic mayor declined to endorse the governor in his re-election run last year have exacted an already high toll.
State Democratic legislators have formed special investigative committees armed with subpoena power to look into how the lane closures came to pass, what the governor knew of the scheme and when he knew it.
And federal auditors are investigating how $25 million in Hurricane Sandy aid earmarked for media efforts was spent, with a focus on a television ad campaign that featured the governor and his family during Christie's re-election campaign.
Meanwhile, two polls released since Bridgegate broke contained mixed results. The topline of a Pew poll read, "views of Chris Christie largely unchanged in recent days." And a Monmouth University/Asbury Park Press Poll found that while 52 percent of those surveyed don't believe Christie was personally involved in the lane closures, 51 percent said that their governor hasn't been completely honest about what he knows.


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Strategic-planning season has arrived for many companies, and it couldn't be more different than it has been in years past. Gone are the days of linear trend-extrapolation exercises that produce base, upside, and downside cases. Strategists, now facing the most profoundly uncertain times in their careers, are creating disaster scenarios that would have been unthinkable until recently and making the preservation of cash integral to their strategies.
Most strategists we know are avoiding the obvious mistakes, such as planning as usual or, conversely, eliminating essential strategy-development activities or even strategic planning itself. Nonetheless, strategists remain deeply—and understandably—concerned that the priorities emerging from the annual planning rituals won't address the demands of today's tumultuous environment.
These are uncharted waters, and no one has a clear map for sailing through them. It's clear that scenario planning, a well-established technique for coping with uncertainty, should play a critical role this year, but executing successfully has never been as challenging as it is now. Most companies will have to consider more variables and involve more decision makers than they have in the past. Strategists will also need to place a greater emphasis on measurement—the only way to recognize when changing conditions merit quick strategic adjustments. Finally, the focus on new or surprising scenarios shouldn't obscure relevant long-term trends or devalue important existing strategies.
Be realistic about scenario planning
In a highly uncertain environment, the advantages of scenario planning are clear: since no one base case can be regarded as probable, it's necessary to develop plans on the assumption that several different futures are possible and to focus attention on the underlying drivers of uncertainty.
Today's pervasive uncertainty complicates scenario-planning efforts: the number of variables at play—and the range of plausible outcomes—have exploded in the past year. Consider, for example, the predicament of an industrial supplier that is not only heavily exposed to commercial and residential real estate but also has many government customers. For this company, the critical uncertainties include the direction of the commercial-credit and mortgage markets, housing prices, tax revenues, and government stimulus spending. Different outcomes for each of these uncertainties produce vastly different paths for the business. Since the heart of scenario planning—crafting a number of strategies for different outcomes—has become significantly more complex,1 strategists should prepare for a more demanding process of gathering information, exploring possibilities, and plain old hard thinking.
Senior executives outside the strategic-planning group—even those accustomed to developing scenarios—may find the diversity and complexity of this year's scenarios bewildering. It's critical to bring such executives into the process early: for example, by kicking off the planning process with a scenario-development exercise involving the full senior team. Similarly, as the process of reviewing business units gets under way, a company can inculcate an appreciation of the threats it faces and of its collective strategic response by inviting executives from a number of divisions to participate in the proceedings—rather than hold one-off events between the senior team and the leader of each individual unit.
Intensify monitoring
Depending on how events unfold, the industrial supplier mentioned above could make radically different moves. If the commercial and residential real-estate markets stabilized, it could expect reduced sales within those channels until the economy rebounded, but its business model would remain fundamentally the same. If those markets softened further, the bulk of the company's market opportunity, for the foreseeable future, would lie in infrastructure investments underwritten by government stimulus spending. In that case, the company would need to redeploy its sales resources to government-oriented business and focus on maximizing sales there.
The company's strategy, in short, must account for many more contingencies than it has until recently. Since the effectiveness of such a strategy depends on an organization's ability to adjust rapidly as the fog starts to lift, managers must identify and intensively monitor key indicators suggesting which scenario might unfold. For the industrial supplier, some of the most important indicators are sales of new and existing homes, foreclosure rates, mortgage interest rates, new building starts, and announcements of "shovel ready" government projects. Of course, the company's managers always followed such indicators, but the strategic-planning process typically collapsed their potential variations into average market growth forecasts. Given the present heightened uncertainty, however, the strategy group decomposed the average forecast into its individual elements to make the possible outcome for each of the indicators more transparent and to monitor them in greater detail.
There's no occasion like the strategic-planning process to get a fix on such indicators—a fix that should also help companies make ongoing budget decisions in real time. That's critical, because it makes no sense to set each operating unit's budget allocation at the start of the fiscal year if cash is tight and corporate executives expect to dole it out carefully as plans become less uncertain. What companies need now is a dynamic "pay as you go" resource allocation process that conserves cash and encourages adherence to the strategic road map laid out in scenario planning.
This year's planning process should also generate unusually specific plans to monitor the performance of suppliers, customers, and competitors. As we've seen in the past six months, the most entrenched incumbents can plunge into financial distress with dizzying speed. Early intelligence helps companies to recognize when they should negotiate more favorable supply terms, line up alternatives to risky suppliers, offer kinder credit terms to critical customers, accelerate collections from faltering ones, or scoop up all or part of vulnerable competitors. Leading indicators of distress include such familiar signals as delinquent accounts payable, downgraded debt ratings, large share price declines, late inventory deliveries, or lower-quality goods or materials. These signs, though all too familiar to operating managers, are typically addressed in an ad hoc way, not in the strategic-planning process. This year is different.
Look beyond the crisis
Given the vastness of the economic change now under way, the temptation for many planners will be to gaze, mesmerized, at the unfolding crisis. That's a mistake, for at least two reasons.
First, devastating as the current downturn may be, it cannot roll back fundamental market trends—such as the aging of consumers in Europe and North America or the continued economic development of Brazil, China, India, and Russia—which will continue to create strategic opportunities and threats. Managers must focus their eyes—and resources—on these trends no matter what happens.
Second, planners who become fixated on current economic events run the risk of overlooking a core responsibility: evaluating the effectiveness of current strategies. Although the crisis may force companies to suspend or redirect some of them, others will remain relevant even in the changed environment. This year's strategic-planning process is a time to encourage managers to sort out which current strategies the crisis has helped, hurt, or failed to affect and to ensure that a system and metrics are in place to track their performance. While all this may sound like common sense, extreme uncertainty makes it easy to overlook.
One company that's staying the course is McDonald's, which has profited in the downturn from its low-cost menu items and is enjoying its most robust same-store sales growth in years. Meanwhile, senior management has remained focused on longer-term strategies involving expensive store renovations, operational overhauls, high-end coffee products, and healthful menu options. Managers elsewhere can learn valuable lessons from the company's efforts to benefit from the current circumstances while sticking to longer-term strategies and the underlying trends (such as healthier lifestyles) that they reflect.
Despite the challenging times, this year's strategic-planning process need not be an exercise in anxiety or futility. Developing scenarios in greater depth, monitoring strategies more rigorously, and remaining focused on the long term will all help strategists boost the odds of creating plans that can lead their companies through the turbulence.
Strategic planning in a crisis: A McKinsey Quarterly Survey
Editor's note. When we published this article in April 2009, we invited readers to take part in an online survey on changes in their companies' strategic planning, given today's challenging economic environment. Here is a summary of their responses.
Executives are concerned that a new focus on near-term challenges may cause this year's planning process to overlook long-term trends or preexisting strategies, according to the results of a McKinsey Quarterly survey on strategic planning.2
More than 80 percent of executives say their strategic-planning processes look different this year compared with last (Exhibit 1). The change executives say has been most significant is the adoption of a more rigorous approach to approving projects and capital spending, presumably with an eye toward managing cash carefully. Other significant changes include the creation of strategies that are more dynamic, focus on the short term, and that include more analyses.
A different strategic-planning process
Scenario planning is becoming a leading part of the process. Over 50 percent of respondents say scenario planning either is playing a bigger role in their companies' strategic planning this year or has been newly added to the process (Exhibit 2). And when asked to write in the element of their planning processes that has been most valuable in helping them cope with this year's uncertain environment, more executives mention scenario planning than anything else. Nearly 60 percent of the respondents say their companies are monitoring progress against their strategic plans more frequently this year. Over 80 percent of respondents are assessing the progress of their strategic plans at least quarterly, with 50 percent doing so at least once a month (Exhibit 3).
Scenario planning in the spotlight
More frequent monitoring
In short, many strategists seem to be rapidly adjusting their planning processes to cope with the changed economic environment. Important as these adjustments may be, their nature also raise a major question in the minds of many strategists: is the crisis atmosphere undermining focus on all but the immediate future? More than 50 percent of executives, in fact, express worry about not striking the right balance between near-term challenges and long-term strategic priorities. The perennial challenge of striking this balance has become particularly acute this year.


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Buffalo Wing Hummus
I may never buy store bought hummus again. This amazing hummus takes less than five minutes to make and is so much better than any kind I've bought in a store. This is also a great way to enjoy Buffalo wing flavor for very little calories. I served this with celery, carrots and toasted sandwich thin triangles and I was surprised to discover that my favorite dipper was the celery! Usually I think of celery as the most boring vegetable on the planet and only enjoy it smothered in blue cheese to cool my mouth off between eating real Buffalo wings. The combination of the cool, crunchy celery and the Buffalo wing flavoring in this hummus was a match made in Heaven. Usually the serving size on a container of store bought hummus is 2 tablespoons, but I always want more than that, so I doubled it. This is a great snack and it would make a fabulous appetizer to make for company of to bring to a potluck. I actually halved the original recipe (which made 4 cups of hummus), so you could easily re-double it for a larger crowd. To view your WW PersonalPoints for this recipe and track it in the WW app or site, click here!
For those who are wondering, although this hummus has Buffalo wing flavor and a little tang to it, I wouldn't consider it spicy. If you want it to be spicier you could use the "Xtra Hot" Frank's or try using more. I thought it was perfect as is!
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- 1 ½ cups canned chickpeas, drained and rinsed (reserve ¼ cup of the liquid from the can)
- 2 cloves garlic
- 2 tablespoons tahini
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- ¾ teaspoon paprika
- 1 tablespoon barbecue sauce
- 1 ½ tablespoons Frank's Red Hot, or similar cayenne pepper sauce
- 1 ½ teaspoons white vinegar
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- Combine all ingredients including the ¼ reserved liquid from the can of chickpeas into a food processor or blender. Puree ingredients until smooth*. Serve.
- *I actually made mine in my food processor and then smoothed it out further using my immersion blender. It came out perfect!
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Friday, July 23, 2010
Rochester's Famous "Chicken French" - Spoiler Alert: Only Half the Name is Correct!
This not-French recipe hails from the Rochester area of New York State, where it's a staple on virtually every Italian-American restaurant menu. It's something of a mystery why this recipe would have exploded in popularity in this one city in particular, but that's exactly what happened.
The origins of the recipe go something like this. Italian cooks in northern Italy have a sautéed veal dish called vitello francese, which uses a wine/lemon/butter pan sauce similar to ones used in France. The recipe comes to New York City with the first wave of Italian-American immigrants, where it becomes known by the locals as "Veal French."
Eventually, the recipe migrates to Rochester's large Italian-American community, where chicken is substituted for the more expensive and harder to find veal. The rest, as they say, is history – delicious, tender, moist, buttery history.
Since I'm from the Rochester, NY area, it's a little surprising I haven't done this one already. Thankfully, a wonderful dinner at my Aunt Joyce's on a recent trip home caused me to realize I hadn't yet immortalized this hometown favorite. I really hope you give it a try. Enjoy!
Ingredients for about 4-6 portions:
1 1/2 lb boneless, skinless chicken breast
4 eggs, plus 2 tablespoon milk, beaten
1 cup flour
1 tablespoon salt
1 teaspoon black pepper
cayenne to taste
2 tablespoon olive oil, plus 1 tablespoon butter for sautéing
For the sauce:
Juice of 2 lemons
1/2 cup good white wine or dry sherry
1 cup vegetable broth or chicken stock
4 tablespoon cold butter, cut in cubes
1 tablespoon chopped Italian parsley
salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste
45 comments:
- Unknown said...
Bravo! Nice job! Just like Whitey would do it. Strangely, a lot of chef's who make this outside of Rochester and a breadcrumb layer afterwards.
Now I need to make this. maybe not today because it's a bit muggy out.
Thanks for the recipe!
Pete - July 23, 2010 at 6:20 PM
- Hollis K. Lee said...
This is a beautiful plate. I will give it a shot.
- July 23, 2010 at 9:02 PM
- bryan-in-greece said...
I am going to be making this for my wife and mother-in-law tomorrow. It looks delicious - nice and light, ideal for lunch on the balcony on a hot day...
- July 24, 2010 at 9:45 AM
- Jake said...
as another SF resident who grew up in WNY, I never knew Rochester had its own food local cuisine beyond the Garbage Plate. I'm looking forward to seeing that as a video recipe some day!
- July 24, 2010 at 12:37 PM
- Amy Lynn said...
Hi Chef John!
Does the cayenne make it spicy at all? My Midwestern palated hubby has an aversion to the taste of cayenne. - July 24, 2010 at 2:58 PM
- Chef John said...
it does gives it a little heat. You could leave it out, but personally I think it would be easier to get a new husband.
- July 24, 2010 at 3:25 PM
Chef John,
Any sub to the dry sherry or white wine that is non-alcoholic?
Thanks! - July 24, 2010 at 3:40 PM
- Amy Lynn said...
- July 24, 2010 at 4:02 PM
- Chef John said...
you can leave out the wine, and juts add a little extra lemon and broth.
- July 24, 2010 at 5:41 PM
Hi Chef John, is there a technique to cut chicken breast (like a butterfly or similar) to make a thick breast into scallopini or is pounding the only way to go?
Great video I really want to try this! Thank You! - July 24, 2010 at 6:52 PM
- CK said...
I just love your blog and every video you made. And you are so funny sometimes really make me laugh a lot!
- July 25, 2010 at 7:14 PM
My brother is marrying a girl from Rochester! I will have to make this for her.
- July 26, 2010 at 5:35 AM
My friend is from Rochester, but his mom grew up in Dutch Town, so he's never had this...but he is totally stoked for me to make this for him soon!!
- July 26, 2010 at 4:07 PM
- Amy Lynn said...
Made this last night. It was fantastic. Except for the fact where I almost started a fire, forgetting to turn the flame off before the lemon juice went in.
- July 26, 2010 at 4:13 PM
You don't have to have starch all the time, but some yummy, crusty bread to slather up the delicious sauce would be terrific!
- July 27, 2010 at 1:18 PM
- Jamie Lau said...
Question for Chef John: Can I substitue Lactaid for milk? Would that make the taste totally different?
- July 28, 2010 at 1:26 PM
- Chef John said...
never cooked with it, but you can just leave the milk out.
- July 28, 2010 at 1:28 PM
- Jesse from Detroit said...
I left the milk out (I couldn't bring myself to make a third trip to the store... always have lemons in the kitchen!) and it turned out fine.. perhaps a bit eggy? Wife told me it's another keeper -thanks, Chef John!
- July 29, 2010 at 6:04 PM
- Unknown said...
I love Rochester! This dish makes me miss home. I have a question, how important is the sherry or the wine for the sauce? Can I go without using it at all?
- August 8, 2010 at 9:29 PM
- Blood Red Roses said...
I made this - and everyone loved it! No more falling asleep halfway through a dry chicken breast! I used beef stock - this recipe is quite flexible. I haven't tried a recipe of yours that I haven't loved, yet!
- August 14, 2010 at 11:53 AM
- Chicau said...
Looks an awful lot like Picatta sans capers? Wish you would do a picatta recipe! I've got 1 or 2 I do, but somehow seems more legitimate if it comes from you!
Ed - August 15, 2010 at 5:32 PM
- Cheri Witmer said...
This was so delicious! I don't drink so I didn't have any wine, but I did have some red cooking wine so I used that. Wonderful! Will definately make this again and again, thanks Chef John!
- September 22, 2010 at 12:39 PM
Had to go to a party yesterday for about 30 people. Pounded out some cheap breasts and cut them into bite size pieces BEFORE cooking. Used the wine for the sharper taste. HUGE success - first thing gone (and there was ALOT!).
keep up the good work. I have turned alot of people on to your site.
btw: making your baked chicken parmy tonight MMMMMMM
Chicau - September 26, 2010 at 1:32 PM
In other parts of the world I think we call this Chicken Francaise.
:-) - November 16, 2010 at 4:44 PM
- Rhenicia said...
made this TWICE! came out so good with my gougeres! (really starting to love and get into the whole cooking thing) so happy that i found your site!
- January 28, 2011 at 3:10 PM
- Chef John said...
So glad, thanks!
- January 28, 2011 at 3:14 PM
Chef John,
What is a 'good' white wine for cooking??? I wanna make a little trip to the liquor store tomorrowwww :)
Thanks a bunch Chef!!!! - April 10, 2011 at 11:26 PM
Tried it yesterday! Fantastico! I had a big bowl of raw garlic salad (just a lot of diced garlic with 1 diced shallot, herbs, oil, vinegar, salt&pepper, pinch a cayenne - even better on the next day!) on the side, it is delicious with it!
- April 14, 2011 at 7:51 AM
I have been eating Chicken French my entire life!! My mother has been making this recipe for over 40 years and it's still my favorite Chicken recipe of all time! I just want to thank you for posting this so everyone else can love this as much as my family and I do that are not from Rochester!
- April 30, 2011 at 3:10 PM
- Fancy Monkey said...
Nice little dish. Although the juice of two lemons seemed a little much. We ended up using one lemon and wish we would have reduced it to half a lemon.
- November 9, 2011 at 10:44 PM
Two things I did not know before watching this video. First, I did not know eggs would get bitter if cooked too hot. Secondly, I thought your camera was on a tripod. Thank you for making us think we really can cook.
- January 9, 2012 at 9:11 PM
I loved the chicken, but the sauce was way too lemony/tart for me. Maybe using Sherry next time in place of wine will sweeten it up a bit.
- June 1, 2012 at 7:21 PM
- Unknown said...
I can't believe I never (a) had this dish (I'm from Buffalo but live in Rochester) and (b) realized you were from Rochester. Thanks for the recipe!!
- January 15, 2013 at 3:54 PM
- DeTigero said...
Hello there! I just have to say that you're awesome! I'm pregnant at the moment and have been for days now making one of your dishes per day or at least improvising! Yesterday was the chicken piccata, which was delicious, all of the kids and husband loved it. The day before I used the sauce you used for the Miso-Glazed skirt steak, but I didn't have miso, so I went w/o it... :( that's the reason why I wanted to post a comment right now.
Just now, for this recipe, you used veggie broth, so I was wondering, since we don't have an option of buying it in a store pre made, can I substitute it with those veggie cubes you use when making a soup per say?
Either way, I think you're amazing, and have given me many many many good ideas, but sometimes I have to improvise due to the fact that we don't have a lot of stuff here that I need for some of the dishes, like miso for example. I'm trying the chicken parmesan casserole tomorrow...hope it turns out just right :) and I'm sending you a big hello all the way from Montenegro! :) - January 25, 2013 at 1:25 PM
- Chef John said...
Yes, you can use the cubes to make the broth! Thanks!
- January 25, 2013 at 1:38 PM
- Fry Cook said...
I can't wait to make this tomorrow. Going to serve with roasted asparagus and rice pilaf. Yum. Thanks for the video!
- April 13, 2013 at 2:31 AM
- Unknown said...
Hi Chef John, I've made a bunch of your recipes and love the blog and videos. I made the Chicken French tonight. I tasted the chicken before I had put it into the sauce to warm-up again and it tasted so delicious and crispy and juicy. But, after I put the chicken back into the sauce, it turned out so soggy!! I followed what you had done, what am I missing here?
- September 4, 2013 at 11:50 PM
- Unknown said...
Hi Chef John, I've recently started cooking. I've made a bunch of your recipes and love your blog and videos. I made the Chicken French tonight. I tasted some of the chicken, before I put the chicken back into the sauce to warm-up and the chicken tastes so delicious, juicy and crispy. But, after they were mixed in with the sauce, they turned out soggy!! I followed everything you did in the video. Not sure what happened.
- September 4, 2013 at 11:55 PM
- Chef John said...
You didn't do anything wrong! That's how it's supposed to be! It's not a crispy dish.
- September 5, 2013 at 11:57 AM
- Gandalf said...
I LOVE this stuff! But the other night, I realized I had no veggie stock so I substituted one-half can of an 8-ounce V-8! It came out great, and my guests loved it. Makes it a little 'redder' and not so golden colored.
- August 13, 2014 at 5:04 PM
- Jimmy-O said...
Hi Chef John this is Jimmy-O from Rochester, Do you have a marsela recipe as well???
- October 5, 2014 at 10:48 PM
- Idunomofo said...
Chicken French from Phillips European rest. Is the reason I started to love to cook because I had to figure out to make it on my own after I left Rochester. Light and awesome. Love it over pasta extra saucy!!
- July 29, 2015 at 3:58 AM
- CA ROPPEL said...
Wow! I know this is old, but I had to comment. I love how you say (it correctly) RAH-CHESTER. Yep, I'm from that region too (Canandaigua)!!
I'm going to try this on grouper.
Love your videos!
Chris Bills Roppel - November 4, 2017 at 3:51 PM
- Unknown said...
Love this recipe. Any tips for not getting cooked 'eggy bits' stuck to the pan? Other than that, fabulous dish. Had with rice and green beans. This is my absolute favorite go-to site when looking for something amazing to make for dinner.
- January 9, 2018 at 7:51 PM
- Mike said...
I know this is a bit Johnny come lately, but I have to mention something in response to Jake regarding Rochacha 'cuisine'. Garbage plate is just that, named perfectly. I never could stomach that stuff. But we do have Sal's Birdland and country sweet...sweet hot chicken wings! Much better than buffalo style IMO. AND who could forget the pork white hots that were a staple at picnics, well at least they were in the 70's! I worked at a restaurant the served this recipe using veal, I liked it but thought it was a bit weird since my Italian mother never did veal this way, nor did her family. Different roots I guess. I'm gonna try this tomorrow to see if it's like how I remember making it.
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Happily, the only pay that I get for noticing AmE/BrE differences is my Google ad income, so I am free to notice them on a strike day. That £4.50 per month will (N Amer & Irish colloquial, in this position) sure see me through the grim times. <subliminal>Click! Click! Click! This child needs shoes!</subliminal>
And what did I notice today? Well, this phrase in the BBC coverage of the strike, for one thing:
Hundreds of staff from the University of Sussex staged a strike in protest at job cuts, as students occupied a lecture theatre for an eighth day.In protest at? My first thought: 'Are the (AmE) copy-editors/(BrE) subeditors at the BBC on strike too?' My second thought: 'What can a quick corpus search tell me about this preposition choice?' A lot, as it turns out.
I used (as I usually do these days) Mark Davies' wonderful interface for the British National Corpus (BNC) and the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and searched for in protest with six prepositions: at, against, of, over, to, and about. The last two only occurred at tiny rates in both corpora, so I haven't included them in the table below. These are the results, expressed as percentages within each dialect:
BrE | AmE | |
at | 70 | 3 |
against | 24 | 34 |
of | <1 | 42 |
over | 7 | 18 |
So, there you have it. In British English, one generally strikes in protest at something but in American, there is no clear preference for a particular preposition (unless I'm not thinking of it?). Personally, I'd edit my own writing toward(s) in protest against. As we were just discussing the other day, American English does seem to be more of-ridden than BrE.
But another interesting aspect of this story is that the American figures represent a lot less (or fewer, if you insist) data, in spite of the fact that COCA is four times bigger than BNC. Taking this into account, BrE uses in protest+PREPOSITION more than seven times more often than AmE does. So I thought: 'that must mean that AmE doesn't like to use protest as an abstract noun as much as BrE does, and so we tend to use the verb.' But searching the verb protest shows that AmE doesn't use that more than BrE does either (though the difference is not as stark as for the prepositional phrases I searched--in the BrE corpus it occurs 2427 times per million words, and in AmE it's 1968 per million). In all uses of the noun BrE uses it more (but only 1.38 times more, not the 7x more of the in protest phrases).
So, do the British have more to protest? Or do Americans prefer other ways of talking about protesting? I think I know the answer as far as higher education is concerned...


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I made this early enough so that the winner will get it by Halloween. But honestly, I don't know 'how' I'm going to pack this thing, it's just HUGE! Knowing that I would be giving this away was a little difficult to keep that in mind while sewing it. But I was just so pleased with the final look, it was really worth it! Although, I know it will break my heart to send it off when the time comes but I'm hoping it will go towards someone who could really use it and love it!
The time period of this this costume is set in the 1800s somewhere around the civil war- hence the Shenandoah reference. I used a light olive green taffeta material for the dress. To billow out the bottom the skirt is tiered and I added a crinoline slip. I added black braided trim all around the edges of the skirts and around the sleeves as well as a contrasting white lace trim around the wide pilgrim collar and bodice.
But what I think makes this so great for Halloween is that the sleeves and skirt are long enough so that you can wear a sweater and jeans in case the temperature drops for the big night (which always seems to happen here in Pennsylvania). The white billowy undershirt is sewn into the dress and the oversleeves are sewn with a wide tapered cut allowing tons of room.
I also curled Lily's hair in large ringlets as any stylish southern belle might do and pulled it into a side ponytail.
If I had more time I would have made a matching velvet bag that could substitute as a Halloween treat bag. Perhaps the winner could try their hand at making one. I don't think it would be too difficult.
I would say the costume would fit a 3T-4T, depending on your child.
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan House approved the first of two right-to-work bills Tuesday that would weaken union power in the historical labor stronghold as hundreds of protesters rallied at the Capitol.
The Republican-dominated chamber passed a measure dealing with public-sector workers 58-51 as protesters shouted "shame on you" from the gallery and huge crowds of union backers massed in the state Capitol halls and on the grounds.
Democrats immediately sought to have the vote reconsidered but failed in that effort.
Still to come was a vote on a second bill focusing on private sector workers. The Senate approved both last week. If enacted, Gov. Rick Snyder says he will sign them into law as early as Wednesday.
Even with the outcome considered a foregone conclusion, the heated battle showed no sign of cooling as lawmakers prepared to cast final votes.
Hundreds of protesters flooded the state Capitol hours before the House and Senate convened, chanting and whistling in the chilly darkness. Others joined a three-block march to the building, some wearing coveralls and hard hats.
"I'm inspired," said Lindsey Curtis, 61, a retired city worker from Flint. "I thought the unions had just rolled over."
Valerie Constance, a Wayne County Community College District developmental reading instructor and member or the American Federation of Teachers, sat on the Capitol steps with a sign shaped like a tombstone. It read: "Here lies democracy."
"I do think this is a very sad day in Michigan history," said Constance, 57.
Sue Brown, a 50-year-old pipefitter from Midland, and her 26-year-old daughter Tracy Brown, a chemical plant worker in Hemlock, held handwritten signs disparaging Gov. Rick Snyder, who last week announced support for the measures.
"It's disgraceful," said Sue Brown, who said she's not a union member but fears right-to-work laws would lower wages for all. "The unions and the UAW have created the middle class."
If the bills are enacted, Michigan will become the 24th right-to-work state, banning requirements that nonunion employees pay unions for negotiating contracts and other services.
Sen. John Proos, a Republican from St. Joseph who voted for the right-to-work bills last week, said opponents had a right to voice their anger but predicted it would fade as the shift in policy brings more jobs to Michigan.
"As they say in sports, the atmosphere in the locker room gets a lot better when the team's winning," he said.
Democratic lawmakers and union backers conceded they had little chance of stopping the tide, with Republicans dominating the Legislature and Snyder pledging to sign the measures into law.
In an interview with WWJ-AM, Snyder said he expects the bills to be on his desk later this week. He said the intention is to give workers a choice, not to target unions.
"This is about being pro-worker," Snyder said.
But foes of the law, including President Barack Obama, are trying to keep the spotlight on this latest battleground in the war over union rights.
"People don't understand the labor movement," said protester Sharon Mowers, 54, of Lansing, a United Auto Workers member and General Motors employee. "They don't understand the sacrifices people made to get us to this point."
In other states, similar battles were drawn-out affairs lasting weeks. But Snyder, a business executive-turned-governor, and the Republican-dominated Legislature used their political muscle to rapidly introduce and ramrod legislation through the House and Senate in a single day last week. Demonstrators and Democrats howled in protest, but to no avail.
On Tuesday, asked about the speed at which the legislation moved forward, Snyder said the issue wasn't rushed and that the question of whether to make Michigan a right-to-work state has long been discussed.
"There has been lots of time for citizens to contact legislators and share their feelings," he said.
A victory in Michigan, a cradle of organized labor, would give the right-to-work movement its strongest foothold yet in the Rust Belt, where the 2010 election and tea party movement produced assertive Republican majorities that have dealt unions one body blow after another.
For all the shouting, the actual benefit or harm of such laws is not clear. Each camp has pointed to studies bolstering their claims, but one labor expert said the conclusions are inconclusive.
"Very little is actually known about the impact of right-to-work laws," Gary Chaison, a professor of labor relations at Clark University in Massachusetts, said Monday. "There's a lot of assumptions that they create or destroy jobs, but the correlation is not definite."
Democrats contend Republicans, who lost five House seats in the November election, wanted to act before a new legislature takes office next month. In passionate floor speeches last week, they accused the majority of ignoring the message from voters and bowing to right-wing interest groups.
Criticism of the legislation has come from all the way up the Democratic food chain.
"These so-called right-to-work laws, they don't have anything to do with economics, they have everything to do with politics," Obama told cheering workers Monday during a visit to an engine plant in Redford, Mich. "What they're really talking about is giving you the right to work for less money."
U.S. Sen. Carl Levin and members of the state's U.S. House delegation met with Snyder on Monday in Detroit and urged him to veto the legislation or amend it to allow a statewide referendum. Levin said the governor pledged to "seriously consider" the requests.
In Lansing, leaders of the Democratic minority in the state House acknowledged there was little they could do to stop the fast-moving legislation in the waning days of the session. However, they vowed to vote against other legislation as a form of protest.
Ari Adler, spokesman for Michigan House Speaker Jase Bolger, chided those in Washington for "trying to tell Republicans in Michigan to slow down and not do our job in Lansing while they fail to resolve the nation's fiscal cliff crisis or even approve a budget."


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Country crooner Mindy McCready dies at 37
HEBER SPRINGS, Ark.Mindy McCready, who hit the top of the country charts before personal problems sidetracked her career, died Sunday. She was 37.
The Cleburne County Sheriff's office said in a statement that the singer was found dead on the front porch at a Heber Springs, Arkansas residence. She appeared to have died from a single self-inflicted gunshot wound.
- Mindy McCready committed to treatment facility
- Mindy McCready denies killing boyfriend David Wilson
- Mindy McCready's son to return to Florida
She arrived in Nashville in 1994 with tapes of her karaoke vocals and earned a recording contract with BNA Records.
In 1996, her "Guys Do It All the Time" hit No. 1 and its dig at male chauvinism endeared her to females. Her other hits included "Ten Thousand Angels," also in 1996, and her album by that title sold 2 million copies.
However, personal problems plagued her beginning in 2004 and included a custody battle with her mother over one of her sons.
McCready took her older son Zander from her mother and the boy's legal guardian, Gayle Inge, in late 2011. She fled to Arkansas without permission over what she called child abuse fears. Authorities eventually found McCready hiding in a residence without permission and took the boy into custody.
She and her boyfriend David Wilson had a son, Zayne, in April of 2012. The older son has a different father.
In May 2010, she was hospitalized briefly after police responded to an overdose call at a home in North Fort Myers, Fla., owned by her mother. This followed a stint on "Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew," where she delcared herself clean from drugs.
In 2004, she was charged with obtaining the painkiller OxyContin fraudulently at a pharmacy. She pleaded guilty and was placed on three years' probation.
She violated the probation with a drunken driving arrest in May 2005. Then she attempted suicide in July 2005, overdosed in September 2005 and slit her wrists again in December 2008.
Also that year, McCready was charged in Arizona with hindering prosecution and unlawful use of transportation. Those charges stemmed from an alleged attempt in June 2005 to purchase two high performance boats, but she claimed she was trying to stop a con man.
Growing up in Fort Myers, she took seven years of private vocal lessons and later sang in karaoke bars.
After getting her recording contract, she did concert appearances with top country stars including George Strait, Tim McGraw and Alan Jackson.
Her other singles included "Maybe He'll Notice Her Now," "A Girl's Gotta Do (What a Girl's Gotta Do)" and "You'll Never Know."


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Teen Patti for Beginners: How to Play and Succeed
Teen Patti Real-3 Patti Online: India's first multiplayer TeenPatti game
Teen Patti Real-3 Patti Online is an online card game that brings a classic Indian game right into your hands through your Android phone or tablet. It's super easy for everyone to play, making it a big hit with card game lovers.
Teen Patti Real-3 Patti Online is a popular game
This game is special for a few big reasons:
- A Touch of Culture: It celebrates the Indian card game "Teen Patti," giving players a taste of India's gaming tradition.
- Play Anywhere, Anytime: You can play with your friends or meet new ones online, no matter where you are. Plus, the game looks great and is really easy to use, which means you'll get the hang of it in no time.
- Runs Smooth: Even if your internet isn't the fastest, this game will run without any hiccups. It also doesn't eat up your data, so you can play as much as you want.
- Make Friends: The game isn't just about playing cards; it's also a fun way to meet new people and play together.
Here are some cool features of the game:
- Learn About Teen Patti: Get to know this awesome game that comes from India.
- Play with Friends or Others: Jump into games with your buddies or other players from around the world.
- Easy to Navigate: The game is super straightforward, so you won't get lost.
- Good for Any Connection: It works well whether you're on a slow or fast internet connection.
- Simple to Play: Anyone can pick it up and understand how to play quickly.
- Don't Use Much Data: You won't have to worry about running out of data when you play.
Is it kid-friendly?
While Teen Patti Real-3 Patti Online is a lot of fun and brings people together, it's important to know it's made for adults to enjoy.
- Just for Adults: It's a way for grown-ups to have a good time playing a game they love.
- Play Responsibly: It's all about having fun and not about gambling with real money.
Teen Patti Real-3 Patti Online is a popular game for adults who want to enjoy a bit of India's card-playing tradition from anywhere in the world. It's designed to be easy and fun, but it's also a way to connect with friends and other players online.
- User-friendly design and interface
- India's first multiplayer TeenPatti game
- Constant server errors
- Late transaction issues
- Too many ads
Program available in other languages
Teen Patti Real-3 Patti Onlinefor Android


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The U.S. government's decision not to file an antitrust lawsuit against Google is a major victory for the search giant, which has been under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission for nearly two years. After what FTC chairman Jon Leibowitz described as "an incredibly thorough and careful investigation," the five commissioners concluded unanimously that they lacked sufficient evidence to charge Google with antitrust violations, in a vindication for legal experts and industry observers who argued repeatedly that the FTC's case was weak.
The settlement between Google and the FTC, announced Thursday, represents a bitter blow to several of the search giant's rivals, including Microsoft, that have been urging government action against the search titan for several years.
There is no doubt that Google is dominant. The Web titan based in Mountain View, Calif., accounted for 74.5% of all U.S. search advertising revenues in 2012, according to research firm eMarketer. By contrast, Microsoft's share of U.S. search advertising revenues reached just 8% in 2012. Google's critics have alleged that the company unfairly demotes rivals in its search-engine results in order to steer users toward Google's own competing products.
But as legal experts have observed, a monopoly in a given market is not, by itself, illegal. What's illegal is seeking to achieve or maintain a monopoly through anticompetitive practices. And after a long and in-depth investigation — the FTC reviewed more than 9 million pages of documents — federal regulators charged with policing antitrust abuses concluded that Google has not violated U.S. antitrust law.
(MORE: In Major Victory, Google Dodges Federal Antitrust Lawsuit with FTC Deal)
Reasonable people can and do disagree about whether Google's conduct has been anticompetitive, especially with respect to its effort to leverage its Web dominance to make inroads in search verticals such as travel, dining and shopping. And the debate over Google's search market power will no doubt continue for years. But as a matter of federal law and policy, this issue is over, at least for now.
"Even though people would like us to bring a big search-bias case, the facts aren't there under the law," Leibowitz said at a press conference on Thursday announcing the deal. "At this agency, we really do follow the facts where they lead." He added, "The American antitrust laws protect competition, not competitors."
That is precisely what many legal experts and industry observers, including yours truly, have been arguing for months. At a time when many federal agencies often feel the need to take strong action — perhaps if only to justify their own existence — the FTC displayed laudable restraint by resisting the impulse to behave like a bull in a china shop and throw its weight around in the rapidly evolving and highly dynamic Internet market.
"Anyone who is in the business of being the chairman of an antitrust enforcement agency would like to bring the big case," Leibowitz said. "That's something you want to try to do. But more important than that is to faithfully execute the law. And we found unanimously that they hadn't engaged in illegal monopolization and hadn't violated the FTC Act."
Not surprisingly, Google officials were jubilant. "The conclusion is clear," David Drummond, Google's senior vice president and chief legal officer, said in a blog post. "Google's services are good for users and good for competition."
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, James C. Miller III, who served as chairman of the FTC from 1981–85 and has done consulting work for Google, blasted the search giant's rivals for their "shameless attempt at rent-seeking," an economic term that refers to companies that seek to gain advantage through political means rather than in the marketplace. "The legal case against Google was always weak," Miller wrote. "Despite the rhetoric of Google's antagonists, they failed to convince the FTC that the company's policies harmed consumers."
(MORE: Six Tech/Media Stories to Watch in 2013)
New York Law School professor James Grimmelmann, a prominent tech-policy expert, described the FTC's decision as "a giant middle finger extended in the direction of the Google critics, like FairSearch, who have been calling for stringent FTC action on search bias."
Others greeted the FTC's decision warmly, including Ryan Radia, an associate director of technology studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, who said in a statement:
America's antitrust laws are designed not to punish companies for growing too big or too unpopular, but to ensure no company stifles competition itself … The thriving Internet sector — a bright spot in America's otherwise lackluster economy — shows no signs of suffering from too little competition.
Michael Mandel, chief economic strategist at the Progressive Policy Institute, said the FTC has demonstrated how regulators can police potential antitrust abuses while still protecting innovation. "Given the importance of innovation for American job growth and competitiveness, the FTC is setting a great example for other agencies," Mandel said in a statement.
Under the terms of the settlement, Google agreed to make relatively modest, voluntary changes to its search engine. First, rival companies now have the ability to remove pieces of content known as "snippets" from Google's search-results pages that relate to areas like travel and shopping. Google had been accused of scraping content from companies, including online review service Yelp, for use on its own website. Second, Google is giving advertisers more flexibility to manage their data for use on rival search engines like Microsoft's Bing. Compared with the prospect of a major federal lawsuit, these voluntary changes amount to a slap on the wrist.
In a separate component of the FTC's probe, Google entered into a legally binding consent decree affirming its intention to allow its competitors access — "on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms" — to patents on standardized technologies used in smart phones, laptops, tablet computers and gaming consoles. These "standard essential patents," which Google obtained when it purchased Motorola Mobility, cover widely used technologies that are important in ensuring that wireless mobile devices can work together.
Meanwhile, critics of Google reacted with fury to news of Thursday's agreement and lashed out at the search giant and federal regulators. "Google clearly skews search results to favor its own products and services while portraying the results as unbiased," John M. Simpson, director of Consumer Watchdog's Privacy Project, said in a statement. "That undermines competition and hurts consumers. The FTC rolled over for Google."
(MORE: U.S. Google Antitrust Probe Spurs Internet-Regulation Debate)
Steve Pociask, president of the American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research, said in a sharply worded statement that federal regulators "failed to use their authority for the betterment of the marketplace and to the advantage of consumers." He added, "Letting Google off with a letter promising not to do it again is like believing Lindsay Lohan will stay out of trouble this time."
FairSearch, an anti-Google consortium, issued a statement calling the FTC's decision "disappointing and premature" and said it would "continue work with authorities in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere who are investigating Google." And Yelp, a longtime Google critic, blasted regulators, saying the FTC's decision "represents a missed opportunity to protect innovation in the Internet economy, and the consumers and businesses that rely upon it."


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(NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro remembers journalist Marie Colvin, who died Wednesday in Syria.)
We were exhausted after a long hot day of reporting. Tripoli had just fallen, and it was almost sunset. We pulled up to the house of Muatassim Gadhafi, one of Moammar Gadhafi's most feared and loathed sons. Even though we were all much younger than Marie Colvin, we were discussing calling it a day without venturing inside, as night was falling and, frankly, we were tired. But Marie quickly clambered up the ladder helpfully provided by local residents to scale the massive wall encircling the property. We reluctantly followed.
While Marie — an American from Oyster Bay, N.Y. — was largely unknown in her home country, she was a legend in the United Kingdom. Her reports for the British Sunday Times from war zones across the world illuminated the tragedies and perils that ordinary people caught in extraordinary events face. Like that day last August, she was often the first person in somewhere, and frequently the last one to leave.
Marie lost her left eye covering the fighting in Sri Lanka in 2001. She never deigned to get a prosthetic, rather proudly and raffishly sporting a black eye patch. As a woman in a male-dominated field, she went where many feared to go and wrote lengthy pieces detailing the terrible atrocities she witnessed. She was also a supportive comrade and a friend to many of us who work in the Middle East and beyond.
She lost her life in Homs doing what she believed in. Marie, in her mid-50s, confessed to colleagues in recent email messages that the carnage she was witnessing in Syria was some of the worst she'd ever seen, and for over 25 years she covered some of the most terrible things humans can do to one another. She wrote on Facebook in one of her last messages that "getting this story out is what we got into journalism for." Her last story in The Sunday Times was headlined "We Live In Fear Of A Massacre" and described Baba Amr, Syria, as "a city of the cold and hungry, echoing to exploding shells and bursts of gunfire" where frightened women and children gathered in a "widows' basement."
Some will argue, as they always do after a terrible loss, that journalists should not put themselves in harm's way; that the price of bearing witness is too high. Marie already answered that question.
In a memorial to fallen colleagues in the U.K. in 2010 she had this to say:
"Covering a war means going to places torn by chaos, destruction, and death. ... It means trying to find the truth in a sandstorm of propaganda when armies, tribes or terrorists clash. ...
"Many of you here must have asked yourselves — or be asking yourselves now — is it worth the cost in lives, heartbreak, loss? Can we really make a difference?
"I faced that question when I was injured. In fact one paper ran a headline saying, 'has Marie Colvin gone too far this time?' My answer then, and now, was that it is worth it. ...
"We go to remote war zones to report what is happening. The public have a right to know what our government, and our armed forces, are doing in our name. Our mission is to speak the truth to power. We send home that first rough draft of history. We can and do make a difference in exposing the horrors of war and especially the atrocities that befall civilians."
Her legacy is in the words she left behind, the lives she changed and in the example she set for us all.
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Slogans for a Las Vegas restaurant called the Heart Attack Grill include "Taste worth dying for," and "Over 350 lbs? Eat for free!" But the burger joint's shtick of calling waitresses "nurses" — complete with skimpy uniforms — and serving "quadruple bypass" burgers collided with reality Saturday, when a patron suffered a heart attack while eating at the restaurant.
Many in the restaurant — including its owner, "Doctor" Jon Basso, thought the incident might have been a joke.
"One of the nurses came back to me and said, 'Dr. Jon, we've got a patient who's in trouble,'" Basso told KVVU Fox5.
The ensuing scene was captured on a cellphone video, below. Paramedics were called to the restaurant, and the man was wheeled out of the restaurant on a stretcher.
Interest in the story has been huge: the restaurant's website was only sporadically available Thursday morning, and media in Belgium, Spain and Sweden have covered the story, according to notes posted on the restaurant's Facebook page.
The customer's name has not been released, but he is reportedly in his 40s. He had been eating a Triple Bypass Burger — or, a sandwich stacked with three patties of beef. He is said to be recovering in a Las Vegas hospital.
It's not the first time the Heart Attack Grill has had a brush with death. Last March, a spokesman for the restaurant's original incarnation, in Chandler, Ariz., died at the age of 29. The family of Blair River, who weighed some 575 pounds at the time of his death, said he did not survive a case of pneumonia. That location has since closed, according to Yelp.
It's uncertain how the Las Vegas restaurant will deal with this most recent event. Shortly after River's death in 2011, owner Jon Basso was asked by an ABC reporter if he was using the death of his star promoter to garner even more business.
"I absolutely agree," he said. "And in a very sick way, his death has gotten the message out further."
At the time, ABC reported that Basso had previously "owned a chain of Jenny Craig weight-loss centers, and several personal training studios."
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