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Mom Alissa Zagaris talks about her abducted son and how she is trying to get him home after being in a different country for 19 months. Matt Detrich/The Indianapolis Star The Indianapolis Star
Father ignores legally binding divorce decree when he doesn't send son back to U.S. after a 2011 visit.
INDIANAPOLIS -- In June 2011 Alissa Zagaris drove her then-10-year-old son, Leo, from their home in Noblesville, Ind., to Chicago and put him on a plane for Greece — just as she had done four times before.
It was a long-distance visitation arrangement set forth by the couple's divorce agreement struck in a Hamilton County, Ind., court. Leo would fly over, spend some time with his father, Nikolaos Zagaris, then fly back.
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But on this fifth journey, things went wrong when Leo, now 12, did not come home. His father kept him in Greece — despite the legally binding divorce decree that awarded Alissa custody.
Leo soon would become embroiled in a protracted and messy bureaucratic morass that would involve two nations, the FBI, Interpol, the State Department, international treaties, courts on two continents and one angry and heartbroken mom.
Unlike so many other incidents when one parent keeps a child away from the other, this was not a custody case. This was an international abduction. This, authorities ultimately concluded, was kidnapping.
Nevertheless, prodding authorities in Athens, Washington and Indianapolis to take up her case has been a long, frustrating journey for Zagaris.
In December, in a Greek court, Zagaris finally got the chance to tell her side of the story -- and she was reunited with her son for a brief, supervised visit.
When she saw Leo for the first time in 19 months, all her fears and anxieties -- stemming from his recent comments about hating America -- melted away.
"My little boy jumped in my arms," Zagaris said. "He is this tall on me now (holding a hand up to her shoulder) and he lunged at me and held my hand the whole time.
"We sat together on the couch and I just rubbed his skin. His skin is fine like mine. I always rub his back. And look into his eyes."
The Dec. 13, 2012, visit lasted for about 45 tense minutes as Nickolaos and his mother watched.
'Left behind moms' unite
Many of the more than 350 or so friends and followers of Zagaris' two Facebook pages — her personal page and one she set up to publicize her son's kidnapping — call themselves "left behind moms" or "left behind parents."
They are the husbands and wives who fight the same battles Zagaris has fought during the past 19 months.
According to the Bring Sean Home Foundation, founded in 2009 as a support group and resource hub, more than 4,700 American children were abducted outside the United States between 2008 and 2010 by a parent or guardian,
Getting them back is rarely quick and never easy.
Zagaris found that out in the fall of 2011 when it became clear to her that her ex-husband had no intention of sending Leo home.
She contacted the U.S. State Department, office of Consular Affairs, and reported what had happened. They urged her to file an application with the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction — a necessary step in any case that spans international borders.
The Hague Convention, designed to make the process work more smoothly, is contingent on both countries agreeing to its terms — which provide a framework for communicating the facts of a case and agreeing to abide by the laws of both countries.
In other words they need to get along, which can be a sticky situation depending on the state of world affairs.
"Sometimes they cooperate in getting a child back to the country," said Wendy Osborne, a spokeswoman for the FBI in Indianapolis. "But some countries don't play by the rules."
Osborne declined to comment on Zagaris' case — an agent in Indianapolis is heavily involved and filed the affidavit that led to charges being filed by the U.S. District Court.
But Osborne said the FBI is involved in hundreds of cases like this across the country.
"At one time I was working on six myself, involving Mexico, Syria, other countries, all at the same time," Osborne said. "And these are very difficult cases because they are so emotional."
According to the Bring Sean Home Foundation, children abducted abroad are often traumatized, losing contact with a parent and finding themselves in unfamiliar surroundings, forced to live in a country where they may not know the language or the culture.
Leo, does not speak Greek, Zagaris said. And despite assurances that he would be enrolled in an English-speaking school, she suspects that has never happened.
Experts also say abducted children are often told lies about the other parent or guardian and the country from which they came.
Love, marriage, violence
A younger "Nick" and Alissa met in 2000 when he was a weekend waiter at a Greek restaurant, and she, a nutritionist and caterer by trade, was a manager.
One thing led to another.
"It was mainly a physical relationship," she said. "I had no intention of getting serious. But then, lo and behold, I'm pregnant."
Attempts to reach Nickolaos Zagaris through his attorney for this story were unsuccessful.
Alissa said Nickolaos, a Greek citizen, was looking for a way to stay in America. He had come to the U.S. on a student visa and studied at the University of Indianapolis. But that visa had expired.
Not long after their wedding in July 2000, Leo was born. Zagaris said things changed once the pressures of parental responsibility set in.
"Nick changed," she said. "Before that it was just me and him. The day Leo was born, everything changed."
As the baby grew, Zagaris said, Nick grew physically abusive toward her.
In 2008, Nick was arrested and charged in Hamilton County with domestic battery and felony strangulation. Before he would stand trial on those charges, he fled to Greece.
Zagaris filed and was granted a divorce (without her husband present) in Hamilton County. The court granted custody of Leo to his mom.
Despite the charges pending against him, the court allowed for a clause in the divorce decree that not only gave Nick visitation rights, but guaranteed visits to Greece.
In exchange, Nick Zagaris would maintain child support payments and put $5,000 into an account controlled by his attorney as a sort of "insurance clause" that he would have to give to his ex-wife should he ever fail to return Leo in a timely fashion.
According to the State Department, Zagaris was lucky her ex-husband had not taken their son to a non-compliant nation such as Costa Rica, Guatemala, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, France or Poland — countries on the State Department's "enforcement concerns" list when it comes to child issues.
Greece, however, is known as a country that works well with other countries.
She had other facts in her favor. Nick was not only a fugitive from a felony charge in Hamilton County, he was violating a court-ordered divorce agreement that specifically gave her custody.
The Greek courts set a hearing date for April 6, 2012.
During the delay, Zagaris also filed charges against Nick in Hamilton County, based on the violation of the custodial agreement. Hamilton County issued a warrant for his arrest.
She wrote a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, pleading for the White House to do something to help.
Not much happened.
"I used to be a very clear, organized thinker," Zagaris said. "But I've lost my mind.
"There is a very high suicide rate with our kind. It's very hard. We have to fight through every obstacle, every hurdle just to get our cases taken seriously.
"It's like our children are wrapped up in this diplomatic nightmare."
The State Department spokesman told The Indianapolis Star on Friday that it is working as quickly as it can.
"The Department of State is aware of the Zagaris case and is providing all appropriate assistance," the spokesman said. "We will continue to monitor the case and the welfare of the child through close coordination with the U.S. Embassy in Athens and the Greek Central Authority for the Hague Abduction Convention."
A final dagger?
With two legal victories in Greek courts, Zagaris was counting the days when she could bring her son back.
But on Jan. 9, the State Department sent Zagaris an email saying that the Greek Central Authority told U.S. officials that because of "recent judicial strikes" in Greece a final and formal decision could take up to two years to be published.
After that, her ex-husband would have 30 days to file yet another appeal, with the Greek supreme court, the email said. Another appeal would mean another long delay.
However, the State Department told her that it was working with Greek officials who seem to be willing to move forward with returning Leo to Indiana despite any future appeal ... "and will be in touch as soon as the situation is clarified."
Zagaris was stunned.
"It's just back and forth, back and forth," she said. "I'm frustrated. I've won the right twice now from Greece. I've got the acknowledgments from the courts.
"It's been 19 months."
While all this was happening, Zagaris said she received an angry phone call from her ex-husband. According to an FBI affidavit, Nick Zagaris threatened to "take (him) to the United Arab Emirates" — a nation not part of the Hague Convention.
Not long after that call, an FBI special agent filed the paperwork and U.S. Magistrate Judge Tim Baker signed the formal federal charges against Nikolaos Zagaris for international parental kidnapping.
Those charges have been filed with Interpol, the international police community comprising 190 countries, including Greece.
Greek authorities now (or soon) will have the authority to simply arrest him on those charges.
But now all Zagaris can do is wait for the words that will finally end a mother's nightmare.


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The Bureau of Labor Statistics was created in 1884 by Chester Alan Arthur — and now Jack Welch wants to see its birth certificate. President Arthur was a rock-ribbed Republican, a product of New York's Conkling political machine, but he was clearly a shifty liberal.You can tell by the eyes.
Welch thinks somebody's "cooking the numbers" on unemployment — and if anyone should know about "cooking the numbers" it's Jack Welch. Manipulating information to influence an election? He should know about that too. There were well documented stories that he pressured staffers in NBC's newsroom — who were also his employees — to declare his friend George W. Bush the winner of on the night of the disputed 2000 election.
These crazy new charges making the right-wing rounds cry out for a new definition of the word "conservative": Someone who thinks the unemployment situation is even worse than anyone else does — but wants to do less about it. And Welch's absurd, cackling, over-the-top comments may finally have stripped the veneer off the most carefully polished media image in corporate America.
It's more than a little ironic that Jack Welch, who agrees with Mitt Romney that "corporations are people," is pontificating about electoral matters. With its record of felony convictions, Welch's GE wouldn't even be allowed to vote.
With a management record like that, why did so many journalists give Welch a free pass?
It couldn't have hurt that he ran a television network.
Welch's now-infamous tweet said "Unbelievable jobs numbers..these Chicago guys will do anything. Can't debate so change numbers."
The target of Welch's accusation is a bureau staffed by career civil servants who, as Chris Matthews pointed out in today's epic confrontation with Welch, have always been impervious to presidential pressure — even from Richard Nixon.
To believe Welch's charges, you'd have to believe that dozens of them would risk their careers now, that they'd all been bought off successfully without a single one of them running to the press or the authorities. You'd also have to believe that the Obama campaign was smart enough to pull this off, but not smart enough to figure out that being battered over jobs month after month was worse than waiting until the end of the election cycle to make an attention-grabbing fix.
Besides, if you could fix the numbers, wouldn't you really fix them?
There's something else Jack Welch should know: There's another jobs report coming out right before the election. If anyone was going to rig the numbers, that's when they'd do it.
Damage Control
People who aren't wearing tinfoil hats know that jobs numbers are often revised like this. Welch kept raving on Matthews' show as if gargantuan job gains had materialized all at once. They're actually the result of a long-term adjustment, and are only a tiny percentage of the actual figures for that period. This month's jobs numbers were right in line with expectations.
Now Welch is clearly worried that he's damaged his well-cultivated reputation with this remark. He has. He seems concerned that he appears foolish, conspiratorial, reckless, and cynical. He does. So he tried to walk the charge back today, saying that he was only "raising questions" and wasn't "accusing anybody of anything."
That won't wash. "Do anything." "Can't debate so change numbers." The tweet speaks for itself.
I'm not saying Welch isn't smart or talented. Sure he is — at some things, not all of which are negative. I had some interactions with some of GE's operating units in the 1990s and they were among the best-run groups of their kind I've ever seen. That's the upside of a management style like Welch's. (We'll get to the downside in a moment.)
Minimizing Values
Like any executive at a publicly traded company, Welch had a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profits. So I don't fault him for being tough on his executives, or even for firing lots of people. His behavior reflected a system of incentives and obligations which our society tolerates and even encourages in its business leaders. That system is a topic for national debate, not personal censure.
But I do fault him for glorifying the act of firing people, which became a key part of his lavishly promoted self-image. (I wouldn't be surprised if his own publicists came up with the nickname "Neutron Jack.") And I blame the media, especially the business press, for becoming his flacks rather than reporting on his methods.
Welch was a prime example of the kind of CEO who forces as many gains as possible into each quarter, maximizing short-term profits (and his own income) without much regard for the company's long-term health or stability. We've written before about the ways that mind-set places enormous pressure on managers — pressures that can lead to unethical and illegal behavior. At GE, it did.
In the Kidder, Peabody scandal of the early 1990s, a trader responded to parent company GE's corporate pressure – and its rewards – by manipulating the Kidder Peabody IT system to misstate his earnings. That led to the biggest trading loss in history, as of its occurrence in 1994. Did his managers know what he was doing? That's not clear – but they certainly had reasons not to look too closely. Did Welch know? There's absolutely no reason to think he did.
But did Welch learn from this disaster? Did he change his management style after discovering that his overly aggressive, short-term-oriented punishment and reward system was morally and financially corrosive?
Unfortunately, there's no evidence that he did. Welch wrote afterward that he regretted not checking on the situation personally. But he stuck with his aggressive, carrot-and-stick approach to managers' incentives. And the scandals continued.
Black Arts
FAIR has the run-down on some of GE's corporate convictions:
A 1990 conviction for "defrauding the Defense Department by overcharging the Army for a battlefield computer system," according to Fortune magazine, leading to $20 million in fines.
A guilty plea on charges of "fraud, money laundering and corrupt business practices in connection with its sale of military jet engines to Israel."
And, as FAIR notes, "A February 1994 report of the Project on Government Oversight found that GE had 16 instances of fraudulent activity against the government since 1990."
The rap sheet's gotten even longer under Welch's hand-picked successor (who he later disavowed — for financial, not moral, reasons). But we don't need him. The list of convictions during Welch's tenure is long enough.
And questions have long lingered about Welch's use of GE Capital, which he acquired, to practice what The Economist described in early 2002 as the "black art" of earnings manipulation.
"GE used to feature on university courses as a model of probity," The Economist noted. "These days, it crops up in the seminars about earnings-manipulation."
"Earnings manipulation." Or, as it's also known, "cooking the numbers."
School For Scandal
Did you know that there's something called the "Jack Welch Management Institute"? Perhaps unsurprisingly, it's attached to a for-profit "university," one of those scandal-plagued and overpriced degree mills that bilk the student loan system, have half the graduation rate of legitimate colleges, and wind up stripping students of both their money and their dreams.
Welch has no compunction about lending his name to a "university" whose president, as US News notes, "is paid $41.9 million a year, 26 times the highest paid presidents of America's finest colleges and universities."
But then, if you thought that might trouble his conscience, you don't know Jack.
The "Jack Welch Management Institute" even offers a course in "Managerial Economics." Managerial economics? From the guy who can't read a jobs report without seeing little green men in the margins? What's on the required reading list — alchemists' potions? Dan Brown novels?
"Tap into the CEO mindset," says the caption beneath Welch's picture on the school's website. To use an old Woody Allen line: No thanks, I'm due back on planet Earth.
Happy Jack
The chortling, chuckling Welch on display with Chris Matthews is clearly satisfied with the work of his lifetime. No remorse, no regrets. People can draw their own conclusions about that.
Whenever I write about people like Jack Welch I'm asked if I hate them. Hey, I've spent very enjoyable evenings with guys like Jack Welch. (Not that it's likely to happen with Welch, especially after this.) I don't hate them at all. I just see them.
The behavior of our top executives is entirely predictable and, in its own amoral way, even reasonable. They are who they are. They're a lot like football players: We select them for aggression, reward them handsomely for it, and then act surprised when they behave aggressively.
What's truly irrational is society's behavior, not theirs. We elevate these executives into figures to be admired and emulated, as if bank balances alone conferred wisdom or moralilty on their possessors. We're the misguided ones, for treating them like sages. Sure, there are exceptions, but the typical high-powered executive isn't likely to be a wise elder — especially about economic policy, which is a reflection of our national values.
When a CEO holds himself out as an economics expert, he's saying the two fields of expertise are interchangeable. So why not suggest he hire an economist to run his corporation? Krugman may be interested.
We should see executives like Jack Welch for what they are: often talented but self-interested competitors whose behavior must be regulated, and whose incentives must not be designed to encourage illegal, immoral, or socially destructive acts.
Besides, let's face it: Like their sports-playing compatriots and a lot of other people, they get a little unhinged sometimes. Take Jack Welch: He's made his peers look like goggle-eyed members of a flying saucer club who see Venus in the night sky and think the mothership is approaching.
And he's a member of the once-solemn Grand Old Party? Somewhere, out among the stars, Chester Alan Arthur is rolling his eyes in embarrassment.
(UPDATE: I see that the excellent financial blogger Barry Ritholtz also observed that "if anyone knows a thing or two about cooking the books," and he did so with an impressive graph that backs up the observation.)


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And One More Thing: Fantasia Sets People And The Media Straight For Allegedly Twisting Her Words
I guess we can add Fantasia to the list of celebrities who would be better off not on social media, a list that Chris Brown has been king of for more than a year now. We previously told you that the singer was catching hell from some people for comments she made on her Instagram about folks judging her unfairly for her private life. Still not sure what prompted her to all of a sudden talk about the topic, but when she brought up gay marriage and legal marijuana, all hell literally broke loose. Her words were interpreted as being anti-gay, and seeing as the backlash had actually crossed over into mainstream media, Fanny made it known on her Instagram yesterday that not only is she pissed, but that she feels like her words were twisted and misinterpreted. Here's her thoughts, in a majority of caps lock, where she talks about the media's attack on her:
Now im VERY UPSET!!!! BUT ITS COOL!! IM NOT THE SAME GIRL I USE TO BE. IVE BEEN HURT ENOUGH. IM A Grown Women thats been Hurt Enough now. FOOLISHNESS!!!! I APOLOGIZE TO ALL MY LOVES, ALLLL MY GAYS, QUEENS AND FAB FRIENDS WHO'S SEEING THIS NONSENSE RIGHT NOW. HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN THAT THEY HAVE TRASHED ME SINCE THE DAY I STEPPED ON THE IDOL STAGE? HAVEN'T YOU ALSO NOTICED THAT I STILL HAVE NOT STOPPED. TO MY GAY MANAGER( IM OVER SEEING YOU WORK SO HARD) THOSE WHO NO ME NO I DONT JUDGE ANY 1 AND THAT I JUST WANT THEM TO STOP TRYING TO JUDGE ME. TO ALL THE BLOGGERS AND NEWS STATIONS GOD BLESS YOU TOO!! CAUSE YOU NEVER SUPPORT MY GOOD YOU JUST REPORT THE BAD. I DONT CARE WHO GETS MARRIED OR WHO YOU LAY WITH, HANG WITH OR WANT TO BE LIKE. ITS YOUR LIFE LIVE IT. NOW GO AHEAD TAKE THIS AND TURN IT AROUND BUT IM STILL HERE CAUSE GOD PUT ME HERE. CHECK MY SPELLING AND MY GRAMMER* whatever you need to do* This is sad and im done with all this Media stuff.
And she also posted again to let folks know what she ACTUALLY meant with her original statements, pointing out that she was tired of people trying to use the bible to come at her head when what is in the bible is NOT what's going on in the world today.
As has been said before, Fantasia should really just stick to promoting her new music (the image above is from her new single, "Lose to Win") and do what she can to keep the focus off of her personal business. For some, Fanny can't redeem herself in their eyes, but for her fans, they're waiting on the new music. So do your supporters and yourself a favor Fanny, and don't entertain those who continue to try to come for you because of who you're with and what you do. The less that she reveals about herself, at this point, the better off she will be. Just make that money, honey, and keep it stepping….


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There's No Way K-Stew Will Beat Out Sandra For Best Female Performance At The MTV Movie Awards!
Don't shoot the messenger! I think Kristen Stewart deserves to win just as much as you do — but Sandra Bullock is totally taking home the sympathy vote!
Sorry, Kristen Stewart. You totally rocked in the Twilight Saga: New Moon, but I don't think you have a chance of beating Sandra Bullock for Best Female Performance June 6 at the MTV Movie Awards!
For starters, Sandra, 45, totally has America's support after divorcing her cheating husband, Jesse James, and swapping her big man for a little one — adopted son Louis Bardo Bullock. Secondly, let's not forget that Sandy actually won an OSCAR for said role in The Blind Side. Lastly…do you actually think Sandra would walk the red carpet if she wasn't absolutely guaranteed to make her big comeback to society with more than one (she's accepting the MTV Generation award) major win? Right.
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In the Global Superstar category, well, Twilight will win once again — I suspect R-Patz is slightly more popular than his co-star Taylor Lautner — but in my heart of hearts I'm rooting for Johnny Depp. He's my icon, but then again, I'm also older than sixteen.
Best Movie? Need we even ask this question? Although I personally loved Alice in Wonderland, and would be overwhelmed with sweat if Tim Burton's epic film won, there's no contest. Avatar, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and The Hangover and totally losing to New Moon. You Twi-hards (and there's a LOT of you) wouldn't have it any other way!


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Panther uniforms won't change in 2012
If you're a traditionalist, you'll be happy with the answer to that question. If you're wanting something wild and different from a team that hasn't altered its uniforms since it began play in 1995, you won't.
"I don't anticipate any changes at all in the uniforms," Charlie Dayton, the Panthers' team spokesman, said Tuesday.
The logo will be incorporated into the helmets and jerseys, of course. But that's about it. There had been much speculation to the contrary, prompted partly by the NFL's decision to change uniform makers in 2012 (from Reebok to Nike) and partly (I believe) wishful thinking. Anyway, it's apparently not happening. (And those "new Panther uniforms" that people keep sending me links too? Those are artists' concepts, nothing more. Don't be fooled -- they're fakes).
I asked Dayton several other questions about the logo - whether it will be installed at the 50-yard line instead of the NFL shield, when it will be installed atop Bank of America Stadium and so on - but he said he didn't have those answers yet because much still is to be determined.
• I very much appreciate everyone who reads this blog. A couple of stats: I've been writing the blog since 2008, and I have filed about 1,300 blog posts during the past four years total.
And do you know which of those 1,300 posts ranked No. 1 in clicks - and it's not even close? It was my blog post Sunday night that revealed the Panthers' new logo.
Do that many people really care about the Panthers' logo, which like the uniforms had not been altered since the team started playing in 1995? Apparently so.
• My opinion? I'm cool with this Un-Extreme Makeover. The tweaks are subtle. More blue. More rounded teeth. Slightly different eyes.
But the online comments? Oh my. Many seem to love it or hate it. They either say the panther looks fiercer and more aggressive or that he looks like he has a fat lip and a lazy eye.
"I like the new logo - gives a more 3D look which will bode well for television," one commenter wrote.
Countered someone who hated it: "It looks like Sir Purr went to a Lady Gaga concert."
To me, as another commenter wrote, it matters a lot more who the Panthers put inside those uniforms and helmets than what sort of logos are on them. But it does make for interesting offseason fodder, I guess.
A side-by-side comparison of the Panthers' old (left) and new logos.
68 comments:
I don't recall seeing any of those comments in the blog. I do remember seeing:
1) Fans hating the new font.
2) Fans saying the bottom lip looks fat.
3) Fans saying the logo now has a lazy eye.
- January 31, 2012 at 4:06 PM
- carp24000 said...
Yet, several other team spokesmen, and NIKE reps, have said the uniforms will be different. Not sure what to believe.
- January 31, 2012 at 4:07 PM
None to be "anticipated", It sounds as If they are not really sure. I would wait until the Nike uniforms are actually released.
- January 31, 2012 at 4:07 PM
i wish hurney and crew would put more time into the draft and less into logo and design work.
we've busted and wasted so many picks.....armanti, clausen, colbert, etc.
it is a shame.
the new logo, who cares
- January 31, 2012 at 4:29 PM
Senile Jerry's loyalty lies with the league, he's a league man, therefore that dumb NFL shield will be there for as long as he is alive.
- January 31, 2012 at 4:35 PM
The question about the Panthers logo at midfield is one that has been asked over and over again. It's been asked here and almost anytime there's a Q&A with one of the other columnists. So @Anonymous 4:06 you are wrong there. Regarding the uniforms, I'm not sure the Panthers really know either. I think we've all seen the mockups or "leaks" (whether they are valid or not is a different story). It would be nice to see some variation. I've always liked the Black Jersey on Silver pants, but hate the white on white. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
- January 31, 2012 at 4:36 PM
- carp24000 said...
I agree..the white on white with a silver helmet is the ugliest uniform in the league.
- January 31, 2012 at 4:38 PM
I think the white on white uniforms are kind of bland. Even something like silver pants for the white home uniform would be nice.
- January 31, 2012 at 4:44 PM
It would make no sense at all to make such a subtle change to the logo and not also change the uniforms. Seriously, from a short distance the new and old logos will look the same. I can't imagine the uniforms aren't changing.
- January 31, 2012 at 5:02 PM
- Steve Thompson said...
I think they need to go with Black Helmets and @ least a combination of a black uniform (i.e. Black pants with the teal stripe) to match the black jersey. Just for the antimadation factor alone... We are a different team now with a different style of play. I new look altogether, is appropriate!
- January 31, 2012 at 5:04 PM
We will have new uniforms, how different? Only Nike and the Panthers know. Plus the Panthers are not allowed to say anything until Reebok contract is up. Nike takes over April 1st and are expected to release them then. A Nike rep has stated that the Panthers and Seahawks are the two teams that will have new Nike uniforms.
- January 31, 2012 at 5:07 PM
- Steve Thompson said...
If they got the ones in this blog I'm buying twenty jeseys! The Black on Black with teal trim! Awsome!!!!
- January 31, 2012 at 5:18 PM
- Steve Thompson said...
- January 31, 2012 at 5:21 PM
NIKE is taking over as the NFL uniform providers this upcoming season. If you have seen the Oregon Ducks change their uniforms every year, then you know that the NFL uniforms WILL be different next year. I mean, why would NIKE take over for Reebok and not change the Reebok style? The typeface of the new logo is complete garbage...What was wrong with the typeface we already had? It was original! Now the new typeface is completely ugly.
- January 31, 2012 at 6:29 PM
There was a point in time, maybe after the super bowl season, where I saw some images of a SILVER Panthers Jersey leaked. Silver with Blue outlining white letters and numbers. That's always stuck in my mind as somehting they should do!
- January 31, 2012 at 6:32 PM
- J. Patrick Terry said...
It's a uniform and logo. Who cares? Who's in them should be the question.
- January 31, 2012 at 6:46 PM
The uniforms don't have to change much but they do need to be more traditional. Straighten the stripes out on the pants. Remove the off-color collar on the neck. Reconsider all the silver and white together (as others have noted. Think Packers, Alamaba and simplicity. This is sports, not a fashion show.
But if you're going to change the logo, why go half-way? Hopefully they've cleaned up the uniforms and won't have to go back in 5 years and rile people up a second time.
- January 31, 2012 at 7:08 PM
Black helmets, please!
- January 31, 2012 at 7:17 PM
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- January 31, 2012 at 7:20 PM
I would like to see them wear the Panther blue jersey's on a regular basis, rather than the black. Wear the black as the alternate.
As for the white on white uniforms being the ugliest in the league, as one of you wrote, Cincinnati has the ugliest by far.
- January 31, 2012 at 7:34 PM
Just Improve the Defense and get Cam to understand the game at a Pro level. that is all we need. I don't care what they will wear as long as we are winning.
- January 31, 2012 at 7:52 PM
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- January 31, 2012 at 8:14 PM
NO NO NO to wearing the blue jersey more often. Panthers are BLACK, not blue, and not white either, but white is traditional, even with all other NFL teams.
- January 31, 2012 at 8:40 PM
We can forget about a black helmet because the new logo would totally disappear on it. The old one had more white on the edge and would be more visible, but not much.
- January 31, 2012 at 9:00 PM
- shooters33 said...
FYI, the original plan for the Panthers' helmet was to be black
until the league said it was too 'gang-oriented" and shot it down, only to see the Jaguars come out with black helmets after their original design was determined to be too close to the Jaguar Automobile design.
- January 31, 2012 at 9:06 PM
I predict tons of people writing to the Panthers about the lack of a uniform change. Even just change the pants to make it more uniform.
- January 31, 2012 at 9:25 PM
keep the jerseys the same (white/black/blue) and wear black pants with all of them. done and done.
- January 31, 2012 at 9:26 PM
Who came up with this! Are you kidding me... If the Panther organization paid over a $1 for this, they got ripped off
- January 31, 2012 at 9:33 PM
I love the Panthers and everyone that's a Panthers fan but we have too many dang whiners in this fanbase.
- January 31, 2012 at 9:48 PM
He can say what he wants, the new uniforms are in production and just gogle nike panther new uniforms to see them, black hemet and all, I love them............they just dont want to ruin the NFL announcement with Nike so they deny
- January 31, 2012 at 10:36 PM
All those complaining about wishing Hurney and company would spend more time worrying about the draft and make-up of the team instead of changing the logo need to realize that Hurney and personnel folks are worrying about the draft and team, There are others in the organization that worry about the logo etc...SO RELAX!
- February 1, 2012 at 2:54 AM
- John said...
I don't see any way the uniforms don't change next year. There is one, and only one reason why teams redesign their uniforms... and that is money! New uniforms = new sales. Cam Newton jerseys were flying off the shelves all season and if they change the uniforms, all those will be obsolete and a whole lot of those folks will be plunking down another $80 - $100 bucks to replace them!
It's the same reason the NFL changes the sidelines hats every season.
They learned it from NASCAR, where special, one race paint schemes means more collectable sales.
No way the Panthers pass up this opportunity to cash in!
- February 1, 2012 at 8:33 AM
The new Logo on the jersey and helmet is the "uniform change"!!
I could care less about the minor changes in the stripes or whatever, I am just glad we are finally entering into a new era with the logo and the uniform (with the new logo!) because at what point, and how many years go by that we will want to look back and say (oh yeah, that was the old Panthers...) ie. Throwback Jerseys! This is about 8 years overdue! I printed out the new logo and have it hanging right in from of me at my desk. It really grows on you, and looking side by side the old logo looks so dated! Great job- to whoever made the logo change!
Go Cats!!!!
- February 1, 2012 at 8:35 AM
They have got to change the uniforms. Think a-la Atlanta after they drafted Vick. They changed their log and uniforms b/c it was a new era for the franchise. We should do the same. We're moving to a new manufact. of the jersey's so it's perfect timing to alter our jerseys. Get rid of the all white combo....it's looks way too soft. At the very least, we need black pants with a white, blue, and black jerseys. Contrary to what some have said, the new logo looks sweet on a black helmet (I've seen mock-ups). I've even seen it on white helmets. Bottom line, get rid of the silver helmets, and update the uniforms to a more modern look.
- February 1, 2012 at 8:40 AM
- John said...
anonymous 10:36PM, I DID google it and came up with nothing official. There is one site with a picture labled as "Someone, somewhere threw together some concept uniforms for the NFL." So that means little.
Oh, and Steve Thompson, I read that post on Pigskinbuzz and even they cite reports that there will NOT be changes.
In any case, I'd bet there will be changes, but I wouldn't be reading too much into any pictures currently making the rounds of the internet. If it doesn't come straight from either the Nike or the Panthers websites... it may very well be pure speculation.
- February 1, 2012 at 8:47 AM
Stop whining about the Panthers needing to spend more time on personnel and less on the uniforms. The Panthers had NOTHING to do with this. There is an entire department in the NFL offices in NYC that works on this stuff.
I like the old logo, but I like the new one as well. Just small changes; I'm fine with them.
As for the uniforms, lots of people like the white ones, including other teams. The only uniform we wear that I hate is the blue jersey and the silver pants. Whoever came up with that idea was either sloppy drunk or high on 8 hits of LSD at the time.
I would be fine with the white pants all the time, with the blue, white or black jerseys. I could live with black pants with the blue jerseys too. No black on black; that would look too much like a high school uniform.
- February 1, 2012 at 9:10 AM
Think about it this way...........the Panthers are going to have to change the uniforms regardless b/c the blue is a different shade now. They would be stupid to leave the design of the uniform the same and just update the colors. No one wants to see our old uniform with a different shade of blue. Think about how stupid it would look to see all of the new colored jersey's mixed in with the exact same jersey's with the old blue? At least a new style jersey would off-set the color difference.
- February 1, 2012 at 9:55 AM
This just seems like a ploy by the Panthers to avoid another leak ahead of a scheduled uniform release. A friend of mine works for the Panthers and said the Panthers were pissed at Nike for releasing the gloves that leaked the logo b/c they had a big press event scheduled to release the logo in a few weeks, followed by a new uniform release in April. Which is when Nike's new contract with the NFL goes into affect.
Like the guys says above, it would make no sense for them to change the color and logo and not update and alter the uniforms. They need to be updated for sure!
- February 1, 2012 at 9:59 AM
Attention Panthers and Nike: Please put that logo on a black helmet. You don't need to make any other changes than that. You're welcome.
- February 1, 2012 at 11:57 AM
All these people wanting black helmets and black pants are the same dingbats that tint their windows black and put black rims on their cars. They think it looks "thuggish" and cool. Hate to tell you it looks stupid and "low class".
- February 1, 2012 at 12:19 PM
Scott you do a really good job and I hope you have many more years of blogs at the observer.....I like the logo change.
- February 1, 2012 at 12:39 PM
I've never liked the colors. Accept for Cincinnati, we're in last place in that category
- February 1, 2012 at 12:53 PM
I dont believe anyone can look at the color combos on the new logo slick and not think wow the logo on the black looks at the very least interesting. Personally i think it looks awesome and think the panthers should make the transition to black uniforms similar to the ravens. The mascot is in fact a panthers so if there is no change at least wear the black uniforms more than four times a season.
- February 1, 2012 at 1:17 PM
From my desk -
New logo has no energy. Needs dynamics. Looks like an angry house cat. Too many curved lines; bottom jaw/lip looks ridiculous - modify to reflect power, movement, fierceness. Please look at other fonts - looks like a typeface for a cheap courier service.
Have these changes on my desk by EOB.
- February 1, 2012 at 2:04 PM
Keep the NFL logo a mid-field. That's classic.
As to the unis, why the uproar? Certainly they will change some as Nike isn't going to simply provide what Reebok was providing. All the banter about black/white/ blue/grey is non-sense. The white on white are classics and don't need to be toyed with. I like the alternate blue unis, and could see those becoming the new home standard, but at the cost of having a new, (hopefully not too)horrific alternate appear.
Hopefully Richardson keeps some sense of tradition in whatever is selected. This is the NFL. This is not NFL Europe, the CFL, the Arena League, the UFL, the XFL or Div I College football. If you want to entertain kids and women with outlandish color schemes then change the mascot. Leave the unis alone...
- February 1, 2012 at 2:45 PM
I disagree. The white makes our team look soft. If anything, switch to black pants. As for the jersey, it is a bit dated. The blue trim around the neck of the black jersey's has never looked good. modernize the uniforms, add a few tweaks. Take advantage of the switch to Nike. We need to take advantage of Cam Newton and usher in a new era with a new attitude, log, and uniforms! GO PANTHERS!!!
- February 1, 2012 at 3:40 PM
The Panthers uniforms have to be the most bland looking in the NFL. Would like to see something along the lines of the Patriots. Simple, but very classy.
- February 1, 2012 at 3:55 PM
Are you guys joking? The all white uniforms are one of the best looking uniforms in the league...
- February 1, 2012 at 4:08 PM
This team sucks
- February 1, 2012 at 4:10 PM
Inside source tells me Jerry R laughed at the proposed uniforms and told Nike that the Panthers are his team not theirs. Uniform changes are only with the new logo.
- February 1, 2012 at 4:13 PM
- panthersalltheway said...
here's a great little online app written by a friend of mine that will allow you to use a slider to view before and after logo - http://etpost.com/c7e7cbc5
- February 1, 2012 at 4:30 PM
The same fools that love the all white uniforms are the same idiots that like white shoes with NFL uniforms. People want uniforms that are simple, yet stylish, with an intimidation factor. Just like the Raiders silver and black have stood the test of time. The mock-up of black pants with a white or blue top look really good. Don't drop the ball on this, Panthers. Make a change to the uniforms. Those blue collars on the black jerseys are horrendous! I've always disliked that,even though the black jersey is my favorite.
- February 1, 2012 at 4:52 PM
So the logo is dated but the uniforms are ageless? Makes no sence.
- February 1, 2012 at 5:14 PM
I have a friend who works an agency that does a lot of marketing consulting work for the Panthers. Apparently there will sort of be changes to the uniforms. The white road uniform will be worn with silver pants and the black top/silver pants home uniform will be used as alternate worn 1-2 times per season. The blue top/silver pants uniform will be the new home uniform. He also said there is another alternate - but it is just a new color pants with the same jersey.
- February 1, 2012 at 9:04 PM
Wow, Scott Fowler with another groundbreaking scoop! "Panthers make changes to logo that aren't visible to naked eye."
As usual, Scott, you've done it again.
You make Les Nesman look like a newshawk!
Will you write a book about the history of the Panthers' logo?
- February 1, 2012 at 10:35 PM
Why Change the logo and keep the same uniform? I don't see the point..........
- February 1, 2012 at 11:26 PM
- February 2, 2012 at 1:22 AM
The Logo has always been a poor design. Now it is even worse. I'm not a Pathers fan, just a graphic artist that cringes when he sees this. Your best NFL logos are generally the more subdued, simpler ones. Colts, Giants, Bears, Packers, Chargers, Jets... Logos like Patriots, Panthers, Bucs, Titans and Ravens border on ridiculous cartoons, not strong trademarks.
- February 2, 2012 at 7:45 AM
Listen, the only thing "different" for most of the jerseys in the NFL next year will be the material. That is what they mean by new jerseys.
- February 2, 2012 at 8:49 AM
The uniforms can still remain the same general design, but have black pants with a blue stripe outlined in silver with the white away jersey.
- February 2, 2012 at 9:04 AM
LOGO is LAME!
- February 2, 2012 at 12:54 PM
I like the uniform but I wish where the white and white shirts were silver grey trimmed with white.
- February 2, 2012 at 3:35 PM
- John said...
So the logo is changed, but not the uni's (Helmet included?). No change = still Arena League uni's. I still get ill when I see highlights of them and the SeaSlugs in the '05 NFC (NFL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME). Guh v. blech.
- February 2, 2012 at 4:19 PM
We are changing sponsors. And here's why..... I called a couple days ago to the panthers shop and asked if I could return a shirt for a Smaller size but hey said they didn't have any more and they could give me a gift card for 1/2 the value and told me not to use it yet cause they are switching sponsors in April and are getting in New Nike apparel.
- February 5, 2012 at 11:34 PM
Why not get a more livlier logo,one that looks like a real Panther Head? He made his point with the connection of Wofford College in South Carolina and the team being in North Carolina when he gave the name of Carolina Panthers rather than Charlotte Panthers. The logo is the fakest looking in the league.Take a look at the Jaguar logo,looks like a real Jaguar not animated!
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- February 12, 2012 at 11:24 AM
I would like to see change but regardless what jerseys they wear or will have it comes down to wins. Cam is one of biggest stars in nfl right now so why wouldn't nike and nfl and panthers try to jump on bandwagon and cash in while he is top of world prob gonna be on madden cover in new uniform
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So last Friday night I took off for a ten miler and got in 8 miles before it was pretty dark. I don't like running in the dark so I cut it short. The run was a great idea, the weather was perfect and the sun was just setting and then one mile in, I felt it. I know my toes bleed when I run. I start to feel it get gushy. Squish, squish, and I knew my toes were going to bleed. Oddly enough it doesn't hurt at all, just kind of feels weird. I continued on and got in a great run but then I looked down at mile 6 and saw that the blood had started to leak through my shoe. THROUGH MY SHOE. There was nothing I could do but run the two more miles home, and it still wasn't hurting, but when I got home I was pretty grossed out and then I realized my pink Nikes' were also horrible looking now. You see, usually, the toe just bleeds a little bit. I have so many socks with little pink spots on them. That's totally okay. So these pictures might be a little too intense for some of you. If so, click away NOW! That being said, you've probably already seen them since the posts pops up. MEH!
Normally this is how much my toe bleeds. It isn't the best but it's not the worst, but it's manageable. Friday after my eight miler this was what I saw as I stared down at my shoes while crossing the street.
MY SHOES!!!!!!! MY TOES!!!!!!!!!!! AH!!!!!!!! Okay, so let's discuss a few things before you all ask me questions about my shoes. I LOVE the Vomeros and have run in these shoes for about 8 months. I had problems with bloody toes in the Pegasus, which was what I was wearing before I switched to the Vomeros, and never had any problems like this before in the Vomeros, but now, THIS much blood seems unhealthy! Especially with the fact that my shoes have about 50 miles left on them and they look horrific. So I inspected my toe like normal. There is a VERY, VERY tiny little pin prick of a cut on my toe. To release this amount of blood to me is odd though. That is a LOT of blood. Still my toes do not hurt, and I've tried baby powder, gold bond, Vaseline, body glide, taping, wright socks and injini socks. My shoes are already a size and a half bigger than what I should be wearing and I don't have black toenails or any blisters. Explain that to me!
There is one word for this, and that word is one of my favorite words.
I know this is pretty much the most bizarre thing ever, but thankfully it doesn't hurt, it just looks horrible and feels weird. So I will continue on bloody toes and all, but if anyone has any other recommendations of something I can do that I haven't already tried, I am totally up for suggestions. Last night I got in a decent 7 miler before it got dark and my toe only bleed like the first picture. So it's touch and go as of right now. Better get it's game face on for Sunday though!
Also, I posted another new article about getting ready for race day on my Examiner site! Be sure to creep over there and check it out and I even included a slide show of pictures of how I get ready the night before a race. Enjoy! Please let me know if you have any suggestions for articles for the Examiner or any questions or comments regarding my articles I'm posting on that site.


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I apologize in advance if this question is terribly naive. I've just recently learned a bit of rigid analytic geometry with the hopes of understanding some basic facts about eigenvarieties.
In the literature (e.g. in Coleman-Mazur) I've seen people talk about the $\mathbf{C}_p$-points of a rigid analytic space over $\mathbf{Q}_p$ (here $\mathbf{C}_p$ is the completion of an algebraic closure of $\mathbf{Q}_p$). Based on the case of schemes, if $X$ and $T$ are rigid spaces over $\mathbf{Q}_p$, I assume the set of $T$-valued points of $X$ is the set $\mathrm{Hom}_{\mathbf{Q}_p}(T,X)$, where the morphisms are in the category of $G$-topologized spaces over $\mathrm{Sp}(\mathbf{Q}_p)$. But $\mathbf{C}_p$ is not a $\mathbf{Q}_p$-affinoid algebra, so, strictly speaking, it's associated $G$-topologized space $\mathrm{Sp}(\mathbf{C}_p)$ is not a rigid space over $\mathbf{Q}_p$, right? I guess there is a morphism of $G$-topologized spaces $\mathrm{Sp}(\mathbf{C}_p)\rightarrow\mathrm{Sp}(\mathbf{Q}_p)$, and so one could define the $\mathbf{C}_p$-points of $X$ in the same way as I did above, just morphisms of $G$-topologized spaces $\mathrm{Sp}(\mathbf{C}_p)\rightarrow X$ compatible with the morphisms to $\mathrm{Sp}(\mathbf{Q}_p)$.
Question: Is this what is meant by the $\mathbf{C}_p$-points of a rigid analytic space over $\mathbf{Q}_p$?
The only alternative I can think of is to define the $\mathbf{C}_p$-points of a rigid space $X$ over $\mathbf{Q}_p$ as the $\mathbf{C}_p$-valued points of the base change $X_{\mathbf{C}_p}$. Although, if my intuition drawn from schemes is to be trusted, this is probably equivalent to the definition I suggested above.


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Fox Valley Eagles owner and president Patrick Sharpe wants to stress the following points:
He's not Blackhawks winger Patrick Sharp, but the head of a football team.
His football team is semi-pro.
Semi-pro does not mean players are paid.
"These are guys that just love to go out on Saturday night and bang heads," Sharpe said.
Geneva's Burgess Field will provide that haven for six Ironman Football League home games this summer, beginning with Saturday's 6 p.m. preseason game against the Leyden Lions. The season runs until Aug. 24, the weekend before the IHSA football season kicks off. Tickets cost $7 for adults and $4 for children. Fans younger than 10 are admitted free.
Die-hard followers of semi-pro football in these parts will remember Sharpe as the general manager of the former Kane County Eagles, who closed a nomadic, decade-long run at Mooseheart in the late 2000s. While that ownership group pursued indoor football opportunities, Sharpe remained active in the semi-pro circuit, including a run as president of the McHenry County Pirates from 2007 to 2011. He started the then-Elgin Eagles in 2012, although that name was a misnomer.
IFL officials assigned the team to play home games in Wilmot, Wis., as there were conflicts with Elgin's Memorial Field and St. Edward High School.
Sharpe reached out to Geneva District 304 administrators about a month ago, drawn to the central Kane County location and the school's FieldTurf facility, installed in time for the 2012-13 school year.
Geneva figured such overtures might be common sooner than later.
"We purposely didn't count them as a certainty because when you do that, then you have the high potential for disappointment if they don't materialize," Geneva athletic director Jim Kafer said. "We did assume that having a facility like that would attract interest for any group that needs a large surface area that plays their game. And to find a facility where it doesn't wear out, that makes it attractive."
Turf is the preferred playing surface when teams can get it. With semi-pro leagues playing during summer months when high schools would just as soon let grass fields rest, artificial surfaces stand out.
For the Eagles, the arrangement is sweeter considering the higher concentration of recent high school and college grads. Players range in age from 18 to 30.
"We've got a nice balance. That's the thing we like," Sharpe said. "With the younger guys, you seem to have more camaraderie than you did with some of the older group because they were all married with children and those kind of things. These guys are young and fast and a nice bunch of kids."
Sharpe is optimistic about building a fan base, especially considering the recent relocation of the Great Midwest Football League's Kane County Chaos, moved to DeKalb to become the Illinois Chaos beginning this season.
The Chaos called Aurora Christian home in 2011 but played at West Aurora last season because of conflicts with field availability at ACS.
"Christian was great people and it caught on, but with Aurora being so big it was really challenging to get that hometown buy-in, so to speak," Chaos owner and coach Lloyd Hatcher said.
Hatcher called DeKalb the perfect fit, "a large community in the middle of an ocean of cornfields."
Geneva is more metropolitan, but the Eagles likely wouldn't take too much stock.
For the next 10 weeks, they have a place to bang heads and play ball.
Meet the new bosses: Wheaton Academy on Thursday named Brad Thornton as interim football coach. The former Wheaton College fullback spent the past six seasons as a defensive coach at Evangelical Christian School in Memphis, Tenn., helping the Eagles to three state semifinals in his tenure.
Wheaton Academy also has named Geof Weisenborn as boys lacrosse coach and director of performance.
• Kevin Druley is a sportswriter for the Kane County Chronicle. He can be reached at 630-845-5347 or email@example.com.


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Seasons of our life trudge on as relentlessly as the seasons of our year – autumn, winter, spring, summer – birth, letting go, death, rebirth. On and on reminding us of life being impermanent, messy – sometimes muddy or frozen or glorious. I find myself in an 'in-between' place, uncertainty that tests faith and more learning on being comfortable with mystery – God's gracious uncertainty. I want to thank everyone who supports and prays and loves African Hospitality Institute. AHI is flourishing
Maggie's June Blog
Grab a Kleenex. This may be a difficult blog to read. Uganda is a country of contrast. A country overflowing with natural resources and abject poverty. A predominately Christian country that actively practices witchcraft. Uganda has beautiful, welcoming and wonderful people, riddled with rampant corruption. Uganda is a country full of love and betrayal, hope and despair, life and death. It is a joyful country and at the same time a traumatized country with dark secrets that are passed on from
Maggie's April Blog
The rains have returned as AHI, with Cornerstone Development Africa, enters its' 12th year of serving in Uganda, East Africa. Located in the bush of the central region, AHI is a refuge in one ofthe least educated and least developed areas of Uganda. As a discipleship and vocational training program AHI is also a destination for mission teams to work amongst rural isolated villages. Having two very separate people groups to serve: unemployed African youth and mission teams visiting from all over
Maggie's January Blog
Men shout, shake their ebony fists, shout more, storm off sweating and exhausted, only to return shouting louder. I found myself often in the middle of this angry mass, a tinderbox ready to explode. Land disputes are common in Uganda. Our ministries are enmeshed in one now. Villagers have lost land to these land grabbers as well. The villagers worry that our ministries will be shoved off land – exposing their children to more suffering. Every meeting, someone comes to get me; to make sure I am
Maggie's December Blog
"A Protestant minister named Charlie Andrews comes to join Gandhi. The two men are walking down a city street when three teenagers emerge from an alley, carrying rocks, calling names and threatening violence. Charlie pauses and suggests the he and Gandhi take a different route. Instead, Gandhi moves forward and beckons Charlie to come along. As they walk. Gandhi notes that Jesus taught that if an enemy strikes a blow on one cheek, you are to turn the other. The danger grows with each forward
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African Hospitality Institute is a storytelling community. As we share our stories, we learn that God allows the first part of our story to be written through the choices of our ancestors. Some of us have been blessed with a Godly heritage – generations of decisions to follow God. Others have suffered from generational sins that have wounded and destroyed. Yet for each of us, there is a point where God invites us to co-author the rest of our story – we must choose how we will respond to the
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I was reminded this afternoon of wondrous African memories: lizards falling from roof beams, down my shirt and trapped in my bra - a respectable reason to give up wearing one; a green Mamba jumping from a basket into my hair before slithering down my arm. Slipping in muddy red clay after a thunderstorm. Lying in bed debating whether the drip from the ceiling was a rain drop or lizard pee. Monkeys everywhere, Lieutenant Dan moments of screaming at God over the harshness of life and earning my
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There hasn't been much time for 'Porch Ponderings' – it's been wildly busy with one large team after another – staff and students have worked for weeks without days off; up at 4 AM to bake bread and muffins and falling into bed around 11PM after full days of cooking and cleaning. These are the months we give the students a taste of what working in the hospitality business is like year-round. These are days of the great exams; faced with multiple groups, followed by a group of 38 on retreat for
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CHANGE. – It's a word I fear. It's a word I yearn for. I am learning much about resting in the mystery of God. I am learning about my need for self-care, compassion as well as unconditional acceptance of myself and others. I am learning about saying "Yes to life from the belly of sorrow". At this season of my life I stand at a 'Threshold'. Thresholds require a 'crossing over' into the unknown; demanding vulnerability, surrender and an 'opening to receive new life'. As I live a mindful and


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The GERMANS from RUSSIA:
Children of the Steppe, Children of the Prairie
Prairie Public Documentary Looks at Germans from Russia
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January 21, 1999
The Germans from Russia were agricultural pioneers whose quest for land and peace shaped them into an enduring and distinctive ethnic group. That is the story Prairie Public Television and North Dakota State University Libraries tell in "The Germans from Russia: Children of the Steppe/Children of the prairie", a documentary film which premieres Tuesday, February 9, at 7 p.m. on Prairie Public Television.
The film begins with the ascension of Catherine, later called "the Great", to the throne of Russia in 1762; and shows how her Manifesto, which promised free land, local self government, and freedom from military service to those willing to farm in Russia, brought large scale immigration of Germanic speaking settlers onto the steppes: first along the Volga in 1765; and then over the next half century, into an area along the fringes of the Black Sea.
The film also shows why, as the original promises of the Manifesto were rescinded in the late nineteenth century, over 300,000 Germans from Russia obtained passports, severed ties to their villages in Russia, and began the odyssey to the new land. They settled in almost every area of North America, but preferred the open spaces of the Great Plains, where this ethnic group maintained its culture and language the longest.
To chronicle the historical journey of the Germans from Russia, Prairie Public production crews made long journeys of their own. They filmed, researched, and interviewed in Ukraine, Russia, Moldova, Germany, Alsace in France, California, Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota.
The making of the film was a four year odyssey that began with Michael Miller's suggestion that NDSU Libraries and Prairie Public work jointly on a Germans from Russia documentary. Miller who is Germans from Russia bibliographer at NDSU Libraries, and co-executive producer of the film says the completion of the documentary is a dream come true. He said that during his first visit to the former Bessarabia and Black Sea homeland villages in 1994, he felt it was very important to share the story of what the Germans from Russia had accomplished there.
Miller added, "In light of the many changes in our global society, we must preserve our history. This documentary will be of much value in that regard, to school, libraries and homes on the northern plains, as well as the world-wide Germans from Russia community.
Documentary producer Bob Dambach says the partnership with NDSU makes this a special project for Prairie Public. "By working together, we've been able to showcase part of the ethnic history of North Dakota, to illuminate the heritage of one third of North Dakotans, and to tell a good story. That's all very gratifying."
The first part of the film illuminates the history of this ethnic group, tracing their movement from the original Germanic homeland, to their pioneer experience on the steppes. The second half of the film uses stories and anecdotes told by the descendants to show the experience of the German Russians on the American prairie.
The film's writer, Ron Vossler, says this is a complex story to tell. "It became apparent as I researched the script that there were no simple answers to who these people were."
Vossler says that the documentary The Germans from Russia explores this complexity by addressing a series of paired contradictions about this ethnic group; and he also says that it is in these contradictions -- "They were restless wanderers -- They had deep roots to home.";"They were practical -- They sought eternity,";"They tried to forget -- They always remembered." -- that the viewer of the film will learn about the ethnic group called the Germans from Russia.
In telling the story, The Germans from Russia draws on the expertise of Dr. Timothy Kloberdanz, Fr. William Sherman, and Michael Miller of NDSU, Ron Vossler of UND, Dr. Shirley Fischer Arends, author of The Central Dakota Germans and Dr. Dona Reeves-Marquardt, professor emeritus at Southwest Texas State University, Buda Texas.
Major funding for the production was provided by Arthur E. and Cleora Flegel, Stuart and Cindy Mitzel Longtin, North Dakota Humanities Council, Florence E. Wiest and the Members of Prairie Public.
Video copies of THE GERMANS FROM RUSSIA:CHILDREN OF THE STEPPE, CHILDREN OF THE PRAIRIE are available through Prairie Public at 1-800-359-6900 or by visiting the Prairie Public web site at www.prairiepublic.org and clicking on "Prairie Public's General Store."
For 35 years, Prairie Public Television has supported the prairie community through broadcast and technological services. Prairie Public Television is seen on KFME/13/Fargo, KGFE/2/Grand Forks, KBME/3/Bismarck, KSRE/6/Minot, KDSE/9/Dickinson, KWSE/4/Williston, KJRE/19/Ellendale, and Winnipeg Cable Channel 3.
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BRIDPORT — Two issues dominated the conversation at the annual legislative luncheon Monday in Bridport: bills in the Legislature to mandate the labeling of genetically modified foods and pollution regulations affecting Lake Champlain.
Farmers, community members and legislators packed the Bridport Community Hall Monday for the luncheon devoted to agriculture issues. State Reps. Harvey Smith, R-New Haven, Diane Lanpher, D-Vergennes, Willem Jewett, D-Ripton, and Will Stevens, I-Shoreham, were on hand to discuss agricultural issues facing Addison County farmers.
BRIDPORT — Health care reform, education financing and budget matters are making most of the headlines in the Vermont Statehouse these days, but Addison County residents reminded lawmakers on Monday of another issue they will follow intently this legislative session: A proposed law that would regulate the manner in which shoreland properties can be developed.
BRIDPORT — While a good deal of conversation at the Legislative Breakfast at the Bridport Grange Hall on Monday centered on a proposed Shoreland Protection Bill and the health of Vermont's lakes (see story), some participants at the breakfast said Lake Champlain's health is not only being affected by shorelands development.
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This new, regular feature on NHLNumbers will share interesting stats-related posts from around the web almost every day.
Welcome to edition number three of the rebooted Number Chains. In this space you will be able to find the best analytical hockey writing from around the internet on a close-to-daily basis. Subject matter will include statistical evaluation, financial analysis, contractual issues, and (sometimes) closely-related tangential works. If you have something you would like to submit for a future edition (your writing or that of someone else) feel free to send it to me via Twitter @JoshL1220 or leave a comment.
We begin the week with a musing by Ken Campbell about what life in the NHL would be like if Bain Capital had successfully purchased the league during the last lockout.He brings up an interesting point:
For starters, the money it would have taken to purchase the NHL would have been chump change for a private equity company as large as Bain. It would have been a small part of something much bigger, which would mean that the owner would not have lived and died with every struggling franchise. And as the owner of a single entity with 30 subsidiaries, the NHL would have been in the same situation as a lot of other large businesses. Any company with that many tentacles have branches that do spectacularly well, others that break even and some that lose money. But as long as the business as a complete entity is making money, and we know that it is because every year the league trumpets its record revenues, things would be a lot more stable than they are now.
The entire fabric of the league would be markedly different today, but who is to say things would be better? It's an interesting thought, and the piece is certainly worth a read, but the ramifications of Bain actually being successful in their attempts to by the NHL don't seem particularly pleasant.
After the jump we get into some Ryan Suter back tracking and some goodies from Hockey Prospectus.
*This weekend Ryan Suter made some inflammatory comments about new boss Craig Leipold. He put it out there that he thought the Minnesota Wild negotiated the deals for himself and Zach Parise in bad faith. On Sunday he had this to say to Mike Russo of the Minneapolis Star Tribune:
"I thought a lot about since what I said, I don't question Craig Leipold and Minnesota with regards to negotiating our contracts in good faith. I don't question that. That might have came off wrong. I don't question that. It's just frustrating. We just want to play. We support Don in what he's doing. Obviously you sign a contract, and you want to hold true to that. I think, and I hope, everything works out."
Do you feel that in the back of Leipold's mind, he figured you'd take a haircut: "No, I honestly don't feel that. It's easy to think that or it might come off like that, but honestly, I know they're good people. And I know they wouldn't negotiate thinking, 'OK, let's give them this because it'll end up being this.' Because that's not the kind of the people they are. So that came off wrong [in Suter's original comments to ESPN the Magazine].
Perhaps Suter did speak out of turn, but his new quotes sure sound like someone got to him.
* Rob Vollman brings us the list of players who generated the most value for their teams in terms of Goals Versus Salary. Intererstingly, only half of the goalies on the list made over two million dollars.
* And finally this Monday we have Ryan Wagman bringing us Zamboni Tracks. This edition is The Hootenanny Award for 2011-12 awarded to the best replacement player. The best replacement player this year ended up being Carl Hagelin, but the full list has some gems on it.
That's it for Monday. Hopefully the rest of you are more alert than I am.
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Over Shot is an installation of a tennis ball machine set up in a gallery just above the audience's head height. The occasional quick projection of the ball feed would distract viewers and disturb the mood. The rattling of the sound as the balls bounced back and forth behind the false wall gave further awareness to the space. Even though no one could get hurt, the audience feels a sense of danger and is overwhelmed by the speed and force of the projections.


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Fall Soil Sampling
Information provided by Susan Jonganeel from the University of Illinois
URBANA -- With this year's drought conditions, soybean cyst nematode (SCN) intensified the stress on soybeans in many fields. University of Illinois Plant Diagnostic Clinic and IPM coordinator Suzanne Bissonnette said the high levels of the pest can cause the yellow patches that growers may have seen in fields.
Although the symptoms were easy to see this year, Bissonnette warned that in more typical years, low to moderate levels of SCN may be present in a field without visible symptoms on the above-ground part of the plant. "To determine with certainty the SCN status of your soybean field, you must sample," she said.
Fall is an ideal time to do this. With overwinter survival of SCN at close to 100 percent, fall sampling provides a good estimation of the population that will be present at planting and gives time to prepare for variety selection for next year's soybeans.
Which fields should be tested?
"Easy." Bissonnete said, "All fields where soybean will be grown should be evaluated for SCN. This nematode is a survivor."
"Once present in a soybean field, SCN is nearly impossible to eliminate," she continued. "It survives even in the absence of a good host. As it is very difficult to reduce high SCN levels to a manageable population, SCN management should focus instead on keeping the SCN egg count low."
One sample should represent no more than 10 acres and comprise 20 to 30 subsamples, each taken at a depth of 8 to 10 inches. Mix the subsamples together in a bucket, remove enough soil to fill a 1-quart plastic bag, and mail the bag to a qualified laboratory for analysis. Results will be reported in either number of cysts, or in the number of eggs, per 100 cc of soil.
Once SCN is detected in a soybean field, the SCN egg count should be checked regularly to monitor the field population and assess management practices.
"The frequency of sampling will depend on the management protocol, the SCN egg count, and often, the type of SCN in the specific field population," Bissonnette said.
If consistent rotations with a non-host such as corn have been implemented and the SCN egg count has typically been low in the field, chances are the SCN level is well-managed, and sampling may be spaced to every third year that soybeans are grown. However, if soybeans are grown back-to-back, if SCN egg counts have been high, or if the SCN population is able to develop on resistant varieties, it may be necessary to sample more frequently.
Monitoring the SCN egg count is particularly important when soybeans, even resistant varieties, are consistently grown in an SCN-infested field. Often, a grower uses a soybean variety with resistance to SCN only to discover that the type of resistance was not effective against the specific field population, thus allowing the population to increase in that field. Moreover, this type of population growth causes the proportion of SCN that are capable of reproducing on resistant varieties to increase
"When SCN egg counts are moderate to high, and soybeans are to be grown, or if a resistant variety rotation does not seem to be managing the pest, then it's a good idea to perform a greenhouse assay called the 'SCN Type test' (formerly known as an SCN Race test)," Bissonnette advised.
This test evaluates the field population's development on the three sources of resistance found in varieties currently available to Illinois producers, thus providing information about the most effective type of resistance for a specific field. Variety selection can be narrowed to the varieties that will provide effective resistance and prevent increases in the SCN population. The actual soybean variety that will be or has been planted can be included in this test to assess its effectiveness.
The University of Illinois Plant Clinic nematology testing program can perform this test. The fee is $50; the test requires a greenhouse grow-out and takes between 1 to 2 months. Call the Plant Clinic at 217-333-0519, or contact Alison Colgrove at 217-333-9057 (or email her at email@example.com) for specific sampling information for Hg* typing.
The Varietal Information Program for Soybean (VIPS) website, found at http://www.vipsoybeans.org/v4/vpHome/vipshome.cfm?b=y, is an excellent source of information for soybean variety selection based on yield and disease (SCN included).