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What has become of the Sony known for its technology? I hope it will solve its problems soon to quickly recover its brand image reputed for technological prowess."
— Japanese Economy, Trade and Industry Minister and former Sony employee Akira Amari, October 2006
Now that Sony's old guard has taken what was once a strong electronics and gaming brand and run it into the ground, the company's new guard is circling back to resurrect it. This morning the company announced a management overhaul that will see CEO Howard Stringer succeed Ryoji Chubachi as president and assume responsibility for Sony's key electronics division. It will also see the creation of two new business groups: The first, Networked Products & Services Group, will consolidate Sony Computer Entertainment, the company's Vaio division and its mobile and Walkman unit. The second, the New Consumer Products Group, will include Sony's TV, digital imaging, home audio and video businesses. Spanning the two groups will be a cross-divisional software and technology unit charged with ensuring compatibility among their products.
Sony (SNE) says its new structure is aimed at giving the company the agility it has so sorely lacked for so long and to "speed up the transformation of Sony that was started four years ago," which has all but stalled, if the company's recent financial performance is any indication. "Have I broken down all the silo walls? No," Stringer told the New York Times. "Are they very strong and very thick? Yes. But we've broken down a lot of them. Our goal is to continue to do that. We have two distinct challenges facing us. The first is the global slowdown, which forces us to make significant adjustments. The second challenge is the evolution of our competitive environment. New competitors springing out everywhere."


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By Merryn Sherwood on 03/09/13 at 10:57 am
It's just a week until triathlon history is made at the Pruhealth World Triathlon Grand Final London, so it's time to take a quick look at what the statistics say ahead of the 2013 season finale.
34 – The number of ITU World Championship won by Australia, across the elite, U23 and junior categories. However, Great Britain are steadily gaining, they sit on 23 ahead of London.
13 – Rankings points that currently separate the top three women on rankings. After almost an entire season, where WTS wins collect 800 points, it's the one of the closest finals we've had in series history between Gwen Jorgensen, Anne Haug and Non Stanford. Click here to view our Podium simulator, where you can input predicted results to view the podium outcome.
10 – Alistair Brownlee has won the past 10 consecutive WTS Olympic distance races he's competed in.
7 – The number of times an athlete has won an ITU World Championship while racing in their home country. Including, 1990 – Karen Smyers (USA) – Orlando, 1991 – Greg Welch (AUS) – Queensland, 1993 – Spencer Smith (GBR) – Manchester, 1997 – Chris McCormack and Emma Carney (AUS) – Perth, 2000 – Nicole Hackett (AUS) – Perth, 2007 – Daniel Unger (GER) – Hamburg, 2009 and Emma Moffatt (AUS) – Gold Coast.
6 – Consecutive years that Javier Gomez has collected an ITU World Championship medal, from 2007 until last year. Can he stretch the streak out to seven?
5 – The number of ITU World Championships since a man named other than Brownlee or Gomez has won. Gomez took the 2008 title, Alistair Brownlee 2009, Gomez in 2010, Alistair in 2011 before Jonathan took his first ITU World Championship in 2012.
3 – The number of ITU World Championships that Alistair Brownlee and Javier Gomez are chasing, Jonathan Brownlee is aiming for his second. Click here to find out how it might happen with our podium simulator.
2 – The number of nations that collected their first ever ITU World Championship in Auckland last year. Both came in the junior races, with Wian Sullwald turning in a winning performance for South Africa in the junior men's and Fumika Matsumoto handing Japan their first title - all on the same day.
1 – Athlete who has gone straight from winning an U23 World Championship to an elite World Championship. The only athlete to do so? That would be Alistair Brownlee, U23 in 2008 and 2009 he was crowned Elite World Champion. This year Non Stanford has the chance to become the second athlete, as the reigning U23 World Champion.
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0 – Previous women's winners in the elite London women's fields. With Nicola Spirig only just starting her comeback after the birth of son Yannis, and Paula Findlay and Helen Jenkins on the sidelines, it means there will be a new name on the highly prestigious women's winners list. On the men's side, only Gomez and Alistair Brownlee have taken home the London title before.

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by Gary Aldrich - Volume 2, Issue 40
This article appeared on TownHall.com on August 21, 2002.
You can tell it's summer by what The New York Times considers to be serious news. But lurking behind the seemingly ridiculous material they treat as "news" is a radical political agenda sure to have "real" men and women running for the Rolaids.
I'm speaking of the decision by Times editors to include wedding announcements of same-sex "unions" in their social pages just like any other wedding announcement. Henceforth, expect to see a photo of the smiling "Gride" + "Broom" or (Bride + Groom?) in thoughtful contemplation with the usual biographical information to follow. The New York Times' editors suggest that these kinds of unions are common these days – even though only one state has passed laws that allow a legal union between same sex couples – so it's just "progress" to give them space on the same page as the other smiling couples.
Gay and lesbian rights groups are rejoicing, I'm sure, to be receiving this "equal" treatment. They have been critical of the Times and other major newspapers because of their inconsistency in policy: they accept gay personal ads but won't print announcements for "lifelong commitment." Don't they have just as much "right" to appear in the social pages?
But if we want to talk about "rights" and commitment, let's look a little further. How about the 18 year legally binding financial commitment of a father to support a child, regardless of the fact that legally, the woman could have ended the pregnancy at any time – including on the day the child was to be born – and the man would have absolutely no legal right to stop her. How "equal" is this treatment?
But The New York Times has a political agenda and does not care at all about a "real" man's rights. The proof of this is the news story they ran on August 20, 2002, which announced the midnight roundup of 69 "deadbeat" dads in 29 states by federal agents working with the Department of Health and Human Services. What crime did these men commit that caused some to be arrested and locked up in jail for four days before receiving a hearing? Simply stated, they "flouted state court orders."
Now I happen to believe that every man has an obligation to provide support for his own children, but in the cases cited in The New York Times, no effort is made to tell his side of the story. Numerous fathers' rights groups have sprung up around the nation because the deck is so stacked against a divorced father that he stands a good chance of never seeing his own child again if the woman decides he should not. Deny visitation, and the father has to go through a long, drawn out and expensive legal process to bring the mother to court, but nobody can find a single case where visitation was denied to Dad and as a result, Mom went straight to the pokey!
There is no justification to paint dads as "deadbeats" any more than there is justification to paint women as revengeful and vindictive, and yet, whose ox is getting gored here? It's the women who get the presumption of innocence and the country's largest newspaper to showcase their cause. It's the men who get the cuffs and the jail time.
Question: When he did pay child support, did she spend the money on bingo and Cheetos? Did she give some of the child support to her new boyfriend for cigarettes? I cannot deny that there are legitimate cases of abandonment by men who have made lifelong commitments in marriage, have fathered children and have then run off, refusing to take responsibility for their actions. These are the true deadbeats, but are these the exception or the rule? Who knows what's really behind these cases because The New York Times has no intention of looking into these questions. Nor will they ever ask if the mother refused to allow court-ordered visitation because she was still nursing a grudge over real or perceived "sins" of the father.
What federal agency enforces a father's visitation rights?
We could go round and round and play the blame game in these messy relational situations that the Times so easily pins on the father, but even apart from all that, this illustrious paper fails to point out yet another absurdity in this whole "deadbeat dad" roundup. The use, or I should say misuse, of the federal system to enforce child support payments is ridiculous and nothing more than pure pandering by Congress to a radical political group that seems more interested in punishing men – for everything! – instead of looking out for the best interests of the children.
Where is my proof of that? Simple! After years of working on this "national crisis," and by extension, smearing men everywhere, the best our almighty federal government could do is to cite a mere 69 men for alleged failure to pay child support – hardly a national crisis.
But seriously, where is the evidence of a massive "walk-out" on the part of men with respect to their responsibilities? The answer is, there is no such evidence.
And, how could this federal "strike farce" ever be in the best interest of the children? "Dad's" employer is unlikely to appreciate his absence from work or the resulting bad publicity. And, now the kids have an unemployed jailbird for a father. Swell.
I spent a lot of time in the federal court system, and I think I can anticipate what the overworked federal judges think of this colossal waste of judicial resources! Since we're so adamant about being consistent, why not haul all those who have ignored speeding tickets or parking tickets into federal court? Why stop with alleged "deadbeat dads?" Why not federal indictments for vendors who sell cigarettes to minors, then fail to show up for court? How about all those neighbors with barking dogs who have thumbed their noses at the citation they received for a noise violation? Let's have our federal agents rounding up all these criminals! Eventually, we'll be able to totally do away with state and local law enforcement because everything will be left to the feds.
Meanwhile, the majority of fathers step up to the plate each and every day and pay their child support payments, knowing all the while that "Mom" has the power – she has custody 95% of the time and with that custody comes the privilege of watching her children grow on a day to day basis, something that cannot be measured in dollars. She gets the ultimate reward – the kids – and he gets the bills while gays and lesbians celebrate "lifelong commitment."
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Frances Young Block passed away on September 18, 2008 after a lingering illness due to suffering a number of strokes.
She was born on September 13, 1926 in Monticello, UT to Ernest Leslie Young and Mary Esther Jarvis Young.
In 1946, she married Charles Block, a World War II Navy veteran. He was a career man, and they lived on naval bases in Washington and the Phillippines for a short duration, finally settling down in Hanford, CA, near the Lemoore Naval Air Station.
It was in Hanford where she was living after the death of Charles and where she suffered her first stroke in April, 2007.
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Frances had been a practicing nurse for a number of years, and entered the field of massage therapy, bringing relief and comfort to a great number of people seeking her talents and abilities.
She was active in the Relief Society and other church callings and was truly loved by her ward members, several of whom traveled to Kanab to visit her.
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Frances is proceeded in death by her husband Charles Block, a daughter (Kathy) due to a brain tumor at the tender age of 12, and a brother Les Young.
She is survived by her son David Block of Hanford, CA, brothers Albert (Barbara) Young of Kanab, UT and Joseph Don Young of Ogden, UT, sisters Ethel Millard of Sanoma, CA, Alberta San Nicolas of Midvale, UT, and Dorothy Handy of Tehachapi, CA and three grandchildren.
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Say what you will about the traveling circus that is James Franco's career, but the guy keeps working and never lets himself get stuck in a rut. Next up for Franco is a big-screen adaptation of a drug-addicted bondage writer following a murder trial, a film he seems determined to make all by himself.
Franco has bought the rights to Stephen Elliott's "The Adderall Diaries," which he will adapt, direct and star in, reported Deadline. The memoir recounts Elliott's overcoming writer's block by covering the trial of Hans Reiser, a man accused of killing his wife (If you're into spoilers, you can find out who did it here).
During the trial Sean Sturgeon, who was the maid of honor at Reiser's wedding (not a misprint) and member of the same BDSM scene as Elliott, confessed to committing several other murders. This all took place while Elliott was popping Adderall, an amphetamine prescribed to folks with ADHD.
The book earned rave reviews upon its release last year, with words like "genius," superb" and "remarkable" being tossed about.
"Despite the luridness of the subject matter, the author creates a refined, beautiful work of art. His themes-seemingly crime, murder, drugs and sadomasochistic sex-actually encapsulate the nature of truth, self, love and memory, and the limits of art to get at them all. Deserves a place on the shelf next to such classics of uninhibited American introspection as 'On the Road' and 'A Fan's Notes,'" read the starred review in Kirkus.
This year alone Franco has starred in "Howl," "Date Night," "William Vincent" and "Eat Pray Love," with the Oscar-buzzy "127 Hours" still to come. Oh and he's also been working on four post-graduate degrees, including a PhD. You can see where a book about Adderall might have some appeal for him...


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(CNN) -- Hillary Clinton's book tour resembled the roll out of a new brand, and from my standpoint as a marketer, it looked like a big one handled badly. If, as many suspect, she is running for president in 2016, she blew the perfect opportunity to present herself as the new Hillary Clinton.
In her launch moment, she proved to be so inwardly focused on herself, she missed giving people the emotional release they've been waiting for: to see what's new with her and to be excited about the possibility of her being in the field again as a candidate.
Two cases in point; her statement to Diane Sawyer that the Clintons were "dead broke" upon leaving the White House and her interview with The Guardian suggesting that voters won't see her as part of the inequality problem and will gladly accept the Clintons' net worth of $100M+ because they pay "ordinary income taxes." This may just be too tone deaf and move her dangerously close to the edge of voter exasperation.
Clinton's big miss is that what could have been a moon shot moment for her brand (that's why they're called "launches" and why advertisers spend millions on the Super Bowl) may fizzle into HRC fatigue. She is amazingly qualified but risks being a brand failure.
There are several other indicators of a launch gone awry. Book sales in the first week were only one sixth of what they were for her earlier, and very successful, memoir.
Commentators from across the spectrum have criticized her public appearances.
A Quinnipiac poll released Monday seems to show Clinton's lead over Christie drooping in Iowa. Today, her husband Bill Clinton even had to step in on her behalf, defending his wife's response to a query about their wealth. But he had to acknowledge the missteps, noting hers was "not the most adept answer to a question."
Evidence that this book tour needed to relaunch Clinton can be found in a recent WSJ/NBC survey: 55% people rate her as competent, but 60% don't see her as likable and 62% don't regard her as trustworthy. That's a perceptual trend among voters that hasn't changed much since 2008. The book tour should have been planned to replace the old news about Hillary, with new, inspiring ways to imagine she could lead.
By contrast, one of the most successful impresarios of product launches, Steve Jobs, built them into spectacles. He protected the run-up to an announcement like a classified national security secret and then unleashed the event with maximum impact to create brand momentum for Apple over time. Every launch was a new reason to be loyal to Apple, an even better argument for me to be in love.
She, instead, leaves us frustrated with important questions unanswered: Will she or won't she run? Does she have the fire? Does she have a vision for her candidacy? Why is she doing the tour now, so far ahead of 2016? How has she changed? Does she know that people often can't get underneath her thick crust? Who is she, anyway?
We watch her still back on her heels after all these years. It's not just the trust and likability issues. It's also calling out the woman-under-scrutiny card with Diane Sawyer: "You know you're being judged," she said. Well, some say, of course you're being judged, that's the point of all this!
It is Clinton's inward focus that keeps her from connecting and understanding the world in terms other than hers: Clinton has always been about her. Her accomplishments, her slights, her victories. She has always had a hard time connecting her "her-ness" to us. That makes it very hard for her to establish why she's relevant to our lives. She seems to refuse to deal with what voters most want to know: What's in it for me?
Maybe voters today like more the idea of what Clinton represents, the first women presidential contender, than who she actually is. And her inability to connect with people could create an opening for someone else to come in and steal her thunder as the first woman presidential contender. Elizabeth Warren, anyone?
Harvard professor and researcher Amy J.C. Cuddy finds that leaders influence and persuade best when they connect to people first with warmth, followed with competency. Clinton doesn't fit into this paradigm at all: She leads with competency and, according to polls like the WSJ/NBC survey, displays little apparent warmth.
Successful launches are all about timing and sustained impact. Clinton should have kept the book tour bottled up until she was ready to declare for president because, down the road, we won't believe again that she's coming out to us as new.
Consumers -- and competitors -- stick to this pattern and rarely give a brand in business a second chance to be new. A notable exception is Apple, which was veering dangerously close to bankruptcy in 1997, its stock at a low of $6. In 2012, Apple's stock price was over $700 (before a recent 7-for-1 stock split) and the company was stronger than ever, standing on the shoulders of many successful launches for the brand over the course of 15 years.
There are examples of companies that have made old brands successful after numerous attempts that didn't succeed (Old Spice, J. Crew, Burberry, Harley-Davidson, Walmart, UPS). But it's hard to find a successful brand that came back after a really bad roll out, proving the point that if you blow it as a brand in a big product launch, you're really at risk.
As a brand, Clinton will always be a rational purchase for voters, not an emotional one. Like a functional Buick that gets you through the snow, is good on gas and always runs, Clinton's brand has real value. But as she learned in 2008, you have to explain to your friends why a functional Buick is better than a glamorous Porsche.
The good news for Clinton is that politics, unlike business, can be forgiving. After all, she is married to The Comeback Kid. Even so, she has paid a price for the roll out: She seems less inevitable than two weeks ago.
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When Zarabeth offers Spock meat to eat, she comments that there is "not much else to eat around here," which Spock thinks is perfectly reasonable. One hesitates to speculate on the nature of an alien biology, but it really should be impossible for animals to comprise most of the food. After all, what are all these animals eating? The base of any ecology should be a mass of plant life, with animals comprising significantly less mass. One might speculate that this isn't true on Sarpeidon, or that the plantlife is inedible to the natives but not to the animals, but it seems odd that Spock would so readily agree to the idea.
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The interior of the Enterprise is never seen in this episode.
Spock finds himself having greater and greater difficulty in controlling his emotions, apparently reverting to a more primitive state of mind to match his surroundings. Meanwhile Kirk desperately searches for a way to return to the future. He is eventually successful with the help of a local inhabitant who has escaped to this time through the Atavachron, and helps Spock and McCoy to trturn in turn. Together the officers manage to escape the library and depart on the Enterprise just as the supernova blows.
Where the episode falls down most is in the idea of Spock "reverting" due his presence in the past. There's no inherent reason why this should be so - your mental state is a product of the time you live in to an extent, but only in that your culture tends to influence your formative experiences and so produce inherent biases. This episode seems to claim that cave men were cave men not because they hadn't advanced any further yet, but rather because there is something about the year 1 million BC that just made people act like cave men - patent nonsense.
About the only way to excuse it is to claim that the atavachron was able to scan Spock, determine what his people were like some thousands of years ago, and reprogram his brain somehow to make him more like that - possibly a mechanism built in to make people fit in better with the eras they had chosen to escape to. But whilst that's just vaguely within the realms of possibility, you have to wonder why McCoy doesn't spend his time wanting to go out hunting mammoths if this is the case!
It's also rather strange that Sarpeidon's past so closely resembles Earth's past. Look at the time Kirk is in - they have the same clothing, same manner of speaking, similar architecture, even witch trials! I know Trek has dipped the "same as Earth" idea many times, but here they don't even try to offer any excuse.
Sending criminals into the distant past is an interesting idea, I must admit. You have to think that the authorities are very careful about it though - send too many political opponents to one spot and they could found an entire society dedicated to assassinating you when are finally born!
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With its advanced zinc-free additive technology, Shell Tellus S3 M delivers reliable wear protection in industry standard hydraulic pump tests with up to 76 percent less wear in Eaton and Denison specification pump tests, performing as well if not superior to existing Zinc-based hydraulic fluid products available in the marketplace. Shell Tellus S3 M (available in ISO viscosity grades 22, 32, 46, 68 and 100) meets the requirements of a wide range of industry standards and is approved by many equipment manufacturers. The product is approved by Husky (ISO VG 46), and against MAG P-68 (ISO 32), MAG P-70 (ISO 46), MAG P-69 (ISO 68), Parker Hannifin HF-0, HF-1, HF-2 and Eaton 694 specifications. Further the oil meets ISO 11158 HM fluids, AFNOR NF-E 48-603, ASTM D6158 (HM mineral oils), DIN 51524-2 (HLP oils) and Swedish Standard SS 15 54 34 AM. Shell Tellus S3 M is appropriate for use in factory-based industrial hydraulic applications, severe-duty, extended-operation applications, as well as mobile and outdoor applications in climates with limited variation in temperature.
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AT&T gave cash to merger backers
AT&T is lining up support for its acquisition of T-Mobile from a slew of liberal groups with no obvious interest in telecom deals — except that they've received big piles of AT&T's cash.
In recent weeks, the NAACP, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and the National Education Association have each issued public statements in support of the deal.
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The groups all say their public positions have nothing to do with the money they received from AT&T. And AT&T says it supports nonprofit groups because it's the right thing to do — and not because of any quid pro quo.
"For decades, AT&T has proudly supported numerous diverse groups and organizations," a company spokesperson told POLITICO.
But not everyone's buying it.
"The money that nonprofits receive from their corporate sponsors sticks not only in their bank accounts but in their minds," Ellen Miller, executive director of the Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to government transparency, told POLITICO. "This is what I think of as deep lobbying — there is an expectation that when push comes to shove, these groups will come out in favor of their benefactors."
The NAACP was one of the first groups to announce public support of the T-Mobile acquisition. It received a $1 million contribution from AT&T in 2009 and has received funding in the six figures dating to 2006, according to the group's annual reports.
William Barber, head of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP, told POLITICO that AT&T's financial support did not influence his group's decision to write to the FCC in support of the merger.
"One of the unique things about the NAACP is that financial support does not determine our civil rights positions," he said.
Barber also said AT&T consistently ranks near the top of the organization's annual report card on the telecommunications industry.
GLAAD — which has received $50,000 from AT&T — recently backed the deal as well, saying it had "the understanding that the merger will increase functionality and speed, thus growing engagement and improving the effectiveness of the online advocacy work that is advancing equality for all," a GLAAD spokesman said.
"We do not make policy decisions based on what's best for our corporate sponsors," Rich Ferraro, a GLAAD spokesman, told POLITICO. GLAAD publicly criticized Comcast's merger with NBC, a corporate sponsor of the nonprofit, because of the company's low grade on GLAAD's Network Responsibility Index, Ferraro noted.
AT&T's corporate giving arm, the AT&T Foundation, doled out $62 million in 2009 to support a variety of arts and education programs, charities and organizations. Jim Cicconi, AT&T's senior vice president and top lobbyist, chairs the foundation.
AT&T's record of corporate giving is widely touted by recipients, many of whom cite the company's extensive record on promoting minorities, women, schools and the arts. But some public interest groups question whether the company is cashing in on its status as one of the country's biggest corporate donors.
The Columbia Urban League received a $25,000 grant from the AT&T Foundation in 2009 to provide "underserved populations with resources to help their children achieve academic success," according to the foundation's IRS Form 990.
On May 27, the group's president and CEO, James McLawhorn, wrote to urge the FCC to approve AT&T's acquisition of T-Mobile.
"In our work, we are often witness to the obstacles minority Americans face when trying to access mobile broadband and its associated benefits. This deal would help extricate the barriers keeping our members from attaining these benefits, working towards the end of the digital divide," he wrote.


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NEW YORK (WPVI) -- President Barack Obama shared an emotional video of a 6-year-old New York boy who wants to take in a young Syrian refugee as part of his own family.
The video features a little boy named Alex who wrote to the president asking to host Omran Daqneesh, the 5-year-old Syrian boy shown in a heartbreaking picture out of Aleppo, Syria.
Obama read the letter during a summit on refugees he hosted earlier this week at the UN General Assembly, calling for nations to adopt the same compassion shown by the young boy.
Within 16 hours, the video, which was posted to Obama's Facebook page on Wednesday night, earned 154,000 likes and was viewed 7.9 million times, making it the most-watched video ever posted by Obama on his Facebook page, according to ABC News.
The post also garnered more than 210,000 reactions and was shared nearly 150,000 times.
"We will give him a family, and he will be our brother," Alex says in the video.
Alex also says he would share his toys with Daqneesh, invite him to birthday parties and hopes he will "teach us another language." He even says he will show Daqneesh how to ride a bike.
"The humanity that a young child can display who hasn't learned to be cynical, or suspicious, or fearful of other people because of how they look or where they're from or how they pray," Obama says in the video. "We can all learn from Alex."
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When a national columnist is a guest on your radio show and he proceeds to call the local college quarterback a prostitute, and his his former coach a pimp, then you've got two things, my friend: Ratings gold, and a genuine douchebag. Welcome back to our stage, ladies and gentlemen, Gregg Doyel, who appeared recently on ARN's "The Sports Animals" radio show with hosts Shawn Arnell and Wally Hall. Doyel came off as borderline insane during the interview — something he's quite good at — and concluded things with an impressive meltdown and an abrupt phone hangup. Let's review. At issue was Doyel's Thursday column in which he called for Mississippi coach Houston Nutt to "run up the score" on his old team, Arkansas.
They're still there, you know. The crazies. The wackos. The lunatic fringe of Razorback Nation. They're still there, lurking in their small towns and conniving on their message boards, and they deserve to be punished.
Doyel then appreared on The Sports Animals that afternoon to discuss the column, but first, he couldn't resist a swipe at ... Tony La Russa? Doyel was calling from Philadelphia, where he was covering the World Series.
"I like Joe Maddon," Doyel said. "I like that guy because he doesn't sit back there like Tony La Russa and act like everything out of his mouth is brilliant."
OK, we've set the tone. Forecast is for bitchy, with a chance of meowwww. In explaining his column, Doyel trashed the Arkansas fans as lunatics, called several of their players knuckleheads, and said that former Razorbacks quarterback Mitch Mustain "allowed himself to become a prostitute. Gus Malzahn was the pimp and Houston Nutt was the john in this recruiting tryst." From Arkansas Business.com:
Also, Doyel says he should have added the line that while he hopes Houston Nutt runs the score up this week, he also hopes he goes 4-8 "because you're an idiot too." Doyel hints to needing an editor, such as one of the radio hosts. He needs someone — fact-checker would be a good start.
At one point Hall asks Doyel if he had actually spent any time in Arkansas in preparation for his column, and Doyel cut him off, yelling "Shut up! Shut up! Let me talk!" Then, at the end, this:
"The whole goal was to have me on and embarrass me so you could have the message boards say how great you are," Doyel said to Arnell, "and I'm sorry I didn't play along, but it was fun nonetheless."
Then as Arnell tries to ask him another question, Doyel hangs up on him. Arnell, on the whole experience: "The guy needs some medication." Hall: "There are idiots among us ..." Anyway, if Doyel wants to be the next Jay Mariotti — clearly what he's shooting for, as far as I can tell — he's going to have to make some fundamental changes. First, invest in some collared shirts, man. Second, the Rayhawk has to go. And third, you've got to get meaner. Prostitutes? Pimps? You can do better than that. Mustain is a socialist who hangs around with terrorists and wants to redistribute your hard-earned paycheck. Try that. He Said What?: CBS Columnist Gregg Doyel Implodes On Arkansas Radio [ArkansasSports360.com]


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Sylvester Opens Unique Pediatric Oncology Clinic
Creating a new paradigm for treating children with cancer, alex's place is now open at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. The first facility of its kind in the nation and the first pediatric oncology clinic at Sylvester, alex's place merges research and clinical care from an academic medical center with innovative technology designed to ease the anxiety of therapeutic visits.
The novel approach is the brainchild of philanthropist and businessman Alexander "Alex" Daly and Julio Barredo, M.D., Toppel Family Professor of pediatric hematology-oncology and director of children's cancer programs at Sylvester, which is part of UHealth-University of Miami Health System.
"We have created not only a state-of-the-art clinical space with alex's place, but initiated a new approach to treating these young patients," says Barredo, noting that treating children involves caring for the patient, and their entire family. "Because of the unique structure of alex's place, we have taken that extra step beyond our already exceptional research and clinical care, incorporating technology to create a better experience and what we hope is a better outcome for our patients."
alex's place is designed to handle patient visits more efficiently, providing areas for infusions and transfusions that are both private and age-appropriate. In most cases, children and their families often spend hours in the clinic, a hardship doctors and other caregivers work to reduce to minimize the patient's exposure to infections. Animated panels in exam rooms distract young children from the medical procedures, easing their anxiety. A classroom provides space where patients and their siblings can keep up with homework, and an outside space includes a garden where parents can find a quiet retreat.
The clinic is multidisciplinary, so that children can see not only their oncologist, but other specialists who are participating in their care. Barredo, associate chair for basic research in the Department of Pediatrics, explains that cancer care for children can be complex and often requires input from endocrinologists, radiologists, neurologists and others who are now co-located in the new facility, a single-location approach that makes clinical visits much easier on families.
"The ability of our experienced pediatric oncology staff to provide outstanding medical care in a comforting and friendly environment makes alex's place such a special place for children and their parents," said Stephen D. Nimer, M.D., director of Sylvester. "Children need not only multidisciplinary care but also an environment where they can continue being children, which includes creative playtime and their ability to get their homework done. We are all proud to be a part of alex's place."
Alex, a UM alumnus, was particularly drawn to pediatric oncology because "of the ability to impact someone whose life is just beginning. The doctors and nurses are working to keep these children alive and functioning at a high level for a longer time. The science is there. This is now science with a heart."
Environmental and technological innovations are among the new components of the already stellar academic research and clinical care provided by Sylvester's pediatric oncologists. alex's place has distinct age-appropriate environments and technologically-advanced children's activities. As they arrive for treatment, children are greeted by an animated avatar that mirrors and reacts to their movements; the lily pads in an interactive "fish pond" for toddlers does the same, providing much-needed distractions. Using an interactive floor-to-ceiling mosaic screen, pre-teens and teens can create custom videos and share them via email, facilitating the critical social contact teenagers need to maintain a sense of normalcy with friends at school.
The interactive screens were designed by Snibbe Interactive, a company that creates interactive displays for a variety of outlets, including James Cameron's Avatar Exhibition and the Beijing Olympics. Artist, entrepreneur and CEO Scott Snibbe says alex's place is "blazing the trail" of using interactivity in children's hospitals. "Through immersive interactive technologies, we can not only help them forget their troubles, but also help build social connections with other kids and even get exercise."
Steven E. Lipshultz, M.D., the George Batchelor Professor of Pediatric Cardiology, describes the new pediatric oncology unit as a "shining jewel in the UHealth approach to childhood illness. We continue to strive to create gentler, yet more effective therapies for a variety of diseases, realizing that children cannot be treated as little adults. alex's place will complement the inpatient home for our childhood cancer programs at the Holtz Children's Hospital."
Physicians are realizing the importance of reducing stress in patients across all age groups. That's no more apparent than in children coping with a cancer diagnosis, which can be especially frightening. With the interactive elements incorporated into the treatment regimen, Barredo plans to study their effects on reducing stress.
Sylvester has the only Pediatric Phase I clinical trials program in South Florida, and the goal is to foster more collaboration between Sylvester scientists and pediatric oncologists. With alex's place bringing together researchers and physicians, the cancer center will be able to develop more pediatric cancer therapies and trials. Barredo said there's "no reason for children or their families to leave South Florida for treatment."


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Patch 2.4 teasers
OK, the new stuff is beginning to trickle out, and some of it strikes me as worthy of comment. Before I do so, some caveats.
1) Every patch, SOMETHING that was in teasers doesn't happen. It gets deleted or modified. Don't take anything anybody writes as a guarantee – especially don't spend money or time you can't afford in anticipation.
1a) This includes some things that were in the PTR literally the day before it closed. Not always, but often enough…
2) None of us looking at early release information KNOW all the details of how the various elements work. These are best guesses and info gleaned from remarks and tests. We are not guaranteeing We Know. Well, I'm not guaranteeing I Know – no refunds if you act based on my knowledge. I'll guess that everyone else speculating has the same warning, written or not.
2a) Again, this includes PTR experience.
With that out of the way… Right now, 2.4 info is being released in snippets and dabs. Several site will get lots of use by assembling them. My current reference point is at Elitist Jerks. They will not be alone – if you have a preference, go there. There are a few out that deserve discussion. Now, one that's getting much kicking right now is how Spell Haste will affect the Global Cooldown on spells. Nifty but I've nothing to add to those conversations. Though I wonder if Haste is going to work on Melee cooldowns. And I note that Spell and Melee GCD is not Trinket GCD. Probably.
No, there are three items (so far) of interest to me. I'll do them in ascending level of interest.
First, specific to priests. Shadowpriests will be able to cast Fear Ward while in shadowform. That is nice, but not earthshattering. Small buff.
Second, there are a lot of interesting adjustments specific to PVP. The one that caught my attention, however, was: "Honor calculations will now happen instantaneously, as opposed to nightly." Ummmmm. I predict an increase in honor kills. Inevitable. As an ugly confluence, they've killed diminishing returns as such. It's either full honor or nothing. Nothing now includes players suffering from Rez sickness, and players who've been killed 50+ times in a battleground.
50+? Dear Goo, WSG will go FOREVER.
Third, and for my personal interest MOST interesting:
"The combat log system will receive a dramatic overhaul."
Lots and lots and lots of speculation, not to mention odd comments at various times, have fed this one. It is POSSIBLE that we'll be able to track who's frisbee was bouncing around or who cast spells while in Improved Death form. It is POSSIBLE that we'll have – or have the option – of getting "spent xx mana to cast" in various lines. NOTE AGAIN – that is speculation pure and simple.
But making the logs easier to read (first), and getting a bit more clarity (second), and adding a few more information pieces (third) have all been mentioned IN GENERAL as objectives of improving the combat logs in the past. For those of us using WWS, or even just reading our own logs, this has GREAT potential.
In the meantime, though, we're playing 2.3.
Have fun
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Wow Kirk, you're putting out posts almost as fast as I can read them! I blinked (or went to work, same thing) and suddenly, there was a whole lot more to read. Nice 🙂
I would like to echo your excitement for the combat log overhauls. Let's hope Blizzard has taken the various comments seriously. I'll be happy even with a few of the many changes that were suggested, especially if they help improve what Lossendil can do with WWS. Better stats, analysis and tactics FTW.
The spell haste change to GCD is a big deal for CoH priests. Right now Spell Haste has absolutely zero value for me in a raid. After the patch, I could consider looking at spell haste gear to increase my throughput in a CoH build (I'm not saying i would, but it's no longer a completely wasted stat for me).
Idealy I hope that their changes and upgrades fill the gaps that Mods have filled. Eg Even simple things such as the mod that tells u who broke your shackle. Me likey ( means I cant be blamed 😛 ) They seem to be gearing towards a complete 'wow' package. Eg in game voice chat to replace Vent. Improvments and Map enchancements to replace some cartographer Combate log to show more then what they are now.. – I used to play wow without any adds/mods /thott and now where i couldn't survive without some


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It wasn't pretty, but one of the great closers in baseball -- the Twins' Joe Nathan -- was able to retire the Texas Rangers on Sunday after loading the bases with no one out in the ninth inning to preserve a 5-3 Twins victory at the Metrodome.
Without Nathan, the Twins wouldn't be in the American League Central race. What a competitor this man is.
Texas led 3-2 before the Twins rallied for three runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to take a 5-3 lead. Nathan came in to pitch the ninth.
"It's not fun with a two-run lead, especially after both teams battled all game," Nathan said. "We battled back late.
"[It's a] situation where [you're] trying to do whatever you can to hold the lead and you know, it's pressure. It's fun, though. You've got to enjoy it. You've got to try not to think about the guys on base. They're already on, how ever they got on, you got to let it go."
Nathan walked Hank Blalock, and Nelson Cruz singled Blalock to second. Then Nathan made a throwing error on a potential double-play grounder hit by Ivan Rodriguez that left the bases loaded.
"Two of them could have been out if I made a play," Nathan said. "But, you know, I tried to concentrate on that next guy and see what we can do from here."
Nathan struck out Elvis Andrus for the first out, bringing up designated hitter Julio Borbon, a guy who Nathan said is tough to double up. Nathan retired him on a short fly ball to Denard Span in left field for the second out.
"I was just really trying to get an out with him," Nathan said. "If he hit a sac fly, great, whatever. We're still up a run. Fortunately, we were able to keep him shallow enough to keep them at third base.
"And then, obviously, one of the best hitters in the game, Michael Young [hitting .326 with 22 home runs], is coming up, swinging the bat great. Just really wanted to make pitches against him."
Nathan got Young to ground into an unassisted forceout to Brendan Harris at third base to end the game and earn his 34th save.
Nathan threw 53 pitches -- equalling the most he's thrown in any appearance as a Twin -- in blowing a save and then hanging on to beat Kansas City 5-4 in 10 innings on Aug. 21.
"That's ancient history now. [My] arm feels good," he said. "We're hitting September here pretty soon. Like I always say, 'All that tired energy is going to go away.' Everything else from here on out is going to run on adrenaline.
"I feel good. I'm actually getting my arm slot back. My last few times out, my arm slot was kind of erratic, kind of dropping down a couple times. So [Sunday] felt good because I got my arm slot back to a consistent basis. I was able to throw some good fastballs away to lefthanders, and even bury some ... good sliders inside, some fastballs in."
Yes, one of the best moves the Twins have made is signing Nathan to a four-year, $47 million contract in March 2008. He doesn't have to take a back seat to any closer in the game.Favre ready
Vikings coach Brad Childress is looking forward to seeing quarterback Brett Favre play at least a half tonight against Houston because he knows the future Hall of Famer is ready.
"He's great. It's just a matter of him getting that lower body in shape," Childress said. "There is nothing wrong with his arm. He is up to speed. I know he is anxious to play here on Monday night.
"Yes, we are going to play him a half. It's a good barometer for our whole football team to see where we are at."Jottings
Although Vikings ticket sales have slowed down after the week Favre signed, ticket manager Phil Huebner reported more than 300 season tickets were sold in the past week. There are fewer than 1,000 seats left for the Oct. 5 Packers game, but you have to buy a season ticket to get a ticket for that game. The home opener against the 49ers on Sept. 27 is sure to sell out, with only 2,000 tickets remaining. Fewer than 1,000 tickets remain for the final preseason game Friday against the Cowboys. There are a larger number of tickets left for the remaining home games, including the Nov. 29 contest against the Bears.
Gophers football coach Tim Brewster got a kick out of watching the Jets-Ravens preseason game on television and seeing former Gophers tight end Jack Simmons of the Jets trying to block his ex-teammate, defensive end/linebacker Willie VanDeSteeg, who is with the Ravens. ... Nolan Brewster, son of the Gophers coach, appeared in all 13 games with Texas last year, primarily on special teams, and could be a starting safety this season.
Gophers athletic director Joel Maturi said if Notre Dame decides to drop Purdue, Michigan or Michigan State off its football schedule in the future, the Irish might have an opening to play the Gophers. Maturi said he has been talking to Notre Dame about a game and is confident it will happen in the future. He tried hard to get Notre Dame to be the opening opponent for the Gophers in new TCF Bank Stadium. ... Despite reports that the entire Gophers home football schedule is sold out, apparently there will be some tickets available. However, demand for the Wisconsin game is so big that Maturi, a former member of the Badgers athletic department, said he never knew he had so many friends.
If you watched Randy Moss catch six passes for 90 yards and two touchdowns Friday when the Patriots beat the Redskins 27-24, you know why Vikings owner Zygi Wilf gets upset every time he sees Moss have a great performance. "When we were negotiating to buy the team, I had an understanding that [former Vikings owner] Red McCombs wouldn't trade anybody, especially Moss," Wilf said. "But he did trade him."
Twins reliever Jesse Crain maintained his record of never allowing Texas an earned run when he pitched 1 1/3 innings of shutout ball Saturday. He's faced the Rangers 15 times in his career without allowing an earned run in 19 1/3 innings. ... Twins attendance through 66 home games is 1,922,916, an average of 29,135, compared to 1,822,783 last year, an average of 27,618.
At this point, all living members of the Twins' All-Metrodome team that will be honored in the last two games at the Dome are expected to be on hand except Torii Hunter, who will be playing with the Angels, and Chuck Knoblauch, who hasn't responded to the Twins. The Twins are hoping Johan Santana can attend now that the Mets pitcher is out for the season after elbow surgery.
Some Internet sites are reporting former Eden Prairie defensive tackle Willie Mobley is going to transfer from Ohio State to UCLA, but Eden Prairie football coach Mike Grant said that is news to him.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved a second test to screen blood, tissue and organ donors for a blood-borne parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi) that causes Chagas disease, a serious and potentially fatal parasitic infection.
The test, called Abbott Prism Chagas [Trypanosoma cruzi (E. coli, Recombinant) Antigen], detects antibodies to T. cruzi. It is a fully automated and highly sensitive and specific test for the detection of antibodies to T. cruzi.
The assay is intended as a screen to detect antibodies to T. cruzi in serum or plasma specimens obtained from donors of whole blood and blood components and other living donors.
It is also intended for use to screen organ donors when serum and plasma specimens are obtained while the donor's heart is still beating and in testing blood specimens to screen cadaveric donors (those whose hearts are not beating).
"Screening for T. cruzi is an important safety measure to help protect our blood supply and help prevent the spread of Chagas disease," said Karen Midthun, M.D., acting director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.
An estimated 300,000 people in the United States are infected with Chagas disease.
Chagas disease is spread mainly by blood-sucking insects infected with T. cruzi. Chagas disease can also be spread through blood transfusion, organ transplants and from mother to unborn child. National screening of the blood supply was instituted in early 2007, and more than 1,000 donors with T. cruzi infection have been identified within the past three years of testing.
The Abbott Prism Chagas is manufactured by Abbott Laboratories, based in Abbott Park, Ill.
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Big Rapids, Mich. - The nationally fifth-ranked Ferris State University men's ice hockey team capped off a big weekend sweep to increase its lead in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) standings as the Bulldogs beat Alaska Anchorage 5-3 before a sellout crowd of 2,490 fans on Saturday (Feb. 22) night inside the Ewigleben Ice Arena.
The Bulldogs scored three goals in the opening period and held off the Seawolves' charge in improving to 23-7-3 overall and 18-4-2 in league action. FSU had previously won Friday night's series' opener by a 4-2 count as the two teams squared off for the first time since 1988.
With the school's fourth capacity crowd in the last six contests on hand, Ferris State pushed its lead atop the WCHA standings to four points over second-place Minnesota State. Both teams have four games remaining in the regular season as the Mavericks will return to action next weekend.
Ferris State struck only 8:06 into Saturday's game as senior forward Garrett Thompson tallied his 14th goal of the campaign. He converted off a feed from junior forward Justin Buzzeo, who picked up his 16th assist of the year, with the second assist credited to freshman forward Kyle Schempp for his 15th of the year.
The lead grew to three goals at the end of the opening stanza as Ferris State added a pair of goals in the final five minutes of the first period. The first came from freshman forward Gerald Mayhew at 15:41 and marked his fourth of the season, including his second of the weekend, off an assist from senior Cory Kane.
Then, at 17:30, Kane recorded a goal of his own on a rush to the net and the unassisted score represented his 10th goal of the season.
The Seawolves finally cracked the scoring column 6:08 into the second period when Matt Bailey registered an even-strength goal for his 16th of the year with the assist given to Scott Allen.
However, Ferris State answered back only 30 seconds later when senior forward Andy Huff found the back of the net on the high glove side in a short-handed situation. The goal was his seventh of the season. Kane along with junior defenseman Jason Binkley both picked up the helpers for their 10th and 18th this campaign, respectively.
Bailey added his second goal of the night and 17th of the year at 14:26 of the middle frame on a Alaska Anchorage four-on-three power-play to trim the margin back to two goals. His second lamplighter of the evening was assisted by Austin Coldwell and Blake Tatchell and the 4-2 score in favor of the Bulldogs stood up thru the end of the second stanza.
The Seawolves wasted little time in making things interesting in the third period as they scored only 14 seconds into the period on a goal from Brett Cameron, who notched his seventh marker of the year. Bailey tallied his third point of the night with the first assist while Allen added his second of the evening and 10th assist of the season.
However, the Bulldogs managed to hold down the Seawolves the rest of the way and tacked on an empty-net goal from freshman Chad McDonald at 19:59 of the final period to account for the final score. His ninth goal of the year came off an assist from sophomore Kenny Babinski, who tallied his ninth helper to date.
Ferris State received 37 saves from junior goaltender CJ Motte in net as he improved to 22-5-3 overall this season with the triumph. He had 11 saves in the first period followed by a game-high 19 in the second and seven more in the third.
The Bulldogs needed Motte's performance in net as Alaska Anchorage had eight opportunities with the man-advantage, but managed to score only once. They also outshot the Bulldogs 40-31 for the night.
On the other end of the ice, Rob Gunderson earned the start in net for the Seawolves and made 26 saves, including 10 in both the first and third periods, while falling to 7-6-2 on the season.
Overall, the Bulldogs were called for 10 penalties totaling 20 minutes with Alaska Anchorage whistled seven times for 14 minutes in the sin bin. FSU was one-of-five on the power-play.
By virtue of his three-point night, Kane picked up the game's first star with Bailey earning the second for the Seawolves and Huff taking the third on the Bulldog side.
Alaska Anchorage fell to 15-13-4 overall and 11-11-4 in league action with two weekend losses. They had entered the weekend third overall in the WCHA standings, but dropped to fourth following Saturday's setback.
Ferris State moved to 12-1-1 overall on home ice with the victory and has yet to lose a conference home game this season inside the Ewigleben Ice Arena.
Saturday's sellout represented the Bulldogs' 15th since the second half of the historic 2011-12 campaign and the fourth in the last six games since the New Year. The "Dawg Pound" student section has also sold out each of the last 47 consecutive home contests.
This weekend's league home series also marked one of the final two home weekends for the Bulldogs in the regular-season prior to the WCHA Playoffs. FSU will host Lake Superior State in its final two regular-season outings on March 7-8 during "Senior Weekend" in Big Rapids with a special "Buy One, Get One Free" promotional offer available while supplies last.
Additionally, FSU has already clinched home ice for the opening round of the WCHA Playoffs. Ferris State will host an opponent to be determined in a best-of-three series set for March 14-16 with the winner advancing to the WCHA Final Five Championship on March 21-22 at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids.
Tickets for both the final regular-season series along with the first round of the WCHA Playoffs are currently on sale now and can be purchased thru the FSU Athletics Ticket Office, online at StarTickets.com or by calling 1-800-585-3737. For additional information, please visit FerrisStateBulldogs.com or call 231-591-2888.
Prior to the series against Lake Superior State, however, FSU will play its final regular-season road series as the Bulldogs travel to Fairbanks, Alaska, to face the Alaska Nanooks next Friday and Saturday, Feb. 28-March 1. Both games are scheduled for 11:07 p.m. (ET) starts.
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…a voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'make straight the way of the Lord…
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For I have chosen him, so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring upon [him] what He has spoken about him.
~ Genesis 18:19
Guiding Principles for My BusinessI fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice, therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects. I will succeed by attracting to myself the forces I wish to use, and the cooperation of other people. I will induce others to serve me, because of my willingness to serve others. I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me, because I will believe in them, and in myself. ~ Napoleon Hill
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Terrebonne Parish schools will get increased security following the mass shooting that left 26 dead at a Connecticut elementary school last Friday.
Terrebonne Parish schools will get increased security following the mass shooting that left 26 dead at a Connecticut elementary school last Friday.
In a letter addressed to parents Tuesday, Superintendent Philip Martin promised increased police presence on all school campuses following the tragedy.
"Beginning today, there will be an increased daily law enforcement presence on all school campuses; new and revised security measures will be implemented; security checks will be conducted; and long-term security plans were devised," Martin wrote to parents.
Martin said he met with Terrebonne Parish Sheriff Jerry Larpenter, Houma Police Chief Todd Duplantis, Parish President Michel Claudet and other parish officials to discuss how to more thoroughly address school safety.
"They were extremely cooperative and concerned with one mission — making schools as safe as they can be in light of that Connecticut tragedy," Martin said.
Heavier police presence will occur immediately at middle and elementary schools, Martin said. Middle and High schools have resource officers. Local law enforcement will attempt to have some presence at each school in the district.
How long officers will be present through the entire day at schools without a dedicated resource officer has not been decided, Martin said. Police have to assess manpower commitments.
"The full details haven't been worked out," Martin said. "They want a police presence at each school. How long and how much of the day, they couldn't commit to that yet."
Law enforcement will also be conducting random security checks in schools, Martin said. Details about what exactly that would entail were also not available.
"We are doing more today than what we were doing last week," Martin said. "School districts around the nation are having the same discussions."
Martin was hesitant to elaborate on other new security measures soon to be implemented in schools.
"Your security measures should be something that are not published because people will look to defeat them." Martin added.
Martin said the changes are short-term solutions. More thorough security measures will be discussed and implemented in the new year.
Lafourche Parish school spokesperson Floyd Benoit said no changes on law enforcement presence have been made in Lafourche schools following the shootings.
He noted the system has resource officers constantly on campus at each junior and senior high school. Resource officers also have some presence on elementary school campuses but rotate from campus to campus.
Lafourche Superintendent Jo Ann Matthews sent out a message to teachers Monday asking them to review crisis plans and remain vigilant.


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Many prominent physicists and mathematicians, born in Hungary, achieved their famous results abroad, but they remembered their school years, the students journal and student competition contributing to their career.
Gábor (Gabriel) Szegó (1895-1985) was a student of Lipót Fejér, took special care of János (John von) Neumann while he was a high school student. Later he became a professor at Stanford University where he worked together with György (George) Pölya. In the 1950's he initiated mathematical competitions in California following the pattern of the Eötvös competitions.
[For a successful mathematics competition] some sort of preparation is essential to arouse public interest. In Hungary, this was achieved by a (high-school mathematics) journal I remember vividly the time when I participated in, this phase of the Journal (in the years between 1908 and 1912). 1 would eagerly await the arrival of the issue each month and my first priority was to look at the problem section, almost breathlessly, and to start grappling with the problems without delay. The names of the others who were in the same business were quickly known to me, and frequently I read with considerable envy how they had succeeded to solve some problems which I could not handle with complete success, or how they had found a better solution (simpler, more elegant, or wittier) than the one I had sent in.
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TODAY the Stroud News & Journal joins the campaign calling on the secretary of state Eric Pickles to intervene and appoint a government inspector to determine the highly controversial £500 million Javelin Park planning application.
The organisations, local authorities and individuals listed below along with the protest group GlosVAIN have either already written to the communities secretary asking him to 'call-in' the incinerator application or have expressed their strong and unequivocal opposition to it.
Cheltenham Borough Council will debate the issue on February 8 and is also likely to request the application be called-in.
Readers of the SNJ are encouraged to sign-up to the campaign and make their voices heard by cutting-out and sending off the enclosed letter in today's newspaper (January 30 edition), which urges Mr Pickles to take action and call-in the proposal.
We also hope that many of our readers will add their names to the online government e-petition at: epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/43257
More than 3,000 members of the public have already registered objections to the planning application on the county council's website and in the past petitions against the development have attracted more than 5,000 signatures.
Local authorities
- Stroud Town Council
- Stonehouse Town Council
- Haresfield Parish Council
- Moreton Valence Parish Council
- Standish Parish Council
- Uckington Parish Council
- Bishops Cleeve Parish Council
- Leckhampton Parish Council
- Randwick Parish Council
- Churchdown Parish Council
- Natural England
- The Cotswold Conservation Board
- English Heritage
- The Campaign for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE)
- Friends of the Earth
- Gloucestershire Vale Against Incineration (GlosVAIN)
- Gloucestershire Against Incineration (GlosAIN)
- Safety in Waste and Rubbish Disposal (SWARD)
- Blooms Garden Centre
- Cheltenham MP Martin Horwood
- Former Stroud MP David Drew
- Jonathon Porritt (Former director of Friends of the Earth and co-founder of Forum for the Future)
The SNJ is supporting the 'call-in' campaign because we are deeply concerned that the following points will not be given full-consideration by GCC's planning committee:
- There is evidence that the UK already has too many incinerators and that there will be overcapacity in the South West region by 2015/2016. This prediction is made by waste consultants Eunomia who have themselves been used by GCC.
- It has been estimated that up to 50 per cent of the waste burned in incinerators in the UK is recyclable or compostable. In Europe, incinerators have been shown to harm recycling rates.
- Newer, cheaper, more environmentally friendly alternatives to incineration exist. Most of these waste disposal technologies result in less carbon emissions being emitted because they recycle rubbish which would otherwise be burnt in an incinerator.
- It is claimed some of these modern waste disposal facilities actually cost half as much to build and treat rubbish at half the cost.
- The £500 million cost to the taxpayer does not appear to represent good value for money.
- It is argued that incineration is already outdated technology but the county council are planning to sign a contract which would commit them to burning waste for 25 years. This could prevent them from taking advantage of superior technological solutions as they emerge.
- The proposed location of the plant, less than a mile away from the nationally important Cotswold AONB and in pristine countryside, appears to be highly unsuitable.
- Scientific experts working with the Health Protection Agency are currently undertaking research exploring a possible link between incinerator emissions and child deaths. Preliminary results of their study will not be published until 2014 - a year after building work on the Gloucestershire incinerator is scheduled to start.
- The ability of councillors to make an objective decision on the planning application is in doubt given that a compensation clause means GCC have a financial interest in approving the facility.
- The original case officer tasked with handling the planning application was reassigned to other duties by GCC bosses after expressing his desire to recommend it for refusal or deferral.
- GCC has overestimated the amount of waste being produced in the county. It is suggested not enough waste is being created to justify such a large-scale facility. There is speculation the shortfall will be made up by importing waste from outside the county - but the Gloucestershire taxpayer is footing the bill for the incinerator.
- The EU is considering banning the incineration of recyclable waste by 2020, meaning even less rubbish would be available to put into the incinerator, potentially undermining the business case for Javelin Park.
Click here to read why the SNJ believes a 'call-in' is the fairest way forward.


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Do you make your own croutons? I'm convinced that the world of cooks is divided into those who do, and those who don't, make their own croutons. I make my own, always have. I've never even bought a box of croutons, though I've certainly eaten them.
When I see a box on the shelf at a friend's I wonder, "how could they? Homemade are so much better!" And when the same friend sees me make my homemade version, they ask, "how could you? The box is so much easier!"
If you do make your own croutons, then I'm preaching to the choir. If not, I implore you to try, just once. It's really so so easy, and they are soooooo good. Especially if you start with a good quality Italian or French loaf bread, or a lovely baguette.
Looking around at other recipes I've noticed that many people make croutons in the oven. I've done that (and still do on occasion); but you do have to be careful if you cook them that way. In the oven it's easy to overcook them, turning them solid brown all around, when what you want it just lightly toasted on the outside, crunchy, but still a little spring in the bread.
The way my mother makes croutons (once at year at least for her famed and fabulous turkey stuffing) is to toast them in a little melted butter in a wide shallow pan on the stove-top. It's best to use day old French or Italian loaf bread, but you can dry out the cubed bread in a warm oven for a few minutes if you are working with fresh bread.
Butter is for the flavor. It can't be beat. You don't need anything else actually. Just butter. If you are working with butter and some good bread, the flavor is just perfect.
How to Make Croutons
- French or Italian loaf bread, or a French baguette, at least a day old
- 3 to 4 Tbsp butter
1 Cut the bread into cubes: Cut the bread into even-sized cubes, about 3/4-inch to an inch wide. A loaf will yield about 8 cups of cubed bread (give or take a couple cups, depending on the size of the loaf).
2 Put cubed bread in a warm oven for 10 min: The bread should be a little dry, at least a day old if you are using French or Italian loaf or a baguette. If the bread isn't just a little dry, spread the cubes out on a baking sheet and put them in a warm oven (200°F or 90°C) for about 10 minutes.
You don't want them to be all dried out, just a little dry on the surface so that they brown better, and they hold up better when tossed in a salad or baked in a stuffing.
3 Brown croutons in butter in sauté pan: Melt butter on medium high heat in a large sauté pan. Add the croutons and mix them up in the butter so they get lightly coated. Spread the croutons out in a single layer in the pan.
Then don't stir them until they start to brown on one side. Once they start to brown, use a metal spatula to lift them up and turn them over, so more sides brown. When the croutons are at least a little toasted on a couple of sides, remove from heat.
If storing, let cool completely before putting in an airtight container. Otherwise the steam released from the warm croutons will take away their crunch.
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UMBC plays two of the top three teams in America East this week, as they welcome Albany and then Vermont to the RAC Arena. The Retrievers meet the Great Danes on Wed., Feb. 6 with a tip time of 7:05 p.m. Gary Stein and Paul Mittermeier handle broadcast duties on Q1370 (www.q1370.com) and all UMBC home basketball games are streamed on www.umbcretrievers.tv.
UMBC will be clad in its traditional black road uniforms for the 7th annual "RAC in Black" promotion.
RETRIEVER UPDATE: UMBC (4-5, 6-16) is riding its first two-game winning streak since 2010-11 with back-to-back nail-biting victories over Binghamton and Maine last week. SR G Brian Neller was named America East Player of the Week after scoring a season-high 18 points vs. the Bearcats and hitting the game-winning trey with 0.5 seconds remaining vs. the Black Bears. JR F Chase Plummer leads UMBC with 13.2 ppg in league play, while SR G Ryan Cook is the overall leader at 15.2 points per outing.
GREAT DANE UPDATE: Albany (6-4, 17-7) just completed a four-game homestand and snapped a three-game slide with a 79-46 thrashing of Binghamton on Feb. 2. SR wing Jayson Guerrier led a resurgent UA attack with 18 points. Albany had averaged just 46.0 points per game in setbacks to Vermont and Stony Brook. SR G Mike Black leads Albany with 15.2 points per game. Albany is 8-2 on the road in 2012-13.
WHO'S UP NEXT: The Retrievers complete the three-game homestand by entertaining Vermont in the nightcap of a doubleheader on Sat., Feb. 9. Tip-off time is set for 3:30 p.m.


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