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It creeps up on me every year: last Wednesday was Walter Payton's birthday, and that's something I like to celebrate.
He would have been 58.
Walter was cut down far too early of a rare autoimmune liver disease known as primary sclerosing cholangitis, which may have led to his cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct cancer). But it's his birth, rather than his death, that I like to remember. Somehow, I will always recall Payton as a man in his prime, exuberantly full of life.
He was not the first great running back I ever saw. I've been watching football for over five decades now, and I've seen a lot of the great backs, including watching Gale Sayers at Wrigley Field when I was still small.
Back then, football was just discovering the power of television to capture viewers with new angles and shots. They were starting to follow the players who controlled the path of the ball, finding new perspectives to show the big hits and big plays, so running backs got an increasing amount of airtime. I watched so many great ones - Barry Sanders, Emmitt Smith, Eric Dickerson. More recently, I've gotten to enjoy the power and skill of Terrell Davis, Mike Anderson, LaDainian Tomlinson and countless others. Payton was perhaps the best of them all, and for far more reasons than just his running skills. They called him 'Sweetness', and he was every bit of that.
Coming into the home stretch for the 2011 NFL Draft, Denver fans are still facing considerable uncertainty on the fate of the #2 pick. The lack of a CBA means that trades cannot involve players already under contract (in theory) to the teams involved. It also means that we can't know if there will be a rookie cap that would make the pick more enticing, since the money would be less than the astronomical guarantees that the top draftees obtain. Last, you usually see a team that really needs a certain position - OT and QB are the two most common, but WR and sometimes RB have come into play - trading up. This year's QBs are a mixed lot - probably not the strongest of QB classes means that less teams are ready to mortgage their additional picks in order to get X player.
That doesn't mean that such a trade is impossible - in the NFL, it only takes a single covetous team to make that upward move. But they have so many unusual factors that I've consistently avoided factoring trades into my draft pick discussions. There are four players who are of interest to the Broncos, and two of them play the position that Denver is weakest in - defensive tackles Nick Fairley of Auburn and Marcell Dareus of Alabama. The other two are phenom cornerback from LSU Patrick Peterson and all-everything linebacker Von Miller out of Texas A&M. Today, it's Fairley who merits a long look.
Marcell Dareus was born into a large family of seven children with an American-born mother and a Haitian immigrant father. He was the sixth child of the seven; six boys and a single girl (a girl who probably had a little trouble dating in high school with all those large, protective young men around). There was a lot that Marcell never really had to learn, he said - his siblings and his mother were his teachers, and the family took care of him. His father passed away when Marcell was only six, though, and his mother was left alone to raise a house full of children. Times became hard. Food could get scarce. Marcell noticed it - you don't miss it when your belly is empty too much - but his family tried to insulate the younger ones against the worst of it.
There was a palpable joy in the family when his mother remarried - having a breadwinner helped with many things, and food not the least of them . But the celebration was cut short a few years back, when she nearly died of congestive heart failure, and was subsequently confined to a wheelchair. Marcell saw things as they were, and it broke his own big heart. He'd always been a happy-go-lucky kind of kid, with his mother having a big effect on him and all those brothers watching out for him, but this was something that he couldn't just smile his way through. He struggled with other things - Scott Livingston, an assistant football coach at Huffington High, where Dareus spent his senior year (he'd started at Hayes HS in Avondale, and then when Hayes closed, Marcell moved to East Lake, and Huffington HS), had been looking out for the big kid, but Scott was killed in an auto accident that winter.
The two men couldn't be more different:
Vincent Thomas Lombardi had come to the NY Giants as an assistant in 1953 and rapidly moved up to running their offense. He was a man of tremendous passion: he saw no contradiction in his deep devotion to his Catholic faith and the profanity-laced tirades that he quickly became famous for as he rose to the offensive coordinator position for the Giants, before becoming the head coach of the venerable Green Bay Packers. He became the ideal coach for his era, motivating like no one else in the game, molding a team that was as physical as it was fearless into winning five NFL championships. His .738 winning percentage remains the third best of all-time. Mercurial, vastly intelligent and intensely innovative as a coach, many of Lombardi's developments for the NFL game remain standard aspects of it almost six decades later. It defines the concept of a legacy.
Thomas Wade Landry was the polar opposite of Lombardi, which was fitting since he had become the defensive coordinator of the Giants at about the same time Lombardi took over the offense. Landry had trained as an industrial engineer at the University of Texas and flew bombers as a co-pilot in World War II. He flew a total of 30 missions during the war and even survived a crash landing in Belgium when his plane ran out of fuel. He was a player-coach with New York from 1955-57 before becoming a full-time coach the following year. His methodical, step-by-step process of innovation was a stark contrast to Lombardi's impassioned approach, although Lombardi's innovation was no less than Landry's. Landry was also a self-professed born-again fundamentalist Protestant, and in person he was reserved to the point that people often found him 'cold'. He demanded that the front office give him players who were 'good Christians' and family men.
Continue reading "Lombardi, Landry and the invention of modern football"
It's one of the most inspiring stories in this year's draft: He was born Sandon Mark Herzlich, Jr., on September 1, 1987, to Sandon and Barbara Herzlich, and became known as Mark. He also has a younger brother, Bradley. They're a close-knit family, a factor that played a role in his recovery from being diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma in 2009, a cancer that attacks bones, and which took away part of his left femur, the bone in the thigh, which has been replaced by a 12-inch titanium rod. Mark moved back to be nearer to them in that time.
Herzlich has won a multitude of awards for the way that he handled his disease, and the way that he created outreach opportunities to convince other sufferers that they could beat their cancers, recover and have any life that appealed to them. He won the Rudy Award in 2010 - an honor that's given to a college football player each year who shows exemplary character, courage, contribution and commitment. It was presented to Herzlich's father at the American Football Coaches Association convention in Dallas. It was only one of many. He was also given the ACC's Brian Piccolo Award for the most courageous player during his senior year.
He doesn't drink. He doesn't smoke, and he doesn't do any drugs. Whether folks love Marvin Austin or hate him, his fall from grace last year is a man-sized lesson that should be told as a warning to college athletes everywhere: When the NCAA tells you that not a nickel can come to a player from an agent, they're serious. And, remember that once you tweet it, you can't take it back.
Austin was suspended for his entire final season at the University of North Carolina where he had been a highly touted defensive tackle. There were (and still are) allegations that Austin, among other players, took money in transportation costs from an agent in order to attend one of the agent's parties, and he may have taken money for other things, including an expensive watch. The school (loosely) suggested that there might have been some academic issues as well, but then another, perhaps even deeper problem surfaced...
Much of what has been written regarding the Broncos' draft outlook has focused heavily on the issue of which player the team takes at number two, or whether they trade down and try to pick up an extra choice or two. That's an important decision, no question. Denver's offensive and defensive lines need help, and free agency may not happen in anything like its usual manner, so deciding whether there's a player at #2 that's worth the pick or whether going for more picks is a better option ranks right up there with the call on 4th and goal with 3 seconds left on the clock - you can't afford to get this one wrong. On that issue, I found myself recalling a poster that was common when I was in college, and it probably stayed around. It only said,
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil: for I am the meanest SOB in the valley
This is the fourth in a multi-part series on the history of the NFL Draft. Part 1 covered the 1920s and 30s, Part 2 chronicled the 1940s, while Part 3 spanned most of the 1950s.
Aside from the change to its modern name in 1922, the biggest change in the NFL's history to this point in our story was created out of a foundering attempt to buy a baseball or a football franchise. A quiet, genteel progeny of a Texas-sized family fortune listened to a man named Branch Rickey - the same Branch Rickey who invented baseball's farm system, became president of and managed the Brooklyn Dodgers, broke the color barrier by signing Jackie Robinson, and who would in 1967 be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Rickey was trying to put together a third baseball associations to compete with the National and American Leagues, and his concept was the Continental Baseball League. He wanted backers, men who could buy franchises but who had been shut out of the first two leagues.
Continue reading "Talegating: History of the NFL Draft - 1959"
This is the third in a multi-part series on the history of the NFL Draft. Part 1 covered the 1920s and 30s, while Part 2 chronicled the 1940s.
With the merger of the AAFC teams into the NFL, the league was poised to change the way that people viewed the game culturally and literally. The 1950s saw a wide variety of changes to the NFL game that would have repercussions that still reverberate today, and none was bigger than the movement of the games to the newly developed technology, the television. As NFL legend Tex Schramm, who would coordinate the merger of the AFL and NFL, would note, "The Fifties were the decade in which everyone became a watcher instead of a doer." Television ownership rocketed from around 172,000 in 1949 to over 25 million in 1954. The effects on the game of football were beyond imagining.
Continue reading "Talegating: History of the NFL Draft, Part 3"
Many questions still swirl around the eye of the NFL's labor storm - through the rooms where the formal negotiations between the NFL owners, usually just called 'the league', and the NFLPA. As tends to be the case in modern labor negotiations, the questions at hand are about money - how much is there really, where does it come from, and how will it be divided? Also as usual, these are not simple queries.
The questions of the CBA and the rights of owners and union are extraordinarily complex, and to understand why much of it is the way it is, you have to examine the league's history. The NFL lobbied hard throughout the 1940s and 1950s to be granted an antitrust exemption from the US government. In exchange for obtaining that exemption (an exemption which creates large amounts of money for them and protects them against various legal entanglements), they agreed to various qualifiers which now empower the players' union. The league would like to see that change. The players, and so far the courts, are far less interested in that outcome.


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By Amy Romano
This article is part of A Woman's Guide to VBAC: Navigating the NIH Consensus Recommendations, a collection of resources that address the most common and pressing questions women may have about their birth choices. View all sections in the guide, including a link to the authors, on the index page.
The NIH Consensus Conference Panel set out to review and publicize the evidence (research) to help women make informed choices between planned VBAC and planned repeat cesarean. Their review revealed that most of the research has focused on short-term outcomes such as bleeding, infection, and length of hospital stay and serious events such as uterine rupture, hysterectomy, and newborn death or serious injury. Much less attention has been given to longer-term outcomes or to the modifiable factors (such as care in pregnancy and labor) that can produce the best health outcomes for mother and baby and make VBAC - or for that matter, repeat cesareans - safer.
The Panel identified ten critical gaps in the evidence, which can be reviewed in full in this section of the Panel's recommendations: http://consensus.nih.gov/2010/vbacstatement.htm#q6.
This article will take a closer look at several of these gaps, and suggest strategies for making the best choice possible in the absence of good research.
What is the safest way to care for a woman in labor with a scarred uterus? Your likelihood of safely achieving a vaginal birth should you plan a VBAC is affected by some factors that cannot be changed, such as your general health, whether you have had a prior vaginal birth, and the reason for your prior cesarean. But it may also be affected by factors that can be altered by your care providers, your birth setting, your support team, and your choices in labor. Surprisingly, almost no research has been conducted to define the best way to care for women in VBAC labors.
What you can do in the absence of good evidence: Until that research is available, women may need to rely on research about safe practices in any labor, plus some common sense. Try to make choices that keep you and your baby safe and are associated with a higher chance of vaginal birth, such as:
- Use a midwife for your care, or if none is available, choose a doctor with a low cesarean rate and a high VBAC rate.
- Avoid induction of labor unless there is a clear need.
- Plan for excellent labor support, including a doula if possible.
- Walk, move, and change positions in labor as much as possible.
- Plan to use a variety of strategies to cope with pain before considering an epidural, including a tub or shower, position changes, relaxation techniques, and massage or counter-pressure.
- Stay well nourished and hydrated.
- Follow your own urge to push and stay off your back when pushing.
Women without a prior cesarean can also reduce their chance of a c-section by staying home in early labor and having intermittent (periodic) monitoring of the baby's heartbeat in labor. These recommendations are more controversial for women with prior c-sections. Many care providers, concerned about the small possibility of uterine rupture and their professional liability should it occur, will insist that a woman with a scarred uterus come to the hospital as soon as regular contractions begin and that the fetal heart rate be continuously monitored after hospital admission. There is no evidence that coming to the hospital early in labor is safer than encouraging the woman to experience early labor in their own home, and it is very likely to increase the chance of a cesarean by setting into motion the cascade of interventions and putting you on the clock. If you do stay home in early labor, have someone there to give you continuous physical and emotional support and call your care provider if you have any symptoms that concern you.
Continuous electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) increases the chance that a low-risk woman will have a c-section, but no research tells us if the same is true in VBAC labors, nor under which circumstances, if any, continuous EFM improves health outcomes for the baby in VBAC labors. An abnormally slow fetal heart rate is the best indicator that the woman's uterine scar has ruptured or is about to rupture, and continuous monitoring can detect a slow heart rate quickly. But early diagnosis of a problematic fetal heart rate pattern may not always alter the outcome - some babies may still be injured no matter how early the diagnosis and other babies may be OK even if the diagnosis is delayed. In the absence of conclusive evidence, most care providers will recommend or insist on continuous EFM and many women may feel safer with continuous monitoring. If you have continuous fetal monitoring, ask for cordless (or telemetry) monitoring that allows you to move around. Most hospitals have water-proof fetal monitoring equipment so you may be able to use a shower or tub for pain relief even with continuous monitoring.
What are the long-term outcomes for mothers and babies after VBAC, unplanned repeat cesarean, and planned repeat cesarean? Not enough research is available to provide a full picture of the long-term benefits and harms of different birth routes.
By far, most of the evidence from long-term studies or observations favors planned VBAC. Women who plan and achieve a VBAC have the best long-term health, in part because they avoid the known increased risks of placenta accreta, placenta previa, and hysterectomy should they become pregnant again. (These risks are reviewed in this section of the guide.) We have less evidence for other long-term outcomes, but the evidence we do have suggests that planned VBAC may also reduce the likelihood of:
- chronic pain
- subsequent ectopic pregnancy
- stillbirth in a subsequent pregnancy
- infertility
- complications during subsequent abdominal or pelvic surgeries, including surgical adhesions (which may make the surgery and the recovery more difficult), significant bleeding, and injuries to the bladder, ureters, and bowel.
On the other hand, although the overall likelihood of injury to the baby is low whether a woman plans a VBAC or a repeat cesarean, more babies experience brain or nerve injuries during VBAC labors than during planned repeat cesareans, and some of these injuries have long-term consequences. The researchers found no studies that measured the impact of planned VBAC versus planned repeat cesarean on the long-term neurologic development of infants.
The researchers tried to determine if planned repeat cesarean protected pelvic floor strength and function. They found no studies that looked at this issue, and state that the body of literature that suggests that primary (first birth) elective cesarean delivery offers a modest, short-term benefit to the pelvic floor may not apply to women considering repeat cesarean delivery. This is because, unlike a woman considering a cesarean for her first birth, women considering repeat cesareans have had prior pregnancies and may have had prior labors, both of which alter the pelvic floor muscles.
What you can do in the absence of good evidence: It is reasonable to incorporate these findings into your decision-making even though they come from studies that are not as strong as they could be. It is clear that for women who may go on to have more children, a history of multiple cesareans increases risks substantially in subsequent pregnancies. Therefore, you should strongly consider a VBAC if you think there is a chance you might become pregnant again in the future. Even if you do not plan to have more children, you should be aware of risks for future pregnancies. Many women change their mind about becoming pregnant again or decide to carry an unplanned pregnancy.
What approach to decision-making, what care around the time of birth, and which planned mode of birth protect and promote the psychological and emotional wellbeing of mothers, infants, and families? The researchers found no studies that address psychological or emotional outcomes.
What you can do in the absence of good evidence: Even though there is no research specific to women with prior cesareans, research generally suggests that you are the least likely to suffer emotionally or psychologically when you:
- participate actively in your care
- have care providers who are responsive to your needs and desires
- have good emotional support around the time of birth and in the days and weeks after the baby is born.
On the other hand, unexpected serious outcomes, such as death or injury to the baby or a hemorrhage requiring hysterectomy, can cause emotional suffering that can sometimes be debilitating and long-term. Serious outcomes are least likely in women who successfully birth vaginally, so strategies that safely increase the likelihood of vaginal birth in women planning a VBAC may protect emotional and psychological wellbeing as well.
If you experience emotional distress after birth, reach out to support groups in your community or online. Solace for Mothers, the International Cesarean Awareness Network, and Postpartum Progress are great resources.
What is the effect on breastfeeding of VBAC, unplanned repeat cesarean, and planned repeat cesarean? The researchers found no studies that address breastfeeding rates or the likelihood and severity of breastfeeding problems.
What you can do in the absence of good evidence: Be aware that it is very likely that VBAC will increase the ease with which you will be able to breastfeed, since vaginal birth and breastfeeding are part of a biological continuum. In addition, in most settings, cesarean surgery necessitates at least a brief (and sometimes prolonged) separation between mother and baby, which is known to disrupt breastfeeding, and postoperative pain may make early breastfeeding difficult.
Also be aware that with excellent lactation support and patience, breastfeeding difficulties related to cesarean surgery can usually be overcome. Whether you plan a vaginal birth or a repeat cesarean, discuss with your care providers your desire to minimize separation from your baby, including strategies for keeping your baby with you or your partner should you have a cesarean. If possible, give birth in a setting that adheres to the standards of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative.

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Albany Academy wins 'A' title
Cadets' defense stifling vs. John Adams in battle for Federation tournament crown
Published 12:14 am, Sunday, March 24, 2013
One night removed from a nail-biting win courtesy of a 3-pointer at the buzzer by senior Jack Morrow, the Albany Academy boys' basketball team took the court Saturday at Times Union Center in search of its first Federation Tournament of Champions title in the history of the program.
Riding a tremendous effort on the defensive end, the Cadets, members of the Association of Independent Schools, grinded out a 50-34 win over John Adams (Public School Athletic League) in the Class A final.
"It's what we've been doing all year. Defense wins championships and that was evident in these two games," Cadets junior John Moutopoulos said.
From the opening tipoff, Albany Academy prevented the Spartans from getting into any sort of rhythm on offense. The Cadets finished with eight steals, grabbed 29 defensive boards and held John Adams to 12-for-56 (21.4 percent) shooting.
"That was the toughest team we played against in our run," said John Adams senior guard Paul Johnson, who finished with a game-high 20 points. "They locked us up."
"We have stuff that's unique," Albany Academy coach Brian Fruscio said. "We play zone for a couple of passes then it becomes man."
Albany Academy leapt out to a 7-0 lead to start the game and closed out the first quarter with a 15-5 advantage.
With just more than five minutes left in the first half, Cadets sophomore Ray Jerome stole the ball and spun toward the basket, converting off the glass to give his team a 19-7 lead.
John Adams went on an 11-2 run following Jerome's basket to cut Albany Academy's lead to three points before a drive by senior guard Darrien White pushed the lead to 23-18 at halftime.
"That's part of championships. Good teams are going to make runs," Fruscio said. "Our guys just don't panic."
The Cadets held the Spartans (25-6) to 22 percent shooting in the second half and put the game out of reach at the free-throw line.
Albany Academy (16-4) scored 12 points off John Adams' turnovers and most notably, held a 30-12 scoring edge in the paint.
"Coach told us to go to the basket strong and make layups," White said.
Marcus Jackson scored a team-high 13 points and grabbed 13 boards, and Morrow added seven points. Both were named to the All-Tournament team. White, the tournament's Most Valuable Player, poured in 10 points on 4-for-5 shooting to go along with four assists and three steals.
Albany Academy became the second area team to win a Federation title. The Watervliet boys, the lone Section II team to win a title, captured the Class C crown in 1991.
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Monday, June 1, 2009
Willoughby, Marianne, and Colonel Brandon in the flesh!
I've been having a bit of fun with portraits. We all have our own images in our heads of what our favourite characters look like and I often see a painting and think -'Oh, there's a Bingley, or he'd make a good Mr Darcy. I found these which match my thoughts on Willoughby, Marianne, and Colonel Brandon from Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. I love the cover on my new book, Willoughby's Return, but I'd love to see the whole portrait - it only gives a tantalizing glimpse of what can only be a handsome man! I'm not sure about the little inset picture which I think is a lovely Marianne - is it a Greuze? I'm not sure, I shall have to investigate.I love portraits from Jane Austen's time (as you've probably guessed) and when I was browsing through one or two sites of miniature portraits I came across this one and instantly thought of the badboy we love and hate (depending on where we've got to whilst reading or watching Sense and Sensibility). Isn't he Mr Willoughby to a tee? '...his person, which was uncommonly handsome, received additional charms from his voice and expression.' He's very handsome and gentleman-like with a powdered wig - when Jane Austen wrote her first version of Sense and Sensibility in 1795/6 hair powder would still have been worn though shortly after this time a tax was imposed on it by the government thus ensuring that people stopped using it. I love his dark coat too, he probably keeps this one for best, and not for shooting in the woods around Allenham.
As soon as I'd found Willoughby I wondered if I could find Marianne, and here she is: 'Her form, though not so correct as her sister's, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was so lovely, that when, in the common cant of praise, she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outraged than usually happens. Her skin was very brown, but from its transparency, her complexion was uncommonly brilliant; her features were all good; her smile was sweet and attractive; and in her eyes, which were very dark, there was a life, a spirit, an eagerness which could hardly be seen without delight. From Willoughby their expression was at first held back, by the embarrassment which the remembrance of his assistance created.' I think she's rather lovely.
Last, but by no means least is my lovely Colonel - don't you think he looks just gorgeous, his eyes are so kind. I think he would look after Marianne beautifully, and he looks as if he might have poetry in his soul. 'Colonel Brandon, the friend of Sir John, seemed no more adapted by resemblance of manner to be his friend, than Lady Middleton was to be his wife, or Mrs. Jennings to be Lady Middleton's mother. He was silent and grave. His appearance, however, was not unpleasing, in spite of his being in the opinion of Marianne and Margaret an absolute old bachelor, for he was on the wrong side of five-and-thirty; but though his face was not handsome his countenance was sensible, and his address was particularly gentlemanlike.'
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Just looking at this love triangle makes me want to read S&S all over again!
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- Milka said...
Hey Jane!
I just finished with Lydia Bennet's Story this week and I must say that I loved it. I love the fact that also Lydia got her happy ending, even though she has never been one of my favorite characters from Pride and Prejudice. I am really happy I got a change to read your book and I am really looking forward to read Willoughby's return... :)
- June 4, 2009 at 11:05 PM
- Jane Odiwe said...
Hi Milka,
I am so thrilled that you enjoyed Lydia especially as you didn't like her at first.
I've just finished writing another book, a sequel with Elizabeth and Darcy. Lydia has a much smaller part to play but she is more like the character she is in Pride and Prejudice - I felt so disloyal when I was writing it, but it was necessary for the plot!
Take care,
- June 5, 2009 at 7:49 AM
- Milka said...
A sequel with Elizabeth and Darcy sounds really interesting. :) I keep reading your blog, it is so interesting!
Take care and have a great summer!
- June 5, 2009 at 9:53 PM
- Jane Odiwe said...
You too, have fun!
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Scientists threaten strike over jailing of primatologist
Scientists in Brazil are considering strike action over the case of a primatologist jailed for biopiracy offences, which they say is likely to lead to the treatment of all researchers in the tropics as potential criminals.
Marc van Roosmalen — who has lived and worked in the Amazon for over 20 years — was jailed for 15 years and 9 months in June for moving and keeping monkeys without permits, auctioning the names of new primate species, and selling materials donated by his former employer.
A petition signed in July by 287 researchers from 31 countries states that van Roosmalen's sentencing was "out of proportion with his alleged crimes" and "indicative of governmental restrictions on scientists".
The Brazilian authorities say they cannot deal lightly with violations, but researchers are worried van Roosmalen's case will set a precedent and that, in trying to combat biopiracy, the authorities are stifling the country's scientific potential.
The petitioners say they are "ready to propose more forceful political acts" against tougher biopiracy rules and regulations allowing the Brazilian military to veto collaborative projects with foreign scientists.
Scientists working in tropical areas outside Brazil say they too are experiencing difficulties owing to crackdowns on potential biopiracy.
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Raise denied for school admins next year
Published 2:01 pm, Thursday, February 27, 2014
Darien school administrators will go without their desired 2 percent salary increase for one year following arbitration between the Board of Education and the Darien Administrators' Association, saving the district between $60,000 and $70,000.
During the presentation of information Jan. 24 and 25, the Board of Education said it could not support an increase in salary after the year-long struggle with improving the special education department, which was found to be in violation of several state laws.
"The board has taken the position in this arbitration that the current members of this bargaining unit should bear the brunt of these events," according to the arbitration decision. "The board repeatedly referred to this bargaining unit as being responsible for the costs, the media coverage, and the community anger and distress."
The Board of Education presented an offer of a one-year contract with a zero percent increase, while the DAA sought a three-year contract. Administrators have received three-year contracts for the last 20 years.
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The arbitrators awarded the administrators the three-year contract, but in the first year of the contract there will be no salary increase. A 2 percent increase will be given in the next two years.
The town officials felt a salary increase in the first year was not appropriate.
During the hearing process, Board of Finance Chairman Liz Mao said her board and the Representative Town Meeting likely would vote down the raise.
"I think it's just indefensible while we're in the middle of trying to solve all the problems," Mao said. "Administrators have a chance of getting a better salary once we're through this."
Mao said that she did not feel all of the administrators were responsible for the problems in the special education department.
However, administrators told the arbitrators that attempts were made to alert the top administration that there were problems in the special education department.
Rita Ferri, president of the Darien Administrators' Association and Hindley Elementary School principal, had no comment regarding the arbitrators' decision.
Negotiations between the two parties started Sept. 11, at which point the Board of Education told the bargaining unit that it proposed a one-year contract rollover with no wage increase, with which the union did not agree.
"Throughout the negotiation process, the board's position has been that now is not a good time to provide for any salary increases for Darien administrators," said Tom Mooney, a Shipman & Goodwin attorney working with the Board of Education. "Accordingly, it did not make a last best offer on salary for either 2015-2016 or 2016-2017. In so doing, the board was aware that the association's last best offers on salary for these years at 2 percent were somewhat lower than the average settlements for those years, and the Board was aware that ceding the salary issue at 2 percent for those years did not disadvantage the board."
While the board would have preferred a voluntary agreement on a one-year contract, Mooney said, "It was not surprised or displeased with a three-year contract."
"To the extent that the community of Darien mistrusts school administrators and board members, the board and the administrators have set out a number of avenues to repair the relationships and make sure that the educational opportunities offered to children with disabilities are appropriate, legal and procedurally correct," the decision said. "While these remedial steps are being taken, it is in the public interest that resources and attention not be focused on extra collective bargaining."
Since the parents' complaint with the state Department of Education was filed in March 2013, the Board of Education has hired several individuals to help it repair the special education department. Attorney Theresa DeFrancis was hired to rewrite the training manuals and policies for staff. Attorney Sue Gamm was hired to conduct an independent investigation. John Verre was hired as an ombudsman to oversee the department while it is rebuilt during the 2013-14 school year. Attorney Mary Gelfman was hired to act as a facilitator for parents.
In order to rectify the errors within the special education department, the school board is expected to pay upward of $1 million, which Mao and Board of Education Chairman Betsy Hagerty-Ross have both said.
"In the end, the board is very comfortable with the outcome of the arbitration award," Hagerty-Ross said. "It's time to move forward."
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By Robyn Collins
Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder joined Roger Waters on stage Sunday (July 23) night in Chicago. The two rockers took turns traded lines from the Pink Floyd classic "Comfortably Numb."
Related: Eddie Vedder Recalls the Time Paul McCartney Punched Him in the Face
The appearance wasn't announced to the audience, Vedder just snuck out on stage to hit the first chorus, after which the two artists hugged, and proceeded to complete the song as a joint effort.
Pearl Jam has been playing a cover of the iconic tune in the years following a 12:12:12 Hurricane Sandy benefit at Madison Square Garden, where Vedder and the Pink Floyd bassist teamed up on the tune.


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SEOUL, June 18 (Reuters) - The South Korean won ended slightly weaker against the dollar on Wednesday, easing for a fifth straight session as a high U.S. inflation number fuelled speculation the Federal Reserve might consider an earlier-than-expected rate hike.
However, exporters bought the won on dips for settlements to pare earlier losses.
The local currency was quoted at 1,022.4 per dollar at the end of onshore trade, compared with Tuesday's close at 1,021.9.
The won's five-day losing streak is its longest since mid-January.
The Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) closed down 0.6 percent at 1,989.49 points, with domestic institutional investors offloading blue-chip names prior to the end of the Fed meeting later in the global day.
Institutional investors sold a net 143.7 billion won ($141.19 million) of KOSPI shares, pulling Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Hyundai Motor Co down 1.2 percent and 1.5 percent, respectively. ($1 = 1017.8000 South Korean Won) (Reporting by Jungmin Jang)


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If Mitt Romney is elected president, then the economy may experience another recession, according to Paul Krugman. "I think there's a real chance that he'll manage to pursue a policy in the first couple of years that simultaneously blows up the deficit and depresses the economy," "Tax cuts for the rich, who won't spend them, and slash spending for the poor and the middle class, who will be forced to cut back. And so we end up managing to have a simultaneous deficit explosion and double-dip recession."
Tax cuts for the rich do not help economic growth, according to two recent studies, and some analyses have found that Romney's proposed tax cuts would help the wealthy the most. Romney also has promised to slash government spending by roughly one-fifth, which economists say would hurt consumer demand. Krugman said that over the long term, Romney's economic policies could lead to a "depression," saying: "It's the Republican policies that are much more likely to make us end up like Greece." Romney has accused President Obama of pursuing policies that would lead to a Greek-like debt crisis in the U.S. But that analysis failed to take into account that the U.S. budget deficit is shrinking, and that the Federal Reserve can weaken the U.S. dollar when necessary, while Greece does not have that same option for the euro. "I'm not seeing a lot of evidence that he [Romney] really does understand it [economics]. People say he's a smart guy, but it's not visible in his statements, and it's not visible in his off-the-cuff reactions either."
I realize that those on the Right will not believe the above, but what if what he predicts comes to pass. What is the Right going to say then? Will you blame it all on BHO? How will you "spin" it.
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Pyschomanteum, is the Mirror casting form of Divination. Most commonly people use this form to ask those in the spiritual realm for information or to contact them in general. Normally when a Diviner would view into pool or anything containing water ((preferably, a pool, lake, stream, basin containing water,etc))They'd then recieve visions, or see spritual entities .
This would be achieved due to the fact the Diviner would have already studied Water scrying (Hydromancy) and would know how to decode any type of images seen through this still pool of water.
I found an interesting article this morning that goes a little further: My Experience in the Psychomanteum
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AUSTIN, Texas – Indy Lights driver Zach Veach made a special visit to Texas on Tuesday to support of Texas Department of Transportation's (TXDOT) Distracted Driving Summit.
The 19-year-old, who leads the series point standings, started the day in pit lane at The Circuit of the Americas with local media and families of those affected by distracted driving accidents to share their stories of being affected by distracted driving. Veach was given the opportunity to tour the 3.4-mile permanent road course, even getting the chance to view the track from its iconic observation deck.
Veach spoke to the summit attendees about his story of losing classmate to a distracted driving accident. Veach also expressed that while driving at 180 mph as a race car driver, it's imperative to be 100 percent focused, and that same focus should be used by drivers on the freeway even at just mph.
In Texas alone in 2013, of the 94,943 traffic accidents that were caused by distracted driving, 459 of those were fatal, according to TXDOT.
One in five accidents in Texas is caused by distracted driving – not limited to texting while driving or even talking on the phone albeit on a hands-free device. Changing the radio station, turning around in your seat to speak to passengers, cognitive distractions, in addition to phone usage are all means of distracted driving.


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AUGUSTA — Maine Gov. Paul LePage used his weekly address to defend his hiring of a consultant to determine the cost of expanding Medicaid.
LePage said he's getting blasted by opponents while the reality is that "the report provides a road map to save taxpayers money and improve services for the truly needy."
The report by the Alexander Group found that expanding Maine's Medicaid system under the federal health care overhaul would cost an estimated $807 million and add 266,000 people to the state's Medicaid rolls over the first decade.
LePage said there's already a wait list for services.
He also said that Maine already has the nation's third-highest spending on Medicaid on a per-capita basis and that the state can't afford to spend more.


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GovHack: govt data + hackers + caffeine == good times
John Allsopp from Web Directions was an organiser of GovHack, an event sponsored by the Taskforce. It was held on the 30th and 31st of October 2009 to encourage greater use and availability of government data in support of the MashupAustralia contest.
For those who've not heard of them, the rather ominously sounding "hack days" are events that have been gaining popularity with developers around the world. They bring together web focussed designers, developers and other experts to build web applications and mashups in a 24 hour period.
As far as I've been able to determine, no Government at any level anywhere in the world has been willing to not only open up their data for people to "hack" but actually host a "hack day" to bring people together to do so.
At least not until last Friday and Saturday, when GovHack, an initiative of the Australian Government 2.0 Taskforce was held at the ANU in CSIRO's ICT Lab and the ANU's Computer Science department. Around 150 "hackers" (hacking, btw, is a typically positive term among developers, it's only in mainstream usage that it tends to have negative connotations) from all over Australia came together and built numerous incredibly sophisticated web applications and mashups, some, like the Judge's overall winners "Lobby Clue" by teams of people who'd never even met before the day.
Govhack kicked off with an hour or so of short sharp presentations, by members of the Government 2.0 Taskforce, and the developer community, along with "data owners", both in Government and commercial, spruiking their data wares to the assembled hacker community.
Teams then got down to business, exploring the growing number of government data sets available online, "speed dating" to find hackers in search of teams with skills they needed, and planning their hacks.
Throughout the night, teams coded away, fuelled by caffeine (and it must be said excellent food, fruit, juices, and camaraderie.) Even well after midnight, a couple of dozen remained working, with a palpable buzz in the air, while Taskforce chair Dr Nicholas Gruen was still to be found discussing the merit of various sites and hacks at 2am. A dozen or so hardy souls even managed to hack all night.
Saturday morning saw new teams arrive, and the less hardy return from hotel rooms and home to restart their development. Senator Kate Lundy, now dubbed the "Patron Senator of Geeks" spent quite some time interviewing various participants, with the video hopefully available soon. As the 4pm deadline loomed, frantic (geek speak alert) XML to JSON conversions, JavaScript debugging and API reverse engineering were occurring throughout the CSIT Building on the ANU Campus.
Just what was achieved for all the effort? Before turning to some of the genuinely outstanding projects, a few outcomes from the event illustrate the breadth of the achievements. A few teams found themselves in need of postcode to Local Government Authority conversions, but while the data was sort of available, it was far from easily usable. Stephen Lead from LPMA in NSW took the less than ideal data and transformed it into a far more usable format. Then Mark Mansour from Sensis created a database and API (an Application Programming Interface is a standardized way of applications talking to one another) for the data, to make it much easier for anyone to use. Within an hour or two, two teams at GovHack were actually using this API. In a similar vein, Rob Manson, from MOB created a single JSON API to many of the disparate data sources available on data.australia.gov.au. Meanwhile, the NSW State Government launched their new data catalogue to make sure the data was available for GovHack.
So what exactly did people build? In all there were around 20 projects presented at the end of the 24 hours, almost all of which were conceived and built at the event itself. Many were geo/mapping focussed, but others focussed on data visualisation and exploration, the next wave of web applications in many people's opinion. The level of complexity, sophistication, and novelty of many of the projects was extraordinary, given the tight time constraints. Projects that you can actually use right now included (keep in mind their alpha state)
- The overall winners LobbyClue, by a team comprising members many of whom had never met before the event. LobbyClue is an in-depth visualisation of lobbying groups' relations to government agencies, including tenders awarded, links between the various agencies, and physical office locations
- Know where you live, a stylish presentation of ABS data (along with Flickr Geocoded photos), pulling in relevant information for a particular postcode: rental rates, average income, crime rates, and more. Built by a team of developers who work at News Digital Media.
- What the Federal Government Does, an enormous tag cloud of the different functions of government, combined with visualisations of government functions shared between departments.
- Rate A Loo demonstrates a community engagement idea, seeded with government provided data. Allows users to locate and then rate the condition of public toilets.
- It's buggered, mate, In true Australian style, allows you to report buggered toilets, roads, etc, with an easy-to-use graphical interface overlayed on a map. Their idea was to combine this with local government services to fix issues in the community. Built by a team of developers from Lonely Planet.
- Many more fantastic projects can be found at the GovHack site.
A huge thanks to AGIMO and the Taskforce for enabling it all, CISRO's ICT Lab and the ANU Computer Science Department for providing a venue and network facilities, to Microsoft, whose Project Fund helped make GovHack a reality. Numerous volunteers from AGIMO and the web developer community helped ensure the success of GovHack, and a big thanks to them as well. And of course the participation of so many developers from all over the country ensured that the event produced lasting value. Hopefully more than a few of the 24 hour hacks turn into applications we'll be using for years to come. Above all thanks to you.


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Soham-based darts player Brett Claydon celebrated winning his first Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) title at the weekend, on the Challenge Tour in Coventry.
The player known as 'The Shredder' pocketed the £2,000 prize after a thrilling final with Aden Kirk.
With the second event of the afternoon's final tied at 4-4, Claydon found his form at just the right time as he hit a 12-dart leg and checked out 102.
The top two on the PDC Unicorn Challenge Tour receive two-year tour cards to next season's PDC ProTour.
Claydon's win has moved him into ninth place in the order of merit, with two rounds to play, the next seeing the players return to Coventry on September 28.


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Fundamentals Of Materials Science And Engineering An Integrated Approach 3rd Edition Is Available Now
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c78544) has announced the addition of "Fundamentals of Materials Science and Engineering: An Integrated Approach, 3rd Edition" to their offering.
This text treats the important properties of the three primary types of materials--metals, ceramics, and polymers--as well as composites, and the relationships that exist between the structural elements of these materials and their properties. Emphasis is placed on mechanical behaviour and failure including, techniques that are employed to improve the mechanical and failure characteristics in terms of alteration of structural elements. Furthermore, individual chapters discuss each of corrosion, electrical, thermal, magnetic, and optical properties. New and cutting-edge materials are also discussed.Even if an instructor does not have a strong materials background (i.e., is from mechanical, civil, chemical, or electrical engineering, or chemistry departments), he or she can easily teach from this text. The material is not at a level beyond which the students can comprehend--an instructor would not have to supplement in order to bring the students up to the level of the text. Also, the author has attempted to write in a concise, clear, and organized manner, using terminology that is familiar to the students.
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Wouldn't you need a drink after getting stabbed?
A 21-year-old man reportedly was at a bar near Broadway and Pike Street on Capitol Hill about 1 a.m. Monday when he got into an argument with another man, according to Seattle police reports.
The pair went outside the bar to hash it out, but the confrontation turned into a "brief brawl," reports say.
The 21-year-old walked away and realized his side hurt. He found blood running down his back from a 2 1/2-inch wound.
He decided to go back into the bar for two shots of liquor.
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Dallas' Perot Museum of Nature and Science just launched its second TECH Truck. Designed to take science to the streets, the truck recently visited UNT's campus in South Dallas.
Middle school girls in a summer science program are assembling pre-cut wood using nuts bolts and screws. They're getting help from the Perot Museum's TECH Truck educator, Michael Hughes.
He explains what's happening. "And so today we're building trebuchets."
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"We built a … treb … boo … a trebuchet …" says one of the middle school kids, speaking...


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Executive Order -- Presidential Records
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to establish policies and procedures governing the assertion of executive privilege by incumbent and former Presidents in connection with the release of Presidential records by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) pursuant to the Presidential Records Act of 1978, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Definitions. For purposes of this order:
(a) "Archivist" refers to the Archivist of the United States or his designee.
(b) "NARA" refers to the National Archives and Records Administration.
(c) "Presidential Records Act" refers to the Presidential Records Act, 44 U.S.C. 2201-2207.
(d) "NARA regulations" refers to the NARA regulations implementing the Presidential Records Act, 36 C.F.R. Part 1270.
(e) "Presidential records" refers to those documentary materials maintained by NARA pursuant to the Presidential Records Act, including Vice Presidential records.
(f) "Former President" refers to the former President during whose term or terms of office particular Presidential records were created.
(g) A "substantial question of executive privilege" exists if NARA's disclosure of Presidential records might impair national security (including the conduct of foreign relations), law enforcement, or the deliberative processes of the executive branch.
(h) A "final court order" is a court order from which no appeal may be taken.
Sec. 2. Notice of Intent to Disclose Presidential Records.
(a) When the Archivist provides notice to the incumbent and former Presidents of his intent to disclose Presidential records pursuant to section 1270.46 of the NARA regulations, the Archivist, using any guidelines provided by the incumbent and former Presidents, shall identify any specific materials, the disclosure of which he believes may raise a substantial question of executive privilege. However, nothing in this order is intended to affect the right of the incumbent or former Presidents to invoke executive privilege with respect to materials not identified by the Archivist. Copies of the notice for the incumbent President shall be delivered to the President (through the Counsel to the President) and the Attorney General (through the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel). The copy of the notice for the former President shall be delivered to the former President or his designated representative.
(b) Upon the passage of 30 days after receipt by the incumbent and former Presidents of a notice of intent to disclose Presidential records, the Archivist may disclose the records covered by the notice, unless during that time period the Archivist has received a claim of executive privilege by the incumbent or former President or the Archivist has been instructed by the incumbent President or his designee to extend the time period for a time certain and with reason for the extension of time provided in the notice. If a shorter period of time is required under the circumstances set forth in section 1270.44 of the NARA regulations, the Archivist shall so indicate in the notice.
Sec. 3. Claim of Executive Privilege by Incumbent President.
(a) Upon receipt of a notice of intent to disclose Presidential records, the Attorney General (directly or through the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel) and the Counsel to the President shall review as they deem appropriate the records covered by the notice and consult with each other, the Archivist, and such other executive agencies as they deem appropriate concerning whether invocation of executive privilege is justified.
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Sec. 5. General Provisions.
(a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) authority granted by law to a department or agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budget, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
Sec. 6. Revocation. Executive Order 13233 of November 1, 2001, is revoked.
January 21, 2009
In 1973 the District of Columbia or Washington D.C., the seat of Federal Government began a "State" movement and a Constitution was written and voted on in 1982, thus winning voter approval. Keep in mind that DC was a federal territory up until that point. In 1987 the final Ammended Constitution was ratified and registered in "trust" with the United Nations. Now, since this new state, known as The State of New Columbia, has not been accepted into the Union of the United States of America, it is held in "trust" by the UN with the Bilderbergers arguing that it should retain it's own nation-state representation in the UN.
According to Black's Law Dictionary, 6th edition a "trust" is defined as "a territory or colony placed under administration of a country by the United Nations." What does that mean? It means that United States, Inc. now retains exclusive control of the State of New Columbia BUT is NOT a signatory to the US Constitution and is ONLY subject to its own legislative provisions. In other words, it is its own super-state under its own exclusive jursidiction. Take a look at contracts and commerce in DC and you will see exactly what I am talking about.
Originally posted by Megiddodiddo
reply to post by JohnPhoenix
Wow dude. are you an American, or some British subjection just spewing vomit on the wall to try to distract a few confused souls?
Bubble gum hasnt got a damn thing to do with this topic. If you wish to play, the arcade is the next building over. this is a serious forum, talking about people's lives here.
If you wish to participate, do the math, grasp the research, and embrase the possibility, that this is exactly what is transpiring!
If you want to play - go home...
Originally posted by Megiddodiddo
That being said, outside of the Gaia movement, there is pleanty of documented cases where the upper echelon talks about plans to bring about a massive depoplation campaigne to cull mankind in order to conserve limited resources such as water, oxygen, and food.
I find that their willingness to execute plans (that would not include them) that put out a mass effort to get people to kill eachother off is just plain ruthless, selfish, and flat out diabolical
But nevertheless, those plans are drafted, and the Guide Stones have been set in the location they are on to commemorate the event.
this post isn't saying that the gulf oil spill is what will be responsible for the elimination of 6.7 billion people. I am saying that it was the clarion anouncement of the commencement of the culling.
[edit on 7/13/2010 by Megiddodiddo]
Originally posted by Megiddodiddo
Of course, we can't forget about Russia! They're salivating as we speak! Russia is so blood crazed it couldn't wait until now, but had to jump Georgia and Kosovo just to sate it's craving to spill human blood.Russia is sharpening it's sickle and eagerly awaits the moment of truth...
A Dawn of a New Era
Global Campaign for Khilafah [Caliphate]
The Time Is Ripe
The Ummah Is Ready
Khilafah Is On The Horizon
We Call Upon You
Answer The Call
One Of A Kind Event
Fall Of Capitalism & Rise Of Islam
Khilafah Conference 2010
Emerging World Order: How the Khilafah Will Shape The World
**Shape of Canada, America, and Mexico as one mass in shadows but worsening to pitch Black, presumably united under the "light" (darkness) of Islam.**
§ 3331. Oath of office
Release date: 2004-01-16
An individual, except the President, elected or appointed to an office of honor or profit in the civil service or uniformed services, shall take the following oath: "I, NAME, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God." This section does not affect other oaths required by law.


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A disease that causes early fetal death in cattle, weaning calves early, dealing with the drought and livestock issue battles in D.C. were the topics of discussion at the Ranch Management Field Day in eastern Pratt County Wednesday.
Dean and Jerree Fitzsimmons and Gary and Mary Fitzsimmons hosted the event on the family farm that drew 50 area producers.
Leading the presentations was Justin Smith, representing the animal health division of the Kansas Department of Health, who gave an update on trichomoniasis, a sexually transmitted disease that causes early embryonic death and infertility among females.
Generally, infected bulls pass the disease to cows or heifers but infected females can transmit the disease to uninfected males, Smith said.
Some cases have been reported in Kansas so producers need to be alert for the disease.
Once a bull is infected they are always infected and the only way to get rid of it is to cull the bull from the heard. Positive bulls can be sold for slaughter only.
Cows do develop a short-term immunity to the disease that lasts two to six months. A vaccination is available that helps prevent reproductive loses but it does not prevent disease transmission.
A polymerase chain reaction test for the disease is the only test recognized test in Kansas and all known cases must be reported, Smith said.
Keeping with the cattle theme, Larry Hollis, Kansas State Extension animal sciences and industry veterinarian, presented research on early weaning.
The results for early weaning research revealed performance of early-weaned calves is as good as conventional-weaned. All had similar health risks and newly weaned calves, regardless of age at weaning, required good management, Hollis said.
"Have a management plan and follow it," Hollis said.
Part of that management plan should include: Early weaning requires dense nutrition and staying away from silage; clean out old feed every day or the calf will quit; adjust feed bunks and water supplies so calves can reach them; reduce the size of the pen at first so the calves can get to water and feed more efficiently; use fly and dust control.
Shade is essential especially for the smaller calves. Make sure all cattle can get under shade and have ample room to move around, Hollis said.
Weather wise, the best time to wean is when the weather is consistent and temperature doesn't fluctuate much. When the temperature varies too much, it is harder for the calf to survive, Hollis said.
Whether dealing with cattle, or pastures or fields, everyone is affected by drought. Dusty Tacha, National Resource Conservation Services multi-county rangeland management specialist, reviewed the drought situation in the Pratt area.
First, Tacha said he didn't know if the drought was over. The effects of the drought are certainly not over and much more rain is needed to recharge the soil water levels.
The recent rains have caused the area to green up but not a lot of growth in pastures. Plants need to replace from 20 to 50 percent of their root mass every year and the moisture necessary to do that has not happened. Bluestem grass was hit hard and recovery is long term for this grass.
While the rains have been very beneficial, the fact is the area is still way in the hole from the last two years. The drought has lasted about two and a half years and it will take about the same amount of time to make up the lost moisture, Tacha said.
For farmers considering burning pastures, Tacha said don't. Without subsoil moisture, there won't be enough for plant growth to cover the land.
Producers need a drought plan and follow it. Farmers need to be honest with themselves about drought situations and don't talk themselves out of doing what needs to be done whether its weaning early, shifting calving dates, selling cattle or not burning fields.
A lot of important decisions on farms take place in Washington, D.C. Kristina Butts, National Cattlemen's Beef Association executive director of executive affairs, is a lobbyist and advocate for farmers in D.C. Her basic message was clear.
"Today, you need to worry about the federal government," Butts said.
The NCBA continues to work towards getting a farm bill. They supported the Senate version but the House failed to pass a farm bill. With the current bill set to expire on Sept. 30 and Congress only in session 10 days in September Congress may not get a bill passed and have to issue a continuance resolution. Butts is optimistic but said it might be the end of the year before a bill was passed.
Part of the NCBA effort is Beef 101 Series that educates Washington about agriculture. It includes a staffers trip through a meat packing plant that really opens eyes about the meat industry.
Other issues NCBA continues to work on include: EPA dust regulation; spill prevention on the farm; getting the ethanol industry and corn growers together; county of origin labeling; bio security threats; boarder security and immigration; antibiotics in feed and other issues.


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Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site,
Val-Kill Cottage, the simple, two-story stone building located within the Roosevelt family property at Hyde Park, was the home of Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) for the last 17 years of her life. With the death of President Roosevelt in 1945, Eleanor moved permanently to Val-Kill, viewing it as her personal residence and making it the only home the former First Lady ever owned. Eleanor once described Val-Kill and its pastoral surroundings as the place "I used to find myself and grow" and where "I emerged as an individual." During Mrs. Roosevelt's residency from 1945 to 1962, a visitor to Val-Kill might have found her engaged in any number of activities, from hosting Winston Churchill to reading stories to the groups of neglected children who visited Val-Kill every summer.
The years following her husband's death, Eleanor Roosevelt emerged as a world figure, beginning with her appointment as American ambassador to the United Nations in 1946 and her work on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, written chiefly in the solitude provided at Val-Kill. Her humanitarian activities took her around the globe, often touring nations to promote American concepts of justice, freedom and opportunity. Her pursuit of these ideals led President Harry Truman to identify her as the "First Lady of the World." Today, Val-Kill is a significant part of the Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site in Hyde Park, New York.
The Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site is the subject of an online-lesson plan produced by Teaching with Historic Places, a National Register program that offers classroom-ready lesson plans on properties listed in the National Register. It is also one of the sites featured in our Places Where Women Made History travel itinerary. See also the National Park Service Museum Management Program's online exhibit: Eleanor Roosevelt, American Visionary.
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