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Anytime you have two superstar musical or celebrity acts dating — or married, in this case (think Brad and Angelina or Faith and Tim) — it's only a matter of time before that couple realizes the freedoms they have given up by being in the spotlight. While Miranda Lambert and her country hitmaker husband Blake Shelton have been well known for a couple of years now, Lambert admits that her husband's standing appearance on 'The Voice' has begun to change how normal their lives can be.
Now, because of the smash television show that has millions of viewers glued to the TV in their living rooms, Shelton has become a household name even with families that never turn their radio to the country station.
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For folks looking to ward off the flu, hand sanitizer could become a highly coveted item.
That's because shipments of hand sanitizer are down by nearly 40 percent when compared with shipments in 2009, when swine flu hit the US hard, said Panjiva Inc., a firm with offices in New York and Cambridge.
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The Philippines is one of the largest Catholic countries in the world, but recent surveys have shown that the country's devotion is waning, as churchgoers object to sex scandals and morality that seems old-fashioned. So priests are having to work harder, including saying mass in malls
Early on a Sunday morning, people are already streaming into a massive shopping mall in Manila.
The seven-story Robinsons Place is a temple of consumerism. It houses about 350 stores, including gun shops, dental offices, massage parlors and a Kenny Rogers Roaster.
The music and the crowds can be a little overwhelming after a while. But up on the fourth floor, next to the Cineplex and a barber shop, the atmosphere is more soothing.
A Catholic Mass is being offered for hundreds of Filipino mall-goers who are seated in plastic chairs around a makeshift altar. To reach his congregants, the priest switches between English and the local language, Tagalog.
The Catholic Church in the Philippines is doing all it can to reach out. Even though the Philippines is the third largest Catholic country in the world, the church has been losing followers. In this hot, humid country, many families prefer to spend Sundays in climate-controlled malls than in church. So the priests have followed them.
At Robinsons, Father Maximo Villanueva is saying mass. He also preaches at a nearby church but he admits that the mall is more user-friendly. And there are benefits to celebrating Mass in a shopping center.
"About a second after the Mass you can eat anywhere and go to the movies. I like it," Father Villanueva said, laughing.
But the Catholic Church's problems run deeper than a lack of AC. Many Filipinos are dismayed by the sexual abuse scandals in the Church and they reject its conservative stance on social issues. Last year, for example, the country's Catholic hierarchy strongly opposed a popular new law that provides free birth control methods to poor people.
That law is now on hold as the Supreme Court decides whether it's constitutional.
Many Filipino Catholics are flocking to other religions, while some are just becoming less devout. A recent survey found that only 37 percent of Filipino Catholics go to Mass, down from 64 percent in the 1990s.
Bringing Mass to shopping malls might help reverse these trends. In fact, the practice is now being copied by a handful of priests in the United States and Europe. But there are some downsides, says Rene Santiago, a retired car salesman attending Mass at Robinsons Place. He complains that people come to Church, but they don't dress properly.
"They wear shorts. They wear slippers as if they are in the house," he said. "I mean, you only face God once in a week. Why don't you dress properly?"
Another problem is that an escalator cuts through the space where Father Villanueva holds Mass, bringing a constant stream of pedestrians.
"I am very aware that most people are not fully concentrated in the celebration," said the priest, "There are too many distractions. But it's the challenge, I believe. Wherever they are, the church will be there for them."
With the religious service over, workers stack chairs and haul away flower pots. Soon this temporary holy space will be overrun by shoppers. But Mass here has become so popular that Father Villanueva is lobbying management to build a permanent chapel inside the mall.


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She. Julia is convinced that this baby is a girl. In fact, our girly girl will accept nothing less than another girly girl. No boys, no how, no way. Will and I have tried to explain: "Now, Juje, remember… you don't get to pick whether or not you're having a girl or a boy. You get what you get, and you don't get upset," we singsong, mimicking her preschool teacher.
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There is a really good way to beat the winter blahs. And it's called…Ambrosia. It's a popular southern dish that makes it's way to nearly every get-together (especially in the summertime because it is cool, refreshing and not a very heavy dessert). Basically it's a fruit salad with sweetened coconut. Now I realize folks are on opposite sides of the fence when it comes to coconut, either you love it or you don't. But the sweetened coconut is what makes this. It just isn't Ambrosia without coconut. Have any of y'all seen "The Help"? That movie was fantastic. I give you fair warning though, it'll have you crying in some parts and laughing hysterically in others. It caused a bit of controversy when it came out but I think the messages that were in it spoke to a lot of folks, including myself.
Aibileen had it right. You is kind. You is smart. You is important. And we should repeat those words to ourselves everyday and to our kids. Anyhoo, this dessert was featured in that movie. Sissy Spacek's character asks for some Ambrosia and then promptly falls asleep while eating eat. I just love Sissy Spacek. She lives near me here in Virginia. Well, not real close, I don't hang out at her farm or anything, but she's a transplanted Virginia gal. And Robert Duvall lives in the country not too far from her. Yep, we got us some movie stars in these here hills.
As I was saying, this is a great wintertime treat too because it tastes like summer. And the bonus is that these are all ingredients you can get your hands on in the winter because most of them are canned. And you can throw in whatever fruits you prefer or have on hand.
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- 1 15 oz can mandarin orange segments drained well
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- 1 1/2 cups mini marshmallows
- 1 10 oz jar of maraschino cherry halves drained very well
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans
- In a medium bowl, combine whipped topping and sour cream.
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- Once combined, put some plastic wrap on it or put it in a bowl with a lid and refrigerate for about an hour before serving.
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Dark Souls has a unique combat system that is simple to learn but tricky to master that's unlike almost any other video game.
I've been playing a lot of action games lately---DmC, God of War, Bayonetta---alongside a lot of turn-based games---Fire Emblem: Awakening, Persona 4 Golden, XCOM: Enemy Unknown---and a thought has occurred to me.
Dark Souls is like none of these games and like all of them at the same time. There are no complex moves in Dark Souls, but it's nothing like a click-and-slash button masher. Button mashing will get you only one place: dead.
But nor is it really comparable to its more complex action peers. There is no long list of combos to learn. Indeed, each weapon has only a handful of very simple moves. Even assuming you learn each move set for each weapon in the game, you're still pressing essentially the same buttons in order to carry out heavy attacks, light attacks, and so forth.
So Dark Souls is neither a click-and-slash game a la Diablo or a combo-action style game like Devil May Cry or Bayonetta; but nor is it a turn-based game similar to innumerable other JRPGs.
I've been playing games that take a bit of a hybrid approach to the turn-based and action genres. Xenoblade and The Last Story both, to some degree, implement a hybrid model for their combat systems (though the two games end up with very different systems.)
Dark Souls is nothing like either of these games. And yet, I can't help but think that From Software has created a sort of action-turn-based hybrid with the game. There's no pausing or official "turns" at all, but the nature of the fights means that you'll often be waiting your turn and planning your timing, whether that's to strike or parry or roll out of the way.
The game, in other words, leans heavily toward action, but because combat is so perilous and gritty and simplistic (though far from easy) you often find yourself in what feels like a stand-off, whether battling invading players or NPCs, waiting with some trepidation for your "turn."
While Xenoblade leans heavily toward a more traditional turn-based model made more hectic by an action veneer, Dark Souls gives action combat a sense of turn-based tension and thoughtfulness. This is why when people ask me whether the game is one in which they need to learn a gazillion combos or one that's all hack and slash, I can only say "neither."
Whatever the case, nobody else has replicated this style of combat. Only Demon's Souls (From's first Souls game) has a similarly subtle hybrid of action and turn-based combat.


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ESPN says Rob Parker will get a 30-day suspension for his controversial comments about race and Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III last week on the daytime show First Take.
Marcia Keegan, ESPN vice president/production, says in a statement the network made mistakes in the show's "preparation" and in re-airing the show without cutting out Parker's comments. Says Keegan: "Both were errors on our part."
Parker's suspension, which will last 30 days from its start last Friday, came from what Keegan calls "inappropriate" remarks.
And Keegan says going forward First Take will have "enhanced editorial oversight," and unspecified "appropriate disciplinary measures" have been taken "with the personnel responsible" for Parker's comments airing.
After the statement was released, ESPN spokesman Mike Soltys said the network declined to make further comments.
ESPN commentator Parker has said he "blew it" in on-air comments about rookie quarterback Griffin and says he hopes to apologize to Griffin directly.
On ESPN2's First Take last week, Parker, who is African American, asked whether Griffin is a "cornball brother" and said Griffin is "black" but is "not really down with the cause. He's not one of us."
In a tweet Wednesday, Parker says he understands "the issue of race in sports is a sensitive one and needs to be handled with great care. ... I failed to do that. ... As I reflect on this and move forward, I will take the time to consider how I can continue to tackle difficult, important topics in a much more thoughtful manner."
When asked about the Parker flap by USA TODAY Sports on Wednesday, Griffin said he wasn't aware of the controversy until checking Twitter last week and has never felt it necessary to respond.
"It says in the Bible that you don't have to fight your own battles," he said.
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The National Football League and lead lawyers for more than 4,500 former players suing the league over concussions submitted a revised settlement agreement in federal court Wednesday that lifts a previous $675 million compensation limit on payments to former players (which made up the bulk of the initial $765 million settlement) and instead provides uncapped funds for retirees diagnosed with certain types of brain damage. What does this mean? What happens next? Glad you asked:
Since submitting the initial settlement in January, plaintiffs' lawyers -- and, by silent extension, the NFL's attorneys -- have been adamant that $675 million was enough money. What happened?
U.S. District Judge Anita Brody refused to grant preliminary approval of the deal, instead expressing skepticism that a proposed $675 million fund was enough money to cover qualifying former players out of a pool of approximately 20,000 NFL retirees over a 65-year period.
Why was Brody dubious? Two reasons. First, basic math suggested that the initial settlement was inadequate. Consider: according to the settlement's reported award structure, individual payouts to injured players will be capped at $3.5 million for Alzheimer's disease, $3 million for dementia and $4 million for chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) deaths, with reductions based on NFL career length and age of neurodegenerative disease diagnoses. (In short: the longer you played and younger you are, the more money you'll get).
Now, suppose the awards for each condition average around $2 million. As of last year, 233 retirees had qualified for the NFL's 88 Plan, which awards up to $100,000 a year to cover medical expenses for individuals with neurodegenerative diseases. Meanwhile, another 34 former players had been posthumously diagnosed with CTE. Make a quick calculation -- 267 x $2 million = $534 million -- a huge chunk of the total original proposed amount is gone without accounting for a single new case of neurodegenerative disease among football retirees over the next half-century.
Second, and probably worse, NFL and plaintiffs' top attorneys told Brody not to worry -- after all, they had economists, actuaries and medical experts study the problem, and everyone agreed $675 million was adequate. Problem was, they didn't show Brody their math. Nor did they show their calculations to many -- if not most -- of the players' lawyers, some of whom publicly wondered if the calculations even existed.
In submitting a revised settlement with a theoretically limitless award fund, the league and the plaintiffs' top lawyers have answered -- or at least sidestepped -- Brody's main complaint.
An uncapped settlement sounds like a pretty good deal for retired players, and a major concession by the NFL. Is that the case?
Maybe, maybe not. Remember when the NFL supposedly had a salary cap-free season in 2010, only the league punished Washington and Dallas for paying off large chunks of long-term player contracts that season to free up future cap space? Football players should be wary of the term "uncapped."
In the case of the revised settlement, the NFL is required to pay $120 million into a brain damage award fund within six months of the deal being finalized. After that, the league will be asked to make additional monthly deposits "as needed" to ensure the fund has a reserve of $10 million through its first 10 years of existence; $5 million through years 11-50; $1 million in years 51-60 and $250,000 through year 65.
Over time, the NFL could pay more than $675 million. It could pay less. The league's only binding obligations are the initial $120 million and whatever else it takes to pay off all valid player claims.
In a sense, the revised settlement is a lot like big-money NFL player contract announcements: There's guaranteed money in the signing bonus and everything else is up in the air.
Does the NFL expect to pay more than $675 million now that the settlement has been revised?
Not according to court documents filed with Brody. More than once, the league and the players' top lawyers expressed confidence that their initial amount will be sufficient.
Oh, so they finally showed their math?
Nope. That remains a mystery.
Then why are they so confident?
Probably because of the settlement's various caps on individual player compensation.
What kind of caps?
The same caps that were in the original deal. Start with the type of brain damage that actually is covered: worst-case neurodegenerative disease. To qualify, retirees have to be diagnosed with one of the following conditions, each with its own maximum award amount:
-- Dementia: $1.5 to $3 million.
-- Alzheimer's or Parkinson's: $3.5 million.
-- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS): $5 million.
As mentioned above, built-in reductions based on a former player age and career length mean most suffering retirees will receive less than the max. Potentially far less. For example, retirees with fewer than five full seasons of NFL experience will see their awards reduced accordingly, some by as much as 95 percent. The same holds true for retirees over age 45 -- the older you are, the less you'll receive, with players age 80 and above receiving maximum awards between $25,000 and $300,000.
Are age and years of NFL experience the only factors that can reduce award amounts?
No. The settlement still reduces monetary awards by 75 percent for any former player who has suffered a single non-football related traumatic brain injury or stroke -- even though there's no absolute scientific basis to assume a single stroke or non-football brain injury accounts for three-quarters of a player's afflictions and league doctors spent at least two decades potentially increasing former players' risk of stroke by administering the pain-killing, blood-thinning drug Toradol against Food and Drug Administration warning label guidelines.
That doesn't sound very fair.
Some former players agree. Last month, a group of seven NFL retirees, including Alan Faneca and Sean Morey, filed an intervention motion in federal court, asking Brody for a seat at the negotiating table and making specific critiques of the proposed deal, including the stroke offset.
What else did they object to?
Here's a partial list:
-- The proposed deal narrowly defines and freezes in writing the types of neurological diseases and brain damage presentations that qualify for monetary awards, even though scientific and medical understanding of football-induced brain damage is rapidly evolving and much remains unknown.
-- While the settlement allows all former players to participate in a Baseline Assessment Program that screens for cognitive deficits and signs of dementia, it only offers monetary awards for specific neurodegenerative diseases. Meanwhile, players who suffer from memory loss, headaches, chronic pain, depression, impulsivity, diminished executive function, speech impairment, attention deficits and other ailments that have been linked to repetitive brain injury but do not rise to the level of Parkinson's or ALS will receive nothing more than counseling and prescription drug coverage, even though their conditions can drastically affect their quality of life and ability to work.
-- In order to receive a cash award for CTE under the proposed settlement, a former player diagnosed with the disease must die before the settlement receives preliminary approval by Brody. As I've written before, if you drop dead even a single day later, your family will be out of luck -- no matter how much neurodegeneration and tau protein tangles scientists later find in your autopsied brain.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the seven intervenors found the last item particularly objectionable. From their motion:
… former players like the Intervenors who are currently managing the cumulative effects of MTBI -- many of which are consistent with the presentation of CTE -- would have received no compensation and would continue bearing their medical costs even if their condition progressed to full-blown CTE.
That limitation on CTE compensation is remarkable: Given that 33 of the 34 deceased NFL players whose brains have been examined for CTE have been diagnosed with the condition, one of the lead CTE researchers has wondered whether "every single football player doesn't have" CTE. Yet not withstanding the widespread prevalence of CTE among NFL retirees, the settlement provided no compensation to players with CTE who die after preliminary approval of the settlement -- likely a large percentage of the 20,000-member putative class …
Wow. CTE is the disease that led to the concussion crisis. It's at the heart of League of Denial. Forget unfair. That sounds downright crazy.
You know what's crazy? The way the proposed settlement deals with CTE could encourage -- and there's no tactful way to write this -- retired player suicides. I've written this before, too. Here's what I mean:
… suppose you're a former player with cognitive problems. Bad ones. You suspect you have CTE. Maybe you're having suicidal thoughts already.
Read the settlement. Check the fine print. Study the payout grid. Turns out the best way to get the biggest possible financial reward for your family is to die young. Potentially by killing yourself. After all, the settlement compensates families of deceased players, including suicide victims, if they are diagnosed with CTE -- and currently, the disease only can be diagnosed via autopsy.
Again, I know this sounds awful, downright macabre. Because it is. But it's also a real possibility. Don't take my word for it; ask former NFL player Jeff Nixon -- who, I should note, is in favor of the settlement. Last November, he received a chilling email from a former player. It reads as follows:
… if I commit suicide or have someone else kill me in case I chicken out, my brain will highly likely be found with CTE and my family will be "compensated" about $3 million dollars. Jeff, doesn't this sound like a reasonable resolution? I know it is morbid. I understand that suicide is not an answer to anything, but does the league understand the choices that they are placing in front of us? If I could guarantee my family financial stability for many years to come, where is the question? My children are grown and highly independent, my wife has a job and although I'm sure they would miss me, they would get over it in time and perhaps even recognize the ultimate sacrifice that I would have paid for them. Does the league get this? I recognize that one old, not particularly well known former player dying may not make the news but what if a group collaborated? What if several guys who have considered this in the past came together for the good of the rest and RETIRED ONE LAST TIME?
Yikes. Does the revised settlement address any of the above issues?
Nope. A qualifying diagnoses of "death with CTE" still requires a "postmortem diagnosis prior to the date" of preliminary settlement approval. Suffering players who don't have dementia or something worse receive nothing. And while the NFL and the plaintiffs' top attorneys agree to discuss possible changes to medical conditions that qualify former players for financial rewards and the means by which those conditions are diagnosed in accordance with "generally accepted advances in medical science," both sides have to agree, and "in no event will modifications be made to the monetary award levels."
Oh, and in the event scientists develop things like blood tests or imaging techniques that can catch neurodegenerative diseases early, players won't qualify for awards until their health starts to fail. Even if said awards could help them pay for, you know, potential preventative therapies.
Who pays for brain-damaged former players who don't qualify?
The rest of us via Medicare, Medicaid and higher private health care insurance premiums.
Ugh. Anyone else shut out of the revised deal?
Yep. Current NFL players still are not included in the settlement class, presumably because of the legal theory that they're aware of professional football's long-term brain damage risks, even though the league has publicly acknowledged those risks exactly once.
The upshot? If you're a league veteran and suspect your brain is a little (or a lot) messed up, you might want to retire before the deal is approved. Otherwise, you'll be on your own if you end up with ALS or dementia.
Suppose you're a retired player and you're really, really sick, with one of those worst-case diseases. Will the settlement payouts cover the cost of your medical care? Will they be enough to take care of your family when you can no longer work or when you die?
The good news? Settlement payouts aren't affected by personal health insurance. Nor are they reduced if a retired player is also receiving payments from one of the NFL and NFL Players' Association's other disability plans, including the 88 Plan and the neurocognitive benefit that was part of the 2011 collective bargaining agreement.
The iffy news? It's hard to say how much money will be truly adequate for any given retiree. The awful truth about neurodegenerative diseases -- besides the fact that they're, well, awful -- is that they're awfully expensive. Former Oakland and Seattle fullback Steve Smith's ALS forces him to use a ventilator to breathe. Former All-Pro Otis Taylor's dementia and Parkinson's have left him dependent on a feeding tube. Hall of Famer and dementia sufferer Willie Wood resides in an assisted-living facility. None of this is cheap. As I wrote last year:
… Frank Neuhauser, the executive director of the Center for the Study of Social Insurance at the University of California, Berkeley, told the Los Angeles Times that dementia and Alzheimer's patients can cost "millions of dollars and can involve 10, 20, 30 years of medical care and income support." Forbes reports that the average cost for a single year of nursing home care is about $80,000 -- and that for specialized care, costs are typically higher. University of Toronto neurosurgeon Charles Tator told Medscape Medical News that the total costs related to repetitive traumatic brain injury -- including lost productivity and medical and custodial care -- are in the ballpark of $10 million per case …
As much as $10 million per case. Those individual caps are starting to make more sense. How else can the NFL potentially save money on the settlement, and keep close to the initial $675 million figure despite the revised deal's uncapped status?
Simple. You make it difficult for retired players in need to actually access the money, a process my former colleague and Los Angeles Times writer Nathan Fenno calls "funneling." For example, retired players will have to register for the Baseline Assessment Program within 180 days of a notice being posted on a special settlement website -- otherwise, they'll be deemed ineligible for baseline tests and monetary awards. Similarly, players older than age 43 must take their baseline exams within two years of the program's launch, while younger players must take the exams before their 45th birthday or within 10 years of the start of the program. After 10 years, no exams will be given -- and without an exam, it's nearly impossible to qualify for a financial award.
Then there's what the revised settlement calls "additional measures to prevent fraudulent claims." Mostly, this means the NFL can audit and appeal as many award claims as it wants; in the initial version of the settlement, the league was limited to 10 appeals per year. Have ALS? Need your $4 million fast? The NFL can delay your payment and pull you into a paperwork fistfight if it chooses. Which is not to say that it necessarily would.
Indeed, it's important to note: none of the amended settlement's tangled morass of deadlines, diagnostic requirements and appeals processes aren't nefarious per se. No one likes fraud. Administrative checks and balances are important and necessary. The NFL should not be expected to hand out cash like the CIA in Iraq. Still, like the proverbial devil, the potential for player abuse is in the details. Much will depend on how the settlement is actually administered, and what kind of doctors and lawyers oversee its execution.
So how will that work?
Administrators and examining doctors will be jointly selected and overseen by the NFL and player lawyers. In theory, competing interests should be balanced, with everything on the up and up. On the other hand, the league and the players' union oversee the NFL's disability program -- a program so stingily managed and stacked against suffering retirees that Congress held hearings in 2008 to scold and admonish everyone involved.
Unreassuringly, brain-damaged former players have had a particularly hard time getting needed and deserved help. Dwight Harrison's story is illustrative. As reported by Sports Illustrated's Michael Rosenberg, Harrison -- a 10-year veteran who played for Oakland, Buffalo, Baltimore and Denver between 1971-80 -- has been diagnosed with memory loss and other mental problems due to head trauma. Harrison initially was awarded monthly payments from the league's disability program for being "totally and permanently disabled." When he petitioned for a larger award, however, the program declared him a fraud, suspended his payments, sued to recover the money he already had received, seized his separate pension and charged him for legal fees. Why? Rosenberg explains:
… The [retirement plan's] trustees could have denied his request for more money and kept him on the lowest tier. Instead, they basically called him a crook. In 1996, three years after their chosen doctor wrote a withering report detailing Harrison's maladies, the trustees determined that Harrison was "not now totally and permanently disabled."
That makes it sound like Harrison suddenly got healthy, or had been faking it the whole time. Harrison says now that he never received the notices that the trustees sent him. He says communication broke down when his court-appointed attorney left the case. Harrison, who never graduated from college, represented himself in court.
Why would a man ask for increase in disability pay, then hide from the people who can give it to him? The trustees and their lawyers did not seem to consider that a man with serious mental and physical ailments might miss a few appointments …
If approved, will the structure of the proposed settlement lead to comparable abuses? Hopefully not. Still, it's worth keeping in mind that Hall of Fame center Mike Webster -- Patient Zero of CTE, the central character in League of Denial, the man without whom the concussion lawsuits likely wouldn't exist -- was only granted partial NFL disability benefits in 1999 on the grounds his brain damage became totally and permanently disabling well after his retirement, defying the conclusions of five different doctors, and didn't receive full benefits until his estate won a lawsuit after his 2002 death.
Speaking of Webster, will his family receive anything under the revised settlement?
Probably not. From documents filed with Brody:
… no monetary awards will be made where the Retired NFL Football Player died prior to January 1, 2006, unless the Court determines that the claim of the pre-2006 decedent would not be barred by the applicable statute of limitations …
If you're a former player who has been denied settlement benefits, can you appeal the decision?
Of course. However, it will cost you $1,000. Win, and your money will be refunded; lose, and it goes into the settlement pot.
What about the NFL? Do they have to pay to appeal?
Of course not.
While we're discussing money, how much are the players' attorneys making on the revised settlement?
Same as before: a court-approved sum of up to $112.5 million, due within 60 days of settling. Some former players have expressed incredulity at the amount, about which ESPN's Lester Munson -- himself a lawyer -- has written is "a bit much" for "filing a series of lawsuits and spending 12 days in mediation to settle them."
The good news for retirees? None of the proposed $112.5 million will come out of the player fund.
That is good news. Besides, while $112.5 million seems like a lot of money, it's probably pretty reasonable when you consider it will be spread among dozens and dozens of lawyers representing more than 4,500 former players across a large class-action suit. Right?
Au contraire. The $112.5 million is earmarked for the top plaintiffs' lawyers only, a group of six people. Many players who joined the lawsuit still will have to pay their personal attorneys' fees from whatever settlement money they end up receiving. Last year, Munson calculated what that could mean for an older player:
… [The settlement] provides a payment of $580,000 to a 60-year-old NFL veteran who is diagnosed with a moderate form of dementia at age 60 or later. After paying a legal fee of one-third of the award (a typical arrangement) and the costs of his case, the player would collect something in the range of $375,000 …
But that's it for the lawyers, right?
Not quite. Buried deep in the revised settlement is a potential five percent "set-aside" on each and every player award -- a set-aside that the top plaintiffs' attorneys can ask the court to award to them. From the court documents:
... after the Effective Date, Co-Lead Class Counsel may petition the Court to set aside up to five percent (5%) of each Monetary Award and Derivative Claimant Award to facilitate the Settlement program and related efforts of Co-Lead Class Counsel, Class Counsel, and Subclass Counsel. These set-aside monies shall be held in a separate fund overseen by the Court …
Any future petition for a set-aside will describe: (i) the proposed amount; (ii) how the money will be used; and (iii) any other relevant information (for example, the assurance that any "set-aside" from a Monetary Award or Derivative Claimant Award for a Settlement Class Member represented by his/her individual counsel will reduce the attorney's fee payable to that counsel by the amount of the "set-aside") …
Hold up. Is that some sort of skim?
Hard to say, given how vague the wording is. Hopefully, the court control provision means nothing funny is going on.
When the settlement was first announced last fall, former NFL player Kevin Mawae called it "hush money" -- a way for the NFL to buy its way out of ever having to publicly disclose what it knew about brain damage in football and when it knew it. Is that still the case?
Absolutely. Nothing has changed. The league could have established a massive assistance fund for brain-damaged former players at any time. No lawsuits were necessary. The reason -- the only reason -- the NFL is writing a theoretically blank check is to avoid the discovery process that a continuation of the class-action suit would have brought. A settlement means former league concussion committee chairman Elliot Pellman and his denialist colleagues likely will never be deposed. It means Commissioner Roger Goodell's e-mails likely will never become part of the public record. It means the NFL likely can make League of Denial the first and last word on any deception and wrongdoing, and instead fully focus on the all-important task of convincing America that the same organization that refused to acknowledge the meaning of Webster's brain slides ought to be trusted to teach
Better still for the league, specific language in the revised settlement may -- may -- allow the league to delay or prevent discovery that could take place in Missouri state court, where a suit filed by retired St. Louis (now Arizona) Cardinals receiver Roy Green against his former team is currently pending. (For more on that case, read here).
How about the original settlement math? That would have shown us the NFL's expected incidence and prevalence of at least some forms of football-induced brain damage in retired players, which in turn would have given the public a better understanding of the sport's true risks. Why don't the revised settlement court documents include those numbers and calculations?
Good question. According to the documents, court-appointed Special Master Perry Golkin went though said math at Brody's request -- yet unlike initial settlement mediator Layn Phillips, Golkin did not file an affidavit of support for the deal. Instead, the NFL and plaintiffs' top lawyers re-filed Phillips' old affidavit. Which Brody presumably already has read.
What's the significance? Possibly nothing. Possibly something, in that the NFL might not want the public to know just how many former players it expects to become impaired. At the very least, it's curious and prompts some questions. If the league is willing to agree to pay potentially limitless claims over the next 65 years, then why were the players' attorneys so quick to agree to a lowball $675 million offer last year? Did they underestimate their own leverage? Is something fishy happening now?
Like I said: curious.
Is there one part of the revised settlement that stands out as unequivocally good?
Absolutely. For reasons likely only known to NFL executive and legal strategy architect Jeff Pash and his National Collegiate Athletic Association counterpart Donald Remy, the original deal bizarrely included language that shielded the NCAA and amateur football organizations from future lawsuits -- wholly unearned and undeserved legal cover for an organization that already is facing lawsuits for its shameful concussion and brain injury non-policies.
Even Brody specifically criticized the language in her initial rejection of the settlement. Thankfully, it now has been removed.
All things considered, is the settlement now a done deal?
Not necessarily. Given that Brody's previous objection focused on the potential inadequacy of a $675 million fund, uncapping makes it more likely she now will grant preliminary approval. However, the seven intervening players still are agitating for a better deal. Any retiree can opt out. Upon reviewing all of the details, Brody may find other reasons to send the two sides back to the negotiating table. Like a drama entering its third act, the settlement is closer to its denouement, but far from finished.
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Policy-Driven Infrastructure: Separating User Intent from Configuration Procedures
January 28th, 2015
The focus on separating user intent from infrastructure is an important new insight into how cloud environments should be run. To drive forward this approach, Group-Based Policy is currently being developed for both OpenStack and OpenDaylight open source projects. Mike Cohen, Director of Product Management and Sandeep Agrawal Senior Marketing Manager, both of whom work at Cisco Systems join me to talk about Group-Based Policy or using intent to manage infrastructure.
Duration: 21 minutes 17 seconds
Lippis Intro/Analysis @ : 00:10 sec
Question 1 @ 2:44 sec: Sandeep, What is GBP and what problem is trying to solve.
Question 2 @ 4:28 sec: Mike, What are the architectural components associated with GBP?
Question 3 @ 5:41 sec: Sandeep, How does GBP contribute to an open SDN approach?
Question 4 @ 6:48 sec: Sandeep, What does GBP mean for security and governance?
Question 5 @ 8:51 sec: Mike, Does GBP offer a means to automate network configuration and change management?
Question 6 @ 10:23 sec: Mike, One part of GBP is that it gathers the state of the infrastructure. How does it accomplish this, is there a state database that's created?
Question 7 @ 12:20 sec: Mike, Does GBP assist in the creation of an application dependency map that can be shared across multiple IT teams, such as storage, networking, servers/virtualization and application development?
Question 8 @ 13:41 sec: Mike, How are the policies that are created configured within the products that make up the infrastructure?
Question 9 @ 15:09 sec: Mike, GBP is being adopted by OpenStack and OpenDayLight, but how will it be implemented by the vendor community within products?
Question 10 @ 18:03 sec: Mike, How does GBP compare to other efforts such as: Congress and ONOS?


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Blues, Kings clash for first time since playoffsby Brian Compton
BLUES (18-4-3) at KINGS (16-7-4)
Last 10: St. Louis 7-2-1; Los Angeles 5-1-4
Season series: This is the first of three games between the St. Louis Blues and Los Angeles Kings. They will play twice in a two-week span in January.
Big story: Monday night marks the first time the Blues and Kings will face each other since the opening round of the 2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Los Angeles eliminated St. Louis in six games, winning four straight after the Blues raced out to a 2-0 series lead. Each of the six games was decided by one goal.
Team Scope:
Blues: St. Louis saw its five-game winning streak come to an end Friday when it suffered a 6-3 loss to the San Jose Sharks at SAP Center. Jaden Schwartz had a goal and an assist for the Blues, but goalie Brian Elliott was pulled after allowing four goals on 12 shots.
It was only the second time in November the Blues had allowed three goals or more in a game.
"Tough to say what happened, one way or the other," defenseman Ian Cole told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Sunday. "But it's obviously not acceptable, regardless of what time of day it is or what holiday it was the day before.
"It's not acceptable to come out with the start we did and we know we can't play that way against LA."
Kings: Los Angeles was moments away from extending its point streak to 12 games Saturday night, but Mike Cammalleri broke a 1-1 tie with 29.2 seconds remaining in regulation to lift the Calgary Flames to a 2-1 victory at Staples Center. The Kings had gone 7-0-4 in their previous 11 games.
"I think Scrivs [goalie Ben Scrivens] said it best … park it and move on," defenseman Willie Mitchell told LA Kings Insider on Sunday. "As [Kings coach] Darryl [Sutter] says, park and ride, right? He said it best. We've done that since he's been here with games we've won, and I think you've got to do that with games you lose. You're always consciously aware of what you did well and what you didn't, but you've got to prepare for your next opponent, and everyone knows how much respect we have for that team. It's a great team. Good depth, four great lines, good mix of experience, heavy, great team. That's what I mean … we're looking forward to St. Louis."
Who's hot: Schwartz extended his point streak to six games Friday. He has three goals and four assists in that span. Blues forward Alexander Steen had an assist against the Sharks. He has three goals and two assists during a four-game point streak. … Kings center Anze Kopitar has five points (two goals, three assists) in the past six games.
Injury report: St. Louis forward Ryan Reaves (hand) had surgery and will be re-evaluated in six weeks. Defenseman Jordan Leopold (hand) is on injured reserve. … Los Angeles will be without goalie Jonathan Quick (groin), forwards Matt Frattin (lower body) and Trevor Lewis (lower body), and defenseman Matt Greene (upper body).


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The Lung Cancer Mutation Consortium (LCMC) represents the largest national initiative to prospectively examine non-small cell lung cancer tumors, and match patients to the best possible therapies. Currently, the LCMC includes 16 leading cancer centers across the country; we look forward to expanding the LCMC institutions in the near future.
Our primary goal is to provide the most up-to-date care for lung cancer patients, while collecting valuable information about the frequency and characteristics of abnormalities found in lung tumors to further improve patient care.
The LCMC is coordinated by a cross-institutional group of researchers and the Lung Cancer Research Foundation.
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Timothy A. Lyerla
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Department of Biology
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Program
Clark University
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Worcester, MA 01610-1477
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Current Research and Teaching
Professor Lyerla has retired from teaching full time, but maintains a research laboratory at Clark and teaches occasionally on a course-by-course basis. Research in my laboratory concerns the expression of mutant and variant characters in established and primary cell cultures from vertebrate organisms. The haploid cell line from Rana pipiensembryos, ICR2A, is used for basic studies from an established line, while cultures of lung cell macrophages from mice that serve as animal models for Hermansky-Pudlak (HPS) and Chediak-Higashi Syndromes(CHS) are used for primary cell culture work.
Vertebrate cell culture is an important tool for basic and biomedical studies, and some mastery of the techniques used for the research is needed in order to probe the molecular basis of questions concerning chromosome stability in vitro, the development of drug resistance, mutant effects on secretory pathways leading to serious genetic disorders. My laboratory is concerned with each of these issues, and using cultured cells to explore them in debth with specific goals as to possible outcomes and future research.
Selected Publications
Lyerla, T.A. 2007. Scientific detectives solve ashen mutant problem. Blood 109 (4): 1.
Lyerla, T.A., M. Borchers, G. Jahreis, J. Tan, P. Ohtake, E.K. Novak, R.T. Swank. 2003. Abberant lung structure, composition and function in a murine model of Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome. Am. J. Physiol. Lung Cell Mol. Physiol. 285(3): L643-L653.
Delprato, A., S. Raghavan,T.A. Lyerla. 2000. An established light ear mutant (C57BL/6J-Pdeb (rd1) le) mouse cell line exhibits a block to secretion of lysosomal enzymes. Exp. Cell. Res. 256(1): 315-320.
Davis, S.G., T.A. Lyerla. 1997. The effect of lysosomotropic amines on beige mouse cells. Exp. Cell. Res. 237(1): 242-245.
Gama Sosa, M., R. De Gasperi, S. Undevia, J. Yeretsian, S. Rouse, T.A. Lyerla, and E.H. Kolodny. 1996. Correction of the galactocerebrosidase deficiency in globoid cell leukodystrophy cultured cells by SL3-3 retrovirus-mediated gene transfer. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 218: 766-771.
Gow, J.-B., S. Lainwala, and T.A. Lyerla. 1996. Enlarged dysmorphic lysosomes in an established beige (C57BL/;bgÍ/bgÍ) mouse mutant fibroblast line: A reversible characteristic. In Vitro Cell Develop. Biol. 32A: 457-461.
Gross, S.K., T.A. Lyerla, J.E. Evans, and R.H. McCluer. 1994. Expression of glycosphingolipids in serum-free primary cultures of mouse kidney cells: Male-female differences and androgen sensitivity. Molec. Cell. Biochem. 137: 25-31.
Gow, J.-B., S. Lainwala, and T.A. Lyerla. 1993. Cellular expression of the beige mouse mutation and its correction in hybrids with control human fibroblasts. In Vitro Cell Develop. Biol. 29A: 884-891.
Gross, S.K., T.A. Lyerla, M.A. Williams, and R.H. McCluer. 1992. The accumulation and metabolism of glycosphingolipids in primary kidney cell cultures from beige mice. Mol. Cell. Biochem. 118: 61-66.


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Companies that build teams with strong moral character win. Their teams are happier, perform better and are more successful overall.
This bold claim stems from Jim Loehr, author of the book "The Only Way to Win." His research, based on his work with 16 world class and "corporate athletes," shows that the satisfaction we get from achieving extrinsic accomplishments is shallow and fleeting.
What gives us long lasting fulfillment is practicing integrity, generosity, gratefulness, humility, optimism, and compassion in the pursuit of your goals.
Loehr founded a junior tennis academy at his Human Performance Institute. On their first day, the students hear: "We care about your tennis but care more about who you become because of tennis. We want you to win with character." Working from a list of moral strengths, all 15 students going through the program are currently nationally ranked.
It works in business, as well. Jay Steinfeld, founder and CEO of Blinds.com, reached a turning point. "My future really began to take shape only when I began to define my success as being in the act of continuous improvement and improving the lives of others around me."
Realizing that he was "an overly burdensome micromanager, always finding fault in others," he focused on identifying and recognizing the successes of his team. As he became more empathetic, his team relaxed – and performed better.
As the company has grown successful – it is now the world's largest online retailer for window blinds and shades – Steinfeld helps his team stay true to its humble beginnings. He personally brings new recruits to a run-down alleyway in Houston where he had its first office back in 1996 and he shares the history and core values of the company.
"This way, we keep our humble history fresh while reinforcing our core value – 'help people achieve what they never thought they could.'"
Boston Centerless, a manufacturer of ground bars and grinding services, recently completed its first eight-month leadership program where character building was the focus. One of the key practices taught in the program is journaling.
Try this: every night write down three things that went well that day and why they went well. This helps you identify personal patterns of success and highlights how character strengths make good things happen in business and in life.
Andre Agassi writes down his goals every morning and how he will achieve them that day, which he credits for bringing him back to No. 1. "After putting them on paper, saying them out a loud, I also say aloud: 'No shortcuts.'"
Agassi's reinvention of himself – from an obnoxious player who hated his fame and wealth – to "the compassionate, generous, thoughtful and humble person he is today," shows how moral character development ultimately supports performance. When he focused on improving himself, he came back as No. 1 and was happier.
As a leader, consider how you use your company as a vehicle for building your own character strengths and your team's. The results will likely astound you.
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Get an overview of this hotelClassic downtown casino hotel located on Fremont Street
Popular highlights
On Fremont Street
In the downtown entertainment district, the hotel is on Fremont Street with its nightly sound-and-light shows and 2 miles from the northern edge of the Las Vegas Strip. View of Downtown Zipline and The Smith Center for the Performing Arts.
Casino, live shows
the D Las Vegas offers a 42,000-square-foot casino as well as a steakhouse, pool, and spa tub. The showroom features nightly entertainment with Elvis impersonations, comedy routines, and vaudeville.
Contemporary comfort
All 629 guestrooms at the D include TVs with cable/satellite channels and pay movies, and in-room safes. Guests stay connected with voice mail and free WiFi access.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
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Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Dining and refreshments are served at a steakhouse, grill and buffet restaurant, and two 24-hour bars. McDonald's and Krispy Kreme outlets are also on site.
Guests have the option of complimentary self parking or valet parking (gratuity not included) in an 11-story garage.
The D's lobby offers a concierge stand, gift shop, and free high-speed wireless Internet access. Other hotel facilities include a self-service 24-hour business center, luggage storage, and banquet rooms/exhibition space.
- Casino
- Elevator/lift
- Number of bars/lounges - 3
- 24-hour front desk
- Porter/bellhop
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Meeting rooms
- Year Built 1988
- Free self parking
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Free WiFi
- Free valet parking
- Outdoor pool
- Number of coffee shops/cafes - 2
- Computer station
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Free long-term parking
- Luggage storage
- ATM/banking
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Number of restaurants - 4
- 24-hour business center
- Concierge services
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Designated smoking areas
- Banquet hall
- Spa tub
- Total number of rooms - 629
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- Number of floors - 34
- Wedding services
- Multilingual staff
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Refrigerator (on request)
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free long-term parking, Free self parking, Free valet parking
Room Amenities
- Premium TV channels
- Pay movies
- Premium bedding
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Free local calls
- Refrigerator (on request)
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Shower only
- Desk
- Iron/ironing board
- In-room safe
- Cable TV service
- Flat-panel TV
- Free WiFi
- Number of bathrooms -
- Daily housekeeping
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
Where to Eat
Joe Vicari's Andiamo Italian Steakhouse - A favorite among Detroiters, Joe Vicari's Andiamo Italian Steakhouse has made its way to downtown Las Vegas. The menu features top quality meats. Personally prepared tableside Caesar salad, seafood that is flown in daily from across the globe and homemade signature pastas and award-winning sauces have made this Detroit's number one steakhouse. The menu is complemented by an impressive list of more than 80 wines. Open for dinner.
D Grill - Offering guests contemporary American fare in a sleek new setting. With a diverse menu offering more than 75 breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert items, there is something to please every appetite. Each meal at D Grill is prepared completely from scratch using only fresh, never frozen ingredients. D Grill is open 24 hours adjacent to the Vintage Casino.
American Coney Island - Detroit's iconic American Coney Island brings its first out-of-state location to the D. Founder Gust Keros coined the phrase "Coney Dog" and introduced the now legendary treat in 1917. The restaurant has continued to attract loyal patrons from every generation in Detroit and around the country. Open 24 hours.
McDonalds - Located at the casino front entrance, this is the perfect spot to take a quick and delicious break from the all of the gaming action. Open 24 hours.
Vue Bar - Located on the second floor, with views of Fremont Street. Open 24 hours.
LONGBAR - Open 24 hours.
Under a canopy of 12 million lights, a 4-block pedestrians-only stretch of downtown Las Vegas called Fremont Street Experience presents periodic sound-and-light shows from dusk to midnight. Other day-and-night entertainment on the street includes live music, classic car displays, and holiday festivals. Along with 7 other downtown casino hotels, the D opens directly onto Fremont Street, creating a lively flow of pedestrian traffic.
Entertainment includes Marriage can be Murder, murdering nightly at 6:30 PM nightly. Tickets also include a 3 course dinner and beverages.
The Casino furnishes 42,000 square feet of slots, video poker, video keno, blackjack, craps, roulette, Pai Gow, Caribbean Draw poker, keno, and a sports book.
LaughterNoon starring Comic-Magician Adam London - 4:00 PM Daily.
Club D offers complimentary membership cards that reward slots, video poker, video keno, and table game play with cash and/or coupons redeemable for food and gifts.
Age restrictions may apply to entertainment options. Schedules are subject to change without notice.
Nearby Things to Do
Guests at the D Casino Las Vegas have use of an outdoor pool and a spa tub.
Skydiving and helicopter tours are popular with Las Vegas visitors. Numerous golf courses are available in the Las Vegas area.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Minimum check-in age is 21
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Up to 3 children stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for USD 15 per night.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
24-hour check-in
- Deposit: USD 100.00 per stay
- Resort fee: USD 28.25 per accommodation, per night
- Fitness center access
- Internet access
- Phone calls
- Self parking
- Valet parking
- Parking
- Additional inclusions
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: between USD 8.00 and USD 15.00 per person (approximately)
- Refrigerator fee: USD 10.00 per day
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 15 per night
Hotel Name
- D Hotel
- D Hotel Las Vegas
- D Las Vegas
- Las Vegas D
- Fitzgeralds Casino And Hotel
- Fitzgeralds Hotel Las Vegas
- Fitzgeralds Las Vegas
- D Las Vegas Hotel
- Ramada Las Vegas
We should mention
Pool access available from 7 AM to 7 PM.The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.


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The Majestic Theatre is a historical building in downtown Kankakee, IL with a unique art deco vibe and an elegant Victorian flair. The Majestic Theatre has made a name for itself as a wedding venue and reception hall, as well as an elegant building for banquets and charity events in Tinley Park, Illinois.
The Majestic Theatre is a perfect wedding venue with its beautiful reception hall, large dance floor, full bar, balconies that provide perfect photo opportunities, and neutral colors that can host any theme or color palette. At the Majestic, you can take advantage of our wedding packages and have your wedding ceremony and reception in the same location. Guests can entertain themselves with our large dance floor and full bar while you and the wedding party take advantage of all the unique photo opportunities afforded by such an elegant and historical location. For a beautiful wedding venue and reception hall near Tinley Park, IL to host your wedding ceremony and banquet, look no further than the Majestic Theatre.
Our many wedding packages allow you to customize the wedding ceremony, venue and banquet so that your special day is perfect. As a wedding venue and reception hall, the Majestic Theatre has the perfect environment for weddings near Tinley Park, IL. The neutral colors, Victorian flair, unique art deco, and historical site create the perfect wedding venue for a unique and elegant wedding close to Tinley Park. Neutral colors in our building's palette allow the bride to use her perfect wedding colors without worrying about clashing. The art deco also keeps the rooms looking artistic and fresh. The combination of old and new is perfectly realized in the Majestic Theatre's Victorian flair and unique modern art deco. The numerous photo opportunities—both before, during, and after the wedding ceremony—will insure you have beautiful photographs of your special day, and our wedding packages make sure you have the perfect settings and enough time to get the perfect shots, whether they are of the bride in one of our beautiful sweeping balconies or of family and friends twisting the night away on our dance floor.
Our wedding packages can be customized to include the use of the building, including balconies, a room for the bride's use, a full bar and large dance floor for the reception, separate rooms for the wedding ceremony and reception, and numerous photo opportunities in the historical Victorian-style building. The art deco and neutral colors are a beautiful backdrop in any photography session, before or after the wedding ceremony, so the bride can get unique and elegant photographs of the wedding ceremony and reception. The wedding packages offered at the Majestic Theatre for wedding ceremonies and wedding receptions are sure to have something to satisfy everyone in Tinley Park.
The Majestic Theatre is also a perfect reception hall for banquets near Tinley Park. Our banquets are elegant and make the perfect setting for charity events. At the Majestic Theatre, we love hosting banquets and charity events for nonprofit organizations, and the large dance floor and full bar at our reception hall insure your charity event will be a success. Charity events can take advantage of the elegant, Victorian flair our historical building gives a formal or semiformal banquet, and our balconies, which create great wedding photo opportunities, can also be used practically for charity events or other fundraisers. As a reception hall for banquets and charity events, our historical building with its neutral colors and art deco design lends elegance and professionalism to your charity event or banquet in Tinley Park.
Whether you are looking for the perfect wedding venue for your wedding ceremony and reception, or a reception hall for a charity event or banquet, the historical Majestic Theatre can be a unique, elegant place for all your banquet and reception needs. Our full bar, wedding packages, large dance floor, balconies, numerous photo opportunities, neutral colors, and Victorian flair can make any event for Tinley Park, IL elegant and unique.


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Dr. Thomas Randle became Lamar CISD's Superintendent of Schools in 2001. Under his leadership, Lamar CISD is known around the state for academic excellence.
During his tenure, the District has twice been recognized by Texas School Business magazine for its best practices. Lamar CISD has earned the HEB Excellence in Education Award for Best Large District and three campuses achieved the highest possible honor: National Blue Ribbon School.
Student success is also commonplace in Lamar CISD with multiple state championships in athletics and fine arts—among countless other honors and awards.
For over a decade, Lamar CISD has earned the Superior Achievement rating from the Financial Integrity Rating System of Texas (FIRST). In 2014, the Texas Comptroller also recognized Lamar CISD as one of only 46 school districts across the state to achieve the highest level of student success and fiscal management as determined by the Financial Allocation Study for Texas (FAST) report.
Since Dr. Randle's arrival in Lamar CISD, the District has added over a dozen facilities—with plans for another dozen on the way. Student enrollment has increased from about 16,000 to roughly 30,000 and the staff has gone from 2,200 to 4,500—making Lamar CISD the second-largest employer in Fort Bend County.
Dr. Randle also has a strong record of industry leadership, including service with the Texas Association of School Boards Risk Management Fund, the UIL Legislative Committee, the Texas FFA Association, the Texas Association of School Administrators, the Texas Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development, Texas Academic Decathlon, the Texas Alliance of Black School Educators and the Texas Business and Education Coalition.
He's a Past President of the Texas Association of School Administrators and a Past President of the Texas Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development.
He served on the Texas Education Commissioner's Cabinet of Superintendents, the Policy Committee on Public Education Information and as an advisor for the Texas Education Agency's Recommended High School Plan. In 2008, the Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives appointed Dr. Randle to the Select Committee on Public School Accountability.
He's been the Region 4 Superintendent of the Year (2001) and a finalist for Texas Superintendent of the Year.
Other honors include the Leslie Hayley Community Service Award given by the Texas City/La Marque Chamber of Commerce and the 2004 Texas Educational Support Staff Administrator of the Year Award. Dr. Randle is a Rotary Paul Harris Fellow and the 2012 recipient of Texas A&M's John R. Hoyle Award for Educational Leadership. He received an Oklahoma Regent of Higher Education Fellowship and served on a focus group for the Council of Chief State School Officers in Washington D.C.
Dr. Randle earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Texas A&M University and a Doctorate from Oklahoma State University. At A&M, Dr. Randle was a Distinguished Student, and was named an Outstanding Graduate and a Notable Graduate nominee.
Dr. Randle began his education career as an agriculture teacher in Sweeny, then worked his way up the administrative ladder in Conroe ISD, as an Assistant Principal, Principal and Assistant Superintendent for Secondary Education. He also served as superintendent in LaMarque ISD for six years prior to arriving in Lamar CISD.
Ultimately, Dr. Randle is still a teacher at heart. He serves as an adjunct professor at Texas A&M University.
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In chaotic and difficult market environments, Jim Cramer recommends investors seek the protection of stocks with serious dividends. After all, dividend-paying stocks pay investors to wait until the market calms and the economy improves.
The "Mad Money" host especially likes "accidental high-yielders" — the stocks with small payouts that wouldn't ordinarily offer high yields. Because of downward pressure in the markets, which has hurt their share prices, those yields have shot up. So now investors get more bang for their bucks.
The added benefit of owning these kinds of stocks is that the newly high yields attract new buyers, and that puts a floor in the share price. Not only do investors get to collect the payout on the way down, but they can also ride the stock higher on the way back up.
We pulled together a list of Cramer's favorite dividend plays. Read on and pick one or two for your portfolio. They could offer just the kind of defense that you need.
When this slideshow was published, Cramer's charitable trust owned DuPont and Eaton.
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