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"Working harder is not always the answer." –Jerry Osteryoung, professor emeritus of finance with the College of Business at Florida State University
It's been a while since Professor Osteryoung (below, right) has graced this post with his perspectives on entrepreneurial business strategies – and let me tell you, trucking is home to more entrepreneurs and small business owners than you can shake a stick at, making his thoughts all the more welcome.
He recently penned a column about the need to be "brutally realistic" in the business world – something that is particularly vital for those in the "small shop" category to remember. That goes double for the small trucking business because this is a "mature" industry, meaning there are lots of very large, well-established competitors than can, in many cases, haul freight faster and cheaper than the little guys.
Yet that doesn't mean small truckers need to throw in the towel and leave the big rig business behind … but it also doesn't mean they shouldn't think they can just lower their head and shoulders like an outside linebacker and smash their way to success. Indeed, sometimes – in Professor Osteryoung's experience – simply working harder isn't always the right strategy.
"Being realistic about what is possible and, more importantly, what is impossible, is absolutely critical when running a business," he explained. "There come times in most entrepreneurs' lives when they will not be able to accomplish the task they have set their sights on. Recognizing this is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength. Being realistic about what is achievable is important as it keeps you from wasting energy trying to move an immovable wall."
For example, he pointed to couple who that had labored at their start up for four years only to stall out at $1 million in annual sales.
"They were struggling since they had not been taking much money out for themselves in the hopes that the business would gradually improve so they could recoup some of the dollars they had invested," Osteryoung said. "But no matter what they did, their sales remained flat. So they came to us for help improving their sales efforts and a number of other areas of the business. They figured if we improved some of these other areas, sales would follow."
Yet Osteryoung said trying to help them proved very frustrating – but not for the reasons you'd expect.
"These clients did everything I asked and had good results in every area except for sales," he explained. "They were just working so hard without much to show for it. With clients that are both good people and hard workers, it is very frustrating to watch them give it their all and still fall short of the results we all are hoping for."
Exasperated with the lack of results, he said the three of them engaged in what Osteryoung called "one of those serious and life-altering conversations" about whether the reason they couldn't increase sales centered on something they were or were not doing or market conditions.
"We all agreed that the market was fully saturated and there was very little they could do now to improve sales," he said. "But once they understood that it was impossible to gain market share effectively – there was just nowhere to go – we began discussions about other services they could potentially offer to differentiate themselves from their competitors."
As a result, they determined they could add three or four additional products and services to their mix to revive their business. "I really believe that with some time and energy, they will be able to grow their business by concentrating on these additional areas," Osteryoung noted.
There's an important lesson in here for truckers – especially the small operators – for even though freight is (for many) flush now, this is a cyclic industry, so downturns are expected (though hopefully not as severe as the Great Recession, let me tell you!)
Indeed, lots of savvy truckers are trying taking advantage of things other fleets view wholly as impediments.
Take the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrations (FMCSA) new Compliance Safety Accountability or "CSA" rules. While many fleets think these new rules are onerous, the rules also are tying shippers more firmly than ever to the carriers they select to haul their freight.
As a result, many fleets are burnishing their safety profile like never before because they believe – and rightly so, in my opinion – that being truly "top notch" in terms of safety scores can lead to more business, giving shippers that "peace of mind" that they've chosen a fleet with rock-solid safety metrics.
That's but one of the smart plays truckers are executing today – not just trying to haul more freight to make money, but by offering to put that freight under a well-documented "safety umbrella" to alleviate shipper worries concerning risk exposure. That's smart thinking, for sure.


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A McKinney, Texas police officer has been suspended from his regular duties after footage of him handcuffing and pulling out a weapon on a group of black teenagers during a local pool party surfaced the web.
Buzzfeed reports:
Officers were called to the a local community pool around 7:15 p.m. local time to respond to a "disturbance involving multiple juveniles at the location, who do not live in the area or have permission to be there, refusing to leave," the McKinney Police Department said in a post on its Facebook page. Other calls also advised that the teens were "actively fighting," police said.
"First responding officers encountered a large crowd that refused to comply with police commands. Nine additional units responded to the scene. Officers were eventually able to gain control of the situation," police said.
As seen in the graphic video above, the police officer was seen detaining teens and handcuffing them, before aggressively taking hold of a young girl's hair and pinning her down to the ground. He immediately pulled out his weapon when her friends came to the rescue.
The site continues:
Teens at the pool party told BuzzFeed News the police were called after a fight broke out between adults and youths at the pool after the adults made racist comments telling the black children to leave the area and return to "Section 8 [public] housing."
The police officer has been put on administrative leave as the McKinney Police Department further investigates the situation.
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BAW rarely gets the facts correct. They are so busy trying to be biased that the truth is never investigated. For BAW it is all about the FAM, nothing else matters.
I live in the Dallas area and facebook is lit up with peoples first hand reports of what happened here. Some are from kids at the party. Some are from residence that live near the pool. After reading through them all I will bring you what first hand reports are said about this. Without being misled by the media.
The party was advertised on Twitter and facebook. They were charging $15 to come to the party. This is actually something that this group does all the time. So it wasn't the first time they have done this. It wasn't a innocent planned pool party. It was in fact a rave like party set up by this group that does it all the time. They choose a pool. Set up a DJ next to the pool. Charge money and tell kids where to go using social networking. They even tell kids how to avoid security getting into the events.
So hundreds of teens showed up. They were cursing, drinking, and smoking pot. They were being rude to residents that lived there and were yelling racial slurs at the residents. They couldn't do anything about the DJ or party because it was in a public space next to the pool.
The security were at the pool keeping the kids out. Then the kids started to assault the security guard and were jumping over the fence to get into the pool. A mother at the pool was trying to remove here children from the situation and was walking them across the parking lot to their car. A young teen girl went to the woman from behind and attacked her first by pulling her hair down. Leaving the three young children running towards their car.
This is when the police were called out.
BAW you should be ashamed of yourself for not investigating this first. You should know that the media lies to get ratings. But I guess it wouldn't be a story for you unless these kids were targeted for no other reason than for being black. After all black skin should be a crime and black lives matter. In the last three days 40 blacks have lost their lives in chicago alone. I don't see you doing a story on that.
All the racist that come to BAW will hate what I had to write here. But it is the truth. On Saturday night some black teens returned to the area and kicked in doors, looted homes and even stole a truck then crashed it into several cars. The news didn't report any of this Monday morning. But why should they. That is a non story.
What a shame.
Clearly you all did not see the video that was shot before the one attached to this story wherein several of these same black girls attacked a 40yr old woman at the party who asked them nicely to leave. THAT is what sparked the 911 call. See it here:https://youtu.be/VVB2NyqqCpw
You are assuming that it was the black teen girls who attacked the white adult women. Where do you get that from the video. It is not clear who attacked who in the video but most reports say that it was the white adult woman who made racial comments to the black teens and who hit one if the black teen girls. But the video does in no way reveal the instigator.
When I put the 911 call together with the video it was clear to me. Open your mind and it will be clear to you, too. No unarmed person EVER attacks a group of black youth- and you know that.
STOP civilian brutality against police officers. She wants a pass because she is black. The gun was never actually pointed at the civilians.
Every time I see this video tears come to my eyes. There's no way in H the police officers would have acted in this manner if all of the teens at the party were white. And, the police officer gets what equates to a paid vacation. SMH Hard!!!
Just heard the woman from the NAACP from that area on the Philadelphia radio station. She stated the incident started when a white woman began aruging with the young lady who was giving the party. The young lady went home and got her 19 years old sister to told the woman the children had a right to be at the pool. During the argument the white woman slaps the 19 year old girl in the face, than the police was called. From the video you can see the police was there for the Black children and not the white woman who started it all.
To all of you stupid racist that thinks this type of behavior is ok, I can't wait until the tables are turned. There is no need to result to violence. The folks that called the police are more than likely the ones that started the problems in the first place. I can see asking the uninvited guests to leave if they are being rude and nasty. But if they are all having good fun and no one is being harmed, who gives a damn that they are taking a dip in the pool. This is exactly why I children to out their votes, money and voices to work,; not just for themselves, but the must champion on the side of just for the weaker and their fellow man. Regardless of race.
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Oh my, this video was horrific at best. Was this brutality by several officers really necessary? I don't think so, but of course these cops are just doing their jobs…right?
Kate, you are one dumb, stupid ,and ignorant mayonaise monkey. It's obvious your monkey ass didn't make it pass the sixth grade .
Blacks always lash out with anger and violence when they cannot reason or understand a different opinion. I have been accused of being white on this site when it is clear (for those that can read ANF understand) that I am not. However, because I don't subscribe to the victim-mentality, I must be white. It is laughable.
@MB people think you're an "other" and a racist, no doubt because you use terms like "Blacks lash out…" like you've segregated yourself from your race. I know, I know you hate the skin you're in and are ashamed. I can't even disagree with some of your comments at least the ones relating to blacks helping and not hurting one another, those are actually valid. But the name calling (in which we all have done), and the pure racist statements that you write sound like pure hate. Unfortunately the 1st amendment applies to all Americans.
Who's the fat white guy hovering around in the video?
Monica: That's the same thing I said when I first saw the video. Is he a neighbor, an off duty officer, a plain clothes officer??
The bottom line is at the end of the day this is a 14 year old girl. She is seen walking away. The cop pulled her down because she was "mouthing off". She was singled out because he didn't like what she was saying. Where is the 1st amendment in this situation? Where is police protocol? She's 14, a minor. Maybe she should not have been "mouthing off" but is that a reason for him to use that level of force against her? "Put your face in the ground"? What?!!! Rest there with his knee in her back? What?!!! I have a 13 year old daughter and no cop or anybody else better not ever put her in that position. He didn't know of any medical issues she may have had. She is a fraction of his weight and he went too far!!!! He did not follow protocol!!! PERIOD!!!
When I viewed this video, I was sickened. I normally do not curse, but, when viewing this, I said, This DMF. That's not my style, but, I was angered. Only the African American students were detained and treated like animals. It's clear in my mind, that the entire school or most of the school students knew this pool party was being held. Uninvited or not, disperse the problem and move on. Do not abuse the youth. Parents having an issue with the presence of African American students in the neighborhood should have confronted the parents. All people have rights to visit, speak and travel where they see fit. Who limits the rights of white students in any communities. Please America, let's get it right and stop the racial profiling and abuse toward our youth. Enough is enough!!!
Cross your fingers and hope one of those racist will drown in that pool. There was a story about a man from India visiting his daughter who lived in a place like that and got attacked and beaten by Whites. Whites pretend they don't know why Europians and Americans with middle east back grounds leave and join ISIS. The reason is they are treated a Brown and discriminated against.
Cross your fingers and hope one of those racist will drown in that pool. There was a story about a man from India visiting his daughter who lived in a place like that and got attacked and beaten by Whites. Whites pretend they don't know why Europians and Americans with middle east back grounds lea ve and join ISIS. The reason is they are treated a Brown and discriminated against.
I'm sorry, I meant the Officer's INEXPERIENCE!!!
You know what the worse part of this situation is? It's the ignorance of the bloggers here. Which ones of us were there and KNOW what was actually going on at this poolside? Based upon what we saw on the video, this Officer was way out of line and should be held accountable for his actions. Just in comparing his actions to those of the Officers around him, he was way over zealous and these young people had to deal with what actually looked like, his experience. When one is in such a position and has the rights and privileges that he does, he MUST be as sure as possible that his decisions and the behavior that results from those decisions are clearly thought out. No matter what happened at that poolside, these children clearly were not fostering it and yes, they should have been encouraged to leave the scene and not to add to any chaos that may have been.
You ignoramuses here need to research your history and get it right. But if you don't know anything at all, keep this one thing in mind, It was the ignorance and stupidity and laziness of the white man that put Blacks and other minorities in an inferior position. Those injustices that we are still reeling from were put upon us. Our position was not of our own doing. And there are MANY who still believe what their bigoted parents taught them and it continues to be taught and handed down to the next generation!
I think most of us agree this could/should have been handled differently, by everyone involved. How did they know about the party, an invitation by one of their classmates? One thing is for sure the parents were not notified! Whatever happened to "Hey kids the party is over time to go home . . "
The officer did his job
I got into a heated debate on this yesterday on a "whiter" board and my point was as a mother of daughters who have dealt with B more police, my daughters know to do as some of the guys did in the video and that is obey the officers (sit down BE QUIET hand behind back etc.) and get me on the phone!!! Making the situation worse so Al Sharpton (and media who loves to exploit this for ratings) can swoop in is pointless!!! Slamming that girls head to the ground crossed the line but I also realize police didn't just drop out of the sky. Someone called 911 and complained so police must respond!!! All these incidents reminds me of why I moved out of B more after Section 8 ruined a great neighborhood!!!
MD: To be clear…..I don't think any one is questioning the police officers responding to a call. Obviously someone called them. The issue is the way the response was handled.
If the gangs did their Drive-BY shooting in those Racist areas of town Whites would be more willing to help Blacks with programs and jobs.
your racist mother is the most ignorant thing in a post because that's who you got your sickness from.
Why do blacks need the white man's help and attention with getting jobs? Why can't we help ourselves? I do not understand your reliance on the very people you despise. It is high-time black folk cut that bullsh!t out of our lives and be men– stand up on two feet and stop looking for a handout. Each one, teach one…..right? Riiiiiight. First step, stop killing each other over bullsh!t (look at the Chi, B-more, the Lou, Memphis…)
And one more thing, For that person or person's that said go back to Section 8 Housing, that was ugly and judgmental. All blacks are not raised in the section 8 Housing, ghetto, or projects. I myself an a country girl Mom and Dad married, large land, chicken and ducks to raise, garden in the yard and other blessing…. people should be very careful by making light of people living arrangements making fun or belittling families. Because folk fail to respect the power if mother nature ( the Lord's Work) and just may destroy your home. Tornados, hurricanes and etc. are a stranger to no man. May find yourself looking crazy.
First Section 8 idiots ran me out of B more recently!! I have no problem with the Mayor etc. wanting to put lower income moms around middle class to give them access to a better life BUT teach them how to live around WORKING folks!!! Guest who ruined my old neighborhood hood? The baby daddies and felon sons! Then I moved to a great private condo community (went back near where I was stationed in military) then learn Section 8 was moved in near me and my car gets keyed up after a guy begs me for money and I said NO! Why do we constantly try to destroy each other??? I worked had for my shigady!!!!! And you wonder why the media loves it when we act like animals destroying each other….
You act like you are better than anyone else but let me tell you something – you need to go back to school somewhere because your language is "shot to hell."
@MD VET MOM & MD MOM and other screen names you've used:
I want to speak for the "regulars" here, we're glad you moved also. Too bad you won't move on.
Let's just keep this real 100. This cop is a racist abusing his authority and position. He's using his badge to have power to make his insecurities puffed up. This girl had the right to be on a public sidewalk, public property. It's obviously he does not know the law, hey just wanted to play cowboy and Indians. All of his life obviously he wanted to shoot a gun and play cowboy. It's obvious that this cop has no criminal justice knowledge or education. But like I tell people, it appears that in this day and time all it takes is a third-grade education to be a police officer. Their behavior matches a third grader playing cops and robbers.
He has not earned suspension but he has earned lifetime in prison and throw away the key. But do that after you let all the gangs get to him. The President may be scared to speak up, the US Atty. Gen. may do nothing, but turn them over to the gangs and see what happens. This abuse on black folks by cops is happening too frequently while the powers that be continue to sit back and do nothing constructive about these situations that are going on.
BWeaver: What does the President have to do with this??!! Common sense tells me that after seeing the video President Obama is concerned like every one else with what took place. However, It could be President Clinton, Bush, Carter, or Obama….it isn't a President's (primary) job to police every city in this country. Get a clue!
I'm black . And personally I feel they should not have gone if they were not invited. Also, Where are the parents of the children ? Don't care if the are teenagers parent or parent should have been with child. And what's the PROBLEM with complying with what Officers say do ? Or is it a pride thing or I have the last word debate. Just do as the officer say And keep hands where they can see them!!!!!! Yes I agree cops can be rude, prideful, arrogant and mean, but often times than not when he or she see that you are not offended by the pull over, questioning, traffic citation, or etc he or she often soften up. This happen to me. Say yes sir, be respectful even when Officer is being an unprofessional idiot.
Hi Tom, I feel that you and Sybil used a poor choice of words when you said, "these kids aren't from the hood they live or are from the suburbs." There are great kids who live in the "hood" as well. That girl should have not been treated that way the cops was so wrong for that.
That is why ISIS is after America! Hope they get what they deserve; and see how it feels to be "violently" mistreated!
The table will eventually turn white America!
EBB your an idiot. Do you not watch the news. ISIS is a punch of white muslims. When ISIS comes to America and take over who do you think they will treat with respect and who do you think they will mistreat. It would be a sad day for blacks all across America if ISIS ever took over. The white men in ISIS have no restraint no rules. You think we are getting gunned down in the streets by whites now. Wait till your dream comes true and ISIS gets here.
He did his job. This coming from a black person. Had they listened & obeyed, there would've been no issue. PARENTS, get your kids straight
Here is the perfect solution for these types of situations. When the cops are called because people are acting a fool, trying to beat the hell out of one another, the cops should come to the scene, calmly and nicely tell everyone to leave. Then leave. The ones with half a brain will leave. The other rabble-rousers will remain and continue until someone is dead or critically hurt. That way, the only ones that will be held responsible for the bloodshed will be the animals with the "ain't no party like hood party" mentality. Eventually, they'll kill each other off, and the world will be a much safer place. Why does everything have to be so complicated?
I hope you have a teenage girl and she gets stopped by a cop and they SLAM her to the ground because teenagers will be teenagers. They haven't changed. They were just like this during my time and times before that. Don't forget – we are always telling our children to fight for what they think is right and then we turn around and tell them to be complacent and take things as they are. You are talking to the wrong people now because these teenagers are our future and something tells me that the status quo is not going to work for them.
@Kates: It sounds as though you don't remember being a TEENAGER. Yes it wasn't smart to run up on a police officer. But….duuuuuh most teenagers don't think like adults. I'm not saying it's ok (not) to think rationally……but it is what it is. I repeat….most teenagers don't think like adults.
You need Jesus, obviously you're a racist, why are you even posting anything on this Website? It's people like you that makes this world evil and nasty! what a shame!
AMEN, Ms. Klaire. WOWWWW and WOWWW again, Tom. You inspired me to write. I know we are an emotional people. But, we should have learned many DEATHS ago to think before we act or speak. This includes everyone in public housing as well as the suburbs, TOM. Have you read these comments? The WISE ELDERS are mentioning following the rules. The others are giving agitating attitude. This is why they were in this situation. It could have been avoided simply by doing what was instructed!!!!!! I am 48. I was taught to stay away from the troublemakers and if a cop pulls me over, do exactly what he/she says. "You got the nerve to talk back to me. I work my butt off for your well-being and you want to act a fool". Sound similar? We always say, "It takes a village". Cops live in the village also. I believe that because I listen to my mother and respect the cops, I have not been in jail. We have a lot of quotes, wisdom, sayings, etc. They mean nothing if they are not SHOWN to our children. Tom, let us not forget the mom who retrieved her 16 yr. old son from the Baltimore riots. In addition, last week a 15 yr. old boy in Tennessee was killed trying to buy a gun (no cops involved). THINK PEOPLE, THINK!!!!
Okay just so I'm clear about this, the only kids that were being "defiant" were the black kids? I don't think so, when the cop told the crowd to disperse, was he not talking to everyone? In the video I saw, all colors of kids and adults were standing around looking and talking and in awe quite frankly. No I don't think kids should be defiant to any adult, whether it's a neighbor, cop, teacher, etc…One kid even told the cops, "sir we just came from a birthday party" Please remember, these kids were not committing a crime, they were black at a party where white adults didn't want them. Unless it's their personal pool, they have no say so unless they are committing a crime. Being black in America has become a crime it appears and if you try to fight against this injustice you are said to be the problem. Miss me with that BS.
I am an African-American mother/teacher and I'm UPSET that so many people are focusing on the avoidable outcome instead of addressing how this whole situation didn't have to happen. I counted at least 7 blatant acts of DEFIANCE by all the teens in the video and 2 more specific to the African-American girl that led to her being "taken down". #1. Too many minors for the space and monitoring SO TIME TO LEAVE, #2. Openly upset adults SO TIME TO LEAVE, #3. Adults threatened to call the police SO TIME TO LEAVE, #4. Police called SO TIME TO LEAVE, #5. Sirens can be heard SO TIME TO LEAVE, #6. Police pull up SO TIME TO LEAVE, #7. Police are assessing the situation SO TIME TO LEAVE, #8. Police give the order to disperse SO TIME TO LEAVE, #9. A girl in a bikini was arguing with the police, #10. The same girl refused to put her arms behind her back, #11. Some agitated males ran up on the sole police officer to defend the girl. Well, I had more than 7, but you get my point. Forget about the racist cops for a moment! What happened to raising our children to be smart, well-behaved, and mannerable?! I see and hear about blatant DEFIANCE everyday in classrooms around the nation, but too many African-American kids bring an unpredictable aggressiveness and I aint-got-nothing-to-lose attitude that ups the ante (gets adrenaline going) for anyone who gets in their way. Forget the police, our ancestors would be beating the mess out of us or come close to killing us themselves if they knew we were making excuses for an entire generation to repeatedly do the 11 defiant acts I recorded. So until we go back to raising the bar on how we raise obedient African-American children, I am not pushing for the cop to be fired. FYI, Tom Joyner, good-suburban kids would have left at #1 (per my scaredy-cat daughter and her girlfriends). So, as long as we continue to allow our children to portray themselves as the boogeymen that racists expect, then defiant "call my mama" kids should get more than what they bargained for. Ultimately, Tom Joyner will get his wish and they will fire the cop for "losing it". But firing racist cops won't fix the intensifying problem with our combative children as more police officers, teachers, and everybody else "loses it" over these kids' hot messiness.
My daughter and friends would have also gotten their asses out of there, but had she not, I would have still come to her defense, because what this cop did to this girl was completely unnecessary.
I agree with some of what you said, until you got to the "good-suburban kids" part. These are kids suburban or not and although they did not use good judgement the cop was over agressive. Of all the kids there that were he decided to focus on the girl. Whatever she was saying she seemed to be walking away.
Why do people have to always state there race when they comment as if that makes them more credible in the topic? Just say what you have to say and be done with it. But, I will ask Miss African American teacher, what part of Africa are you from? .
I bet you haven't stepped foot on one country on th continent of Africa. Can you even point it out on a map? Miss African American teahcer.
This really is an outrage, but this cop will get off with no charges filed, as usual. "I feared for my life" BS will be his excuse. This teenage girl was clearly un-armed and not fighting back, although resisting (and that's just out of natural instinct), who wants to be thrown to the ground? What was her crime? Oh I got it, "being black in a middle class white neighborhood." If not fired, put his ass on desk duty and clearly, more sensitivity training.
I am a Black Man 62 years old. The young lady did not follow directions, which lead to this situation. If you watch the video, she ran in and out of the scene three times before she was pulled down by the police officer. Now if I am a police officer and I have a suspect down on the ground, you should never and I mean never rush up on me, and I have a gun. If these kids were good kids, why were the police called in the first place?
If these kids were good kids…" These kids don't have to be anything but black is why the police were called. It was apparent to me that other kids (white, etc…) in the neighborhood or at the pool (because they were in swimming gear) knew these kids, they most likely were invited, at least some. Now if you've ever been to any party as a kid you know kids bring their friends or other kids with them. STOP making excuses for this bad cop's behavior, he was rounding up these kids like they were getting ready for a slave auction.
Any you're a 62 year old fool to think that what he did was right, especially since he only went after her when there were numerous people on the same scene. Cussing at those kids, pulling one to the ground by her hair, pushing her face into the ground, and placing both his knees (and full weight on her back) IS NOT PROCEDURE! That girl clearly is under 115 pounds and he's clearly over 150. The fact that you're supposedly an older black man who thinks a cop has the right to pull his gun on unarmed kids is fvcking sad.
This cop is nothing more than a "tough ass bitch".
Nathan I actually agree with your post and why my daughters knew how to handle B more police when they get stopped etc. Making the situation worse doesn't help. They know I don't play and get me on the phone I WILL DEAL WITH POLICE!! @TJ-This is why I agree with Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake NOT letting police go after the KIDS rioting. She would have been hung in the two faced media if one of those kids were hurt badly! Why does everyone keep forgetting the police were called? I live in a private condo community (which I love after leaving thug city B more) in which neighbors will call 911 quickly on out of control teens or folks who don't belong here!!!
OLD FOOL if you pull a girl down like that people will rush you, so you want to ask for it and have nothing happen you're sick.
@Nathan: "If these kids were good kids, why were the police called in the first place?" Nathan please think before writing a comment, and at least know (some) details of what happened, The fore-mentioned part of your comments sound ridiculous.
Take his gun, take his badge, fire the idiot and be done with it. I found it interesting the cop let that white guy hover around him for the longest time without saying a word to him. Had the guy not been white, the cop would've been screaming at him like a maniac to get his ass out of there NOW.
Why was it that the only ones being harassed n talked to like slaves were the black kids, that racist pig didn't have anything to say to the white kids and some of them could have also not lived in the neighborhood. He's a total coward when he has to assault children to make himself feel good, what I wouldn't give for five minutes alone with him, cause I'm not a little kid who's scared Im a grown man.
This is history repeating instead of the hoods they have the badges
This is so sad. Smh.I hate this really happened. This would have been a very BIG law suit against the McKinney Police Department. I'm sorry,but your not going to just handcuff MY CHILD nor pull my child's hair just because of his/her skin color and not knowing what's really going on and if you did know what's going on your STILL NOT GOING TO DO THAT. Why he didn't ASK what was going on instead of sticking at these kids smh. Just another sad scenario. Lord please take the wheel. And then he gets paid while being suspended!!!!! Nooooo,not a way in hell. That's like giving water in Hell. Smh. These cops are getting out of hand.
It couldn't have been my child. Im sitting here at work and im so disturb by this video i cant walk into work yet. And they wonder why we are so angry. Im with you Tom fire his RACIST ASS now. Do like they like they would have black people your guilty until proven innocent
Why not resort to putting up a "WHITE'S ONLY" sign-since that seems to be the mentality you seem to have!!!!!
The last time that I noticed, WE BLACK FOLKS can go where ever we choose!!!!!
As for this RACIST POS PIG–FIRE HIS ASS OR PUT HIM IN A LILY WHITE COMMUNITY WHERE HE WON'T HAVE TO COME IN CONTACT WITH ANY PEOPLE OF COLOR!!!!!
No, you cannot go "wherever" you want to go. A lot of neighborhoods have associations these days which make them private communities. That "association" status, amongst other things, protects the common areas such as greenbelts, parks and POOLS, and reserves their use for residents only. This particular neighborhood is one such place and IS NOT WHITES ONLY- that is not what I was advocating but you knew that; you just wanted to fan those racial flames. sad.
Mac Ben why don't you get whole story, it was a pool party, your such an A**Hole Mac Ben.
You mad bro? What….are you my little baw stalker now? …Want me to bust that thang out for you like your uncles used to?? It was a pool party- a pool party those kids were not invited to.
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So not sure where in the police standard operating procedure it is permissible for an officer to slap a young girl across the face, pull her hair, throw her to the ground, push her face in the dirt, place a knee and her back — all in the process of effectuating (at best) a misdemeanor arrest where no violence has been offered…but we will watch the investigation unfold.
bastards what a bitch so called cop. fire his ass now
They are going to beat us until Jesus comes..Mark my words.and black people will fight each other until Jesus comes too. Love does not kill. We're under grace that's true just don't forget to resist Satan while you're under grace. If you are angry at your brother you are in danger of the council & you call him a name in danger of judgment if you beat someone or kill them I'm pretty sure people are in danger of hell fire. But hey go ahead do what you want. If you think the Lord is delaying his coming & you start to drink & get drunk with the drunkards & beat your servants a portion of hell you'll receive there will be weeping & nashing of teeth. Regardless of your occupation & nationality
Damn rascist dirty ass so called cops. If they were white teenagers they would never had handcuffed them pulled them to the ground by their hair and totally disrespected them. This shit needs to stop. I hope her parents sue the shit out of that so called police force Outrageous!
No excuse for the actions of those cops. The cop should be fired immediately and I'd sue the shit out of that police dept, city, and anyone else connected to the municipality.
That right and witnesses say a white racist started it by calling them name and telling them to back home.
Everywhere the white man went he tagged along the black man & other so called minorities. So now the whole country is as fault for being a BIG BULLY. Solldier Brainwashed & Beaten to submission makes a good soldier.Now my people Willingly fight people they never had beef with. What war was OUR WAR our fight? None of them.
⬆ One of the most ignorant posts I have ever read. I hope you don't ever have children.
White cops should patrol their own neighborhoods & we patrol & serve our own community. They don't KNOW US AFTER 400 YEARS they DON'T KNOW US after the Civil Rights Bill they don't know us Rich or Poor or as slaves..they're not our people they'll never respect us not even in a suburban neighborhood. Doesn't matter if we live in the projects, or the suburbs we still get treated the same. And we treat each other bad too. A lot of us are brainwashed in Babylon.
This is ridiculous. I live in a community that has a community pool. I have seen white children, black children and many others using the pool that I am sure don't live in our community. Do I care? Hell No. It is hot as hell and as long as they are not being rude and nasty. Anyone that sees anything other than a bully is just as stupid and racist as the cops and the grown ass white men standing by and watching and not calling a supervisor form the police force.
I totally agree. This all started because someone didn't like the idea of these kids being their but had it been majority white you would not have heard a thing.
This is how professional police officers handle unarmed teenagers. This is why video is so important but will the officer be held accountable for brutalizing these kids? No all he will say is he was in fear for his life against so many african americans and received a paid vacation courtesy of the taxpayers. Thank god for police unions to never hold police officers accountable for anything. We all should have a union.
Why don't they get together and have a pool installed in their own neighborhood? Tear down one of the basketball courts, dig it out and fill with cement- voila! No need to trespass into those tax and dues-paying white folks property!
You idiot it was a party. The people whom had the party lived in the neighborhood. This was in the suburbs of Dallas. These kids parents probably have enough money to get the hole in your trailer\ meth lab fixed.
They were not invited which is why the cops were called- you idiot. They were trespassing- this was not a public pool or party, which is why I ask why they just didn't have their own…; don't be so emotional and understand the whole story.
@ macben – In other articles, it was reported that some of the black kids were invited, and some also lived in the neighborhood. My question to you is how do you know that ALL of the whites kids attending were invited guests and did not crash the party?
That is the problem people like you with your racist mentality. Get over yourself
MacBen it's clear your issues run deep. Who's to say these kids don't live in the neighborhood or that they don't have pools in their neighborhood, they were invited to a pool party. You are too racist for your own damn good.
I usually dont respond or comment on these matters. But this guy clearly needs education. Ignorance is flowing out ur mouth
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 22 (UPI) -- Google head Eric Schmidt says Google Glass, the wearable computer with display, is at least a year away and will require new social etiquette when it arrives.
In an interview with the BBC, Schmidt said although developers had been given the devices, a release of a consumer version was not imminent.
"It's fair to say that thousands of these will be in use by developers over the next months, and then based on their feedback we will make some product changes, and it's probably a year-ish away," he said.
Responding to rumors of a $1,500 price tag, Google Chief Executive Officer Larry Page, in a first-quarter earnings call last week, said: "The price tag was set for developers for early test. We don't have news to announce there. I'm not sure I would call it a luxury price, but it's a pretty high price."
Schmidt was asked about how Google Glass and other similar wearable devices that can take photos and capture video might impact social norms and privacy.
"The fact of the matter is we'll have to develop some new social etiquette. It's obviously not appropriate to wear these glasses in situations where recording is not correct, and indeed you have this problem already with phones," Schmidt said.
"Companies like Google have a very important responsibility to keep your information safe. You have responsibility as well to understand what you are doing and how you are doing it and obey appropriately and also keep everything up to date."
In March, a Seattle bar announced it would not allow Google Glass in the establishment, CNET reported.
In response, a Google spokesperson said, "It is still very early days for Glass, and we expect that as with other new technologies, such as cellphones, behaviors and social norms will develop over time."


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- Most of Arkansas and Oklahoma is under winter storm warnings
- Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia could see tornadoes, forecasters say
- Air travelers are urged to call ahead, as some flights already are canceled
A large, powerful storm system threatened to bring a white Christmas to parts of the Great Plains and dangerous tornadoes to the Southeast, forecasters said.
A winter storm warning is in effect through at least midnight Tuesday for much of Oklahoma and Arkansas and parts of southern Missouri. By the time the storm is through, these areas could have between 4 to 6 inches of sleet and snow.
But precipitation is just part of the concern. The same system could produce relatively long-lasting tornadoes not normally seen this time of year, the National Weather Service notes in its severe weather outlook.
"A severe threat is expected to spread (eastward and northeastward) across parts of" Alabama, southern Tennessee and western Georgia on Tuesday night "as the system continues to strengthen," the weather agency said.
Even without tornadoes, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said that its residents could see sustained winds between 70 and 80 mph, heavy rain and hail, and dangerous lightning. The system is supposed to move through the state on Christmas Day.
Passengers flying in and out of Oklahoma City's Will Rogers Airport are being urged to check with their airlines before coming to the airport, because of the weather there and elsewhere around the county. Delta has already canceled four Christmas Day flights, while it and United are both waiving fees for passengers who want to change their scheduled tickets, the airport said in a news release.
One reason for widespread delays this week is the fact the weather is expected to be frightful in much of the United States, not just the Plains and Southeast.
A winter storm watch is in effect from Missouri through Vermont, a huge swath of territory where significant snows are expected to fall through Thursday.


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No, counseling can also assist with the following: Adjusting to new surroundings/circumstances or a new culture Building self-esteem Choosing a major or career path Coping with grief, loss and depression Learning new communication skills Learning stress management Overcoming math or speech anxiety Overcoming social anxiety Resolving a conflict with a teacher, friend or relative
How long can I receive counseling?
Due to a high demand for services, and to ensure that the greatest number of students can receive services, the college sets a limit on the total number of individual counseling appointments students may receive. Please discuss the specifics of this policy with your counselor.
What is the difference between a counselor and an academic advisor?
A counselor is a faculty member as well as a master's degree-level professional trained in counseling. Counselors also work with faculty and staff as consultants and trainers. An academic advisor is a professional staff or faculty member trained to assist students with academic planning. Advisors make referrals for various student concerns to counselors or other […]
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Sheryl Soderstrom is the new principal at Monticello Elementary School. Soderstrom served as an elementary school principal in Sanders, AZ before moving to Monticello in 2006. She has served as the vice principal at Monticello High School for the past five years.
Soderstrom takes the place of Lance Hatch, who is the new supervisor of elementary schools for the school district.
Mark Burge is the new principal at Montezuma Creek Elementary School. Burge has served as a teacher and administrator in the Canyons School District in the Salt Lake Valley for several years. He and his family plan to live in the teacher housing in Montezuma Creek.
Burge takes the place of Rebecca Benally, who served as principal at Montezuma Creek Elementary for the past decade.
Patricia Whitfield is the new principal at the newest school in the district, Tsébii'nidzisgai Elementary School at Monument Valley. Whitfield worked for years in the academic field, supervising the training of elementary school teachers at Westminster College in Salt Lake City and more recently, in Arkansas. She has written books on the education of Native American children and most recently worked as an education consultant.


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ABC Tutor Bear
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Description★ BEST IPAD KIDS APP OF THE YEAR 2012
★ Featured by Apple Numerous times and on many top10 list
Every letter is a unique, interactive toy! Play the xylophone on the 'X' card, make the 'D'inosaur roar, 'Z'ip the Zipper, etc! It is a hands-on, memorable learning experience for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers!
✓ Universal app for iPad/iPhone/iPod: You can use it at home or on the go! Buy it once, take it everywhere.
✓ Fun original artwork, animations, music, and sound effects engage and capture your child's curiosity
✓ Memorable and unique interactivity keep your child coming back for more
✓ Fun and upbeat Original Music -- keeps you dancing, not wincing (parent friendly!)
✓ Our very own Alphabet/ABC song included!
✓ Baby Mode option (Auto advances cards every 15 seconds)
✓ Phonic Sounds
✓ Upper and Lower-case letters
This app keeps kids (and some parents too) entertained long enough that you'll lose track of time!
Winner of 2011 Best Kids App for iPad!
Featured in the App 2011 Rewind in the Tech for Tots Category!
Selected as on the of 10 best iPhone apps for pre-readers at babble.com!
Selected in top 8 apps for kids (2011)
Featured 4-star (highest rating) app on kidseducationalapps.com
Featured as New and Noteworthy by Apple!
Featured as a select app in 2011 by Apple!
Reviews from the press:
"To say that we were impressed by Interactive Alphabet – ABC Flash Cards would be an understatement – it is truly one of the very best iPad applications yet developed, and a fantastic value for the price. The colorful art, charming music, wonderful activities, and attention to detail make this a 'go-to' title for teaching kids the alphabet, as well as real world uses of letters. That it works with the iPad as well as the iPhone and iPod touch is just icing on the cake."-- CYKKinderGarten
"The thing I like about this entire app for toddlers is the way it was so well thought out for kids. It isn't just a bunch of letters, it's a full interaction that helps them learn on a few different levels."--MS.Kitty
"…a lovely way to experience the alphabet, that kids will want to play it over and over. " . . "We legitimately couldn't find anything not to like about this app." . . "The Bottom Line: A top pick for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers." - Sea
"Interactive Alphabet is guaranteed fun time with your young ones." - rain
ABC Tutor Bear is an abc words tutor for young children.


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The NFL is worried about declining stadium attendance. Facing such declines, they have proposed many tech, non-tech things to improve the in-stadium experience.
The Houston Texans have had consistent sell-outs since coming into the league. Even despite some years of pretty miserable football. Lots of reasons for this:
1. Pent up demand for NFL; 2. Huge city with many businesses headquartered here; 3. Great stadium with not a bad ticket in the stadium; 4. Just because people bought tickets, doesn't mean they go. In the bad years, some folks just didn't show up.
One of the best things that the Texans did from Day 1 was to encourage tailgating. Tailgates weren't allowed in Oiler days, and in a relatively short period of time, the Texans have the best tailgating in the league. Tailgating provides extra value to going to a game in person–it's both a party and a game, and it reduces traffic by staggering the times when people come to and leave the stadium.
Even when games were tough to watch, you knew at least you could hang out with friends to commiserate.
NFL Pricing Diehards Out of Stadiums.
Ultimately, in-stadium attendance declines are money related. Duh. That's the obvious answer. It costs a ton of time/money to go to the stadium instead of watching on your couch.
Newer and newer stadiums are about getting luxury box seating (and pricing), which is very corporation oriented. When the economy is tough, guess where companies cut first? Their sports tickets, particularly if the team isn't competitive. It's diehard fans who support teams when they are bad.
Diehards fans used to be able to afford tickets, but the newer stadiums put the corporate seats close to the action. When the teams are bad or the games irrelevant, corporate seats are often unused.
Your Suggestions for In-Stadium Improvements at Reliant Stadium?
Here's mine:
1. Better cell service. I like reading Twitter/texts during football games. Nice for commentary, stats, injury reports, fantasy football info, funny stuff, etc. At Reliant, the service is very sporadic. The NFL wants this better throughout stadiums but this costs money. I'm not optimistic for this in the short term.
2. Better in-game stats. One reason why I'd like better cell service is because it is hard to find in-game Texans stats on the screens at Reliant. I like looking up and seeing that Andre Johnson and/or Arian Foster have quietly put up some huge numbers.
3. More Tailgate Port-a-Cans. The lines, they are insane.
4. Paper Towels. When it is a hot outside, people come inside and use up all the paper towels in a desperate, futile attempt to not look like a human oil slick. Given that it is often hot during football season, the paper towel situation is a constant issue. And some of the dispensers in the restrooms are broken.
All that being said, if those are my biggest suggestions for improving Houston Texans game day, game day is pretty bleeping good.
Someone once asked me about my Bucket List of NFL stadiums. I responded that no stadium is better than Reliant because you are among your people and can just be you. I dearly would like to see my Texans in the Super Bowl though.
If you have any suggestions on how to improve the game day experience at Reliant Stadium, I strongly suggest sending the Texans a polite email. They often make changes based on fan suggestions. Can think of many examples.


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Will Selena Gomez Be on the Cover of Vogue?
Selena Gomez was seen having a meeting with Vogue editor-in-chief, the helmet-bobbed doyenne known as Anna Wintour. That lead to speculation that Sel is on her way to her first Vogue cover, which is a major "get" when it comes to magazine and fashion real estate. Every A-list celeb desires a Vogue cover.
Gomez was in Milan for Fashion Week and was seen chatting with Wintour on Saturday, Sept. 21, according to Entertainment Wise.
The ladies were snapped mid-chat in a hotel lobby. No one knows if they just happened upon one another and were simply exchanging pleasantries or if they were intentionally meeting up to further discuss more important things, like a possible Vogue cover.
While Sel is gorgeous and has a polished and sophisticated sense of style, Vogue covers are not easy to land. It was rumored that Miley Cyrus had shot for the mag and had her planned December cover pulled once Wintour saw her VMAs antics. But that has since been shot down as a rumor and it was said that Cyrus never did the photos and never even had a cover in the first place. No one is hotter than Cyrus right now, so you'd think she'd get a Vogue cover before Sel based on how thermonuclear she is at this point.
That said, Wintour dictates trends -- she doesn't follow them. So maybe that is why she might consider going the Gomez route as opposed to the Cyrus one. Again, this is all speculation and us thinking aloud.
Gomez has covered almost every women's fashion mag but she's never nabbed Vogue …yet.
Do you think Selena Gomez should get a Vogue cover? Or is it too soon since she is just 21 and she is only starting to plant herself in the fashion world?


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9x22" piece (fat eighth) black floral (star block)
Finished quilt: 42-1/2" square
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Behind the Frontline: Women, HIV and Reproductive Health
Gynecologist Dr. Patricia Garcia is director of the Women's Program at the Comprehensive HIV Center at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. She spoke at the South Side HIV Care Providers Forum in Chicago in January, from which these notes are taken.
She's Only 13 ...
This month has been hard for me. I delivered the youngest HIV-positive pregnant patient I ever have -- 13 years old, with the smallest infant I've ever delivered -- 15 ounces. The results were good -- HIV-negative baby by two PCR tests [viral load]. It's a common story -- an older boyfriend. He's 18. He infected her with chlamydia, herpes and HIV all at the same time.
Newly Diagnosed
Half of the newly diagnosed women at our clinic are pregnant. Why? Because that's when we uniformly test women [with their permission]. I'm sure it's the same throughout the country. What a bad time to get diagnosed.
In the U.S. in 1999, of the post-natally infected adolescents, 51% were girls. Why? For starters, negotiating for condoms is harder when the boyfriend's older, like that couple -- 13 and 18.
It's not just behavioral. Girls are at greater risk for biological reasons. The endocervix comes outside [of the uterus] during menarchy [the start of menstruation] and during pregnancy. HIV targets the white blood cells on the endocervix, so it's easier to become infected.
Having a Baby
[Another doctor says, "More women are coming to me with the same question -- can I have a baby? This includes couples where the man is positive and the woman is negative."]
In February of 2002, the association of reproductive endrocrinologists admitted that HIV is a chronic illness and they should help people with HIV like they would anyone else. They help cystic fibrosis carriers, and half the children get it. They also help people with muscular dystrophy.
HIV is not in the sperm. It's in the white blood cells of free virus floating in seminal fluids. So you separate the sperm from free virus and white blood cells. Endrocrinologists do this every day [for HIV-negative men].
There was a lot of compelling data at Barcelona [the International AIDS Conference held last July]. The semen centrafuges down. You use regular PBS washing. It centrafuges back up. It's a two-step process, routine lab work. There's not an absolute zero risk. It's $200 to $250 to process the sperm. It's more to use PCR to check for [the virus] before insemination.
We used a Boston lab for one woman, but with no success. FedEx'ing the processed semen back and forth is not [good] enough. We're establishing a procedure with a local endrocrinologist now who's willing to work with us. Just because the American Society for Reproductive Medicine changed its policies doesn't mean that there are doctors all over the place willing to help people with HIV.
Positive women and negative men can do insemination at home with a syringe. I just delivered twins to someone who did this.
I also think adoption is an important option that needs to be raised.
Pregnancy Health Care
It's just like any other disease -- control the disease. What if she has 500 T cells and a 1,000 viral load and she's cruising along on no therapy? If she gets pregnant, she has to face therapy. There's a greater transmission risk at 1,000 viral load.
ACTG 076 found that the heaviest women had only a 26% reduction in transmission to their infants [using AZT during pregnancy]. All the others had a 79% reduction. Together, the reduction was 66%. So maybe we can adjust the dose. [AIDS Clinical Trials Group Study 076 established the effectiveness of Retrovir (AZT) for the prevention of mother-to-infant transmission.]
You can't ignore high blood pressure or diabetes. These are big issues, and HIV may be the least of their concern. Those other diseases could kill them during pregnancy.
If they have an abortion, the sedative is important. They can't be given methergine, because it can cause prolonged sedation if the woman's on a protease inhibitor. I know of one woman who almost died recently because of this.
The CDC [U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] say there's no difference between opting out and opting in [of counseling to go with HIV testing]. I think that's a big injustice.
The counseling is very important. We'll find very few positive women. But counseling them on how to protect themselves against sexually transmitted disease is the greater public health benefit.


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Mary Klenda did not have dolls to play with when she was growing up near Lost Springs. One of nine children, she had plenty of real-life babies to play with, but she remembers getting her first doll at age 13. Now she has a collection of 600 porcelain dolls at her home in Hillsboro. On Friday, she displayed 77 of them at the Hillsboro City Building.
"A couple of ladies I work with here asked me to bring them," Klenda said. "I've never done a public display before."
Klenda, a custodian at the city building, said she came to work early Friday to set up her dolls for the display.
"It takes a long time to get them set up and fix their hair," she said. "But I love working with them."
Klenda said all her dolls had names; they came with official tagged names or she named them after people who gave them to her.
"Once people found out I liked them, I just got them as presents for birthdays and Christmas," she said. "I also got some at garage sales or the thrift shop."
Klenda volunteers her time at the Hillsboro Et Cetera Shop and sometimes finds a good deal there.
"I bought this Christmas patchwork doll there," she said. "She was missing an eyebrow, but I can fix that."
Klenda said she collected porcelain dolls because she liked them. She does not consider herself a doll rescuer, but if they need fixing, she can do that.
"I bought one once that had an eye missing," she said. "I could hear it jingling down inside the head so I used a tweezers to pull it up and glue it back in place."
Other dolls in Klenda's collection occasionally need different clothes or simple cleaning.
"I'll wash their clothes if they need it, fix their hair, or just dust them off with a hair dryer," she said. "With the pumpkin doll, I can take that part of her costume off and put on something else for a different time of year if I want."
Several special dolls are part of the collection. Two state dolls are dressed in costumes reflecting the origins of Connecticut and New Jersey. They each hold a small bag with their state quarter inside. A Jackie Onassis doll is also a special standout for Klenda, but sentimental value makes others stand out.
A set of "kissing" gift dolls she named Carol and Byron, after her good friends Carol and Byron McFadden of Hillsboro.
"This was one of my first gifts that got me into collecting them," Klenda said.
She said many of her dolls are named after siblings, children, and extended relatives.
"My son in Minnesota gave me this one," she said, pointing out a decorative prairie belle with long ringlets. "I named her Tracy after his wife. It helps me remember where each one came from."
Klenda said some of her favorites in her collection were the bridal dolls.
"I just love their layered skirts, lace-edged sleeves, and pearl-bead trim," she said. "My own wedding dress was straight and plain, but these are like a dream."
The oldest doll in Klenda's collection carries a tag dating it in the 1950s, and many of the wedding dress dolls are from the 1960s.
"I like them all," Klenda said. "It's just a fun pastime."


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drummer's focus school, Germany
At the anniversary of the drummer's focus school in Munich (Germany), 150 drummers receive commands via the wireless Synexis system to ensure they start playing simultaneously.
For their anniversary, the drummer's focus school performed the show "30 years on the beat" together with Germany's elite drummers at the "Loewenbraeukeller" in Munich on January 10th, 2014.
All visitors from the hobby drummer to the established drum professional got their money's worth. The live acts were as varied as the audience: 14 bands, mainly former students of the organiser, provided an entertaining show for four hours with both soft and hard sounds of most diverse genres.
The start of the show was already exciting: 150 Bolero drummers ensured a spectacular start and raised indeed high expectations. All Bolero drummers received the necessary commands to guarantee a smooth and consistent performance. The drummers were at several places in the room. Therefore, the commands were transmitted to the drummers via the beyerdynamic Synexis wireless system with 150 Synexis RP 8 beltpack receivers.
The Synexis wireless system is very versatile and mainly used for guided tours, hearing assistance and interpretation applications. But it can also be used for commands in training or for coordination and stage directions in performances like these.
Beyerdynamic also supported drummer's focus with wired microphones (including miking all drum sets) and eight TG 1000 wireless microphones which were used on the main stage and for the moderation of the event providing the required freedom of movement.


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Margaret Tante Burk, a businesswoman, publicist and book enthusiast who co-founded one of the country's largest literary lunch groups, died Oct. 6 in Los Angeles of natural causes, her son, Harry, said. She was 93.
For 30 years, until 2007, Burk ran Round Table West with business partner Marylin Hudson, hosting authors as varied as Maya Angelou, Walter Cronkite, Ray Bradbury, Jane Russell and Gloria Steinem.
Inspired by New York's legendary Algonquin Round Table of the 1920s, their version was a lively and sophisticated affair, blending Pulitzer Prize winners, first-time authors and venerable Hollywood stars at thrice-monthly meetings held at elegant venues, from the Beverly Wilshire Hotel to Newport Beach's Balboa Bay Club. The audiences — made up largely of educated women of a certain age — regularly numbered in the low- to mid-hundreds.
Burk and Hudson, who died last year at 76, were "quite a dynamic duo," suspense writer Dean Koontz, a frequent Round Table West guest, said Wednesday. He called Burk "a lady of great graciousness and intelligence who knew how to make other people love books as much as she did."
The two women, who had been partners in a public relations firm, were as much of a draw as the well-known writers who took the stage.
Hudson was a dry wit known for her tongue-in-cheek astrology readings, while the convivial Burk chatted up the audience with news about her famous friends, who included actors, astronauts and jazz greats.
"They were the Lucy and Ethel of the Southern California literary scene," said Martin J. Smith, a novelist and editor-in-chief of Orange County's Orange Coast magazine, "and together they made the world a better place with their bawdy good humor, their appreciation for the written word, and their support for those of us trying to find an audience for our books."
The idea for the author lunches came from Adela Rogers St. Johns, the veteran journalist known as the "Mother Confessor of Hollywood" for her celebrity interviews in the 1920s.
"I once asked her, 'Is there something you feel you'd still like to achieve?'" Burk recalled in a 1987 Times interview. "She said, 'I would like to have a literary club.'"
So, in 1977, Burk, Hudson and St. Johns launched Round Table West at the Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard, where Burk and Hudson had an office. St. Johns, who was by then in her 80s, occasionally attended the meetings.
Some of the luncheons were memorable for their last-minute stand-ins, such as the time "Beverly Hillbillies" star Buddy Ebsen and actor-bandleader Charles "Buddy" Rogers filled in for singer Peggy Lee and actor Macdonald Carey. Rogers, who was married to silent-movie actress Mary Pickford, told jokes on himself and played the piano. Ebsen brought down the house with a dance he called the "Shim Sham Shimmy."
For Burk, running the literary lunches was one in a string of successful careers.
Born in Savannah, Ga., on Aug. 8, 1918, she attended Northwestern University before moving to Los Angeles in the late 1930s. She married entrepreneur Harry John Burk Jr. in 1945 and helped him run his businesses, which included the Lebec Hotel in Central California.
After selling the hotel in the early 1950s, they moved to Palm Springs and later to Los Angeles, where Burk raised their three children.
In addition to son Harry, she is survived by six grandchildren. Her other children, James and Linda Burk Garcia, are deceased.
In 1964, Burk went to work for Huntington Savings and Loan Assn. and a year later was its vice president and director of public relations. In 1969 she became public relations director for the Ambassador Hotel and Cocoanut Grove nightclub. Favored by movie stars and presidents during its heyday, the hotel was by then known as the place where New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot in 1968. Burk, her son said, was hired to "help it overcome difficulties in its image that came after the Kennedy assassination." Among her duties was coordinating the hotel's bookings as a movie location, which she continued to do after it closed to guests in 1989.
She chronicled its illustrious past in a 1980 book, "Are the Stars Out Tonight? The Story of the World Famous Ambassador and Cocoanut Grove," a copy of which Bob Hope hand-delivered to President Reagan. With Gary Hudson, Burk also wrote a guide to celebrity grave sites called "Final Curtain: Eternal Resting Places of Hundreds of Stars, Celebrities, Moguls, Misers & Misfits" (1996). Her extensive leg work included prowling Forest Lawn with a pencil and notepad.
By the time Round Table West folded four years ago, it had hosted more than 2,500 authors, many of whom were unknown when they came to their first Round Table lunch.
One of them was Richard Paul Evans, whom Burk invited to speak in 1994 after he self-published an inspirational Christmas story for his daughters called "The Christmas Box."
"I said, 'Do I give my books away?' " Evans recalled. "She said, 'No, you sell them!' They went nuts. They bought all my books." Shortly afterward, he signed a $4-million contract with Simon & Schuster, launching his career as a bestselling writer.
"I loved Margaret," Evans said. "She was so sweet. She said, 'I just want to mother you.'"
A funeral will be held at 11:30 a.m. Oct. 22 at Forest Lawn in Glendale.
Margaret Tante Burk, a businesswoman, publicist and book enthusiast who co-founded one of the country's largest literary lunch groups, died Oct. 6 in Los Angeles of natural causes, her son, Harry, said. She was 93.


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No plans for the US market, but a partnership of Bolloré and Pininfarina are scheduled to begin manufacturing a new electric minicar for European markets. The corporation is dedicating its efforts to the memory of Andrea Pininfarina -- former chairman of Pininfarina SpA who was killed on August 7th in an accident while riding his Vespa Scooter to work. Pininfarina was a firm believer in the electric car project.
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Bolloré and Pininfarina have entered into a partnership featuring all the expertise required to launch serial production of an electric car which, thanks to its technical characteristics and its attractive styling, is bound to make waves in motoring circles.
This car will not be a prototype. It will be a mass production model, with the first units coming off the production line at the end of 2009, after which production will be ramped up gradually based on the availability of the batteries. Built in Turin by Pininfarina-Bolloré, a joint venture formed by the two family-owned groups, the B0 electric car will be powered by Bolloré's proprietary LMP technology, using a combination of batteries and supercapacitors manufactured in Bolloré's plants in Quimper, France and Montreal, Canada. The B0 will be a fully-electric vehicle without any carbon dioxide production, having been designed from the ground up with that aim in mind. Its batteries will be housed in a compartment specially designed for that purpose and located under the car, between its axles, lowering its centre of gravity and providing it with outstanding road-holding properties.
With its superb body styled by Pininfarina, Italy's renowned vehicle design shop, the B0 electric car will be an elegant four-seater, four-door hatchback with an automatic gearbox. Its LMP battery, which will be rechargeable in a matter of hours from a standard domestic main socket, will provide it with a range of 250 km (153 miles). The B0 will have a top speed that is electronically limited to 130 km/h (80 mph) and will feature potent acceleration, reaching 60 km/h from a standing start (0 to 37 mph) in 6.3 seconds. The B0 will also feature solar panels on its roof and hood, so as to help recharge its electrical power reserves.
To be successful in english-speaking countries it will be critical that the company is able to convince potential customers that the name of the car is the "B-zero", not the "B-O".


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2012's bevy of bumbling candidates
It took a catastrophic, unforced error from a major U.S. Senate nominee to prove the point: In 2012, candidate quality matters – a lot.
After three consecutive wave elections – the Democratic landslides of 2006 and 2008 and the Republican revolution of 2010 – both parties have rapidly remembered that they can't always count on a national tide to sweep their candidates into office. In those cycles, an array of sub-par candidates managed to win largely on the strength of their party label, from lackluster campaigners like Virginia Democrat Jim Webb to offbeat ideologues like Kentucky Republican Rand Paul.
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This year, the battle for control of the Senate has turned into a far more muddled and unpredictable affair because there's no overwhelming national tide. While Democrats started out back on their heels, defending 23 seats to the GOP's 10, the unexpected weakness of several Republican candidates has left Republicans far short of the easy takeover that some once anticipated.
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On both sides, political missteps and candidate defects have reshaped the map in surprising ways. The most astounding example came this week, when Missouri Rep. Todd Akin threw his Senate candidacy into a state of crisis by suggesting that rape victims can stop themselves from becoming pregnant.
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Akin has since apologized for the remark, but a long list of Republicans have pressured him to end his campaign and salvage the GOP's chances of knocking off Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill.
But Akin is not the only bumbling candidate to befoul his party's grand 2012 strategy. Republican strategists have voiced dismay for weeks over the Senate contest in North Dakota, where GOP Rep. Rick Berg was expected to dominate the race but instead finds himself tied or trailing Democrat Heidi Heitkamp, a sympathetic former state attorney general. On the other side, Democrats find themselves struggling to gain traction in Nevada after Rep. Shelley Berkley, the party's nominee, found herself embroiled in an ethics investigation in the House of Representatives.
The list of flaws and flubs goes on: Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic Senate nominee in strongly liberal Massachusetts, spun out a biographical flap about whether she has Cherokee heritage into a controversy that hobbled her for much of the summer. In Indiana, conservative state Treasurer Richard Mourdock has failed to establish a lead over Democratic Rep. Joe Donnelly in the aftermath of a slashing GOP primary that turned off moderate voters.
If both parties have suffered from candidate malpractice in 2012, the brunt of the damage seems to have fallen on Republicans. With more than half a dozen credible takeover opportunities, many of them in conservative-leaning states, today only one Democratic-held seat looks like a sure thing for the GOP: the one currently occupied by retiring Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson.
Now, with 11 weeks to Election Day, Republican and Democratic strategists have begun to reflect on the reality that these races really might come down to the tactics and performance of individual candidates. And Republicans are starting to fume that the party may have jeopardized a historic opportunity.


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The Dilemma of Redeploying American Military Forces
The Bush administrations' recently announced military redeployment plans put the liberal-socialist candidacy of Senator John Kerry in a bind between socialist dogma and geo-political realities.
Senator Kerry was quick to criticize President Bush's recent announcement of plans to redeploy American troops over the next ten years. Kerry described the announcement as a hastily conceived ploy for short-range political effect.
Yet, only a few weeks ago, on more than one occasion, Senator Kerry called for much the same sort of redeployment, including cutbacks of troops in South Korea.
What's going on here?
On the one hand, judging from his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, Senator Kerry has decided to present himself as a decisive and bold warrior who will defend America (after first exhausting all diplomatic options and displaying appropriate sensitivity toward our "allies"). On the other hand, he must make gestures in the direction of liberal-socialist orthodoxy, which posits that the whole world can be one big happy family, if intellectuals can appropriately redistribute American wealth to poorer nations. Historians call this appeasement; liberals call it social justice. North Korea will be watching with considerable interest.
The bold-warrior image comports with denouncing proposed troop reductions overseas. But the orthodoxy of international socialism comports with Kerry's statement only last week that he would persuade our allies to take our place in Iraq and bring American troops back within six months.
One has to guess, of course, about what motive governs the Senator from moment to moment, because he repeatedly makes contradictory proclamations. But the socialist, "community of nations" orthodoxy would be consistent with resuming policies started under the Clinton administration for massive reductions in American military forces. Clinton's reductions in our defense expenditures, not the so-called reinvention of government under Al Gore, paid for much of the temporary and illusory Federal budget balance attained at the end of the Clinton administration.
There was political pressure at the start of Clinton's first term in 1993 to cut military spending. Liberals thought that, with the Cold War over, we could use the "peace dividend" from lower military expenses to pay for new welfare-state initiatives, like Hillary Clinton's proposed socialistic, national health system.
Kerry, at the moment, echos this by declaring that he will keep us militarily strong, but not at the expense of more pressing matters like free prescription benefits for seniors and national health care.
As George Friedman notes ("Redeployment and the Strategic Miscalculation," August 18, 2004), http://www.stratfor.com/coms2/page_home Clint,on's first Defense Secretary Les Aspin was compelled early in Clinton's first term to begin a reassessment of where to deploy the reduced numbers of American troops overseas and how to arm them for the new military situation. Without the constant threat of Soviet tank invasions across the North German plains, every aspect of our defense forces and strategy necessarily became subject to review.
Defense Secretary Aspin concluded that emphasis on heavy armored divisions should be replaced by emphasis on more mobile and more lightly armed troops that would rely on new technology, like cruise missiles and satellite-guided weapons, to strike enemies wherever they appeared. One lesson from Desert Storm, the war that ousted Sadam Hussein from Kuwait, was that fighting wars far from existing bases with Cold War era methods was difficult and slow to mount. For Desert Storm, we needed roughly six months to ship armored divisions and several hundred thousand conventional troops to bases that could strike Iraqui forces in Kuwait.
Looking at this historical background demonstrates that it is inaccurate to call the Bush long-term redeployment plans a hastily conceived political ploy. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld has, for the past three years, simply continued the reassessment process started by his predecessor, Les Aspin, more than a decade ago.
We are left to wonder how large new reductions in defense spending would be under a Kerry socialist administration, not to mention how effectively the United States will be defended by renewed reliance on our socialist friends in the UN.
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Ohio Reps. Ron Young (R-Leroy Twp.) and Andy Thompson (R-Marietta), and Missouri Sen. John Lamping (R-St. Louis County), have introduced legislation—we call it the Health Care Freedom Act 2.0—that would suspend the licenses of insurance carriers who accept federal subsidies through one of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's (PPACA) health insurance Exchanges. At first glance, that might seem to conflict with or otherwise be preempted by the PPACA. Neither is the case. Instead, the HCFA 2.0 would require the IRS to implement the PPACA as Congress intended.
Here's why. Under the PPACA, if an employer doesn't purchase a government-prescribed level of health benefits, some of its workers may become eligible to purchase subsidized coverage through a health insurance "exchange." When the IRS issues the subsidy to an insurance company on behalf of one of those workers, that payment triggers penalties against the employer. Firms with 100 employees could face penalties as high as $140,000.
Congress authorized those subsides, and therefore those penalties, only in states that establish a health insurance Exchange. If a state defers that task to the federal government, as 33 states including Missouri and Ohio have done, the PPACA clearly provides that there can be no subsidies and therefore no penalties against employers. The IRS has nevertheless announced it will implement those subsidies and penalties in the 33 states that have refused to establish Exchanges. Applying those measures in non-establishing states violates the clear language of the PPACA and congressional intent. See Jonathan H. Adler and Michael F. Cannon, "Taxation Without Representation: The Illegal IRS Rule to Expand Tax Credits Under the PPACA," Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine 23 (2013): 119-195.
Whether legal or illegal, those penalties also violate the freedoms protected by the Health Care Freedom Amendment to Ohio's Constitution, and Missouri's original Health Care Freedom Act, which voters in each state ratified by overwhelming majorities. The Ohio (HB 91) and Missouri (SB 473) bills would protect employers and workers from those penalties, and thereby uphold the freedoms enshrined in Missouri statute and Ohio's Constitution, by suspending the licenses of insurance carriers that accept those subsidies.
The question arises whether the PPACA would preempt such a law. It does not. The HCFA 2.0 neither conflicts with federal law, nor attempts to nullify federal law, nor is preempted by federal law.
The HCFA 2.0 concerns a field of law—insurance licensure—that has traditionally been a province of the states under their police powers. In preemption cases, courts "start with the assumption that the historic police powers of the States were not to be superseded by the Federal Act unless that was the clear and manifest purpose of Congress." Wyeth v. Levine, 129 S. Ct. 1187, 1194-95 (2009). Courts then must determine whether the state law in question is nevertheless trumped by express or implied federal preemption.


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Dr. Patricia Nourot (1947-2006) earned a PhD in Educational Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1983 and joined the School of Education at Sonoma State University in 1988. She assumed leadership as Coordinator of the Early Childhood credential and MA programs in 1990 and continued in that role until her retirement in 2004. She was a friend and role model to her students and a renowned scholar of early childhood education and children's play. Throughout her career she worked closely with school districts in Sonoma, Napa, and Solano Counties toward the goal of high quality education for preschool, primary, and elementary age children.
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Fabrice Tourre, an ex-Goldman Sachs VP who made $2 million when he was just 28, was found liable for fraud after his lawyers used a strategy some legal experts called very risky.
His lawyers didn't call a single witness to defend him in the SEC's civil case accusing him of misleading investors in a mortgage deal called Abacus 2007-AC1.
The young Tourre, who was the only Goldman exec to go to trial over the deal, has been called a mere "cog" in the Goldman machine.
Many lawyers predicted the SEC would lose the case.
"Mr. Tourre's lawyers put on the Arthur Fonzarelli defense — " Aaaayy" — by resting without calling any witnesses. This is a high-risk strategy that tells the jury the opponent's case is so weak that the opponent need not deign to respond," law professor Peter Henning wrote in The New York Times on Friday.
However, Tourre's lawyers — a high-power team bankrolled by Goldman — probably had some good reasons for deciding not to call a single witness. For one thing, the SEC's lawyers would have cross-examined any witnesses the defense put on the stand.
"It is not unheard of that a defense witness does more harm than good for your case," white collar defense lawyer Barry Slotnick told Business Insider.
The other reason Tourre's lawyers didn't call any witnesses is because Tourre himself was called to the stand by the SEC. The government can't force defendants to testify in criminal cases, but it can in civil ones like the fraud case brought against Tourre.
Since he was technically the government's witness, Tourre's lawyers were able to make their case by "cross-examining" him, says Solomon Wisenberg, co-chair of the white collar defense group at Barnes & Thornburg.
"Obviously, they thought he was their best witness," Wisenberg told BI.
It's impossible to know whether his lawyers' decision not to call any defense witnesses (Tourre was a prosecution witness) was to blame for the outcome of the case.
"There is no question that the economic climate and the prevalent anti-business attitude played a part in the verdict," Slotnick says. "We expect an appeal."
Because this is a civil case, Tourre does not face any jail time. He could be barred from the securities industry, though, and have to pay hefty civil fines.


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This information was the most current on file in criminal division of Marion County District Court as of April 19. Information often is not available until more than a week after hearings. Journal entries must be checked by the defense, prosecution, and judge before they are filed.
Todd Michael Beneke, 219 N. 10th St., Herington; bond appearance made April 9; denied allegations in motion to revoke probation; hearing set for May 6.
Dakota Landon Dillashaw, 102 W. Santa Fe. St., Apt. 3, Marion; waived bond supervision violation hearing April 3 and stipulated to bond violation; bond set at $35,000; sentencing on a conviction of purchase or consumption of alcoholic beverage by a minor remains set for May 8. Made first appearance April 15 on charges of misdemeanor theft and criminal trespass; arraignment set for May 8.
Doug B. Eden, 116 W. 3rd St., Peabody; charges of domestic battery, attempted criminal restraint, and two counts criminal damage to property dismissed at preliminary hearing April 3 at request of the victim.
Douglas Bryant Eden, 116 W. 3rd St., Peabody; preliminary hearing continued from March 20 to April 3 for status hearing; charges of aggravated battery, criminal threat, domestic battery, criminal trespass, and assault dismissed April 3 at request of the victim.
James Patrick Ferguson, 724 S. Elm, Ottawa; preliminary hearing continued from April 17 to May 1 on charges of possession of an hallucinogenic drug (marijuana), possession of methamphetamine, and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Robert Scott Henderson, 602 E. 5th St., Peabody; first appearance on motion to revoke probation continued from April 1 to April 17.
Bill Earl Holcomb, 420 S. Jefferson St., Hillsboro; April 1 scheduling conference continued to May 6 for status hearing on charges of two counts possession of an hallucinogenic drug (marijuana), two counts possession of drug paraphernalia, transportation of liquor in an open container, purchase or consumption of alcoholic beverage by a minor, and speeding (74 mph in a 65 mph zone).
Clinton Kidd, 309 C St., Ramona; waived formal arraignment March 25 and pleaded not guilty to charges of unlawfully hosting minors consuming alcoholic liquor or cereal malt beverage and furnishing alcohol to a minor; scheduling conference set for April 15.
Cary W. Leonard, 330 E. 1st, Newton; bond appearance on motion to revoke bond held April 9; hearing on motion to revoke bond set for April 15 on charges of criminal damage to property and two counts assault.
Logan Matthew Maytum, 340 Fink St., Marion; made first appearance April 15 on charges of misdemeanor theft and criminal trespass; arraignment set for May 14.
Patricia Miller, 211 N. Jefferson St., Hillsboro; pleaded guilty under the provisions of North Carolina vs. Alford on April 10 to a charge of attempted misdemeanor theft; sentenced to 30-day controlling jail term underlying six months probation; ordered to pay $220; prohibited from entering Hillsboro ALCO.
Terry Allen Scheuerman, 319 N. Oak St., No. 14, Eureka; bench warrants issued Oct. 7 and Sept. 2, 2010, recalled April 9 on charges of aggravated assault, assault on a law enforcement officer, criminal threat, obstructing official duty, battery, criminal trespass, furnishing alcohol to a minor, and three counts disorderly conduct.
Leslie W. Coker, Wichita; arraignment continued from April 17 to April 22 on charges of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, driving in violation of license restrictions, circumvention of ignition interlock, and transportation of liquor in an open container.
Cody L. Fistler, 785 N. Old Mill Road, Peabody; status hearing held April 1 on charge of driving while license canceled, suspended, or revoked; bench trial set for May 8.
Luis C. Perez, 126 W. 6th St., Florence; hearing held April 17 on charge of driving while license canceled, suspended, or revoked; status hearing set for May 15.


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