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MADISON – The University of Wisconsin System needs to proactively do more to connect its graduates with career options and opportunities with Wisconsin businesses, UW System President Ray Cross told a committee at Thursday's Board of Regents meeting.
All UW campuses are becoming more highly focused on helping students make important connections with partners outside of the classroom, Cross said, but those efforts need to be amplified. "We want to expand our efforts to help all juniors and seniors make these beneficial connections with Wisconsin businesses and not-for-profit organizations," said Cross, speaking at the Research, Economic Development and Innovation Committee.
The concept – with a tentative working title of the Wisconsin Business Experience – would potentially enrich students' academic and career-development experiences while also better channeling that talent and knowledge into meeting business and workforce needs in the state. This is particularly important given demographic projections that forecast a shrinking Wisconsin workforce, Cross said.
Cross acknowledged that UW campuses are already actively engaged in aligning their graduates with careers through programs such as the Northwest Wisconsin Engineering Consortium, a collaboration between UW-Eau Claire, UW-River Falls, and UW-Stout to bring more engineers to northwest Wisconsin.
"We need to offer even more introductions and experiences for students in all disciplines, from nursing to teaching to engineering to the humanities," Cross said.
Regent Mark Tyler suggested that highlighting a strong correlation between career success and participating in internship programs could propel and encourage even more participation from students and companies.
In other business, the REDI Committee:
- Heard an update on current initiatives and programs from Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation's newly appointed CEO, Mark Hogan;
- Heard an update on WiSys programs and initiatives from executive director Arjun Sanga; and
- Received an update on the Regent Scholar Grant Program that offers three awards to faculty and campus programs that undertake innovative undergraduate research projects with the potential to lead to job creation and economic development.
Education Committee
The Education Committee approved a resolution reiterating the Board of Regents' commitment to the principle of academic freedom and affirming its commitment to the principle of freedom of expression.
- Read resolution (p. 131)
Committee chair Regent Gerald Whitburn, who shared some personal recollections from time on the UW-Madison and UW-Oshkosh campuses in the 1960s, said, "There is a ripple in the air today suggesting that it is a good and appropriate time to reiterate and reaffirm our strong commitment to both these principles and values."
The resolution goes before the full Board on Friday.
In other business, the Education Committee:
- Approved six new academic degree programs: UW-Madison's Doctor of Occupational Therapy; UW-River Falls' B.S. in Neuroscience; and a Master of Science in Information Technology Management, a Master of Science in Athletic Training, a Master of Fine Arts in Dance, and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E.) in Biomedical Engineering, all at UW-Milwaukee;
- Approved UW-Green Bay's redesignation of the administrative and organizational structure of the university by creating three Colleges and one stand-alone School to enhance the recruitment of students and faculty, and to manage the academic program array more efficiently;
- Approved UW-Stevens Point's proposal for a new college that will create a new Dean position and make academic student services a one-stop shop. Units reporting to the Dean of the University College will include Undergraduate Research, the Library, Tutoring Services, and other units dedicated to student success;
- Approved UW-Stevens Point's select mission change, which was revised to better reflect the university's new strategic plan and desire to better serve regional needs;
- Approved UW-Extension's proposed select mission change that will provide UW-Extension with degree-granting authority for professionally focused and cross-disciplinary, direct assessment, competency-based credit-bearing certificates; associate degrees; and baccalaureate degrees in the academic area of business and management;
- Approved revisions to UW-Superior's Faculty Personnel Rules approved by the Board in February 2015; and
- Heard an update from David J. Ward, interim Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs, on the status of the rulemaking process for UWS 4, 7, 11, and 17.
Capital Planning and Budget Committee
The Capital Planning and Budget Committee approved UW-Madison's request to petition $5 million in funding from the Vilas Trust in support of its Music Performance Building project. The new music performance facility – which will be called the Hamel Music Center – will include a 662-seat concert hall, a 325-seat recital hall, a large rehearsal room, and state-of-the-art audiovisual capabilities.
In other business, the Capital Planning and Budget Committee:
- Approved UW System's request for three All Agency Maintenance and Repair projects totaling approximately $6 million that address facility maintenance and repair at UW-Madison and
- Reviewed six resolutions concerning updating, revising and/or eliminating Regent Policy Documents that relate to capital planning and budgeting; and
- Approved UW System's Criteria for Evaluating Major Capital Projects. Planning for 2017-2019 Capital Budget has begun and the criteria used for prioritizing major building projects has been updated to reflect current systemwide initiatives, priorities, and goals of the Board of Regents.
At a Board of Regents Executive Committee meeting on Dec. 1, 2015, design reports and granted authority were approved to construct the following projects: UW-Madison Babcock Hall Dairy Plant Renovation and Center for Dairy Research Addition, the UW-Madison Police and Security Facility Addition, the UW-Oshkosh Intramural Recreation Field Complex, and two All Agency Maintenance and Repair projects addressing a turf replacement at UW-Oshkosh and a volleyball locker room remodeling at UW-Madison.
Audit Committee
Chief Audit Executive Lori Stortz provided an overview of The Three Lines of Defense Model, which clarifies the roles and duties within the organization to further enhance the understanding of risk management. Stortz has shared the Model with the Chief Business Officers, Controllers, Chancellors, and the President's Cabinet.
In other business, the Audit Committee:
- Heard a high-level overview of recently issued reports and a progress report on the Fiscal 2016 Audit Plan; and
- Received an update on current initiatives in the Office of Internal Audit.
Business and Finance Committee
The Committee approved The Pointer Partnership – a new differential tuition – at UW-Stevens Point. The Pointer Partnership had received strong support in a student referendum held on campus last month, with 62 percent of students voting in favor of the differential tuition plan. The referendum had a large turnout of 3,308 students, or 36% of eligible students.
The differential would be phased in for upperclassmen, ultimately resulting in an increased cost of $200 per semester for all undergraduate students. The program will be presented to the Board for review after five years.
The Pointer Partnership will advance to the full Board for consideration on Friday.
In other business, the Business and Finance Committee:
- Reaffirmed adoption of the Investment Policy Statement for the UW System Trust Funds;
- Approved changes to Regent Policy documents governing the voting of proxy proposals associated with UW System Trust Funds investments. UW System Trust Funds staff has recommended adoption of an approach similar to that used by the State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB);
- Approved changes to Regent Policy related to contract approval, signature authority and reporting. Changes proposed include: Increasing the threshold requiring Board approval from $500,000 to $1 million; requiring formal Board approval for Athletics employment contracts with a value of more than $500,000; requiring UW System Office of General Counsel review of all contracts with a value between $500,000 and $1 million;
- Approved an alumni tuition pilot program at UW-Eau Claire that would provide alumni with a 25% discount on undergraduate resident tuition rates at the institution for five years after graduation. The new rate would apply to both resident and non-resident undergraduate alumni who commit to graduating within four years and then successfully meet that commitment;
- Approved removal of two Regent Policy Documents which are obsolete given that their stated purposes were met long ago and their content out of date. The Committee also approved changes to the Policy for Large or Vital Information Projects;
- Approved a clinical trial agreement between UW-Madison and Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation. The agreement involves an evaluation of the safety and efficacy of specified treatments addressing lymphoblastic leukemia;
- Approved a Master Services Agreement between UW-Madison and IDx, LLC. Under the three-year agreement, the University will provide services related to training and certification of image recording;
- Approved a collective bargaining agreement between the Board of Regents and The Building and Trades Council of South Central Wisconsin;
- Received a report on additional compensation received by UW System faculty and staff outside the state-approved pay plan. A total of about 24% of all staff received base adjustments (including those for promotions, title changes, and changes in duties) during fiscal year 2015. UW chancellors reallocated approximately $34.4 million in FY2015 to fund these base adjustments. UW chancellors also reallocated one-time resources of approximately $22.9 million in FY2015 to fund one-time, lump sum payments. These lump sum payments are non-base building compensation for additional work of a one-time, non-recurring nature; and
- Heard a summary of gift, grant, and contract awards for the period July 1, 2015, through September 30, 2015.
All actions recommended by Committees will come before the full Board for approval on Friday.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents will resume its meeting
on Friday, Dec. 11, 2015, at Gordon Commons in Madison.


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Eco Chic - Green Companies that choose not to let you know about it!12.10.11
Did you know there are companies out there that are Green,
but choose not to advertise it?
Okay now I am confused! For the world is constantly saying we are in a green movement and we want manufactures to be more eco and offer more environmentally friendly products. Yet some manufacturers, choose not to say so because they are afraid of the consumer within this movement. Now for someone who has been writing blogs solely on the premise of unveiling companies with their mind games and clever green marketing words; I'm now a bit dumbfounded on the fact that there are companies out there that purposely do not use green marketing terminologies as their corporate advertising plan. I can't disclose the one company that just blew me out of the water when I learned all about their strike environmental procedures and protocol's they must follow, but I can tell you they are a huge global company.
So why keep this a secret from your consumers? Well for them it was the matter of liability and the awareness that the information would attract more attention, questions, concerns and discussions, which in term would create more issues and back lash. They feel that advertising this information at such an infant stage of the movement would cause consumers to find things to complain about, and have a reason to create legal matters; they are an easy target being such a popular company. (i.e. you said this was environmentally friendly, with no VOC's, however now I have a rash and the doctor says it is fatal and linked to the fabric used in your product. A bit much but you get the picture.)
In one sense I completely understand where they are coming from, however I am more than upset that a company would feel they have to hide this information due to consumers trying to stir a trouble pot. In a world where we are supposed to be supporting and finding new ways to protect our health and environment, we as consumers are also being labelled as tainting the movement due to demanding more than what can be offered. Which raises the question, are consumers expecting too much when it comes to environmentally friendly products? I will agree with every fad, movement or issue, there are the small few that cause problems and ruin it for everyone else, we have all been subjected to this. However how do the non-problematic consumers out way the scale so that we can fairly be aloud to have all the information we want on environmentally materials that the company uses within their products?
Well, I unfortunately must relay the message that the problematic consumer is still in the lead and we are forced to read labels and dig for information. So next time you go shopping and look or be drawn in, by the eco label, read every label, you might be surprised the non advertised eco label may use natural or organic fibers. Or that FSC or LEED certified woods are used within the pieces, water base solutions or soy base materials might even be found, and the big one that it might actually be manufactured locally. As mentioned in my other blogs we can not trust the marketers and their eco campaigns, which reiterates my point even further: the fact that we have to be smart consumers and be willing to educate ourselves. So make sure to do your research and be willing to figure out what companies are not telling you, good or bad!
Stay green and until next time,

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Amidst the political setbacks and dystopian fear about the future, there really are many things to be hopeful about in our collective work to address climate change. We're changing legacy energy systems that power the entire world in just a few decades. Costs for renewable energy continue to plummet, and energy storage is close behind.
So many of us are working on solutions from so many angles — technology, policy, financing, economics, politics and more. And yet, outside of the climate movement, most Americans aren't thinking or talking about — or acting on — climate change. Other issues still seem more immediate and relevant.
We can build the movement rapidly if we empower America's trusted leaders and institutions to act and advocate on climate. They understand the risks of climate change and their moral responsibility to lead. They just need some help.
ecoAmerica's partner-centric, values-oriented approach is now a proven model for building the public support and political will we need for climate solutions. Through our health, faith, and local community partners, we open the doors for activists, engage conservatives, reach out to red states, connect through truly trusted messengers, and affordably reach millions of otherwise practically unreachable Americans. We're on the right path.
We need your support to scale up more quickly to get America moving toward a positive-energy future.
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ecoAmerica engages the country's trusted national leaders and institutions in sectors that mean the most to voting Americans — health, faith, and local communities. We have agreements with dozens of these organizations that collectively reach over 100,000,000 Americans in every community in the nation.
We help our partners:
1. Elevate climate change to a top priority issue
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3. Engage all their stakeholders
4. Get them to act and advocate for climate solutions
We help them with public statements and commitments to climate leadership and action. Then we build resources — guides, presentations, webinars, toolkits — and an engagement plan with websites, media, conferences, in-person ambassador training, and outreach efforts.
And we work with our partners to build their internal capacity to make climate change an action and advocacy priority for their members.
Over the next three years, ecoAmerica will move toward public commitments from our partners to mitigate pollution in their own institutions, and to advocate for climate solutions in their organizations, communities, and with state and local policy makers.
Expanding advocacy, action, and political will for climate solutions in America
How can we broaden the base of support for climate action in the United States?
Americans act on climate change for their reasons, not necessarily ours. And we need to go to them, not expect them to come to us. They need to hear messages from their own trusted leaders, understand how it affects things they hold dear — their health, their children, their jobs and homes, their food and water security, God's creation — and know what they can do about it.
ecoAmerica's work with health, faith, and community leaders makes those connections.
"The evidence has only grown stronger that climate change is responsible for an increasing number of health problems. Climate for Health provides a critical platform to elevate attention to the threats and engage public health leaders to promote health and safety."
—Dr. Georges Benjamin, Executive Director, American Public Health Association
The evidence is growing ever harder to ignore — climate change is having broad, detrimental impacts on health. This is why twenty health and medical associations — representing more than 1.6 million health officials, nurses, pediatricians, and doctors who serve virtually all Americans — are working with us to align climate solutions with their core mission: to protect the well-being of their patients and prevent disease wherever they can. View Our Partners
ecoAmerica is partnering with the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, a consortium of 12 national nursing associations reaching 1 million members, to produce commitments, mitigation and advocacy guides, conferences and policies to empower nurses to act on climate solutions.
Working with ecoAmerica, the American Public Health Association declared 2017 to be the Year of Climate Change and Health. We co-produced videos, presented at APHA conferences, and hosted webinars and workshops on climate and health solutions and advocacy reaching more than 15,000 public health officials.
"Our first concern must be the children. We are very appreciative of the work that we do with you and of your support. I think we can and we must make a difference, with respect to climate change." Dr. Fan Tait, American Academy of Pediatrics.
America's faith communities run the gamut from progressive to conservative, and have a rich history of driving social change in the United States. They are uniquely positioned to lead on climate change — and all believe it is our obligation to protect children and the vulnerable, engage in social justice, and care for God's creation.
ecoAmerica works individually and collectively with nearly 20 national denominations to connect climate change with their core values, and help them lead on climate solutions. Through their clergy and places of worship in virtually every community in America, we help them to lead on mitigation and to advocate for action with their congregations and communities. View Our Partners
"The AME Church works with ecoAmerica to address needs like environmental justice that we believe are most important in our community." Jacquelyn Dupont-Walker, Director, Social Action Committee, African Methodist Episcopal Church, and Member, ecoAmerica Board of Directors.
ecoAmerica collaborates with the Christian Church – Disciples of Christ to commit to climate restoration and distribute toolkits to 3,900 congregations with sermons and resources to educate and activate parishioners.
The United Church of Christ has long been at the forefront of climate leadership. Our partnership with UCC amplifies that leadership with new videos, guides, and climate commitments.
Now more than ever, states and local communities are on the frontline of climate mitigation and resilience. ecoAmerica has joined forces with several wide-reaching mayors' networks to empower climate leadership and solutions in cities and towns across the country, with both Republican and Democratic mayors. View Our Partners
In 2017 ecoAmerica launched our partnership with the National League of Cities. Through video and other outreach, CEO and Executive Director Clarence Anthony announced our collaboration to provide his 1,500 national members (representing 19,000 cities and towns) with local climate engagement programs.
Sustainability officers in U.S. cities know which policies will make their urban areas sustainable and resilient. The challenge is getting their citizens on board. ecoAmerica offers the Urban Sustainability Directors Network (600 members in 160 U.S. cities) tools and resources to help engage urban citizens in climate solutions.
Salt Lake City joined the ranks of cities committed to transition to 100% clean energy by 2032, and to lower greenhouse pollution 80% by 2040. Our Path to Positive Utah program was launched by Utah Clean Energy and ecoAmerica. Forty Utah mayors, business executives, faith and other leaders signed the Path to Positive Utah Declaration.
Social science and communications research informs everything we do. We start with our partners' values and expertise, and connect climate solutions to their priorities. We also learn from other climate communications research, and share ours freely so that we can all be more effective.
In partnership with the American Psychological Association, we released Mental Health and Our Changing Climate: Impacts, Implications and Guidance, the nation's most comprehensive report on the topic. Thousands of professionals have downloaded the report and it was featured in over 20 media outlets including Time, Newsweek, The Washington Post, and Psychology Today.
Our robust series of climate communication guides, Let's Talk Climate for health, faith, community and Latino constituencies, are the go-to source for the most effective climate messaging. They contain specific words and phrases, do's and don'ts, and a stepwise approach for crafting tailored climate communications. Each includes a webinar, and is co-branded for use by all of our partners.
We launched Let's Lead on Climate, featuring stories of leaders from health, faith, and local communities who are successfully engaging on climate solutions. These inspirational stories provide models that others can follow. The guide has been widely shared among our partners, their members, and others nationwide, and has been viewed over 15,000 times.
We can get farther faster if we work together. So ecoAmerica brings together diverse leaders from across the country, hosting national summits, in-depth forums, and quarterly leadership council meetings to share best practices and enhance collaboration to catalyze meaningful climate action and advocacy.
A diversity of high level leaders learn the latest on climate change and solutions, and collaborate within and across sectors to identify and prioritize winning strategies for expanding leadership, inclusion, and action on the issue. It's the only gathering of its kind.
Our 2017 Summit, "Taking Up the Mantle" brought together 300+ U.S. leaders to the National Press Club to strategize on climate action and advocacy. The resulting Recommendations Report contains over 40 speaker summaries and advice from the six Strategic Forums. ecoAmerica incorporates all this input into our own strategic planning and programs.
With our partner, Climate Resolve, ecoAmerica hosted the second Climate Day LA. Nearly 1,100 Angelenos attended the day-long event featuring LA Mayor Eric Garcetti, and civic leaders from all sectors, including activist Tom Steyer. It included a creative climate skit employing actors at a mock Thanksgiving dinner using our Let's Talk guide. The musician Moby DJ'd at the VIP reception.
Each quarter, ecoAmerica brings over 100 leaders together in a series of sector Leadership Circle meetings. These key thought leaders and CEOs from national associations in health, faith and local communities share information and collaborate on ways to further climate leadership within their institutions and collectively as coalitions.
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Successor Ordinal
From Cantor's Attic
A successor ordinal, by definition, is an ordinal $\alpha$ that is equal to $\beta + 1$ for some ordinal $\beta$.
The successor function, denoted as $\beta+1$, $\operatorname{suc} \beta$, or $\beta ^+$ is defined on the ordinals as $\beta \cup \{ \beta \}$
Properties of the successor
There are no ordinals between $\beta$ and $\beta + 1$.
The union $\bigcup \beta$ can be thought of as an inverse successor function, because $\bigcup ( \beta + 1 ) = \beta$. All limit ordinals are equal to their union.


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Posts Tagged 'dexter'
Complex TV: Comprehension
It's been a dormant month of July on the book-writing/publishing front, as I've been busy returning from my year abroad in Germany, settling back in Vermont, and having some family vacation time. I do hope to resume writing and pre-publication, as I have only a few more chapters left to go before I've got a […]
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Complex TV: Character
My time in Germany is almost up, as we return to Vermont in early July. It's been a productive writing year, with around 80% of Complex TV completed and a few other projects underway. Here is the last chapter of Complex TV to be posted from Germany, with the remaining chapters emerging over the Vermont summer. This one […]
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As I discussed in my last post, I'm heading down my list for best TV of the decade, broken into tiers. Today I'm onto tier 3 – these shows are all more flawed or erratic than the top tiers, but still qualify as among the best of the decade. I'm also including a few shows […]
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Dexter and emotional complexity
On a recent trip to California, I took advantage of my alone time to binge on the first season of Dexter in airports and hotels. While I wouldn't recommend trying to watch the series in four days – it's a bit too intense in its disturbing imagery and scenes of psychological abuse to process so […]
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Ruth Rendell's The Rottweiler
The Times has identified Ruth Rendell as a "criminal mastermind of unparalleled breadth and depth." Awarded several honorary doctorates, Rendell has also won Gold and Silver Dagger Awards, two Edgar Allan Poe Awards, the Arts Council National Book Award, and the Sunday Times Award for literary excellence. In addition, she has won the Cartier Diamond Dagger for outstanding contribution to the genre and the Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement. Her work has been short-listed for the coveted Whitbread award and been translated into 25 languages. As Washington Post reviewer Michael Sims noted, Rendell's "list of honors is longer than most authors' bibliographies."
In 1997 she joined the House of Lords as Baroness Rendell of Babergh. She is now an octogenarian with no signs of slowing down. Rendell's books fall into three categories: the Wexford mysteries (see my post on End in Tears), the stand-alone mysteries, and those written under the pseudonym, Barbara Vine (see my post on The Minotaur). The Rottweiler is one of her most engaging stand-alone novels, "especially sure-handed" according to Janet Maslin of The New York Times.
The novel begins with the unsettling news of a murder by a suspected serial killer. Nicknamed the "Rottweiler" by the press, the murderer has killed three women, each time stealing some trinket from them. Rendell presents a closed-world of characters, all associated with a Victorian house converted into an antique shop/boarding house. The possibility of a serial killer lurking somewhere in the vicinity keeps these characters on high alert. Rendell is master of the hidden menace lurking amidst the ordinary and the everyday.
Like most of her novels, The Rottweiler is less a "whodunit" than a "why-done-it." The ultimate mystery in her fiction is the psyche of the murderer. Rendell's forte is the seriously disturbed individual, and, in this novel, she probes the depths of a serial killer's mind.
This killer leads an eerie double life, complete with two separate identities and names. Yet he is not alone in doing so. Rendell introduces a number of characters who lead secret lives. Zeinab is known by three different names; she manages to keep her true identity hidden from her employer and two fiancés. Ludmila and Freddy are masters of deception. Even Will has a secret that he hides from everyone.
Rendell narrates the novel through multiple narrators. By doing so, she presents characters through a dual lens; we see them from their own perspective and from that of other characters. We are constantly aware of the discrepancy between the personas the characters adopt and the hidden lives they actually lead.
The novel contains multiple plotlines tied together by the theme of deception. The ultimate swindler in the narrative is the serial killer. By expanding the plot to suggest similarities between different stories, Rendell produces an eerie effect: the lives of the characters echo the secret life of the serial killer. Hence the novel suggests the potential for evil within everyone. The Rottweiler is a novel rooted in the ordinary, the mundane. It is the menace that lurks within seemingly ordinary characters and beneath the surface of an apparently commonplace world that is so unsettling in the narrative.
"Psychologically acute and extremely disturbing, Ruth Rendell's work is outstanding," writes Natasha Cooper. How does Rendell compare to other mystery novelists? The Times's Donna Leon says it best: "In the world of contemporary crime fiction, Rendell really is top dog."
Rendell, Ruth. The Rottweiler. Scarborough, ON: Doubleday Canada, 2003.
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Labels: character driven, in-depth characterization, multiple plotlines, multiple points of view, psychological focus, psychological thriller, urban setting


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President's Report
There are no doubts that sport was one of the fastest growing sociological domains along the 20th century, which was a period that saw the traditional sports strive and influence society in a deep way. The first fifth of the 21st century has almost passed, and in this much more open society the new generations, in particular the youth, have no boundaries in their imaginations in terms of bringing to life innovative sport practices. I strongly believe that this will be the sports landmark of the current century.
Are traditional sports declining? In general, I don't think so, although we already find that some traditional sports are no longer able to engage the younger generations as they did in the recent past. While better access to a whole world of sports activities has emerged, new barriers have risen, describing this era of declining physical activity levels.
Even the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has decided to open up towards "unthinkable activities" that traditionalists wouldn't have dared to call sport only one or two decades ago. The IOC is on the right track, as we need to be more and more open to solutions to the challenges ahead of us, bringing new trends into the future sports "family". I am sure that some of them we do not even dare to foresee today.
That's how the world goes round! But where is the world of sports heading?
Having all of this in mind, ENGSO will be organising on 16–17 November 2018 the very first edition of the European Sport Platform in Budapest, in cooperation with the European Lotteries and the Hungarian Competitive Sport Federation. Our aim is to have an open discussion about the challenging times of today's sports, but also about what we foretell for the years to come. You are all invited!
This is the near future. What about the near past?
On 28–30 September, Lisbon hosted a complete meeting of the leading ENGSO structures (ENGSO Executive Committee, ENGSO Youth Committee and ENGSO Equality Within Sport (EWS) Committee) for a biannual Joint Meeting that have now become a tradition with the aim of exchanging ideas and preparing for the near future, aside of the periodical individual meetings of each body.
"Inspiring" is really the most accurate word that occurs me to describe the atmosphere of that very sunny afternoon, during which the ENGSO elected representatives openly discussed new ideas and new sport trends for several hours. We have already started the future.
And the years to come will be busy! Just ahead of the Lisbon meeting, the news broke out that several ERASMUS+ project applications, in which ENGSO and ENGSO Youth participate, have been approved. ENGSO is the leader of a project called CHAMP, dedicated to modernising sports clubs, and a partner in two projects: Playing Green (led by Ecoserveis) and Play'in Together (led by Play International).
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In response to the growing incidence of diabetes in Ireland, and the detection of potential diabetes in more than 600 visitors to the National Ploughing Championship last year, Lions Clubs plan to screen a record 10,000 people at the 2017 event in Screggan, Tullamore.
This years's event will also be a project associated with the Centenary of the establishment of Lions Clubs International in 1917.
A team of 120 Lions and qualified nurses will be at the Lions Marquee at the Championships (Row 25, Stand 594) from September 19 to 21. They will offer visitors a free simple, painless blood test which is designed to identify early symptoms of diabetes. The service will run from 8am to 6pm on each day of the Ploughing Championships and the Lions are confident that they will significantly exceed the 8,000 visitors who availed of the test last year.
Last year 8.3% of those screened, mainly farmers, were identified as potentially diabetic and were referred to their GPs for further examination.
According to Teresa Dineen, District Governor of Lions in Ireland, the incidence of diabetes is accelerating rapidly in rural Ireland due to diet and lifestyle changes and many people who are vulnerable to the disease remain oblivious of the risk that they are running.
"Medical experts estimate that up to 200,000 people with diabetes in Ireland are unaware of their condition. It is estimated that there are 200,000 people with diabetes and a similar number who have diabetes but are unaware that they have the condition. The majority of these people will only be diagnosed through an acute medical event because they do not have a regular blood test. A further 250,000 people have impaired glucose tolerance or 'pre-diabetes' of which 50% will develop diabetes in the next five years if lifestyle changes are not made."
Traditionally, farming was one of the most active occupations. However, according to the National Centre For Men's Health at the Institute of Technology, Carlow, the evolution of tractors, combine harvesters, milking machines, ATV's and jeeps has replaced a great deal of the labouring and physical aspects of farming. As a result, while farmers are still busy, they are not as physically active as they used to be. In a booklet, 'Staying fit for Farming', the Centre says that regular physical activity or exercise has been shown to have a hugely positive influence on both physical and mental health. It reduces the risk of heart disease, diabetes and a number of cancers as well as being a very good way to manage stress and to control weight. However many farmers are not doing enough physical activity to have good health.
According to the Centre, farmers spend more time sitting while machinery 'does the work', some farmers stop taking part in sport when they feel that they can no longer do it competitively, many farmers struggle to find time for themselves when balancing their work and family life and some farmers simply get out of the habit of exercising and are not sure how to start back or what kind of exercise to do.
The 2,500 Lions in Clubs throughout Ireland, work to raise awareness of diabetes and organise frequent screening days all over the country. They have been offering this service at the National and World Ploughing Championships for many years and an indication of its effectiveness is that more than 600 participants in the 2016 test were referred to their GP for further examination. This represents 8.3% of those tested.
Lions also liaise with the Diabetes Society of Ireland and will be distributing its information literature at the National Ploughing Championships.
The service at the 2017 National Ploughing Championships is organised by twelve Lions Clubs in the Midlands Region-Portarlington, Naas, Monasterevin, Newbridge/Kildare, Portlaoise, Kilcullen, Tullamore, , Edenderry, Roscommon, Birr, Portumna and Carlow.
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Rahul Uses Congress Rally to Take Centre Stage
NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi made a rare public address to tens of thousands of supporters on Sunday, raising his profile before a possible bid to become prime minister.
Gandhi, 42, whose father, grandmother and great-grandfather all led India, vowed to fight to modernise the country through reforms that he said would help the poor and provide jobs for the rapidly growing population.
"We need economic reforms because only when businesses operate well will there be progress, and then we can run programmes to benefit the poor," he said.
Gandhi vowed to help push through policy changes that will transform India's retail sector by allowing global supermarket chains such as Walmart and Tesco to open in India and tap into its burgeoning consumer market.
"The world is saying that India is standing up," he told a Congress party rally at an open-air venue in the capital. "The youth here will show not just India but also the whole world the way forward."
General elections are not due in India until 2014, but the Congress-led government has suffered a difficult few years in power and its leaders are eager to revive momentum in the long run-up to polls.
Manmohan Singh has been buffeted by falling economic growth, a parliamentary deadlock that has scuppered his legislative plans and a damaging series of corruption scandals.
Singh, 80, who also spoke at the rally, is expected to step down before the general election, with pressure on Gandhi to take a shot at the premiership in an effort to continue his family's long domination of Indian public life.
The dynasty is descended through Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister after independence in 1947, his daughter Indira Gandhi, who was twice premier, and Indira's son Rajiv.
But Rahul Gandhi's appetite for India's turbulent political scene has often be questioned by critics. He has declined to take on any ministerial responsibilities, concentrating instead on leading the Congress youth wing.
One foray he made into electoral politics earlier this year was a bruising experience, when he organised the Congress's campaign in the key state of Uttar Pradesh but failed to capture many of the seats that the party targeted.
Gandhi told the crowd in Delhi that, despite coming from within India's ruling elite, he was determined to break open the country's "closed political system".
"Young MPs tell me that you all want to change the system, and together we can," he told the rally. "The biggest problem is that our political system is shut for the common man."
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Cannvas Launching Cannabis-Focused Health Care Platform for Animals with Cannvas.PET
Cannvas MedTech (CSE:MTEC), a leading business technology company in the cannabis space, is pleased to introduce its second cannabis-centric educational platform, aimed at healthcare and wellness through cannabis for furry family friends.
Cannvas MedTech (CSE:MTEC), a leading business technology company in the cannabis space, is pleased to introduce its second cannabis-centric educational platform, aimed at healthcare and wellness through cannabis for furry family friends. Built on the same infrastructure as Cannvas.Me, Cannvas.PET will be a scalable and comprehensive solution for the global pet community offering interactive tools and research-backed content to audiences who wish to learn about pet healthcare through cannabis.
"As pet owners search for natural alternatives to improve the health of their pet, more and more are looking to medical cannabis only to find a lack of quality information," said Steve Loutskou, Chief Operating Officer, Global Markets, Cannvas MedTech Inc. "We are leveraging our existing infrastructure to launch an online educational portal targeted at the large and growing market for cannabis pet products. Cannvas.PET will be a leading source of alternative healthcare for all manner of pets, providing owners with information and education regarding the various treatments available. While supporting a healthy and happy lifestyle for pets, it will stand independent from licensed producers and other entities to ensure unbiased information is free from outside influences."
Similar to the Cannvas.Me education platform, Cannvas.PET will be a free-to-use online platform using machine-learning algorithms and artificial intelligence to contextualize and adapt to users of the platform, ensuring the content they are served remains geographically and personally relevant to them. The site will feature innovative tools such as educational learning modules and an interactive service to educate pet owners with specific concerns about the different strains available.
With the legalization of cannabis on October 17, 2018 Canadian pet owners will have the opportunity to use medical-grade cannabis for the health care of their pets. Similar to the human medical cannabis marketplace, high-quality non-combustible cannabis products can be a natural alternative in supporting the overall health and well-being of pets. Pets suffer just like humans and with the growing demand for alternative treatments there is a need for a trusted source of medical cannabis treatments to help with pet-related ailments. Research on CBD treats and oils has shown promise in many pet ailments like phobias, digestive problems inflammation and pain.
In Canada, there are approximately 16 million cats and dogs with almost two-thirds of households owning a pet. Pet owners are increasingly treating pets as an extension of their family, driving annual pet-related expenditures to in excess of $5 billion in Canada and almost US$70 billion in the United States.
With over 350 million pets globally, there is a sizeable market opportunity for cannabis products and supporting technologies like the scalable Cannvas.PET educational platform.
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Thursday, February 4, 2010
As reported in Jim Nintzel's Jan. 21 cover story, Slashing the State, "adult education and GED courses would be zeroed out" in Gov. Jan Brewer's budget.
A rally has been scheduled for today from 5 to 6 p.m. at El Rio Learning Center (1390 W. Speedway Blvd.) to save adult education. Organizers would like to see at least 500 in attendance and encourage all to bring banners and signs.
Here's a social media release from Literacy Volunteers of Tucson that says Arizona would be the only state without GED classes.
The budget cuts Governor Jan Brewer is proposing are painful, but one will earn us national recognition. Not only will Arizona have one of the highest high school drop-out rates in the nation, if the proposed cuts are approved, GED classes and testing will no longer be offered in this state. Arizona would become the only state in the country without this service.
"The economic impact of NOT educating the nearly 800,000 Arizonans who do not have a high school diploma is enormous. The elimination of Adult Education will prevent the development and re-training of a prepared workforce that we urgently need to attract and keep existing businesses in Arizona," says Paula Stuht, Vice President of Business Development of the Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce.
Without a GED it is nearly impossible to go on to further training or
to get a job. 70% of welfare recipients and 65% of the state prison population don't have high school diplomas. 18% of all high school diplomas issued in Arizona in 2008 were GED diplomas, nearly 1/5 of Arizona's high school graduates.
GED grads earn $5,000 more per year on average, resulting in approximately $70 million additional taxable income in Arizona. Arizona benefits from over $8 million in additional tax revenue from GED graduates which is almost double the return on investment.
If the Governor's recommendation to totally eliminate its $4.6 million adult education program is ultimately approved, Arizona will sacrifice $11 million of federal funds for adult education that are directly based on the state's commitment to maintain its funding level.
Arizona plans to set a new record. "Not only will have one of the most abysmal drop-out rates, we will effectively dismantle the only entry point into immediate employment and job training for the approximately 22,000 adults that are served by Adult Education annually," says Ramón Valadez, Chairman of the Pima County Board of Supervisors. "At a time when more than 1 in 5 people in Pima County is living in poverty can we really afford this?"
Cutting Adult Education and the GED will not help the state's deficit, it will deepen it.


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April Showerswords by B.G. DeSylva music by Louis Silvers 1921 Hear the Fabulous Heftones sing their 2005 version from their In the Garden album. View original 1921 sheet music from the Lester S. Levy Collection at Johns Hopkins University.
[Verse] D A D A D Life is not a highway strewn with flowers D A D A D Still it holds a goodly share of bliss F#m C#7 F#m C#7 F#m B7 When the sun gives way to April showers Em E7 A A7 Here's the point that you should never miss [Chorus] A D Though April Showers may come your way A7 D They bring the flowers that bloom in May B7 Em So if it's raining have no regrets E7 Because it isn't raining rain you know A7 It's raining violets D And where you see clouds upon the hills B7 Em B7 Em You soon will see crowds of daffodils G Gm So keep on looking for a bluebird D B7 and listening for his song Em A7 D whenever April showers come along


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Back to basics for safer childbirth
Too many doctors and hospitals are overusing high-tech procedures
In fact, the current style of maternity care is so procedure-intensive that 6 of the 15 most common hospital procedures used in the entire U.S. are related to childbirth. Although most childbearing women in this country are healthy and at low risk for childbirth complications, national surveys reveal that essentially all women who give birth in U.S. hospitals have high rates of use of complex interventions, with risks of adverse effects.
As usual, my question is .... what about the baby? WHAT about the BABY?!? When is the media going to ask about the impact to the BABY when speaking of "adverse effects?" We call it BIRTH TRAUMA. The baby's brain is WORKING, interpreting the environment and experience and IMPRINTING the brain, remembering it all.


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Around 125 years ago, George James Buttle left his Essex farming life to start afresh as a sawyer in St Pancras and established a tradition of craftsmanship and service which has been maintained by future generations of his family.
His son, George Harold Buttle, chose a different path. Not content to be just a sawyer in someone else's sawmill, he saw an opportunity to start his own business by making joinery and wooden parts for pianos and organs. In 1919, during the difficult time just after the end of the Great War, George Harold rented a railway arch in Kentish Town and began trading as a timber merchant.
This became Buttle's first branch, and the company is still trading there today! We now have branches in London, Enfield, St Albans and Leighton Buzzard.
Kentish Town in 1919 differed a fair amount from what we see today.
The largest municipal building in Kentish Town is the St Pancras public baths, opened in 1903, designed by Thomas W. Aldwinckle. The large complex originally had separate first and second class men's baths and a women's baths, along with a public hall.
Kentish Town Road contained a thriving tube station, South Kentish Town, however the station was closed in June 1924 after strike action at the Lots Road power station meant the lift could not be used. It never reopened as a station, although it was used as an air raid shelter during World War II.
At one point, eight different silver screens were aglow across the Kentish Town neighbourhood, the grand Palace Cinema opened on the corner of Prince of Wales Road from 1913 to 1959.
Enfield's Royal Small Arms Factory had its own church, school pub and football team. By June 1917 there were 7,040 men, 1,448 women and 1,095 'boys' (9,583 total workers). The Short Magazine Lee Enfield .303 is perhaps the most famous product associated with Enfield. During the war the factory concentrated on producing this rifle. By Easter 1919 the number of workers at the RSAF had been reduced to 2,700 from a war time high of 12,000.
Trinity Methodist & United Reformed Church with its gothic ragstone, spire and pinnacles was gutted by fire in 1919, rebuilt by the original builders and reopened in 1920.
During World War I in September 1916, following an attack on St Albans, the German Airship SL 11 became the first airship to be brought down over England.
After 1919 St Albans, in common with much of the surrounding area, became a centre for emerging high-technology industries, most notably aerospace. St Albans became a centre for the Marconi plc company, specifically, Marconi Instruments. Marconi remained the city's largest employer with two main plants until the 1990s.
The First World War came as a shock to Leighton Buzzard along with the rest of the country. The Morgan Carriage and Car Works in Linslade made nearly 500 fighter aeroplanes and the Vimy bomber, which gave its name to one of the town's roads. Peace brought reversion to the pre-war industries and the development of the town as a transport hub, with eventually more lorries per head of population than any other town in England. As road transport grew the importance of the canal declined.
In June, the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic was made by two Britons, Captain Alcock and Lieutenant Brown. The flight took 16 hours and was made in a Vickers-Vimy plane that had been built in Leighton Buzzard. The plane was loaded with three and half tons of petrol and was one of 50 commissioned by the War Office
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Dave Caban reviews the RB and WR Game Level Similarity Projections (GLSP) to provide a snapshot of expected opportunity and touchdown scoring potential.
Welcome to our second RB/WR GLSP review of the season. In this weekly article, we'll take a quick look at expected opportunity and touchdown scoring potential using estimates created by our GLSP tool. To learn more about the process of building GLSP projections, what they are, and how to interpret results, please refer to this article.
As a reminder, GLSP considers a player in isolation and does not consider external factors such as the availability of the other players on his team, his personal health, or any other factors that would not be present in historical data.


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Microwave Service Company Launches Line Of Block Down Converters
HAVERHILL, MA – Microwave Service Company, part of The Vitec Group's RF Extreme business unit and a leading international microwave equipment service facility and supplier, announces the launch of its Block Down Converters line. Available in the 2.0-2.7 GHz band as well as the UHF bands (450-850 MHz), Microwave Service Company's block down converters are designed to convert digital COFDM and analog transmissions to their respective signal range.
"We spent years developing our down converter line to the performance level standards that make it a real standout for today's user," says RF Extreme President Stephen Shpock. "Our down converters provide the performance and capability that broadcasters and government users need in today's rapidly evolving RF environments. The down converters offer great flexibility for the user to be able to change bands quickly depending on their needs and equipment setup for various field applications."
Microwave Service Company's 5/6/7 GHz block down converter is a single conversion BDC with low phase noise and high linearity. Its front end features an LNA and ceramic filter that delivers a 3.5db noise figure with a minimum conversion gain of 24db.
The UHF model also delivers a 3.5db noise figure with an overall typical conversion gain of 24db. DC power can be supplied locally or remotely via the coax to the IF output to both versions.
Microwave Service Company's down converters are focused on bringing the highest level of performance, the most rugged all-weather design combined in an efficient package that delivers real flexibility and real value to the broadcaster, government user or to those looking for an OEM source for down converters.
Designed for maximum protection of its block down converters, Microwave Service Company is also unveiling its weather-proof enclosures. "When developing products, we always try to keep the end user in mind and how they are going to place the product in the field," adds Shpock. "We heard back from our customers that all-weather performance was key. Down converters live outside in some of the harshest environments and need to be prepared to deal with extreme temperatures and inclement weather. Our weather-proof design specifically focuses on an enclosure that includes an O-ring to prevent moisture from intruding and is made up of a very rugged aluminum housing."
Microwave Service Company's down converters are also energy efficient. The new line of down converters, whether they be 2.0 Ghz or 5.8 Ghz draw 160 mA or less making them very efficient in operation.
Microwave Service Company's 2 Ghz unit has an output impedance of 50 Ohm while the UHF converter has an output impedance of 75 Ohm. All versions are RoHs compliant.
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Toronto's Catholic school board has banned Mayor Rob Ford from coaching football at any Catholic school in the city, ending a decade-long affiliation with Don Bosco that has brought Ford personal joy along with political praise and criticism.
The decision does not appear to be related to the crack cocaine scandal Ford is now facing — which centres on a video in which Ford appears to smoke crack cocaine and refer to Don Bosco players as "just f---ing minorities." Director of education Bruce Rodrigues had been reviewing Ford's role at Don Bosco since March, and spokesperson John Yan said Ford's dismissal was finalized before the scandal erupted last week.
"He can coach wherever he wants, but not at a TCDSB school," Yan said Wednesday.
The review was prompted by an interview with Sun News in which Ford made comments that were called inaccurate by Don Bosco's parent council, many teachers at the Etobicoke school, and even the offensive coordinator on Ford's coaching staff. Among other contested statements, Ford said that Eagles players would not attend school if not for the football program, that many players "come from gangs" and from "broken homes," and that Don Bosco is a "tough school" in a "tough area."
"Mr. Ford has helped our students rise to the challenge and realize their potential as both football players and young men," Rodrigues said in a statement. "This decision was based on what is best for our students, our school and the Don Bosco community."
Ford has now been ousted twice from a volunteer football coaching position. He moved to Don Bosco after he was told he was unwelcome at the Toronto District School Board's Newtonbrook Secondary in North York after a heated 2001 confrontation with a player.
TDSB chair Chris Bolton said Ford is welcome to apply again to volunteer as a coach with one of the board's schools. "It's always our position that we vet whoever it is who comes through our processes and our checks, and anyone who has a skill that we need, we would be willing to have them," Bolton said.
Still, the abrupt end of Ford's tenure at Don Bosco is no doubt painful for him. He started the program with thousands of dollars of his own money in 2001 or 2002.
Ford's role as coach was a central component of his political persona. Like most everything else about him, it was polarizing.
To admirers, the mayor's devotion to the Don Bosco team was evidence of his concern for the disadvantaged and for the young — an easy rebuttal to the accusation that he was a hard-hearted slasher for opposing government grants and social programs. To detractors — and even to many council allies — his devotion was evidence of his unwillingness to commit fully to the job of mayor.
Catholic trustee Maria Rizzo endorsed the board's decision, saying Ford does not "model appropriate behaviour" for students. John Del Grande, a trustee and the son of Ford ally Councillor Mike Del Grande, said he has heard many Don Bosco players thank Ford for his efforts to help them in their lives.
"He tried his best. He's not the most polished character, I think everyone can admit that. But his heart was in the right place," John Del Grande said.
The school's parent council said in a statement that its supports the board's decision to remove Ford at Don Bosco.
"We thank Mr. Rob Ford for the 11 years that he has dedicated to the Eagles," the parent council said. "He has done a great job coaching the team. We wish him all the best."
Ford took three hours off work nearly every weekday afternoon during the three-month fall season to coach practice; his internal itineraries for September, October and November were nearly empty after 1 p.m. In September of last year, he drew widespread criticism for skipping 5.5 hours of a meeting of his own executive committee to coach the team at a pre-season "jamboree" scrimmage in Newmarket.
In November, he missed 2.5 hours of a city council meeting to coach a playoff game, then found himself embroiled in another controversy after a Don Bosco player revealed on Twitter that a TTC bus had picked the Eagles up after the game and ferried them back to their school.
Asked upon his return to the meeting why he had chosen football over work, Ford told reporters flatly: "I only missed two hours. A semi-final football game. It's the playoffs. We're undefeated. We're number two in the city."
Ford had taxpayer-paid staffers help him manage the team, a practice that prompted rare criticism from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. In a likely violation of city rules, the aides used a government car to attend games and practices — once even while Ford was away on a business mission to Chicago.
Numerous allies told Ford privately that he should surrender his coaching duties while serving as mayor, or at least hand the reins to an assistant coach during city meetings. Ford ignored them, though he had promised during the 2010 campaign to quit coaching if he was elected.
Ford led the Eagles to a Catholic title and then to the Metro Bowl championship game in the 2012 season. Despite all the controversy, he pledged to return as coach in 2013.
"I've made a commitment, I've done it for 20 years, and I'm not changing," he told reporters at the meeting in November. He told the Star in 2007: "I'd do anything for these kids. Football has given many of them another life and unified them; kept them busy doing the right things and believing in themselves. I know they'll tell you the same thing. It's a credit to each of them."
Much of the Don Bosco community came to believe that Ford was tarnishing the reputation of the school and its students. Don Bosco students and teachers held a "Give Your School A Hug Day" in October in response to what some believed was a Ford-fuelled perception that it is a downtrodden football factory.
Nicholas Thompson, 16, delivered a speech about stereotypes. He said Don Bosco's black students were perceived unfairly. "It's just like, 'We're bad, we're thieves, we're criminals, we're just sports stars,'" he told the Star.
Ford has become a vocal critic of "Section 37" agreements, under which the city allows developers to build bigger buildings than allowed under zoning rules if they agree to spend money on "community benefits." But when Lowe's wanted approval to build in Ford's ward in 2010, he successfully asked the company to spend $75,000 to upgrade the locker rooms used by the Don Bosco football team.
In 2012, one of the senior officials in Ford's office, director of stakeholder and council relations Earl Provost, emailed a senior aide to the provincial infrastructure minister to ask for funding for a single project: a proposed $2.1-million to $2.8-million upgrade to Don Bosco's field. The request was not approved.
And in March, a junior Ford aide, Chris Fickel, emailed Catholic schools with an unsolicited offer of up to $10,000 from Ford's football foundation, and a "vast amount of accredited coaches," to schools interested in launching new teams. The emails puzzled school administrators.
By many accounts, Ford served as a mentor and a father figure to some of his players. In 2007, according to The Lawyers Weekly, the law-and-order conservative even testified as a character witness at the sentencing hearing for a former player who was convicted of using a sawed-off shotgun to rob a taxi driver. Ford conceded that he did not know much about the player away from football, but he said, "I sort of have a soft spot in my heart for him."
Don Bosco offensive co-ordinator Jerome Miller, a former star running back under Ford, said in March that Ford was wrong to tell a newspaper in 2008 that Miller would have been "dead or in jail" without the football team. Miller said some of Ford's comments about Don Bosco have been inaccurate. But he also praised Ford at length for his work with the team.
"He does do a whole lot, more than people see, behind closed doors for these kids. Helps them out if they need any help, for any reason at all. He's the first one that'll be there for them. But he just speaks his mind, and from his heart, and doesn't really realize sometimes what he says can be portrayed in the wrong way," Miller said.
In the video that appears to show Ford smoking crack, one of the other people in the room tells him he should be a football coach because that is what he is good at. Ford nods in agreement.
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A new podcast that features the story of Adnan Syed, a man serving a life sentence after being convicted of murdering his high school girlfriend when he was a teenager, kicked off today with a 40-minute episode. "Undisclosed: The State v. Adnan Syed" seeks to further investigate Syed's case, which was presented in the wildly popular podcast "Serial," narrated by Sarah Koenig.
"Undisclosed" explores what happened to Hae Min Lee, the teenager who was murdered outside of Baltimore in 1999. Rabia Chaudry, a lawyer and family friend of Syed's, produces and narrates the podcast, along with two other lawyers, Susan Simpson and Colin Miller. While Serial's style was largely narrative, Chaudry said Undisclosed's style will be more investigative and will feature some evidence "Serial" did not present.
Since Syed's original trial more than a decade ago, Asia McClain, his former classmate, has come forward with a potential alibi for Syed. Christina Gutierrez, Syed's lawyer who has since died, did not bring in McClain for testimony. That's one of the reasons Syed is claiming he had ineffective counsel in his original case. Chaudry has also said that evidence gathered from cell phone records, which "Serial" used to try to pinpoint Syed's whereabouts on the day of the murder, is not reliable and should be reexamined.
The podcast is funded by the Adnan Syed Trust, which is a legal defense fund established by friends of Syed to pay for his legal costs and efforts that aim to exonerate Syed. Chaudry said she hopes this continuation of Syed's story will help keep the public interested in his case, since more scrutiny of his conviction might help lead to exoneration.
Lee's family never appeared on "Serial." In November, a man claiming to be Lee's brother blasted fans of the podcast for being insensitive to his family's grief. "To me it's real life," he wrote.
The Maryland Court of Special Appeals currently is considering a petition to allow Syed a new trial.
The first episode deals the day of the murder. Chaudry, Miller and and Simpson examine testimony from witnesses and Syed, as well as other evidence, to try to determine exactly where Syed was on the day Lee was murdered. Listen to the full episode below:
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Wastewater Main Replacement Project
For the week of October 3, the contractor will continue restoration work on manholes at the following locations (California Avenue at 1st Court, Virginia Avenue at 22nd Street & Cloverfield, Bay Street & 3rd, Wilshire Pl. S. and 23rd Court, California Avenue and 17th Court, Highland Ave. and Hill Pl. North). During these operations, traffic control will be set up. Please use alternate routes when possible. Should you have any questions, please contact Carlos Rosales, Project Manager (310) 458-8721 ext. 2620 or Tim Scheffer, Construction Manager (909) 376-0275.
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PM's Office: Netanyahu Received $40K From French Tycoon Arnaut Mimran In 2001
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received $40,000 in 2001 from Arnaut Mimran, a French tycoon on trial for fraud, a statement by the Prime Minister's Office on Monday said.
Mimran, who is the key suspect in a massive fraud case in France, told a Paris court that he gave 1 million euros to Netanyahu's election campaign, a claim Netanyahu denies.
"The claim that Arnaut Mimran donated a million euros to Mr. Netanyahu's election campaign is a baseless lie," the statement issued on Monday said.
"There was no contribution to Netanyahu's election campaign.
"In August of 2001, when Mr. Netanyahu was a private citizen, Mimran donated $40,000 to a fund for public activities by Mr. Netanyahu, which included media appearances and numerous public diplomacy travels for the benefit of the State of Israel, and was done in accordance with the law."
Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit has instructed that an examination be made of suspicions against Netanyahu raised by Mimran's court testimony, Channel 10 News reported.
Mimran mentioned the payment when he was being questioned in court about his activities in 2009, but did not say specifically to what campaign he had contributed. During the court session the chairman of the judges' panel said the payment to Netanyahu was in the evidence file.
The State Comptroller's Office conducted an examination into Mimran's allegation following a request from Haaretz, which revealed that it received no report about contributions by Mimran for Netanyahu over the past decade.
The examination included reports of contributions from 2006 to the present. By law and the state comptroller's instructions, a candidate for the Knesset may not receive more than 11,480 shekels ($2,984) from a single donor and a candidate for party chairmanship may not receive more than 45,880 shekels.
Filing a false report with the state comptroller is a criminal offense punishable by imprisonment.
However, candidates have only been required to report contributions to the state since 2006; prior to that year they were only required to report contributions to their party's internal comptroller.
Likud's comptroller, attorney Shai Galili, has no materials pertaining to the period before 2013 when he took up his post because the materials were not passed on to him by his predecessor.
The matter of Mimran's contribution to the prime minister came up when Mimran was asked by the prosecutor why he went to Israel 10 times in 2009. Mimran said that on one of his trips he went alone to meet Netanyahu. It was at that point that the chairman of the judges' panel interjected: "Indeed in the evidence file your payment to him appears."
Mimran's defense attorney objected and argued that the information "was only reported in the newspaper," but the panel chairman overruled his objection and said: "No, dear sir, it certainly does appear in the file here before me."
After that exchange, Mimran said: "I funded Netanyahu in the amount of 1 million euros. That was in his election campaign. Then in 2009, when he was indeed re-elected prime minister of Israel, I went to Israel and we met."