| Spring practice: Wolverines are Big Ten's wild card; Spartans stuck in ...
The mass exodus never happened, and Ohio State is geared up to annoy the rest of the country with another BCS national championship push. There's a clear gap between the Buckeyes and the rest of the league, though Wisconsin and Penn State could inch closer by finding capable starting quarterbacks. Illinois lost a lot of star power, but has talented reinforcements, and Michigan is the league's acknowledged wild card. The league's middle could be reshuffled as teams like Purdue, Michigan State, Indiana and Northwestern all return proven quarterbacks. 1. Ohio State Buckeyes
What we know: Linebackers James Laurinaitis and Marcus Freeman are back, along with cornerback Malcolm Jenkins, to headline an outstanding defense.
What we don't know: The health of Freeman and defensive end Lawrence Wilson following injuries.
Psychos in suits: corporate CEOs in need of (an) asylum
Mintzberg is a staple in the diet of many MBAs, and his words may signal a sea change in business teaching. In the coming months, it is inevitable that more CEOs will hit the fan. But as CEO-smacking becomes the hot storyline this summer, we shouldnt lose sight of the system we let them loose in. This isnt just a few bad apples were talking about here, said Fortune magazine. This, my friends, is a systemic breakdown. True, they were talking about investors money rather than passing comment on whether capitalism is delivering the sustainable uplifting of humanity. Yet, in talking about the system they are in tune with a growing chorus of complaints about global capitalism. When one billion people struggle to survive on less than a dollar a day while in the same period $1.5 trillion is moved around the world in currency speculation; when biologists estimate that half of all life on Earth is at threat from extinction, and anthropologists estimate that half of the worlds languages are dying out; when 19,000 children die every day because of Third World debt, while access to this news is controlled by multinational corporations, five of which are estimated to own 40% of all the worlds media it is hard not to think that global capitalism has become a psychopathic system.
Update: Library Has 10 Copies of "Water for Elephants"
They'll be available this evening. Three are reserved, including one by me. Seven others will be available. The library's open now, if you want to reserve a copy. Bette's also preparing some guidelines to help us get started on this adventure. P.S., I just finished reading Slavomir Raciwz "The Long Walk" and recommend it highly. It's a true story about 7 desperate prisoners who break out of a Communist prison in Siberia at the outbreak of World War II, in the dead of winter, and succeed in walking all the way to India, through the Gobi Desert and over the Himalayas. Easy read. Incredible story about man's desire to be free. .
A few structural adjustments have given the Hunsberger family a ...
Beth and Peter Hunsberger needed a house with a level playing field. They loved their house in Hein Park. But their family dynamics had changed in the 10 years they had lived there. Their first daughter, Julia, was born in 1998, and then Victoria (Tori) arrived in 2003. Ten months later, Tori was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. The three-story home became an obstacle course for their family. They tried to work with the existing structure, but it was no use. Then they were going to build in the neighborhood, but that didn't work out. .
Why the fuss over pennies?
Just don't take them to City Hall. Brian Burza learned that last month when he went to pay his $20 parking ticket with a briefcase pouch full of loose change. "It was mostly pennies," Burza said. "There were a couple nickels and dimes in there, but it was mainly pennies that I had counted out." But the clerk at the payment center wouldn't take them. Neither would the supervisor, Marcus Chapple, who told Burza to get them changed at a bank. When Burza refused to and insisted that the city accept his pennies because they are U.S. currency, Burza says Chapple put the pennies in a bucket and told his co-workers that there would be free pennies for people that day. "When I saw him put everything in the bucket, I just left my ticket there and said that I considered it paid," Burza said. Still the ticket wasn't marked as paid until Assistant City Administrator Julia Scott-Valdez took a call from the Rockford Register Star Wednesday, two weeks after Burza left his pennies at City Hall.
Another Look At The 'Does File Sharing Equal Stealing?' Question
The music has value, but I just got it for free, without the permission of the record label. I go see "Shakespeare in the Park." I get to see something of great value for free, without permission of William Shakespeare. Verizon sees that Sprint is going to announce an "all you can eat plan" and decides to introduce its own similar plan. Verizon got that idea for a bundle from Sprint for "free" and certainly without Sprint's permission. Yet, we call that competition, not stealing. You can come up with your own examples. Now I'm sure people will start picking apart each of these examples. They'll say things like in the pizza/soda example, the pizza shop has implicit permission to resell the soda at any price they deem reasonable, since they paid for it in the first place. But, if that's the case, then we have another problem for those who claim that copyright is real property -- because the same thing isn't true with copyrighted material.
BLOTTER: Police reports published Jan. 17
It was the second car stolen in the city within the past week. Three youths were suspected of stealing a brand-new Chevrolet Impala at 6:30 a.m. Jan. 8, when a 26-year-old Tonawanda man left his car running and unlocked while he went in for a cup of coffee.CHARGED: Michael Moore II, 29, 379 Broad St. Apt. 1, was charged at 1:36 a.m. Wednesday with unlawful possession of marijuana, third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, driving to the left of pavement markings and driving without a license. He was released on an appearance ticket.CHARGED: Joann P. DeCecco, 36, 4 Malinder Ave., was charged at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday with second-degree harassment and endangering the welfare of a child following a domestic incident. She was held for court.KenmoreCHARGED: Thomas E. Patterson, 21, 669 Englewood Ave., Buffalo, was charged with driving while intoxicated, unauthorized use of a vehicle, criminal possession of stolen property over $3,000, possession of burglary tools, possession of a hypodermic instrument, reckless driving, failure to use headlights, speeding, failure to yield right of way to an emergency vehicle, running a red light, operating a vehicle without a license, refusal to take a breath test and third-degree fleeing police in a motor vehicle at 4:04 a.m.
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