| Carty: It's time for Rodriguez to apologize and pay up
When the University of Michigan began looking for a new football coach in November, it's safe to say a man the general public ranks with coaching bad boy Nick Saban wouldn't have been high on its list. Yet comparisons between the carpetbagging Alabama coach and new Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez have been pretty common on talk radio and the Internet over the past few days. Let's say this up front: Rodriguez is not Saban. He did not insist again and again that he'd never take the Michigan job, then skulk out of town when millions were put on the table, as Saban did with Alabama when he was coaching the Miami Dolphins. Rodriguez hasn't bolted three straight jobs after short stints, in each case leaving when someone waved more money at him. That's not to say Rodriguez doesn't deserve some grief.
US Supreme Court Throws Out Wire-Tapping Case
It is claimed that (a) Attif is still alive and living in Pakistan (b) the planes that hit the twin towers is shown in video footage to have had a remote control drone under its belly and that a laser guidance system can be seen from one of the twin towers (c) that the necessary demolition by safety officers subsequent to the two main towers collapsing of tower 6 or 7 was it? was accomplished in a day when experts require about a month to set up a demolition of a building that size thus indicating that this was planned in advance. So to point 7 - there is much evidence of Yes. (8) Yes. Need I say it, but Iraq. Next Iran? (9) Yes. Bush and his friends are doing very well, thank you very much. Things not so good in Oklahoma ("how y'all doin down there?") (10) Yes. See point 6 again. (11) Yes.
Something to prove: GM Smith remembers his roots
When the Santana trade drew critical reviews, Smith referred to the Twins' grand history of trading valued veterans for unknowns. And he kept his sense of humor. Without prompting, Smith pulled out two pieces of paper. One was a smart-alecky Sporting News list that read: "No. 4 -- Johan Santana: Here's how bad it is, the other night I'm watching Entertainment Tonight and Paula Abdul says, 'That Twins GM must be crazy.' " Smith laughed, then showed off what he calls his favorite cartoon. He's often referred to as "Billy," even though he prefers "Bill." It's The Family Circus. In it, the boy asks, "How old do I hafta be to change my name from Billy to Bill?" Smith already has learned that in his new job, getting called "Billy" is not the worst of all possibilities.
Jondi Gumz Reporter at Large: When morale slides and productivity ...
Fagan-Smith will join the other winners at a tribute Feb. 28 through March 1 at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Her clients include some of the most well-known names in Silicon Valley -- HP, Symantec, Adobe, Cisco -- and PG&E. But the issues she addresses, such as transforming a company's culture and training managers to communicate and lead change, apply to nonprofits as well as businesses. Her company employs a variety of tools: Pulse surveys and podcasts, blogs and intranets, speechwriting and social networking. The outcomes: Managers gain useful information from employees on emerging trends and can quickly address issues to improve productivity. Employees understand the company .
Gagnon takes over as Farmington recreation director
Gagnon has led trips in mountain biking, hiking, camping and rock-climbing.
In 2001, he graduated from Green Mountain College in Vermont with a degree in adventure recreation, and then took a job in Georgia for 18 months with an adventure program for adjudicated youth.
From there he went on to direct an outdoor program in upstate New York for a year or so and then, in 2004 up until his Farmington appointment, served as Kittery (Maine) Recreation Department's program coordinator. Other 2004 highlights included getting married, earning his Wilderness EMT certification, and joining the instruction staff at an outdoor school in Conway, where he still teaches on occasion.
"The point of coming to a community like Farmington that supports recreation so much is to expand on wonderful programs.
Dowtown rooftop burglars caught
During a search of the car, officers found a stolen camera from Richards Music Store as well as an I-Pod accessory that is only carried locally by that store. Police also discovered bolt cutters, gloves and a pry bar.After interviewing the suspects, Safford officers searched a residence on Sixth Avenue and located several stolen items hidden in the attic. Some of the items recovered included 10 guitars, cameras, I-Pods and computer equipment.Sgt. Knight said due to the suspects’ modus operandi (the way they burglarized the businesses) and statements from Maltby during interrogation, they have been implicated in multiple burglaries in Safford and other surrounding areas.Officers are linking the suspects to a possible total of seven burglaries that have occurred within the past week. Reader Comments .
India's youths are in perilous grip of a smoking epidemic
My skin is even gross, my lips are black because of it," sighed Ahuja, her ashtray filled with cigarette butts. Her friends, a pilot and a writer, took long drags on their cigarettes, exhaled puffs of smoke and agreed that it's just not easy to stop smoking. Young Indians, especially women like Ahuja, represent one of the largest markets for cigarette companies. They also face a high risk for smoking-related deaths, according to health officials. Recent findings from the first nationally representative study of smoking in India found that this country is in the grips of a smoking epidemic likely to cause nearly a million deaths a year starting in 2010. There are 120 million smokers in India, half of them younger than 30, the study found. India has a larger population of smokers than any other country in the world except for China.
Father of slain Oklahoma girl testifies 'I told her you can't be ...
NORMAN, Okla.: The father of a slain 10-year-old testified Tuesday that he had warned his daughter to be careful of strangers before her mutilated body was found in their neighbor's apartment. "I told her you can't be trusting people and do not go into anyone's apartment," Curtis Bolin testified Tuesday in the murder trial of Kevin Underwood, 28, who is accused of killing Jamie Rose Bolin in a cannibalistic plot. Bolin, an auto mechanic, testified that he gave her this warning after she told him she had met Underwood and knew that he had a pet rat. Assistant District Attorney Susan Caswell asked Bolin if he thought his daughter understood the warning. "I thought she did," he said, his voice trembling. .
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