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In July, one freelancer described the market as “catch as catch can, but even more so because there’s more competition and less freelance work available.” Since Labor Day, however, the market has improved.
One veteran freelance creative director said he has worked four jobs since August, after booking just six in the first eight months of the year. Three of the four recent jobs stemmed from new business pitches, including one for UPS’ global marketing services review. “All of a sudden, bang, it turned into pitch season,” the cd said.
VW launched a review for the creative portion of its $220 million account in August, Pizza Hut began a review for the creative portion of its $275 account in September and, last month, General Motors’ Cadillac started a review of creative duties on its $240 million account. (VW’s process ended three weeks ago with the hiring of Interpublic Group’s Deutsch in Marina del Rey, Calif.) And although UPS’ $200 million review began in April, the process intensified in September through its conclusion two weeks ago with the hiring of WPP units Ogilvy & Mather and Maxus.
“People are willing to risk a lot more on big, giant pitches, so you’re going to see a lot more freelancers,” said veteran freelancer Ernest Lupinacci of Ernest Industries in New York.
Of course, after multiple rounds of staff cuts throughout the past year, contending agencies found their creative departments stretched thin across existing accounts and unable to take on the added workload associated with big-ticket pitches. And with freezes on full-time hires still in place, many shops naturally turned to freelancers for help.
WORTHINGTON — Nobles Cooperative Electric (NCE) urges people to be aware of electrical equipment when moving snow.
WORTHINGTON — The Nobles County Planning Commission on Wednesday heard requests for two conditional use permits, both of which will now go before the Nobles County Board of Commissioners for final consideration Tuesday morning.
ELLSWORTH — Ellsworth has gone black after a string of transmission lines fell victim to straight line winds before 8 a.m. this morning.
(CNN) -- The final proposals for a planned troop increase in Afghanistan are expected to cross President Donald Trump's desk this week.
US officials say the likely range for the US troop increase in Afghanistan is between 3,000 and 5,000 troops, but could be as low as 1,500. The increase would be to accelerate training missions for Afghan forces and well as to fight the Taliban.
The Afghan Ministry of Defense told CNN that it would support an increase in American troops.
Trump has already given authority to set official troop levels in the fight against ISIS in Iraq and Syria to Secretary of Defense James Mattis.
National security adviser H.R. McMaster and Mattis favor the troop increase being discussed at the Pentagon and increasing the United States' financial investment in Afghanistan, according to a source familiar with the discussions. The same source said Trump's chief strategist, Steve Bannon, and his small contingent of nationalists are expected to push back when those recommendations hit Trump's desk.
Additional strategy options being presented to Trump include an outline for dealing with the Taliban, including scaling up strikes against the militant group, according to two US officials familiar with the proposal. The proposed strategy will, however, maintain the Obama administration's push toward reconciliation between the Taliban and the Afghan government.
It is unclear when Trump will make a formal decision.
Afghan Ministry of Defense spokesman Gen. Dawlat Waziri told CNN that a troop increase would benefit Afghanistan and the international community.
"Fights in Afghanistan are not domestic; it is international terrorism operating in Afghanistan," Waziri said. "[The] US must finish terrorism in Afghanistan by assessing, advising and training Afghan security forces and make them strong to counter terrorism."
Mattis traveled to Afghanistan late last month to give the Afghan government his recommendations for US involvement moving forward.
At the time he declined to share what those recommendations were.
But he did say "we are under no illusions about the challenges associated with this mission," adding that "2017 is going to be another tough year for the valiant Afghan security forces and the international troops who have stood and who will continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with Afghanistan against terrorism."
US troops have been fighting for nearly 16 years in Afghanistan, where the government and its coalition allies are battling a resilient Taliban as well as other terror groups, including ISIS.
In February, Gen. John Nicholson, commander of Resolute Support and US forces in Afghanistan, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that leadership assesses "the current security situation in Afghanistan as a stalemate."
He cited the government's stability, Afghan military casualties, the influence of Pakistan, Russia and Iran, "the convergence" of various terror groups, the narcotics trade and corruption.
There are 8,400 US troops in Afghanistan and 6,000 troops from NATO and allied countries. Nicholson said the coalition faces "a shortfall of a few thousand troops" to break the "stalemate."
Theresa Whelan, the acting assistant secretary of defense for special operations, told lawmakers on the Senate Armed Services Committee last Thursday that the Pentagon's proposals are intended "to move beyond the stalemate and also to recognize that Afghanistan is a very important partner for the United States in a very tricky region."
"We want to maintain that partnership with Afghanistan and we want to ensure that Afghanistan reaches its potential, so that's the objective of the strategy," she added.
From January 1 through November 12 last year, 6,785 Afghan national security forces were killed, according to the latest quarterly report of the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction.
Casualties among international troops have dropped dramatically since the NATO-led effort shifted from a combat role to an advisory role in 2014.
The agency's analysis of information from US forces in Afghanistan "suggests that the security situation in Afghanistan has not improved this quarter."
"The numbers of the Afghan security forces are decreasing, while both casualties and the number of districts under insurgent control or influence are increasing," according to the January 30 report to Congress.
last year in a gated community in Sanford during a struggle. Zimmerman is pleading not guilty.
Neighbors called 911 during the struggle and cries of help can be heard on the calls. Martin's family claims the voice is that of the South Florida teen.
Zimmerman's father has said in court he believes the cries are from his son.
Zimmerman's attorney says jurors could be confused by a voice expert's testimony.
Former Cleveland Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar isn’t backing off his stance, striking an unapologetic tone after ripping the St. Louis Rams’ wide receivers and backup quarterback Kellen Clemens during a television broadcast last week.
Thursday night during the Browns’ game against the Detroit Lions, Kosar stuck to his guns.
Kosar later apologized to Fisher and the team is sticking with Kosar.
This one-hour play will relive the hope, the determination and the patriotic celebration of the holiday season during the post-World War II years. The production is a callback to the days when Americans sat around radios in their homes, waiting for information during and immediately following World War II.
Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday in the Malcolm Field Theatre for Performing Arts. Tickets cost $13 for the general public, and $10 for both students and attendees 60 and older.
Ric Roberts, professor of theatre, and David Rzeszutek, assistant professor of theatre, are co-directors.
The cast will include student thespians along with students involved in SVSU’s Cardinal Singers vocalist group. This production will mark the seventh year SVSU has hosted a live radio show-style performance in the theatre.
"Flaking Out: Student Absences and Snow Days as Disruptions of Instructional Time"
While the snowstorms and icy sidewalks of this past winter are fast disappearing from memory, a question remains: Did all those snow days hurt student learning?
Perhaps not, according to a working paper published last month by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
The study, by Joshua Goodman, an assistant professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, looks at how school closures due to extremely snowy weather affected standardized test scores of Massachusetts students from 2003 to 2010. He found that snow days had little impact on student achievement.
However, Mr. Goodman did find that student absences prompted by moderately snowy days negatively affected test scores, particularly in math.
The author said the findings imply that teachers are better able to manage coordinated absences, when the whole class has missed school, than when only one or a few students miss class.
Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Police shot and killed a suspected gunman who opened fire at a Wisconsin office building Wednesday and injured at least three people.
Middleton Police Chief Charles Foulke said the department received a call reporting an active shooter at WTS Paradigm at around 10:30 a.m. A city official confirmed the suspect had died after being injured in a shootout with police and taken to a local hospital, Wisconsin's WKOW reported.
Foulke added that three other people were taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds, after the shooting at the software company office.
UW Hospital spokeswoman Lisa Brunette told The Wisconsin State Journal that four patients were admitted to the hospital, including one in critical condition and two others were in serious condition. St. Mary's Hospital said it was also treated one patient with non-life-threatening injuries.
A WTS Paradigm employee who witnessed the shooting told The Wisconsin State Journal the shooter was a company employee and there were about 160 employees in the office at the time.
Lance Muzzillo, an employee at Sentry Insurance on the fourth floor of the same building, said the shooting took place on the first floor and his office was locked down for about 45 minutes before police escorted employees out of the building. They were then transported to a nearby hotel to be reunited with their families.
Middleton Cross Plains School District also placed all of its schools on lockdown for 90 minutes as a precautionary measure after the shooting.
Businesses located near the shooting scene were expected to remain closed for the next 24-48 hours the Department of Criminal Investigation, FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms and Explosives investigate the shooting.
BOBBY ZAMORA bagged the winner – but Mark Clattenburg was in the spotlight again during this relegation thriller at Craven Cottage.
Blackburn were furious when Clattenburg awarded a penalty two minutes from time that Zamora slammed home.
But Fulham were not happy either and reckon he missed an earlier spot-kick. And a week after letting Wayne Rooney off the hook, Clattenburg was accused of missing another elbow when Steven Nzonzi caught Damien Duff, who had scored twice against his old club.
Fans sang “you don’t know what you’re doing” at the man from County Durham and Gael Givet was sent off after the final whistle for storming onto the pitch and having a go at him.
It totally overshadowed a cracking match where Blackburn levelled each time Duff scored.
All the talk was about Clattenburg – not Zamora’s comeback from a broken leg or the battle of each boss facing their former club. Mark Hughes won the League Cup as a player with Rovers before managing them. Last week he clashed with Roberto Mancini at his old club Manchester City but he is more friendly with Blackburn.
Rovers boss Steve Kean was assistant to Chris Coleman for four years at Fulham before moving on.
Now at Blackburn, he is desperate for his club to avoid getting sucked into a relegation dogfight.
It looked like Kean was ready to defend, as his best attackers started on the subs’ bench.
Morten Gamst Pedersen, Brett Emerton, Nikola Kalinic, Roque Santa Cruz and Ruben Rochina were all waiting in the wings. On the field, Jason Roberts had a header fly over the bar and a powerful drive straight at Mark Schwarzer. The Aussie keeper also saved well with his feet after a swift counter-attack was almost finished by Mame Biram Diouf.
Clattenburg was always close to the action with his decisions.
Fans felt he was wrong to yellow card Dickson Etuhu for an early foul.
Sparky was not happy either and was in the assistant ref’s ear telling him what he thought.
But the Fulham boss was all smiles eight minutes from the break when Duff broke the deadlock.
Duff stepped inside and finished between Martin Olsson’s legs and through Paul Robinson’s dive.
The goal did not stop Fulham fans hammering Clattenburg – they thought Johnson was brought down by Chris Samba for a penalty and Rovers made the most of the decision by levelling in first-half stoppage-time.
Nzonzi won the ball on the edge of the area and it broke for Grant Hanley, who aimed a shot for the far corner.
His effort took a massive deflection off Brede Hangeland’s head and wrong-footed Schwarzer.
But Fulham were ahead again just before the hour mark, through Duff again, from the edge of the area.
Rovers needed to dig deep again and got another leveller when Junior Hoilett volleyed home after Roberts pulled the ball back for him.
Zamora’s goal, on his second appearance since his comeback, came after Hanley held Aaron Hughes from a corner.
Records used last month to help inform the public about costs associated with damage to a state-owned airplane piloted by Iowa State University President Steven Leath last year have been removed from websites by the school or its foundation.
Leath had pledged in an interview “to be as open and transparent as possible” about questions surrounding his use of university planes.
The removed documents include flight records posted on the university’s website. Also removed was flight information posted on FlightAware.com, which bills itself as the world’s largest flight tracking company.
Leath said the university removed the records on its site after an Associated Press report about Leath's plane mishap because they enabled a reporter to identify whom he was meeting. Leath claims that the reporter asked “totally inappropriate” questions, including about donations raised as a result of the meetings. That reporter, Ryan Foley, told The Des Moines Register that he had only spoken with one donor before the record removals and had asked about the purpose of the trips and not donations.
“You can still get the information, we’re glad to give it to you, we’re just going to take the donors' names and stuff off,” Leath told the Iowa State Daily on Oct. 5, according to a transcript of the interview published online by the university.
The records removed from the school's website did not list donor names, according to copies that the Register downloaded before their removal. Those records listed names of passengers on the planes, departure and arrival information, dates of the flights, number of miles flown and cost.
The university on Wednesday posted redacted copies of the records. Names of many nonemployee passengers have been redacted, including that of John Dudley, a professional bowhunter. Leath took Dudley on at least four donor-funded trips.
In some cases, even the names of current ISU employees are blocked from public view. One state employee, for example, is shown only as "Frank."
ISU officials say some employee names were redacted because the employees are also university donors and were on the flight in that capacity.
Leath last month vowed to stop flying himself and reimbursed the university’s foundation $15,000 to cover damage. He will answer questions from the Iowa Board of Regents about the issue during a meeting Wednesday and Thursday.
The Associated Press reported that Leath used one of the school’s planes multiple times to travel to and from North Carolina, where he owns a mountain home. He has denied that the trips violated any university policies, saying he met and socialized with donors during at least some portions of the trips.
Removing the records from public view raises serious questions about the university’s intentions, said Randy Evans, executive director of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council and the Register's former opinion page editor.
State Sen. Jeff Danielson, D-Cedar Falls and chairman of the Senate State Government Committee, is drafting legislation to require greater transparency from Iowa’s three state universities. He said the questions surrounding Leath's flights demonstrate that comprehensive regent accountability is necessary.
“You’d hope that they would do the right thing without a law, but right now it sounds like they need a law in place,” Danielson said.
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Caitlyn Jenner came to Cleveland on a mission to help her fellow Republicans better understand the transgender community.
Jenner said she’s been “disappointed” in the Republican party’s platform during the past 10 years. Other speaks at the event, held in a tent outside the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, called this year’s GOP platform “downright hostile” to LGBT concerns.
Jenner took specific aim at the slew of anti-LGBT legislative efforts in many states to restrict bathroom usage by gender. Jenner called it a “non-issue” and noted that more Republican legislators have been arrested for lewd acts in public bathrooms in recent years than there have been arrests of transgender people.
“Maybe we should ban Republican representatives at the state level from being in bathrooms,” she quipped.
Former talk show host Montel Williams also spoke at the gathering. He’s become active in LGBT rights issues in recent years. He likens the fight to ensure LGBT have the same civil rights as heterosexuals as similar to the discrimination he faced as black man growing up in the 1950s and ’60s.
“Having lived through that kind of hate, how in the world could I or anyone else who suffered through this be silent when there’s another group targeted by the same hate,” Williams said.
Volunteer biographers are helping people in palliative care tell their life stories.
LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: Most people never get the chance to tell their life story in detail or write their own memoir.
In the case of a death, relatives are often left to piece together details of people's lives from what recollections they and others have.
A dedicated team of volunteers at a palliative care service in Victoria is trying to make that process a little easier by helping patients write their biographies before they die.

In July, one freelancer described the market as “catch as catch can, but even more so because there’s more competition and less freelance work available.” Since Labor Day, however, the market has improved.

One veteran freelance creative director said he has worked four jobs since August, after booking just six in the first eight months of the year. Three of the four recent jobs stemmed from new business pitches, including one for UPS’ global marketing services review. “All of a sudden, bang, it turned into pitch season,” the cd said.

VW launched a review for the creative portion of its $220 million account in August, Pizza Hut began a review for the creative portion of its $275 account in September and, last month, General Motors’ Cadillac started a review of creative duties on its $240 million account. (VW’s process ended three weeks ago with the hiring of Interpublic Group’s Deutsch in Marina del Rey, Calif.) And although UPS’ $200 million review began in April, the process intensified in September through its conclusion two weeks ago with the hiring of WPP units Ogilvy & Mather and Maxus.

“People are willing to risk a lot more on big, giant pitches, so you’re going to see a lot more freelancers,” said veteran freelancer Ernest Lupinacci of Ernest Industries in New York.

Of course, after multiple rounds of staff cuts throughout the past year, contending agencies found their creative departments stretched thin across existing accounts and unable to take on the added workload associated with big-ticket pitches. And with freezes on full-time hires still in place, many shops naturally turned to freelancers for help.

WORTHINGTON — Nobles Cooperative Electric (NCE) urges people to be aware of electrical equipment when moving snow.

WORTHINGTON — The Nobles County Planning Commission on Wednesday heard requests for two conditional use permits, both of which will now go before the Nobles County Board of Commissioners for final consideration Tuesday morning.

ELLSWORTH — Ellsworth has gone black after a string of transmission lines fell victim to straight line winds before 8 a.m. this morning.

(CNN) -- The final proposals for a planned troop increase in Afghanistan are expected to cross President Donald Trump's desk this week.

US officials say the likely range for the US troop increase in Afghanistan is between 3,000 and 5,000 troops, but could be as low as 1,500. The increase would be to accelerate training missions for Afghan forces and well as to fight the Taliban.

The Afghan Ministry of Defense told CNN that it would support an increase in American troops.

Trump has already given authority to set official troop levels in the fight against ISIS in Iraq and Syria to Secretary of Defense James Mattis.

National security adviser H.R. McMaster and Mattis favor the troop increase being discussed at the Pentagon and increasing the United States' financial investment in Afghanistan, according to a source familiar with the discussions. The same source said Trump's chief strategist, Steve Bannon, and his small contingent of nationalists are expected to push back when those recommendations hit Trump's desk.

Additional strategy options being presented to Trump include an outline for dealing with the Taliban, including scaling up strikes against the militant group, according to two US officials familiar with the proposal. The proposed strategy will, however, maintain the Obama administration's push toward reconciliation between the Taliban and the Afghan government.

It is unclear when Trump will make a formal decision.

Afghan Ministry of Defense spokesman Gen. Dawlat Waziri told CNN that a troop increase would benefit Afghanistan and the international community.

"Fights in Afghanistan are not domestic; it is international terrorism operating in Afghanistan," Waziri said. "[The] US must finish terrorism in Afghanistan by assessing, advising and training Afghan security forces and make them strong to counter terrorism."

Mattis traveled to Afghanistan late last month to give the Afghan government his recommendations for US involvement moving forward.

At the time he declined to share what those recommendations were.

But he did say "we are under no illusions about the challenges associated with this mission," adding that "2017 is going to be another tough year for the valiant Afghan security forces and the international troops who have stood and who will continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with Afghanistan against terrorism."

US troops have been fighting for nearly 16 years in Afghanistan, where the government and its coalition allies are battling a resilient Taliban as well as other terror groups, including ISIS.

In February, Gen. John Nicholson, commander of Resolute Support and US forces in Afghanistan, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that leadership assesses "the current security situation in Afghanistan as a stalemate."

He cited the government's stability, Afghan military casualties, the influence of Pakistan, Russia and Iran, "the convergence" of various terror groups, the narcotics trade and corruption.

There are 8,400 US troops in Afghanistan and 6,000 troops from NATO and allied countries. Nicholson said the coalition faces "a shortfall of a few thousand troops" to break the "stalemate."

Theresa Whelan, the acting assistant secretary of defense for special operations, told lawmakers on the Senate Armed Services Committee last Thursday that the Pentagon's proposals are intended "to move beyond the stalemate and also to recognize that Afghanistan is a very important partner for the United States in a very tricky region."

"We want to maintain that partnership with Afghanistan and we want to ensure that Afghanistan reaches its potential, so that's the objective of the strategy," she added.

From January 1 through November 12 last year, 6,785 Afghan national security forces were killed, according to the latest quarterly report of the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction.

Casualties among international troops have dropped dramatically since the NATO-led effort shifted from a combat role to an advisory role in 2014.

The agency's analysis of information from US forces in Afghanistan "suggests that the security situation in Afghanistan has not improved this quarter."

"The numbers of the Afghan security forces are decreasing, while both casualties and the number of districts under insurgent control or influence are increasing," according to the January 30 report to Congress.

last year in a gated community in Sanford during a struggle. Zimmerman is pleading not guilty.

Neighbors called 911 during the struggle and cries of help can be heard on the calls. Martin's family claims the voice is that of the South Florida teen.

Zimmerman's father has said in court he believes the cries are from his son.

Zimmerman's attorney says jurors could be confused by a voice expert's testimony.

Former Cleveland Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar isn’t backing off his stance, striking an unapologetic tone after ripping the St. Louis Rams’ wide receivers and backup quarterback Kellen Clemens during a television broadcast last week.

Thursday night during the Browns’ game against the Detroit Lions, Kosar stuck to his guns.

Kosar later apologized to Fisher and the team is sticking with Kosar.

This one-hour play will relive the hope, the determination and the patriotic celebration of the holiday season during the post-World War II years. The production is a callback to the days when Americans sat around radios in their homes, waiting for information during and immediately following World War II.

Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday in the Malcolm Field Theatre for Performing Arts. Tickets cost $13 for the general public, and $10 for both students and attendees 60 and older.

Ric Roberts, professor of theatre, and David Rzeszutek, assistant professor of theatre, are co-directors.

The cast will include student thespians along with students involved in SVSU’s Cardinal Singers vocalist group. This production will mark the seventh year SVSU has hosted a live radio show-style performance in the theatre.

"Flaking Out: Student Absences and Snow Days as Disruptions of Instructional Time"

While the snowstorms and icy sidewalks of this past winter are fast disappearing from memory, a question remains: Did all those snow days hurt student learning?

Perhaps not, according to a working paper published last month by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

The study, by Joshua Goodman, an assistant professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, looks at how school closures due to extremely snowy weather affected standardized test scores of Massachusetts students from 2003 to 2010. He found that snow days had little impact on student achievement.

However, Mr. Goodman did find that student absences prompted by moderately snowy days negatively affected test scores, particularly in math.

The author said the findings imply that teachers are better able to manage coordinated absences, when the whole class has missed school, than when only one or a few students miss class.

Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Police shot and killed a suspected gunman who opened fire at a Wisconsin office building Wednesday and injured at least three people.

Middleton Police Chief Charles Foulke said the department received a call reporting an active shooter at WTS Paradigm at around 10:30 a.m. A city official confirmed the suspect had died after being injured in a shootout with police and taken to a local hospital, Wisconsin's WKOW reported.

Foulke added that three other people were taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds, after the shooting at the software company office.

UW Hospital spokeswoman Lisa Brunette told The Wisconsin State Journal that four patients were admitted to the hospital, including one in critical condition and two others were in serious condition. St. Mary's Hospital said it was also treated one patient with non-life-threatening injuries.

A WTS Paradigm employee who witnessed the shooting told The Wisconsin State Journal the shooter was a company employee and there were about 160 employees in the office at the time.

Lance Muzzillo, an employee at Sentry Insurance on the fourth floor of the same building, said the shooting took place on the first floor and his office was locked down for about 45 minutes before police escorted employees out of the building. They were then transported to a nearby hotel to be reunited with their families.

Middleton Cross Plains School District also placed all of its schools on lockdown for 90 minutes as a precautionary measure after the shooting.

Businesses located near the shooting scene were expected to remain closed for the next 24-48 hours the Department of Criminal Investigation, FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms and Explosives investigate the shooting.

BOBBY ZAMORA bagged the winner – but Mark Clattenburg was in the spotlight again during this relegation thriller at Craven Cottage.

Blackburn were furious when Clattenburg awarded a penalty two minutes from time that Zamora slammed home.

But Fulham were not happy either and reckon he missed an earlier spot-kick. And a week after letting Wayne Rooney off the hook, Clattenburg was accused of missing another elbow when Steven Nzonzi caught Damien Duff, who had scored twice against his old club.

Fans sang “you don’t know what you’re doing” at the man from County Durham and Gael Givet was sent off after the final whistle for storming onto the pitch and having a go at him.

It totally overshadowed a cracking match where Blackburn levelled each time Duff scored.

All the talk was about Clattenburg – not Zamora’s comeback from a broken leg or the battle of each boss facing their former club. Mark Hughes won the League Cup as a player with Rovers before managing them. Last week he clashed with Roberto Mancini at his old club Manchester City but he is more friendly with Blackburn.

Rovers boss Steve Kean was assistant to Chris Coleman for four years at Fulham before moving on.

Now at Blackburn, he is desperate for his club to avoid getting sucked into a relegation dogfight.

It looked like Kean was ready to defend, as his best attackers started on the subs’ bench.

Morten Gamst Pedersen, Brett Emerton, Nikola Kalinic, Roque Santa Cruz and Ruben Rochina were all waiting in the wings. On the field, Jason Roberts had a header fly over the bar and a powerful drive straight at Mark Schwarzer. The Aussie keeper also saved well with his feet after a swift counter-attack was almost finished by Mame Biram Diouf.

Clattenburg was always close to the action with his decisions.

Fans felt he was wrong to yellow card Dickson Etuhu for an early foul.

Sparky was not happy either and was in the assistant ref’s ear telling him what he thought.

But the Fulham boss was all smiles eight minutes from the break when Duff broke the deadlock.

Duff stepped inside and finished between Martin Olsson’s legs and through Paul Robinson’s dive.

The goal did not stop Fulham fans hammering Clattenburg – they thought Johnson was brought down by Chris Samba for a penalty and Rovers made the most of the decision by levelling in first-half stoppage-time.

Nzonzi won the ball on the edge of the area and it broke for Grant Hanley, who aimed a shot for the far corner.

His effort took a massive deflection off Brede Hangeland’s head and wrong-footed Schwarzer.

But Fulham were ahead again just before the hour mark, through Duff again, from the edge of the area.

Rovers needed to dig deep again and got another leveller when Junior Hoilett volleyed home after Roberts pulled the ball back for him.

Zamora’s goal, on his second appearance since his comeback, came after Hanley held Aaron Hughes from a corner.

Records used last month to help inform the public about costs associated with damage to a state-owned airplane piloted by Iowa State University President Steven Leath last year have been removed from websites by the school or its foundation.

Leath had pledged in an interview “to be as open and transparent as possible” about questions surrounding his use of university planes.

The removed documents include flight records posted on the university’s website. Also removed was flight information posted on FlightAware.com, which bills itself as the world’s largest flight tracking company.

Leath said the university removed the records on its site after an Associated Press report about Leath's plane mishap because they enabled a reporter to identify whom he was meeting. Leath claims that the reporter asked “totally inappropriate” questions, including about donations raised as a result of the meetings. That reporter, Ryan Foley, told The Des Moines Register that he had only spoken with one donor before the record removals and had asked about the purpose of the trips and not donations.

“You can still get the information, we’re glad to give it to you, we’re just going to take the donors' names and stuff off,” Leath told the Iowa State Daily on Oct. 5, according to a transcript of the interview published online by the university.

The records removed from the school's website did not list donor names, according to copies that the Register downloaded before their removal. Those records listed names of passengers on the planes, departure and arrival information, dates of the flights, number of miles flown and cost.

The university on Wednesday posted redacted copies of the records. Names of many nonemployee passengers have been redacted, including that of John Dudley, a professional bowhunter. Leath took Dudley on at least four donor-funded trips.

In some cases, even the names of current ISU employees are blocked from public view. One state employee, for example, is shown only as "Frank."

ISU officials say some employee names were redacted because the employees are also university donors and were on the flight in that capacity.

Leath last month vowed to stop flying himself and reimbursed the university’s foundation $15,000 to cover damage. He will answer questions from the Iowa Board of Regents about the issue during a meeting Wednesday and Thursday.

The Associated Press reported that Leath used one of the school’s planes multiple times to travel to and from North Carolina, where he owns a mountain home. He has denied that the trips violated any university policies, saying he met and socialized with donors during at least some portions of the trips.

Removing the records from public view raises serious questions about the university’s intentions, said Randy Evans, executive director of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council and the Register's former opinion page editor.

State Sen. Jeff Danielson, D-Cedar Falls and chairman of the Senate State Government Committee, is drafting legislation to require greater transparency from Iowa’s three state universities. He said the questions surrounding Leath's flights demonstrate that comprehensive regent accountability is necessary.

“You’d hope that they would do the right thing without a law, but right now it sounds like they need a law in place,” Danielson said.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Caitlyn Jenner came to Cleveland on a mission to help her fellow Republicans better understand the transgender community.

Jenner said she’s been “disappointed” in the Republican party’s platform during the past 10 years. Other speaks at the event, held in a tent outside the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, called this year’s GOP platform “downright hostile” to LGBT concerns.

Jenner took specific aim at the slew of anti-LGBT legislative efforts in many states to restrict bathroom usage by gender. Jenner called it a “non-issue” and noted that more Republican legislators have been arrested for lewd acts in public bathrooms in recent years than there have been arrests of transgender people.

“Maybe we should ban Republican representatives at the state level from being in bathrooms,” she quipped.

Former talk show host Montel Williams also spoke at the gathering. He’s become active in LGBT rights issues in recent years. He likens the fight to ensure LGBT have the same civil rights as heterosexuals as similar to the discrimination he faced as black man growing up in the 1950s and ’60s.

“Having lived through that kind of hate, how in the world could I or anyone else who suffered through this be silent when there’s another group targeted by the same hate,” Williams said.

Volunteer biographers are helping people in palliative care tell their life stories.

LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: Most people never get the chance to tell their life story in detail or write their own memoir.

In the case of a death, relatives are often left to piece together details of people's lives from what recollections they and others have.

A dedicated team of volunteers at a palliative care service in Victoria is trying to make that process a little easier by helping patients write their biographies before they die.