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Complete Legal Guide for Websites comes complete with all the forms you will need to instantly set up your website smartly and legally:
•User Agreement (Terms of Use),
•Privacy Policy,
•Purchase Agreement, and
•Disclosures & Disclaimers
•Affiliate Agreement
in simple Microsoft Word for you to edit to your own needs and immediately upload to your website.
The Complete Legal Guide for Websites contains easy-to-understand explanations plus specific information on "income claims" "results claims" "healthcare claims".
Internet Law Compliance is the "One-Stop-Shop Internet Legal Guide" web-marketers, bloggers, social networkers and web-designers need to understand and comply with the regulations and requirements for lawfully doing business on the internet.
Internet Law Compliance unabashedly claims its place as "best on the web" because Internet Law Compliance is not just about internet website laws but shows you how to comply AND at the same time increase sales - if we say so ourselves!
More of Internet Law Compliance's licensed forms are used on the internet than any other publication in the world!
Here are the straight goods . . . .
Without a doubt, this comprehensive Internet Law Compliance Guide (ILC) is the best bang for the buck a web-marketer can own. Alexa (search engine rating service) ranks our site at 61,000 in the U.S. That's good, if you don't already know. (Rankings change constantly so if you check it may be up or down for the day.)
The Internet Law Compliance Guide, guide to internet law, can prove that it can increase sales while keeping you legal. Just read the book to find out how!
Jack Campitelli, JD
But why buy your web legal guide from me, Jack Campitelli?
Here's why: I am not just a lawyer who decided to write a book about the legal issues on the internet and make some money. I spent nearly four years on the road with a guy named Shawn Casey, another lawyer, teaching students about asset protection. Thousands of people. And all the while Shawn Casey was developing, on the side, his internet skills, his marketing skills. He dragged me to countless seminars that HE put on along with the best and the brightest on the new web geniuses.
Put it this way. I was trained in internet marketing techniques long before I wrote Internet Law Compliance.
Shawn Casey, of course, went onto become a legend and one of the true marketing web geniuses. He stays in the background, but there isn't a giant who hasn't heard of him. I wrote Internet Law Compliance for Shawn Casey to use personally on his websites. When we looked at it, we said, this is so good we should share it. And that's how it was born.
Shawn Casey still uses this material. During this time I met many of leading lights in the business. I counseled them on their business structures. I became a part of their "defense team" when trouble struck. And it struck ALWAYS when they didn't pay attention to things I will tell you again and again. So, when I speak, I speak as someone who has walked the walk, not just talked the talk. Admittedly I have never striven for the level of success many of these giants have. But I have always been there for them as a voice of reason. They trust me. So should you.
"You Could Have Saved Me $350,000.00!"
"I've had personal experience with the government agencies with regards to Internet compliance, and let me tell you, it's an absolute nightmare!
"What's really shocking is how easy it is to step outside of the boundaries of the law. You can be in violation without even knowing it! I was, and if I had this kit FIRST then the whole thing could've been prevented. I would have saved about $350,000.00! (Not to mention experiencing amazing levels of stress.)
"Your product helps people quickly know what you can... And canNOT do online. And all it takes is a few simple changes to be compliant. Your compliance kit shows people how to do this. In my opinion, anyone who does business online without this is information completely insane."
Frank Kern
Prolific Author and Internet Marketer
Look, you're an adult. You're embarking on a new adventure (or cleaning up an existing one) with the hopes of making money. You know by now, I hope, that while the Internet has tremendous freedom, it is regulated and, every now and then, someone is made an example of by regulating agencies.
I don't want to scare you by the horror stories that I've personally and professionally witnessed where I had to helplessly standby as very successful internet entrepreneurs got crushed by regulatory agencies because they made very simple mistakes. If you make up your mind that you're not going to buy my book, then for goodness-sakes buy someone's. Or, better, go see a live lawyer who knows about Internet law, the FTC, the FDA, and marketing.
What most folks don't understand is that regulatory agencies win even if they lose in the end. Think about it. The way they work these days is to, suddenly, without warning, freeze your assets – all of them – with a restraining order. Afterwards, they serve you with the complaint containing the allegations of wrongdoing. Suddenly, no access to bank accounts. No ability to sell assets to raise money. No money for your mortgage, car payment or food. Got the picture? So what happens next? Well, you've got to get a lawyer. A really good lawyer, right? I mean jail time and huge fines are involved. $250,000 worth of lawyer's retainer. How much money do you have? None. So you have the unenviable task of finding the best lawyer you can with no money and telling him your sad story while at the same time you're trying to retain him to defend you. Like it so far?
We haven't even started. You can imagine, with no money, that your life starts to crumble rather quickly. Three months and your car is gone. You've borrowed from friends and family just to eat. Six months and your house is gone. When the "deal" is finally offered by the government, you grab it. The regulatory agency keeps all your money except what your lawyer gets and you can go back to your crushed life and start over. I'm not making this up. It's real. It happens. What to do?
It's all explained in the FTC Report included in your purchase.
Or how about this. You sell a health product and make claims you shouldn't. What claims are those? You'd better find out because if you fail it's PRISON. No fooling. I've personally known three people who are in prison as we speak. I warned them. They didn't listen. They had great products. I bought them myself. In their own way they were geniuses about health. They were making serious money. But to a person they were making fatal mistakes. In one case the FDA sent a team into a foreign country to "kidnap" the web-seller and take him back to the U.S. for trial. They "kidnapped" the wrong guy and went back empty handed! Later the agency got the web-seller legally deported and he's now in prison in the U.S. This isn't some stranger I'm telling you about. I've eaten dinner with his family. What to do?
It's all explained in the FDA Report included in your purchase.
The various User Agreement, Privacy Policy and Purchase Agreement forms included with the Internet Law Compliance package are about outlining the rights of visitors and websites. They are designed to protect you from frivolous litigation.
Here's a freebee. Rule of Thumb: You live and die with regulatory agencies with the copy on your website and your disclaimers and disclosures. Whereas you live and die with your customers or visitors with your User Agreement, Privacy Policy, and Purchase Agreement. Unlike what you may believe, you cannot undo in Purchase Agreement disclaimers that you should have made in-line – in the copy itself. The weasel clauses might work for civil litigation but not for infractions of regulatory laws and rulings.
More of Internet Law Compliance's copyrighted forms (fully-licensed to purchasers) are used on the web than any other publication in the world! The Internet Law Compliance Guide, seven years on the market, is constantly updated whenever the law or practices change.
Internet Law Compliance is written by a lawyer for internet marketers, not law professors. Jack Campitelli, J.D., was trained by the famous lawyer-turned-gigantic-web-marketer Shawn Casey. He wasn't trained in law by Shawn Casey. He was trained for years in marketing. Then Shawn Casey commissioned him to write what grew into the Internet Law Compliance Guide.
EVERY SINGLE WORD IN THE Internet Law Compliance GUIDE IS ABOUT NOT DECREASING SALES WHILE KEEPING YOU OUT OF TROUBLE!
Purchasers are forever-members to the restricted access area of the website. They are sent email notices about new information posted in the "member's area". There are no "renewal fees" or "annual fees" even if the price goes up. Once you're a "member" you're a member as long as Internet Law Compliance lives.
Internet Law Compliance Guide is the Number #1 "One-Stop-Shop Guide" web-marketers need to understand and comply with the regulations and requirements for lawfully doing business on the Internet. Internet Law Compliance unabashedly claims its place as "best on the web" because Internet Law Compliance is not just about laws but shows you how to comply AND at the same time potentially increase sales. Clearly, results can vary depending on your copy writing ability and your creativity. And luck. But I can say unequivocally that Internet Law Compliance sales have increased using the techniques I'm going to show you.
Freebee #2: That last sentence was an example of an in-line disclaimer. I tried to make it easy to read so it swallowed easy. But you can see that backed away from guaranteeing a sales increase. The Internet Law Compliance copy is full of examples like this. I actually tell you what I'm doing while I'm doing it so you can learn.
Internet Law Compliance has hundreds of pages of easy-to-understand explanations plus specific information on "income claims," "results claims," and "healthcare claims". And most importantly, Internet Law Compliance comes complete with all the forms you will need to instantly set up your website smartly and legally: User Agreement (Terms of Use), Privacy Policy, Purchase Agreement – in simple Microsoft Word for you to edit to your own needs and immediately upload to your website. The forms are copyrighted and fully-licensed to you to use on your website.
More of Internet Law Compliance's licensed forms are used on the internet than any other publication in the world! And we can prove it!
Unlike other "legal" books for sale, Internet Law Compliance Guide ALWAYS remembers that the Internet is largely about sales: selling a product or an idea. And it is the only guide that works hard to help you increase sales -- not make you lose sales by using sales-killer legalese.
Internet Law Compliance also provides plenty of suggestions on how to protect you and your family from "customers gone bad".
Internet Law Compliance is the only guide that shows you how to increase sales using disclaimers – and can prove it by our own Internet Law Compliance experiences!
Internet Law Compliance comes complete with a 60-day 100% "no-questions asked" refund policy.
The math is easy. You need something like the Internet Law Compliance guide or you need to see a lawyer. Internet Law Compliance truly believes there is no substitute available to buy that is comparable. And we work hard to keep it that way. Logically here are your choices.
What if during your 60-day refund period you think Internet Law Compliance is not for you? It's simple. Ask for a refund. In seven years of business we have never refused to give a refund. We've never had a disputed transaction. And never had a charge-back. We practice what we preach.
Look, this is not a traditional sales letter. I'm not going to list all the "Free" Reports worth "thousands of dollars" you get when you buy Internet Law Compliance. The reports really are worth that much but . . . hey. I mean how many of you need to know about how to handle sales to the EU that have a Value Added Tax on e-sales? But there's a complete report on it. What you will want to read, and fast because the law just changed, are the reports on blogging, on disclaimers and the report on disclosures.
Also included: "The Simple Asset Protection Report." THAT in itself is worth the price of admission. So what more do I have to do to get you to click the button?
My "call to action" that is a MUST HAVE for good sales letters and pitches?????
How's that for a call to action?
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Here's What President Obama Has Decided To Do About Uganda's "Jail The Gays" Law
The international LGBT community has been waiting with bated breath for the United State's response to the long-proposed "Jail The Gays" law officially materializing in Uganda. After devising the best financial blow to target Ugandan officials while leaving citizens unharmed, the White House announced on Monday the U.S.'s first wave of responses to "Jail the Gays."
Money will be shifted away from the Inter-Religious Council of Uganda, a group that has publicly come out in support of the anti-gay law and has received millions of dollars in grants from the United States to help fight the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Some $2.3 million will continue to go to the IRCU to continue treatment for some 50,000 current patients, but an additional $6.4 million intended for the IRCU will go to other organizations.
Second, because the law makes "promoting homosexuality" illegal, a U.S. funded study to help identify populations at risk of contracting HIV/AIDS has been suspended. The study, which was going to be conducted by a Ugandan university and the Center for Disease Control, has been suspended out of fear that both staff and survey respondents could be put in danger.
Third, because any LGBT person or LGBT ally who now enters Uganda is at risk, money intended for tourism programs will be redirected...
And finally, the Department of Defense had several events scheduled in the country later this spring and those will be moved to other locations. "Certain near-term invitational travel" for Ugandan military and police personnel has also been suspended or canceled.
These carefully designed measures avoid sanctions that would trickle down to those most in need and/or further twist the public's perception against their LGBT brothers and sisters.
But is it enough?
The Obana Administration will due enough so that it seems as if they are taking a stand, just like they did when Russia passed their "propaganda " law, after all it is another country and the administration can always fall back on the concept of respecting the individual soveriengty of Uganda. Plus Obama is not running for reelection so how far out on that limb does he really need to go. he has nothing to gain & more to lose.
Phoenix you need to stop being so darn selfish. It is selfishness that made the world such a terrible place. Religious people are too selfish to allow other people their freedom. Gay people must suffer because of stubborn selfish people who cannot open their hearts and see how truly evil and selfish they are, worst of all they say they do it in the name of their god or gods.
WTF?! Why the fuck are we giving money to other countries when we have our own to worry about?! We have starving children and Vets here. Parents and single people who NEED jobs! WTF are we sending money to these fucking twats for at all. They are NOT are concern! As a taxpayer, I'm outraged! This shit needs to stop, NOW!

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Olympian royal Zara Philips showcased her silver medal at the Burghley Horse Trials on Saturday.
Celebrating with a lap of honour around Burghley Park in Stamford, Zara was joined by the three other medallists from the equestrian team, Nicola Wilson, Mary King, and William Fox-Pitt.
The sportswoman was also seen signing autographs for the horse riding fans that awaited her.
Rugby player husband Mike Tindall described the event as "the best present" for their first wedding anniversary.
"To be honest, the best present for both of us was her going clear that day in the cross-country in the park."
Zara also judged the Trial's Tailgate picnic competition alongside celebrity chef Marco Pierre White.
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Research/Academic Showcase
Texas Tech University
Speech and Debate Team Gears Up for National Competitions
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Teacher. Doctor. Mentor. Friend.
2007 Membership Calendar Photo Contest
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World Class Rural Health Institute Established
Marsha Sharp Announces Resignation
Mitchell Named Defensive Backs Coach
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Haragan Returns to Serve as Interim Chancellor
First Student Regent Appointed by Gov. Perry
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"We are going to create a formidable, vertically-oriented genetics research team with a common goal of discovery."Dr. Thea Wilkins
Texas Tech Hires Prominent Cotton Geneticist
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With nearly six million acres devoted to the crop, Texas already boasts the world's largest cotton-producing area. State leaders and Texas Tech University officials are betting it will soon be the most genetically advanced.
Enticed by the promise of millions in combined state and university research dollars and a new prestigious endowment, Dr. Thea Wilkins has quit the West Coast and planted new roots as Texas Tech's head cotton geneticist.
Wilkins arrives at Texas Tech from the University of California-Davis where she proved herself a premier researcher in the field of cotton genomics--the study of cotton genes and their functions. She will be a professor in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources Department of Plant and Soil Science and the director of genomics for the new International Center of Excellence in Agricultural Genomics and Biotechnology,
Bayer Cropscience, a leading producer of agricultural chemicals and genetically modified seeds, endowed the $500,000 research professorship in the college last May to attract a scientist with Wilkins' background. Tech committed $1 million over the next two years to bankroll personnel and lab equipment for Wilkins. Gov. Rick Perry sweetened the pot considerably by investing the first $1.9 million of his newly-established Emerging Technology Fund to develop Texas Tech's new biotechnology center.
"We are going to create a formidable, vertically-oriented genetics research team with a common goal of discovery," Wilkins told a packed room when Gov. Perry visited Lubbock to introduce her. "This strategic alliance is a venture of great promise."
Perry said repeatedly that he'd envisioned a researcher like Wilkins when he proposed the technology fund to spur new technology and attract top scientists to the state. A portion of the fund is earmarked for recruitment.
"This is a big deal," he said from a podium in Texas Tech's new cutting edge Experimental Sciences building, where Wilkins now offices. "The innovations that occur as a result of Dr. Wilkins' work will lead to the creation of hundreds or even thousands of new Texas jobs."
In California, Wilkins and her team used a $3.8 million federal grant to identify as many as 60,000 cotton genes, particularly those that determine the length, strength and texture of cotton fiber. This research would allow scientists to genetically improve cotton fiber quality. Wilkins led UC Davis' Cotton Functional Genomics Laboratory and has become a global leader in the international cotton community.
Gov. Rick Perry has announced that Texas Tech will receive nearly $2 million from the Emerging Technology Fund, approved by the Legislature in 2005 to foster economic development and promote partnerships among researchers and the business community.
Unlike many other major crops, cotton has not had a publicly-available database for DNA markers. Development of DNA-based tools to identify favorable traits and select plants accordingly has been limited by a lack of markers and maps.
Texas Tech leaders are lauding Wilkins' hiring.
"Dr. Wilkins brings the needed expertise to complement Texas Tech's cotton genomics and biotechnology research team," says Marvin Cepica, dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources. "Her presence, in addition to the existing faculty, will help us be recognized as a world leader in cotton genetics."


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[2/24/2013 UPDATE: Voting is closed.] View the top finalists!
[1/28/2013 UPDATE: Submission Deadline Extended to 2/15/2013!] To kick off the new year, we are celebrating the release of our new book with an exciting sewing competition open to the international BurdaStyle community – the BurdaStyle Vintage Modern Sewing Contest!
The grand prize winner will receive a lovely package valued at $800 filled with prizes from B&J Fabrics, Hart's Fabric, MOO, and Spoonflower.
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Create a fashion sewing creation to showcase your take on giving a vintage look a modern spin. Use one of the following options as your starting point:
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Upload your project with the words "BurdaStyle Sewing Vintage Modern Contest 2013" included in the project title by February 15, 2013 at 11:59 PM EST (new extended deadline). This project must be a new project, never previously posted on BurdaStyle.com. To be eligible, the project must link back to the pattern from which you based the project on. Only projects following these criteria will be considered for this competition. Limited to one entry per participant. However, you can make more than one project from the book and turn it into an outfit and submit as one entry (e.g., a blouse from the book paired with pants from the book).
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Some 12-year-olds are uncomfortable standing up and speaking in front of a class, let alone an entire auditorium of executives and technology enthusiasts.
Not Thomas Suarez.
Suarez is a sixth grader from Los Angeles and is already making waves in the technology industry for his talents as an app developer, but more, as an eloquent, confident and smart budding entrepreneur.
Suarez wowed the crowd at a recent TEDx event in Manhattan Beach. TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a nonprofit dedicated to spreading intelligent ideas through conferences and events, and hosts some of the smartest minds in a wide variety of industries.
Seemingly without nerves, Suarez took the stage among tech gurus and delivered a speech that described his apps and how he came to develop them. He released his first app called Earth Fortune in 2010, which is a simple app that uses random colors to determine what kind of day you'll have.
Another app that Suarez created is about Justin Bieber. Bustin Jieber, is a Whac-a-Mole-inspired game where players have to whack Justin Bieber's face as it jumps around the screen. He said in his speech, "I created it because a lot of people at school disliked Justin Bieber a little bit."
To continue his app entrepreneurship, he created a company called CarrotCorp. He even created a club at school to have kids gather to discuss app development.
His interest in computers and coding started as a mere kindergartner, where he began teaching himself how to write code and create programs. He said on his speech, 'My parents, my friends and even the people at the Apple store all supported me... and Steve Jobs inspired me.'
If Suarez continues on this path, he will most definitely serve as inspiration for many.
Take a look at Suarez on stage. What a kid!
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Things could not have gone worse for the Wilmington Hammerheads Friday night in the opener of a two-game west coast USL Pro League trip.
Paul Nicholson received a red card 30 seconds into the game for reportedly tackling a Los Angeles Blues player from behind, resulting in the Hammerheads playing with only 10 instead of 11 players the rest of the way.
As a result, the Blues beat the Hammerheads 4-0 after scoring a pair of goals in the 5th and 7th minutes before adding a pair of second-half goals. Los Angeles now leads the league with 12 points and a 4-3 record.
"It does not help losing a player," Hammerheads coach David Irving said.
Wilmington (1-1, with 3 USL Pro League points) visits the Phoenix FC Wolves (1-3-1, 4 points) at 10:30 p.m. Sunday at Sun Devil Soccer Stadium in Tempe, Ariz.


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major macro economic indicators
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|Inflation (yearly average, %)
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|Current account balance (% GDP)
|Public debt (% GDP)
* excluding grants (f): forecast
- Natural resources (coffee, tea, gold)
- Cancellation of 75% of the external public debt in 2009
- Membership of the East African Community (EAC)
- Entrenchment of the political crisis which began in 2015
- Suspension of international aid following the political crisis
- Border tensions with Rwanda
- Poorly diversified economy, vulnerable to external shocks
- Geographic isolation
- Activity hampered by lack of infrastructure and limited access to electricity
Risk assessment
Burundi's economy brought to its knees by political crisis
After three years of recession, the Burundian economy is expected to timidly resume growth in 2018. Nevertheless, political uncertainty and sanctions imposed by the European Union – the country's main financial donor – are expected to continue to put pressure on activity. A shortage of fuel at a national level in 2017, triggered by the depletion of foreign exchange reserves, shows an economy grinding to a halt. Rising prices, particularly for imported goods, are strangling household consumption, on which growth primarily depends. Inflation, although expected to benefit from a slowdown in the depreciation of the national currency, is likely to remain high in 2018 and continue to erode the meagre incomes of the Burundian people. The 2017/2018 harvest years for coffee and tea, the country's main export products (almost 48% of export income in 2016), are, admittedly, likely to be better than the previous years, but will not be sufficient to bring relief to a country whose population is among the poorest in the world (per capita GDP in 2016 was USD 325, according to the World Bank). The government's limited resources are primarily directed towards maintaining order, with public spending providing only minimum support for growth. The still high tensions will curb any rebound in private investment, thus adding to the gloomy assessment of the Burundian economy.
In the absence of international aid, the imbalances persist
The pressure on public accounts is expected to continue in 2018. Income flows are expected to remain weak: tax income remains steady only thanks to tax levels which sap Burundian households' purchasing power, while the collection of non-tax income, with donations cut, is expected to remain mediocre. Deprived of support from international donors, who were mainly responsible for financing infrastructure, capital spending will remain modest. Accordingly, it is current spending which will continue to put pressure on the overall balance.
The current account deficit, exacerbated by the suspension in aid from the European Union, will remain under pressure in 2018. Dependent on imports, Burundi suffers from a trade balance structurally in deficit which puts pressure on the current account deficit. In 2018, despite a probable increase in coffee and tea production, the value of exports is expected be hit by the unfavourable development in the price of these two commodities.
Under pressure from these twin deficits, the Burundian franc is set to depreciate further. Already weakened by low revenues, the dependence on international aid, and the weak export base before the political crisis, the country is all the more exposed to the risk of over-indebtedness. Financing its external debt and some of its fiscal deficit through borrowing, Burundi has seen its public debt ratios deteriorate. Domestic debt, mainly taken out with the Central Bank, is, in particular, rising very rapidly and now accounts for over 65% of the total outstanding debt, whereas it represented less than 50% at the end of 2013.
Political impasse continues
The tensions following President Pierre Nkrunziza's decision to stand for a third term in 2015 and his re-election, in breach of the constitution, have not disappeared. Despite government denials, reports of violence – which has become "more clandestine but just as brutal", according to a report published by the UN in 2017 – remain just as widespread. The United Nations and NGOs continue to denounce the human rights violations and the repressive system put in place by the ruling party (CNDD-FDD). Since April 2015 and the beginning of the crisis, almost half a million Burundians have fled the violence and the economic slump into which Burundi has sunk. Burundi's withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC), which became effective in October 2017, in no way affects the preliminary investigations launched by this international body. The political crisis has negated the efforts made to improve the very challenging business climate.
Burundi's government flatly refuses to cooperate
with any international partners, thus increasing the country's isolation. The current crisis exacerbates the diplomatic tensions, including those in the Great Lakes region where porous borders, political instability and ethnic conflicts regularly wreak havoc.
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Brad Pitt answers an audience member's question at a Q&A for his film 12 Years A Slave during the 2013 Telluride Film Festival on Friday (August 30) in Telluride, Colo.
The 49-year-old actor was joined at the question and answer session by his co-stars Michael Fassbender and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
Here's a synopsis of the film: In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup (Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
The film is set to hit theaters on October 18 – be sure to check it out!


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Hi! Welcome to Part 3 of my Minimal Pixel Art tutorial. This is the last one of this series & should be fun. Today I'll do some random drawing with you, show some of my favorite techniques for easily making pixel forms that look like something in particular, and also explore some ways in which I draw the same subjects with varying numbers of pixels. I'll probably talk about other stuff as well. If you haven't read part 1 or part 2, it might be helpful to do so first.
I'd like to start off with a couple tools I haven't mentioned yet - the Line tool and the Paint Bucket tool. I'll also re-visit one that I've already covered, the Pencil tool, to show you a line-making feature that is very handy.
The Line Tool (U)
If you want to make straight lines, the Line tool (U) is one choice you can make, and it may seem like the obvious choice, but I rarely use it. I'll show you why below, but if you don't care why, jump down to Exercise 9: Drawing straight lines using the Pencil tool.
So, back to the Line tool. The one thing I like about the line tool is that you can see where it's stretching as you prepare to lay your line down. If you want to try it out, make sure you have its settings set as I mentioned in part 1 of this tutorial, because it's got a few other shapes and different options it defaults to, such as drawing vector paths, which won't work so well when making handcrafted pixel art. For easy reference, here are the settings I suggest:
Select the Line tool, click & hold on any spot in a Photoshop document, drag your line to a new spot, let go. Your line is drawn. Easy. As you drag, the line tool will have a helpful outline to show you where it's stretching to. Try it out. To constrain the line to straight horizontal, vertical or 45 degree lines, hold "SHIFT" when drawing your line. You'll see the line tool snap to those angles. These lines will look the best in Photoshop. Other angles may not look quite so good. Below is an example of a bunch of different lines made with the line tool. Some look good, some don't look very good as far as straight lines go.
Let's look at this for a moment. As you can see, some of the lines look pretty good, some look kinda rough. Irregular surfaces, doubled pixels in spots that don't seem necessary, etc. This is the line tool doing its best to make these angles while Aliased with so few pixels. Both of the orange lines are actually true 45 degree lines, made by holding the SHIFT key. The reason the one on the right is doubled in thickness is because the Line tool results will vary depending on your starting point. In short, it's due to the computer display being made up of a grid itself, and the line tool just doing its best to make a 45 degree angle based on where I clicked in the first place & where I let go.
Given that the Line tool seems to make poor decisions on where to place pixels, and doesn't always keep to my "1 pixel" setting as well as I'd like, I don't use it. I find that the Pencil Tool does a much better job of making straight lines, particularly at odd angles, and keeping true to the "1 pixel" setting. The trick involves (drum roll please...) the SHIFT key. What a versatile modifier key! Let's draw some lines using the Pencil tool and the SHIFT key.
Exercise 9: Drawing Straight Lines with the Pencil Tool (B)
Open a new document, whatever dimensions you like. I'll make mine 200x100 pixels like the one above. Choose a Foreground color & select the Pencil tool.
To draw a straight line, start by clicking once somewhere on one side of your document, leaving one pixel in that spot. Next, hold "SHIFT" and click somewhere on the other side of your document. Viola! A pixel line is born. If you want to make a line from the last point you clicked, just hold "SHIFT" again and click another point. Or, if you want to start a new line, just click somewhere new without holding shift, and repeat the process. Easy! I don't think an example is necessary.
So, what's the benefit of making lines this way? Speed, precise control and smoother lines. The Pencil tool has a much better ability to make lines without bunching up on unnecessary pixels. I imagine it's partly because the starting and ending points are exactly rooted in specific cells on the pixel grid of your document. I will take the above Line tool example image and draw lines with the pencil tool on a new layer above it, starting and ending exactly where those lines start and end to see what kind of results I get...
So nice! Clean 1-pixel lines. No doubling up whatsoever, no mess to clean up. Pencil is my hero!
Hopefully that illustrates my love for the pencil tool clearly enough.
The Paint Bucket Tool (G)
So far we've been filling Selections and Layers with color using the keyboard. This is still my main method of filling; however the Paint Bucket has some features that may be useful in more complex situations. Let's spend a moment or two getting familiar with it.
By default the Paint Bucket tool slot is set to the Gradient tool, hence the sensible "G" keyboard shortcut. So, choose the Paint Bucket. I'll show you how I've got mine set:
I almost always keep my tolerance set to Zero for pixel art. Just like the Magic Wand tolerance setting, the greater the number, the greater the range of color it will fill. For the following exercise I'll be keeping the Tolerance set to Zero.
Notice the "Contiguous" option. This is also just like the Magic Wand too. With this selected the Paint Bucket will fill only areas that are touching. Only having corners of pixels touching doesn't count as contiguous.
Exercise 10: Filling with the Paint Bucket tool
Open a new document, whatever size you like. I'll make one around 100x100 pixels. Choose a foreground color, select the Paint Bucket (G) and click anywhere on your document. The Paint Bucket should have filled it in completely. That's how it works at the most basic level. It also can fill Selections and pre-existing areas of color (or value). If you make a selection, click inside of it in order to fill it.
It's also got settings that can control just how it's going to fill what you want. I mentioned the Contiguous option. If Contiguous is turned off, it will fill the same color wherever it appears on a single layer. Try making separated areas (non-contiguous) of the same color on a new layer or the layer you just filled. Use any method you like. Pencil, filling selections, etc. Choose a new foreground color, uncheck the Contiguous option and click on any occurrence of the color areas you just drew. The new color should fill all occurrences of the original color with the new color.
filled it
drew separated shapes
filled 'em with one click.
The Paint Bucket also has the ability to fill across multiple layers. Turn that little "All Layers" option on and that's what it will do. I don't usually use this option, but it may be the best thing for some multi-layered color changing situations.
Whew! Enough with the drawing tools! I'm thoroughly bored. Let's move on to one of my favorite techniques for working with color...
Adjusting Hue/Saturation
The Hue/Saturation controls allow us to make changes to the color in a very hands-on, real-time way. This feature consists of three sliders, which adjust Hue, Saturation and Lightness of pixel data. The panel looks like this:
The sliders affect your image, or parts of your image and you can see it happening as you move the controls. It's very intuitive and extremely useful. I use this feature all the time when deciding what colors I should make things, in relation to other colors that are present. Particularly towards the end of making an illustration. When I choose colors for anything in the first place, I know already that I may be adjusting the Hue/Saturation, and probably the Levels controls as well at some later point. This makes choosing colors to start with a breeze because it doesn't matter all that much. I try to make it into the ballpark, but sometimes my final colors are nowhere close to the colors I thought I wanted to start with. By experimenting with the Hue/Saturation controls you may find color combinations that are much more exciting than the ones you started out with.
I use this selectively though, usually on one color at a time. I'm not talking about changing the Hue of the whole image at once, which creates very odd results, although sometimes I will do that. More likely I'll make holistic changes with the Saturation or Lightness, or with the Levels controls. Experiment with different combinations for yourself.
Exercise 11: Changing colors using Hue/Saturation and Levels
I'll also touch on Adjustment Layers of these same sorts. Use whatever image you like, as long as you have pixels to adjust somewhere. Try it with a photo even. Hue/Saturation and Levels are great to use on photos.
First, select a Layer with pixel data on it. Open the Hue/Saturation controls with "COMMAND" + "U" on Mac, "CTRL" + "U" on PC. Or, choose "Image" > "Adjustments" > "Hue/Saturation" in the menu up top. Now, adjust the slider controls. Colors change magically before your eyes! Play around with the sliders to your satisfaction until you see what they do.
You can adjust the contents of entire layers, or choose specific elements of a Layer using the Selection tools. The Hue/Saturation controls will adjust only within selected areas if Selections are present.
I sometimes check the "Colorize" option. This turns the image monotone, with values intact. Colorize usually only makes sense to try when there's more than one color that you're adjusting at one time. I'll demonstrate this quickly on this image of Rat from our game Ratmaze hanging out with an assortment of cheeses. Note: All of these pixels are on the same layer.
The original Image
I checked the "Colorize" box.
I adjusted the "Hue" of the colorized version a little, and pushed "Saturation" all the way up.
I slid the Saturation all the way down. Instant Greyscale.
But what if all of the graphics are on separate Layers and you want to do this? This Hue/Saturation control is also available as an Adjustment Layer. This is really beyond the scope of this Pixel Art Tutorial, but I'll mention Adjustment Layers briefly. Let's say I wanted to change the Hue/Saturation of an image that had a lot of layers, and I wanted all of the Layers to be affected. I would add a Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer to the top of my Layers Palette.
To do this, go to your Layers Palette (you'll have to have an image open to try this). Select the top layer, so that the new Adjustment Layer will be at the top, affecting every layer below it. Now in the main Photoshop menus, choose "Layers" > "New Adjustment Layer" > "Hue/Saturation..." (there's no keyboard shortcut for that). Before the Adjustment Layer appears, you'll get this box:
If you click "OK", this will open up the Hue/Saturation controls, and the changes you make will affect all Layers in your file. When you finish with your adjustments, the Adjustment Layer will appear in your Layers Palette. If you select the "Use Previous Layer to Create Clipping Mask" option, the Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer will affect only the layer below it. Below is what it looks like in the Layers Palette for both options:
Will affect all Layers
Will affect only the Layer below itself
Adjustment Layers are really great and are non-destructive, meaning they only affect your Layer(s) as long as they're turned on. You can turn them off, change the opacity decreasing their effect, go back into them to make adjustment changes, choose any of the range of blending options in the Layers Palette, etc. And there are other Adjustment Layers you can choose as well, including Levels.
Adjusting Levels
Just like the Hue/Saturation controls, there are Levels adjustment controls. If you have an image open and some pixel data to manipulate, open the Levels controls with "COMMAND" + "L" on Mac, "CTRL" + "L" on PC. Or, choose "Image" > "Adjustments" > "Levels". You'll get this control panel:
Levels are my other most-used controls. In the same way the Hue/Saturation is real-time, so is Levels. See the changes right before your eyes. I usually just stick with the 3 sliders for the main "Histogram" area. Dragging the Black one will darken the darkest parts of your graphics. The White one will lighten the light areas of your graphics. The Grey slider will affect the mid-tones. I'll use the Rat & cheese image again as my example.
Original image. Rat doesn't know what he's in for.
Some increase in the lights and the darks.
Extreme dark & contrast, sliders all very close to each other.
Extreme light & contrast, sliders all met at a point.
And of course, you can make a Levels Adjustment Layer just like we did with Hue/Saturation. Choose "Layers" > "New Adjustment Layer" >" Levels..." There are other adjustment types as well, but these are the ones I use most. Some people like Curves a lot, but I like these more. Hue/Saturation and Levels together really allow great control over color. Note to Adobe: It would great to see the Levels sliders within the Hue/Saturation panel as well. It would also be great to be able to zoom in well beyond 1600%.
Playing with Pixels
Alright. I think it's finally time to step out of the classroom to run around the metaphorical schoolyard. As if what we've been learning in class were the techniques of playing and now we get to apply them creatively.
I could also call this section "Explore", "Dive in", "Have fun", Finding your style(s)", or even "Allow things to unfold naturally ". That's my favorite one. Pixel by pixel, color by color, form by form, things emerge, inspiration strikes, ideas are followed, and nothing becomes something. Discovering what feels best when you see it, this is the path of finding one's own style. What feels good inside when you see it? Notice that. You may find many styles that you like to work with. It's being open to creative flow & process, as much as it is that the Pixelverse is sort of magical in its own right. How is it that these blocky forms are so charming? I don't know, and I don't have a need to figure it out. I am glad for it and whatever it is that keeps me compelled and feeling good about spending so much time in the pixel world.
I mentioned in Part One that I use a Wacom drawing tablet. I have done pixel art for a long time with the mouse, and even lots of time spent on the trackpad of a laptop, but having used the drawing tablet steadily for a while I have developed a real appreciation for it. If you're planning on spending a significant amount of time drawing on the computer (in any way) these are so great. And a small one is perfect since you can carry it around easily with a laptop, to coffee shops & the park for example. The laptop becomes a much more hospitable place for doing serious illustrating or the most simple pixel art.
Exercise 12: Make Stuff
How about we stop reading in a moment, go into Photoshop or other graphic editing program you are using, and just start making stuff. I'll do it too. I'll start with the pencil tool. I'll create a 300x300 window and zoom into all the way (1600%), which is not nearly as close as I'd like to get. I'll try to make 10 things or more that I like. I'm going into this without any desire to make anything in particular. I'd recommend you try this, but if you want some direction, choose an object, or an animal or something simple you'd like to see in pixel form. Things in profile are usually easy to get started with. Or just draw messes of pixels. That's also a great way to get started.
[time passes]
Alright, here's what I spent the last half hour doing:
I made a bit of a mess down there when I was starting out but it helped loosen me up, and enjoy the shapes. Sometimes they spark ideas. The cat started happening, then the girl & then the Owl. I began playing with some isometric shapes. I love Isometric pixel art and video games but have only minimal experience making it myself. It would be cool to make a game in that style, so maybe I'll get into it at some point.
In the above example, I didn't have any direction to start with, just to see what might happen. In this case I've got some stuff I can work with, the Owl, the little birds could become the inspiration for a mini-game, the woman's head is something different and I like it. It started with a mess of pixels that looked somewhat like female hair profile, and I went from there. It was a little tough getting started, but I relaxed about the outcomes and a good time was had. There are even some nice things that came of it that I can use later if I like in a game or some other art.
Other times I may go into drawing with specific ideas or intents, like designing characters and objects for a game. I like to make a "brainstorming" sort of file, in which I just explore and experiment on themes. For example, this is the file I worked with when creating much of the style and graphics for our game Gamma Bros. If you are a Gamma Bros fan, this may contain a few things that may make it into Gamma Bros 2. Spoilers, if you don't want to look. Click it to see it double size:
And to play the actual game Gamma Bros, go to http://pixeljam.com/gammabros. It's free.
Exercise 13: How Many Pixels, How Many Colors?
Oh the seemingly unlimited options! Choose an object, or an animal or something you'd like to see in pixel form, and spend some time making it, in as many different ways as you can. Start with very few pixels, as few as you can possibly use, and move on to another version, and another, and another. I'll show you some of what I've done with examples of Dinosaurs from our upcoming game Dino Run:
I have been enjoying making pixel dinosaurs for Dino Run. Dinosaurs look great at any pixel level. I could have played around with adding more and more color and texture, but this is as far as I want to take it in this example.
And what about varying degrees of color? Below is an example of Buzz from Gamma Bros with 4 varying degrees of color.The one on the upper left is the one we used in the game, but I would have perfectly happy to use the one on the upper right. I like the simplicity of that one very much.
Exercise 14: Tracing Existing Images
Is there something in particular you want to make into pixel art? I usually do some searching online and find images to work from or use as reference. When in doubt, look at existing photographs and illustrations, or the real thing. I spend a lot of time doing research and grabbing existing imagery online or elsewhere before embarking on some projects. I don't only grab images for tracing either. Most of what I find is more for reference, but sometimes it's just easier to use something that already exists as a guide for what I want. If you recall that Bee I demonstrated with in Part One of this tutorial, one of these was traced from a shrunk-down photograph. It's not an exact science, and get more difficult the smaller you go, but sometimes it works out great.
The basics of this are to copy/paste the image into your document. Shrink the image to the size you want your pixel object to be using the Transform controls. Then decrease its opacity to 25 percent, or 50 percent, or whatever you feel most comfortable tracing over. Next make a New Layer on top of it and choose a color to do your tracing with. You can most easily use the Pencil or the Lasso tool to do your tracing. Use the Eliptical Marquee Tool or a larger brush size for tracing circles and spheres. In the below example, I'll show you the steps in a tracing process:
I found the image of the Parasaurolophus online and shrunk it down to the size on the left. Then I decreased the opacity of it in the Layers palette, traced the shape as best I could using the Pencil, then filled it with color. I also added my own areas of a lighter shade of color, just to give him a little depth. Here's one more. I've even made a step by step animation for you:
I found an illustration of an Anklyosaurus, brought it into Photoshop, shrunk the image down to the size I wanted my own pixel Anklyosaurus to be (you may want to set your Resampling preference to "Bicubic" when resizing photos and illustrations like this), and proceeded to trace. Some creative license was taken with the colors and the spiky spots on his back. The shapes I trace are more like guides, and then I work with my own interests regarding color and detail.
It's a good option, this tracing technique. It sometimes works just as well to have a source image visible and draw your own next to it, instead of on top of it.
Exercise 15: Indexing and Saving files as Gifs
Once you've made your Glorious pixel art, you'll probably want to share it with the world. Email it, upload it to a site or as a social network profile pic... A perfect file format for pixel art is a "CompuServ Gif". Gifs are files with a limited color palette, up to 256 colors. This is what's referred to as "Indexed Color". Jpegs are good for photos, but not good at all for solid colors & crisp edges like with pixel art. When saving, make sure to keep your original Photoshop file version (.PSD) in case you want to make changes later on to the original, with all layers intact, but save a .Gif version as well. To save, go to "File" > "Save As...", and then choose the CompuServ Gif format.
Photoshop will do the indexing for you as you save, and it will likely be to the exact colors used. Click "Okay" when the indexing options come up. It'll look something like this:
Usually when saving pixel art to show to other people, it's necessary to increase the size of your illustration, so people can see the pixels up close as opposed to tiny 1x1 actual size. Before saving the .Gif, go to "Image" > "Image Size" and increase to multiples of the original pixel dimensions, making sure "Nearest Neighbor" is selected for "Resample Image".
I was going to go into some talking about Pixel Type, but I'm out of time. I've got to get back to work on Dino Run so we can finish it up as soon as possible. I'll leave you with a good resource though. Check out: http://www.dafont.com/bitmap.php?page=1 There are loads of existing pixel fonts out there, mostly for free.
And if you want to get further into learning about Isometric pixel art, these are some great pixel tutorials that I came across:
Some final thoughts..
- Take breaks! To be honest, I don't always do it myself, but when I do it's great and always a good idea. If you're feeling stuck or uninspired or burned out, don't force anything. Step away. Let what you've been laboring over sit for a couple days, or overnight at least. Allow yourself to get away from your work so when you come back to it you'll have a fresh perspective, new eyes, refreshed brain. Even short 15 minute breaks every hour or two are extremely helpful to both stretch your body and clear your head. Even if you spend less time working, breaks can increase the alertness and energy of your seeing and thinking, and ultimately increase the quality of your work, plus you feel better at the end of it. For maximum benefit of breaks, go outside. Nature and fresh air are excellent head clearers.
- Don't forget to spend some time zooming all the way into many types of images, just to see how images are actually made up. You'll probably learn a thing or two about how the eye and brain resolve pixels to create the illusion of forms and color.
- On the quest to make cool pixel stuff, be easy on yourself, especially if you're feeling frustrated. I've got loads of pixel art I've made that is pretty bad & have no use for. But I know the final designs I wind up being happy with wouldn't exist without each and every prior attempt.
If you would like to receive an email when our next game Dino Run is released, send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com. We will add you to the mailing list. Or just check our site, http://pixeljam.com in April. It should be finished by then and onto something new.
I hope this article was somehow useful. If not, that's okay too. I learned some things myself and had a good time at it.
Enjoy yourselves!
- Rich


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Today I am making a very large pot of ham & bean soup along with 3 large pans of cornbread. This will feed my family of 7 (3 adults, 2 teens, 2 younger) for a couple of days and the rest can go in the freezer for a day when I don't feel like cooking or don't have the time. This is something I do quite a bit. Sometimes I will spend a whole weekend cooking large batches of several recipes and freezing it all. It's cheaper than eating out or buying prepackaged frozen meals and for the most part healthier. I got on this kick years ago when a friend intoduced me to this book The 30 Day Gourmet. It works well for me and there is something very satisfying about stocking the freezer with lots of homemade food. Another benefit is that if I have a main course already to pop in the oven I can spend more time on making more elaborate or interesting side dishes.
So does anyone else do this? If so, what kind of food do you prepare?
I make all kinds of stuff: soups, spaghetti, meatloaf, mashed potatoes, macaroni & cheese, burrito filling, breakfast rice, muffins, cookies, quiche, broccoli casserole and so on.
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By Jerome Solomon
Bralon Addison and Matt Davis were talking on the phone while Texas A&M was losing a game to Kansas State.
It was a thrilling contest that the Aggies led 14-0 in the first quarter and 31-21 in the fourth quarter before eventually falling 53-50 in overtime. That was standard for the Aggies during the 2011 season.
So as Addison and Davis, difference-making high school quarterbacks, watched another collapse by the school each intended to attend, they vowed to bring a new attitude to College Station.
In the new-age vernacular, it would be a different swagger, Davis said. That "swag" Addison shared on Twitter that evening was the beginning of the "Agg Swag" movement.
From that point on, Agg Swag took on a life of its own, with A&M going on to land a nationally recognized recruiting class spurred by Addison and Davis.
But Wednesday, on national signing day, Addison, a quarterback for state runner-up Hightower, signed a letter of intent with Oregon instead of A&M.
Up pretty much all night pondering the most difficult decision in his 18 years on earth, Addison decided at around 4 a.m. to accept a scholarship from Oregon. The Ducks' football program and the university's broadcast journalism school won him over.
"It was very difficult," Addison said. "I didn't want to upset people, but at the same time, I wanted to make the best decision for me."
Nothing wrong with that. After all, it is his life.
But soon after word spread that he would be a Duck instead of an Aggie, some idiots decided to chastise the young man for that decision. This is when social media disgusts, allowing anonymous clowns to have a field day on Twitter and the like.
"Just made the biggest mistake of your life!"
"how much they payin you? just as long as you know you made a mistake"
"buh bye mr irrelevant"
One numbskull even went biblical, posting from Colossians 3:9, which touches on lying, as if Addison had misled A&M when he chose to commit. I won't even relay the host of comments directed at Addison that contained racial and sexual slurs.
As late as last week, A&M commitments were at the Chronicle for a photo shoot, joking with athletes who planned to attend Texas, Oklahoma State and other schools.
"You've still got a week left to change your mind," they said. It was all in good fun.
Things change
If you know anything about a verbal commitment, you wouldn't describe Addison's change of heart as a lie. Teens change their minds all the time. Adults, too.
On Wednesday, the Aggies picked up letters of intent from two highly rated players — defensive lineman Edmond Ray of St. Louis (Missouri) and receiver Thomas Johnson of Dallas (Texas) — who had committed to other schools. Their lives, their decisions.
Actually, the "deal" Addison agreed to was no longer on the table.
Addison verbally committed to play for Mike Sherman and not Kevin Sumlin, the coach brought in after Sherman was fired in December. While Sumlin still wanted to have Addison on the roster, the new regime made it impossible for Addison to predict the future.
That he felt more comfortable with Chip Kelly at Oregon, an offensive mastermind who promises to give him a shot at playing quarterback, isn't anything he should have to explain. Especially not to morons on the Internet.
"I just wonder if they have kids and how they would feel if their child had to make such a difficult decision," Addison said of the naysayers. "I wonder about their character. Would they be OK if people criticized their son in the same situation?"
Of course not.
Addison, who has nearly 4,500 followers on Twitter, was so inundated with correspondence Tuesday that he asked them to back off.
"People I would really appreciate it if you guys stopped calling me (texting) me and tweeting me about this. I'll make my decision on Wednesday! Until then could I please have some respect as a teenager and a human being?"
It didn't work. The ridiculous messages kept coming.
'No hard feeling'
Fans who take a teenager's school choice so personally need help. If only they were as adult about this as Addison.
"I have no hard feelings about those who have sent those nasty messages and those who bring such hostility," Addison said. "I'll still root the Aggies on. At the end of it, I just made another choice. I love A&M, but made the choice that I thought was best for me.
"It was by far the hardest decision I have ever had to make. I really wish people would understand that and not be so mean about it."
I expect the true, old school Aggie Swagger to overwhelm the immediate ugliness. Most Aggies are better than that.
But it is still a shame that this young man has to deal with it at all.


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Trustees approve tuition hikes, budget, promotions
PLAINVIEW – The Board of Trustees at Wayland Baptist University approved a new budget for the 2006-07 school year, tuition increases for the Plainview and Virtual Campuses and promotions for several faculty during its regular meeting on March 23. The $41,233,392 budget reflects a 5.8 percent increase over the current budget, up $2,259,130. That figure encompasses increases in expenditures from additional staff and faculty positions system wide and the usual increases in equipment, travel, promotion and the like.
Tuition at the Plainview campus will increase from $315 per semester hour to $340 per semester hour for undergraduate and graduate classes. In addition, the general fee for student services for those enrolled in seven or more hours on the Plainview campus will increase from $225 to $300 per semester.
Trustees approved a recommendation to freeze the tuition at the 13 external campuses in the Wayland system for another year. The tuition rate at those campuses is $155 per semester hour for undergraduate courses and $180 per hour for graduate courses. Those rates were increased for 2005-06 but will not change.
Virtual Campus tuition will increase as well, with undergraduate courses rising from $190 per semester hour to $230. Graduate-level classes will be $255 per semester hour, up from $215 previously. All tuition changes go into effect with the new catalog, effective August 1.
The board approved a recommendation from the Program Committee to grant promotions to several faculty members at Wayland, effective July 1. A promotion from instructor to assistant professor will be granted to Mark Hilliard, art and art education, and Micheal Summers, religion. Promoting from assistant professor to associate professor will be Dr. Kevin Sweeney, geography and history; Dr. Don Knox, business, education and history; Dr. Richard Boyer, business and social sciences; Robert Black, music; Dr. Gary Belshaw, piano pedagogy; Dr. Ralph Palumbo, business; Dr. Hayoung Gim, economics; Dr. Claude Lusk, business; Dr. Yvonne LaMar, education; Dr. Rich Hendershot, education; Dr. Jeffery Barnes, religion; Dr. Jimmy Givens, religion; Dr. David Howle, religion; and Dr. Keri James, education. Promoting from associate professor to full professor are Dr. Tim Parker, business, and Dr. Glenn Simmons, religion and philosophy.
In addition, Dr. Geoff Wells, professor of political science, was granted an extended sabbatical for the spring and summer terms of 2007 in order to complete research and prepare a rough draft for a book. The book addresses the value of natural law as a Christian orientation and approach to political activity, a subject he has researched extensively, as well as Christian perspectives on church-state relations.
Dr. Peter Bowen, professor of psychology, was also granted a micro-sabbatical for the summer of 2006 in order to teach psychology at the Kenya campus and to conduct research on ministry to children in the African nation.
The board also approved a commendation for Dr. J. Hoyt Bowers for his work with the grant and administration of the ASSIST/ASSET program, and the conferring of emeritus status on retiring education professor Dr. Virginia Harris.
Three new members were welcomed to the board: Sally Walker of Arlington, Dr. Gary Dyer of Midland and Jim Hollon of Lubbock. In addition, Jack Witten of Wolfforth returned the board after a one-year required lay-out to serve another nine-year term.


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Seemingly repeating the steps of last year, Epic games has just announced Infinity Blade 2 for iOS just in time for the holiday season. While on stage demoing Mike Capps from Epic made to sure to let everyone know what they'll be bringing with Infinity Blade 2:
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Russian Region Begins Recovery From Meteor Fall [VIDEO]
A small army of workers is laboring to replace the estimated 200,000 square meters (50 acres) of windows shattered by the shock wave from a meteor that exploded over Russia's Chelyabinsk region.
The astonishing Friday morning event blew out windows in more than 4,000 buildings in the region, mostly in the capital city of the same name and injured some 1,200 people, largely with cuts from the flying glass.
Fifty of them remain hospitalized, but their injuries are reported to be not life-threatening.
Regional governor Mikhail Yurevich on Saturday said damage from the explosion is estimated at 1 billion rubles ($33 million).
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Seib & Wessel: Why U.S. Hesitates on Syria Action
WSJ's Jerry Seib examines the reasons President Barack Obama is reluctant to get more deeply involved with Syria. For starters, once the U.S. gets in, it may be a 10-year proposition to get out.
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Elton John Recalls Reckless Period..He's Lucky to be Alive
Elton John has done a lot and he's seen a lot and the vocalist says he considers himself lucky to have emerged from a very destructive period in his life relatively unscathed.
Gigwise reports that the vocalist, who is promoting his new book 'Love Is the Cure,' dropped by NBC's Today Show to discuss one of the central themes of the book – his emergence from a destructive path to become a leading AIDS activist.
John explained that the early '80s were a particularly bad period for him where he was addicted to alcohol and drugs. He explained, "I wasted such a big part of my life, when this epidemic was beginning to happen in the early '80s. And I was a drug addict and self-absorbed. I was consumed by cocaine, booze, and who knows what else. I apparently never got the memo that the 'Me' generation had ended."
The singer says he started noticing more and more friends dying around him, but that still didn't stop him continuing the life he had. He adds, "[That's] the terrible thing about addiction. It's that – you know, it's that bad of a disease."
John says he feels very fortunate that with all his excesses and the people that he lost to AIDS and addiction along the way, that he somehow survived. He added, "When you take a drug and you take a drink and you mix those two together, you think you're invincible. I came out of this HIV-negative. I was the luckiest man in the world."
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What happened with dani taking her letter to the dr. Did they take it from her?
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Allmendinger Cherishes Drought-Ending Win
A.J. Allmendinger had tried to win the Rolex 24 At Daytona for six years. In fact, he hadn't won a race anywhere for five years.
His friend and Grand-Am Rolex Series car owner Michael Shank -- whom Allmendinger thinks so much of he'll be Shank's partner in an IndyCar Series program this season -- had eight previous Rolex 24 attempts that were steeped purely in frustration.
So their victory Sunday in the 50th anniversary of Daytona International Speedway's season-opening event provided enormously equal parts relief and satisfaction -- even if it has nothing to do with Allmendinger's full-time job, racing Cup Series stock cars for legendary owner Roger Penske.
"I'm going to cherish this," Allmendinger said in a moment of reflection. "It's such a prestigious race. It's one of those races you want on your resume and you want to say that you were part of a victory."
Shank was stoutly in Allmendinger's camp even though he'd made a deal with his buddy. If they won the race, Shank said he would shave Allmendinger's personal flame-tinged "AJ" logo into the side of his head. In the post-race media briefing, their affinity was obvious.
"I'll be doing [that] this week," Shank said of his promise. "I'll tell you what [Allmendinger] calls me. He calls me Shankapotamus. I guarantee you, Roger [Penske] won't get anything shaved in the side of his head, I'm pretty sure. That's why [Allmendinger] likes me better."
That was just one of several mirthful post-race moments for Shank's two-team ensemble. For the previous 24 hours they were all business, and Allmendinger was chairman of the board, leading 69 of the race's final 90 laps, and 90 in total.
Allmendinger put an exclamation point on his seventh consecutive attempt with Shank, the former open-wheel driver turned team owner, by driving the final 167 minutes in a car that included Shank's full-season sports car ace, Ozz Negri and his teammate, John Pew along with IndyCar Series regular Justin Wilson. Negri led 67 laps and Wilson, 92.
The victory capped a month in which Allmendinger was named the driver of Penske's No. 22 Dodge in the Sprint Cup Series, a car that's qualified for the Chase in five of eight seasons. Allmendinger initially laughed, but quickly got serious when he was asked about his recent history.
"It's always cool to be me," said Allmendinger, who burst from his No. 60 Ford Riley in Victory Lane waving an American flag. "No, I'm just kidding. The last five years it's actually sucked to be me."
That included a precursor when he won five of the final nine races in the 2006 Champ Car World Series before making an ill-fated jump to the startup Cup Series Red Bull Racing Team in 2007. Allmendinger missed 22 of the first 39 Cup races he attempted.
"2007 was hell, honestly -- the worst year of my life when it came to my career," Allmendinger said. "There was plenty of times in my bus on Friday missing a race that it was either, 'should I go back to IndyCar or slit my wrists,' honestly. It sounds kind of over the top, but I knew I wanted to be in the Sprint Cup Series. That's where the best of the best was."
Four years later, Allmendinger's arrived, and the Rolex win was significant icing on his cake. He credited Shank for a considerable part of it.
"It's been a tough time," Allmendinger said. "But the fun thing was a guy like Mike Shank, no matter how I felt about myself after a tough year or tough season, he never wavered on whether he wanted me in the car. Every year we said we were doing this.
"That's why I love this guy so much. He's always been there for me. I would do anything for him, and I'm just happy that I can be a small part of this victory for him, and it's really cool not only to win the race but to have two cars on the podium."
Shank's team car, which included Allmendinger's fellow Sprint Cup driver Michael McDowell on its roster, finished third, sandwiching Starworks Motorsports' pole-winning Ford Riley. The two NASCAR men were able to reflect on racing in multiple series.
"As Michael McDowell said, I think Sprint Cup racing is the toughest in the world right now," Allmendinger said. "I mean, it's so hard to win. You know, I look at this year as my best opportunity to go win a Cup race. But that's easier said than done.
"Right now I'm just going to take this for what it's worth, not think about anything for a couple days, and just enjoy it. Right now it's the biggest win I've ever had because we've worked for seven years to get to this point with Mike Shank, and we've been so close so many times. It's funny, the last three hours when I got in the car, it was just like, 'OK, we've been here before, and something has happened to take us out.' "
It didn't happen this time. Allmendinger was virtually flawless.
After 23-and-a-half hours of racing, Allmendinger, who earlier in his stint had swapped paint with sports-car stalwart Allan McNish while battling for the lead -- which he swapped nine times in his final 92-lap stretch -- turned the fastest laps on the track more often than not as he maintained an advantage on Ryan Dalziel that varied from more than 11 seconds to 5.198 seconds at the checkers.
"Honestly, that's probably the most fun three hours of racing that I've ever had," Allmendinger said. "Part of it is because we won, so if we would have lost it would have sucked. I knew those last three hours I was going to go flat out because the [Starworks] car, the [defending champion] No. 01 at that point were really fast.
Allmendinger said he's ready to get taken down a peg when Daytona reopens in two-and-a-half weeks for Speedweeks. But until then he's going to enjoy what he called "the biggest win for me that I've ever been a part of."
"They'll knock me back down when I get to Speedweeks, don't worry about that -- when I get to the Cup garage and they remind me I haven't won again," Allmendinger said, before mentioning there was one important element winning the Rolex did bring -- in addition to a very pricey Rolex wristwatch. "It's not what I learned or technique, it's just confidence.
"You win a race, especially as big as the 50th anniversary of the Rolex, it's just confidence. And that'll take a race-car driver or anybody for that matter in any career further than he can expect."
The event was also a huge success for Roush Yates Engines, which will try to defend its Daytona 500 victory with Trevor Bayne in four weeks. RYE built the powerplants for the top-three cars.
This Rolex 24 was a disappointment for former 24-hour winner Juan Montoya, his Earnhardt Ganassi Racing Sprint Cup teammate Jamie McMurray and Chip Ganassi Racing, the event's defending champion and winner four of the past seven years -- twice with Montoya.
The car shared by Montoya, McMurray and Ganassi's IndyCar champions Dario Franchitti and Scott Dixon suffered a broken shifter in the middle of the night and never recovered, finishing fourth, a lap down. Ganassi's defending champion car, led by Scott Pruett, led 96 laps in the first 22 hours but had to replace a gear stack and fell to sixth, four laps behind.
Andy Lally, the 2011 Cup Series rookie of the year, scored his second consecutive GT class victory and his third in the past four years, but with a twist. Lally won the 2011 Rolex 24 and ran most of the Sprint Cup season for TRG Motorsports owner Kevin Buckler. But "philosophical differences" led the longtime partners to split near the end of the season. Lally prevailed in the rookie of the year race despite skipping the NASCAR season finale and joined TRG's rival Magnus Racing for the 2012 Rolex Series season.
On Sunday, Lally and his three teammates' Porsche GT3 Cup beat TRG's lead Porsche by 9.412 seconds, a result Lally called "absolutely epic."


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Vistive soybeans were developed through conventional breeding and contain less than 3% linolenic acid. Monsanto expects Vistive soybeans to be grown on nearly 500,000 total acres in 2006. Cargill was one of the initial Vistive processors in 2005.


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