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For almost two decades, DirecTV's Sunday Ticket package of National Football League games has been a superstar performer for the satellite broadcaster.
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DirecTV pays $1 billion a season for the rights to all Sunday afternoon games under an exclusive deal that runs through next season. The satellite broadcaster and the NFL are in talks on a new contract, with cost and length being two sticking points.
DirecTV NFL package: In the Jan. 1 Business section, an article about DirecTV's NFL Sunday Ticket package said that subscribers pay as much as $250 a month for extra football programming. They pay $250 per season.
Sunday Ticket, created in 1994, is a football fan's dream that provides a live feed to every afternoon game around the country.
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For starters, the NFL Network, the league's own channel, now carries 13 Thursday night games, which reduces the number of Sunday games for Sunday Ticket. The NFL has also slightly bumped up the number of nationally televised Sunday games that Fox and CBS carry.
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For DirecTV, losing exclusivity to Sunday Ticket probably wouldn't hurt its bottom line. However, not carrying Sunday Ticket at all is a big risk.
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As he has all season, senior Chris Brown (No. Chelmsford, Mass./Chelmsford) led the way for the Brandeis men. Brown staked a claim to the meet's outstanding performer by winning the 800-meter and 1,500-meter runs at the same meet. In the 800, Brown ran the fastest time in the prelims at 1:55.31, 0.68 seconds ahead of CMU's Thomas Vandenberg. Brown then bested Vandenberg in the finals with a time of 1:57.69, winning by 0.73 seconds. In the 1,500, Brown, who owns the nation's third-fastest Division III time of the season, won the race by a relatively comfortable margin of two seconds ahead of Emory's Stephen Ellwood with a time of 3:55.97. The UAA titles are Brown's second and third of 2012, after winning the indoor title in the mile run.
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Five other individuals scored points for the Judge men. Just missing All-Association honors for the second season in a row was rookie Jeffrey Maser (Livingston, N.J./Morristown-Beard School), finishing fourth in the high jump at six-feet even, two inches out of an All-UAA honor – the same margin as in the indoor season. Fellow rookies Jonathan Gilman (Yardley, Pa./George School) and Jacob Wilhoite (Santa Barbara, Calif./Santa Barbara) placed fifth and seventh, respectively, in the javelin throw with distances of 160 feet, nine inches, and 153-11. Sophomore Kensai Hughes (Wayne, N.J./Wayne Valley) added a sixth-place finish in the long jump, leaping 20 feet,7 ¼ inches. Junior Mik Kern (Groton, N.Y./Groton) joined Brown in scoring in the 800, finishing seventh with a time of 1:59.80, improving by one after running 1:56.70 in the prelims. Brandeis's top relay was the fifth-place 4x100-meter team of Maser, Hughes, junior Josh Hoffman-Senn (Swampscott, Mass./Gann Academy) and Asante, who finished in 44.42 seconds.


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Almost on impulse, almost 35 years ago, Richard M. Walden and a friend rounded up six tons of relief supplies and a jet to ferry them to Vietnamese boat people in Malaysia. Thus was Operation California — now Operation USA — born. A Times headline soon called him the "charity buccaneer," a red-tape-slashing contrarian who fretted about the "international web of neglect," and who still has sharp words for relief efforts unmet and relief agencies that don't measure up. He has steadfast celebrity supporters, like Julie Andrews, but the advent of social media that let anyone text a few bucks to Lady Gaga's favorite charity in the middle of a concert has made things harder for brick-and-mortar charities like Operation USA. Walden soldiers on, boldly going where too many charity-come-latelies can only try to go.
You began in 1979 as Operation California; now it's Operation USA.
Our legal name is Operation California. In 1988 a lot of Texas supporters said, "It sticks in our craw to write checks from Texas to California to benefit Mexico [after the 1985 Mexico City earthquake]. We registered the name Operation Texas. Then we did Operation Heartland for some Midwest floods, all under the Operation California umbrella. Finally Julie Andrews' publicist said, "You really have to come up with a name you can stick with."
How does that name resonate abroad?
These days we can't even wear our T-shirts when we travel abroad. It's too dangerous, having "Operation USA" and a plane dropping boxes of stuff. It looks like the U.S. is meddling.
There's so much negativity in places like Pakistan. We're well enough known in the relief community, but [the name] confuses the hell out of foreign governments. They think we're U.S. government-funded or the State Department or CIA — it depends on how paranoid they are. Then I run down where we've worked and they back off.
[I say,] "Call Fidel, he'll be happy to provide you with a glowing thing about how helpful we are."
What sort of dangers in general do you face?
We were not far from Abbottabad, Pakistan. We had an ambulance to evacuate women in complicated labor from the frontier to Islamabad hospitals. It went up with no English-language markings [but] it got stopped, trashed and burned. They didn't harm the lady in labor and the driver, but that kind of stuff goes on.
How does Operation USA work?
In most cases we look for partners, from U.N. agencies to small, in-country NGOs.
One of our all-time bests is in Jacmel, Haiti, where for $1 million we built a public primary school which has 1,000 kids, no fees, and is a center of community activities, with free architecture from L.A.-based Gensler, money from Honeywell Corp.'s foundation and quake-proofing engineering from Sacramento-based Miyamoto; 100% Haitian-built. Another is a seniors center in Ofunato, Japan, for abandoned seniors in a small port mostly destroyed by the quake. [Again] free architecture, free engineering, free land, all from Japanese partners with money from Honeywell's foundation.
We [ran] the first U.S. aid to Cambodia after the war, the first to Vietnam, to Ethiopia [in 1984]. Operation USA predates nearly all the major entertainment industry-driven causes by years. In 1980 we had a two-hour prime-time special on the Cambodian famine which featured Julie Andrews, Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Jane Fonda and others.
I can't say we are still unique, only that we were often the "only Indians in a cowboy town."
You don't think much of the way some other relief organizations do business.
Most of the organized relief community is fearful of publicly criticizing programs that don't work. Philanthropy is a business for too many newer groups who are comfortable with marketing disasters and with government contracting [used] as [an] engine of [a group's] own growth.
You've been especially critical of the American Red Cross. That's not just sour grapes?
My dad was president of the Culver City Red Cross chapter in the 1950s, and I grew up in a Red Cross family, with nary a negative word spoken about them — until I got an earful from foreign Red Cross personnel about [American] money not getting to them.
The Japan Red Cross and Mexico Red Cross run hospitals, clinics, even whole health systems and aren't emergency responders. European Red Crosses [do] global emergencies with medical teams and great logistics. [American Red Cross] doesn't do either of those. Its fundraising far outpaces its programs.
My suggestions [are] that ARC fund more nonprofits at or near the disaster site, that they spend what they collect on that particular disaster and not keep "spare change" in a general account. It was given for a reason and should be restricted to the reason it was donated.
Disaster relief seems to be a growth industry.
You have people who [see] opportunities to raise money, whether they know how to do the particular work or not. The public is motivated, the media helpful, and these guys don't want to miss out.
We don't have a large staff, under 10. We don't take government money because the U.S. embargoes so many countries.
Doesn't using social media make fundraising easy?
Any fool with larceny in his heart and a clever Web designer can raise a lot of money if they have some sense about what's getting to people about a particular disaster. Noah's Wish got millions [for animal rescue] for [Hurricane] Katrina. The attorney general of California made [it turn over] $4 million of it [to government agencies to deliver that animal assistance]. Social media and new media, they could be run by a saint or by a sinner, and the sinners are in the lead right now.
So people don't check out charities the way they might check out a car they're buying, or even a food label?
No, they don't. Charity Navigator or GuideStar — very few people look.
I've heard that sometimes so many groups show up in crisis areas that they interfere with relief.
So much [ineffective] money is thrown at something — billions for Haiti and the Asian tsunami. It doesn't mean new groups shouldn't get involved. There's really smart people who made their money and they're in their 30s and 40s and ready to do humanitarian work.
What about donation fatigue?
There's an earthquake in India. A guy calls up and says: "My wife saw this story; if I gave you $25,000, what would you do?" I say I'd find an Indian partner and build a small clinic. But then the story goes away. [It's difficult] sustaining it without what Bill Maher calls "disaster porn."
How do you address donors concerns that corruption or anti-American sentiment means their help doesn't get to the people in need?
We make sure our partner is powerful enough to get into the [disaster area] and get the stuff, unmolested by tax and duty and bribes, to the warehouse or hospital. We don't send food; food is the easiest thing to steal. If you're sending an X-ray machine or an incubator, it's pretty tough to divert.
In Sri Lanka, where we've worked for 25 years off and on, they don't like American groups [now] because [Secretary of State] Hillary [Rodham Clinton] complained about the military to the [U.N.] Human Rights Commission. We need to be on the down-low and find partner groups there.
Do you ever have to pay bribes to get goods and people where they need to be?
Usually we don't pay bribes of any kind. The only quasi-bribe I've ever paid was a new issue of Playboy. I will sometimes take two or three, folded over to the articles, and if I get stopped at a roadblock or by some airport official, I'll say, "I have something for you that's banned in 150 countries." Their eyes light up, and it's "OK, go!"
As I recall, your wife, the actress and comedian Rosanne Katon, was a Playboy centerfold …
I don't give away her issue!
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JGTR,JGTR wrote:To be fair you use Epic for your schol, you must buy loads of kites and a lot of your students most probably buy Epic after having lessons so if I were you I would expect excellent customer service and any kites that fail prematurely to be replaced no questions asked. After all it's in Epic's interest to keep you sweet.THAT WHAT I CALL A GREAT CUSTOMER SERVICE!!!!!!
Bit different for normal kiters, they probably won't get the same level of service, not saying that's wrong but Mr Alex is not in the same situation as you.
We have been using many different brands in the past 7 years that we have been in business, no need to name them, and I can assure you that I never had such a great customer service from any of them!
This is why I am staying with those 2 brands we are using now!
And I think that customer service should not be about how many kites you are buying a year, 1 or 30 should be the same.
We are a small business and don t buy that many kites per season, and for that reason other big brand we were using in the past were not even answering our calls or emails !
And I know for a fact that Dimitri takes the same amount time to answer a private rider as he does for a school. And that makes all the difference!
About Alexeyga, I can again tell you for a fact, that each of the 100 emails from Alexeyga have been answered and solutions have been offered to him to fix his problem. Unfortunately he is more interested been part of a soap opera than getting his problem resolved!
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賽螃蟹(Choy Pong Hai) is a famous chinese dish that uses egg white to make it looks and tastes like crab meat, but we seldom heard it in Malaysia. There's a legend where one day the Qing Dynasty Empress Dowager Cixi wanted to eat crabs suddenly. They were far from the ocean, so there were no supply of crabs. An idea then came in. The chef used the egg white to produced a fake but alike and tasty crab meat. It was well loved by the Empress Dowager Cixi. This Shanghai-style dish was then spread and developed in China. If you are TVB fans and watched the 风凰四重奏 acted by Charmaine Sheh and Joe Ma, you should know this dish.
You need to prepare 5 to 6 egg white depending on the eggs' size.
First, beat the egg white till fluffy.
To make it easier and cleaner, I used a pack of vegetarian fish meat instead of using the real fish meat.
Boil 2 salted egg york and mash it together with the fish meat.
Next, fast boil the broccoli for decoration purpose.
After preparing all the ingredients, heat up the oil (you need quite a lot of it). Then, pour in the egg white and stir it fast and even. After that, add in the mashed fish meat.
Cook for just one minute and it's ready to serve.
Tell you what, this 'Choy Pong Hai' tastes really really good and very similar to the real crab. Just imagine , by using only vegetarian fish meat, the taste was already superb. I guess it must have tasted even better using the real fish. Give this dish a try in this prosperity Chinese New Year! Gong Xi Fa Cai :)


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Today I am sharing with you my recipe for these cupcakes, which have a gorgeous vanilla sponge with added chunks of white chocolate suspended through and with a luscious Swiss meringue buttercream frosting. The decorations are personal preference and of course opt for whatever sprinkles etc you wish – just let the love flow and bake from the heart!
Makes approx 19 cupcakes
225g (8 oz) softened unsalted butter
225g (8 oz) caster (superfine) sugar
4 eggs, lightly beaten
1½ tsp vanilla extract
Approx 6 tbsp milk – you may need less
225g (8 oz) plain (all purpose) flour
2 tsp baking powder
Pinch of salt
100g (4 oz) white chocolate chips
For The Swiss Meringue Frosting
300g (11 oz) softened unsalted butter
75g (3 oz) vegetable shortening – I use Trex
300g (11 oz) caster (superfine) sugar
5 large egg whites
2 tbsp golden syrup or light corn syrup
Pinch of salt
1¼ tsp vanilla extract
Edible pink food colouring paste (optional)
Sprinkles, sugar flowers, sprinkling sugar –or own preference
You will require 2 muffin trays lined with 19 paper-cases, a sugar thermometer for the frosting recipe and a piping bag with a star shaped tip.
Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan 160°C/350°f/Gas mark 4. Sift the flour and baking powder together and leave aside for later. Beat the butter with the sugar until light and fluffy in colour and texture. Add a little of the beaten egg at a time and beat in well with each addition. Beat in the vanilla extract until combined fully into the mixture. Fold through the flour gently with a large spatula or metal spoon until fully incorporated. Add a little of the milk at a time folding through gently until you have a good dropping consistency then lastly fold through the chocolate chips. Spoon the mixture with equal amounts into each muffin case then place into the preheated oven. Bake for 20-25 minutes until nicely golden on top or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Leave in the trays to cool for 5 minutes before turning out to cool completely.
To make the Swiss Buttercream Frosting: I used a stand mixer for this – cream the butter and vegetable shortening until light and fluffy in colour and texture, but not too soft. Place the mixture into another bowl and leave aside for later. Wash the mixing bowl from the stand mixer ready for later. Place a saucepan with water onto simmer, in a heat proof bowl combine the butter, sugar, golden syrup or light corn syrup, egg whites and pinch of salt into the bowl and place on top of the simmering saucepan. Keep stirring frequently until all the sugar granules have dissolved and the temperature on the sugar thermometer reads 60°C/140°F. Using an electric mixer with the whisk attachment whip the egg white mixture in a clean bowl on a medium to medium high setting until the outside of the mixture bowl feels just cool enough to touch. The mixture will look white and fluffy and very thick. Add the butter mixture and vanilla and whisk again on a medium setting until the frosting is smooth, creamy and almost resembles whipped double cream. Dived the mixture equally , if using coloured frosting, into two separate bowls and add a little edible colour paste to one and stir through to make a pink frosting. Place the white icing into a piping bag fitted with a star nozzle and pipe the tops of half the cupcake batch with the white frosting add sprinkles of choice. Wash and thoroughly dry the piping bag and nozzle and fill with the pink frosting and continue to pipe the tops of the remaining cupcakes and add sprinkles of choice. Enjoy!


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I'm trying to figure out if that's a good sign to whether or not we'll see this game here.
It really seems that we are never getting this now, a shame because most of the impressions I've seen around are positives.Now if SE has problems to bring Bravely Default... ;_;
A theory on why this hasn't seen a Western release:http://rpgland.com/editorials/the-final-fantasy-type-0-localization-problem-you-might-not-know-about/#more-86635
The solution to that might be simple: remove the song, right? Just use any other piece of music from the gameââ¬â¢s outstanding soundtrack and call it good. Not so fast. At two points during the game, one of the main characters (I will not spoil anything, youââ¬â¢re fine here) begins to sing that song.
I'm playing it now!
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Yvonne Zima — Crush of the Day
Yvonne Zima is going from soap actress to Marvel movie star next year.
The 23-year-old is set to co-star alongside Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow in 'Iron Man 3,' which is schedule to hit theaters in 2013.
Zima is reportedly playing a character named "Miss Elkridge" in the Marvel threequel, which we're pretty sure is a villain's name. I mean, it don't sound like a name from Amerikuh, now does it?
Zima is a tall beauty with a striking face and smoky eyes. We're glad she's finally graduating from soaps to the silver screen in a big way next year.
You may have also seen her in the films 'Heat,' 'Bed of Roses,' and 'The Long Kiss goodnight,' Of course, she was a kid in those movies, and so you may not recognize her.
Lucky for us, she's all grown up now. And we think she bares a resemblance to one of our favorite celeb crushes, Alicia Silverstone. What do you think?


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Reviewed by Carley V. (age 9)
Caroline is my favorite character because she was the only girl in her family. She had to think of ways to survive living with her brothers. She even dug a fort of tunnels in her backyard. I found it enjoyable to read about the trouble Caroline got into. I liked when she climbed on top of the Freako's house and threw down rocks. She saw her dad coming and had to jump down and change her clothes so her dad wouldn't find out that she was on top of the neighbor's house.
Jack and Allen reminded me of my brother. They were always fighting and they never got away with it--neither does my brother. My family is similar to Caroline. My sister and I have a little brother. I wonder if he feels like Caroline felt?
I recommend this book if you like books that involve spying. I think fourth grade and above would like it even though there are some parts that are a little hard to understand. For example, Caroline couldn't figure out why her mom wouldn't help clean. But even if you don't understand, you can always ask your mom or dad.


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We are happy to welcome all who wish to help at the Hermitage, be part of a team of like-minded individuals, and express their interest in the preservation of cultural heritage.
The State Hermitage Volunteer Programme began in May 2003 to help the museum's various departments in celebrating the anniversary of St. Petersburg.
During this time, cooperation between the volunteers and the museum's departments has been established, identifying priority areas of activity and beyond. As a result of being directly connected with the inner workings of the museum, the programme provides practical training for students of both Russian and foreign universities.
Since its inception, the programme has grown into a team of people dedicated to their work; among which are representatives of different nationalities, ages and professions. Currently, volunteers from Russia, Switzerland, USA, Germany, France, Spain, Italy and many other countries help the Hermitage. They are comprised of linguists, art historians, journalists, teachers, managers. The cooperation of professionals allows the Hermitage to develop very interesting projects. It is encouraging that even after their departure from Russia, volunteers strive to maintain a relationship with the museum. As a result, today the programme's volunteers form of a wide network of international contacts.
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We invite you to participate in our programme and we will be glad to see you in the ranks of the volunteers of the State Hermitage Museum.
Contest of the computer graphics and animation "Breathing Life into Palmyra!"
In hopes of preserving the memory of the ancient city and its history as well as the eventual restoration of its monuments, we are holding a competition entitled, "Breathing Life into Palmyra!"
"The Birth of the Hermitage" Contest
The contest "The Birth of the Hermitage" is being held in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the State Hermitage Museum in 2014, and is dedicated to the exhibition "The Hermitage of Her Imperial Majesty", which is taking place in the halls of the museum.
"The Travelling Frog" Contest
A competition for the best computer graphics and animation, entitled 'The Travelling Frog', is taking place in memory of the Deputy Director of the Hermitage, Vladimir Yurevich Matveev, who amassed an impressive collection of frogs over his lifetime.


text: U.S. Stocks Decline for Third Day After Biggest Drop Since 2011 June 21, 2013 06:52 AM Tweet June 21 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks retreated for the third straight day, following the biggest drop since 2011 for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the central bank may phase out stimulus. Technology and raw-material shares posted the biggest declines. Oracle Corp. tumbled 8.6 percent after reporting a second straight quarter of sales that missed estimates. Facebook Inc. increased 1 percent after adding video to its Instagram photo-sharing service for smartphones. The S&P 500 fell 0.5 percent to 1,580.23 at 11:39 a.m. in New York, reversing an earlier rally of as much as 0.7 percent. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 47.31 points, or 0.3 percent, to 14,711.01. Trading of S&P 500 companies was 97 percent higher than the 30-day average. Stock trading may be more volatile than usual as futures and options contracts expire in a process known as quadruple witching. "It's wait and see, because Bernanke's comments were a curve ball," Michael Mullaney, chief investment officer at Fiduciary Trust Co. in Boston, said by telephone. His firm manages about $9.5 billion. "While it might be the best thing for the economy and the markets to put in a program to unwind QE, the timing is critical." The S&P 500 sank 2.5 percent yesterday as global equities tumbled after the Fed indicated it may start paring stimulus measures as soon as September. The benchmark index declined 4.9 percent since its May 21 high through yesterday amid speculation the Fed will scale back quantitative easing that helped fuel a rally in stocks worldwide and lifted the S&P 500 as much as 147 percent from its bear-market low in 2009. 'Middle' Stages Billionaire investor Ken Fisher said the U.S. stock rally is only in its "middle" stages because most investors still underestimate the strength of the economy. "We're right in that transition between skepticism and optimism," the founder of Fisher Investments, which manages $48 billion, said in an interview at Bloomberg News's office in Seattle on June 19. "The notion that it's actually the middle of a bull market and there's a lot ahead. That's a really impossible concept for most people to get." Economists have increased forecasts that the Fed will trim its monthly bond purchases to $65 billion in September and end buying in June 2014. In a Bloomberg survey of 54 economists conducted June 19-20, 44 percent saw a tapering in September, up from 27 percent in a June 4-5 survey. 'Inappropriately Timed' Fed Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard today said the central bank had "inappropriately timed" its decision to lay out a plan to reduce the pace of bond purchases. "A more prudent approach would be to wait for tangible signs that the economy was strengthening and that inflation was on a path to return toward target before making such an announcement," Bullard said in a statement today. The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index, the measure of options on the S&P 500 known as the VIX, rose 1.4 percent to 20.78, the highest intraday level since Dec. 28. The gauge surged 23 percent to 20.49 yesterday. Hewlett-Packard Co. slumped 1.9 percent to $24.26 as technology stocks slumped the most out of 10 S&P 500 groups, losing 1.3 percent. Commodity producers erased 1.2 percent. Consumer-staple and health-care shares rose more than 0.3 percent. Oracle lost 8.6 percent to $30.37. The world's largest maker of database software reported fourth-quarter profit excluding some items of 87 cents a share on sales of $11 billion, missing analysts' average estimate for profit of 87 cents on revenue of $11.1 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The shares fell even as Oracle doubled its quarterly dividend, added $12 billion in buybacks and applied to list on the New York Stock Exchange. Darden Slips Darden Restaurants Inc. sank 4 percent to $49.19. The operator of restaurant chains such as Olive Garden and Red Lobster said earnings in 2014 will be as much as 5 percent below 2013 profit. Facebook climbed 1 percent to $24.14. By adding video to its Instagram service for smartphones, Facebook is stepping up competition with microblogging site Twitter Inc. The new feature lets users capture, upload and share clips as long as 15 seconds, Kevin Systrom, Instagram's co-founder, said at an event at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, California. Equity Residential rallied 2.6 percent to $54.29. Real estate investment trusts with shorter-lease terms, like apartments, may be well-positioned for rising rates, Morgan Stanley analyst Haendel St. Juste wrote in a note. --With assistance from Sarah Jones in London. Editor: Jeff Sutherland To contact the reporter on this story: Inyoung Hwang in New York at email@example.com To contact the editor responsible for this story: Lynn Thomasson at firstname.lastname@example.com Back to news


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COLORADO SPRINGS — University of Colorado faculty representative Melinda Piket-May blasted the Boulder campus's 87 percent acceptance rate at a meeting of the Board of Regents on Wednesday and said the quality of students is on the decline — an allegation that caught regents off guard.
"We're accepting almost anyone who applies," said Piket-May, a faculty council representative who gave a report to the board at its monthly meeting.
Piket-May, an associate professor of electrical, computer and energy engineering on the Boulder campus, went on to say CU's admission process is not rigorous.
"We're having a lot of difficulty in our classes with students not prepared for college curriculum," Piket-May said.
Some regents — including Stephen Ludwig, D-Denver, and Steve Bosley, R-Broomfield — expressed concerns that Piket-May's claims were lacking actual evidence and that they were aired in a public meeting.
"That's a radical charge to say our students are less qualified than they were in some magical time — like the 1950s, when everyone could write like Jack Kerouac," Ludwig said.
CU officials, though, have said the school has been consistent with its admission standards — providing clear information about its academic standards to prospective students and high school counselors, which then allows applicants to self-select before they write admittance essays and pay application fees.
Regent Michael Carrigan, D-Denver, said CU does a good job outlining its admissions qualifications. He said other schools nationally have been criticized for recruiting students who aren't qualified just so that they can have a lower admission rate publicized in college resource books and look more selective.
Chancellor Phil DiStefano discussed the new merit-based scholarship program recognizing high-caliber Colorado students. The CU-Boulder Esteemed Scholars Program will be awarded to a select group of in-state freshmen, with awards totaling $10,000 to $20,000 over four years and doled out based on students' high-school grade-point averages and test scores.
The acceptance rate at CU is up from 84 percent a couple years ago.
"We want to recruit higher-level students," DiStefano said.
At the Colorado Springs campus, Chancellor Pam Shockley said the acceptance rate ranges between 60 percent and 67 percent.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If Inauguration Day marked the official rollout of a tougher, bolder President Barack Obama, look for him to take it a step further on Tuesday night: his State of the Union address is expected to lay out an unabashedly liberal Democratic agenda to a U.S. Congress half controlled by conservative Republicans.
With his poll numbers up, his supporters' expectations high and Republicans still in disarray after their lackluster showing in the November election, Obama would seem to have good reason to press ahead.
But the political and fiscal realities of a divided Washington will make it difficult for him to translate the ambitious themes he articulates from the podium - a U.S. immigration overhaul, gun control, tax reform and possibly even action on climate change - into legislative form.
On top of that, Obama knows the clock is ticking.
The consensus among Washington insiders is that the Democratic president has a limited window, possibly as little as a year and a half, to push through his congressional priorities before being reduced to lame-duck status.
Obama also faces the risk of overreach, a common pitfall of second-term presidents, and his new, hard-line approach in the latest fiscal battles could alienate Republicans to the point of shutting down the cooperation he needs to gain traction for his other big-ticket plans.
Still, when Obama stands before a joint session of Congress with tens of millions watching on television, it will be his best chance to build momentum for a far-reaching agenda he laid out in his January 21 inauguration address, surprising even many traditional liberals.
Obama's aides hope that by using prime-time television on Tuesday and following that up with campaign-style trips around the country, the president can satisfy his liberal base for now and rally the American public to put pressure on Republicans.
It is a strategy that has helped him outmaneuver Republicans on fiscal matters since the election. But some political analysts are skeptical it will be enough when Republicans, who still control the House of Representatives, use their budgetary clout to block spending on Obama's new pet projects.
"Presidents have very limited ability to motivate Congress by going over their heads to the American people," said Russell Riley, an expert on presidential rhetoric at the University of Virginia.
With State of the Union night approaching, the ideological battle lines are already drawn.
"The inaugural address was a robust liberal vision, and this is going to be a detailed liberal plan," predicted Democratic strategist Doug Hattaway.
Once again, conservatives will not be pleased.
"If he stays on the same path as the inauguration, the president is going to come across as very in-your-face to the Republicans," Republican strategist John Feehery said.
The tone and substance of the president's annual State of the Union address are expected to fit the more forceful public persona he has struck and the tougher rhetoric he has adopted since his re-election victory against Republican Mitt Romney.
Whereas his first term was marked by complaints from some progressives that he was too accommodating to his opponents, Republicans now accuse him of kicking them while they are down.
Sounding a bit like the old Obama, the president issued a call on Thursday for humility in public life at a national prayer breakfast attended by politicians of all ideological stripes.
Just hours later, he sounded anything but humble as he stood before Democratic lawmakers gathered in Virginia and exhorted them to do what is necessary to take back the House of Representatives from Republicans in the 2014 elections. That would make life easier for him later in his second term.
Obama is likely to offer gestures of bipartisanship in the his State of the Union but with the self-assuredness of a re-elected president who will never again have to face the voters.
He is sure to stress unfinished business - dealing with a still struggling economy, a tepid job market and high deficits - coupled with his re-election campaign theme of protecting the middle class along with the country's social safety net.
He is also expected to keep up his more assertive style of demanding Republican concessions to avoid the next round of deep spending cuts, which kick in on March 1 if no deal is reached.
Obama has also made clear he plans to push for a revamp of the tax code, and he could roll out proposals to end a "carried interest" tax break used by hedge fund managers, close loopholes for the wealthy and repeal tax subsidies for big oil companies.
Following a surprisingly strong Inauguration Day pledge to tackle climate change, Obama will repeat his intention to take action, said a source familiar with the process.
But he will not lay out a detailed plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, saving that for later in the year - a delay that may disappoint environmentalists who hoped he would move quickly past the hesitant approach of his first term.
Obama appears to be staking a big part of his presidential legacy on two of the most emotional issues in American politics - immigration reform and gun control - both of which will feature prominently in Tuesday's speech.
Aides say he will insist that any immigration overhaul offer a clear path to citizenship for the country's 11 million illegal immigrants - something that many Republicans oppose as "amnesty" and which is seen as a potential deal-breaker in Congress.
Obama is not ready to introduce his own bill while bipartisan efforts are under way, but his aides are confident he has enough leverage to avoid giving ground to Republicans, who were chastened by their rejection by Latino voters in the 2012 election.
The White House believes that if reform fails in Congress, voters are more likely to blame the Republicans, who would suffer the consequences in the 2014 congressional elections.
Mindful of the importance of broadening their appeal, Republicans have assigned the job of delivering the response to the State of the Union speech to Florida U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, a Cuban-American rising star in the party who is pushing a more restrictive process of legalization than Obama wants.
Obama will also seek to rally public support for gun-control proposals he laid out last month after the Newtown, Connecticut, school shooting massacre. Gun-control advocates will need the reassurance, as hopes for a swift consensus have dimmed.
Administration officials acknowledge an uphill fight in getting a ban on assault weapons, but see a better chance for agreement on requiring background checks for all gun buyers.
Obama also fired up liberals with his mention of gay rights at last month's inauguration, and they hope he will spell out details. But it was unclear how far he might go in tackling a cause popular with younger voters but not social conservatives.
Republicans believe that Obama has overstated his mandate and does not have enough political capital to juggle so many issues, especially with the economy still in the doldrums and the president facing budgetary constraints.
Examples of second-term failure abound, among them former Republican President George W. Bush's bid to overhaul Social Security, which ran afoul of public opinion and went nowhere.
Neera Tanden, president of the liberal-leaning Center for American Progress, said Obama was right to "flood the zone" with ambitious proposals and was not going too far.
Realistically, however, Obama may have no more than two years to achieve his agenda before Washington's attention turns to the 2016 presidential election race and he is sidelined as a lame duck with diminished political influence.
Editing by Fred Barbash and Peter Cooney