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Tech Wins Five Times En Route To Tourney Triumph
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., Oct. 6, 2009 -- When it comes to 10-man rugby, New Mexico Tech's Pygmies don't care who they face. Playing for the first time in the collegiate open division of the 29th annual Arizona Tens tournament in Flagstaff on October 3 and 4, Tech marched undefeated through four matches before claiming the championship title under stormy skies with a convincing 31-19 victory over hosts and defending champions Northern Arizona University.
|The New Mexico Tech rugby team celebrates its victories at the Northern Arizona Tens Tournament last weekend.
The challenge for the Tech Pygmies will be to transfer their 10's dominance to the 15-man game when they next take the field at the 38th annual High Desert Classic Tournament in Albuquerque. The tournament kicks off at Bullhead Park on October 17 and feature two full days of competition in collegiate, women's, and men's open divisions.
Following first-place tournament finishes three of the past four years in the Collegiate 'B' Division, Tech combined sublime attacking skills with purposeful defense to set upper-tier opponents reeling and onlookers buzzing. Over two days and five matches, the Pygmies scored 141 points while limiting their opponents to a total of 58.
In breezy fall conditions at an elevation of 7,000 feet, the Pygmies fell behind less than two minutes into their opening match with a tough team of post-graduates from the Thunderbird School of Management in Phoenix. The Pygmies took a 12-5 halftime lead on tries by co-captain Royce Beaudry and wing James Fallt. Thunderbird scored two more tries to take a 15-12 lead midway through the second half before outside center Isaiah Sanchez launched a long-range attack featuring passes to Beaudry and the up-and-coming Mason Timm, who touched the ball down for a five-point try.
Nick Aldalpe (from left), James Chavez and Royce Beaudry of Tech keep a watchful eye on the opposing ball carrier in Flagstaff.
With Thunderbird within range at 19-15 and time winding down, Tech hooker Marcus Chavez made a spectacular steal and pass off the ground to fellow front row forward Jerod Aragon, who steamed 35 meters to score the decisive points. Head captain and scrumhalf Jay Herrera was successful with three of four conversion kicks to bring the final score to Tech 26, Thunderbird 15.
Tech was again sorely challenged in their second match against Arizona State University, which entered three teams in the tournament. ASU scored two quick tries to grab an early 12-0 lead. Tech got on the board late in the first half when Beaudry followed up Herrera's run up the narrow side of a scrum and took a soft pass to score.
In the second half the Pygmy backline of Herrera, Beaudry, Nick Aldape, Isaiah Sanchez, and Fallt began to pick the Sun Devil defense apart with a series of piercing passing attacks. Two more Beaudry tries ensued, sandwiching a heroic stretching score in the corner by hardworking lock forward Graham Payne. Jay Herrera converted two of Tech's four tries for an extra four points and a come-from-behind 17-12 triumph.
In their Saturday nightcap Tech upset defending champions Northern Arizona University 31-12. The Landsharks had no answer to a Pygmy flurry that produced 17 first half points. First-year prop James Chavez took the opening kickoff and transferred the ball to Herrera for a long lateral pass to Beaudry, waiting across field with his speedy backline colleagues.
Jay Herrera looks for an opening to grab the ball during a scrum in Flagstaff.
Several well-timed passes and 80 meters later, Fallt touched the ball down and Herrera slotted the conversion for a 7-0 Tech lead in the first minute. By halftime Sanchez had scored a long try after a prolonged Tech defensive stand and Herrera had assisted Beaudry's fifth score of the day with a clever backhand pass.
NAU converted one of their two tries in the second half but still lost ground as Herrera's drop kick connected following his own try and then again after Aldape's five-pointer.
In a wind-driven Sunday morning rain the Pygmies earned their way into the afternoon championship by blanking the Black Sheep of Embry Riddle University 29-0. First-year lock Joaquin Roibal scored his first try after the ball popped loose near Black Sheep's line, Graham Payne scored on a 25-meter gallop, and Sanchez added two tries, once by supporting Fallt's counterattack from a kick and again by weaving his way through the defense. Beaudry tallied Tech's only second half score as the Pygmies let up on the gas in anticipation of the championship match.
As the rain abated Tech again opened with a try on the first touch. This time Beaudry kicked ahead for Sanchez to chase down the ball and pass to Aldape for the try, converted by Herrera. The Lumberjacks answered almost immediately on a quick run from a penalty close to Tech's line to knot scores at 7-2. The Pygmies then put on a show of teamwork that saw the ball re-won through several tackles, culminating in a well-taken try by Beaudry. Sanchez added a try in the corner for a 19-7 halftime lead.
NAU struck first in the second half with a well-worked try, but the conversion kick from the corner was missed, 19-12. Tech put matters out of reach midway through the final period when first strongman center Aldape ripped through the defense for a long try and shortly afterward a desperate goal line stand by the Pygmies was rewarded with a kick downfield by Jay Herrera which was scooped up and carried home by a streaking James Fallt. Herrera's conversion of both tries made it 31-12 in Tech's favor. NAU managed one more anticlimactic try with four minutes remaining, but the Pygmies could justly relish their 31-19 championship victory.
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Linking the proper way
Admittedly this blog entry might just be seen as another rant but this is meant to be constructive so, hopefully that's how you'll see it.
I constantly see people put links in their web pages on words like "here", "there", or "this". It is the wrong way to link to other pages.
For instance, it is wrong to write:
Arnaud posted a blog entry on linking the proper way here.
Although the link does function all right and will achieve the desired effect it violates the basic principle of hypertext linking the web is built on. Indeed, this principle is that the link needs to be placed on the object the page being referenced relates to.
In the above example, clearly the page the link points to is not about "here". So, instead, you should simply write something like:
Arnaud posted a blog entry on linking the proper way.
In this case the link is set on "linking the proper way" which properly describes what the page being referenced is about.
Alternatively you could do the following:
Arnaud posted a blog entry on linking the proper way.
It is still correct because "a blog entry on linking the proper way" also properly describes what the page is about.
Sometimes, it takes a little effort to get it right. Instead of writing something like:
For more information look at this.
You'll need to write something like:
For more information look at hyperlinks.
But the extra effort, quite minimal I'd point out, is not wasted. It is not only correct it is also much more informative. It actually provides the reader with a clue of what the linked page is about.
And if that wasn't enough, linking the proper way has other advantages than informing the reader about what the link is about. The relationship thus established can also be used by search engines in determining what keywords might be relevant to the linked page. It is rather useless for a page to be associated with the word "here". On the other hand, a search engine might make use of the fact that it is associated with the word "hyperlinks".
Now, I know that it's been found that using direct and simple instructions is more effective with some users. That's what leads to the infamous and omnipresent "click here" but while I'm willing to accept that argument for commercial websites I can't accept it for other type of content.
I think the reality is that lack of understanding and laziness are responsible for most of the errors made in this regard. Hopefully, this post will help with the former. As for the latter, it's all up to you but, now that you've read this you won't be able to claim you didn't know. 😉
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Oh, I'm so guilty of that. Thanks for the post. It makes perfect sense in retrospect.
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Expressing Agreement and Disagreement with Auxiliary Verbs
Expressing agreement and disagreement in English during a conversation is something that many Spanish-speakers have trouble with. Today we're going to practice simple and effective ways to help you agree or disagree with others' ideas and opinions.
Me: "I love learning English at Bogotá Business English!"
You: "Really? SO DO I! They have great English teachers and wonderful customer service."
OK friends, we have just used the formula (SO +AUXILIARY VERB + SUBJECT) to express that you also like studying English at BBE. This formula is great because it can be used with many different auxiliary verbs to express agreement in different context. Let's look at some examples:
Me: "I would love to speak English fluently someday."
You:"SO WOULD I. My boss would definitely pay me more money. Did you know that Juan is studying at BBE to improve his English?"
Me: "Yes, SO IS MARIANA. They say that's the best way to learn English in Bogotá."
Do you see how this formula can be used with many different auxiliary verbs to express agreement? Think of some other examples and write them down.
OK, to express our disagreement all we have to do is make a small change to the formula: (NEITHER + AUXILIARY VERB + SUBJECT)
Me: "I don't think that we can learn English without a good teacher."
You:"NEITHER DO I. We should try to find private English lessons in Bogota."
Just like with the SO DO I formula, the NEITHER DO I formula can be changed to use different auxiliary verbs and subjects. Practice writing some sentences using both formulas. You can also watch this video from YouTube to see many more ways to use the formulas we've discussed today.
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(CNN) -- Connecticut State Police held a news conference Saturday morning to update the public about the investigation into the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance offered the following updates on the shooting that killed 20 children and six adults:
- Evidence has been recovered that could uncover the motive behind the shooting. "Our investigators at the crime scene did produce some very good evidence in this investigation that our investigators will be able to use to paint a complete picture," Vance said.
- The shooter forced his way inside the school.
- The bodies of the victims were transported to the Office of The Chief State's Medical Examiner where an examination will be conducted to determine the manner and cause of death.
- The medical examiner has positively identified all the victims of the shooting, and within hours is expected to release their names and birthdates.
- The investigation at the crime scene will not be completed for at least another day, or more.
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Two Sheridan teenagers, serving life prison sentences in a 2009 home invasion killing are pointing to a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision to argue for reduced sentences. Doug Randall reports. William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody is one of this year's inductees into the Wyoming Outdoor Hall of Fame. Click past the jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.


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Facebook Reaches One Billion Users
You know what's cool? One billion users.
OK, now that that's out of the way, lets discuss the big Facebook news, which is that the social network recently topped one billion users. This amounts to about 15% of the world's population.
Mark Zuckerberg announced the achievement as a status update on his Facebook page, and thanked users for "making Facebook a better place."
Facebook's stock has fallen 43% since its much ballyhooed IPO and advertisers have questioned whether Facebook is giving them enough bang for their buck. For these reasons, there have been rumblings that Zuckerberg, Facebook's 28-year-old CEO, is no longer the right person to be running the company he started in his college dorm room.
But now Zuckerberg at least has this big billion user milestone to hang on his critics.
That's just a huge number. When one thinks about how many baby photos and unsolicited political opinions a billion users can create it really boggles the mind.


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3. Double-click the downloaded EXE file to decompress it, then installation will start automatically.
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If needed, you can uninstall this program using the Control Panel.
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1. On the Start menu, click Control Panel, and then, under Programs click Uninstall a Program.
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Awards season comes early: Directors Guild OKs movie screeners
Hollywood's award season might not kick off for another few months, but when it does, campaigners will have some new names to add to their movie screener mailing list: The Directors Guild of America has reversed a long-standing policy that prohibited its members from watching on screeners films in contention for the organization's annual awards.
The DGA will follow the actions of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences, the Screen Actors Guild and other industry organizations, which allow their voting members to watch eligible films on DVD or online screeners.
"There's nothing better than watching a movie on the big screen, exactly as the director intended," DGA President Taylor Hackford said in a statement. "But it's not always possible for our members to get to the theater to see every film in awards contention. For that reason, the national board has decided to allow members to receive 'for your consideration' screeners."
The DGA was the last holdout in allowing members to view screeners (though, in truth, a certain percentage of its members, those who belong to other guilds or the film academy, likely had already been receiving the DVDs in the mail). The group crafted the policy to counter any potential bias in favor of larger studio films with more marketing means, fearing those movies would have an advantage over smaller, independently made films unable to spend the funds necessary to distribute DVDs.
The guild said it changed course to appease its membership, both those living outside metropolitan areas and others unable to attend theatrical screenings.
The DGA's national board made the decision at its meeting Saturday.
The guild said it would continue to operate its theatrical screening program in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London and Washington, D.C.
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Tech Now Accepting Macey Scholar Applications
By Thomas Guengerich
SOCORRO, N.M., March 26, 2009 – New Mexico Tech is now accepting applications for the William B. and Jean M. Macey Scholars Program for the 2009-2010 school year.
The Macey Scholarship is among the most prestigious scholarship awarded at New Mexico Tech. The program is named after 1942 New Mexico Tech graduate William B. Macey, one of the biggest supporters of New Mexico Tech over the years. He was the significant contributor to the Macey Center building fund in the early 1980s.
New Mexico Tech undergraduate students who are U.S. citizens, have completed 30 semester hours and have a cumulative GPA of 3.4 or greater are eligible. Faculty and staff members can nominate students, but nominated students still need to file an application. Those selected as Macey Scholars will receive an award of $5,000.
Students interested in applying for the scholarships should use the online version or pick up an application in the office of Student and University Relations, Brown 216. The deadline for returning application is 5 p.m. Monday, April 20.
Those interested must provide a statement of no more than two pages describing why he or she should be considered for designation as a Macey Scholar. Students are also welcome to submit letters of recommendation from professors, researchers and other mentors. Letters of reference should be sent directly to Student and University Relations, Brown Hall, c/o Macey Scholars Program.
The selection(s) will be based upon accomplishments in the classroom and/or research laboratory together with institutional service and other activities that have brought credit to you and to New Mexico Tech. These accomplishments could include awards, honors, membership in campus organizations, part-time jobs, service to the university, research endeavors and other relevant activities.
The Awards are distributed during the academic year following selection. One must be currently enrolled at New Mexico Tech in order to receive the scholarship.
Questions should be directed to Dr. Ricardo Maestas, Vice President for Student and University Relations and Dean of Students or Mary Edwards at firstname.lastname@example.com or call at 835-5880.


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Dumervil signs tender
Along with his uncanny ability to sack the quarterback, Broncos outside linebacker Elvis Dumervil understands $3.168 million is a much better contract starting point than $630,000.
Dumervil signed his first- and third-round, restricted free agent tender around noon today, assuring that he would make a $3.168 million salary. Had he not signed his tender in protest of not getting a multiyear contract from the team, Dumervil's salary could have been reduced to 10 percent above what he made last year, which would have come out to roughly $630,000.
After leading the NFL with 17 sacks last year, and recording 43 sacks in four years while making a combined $2.015 million, Dumervil is hoping to become among the league's five highest-paid pass rushers. That means a contract of around $40 million in guarantees. The Broncos and Dumervil's agent Gary Wichard continue to negotiate a new deal.
Signing the tender essentially closes the controversy surrounding a second letter the Broncos sent to Dumervil last week that carried the reminder that his salary would be cut by the Tuesday deadline if he didn't sign his tender.


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Lace! Snakeskin! Leather! The Best of Milan's Runways.
Leave it to the Italians to conjure up maximalist, decadent themes at Milan Fashion Week. From the gilded crowns that topped off mosaic-inspired skirts at Dolce & Gabbana to Just Cavalli's explosion of over-the-top snakeskin prints, the F/W 13 shows were brimming with extravagance. Even the fashion brands who aimed for a more understated aesthetic, like Salvatore Ferragamo, gave their looks a touch of luxe appeal, like pairing a subdued black turtleneck with a playful, fringed mini skirt. Click through our slideshow for the top 17 runway looks from Milan now.
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Moisture Alarm
Posted 29 August 2012 - 02:51 AM
The Sea&Sea Mdx-D800 is coming without a moisture alarm !
I need an alarm with visual and vocal alert to fit in this housing.
Any recommendation ?
Posted 29 August 2012 - 04:28 AM
Posted 29 August 2012 - 04:32 PM
Posted 29 August 2012 - 09:13 PM
The Sea&Sea Mdx-D800 is coming without a moisture alarm !
I need an alarm with visual and vocal alert to fit in this housing.
Any recommendation ?
I 'd recommend you get the optional leak sensor sold by S&S for the MDX-D800. It's listed as Product number 46115 on the US site. I wouldn't go near an ocean without one, even if I had a vacuum system. It boggles the mind that S&S thinks this is optional. Guess that's how they undercut the price of the Aquatica and the Nauticam by a little.
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Posted 29 August 2012 - 09:17 PM
I was first a bit worried about it, but after one year i have to say that i love it and
it let me enjoy the dives more than without or with only a moisture alarm.
The big difference between a vacuum system and a moisture alarm is that the vacuum system show you a leak
BEFORE you go in the water while the moisture alarm triggers when the water is already inside the housing.
Creating a vacuum inside the housing will show any leak immediately and you can do that the evening before diving
and f the vacuum is still good next morning everything should be fine for the dives.
One thing to consider, once the LED show you enough vacuum go ahead and create some more vacuum inside the housing as
if the housing becomes warm the air expand and can trigger the alarm.
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Posted 30 August 2012 - 12:45 AM
The vacuum system seems too expensive.
I prefer a traditional warning system and in a way, I'm happy that Sea&ea saves on me - any way I prefer a vocal and visual alert and not only a visual alert as sea&sea has.
I know that Aquatica has this kind of leak sensor and I wonder id any one knows if it fits the Sea&sea mdx-D800 ?
Posted 30 August 2012 - 06:42 AM
Posted 30 August 2012 - 01:42 PM
The leak detector saved me when I was opening the hosing during a short surface interval to change lenses and a few drops of water ran down the inside of the housing. The audible alarm went off and I was able to safely blow the drops out so I did not have a fogging problem later (doubt they would have hurt the camera).
Lots of detail, but I just wanted to illustrate that these things happen. It does not matter how careful that you are. Most of the pros say that a flood is not a question of "if", rather "when" so wear the risk. I reckon my vacuum and leak detector system have already paid for themselves a few times over.
While i am a big Hugy fan (after using one for some time now) the reason I went with them is that I wanted this sort of protection in a well-manufactured housing. By the time I added up the costs of putting these system(s) into competing housings, the Hugy price was compelling.
Good luck.
Posted 01 September 2012 - 03:53 AM
I really appreciate it !!!
I"ll try to conect the Aquatica sensor and get some more information about the vacuum pump.
Posted 24 September 2012 - 02:06 PM
To save a little in price? Just dumb!


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I love the colour-focused styling of these culinary stacks by Dutch design duo Raw Color. The still life photographs were created for the opening of Martin Creed's revamp of the iconic Sketch restaurant in London and feature disassembled ingredients of dishes from the new menu. As culinary creations are really layers of flavour and stacks of colour and texture, the styling is both smart and beautiful. Perhaps we could do away with word-focused menus and just use striking photograph to select our meals…
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Ari bn Bem, an erratic observer from the planet Pandro, secretly watches the crew of the USS Enterprise to determine whether the Federation is ready to open diplomatic relations with his advanced species.
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- "Captain's log, stardate 7403.6. The Enterprise is on a series of exploratory and contact missions. Traveling with us as an independent observer is a member of a recently contacted alien species. Honorary Commander Ari bn Bem is from the planet Pandro in the Garo VII system. We have taken up orbit around Delta Theta III, a newly-discovered class M planet. A previous scouting mission has reported possible aboriginal lifeforms here and the Enterprise is to investigate and report."
In a briefing room, Captain Kirk says to Spock, Montgomery Scott, and Hikaru Sulu, "Sensors report several groupings of aborigines. They may be dangerous so I want all of us to avoid any unnecessary risks. But these monitoring devices have to be planted. Lieutenant Uhura will be tracking us throughout."
Kirk then instructs the landing party, "Now, if there is any trouble of any kind, beam up immediately. Don't try to be a hero." Everyone agrees. Though he has not joined the crew on previous six missions, Bem is now adamant that he be allowed to accompany the landing party. In the transporter room, Kirk is angry that he picked this dangerous mission to tag along, but he allows it. Bem (probably intentionally) sets the transporter controls to beam Kirk and Spock above a body of water on the planet below, so that they fall directly into the water upon materialization. Then, Bem secretly replaces their phasers and communicators with non-functioning fakes.
On the bridge of the Enterprise, Uhura reports some peculiar activity on the planet. They have been tracking a non-network sensory stasis that is an anomaly resembling a sensor field, but without a scanning grid or other point of reference. Spock thinks something else is on the planet, perhaps something intelligent. Kirk orders continued observation, the ship be put on yellow alert, and to be notified if there is any change.
While walking through the dense terrain, the crew scans for life signs emanating from the forest and Bem immediately runs toward them against direct orders. Kirk orders Scott and Sulu to remain with the equipment while he and Spock take off after Bem. The alien passes through the thick rain forest by splitting into several body parts and floating through the cracks. They later discover that he has been captured by a group of angry food-gathering aborigines, and the food seems to be Bem.
The Enterprise discovers a force field developing around the small village, but they cannot contact Kirk or Spock. Uhura wants to beam Scott and Sulu back. Scott wants to track the captain and Spock, but Uhura insists that it is not proper procedure and Scott reluctantly agrees to beam back with Sulu. At night, Kirk and Spock attempt to rescue Bem from the natives. Bem tells them that they are interfering with his observation but Kirk doesn't think Starfleet would approve of Bem's methods. Kirk and Spock are also quickly captured. Kirk protests that they always end up in these situations and out of curiosity asks Spock why. Spock tells him, "Fate." Kirk tells Bem that he won't be able to rescue him. Bem says Starfleet told him that Kirk was their best captain but his actions to date belie this. Kirk claims if he had his phasers and communicators they wouldn't be in this situation. Bem explains that he took Starfleet equipment because he dislikes casual violence to accomplish one's goals and wanted to see how the captain could react without such devices.
Bem escapes by making smaller pieces of his body and returns the devices to Kirk and Spock. Spock remarks, "Fascinating, a colony creature." Kirk puts Bem under arrest for trying to test them. The duo escapes only to be paralyzed by a supernatural force surrounding the area. The entity asks them what gives them the right to interfere with her 'children.' The people of this world are not for their observation. Their weapons will be "nullified" (destroyed). Kirk and Spock are again captured and Kirk says, "There are times, Mr. Spock, when I think I should have been a librarian." Spock observes "The job of librarian would be no less challenging, captain, but it would undoubtedly be a lot less dangerous." Bem tells Kirk he has mishandled the situation again and he judges him not to be an intelligent commander. He has failed everything he has attempted. He wishes Kirk "Luck," and leaves.
Kirk combines his and Spock's communicators to boost their gain and is able to contact the entity. Kirk apologizes, and tells it they will leave their planet immediately after they locate Bem. The entity will allow them to contact their ship and demands they go now. Kirk calls for a search party to beam down with a Starfleet tricorder to find the reckless Pandronian. Bem is found and he realizes that he has failed in his judgment. Having been found "wanting" or "defective," Bem says that he must now "disassemble" (i.e. die). The entity tells him he will not be killed because people must learn from their errors in order to not repeat them. The crew returns to the ship and Kirk orders a Federation quarantine of the planet. Spock ponders the existence of such a God-like entity and how they are all really children, in relation to the universe. Bem thinks he is still an eggling. The entity contacts the crew of the Enterprise and urges them to go in peace.
Memorable quotes Edit
"This one has already set controls, Mr. Scotty."
- - Bem, after handling the transporter console
"Lieutenant Uhura, I'm reading increased activity on the surface of the planet. The sensory anomaly appears to be expanding."
- - Arex
"How come we always end up like this?"
- - Kirk, after he and Spock have been captured by the natives
"Lieutenant Arex, have you found them yet?"
"No, sir. It is a big planet."
- - Scott and Arex, looking for Kirk, Spock, and Bem
"Is Mr. Spock with the captain?"
"Aye, they both went after Commander Bem."
"Lieutenant Arex, start a sensor scan for Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock. Landing party, prepare to beam up."
"Lieutenant Uhura, we could track the captain down."
"I'm sorry Mr. Scott, that's not procedure. We can't take chances!"
"We're talking about the captain."
"I know it, but we have to follow his orders. Stand by to beam up."
"Standing by."
- - Uhura and Scott
"Maybe we can beam him out of there. Kirk to Enterprise. Kirk to Enterprise. Kirk to Enterprise. This isn't my communicator!"
"These are not Enterprise communicators."
- - Kirk and Spock, after finding out that Bem switched their communicators with phonies
"Classify?! What gives you the right to intrude here? This planet is not for your use! My children are not for your tests! Your weapons will be nullified."
- - Delta Theta III entity
"Take us out of orbit, Mr. Sulu. Let's go home."
- - Kirk
Background information Edit
Title, story, and script Edit
- The title of this episode, "Bem", is an old science fiction term meaning "Bug Eyed Monster." This episode's author, David Gerrold, selected the acronym – during production of Star Trek: The Original Series – for use as both the title of this episode and an alien featured herein, simply because he believed it would be fun to have an actual Bem in Star Trek, though that wish was not fulfilled for the original series and the character of Bem was never intended to be true to his namesake. (TAS DVD audio commentary)
- As well as writing this episode, David Gerrold also wrote TOS: "More Tribbles, More Troubles", TOS: "The Trouble with Tribbles", and the original premise for TOS: "The Cloud Minders". In common with "More Tribbles, More Troubles", "Bem" was originally planned as a possible episode for the third season of TOS but was discarded for that series. (TAS DVD audio commentary, et al.)
- The episode underwent some further development during the first season of Star Trek: The Animated Series, when associate producer and story editor Dorothy "D.C." Fontana worked on the narrative with David Gerrold. (TAS DVD audio commentary) This was immediately after Gerrold finished working on the script for the animated version of "More Tribbles, More Troubles". ("More Tribbles, More Troubles" audio commentary) He later commented, "I had the 'Bem' outline, and Dorothy Fontana [...] said, 'What else have you got?' And I said, 'Well, I've got this one, "Bem".'" (TAS DVD audio commentary) Fontana herself remarked, "He came back and said, 'We could do it in animation now.' And that was true." (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 1, Issue 16, p. 67) In collaboration, Gerrold and Fontana proceeded to develop both the story outline and the script for the episode. (TAS DVD audio commentary)
- One day at the Filmation offices, Dorothy Fontana and David Gerrold were having a meeting about the episode when Fontana asked Gerrold to meet with a group of fans who were visiting the halls at Filmation. Though he did so, Gerrold's thoughts were fixed on this outing. "I was just really a little bit distracted because I wanted to get home and get to work on the script we had just had the meeting on," he reminisced. ("More Tribbles, More Troubles" audio commentary)
- Gene Roddenberry made several additions to this episode as, on each of many occasions when he had a meeting with David Gerrold, he made numerous suggestions about the story, to the point where the episode's writer kept wondering how to make the ideas work. (TAS DVD audio commentary; [1]) Gerrold explained, "Gene kept saying, 'Change this, change this, change this.'" (Star Trek Magazine issue 132, p. 20) The narrative's writer also recalled of Roddenberry, "His notes on 'BEM' were very confusing and he added elements that I felt pulled the story way off its original premise." [2]
- One of these elements was the God-like entity that features in this version of the episode. (TAS DVD audio commentary; [3]) After Gene Roddenberry suggested the finding of God on the episode's planet, David Gerrold inwardly groaned, having a gut level reaction that the same plot element had been used by Roddenberry countless times before. (Star Trek Magazine issue 132, p. 20; TAS DVD audio commentary) Recalled Gerrold, "My gut level was, 'Haven't we done that one enough?' But Gene liked it, and I said, 'Well, let me see what I can do with it.'" (TAS DVD audio commentary)
- Essentially stuck with the character concept of a god-like entity, David Gerrold tried to make it fit naturally into the plot. "Once I decided I was going to do it, once I took it on, I chose to make it a logical part of the story," he reflected. The addition of the deity meant that the main characters had to solve their predicament with their wits rather than violence, a theme that Gerrold had already been wanting to use. (TAS DVD audio commentary)
- Generally, David Gerrold delighted in laboring over the teleplay. "I worked my butt off on the script," he said. "I didn't have a big problem with it." (Star Trek Magazine issue 132, p. 20) Additionally, Gerrold related that the episode was "a lot of fun" to work on and that he enjoyed writing the scenes with Kirk and Spock as well as the interactions between them and Bem, appreciating the opportunity to write little humorous lines for those characters. One of the jokes that Gerrold wrote was Spock's line, "Captain, I'm only a Vulcan," which Gerrold based on the clichéd expression, "I'm only Human." He was also aware of the episode presenting an opportunity to give the main characters some more humility for subsequent episodes. (TAS DVD audio commentary)
- The TAS script of "Bem", which David Gerrold submitted to D.C. Fontana, contained about thirty pages. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Three, "Waiting for the Ax") The first draft script for "Bem" included twenty-nine pages, and was dated 29 August 1973. As had happened with the story during the original series, however, the episode was again rejected. ([4]; TAS DVD audio commentary) Gerrold explained, "It turned out to be an extra script. They didn't need it." Dorothy Fontana had bought the teleplay as the seventeenth script of the series, although the first season had only sixteen installments, so this episode was not produced at that time. (TAS DVD audio commentary) Gerrold expressed that another reason why the episode was postponed was "because Dorothy wasn't that fond of the script, and neither was I." Gerrold's dissatisfaction with the plot was precisely due to Gene Roddenberry's frequent alterations to the story. The episode's writer explained, "I agreed with [Fontana] to some degree that 'Bem' really was not a strong episode because we had been pulled so far off the original conception of it." (Star Trek Magazine issue 132, p. 20)
- Although discarded for the first season, this episode was ultimately picked up by Filmation (along with other Season 1 rejects) for the second season, after Dorothy Fontana left the series. [5] Concluded Gerrold, "They grabbed this one, 'cause it was already paid for. And so that's how it ended up second season." (TAS DVD audio commentary)
- David Gerrold analyzed the plot threads in this installment and the questions that the episode asks; "There are two stories in this episode. One, of course, is Bem, who's testing Kirk and Spock, and the second is the action down on the planet – these lizard-people and the God, the alien intelligence who is protecting them – and that's the action story [....] Bem represents the philosophical dilemma. Are our characters going to behave like the good guys? And the lizard people who've captured them represent the action dilemma. And how does our behavior relate to our core beliefs that we are the good guys and we are not gonna interfere with primitive peoples?" (TAS DVD audio commentary)
Cast Edit
- Since Nichelle Nichols had always been eager to perform more than her usual actions as Uhura and because she was very popular with Star Trek fans, David Gerrold (who likewise had a long-held fondness for the actress) felt that she should play the character of the deity in this episode. Gerrold related, "After all these years of doing these Star Trek conventions – we'd done two or three separate conventions – and seeing her in front of the audience and seeing how much the audience loved her and knowing that the audience just wanted to see more of her, I said, 'Look, let's have Nichelle do the voice of the god-creature here' [....] I was very excited to see her do the voice of the alien intelligence." (TAS DVD audio commentary)
- Ultimately, David Gerrold was very pleased with Nichelle Nichols' performances in this outing, feeling that she was the episode's "saving grace". (Star Trek Magazine issue 132, p. 20) "She was perfect because, if you listen to her, what she brings is such a marvelous quality [....] Where she's doing Uhura, she has this strength that we hardly ever got to see in the live action show. And then, as this god character she has this command over everything," Gerrold raved. "And I think this script demonstrates Nichelle's range, that she can do a lot of different things that she never got to do on the live action show." (TAS DVD audio commentary) The writer additionally observed, "She shows her range. She gets to show Uhura being a very strong voice on the bridge, but then she does the voice of the alien intelligence and there she's a whole different character. And the range there is spectacular." ("Drawn to the Final Frontier - The Making of Star Trek: The Animated Series", TAS DVD)
- Nichelle Nichols was not the only cast member whose vocal work on this episode impressed David Gerrold, he enthusing, "Leonard [Nimoy] and Bill [Shatner] did a great job." (Star Trek Magazine issue 132, p. 20)
Production Edit
- David Gerrold suspected that, if this episode had been done for the original Star Trek series, its production would have been difficult. "The effects for 'Bem' probably would have been tricky," he speculated. [6] He was also of the opinion that one of the potentially problematic aspects, the design for the multi-part character of Bem, was made easier with animation. "[In] The Animated Series, we didn't have to worry about building a costume or finding the actors," related Gerrold. "The animators just had Bem split apart into as many different pieces as they needed." ("Drawn to the Final Frontier - The Making of Star Trek: The Animated Series", TAS DVD) D.C. Fontana likewise noted about the episode, "It was easy [to produce] with animation." (Star Trek Vault: 40 Years From The Archives, p. 32)
- The appearance of the deity was another facet of the episode that was relatively easy to produce, as David Gerrold explained. "It was also an easy way to animate. It was just... Do an overlay." (TAS DVD audio commentary)
- David Gerrold reckoned that, although doubtful, the security officers in the landing party that appears towards the end of this episode may have been based on the look of behind-the-scenes personnel. "I don't think any of these crew members were designed to look like anybody in specific," he said of the security team, "but they could have been designed to look like animators or even folks at Filmation." (TAS DVD audio commentary)
Continuity Edit
- This was the first episode that revealed Kirk's middle name, Tiberius. During TOS, it was not known what his middle initial, "T," stood for. David Gerrold, who devised Kirk's middle name, recollected, "I got the name from a book I'd read about the history of torture." [7] The name's inclusion in this installment was prompted by an incident that occurred at a 1973 Star Trek convention that he and Dorothy Fontana attended. "Somebody asked 'What does the T in James T. Kirk stand for?'" recounted Gerrold. "And without really thinking, I said 'Tiberius.'" [8] At the time, he said the name as a joke, influenced by the fact that I, Claudius had recently aired on PBS. [9] (The veracity of this claim is questionable, however, as the first episode of "I, Claudius" was not broadcast until 20 September 1976.) Decades later, he remarked, "It got a big laugh and it became a running gag." [10] When Gerrold was developing this episode for the animated series' first season, he made the decision to write the name into the episode and Fontana passed it by Gene Roddenberry. [11] [12] Gerrold later remembered how Roddenberry had responded; "He said, 'Sure, let's go ahead.'" [13] The name stuck and was mentioned again not only in Roddenberry's introduction to his novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture but in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (thus making it "canon").
- The type 1 phasers are shown to have a thumb trigger in a closeup shot, but this is inconsistent with their function in other appearances.
- This is the second episode where Lt. Uhura takes command of the Enterprise, following the events of "The Lorelei Signal".
- This is also the first of two consecutive episodes that feature the concept of a practical joker aboard the Enterprise; the same concept appears in the next installment, "The Practical Joker".
- As David Gerrold notes in this episode's audio commentary, this installment's conclusion is thematically similar to TOS: "Errand of Mercy".
Reception Edit
- David Gerrold was ultimately highly satisfied with this installment. "It's not a bad script [....] The mechanics of this show, structurally the plot, beat for beat, the mechanics of the storytelling, work very nicely for me," Gerrold enthused. "It's just a, 'Here's your beginning, here's how you complicate the issue, and here's how you resolve it.' So, it's a very straightforward bit of storytelling [....] In a sense, I like this one more than 'More Tribbles, More Troubles' because it was a chance to do a Star Trek episode where we get to go out, meet new life forms, meet new civilizations, meet new people and make friends with them. And to me, that's always the best Star Trek story, is what they say at the beginning, 'To seek out new life and new civilizations.'" Additionally, Gerrold particularly liked the line of dialogue wherein Spock admits to being "only" a Vulcan, referring to it as "one of my favorite little jokes." Not only was Gerrold appreciative of Nichelle Nichols' work on this episode but he also liked the general effect of the godly entity, commenting that he found it "a very nice way to represent a deity." (TAS DVD audio commentary) In a 2011 interview, Gerrold remarked on the fact that his enthusiasm for the episode had withstood the changes that Gene Roddenberry had made to the script, stating, "When all is said and done, I looked at the episode again recently and thought, 'Well, it turned out better than I thought.' So I don't have a lot of complaints." [14] One complaint that Gerrold did have was about some of the animation. "The thing I disliked most was that they had the two parts of Bem's body floating around," the writer stated. (Star Trek Magazine issue 132, p. 20)
- D.C. Fontana has repeatedly cited this as one of her favorite installments of the animated Star Trek (along with "Beyond the Farthest Star", "Yesteryear", "More Tribbles, More Troubles" and "The Magicks of Megas-Tu"). ([15]; Star Trek Magazine issue 128, p. 46) In a 2003 video interview for StarTrek.com, Fontana also remarked that she believed this outing, in common with "More Tribbles, More Troubles", "very much got across the Star Trek feeling and mode." [16]
- According to Russell Bates, David Gerrold warned him, at one point, that this episode would be the series finale for Star Trek: The Animated Series, ending the series before "How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth" – an installment that Bates co-wrote – had a chance to be broadcast. "David Gerrold upset me and my co-writer by saying [that]," Bates stated. [17]
- The editors of Trek magazine collectively scored this episode 2 out of 5 stars (a rating that they termed "fair"). (The Best of Trek #1, p. 111)
- In The Star Trek Files magazine, John Peel critiqued, "Whilst there were far worse stories in this season, it's hard to find one that is handled in a more dumb fashion than this." Peel went on to express considerable puzzlement as to how Bem was intended to be able to function as an intelligent lifeform, capable of such actions as speaking and eating. "The whole plot is obscured by the impracticality of the main character. It's a novel idea, but just thrashily handled. The rest of the tale is nothing new. Intelligent cloud is raising natives, and throws humans off its world. It's like everything else the live-action series did with mind-bogglingly powerful disincarnate entities and primitive societies. There's nothing fresh here, except Nichelle Nichols voicing the part instead of James Doohan or Vic Perrin. Though the episode isn't as appalling as some, it finally remains just a whole waste of time." (The Star Trek Files: The Animated Voyages End, pp. 37-39)
- In the unofficial reference book Trek Navigator: The Ultimate Guide to the Entire Trek Saga (p. 19), co-writers Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross both individually rate this episode 3 out of 4 stars (defined as "good").
- In the "Ultimate Guide" in Star Trek Magazine issue 163, p. 27, this episode was rated 1 out of 5 Starfleet arrowhead insignia.
Video and DVD releases Edit
- UK VHS release (CIC Video): Volume 6, catalog number VHR 2540, 17 February 1992
- As part of the The Animated Series DVD collection
- As part of the The Animated Series Blu-ray collection
Links and references Edit
Starring Edit
- William Shatner as Captain Kirk
- Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
Also starring Edit
Background characters Edit
- Sulu
- Kyle
- M'Ress
- Six members of a Delta Theta III aborigine food-gathering party
- Twelve Delta Theta III aborigines
- Three Enterprise security squad members:
References Edit
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External links Edit
- "Bem" at StarTrek.com, the official Star Trek website
- "Bem" at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- "Bem" at Wikipedia
- "The Pirates of Orion" & "Bem" at MissionLogPodcast.com, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast
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Outsource is what hospital do when they send their dictation to a company such as Transcend or OSI.
Offshoring is when they send their dictation to overseas transcriptionists. It is easy to confuse the two.
Diskriter and OSi also offshore.
Rather than have new posters search through tons of archives for answers to this question, maybe a list should be made of all companies that do offshore and posted permanently on the board, with revisions made as new ones come up. Just a suggestion...please no flames!
I saw this on their website under hospital solutions:
We offer a choice of Domestic or Philippine based medical transcription services with U.S based Quality Assurance specialists, and 24-hour or STAT file turnaround.
also slipped that the best dictators are offshored while the garbage is left for US MTs to do. The recruiter told me that I was lucky that an account that almost never has any openings because all the MTs love it and don't leave had an opening. After she mentioned the name I knew she was full of BS because I had worked on the account when I worked at YOG and I knew how difficult the account was. When I talked to the team leader she told me what a difficult account it was and that they couldn't keep MTs on it because it was so difficult.
The recruiter and the team leader IM'd the entire time I was talking to them, which I felt was very distracting and unprofessional.
I turned down the position so can't give you any specifics, but they sure did leave a bad taste in my mouth and I would never recommend them.
they have in the past. They lost so many accounts due to the poor quality of the offshore work. Positions are IC only and no direct deposit. I don't know how much work there is with Rad account, but there isn't much work otherwise.
I wouldn't recommend QT until they can prove themselves again. You can go back through the archives and read past posts about all the issues the last few months. There are still lots of hard feelings and lots of good MTs still struggling trying to find positions with decent companies.
None of Axolotl's work is offshored. We have more than enough work, too.
even had one company slip during an interview and tell me that the good stuff was sent offshore. It seems that the majority of the ESLs are the same nationality of the country that the work is being sent to and it would make more sense to send them those dictators.
Interesting point about learning they offshore and that would be all you'd need to know. I certainly share those feelings but what, then, can I/we say about MQ? Two of my closest friends (previous supervisors) say they'd never work for a co. who outsources outside the US. When I started for the Q less than a year ago I honestly didn't know this.
Based on that, how many are actually doing it, etc.? It'd be nice to hear more comments about this.
I made an inquiry to someone there and was told out right that they do offshore. I too have noticed the work volume has hit rock bottom, all except for a select few accounts. I was shocked about them suddenly getting rid of the team lead positions!!! That made me wonder for sure.........what is going on there?


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San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh, second from left, visits with Grady Hofmann and his family following Grady's bone marrow transplant last spring. Pictured with Harbaugh are, from left, Hayden, Amy, Rusty, Grady and Baylor.
As the ritual delights of summer approach, one tenacious and sports-loving 9-year-old is particularly thrilled to be outside and on the baseball diamond once again.
Grady Hofmann plans to eat ice cream and cake April 19 with his brothers and friends instead of enduring chemotherapy treatments, blood tests and transfusions at the hospital. On that date a year ago, Grady underwent a lifesaving bone marrow transplant that profoundly affected everyone in his life.
A child's illness is perhaps the greatest test of a family's endurance. For Rusty and Amy Hofmann of Los Altos, that moment came in December 2011 when Grady, the youngest of their three sons, fell ill after a normal swim at the pool.
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The diagnosis of Grady's virus-induced aplastic anemia exposed the need for a bone marrow transplant to repair his damaged white and red blood cells. Rusty, an interventional radiologist at the Stanford School of Medicine, happened to be a perfect donor match for his son. A donor is found in direct families only 30 percent of the time, according to the National Marrow Donor Program, and the percentage is much lower for a parent, as children inherit genetic markers from both mother and father.
Although the transplant was only a four-hour procedure, it's taken Grady nearly a year for his body to accept the new cells. Following 60 days of hospitalization, he remained in isolation for 100 days and returned to doctors for dozens of appointments.
"I can't be in groups, can't eat certain foods, can't touch anyone else," said Grady of the rules he followed to protect himself from infection.
Because he could not attend classes, a teacher home-schooled him, and his friends hosted hangouts via the "Gradybot" – a robot that enables two-way video communications remotely.
Despite the setbacks, Grady said he didn't let restrictions deter him.
When his dad hesitated to buy a trampoline because of safety concerns, Grady found a spring-free model that would be safe enough for him to use with his brothers.
And, just last month, Grady took his first swing at bat in more than a year during his Little League team's season opener. He might even return to school this week.
Steps to recovery
During one of Grady's first return visits to Santa Rita School last fall, he fell ill during an assembly. Although the experience was a frightening reminder of how long a return to normal life would take for the entire family, a caring community surrounded them that day and at every step along the way.
"We're so inspired by you," said Santa Rita Principal Ryan Haven at the assembly. "It really helps us build a closeness and purpose to help other people together."
Knowing how important LEGOs were to Grady throughout his long hospitalizations, his Santa Rita classmates presented $380.40 to the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital during the assembly for the purchase of LEGO sets for other sick children.
Whether through hot meals delivered to their home during the transplant period, neighbors who helped transport Grady's brothers, prayers from the congregation at St. Nicholas Parish or international friends who lit candles for the family at the Vatican, community was an indispensible element of the recovery process.
Grady even received a visit from San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh, who heard about Grady's love of the team and wanted to show his support.
"You don't ever get to see true human altruism," Rusty said. "But when you're sick and you need help, you really see people who, all they want to do is to help you ... purely altruistic. That's one of the greatest gifts of this experience."
With a clean bill of health as he nears the important milestone of one-year post-transplant, eating ice cream and cake will be nice, but not nearly as sweet as the Hofmann family being together for another day.


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DAC Collection Artist Information
Louis Jean Desprez (aka Louis Jean Despres, Louis Jean Després)
French painter, architect, and printmaker
Brief biography, in most instances from the Union List of Artist Names® Online:
Born 28 May 1743. Desprez was a student of Jacques-François Blondel and Pierre Desmaisons. He won the Grand Prix in 1776 for "un château pour un grand seigneur". French architect, painter and etcher.
Artist ID number in the Union List of Artist Names®: ULAN 500013852.
The ULAN link above leads to a cataloging authority record at the Getty Research Institute.
Objects related to Louis Jean Desprez (aka Louis Jean Despres, Louis Jean Després):
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The latest statistics from Corelogic shows that completed foreclosures continue dropping and are at their lowest numbers since 2007. The numbers for mortgages in default over 90 days have also declined from a year ago.
CoreLogic® (NYSE: CLGX), a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled services provider, today released its June 2015 National Foreclosure Report which shows that the foreclosure inventory declined by 28.9 percent and completed foreclosures declined by 14.8 percent since June 2014. The number of foreclosures nationwide decreased year over year from 50,000 in June 2014 to 43,000 in June 2015, representing a decrease of 63.3 percent from the peak of 117,119 completed foreclosures in September 2010, according to CoreLogic data.
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Completed foreclosures are an indication of the total number of homes actually lost to foreclosure. Since the financial crisis began in September 2008, there have been approximately 5.8 million completed foreclosures across the country, and since home ownership rates peaked in the second quarter of 2004, there have been approximately 7.8 million homes lost to foreclosure.
As of June 2015, the national foreclosure inventory included approximately 472,000, or 1.2 percent, of all homes with a mortgage compared with 664,000 homes, or 1.7 percent, in June 2014. The June 2015 foreclosure rate is the lowest since December 2007.
CoreLogic also reports that the number of mortgages in serious delinquency (defined as 90 days or more past due, including those loans in foreclosure or REO) declined by 23.3 percent from June 2014 to June 2015, with 1.3 million mortgages, or 3.5 percent, falling into this category. This is the lowest serious delinquency rate since January 2008. On a month-over-month basis, the number of seriously delinquent mortgages declined by 3.4 percent.
"The foreclosure rate for the U.S. has dropped to its lowest level since 2007, supported by a continuing decline in loans made before 2009, gains in employment, and higher housing prices," said Frank Nothaft, chief economist for CoreLogic. "The decline has not been uniform geographically, as the foreclosure rate varies across metropolitan areas. In the Denver and San Francisco areas, the foreclosure rate has fallen to 0.3 percent, whereas in the Tampa market the rate is 3.5 percent and in Nassau and Suffolk counties it is an elevated 4.8 percent."
"Serious delinquency is at the lowest level in seven and a half years reflecting the benefits of slow but steady improvements in the economy and rising home prices," said Anand Nallathambi, president and CEO of CoreLogic. "We are also seeing the positive impact of more stringent underwriting criteria for loans originated since 2009 which has helped to lower the national seriously delinquent rate."
Additional highlights as of June 2015:
- On a month-over-month basis, completed foreclosures increased by 4.8 percent from the 41,000* reported in May 2015*. As a basis of comparison, before the decline in the housing market in 2007, completed foreclosures averaged 21,000 per month nationwide between 2000 and 2006.
- The five states with the highest number of completed foreclosures for the 12 months ending in June 2015 were: Florida (102,000), Michigan (46,000), Texas (33,000), California (29,000) and Ohio (27,000). These five states accounted for almost half of all completed foreclosures nationally.
- Four states and the District of Columbia had the lowest number of completed foreclosures for the 12 months ending in June 2015: South Dakota (32), the District of Columbia (107), North Dakota (313), Wyoming (499) and West Virginia (566).
- Four states and the District of Columbia had the highest foreclosure inventory as a percentage of all mortgaged homes: New Jersey (4.7 percent), New York (3.7 percent), Florida (2.7 percent), Hawaii (2.5 percent) and the District of Columbia (2.4 percent).
- The five states with the lowest foreclosure inventory as a percentage of all mortgaged homes were: Alaska (0.3 percent), Minnesota (0.4 percent), Montana (0.4 percent) Nebraska (0.4 percent) and North Dakota (0.4 percent).
*May 2015 data was revised. Revisions are standard, and to ensure accuracy CoreLogic incorporates newly released data to provide updated results.
Judicial Foreclosure States Ranking (Ranked by Completed Foreclosures)
Non-Judicial Foreclosure States Ranking (Ranked by Completed Foreclosures)
Foreclosure Data for the Largest Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) (Ranked by Completed Foreclosures)
Figure 1 – Number of Mortgaged Homes per Completed Foreclosure
Figure 2 – Foreclosure Inventory as of June 2015
Figure 3 – Foreclosure Inventory by State
For ongoing housing trends and data, visit the CoreLogic Insights Blog: http://www.corelogic.com/blog.
The data in this report represents foreclosure activity reported through June 2015.
This report separates state data into judicial versus non-judicial foreclosure state categories. In judicial foreclosure states, lenders must provide evidence to the courts of delinquency in order to move a borrower into foreclosure. In non-judicial foreclosure states, lenders can issue notices of default directly to the borrower without court intervention. This is an important distinction since judicial states, as a rule, have longer foreclosure timelines, thus affecting foreclosure statistics.
A completed foreclosure occurs when a property is auctioned and results in the purchase of the home at auction by either a third party, such as an investor, or by the lender. If the home is purchased by the lender, it is moved into the lender's real estate-owned (REO) inventory. In "foreclosure by advertisement" states, a redemption period begins after the auction and runs for a statutory period, e.g., six months. During that period, the borrower may regain the foreclosed home by paying all amounts due as calculated under the statute. For purposes of this Foreclosure Report, because so few homes are actually redeemed following an auction, it is assumed that the foreclosure process ends in "foreclosure by advertisement" states at the completion of the auction.
The foreclosure inventory represents the number and share of mortgaged homes that have been placed into the process of foreclosure by the mortgage servicer. Mortgage servicers start the foreclosure process when the mortgage reaches a specific level of serious delinquency as dictated by the investor for the mortgage loan. Once a foreclosure is "started," and absent the borrower paying all amounts necessary to halt the foreclosure, the home remains in foreclosure until the completed foreclosure results in the sale to a third party at auction or the home enters the lender's REO inventory. The data in this report accounts for only first liens against a property and does not include secondary liens. The foreclosure inventory is measured only against homes that have an outstanding mortgage. Generally, homes with no mortgage liens are not subject to foreclosure and are, therefore, excluded from the analysis. Approximately one-third of homes nationally are owned outright and do not have a mortgage. CoreLogic has approximately 85 percent coverage of U.S. foreclosure data.
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Nation & World
Reports highlighting use of offshore accounts damaging for China's elite
This was supposed to be the week the ruling Chinese Communist Party crushed a nascent popular movement that's pressed for fuller disclosure of the hidden wealth of party leaders.
The crackdown wasn't very well-timed. As Chinese authorities were launching the closed trial of a prominent leader of the New Citizens Movement, a group of international journalists released investigative reports detailing how many Chinese leaders and their families have hidden some of their vast wealth in the British Virgin Islands and other places offshore.
The reports, compiled by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, reveal a greater scope of offshoring by China's political elite than had previously been reported. Having spent six months poring over a cache of 2.5 million leaked files, the consortium found that some 22,000 Chinese had taken advantage of offshore tax havens. Among those were Deng Jiagui, brother-in-law of Xi Jinping, China's president and Communist Party chairman; Wen Yunsong, the son of former Premier Wen Jiabao; and Li Xiaolin, the daughter of former Premier Li Peng.
"Chinese officials aren't required to disclose their assets publicly and until now citizens have remained largely in the dark about the parallel economy that can allow the powerful and well-connected to avoid taxes and keep their dealings secret," said the report, a project of the Center for Public Integrity. "By some estimates, between $1 trillion and $4 trillion in untraced assets have left the country since 2000."
Previous reports by The New York Times and Bloomberg News have opened a window into the riches and lifestyle of Chinese leaders and their families, often referred to as "princelings" here in Beijing. China's use of tax havens for various financial transactions has long been tracked or reported on by the International Monetary Fund and other groups.
But the investigative journalists' reports add to the revelations by offering insight into the illicit use of tax havens by the Chinese elite, said Brian LeBlanc, an economist at Global Financial Integrity, a Washington organization that tracks transfers of wealth from developed and developing countries.
"The use of shell corporations and hidden bank accounts suggests that the amount of wealth truly held by Chinese residents in tax havens could be substantially understated," LeBlanc said in an email. He said numerous questions remained about how such vast amounts of money were able to be transferred to tax havens without catching the attention of Chinese bank regulators.
For China's ruling party, revelations about elite offshoring of wealth are damaging in several ways. They conflict with official policy that homegrown wealth should be reinvested in China's infrastructure and development. They also threaten to fan a popular backlash against a party that's making a big show of cracking down on cronyism.
That fear of unrest is seen as a driving reason China has retaliated against several foreign journalists who write about the wealth of party leaders. It's blocked the websites of The New York Times and Bloomberg from Chinese viewers. This week, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and The Guardian reported that their websites had been blocked as well after they published reports about the "People's Republic of Offshore" investigation.
The day before the first report was issued, Internet usage in China was disrupted for hours in an incident that Chinese media initially blamed on hackers. Western experts, however, later disputed that claim. Some accused China's censors of inadvertently causing the glitch by diverting traffic to – instead of attempting to block traffic from – a website affiliated with the banned Chinese group Falun Gong.
As of Thursday, the government hadn't announced a verdict in its trial of Xu Zhiyong, a founder of the New Citizens Movement who's led the call for greater transparency about Chinese officials' wealth. Xu faces a jail term of up to five years for "creating a public disturbance" by organizing protests on behalf of migrant workers in Beijing and other cities.
As expected, Xu and his lawyer refused to mount a defense in a trial that Xu views as an illegal attempt to muzzle him. He attempted to read a statement at the end of the proceeding, his lawyer said, but the court prevented him from doing so.
That statement, since translated and published on the China Change website and other sites, mocks what Xu calls an "absurd post-totalitarian China" that's charged him with crimes of "promoting equal education rights for children of migrant workers" and calling on officials to publicly disclose their assets.
"More than 137 countries and territories around the world currently have systems in place for officials to declare assets, so why can't China? What exactly is it these 'public servants' fear so much?" Xu's statement said.
LeBlanc said much work needed to be done to determine how wealthy Chinese were able to route their riches out of a tightly controlled country into tax havens. One possible way, a form of money laundering, he said, is for well-connected Chinese to obtain false trade invoices with importers and exporters. His group estimates that roughly 90 percent of the $1.08 trillion in illicit financial flows that left China during the decade ending in 2011 were transferred through importers and exporters who'd altered invoices.
"The problem of fake exports and falsified trade invoices has been a problem that the Chinese government has been grappling with for years," he said.


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Tier 13 Sets - ShamanTier 13 Items are purchased with tokens dropped in the Dragon Soul Raid. Each difficulty (Normal, Heroic, Looking for Raid) has its own set and the ilvl are as follows:
- Looking for Raid difficulty will reward players with tokens to buy ilvl 384 pieces of armor.
- Normal difficulty will reward players with tokens to buy ilvl 397 pieces of armor.
- Heroic difficulty will reward players with tokens to buy ilvl 410 pieces of armor.
Tier 13 Tokens
Item Classes Slot Source Chest of the Corrupted Conqueror Chest Ultraxion Chest of the Corrupted Protector Chest Ultraxion Chest of the Corrupted Vanquisher Chest Ultraxion Crown of the Corrupted Conqueror Head Warmaster Blackthorn Crown of the Corrupted Protector Head Warmaster Blackthorn Crown of the Corrupted Vanquisher Head Warmaster Blackthorn Gauntlets of the Corrupted Conqueror Hands Warlord Zon'ozz Gauntlets of the Corrupted Protector Hands Warlord Zon'ozz Gauntlets of the Corrupted Vanquisher Hands Warlord Zon'ozz Leggings of the Corrupted Conqueror Legs Yor'sahj the Unsleeping Leggings of the Corrupted Protector Legs Yor'sahj the Unsleeping Leggings of the Corrupted Vanquisher Legs Yor'sahj the Unsleeping Shoulders of the Corrupted Conqueror Shoulders Hagara the Stormbinder Shoulders of the Corrupted Protector Shoulders Hagara the Stormbinder Shoulders of the Corrupted Vanquisher Shoulders Hagara the Stormbinder
Shaman Tier 13 Armor Model
Tier 13 Armor Stats
Level Type Spec Slot Name 384 Enhancement Hands Spiritwalker's Grips 384 Enhancement Shoulder Spiritwalker's Spaulders 384 Enhancement Chest Spiritwalker's Cuirass 384 Enhancement Head Spiritwalker's Helmet 384 Enhancement Legs Spiritwalker's Legguards 384 Elemental Hands Spiritwalker's Gloves 384 Elemental Shoulder Spiritwalker's Shoulderwraps 384 Elemental Legs Spiritwalker's Kilt 384 Elemental Head Spiritwalker's Headpiece 384 Elemental Chest Spiritwalker's Hauberk 384 Restoration Chest Spiritwalker's Tunic 384 Restoration Hands Spiritwalker's Handwraps 384 Restoration Head Spiritwalker's Faceguard 384 Restoration Legs Spiritwalker's Legwraps 384 Restoration Shoulder Spiritwalker's Mantle
Level Type Spec Slot Name 397 Restoration Chest Spiritwalker's Tunic 397 Restoration Hands Spiritwalker's Handwraps 397 Restoration Head Spiritwalker's Faceguard 397 Restoration Legs Spiritwalker's Legwraps 397 Restoration Shoulder Spiritwalker's Mantle 397 Elemental Shoulder Spiritwalker's Shoulderwraps 397 Elemental Legs Spiritwalker's Kilt 397 Elemental Head Spiritwalker's Headpiece 397 Elemental Hands Spiritwalker's Gloves 397 Elemental Chest Spiritwalker's Hauberk 397 Enhancement Chest Spiritwalker's Cuirass 397 Enhancement Hands Spiritwalker's Grips 397 Enhancement Head Spiritwalker's Helmet 397 Enhancement Legs Spiritwalker's Legguards 397 Enhancement Shoulder Spiritwalker's Spaulders
Level Type Spec Slot Name 410 Enhancement Hands Spiritwalker's Grips 410 Enhancement Shoulder Spiritwalker's Spaulders 410 Enhancement Chest Spiritwalker's Cuirass 410 Enhancement Head Spiritwalker's Helmet 410 Enhancement Legs Spiritwalker's Legguards 410 Restoration Hands Spiritwalker's Handwraps 410 Restoration Legs Spiritwalker's Legwraps 410 Restoration Head Spiritwalker's Faceguard 410 Restoration Chest Spiritwalker's Tunic 410 Restoration Shoulder Spiritwalker's Mantle 410 Elemental Shoulder Spiritwalker's Shoulderwraps 410 Elemental Hands Spiritwalker's Gloves 410 Elemental Head Spiritwalker's Headpiece 410 Elemental Legs Spiritwalker's Kilt 410 Elemental Chest Spiritwalker's Hauberk


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Steve-O: The Guilty As Charged Tour
November 21, 2015 @ 6:00 pm
Steve-O (a.k.a. Stephen Glover) has become a household name and it all started when he snatched a video camera from his father's closet when he was fifteen years old. From there he started producing homemade skateboarding videos featuring dangerous stunts mixed with comical behavior.
He was born in London and by the age of twelve, had lived in five countries and communicated fluently in three different languages. He holds citizenship in three countries – the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
After finishing high school in London, and completing a year at the University of Miami, Steve-O realized that college wasn't for him. He enrolled in Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Clown College to help further his goal of becoming a professional stuntman. After graduating Clown College, and determined to make it in Hollywood, he began to pitch his home videos to producers.
Eventually, Steve-O's videos made it into the hands of Jeff Tremaine (Jackass Creator/Director/Producer) who was working with Johnny Knoxville to create a stunt based reality show. The rest is history. MTV aired the first season of JACKASS in 2000. In 2001, Steve-O launched his own "Steve-O Don't Try This At Home Tour", establishing himself as an accomplished stage performer, at venues throughout the U.S. and in a dozen countries.
When the JACKASS TV series ended in 2002, the team moved on to JACKASS: THE MOVIE, released by Paramount in October of that year. Shortly thereafter, Steve-O and fellow JACKASS alum, Chris Pontius, were given a spin-off show entitled WILDBOYZ, which aired on MTV and MTV2 and lasted four seasons. In 2006, Paramount released JACKASS: NUMBER 2 in theatres and Steve-O continued to thrill audiences with his outrageous stunts.
In 2009 he competed on ABC's hit show, DANCING WITH THE STARS, and lasted six weeks, despite an injury and having virtually no dancing ability whatsoever.
Next up, Steve-O can be seen in Paramount's release of JACKASS: 3D, which hits theatres on October 15, 2010. Thus far (and still counting), his career as a performer has brought him to a total of 38 countries.
Most importantly, however, Steve-O has been clean and sober since March of 2008 and lives a healthy, vegan lifestyle in the Los Angeles area…but he still has no problem stapling his balls to his leg.
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Brevard County residents want to forge new openings through the barrier island of the Indian River Lagoon to flush the stagnant estuary's pollution out to the sea.
Local 6 news partner Florida Today reports a new inlet could go along some of the barrier island's lowest locations, like just north of Patrick Air Force Base, at some remote spot along the Kennedy Space Center or in the South Beaches area. Or maybe a wider Sebastian Inlet or a pump-out station at Port Canaveral.
The idea might sound far-fetched but four of the lagoon's six inlets are manmade,and the other two natural inlets were fixed in place with jetties.
"It is feasible, it is doable," Gary Zarillo, a professor in the department of marine and environmental systems at Florida Tech, said of the prospects of a new lagoon inlet. "Of course, it's going to be expensive. Most likely it would have to be stabilized if it's going to be permanent."
With brown tide and other algae blooming this year, many are once again pushing a century-old idea of a new inlet to let in more ocean water to flush out pollutants and algae. But any new openings to the ocean would have to overcome steep sticker-shock and lengthy federal and state permitting hurdles, as well as concerns about beach erosion, potential lawsuits and other unwanted consequences.
But the idea isn't as farfetched as it might seem, experts say.
At the Brevard Zoo, Zarillo will give a presentation about the possibility of new inlets during a meeting of the advisory board to the Indian River Lagoon National Estuary Program. He models where inlets are created, widened or moved.
The inlet discussion comes at the request of Douglas Bournique, an advisory board member and member of the St. Johns River Water Management District's Governing Board. Bournique had brought up the idea at the panel's previous meeting in April. He wants a small, shallow recreational inlet.
At the same April meeting, advisory board member John Windsor, an environmental scientist at Florida Tech, challenged the idea of a new inlet and the notion that the lagoon was once pristine before so many people moving here.
Windsor said the idea of a new inlet has been explored many times and debated since Brevard's earliest permanent settlements in the 1800s. He cites letters from Brevard pioneer William Gleason to county commissioners in 1886 in which Gleason suggested a new inlet on the Banana River, south of Cape Canaveral, according to a summer 2003 newsletter by the Brevard County Historical Commission. Gleason wrote the letters after 30-plus inch rains had resulted in bland-tasting oysters and widespread fish kills.
Gleason estimated that the 1886 inlet would have cost about $300 , according to the newsletter.
Today, it would be in the hundreds of millions, says Martin Smithson, director of the Sebastian Inlet District. And the project would have to consider impacts to sea turtles, seagrass, beach mice and other protected species.
"I do not believe we could get through the federal permitting process to get a new inlet approved," Smithson said. "I think realistically, 10 to 20 years of permitting ... and tens of millions of dollars. Construction would probably be $100 million dollars or more."
Sebastian Inlet District spends $3 million to $4 million a year maintaining the inlet. The district also has endured years of litigation because of the inlet's impacts on beaches to the south. In 2004, the district settled a lawsuit with three property owners south of the inlet. "It cost the taxpayers $5 million to fight that lawsuit," Smithson said.
"Most of our problems are in urbanized areas," Smithson said of the lagoon's water quality, "and those are going to be the areas where it's going to be least accepted."
Watch Local 6 for more on this story.
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You've already heard the subtle mind-grenades being lobbed into the canals of your consciousness:
The quiet bravado inserted into our ever-expounding claims of how Stephen Curry is among basketball's 7, 5, (oh, what the heck!) 3 most elite pure shooters currently in the game.
The irresistible admission that "we simply can't pass up Bradley Beal if he's still available at the 7th pick."
And now Matt Steinmetz has published an article pointing out that Curry's glass ankle is a legitmate concern, you'd have to limit him to 28-30 minutes at the point position, and his health might best be preserved if - you guessed it - the Warriors thought about moving him to shooting guard:
Matt Steinmetz wrote:One way to sneak in some extra minutes for Curry – and take a little stress off the ankle, too – would be to play him a little more at shooting guard. That's a little less pounding, not to mention you're involved in fewer plays and in less traffic at the offensive end.
Face facts, Dubs fans.
If deals for Rudy Gay, Andre Iguodala, or Andre Miller don't come to fruition, you are realistically looking at Golden State taking another point guard in the draft. Warriors mouthpieces are already planting the seed. The question is:
How do we feel about this?