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Los Alamos Public Schools will soon begin testing students in third through 11th grade on the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career (PARCC). This will mark the first year this test has been administered in our community. The purpose of the assessment is to help determine our students' understanding of the Common Core State Standards in reading, language arts and mathematics, as well as provide data about our students' college and career readiness. For example, a fifth grade student who demonstrates proficiency on the PARCC assessment is viewed as on a path to college and career ready. In the past, the annual assessment was known as the New Mexico Standards Based Assessment (SBA), which was administered over a two-week testing window. In contrast to SBA that students took in the past, the PARCC will be taken online. Students in Chamisa and Mountain Elementary Schools will be the first to participate in the PARCC testing. Other schools in the district will soon follow. PARCC will be administered in two phases. As such, students in grades 3-11 will be assessed in three tests in English Language Arts and two tests in mathematics in March. In April, students in grades 3-11 will take two end-of-year tests in English Language Arts and two end-of-year in mathematics.


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Peak: | Blanca Peak (14er) |
Route: | Northwest Ridge |
Range: | Sangre de Cristo |
Posted By: | Tony1 |
Date of Information: | 12/01/2012 |
Date Posted: | 12/02/2012 |
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Attempted Blanca peak on Saturday, December 1. The Lake Como road has just a couple inches of snow shortly after entering the thick forest, and most of the way up until the end of the road. After that, the same couple inches of snow covers the trail, with dry conditions pretty much everywhere else that isn't the trail. Microspikes would provide comfort on the more ledge-y areas, nothing else needed. |

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Do people experience smell in their dreams?
Many of us would say that we dream in images, occasionally waking up after a crazy, scary, cinematic adventure in our unconscious heads. There may be a soundtrack too, with voices or music. But what about smells?
Few people would say they smell in their dreams, but Francesca Faruolo talks vividly about her own experiences.
Her dreams are often fragrant, she says.
"I have very positive olfactory dreams, especially featuring orange flower, a flower linked to the heart," says Faruolo, director of the Smell Festival which takes place every May in the north Italian city of Bologna.
"Olfactory dreamers do exist," she insists. "They are people who, in their everyday lives are either very sensitive to smells or have a highly trained sense of smell."
Academics have done little research on the subject, tending to focus instead on the effect of external smells on our dreams.
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End Quote Prof Rachel Herz Brown UniversityYou don't smell the coffee and wake up - rather you wake up and then smell the coffee"
Some of the earliest documented scientific experiments date back 150 years, long before the advent of sleep research labs and electroencephalograms. In his 1865 work, Le sommeil et les reves (Sleep and Dreams), French scholar and physician, Alfred Maury - whose studies were cited by Freud in The Interpretation of Dreams - describes his self-induced sensory dream experiences.
To ascertain whether olfactory stimulation could affect our dreams, he instructed an assistant to put eau de Cologne under his nose while he was asleep. On awakening, he reported that he had dreamt he was in Cairo, in the workshop of Giovanni Maria Farina, the perfumer who invented cologne, before embarking on an exciting series of adventures.
Nonsense, says Rachel Herz, a professor of psychiatry at Brown University and author of The Scent of Desire. Her research and experiments indicate people do not respond to odours while they are in the dreaming phase of sleep (REM) or deep sleep.
Smelling fire
A small study by the Irondale Fire and Rescue Service in Irondale, Alabama, to ascertain whether the smell of smoke awakens a sleeping person, found that only two out of 10 adults in a test group awoke.
The Irondale fire department's conclusion was that smoke alarms are essential since 80% of people will not be awoken by the odour of smoke.
"You cannot smell while you are asleep," she says. "You don't smell the coffee and wake up; rather you wake up and then smell the coffee."
But, she says, if we very briefly wake up and perceive the scent of coffee, it will wake us further if we are interested in it.
Any odours that are experienced in dreams, like Faruolo's, are "created by the brain not from outside".
That is one theory. Prof Thomas Hummel of the University of Dresden's Smell and Taste Clinic has another. His research corroborates Herz's conclusion that smells do not rouse us from sleep, but olfactory stimuli do influence our dreams, he suggests.
In one experiment, in which volunteers were stimulated with hydrogen sulphide (the rotten-egg stink-bomb smell) and phenyl ethyl alcohol (which resembles the smell of roses), participants reported having more positive dreams with the sweet-smelling stimulus and more negative dreams with the foul-smelling one.
However, none of them reported Maury-style direct incorporation of the smell stimulus into their dreams.
Both Herz and Hummel, though, do accept that olfactory dreams exist, as does Rosalia Cavalieri, author of Il naso intelligente (The Intelligent Nose), though she says they are very rare.
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One reason for this, she speculates, is that the sense of smell is "disregarded, doomed to marginality", especially in Western culture, which gives priority to sight and hearing. Immanuel Kant, the German philosopher, called smell the "least rewarding and most easily dispensable" of our senses.
"Just like dreams, smells mostly act outside our conscious sphere and nevertheless condition our behaviour," Cavalieri says. "And, just like dreams, smells have an evocative nature which is difficult to express in words."
Olfactory perception studies have shown that if a smell is familiar or can be named, people perceive it better, even when conscious. This would explain why so many olfactory dreamers are, in Faruolo's experience, involved in the perfume sector. They pay more attention to the sense of smell, and are better at describing smells in words.
Faruolo dedicated this year's Smell Festival to "the scent of dreams" partly because she is fascinated by the idea that in dreams it may be possible to experience smells we have never experienced, or that do not exist in reality.
The most convincing evidence of this on record, according to Cavalieri, comes from the memoirs of the deaf and blind author, Helen Keller, "'compelled' to exert" her sense of smell more than most people. In her book, The World I Live In, Keller writes:
"I smell and taste much as in my waking hours... In my dreams I have sensations, odours, tastes, and ideas which I do not remember to have had in reality."
So perhaps, if we develop our odour awareness, we are all capable of having fantastic scent-rich dreams.
A word of caution though from Professor Hummel, who confesses that, in spite of years of research in the field, he still does not experience olfactory dreams.
"I do not have any. But my wife does."
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A selection of your comments.
I do occasionally perceive aromas while dreaming. Mostly, it is the smell of rain, or, just after a rain... even though it did not rain in reality, during the night. I had only dreamt of being somewhere where it was raining, or had just rained. These are always outdoor scenes, mostly country or forest, very rarely a city. Also, have smelled the water of a stream, or of being in woods where there is water nearby... like a pond or a small lake. I am in my 50s now, but I have always dreamt in colour, with sounds of music sometimes with lyrics (some known, some not) and always dialogue... some pleasant some not.
I rarely do but two times stand out. The first was abruptly awakening, smelling smoke and thinking the house was on fire but it was smoke from the neighbours' fireplace drifting in. The second was just recently when I dreamed that I was in a foreign bazaar and smelled a spice which was totally new to me. It was absolutely fantastic! The memory of that smell didn't exactly survive my wakening but I'll look for it in the future.
I experience smells in my dreams, unrelated to what's happening in waking life. I also experience tastes, which are often linked to smells. I can taste and smell food in dreams. I have been able to do this for as long as I can remember. This increases the strange feeling of a virtual reality world. Although, as with most dreams, these "memories" fade away shortly after waking up.
I first had a dream with "scents" when I was very small and I still remember the smell. It was a nightmarish dream and the smell wasn't nice at all. Since then I have discovered the smell exists - mostly near chemical plants and still not at all pleasant. I'm pretty sure it was only in my brain at the time and I have had other - more pleasant - odours in dreams since.
I had a dream where someone was massaging my shoulders and I remember the crisp peppermint smell of the massage lotion. No, there wasn't any such smell in my bedroom, nor had I recently encountered it in my waking life.
I often dream that I am smelling smoke and wake up in a panic. I can still smell the smoke for the next 6-10 inhales before it dissipates. Luckily for me, this also happens with the scent of cake or cookies baking, leading me to think I left something in the oven. I get up, still smelling the strong scent, and head off to the kitchen. Halfway there the scent disappears and there are no cookies or cake to be found.
I often smell floral fragrances and I once smelt freshly turned soil.
I certainly encounter my sense of smell while dreaming - chiefly to do with seasonal shifts but also food and wine. To that end: not only do tried-and-true pairings surface in dreams but wine and food matching that one would never think of trying during the waking day - many which have inspired wondrous, altogether new matches after waking up; why else would I ever in a million years venture to try matching a garrigue-driven Châteauneuf-du-Pape with an arugula salad highlighting citrus and rosemary -a red wine (!) with spicy greens and bittersweet citrus?!
I often smell in my dreams. Heavy scents, most of the time, either flowers (roses, peonies, geranium) or earthy smells, (rotten leaves, damp earth, burnt wood). I noticed that, when particularly stressed, a smell wakes me up; always the same, something burning. I get up and go around the house three times, thinking the house is on fire! It never is, and there is no lingering smell of smoke either (I don't smoke, don't have a fire place...)
I smell and taste things in my dreams and have always wondered if others do too. I work in the food and wine industry and collect colognes, so I use my sense of smell and taste all day and have to remember them for my profession. All of the odors and tastes from my dreams have been powerful and pleasant. Usually things like blossoms or chocolate. When I was on a strict diet, I would dream of eating all the foods I couldn't eat in real life.
I occasionally smell smoke when l am asleep - its a powerful enough image that l wake up to check the house is not on fire. When l do wake up & look round though, there is no actual smell of smoke anywhere.
This is weird, only last night I woke up and could have sworn I could smell horses. I've never really been a "horsy" person but living in the countryside I do know the smell. It has to have been a completely imagined smell as there's nothing in the house that I could remotely associate with it. I've had occasions in the past where I've woken up with a very distinct smell with no obvious source, although as with most dreams I'd be hard pressed to remember them more than a few minutes after waking up.
I have had one dream in which I recall the strong smell of cedar. It was very recent and accompanied by interaction with people in a wooded area...like a campground. I have been searching to learn what it might mean.
I have had strong smell dreams. of course the smells accompany other visual sensory aspects of the dream. Unfortunately most of these dreams have been negative smells in mild nightmares. In one I tried to get the foul smell of excrement off me as I went thorough an unpleasant place.The strongest memory of that dream is the foul smell. If anything in my dreams is weak it is the soundtrack.That is rare for me . I think the sensory quality of dream experience is quite variable in individuals and between people.
I can clearly remember 2 dreams with vivid smells that were not in the air where I was sleeping (I have several times incorporated smells from the environment, but these two times the smells were entirely dream-fabricated). One was a nightmare wherein I smelled the fetid breath of a vampire; in the other I was in a field and very vividly smelled floral scents.
I used to live with my ex husband in an old farmhouse ( 1800) in the South of France. Our bedroom used to be upstairs in the oldest part of the house. This is where the servants used to sleep. Several times, i have woken up to the smell of someone lighting a match and once a cigarette, a very strong and vivid smell, very near to my face.


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Research the requirements to become a film director. Learn about the job description and duties and read the step-by-step process to start a career in film directing.
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Film directors visualize how scripts can be brought to life and oversee the technical aspects of making films. They tell cast and crew members in a production what to do and oversee the overall production process. These individuals manage large groups of highly creative people. The industry is very competitive making finding success difficult. In addition, working with other highly creative people may involve a certain amount of job stress. While available jobs and work hours often vary, work is available on a full-time basis.
Job Requirements
Becoming a film director may include attending film school and working up from a production assistant or lower-level team member. The following table outlines common requirements to become a film director as reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS):
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Degree Level | Varies; many directors have a bachelor's degree |
Degree Field | Film, acting, communication, journalism or another related program |
Experience | 1-5 years of work experience in a related profession, such as acting or film editing |
Key Skills | Strong verbal and written communication skills, leadership skills, creativity, management skills |
Technical Skills | Familiarity with equipment used on a film set, such as recording equipment |
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Majority of states have consistently performed better than all India GDP growth in the 11th Five-Year Plan (2007-12), a study by Assocham said today.
The chamber submitted the study titled 'An Appraisal of Finances of States', to the Finance Ministry and the Planning Commission.
The study said many states considered in the 'Bimaru' category are also now coming forward.
While 'forward' states like Maharashtra, Gujarat and Haryana have consistently performed above 10 per cent growth in nominal GDP, the study highlighted consistent rise of normally considered laggard states like Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.
"One strong indication is that across-the-board there is a support for a liberal approach towards investments, despite political parties' differences in the rising states," Assocham Secretary General D S Rawat said.
India achieved an average 7.9 per cent growth in the 11th Five-Year Plan period despite the fact that there were two global crises during this period.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said that states that used to grow slowly in earlier periods have done much better.
"The average growth rate of the five poorest states exceeds the national average for the first time in any Plan period. I think we may be reaching the stage when the term 'Bimaru states' can be relegated to history," he said.
The term 'Bimaru' was coined in the early 1980s, whereby Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh were classified as laggards struggling to keep up in comparison with growth rates set by other states.
The study said that under performing states like West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh have to search for their shortcomings, despite their favourable geographical positioning and natural resources.
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- FLIGHT RISK? Wherever he is, NSA leaker Edward Snowden has triggered a diplomatic war of words between the United States and Russia reminiscent of the Cold War, ABC's BRIAN ROSS reports. For a second day in a row, Snowden was a no-show on flight from Russia to Havana, Cuba this morning. "He doesn't have a Russian visa, and that means he can't leave the airport," ABC's KIRIT RADIA reports. "That means the only way he can get out is on a flight." Meanwhile, Russia's foreign minister Sergey Lavrov responded angrily to U.S. allegations that Russia was hiding Snowden, saying that such claims were "absolutely ungrounded and unacceptable," but he refused to say where Snowden is. At the White House yesterday, Press Secretary Jay Carney turned up the pressure, saying, "We expect the Russians to examine the options available to them to expel Mr. Snowden for his return to the United States." WATCH ABC's "Good Morning America" team coverage for the latest on the hunt for Snowden: http://abcn.ws/146YE8v
ABC's JEFF ZELENY: Immigration reform is on the cusp of passing the Senate. With 67 senators voting Monday evening to move forward with the debate, the bill is heading toward its final step in the Senate before the week's end. It has something of an anti-climactic feel to it. But that will change when the Second Act of this legislative fight begins. House Republicans now see themselves as a critical line of defense in stopping the bill. Senate supporters believe a 70-vote margin will force the hand of the House. One GOP congressman laughed at that suggestion yesterday when I asked him about it. The question is whether the Chamber of Commerce and other conservative business groups advocating reform will have any influence on the debate when it reaches the lower chamber. Right now, there are few signs that they will.
ABC's RICK KLEIN: Barring a genuine shocker – remember that Scott Brown was leading in polls going into his special election – a Democrat will continue to represent Massachusetts in John Kerry's old Senate seat. After today's election, look for some mild Republican second-guessing about what might have been, if Gabriel Gomez comes inside, say, single digits of Rep. Ed Markey. The bigger takeaway, though, could come on the other side: A clear Markey win would be an important psychological victory for Democrats. Democrats shouldn't have to worry about Senate seats in Massachusetts any more than Republicans do in Mississippi. Markey may or may not have needed all the national help. But Democrats look like they did what needed to be done – and welcome the return to normalcy signaled by the continuing all-Democratic congressional representation in the Bay State.
HAPPENING TODAY: This afternoon, President Obama outlines his plan to tackle climate change. In a 1:55 p.m. Eastern speech at Georgetown University, the president will call for new standards to reduce carbon pollution from both new and existing power plants, among other steps, ABC's MARY BRUCE notes. Later, the president and vice president meet with members of the Congressional Leadership in the Oval Office, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, Speaker John Boehner, and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi.
ECONOMICS 101: MEET THE STUDENTS WHO WILL PAY IF CONGRESS MISSES STUDENT LOAN DEADLINE. Brandon Anderson, a 28-year-old Iraq war veteran, is in pursuit of the American dream. After spending five years in the military and two more at a community college, Anderson was able to transfer to Georgetown University to complete his education. What has made it all possible, Anderson told ABC's JEFF ZELENY, host of "The Fine Print," is government-subsidized student loans. "I could not attend college here or probably anywhere else without the student loan program," Anderson says, estimating that he'll graduate $25,000 in debt. But the interest rates on the Stafford loans upon which Anderson and about 7 million other financially needy students across the country rely are set to double on July 1 from the current 3.4 percent interest rate to 6.8 percent — unless Congress acts to prevent it. The House and Senate are at odds over how to address student loan rates. http://yhoo.it/18dhvmy
EXCLUSIVE: BUSH INSTITUTE BACKS IMMIGRATION REFORM. A new book published today by the George W. Bush Institute says there is no viable economic reason to keep the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the shadows and promotes the need for immigration reform, ABC's JIM AVILA and SERENA MARSHALL report. The book, co-sponsored by the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, finds immigration reform is good for job creation and adds to the economy through growth. "Its stagnant," Matthew Denhard, research fellow at the George W. Bush Institute and book author said of the U.S. labor force in an exclusive interview with ABC News. "The native-born workforce is becoming older." Whereas, he says, 70 percent of immigrants are of working age between 25 and 64. "When we talk about small businesses — 18 percent of all small business owners in the U.S. are immigrants," he said. "Whereas only about 13 percent of all people in the U.S. are immigrants … immigrants fill gaps in our labor force. And we were talking about high skilled and low skilled immigrants." Denhard's research, which is encapsulated in the new book, "Growth and Immigration: A Handbook of Vital Immigration and Economic growth Statistics," found immigrant-owned businesses generate an estimated $775 billion in annual revenue. http://abcn.ws/19ykPq6
NOTED: OBAMA HIGHLIGHTS IMMIGRANT SUCCESS STORIES. On the theory nothing succeeds like success, President Obama listened to the success stories of immigrants who came to the U.S. and founded major corporate enterprises, urging them to carry their support for immigration reform to the Senate as it completes work on landmark legislation, ABC's ANN COMPTON notes. "I would urge the Senate to bring this to the floor," he told the visiting entrepreneurs. "I hope that we can get the strongest possible vote out of the Senate so that we can then move to the House and get this done before the summer break." Alex Torrenegra described how he could not get a visa to work in the U.S. when he came at the age of 18 from Colombia. He told President Obama he enrolled as a student but started small businesses on the side. He founded VoiceBunny, described as the largest database of voice actors on the planet for voices used in video games, movies and electronic devices. http://abcn.ws/131eD9R
IRS SAYS IT SCREENED GROUPS BASED ON 'QUESTIONABLE CRITERIA' UNTIL JUNE. Not only did the Internal Revenue Service continue using inappropriate criteria to screen organizations applying for tax-exempt status until mid-June, it now appears that in addition to conservative groups, liberal groups were also targeted for higher scrutiny, IRS Principal Deputy Commissioner Danny Werfel said yesterday, according to ABC's ABBY PHILLIP. Werfel also acknowledged that until he discovered the use of such criteria during an internal review of the agency, other "be on the lookout" or BOLO lists were in place that screened applications for 501(c)4 tax exempt status based on a wide range of "questionable criteria" including the word "progressive." Though the public outrage over the IRS targeting initially focused on conservative groups, new documents released late on Monday show that groups identified as "progressive" were also singled out on BOLO lists by the IRS from 2010 until at least July 2012. And a slew of other groups, including green energy organizations, medical marijuana groups, and "paying national debt" groups were also singled out. The documents, which were made available to the House Ways and Means Committee appear to bolster the IRS's long-standing assertion that the practice of singling out groups was not politically motivated, but rather it stemmed from an effort to identify groups that may have been engaged in more political activity than is allowed under the tax code. http://abcn.ws/16vo6Vr
IN SUPREME COURT BRIEF, KEN CUCCINELLI WARNED OF A SLIPPERY SLOPE FROM GAY MARRIAGE TO POLYGAMY. Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli's opposition to gay marriage is well established. But as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to issue decisions on two major gay marriage cases this week, less well-known is his co-authorship, in January 2013, of a court brief that laid out an argument against the constitutionality of allowing same-sex couples to marry, ABC's MICHAEL FALCONE reports. In the amicus brief, Cuccinelli, the attorney general of Virginia, and Greg Zoeller, the attorney general or Indiana, used a novel justification to make their point in one section of the 55-page brief — namely that gay marriage could lead to polygamy. "Responsible parenting is not a justification for same-sex-couple marriage, as distinguished from recognition of any other human relationships. It is instead a rationale for eliminating marriage as government recognition of a limited set of relationships. Once the natural limits that inhere in the relationship between a man and a woman can no longer sustain the definition of marriage, the conclusion that follows is that any grouping of adults would have an equal claim to marriage. See, e.g. , Jonathan Turley, One Big, Happy Polygamous Family , NY Times, July 21, 2011, at A27 ("[Polygamists] want to be allowed to create a loving family according to the values of their faith.")." (The article that Cuccinelli and Zoeller cite is a July 2011 Op-Ed in The New York Times authored by Jonathan Turley, a law professor at The George Washington University Law School, which argues that polygamy should be decriminalized.) It was just one of several citations the two attorneys general used in their brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in the landmark case, Hollingsworth v. Perry, which arrived at the high court after a panel of judges in the Ninth Circuit determined that California's Proposition 8, the controversial ballot initiative that banned gay marriage in the state, was unconstitutional. http://abcn.ws/17aAJWW
FROM THE CUCCINELLI CAMPAIGN: "Virginians voted overwhelmingly to change their constitution to define marriage as only between one man and one woman. The Supreme Court's decision in the California case could have implications for all states with such marriage amendments," the Cuccinelli campaign's press secretary Anna Nix said in a statement. "As it's the attorney general's duty to vigorously protect Virginia's laws when they are challenged, he filed a brief with several other states in this case and used every available legal argument to defend the law and the will of the people of the commonwealth."
NEW AIR FORCE LEADER BECOMES HIGHEST-RANKING OPENLY-GAY PERSON AT PENTAGON. Undersecretary of the Air Force for just two months, Eric Fanning is now the acting civilian leader of the military branch after the retirement Friday of Air Force Secretary Michael Donley made him the highest-ranking openly-gay person at the Defense Department, ABC's GARRETT BRUNO notes. Fanning, having started his career in the Pentagon in the '90s, will fill the role until President Obama nominates an official replacement. "'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' was implemented when I got [to the Pentagon]," Fanning said in an interview with the Washington Blade. "I didn't know what I was going to do if we didn't get the repeal through because some people couldn't work because they were openly gay or lesbian." Although never subjected to the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy as a civilian leader, Fanning said the changes that have occurred regarding gays in the military so far have been encouraging, especially since his return to the Pentagon in 2009. http://abcn.ws/176ZoLK
BLOOMBERG GROUP MAPS OUT BENEFITS OF IMMIGRATION. The Partnership for a New American Economy, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's pro-immigration reform group, released a new interactive 50-state map showing the economic benefits of immigration. According to the map, "In California, immigrants founded more than one third of the state's businesses; in Delaware, 64 percent of the engineering PhD graduates are foreign born; in Colorado, immigrant-owned businesses generate more than $1 billion per year for the state; in New York, foreign born seasonal workers supported 16,611 jobs that could not have existed otherwise." http://maptheimpact.org
@DannyLopezDiaz: Obama/McAuliffe "war on coal" launched. NYT exposes. More to come: http://is.gd/jBfnXD
@ByronYork: Will Rubio's flip-flop on immigration cause him the same troubles? http://ow.ly/mmx0n
@seanspicer: best of luck to a worthy sparring partner @woodhouseb as heads into retirement and really starts losing hair
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Texas A&M Aggies (13-15)
@Oklahoma St. Cowboys (14-15)
Saturday, February 25
Gallagher-Iba Arena
Attendance: 10,409
Texas A&M
Oklahoma St.
Stillwater, OK (Sports Network) - Brian Williams scored a game-high 17 points on 7-of-11 shooting, and the Oklahoma State Cowboys cruised to a 60-42 win over the Texas A&M Aggies in Big 12 play at Gallagher-Iba Arena.
Oklahoma State (14-15, 7-9 Big 12) placed all three of its starting guards in double figures. Keiton Page added 15 points and Markel Brown scored 12 for the Cowboys, who improved to 11-3 in Stillwater this season.
The Aggies (13-15, 4-12) have now dropped seven of their last eight contests behind another poor offensive effort, as they shot a dismal 31.9 percent for the game. Khris Middleton scored a team-high 14 points in the loss, while David Loubeau added 10 points and seven rebounds.
Brown provided an early spark for the Cowboys with a couple of first-half three-pointers and had 10 points at the break. OSU held a 29-26 halftime lead behind a 50-percent shooting effort from the floor.
Williams scored 13 of his 17 points in the second half to nearly match the team total for the Aggies, who made only six field goals and scored 16 points over the final 20 minutes.
The Aggies, who entered the weekend as the Big 12's lowest-scoring team, were held 19 points below their season average (61.3).
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WWF Bluefin Tuna overfishing: Rhino
Would you care more if I was a rhino?
Advertising Agency: Ogilvy, Paris, France
Creative Director: Chris Garbutt
Copywriter: Arnaud Vanhelle
Art Director: Benoît Raynert
Photographer: Thomas Mangold
24 comments
I love this whole campaign. Kudos to Ogilvy Paris for understanding the audience.
Jeff Greenhouse | http://www.201proof.com | http://www.JeffGreenhouse.com
Hey Jeff,
I hope with audience you us ad-people. These ads will not change anything for tuna in the public eye. "Fish ain't got no feelins..."
esteb, dude, that's no "done" at all.
you on the other hand, you don't.
nice cmpgn. all the same.
they showed me a picture & i laughed
dignity has never been photographed
They tried last year and now they're coming back with the same (improved) stuff : http://bit.ly/gttquh
Very strange way of working...
I guess few years down the road rhino is going wear tuna mask.
because therefore it is
come on tirthomitro, this execution has been done, and done and done and done and done and done and done and done and done and done and done
@HappyHour, I was thinking the same thing. Did this go through proofing> lol?
Come on Ivan. You know better than this. Please be more selective in posting 'fresh' and 'unique' work.
I like the execution, but @ happy hour: you are absolutely right.
Dharmesh Padia
i suppose it has been done before, but all the same, as a consumer of canned tuna myself this ad was moving enough for me to pick up the phone and make sure my bumblebee tuna didnt contain bluefin (it doesnt)
Well besides the shocking grammar and the link that everyone is posting to say its been done before. Not only is that true but this advert is a complete rip off of a student piece of work
that won many awards and was therefore in the media for all to see, or should I say for Ogilvy to see. Nice.
Come on, it's a pretty simple idea. Not surprising at all that multiple parties came up with it. I do think your execution is quite nice. (I'm assuming you worked on the 'original')
You have talent. Don't waste time and energy with this, move on and make more ads!


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Photo Gallery: Creighton Baseball Wins MVC Tournament Championship, Hits the Road to Omaha
Ed Servais and the Creighton Bluejays concluded arguably the most improbable finish in recent Missouri Valley Conference baseball history Saturday night. The Jays, who entered the week-long tournament as the #8 seed, won four games in five days to clinch the tournament championship and earn a second straight berth in the NCAA tournament.
Down 4-o early to Southern Illinois in the title game, Creighton clawed back and took the lead in the seventh inning on Jake Peter's two-run base hit. Reese McGraw and Kurt Spomer closed the door in the eighth and ninth innings, respectively, and the Jays dogpiled for the second straight season.
CU will head to Los Angeles for a Friday evening game against UCLA in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
Check out Mike Spomer's photos from Saturday night's win in Springfield!
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The two American journalists have been pardoned after an unprecedented meeting between former President Bill Clinton and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
From what we can see of these quiet negotiations, this was diplomacy at its best, orchestrated by President Obama and the "Ambassador to the World," aka former President Bill Clinton. We will never know what really went on behind the curtain, but what we can be sure of is that everything possible was done to obtain the release of these two young women that worked for Current TV.
Freeing Laura Ling and Euna Lee was not trivial. And in the words of Martin Luther King, they are free at last!
Citizen journalists beware. Watch where you step! Don't stumble over a border as three citizen activists, and sometime journalists, did over the weekend. Diplomatic relations are stretched thin with Iran at this moment after the riots in the streets. And now we have another conundrum with three American citizens in guest quarters of the Iranian government. Maybe let's keep a lower profile for awhile. Don't hike over borders of hostile governments for the next year or two. Give President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton the time to rebuild American relations around the world and recover from the Bush years.
Frankly, at this moment in time, the release of these two young women is a modern miracle.
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08-16-2012, 04:55 AM | #28 (permalink) | |
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I get that you're frustrated and upset but shouldn't you be more worried about your neighbor signing for your parcel with your name instead of trying to make some heads roll? |
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For someone so worried about their card you're aren't doing much about it other than wasting forum space talking sh!t about the PO. The moment i found out i would have been knocking on my neighbors door. ESPECIALLY in some apartments, that doesn't even require a drive......
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08-16-2012, 05:17 AM | #38 (permalink) |
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By the time you and the PO sort things out, the person who took your card will probably have sold your card, came up with an excuse, or already living in another country*sarcasm*. But why cant you go and retrieve your card and let the PO know what happened?
08-16-2012, 05:17 AM | #39 (permalink) |
yeah, go after the neighbor, no reason trying to get some one fired over something like this. i can understand being upset and wanting there be some recourse for the employee's actions, but causing them to lose their job effects their life as well as who ever they are having to support. get all the evidence you have, if the neighbor knowingly signed your name, this is forgery and more then likely a felony in your state. if they wont give up the card and you have proof, contact the police.
08-16-2012, 06:25 AM | #40 (permalink) |
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I highly doubt you will get that employee fired from that one mistake, unless he has had prior related incidents. Plus when you call/go to the post office tomorrow, be calm and collective. If you go in there screaming and cursing they will ask you to leave and/or call the police. The guy at the counter did not screw up..
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08-16-2012, 07:31 AM | #41 (permalink) |
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You have the address and the ladies signature. Confront her and get your package back. Why waste time on all the rest of it. I don't get it.
But his name is James Cortellessa, retired air force, loving grandfather, father and husband, and the best smartass around. RIP PAPAJIM Sabrina Cortellessa |
08-16-2012, 10:29 AM | #44 (permalink) |
The ridiculousness this guy spewed out of his mouth made my head hurt.
Be a man, not a whiny bitch, and go ask for the card. Unlike your pre-conceived pessimistic view on the world, there are still good people. I've made friends with my neighbor so they'll pick up the packages that FedEx/UPS "accidentally" leave at my door even though I've requested they never leave them due to recent theft in the area. Now my neighbor picks them up if she sees them. In return, I occassionally will cook and have extras and drop it off to them, and I'll even give them a little gift card on Christmas to say thanks. Make friends, some people are nice. You collect more flies with honey, man.
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08-16-2012, 10:51 AM | #45 (permalink) |
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It's not like the USPS are the only ones that make mistakes either. Fed Ex delivered some of my college books to a house on a different street and we got their package instead. At least your package was delivered to the same apartment. You seem to have an idea about who has it, so take it up with them.
08-16-2012, 11:46 AM | #46 (permalink) |
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Ive already asked my neighbor and now she playing dumb as if she never got a package from the post office yesterday. What now geniuses? Look if you were her you probably play dumb too. Come on now who does not know who Kobe Bryant is, if she open a package and see what inside she know its worth some sort of money. It might as well be a few hundred dollars someone sent her. All I know is I have proof the PO messed up and I not going to let this go. Either have the carrier go and get my item back because he/she know who he/she gave it too or give me my money back for the item that they lost.
08-16-2012, 11:49 AM | #47 (permalink) |
yes because the senders handwriting was so bad they delivered it to the wrong address. good thing my neighbors were honest and gave it to me.
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08-16-2012, 11:59 AM | #48 (permalink) |
If she signed for it, opened it, lied to you about it and you have proof, it is now a theft issue, because it is a felony (i believe) to open another persons mail. Call the police and file a police report. Watch how fast she coughs it up. If you come back here saying that they didn't do anything, or that she still "doesn't have it", you're lying, plain and simple, and you just want to take out the postman for some reason. It really seems like you're 10, the way you're acting in this whole thing, especially after you've been given solid, ample advice from a handful of members here.
PO isn't going to give you your money back. Period. Good luck trying to do that.
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08-16-2012, 01:15 PM | #49 (permalink) |
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So this is literally what you need to do then
1) Go to this website https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/c...complaint.aspx 2) Click on mail theft 3) Fill out the form And that's literally it. Don't bother calling the police, without actually seeing with your own two eyes that your neighbor took it then it's going to be a case of he said she said. The postal inspector specialize in anything with mail and will make this a priority. Yes, they can actually arrest people too in case you are wondering. Right now your mailman is your best friend, he can confirm that it was delivered to that specific address. He is not going to pay for your card, plain and simple, so you might as well get that out of your head. Are you literally not worried at all that your neighbor signed for your package with your name? Why not show her your proof and tell her you are going to be contacting the postal inspector? You seem to honestly be more concerned about getting your carrier fired (isn't going to happen) or making him personally pay for your card (definately isn't going to happen). |
08-16-2012, 01:53 PM | #50 (permalink) | |
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This sounds like a big sham on your part and alsso doesn't make much sense. You had all this proof before you even contacted the post office? |
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My 180- (Bicentennial) purchased in 1976
Well my mini 30 is no longer with me. I have treaded. It at the last gun show for a FAL in 308. Now I have 3FALs.
I was recently able to add to my Mini-14 collection. I now have two. The first is a 1976 "200 years of freedom" 180 series, she shoots just great. The second I just picked up (have not had a chance to get to the range yet). She is a 187 series with a Ruger scope and Tigerwood stock. A real looker. She needs a little TLC but I could not pass up that stock. The 180 I intend to leave exactly as she is. I will likely add a bi-pod and mo-strut to the 187. In part for the look but also for the improved performance.
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J. Kent FriedmanCo-Vice Chairman, Member of Conflicts & Compliance Committee, Director of The Pacific Lumber Company and Director of Maxxam Group Inc, MAXXAM Inc. |
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Mr. J. Kent Friedman serves as a Manager of Scotia Pacific Company LLC. Mr. Friedman is a Partner in the Public Law Practice Group in the Houston office of Haynes and Boone, LLP and joined it in January 2011. He is a Partner in the law firm of Kelly Hart & Hallman, LLP and serves as its outside General Counsel. He served as General Counsel of Maxxam Inc. from December 1999 to July 31, 2008 and served as its Acting General Counsel from March 1998 to December 1999. He ...
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US 4865233 A Abstract A cover with a pouring spout is constructed to engage a plurality of standard containers, such as as paint cans, having different configurations. These cans in any given size may be of metal of plastic, and each will have a particular rim configuration. The cover is adapted to engage and seal either of there, and confine the contents of the can so that there is no leakage or rim contamination as the contents are poured out.
Claims(8) 1. A pouring cover for use in combination with a plurality of standard containers, one of said containers having an axial wall and an open end provided with an interior rim flange extending inward from said wall, and also having an exterior bead at the junction of said rim and wall, another of said standard containers having an axial wall and an open end provided with an exterior rim flange extending outward from said wall thereof, said cover having a closure panel and a pouring spout, wherein the improvement comprises:
a flange extending from the periphery of said closure panel, said flange including: (a) an internal offset adjacent said closure panel and providing an increased radius over a relatively short axial length, and adapted to receive said exterior bead, (b) a sealing skirt depending from a position below said offset, and (c) a latch spaced radially outward from said skirt, and having a hook portion extending toward said skirt and adapted to engage said exterior rim flange. 2. A cover as defined in claim 1, wherein said skirt extends axially beyond said latch.
3. A cover as defined in claim 1, wherein the exterior diameter of said one container is less than the interior diameter of said other container.
4. A cover as defined in claim 1, wherein said cover is of a material and thickness selected to render said flange manually deflectable in a radial direction.
5. A cover as defined in claim 1, additionally including a sealing wall depending from said closure panel and adapted to bear against the inside of said interior rim flange.
6. A cover as defined in claim 1, additionally including a first opening adapted to receive a stirring rod, and a cap for said first opening.
7. A cover as defined in claim 6, wherein said closure panel has a second opening, surrounded by a rim, and said pouring spout is removably engageable with said rim, said cover initially having perforable closure membranes sealing said openings.
8. A plastic pouring cover according to claim 6 and further including a rotatable stirring rod comprising an elongated shaft that is engageable with an electrically operated rotating device, the elongated shaft having a skewed outer end thereon that fits through the first opening yet is offset sufficiently to enhance the stirring action of the rod.
Description A purchaser of a gallon of paint will inevitably take it away in one of two standard forms of container. These containers are normally cylindrical, and have a cover that closes off the open end. One of these containers is of sheet metal, and has a rim configuration that is convoluted in a particular way to receive a similarly formed cover in a press fit. The point of interengagement of the rim and the cover is radially inward from the periphery of the container. The other form of standard container is of plastic material, and has a peripheral rim flange at the open end extending radially outward and adapted to receive deformable tabs on the cover. Occasionally, a snap-on attachment of the cover to the container has been noted. The container forms a source of supply for the paint, which must be poured out into a trough for roller application, or into a small can that can be easily held while working with a paint brush. Storage of the paint is usually in the original container, and this is where the necessity for the pouring cover arises. The act of pouring the paint out of the can into the secondary container inevitably contaminates the rim area, and often results in a streak of wet paint extending down the side of the can. As the paint hardens in the rim, it complicates the next opening of the can, and often results in contamination of the contents with specks of dried paint. Pouring covers have been devised for particular containers, but it is inconvenient and costly to produce an inventory of a number of pouring covers for various containers of about the same size. An effective pouring cover must be capable of discharging the contents of the can without contamination of the rim area, and without permitting leakage to the exterior. It is then capable of practical use for storage purposes, making it unnecessary to re-attach a pouring cover each time it is desired to make use of some of the contents of the can. This pouring cover has the usual spout and a universal flange surrounding a closure panel. A portion of the flange is adapted to engage the standard rim of a metal paint can. A separate wall seals off the radially inner edge of the rim. Another portion of the flange is adapted to engage the configuration of a standard plastic paint can, and seal off the inner wall against leakage. Both forms of engagement are provided with snap-on retention. A central vent hole in the closure panel is also available for the insertion of a stirring rod. This makes it possible to stir the paint without removing the cover, thereby eliminating splashing of paint. More thorough stirring also is facilitated with this type of stirring mechanism. FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a container with the pouring cover attached. FIG. 2 is a sectional elevation of the can shown in FIG. 1, with the added provision of a stirring rod being driven by a conventional low-speed pistol drill. FIG. 3 is a sectional elevation showing a pouring cover with a removable spout in position to engage a standard metal paint can. FIG. 4 is a sectional elevation on an enlarged scale of the peripheral portion of one form of the pouring cover. FIG. 5 is a section similar to FIG. 4, showing a modified form of the invention. FIG. 6 is a sectional elevation on an enlarged scale showing the engagement of the removable pouring spout with the cover. Referring to the drawings, the cover generally indicated at 10 is shown in engagement with the cylindrical can 11. The pouring spout 12 has a removable cap 13 with the usual threaded engagement with the end of the spout 12. The can, or container, 11 is of metal, and is shown in FIG. 3. A container of similar size, but of plastic material, is shown at 14 in FIG. 2. The central portion of the cover is formed by the closure panel 15. A central opening in this panel is defined by the rim 16, and accommodates a stirring rod 17 in the manner illustrated in FIG. 2. Rod 17 a shaft having a lower end that is skewed at an obtuse angle from the shaft, such that the lower end and shaft fit through the central opening, while the skewed lower end is offset sufficiently to enhance the stirring action of the rod. The rod 17 is driven by the hand-held pistol drill 18, which will normally have a speed-reducing gear system to bring the rate of rotation of the rod 17 down low enough so that it will not whip air into the paint as it rotates. A fixed position collar 19 on the rod 17 is provided to limit the extent of the penetration of the rod into the can. The opening defined by the rim 16 will normally be closed by the tethered cap 20. The stirring mechanism of the present invention provides a means for thoroughly mixing the paint and insuring complete admixture of the dense pigment material that settles to the bottom of the can. An important advantage of the mixing mechanism is that mixing occurs with the cover in place, thereby eliminating splashing, even when the mixing is very rigorous. After the contents of the can have been partially poured out, the central opening can also be used as an air vent. A second rim 21 defines an opening covered by another tethered cap 22, which may be removed to permit the inflow of air as the contents are poured out of the opposite side of the container through the spout 12. Spout 12 can either be permanently affixed to the closure panel, through integral molding or other permanent attachment means (FIG. 1), or it can be removable from the closure panel. This latter construction is beneficial when the cover is sold as a lid on a can of pain instead of as a separate item. When sold as a paint can lid, removal of the spout facilitates packing the paint cans in a conventional box without the spouts protruding upwardly. The spouts for adjacent cans can be nested together and packed between the cans inside the box, saving space. In FIGS. 3 and 6, the spout 12 is removably mounted on the rim 23 defining an opening in the cover panel 15. The spout is preferably rotatable on the rim 23 and is held in engagement by the entry of the ridge 24, with the groove 25 in a snap-in relationship. The openings defined by the rims 16, 21, and 23, will normally initially be covered by perforable membranes as shown at 48 and 26 if the cover is sold as a lid on a can of paint. The tethered covers may be provided with perforating spurs as shown at 27. The central features of the invention are best shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, which illustrate the configuration which permits a single cover to snap into engagement with the metal container 11 and with the plastic container 14. To assist in orientation of the description, reference will be made to the axis 28 of a container, which will usually be cylindrical. The metal can 11 has a convoluted rim 29, which engages the wall 30 of the can at the peripheral bead 31 formed by crimping the material of the rim and the wall together. The flange generally indicated at 32 around the periphery of the closure panel 15, has a special configuration providing the offset 33, giving a relatively short (axially) space of increased radius adapted to engage the bead 31. The material of the integrally molded cover is selected from the available array of plastics to provide a sufficient degree of flexibility to permit a snap-in engagement of the cover with the bead 31 as the cover is pressed axially downward. This engagement is accompanied by a deflection in a clock-wise direction, as viewed in FIG. 4, of the flange 32. Some of this deflection is provided by a bending of the material of the flange itself, and some of it by the deflection of the adjacent portions of the cover panel. Where particularly thin sections of material are used, this deflection can be inhibited by the provision of stiffening webs as shown at 34 and 35. As the cover moves into full engagement with the bead 31, the annular wall 36 moves downward into contact with the radially inner extremity 37 of the rim 29 to seal it off against any outflow that would contaminate the rim. Stiffening webs 38 may also be provided to maintain the position of the wall 36 against the pressure inevitably generated by the engagement with the portion 37 of the can rim. The engagement of the cover with the plastic container 14, shown in FIG. 2, involves the downward movement of the cover flange 32 over the exterior rim flange 39 of the can. This is accompanied by a slipping of the sealing skirt 40 down along side the inside surface of the container wall 49 as the latch portion 41 is cammed outwardly by the engagement of the inclined surface 42 with the top of the flange 39. In the arrangement shown in FIG. 4, the axial length of the skirt 40 exceeds that of the latch 41 so that the skirt 40, being engaged with the wall of the container before the engagement of the surface 42, will not be displaced outwardly to the point where it might possibly collide with the top of the wall of the can. In the event that the diameters of the two forms of the can are relatively close, the space available for the skirt 40 may be necessarily reduced. It must be kept in mind that the position of the skirt 40 must not interfere with the engagement of the cover with the metal can shown in FIG. 3. With this is mind, it may be desirable to bevel the lower edge of the skirt 40, as shown at 43, to facilitate the skirt slipping over the bead 31. In situations where more space is available, it may not be necessary to provide the extended length of the skirt, and a shorter skirt 44 may be provided with opposite bevels at the lower extremity, as shown at 45, to facilitate the engagement with both the metal can rim and the wall of the plastic can. This arrangement is shown in FIG. 5, which shows structure otherwise similar to that illustrated in FIG. 4. In both modifications, it is also desirable to bevel the lower extremity of the wall 36, as shown at 46, in FIG. 5. Where the exterior diameter of the metal can closely approaches the inside diameter of the plastic can, it may be necessary to manually deform the flange 32 to a considerable extent in order to properly engage the components. Patent Citations
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It tastes pretty good, not to sweet or salty. Starts with all the spices listed, and ends with whole grain flavor. Smells more like just oregano than actual marinara sauce, though. I like that it's soft and easy to chew. Nothing hurts your jaws or makes a noise. It's easy to carry one around and snack, cause it doesn't crumble. I'll purchase again.
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A federal government watchdog faulted U.S. bank regulators for the poor performance of third-party consultants reviewing more than 4 million home foreclosures by mortgage servicers in a botched process that was halted earlier this year.
A report released on Thursday by the U.S. Government Accountability Office, an independent arm of Congress, said the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve issued overly broad instructions to consultants involved in the project and failed to monitor it for consistency.
The reviews, mandated by regulators in 2011 after widespread foreclosure shortcuts came to light, aimed to determine if banks needed to compensate borrowers who lost their homes.
But the reviews proved time-consuming and expensive, costing banks about $2 billion in fees to consultants such as Deloitte & Touche and Promontory Financial Group. The cost amounted to nearly $20,000 per loan file, lawmakers have said.
In the end, regulators scrapped the reviews. Instead, 13 banks agreed to pay $9.3 billion to end the reviews and compensate foreclosed borrowers.
"Ultimately, the complexity of the foreclosure reviews and limitations in regulators' guidance and monitoring of the foreclosure review challenged their ability to achieve the stated goals," the report stated.
Several lawmakers have slammed regulators over their handling of the reviews and raised questions about the end of the reviews and the settlement.
Representative Maxine Waters, the ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, requested the GAO study. In a statement, she called the independent reviews "severely deficient" and said she planned to introduce legislation to address the "problem of relying on outside contractors for enforcement actions."
Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Elijah Cummings, also Democrats, are seeking documents that could shed more light on the problems the reviews uncovered and how the $2 billion was spent. The two requested a meeting with regulatory officials as they seek further information about the reviews.
The GAO said the third-party consultants hired by the mortgage servicers were given "ambiguous" guidance from regulators that was later revised, resulting in delays.
Consultants had said the volume of loan files and the complexity of the issues, including different state and federal foreclosure laws, hampered the document reviews.
U.S. officials also lacked clear, objective measures to assess the extent of borrower harm and communicated poorly about the process both with borrowers who requested reviews and with the public, the report said.
Some borrowers who requested reviews at the beginning of the process waited nearly a year to receive an update, according to the GAO.
"Regulators risked not achieving the intended goals of identifying as many harmed borrowers as possible," the report concluded. Without clear guidance, "the usefulness of the reports for identifying inconsistencies was limited."
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ThreadLogic builds upon the popular TDA (Thread Dump Analyzer) by adding logic for common patterns found in application servers. ThreadLogic is able to parse Sun, JRockit, and IBM thread dumps and provide advice based on predefined and externally defined patterns.