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Tales of the Cocktail® 2015
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- 214 Royal Street, New Orleans, New Orleans, 70130
Republican Leadership Conference
Republican Leadership Conference
Thursday, May 29, 2014 at 2:30 PM - Saturday, May 31, 2014 at 4:30 PM (CDT)
Join conservative activists from across America in New Orleans on May 29th – 31st for the 2014 Republican Leadership Conference. See Speaker Newt Gingrich, Reince Priebus, Ron Johnson, Marsha Blackburn, Gov. Bobby Jindal, Sen. Ted Cruz, David Bossie, Sen. Rick Santorum, Rep. Michele Bachmann, Donald Trump, Col. Allen West, US Senator Mike Lee and many of America's top Republican speakers. Get ready for the upcoming elections and enjoy a weekend that you'll remember for the rest of your life. Since 2010, the Republican Leadership Conference has featured Ted Cruz, Newt Gingrich, George P. Bush, Mike Pence, Sarah Palin, Reince Priebus, Ron Paul, Rick Perry, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, Marsha Blackburn, Herman Cain, Jim DeMint, Michele Bachmann, David Bossie, Mary Matalin, Tony Perkins, David Vitter, Liz Cheney, JC Watts, Haley Barbour, Erick Erickson and many others.RLC participants joined Sean Hannity as he broadcast his FOX News television program LIVE from the conference center. And Louisiana's own Governor Bobby Jindal hosted a massive "Taste of Louisiana" extravaganza.
We've also invited some of our previous speakers plus Rush Limbaugh, Rand Paul, Chris Christie, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Paul Ryan, Greg Gutfeld and many others. This event is the first step on the pathway to the White House, so expect top possible contenders to be speaking throughout the weekend. Join us as we prepare for the 2014 midterms and the 2016 presidential elections. And of course — Laissez les bons temps rouler in New Orleans! Do you remember past Republican Leadership Conferences? Vendor booths … photo opportunities … book signings … media outlets from around the world. Then there were those vintage only-in-Louisiana parties with music, dancing, corn and crab bisque, oysters, shrimp and jambalaya. We've been told that RLC is the most enjoyable GOP event held outside of a Republican National Convention.
Maybe you've never attended a Republican Leadership Conference. This is your chance for an incredible experience. Join us at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside on May 29-31, 2014 for the 2014 Republican Leadership Conference. (Note that this is NOT Memorial Day weekend.)
The 2014 Republican Leadership Conference will begin on the afternoon/evening of Thursday, May 29th, and will conclude on Saturday afternoon, May 31st.Most RLC events will be held at the Hilto New Orleans Riverside, located at 2 Poydras Street, New Orleans, LA 70130. Additional events, VIP receptions, and other hospitality events may be scheduled at venues near the hotel in the adjacent French Quarter and Warehouse District. Our other preferred hotel, the Wyndham Riverfront, is across the street from the Hilton, and is about a 3-minute walk. The discount rate for conference attendees at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside will be $174/night and $109/night at the Wyndham Riverfront.
As a delegate, you will be able to interact with top Republican activists, donors, candidates and elected officials during three days of training, briefings, receptions and speeches from the leaders of the Republican Party. By participating in RLC 2014, you will also get to take part in a nationally prominent event that signals the unofficial kickoff of the presidential campaign season.
Noon - RLC Registration & Ronald Reagan Exhibit Hall Opens
5:00 PM - Republican Women Welcome Rally honoring Kathy Brugger
6:00 PM - General Session
Kathy Brugger
Reince Priebus
Phil Robertson
Ben Sasse
Bobby Jindal
Ron Johnson
6:30 PM - Registration & Exhibit Hall Close
8:00 PM - General Session Ends
8:30 AM - RLC Registration & Ronald Reagan Exhibit Hall Open
9:00 AM - Leadership Institute training
9:30 AM - GOP County/Parish Chairmen Workshop/Brunch (Email email@example.com for reservations)
9:30 AM - "Winning Women Voters" Brunch (Email email@example.com for reservations)
10:00 AM - Jazz Brunch
11:00 AM - Allen West book signing ($50 ticket required)
12:00 PM - General Session
Sharon Day
Tony Perkins
Betsy McCaughey
Haley Barbour
David Bossie
Donald Trump
Breakout Sessions
David Vitter
Allen West
Phil Bryant
Mike Lee
Newt Gingrich
General Session Ends
4:00 PM - General Session ends
4:00 PM - Newt and Callista Gingrich joint book signing
6:00 PM - Allen West Guardian Fund Reception ($250 ticket required)
6:30 PM - VIP Gala
7:00 PM - Registration & Exhibit Hall Close
7:00 PM - Kutless in concert (complimentary with RLC registration. Tickets required for others)
9:00 AM - RLC Registration & Ronald Reagan Exhibit Hall Open
9:00 AM - Leadership Institute training
10:00 AM - Prayer Breakfast with Ted Cruz
12:00 AM - General Session
Ted Cruz
Herman Cain
Michele Bachman
Breakouts Sessions
Rick Santorum
Steve King
Louie Gohmert
Marsha Blackburn
Rick Perry
Dinesh D'Souza
6:00 PM - General Session ends
6:30 PM - Maggie's List Reception
7:00 PM - Taste of Louisiana Dinner Reception
7:00 PM - Registration & Exhibit Hall Close
*Updated May 15, 2014. Please note: Due to the live nature of this event, times are subject to change.
For travel and arrangement purposes, please try to arrive in New Orleans on Thursday before 2:00 PM. If you are unable to arrive that early, note that most of our major speakers will address the conference after 6:00pm on Thursday…or on Friday or Saturday. If you arrive after midday on Friday, you will miss a significant number of major speakers. The Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY) is located 15.8 miles from the host hotel. The trip via car takes approximately 20 – 35 minutes, depending on traffic. Arrangements from the airport to hotel accommodations are the responsibility of the registrant. Join us at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside on May 29-31, 2014 for the 2014 Republican Leadership Conference.
We are pleased to announce that Donald J. Trump will address the 2014 Republican Leadership Conference. Mr. Trump will deliver the keynote address for RLC 2014 on the afternoon of May 30th in New Orleans. You won't want to miss this incredible event.
Donald J. Trump started his business career in an office he shared with his father, Fred, in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York. He worked with his father for five years, where they were busy making deals together. Mr. Trump has stated, "My father was my mentor and I learned a tremendous amount about every aspect of the construction industry from him." Likewise, Fred C. Trump often stated that "some of my best deals were made by my son, Donald … everything he touches turns to gold." Mr. Trump then entered the very different world of Manhattan real estate. As an accomplished and best selling author, Mr. Trump has had numerous best sellers including: The Art of the Deal, which is considered a business classic, The Art of the Comeback, The America We Deserve, How To Get Rich, Think Like a Billionaire, Trump 101, Why We Want You To Be Rich, Think Big, Never Give Up, Think Like a Champion, Midas Touch and Time to Get Tough.
Donald J. Trump is the very definition of the American success story. He has continually set new standards of excellence while expanding his interests nationally and internationally. Mr. Trump is personally involved in everything that his name represents. This commitment has made him the pre-eminent developer of quality real estate known around the world, and in all his endeavors the Trump gold standard is apparent. He is the archetypal businessman—a deal maker without peer and an ardent philanthropist. Don't miss RLC 2014 and the incredible Donald Trump. This will be the Republican event of the year.
Allen West has confirmed that he will speak to the 2014 Republican Leadership Conference. Colonel West, one of the conservative movement's most effective voices...and a former member of Congress from Florida...will be addressing RLC 2014 in New Orleans on May 31st.
"I look forward to seeing my friends from across the country at the 2014 Republican Leadership Conference," Col. West said.
Allen West first took an oath to support and defend our Constitution as a young Second Lieutenant in the United States Army. During his 22 years of service, he was distinguished by numerous commendations and honors for valor, achieving the rank of Lt. Colonel.
In 2010, Colonel West once again reaffirmed that oath when he became the first black Republican from Florida to serve in the United House Representatives in more than a century.
Now, he will join us in New Orleans on May 29th - 31st for one of the nation's premier political events of the year -- the 2014 Republican Leadership Conference.
Can I pay by check or money order?
If you do not want to submit your credit card on our secure website, you may choose to pay by check or money order. All checks should be made payable to Republican Leadership Conference, Inc., and be mailed to:Republican Leadership Conference, Inc. P.O. Box 80295, Baton Rouge, LA 70898
When will I receive my tickets?
The Republican Leadership Conference is a credentialed event. Credentials may be picked up on-site during registration. Registration will occur May 29th through Saturday, May 31st, 2014.
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If you register online with a credit card, you should receive a confirmation email immediately containing your receipt number and confirmation information. If you do not, please contact the RLC 2014 at (225) 572-3397. If you register by mail, you will receive a written confirmation by mail within a few weeks.
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WHAT MAKES HAIM RUN? Photographed with his wife, Cheryl, at home in Beverly Hills on June 20. Joe Pugliese
Haim Saban still hadn't decided whether or not to help Senator Barack Obama get elected president when he picked up the phone this summer and began planning an imaginary event.
The Hollywood billionaire—America's top political-campaign contributor—was still heartbroken over Senator Hillary Clinton's defeat. As one of her national finance chairs, he had single-handedly raised more than $1 million from his friends and associates, and her departure from the race had left him so bereft that he considered backing John McCain. When that idea met with opposition from Saban's wife, Cheryl, and their four children ("Are you kidding? We pounced on him," she recalled), the self-described "cartoon schlepper" (he made his first millions in kiddie TV) was left with two options. (View slideshow.)
"Option No. 1 is to vote for Obama, send him a $2,300 check, and sayonara—hope he wins," Saban said, citing the maximum donation allowed by an individual. "Option No. 2 is, Go big. If I'm going to go big, I have to go biggest. I have zero interest in being big. Biggest, I have an interest."
Nattily dressed in a blue blazer with gold buttons and a white open-collared shirt, the 63-year-old grandfather was sitting at the head of a gleaming table in the 26th-floor conference room of Saban Capital Group, the firm he founded in 2001 to manage his own $3.4 billion fortune. Running Saban Capital isn't his only job; he also owns several music-publishing companies and serves as chairman of Univision Communications, the largest Spanish-language media company in the United States, which he and a group of private equity partners took over in 2007.
An assistant buzzed on the phone. Saban had asked her to call his friend, the record producer David Foster, who was now holding.
"He's going to yell at me," Saban predicted, before picking up and yelling first: "Bubbe!" Then he got to the point: If he decided to "go big" for Obama, he wanted Foster to help him plan a fundraiser to eclipse all fundraisers, an event Saban was already calling "the concert of the year."
"I want to do something huge. I want Lionel Richie. I want Shakira. Of course we'll have Oprah. We'll have all that," he barked into the phone, describing what he imagined as a mid-September, $25,000-a-ticket event to be thrown in his "backyard"—the lush grounds, modeled on the gardens of Versailles, of his six-acre Beverly Hills estate. Foster said something that made Saban laugh. "No, I'm not working too hard. I'm enjoying myself!" he said, running a hand over his mane of thick black hair, which appeared to be held in place with shellac. "Are you in?"
Foster was in. But was Saban? "It depends first of all that I commit to myself that this is what I want to do," he told me after the call. "And I haven't yet."
Rainmakers like Haim Saban have always played a key role in politics. But this summer, when Senator Obama became the first major-party candidate to decline public financing since the system was created in 1976, über-fundraisers became even more essential.
That made Saban's indecision newsworthy. In late June, Obama—girding himself for a tough battle with McCain—began wooing Senator Clinton's top fundraisers in earnest. Clinton helped, asking more than 100 of her most persuasive money gatherers to meet Obama at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington. Most agreed to come, but some, including Saban, "pointedly rejected the request," reported the British weekly the Observer.
A few days earlier, John B. Emerson, a former White House official under Bill Clinton and a major supporter of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, helped organize a $28,500-a-couple event in Los Angeles that raised $5 million for Obama (much of it from those in the entertainment industry). Saban did not attend; soon, Daily Variety had singled him out as a "fervent" Hillraiser who had yet to endorse a candidate.
As Mike Medavoy, the former studio chief and mainstay of the Hollywood-Washington nexus, told me in July, "I think Haim has deliberately backed off."
Why such focus on a man best known for transforming a Japanese TV series into the '90s children's action show Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers? Because, in addition to being an unstoppable "bundler"—the polite term for those who are willing to wring cash out of their friends and colleagues—Saban has given more of his own money, nearly $13 million, than any other American to support candidates, political-action committees, and campaign committees since 1999, according to the Federal Election Commission. (The second-largest giver in the same period, Stephen Bing, trails Saban by more than $3 million.)
Moreover, because of Saban's vocal support of Israel, he is seen as something of a bellwether for other influential Jewish Americans. An endorsement from Saban, a self-described "right-wing crazy" when it comes to national security, would send a loud message to others who question Obama's determination to aggressively protect the Jewish state.
Saban admitted he'd been worried about Obama's commitment to Israel. But when the presumptive Democratic nominee ended his June speech to the lobbying group American Israel Public Affairs Committee by noting that Jewish Americans and African Americans had long stood "shoulder to shoulder" in periods of great social upheaval, Saban was moved.
"Him being aware of that, acknowledging that, shows that he may have a visceral commitment, as opposed to a logical or strategic one," Saban said. "That visceral affinity was a question mark for a lot of people. Well, it's no longer a question mark for me."
Still, something held Saban back. He blamed "logistics," his term for the scheduling problems that had thus far prevented him from sitting down with Obama before fully committing himself. But it was easy to wonder whether Saban's hesitation partly stemmed from the fact that he likes to be first, to be prescient, to see what others do not. He will never be able to say of Obama, as he could of Clinton, that he was there at the beginning. Financially and emotionally, it may be impossible for him to ever be Obama's "biggest."
A former Clinton fundraiser remembers coming upon an agitated Saban in February 2007, just weeks before an event to be held at the Beverly Hills home of supermarket magnate Ron Burkle. Saban, who'd been working day and night to boost attendance, had corralled Jonathan Mantz, Clinton's national finance director. "If I'm not No. 1," he said, meaning the evening's top fundraiser, "I'm going to cut my balls off."
Saban raised $800,000 that night—more than anyone else.
"Son of a bitch! Another three-pointer!" Saban is kvetching at his very large flat-screen TV as we sit down for our first interview. Game 2 of the N.B.A. finals is being played on the East Coast, so we're watching the Boston Celtics beat the Los Angeles Lakers from the family room of Saban's 26,000-square-foot home in a gated neighborhood in Beverly Hills. Saban doesn't have season tickets, though when the Lakers play at home, he always wheedles a floor seat.
"I call this one, that one—'Hey, you want a date?'" he says, munching nuts served by a crisply dressed British "house manager" named Justin. Among Saban's recent conquests: Avi Lerner, the B-movie mogul who, like Saban, grew up in Israel, and Jim Wiatt, C.E.O. of the William Morris Agency—twice. "For the three games that are coming up, I schnorred," Saban boasts. "Tickets are $15,000 to $20,000. But I didn't have to buy anything. Think about it: a $60,000 savings!"
When I observe that this confirms his reputation as a tough dealmaker, he feigns hurt feelings. "Tough? Look at me!" he commands. "Do you see toughness? I'm a huggable little lamb! What are you talking?" He smiles a smile more crocodilian than sheepish and reaches for my tape recorder.
"You have a man in your life?" he asks, pushing the off button.
Saban is relentless. Ask anybody.
"Tenacious," says Bob Iger, president and C.E.O. of Disney.
"Indefatigable. Overwhelming. Undeterrable," says Steve Rattner, the managing principal of Quadrangle Group, an investment firm.
"He's constantly focusing on 'Where am I going with this? What's the next move?'" says Peter Chernin, chief operating officer of News Corp., who's been on both sides of the negotiating table with Saban. "When he has something he's trying to build, Haim is like a dog with a bone."
A classic Hollywood story involves Gene Simmons of Kiss. In the late '90s, as co-owner of the Fox Family Channel, Saban was developing shows for children. Simmons, the fire-breathing, blood-spitting frontman of a rock band in costumes and face paint, pitched Saban an idea for a new Saturday-morning cartoon: Kiss meets X-Men, the Marvel comics superhero team. Saban liked the concept well enough to convene a meeting with Avi Arad, then C.E.O. of Marvel's toy division.
At the appointed time, Saban, Arad, and Simmons sat down. The meeting was going well, and the three began to haggle over numbers. Then Saban turned to Arad and, referring to Simmons, confided in Hebrew, "Now we gut him like a fish." Without missing a beat, Simmons—who, unbeknownst to Saban, was born Chaim Witz in Haifa, Israel—replied in Hebrew, "You asshole. I'm one of you."
When asked about this story, Simmons laughs and says he "vaguely" remembers "something along those lines."
Saban says he has no memory of the conversation but acknowledges it "may have" taken place. "People I deal with, for the most part, are very smart people," he adds. "I mean, sometimes I gut them like a fish, and sometimes they gut me like a fish, you know?"
In business as well as in politics, Saban plays the mensch, but his charm fails to hide an all-consuming drive to succeed. He is generous but also ruthless; aggressive yet patient enough to wait for the best moment to strike; poker-faced but at times utterly transparent; analytical and strategic with moments of startling self-contradiction.
Saban's memories of growing up poor in Alexandria, Egypt, have prompted him to make huge gifts to Los Angeles-area educational institutions, hospitals, and free clinics, particularly those that serve children. In that way, indisputably, Saban and his wife are champions of the underprivileged.
Yet when rules designed to protect the public's access to the Pacific Ocean interfered with his privacy at his stucco-and-stone Malibu beach house, he was quick to join his neighbors on so-called Billionaire's Beach to seek—and win—an exemption to keep outsiders off that stretch. Philanthropist Eli Broad took the lead, Saban says, in asking the California Coastal Commission to allow them to buy an 80-foot section of beach a mile away and turn it into a public park.
Saban's stance on social issues is liberal. He's pro-choice, pro-nationalized health care, even pro-taxes. "Higher taxes for people like me to help others who are less fortunate—that's okay by me," he'll say. But just last year, he settled with the Internal Revenue Service after admitting to using offshore tax shelters in 2001 to avoid paying at least $300 million on the $1.5 billion he pocketed when Disney bought his share of Fox Family Worldwide. In his testimony, he told Senate investigators that he had received bad advice: "You have before you a very disappointed person, who feels misled, lied to, cheated."
Saban's family fled Egypt for Tel Aviv during the Suez Crisis in 1956. He was 12, old enough to understand the shame his father, a toy salesman, endured as he struggled, selling pencils and erasers door-to-door. For years, Saban says, he lived with his grandmother, parents, and younger brother in one room and shared a bathroom with prostitutes and their pimp. At 15 or 16, around the time he started playing bass—"badly," he says—in a Beatles cover band called the Lions, Saban would lie in bed and imagine being rich.
"Before I went to sleep, I'd close my eyes and think about it," he recalls, "which for me meant I would own a car—the biggest car! American! I wanted to own a Chevrolet Impala."
He would own that Impala, but not until after the 1973 Yom Kippur War wiped out a business he'd started that promoted concerts and managed bands. In 1975, he moved to Paris, where he got the chance to record one of his clients singing the theme song for a cartoon called Goldorak. He was miffed when he had to foot the $2,000 bill for the recording session, but later, he'd be grateful. Because he'd paid to produce it, he owned the master, so when Goldorak became a huge hit and its theme song started selling, Saban made a gigantic profit. He realized he'd found his niche.
He moved to Los Angeles in 1983. Around that time, he discovered that the music accompanying cartoons was the mother lode.
"It's really simple to understand," he explains. "If you watch a half-hour sitcom, you hear a little music at the beginning, a little at the end. But cartoons open with music, have music all along and music at the end. I'm still making money on those cartoons." He pauses, then whispers, "Millions!"
He pursued his fortune with typical single-mindedness. According to the performing rights agency BMI, Saban is the composer or co-author of a staggering 3,700 musical themes, song cues, and other works. That achievement came into question in 1998, when several composers alleged that they had written much of the music for which Saban and others took credit. That year, the Hollywood Reporter launched an investigation into Saban's music-publishing empire, stating that composers were paid by the hour to write music that Saban then claimed he had authored.
One of the composers, Ron Wasserman, said that he wrote the original Power Rangers theme as well as hundreds of hours of other music, but for years got no writing credit. It was no secret; the no-credit clause was clearly set forth in his and other writers' contracts with Saban, Wasserman tells me. "It was paid college, that's really what it was," he says. The system wasn't fair, he adds, "but had I not had that, I wouldn't be where I am today. I certainly have no hard feelings." Wasserman has gone on to write (and receive credit for) music for America's Next Top Model, among other shows.
According to Saban, 10 composers threatened to sue him for $1 million each. "Yeah," he tells me, "and we settled for $10,000 a pop. They knew they had zero case. They were totally wrong."
By the mid-'80s, Saban had begun dabbling not just in music but in the cartoons themselves. While in Tokyo on business, he saw a children's TV show called Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger. He paid $500,000 for the rights to air the program outside Asia and would spend the next eight years trying to persuade an American network to remake it, calling it Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. Later, he bought the TV rights to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from the comic book's creators.
"When I first met him, the license plate on his car, a brown Rolls-Royce, was rsktkr1," recalls Cheryl. An author of self-help books, she remains, at 57, one of the greatest-looking women in Los Angeles. She married Saban in 1987, a year after becoming his assistant (though you might say she has married him three times—they renew their vows every 10 years).
In the summer of 1993, Saban finally persuaded the Fox network to put Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers on the air. The campy live-action show, about five spandex-wearing teenagers who defend Earth from evildoers, was no Sesame Street. But it was an overnight success. Within weeks, it was the top-rated kids' program.
Saban quickly used his new leverage to forge a joint venture with Fox. By that point, he had bought up 3,500 half-hour episodes of children's TV, while Fox had the distribution channel, reaching 98 million homes. Saban, who ran the venture, called it "a natural marriage." Believing (rightly) that 24-hour cable channels aimed at children were going to have the advantage over networks that only showed kiddie fare on weekday afternoons and Saturdays, he helped persuade Fox's corporate parent, News Corp., to buy Pat Robertson's Family Channel. The deal gave Saban a 50 percent stake in the new entity, called Fox Family Channel.
In 2006, once Saban had become a billionaire, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz dubbed him "a kind of Great Gatsby. Our Great Gatsby."
But poverty would never be far enough away. Today, Saban keeps 10 percent of his total investment portfolio "protected—it generates the minimum interest that money can generate. It's very secure." Saban jokes that he's created a new asset class known as N.P.A.
"What do you think N.P.A. stands for?" he asks. "Never Poor Again."
A Los Angeles rabbi tells me to ask Saban what he did in the Israeli army. Without fail, the rabbi swears, these job assignments reveal key character traits. Saban is startled.
"Nobody's ever asked me that before," he says. He grins as he reveals the answer: trash collector.
"But I'll tell you what: I asked for that job. They gave me a desk job. And I thought, I don't think so. I can't sit. Details drive me crazy. Trash, you're doing something. What's dirty now is clean. I like cleaning up mess."
But polishing a tarnished asset is different from building a new one. Which may explain why Saban's overseeing Fox Family Channel was not a big success. After Power Rangers, in fact, Saban never developed another hit, and News Corp.'s Chernin would later acknowledge to Forbes that Fox was "disappointed" by the channel's slow progress.
Still, no one at Fox was disappointed by what happened next. Five years into the partnership, Saban exercised a "put" option he'd written into the original deal that triggered the sale of his half of the channel. News Corp. decided to sell too. The timing couldn't have been better, and Chernin gives Saban credit for it. "He was clever enough to see then, at the end of 2000, the beginning of 2001, that there was a great potential leverage position between Nickelodeon and Disney to sell this thing," Chernin said of the events leading up to Disney's purchase of Fox Family for $5.2 billion. "He was extremely perceptive about thinking which way the business was going."
Today, everyone agrees that Disney overpaid. The channel, renamed ABC Family Worldwide, "struggled initially. We definitely paid what we call full price. It's a euphemism, and we'll leave it at that," said Iger, whose predecessor as Disney C.E.O., Michael Eisner, did the deal.
Flush with $1.5 billion of Disney's cash, Saban set his sights on another prize: the German broadcasting company ProSieben, whose owner, KirchMedia, one of the largest media companies in Europe, was near bankruptcy. It was yet another deal in which Saban's strategic timing and schmoozing abilities would pay off. Saban soothed regulators concerned that a foreigner at ProSieben's helm would use the broadcaster as his personal pulpit. He also pulled some political strings, prevailing on the American ambassador to Germany, among many others.
"I had to go see the heads of the media authorities on a state-by-state basis," Saban says. "There are 16 states and 16 communications commissions there. They're not all agreeing on the way the media should be handled. Au contraire! I spent a lot of time going from Chancellor Schröder, whom I met a few times, to the prime minister of Bavaria and the minister of communications of Bavaria."
When Saban learned that ProSieben would be his, he was on a tour of the concentration camp at Dachau. "I was in the crematorium when the phone vibrated in my pocket," he says, recalling how he stepped outside. "My whole body was shivering like this." He hugs himself. "It was like the closing of a circle. For a Jew to own this property, it really meant to me that the world had significantly changed for the better."
Saban was deeply involved in making ProSieben profitable again, "maniacally" so, Quadrangle's Rattner says. Saban sent its newscasters to Fox News to study how to be more engaging. He replaced all its managers except its chief financial officer. He revamped its children's programming and insisted that the company do a German version of a Colombian soap opera that would later become a big hit in the U.S. as Ugly Betty.
"Through the roof!" is Saban's description of the way the German Ugly Betty performed. And last year, Saban sold his 50.5 percent controlling stake in ProSieben to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Permira for a total of $4 billion. In three and a half years, he had turned his original $270 million investment into $970 million, including fees.
Right now, that same drive is focused on Univision, which Saban began coveting back in 2005. That was the year he paid a visit to Jerry Perenchio, Univision's founder, at his Bel Air home. Saban thought Perenchio had done a great job of building Univision into a multichannel force in TV, cable, and radio. But he also knew there was bad blood between Perenchio and Grupo Televisa, the Mexican entertainment giant that produced much of Univision's most popular programming. "I thought, There's an opportunity there," Saban says. "Let me go finagle."
Perenchio wasn't selling, but suggested Saban keep in touch with a monthly phone call. Saban called every two weeks.
When Perenchio finally did decide to sell, Saban and his partners weren't the only bidders. Televisa, which already owned 11 percent of Univision, joined with Bain Capital and Bill Gates' Cascade Investment to offer $12.2 billion. Saban—along with Providence Equity Partners, Madison Dearborn Partners, TPG, and Thomas H. Lee Partners—bested the Televisa bid by about 50 cents a share, offering $12.3 billion. Perenchio and his board accepted the offer.
Now, a year in, chairman Saban and his partners have installed a new C.E.O., Joe Uva, who was running the advertising agency OMD. That hire is key, because their investment thesis is predicated not on merely capturing two-thirds or more of the ad dollars spent in Spanish-language media, as Univision has for years, but on enjoying a bigger slice of the total ad pie. Hispanic buying power is growing 50 percent faster than non-Hispanic, and Saban says it will hit $1 trillion in 2010. But Univision, which some nights beats the major English-language networks in prime-time ratings, still reaps just 3 percent of the total ad dollars spent in this country, even though it captures more than 6 percent of total viewing, according to Nielsen ratings provided by Univision.
But perhaps Saban's most important job at Univision is to mend fences with Televisa. Before Saban and his partners bought in, Televisa had filed a lawsuit claiming Univision was cheating them out of more than $100 million in unpaid royalties. Lately, Saban says, he has been working full-time trying to settle the lawsuit.
The stakes are high: Advertising revenue generated by Televisa programming accounted for $538 million of the $2.1 billion Univision took in last year. If the case goes to trial and Televisa prevails, a long-term agreement between the companies could be terminated, and Televisa could go so far as to use its leverage to regain an ownership stake in Univision.
Jonathan Nelson, C.E.O. of Providence Equity, is optimistic. "I expect this to be resolved, and that would not happen without Haim," he says. "He, with every move, impresses us. You can't help becoming a fan."
It's rare that Saban doesn't get his way. But sometimes his famously outside-the-box thinking is too far out. That was the case in September 2007, when he requested a meeting with Paula Kerger, C.E.O. of the Public Broadcasting Service.
Saban had decided to get back into children's programming. His first project was Hollywood Star Dogs, which featured live-action talking mutts. But in order to compete with Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and the Disney Channel, he needed distribution. "I offered PBS $250 million to relinquish control to me of their kids' business," Saban says, recalling his meeting with Kerger. "Very nice lady, but she said, 'We can't co-develop programs.' I said, 'You don't understand. Forget about the programs. We'll figure out the programs. I need access to the home.' It did not go past the first meeting."
Kerger remembers the meeting vividly. "I've spent my whole life raising money," she says. "I've never walked away from $250 million in my life." But Saban's plan, she says, wouldn't work. "His original idea was that he was going to give me the money to fully fund some of the programs that were already on the schedule. Then, over time, we would just replace them with his stuff," says Kerger, who has made quality children's programming a priority since she took over in 2006. "I said, 'Yeah, I don't think that's going to work.' It's the difference between seeing children as consumers or as citizens in the making. This was a business deal for him. And I'm looking at it from the perspective of trying to empower kids. It was just too big a gap."
She adds, "He was very insistent. Very."
He still is. Saban told me he considers Kerger's rebuff of his offer "a sin! If there was entrepreneurship at PBS, they should have grabbed me and said, 'Let's talk.'"
Saban's disdain for second place is not a new development.
Back in 2000, his full-time political adviser, Laura Hartigan—the former finance director for the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign—delivered some bad news: Saban's $250,000 gift to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had been dwarfed by someone who'd given $500,000. "I said, 'What the fuck is that about?'" he says, recalling how he immediately sent a check for another $250,000 and attached a $1 bill to maintain his dominance. "No. 2 doesn't fly for me," he says, when asked about it.
In 2002, Saban gave the Democratic National Committee $7 million to help build a new headquarters in Washington. Former Democratic Party Chairman Terry McAuliffe would later remark, "Haim Saban saved the Democratic Party."
Saban began donating money to Bill Clinton in the early 1990s, prompted, he says, by concern that support for Israel was softening. He would tell Haaretz that when he first met the president, "something started spinning in my gut." Soon, Saban and his family were invited to the White House. He has since donated $7 million and pledged $3 million more to the Clinton Foundation.
Saban is known for persuading other people to give as well. He can cajole not just in English and Hebrew but also in French, Italian, and Spanish. And he doesn't just help Democrats. In 2006, when California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was running for reelection, Saban and his wife hosted a fundraiser. Before the 2000 presidential election, Saban, like many in Hollywood, hedged his bets, donating to both Al Gore and John McCain. In 2003, he gave to John Kerry and George W. Bush.
But with Hillary Clinton, it was different. He was ideologically smitten. "She is tender and tough," he says fondly.
He likes to say he endorsed Senator Clinton before she endorsed herself. This was in December 2006, when she attended the Saban Forum, an annual conference on U.S.-Israeli relations hosted by the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, a Brookings Institution think tank that Saban founded in 2002 with a $13 million gift. During lunch, he told her, "You're running." She demurred, saying she'd make up her mind over the holidays.
Saban went home and immediately put together a list of potential donors—"every person in my Rolodex that I could call." In January 2007, "when she said, 'I'm in to win,' I made the first phone call." It would be the first of thousands.
"It would go like this," he says, with a mix of pride and weariness. "They'd say, 'No, no, no, I'm completely Obama.' I'd say, 'I'm not asking you not to be Obama. I'm just asking you to send me a check from you and your wife, maximizing to Hillary.' They'd say, 'I'm Obama! I'm holding an event for him!' I'd say, 'I understand. Just write me the check.' They'd say, 'Okay, will you write me a check for Obama?'I'd say, 'No, I won't. Because I'm different for Hillary than you are for Obama.' "
Wiatt, the William Morris C.E.O. (and one of Hollywood's earliest Obama supporters), couldn't resist Saban's pitch: He and his wife gave $4,600 to Clinton. "He's that person you can't say no to," Wiatt says. "At least I can't." Terry Semel, the former chairman of both Yahoo and Warner Bros., is a huge supporter of Republican candidates. Saban convinced him, too, to max out to Clinton.
Saban's no-stone-unturned approach caused rifts within families. "Haim called my son, David, who runs the TVG channel for Fox," says Marc Nathanson, a cable executive who was also drumming up support for Clinton. "I didn't think of calling my own children until we were hosting a fundraiser for Hillary at our house. David said, 'Dad, Haim already called me.' I said, 'David you're my son!'"
"Homewrecker is what Marc called me," Saban says, pleased. "I thought Hillary could be the greatest president ever, and when you believe in something, you have to give it your whole."
He may have made one call too many. In May, the Huffington Post reported that Saban telephoned David Hardt, the president of the Young Democrats of America, and offered to donate $1 million (equivalent to one-third of the group's 2008 budget) if he would commit Y.D.A.'s two superdelegates to Senator Clinton. The website, which cited four anonymous sources, noted that technically speaking, at least, such an offer was not necessarily out of bounds. But Saban delivered a terse denial. "It's simply not true," he said.
To me, he offers what he calls the first full accounting of what happened (which he refused to give to the "shmegegge from the Huffington Post," as he puts it, because the reporter surprised him on his cell phone while he was at the pharmacy). "I had a list of people to call who were superdelegates, and like everybody else in the Clinton camp, I made those calls," he says. When he got Hardt on the phone, "he said to me, 'I am 100 percent a Hillary person. I am afraid to come out officially for Hillary because the Obama people told us that they would cut their support of us.' And I said, 'What does that mean, cut the support?' He said, 'Well, they're going to stop funding us.' And I said, 'Well, how much money is involved?' And he said, 'A half a million dollars.' I said, 'Well, if that problem
was taken care of, would you then consider doing the right thing and declaring what you believe to be the best thing for the country?'"
Saban says he had a similar conversation with the other uncommitted Y.D.A. delegate. In both cases, he said, the Y.D.A. members thanked him for his generous offer and said they wanted to consult their colleagues about it. He never spoke to them again.
"A million dollars was never offered," he says. "They mentioned a half a million dollars—each of them did. Had they said yes, I would have gone back and checked the legality of it, to see if I can raise the money. I was asking a theoretical question." A spokesman for the Y.D.A. said Hardt and the organization had no comment.
What did Saban get in return for all his political efforts? What he wanted, he says, was the chance to be heard by people with the power to make policy. Sure, his association with the Clintons has helped in business. In 2004, when he still had a stake in ProSieben, the New York Times reported that he had invited Germany's most prominent advertising executives to dinner at his home. The guest of honor: former President Clinton.
But most of all, it seems, the Clintons made him feel like he belonged. Those who saw him with Senator Clinton up close would remark on the affection he bestowed upon her. On June 3, the night Clinton made her wait-and-see speech—the prelude to her official concession a few days later—Saban was there, and he looked positively shattered, says a fellow Clinton fundraiser who saw him.
"He was milling about, not really talking to anyone," the fundraiser recalls. "He wasn't the schmoozy Haim, or the aggressive Haim." Instead, he was the Haim who can't bear to lose—at a complete loss.
"Who do you think introduced Barack Obama to me? Hillary! Interesting irony," Saban says one day, recalling how, back when Obama was first running for the U.S. Senate, Clinton persuaded him to host a fundraiser.
More recently, while Clinton was still trouncing Obama in the polls, Saban ran into Obama again on the tarmac of a Washington airport. It was late at night, and when Saban landed his jet and saw a Gulfstream surrounded by Secret Service agents, he just assumed Clinton was aboard.
"I went up and said, 'I'd like to speak to the senator. She's a friend of mine.' I turn around and see Obama walking down the stairs," he recalls. "So I called him. 'Barack! Barack!' I said, 'It's Haim!' This was when he was really struggling in the numbers. I said to him, 'Look, campaigns are campaigns, and no one knows how things evolve. If you get the nomination, I'll be there with bells and whistles.' And he said, 'If she gets the nomination, I'll be there with bells and whistles.' "
Saban pauses. "So that was then," he says.
And now? Saban laughs when he says that he alienated many of his neighbors in his gated community (who include Denzel Washington and Sylvester Stallone) by pushing them so hard to support Clinton. "I would say things to them like, 'Why, why would you not want to join me and the winner?'" Now, when he drives past them on the manicured roads that connect their estates, he says their faces and body language scream: "We told you!"
"They're all Obama," he says, with a shrug. "They don't like me." He is only half joking.
Since Clinton's concession, Saban reports, he has spoken on the phone with Obama twice. They agreed to sit down with 50 or so other Clinton donors the next time Obama is in Los Angeles. Saban missed his first opportunity, though, on a day when Obama was available but, Saban says, he had to chair a board-of-directors meeting. When I suggest that his relationship with Obama could never compare with his 14-year friendship with the Clintons, Saban says, "Well, you never know. I have to state very clearly that we had a great chemistry on the few times that we met." As of late July, though, no meeting was on the books.
Twenty-six floors up, in the Saban Capital conference room, Saban stands suddenly and walks to a north-facing window with a panoramic view.
"See that country club down there?" he asks, waving an arm in the direction of a vast, verdant golf course. "The Los Angeles Country Club." Saban remarks that, as far as he knows, the club admits no Jews, blacks, or Hispanics. (The club declined to comment.) He smooths his hair as if to comfort himself. "I am very happy," he says, "that I can look at them from way up here."
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During a postulated loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA) (complete severance of a primary coolant pipe) the upper barrel of the reactor internals in a pressurized water reactor is subjected to dynamic differential pressures. In case of a sudden hot-leg break, the initial disturbance is a compressive triangular pulse approximately uniformly distributed with the pressure rising to a peak of 250 psi in ∼ 0.010 sec and dropping to 0 in 0.020 sec. The possible response under this impulsive compressive pressure is dynamic instability (buckling) and/or large deflections of the upper core barrel. In the present paper, the dynamic response of the barrel under the actual triangular pulse is analyzed and, to obtain margins of safety, compared with the response to assumed more severe loading conditions. The response of the barrel to the pressure pulse consists initially in a uniform radial inward movement and results, therefore, in compressive hoop stresses (hoop response). Deviations of the barrel shape from the circular cross section (initial imperfections of the order of the manufacturing tolerances) result in circumferential bending moments and the excitation of higher shell modes (flexural response). For the actual triangular pulse the analysis shows that the dynamic effects are small and the occurring stresses and deflections are close to the values obtained by loading the shell statically with the pressure . For the step loads that are applied to investigate the margin of safety of the shell, the dynamic effects are no longer negligible and result in stresses above yield for p* = 350 psi and p* = 500 psi. However, for these loading cases, the maximum deflections remain on the order of magnitude of the initial imperfections and the barrel is therefore considered stable.
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École La Dignité
Mme Vieux walks to work. She commutes maybe 15 minutes down the road, and another 10 off of it, through a creek where people wash their bicycles and up a steep, informal road to her school's perch on top of a hill. It's a workout every day, she says, but she can't complain–the view from the yellow gate of the southern coast is breathtaking.
220 primary school students share this view, though the don't necessarily share the climb. The Madame's school serves mostly communities from inland–kids from up to 3 km away who nonetheless have the special privilege of attending the only free private school in the Jacmel area.
École Dignité–School of Dignity–provides a series of clean and well-lit classrooms for children grades 1-6. Mme Vieux wants to expand operations by two additional grades, and, given her situation it's an almost guaranteed success. One of the reasons Haitian children drop out of school before secondary school even begins is that their parents can no longer afford to send them.
Mme Vieux doesn't have to worry about that. Her school is being supported by a private funder and she is comfortable enough to run a progressive institution. She shows us the vegetable garden where volunteer students tend to small crops of eggplant and assorted beans. Her cafeteria provides students with a hearty breakfast ("I need them to have energy for their brains," she clarifies "not energy for playing soccer [after school]!") Her latrines on the corner of the property are immaculate-tile-covered stalls and urinals practically sparkle in the sun.
Mme Vieux's classrooms are tidy. Square rooms with wooden benches. Modestly-bound books of Kreyol stories and pictures ares stacked by the metal door. A chalkboard on two stilts leans against the front wall. Natural light wanders in through a grid of oval-shaped openings. One of these rooms is for special needs, another for community meetings. The end room on the second floor of the rear building has a third wall of gridded openings and is reserved for grade 6.
She leads us to her office/library which is modest. A small gas generator is tucked into the corner. École Dignité doesn't have electricity, but she brings the generator out to power a television for Friday movies. She doesn't mind not having power–you don't need it for the lessons, and even community meetings, whether it be the women's league or the fishermen's association, always wrap up before the sun goes down.
But that's not to say things couldn't use some improving. Especially as the new classrooms are serving secondary school kids with advanced needs. We've been asked to design these additional rooms for 7-9th graders, but are entertaining a lot of ideas in the spirit of École Dignité. The kids could certainly benefit from a computer lab, through which they might take their ambitions to a much higher level. Off-the-grid electrification is extremely doable considering Haiti's abundant sun and the hilltop's constant wind.
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Canuck season ticket holders must commit to next season's package by the end of March or the club will offer seats to its waiting list of 4,000 fans who want about 8,000 seats. The Canucks cap season ticket sales at about 17,000 seats, leaving about 1,600 single-game seats for each game. Single-game Canucks tickets for next season will increase by a similar amount, with prices next year expected to range from about $50 to $224.At a 95% renewal rate, looks like turnover of Canucks Season Tickets is about 150-200 tickets per year. If my math is correct, expect a wait of 20 years if you join Blue Line, the Vancouver Canucks Season Tickets Waiting List, today.
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- Anonymous said...
Your math is wrong and misleading. There are 17000 seats alloted to season ticket holders. 95% renewal means the 850 tickets come free each year... not 150-200
So, the waiting list time is just under 5 years. Also, the Canucks addedd seating which reduced the timeline. I started at 4000+ and in one year down to 2200.
- November 5, 2009 at 12:25 PM
- Anonymous said...
I talked to them today. average wait is 3-4 years. Also the $50 annual fee covers up to your 4 tickets. It doesn't cost $50 annually per ticket. The annual charge happens at the start of every season, so it's best to register in October, not September cause then you pay $50 twice within a couple weeks.
- May 11, 2010 at 1:51 PM
- Anonymous said...
the math is wrong in both of the above....i teach math!
based on the numbers above, there are 17,00 season ticket seats
the claim is that each year about 5% come up for people waiting on the list
it says there are about 4000 people waiting for 8000 seats.
so, 5% of 17000 seats per year is 17000*0.05 = 850
there are about 850 seats up for grabs each year.
at 850 seats per year, you will wait roughly 10 years for the 8000 seats to come available. to be exact, you expect to wait 8000/850 = 9.4 years
- January 19, 2011 at 6:31 PM
- Anonymous said...
^ it is less than that since some people go for half season (meaning 2 people on the wait list can split a full season of games) and others get ice packs (11 or 15 games), meaning 3 people on the wait list can split a full season of games.
i registered today and was told 5 - 6.
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"For now we can't say anything. But what you ought to know is it's illegal to do oil bunkering from this point and then the spillage itself is dangerous," said Mbereri.
KPA operations manager Twalif Hamisi said he was not sure if a license had been issued to a company or organisation to store oil in the area.


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Properly installed brakes should never be making a popping sound. The problem is likely just that. The brakes were not installed properly. A popping noise due to recently installed brakes is likely due to improperly installed brake pads. If the brake pads weren't set right the brake tends to make a popping sound due to the way they are manipulated when in use. If you have had new brake pads installed and they are making a popping sound you should bring your car back to the shop where they were installed and inform them of your problem. There is a good chance they will adjust the brake pads for free! It is also good to bring your car back to a shop because there is a chance that the installation of the brake pads and the popping sound are just a coincidence and have nothing to do with each other. You don't want to take risks concerning the form of transportation that could potentially take your life if not functioning properly.
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How often do you go to church? Wait—before you answer—be honest!
It turns out that when taking surveys, many Americans exaggerate how often they go to church. And Catholics and Mainline Protestants are the worst offenders.
According to a story on ChristianPost.com, when answering questions from a live interviewer, Americans tend to overestimate how often they attend services. Since church attendance is considered positive behavior, social psychologists call this a "social desirability bias."
When answering the same questions on an anonymous internet survey, the social desirability bias doesn't have the same effect. So researchers compared the results of phone surveys to those of internet surveys.
Among all Americans, they study found a five percentage point difference for frequent church attendance.
People who don't attend church very often tend to REALLY exaggerate when talking to a live interviewer—they inflate the number by about 13%
The study found some differences among denominations, age groups, and regions of the country. Catholics, Mainline Protestants, young people, Northeasterners and Westerners were more prone to exaggeration than Evangelicals, Black Protestants, elderly people, and Southerners.
Interestingly, people who don't have ANY religious affiliation also showed the same "social desirability bias" telling the interviewer that they attended church.
Researcher Daniel Cox says "Even among Americans who claim no religious affiliation, the social pressure to report at least nominal religious engagement is still quite strong. Very few people are willing to admit that they never attend religious services, even though many of us don't."
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'The Hills' Lauren Conrad engaged to William Tell - See the ringAdd to Favorites | The Hills
Love is in the air for the cast of "The Hills." First Jason Wahler married model Ashley Slack on Saturday (October 12), then came the news that Lauren Conrad has gotten engaged to her boyfriend, songwriter William Tell.
Conrad shared the news, and a photo of the engagement ring, on her blog, writing, "I am very excited to share with you guys that William and I got engaged over the weekend." The couple began dating in 2012.
The next step is planning the affair, which Lauren says she will be writing about on her blog. The big question is which of her former castmates, if any, will be in attendance?
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June 4, 2010
BATON ROUGE – The Teaching, Learning & Curriculum Section of the American Accounting Association recently published a scholarly monograph co-edited by E. J. Ourso College of Business KPMG Endowed Professor Larry Crumbley. Crumbley worked on the project with Ronald Flinn, accounting associate professor at Creighton University.
The monograph, Measuring Learning Rather than Satisfaction in Higher Education, is comprised of 13 articles that attack administrators' misuse of Student Evaluation of Teachers, known as SETs.
In an interview with the AAA, Crumbley said the dysfunctional education system based upon the misguided concept that students are customers has allowed "the inmates to be in charge of the prison."
According to the monograph's preface, professors today are hired, fired, promoted, tenured and punished largely based on student opinions. Crumbley and Flinn contend in the preface that most professors are now in the satisfaction business instead of the teaching business because of SETs.
Crumbley and Flinn, in the monograph preface, encourage those concerned with higher education and student learning to inspect the current system, which "allows administrators to increase retention rates at the expense of learning."
The Department of Accounting at LSU's E. J. Ourso College of Business strives for excellence in teaching, research and service to the accounting profession. With a mission of producing graduates at all levels who excel in their pursuits, the department offers undergraduate and graduate programs that prepare students for careers in various fields, including industry, auditing, finance, government and academia.
Source: http://www.bus.lsu.edu/students/news/stories/2010.06.04_Crumbley.asp
Accessed June 07, 2010.
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Surveilance Camera Shows Chilling Footage of Suspect Lurking Over Toddler's Crib [Video]
It's not so much about the laptop and the $60 in a wallet.
These parents might have lost something irreplaceable.
It's not so much about the laptop and the $60 in a wallet.
These parents might have lost something irreplaceable.
This soldier dad told his daughter to clean her room.
When she didn't, he handled it the way the military would.
Have you ever worked for a boss that deserved a letter like this?
My husband always took care of our children's loose teeth, but this method wouldn't fly in my house.
I'm very surprised that he didn't try this, though.
Could you resist him?
This video, uploaded just two days ago, has close to 11 million views.
See why...and be ready to have your heart touched.
I suppose it's a well known job hazard, but wow!
See what happened to Daniel Alfredsson during Tuesday night's game.
Many of our local communities rely on the services of volunteer firefighters, and they deserve a big "thank you"!
Keep in mind, if they are volunteering in their hometown, there is always the risk of having to deal with this.
A six-year old with a huge heart has started a fund raising effort for his best friend, eight year-old James McNees, who's still fighting for his life after a tragic sledding accident in North Branch recently. It's truly heart warming to see how local communities have responded.
Need a reason to smile today? Read on...
All of this snow is good for something...sledding!
Check this out.
You'll wonder if anyone dies as you watch this!
This might have ended badly with a snow blower!


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Thanks man, really appreciate it.
It's cool
I've got the mod panel open, so if the posts get flagged, just keep posting the rest. I'll make sure that they get approved.
Sorry to be the thorn in your ass, but approval is needed. I think EWN has it out for RTE
First closed thread? How's the power feel? Lol
Happy birthday bro, go out and celebrate Black Blooded style
DId Shaz ever send his promo to you?
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Saw that, sorry, posted an update in the thread.
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After the announcement of the split, a pall hung over the paper.
How the dominant blue-gray coloring was like a pall hanging over the material?
It cast this pall over the movie, which was one of my favorites of last year.
Old English pæll "rich cloth or cloak, purple robe, altar cloth," from Latin pallium "cloak, coverlet, covering," in Tertullian, the garment worn by Christians instead of the Roman toga; related to pallo "robe, cloak," palla "long upper garment of Roman women," perhaps from the root of pellis "skin." Notion of "cloth spread over a coffin" (mid-15c.) led to figurative sense of "dark, gloomy mood" (1742).
"become tiresome," 1700, from Middle English pallen "to become faint, fail in strength" (late 14c.), shortened form of appallen "to dismay, fill with horror or disgust" (see appall). Related: Palled; palling.


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Who Knew?: President Obama Shows Off Singing Voice at Harlem Fundraiser With Al Green's "Let's Stay Together"
It's probably not a stretch to say that the crowd at this Harlem fundraiser got a sweet surprise when the commander in chief serenaded them with a few bars of a classic Al Green song. President Obama has a shockingly good voice, if we say so ourselves!
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DES MOINES, Iowa - On the February 5th Agribusiness Report: The U.S. Senate passed a five-year Farm Bill, the bill now heads to President Obama for a signature. When that happens, it will be the first agriculture act to pass in almost six years.
And the continued snow and ice is bad news for farmers dealing with the Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus. Researchers at Iowa State University say they recently discovered a new, separate strand of the virus.
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Progress is difference. So wrote Herbert Spencer, the great English philosopher, scientist, and defender of individual liberty a century ago. Spencer's insight is simple—one might even say obvious—yet profound. He lived in an age, as do we, which took progress for granted, and very few people ever stop to analyze the essential nature of that which is taken for granted. Spencer did. What he is telling us is that if people are not at liberty to try something different, something out of the ordinary, if they have always to follow the traditional or approved course of action, then we would never discover any improvements at all.
Without difference, our products, services, and institutions would never have advanced beyond the level of our most primitive ancestors. Indeed, Spencer would point out, the physical advancement of the human species itself from a comparatively small-brained, ape-like creature to its present state has come about entirely due to the beneficial effect of differences. Changes which improved our chances for survival were incorporated; those which did not were selected against. That is the way natural selection works.
Unfortunately, as I said before, we live in an age which has seen so much progress that progress has come to be taken for granted. The danger in this is that we seem to be losing sight of the fact that progress is not a dependable, eternal given like the sun rising in the east. For there to be progress, there must be freedom to try new approaches. This explains why the communist bloc nations have such low standards of living and never invent anything which is useful to man in his striving to live his life comfortably. Under tightly controlled and centrally planned societies, deviations from the standard are not permitted. Unwittingly (in most cases), the advocates of increased government ownership and regulation (which is de facto ownership) are taking us down this same path. The leftist intellectual fad of governmentally- enforced standards would put the creativity of human beings in a strait jacket. It would stamp out progress.
Differences Outlawed
Several examples will help to confirm the continuing relevance of Mr. Spencer's observation on the need for liberty to be different. Consider first the phenomenon of building codes. One finds them in virtually every locality; they tell the builder in minute detail how he must construct his building. The reason given for the enactment of such laws is that they protect the purchaser or any other occupier of space in a building against its collapse or other mishap due to the employment of improper methods or materials. To accomplish this objective, which could be achieved without any coercion through contracts and the invocation of tort law when necessary, the government sets up a standard. Failure to comply in any respect with this standard gives the building inspector the power to forbid further work on or use of the structure until the violation has been remedied.
Most people think this entirely good and proper. Protection against hazards always sounds beneficial, but we must look not only at what is seen, but also at what is unseen. As Bruce Cooley writes:
What (building codes) actually do is "protect" the consumer from any construction practice, faulty or not, which differs from those spelled out in the building codes. And in the process they make housing more expensive. One veteran builder, Sol Sylvan of Kennewick, Washington, puts it this way, "[the codes] tend to become treated by the officials who enforce them as religious dogma." This, he argues, limits the introduction of innovations in building materials and designs.[1] (Emphasis mine.)
Thus, by prohibiting differences in building, we prohibit the use of human ingenuity which could lead to better and less costly housing. As with all regulation by government, imposing conformity in order to prevent some harmful acts serves to filter out a large number of beneficial but nonconforming acts.
Another illustration of how prohibiting difference gets in the way of progress can be seen in the regulation of railroads in the United States. That the railroads have been regulated almost to death is well known. Here is a specific example. The Federal Railroad Administration is a part of the Department of Transportation. Among other duties, the FRA oversees railroad safety, and therefore has the power to approve or forbid the use of advanced railroad technology.
In 1976, the Bi-Modal Corporation, of Greenwich, Connecticut, began development of a vehicle which could be either pulled as a truck trailer or as a freight car, depending upon whether its inflatable tires or railroad wheels were down. Bi-Modal named its creation the "Road-Railer." The advantages of the RoadRailer are obvious: compared with the standard "piggyback" train (trailers riding atop flatcars), RoadRailer trains reduce weight and wind resistance, thus conserving fuel. When tested, RoadRailers passed the stress tests of the Association of American Railroads.
But then the FRA entered the picture. The safety tests and potential cost savings did not matter in the least to the bureaucrats. They refused to approve the RoadRailer. Why? The official line went as follows: All railroad equipment must conform to the specifications of the Rail Safety Act, passed in 1893 and last amended in 1910. Since the Rail Safety Act was passed before the invention of the RoadRailer, the latter could not possibly meet the requirements. Unofficially, the reason for disapproval may well have been pressure from existing equipment suppliers who feared loss of business to the RoadRailer, perhaps combined with the usual animosity which bureaucrats have for the entrepreneur.
Eventually, the FRA's obstructionism was by-passed. A special act of Congress amended the Rail Safety Act to permit the employment of the RoadRailer. However, the Government's hostility to difference delayed its introduction by two years, and the FRA's aversion to innovation—progress—in railroad technology remains as strong as ever.[2]
Medical Education Controlled
A third example of this phenomenon of governmentally-imposed conformity stifling progress is found in education, specifically medical education. At one time, medical schools were completely free of state regulation. The focus was on the output of the school, namely the competence of the physician, rather than upon the school's curriculum.
All of this changed after the famous Flexner Report of 1910. This most unscientific study found many of the medical schools in the United States to be "substandard." When the state legislators heard about this alleged problem, they swiftly set about remedying it. How? By estab lishing standards recommended by the American Medical Association. The AMA's interest in the matter is not difficult to see. Fewer medical schools and longer, more expensive training periods mean less competition, hence higher earnings for those in the profession. Of course, the rationale presented to the public was that the standardization of medical education was for their protection.
What effect did this have on medical education in the United States? By now, it should be easy to predict the answer. With the imposition of rigid specifications, medical schools became hidebound and conservative. As Professor Reuben Kessel states, "There was a hiatus of over forty years in the search for better curricula and training methods, and in the utilization of the talents of scientists outside of medical schools for the training of physicians."[3]
Innovations—in anything—most often come from newcomers to the field who must do something different in order to compete with those already established in the field. But government standards prevented this in medicine. Any new school which dared to deviate from the orthodoxy risked loss of certification. Progress was arrested for over forty years, as Professor Kessel points out.[4]
The cult of standardization enforced by the power of the government has become deeply entrenched in the United States. Examples such as those discussed above could be multiplied almost endlessly. There is no need for that, though, as the principle at work here should be quite clear. Progress is impossible unless people are free to be different. This is an inescapable reality, and it applies to every aspect of human existence.
Those people who clamor for more control and regulation of our lives are necessarily advocating an end to experimentation and innovation. We owe our present lofty standard of living to the large measure of freedom enjoyed by our ancestors, and if we are to overcome the problems which now beset us, we too must have the liberty to use our greatest asset—ingenuity. The world is far from perfect. Progress is a necessity. And progress we will have, as long as people are free to be different.
1. "The Shortage in Housing," Libertarian Review, August, 1981, p. 39.
2. For the complete story of the RoadRailer, see William D. Burt's article, "The Plot to Take Over America's Railroads" in Reason, March, 1981, pp. 20-28.
3. Reuben Kessel, "The AMA and the Supply of Physicians," Law and Contemporary Prob lems, Spring 1970, p. 270.
4. For a fine discussion of the entire spectrum of problems caused by governmental regulation of medicine, see John C. Goodman, The Regulation of Medicine: Is the Price Too High?, Cato Institute, 1980.
George Leef is assistant professor of economics, Northwood Institute, Midland, Michigan.


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Try this, assuming your old HD can still boot WindowsXP:
1. Put back your system the way it was before so WinXP can boot
again. Put your newer hard drive as slave (I'll assume D:),
so WinXP can see your new FAT32 partition.
2. Run the "Backup" program in WindowsXP.
This is one of the system software and as I recall it still
ships with WinXP. It should be on the same menu as "ScanDisk"
buried in the Start Menu somewhere. If not, you can install it
from [Control Panel] -> [Add/Remove Programs] -> [Windows Programs].
(or something like that.)
3. Backup the whole C: drive to a file in your FAT32 partition.
Let's call it "D:\MyBackup.qic" for this example. Now
all your system is stored in "D:\MyBackup.qic"
4. Shut down and put back the hardware the way you want it to be,
with the new HD (that has MyBackup.qic) as primary and old HD
as secondary.
5. Copy "MyBackup.qic" to one of your Linux partitions for
6. Install WinXP (and only WinXP, though installing anything
else won't hurt or help) on your FAT32 partition by
usual means, and make sure you install "Backup" along with it.
7. Run "Backup" and choose the "restore" option, and select
"MyBackup.qic" as the file to restore from.
8. Afterwards, reboot and watch the system back to the way
it was, including all software and registry settings,
but on a new hard drive.
Note: I've never done this by migrating from NTFS to FAT32 (I generally
stay with the same partition type). I'd guess you'll get some error
messages but things should still install. Still, take necessary
Another note: These steps assume you already have enough space on your
FAT32 to store MyBackup.qic and all its extracted software.
This is the safest yet relatively fast way to duplicate a system on
Windows. It seems a little cumbersome to switch the hardware back and
forth, but that's something that wouldn't have been necessary had you
known about this technique before setting up the hardware in new
configuration. But this is still a good option even at this point, I
On 17 Jan 2003, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestions about my shared partition. It's now
> reformatted to FAT32.
> One last issue, and then the complete rebuild of my system from scratch
> will be complete...
> My old hard drive is currently on my system as /dev/hdb. My new hard
> drive is /dev/hda1.
> My old Win2K installation is on /dev/hdb1, including some programs that
> I simply can't get to anymore. Does anyone know of a quick and easy
> (yet reliable) way of duplicating my Win2K installation from /dev/hdb1
> to /dev/hda1? I've considered trying to use the cp command in parted,
> but that probably won't work since parted only operates on one device at
> a time. I've also wondered if the dd command might be the way to go.
> Can anyone give me any suggestions?
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Buchanan, G; Cunningham, SJ; Blandford, A; Rimmer, J; Warwick, C; (2005) Information seeking by humanities scholars. In: Rauber, A and Christodoulakis, S and Tjoa, AM, (eds.) RESEARCH AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY FOR DIGITAL LIBRARIES. (pp. 218 - 229). SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN
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This paper investigates the information seeking of humanities academics and scholars using digital libraries. It furthers existing work by updating our knowledge of the information seeking techniques used by humanities scholars, where the current work predates the wide availability of the Internet. We also report some of the patterns observed in query and term usage by humanities scholars, and relate this to the patterns they report in their own information seeking and the problems that they encounter. This insight is used to reveal the current gap between the skills of information seekers and the technologies that they use. Searches for 'discipline terms' prove to be particularly problematic.
|Proceedings paper
|Information seeking by humanities scholars
|9th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2005)
|Vienna, AUSTRIA
|2005-09-18 - 2005-09-23
|digital libraries, human-computer interaction, information seeking, humanities, ONLINE SEARCHING PROJECT, KNOWLEDGE, PATTERNS, BEHAVIOR, WEB
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