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Walt Disney (DIS)
Q1 2012 Earnings Call
February 07, 2012 5:00 pm ET
Lowell Singer - Senior Vice President of Investor Relations
Robert A. Iger - Chief Executive Officer, President, Director and Member of Executive Committee
James A. Rasulo - Chief Financial Officer and Senior Executive Vice President
Douglas D. Mitchelson - Deutsche Bank AG, Research Division
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Lowell Singer
Okay, thanks, and good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the Walt Disney Company First Quarter 2012 Earnings Call. Our press release was issued about 45 minutes ago. It's now available on our website at www.disney.com/investors. After the call, a replay and a transcript of today's remarks will also be available on our website.
Joining me in Burbank today are Bob Iger, Disney's President and Chief Executive Officer; and Jay Rasulo, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Bob will lead off followed by Jay, and then of course we'll be happy to take your questions. So with that, I will turn the call over to Bob, and we'll get started.
Robert A. Iger
Thank you, Lowell. Good afternoon, everyone. Our first quarter results were driven by strong performances from many of our businesses, particularly, Cable Networks and Parks and Resorts. And EPS of $0.80 for the first quarter was up 18% from last year. Our results reflect the benefits of our ongoing strategy to invest in and leverage our core brands, Disney, Pixar, Marvel, ESPN and ABC, underscoring our consistent focus on creating high-quality entertainment experiences through the use of innovative technology across our businesses and around the globe.
Since our last earnings report, a lot has transpired. We launched an over-the-air Disney Channel in Russia; we successfully acquired control of UTV, a leading movie and television company in India; we made a lot of progress in the design and early construction of Shanghai Disneyland; our fourth cruise ship, the Disney Fantasy, completed sea trials in the North Atlantic; 2 of the films we distributed were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture; the Disney Channel has the top 5 shows for kids; and we announced the landmark agreement with Comcast for the distribution of all of our program channels.
I'd like to start by explaining why the Comcast agreement will be significant. As you all know, we own and program some of the best and most watched and most valuable channels in the business, all branded Disney, ABC or ESPN. These channels have delivered great value to us, to consumers and to distributors, and over the years, we've successfully invested more capital to enhance their value. And this new deal not only provides for distribution into the next decade, but the rates that we will be paid reflect the increased value we're now providing.
The multichannel business model is extremely important to us and to others in the business. And as new choices to distribute and consume content proliferate, we thought it was vital for us to accomplish 3 things: allow more consumers access to our programs and channels on new devices, including mobile, desktop and laptop; protect and enhance the value of the multichannel subscription to the distributor by allowing it to sell access to our programs and channels on devices as part of their service and by not allowing access to channels to nonsubscribers; and get paid by the distributor for creating this opportunity. And all 3 were accomplished in this deal, which Comcast and we view as important to us and to our customers.
This deal highlighted the value of our television businesses, including our Kids portfolio. And as I mentioned earlier, the Disney Channel has had great success and tremendous ratings growth, driven by the compelling characters and strong storytelling that define the brand and connect with kids, tweens, as well as their families. In an incredibly competitive environment, Disney Channel now has the 5 top series for kids 2 to 11, led by Jesse and Good Luck Charlie. It's been the #1 channel among tweens, 9 to 14, for 21 months in a row, and the top channel for kids 6 to 11 for 9 straight months as well.
Disney XD launched in 2008, and it just returned its most-watched quarter ever with its ratings increasing 11% over the last year. We see Disney XD, with its target audience of boys, as a great opportunity to leverage Marvel characters. And we believe the April 1 launch of the new Marvel Universe programming block will generate even stronger ratings and will become a powerful platform to support and grow the Marvel brand. Disney XD now has 23 existing channels and program blocks around the world and will add Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia.
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The Sixers had a 90.7 percent chance of ending up with the No. 11 pick entering Tuesday's NBA Draft Lottery, and that's exactly where they were ultimately slotted (see story).
Here's a recap of the only postseason game that took place Tuesday:
Spurs take 2-0 series lead
SAN ANTONIO -- Tony Parker had 15 points and a career playoff-high 18 assists, Tim Duncan scored San Antonio's first six points of overtime and the Spurs bounced back after squandering a 13-point lead in the fourth quarter to beat the Memphis Grizzlies 93-89 on Tuesday night.
The Spurs took a 2-0 lead in the Western Conference finals with Game 3 on Saturday in Memphis.
Duncan opened the extra period with a layup, then made a tiebreaking putback on Parker's missed jumper before making a runner that bounced high of the back iron and rattled in for a 91-87 lead with 1:08 to play.
The Grizzlies had a chance to tie after Jerryd Bayless hit a jumper and Parker missed one of two free throws with 14.6 seconds left, but Bayless' 3-pointer from the left wing was off-target.
Bayless and Mike Conley each had 18 points to lead Memphis.
Duncan had 17 points and nine rebounds, missing most of the second half with foul trouble before coming up with the key baskets in overtime.
Memphis stormed back from a 13-point deficit with a 15-2 run over the final 8 minutes of regulation to tie it at 85 on Conley's runner in the lane with 18.2 seconds to play. The Grizzlies got the chance to pull even after Manu Ginobili was called for a flagrant foul for pulling down Tony Allen by his left arm on a fast-break layup try.
Allen hit both free throws and Memphis got possession, setting up Conley's tying basket at the end of a string of seven straight Grizzlies points.
But Memphis, which trailed by as much as 18 in the second half, could never pull ahead.
Up until the final stretch, Parker had been in control for 2 1/2 quarters.
Parker kept San Antonio humming along after Duncan went to the bench with four fouls, the last three picked up within a span of 30 seconds, early in the third quarter. Parker provided the assist on the Spurs' first seven baskets of the second half, an then scored the next two on mid-range jumpers before getting pulled for a rest with a 72-54 lead.
The Grizzlies mounted a 16-6 comeback while Parker was on the bench, getting as close as 78-70 after Zach Randolph scored inside following back-to-back Bayless jumpers.
Parker checked back in and soon had the lead growing again, ducking under Darrell Arthur to hit a floater and then knocking down a 3-pointer from the right wing to make it 83-70 with 8:14 to play. But then Parker finally went cold, missing five straight shots down the stretch as the Grizzlies rallied back.
He had 14 assists in the second and third quarters and went past his career-high for the regular season of 17 during overtime.
After Game 1, Memphis' guards outlined a game plan that involved picking up their defense earlier on Parker to keep him from getting into the lane and putting the Grizzlies into the scramble mode that allowed San Antonio to hit a franchise playoff record 14 3-pointers in the opener.
It wasn't until late that any of their plans started working. And then, Duncan - who missed a potential winning jumper from the left wing at the end of regulation - took over.
The Spurs put all five starters in double figures, getting 14 points from Tiago Splitter, 12 from Kawhi Leonard and 11 from Danny Green.
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Published: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 3:20 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 3:20 p.m.
WASHINGTON | A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner says he has received letter of resignation from Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.
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Tuned to the training in the academy and staying in a unit one gets used to shouting a slogan after a bridge is launched by a sapper. The slogan was fixed but the environment had changed which didnt come to the mind as it was a reflex action where the mind does not participate in the decision making turning the incidence humourous.
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Slogans which convey some sorts of message or phrase to the public through the means of conducting a campaign are known as campaign slogans. Campaign slogans have their usage in many forms. Any political, military, advertisement or even anti discriminatory campaigns see such slogans in use.
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Who are the victims of attackers? People, who want to mug, rape or even kill others usually pick weaker victims then they are them selves. But, why can't we identify potential threats soon enough? The reason is that we don't care about our surroundings and environment. We are caught surprised and our fighting back chances rapidly decrease.
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Slogans, Headlines, Taglines, Catchphrases. They're all cousins. Each involves using strategically chosen words to help motivate, inspire action and stamp an indelible tattoo in the mind of your target audience. Those few short words should express who you are and what you stand for. Coming up with an advertising slogan can be daunting so shedding some light on the subject can be a big help.
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Web Design
The main function of the company slogan is to reveal the purpose of the company. There is always a purpose behind every company other than generating profit. It can be emotional, patriotic, attitude based or anything else. Your purpose must appeal to the customers.
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IS A SPECIAL DAY There is a special day each year that was established in 1970 by Gaylord Nelson to raise awareness in individuals, communities, towns, governments and countries about the state of our earth. We have come to realize that our Blue Marble has finite resources. Once human greed and actions of indiscretion removed or destroyed our land, water, and air it would take thousands of years to repair our fragile planet, if ever.
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The development and use of a great Marketing slogan is a long lost art. And a key to effectively building your brand equity. Yet, I see so many weak slogans these days that seeing or hearing a really great one has a way of reminding you of the astonishing power of a simple idea, well articulated.
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With the number of businesses competing for customers today, it is important that businesses set themselves apart from others.
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Where to begin with this compilation that's based around the King of Fighters series circa 1994 - 1998? Would it be best to start with a witty remark such as "SNK Playmore refuses to accept new century, prefers to live in the 90's"? Perhaps not... Because as much as it begrudges me to say this, this title's actually quite playable.
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Orange County, San Diego and Palm Springs Intellectual Property Lawyer Sebastian Gibson shows in this fictional discussion with a potential trademark client how a throw away phrase can make a great tr
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Orange County, San Diego and Palm Springs Intellectual Property, Marketing and Advertising Lawyer Sebastian Gibson analyzes how candidates use slogans to market themselves to the voters. As a lawyer who advises clients in trademark and advertising issues, Sebastian Gibson who represents clients from all around Southern California from San Diego to Orange County, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Newport Beach, Rancho Cucamonga and Palm Springs looks at which slogans have been the best and worst.
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The German law that compiles of these systems where known under the acronym of BEG. Under this law the individuals who had lost their properties physically (parts of body, minor and major injuries due to wars etc.) and socially (persecuted politically, racially etc) got well compensated.
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Tough budget choices by Mayor Dixon
Here's one big difference between state and local government. When the state makes cuts, they often affect a small group of people deeply but are abstract for most others. If, say, the state furloughs government workers, it hurts them a lot, but the 5.1 million other Marylanders can go on with their lives with little interruption. If tuition goes up, it hurts people with kids in college, but everybody else can ignore it if they want.
But the cuts Mayor Sheila Dixon proposed in her budget today will affect just about everybody in Baltimore. Water rates would go up. Trash collection in the city would go down to once a week (compensated for, somewhat, but increased recycling pickup). Libraries would be open fewer hours. Swimming pools would close. Recreation centers would cut hours or close altogether. People tend to focus more on national or state politics, but local government is unmatched in terms of offering direct services that people use every day, and mayors don't have anyone else to pass the buck to.
It will be interesting to see what kind of pushback, if any, Dixon gets on her proposal. In previous years, the City Council has more or less rubber stamped her budgets. But I wouldn't be surprised to see a much stronger reaction this time, if not from the council then from people who find services they've long relied on suddenly gone.


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Manufacturers ship ENERGY STAR–qualified products with energy-saving power management features enabled. These features will substantially reduce energy use and related operating cost. Work with your IT staff to ensure these features are not overridden, or to re-enable them if they already have been.
Updated August 2012
FEMP provides acquisition guidance and Federal efficiency requirements across a variety of product categories, including imaging equipment, which is covered by the ENERGY STAR® program. Federal laws and executive orders mandate that agencies meet these efficiency requirements in all procurement and acquisition actions that are not specifically exempted by law.
This acquisition guidance and associated ENERGY STAR product specifications apply to copiers, printers, digital duplicators, scanners, fax machines, multifunction (also known as "all-in-one") devices, and mailing machines. Products designed to operate on three-phase power are not covered.
This product category overview covers the following:
- Meeting Energy Efficiency Requirements for Imaging Equipment
- Reducing Energy Costs: Save Up To $228 When You Buy ENERGY STAR–Qualified Products
- Complying with Contracting Requirements
- Buyer Tips: Choosing Efficient Products
- User Tips: Using Products More Efficiently
- Finding More Information
Meeting Energy Efficiency Requirements for Imaging Equipment
Buy products that are found in both the EPEAT registry and the ENERGY STAR's qualified products list. Often the ENERGY STAR label will be prominently displayed in supplier catalogs and on packaging, but if you do not see a label, refer to ENERGY STAR's qualified products list. Find more information about Federal Requirements and Acquisition Guidance for Low Standby Power Products, or contact the FEMP point of contact listed at the bottom of this page.
Reducing Energy Costs: Save Up To $228 When You Buy ENERGY STAR–Qualified Products
FEMP has calculated that the required ENERGY STAR-qualified laser printer is cost-effective if priced no more than $228 above the less efficient alternative. The cost-effectiveness example and associated assumptions for this and other ENERGY STAR imaging equipment are provided in tables 1 through 4.
|Table 1. Lifetime Savings for an Efficient Laser Printera
|ENERGY STAR efficiency level
|Less Efficientb
|Annual Energy Use
|73 kWh/year
|645 kWh/year
|Annual Energy Cost
|Lifetime Energy Cost (5 years)
|Lifetime Energy Cost Savings
|Table 2. Lifetime Savings for an Efficient Copiera
|ENERGY STAR efficiency level
|Less Efficientb
|Annual Energy Use
|170 kWh/year
|280 kWh/year
|Annual Energy Cost
|Lifetime Energy Cost (6 years)
|Lifetime Energy Cost Savings
|Table 3. Lifetime Savings for an Efficient Multifunction Devicea
|ENERGY STAR efficiency level
|Less Efficientb
|Annual Energy Use
|171 kWh/year
|335 kWh/year
|Annual Energy Cost
|Lifetime Energy Cost (6 years)
|Lifetime Energy Cost Savings
|Table 4. Lifetime Savings for an Efficient Fax Machinea
|ENERGY STAR efficiency level
|Less Efficientb
|Annual Energy Use
|78 kWh/year
|156 kWh/year
|Annual Energy Cost
|Lifetime Energy Cost (4 years)
|Lifetime Energy Cost Savings
a Federal purchases must be of ENERGY STAR–qualified products that meet or exceed ENERGY STAR efficiency levels.
b The Less Efficient column represents low-efficiency imaging equipment used in commercial offices.
Determining When ENERGY STAR Is Cost-Effective
An efficient product is cost-effective when the discounted savings (from avoided energy costs over the life of the product) exceed the additional upfront cost (if any) compared to a less efficient option. ENERGY STAR considers upfront costs and lifetime energy savings when setting required efficiency levels. Federal purchasers can assume that ENERGY STAR–qualified products are life cycle cost-effective; however, users wishing to determine cost-effectiveness for their application may do so using the cost-effectiveness examples or the ENERGY STAR office equipment cost calculators.
ENERGY STAR–qualified products may not be life cycle cost-effective in certain low-use applications, such as when a device is being purchased for backup purposes and will remain off for most of its useful life. For most applications, purchasers will find that energy-efficient products have the lowest life cycle cost.
Agencies may claim an exception to these purchasing requirements through a written finding that no ENERGY STAR–qualified product is available to meet functional requirements, or that no ENERGY STAR–qualified product is life cycle cost-effective for the specific application. Additional information on Federal requirements is available.
Complying with Contracting Requirements
These requirements apply to all forms of procurement, including project specifications; renovation, repair, maintenance, and energy service contracts; lease agreements; acquisitions made using purchase cards; and solicitations for offers. Energy efficiency requirements should be included in both the evaluation criteria of solicitations and the evaluations of solicitation responses.
Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 23.206 requires Federal agencies to insert the clause at FAR section 52.223-15 into solicitations and contracts that deliver, acquire, furnish, or specify energy-consuming products. FEMP recommends that agencies incorporate efficiency requirements into both the technical specification and evaluation sections of solicitations.
Buyer Tips: Choosing Efficient Products
The most effective way to save energy and reduce costs in printers and copiers is to print in duplex mode (i.e., print on both sides of the paper). Look for a model with duplex speed at least 80% as fast as one-sided copying. Ask your dealer or compare product reviews provided by independent, ISO-certified sources.
Many products with scanning functions offer duplex scanning. This avoids the extra handling needed to scan a two-sided document. Consider purchasing imaging equipment, particularly fax machines, with this duplex scanning feature.
Multifunction equipment that combines printing, copying, and scanning along with fax capabilities may be an attractive option, especially for small offices and home use where space is limited. However, the fax function often requires that the entire unit remain ready to receive a fax at all times. This may increase power consumption significantly. Many multifunction models with fax capability have higher standby power levels than a fax-only machine. In these situations, dedicated low power fax machines should be considered.
Imaging equipment products are covered by purchasing requirements mandating low standby power. Refer to the Low Standby Product List for information about products that meet low standby power requirements.
User Tips: Using Products More Efficiently
Make sure the power management features are enabled in all imaging equipment at your facility. Because more energy is used to make paper than to print on it, make sure the duplexing feature is enabled for all imaging equipment with this function. It is important to inform users about the duplex setting, including benefits from reducing paper use. Show users how to manually select one-sided printing or copying if needed for a specific job. Make or print fewer copies whenever possible by using email, posting documents on the Web, circulating a single copy, and using a cover sheet only when necessary. For originals with large print, use 2:1 image reduction to save paper.
With the exception of devices with a fax-receiving function, manually turn off all imaging equipment at night, on weekends, and on holidays. This saves energy and will not shorten the life of these products.
Finding More Information
The following resources provide additional information about the purchase of efficient products:
- Amanda Sahl
Federal Energy Management Program
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- General Services Administration
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Moby no doubt cut these tracks because they aren't as "marketable" as those that showed up on the final version of Play. That doesn't make them any less painstakingly well-crafted or that the end result would have been any less impressive. B Side albums are always funny like that; you can almost match up each track with its A Side counterpart. The patient tranquility of "Whispering Wind" synchs with "Porcelain," the heavy blues vocal samplings and keyboards of "Flower" make up the alter-ego of "Honey," and so on. It's a fun listen if for no other reason than the fact that it gives the listener a handful of "what if" moments.
2. Papoose - A Bootlegger's Nightmare
Pap is a beast, no doubt about it! He's released well over twenty mixtapes over the past four years (two in 2009 already). When he finally gets around to making an actual album, it's guaranteed to be hot. A Bootlegger's Nightmare, one of his 2005 efforts, tends to be my favorite simply because it's where his versatility takes a front seat. He works with some dynamic producers here, and though the beats vary from bare bones simplicity to lush and intricate, Papoose's flow never fails to match the atmosphere being created for him.
3. Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra - Who Is This America?
Herky-jerky instrumentation, vocals that veer between the strident and playful, and the infectious polyrhythms of Afrobeat. Antibalas bring it all together. It's worth stepping back and recognizing how hard Afrobeat is as a genre to play (which is probably why there are so few well known groups that can really pull it off. The bands are frequently big, and there needs to be a lot happening at exactly the right time every time in order for it to even grasp at believability. Fela may not be around to hear the evolution of the music he essentially birthed, but if he could hear Who Is This America? he would know it's in good hands.
4. Talib Kweli - Quality
It's not for nothing that this album became the iconic Talib Kweli release. When many said that Rap wouldn't survive the aftermath of 9/11, Kweli came out with a collection of songs that was outspoken and made no bones about it. Quality was, above all else, proud. Some forget that Kweli is a member of Native Tongues, but that's evident in his rhymes and beats here. At the same time, Quality was an attempt to break molds and make his sound modern and mainstream without sacrificing... well, quality. I'd say he succeeds, and that's why this album holds up even after the better part of a decade.
5. The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
Precisely what happens when you breed Jersey Rock with Punk. It's almost as if--and I'm not the first writer to make this comparison--Springsteen had discovered the hard-driving sounds emanating from New York a lot earlier than he did. Brian Fallon's vocals take a big cue from the boss, and their lo-fi sound is unmistakably in the Punk-Indie vein. But there's a lot more originality than these kinds of glib (and admittedly lazy) comparisons denote. The anthemic uplift that this group brings to a rather cynical sub-genre is beyond refreshing. It's almost as if they take (gasp!) pride in their down-and-out status.


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Updated descriptions and new finding aids available
We have written a lot about process here on Fondly, Pennsylvania to let you know what projects we have in the works, but I realized that we have not kept up with telling everyone what we've completed. There are 51 collections included in the Digital Center for Americana project, and at this point, 22 collections have been processed, conserved and digitized (in part). I thought I'd share a list of those collections as a way to celebrate our accomplishments, and to give interested readers the opportunity to peruse our new finding aids and descriptions.
Small collections, which have descriptions in our OPAC, but not full finding aids:
- Pierce Butler letterbooks (Am .0368)
- Daniel H. Emerson diary (Am .062)
- William F. Colton diaries (Am .10246)
- Charles R. Mervine diary (Am .10385)
- Journal of Isaac Jones Wistar (Am .192)
- Manuscript diary (unknown author) (Am .451)
- Helen S. Grier diary (Am .6090)
- Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society records (Am .216, .2161, .2162)
- James E. Wenrick diary (Am .66954)
- Richard H. Coolidge letterbook (Am .6698)
- Daniel Dougherty diaries (Am .6702)
- Civil War envelopes and currency collection (Collection 1605)
- Charles C. Burleigh papers (Am .8192)
- William McCarter My Life in the Army (Am .6952)
- Society of Friends Committee of Women to Inquire into the Condition of Friends Manumitted Slaves minutebook (Am. 7218)
Finding aids are now available for the John Rutter Brooke papers (Collection 78) and the Andrew Atkinson Humphreys papers (Collection 304).
Finding aids and descriptions will soon be available for the rest of the newly processed materials, and we'll keep updating you about our progress on the Digital Center project.
[...] time, staff processed
[...] time, staff processed and improved access to almost 50 collections. Following up on Cathleen's previous post, here are just a few highlights. Others can be found on our [...]
Last fall in an online search
Last fall in an online search I came across a reference to HSP AM #6090, which then was called "Unidentified Civl War Diarly of a Woman Serving with the U.S. Christian Commission Nov . 21, 1 1862- June 6, 1863. Over the course of several months, on a few isolated dates as my work and whatever schedule permitted, I came down to HSP and made an initial transcription of the afore-referenced diary. Since then, that same diary seems to have been clearly identified as that of one Helen S. Grier, 1842-1917. If there is an HSP staff person who is working with this record, I should like to communicate with him or her.
Thank you for your time and attention.
Kerry L. Bryan, M.Ed.
M.L.A. Candidate, U. of PA.
Hi Kerry, I'd be happy to
Hi Kerry,
I'd be happy to talk with you about this diary, which I processed last fall. I will be at HSP only one more week (my last day is May 28), but feel free to email me at cmiller at hsp dot org.


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With news Monday that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will join Fox News as an occasional contributor, thoughts came of another tough woman often dressed in sportswear who spews tough, plain-spoken conservative editorials in a news segment.
Sue Sylvester's "As Sue C's It" on "Glee" may well be the template for the governor when she begins her stint. Which is funny for the actress who originated Sue.
"I bet Sarah Palin will end up looking like Sue Sylvester," says Jane Lynch, the actress who has earned a Golden Globe nomination for her portrayal of the villainous cheerleading coach in "Glee."
"She has ridiculous views, with very little knowledge underneath them," Lynch said Monday night at the Fox press tour party.
She said Palin has come up in conjunction with her character before. "I have a joke, I refer to her in this first episode [coming up]. I called a couple of my cheerleaders stupid. I say 'You may be a couple of the stupidest teens I've encountered. And that's saying something; I coached the young Sarah Palin.' "
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How to teach 22 month old to play by himself?
Hi, my 22 month old DS rarely wants to play by himself. He always grabs my hand (if Im doing something else) and bring me to play with him. He loves it when others play with him. However, I cant do anything else while he is awake as I have to continuously entertain him. Is this normal? Is there a way to teach him to enjoy playing by himself? Thanks in advance.
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Unfortunately, no. Back when families had four or five children each, there was always someone around to play with, so this wasn't a problem. But a child usually has to be 3 or even 4 before his little brain can think up an activity that takes more than a few minutes and then follow through on said activity.posted 04/04/2012 by a BabyCenter Member
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (NBC33) – Community leaders were joined today by the artistic director for the Voices of Unity Youth Choir as his students prepare for two major performances.
It was all part of the kick-off celebrations of the city's "Gold for the City" campaign, which started Thursday at Sweetwater Sound. The campaign is intended to build pride, awareness, and support for the accomplishments the choir as they bring positive attention to Fort Wayne.
During Thursday's festivities, the owner and founder of Sweetwater Sound, Chuck Surack, made a donation of $50,000 to help fund the choir's upcoming trips to Carnegie Hall in June 2014 and Latvia next July for the World Choir Games.
"That is just unbelievable, it's overwhelming and I just shake my head and I thank God for those people when I know there are many more out there in this community that can help because the positive climate needs the same investment as the negative climate is getting. And when negative climate is fed, what happens? It grows. So the same happens when a positive climate is fed and fueled - it grows."
The choir is hoping to raise $385,000 to allow both trips to happen.
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By Nina Vega-Westhoff
A classmate one day brought in to Laynie Browne's course "At the Intersection of Writing and Teaching" the Michael Stillman poem "In Memoriam John Coltrane." The poem was exciting, an immediate encounter with repetition, rhythm, and word play. As a class, we seemed to have a collective a ha! moment with the poem--I personally felt I should have discovered this poem long before--and so it seemed an ideal literary model around which to structure a lesson. But I wasn't sure how to do so--there were so many possibilities immediately suggested and yet I wasn't sure where I wanted to go with it.
by Glen Grunberger
Glen Grunberger worked for many years as a somewhat sane, relatively stable attorney in Austin, Texas before committing the decidely un-sane, entirely destabilizing act of moving to Tucson last summer to enroll in the University of Arizona's MFA program in Creative Writing. He has just completed his first year as a fiction writer in the program, and while he's quite certain he's no longer certain of anything, he loves being able to say he hangs out with poets. Glen is accompanied by his fearless wife Sara, who teaches biology at Cholla High School in Tucson, and their dog, Maya, who teaches them both how to be human.
Of all the lessons I taught this past spring in my residency at Corbett Elementary, one of the easiest and most fun was writing poems "by" the children's pets. I introduced poems from the book Unleashed: Poems by Writers' Dogs[1] as a springboard for the children to channel their favorite animals' voices. The goal was to tap into the ready enthusiasm and imaginative connections kids have for their pets and write poems from the first-person perspective of the animals. The lesson turned out to be a great way to exercise the young writers' skills with personification and dialogue and to develop that most essential of writerly muscles, empathy.
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Sol: As a child at a recent birthday party asked after being released from the coils of your tale spinning: "How do you remember the stories?" In other words, what is your process for storytelling?
Jordan: My process is pretty straightforward--I read or hear a story, and then I try to tell it to someone (anyone!). If it's written, I might read it again, but the best way for me to remember it is simply to tell it, as much as possible. I have a pretty good memory, so that helps. But more importantly is the fact that remembering stories is NOT the same as memorizing, as people often think. Rather, it is more akin to remembering life experiences. For the most part, people don't have to work to remember remarkable things that have happened to them in their life (or their day yesterday)--it simply happens, and when someone asks, "How was your day?" you don't think twice before telling the story of whatever happened. In the same way, if one imagines a story vividly enough (whether through hearing it, reading it, or seeing it performed), then it almost becomes like one's own memories, and simply telling the story becomes as natural as telling a friend what happened to you the other day.
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Asked to lead a Kore Press Grrls Literary Activism Workshop, I saw myself as "activator" charged with bringing poetry to and coaxing it out of the lives of teen girls ages 14-19 while guiding them on their own path to activism in a public setting. But mainly and not so secretly, I began every workshop with poetry while on our journey to the center of our social justice issues.
We started by "waxing poetic"--a printing process using wax paper and newsprint. The girls chose random words or phrases from the newspaper, (or even with an eye for random invention), and rubbed them onto the wax paper, and then "reprinted" by rubbing them in the same or new order onto white paper. You couldn't rub them the wrong way! In the end, the girls had "found" poems with unexpected, activated language such as "A day ripe for Cadillac opportunity."


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Because old car seats are considered unsafe to resell or reuse, a free recycling program will be offered on Saturday, September 24.
The program is a partnership between Memorial Health System, Kohl's and Bestway Disposal. Parents can bring their old car seats to the Healthy Baby Fair at The Citadel Mall from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The seats will be dismantled and properly recycled for free. About 95 percent of the seat is recyclable.
The Healthy Baby Fair will be held outside of Burlington Coat Factory.
Parents who cannot drop off car seats at that time can take their used car seats to the Kohl's department store during normal business hours. Just take it to the customer service desk.
In addition to the recycling, Burlington Coat Factory is sponsoring an event called Project Checkpoint in association with Evenflo. The project will provide information and education to parents on the proper installation of child car seats.
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Not too long ago, the Gill St. Bernard's girls basketball was an underdog almost every time it ventured out of the confines of the Patriot Conference. A move to the Skyland Conference isn't the only thing that changed since then for Gill, which this season was a heavy favorite in the majority of its games.
That will not be the case Thursday night against perennial powerhouse Shabazz in the NJSIAA Tournament of Champions semifinals and the idea of playing as an underdog is exciting for the Somerset County Tournament champions.
Gill St. Bernard's relishes underdog role [1]
Scouting report [2]
For the true hoopheads out there, here is a preview of the other T of C semifinal between St. Rose and Manasquan. High stakes in TOC shore match
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Listening to Eurosport commentators they were saying he is over 8kph down on the other bikes in the top speed stakes. In a class where everything is supposed to be equal engine wise you have to then start looking at corner exit and aero. Look at his former team mate Mike Di Megllio, he was behind Bradley at Tech 3 by a long way, now over at Speed Up he has on a number of occasions been lapping with or just behind the front runners. It has to be more bike than rider causing these problems.


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Missouri looks to keep unlikely year going
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
COLUMBIA — This wasn't possible. No way, no how.
The Missouri Tigers didn't belong, couldn't compete. The proof came in its inaugural season in the Southeastern Conference, as a battered and bruised Missouri team limped to a 5-7 record and mustered just two league wins.
But here they are a year later, one game from an SEC East Division title. A trip to Atlanta for the SEC title game, a BCS bowl berth and a spot in the national championship game all remain legitimate possibilities.
Talk about a complete 180.
"The flux of the change is definitely interesting and has a magnitude we can all recognize," Missouri senior left guard Max Copeland said. "That came at a price, it didn't just happen. We paid the price to be here. We're just collecting our check. We've already paid what it takes to be here, but we've paid greater than what we've received still, and we still have return on our investment left to pick up."
No. 5 Missouri (10-1, 6-1 SEC) hosts No. 19 Texas A&M (8-3, 4-3 SEC) at 6:45 p.m. Saturday (ESPN-TV) at Faurot Field. A win would put the Tigers in the SEC title game Dec. 7 against the Alabama/Auburn winner.
"We've got a chance to win an East championship," Missouri head coach Gary Pinkel said. "That's the first goal to better things. It's exciting, it's fun. I want the players to have fun, I don't want them to be tight. If you go out and have fun and you're not thinking, you play better. Just because, 'Oh, it's the championship game now,' we don't want that. I'm not going to talk about that very much. It's all clutter."
Sure, it's all clutter. But who would have thought Missouri would be in this position? The Missouri coaches and players might be the only ones.
"It's not something that is a total surprise to a lot of us, but it's definitely a good feeling after last season," senior quarterback James Franklin said.
Missouri controls its own destiny in a way. A win against Texas A&M gives the Tigers the SEC East title and a place in the SEC championship game. A win there guarantees Missouri a BCS bowl berth.
"We don't like anything given to us," center Evan Boehm said. "We knew coming into this year nothing was going to be given to us. All the other teams this year had injuries like we had last year. They counted us out, but we are coming out right now and we are focused on what is in front of us and that is Texas A&M. We are excited to go out there, and we are excited to play this week."
But a win against Alabama or Auburn doesn't guarantee the Tigers a chance to play for a national title. The Tigers would likely need either Florida State or Ohio State to lose to get that shot.
Florida State plays at struggling Florida this week before an ACC championship battle likely against Duke. Ohio State heads to rival Michigan this week before facing Michigan State in the Big Ten title game.
So Missouri needs a little help to achieve the loftiest of goals. But the Tigers are all on their own to do more than anybody could have imagined this season.
A win Saturday would give Pinkel his 101st win as the head coach at Missouri, tying him with the legendary Don Faurot for the most victories in program history.
"I'll talk about it more when it happens," Pinkel said. "There's a lot of people that are a part of all of this. I never did this to break records. I did this because I had a responsibility to the University of Missouri to build a great program. It's real important to me that people in the SEC have great respect for Missouri football. It's real important to me that nationally people respect Mizzou football. That's my goal. That's what I do this for."
Missouri certainly has a lot to be thankful for. The Tigers will be counting those blessings together Thanksgiving Day. Missouri will have an early-morning team meeting and practice until about 11:30 a.m. before hosting a mandatory Thanksgiving meal for the team.
Many players from around the state will grab some food and head back home, often times taking players from more distant locales home with them, before a mid-afternoon return Friday.
Missouri redshirt freshman nose guard Harold Brantley was named the SEC special teams player of the week Monday. Brantley blocked a field goal during Missouri's 24-10 victory against Mississippi on Saturday, but also took a direct snap on a fake punt from Missouri's 20-yard line in the third quarter and ran for a 26-yard first down. It's the 11th SEC honor for a Tiger this season.
"He said he thinks he should be the short-yardage goal line running back, and he probably should," Pinkel said of Brantley. "That might come later, next year."
Junior free safety Duron Singleton will likely miss his second straight game with a hip strain.
"I don't think he'll play," Pinkel said.
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Blake Shelton and Ashley Monroe Turn Up the Yearning in 'Lonely Tonight' Video
Blake Shelton and Ashley Monroe are more than just friends in the 'Lonely Tonight' music video.
Blake Shelton and Ashley Monroe are more than just friends in the 'Lonely Tonight' music video.
'The Voice' Live Playoffs kicked off on Monday night (Nov. 10) with a country cover. Nashville resident Taylor Brashears performed 'Long Time Gone' by the Dixie Chicks with the help of her fiddle.
Blake Shelton took home his fifth (that's right, fifth!) statue for Male Vocalist of the Year at the 2014 CMA Awards.
Turns out, Miranda Lambert isn't the only Pistol Annies member Blake Shelton can harmonize with. At the 2014 CMA Awards, Shelton shared the spotlight with Lambert's bandmate Ashley Monroe to perform 'Lonely Tonight' off his new album 'Bringing Back the Sunshine.'
The 48th annual CMA Awards are quickly approaching, and a few big names have already been announced as performers.
Oh no! In what seems to be a Halloween takeover, zombies have descended on Nashville. Officials are warning area residents -- and country music fans in general -- to stay away from any artist suspected to have a taste for flesh.
Blake Shelton has been confirmed to return to his chair for the upcoming eighth season of 'The Voice.'
Now that the Band Perry have been on the road with funny man Blake Shelton, they've discovered just how wild and crazy he really is.
Judging by a recent tweet, Blake Shelton is growing pretty tired of tabloids running rumors about his marriage to Miranda Lambert.
Blake Shelton returns to his small-town roots in the video for his new single, 'Bringing Back the Sunshine' -- literally.


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An 18-month-old toddler was killed after being shot in the chest with a BB rifle on Friday morning.
Atlanta police said the toddler's mother called 911 just after 9 a.m. to report her child was shot.
The shooting happened at the Boyton Village Apartments located in the 1000 block of Hank Aaron Drive. After the shooting, the child was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital where he later died.
The child's uncle Willie Dickerson, told CBS Atlanta News the toddler's name was Jesstin Sellers and the child's father's name is Jesse Sellers.
According to police, three adults and three other children were inside of the home at the time of the shooting.
Dickerson said Jesse Sellers was playing with a BB rifle, trying to scare his son, when he pulled the trigger.
Dickerson told CBS Atlanta News Jesse Sellers didn't realize the gun was loaded and that he said it was an accident.
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Republicans blocking abortion access for military servicewomen who have been raped
Even as Republicans like Mitt Romney scramble to distance themselves from Rep. Todd Akin's offensive comments about rape victims, House Republicans continue to block abortion access for soldiers who become pregnant from rape.
Not only must servicewomen who become pregnant from rape or incest pay for their own abortions, they can't have the procedure performed at a military health center unless they can prove they were raped.
Republicans can fix this by passing the Stand With Servicewomen Act, an amendment to the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act that gives military families the same access to abortion care that other federal employees receive. While the Stand with Servicewomen Act passed the Senate Armed Services Committee with bipartisan support, House Republicans like Todd Akin purposely omitted it in their version of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act.
Tell House Republicans it's time they stopped blocking access to abortion care for servicewomen who become pregnant from rape.
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text: Mine is just a general comment. It is important to acknowledge that coping, resilience and adaptation mechanisms (in that order) to environmental and socio-economic shocks and disasters that increase people's vulnerability to negative impacts of such shocks is not a once off thing - it is not a project. This is even more complicated in protracted crisis situations. As such, the issue is not about scale of programming but rather sustainability of such programming to continuously build people's capacity to adapt to seemingly changing crises. The starting point is the people themselves. Programming should enable people to holistically explore these traditional coping systems and enabling them to build on these systems to make them more resilient and subsequently adapt to subsequent shocks.


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I wanted to ask if someone knows if it is possible when creating armors, weapons, etc with Zbrush to implement them into M&B for example?!
Thanks in advance
Seen as Zbrush sculpts can be exported into obj you may need to retopologise and bake normals onto a lower poly mesh to reach the polycount limit of the engine but otherwise it should be possible to do.
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Is anyone interested in creating a new environment/s for us? we don't have the time anymore to do graphics. So if anyone is available check out what we do and call in.
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I'm searching script/plugin for 3DS as GenTree and IvyGenerator.
My goal, create abnormal/mutated vegetation for a Stalker mod.
Something like this:
This scripts are working fine in 3DS, but they create "invalid faces" (elongated and thin polygon) that xray engine can not support.
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Post a screenshot of the result you get in max, might help spot the issue.
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does anyone have a good way of making a rope for a sailing ship?
i would like to keep the poly count low so cylinders are not the most ideal way of doing it.
isn't there some way to put a rope texture on a spline? like light trail effects in some games?
btw: i work with 3ds max, and it has to be exported to unity. so it has to work outside the 3ds render engine.
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I don't know if this will work but i think a low poly cylinder set to follow a path might work otherwise your best bet is alpha planes of rope textue. Follow this link Forums.cgsociety.org
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is a checkered puffer( Sphoeroides testudineus) is it reef safe?
no puffer is truly reef safe afaik. they may end up being reef safe but you always run the risk of them nipping on other fish or corals etc. I tried a puffer. he was a blue spotted toby. Shy for the first week. then went on a nipping spree. Had to go!
ok thanks for the advice.
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Rosh Hashona: The Journey of the Spiritual Searcher
Rabbi Eliyahu Yaakov helps prepare you for the Jewish new year!
Getting a Foot Out the Door
How do we get there? How can we succeed in actualizing the potential that is hidden within us? God's message to Abraham is that the prerequisite to getting to one's inner potential and purpose is to first leave "from your land, from your birthplace, and from your father's house." The meaning of this, teach the Kabbalists, goes much deeper than the physical land, birthplace, and house we grew up in. It means that in order to get started on our true spiritual path, we must first gain a sense of clarity and objectivity. The only way to do that is to do whatever is necessary to uproot from within ourselves any form of subjectivity and false beliefs about the world and ourselves we may have acquired up until now.
Nature versus Nurture
While modern psychology speaks of "Nature versus Nurture", it turns out that the Torah talked about it long before the phrase was coined in the twentieth century. The Kabbalists understand the leaving "from your land" to be a leaving of one's culture, and the leaving "from your father's house" to be a departure from the modes of behavior that have been taught to you there. These, of course, constitute an overall distancing from one's "Nurture." This is especially relevant today due to the high level of social conditioning prevalent in the world's societies. Advertisers are paid to know how to manipulate us into buying their product. The media, movies, and TV have more to do with forming our opinions than anything else. It is obvious, then, that if it is clarity and spirituality that we seek, we must first leave the illusions, conditionings, and falsehoods of the world in which we live.
The Kabbalists further explain that leaving "from your birthplace" refers to rising above one's genetic predisposition, one's "Nature." Each one of us has been born with certain character traits and desires that are ingrained in our minds, bodies, and genetics. If one wants the path of the spiritual journey, one must first take control of his Nature, and not the other way around. We must break out of these limitations and boundaries that we have been born with.
The Head of the Year
When Abraham left these three forms of confinement to journey towards spiritual truth, he led the way for each Jew of all time to break out of the constraints of his or her conditioning and live out the reality of his or her soul to the greatest extent possible.This is what Rosh Hashona – literally meaning the head of the year – is all about. As we transition into the new year we can continue living in the matrix of the reactive autopilot in which most of us find ourselves, or we can opt out by freeing ourselves from ourselves to live a conscious life of real choice and empowerment. It all begins in the head. – and it all begins at the head of the year.
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They left one off the list…on March 6, 2012 at 2:03 PM
Time Magazine recently listed nine obscure facts about Oreo cookies. The one they didn't answer for me is:
Why does the package say "chocolate sandwich cookies" when nothing in them tastes like chocolate?
Whatever the cookie is, it's bittersweet and dark in color, but if I was to be grabbed suddenly, shoved in an alley, force-fed a wafer of whatever the crunchy part of an Oreo is and then challenged to say what it tasted like, "weird graham cracker" would probably be the best I could do. I have some in front of me, in the form of some "fun size" Oreos left over from Halloween, and a 2-cookie pack left over from my wife's lunch from yesterday. Both have the same ingredient list, both have cocoa as an ingredient, and both do list chocolate… as the very last thing that goes into an Oreo. The stuff that precedes chocolate includes: leavening (baking soda and/or calcium phosphate), salt, soy lecithin, and vanillin – an artificial flavor (which sounds like a kind of criminal mastermind who steals or somehow evil-fies cookies, doesn't it?). I'm almost thinking that Nabisco is taking the homeopathic route with this kind of thing.
This isn't to say they aren't a fine snack or that they don't taste "good," per se. In the same way that Apple Jacks cereal poked fun at itself for not tasting like apples, one could say the Oreo is a unique flavor, like bubble gum. But to me, at least, it ain't chocolate. Now if you'll excuse me, that package of fun-sized cookies somehow got torn, so I suppose I shouldn't let them go to waste…