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Roy Jennings Holloway Jr., 88, of Goochland passed away Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012, at home.
Mr. Holloway was a U.S. Navy World War II veteran. He enjoyed woodworking, golf, tennis and hunting. Mr. Holloway retired from Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, and was a member of St. Mary Catholic Church.
Survivors include his wife of 52 years, LaVaughn Holloway; daughter Lisa Ann Brown (Kenneth); grandchildren Joseph Jennings Brown, Andrew Brown (Nicole) and Amanda Symonds (Mike); and great-grandchildren Noah, Tyler, Hannah and Carter.
A service was held Friday, Dec. 14, at St. Mary Catholic Church. Burial followed in Quantico National Cemetery.
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The University of West Georgia bookstore can add "award-winning" to its long list of attributes according to the Georgia Chapter of Associated General Contractors of America. At the 2012 annual conference, R.K. Redding Construction, the construction manager for the bookstore, received a "Build Georgia" Merit Award for their work on the project. LP3 Architecture served as architect for the bookstore.More »
Ninety local in-service teachers visited the University of West Georgia from June 10 – 21 for professional development training as part of the Science and Math Institutes for Teacher Education. Dr. Bob Powell, UWG Professor and Chair of Physics and Director of the West Georgia Observatory, is the Director of the project.More »
Beloved UWG faculty member Dr. William C. Schaniel is retiring after 33 years of service at the university. Family, friends, faculty and staff members gathered together on Wednesday, June 26, to celebrate Schaniel's longtime commitment to the university.More »
The University of West Georgia held a free suicide prevention training session on Tuesday to provide attendees with the warning signs and risk factors for suicide. The training was a collaborative event between the Counseling and Career Development Center and the College of Education Department of Clinical and Professional Studies under the PREVENT@UWG Mental Health Outreach Program.More »
The University of West Georgia held the first Volunteer Trail Day on June 19, 2013, in an effort to get students involved with maintaining the nature trails that run through campus. The Department of University Recreation coordinated the event.More »
The University of West Georgia's Department of Art will be hosting the Collections Exhibition: Variety Show until July 25, 2013, in the Bobick Gallery located on the first floor of the Humanities building.More »
Malissa Lowe, 40, a University of West Georgia staff member, began her weight loss journey in June of 2011 and has lost a total of 160 pounds. After being diagnosed with high blood pressure, Lowe decided to make a lifestyle change for her health.More »
The National Center for Teacher Quality (NCTQ) has released its annual report on the quality of individual, university-based teacher preparation programs in US News & World Report for the first time.More »
The Center for Public History at the University of West Georgia recently received a $35,600 grant from the Callaway Foundation to support the West Georgia Textile Heritage Trail. The funds will be used to support the publication of a photography book on the textile industry in northwest Georgia and a conference on the importance of textile history and heritage tourism in this region.More »
The University of West Georgia Department of Music now offers a Master of Music degree in Music Education that is entirely online.More »
Casey Nichols, a University of West Georgia alumnus named in UWG's "30 Under 30" list, recently returned from Moore, Okla., covering the damage left by the EF 5 tornado that occurred on May 20, 2013.More »
University of West Georgia graduate student, Johnny Holloway, is a quarterfinalist for the U.S. 2013 Grammy's Music Educator Award. The award is presented by the Recording Academy and the Grammy Foundation.More »
The summer has started off with a bang for the ace of the 2013 UWG pitching staff, as Jamie Sexton led his summer ball team, the Winchester Royals of the Valley Baseball League in Virginia, to a victory on opening night last Friday. But that was the tip of the iceberg, as Sexton was named Honorable Mention All-American by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association.More »
Margo Akers Bennett, a University of West Georgia alumna, was recently named University of California at Berkeley's new police chief. Bennett attended and graduated from UWG with a bachelor's degree in sociology and criminal justice in 1977 and a master's degree in guidance and counseling in 1981.More »
The University of West Georgia's College of Education hosted the 7th annual Learning Festival on May 30-31 in the Education Center located on UWG's campus.More »


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La Rosiere is a traditional French alpine village, offering fantastic snow conditions and a variety of runs for all levels of skier.
Perfect for families, the sunny resort of La Rosiere is close to the Italian border and links with La Thuile. Children will quickly gain confidence on the quiet pistes while adventurous adults can take off for a day's heli-skiing in Italy. Although the resort was purpose-built in the 1950s, it is charming with its authentically Savoyarde architecture – most buildings have been constructed with locally-sourced wood, slate and stone. Evenings in La Rosiere are relaxed and quiet with a handful of bars and a number of restaurants.
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The slopes in La Rosiere are generally fairly wide, interspersed with some testing reds and blacks, and are well suited to beginners through to competent intermediates on ski holidays in La Rosiere. Advanced skiers will find more challenging runs across in La Thuile. The children's facilities and ski schools are particularly good making, this a great resort for family ski holiday in La Rosiere.
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So I was starting to get comfortable carrying having carried to a college campus and the county fair and some smaller places and on the way home from the fair I get stopped. :gah: I was kinda freaking out a little.
So the officer comes up and asks how I'm doing I answer and return the question he says fine and says can I see your liscense? I say "yes but I need to tell you that I have my Utah state concealed firearm permit and I do have a fire arm with me its on my right hip."
He the asked me to step out of the car and asks where the gun is and if he can take it. I let him and he said he would hold on to it for the duration of the stop. By then anoter LEO stops and starts talking to me asked if I had my permit and I said yes and asked if he would like to see it he said no he trusted me. :hand10:
Turns out they were stopping about everyone for anything because they had a lot of problems during the fair last year. I find out as we are talking that the second LEO is in my church ward ad lives very close to me. :wave: He also told me that they are in my culdasac often and I say ya thats our favorite neighbor jokingly. :rolleyes:
It went well I just had a turn signal out. The first officer placed my firearm in the trunk just to be safe and I was on my way with a warning.
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Together Pangea opened for the White Lies show on Tuesday, April 22nd at the Roseland Theater. They brought a raw energy to the stage, and set the perfect tone for a party atmosphere. This would be their second to last show opening for White Lies in the US this tour.
The Room went dark and quiet as White Lies took the stage. They began their set with the title track from their first album, "To Lose My Life." The crowd cheered wildly and began singing along. Front man Harry Mcveigh's vocals are so beautiful and haunting, and the sound quality of the instruments so crisp and harmonic to accompany. The influence of dark wave bands as well as modern pop are present and clear in their songs, and lead vocals are dark and mysterious. The audience seems to be in a state of trance by Harry's voice. Strobe lights synchronized perfectly to the beat of the drums.
White Lies released their third album in August 2013, "Big TV." The album is so magnificently diverse with such a moody atmosphere. Delivering songs such as "Be your man," and "Mother Tongue," with a dark wave moodiness and a pop dance rhythm. While "Big TV," "Change," and "Heaven Wait" lend more of a sultry, melancholy feeling. There seems to be a formula to this English band's level of consistency and ability to produce such a unique sound, while keeping it fresh from album to album.
White Lies wrapped up their US tour April 23rd, and will continue their tour through Europe for the next few months to come. Check out their Website for upcoming news.


text: With 15 weeks in the books, there are a handful of NFL head coaches who need a strong finish from their teams to avoid the ax at season's end. New York Jets coach Rex Ryan and Tennessee Titans coach Mike Munchak are not among those whose seats are red-hot, but those two still could be kicked to the curb if the final two games go poorly. Tom Coughlin could depart the New York Giants, too, depending on how he and the front office see the Giants' expectations going forward.


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College Hockey:Frozen Four preview: Resilient freshmen come through at right time for Notre Dame
Notre Dame coach Jeff Jackson knew what he was getting into at the start of the 2010-11 season when the Fighting Irish welcomed a dozen freshmen to campus.
In 1988, Jackson was an assistant coach at Lake Superior State when the Lakers won a national championship with 11 rookies on the roster. In 1992, he was head coach at LSSU with 13 freshmen on another national championship team.
At the start of this season, Jackson said, "We're going to get experience under fire and that's fine, as long as we develop throughout the season and finish much stronger than we started."
After watching the CCHA regular-season title slip away in the last weekend of play and losing twice in the conference championship tournament, what Jackson didn't expect was getting the chance to watch his team develop in a single weekend, as he said the Irish did in the Northeast Regional with two wins over Hockey East teams March 26 and 27.
"It's kind of an unexpected treat for a young team that really has had signs of brilliance and signs of inconsistency," said Jackson. "We obviously picked the right time to show a little bit of that consistency."
The Irish have a total of 17 freshmen and sophomores on their roster — all players with no tournament experience because Notre Dame missed making the field last year. With only four seniors on the squad — and one, captain Joe Lavin, a transfer and relative newcomer — Jackson wasn't sure what he'd get when his team took the ice against Merrimack and New Hampshire in Manchester, N.H.
"It was really well balanced," said Jackson. "Obviously, when you're dealing with a young group of kids you have to reemphasize things over and over and over, and the positive thing for me [was that] I saw for the first time our ability to do the things that are necessary over the entire game and not drift off. The opponents were obviously in our zone and had scoring chance opportunities but we never lost sight of what we needed to do."
Two freshmen forwards lead the Irish in scoring, CCHA rookie of the year T.J. Tynan (22-31–53) and Anders Lee (24-20–44). While most people think of Notre Dame as a more conservative, defensive team, the key to much of the success this season was its scoring; the Irish average well over three goals per game (3.44).
Jackson said that every time people were ready to count out these young, inconsistent Irish players, they've come back. "I think that the youth has been a real positive in that regard," said Jackson. "I just have to bite my lip and hold my breath sometimes with some of the things I see with their inexperience in the big environment.
"For me as a coach, this has been one of the more fun years I've had in a long time because of the youth. Certainly [it's] caused some consternation as far as their consistency and some of the things that they do. The other side of it is that their resiliency has been pretty impressive."
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A lot of independent book stores have closed down in recent years. A lot of used and out-of-print stores have either closed or become internet-only sellers. A Cappella has soldiered on as an independent, knowing there is no way we can compete in price and inventory with Amazon and the big box stores. We have continued buying and selling used and out-of-print books in a storefront in a real neighborhood even though, again, we know that anybody with a computer can buy or sell almost any book they want themselves. And, happily, we have lived to tell the story, celebrating our 23rd anniversary on December 1, 2012.
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It would appear that a purported bigfoot photo posted to Facebook by a Scottish councillor was a hoax, although it is as yet uncertain what the motive for the prank might be. The photo, which was supposedly shot by Garry McTeague while walking his dog was not taken by the man himself, as was reported by a Scot news tabloid, The Courier, and circulated by other media outlets, including Huffington Post UK (Jan. 3) and Examiner (Jan. 5). In fact, the photo wasn't even taken in Scotland. It was taken in Pennsylvania.
And that story became the center of a suspected bigfoot hoax as well...
To explain: The Courier reported on the last day of December that North Muirton, Perth, councillor Garry McTeague had snapped a photo of a "sinister figure" (the tabloid's description), then posted it to the North Muirton Community Council Facebook page, asking followers what they thought it might be. McTeague even wrote that when he took the photo, his dog had gone "mental."
He wrote: "My dog that's usually timid starting going mental. I spotted this before "it" ran off. I was crapping myself tbh but managed to grab a quick snap on my phone. It didn't look much but when I got home and blew it up on the computer I spotted this. I've circled it in red so you know what I'm getting at. Anyone else seen/know what this is?"
But a quick look on the Internet when googling the term "bigfoot" would have yielded an interesting find. Among the first images of the hairy man-thing that is commonly referred to as bigfoot or sasquatch can be found McTeague's "it" that he claims to have photographed. That particular "it" can be traced back to a story from October (per KDKA in Pittsburgh) where a Bradford, Pa., man hiking through the woods of the Kinzua State Park when he took the photo of the shaggy man-thing walking through the trees.
And that image also had an enlarged inset of the presumed bigfoot circled in red.
Stoneman would later say he saw two moving shapes, but an anonymous tipster to Huffington Post Weird News would make the hiker's story suspect. The tipster provided a photo of what looks like the same shadowy figure, only from a different angle, and said that Stoneman's photo was of an uprooted tree, that the Pennsylvania bigfoot (or both sasquatches) was a hoax.
McTeague, it would seem, could be quite the joker -- not to mention a hoax perpetuator.
In fact, if one scans down the comment section far enough on the North Muirton Community Council Facebook page, one can see where posters not only call McTeague out for posting a google image, one poster even calls out The Courier for its gullibility.
And McTeague? After one commenter suggested he should have put the photo up for April Fool's Day, he wrote, "*spitting my drink out with laughter *".
It would appear Garry McTeague knew exactly what he was doing when he fabricated his dog-walking story and posted the bigfoot photo.
The Courier likely won't find the hoax as amusing...


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Using Database Objects in a Java Cloud Application
By Niranjan Kumbi-Oracle on Jul 11, 2014
Java Cloud service subscription is accompanied with a limited storage database cloud service(DBaaS). Some of you may not be aware of the technical details involved in retrieving data from a cloud schema (DBaaS).
First step is to identify the JNDI name aka Service name of the DBaaS schema. When you login into cloud.oracle.com account, you would see a listing of all the services available under your account. Look for 'Service Name' column.
Clicking on the Java service link would also show you the list of data sources that your JCS instance has access to.
Once you have identified the data source, follow same steps as you would normally do to create a JDBC client. Ensure you refer the right data source string that you identified in previous step.
After you have retrieved the connection, you would write standard JDBC code to query records or invoke PLSQL procedures.
Working with ADF:
For those familiar with ADF, it is possible to build a JCS client application with ADF. Choose a standard Model/Viewcontroller template, and then create an Application Module in the Model project. In AppModule configuration change the AppModuleShared and AppModuleLocal configuration to point to data source name of database service associated with java cloud service.
To deploy the application to Java Cloud Service, configure EAR deployment properties under Application properties to set the platform as 'Oracle Cloud'.
The application is now ready to be deployed to Java Cloud.
Defining schema objects in DBaaS:
DBaaS login gives you access to Oracle Application Express(Apex) dashboard. One could define DB objects, PLSQL procedures and scripts that are needed for your Java App through a browser based interface.


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Pumpkin-Apricot Pudding Cake
Steamed pudding is an English tradition that's been passed down through generations and eventually made its way across "the pond." Traditionally, it's served with a hard sauce (a creamy mixture laced with brandy or whiskey), but whipped cream is a perfect substitute. We've varied the English recipe, which uses dried fruits and specially designed molds, and used packed pumpkin and mini-bundt pans instead, for an American feel. Here's how to create and serve this truly dramatic dessert.
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- Heat first three ingredients:
- 3/4 cup dried apricots, chopped
- 1/4 cup dried currants
- 1/2 cup amaretto, warmed (coffee syrup)
- 1 can (15-ounce) solid pack pumpkin
- 3 large eggs, beaten
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1-1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon each: nutmeg, allspice, and salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2/3 cup brown sugar
- 5 tablespoons butter
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans
Instructions:Step 1: Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Prepare batter according to the recipe for Pumpkin-Apricot Pudding, above. Grease a heatprooof pudding mold or six mini-bundt pans. Pour batter into molds. Place on rack set in roasting pan.
Step 2: Place pan in oven. Pour boiling water into pan until molds are covered two-thirds of the way. Cover with foil. Steam for 1-1/2 hours or until toothpick inserted in pudding comes out clean. Cool on wire rack; invert onto serving plates.
Grand lighting: The beauty of steamed pudding comes just before you serve it-- with an impressive flambe' presentation your guest will remember for years to come.
Here's how to do it:
Microwave 1/4 cup whiskey or brandy on High for 30 seconds; spoon over each pudding. Set the puddings out on the dining table, then ignite each with a match. The flames will last only a moment, but the effect is well worth the effort. Once the flame has gone out, top with whipped cream.
Serves 6
Work time: 30 minutes
Total time: 2 hours
Perserving: Cal.404. Pro.7g; Carb.64g; Fat13g; fiber4g; Chol.132mg.
Sod. 354mg.
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Gifts - Sure, we expect them on anniversaries, birthdays, etc. - but those are the easy ones. Don't you love when you get a "just because" bouquet or naughty piece of lingerie? Well, it works both ways, sister - you gotta give a little to get a little. With this in mind, we'll be finding kick-ass "just because" gifts for your guy every now and then - possibly scoring you some brownie points and making you...a Golden Girl!
As we round the corner to Fall, there's no doubt that there's one thing on your man's mind... Football season! Get him pumped and ready to tail-gate with the Portable Folding Wooden Picnic Table ($98). In a mere three minutes, and with no tools, he can set up this handsome portable picnic set and settle in for beers and brats. High-strength aluminum alloy frames with beautiful wood slats provide seating for four. When the party is over, simply fold the benches and table and put them back in their carrying case until next Sunday.
Very nice and practical will be buying one.
practical, maybe. these things are sooo heavy it is impossible to set it up on your own, because one side just collapses.
I have an older, plastic version of this and recently took it to a baseball game--everyone in the parking lot wanted one! It is tailgate-tastic!
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The GTX 465 has been around for a while now and the card is a nice little performer for the price. Club3D has announced that it is launching its GTX 465. I guess we can say better late than never.
The GTX 465 is clocked at 607MHz on the core with 352 stream processors and a shader clock at 1215MHz. The card has 1024MB of GDDR5 RAM clocked at 3206MHz.
The video card is cooled with a standard fan and supports DirectX 11 like all other GTX 465 cards. The card also has dual DVI outputs and HDMI out and is HDCP ready.


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Oberkommando des Wehrmacht (OKW) - 'Westfront'/everything else including all rail-supply/logistics ''even in the areas controlled by the OKH'' [[/note]], two intelligence services (Abwehr, SD) that never shared information and occasionally offed each other's agents, two civil services and two courts (one regular/normal, one SS), and ''five'' atomic bomb programs that shared no information or resources with each other Nazi Germany was actually one of the most inefficient states in history - and that's not even accounting for the gross corruption. In Real Life, the only thing efficient about dictatorships is their total control of the media, which they use to portray themselves as being extremely efficient (and benevolent) despite their crippling factional in-fighting and endemic corruption.In fiction, the administrative incompetence of authoritarian regimes is often taken to comedic extremes. They'll enforce laws in a haphazard manner - extreme draconian punishment for jaywalkers, but anyone with enough sense to wear a PaperThinDisguise slips right under the radar. It appears that in their respective universes, fascism is controlled by a series of {{obstructive bureaucrat}}s, who aren't really interested in things working so much as they are in seriously inconveniencing people.This trope isn't just limited to fascism, but authoritarianism in general. Certain types of Communists, and even good ol' fashioned non-ideological tyrants, most notoriously military dictatorships, can fit under this trope. In fact, the trope runs a wide gamut of malice and effectiveness. This kind of government can actually be run by LawfulGood characters whose haphazard enforcement of the law usually keeps the heroes from doing their job. LaResistance may operate under the auspice of a mildly incompetent evil government, such that their activities go unnoticed. Other such governments are just [[SelectiveObliviousness willfully ignorant]] of certain lawbreakers for whatever reason, be it prejudice, corruption or plain old laziness. A distinct possibility is that the boss ''really is'' SurroundedByIdiots just as he's been saying all along.Of course, the people living under such a regime will still ''talk'' about how efficient the Fascist, But Inefficient government is... because if they don't, they stand a good chance of getting arrested and shot. This is TruthInTelevision; turns out it's kinda hard to oppress people, try to TakeOverTheWorld and run a functioning government at the same time. This is because dictators often care more about their own gain than the welfare of their citizens, and the country suffers as a result.Compare DystopiaIsHard. Contrast RepressiveButEfficient. See TheOtherWiki for RealLife examples.[[noreallife]]----!!Examples:[[foldercontrol]][[folder:Anime & Manga]]* ''Anime/CodeGeass'': Britania enforces ethnic inequality. You get 20 years for going on a drug binge, they have public mass executions, etc. Brittanian gangsters, by contrast, live in huge buildings visible to everyone and don't seem to fear any legal repercussions whatsoever. One gangster nearly kills a (Brittanian) student to protect his reputation as a chess player and is only stopped by a sudden attack from Zero's Black Knights. They also act more or less with impunity. But what do they expect when the Emperor openly approves murder and theft in his public speeches as [[TheSocialDarwinist strength overcoming weakness]]?[[/folder]][[folder:Comic Books]]* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'':** The nation of Borduria. When Tintin and Captain Haddock sneak into the country to rescue the kidnapped Professor Calculus, they repeatedly manage to evade the Bordurian army, police force and secret service, to the point where they manage to get rid of the Bordurian agents sent to tail them by getting them drunk. Humorously, it was [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Herge himself, who named the agents Kronik and Klumsi.** Same go for San Theodoros, where the two dictators, General Alcazar and General Tapioca, are both so ineffective they constantly overthrow each others in the blink of an eye.[[/folder]][[folder:Fan Works]]* ''Fanfic/TheConversionBureauTheOtherSideOfTheSpectrum'': It was already well-established that TCB!Equestria (aka, the [[TheEmpire Solar Empire]]) is a CrapsaccharineWorld, but it's not until the ''Calm Before the Storm'' side story comes along and shows just how bad it all really is. First off, the truly ''massive'' number of newfoals coming into Equestria has overstretched their resources to the breaking point. Making things worse is that the barrier vaporizes ''everything'' in its path (agriculture, infrastructure, buildings, materials, and information about how to create these things), leaving the conquered lands useless to the Imperials; in short, the barrier may be the only thing truly giving the Solar Empire a fighting chance against humanity (as it's clear the war would've been over in less than a week without it) but they they're also [[HoistByHisOwnPetard screwing themselves over]] ''badly'' as they're destroying the very resources they could've used to more easily shoulder their explosive population growth and colonize Earth. Moreover, the [[HopelessWar war has gone on for so long and has been so brutal]] that morale is at an all-time low, with only fanaticism and terror being able to hold their heads above the water, and even that is failing. * In ''Fanfic/WishCarefully'', Harry decides to strike a deal with Voldemort and the Death Eaters with a MagicallyBindingContract wherein he and the other Light-aligned wizards will leave Britain and make sure that the dark side will never have to deal with Muggles or muggleborns ever again. It isn't long after the Light exiles leave that the Death Eaters learn that it was regular honest Light supporters who had provided nearly all the goods and services that kept everything running smoothly. One specific example is given of the time when the Ministry of Magic's magical lifts began breaking down. Not only had the clerk who oversaw the maintenance left in the Exodus, so had the artificers he had previously contracted. In the end, the Death Eaters had to hire expensive goblin artificers simply because none of them had the kind of skills necessary to fix the problem. And that's not even getting to the fact that the pureblood supremacists' inbreeding is producing nothing but squibs and their population is slowly dying out, as well as how Voldemort just [[TheCaligula becomes more]] and [[ControlFreak more unhinged]] to the point that by the time Lucius Malfoy is an old man on his last legs, [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating everyone has come to hate Voldemort so much]] that the Malfoys and several other Death Eaters are gathering together to either kill Voldemort themselves or to deliver him to Harry Potter so that he can kill him for them.[[/folder]][[folder:Films -- Animation]]* ''Disney/TheLionKing'' has Scar allude in his VillainSong to the tremendous injustice he suffered when Mufasa became king instead of him, and implies that he's been scheming to take the throne for years. Scar proves to be an expert [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] in murdering Mufasa and manipulating Simba into running away, but when he finally obtains the power he craves he proves to be utterly incompetent at actually wielding it. [[FisherKing Under his leadership]], he indulges the hyenas' greed (forcing the prey to leave), his subjects starve, and the hyenas who form his power base are grumbling long before Simba ever comes back. For some reason he thinks the grumbling is because he hasn't secured the succession, rather than the fact that everyone's starving.[[/folder]][[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]* Creator/TerryGilliam's ''Film/{{Brazil}}'' is pretty much this. Starting with the fact that the plot is triggered when someone arrests Buttle [shoemaker] thinking he's Tuttle [renegade plumber] because of a typo... [[spoiler:Buttle dies under torture because they look at the wrong medical chart as well.]]* In ''Franchise/CharlieChan at the Olympics'', much play is made of mocking the bewilderment of the "ruthlessly efficient" German police detective facing an international murder-and-espionage plot ("Such things do not happen in Berlin!"). The film was made in ''1936''.* Possibly the most Nazi line of all time, in ''The Train'': "I'm tired of your inefficiency, Dietrich!"* The WickedStepmother of ''Film/ACinderellaStory'' is utterly incompetent at running the diner she inherits: she constantly belittles its workers, eventually forcing them to quit ''en masse'', and the only reason it still has any customers is because of [[VetinariJobSecurity Rhonda]]'s exceptional people skills. [[note]]The only reason ''Rhonda'' stays is to protect her surrogate daughter from the stepmother's abuse.[[/note]][[/folder]][[folder:Literature]]* This appears to be the main function of the Ministry of Magic in ''Literature/HarryPotter''. It didn't start out totally fascist (the incumbent Minister of Magic comes off as a very unflattering {{Expy}} of UsefulNotes/TonyBlair more than anything), but it surely didn't come off as very democratic. For example:** The main wizarding prison is located at [[TheAlcatraz Azkaban]], which is staffed by Dementors, evil creatures which suck the joy out of people. A place which by all accounts is AFateWorseThanDeath. There are apparently no other Wizarding prisons, so you get sent there [[AllCrimesAreEqual whether you were convicted of murder or insurance fraud.]] It doesn't seem to bother any of the authorities that such an extreme punishment is guaranteed to turn anyone sentenced there either insane or evil (usually both) within a few weeks, not to mention driving criminals to ''extreme'' methods to avoid imprisonment; knowing this was in store for them, no wizard would ever surrender to the authorities. Additionally, since Dementors are AlwaysChaoticEvil, Dumbledre repeatedly warns the Ministry of the folly of using them as wardens, as Voldemort could make them all defect without a second thought simply by providing them with more opportunities to fill their bellies - simultaneously adding a legion of dark creatures to his followers and effortlessly releasing all the Death Eaters imprisoned in Azkaban. All this would be bad enough if everyone sentenced to Azkaban was actually guilty, but... Well, see below.** According to the Pensieve, trials seem to be decided more on the personal opinions of the judiciary (by simple majority vote) than on any actual consideration of evidence. Hagrid and Sirius weren't even afforded the luxury of a trial in the first place!** The practice of being an [[VoluntaryShapeshifter Animagus]] requires [[SuperRegistrationAct government registration]]. We see how well this works because over the course of the books we know of at least four characters (James Potter, [[spoiler: Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew, and Rita Skeeter]]) who are illegal practicing Animagi. The relative ease with which they acquired their powers seems to indicate that this isn't really a magic type that can be easily regulated.** Once Voldemort is exposed, the Ministry of Magic spends most of their time trying to pretend he doesn't exist. At one point this goes so far as to accusing Harry of lying when they detect him using powerful magic in the presence of a Muggle. Harry does this because he's being attacked by Dementors, and the Ministry at no point bothers to offer an alternate explanation as to why Harry would cast a spell whose only use is repelling dementors, in violation of a wizarding law which he was well aware of - apparently he was just doing it to aggravate the ministry. (In fairness, the Patronus does have some uses outside of Dementor-stopping, being able to repel certain other Dark creatures and send messages, but he's got owls for the latter and the former wouldn't change anything.)** When Voldemort ''does'' take over, his regime is incredibly inefficient: the Weasleys, Hagrid, the Lovegoods, ''anyone'' that has the faintest connection with Harry should have been captured within hours, and used as hostages to make Harry turn himself in. "Mudblood registration" was clearly supposed to be the FantasticRacism equivalent of [[PuttingOnTheReich the yellow badge]], instead of just the Death Eaters killing them as soon as they found them.** The functioning of wizarding society is so utterly inefficient, even the ''sports'' consist largely of an implausible number of penalties, few if any of which are ever called except by snarky commenters since overzealous refs tend to get banished to the Sahara. On the other hand, the only Wizarding school in all of Britain still uses "throw the 12-year-olds in a forest with actual human-eating monsters for a night to straighten them out" as a routine form of punishment. Likewise, dueling is illegal, but taught as an extracurricular activity. The ministry might have the right to imprison lawbreakers indefinitely with no reason given, but the law is so incomprehensible, it's hard to imagine any part of society functioning even to the limited degree shown in the books. Driven home by how the sole sympathetic Ministry worker we see is so hopelessly corrupt, he'd "have to drag himself before the tribunal if he ever raided [his own] home". (Arthur Weasley-- his job is enforcing the prohibition on enchanting technological artifacts, and his passionate hobby is collecting enchanted technological artifacts. This is one of the protagonist's beloved father figures.)** Not to mention how hindered they are by their FantasticRacism against the muggles. The muggle and wizarding governments ''are'' apparently aware of each other, but only if you count the Minister for Magic occasionally popping into the Prime Minister's office without warning to give him vague updates on the magical world. One has to imagine that if they'd maybe ''asked'' muggles for some help, things like security cameras or guns would have given them a real leg up against the Death Eaters (though it's hard to say for sure, as technology tends to go haywire around magic or not work at all).* The government of "looters" in ''Literature/AtlasShrugged'' started out with relatively minor regulations to the economy and ended up with Directive 10-289, which basically overrides the economic freedoms of everybody in the nation. Resource shortages, societal collapse, starvation, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking trains not running on time]] ensue. The fact that John Galt is withdrawing as many productive people from society as he can also helped in the deterioration.* The WW2 novels by Creator/SvenHassel have the supposedly efficient war machine and civil administration of the Nazis actually be corrupt and massively wasteful of resources and human lives. Wholly TruthInTelevision.* The Final Empire in ''Literature/{{Mistborn}}'' has elements of this; [[GodEmperor the Lord Ruler]] is concerned with the survival of humanity, but is largely detached from directly ruling it, leaving control of his government primarily to the [[CorruptChurch Obligators]] and [[AristocratsAreEvil nobility]]. ''These'' groups are more interested in backstabbing each other than they are in running a productive empire. Of course, the whole system turns out to be good for two things-perpetuating itself and terrorizing the lower classes (having an immortal PhysicalGod at its head helps) so it ''still'' takes a ridiculous amount of work to overthrow.* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'': The chapter ''The scouring of the Shire'' shows us that Otho and then Sharkey with their army of men had seized power over the Shire, destroying the government, changing the Hobbit�s institutions to spy on them and arresting those who oppose them, looting under the excuse of "fair distribution", giving a lot of stupid rules, building ugly buildings and destroying all of the forest and polluting the rivers. And the army of men is nothing but bandits that are defeated relatively easily. One hobbit comments "If they want to make the Shire into a desert, they're going the right way about it." This case is justified: [[spoiler:humiliated wizard Saruman is TheManBehindTheMan and only wants to get petty revenge on the hobbits by ruining their land.]]* In Sinclair Lewis' ''Literature/ItCantHappenHere'', the Windrip administration is very efficient when it comes to suppressing and punishing dissent. It's grossly ''inefficient'' when it comes to educating the next generation or formulating sound economic policies. Several years after Windrip seizes power, the educational system is a bad joke and poverty abounds.* In Primo Levi's memoir of Auschwitz, ''Literature/IfThisIsAMan'', the author notes with some sarcasm that, for all that the camp was a highly efficient death machine, the Buna factory he was assigned to never produced a pound of synthetic rubber. That is to say, the process of creation as opposed to destruction was apparently beyond the capabilities of the camp administration.* In ''Franchise/StarWars'' TheEmpire can build massive superweapons and send tons of {{Mooks}} [[WeHaveReserves into the proverbial meat-grinder]], but the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse loves to show that the government was a cesspit of backstabbing, in-fighting, nepotism, bribery, and lost paperwork. As flawed as the Republic can be it managed to stand for 25,000 years, and the Empire lasting 38 years from Palpatine's coup to the peace treaty with the New Republic was a statistical eyeblink.* In the ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'' series, King Ancar of Hardorn basically treated his entire country as a machine to build and supply armies that he could use to conquer his neighbors. Which might have been a workable economic model, if only he'd been ''able'' to conquer any of his neighbors. By the time he was assassinated (for trying to conquer Valdemar - for the third time), he had looted his own country of so many people and resources that some places didn't have enough able-bodied people left behind to keep enough farms running to feed ''themselves'', much less supply the armies.* OlderThanSteam: In ''{{Utopia}}'', Thomas More explored the various problems with despotism and tried to offer solutions. Here, he describes the utter folly of AllCrimesAreEqual.--> I think putting thieves to death is not lawful; and it is plain and obvious that it is absurd and of ill consequence to the commonwealth that a thief and a murderer should be equally punished; for if a robber sees that his danger is the same if he is convicted of theft as if he were guilty of murder, this will naturally incite him to kill the person whom otherwise he would only have robbed; since, if the punishment is the same, there is more security, and less danger of discovery, when he that can best make it is put out of the way; so that terrifying thieves too much provokes them to cruelty.[[/folder]][[folder:Live-Action TV]]* ''Series/HogansHeroes'': Actually, the whole point of this series � Nazis who were hopelessly inept.* Specifically invoked in an episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': John Gill, a noted historian, is sent by TheFederation to observe a primitive planet, only to break the [[AlienNonInterferenceClause Prime Directive]] and set up a Nazi-like government on the planet to tame it. He directly states that he wanted to use the efficiency of the Nazis to bring order to the world without bringing the malice associated with it in as well, and for a while it actually worked. However, it wasn't efficient enough to stop his [[TheStarscream second in command]] from drugging him and seizing power, leaving him as a comatose figurehead as his new government fell back into the atrocities of Nazi Germany. * The Alliance in ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' tries to be totalitarian, but doesn't have the resources to prevent the outer worlds from degenerating into societies ruled by the nastiest thug with the most guns and {{mooks}}. Although from what we see the ''inner'' worlds appear to be held on a much tighter leash; the entire setting is partly an allegory of America in the 19th century, where the east part of the country was 'civilized' (i.e. held together by the rule of law) but the west was wild and untamed, and remained so for a fairly long period. It's also the case that the Core Worlds are ''more'' corrupt than the nastiest of the frontier worlds, where are least you can see who's got their boot on your throat and why. This also matches a large swath of 19th century America, where sophisticated Eastern cities were often also corruptly ruled by wealthy criminals while western towns with corrupt rule by criminals were at least rather open about it.* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' story ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E2TheHappinessPatrol The Happiness Patrol]]'', the oppressive society of Terra Alpha ([[HappinessIsMandatory where everyone is forced to be happy]]) is clearly falling apart even before the Doctor arrives to take the oppressive society down, but he acts as the necessary impetus to finally push it over the edge into chaos and open rebellion. One particularly beautiful example, however; a militia is set up to 'disappear' a group of protesters deliberately acting sad in protest over the laws, only to find when they get there that the Doctor has persuaded them to act happy, meaning that they are now obeying the law and can't be arrested or killed. And to add insult to injury, the first wave is so confused, glum and indecisive about what to do that when a second wave turns up to help, they end up ignoring the protesters and arresting the first wave for breaking the same laws they'd been intending to arrest the protesters over.* In ''Series/{{Misfits}}'' time travel causes the Nazis to have won the war, and Shaun is the head of the Wertham precinct. He is still, however, [[TheSlacker Shaun]].* The Goa'uld in ''Series/StargateSG1'' are as fascist and inefficient as you can get, which is why the heroes lasted as long as they did; for all their technology and power the [[PuppeteerParasite snake heads]] were more interested in using it to [[AGodAmI bolster their ego]] and [[EnemyCivilWar fight amongst themselves]], the sole exceptions being [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy Anubis]] and [[MagnificentBastard Baal]]. In this case it's because the fascism and inefficiency were inseparable, as the Goa'uld are AlwaysChaoticEvil and sought power purely for power's sake, and did things like randomly killing some of their cowering slaves or [[WeHaveReserves throwing away valuable troops in pointless slaughters]] not because it might accomplish something, but because [[ForTheEvulz being needlessly evil]] was the goal in itself.[[/folder]][[folder:Tabletop Games]]* Depending on the gamemaster, Alpha Complex, the setting of ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'', can range from a well-oiled totalitarian machine to a dysfunctional cesspit of inefficiency, incompetence, and intrigue. The game manual also recommends that when dealing with very high-ranking antagonists, the GM should play them as fascist and efficient, and play their efficiency for as much horror value as the rampant inefficiency of the lower levels.* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' has His Divine Majesty's Imperium of Mankind, probably the most {{exaggerated|Trope}} in fiction. It's deliberately the most oppressive {{crapsack|World}} government imaginable, but all the different factions that run it ([[ObstructiveBureaucrat Administratum]], [[ChurchMilitant Ecclesiarchy]], [[MachineWorship Mechanicus]], [[RedshirtArmy Imperial Guard,]] [[SpaceNavy Imperial Navy]], [[SuperSoldier Astartes]], [[StateSec Inquisition]], and [[PoliceBrutality Arbites]]) distrust each other at best, regularly hoard information and resources, will often refuse to help another faction unless it can benefit them, and on occasion will outright go to war with each other; more than one Imperial endeavor has been dismantled solely because of infighting. And that's before considering all the sub-factions (and ''sub''-sub-factions) ''and'' all the local departments that run individual planets/systems. Turns out that this is ''better'' than the alternative, as any time someone gains control of multiple departments at once they soon turn the Imperium's brutally up even further (Horus in the Horus Heresy and Goge Vandire in the Age of Apostasy). It doesn't help that the only one who could feasibly remove the "Inefficient" part is the Emperor of Mankind, and he's a barely alive husk trapped in failing life support.[[/folder]][[folder:Video Games]]* In ''VideoGame/FableIII'', Logan ends up running his parents' kingdom to the ground [[spoiler:in an attempt to prepare Albion against an EldritchAbomination]] and generally kicking the dog in order to teach you, his younger sibling, to be equally prepared. However he keeps kicking the dog even when it does nothing but makes things worse, and when you usurp the throne it turns out that much like [[VideoGame/FableII your parent before you]], making obscene amounts of money without being a jerkass is just a case of investing and maintaining real estate.* In FourX games, the tyrannical style governments often gain military and related bonuses, but have poor economy bonuses, or economy penalties, to compensate.** In ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}}'' I and II, despotism has large losses to corruption and waste (Communism and Fundamentalism are aversions, though, having very low losses).*** In ''Civilization V'', being a military focused civ means not only is your economy going to suffer (building and maintaining and army is VERY expensive) but you also will most likely miss out on building Wonders (which give great bonuses to your civ; admittedly, conquering somebody else's Wonder can be just as good as building it yourself), and get penalties to your culture. Being a warmonger pretty much paints a target on your back, as the other civilizations in the game will turn hostile against you (effectively shutting down any trade negotiations you may have had with them).** In the ''[[VideoGame/CivilizationCallToPower Call To Power]]'' series, Tyranny is the starting government, and is extremely poor in almost all areas. Later in the game, Fascism and Communism supply good production and strong military support, but with weaker economies and can support fewer cities than Democracy, the other government at about the same position on the tech tree. (Technocracy is an aversion, however. This government is pretty much ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', but is a highly efficient government, although with slightly different bonuses to other late game ones.)** In ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri'', the Police State government has a penalty to efficiency as a disadvantage. Combined with a planned economy for a full totalitarian government, and your faction will probably crash and burn from almost all income being lost to inefficiency.*** The Human Hive is the sole exception to this rule, being immune to inefficiency and thus being the only faction capable of running the Planned Economy/Police State combo. In-story, this is explained as [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration the influence of Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang]], but in reality this was added as a feature to make a totalitarian faction playable, rather than just an extremely creative form of suicide.** ''VideoGame/GalacticCivilizations'': the four main structures of government are an Imperial dictatorship and three different subsets of democracy. Imperial is ''massively'' less useful economically than the others, with the comparatively tiny benefit of not having to stage elections at semi-random intervals.* The Combine Overwatch in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' don't seem to really care about the rebels are operating a secret lab just blocks away from a major train station, and getting spies into [[StateSec Civil Protection]] seems to be as easy as joining Civil Protection, but once Gordon returns they waste no time going from oppressive to offensive, mobilising a massive manhunt to hunt Gordon down, and launching a huge raid on the entire canal system to clear out the rebel activity. When it's clear that Gordon is headed out of town, they begin mobilising the overwatch military to begin attacking outland settlements as well. Somehow, they never do find that lab, even though it does take battle damage and is abandoned in favor of a safer forest base around 2 weeks after the revolution begins.* The Templars of ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' tend to function as such. Due to their belief in keeping the populace weak as part of their interpretation of Order, whenever they tend to control territories they tend to run it to the ground as seen in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood''. The Renaissance is considered a "Dark Age" of sorts for Templars as members were out solely for personal gain rather than forwarding their goals, but the modern-day or Altair-era Templars don't seem much better. Sure, they're not openly stabbing each other in the back in the name of personal power, but despite apparently having been in a position of control over just about ''everything'' except the minds of the populace itself [[spoiler:hence the need for the Apple,]] the Assassins still exist and still manage to repeatedly yank the rug out from under the Templars.* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' has the city of Opportunity, built by Handsome Jack as his vision of utopia. In reality, it's a fascist dictatorship that's more or less a glorified monument to himself. It has elements of BreadAndCircuses (people are paid to live there and gain a sizeable tax refund for listening to BlatantLies about how he unlocked the Vault of the first game) as well as having death penalties for crimes such as littering and "verbal littering" (criticizing any of Opportunity's laws). It also doesn't help the fact that since it's located in the middle of [[DeathWorld Pandora]], no sane person would want to move their family there in the first place. When the latter is pointed out to him by an employee, [[BadBoss Jack has said employee's kids killed]].* ''Franchise/StarCraft'':** Both Terran Governments we get to see are portrayed as fascist, dictatorial, and extremely ineffective; at the beginning of the game, the Confederation is clearly hated by almost everybody due to their policy of nuking rebellious planets, and it's quite clear the regime was already dying before Arcturus raised a rebel army of his own that destroyed it. Afterwards, his Terran Dominion seems ''slightly'' more effective, but just as oppressive, and ends up rather easily destroyed by the [[TheWarOfEarthlyAggression UED]]. While he manages to rebuild it between the end of ''Brood War'' and ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'', it's implied the only reason he lasted so long was because Kerrigan [[CruelMercy didn't consider him worth killing]]. The very moment she decides to go on the warpath against him again, [[CurbStompBattle his Dominion is crushed]], and the drastic measures he attempts to save it only end up making things worse.*** Mengsk also has one of the traits of RealLife fascist militaries down, his lust for enormous ego-stroking superweapons. At the height of the zerg invasion on the Dominion, he spends an enormous amount of resources to produce the Odin, a mammoth ''walking tank'' packed with every armament imaginable, up to and including ''nukes''. [[LaResistance Raynor's]] men steal it, and after having some fun with it, declare it useless as a practical weapon and discard it. ** The [[NotSoOmniscientCouncilOfBickering Protoss Conclave]] is shown to be utterly incompetent in defending Aiur against the [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Zerg]] [[AlienInvasion invasion]] due to [[HonorBeforeReason their insistence of relying on traditional protoss tactics]] (which ''aren't'' at all effective against a ZergRush) and constant refusal to accept help from [[DarkIsNotEvil the Dark Templar]] for ideological reasons, [[TooDumbToLive even though the Dark Templars possess exactly what is needed to defeat the Zerg]]. They also refuse Terran help, again for "[[FantasticRacism ideological]]" reasons. Unsurprisingly, they are the first to get exterminated by the time of ''Brood War''.** Defied by [[HiveQueen Kerrigan]], of all people, in ''[[VideoGame/StarCraftIIHeartOfTheSwarm Heart of the Swarm]]'', where she decides, despite [[TheSpock Abathur]]'s recommendations, to grant her Broodmothers more free will and individuality, as she feels the Swarm would be more effective if they are capable of thinking by themselves and taking initiative rather than being just mindless slaves.* ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'': Even at the finest eras of the Sith Empire, the infrastructure is crumbling or nonexistent, and everyone from two bit officials to the Sith theocracy is too busy [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder backstabbing each other]] or fearing their underling's constant attempts at invoking KlingonPromotion to accomplish ''anything''. Add an untenable [[WeWillUseManualLaborInTheFuture reliance on slave labor]] and a boatload of FantasticRacism against ''every'' non-human (or non-Sith) species, in a galaxy with ''[[LoadsAndLoadsOfRaces over twenty million sentient species]]''. In the later storylines [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Darth Marr]] takes acts to try and fix this, enacting pro-alien policies as well as trying to curb some of the Empire's worse habits (particularly the rampant backstabbing/politicking).* [[PlayingWithATrope Played With]] by Caesar's Legion in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''. It's noted by several characters, including the PlayerCharacter in the endgame, that the Legion's economy is sustained primarily by pillaging others and won't last long against the NCR, who have a trade and industry-based economy and will hands down win a war of attrition. It's also commonly noted that the Legion will fall into infighting once Caesar dies and/or they run out of enemies to fight. But on the other hand, it is Caesar's full intention to take over New Vegas and turn the Legion into a self-sustaining empire - he personally compares his nomadic horde more to the Gauls. The Legion is also far more able to keep the peace and protect their subjects than the NCR. ** The Brotherhood Of Steel are falling into this over time. Hoarding technology, killing mutants and banning outsiders from their ranks worked when civilization was just a few scattered towns, but it's become troublesome in the recent games. The West Coast chapter featured in ''New Vegas'' has been reduced from a vast army to one bunker in the Mojave desert after tangling with House, the NCR, the Legion and a ton of smaller tribes. Zigzagged by the East Coast chapter; they became a lot more egalitarian and made leaps and bounds in tech, but retained those advancements after they were brought back into the fold.[[/folder]][[folder:Western Animation]]* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'': The court system seems to spend most of its time interrogating innocent people then failing to protect them on the rare occasion they admit to knowing something, and then losing the case due to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification jury nullification]]. This is the justification Huey offers for why the Black community seems to have an irrational aversion to snitching, though [[{{Hypocrite}} he doesn't seem to endorse the practice himself]].* The Dai Li, the ''de facto'' government of Ba Sing Se in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', was a group that was more interested in keeping the city peaceful by forbidding all discussion of the war and isolating the continuous flow of refugees than actually organizing much in the way of actual coordinated strategy or doing anything to improve the lot of the refugees. The conspiracy was ''so'' inefficient that their actions guaranteed the eventual defeat of the Earth Kingdom, leaving Ba Sing Se nearly defenseless against Fire Nation siege engines (at a time when the Fire Nation proves it is not in MedievalStasis) and the entire rest of the Kingdom is falling around them. Taken to something of its logical conclusion when [[spoiler:Azula (the princess of an ''actually'' efficient Fascist government) manages to bring the Dai Li under her control, seizing power over the city and effectively conquering the Earth Kingdom]].** The Earth Kingdom stays completely incompetent in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', where the [[spoiler:secret airbender conscript training]] goes so far as to ''discourage'' teamwork and protecting your allies, apparently because Earth Kingdom culture reveres blundering idiocy or something. [[spoiler:Again, taken to its' logical conclusion when the entire Kingdom falls apart in spectacular fashion once [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen the Earth Queen]] is assassinated and the walls separating the dirt-poor Lower Ring from the decadent and obscenely wealthy Upper and Middle Rings are brought down. And like in the previous series, the next regime was a fascist dictatorship that was NOT run by morons.]]* ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' has the country of [[{{Ruritania}} Thembria]], where everything is accompanied by mountains of forms and paperwork, so a simple request of decision can take months to put into practice. The sole exception seems to be execution orders, which are rushed through in a few hours. The armament industry was so inefficient (or tied up in red tape) that the Thembrian Air Force [[RunningGag never had any bullets]] and would resort to throwing whatever they DID have at enemy planes, including furniture, ship anchors and cuts of bologna. * The WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck WarTimeCartoon ''Disney/DerFuehrersFace'' [[UpToEleven took Nazism to an absurd extreme]], including its inefficiency. 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(Updated 10:18 a.m. and 2:05 p.m.) A six-month research effort on Rhode Island's economy delved into the Ocean State's past as an industrial leader, its struggles during the Great Recession and its need to innovate to move forward again. more
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Betsy Wall, a month into her job as chief marketing officer for R.I. Commerce Corp., turned in her resignation Friday, a casualty of the flawed rollout of the state's new tourism and economic development program. Along with Wall, the new slogan, "Rhode Island: Cooler and Warmer," was dropped from the campaign. more
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What happens in Vegas stays in...uhhh, everywhere? Not quite the same catchiness as the original, is it.
Fox is bringing Las Vegas into all of your homes with Loveland, a new single-camera comedy from Danny Jacobson, the creator of Mad About You. The series will focus on a messed-up, dysfunctional family that operates a wedding chapel, says the Hollywood Reporter.
That's kind of a cute gimmick. If it catches on, you could have a lot of fun with celebrity cameos.
Jacobson last worked as a writer and executive consultant on CBS' Rob, which featured Rob Schneider. He will write and executive produce Loveland for Warner Brothers Television.
In addition, he has worked on Ryan Reynolds' Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place (wow, I totally forgot about that show) and Roseanne.
Earlier this week, ABC bought an untitled single-camera comedy set in Las Vegas about a mormon family heads to Sin City.
Expect NBC to announce a single-camera comedy about a recovering gamber who moves to Las Vegas but struggles with his addition. And CBS to follow with a single-camera comedy set in Las Vegas about two 70-year-old newlyweds that elope in Vegas and decide to start a new life there. The catch? Charlie Sheen plays both.
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Released: Jun 01st, 2001
Running Time: 59,61,57,55,56
Company: Eye on You Productions
Cast: Lisa (I), Jessie (I), Stacy (I)
Critical Rating: Not Yet Rated
Genre: Pro-Am
Somewhat dependable pro-am series, though far from habit forming.
The brainchild of an Indianapolis-based stripper hound, the word "amateur" in the title refers to the inept video style rather than the models appearing in front of the camera. With personal Websites, CES appearances, tattoos, piercing and aliases like Rainy Knight, Felicia Fox and Nikki Steel, little room is left to doubt these girls' professionalism. Ten minutes of interview start off the proceedings and, since the subject of intergalactic travel doesn't pop up, the girls don't stray far from the standard sex worker script. They all swear that they love sex and the biggest thrill of their life is reeling in the greenbacks while cocks spurt all around them. Felicia, bless her, admits to a little variety in her fantasy life. She dreams about a passionate fuck in the middle of Sea World while dolphins jump through hoops above her and crowds of sea lions clap.
Volumes 163, 165 and 166 offer a vegan menu. Kissy, cuddly pussy bumping, jelly jamming and 69 involvements, none of which smear any lipstick. Eye On You regular Joelean is a luminous little princess who takes solace in terrorizing her subjects with a cat'o'nine tails. Some fetish producer can do himself a favor and put her right arm under contract.
Volumes 164 and 167 are more of a turn-on for flesh eaters. Lacey's cut and dried sexuality seems cold-blooded at first glance, but the mechanical expertise she shows, both orally and vaginally, induces five loads out of two men in a very short span of time. Ecstasy, on the other hand, is a self-service model, using Steve's pole to induce an average of four squawking orgasms every 15 minutes. Viewers aroused by vocal chicks will probably score just as high.
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Powerplant, Railroad Avenue – Mare Island Naval Shipyard. Mare Island, Vallejo, California. February 27, 2010. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Night panoramic photograph of the powerplant building and other structures along Railroad Avenue at the historic Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California.
This is a bit of a first for me – a night photography stitched panorama. This image is composed of two separate exposures which were aligned and "stitched" into a single image in post. (As such, it could be a very large print!) Shooting from an elevated position, I shot almost directly north (as you can tell from the star trails in the larger version). The view looks up Railroad Avenue past the iconic power plant building with its smokestack that is visible from all over Mare Island.
I'm usually a bit casual about exposure time with long exposure night photographs. It isn't that I don't care – it is just that one has a ton of leeway when it comes to the very long exposures I typically use. For example, on a 3 minute exposure you would have to be off by three minutes to overexpose by one stop! So rather than use a stopwatch or an automatic timer I just count to myself. I'm usually will within a 10% error, and that is good enough. However, when stitching "good enough" often isn't. The separate component frames really need to be quite similar, so in this case I resorted to using my watch to get relatively accurate 90 second exposures.
Another interesting factor in night photography is illustrated in this photo, namely the wildly varied colors of the light sources we deal with. There are three dominant sources in this image. The overall illumination comes from the full moon, which is quite similar to day light in terms of white balance. On the near wall of the brick power plant there is very "hot" and saturated yellow/red tinted light, probably from sodium vapor lamps. Near the left end of the image is an old wooden building that is illuminated by very green light, which I believe comes from mercury vapor lamps. I often chuckle a bit when people speak of "white balancing" the color in a scene like this. If you pick one source for your white balance you'll throw the others even more out of line. My philosophy is usually to just go with what looks right!
Finally, the idea of making the stitched panorama came from the recently started Panocturnists web site, begun by people connected with The Nocturnes, the San Francisco Bay Area night photography group. I was intrigued by the idea of creating panoramic night photography, and I've done a few images along these lines on my two most recent visits to Mare Island.
(More of my Mare Island photographs)
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What DMN sports columnist and Around the Horn regular Tim Cowlishaw said before today's show provoked Jackie MacMullan (the only female sportswriter in the Basketball Hall of Fame) to call him a "little bastard." Actually, that was just the beginning of what she said about him. Cowlishaw's slip comes around the 0:15 mark. Then her […]Read More


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Larry O'Donnell
Sr. Structural Engineer
4749 Lincoln Mall Drive, Suite 600
Matteson, IL 60443
Ph: (708) 283-3502
Began working in field in 1990
Joined FHWA in 1989
• Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
• Bridge inspection (NBIS, NBI)
• Bridge management
• Bridge protective coatings
• Cable stayed bridges
• Segmental concrete bridges
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• Professional Engineer - Indiana
• National Highway Institute (NHI) certified instructor
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• American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), member
• National Society of Professional Engineers, member
• Society for Protective Coatings (SSPC), member
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• Provide technical assistance, technology deployment and training in the area of bridge inspection and management.
• Developed and delivered element level bridge inspection training for AASHTO defined elements.
• Led bridge inspection and management program peer reviews of State Transportation Department bridge inspection and management programs. The peer reviews identified recommendations for improvement and commendable practices.
• Developed, updated and delivered the NHI Pontis Bridge Management and InfoMaker training in coordination with the National Highway Institute and contractors.
• Reviewed plans, special provisions and estimates, and conducted construction inspections of conventional bridges, major and complex bridges including cable stayed, steel basket-handle arch, steel box girder, precast segmental concrete and cast-in-place post-tensioned concrete.
• Developed and delivered executive level presentations and demonstrations on the Pontis bridge management system software for State Transportation Departments.
• Developed and delivered presentations at national, regional and state conferences.
• Developed bridge inventory and inspection handbooks; bridge construction specifications and standard details/drawings, construction inspection/process review guidelines for various phases of bridge construction, and bridge coating specifications and inspection guidelines.
• Led teams consisting of FHWA and State Transportation Department engineers during the conduct of process reviews such as structural steel fabrication, precast segmental concrete fabrication, steel bridge maintenance coating preparation and application, bridge maintenance, precast prestressed concrete fabrication, micro-silica modified concrete overlay placements, and other phases of bridge and highway construction.
• Involved in the development and implementation of high performance material standard specifications and contract special provisions for high performance steel and high performance concrete.
• Designed precast, prestressed concrete girder; voided, precast, prestressed concrete beam; and steel plate girder bridges in accordance with the AASHTO Standard Specifications for Highway Bridges and the Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets. Developed preliminary and final plans; special provisions; estimates, design narratives and CPMs.
• Reviewed and approved bridge type studies, preliminary and final plans and special provisions for socially and environmentally sensitive multi-million dollar bridge projects. Evaluated bridge type studies proposed for locations with environmentally sensitive areas such as: landfills; soils containing hazardous materials such as heavy metals and PCBs; flood plains and wetlands. Evaluated bridge type studies involving historic bridges and bridges in historic areas.
• Served as the chairman of the Northeast Steel Bridge Collaboration (NESBC) task group for steel bridge coatings. The committee served to support the national task group which is part of the AASHTO/National Steel Bridge Alliance, National Steel Bridge Collaboration.
• Served as a member of the former FHWA Coatings Outreach Team that focused on technology transfer efforts regarding structural steel coating performance, application inspection, training development, lead abatement, low volatile organic compound products, health and safety plans, specification development and coating maintenance strategies. Several technical notes, publications and a paint inspection field guide were developed and distributed to State Transportation Departments by the team.
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After Miami split a doubleheader on Friday with North Carolina that included a grueling 6-5 win in 16 innings, the Hurricanes defeated the Tar Heels 2-0 on Saturday to finish the regular season atop off the ACC. Miami clinched the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament, which gets begins Tuesday at NewBridge Bank Park in Greensboro, N.C.
Miami (40-15, 24-6) began the season 13-12 but won 27 of its last 30 games to finish the regular season with 40 wins for the first time since 2008. That was also the last time the Hurricanes made the College World Series. Perhaps even more impressive is that Miami became just the fourth team ever to win 24 ACC games in a single season, joining Clemson (2006) and Florida State (2008 and 2012)
"It's a very good accomplishment," Miami coach Jim Morris said. "Our guys have worked very hard - players, coaches, everybody. We stuck together as a team. We had a few injuries here and there, but the guys have always stuck together and taken up for each other."
The No. 7 Hurricanes scored quickly in the top of the first inning when David Thompson singled to score Tyler Palmer, who tripled earlier in the frame. Miami added another run in the fourth thanks to a sacrifice fly by Johnny Ruiz to score Thompson.
Thompson made his third consecutive start after missing 32 games after having surgery to remove a rib and repair an issue that caused a blood clot in his right arm. He finished 2-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored Saturday and combined to go 4-for-12 for the series.
"I feel great physically, there was a lot of emotions out there," Thompson said of his return. "I was super nervous, especially that first game yesterday. It was just so amazing being back out there and such a blessing."
Bryan Radziewski also pitched six strong innings for the Hurricanes, striking out six batters while scattering six hits to keep the Tar Heels scoreless. Freshman closer Bryan Garcia also picked up his 15th save of the season.
"We kept going and never looked back," Radziewski said of Miami's turnaround. "It's a testament to all the hard work we put in, and all the freshmen who needed to get their feet wet."
Senior Tyler Palmer also had a big weekend for the Hurricanes that included a two-RBI walk off single in Friday's 16-inning marathon. His triple on Saturday also helped set up Miami's first run of the game. However, Palmer made it a point during postgame that his team can't get too excited too soon.
"When we get two wins in a weekend, we want the third. We have to stay hungry," Palmer said. "This is not the first time the program has won an ACC Regular Season Championship. There's history in this program, we want to make it back to Omaha…that's been our motto all season."
"We're not done yet."
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The ACID canal is leaking once again, but this time people in Cottonwood are getting wet.
The leak was reported early Monday morning when so much water was flowing down the road that water covered most of Trefoil Lane. In some places it was so deep water flooded sidewalks and portions of front yards.
Residents in the area didn't report any damage, but were surprised at the amount of water in their street.
"[There was] quite a bit of water," says Kim Henderson in front of her house. "It came up onto the side of the street and into our rocks."
Their rocks are about six to seven inches above the street level, so it was a decent amount of water in the road.
Henderson did her part to help clear out a storm drain to allow the water to drain off the road quicker.
"I had on my wading boots and just kind of kicked away some dirt and stuff," says Henderson. "It wasn't too bad, there was just a lot of leaves and grass and stuff [blocking the drain]."
ACID officials said that a lateral head-gate, or a gate controlling flow to an ancillary canal, was closed without notice. And that closure allowed the water in the canal to rise above its normal level.
Officials said that the water was seeping through the canal walls but the water never over topped the canal walls.
They say there was no damage done to the canal itself and that this is simply an operations error not a breach or damage to the canal walls.
ACID officials also say this isn't the same as the situation in Anderson and do not expect this to be a long term issue.


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April 21, 2016 | By: Hylke Faber
"Before you can create, you must forget," writes Vijay Govindarajan (VG), one of the world's leading experts on strategy and innovation in his latest book "The Three Box Solution – A Strategy For Leading Innovation." Why does VG say this and what can we learn from him?
April 9, 2015 | By: Amelia Johannsen
In today's crowded marketplace a new product is only as good as its packaging and marketing campaigns. How can you make it stand out from the competition? How can you update the design of your product without alienating your customer? The new book "Creative Anarchy: How to Break the Rules of graphic Design for Creative Success" provides ideation techniques and creative tools to push boundaries and expectations while preserving the function and message of the design.
September 19, 2014 | By: Anthony Ferrier
I spoke with Claudio Fernandez-Araoz, author of the new book "It's Not the How or the What but the Who: Succeed by Surrounding Yourself with the Best" about the linkages between HR and innovation perspectives to drive business value. It is a great read and is in-line with some of my thinking about the role of HR in driving innovation success in large corporate organizations, so I wanted to have a chat and gather his thoughts.
February 17, 2014 | By: Traducción por Jesus Mascareño
This book analyzes innovation within the setting of Latin America,which is one of the most dynamic business regions in the world. The objective throughout the book is to narrow down different innovation definitions, explore the need for training innovation professionals, elaborate strategies and enunciate best practices for ensuring its delivery, and review innovation and knowledge transfer projects.
October 8, 2013 | By: David Burkus
Is your company too bogged down in meetings, emails, policies, and procedures, leaving little time for big-picture thinking and innovation? Then you need to read Lisa Bodell's book, Kill the Company: End the Status Quo, Start an Innovation Revolution.
December 9, 2012 | By: Chuck Frey
For many innovative people, the problem is not coming up with enough ideas, but getting attention for those ideas we decide to implement. To solve this problem, we need to invest more time developing persuasive stories that make an emotional connection with the people we're trying to influence. That's the message of Bernadette Jiwa's terrific book Make Your Idea Matter: Stand Out With a Better Story.
December 5, 2012 | By: Chuck Frey
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon is a wonderful little book that is designed for anyone who is ever has had a desire to create something amazing, but doesn't know where to start.
December 5, 2012 | By: Chuck Frey
Are you a cubicle slave who longs to be their own boss, to take their Really Big Idea and run with it, unencumbered by the shackles of the corporate world? Then you need to pick up Hugh MacLeod's new book, Evil Plans: Having Fun on the Road to World Domination.
June 28, 2012 | By: Jeffrey Phillips
Though not a new concept, "reverse innovation" is hardly straight-forward in practice. Govindarajan and Trimble's showcasing of successful projects, Fortune 500-type best practice and essential theory in the field endeavors to lay down a modus operandi, yet one which lacks a lasting echo. In this review Jeffrey Phillips argues that despite its good intentions, the book seems to cater only to multinationals, ignoring the needs of small/mid-sized players whose drive is high, yet resources low. Reverse innovation requires a different mind-set, workflow and altogether pace for socially and economically consistent results to emerge.
May 3, 2012 | By: René van der Hulst
James Gardner's new book takes a look at innovation from another perspective – it's not always about new ideas but how new ideas are made useful. In this book review René van der Hulst walks us through the three mechanisms Gardner has identified that accelerate acceptance of new products or services and increase competitive boundaries.
January 5, 2012 | By: Bill Fischer
Higher education is heading for disruption. In the new book The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education From the Inside Out, Clayton Christensen and Henry Eyring explore why this is inevitable and what traditional universities and colleges can do about it. Professor Bill Fischer, himself an avid believer in disruption, reviews this book covering an extremely timely subject.
December 14, 2011 | By: Jeneanne Rae
In his new book Relentless Innovation, prolific innovation author Jeffrey Phillips looks at innovation from an enterprise-level perspective, encouraging companies to adopt an innovation capability that can be scaled and repeated throughout the firm, rather than attempt the one-off innovation initiatives that are common to big businesses today.
November 15, 2011 | By: René van der Hulst
Many companies tout innovation in their marketing. Being perceived as innovative is important. But the message and reality can only diverge temporarily. A new book by Langdon Morris is providing a simple but very effective framework to guide CEOs as they address what many perceive as the dilemma of innovation.
September 29, 2011 | By: Paul Hobcraft
In a completely revised and updated fourth edition, Robert Cooper reminds us that his Stage-Gate process has become the most widely used method for managing new products in industry today. Stage-Gate is an ideas-to-launch process that encompasses a solid body of knowledge and best practice gleaned from studies of thousands of new product developments.
September 8, 2011 | By: Jeffrey Phillips
What are the characteristics or skills of a strong innovator? In The Innovator's DNA, authors Dyer, Gregersen and Christensen set out five skills or attributes they claim are consistently demonstrated by successful innovators. The identification of these attributes is helpful but the book fails to fully address how firms should take advantage of the new insights, especially at an enterprise level.