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Case Study Companies
The report, Business of Innovating: Bringing Low-Carbon Solutions to Market, features in-depth case studies of eight low-carbon innovations from four multinational corporations:
Alstom SA
Alstom's history, dating back to 1928, is that of "an industrial and technological adventure which has continually carried the Group towards excellence." Today, Alstom Power engineers, manufactures, and constructs power plants and their various components, including boilers, turbines, generators, and auxiliary equipment. Close to 25 percent of the world's electric power generation capacity relies on Alstom technology and services. Alstom Transport develops and markets the most complete range of systems, equipment, and services in the railway sector,including record-breaking very high-speed rail (reaching 357 miles per hour (mph)). Headquartered in Levallois- Perret, France, Alstom has more than 96,000 employees in over 70 countries. Sales in Fiscal 2010 totaled nearly €21 billion ($29.8 billion), of which Alstom Power represented €11.7 billion ($16.6 billion) and Alstom Transport €5.6 billion ($7.9 billion).
In response to (and to some degree in anticipation of) the demand for deep reductions in fossil fuel carbon emissions, Alstom has devoted considerable resources to pioneering alternative, and specifically low-carbon, energy solutions. The company spent €700 million ($993.2 million) on research and development (R&D) in 2010 and expects to continue this high level of investment, focusing on key low-carbon technologies in Alstom's Power Sector business (carbon capture and storage, renewables), in its Transport Sector (new very high-speed rail platform, products for developing countries), and its Grid business (ultra high voltage and smart grids).
The main drivers of Alstom's focus on the environment come from a combination of market forces— customers defining the environmental solutions they need today and in the future; the broader societal mandate for all companies to behave in a responsible fashion towards the environment; and, in some countries, regulatory mandates to reduce carbon emissions. This focus is evidenced by actions and energy solutions rolled out over the last decade, including Alstom's $130 million investment in solar power company BrightSource Energy and joint construction of the 392 megawatt (MW) Ivanpah project in California's Mojave Desert—the world's largest solar power plant under construction today. Alstom is also conducting numerous development projects leveraging its proven technologies in wind turbines, transmission and distribution technologies, hydropower, and nuclear energy. Alstom publicly supports smart international climate and energy policy that would stabilize and reduce GHG emissions, and promote additional investment in low-carbon innovations.
Learn more about Alstom, by reading the full case study.
Daimler AG
Daimler AG is one of the world's largest producers of passenger vehicles (cars and light-duty trucks), freight trucks, and buses. The company pioneered diesel engine technology in the 19th century and today is developing new diesel engine advances that reduce air pollution and emissions and increase fuel economy.
The company was built on a merger between two of the companies that originally founded the automotive industry. Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (DMG) was founded by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach in 1890 to build small, high-speed vehicle engines based on a stationary engine technology developed by Nikolaus Otto. Benz & Co. was founded in 1883 by Karl Benz, widely considered the "inventor" of the automobile for having created the Motorwagen, which was patented on January 29, 1886 as the first "automobile fueled by gasoline." (Previous automobiles were steam-powered modified carriages or coaches). Benz patented his work first and then patented all of the processes that made the ICE feasible for use in automobiles.
Diesel engines, first introduced by Rudolf Diesel in 1897, have an inherent efficiency advantage over gasoline engines. With a thermal efficiency five to seven times greater than competing steam engines, these engines were rapidly adopted for a wide variety of industrial uses. Diesel engines use diesel fuel, which has a higher energy content than gasoline (10 percent more energy per unit volume), and use compression (rather than a spark) to ignite the fuel. Between 1910 and 1940, diesel engines were adapted for use in commercial and passenger vehicles; in 1924, Benz and Daimler partnered to build the diesel engine for the first commercial vehicles (two years before they merged to become Daimler-Benz) and introduced the first commercially successful diesel passenger car in 1936.
Daimler AG, 125 years later, is still one of the world's most successful automotive companies. In 2010, it sold 1.9 million vehicles, employed more than 260,000 people, and had revenues of $97.8 billion ($140.8 billion). Daimler is working on next-generation vehicle technologies and has enhanced its passenger car, van, and bus fleets with these innovations. Its heavy research and development (R&D) investment has resulted in demonstrated breakthroughs in alternative drive technologies such as the B-Class F-CELL, the Concept Blue Zero E-CELL PLUS, and the Vision S 500 Plug-in HYBRID. Since the end of 2009, Daimler has produced about 200 of the B-Class F-CELL hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, placing them in customers' hands in Germany and the United States at the end of 2010.
Through innovations in its current vehicle and engine technologies, Daimler intends to reduce CO2 emissions in its European car fleet by nearly 40 percent from 1995 levels by 2012, and 45 percent by 2016. In its trucking business, Daimler Vision 2020 sets a goal of reducing carbon emissions by 20 percent by 2020.
For a maker of premium cars, balancing regulatory compliance with the preferences of its primary customer base for luxury, exceptional quality, safety, service, acceleration, and high performance is not easy. But rising consumer demand for environmentally sensitive luxury cars and unprecedented fuel prices at the pump—along with increasingly strict emission standards—have encouraged Daimler to take a long view of the technological alternatives that would meet market and regulatory demands over the coming decades. As a leader in automotive innovation, Daimler looks to achieve dramatic growth, in part, by significantly improving the fuel efficiency of the almost two million vehicles it sells each year, reducing GHG emissions and helping customers save money. The BlueTEC diesel engine system and the Freightliner Cascadia commercial truck design represent two solutions that emerged from Daimler's commitment to meeting future emission requirements.
Learn more about Daimler, by reading the full case study.
Hewlett-Packard is arguably the most successful garage startup in history. Founded in 1939 by Stanford classmates Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard out of a garage in Palo Alto (a spot that now boasts a California historical registry plaque as the "birthplace of Silicon Valley"), HP has grown to become the world's largest information and communications technology (ICT) company. In 2011, it ranked 11th in the Fortune 500, with more than 320,000 employees in 170 countries and revenues of $126 billion.
HP develops and manufactures computing, data storage, networking hardware, software, and ICT services. The company's product lines include personal computing (PC) devices, enterprise servers, related storage devices, and a diverse array of printers and other imaging products. The company ships more than one million printers per week, 48 million PC units per year, and one in every three servers sold worldwide. Like many successful technology companies, HP has widely changed its product and service offerings over the years, driven less by any particular "core offering" (HP's first product was an audio oscillator for use by sound engineers) and more by the need to
continuously innovate in a rapidly evolving industry in order to help its customers succeed at what they do.
HP has achieved this success while consistently earning top "Greenest Companies" rankings from Newsweek, among others, and comprehensively linking its brand with its commitment to sustainability. Today, the company is committed to reducing the GHG emissions from owned and leased facilities to 20 percent below 2005 levels by 2013 on an absolute basis. HP continues to take responsibility for all of its products at the end of their functional life, and increasingly designs every new product to make it easier to reuse or recycle parts. Collaborating with the Lavergne Group, HP has kept more than 210 million HP ink cartridges out of landfills, while manufacturing more than one billion new ink cartridges with recycled plastic content. This alone has brought a 22 percent reduction in the carbon footprint of HP's manufacturing processes. Combining HP's culture with its sheer volume of product (in 2010, HP shipped an estimated 3.5 products per second), and it becomes clear that few other technology companies have the same opportunity to capitalize on low carbon-innovations with a similar scale and scope.
It is estimated that the ICT industry can apply its technology and expertise to cut global GHG emissions by as much as five times their own direct impact in this same timeframe. To achieve such meaningful GHG reductions, low-carbon innovations from these companies will need to target carbon reductions both in their own sector as well as to generate a range of valuable innovations targeting energy and emissions reductions in other industries.
As the ICT sector's impact on global carbon emissions has become clearer, HP has directed considerable time, talent, and resources to better understanding its products' carbon footprints in use and to do what it can—a constantly evolving set of possibilities—to reduce those footprints. This includes the specific goal to reduce the energy consumption and associated GHG emissions of all its products to 40 percent below 2005 levels by the end of 2011, a target the company achieved in March of 2011.
One of HP's stated objectives is to use ICT to "replace carbon-heavy behaviors and industries with alternatives that will use less energy and generate less carbon—all while increasing productivity and lowering costs."7 To accomplish these goals, HP had to rethink the role its products play in its customers' overall business processes. Two low-carbon innovations at HP illustrate the potential for this rethinking: Visual Collaboration, which addresses a new opportunity for reducing customers' costs and carbon footprint, and Managed Print Services, which changes the way printing is done in the business environment.
Learn more about HP, by reading the full case study.
Johnson Controls, Inc.
American journalist and essayist H. L. Mencken wrote: "The man who devised the thermostat…in my private opinion, was a hero comparable to Shakespeare, Michelangelo, or Beethoven." That man was Warren Johnson, a serial inventor and entrepreneur as well as a conservationist. Of the more than 50 patents he filed, most were for devices that tried to capture otherwise wasted power generated from air, steam, or water pressure. But the invention that launched his now 125-year-old company was a simple electric room thermostat. While a professor in Wisconsin, Johnson installed his "electric tele-thermoscope" in his classrooms to keep students more comfortable—and to end interruptions from the janitor checking the rooms' temperatures. The invention sparked public awareness, and launched an industry based on optimizing building performance and energy efficiency.
By the 1950s, thermostats were the building and construction industry standard. Large buildings had hundreds of thermostats, valves, dampers, and other control devices, each of which had to be checked for optimal performance several times a day. In 1956, Johnson Service Company introduced the pneumatic control center, which made it possible to monitor all of a facility's temperature control devices from one location. During the 1960s, the company expanded its technological capabilities through a series of acquisitions, including refrigeration and heating controls manufacturer Penn Controls in 1968, with plants and subsidiaries in Canada, the Netherlands, Argentina, and Japan. In 1972, Johnson introduced the first mini-computer system dedicated to building control, which could reduce fuel use by as much as 30 percent—a much-needed innovation as oil prices began to rise. In 1990, the company introduced the Metasys® building management system, which integrates management of a building's environment, energy use, lighting, fire safety, and security. In its current iteration, the system has Web and wireless connection capabilities. In 2005, the company acquired York International, a global supplier of HVAC and refrigeration equipment and services, effectively doubling Johnson Controls' Building Efficiency business. Today, Johnson Controls is a leading provider of equipment and controls for HVAC and refrigeration, and of building security systems. The company is also an ESCO, providing an array of cost-effective measures to achieve energy savings (see Sidebar: Johnson Controls' Building Retrofit Business, next page).
Expanding its technology and manufacturing expertise into the rapidly growing automotive business, the company acquired Globe-Union, the largest U.S. manufacturer of automotive batteries, in 1978. Three years later, company sales surpassed $1 billion. Expansion into the automotive business continued through 1985: The company entered the automotive seating and plastic container industries by acquiring Michigan-based companies Hoover Universal and Ferro Manufacturing, making Johnson Controls the leading independent supplier of automotive seats. The company's automotive interests evolved from components to seating systems to cockpit modules to complete interiors. The business greatly expanded in 1996 with the acquisition of automotive interiors and electronics maker Prince Automotive. By 2000, Johnson Controls was providing seating, overhead systems, electronics, and door systems for 35 million vehicles each year. The company's Power Solutions division has been the world's largest maker of lead-acid automotive batteries since 1985, and a pioneer in advanced battery technology. In a joint venture with French battery company Saft Groupe SA (a leader in high technology lithium-ion batteries), Johnson Controls-Saft is a global producer of lithium-ion cells and batteries for electric drivetrain vehicles.
This case study examines how Johnson Controls brought two low-carbon innovations to market: by developing a new business model to pursue building energy retrofits with a service offering for the private sector, and by developing and mass-producing the innovative start-stop automobile battery.
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Central Michigan University
November 16, 1966
Dr. J. D. Marcus , Dean of OffCamp1s Education, fr om that of
Dean of Continuing Educ ation, effective October 26 , 1966.
Mrs . Elaine R. Connell , Stenographer C-2 , Foreign Language
Departmeti:, from that of Typist C-1, effective October 24 , 1966.
Mrs . Luc ille Cotter, Key Punch Operator C-1, B.is iness Divis ion,
from that of Clerk C- O, Student Personnel Services , effective
October 31, 1966.
Mrs . Barbara Bauman, Cashier C-1, half-time, Business
Division, from that of full- time, B.isiness Division, effective
October 17 , 1966.
Mrs. Irene Atterblrry, Typist C-1, half-time, Physics Department,
from that of Typist C-O, effective October 6, 1966.
Mr. Royal StUgenbauer, Inventory Taker M-1, Office of Equipment
Inventory, from that of Custodian M-l, Housing, effec tive
October 31 , 1966.
Dr. Herbert K. Rodewald, Assistant Professor, Psychology
Department , e ffective September 5, 1966.
Dr. Carol Billingham, Visiting Lecturer, Ecooomics Department,
effective September 5, 1966, fur the fall semester.
Mrs. MarUyn Courter, Stenographer C-2, Business Department,
for the period September 7, 1966 to June 9, 1967.
Recommend approval of the Tentative Spring Program, Off-Campus.
1967. as submitted.
Recommend that Mr. and Mrs. Frank Verleger be allowed to retain tbe
$800 lease money for the ensuing year (calerrlar year 1967) and that they
be advised this permission is for one year only and in the future they
must request any further permission.
Grant In the amrunt of $2000 from the National Science Frundation
to our Biology Departme nt in s upport of a pr oject of Research
P a r ticipation fo r College Teachers.
Check in the amou nt of $50. 00 fr om Dr. Stephen Ni shet , Fremont,
Michigan , t o be used in connection with the newspaper project of
the Clarke Historical Libr a ry .
Check in the amount of $100.00 fro m Mr. Ralph Ta llon , Dea rbor n ,
:p.'lic hi ~ :m . to be used in connection with tbe newspaper proj ect of
the Clarke His torical Library.
To the Clarke Hi sto rical Libra r y:
Dr. Stephen S. Nisbet , Fre mori. , Michigan, a g ift of a collection
of s crapbooks am mater ials r elating to the Constitutional Convention.
Estimated value - $200.00
The next meeting of the Board Is s cheduled for Wednesday, December 14 ,
On motion, meeting adjourned at 2:45 P. M.
Respectfully submitted,
A~ -f!~
Doris L. Crippo (!'olrs.)
Sec r etary
Central Michigan University Board of Trustees
Meeting of November 16, 1966
Mt. Pleasant, Michigan
Members present: Mrs . Jean Backus; Lloyd M. Cofer; Mrs. Katharine C.
Hafstad , Chairman; E. Allan Morrow; James M. Umphrey; Judson W.
Foust, President.
Also: Norvall C. Bovee, Treasurer; :Mrs. Doris L . Crippo, Secretary;
Byron P. Gallagher , Legal Counsel; Wilbur E. Moore, Vice President
of Academic Affairs; John H. DeCarlo, Vice President of Public Se rvices;
Jack A. Smith, Servic£! Staff Personnel Director.
Members absent: Walter W. Wightman; Lawrence D. Rahilly.
The meeting was called to order by the Chairman at 2:30 P. M.
The Minutes of the Meeting of October 19, 1966, were approved as primed.
The Chairman called for reports from the Standing Committees:
Finance Committee -- Mr. Morrow
No report.
Academic Affairs Committee --- Dr. Cofer
The Academic Affairs Committee met with the Liais on Committee
from the University Senate and also with the Rivard Committee.
The first item discussed was the fact that the Grievance P roceciIre
as adopted by the Board did not formally awear In the
printed minutes of the Boa rd although it did appear in the
Faculty HaTXIbook.
It was moved, seconded and carried that the Grievance Procedlre
as passed under date of July 11 , 1966, by the Board of Trustees
be formally placed in tbe printed minutes of the Board.
Secondly, some observations on the part of the Univ ersity Senate
on the Policy of Appointment of Deans, Vice Presidents and
President revolving around the appointment of faculty members
on screening committees and electing faculty members on
screening committees were discussed. The Academic Affairs
Committee will write up the recommerxlatlons and present to
the Board at its December meeting .
It was moved, seconded and carried that the follov.ing Resolution be
Resolved that the proposed Agreement bea ring date of
November 16, 1966, between the Board of Trustees of
Central Michigan University and the International Union
of tbe American Federation of State , County. and Municipal
Employees (AFL-CIO) and CouocU 17 and its affiliate Local
Union No . 1568, as supplemented by letter of even date
setting forth certain changes. now on ene with the Secretary ,
be approved, and that N. C. Bcwee, Vice President of
D.tsiness and Finance , is hereby delegated to execute and
deliver such Agreement and su~ lementary letter for and
in behalf of the Board.
It was moved, seconded and carried that the followi~ Resolution be
Resolved that letter bearing date of November 16, 1966,
addressed to the International Union of the American
Federation of State, County. am M,miclpal Employees
(AFL-CIO) and Council /17 and Its affiliate Local Union
No. 1568 , setting forth the University'S position with
reference to applicability of the Hutchinson Act amendments,
whicb letter is now on file with the Secretary, be
approved, and that N. C. Bovee , Vice President of
Business and Finance , be delegated to exerete and
deliver sucb letter concurrently with bis execution and
delivery of the Agreement witb the Union bearing date of
November 16, 1966, and suwlementalletter of cba~es
in connection therewith.
It was moved, seconded and carried that the following Resolution be
Resolved that hospital and surgical insurance provisions
for all Unive rsity staff be amended effective 7/ 1/ 67. by
increasing the employer's share of the cost from fifty percent
(50%) to the single subscriber rate (exclusive of major
medical) to one hundred percent (100%) of the sircle subscriber
rate (excluding major medical).
It was moved , seconded and car ried that the following Resolution be
Resolved that the exisH ng e mployees benefit program for
clerical and super visory senrice staff be ame nded and/or
s upplemented by certain provis ioIlB , copy of wbich is on
rne in the Secretary's Office.
Chai r man Hafstad asked Dr. Lloyd Cofer to se nre a s a member of the
Board on tbe Citizens Advisory Committee for the Preparation of a
State Plan for Higher Education.
It was moved, seconded and carri ed that the policy relative to complying
wltb the terms of Act 245 of tbe Public Acts of 1935 as adopted at
the meeting of the Board of Truste es of February 24, 1964 , be ame nded
to strike the condition of "basis of need." The action of the Boa rd would
then r e ad: "Recommend that Cent ral Michigan Unive rsity comply with
the terms of Act 245 of the Public Acts of 1935 as amended."
It was moved, seconded and car ried that the following formal r ecommendations
as presented by P resident Foust be approved:
Mr. Clemence J. A-1arttila , ffiM Programmer A- I , e ffec tive
October 10, 1966.
Mrs , Luc ile J. Smith , Reside nt Adviser A-I , HOUSing, e ffective
October 31, 1966.
Mrs . Frances Brown , Stenographer C-3, Pl acement Office,
effective CkJtober 15, 1966.
Mrs . Sandra L , Alle n, Stenogr apher C-2 , Philosophy Department,
effective October 21, 1966.
Mrs . . Mary E. Coldw ell, Typist C-l, Business Department ,
effective CkJ t ober 27, 1966.
Mrs , Ruth J erome, Clerk C-1 , Student Financial Aids,
Student P er sonnel Services, e ffe ctive November 11 , 1966 .
Appcndb I of Board of Trust .. ". lUnut"s
o fH""",nb"r ]6, ]960.
A<bptcd by
Doard of TNIII .. ""
July II. 1966
I. Initiation
When an aggrieved P/lrty haa a '1uQIIllon conce .... l~ r<lappointmcnt, t erore,
prom>Uon. 8alary. o r othor matton about ... Mch grievances may ""[80. the
chairman and the dean of the lehoollVitb which 11M! ""grievod party l~ asooc!atoo ,
and, If neccunry. the vlen- pre/lldolnt of neRdemic atfa[rs, shall d[scun the
ITll.tter In n por llO nni oo nfo~enoo with tbe R8I{ r iovOO 1'",1,.. Sucb n conference
may be r oqu es too by eltbor of tho partin Involvod. If II 80lullon is aehk'Vod in
the conference tho matte~ s hall bo tor m[nated.
U. I nfonnnl review
It agreement ts not nttnlnod tho prohlom s hnll ba reforred by either par ty to
tho Unlvoratty Committee for GriOV/Ull) e/I , R atllndhlll comm[ttee of tho Untverstty
Senate. This oommlUeo shall [nformally review the Bit"'~tlon , IIlX1, if
pOn ible, arrive a t a IOl uUon. It Ihtl proves Impo .... [ble, written statements
c lUng the r ellSOMblo pnrttcuia rlUos of Iho problem s ball be mr m.llato:i by C/Ich
of tbe par ties io""lved am s<cMnged. Coptes of IhOllO s tatements oball be pr e-
8""tOO 10 tile Untverslty Committee for GrlevMen.
If within . .... 00 dayB a fter the p re80ntnU..., of tho Siale mcnl.s a .... tually
satlsfBct',.y "fI r ll8meot between 1M IfIIIlvt<b:l ls has nol be .... reached, the
Committee for Grievances shall Inv ite the pr incipal. 10 a mooU~ al .... Ieb lbe
matler . hall be reviewed a flll n IIOI"tlon aought .
For ... 1 Procoodlnp
If te .. days after the p re,entat.lon of lIatement.o. rurlng which time tho matter
may be tel'DllJui\ed by nol1flcal ion to the Unlvenlty CommlUoo for Griovaooes
IMt II IWtually IIOOEIIltable IOlullon b"" hoen fwlld, thoro 18 .. III d lsagroomont,
either party may Inform the Exeeutivi Soa.rd of the Unlvenlity Senate and the
Un[veralty Committee fo r Orlavance! lhal be w[shoa forJ03.I proceedl~8
The " earlng Committee shall be compcaed of Seven m~mben . F ive mcmbors
shall be awolntod by tho Exec utive Board of lhe Untvenolty Senate fr om among
the fac ulty at large, but n1 l"I"t one IfII,l nlbor thnll be from tho 9Chool to wblch
the aggri eved facu lty merrber belongs, The n vc momoors so ~wolntOO by the
Execu tive Iloard of tho Unlvoully Senate shall be confirmed by tbe University
Scnate. The P resklu nt of thu UnlvorHlty 8ha ll a ppoint the re ma!n[ ~ tlVo memben.
No par ty to the dlsput .. a hall bo a mOmber of the ilearlnK Commltt oe. The
Hearing Committee 8ha ll nllme it. own chairnltln "I I(~ firs t mUL'!l!\:. which
m"eUng a hall bu ~ "ll cd by tho Chairman of!hc Senale.
All meetings of tho n earing Committoo .hall 00 «<"~'l.Ltlvc SCHa lon~.
The statemcnla of the prell l"m provlwsly forlllllialed t.,. the parties IITVo ive(i
.hall be presented to the lIear l,.. Commlll...,. AS !WOn nil Ihcso 8talomcnU
are received the Chairman 01 the lIearlng Commlllec shall send 8 "'rttlen
dcseri ption of procodural rlghlll 10 each of Ibe parties '""olved. The"" 8hall
Incl ude:
I. Tbe rlgbl to option of sMllllance by counsel. (Counacl la defined
ss a member of (he (newly or admlnlstrallon of eMU or n morrbe~
of tho legal profeMlon).
2. The rlghl 10 call wll nos8e~ I" 9upporl hl8 l>oBltlon .
a. Tho righl lo inquire Inlo all ",rltlen and or:llleBtlm<)ny.
4. The right 10 know tbe Identity of all ",UnC08C11 and Iho Duthor. of Dll
written ICI limony , and the opportunity to confr ont all aucb peno .... .
The time, place. and co..tuc\ uf lhe hearing shall be detennlncd by lhe
Hoaring Committee ",hleb shll.Jlll lve notlflcallon In ",r lUng 10 both pariles
len days In IldYaDCe of Ib .. s duD .. lcd BeHS''''''' of the hearlnge.
The Commillee ehall glvo the opporl .. nily to the pan los Involved, or 10 their
eounsels. 10 prL'IIent their CMes orally before tho CommIttee. The e",l..., hellring
s hall bc recorded.
NO rnnro thnn SL'VUn days a ftor the c lose oflhe hearings the Committee shall
present its decision to each of tho pnrll"" involved. to Iho ChldrmM of the
Unlvorslty S'-"flute, lind 10 tho Presld""t of the Unlv<l rt!ly.
IV. Righi of App.ml
Eltber PBriy shall have the right 10 appeal the dL"'I~ lon to Ibe Doard of Tn.t !llees
tbrough eetablll1M:d channels a ..t proccdur<'6. In Hueh eaSC th .. President 01
lhe UnivcT!!lty shall (run.mlt 10 tbe Board of Trustooe the full repor t of tho
Rearing Committee for r evIew. The B""rd may HU"'~In, modlPy or rejed
the reeommcrdnUons of tho II cnr l ~ Commlltee.
Pub!ic slutemente ,~>oul a e,lBe Shall \Ie avoided by the panlcR Involvoo, by
member$ of the Unlvorslly oommll!ec for gri""ance". ami by all parlloipants
in tho bc"rl n),,,, unUI 100 final dL'Ci"ion h,,~ been {){,mmunlcalt'Cl 10 the polrll_
c !panlO. If lin<! WhL'" "" offlcl"l "l:>le men! uf th ~ n ",ult uf" I",,,rl nlo:', or uf
" Bo"r~ of Tl'I.L8ICC~ rcvk",', I~ mode It sh,dl \Ie rna"" only Ih"'~lgh the
Un;verslly 's Of(!eo of Pub1!c Information.
Resignations continued -
Mrs . Barbara J. Talsma, Key Punch Operator C-l, Business
D1vision, effective October 21 , 1966.
Miss Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Clerk C-O, Art Department, effective
October 29, 1966.
Mr, Roben Elkins, Inventory Taker M-l , effec tive September 30,
There were three Temporary Groundsmen resigned s ince the
last Board of Trustees Meeting on October 19, 1966.
Mrs . Eupha S<tllman, Part-time Teaching, Home Economics
Department, beginning October 17, 1966.
l'<Irs. Nor ma Richardson , Instructor (Temporary), part-time,
Foreign Language Department, for the spring semester, 1967.
Mrs. Ellen Maxwell, Instructor (Temporary), part-time,
Foreign Language Departmmt, for the spring semester, 1967.
Mr. J ohn A. Ercole , Research Assista:rt In Herbarium, Biology
Department, for tbe per iod October 1, 1966 to JlUle 9, 1967.
Mrs . Vivian H. Brown, Stenographer C-3 , Placement Office,
effecUve October 25, 1966.
Miss Bonnie L. Shoe, Key Punch Operator C-l, Business
Division, effective October 31 ,1966 .
Mrs. Ger aldine Waggoner, Cashier C-I , D.!.slnes8 Divis ion,
half-time , effective October 17 , 1966.
Miss Helen A. Dixon, Clerk C- O, Registrarls Offio e, Student
Personnel Services , effective October 31, 1966 •
. Mrs. Augusta M. Simmer, Housekeeper M-O, Housing, halftime,
effective October 3, 1966.
There were five Temporary Groundsmen hired since the last
Board of Trustees Meetil'.g on October 19, 1966.
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SMC survives first round at NJCAA Tournament
Published: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 at 5:52 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 at 5:52 p.m.
HUTCHINSON, Kan. -- During timeouts in tight games, basketball coaches tend to use the same phrase: "We've been here before."
What: No. 2 seed Spartanburg Methodist (33-0) vs. No. 7 seed East Georgia State (31-2) in NJCAA tournament quarterfinals
When: 7 p.m. (Eastern), Thursday
Where: Hutchinson (Kan.) Sports Arena
Webcast: www.njcaabbtrny.org
Worth noting: East Georgia also played its initial game Wednesday and beat Coffeyville (Kan.), 79-47. Jordan Johnson scored 18 (four 3-pointers) and Tre' Hagood had 17 points and six assists. Coffeyville shot only 27 percent. … Johnson (6-0 sophomore) averages 19.4 points per game. Hagood (6-2 sophomore) averages 13.8 points, 7.5 assists and 4.7 steals. … East Georgia State is in Swainsboro, Ga. …. The Bobcats have all Georgia players except one from Florida. … They have won 12 straight since only their second loss of the season, Feb. 2 against Chattahoochie Tech. East Georgia won the rematch in the tournament championship game. … The winner of this game plays in a 9 p.m. (EDT) semifinal. The title game is set for 8 p.m. Saturday.
Game 13: (2) Spartanburg Methodist 53, Kilgore 51
Game 14: (7) East Georgia 79, (10) Coffeyville (Kan.) 47
Game 15: (3) Central Florida 79, (14) Motlow State 63
Game 16: (6) Central Arizona 87, (11) Salt Lake (Utah) 82
Game 17: Iowa Western vs. Northwest Florida, 1 p.m.
Game 18: Howard vs. Vincennes, 3 p.m.
Game 19: SMC vs. E. Georgia St., 7 p.m.
Game 20: Central Florida vs. Central Arizona, 9 p.m.
Game 21: Semifinal, 7 p.m.
Game 22: Semifinal, 9 p.m.
Game 23: Third-place game, 6 p.m.
Game 24: Championship, 8 p.m.
But only one in this junior college national tournament can add "and we always win."
Spartanburg Methodist came from behind in the final minutes Wednesday to win its opening game in the NJCAA tournament, 53-51, against Kilgore (Texas) College in the Hutchinson Sports Arena.
The Pioneers (33-0), ranked No. 1 in the country and seeded No. 2 in this single-elimination event, will play at 7 p.m. (EDT) Thursday against East Georgia State (31-2) in the quarterfinals.
"Normally after a big win, we celebrate," SMC head coach Jeff Brookman said. "And while I want them to celebrate, I also want them to know that we're not here just to win one game. We've got more to do. I think they're focused. They're really motivated and determined right now."
There were 11 tie scores and 14 lead changes as these two teams went back and forth. Kilgore finally charged out in front with a 10-2 run, including two dunks, and led by four points with five minutes remaining. But SMC's defense forced three straight turnovers to give the offense a chance.
Travis Black (Spartanburg Christian) made a 3-pointer to bring the Pioneers even, 49-all, with three minutes left. Ronell Crockett (T.L. Hanna) drove to the lane, drew a crowd, stopped and popped a jump shot that put SMC in front with 1:30 on the clock.
"Coach always tells us to get aggressive. That's exactly what I tried to do," said Crockett, who scored a game-high 18 points. "If they collapse, I can kick it out to somebody else. But at that moment, I just stepped up and hit a shot."
"That bucket was terrific," Brookman said. "Not only was it a tough shot, but it was over a 6-foot-9 shot-blocker. Ronell was going to do anything he had to do for us to win the game. That's what it felt like."
Kilgore tied it at the other end, but SMC got the winning basket on a Spartanburg County combination. Jalen Nesbitt (Chapman) from the top of the key zipped a pass to DaQuan Jeffries (Broome), who had slipped behind the defense for a layup with 28 seconds left.
"I heard (Kilgore players) yell, 'Switch,' so I rolled to the basket and Jalen found me," Jeffries said. "I was wide-open."
"He made exactly the play that we teach," Brookman said. "Any time there is a switch (of assignments between defensive players), we want our guys to roll. He made the correct read and got to the basket."
Kilgore called timeout with 7.5 seconds left to set up a play to tie or win, but the Rangers missed a long 3-point try at the buzzer.
"Of course, we're disappointed that we didn't make enough plays to win that basketball game," Kilgore head coach Brian Hoberecht said. "To put it in a nutshell, they were better at who they are than we were at who we are. Some of that was them. You have to give them credit. And some of that was us."
Crockett, in addition to his 8-for-14 shooting, had four rebounds, four assists and two steals. Jeffries finished with 11 points. Black scored eight to go with five rebounds and three assists. Nesbitt also had eight points and five rebounds despite playing only eight minutes in the first half because of foul trouble.
Playing the final 11:37 of the first half without Nesbitt, who leads the team in rebounding and is second to Crockett in scoring, SMC trailed only 23-19 at the break. The Pioneers had a three-point lead but didn't score in the last four and a half minutes.
"I thought we had a good chance to get some separation there for a while," Brookman said. "But they kept coming at us. Really, without Jalen, we just wanted to keep it close. We were in good shape."
SMC is making its sixth appearance in the NJCAA tournament and second in a row after not getting here since 1999. The Pioneers are looking for their first championship and would be the seventh team in event history (since 1948) to do it with an undefeated season. No team from South Carolina -- or North Carolina or Georgia -- has ever won a junior college national title.
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Boonville's City Council will meet July 16 at 7:00 p.m. Citizen comments will be heard and Boonville's designation as the "Garden City" will be addressed.
New business will see the consideration of Resolution No. R2012-10, Accepting a bid from Chester Bross Construction for the asphalt street repairs and overlays 2012. The first and second reading of Bill No. 2012-020, Approving the minor subdivision plot of William and Cheryl Whitehurse will also take place. The city's redistricting committee will present their report to City Council in addition.
The Tourism and Planning and Zoning Commissions, along with the City Administrator, Mayor and City Counselor will issue their respective reports as well. The Daily News will have cover the meeting and print details of it in Tuesday's edition.
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Myrtle Highum, 90, of Granite Falls died on Wednesday, October 17, 2012 at the Granite Falls Manor. Memorial services were held on Monday, October 22 at the Wing-Bain Funeral Home Chapel in Montevideo with burial in Rock Valle Lutheran Cemetery in rural Echo.
Myrtle Alinda Highum was born on September 17, 1922, on a farm near Belview, the daughter of Martin and Annie (Wenberg) Odegard. She was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith and as a young girl, moved with her family to Upper Sioux Agency Township near Granite Falls where she attended country school through the 8th grade and graduated from Granite Falls High School in 1940.
During high school, Myrtle worked for Cudahay Produce and for several years after high school she worked as a clerk for the Red Owl and Jack Sprat Grocery Stores. On September 13, 1941, she was united in marriage to Wallace Highum by the Rev. O.J. Erickson at the Granite Falls Lutheran Church parsonage. They moved to Minneapolis. While residing in Minneapolis, they became the proud parents of a daughter in 1952 and a son in 1956.
Myrtle worked for a short time at Dispatch Cleaners and then at the Bureau of Engraving, Industrial Division where she put in 25 years of dedicated service prior to retiring. She moved back to Granite Falls on October 16, 1990. Surviving family include her daughter Vickie (Lalo) Muro of Richfield; son Richard (Robin) Highum of Richfield; brother Wallace Odegard of Granite Falls, granddaughters Janelle Loeb of Rochester and Megan and Kristin Highum of Richfield; grandson Kyle Highum of Richfield; great granddaughters Mya and Ashley; and great grandson Cody; all of Rochester, along with extended family and friends including her nieces, nephews, great and great-great nieces and nephews.
Preceding Myrtle in death were her parents; her brothers Orville and Millard and sisters Alma, Pearl and Esther (in infancy).
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Economic Stimulus Act Provides $16.8 Billion for EERE Programs
February 18, 2009
President Barack Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 on February 17.
President Barack Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 on February 17, and the measure includes $16.8 billion for the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). The funding is a nearly tenfold increase for EERE, which received $1.7 billion in fiscal year 2008. While the bulk of the new EERE funding is supporting direct grants and rebates, $2.5 billion will support EERE's applied research, development, and deployment activities, including $800 million for the Biomass Program, $400 million for the Geothermal Technologies Program, and $50 million for efforts to increase the energy efficiency of information and communications technologies. An additional $400 million will support efforts to add electric technologies to vehicles. And separate from the EERE budget, $400 million will support the establishment of the Advanced Research Projects Agency—Energy (ARPA-E), an agency to support innovative energy research, modeled after the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). See the White House announcement and pages 58-60 and 63 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (PDF 13.4 MB), as well as pages 24-26 of the accompanying joint explanatory statement of the conference committee (PDF 10.3 MB). Download Adobe Reader.
The economic stimulus act also stipulates that $5 billion will go towards the Weatherization Assistance Program, and the act also increases the eligible income level under the program, increases the funding assistance level to $6,500 per home, and allows new weatherization assistance for homes that were weatherized as recently as 1994. A complementary measure in the act provides $4 billion to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to rehabilitate and retrofit public housing, including increasing the energy efficiency of units, plus an additional $510 million to do the same for homes maintained by Native American housing programs. HUD will receive an additional $250 million to increase the energy efficiency of HUD-sponsored, low-income housing. See pages 59, 79, 254-261, and 275-278 of the act, as well as pages 24, 28, 84, and 86-87 of the accompanying joint explanatory statement of the conference committee.
The act also directs $2 billion in EERE funds toward grants for the manufacturing of advanced battery systems and components within the United States, as well as the development of supporting software. The battery grants will support advanced lithium-ion batteries and hybrid electric systems. Another $300 million will support an Alternative Fueled Vehicles Pilot Grant Program, and an additional $300 million will support rebates for energy efficient appliances, while also supporting DOE's efforts under the Energy Star Program. The act also stipulates that $3.2 billion will go toward Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants, which were established in the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, but were not previously funded. The grants will go toward states, local governments, and tribal governments to support the development of energy efficiency and conservation strategies and programs, including energy audit programs and projects to install fuel cells and solar, wind, and biomass power projects at government buildings. For background on the program, see pages 176-183 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (PDF 821 KB).
The act also stipulates that $3.1 billion of EERE funds will go toward the State Energy Program for additional grants that don't need to be matched with state funds, but the act only allows such grants for states that intend to adopt strict building energy codes and intend to provide utility incentives for energy efficiency measures. To help states implement the measures, a separate portion of the act allocates $500 million to the Department of Labor to prepare workers for careers in energy efficiency and renewable energy. See pages 59, 81-85, and 147-148 of the act, as well as pages 24, 28, and 51 of the accompanying joint explanatory statement of the conference committee.


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- Fall harvest festival: 2-4 p.m. Saturday at Holly Spring Baptist Church, 16061 Gainesville Road in Ralph. Games, prizes and food. Call 205-333-1361.
- Fall festival: 2-6 p.m. Saturday at Clements Road Baptist Church, 13530 Clements Road in Cottondale. Kids' activities, "trunk-or-treat," hayrides and refreshments. Call 205-553-7267.
- Fall festival: 5 p.m. Saturday at New Chapel Methodist Church, County Road 15 in Fayette. An Alabama quilt will be given away. Cake walk, food and fellowship.
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The trial involving Linda Schrenko's federal education spending enters its third week.
Merle Temple is the former deputy superintendent for Schrenko, and for now he's in jail and shows no signs of getting out any time soon.
Temple had no idea he was about to be arrested when he arrived last Wednesday at the federal courthouse in Atlanta wearing a Cayman Island t-shirt and blue jeans and carrying a briefcase. Temple was arrested on a criminal complaint of obstruction of justice. Authorities say he violated the terms of their agreement by staying in contact with Schrenko as late as the second day of her trial, even stating that he had not told everything and he didn't have to.
Monday, Temple's pretrial hearing was waived and the government motion for detention was granted. Earlier in the day prosecutors wrapped up their case against South Africans Stephan Botes and Peter Steyn with testimony from an FBI agent and also from former state school board chair Cathy Henson.
Henson was one of the first people News 12 interviewed back in the summer of 2003 when we first began our investigation of Schrenko's $600,000 spending spree.
"When you see that many in one day for the same purpose, when we looked into it we found out that the services were never requested, never delivered, and some of the companies never existed on the days the money was taken from the dept. Ms. Schrenko herself came in and got the checks which was unusual," Henson told News 12.
News 12 asked Henson if any reforms were in place to keep this from happening again.
"None that I'm aware of," she said. "I think we have to go on faith, because when it is happening it is hard for appointed officials like the board to stop an elected official."
Henson also said until News 12's story aired, she had not heard from any investigators.
"I thought Ms. Schrenko had gotten away with it, because I left the board in 2003. I had not heard anything from the state auditor or the attorney general's office. I had referred all of this to them in 2002, and you called in August 2003, and I believe that is what kicked off the investigation. If it had not been for that story, it could have been a very different outcome."
Defense attorneys for Stephan Botes have said they planned on calling seven to nine witnesses, and they are not sure if Botes will be one of them.
News 12 has also learned that Tim Shelnut could soon be the subject of an investigation. Mr. Shelnut's attorney sent a letter to the Georgia Ethics Commission.
Monday we got this statement from the insurance commissioner's office about that letter:
"Last week, our office was notified that a federal investigation disclosed campaign contributions Mr. Shelnut had made in violation of Georgia law, and Mr. Shelnut had notified the Georgia Ethics Commission.
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St. Mary Catholic Church in Marietta could become the next Catholic church in the United States to be turned into a minor basilica.
The honorific title, bestowed by the pope, would likely make the church a place of pilgrimage and would attract many visitors, said St. Mary's Pastor John Michael Campbell.
"This is a big deal for Marietta. To see a basilica, people come from all over to make a pilgrimage," he said.
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On Tuesday, Pastor John Michael Campbell of St. Mary Catholic Church shows a large mosaic of Our Mother of Perpetual Help, one of the many pieces of art displayed in the church. The church is in consideration for the designation of a minor basilica, an honorific which is bestowed by the pope.
If designated, St. Mary would become the 76th Catholic church in the United States to be conferred such an honor.
The honorific would also bestow certain privileges on the parish. For example, a minor basilica is not only a part of its own diocese, but automatically becomes part of the diocese of Rome, said Campbell.
Churches wishing to be considered for the title must submit a petition through their local bishop to the The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments in Rome, which will in turn submit their recommendation to Pope Francis.
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A minor basilica is an honorific title bestowed by the pope on certain Catholic churches that are deemed a religious center of notable importance.
St. Mary Catholic Church in Marietta is in consideration for the title.
The church, which was erected at its present Fourth Street location in 1909, qualifies for the honor in part because in 1749 Marietta was the site of the first Christian service in the Northwest Territory.
The designation would mean the church could display the papal emblem and would receive special basilican symbols such as a set of bells and an Umbrilino-a large umbrella which would cover the pope should he ever visit.
The designation would also make the church a place of pilgrimage for the faithful.
If given the title, St. Mary would become The Basilica of Saint Mary of the Assumption, and would be the 76th church in the United States to receive the basilica designation.
St. Mary submitted a petition for the title in January and the approval process could take upwards of nine months.
Source: Pastor John Michael Campbell of St. Mary Catholic Church and Bishop Jeffrey Monforton of the Diocese of Steubenville.
St Mary's petition process began three years ago, following the renovation of the church on Fourth Street, said Campbell.
"One of the qualifications is that all of the fixtures in the church have to be permanent," he said.
Construction on the church at its present Fourth Street location was completed in 1909, making the church a permanent fixture for more than 100 years. However, the church's wooden altar did not fit that specification.
That was fixed during the renovation process, which wrapped up three years ago, said Campbell. At that time, a marble alter was installed, he said.
In addition, a church should be a notable religious center-a qualification St. Mary meets because of the rich historical significance of the Catholic faith in Marietta. It was in 1749 that Marietta became the site of the first Christian service in the Northwest Territory.
The petition process consisted of sending an 80-page book to the Congregation. The book, which contains English and Latin passages, details the church's history, outlines all of the societies and groups within the church, and talks about the church's events.
It contains multiple pictures of the church's interior and exterior and the origins and significance of all the relics, paintings and sacraments in the church were also detailed.
The designation of St. Mary as a minor basilica would be a great distinction for not only St. Mary, but for the entire diocese, said Bishop Jeffrey Monforton of the Diocese of Steubenville.
"It is an honor to the Diocese of Steubenville that St. Mary Church is being considered as a minor basilica," said Monforton.
Monforton received a letter several months ago from Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, in his capacity as president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which acknowledged receipt of the bishop's application asking the Holy Father to designate St. Mary as a minor basilica.
Dolan had to approve the request on behalf of the American Bishops, which he did, and the application was sent to the Congregation for consideration on Jan. 13.
It was actually a consultant of the Congregation, Monsignor James Moroney, who visited St. Mary and recommended they petition for the title in the first place, noted Campbell.
"He told us he was going to help us make it a basilica because it was one of the most beautiful churches he has seen," he said.
St. Mary's parishioner Sharon Heiss agreed.
"We are lucky to have something in Marietta that is as beautiful as our church," said Heiss, 73, of Marietta.
Among other things, the church boasts several exquisite stained glass windows that came from Germany in the early 20th century, said Campbell. The church also holds a large mosaic of Our Mother of Perpetual Help, several lovely frescoes and some impressive stained glass windows, said Campbell.
Heiss is one of many parishioners excited about the prospect of becoming a basilica.
"I think it's just wonderful," she said.
Reno resident and St. Mary's member Charlie McLeish agreed.
"I think it's a great honor for our area. I think it speaks well of the pastors we've had. I think they've done so much to keep the church up like it is," said McLeish, 79.
The designation will hopefully be good for both the church and the community, said Marietta resident Georgene Johnson, 64.
However, what truly makes St. Mary special is the liturgy that takes place inside the church and that will not change, she said.
"No matter what we are, it is still the worship that goes on in the building that takes precedent," Johnson said.
The petition process typically takes at least nine months, said Campbell, who is confident the church will receive the designation.
Once approved, the church will have its own coat of arms. It will also receive certain symbols reserved for basilicas-a basilican bell and an Umbrilino.
After it has received these standard basilican privileges, the church would hold a ceremony which would likely be attended by several local priests and bishops, said Campbell.
The church would also come to be known as The Basilica of Saint Mary of the Assumption, said Campbell.


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The Die Hard series is one of those movies you have to classify as �guilty pleasures.�
�A Good Day to Die Hard� is the fifth in the Die Hard franchise which began in 1988 (!!!) and follows the adventures of John McLain (Bruce Willis), a New York city cop who improbable stuff just happens to, a running joke in the series.
This is McLain�s first outing outside the country, if you don�t count the final scene in Canada in the third. Russia to be exact, although they kind of pass without mentioning that Chernobyl is actually in Ukraine.
And there was one jarring moment for me when I sat up and thought, �Hey that corridor looks familar, I remember it from Budapest!�
The action is unbelieveable, performed by heroes who are, to say the least, irresponsible. They blithely destroy property on a massive scale in car chases and shoot outs which miraculously never seem to cause casualties among innocent bystanders.
It�s kind of dumb fun, but it�s getting to the point of being done to death now. In this reviewer�s humble opinion, the best car-chase-destroy-a-town was in the George C. Scott classic, �The Flim-Flam Man� (1967). Mordecai Jones (Scott) and and Curley (Michael Sarrazin) wrecked a small Kentucky town in a convertible, and somehow got more out of it than wrecking a downtown metropolitan area with armored cars and helicopter gunships.
Nonetheless there is something terribly appealing about the series that sets it apart from the usual crop of mindless action movies, seen today, forgotten next year.
The series� formula rests on three elements underlying the action.
One is an unexpected series of plot twists. Good guys turn out to be bad guys and McLain has to figure out which, though observation, deduction, and intuition. Motives turn out not to be as they are originally presented. Which is fun, but also makes them harder to review without spoilers.
In the first �Die Hard� it was a gang of hijackers motivated by simple gain, masquerading as terrorists in the service of a cause. A pattern followed in the third sequel, and something like it in the latest.
Another is the underlying theme of bonding with an estranged family member. In the first two it was McLain�s estranged wife Holly (Bonnie Bedelia) and a supporting character (Reginald VelJohnson).
By the third installment Bedelia had evidently opted out of the series and was only referred to. The bonding-through-shared-action happened with Samuel L. Jackson�s character. In the fourth, it�s McLain�s estranged daughter Lucy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) who was brought on scene for a few minutes to establish continuity in this installment.
In �A Good Day to Die Hard� it�s McLain�s estranged son Jack (Jai Courtney), who is also not what he seems at first.
�Your mother thought you were doing drugs,� McLain tells him. �I thought you were dealing drugs.�
Nope, he�s CIA on a mission to recover documents which will reveal the corruption of a powerful Rusian oligarch. Which turns out to be red herring about halfway through the movie.
The third element is banter.
Nobody does banter like Bruce Willis. Since his breakthrough role in the TV �dramedy� series �Moonlighting� (1984-1989) a great many of his roles seem to have been created to showcase his flair for devil-may-care spit-in-the-eye-of-death banter.
And starting with the third Die Hard, they created an oppositional dynamic to the McLain family dynamics. This was foreshadowed in �Die Hard 2� (1990) where the villaiins were a military �band of brothers� gone rogue.
�Die Hard with a Vengeance� (1995) introduced Simon Peter Gruber (Jeremy Irons) the brother of the East German villain Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) of �Die Hard.� Irons had a romantic partner in villainy who was a stone killer (Sam Phillips).
The trope was repeated in �Live Free or Die Hard� (2007) where a villainous romantic couple (Timothy Olyphant and Maggie Q) are paired off against McLain and daughter.
In �A Good Day to Die Hard� it�s McClain and son against a father-daughter team of villains Yuri and Irina Komorov, played by German actor Sebastian Koch, and Russian actress/model Yuliya Snigir.
(Snigir by the way, aside from being easy to look at was awarded the title of Candidate Chess Master by the International Chess Federation at age 15.)
The twist is, the McLain family is dysfunctional. John and Holly love each other but wind up divorced. John McLain�s kids are estanged from Dad, until bonded by shared danger.
But the villains: comrades-in-arms, brothers, lovers, and now father and daughter, all have great relationships!
So if you�re in the mood, turn off your critical faculties and watch the heart-warming family drama of McLain and son bonding to the music of machine gun fire and massive explosions.


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I'm into this. How does the shirt fit? Is it cut for the slender types? Like AA? I'm fashion fit impaired. I haven't bought an artist shirt since that green Wakefield shirt. I love it but it fits for thickies so I only wear it to bed.
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Just so I'm not too positive, and I get the reason why, but I don't like extra wording on shirts. I like simple. This isn't too bad but I hate when shirts have a bunch of writing on the back. Just gimme a slick, simple logo on the front. /gripe
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These aren't AA shirts (which run a bit small.) Gildan shirts are definitely middle of the road as far as sizing goes. We put a sizing chart on the product page if you want to check the measurements.
As for the writing on the back, we kept it pretty dang simple.
Not all of our shirts have writing on the back, but when we do include text we try to keep it basic.
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Beverly Cleary's Newbery Medal-winning book explores the thoughts and emotions of a sixth-grade boy, Leigh Botts, in letter form as he writes to his favorite author, Boyd Henshaw.
After his parents separate, Leigh Botts moves to a new town with his mother. Struggling to make friends and deal with his anger toward his absent father, Leigh loses himself in a class assignment in which he must write to his favorite author. When Mr. Henshaw responds, the two form an unexpected friendship that will change Leigh's life forever.
From the beloved author of the Henry Huggins, Ramona Quimby, and Ralph S. Mouse series comes an epistolary novel about life's growing pains.
This novel supports the Common Core State Standards.
Dear Mr. Henshaw,
I wish somebody would stop stealing the good stuff out of my lunchbag. I guess I wish a lot of other things, too. I wish someday Dad and Bandit would pull up in front in the rig ... Dad would yell out of the cab, "Come on, Leigh. Hop in and I'll give you a lift to school."
Leigh Botts has been author Boyd Henshaw's number one fan ever since he was in second grade. Now in sixth grade, Leigh lives with his mother and is the new kid at school. He's lonely, troubled by the absence of his father, a cross-country trucker, and angry because a mysterious thief steals from his lunchbag. Then Leigh's teacher assigns a letter-writing project. Naturally Leigh chooses to write to Mr. Henshaw, whose surprising answer changes Leigh's life.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida lawmakers are gathering at the Capitol to kick off their annual session.
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EAGLE, Colorado - Democrats in Eagle County rejoiced Tuesday night as national TV news networks started calling the presidential race in favor of President Barack Obama around 9:10 p.m. local time.
Local Democrats gathered at Paradigms restaurant in Eagle and at Cafe de Luna in Avon to wait for election results, while the local Republicans gathered at the party's office in Eagle. Around 8 p.m., none of the major swing states had been called, and the Democrats in Eagle were optimistic, but not certain. The mood at the Republicans' office felt slightly nervous, although supporters there weren't ready to concede the presidency just yet.
At Paradigms, Democratic Party volunteer Susie Kincade looked at Eagle County Democrats 1st Vice-Chair Carole Onderdonk when MSNBC projected Obama as the winner and the women hugged. They were both emotional over the results after working hard in Eagle County throughout the campaign season.
Kincade woke up at 5:30 a.m. Tuesday and spent 14 hours campaigning for Obama. By the time the results were in, she was tired, but also ecstatic. Kincade founded the Women's Empowerment Workshop in Vail, so needless to say the issue most important to her this election was women's rights.
"I've been pushing for women's rights since I was 17 years old, so the idea for me that I had to be doing it again when I was 57 years old was shocking," she said. "That was my personal motivation - the women's issues."
Onderdonk got choked up as it set in that Obama had won. She beamed as she looked up toward the television screen that read "re-elected."
"I am incredibly gratified that the people of this country paid attention to their brains instead of their right wing ideology and elected a president who is sensible, science-oriented and who is for 100 percent of the people, not 53 percent," Onderdonk said.
As Democrats celebrated, Republicans accepted defeat. Some expressed sadness over what they think the next four years will bring.
John Cook, of Eagle, said he hopes younger Americans - those who seem to have the most influence on presidential elections these days - can study more about the nation's history in terms of what works and what doesn't work.
"Socialism and Communism don't work - history says that's true - and capitalism isn't perfect, but it's better than the alternative," Cook said. "(Socialism) robs you of your initiative, your motivation - you're not going to prosper without that. ... This is going to be very difficult to work out of."
Johnie Rosenfeld said the Republicans "gave it all we got." He watched the news reports that Obama had won and thought about what it means for the future.
"I think the biggest fear I have right now is what's going to happen with the debt ceiling and is the Senate going to be able to move forward and approve a budget," Rosenfeld said. "Because if the spending stays as high as it is and the debt ceiling is not dealt with then we're going to see massive unemployment and economic devastation."
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First U.S. Demonstration of Honda U3-X Personal Mobility Prototype in New YorkExperimental device to be demonstrated for U.S. media in New York and at the 2010 SAE World Congress in Detroit
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