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Priest in PerilEdit This Entity
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King Roald of Varrock
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Item: 50 Rune Essence or 25 Pure Essence, Bucket
Other: Ability to defeat Temple guardian and Monk of Zamorak
Skill: 30 Combat, Level 25 Magic
Item: Teleport Runes to Varrock, Mithril Weapon or better, Food (Lower Levels only), Essence Pouches: Bringing these can reduce the number of trips taken to deliver the Rune essence
Part 1:
The Temple
Step 1
Talk to the king of Varrock, and he will tell you to visit Drezel.
To start, talk to the King Roald of Varrock in his Palace.
He tells you that a priest named Drezel lives to the east and has blocked the passage from Misthalin to Morytania. He also says Drezel, the priest that works there, hasn't got in touch with him for a while, and wants you to go check on him. Accept his order, to start the quest.
To get to the Temple, exit Varrock out of its east exit; follow the road north until you hit a dead end. From there, go east again until you hit a wooden gate. Go through and follow the road. You will eventually end up at the Temple. Knock on the doors.
Step 2
Kill the dog in the Mausoleum.
Return to the king.
Somebody from inside will ask, "Who are you and what do you want?". Respond by saying that Roald sent you to check on Drezel. You will overhear two people whispering. They are trying to figure out who Drezel and Roald are. One will then speak up and pretend he is Drezel. He then says you can help them by killing a dog in the Mausoleum just north of the temple entrance.
Go north of the Temple to find the Mausoleum.
Go down the trap door and you will find a dog-like creature called Temple guardian Kill the dog and leave the Mausoleum via the ladder. Magic attacks do not work on him. Report back to the door. You will be greeted with laughter and they will tell you to go talk to King Roald about the dogs death.
Return to Varrock. Speak the King, and he will be OUTRAGED! He says that you have killed the dog that guards the entrance to Morytania. So, after threatening to behead you, he sends you back to the Temple.
Part 2:
Freeing Drezel & Invasion
Step 3
Talk to Drezel.
Kill a level 30 Zamorak mage for a gold key.
Find an iron key from a monument and free Drezel.
Get Drezel to bless a bucket of water.
Items needed: Bucket.
Once at the Temple, to your surprise, the doors swing open when you attempt to Knock. You walk in at your own pleasure to find out the place has been overrun with Zamorakian monks!
Go up to the third floor where you will see a coffin and Drezel locked up behind bars. Talk to him through the bars by clicking 'Talk through Cell Door'. He will tell you how he was locked up by the Zamorakians and how Morytania is full of evil. He will tell you how Varrock used to be ruled by evil and how the seven priests battled the evil creatures. He will also say that the River Salve, blessed by Saradomin, prevents evil from entering again. Then, he will tell you that Saradomin's presence is weakening in Misthalin due to the creatures in Morytania polluting the Salve river. Then you must agree to help Drezel in foiling the evil plot. Lastly he will inform you that the coffin that sits near to the cell contains a vampire that will kill Drezel if he goes near it.
Kill a Monk of Zamorak and eventually one will drop a golden key. Go back to the mausoleum and go through the gate that is just past the guard dog.
Go through that gate and into a huge Saradomin shrine. You can look at all the monuments, but do not "Take-from". It ends up just damaging you. It is suggested to fill up your Bucket with Water in the well while you are here.
Find the monument with the iron key in it by clicking and check on each of the monuments. Use your golden key with that monument. You character swaps the keys, giving you an iron key.
Go back to Drezel and use the iron key to get into his cage and talk to him. He'll tell you he's still afraid of the vampire in the coffin in the room and wants you to pour some holy water over it to prevent it from getting out. If you haven't already, Go back to the Saradomin Shrine and fill up a bucket with water in the well.
Simply talk to Drezel again and he'll bless your bucket of water. When you examine the bucket of water now, it should say that it is blessed. If it's not blessed yet it will say it's murky water. Use the blessed water on the coffin and talk to him again. He tells you he'll meet you down at the shrine.
Step 4
Give Drezel 50 Rune or Pure essence
Items needed: 50 Rune Essence (not noted)
Down at the shrine, go into the gate in the north-east corner past the monuments. Drezel is here and he says that the Zamorakians have polluted the well that led to the River Salve. He then says he's made a weak barrier to keep the other kingdom from coming, but that he can't hold it up much longer and needs you to purify the river. He says he has to stay and keep the barrier up, so he's leaving it up to you. You tell him of a magical rock that absorbs magical powers called Rune Essence. Drezel is excited and says that those may be enough to purify the water.
You need to take either 50 Rune Essence or 25 Pure Essence to Drezel, and the essence must be unnoted. It was take two trips if you use Rune Essence, but only one trip if you decide to use Pure Essence.
A: It keeps Werewolves (see next) in human form. It adds: Attack bonuses: Stab +11 Slash +5 Crush -1 Magic +1 Defence bonuses: Magic +1 Other bonuses: Strength +10 Prayer +5
A: Once the quest is completed. Go through the magical barrier Drezel made. Follow the road down to a small swamp town called Canifis. Here, you will see level 24 men and women. If you attack them with a normal weapon, be in for a surprise. The man or women will turn into a level 88 werewolf. But if you attack with a Wolfbane dagger, they will stay in human form.
A: Yes, just talk to Drezel and he will give you another one.


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Shear strength of hollow flange channel beams with stiffened web openings
Poologanathan, Keerthan & Mahendran, Mahen (2012) Shear strength of hollow flange channel beams with stiffened web openings. In Proceedings of : 21st International Specialty Conference on Cold-formed Steel Structures, Missouri University of Science and Technology, St. Louis, Mo.
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This LiteSteel beam (LSB) is a new cold-formed steel hollow flange channel section produced using a patented manufacturing process involving simultaneous cold-forming and dual electric resistance welding. The LSBs are commonly used as floor joists and bearers with web openings in buildings. Their shear strengths are considerably reduced when web openings are included for the purpose of locating building services. Shear tests of LSBs with web openings have shown that there is up to 60% reduction in the shear capacity. Hence there is a need to improve the shear capacity of LSBs with web openings. A cost effective way to eliminate the shear capacity reduction is to stiffen the web openings using suitable stiffeners. Hence numerical studies were undertaken to investigate the shear capacity of LSBs with stiffened web openings. In this research, finite element models of LSBs with stiffened web openings in shear were developed to simulate the shear behaviour and strength of LSBs. Various stiffening methods using plate and LSB stiffeners attached to LSBs using both welding and screw-fastening were attempted. The developed models were then validated by comparing their results with experimental results and used in further studies. Both finite element and experimental results showed that the stiffening arrangements recommended by past research for cold-formed steel channel beams are not adequate to restore the shear strengths of LSBs with web openings. Therefore new stiffener arrangements were proposed for LSBs with web openings. This paper presents the details of this research project using numerical studies and the results.
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The Husband's Message
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SANTA CLARA -- Starting cornerback Carlos Rogers is making steady progress in his recovery from a right hamstring injury and is in line to play in the NFC Championship Game against the Seattle Seahawks.
"He looked fine (Wednesday)," 49ers defensive coordinator Vic Fangio on Thursday said about Rogers' first time practicing since he got hurt in the regular-season finale Dec. 29. "He took part in about half of it, opened up a few times, looked good running. Then we shut him down at that point and hopefully he'll be able to do a whole lot more" Thursday and Friday.
Rogers wasn't able to play in the 49ers first two playoff games, victories over the Green Bay Packers and Carolina Panthers.
Fangio makes it sound as if it's not a matter of if Rogers will play against the Seahawks on Sunday, but how much.
"Yeah, we're hoping that he can get 100 percent healthy and then we'll see exactly what his role will be at that point," Fangio said.
Rogers said Tuesday that he feels as if he's going to be able to play for the first time since he got hurt late in a game against the Arizona Cardinals in the regular-season finale.
If he doesn't suffer any setbacks in practice this week, Rogers said, he expects to play against the Seahawks.
Tarell Brown started in place of Rogers the past two games. Fangio said he hasn't decided whether Rogers will start Sunday if his hamstring holds up.
It's conceivable that Fangio will stick with Brown and fellow cornerback Tramaine Brock as the starters, given the way they performed against the Packers and Panthers.
"They played well," Fangio said of Brock and Brown. "They haven't been perfect. But overall, they have played well. We played two really good offenses, two that have really good quarterbacks. You can't play well at the end of it if your corners don't hold up to some degree."


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RingTV.com spoke to Austin Trout at his training facility in Ruidoso, New Mexico, in advance of his Showtime-televised junior middleweight defense of his WBA "regular" title against Miguel Cotto on Dec. 1 at New York's Madison Square Garden.
Showtime's documentary All Access: Cotto vs. Trout has chronicled the lives of both Cotto (37-3, 30 knockouts) and Trout (25-0, 14 KOs) as they prepare for their clash in New York, where the Puerto Rican challenger has never lost and is an overwhelming favorite among local fans.
Episode 2 of All Access airs at 9:38 ET on Saturday.
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On Saturday, starting at at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT, FOX Deportes will broadcast Trout's unanimous decision victory over Rigoburto Alvarez in February of last year for his current belt before Alvarez's partisan fans at the Arena Colseo in Guadalajara, Mexico.
The then-34-year-old brother of WBC titleholder, Saul "Canelo" Alvarez, Rigoburto was after his fourth straight victory and his third knockout during that run against Trout.
Following the Trout-Alvarez broadcast, FOX will show Cotto's unanimous decision victory over Shane Mosley that occurred at Madison Square Garden in November of 2007 in defense of Cotto's WBA 147-pound crown.
Cotto is 7-0 with four knockouts at The Garden, where he stopped Antonio Margarito in the 10th round in December of last year to avenge the first loss of his career, an 11th-round knockout in July of 2008.
He is 9-0 with five stoppage wins overall in New York, and has decisioned former world titleholders Mosley, Joshua Clottey and Paulie Malignaggi, and knocked out Zab Judah, all at The Garden.
But Trout, 27, says fighting in hostile territory doesn't bother him, and will only make him more motivated against Cotto, 32, who is coming off a unanimous-decision loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr. in May.
The loss to Mayweather ended a three-fight knockout and winning streak by Cotto, whose previous setback had come via 12th-round stoppage opposite Manny Pacquiao in November of 2009.
Austin Trout: I'm in Ruidoso, New Mexico. I'm doing real good. Today is my last sparring session. We've gone 12 rounds numerous times, but we're just going to go six today to sharpen up just a little bit more.
RingTV.com: Who have your sparring partners been?
AT: We've had DonYil Livingston, Lenardo Tyner and we have Hector Munoz out here. DonYil, he can box a little bit more, like Cotto has been moving a bit.
Lenardo is a come-forward brawler, and Hector, he's big pressure fighter, so we've had a lot of different looks for Cotto.
RingTV.com: How is has the intensity of the increased media during this promotion any different for you and for your family from your past fights?
AT: You, now, it's not adding any pressure. It's been cool. I've been enjoying it. It's been a lot of fun. All of the media attention has been fun.
Seeing myself on an All-Access show, it's been awesome. It's been getting me pumped to live through what I've been waiting all my life to live through.
RingTV.com: What role has your faith and spirituality played in your life and career?
AT: I consider myself a spiritual person. I wouldn't say religious. I rely on a good relationship with God through Jesus Christ. It's all on my faith. I know that God has plans for me.
I feel that he's brought me along a path that's taken me this far. I don't believe that he's brought me this far for failure. So, my faith is everything. I believe in it, and I believe that I can achieve it through God.
RingTV.com: What are the names of your children and your fiancee, who are introduced in the All Access segment?
AT: Kaira, and she's 10. My is Elijah, and he's 5. Then there's my daughter, Charlotte, like the city, and she's 2. My fiancee is Taylor. We're getting married on April 20.
RingTV.com: What is your mentality heading into fight week?
AT: As you get closer, it's more business. We haven't lost focus at all from the past weeks. It's something that I've been thinking about in the back of my mind all of the time.
Now, it's something that's in the forefront of my mind all of the time. If that makes any sense. Where, before, it was in the back of my mind, now it's my complete focus in the front of my mind. Now, it's definitely in the front.
RingTV.com: How will your experience fighting Rigoburto Alvarez in hostile territory prepare you for facing Cotto before what will undoubtedly be fans who heavily favor him?
AT: You know, whether the crowd ends up cheering for me in the end or not, that part of it doesn't matter. But what does matter is that I use the negative energy that the crowd is giving me as added motivation to fight harder.
I have felt like every time that I've been in hostile territory or hostile waters, the crowd has never had an effect on me. If anything, what it has done is given the motivation and it has made me want to make them shut up.
That's no offense to any of the Puerto Rican fans. But it's like I told them when were in Puerto Rico for the press conference, it's been passion that has been keeping boxing alive.
So, as a fighter, and as a fan of the sport, I appreciate their passion. But I'm going to be in the ring using anything that they give me, whether it's positive or it's negative, to motivate me to do better.
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Shane Mosley, UD 12, Madison Square Garden, Nov. 10, 2007
Michael Jennings, TKO 5, Madison Square Garden, February 21, 2009
Joshua Clottey, SD 12, Madison Square Garden, June 13, 2009
Yuri Foreman, TKO 9, Yankee Stadium, June 5, 2010
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The strengths and research directions of the training faculty comprise laboratories representing four levels of focus, although most investigators are obviously not strictly bounded by a given level. The first of these is represented by laboratories working principally at the cellular/molecular/biochemical level to investigate processes mediating drug responses. The faculty members most closely identified with this focus include Drs. Buck, Grandy, Jahr, Janowsky, Low, Meshul, Neve, Ryabinin, and Wiren. Studies ongoing in this area concentrate on the effects of acute and chronic drug treatment in a number of systems, including: characterization of key receptor genes such as the dopamine and opioid receptors and the dopamine transporter protein; examining dopamine and glutamate function using chimeras and receptors or transporters modified by site-directed mutagenesis; analyzing transcriptional regulation of endogenous opioid genes; expression of GABA and steroid receptor proteins and RNA derived from genetic animal models of drug sensitivity in Xenopus oocytes; studies of the trafficking of fluorescent-labeled proteins in cultured cells, use of microarray analysis to identify genes regulated by chronic drug treatment; biophysical studies of excitatory amino acid receptors using patch-clamp methods; functional studies of expression and enzyme activity for candidate genes identified from gene mapping efforts; studies of null mutant and overexpression transgenic mice; and ultrastructural examination of synaptic alterations in brain using electron microscopy.
The second level of focus is represented by those laboratories studying systems mediating drug-related responses at the neurochemical/neurophysiological/neuropharmacological level. Faculty working primarily at this level are Drs. Finn, Johnson, Kelly, Mark, McCleskey, Olsen, Ronnekleiv, and Williams. These studies include: use of in vivo voltammetry and microdialysis to study transmitter overflow; excitatory amino acid receptor, dopamine, and GABA function assessed by quantitative receptor autoradiography, in vitro binding, GTP S binding, immunocytochemistry, and in situ hybridization; opioid regulation of ion conductances (potassium, calcium and other cationic currents) using voltage clamp techniques in a number of cell types; evaluation of non-opioid mechanisms regulating pain circuitry; analysis of dopamine and serotonin circuitry using single cell recordings in brain slices; use of neural ensemble recording to study the influence of drugs of abuse on information processing in the limbic system; the role of neuroactive steroid hormones and stress in drug self-administration and withdrawal studied in vivo and in vitro; the role of potassium channels in hippocampal-dependent learning.
The third area of focus is represented by those investigators studying drug effects at the behavioral pharmacological/pharmacogenetic level. This group includes Drs. Belknap, Crabbe, Cunningham, Hitzemann, Phillips, and Raber. These studies are largely at the behavioral and genetic level, including: development of congenic and recombinant congenic strains and mouse lines selected on the basis of genotype at selected markers; relative contributions of initial sensitivity and tolerance to drug dependence, self-administration and withdrawal; chronic intravenous drug self-administration; studies with several other tasks assessing drug reinforcement, including place- and taste-conditioning, oral self-administration, locomotor stimulation, and locomotor sensitization; homeostatic models of drug tolerance and withdrawal, using temperature regulation and ataxia; studies of the role of contextual cues in several learning and conditioning paradigms; epidemiological analyses of drug dependence; and statistical association and linkage analyses to map chromosomal location of genes modulating drug responses using quantitative trait locus analysis. Recently, the gene discovery effort of this group of investigators has been among the pioneering efforts marrying gene expression array analyses with the more traditional sequence-based QTL mapping methods.
The fourth area of focus includes studies of drug effects at the cognitive neuroscience/human/clinical level. This group includes Drs. Berger, Hauser, Hauser, Mitchell, Oken, and Stevens. Studies by this group involve the use of behavioral tests, EEG, functional magnetic resonance imaging, and PET imaging to evaluate steroid and drug effects in the human brain, to characterize impulsivity in humans and rodents, and to develop novel therapeutics for the treatment of drug abuse.


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The scene of an overturned truck on Route 3 westbound in Rutherford, N.J. has been cleared, and Route 3 is back open with no delays.
Rush-hour backup on Route 3 toward Route 20 was exacerbated Thursday evening when a truck overturned.
Police are looking at excessive speed as a cause for the overturned truck.
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Sean is a co-founder of Intrepid Shakespeare Company. As an actor, director and teacher he has worked with numerous theatre companies and festivals including Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Texas Shakespeare Festival, PCPA Theaterfest, Old Globe, San Diego Repertory, Los Angeles Repertory, Nevada Shakespeare Festival, North Coast Repertory, Bank Theatre of Philadelphia, La Jolla Playhouse, Sierra Repertory, Cygnet Theatre, Performance Riverside, Fritz Theatre, Lamb's Players (Associate Artists), Compass Theatre and Moxie Theatre. Selected San Diego acting credits include Housman in The Invention of Love, Edmund Tyrone in Long Days Journey Into Night, John Merrick in The Elephant Man, Walker/Ned in Three Days of Rain, Tom Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie and the west coast premiers of The Sugar Syndrome, The Receptionist and Dying City. Training includes the Pacific Conservatory of Performing Arts, the University of the Arts and the Globe Theatre (London). Mr. Cox is the recipient of multiple awards for his work in the theatre.
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(Los Angeles, California – July 8, 2016) Los Angeles natives Fernando Flores and Takeshi Komiyama are the newest officers to join the ranks of the Los Angeles Airport Police, the nation's largest aviation police agency with nearly 550 sworn police officers. The addition of Officers Flores and Komiyama continues the Airport Police Division's (APD) efforts to hire diverse and qualified officers as part of its commitment to ensuring the safety and security of the third busiest airport in the nation.
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Congressional Civil Justice Caucus Academy Briefing: Economic Efficiency, Civil Litigation, & Discovery Reform
Event Date: Friday, April 11, 2014
Location: Rayburn House Office Building Room 2237, Washington, DC
Program Description: The introduction of "liberal discovery" into the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) was an important conceptual innovation; requiring parties to reveal relevant information should improve the speed and accuracy of dispute resolution. However, rather than promote the "just, speedy, and inexpensive determination of every action and proceeding," as Rule 1 of the FRCP demands, some have argued that by allowing the requesting party to foist costs onto their opponent, the current discovery rules result in protracted, costly, and unjust litigation. 60 congressional staff members joined us for a discussion of the current federal discovery rules and proposed reforms that could allocate some of the burden of discovery from the producing party to the requesting party.
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A 27-year-old former Pontotoc church youth minister has pleaded not guilty to four counts of sexual contact with a minor female.
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reported that Jaysen Hogue appeared Thursday before Circuit Judge Thomas Gardner. Hogue was freed on $40,000 bond.
A Pontotoc County grand jury indicted Hogue on May 3, but the charges did not become public until his arrest.
Hogue is accused of two counts of fondling and two counts of sexual battery of a child under the age of 18 between October 2011 and Feb. 28, 2012.
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How to get promoted to a Senior Level Designer or Creative Director
1. Work extra hours
Sure the average is 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week. With that amount of effort you will probably stay stagnant and grow moldy (I'm kidding). But I bet if you ask any senior designer or art director if he/she has gotten to that career point on a measley 40 hour/week schedule, that person would laugh. If you're not willing to dedicate extra time, don't hold your breath on a promotion anytime soon. Even an hour or two every day will show passion for the job, commitment to deadlines, and attention to detail. And be sure to be productive in that time. Staying late doesn't mean hard work if you're just sitting there smiling at the ficus tree. Trust me, people will notice and your extra time will not be in vain.
2. Answer off-hour messages
Going off that note, it's also helpful to be available when needed, even if it means on weekends or vacation days. As a coworker once said, "I'm taking time off… but I'm not REALLY taking time off." As much as it sucks to have to do last minute asset-prepping on a Friday night, you signed up to be a team player and the best way to show your contribution is to help out on your own accord without people begging you to work a little harder. So if you want to move up the ladder, don't be lazy. Pick up phone calls on a Friday, answer emails on a Saturday, or even respond to text messages on a Sunday. It will pay off in the long run.
3. Attend Meetings whenever possible
Now I know sometimes you can't go to meetings if it's reserved for executive staff or if it's about private matters. And sometimes there will be meetings that aren't really intended for you as a designer and that, heck, you weren't even invited to. But if you want to take that extra step, make an effort to go to other meetings when you can. So what if it's an engineering meeting? If you don't know much about your company's product or goal, ask if you can attend and at least listen and take notes. Participation isn't necessary to learn and you might even be asked to not disrupt, which is perfectly fine given that you don't know much anyway. Showing that you're eager to see what the company is about outside of your role as a designer is fantastic. Just make sure you don't go overboard and exceed your working hours with meeting hours.
4. Know your field very well
For some of you, that might be a "please…that's obvious" tip. But I found out that there's a big difference to being good at what you're doing, in this case, designing, versus knowing the graphic design world. For example, do research. Know the ins and outs, the trending topics, the current salaries, the statistics, as much as you can learn about the field of design. Attend design seminars, keep a list of design contacts, even read up on design blogs. To be a senior level designer or an art director, you should be trusted to know these kinds of things, even if you think it won't apply to your job. But the likelihood is that if you ever get promoted, your boss, who may not know much about design trends or salaries, may look to you for these things. For example, what if he/she wants to hire another designer and asks you what the median salary range is. Would you know that answer? What if the average salary rate is different between cities and your interviewee is coming from New York City to Fresno, where the living expenses are different? These are the small things that shouldn't be overlooked and are what non-designers assume senior-level designers should already know.
5. Be familiar with other programs
Let's face it. The Adobe CS is in every designer's toolbox. But what else is in there? If you were like me and went "Huh? Other tools?" thinking that Flash, Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop were all you needed in your career, then you are absolutely wrong. Sure, if you want to stick to the same routine or if you are extremely talented, stay with the CS series. But the reality is, most directors, senior designers, and creative heads know just a bit more. Whether it be Omnigraffle, Autodesk Maya, Screenflow, FTP progams, or even TextMate (hey, designers who know web development have a huge advantage nowadays), every little bit helps. Ok now I'm not saying that higher level designers are pros at other programs. If they are that's great. But it's nice to know the basics. I've definitely strayed a little bit from the design world to do some video editing and it was fun to learn. And it's nice to say "Hey, I can help with that." next time your boss randomly asks for video help. That will be a big +1 in their eyes, and possibly a big +1 to being promoted.
6. Prepare yourself for a leadership role
I have yet to be in a senior position, but I want to say it's a lot more difficult than it seems. Yes you probably get paid more but "with great power, comes great responsibility." Ok, enough with the cheesy. If you are seriously considering a higher role, prepare yourself. Is your boss swamped with work and there's a pile of other stuff to do? Help out. Show that you don't need to be asked to do things and that you can manage your own projects. See a new employee struggling to find things on the server? Help him out, even if he's not a designer. These things are good practice for when you step up to that higher position and you will have to help those incoming junior designers. Questions will be asked, things will need to be taught. If you think you can answer those questions confidently and are at that point where you know the company well enough, then you may be due for a promotion.
7. Have an open mind & Get involved
Everyone has a boss, essentially. Even art directors and senior designers. Look at it from a different perspective and apply that to what you want to become. What do you see in your boss that you want to strive to become? Or things that you think could be improved on? The tough part about being a higher level authority is that you're usually stuck in the middle of having a boss, and being someone's boss. This goes back to a common sense point but be sure to take criticism well and be sure to communicate well. Also make sure you play an active role in your boss' daily activites. I know meetings can suck up half your day and the other half you just want to get work done, but keep in mind that you may eventually be mentoring someone else and will have to check in on him/her regularly. Show that you can be a role model by updating your boss with your daily activity. Manage your time well and don't forget that, when you have the chance, you should never ignore your potential employee.
8. Be voiceful and take some for the team
I think I've had a decent share of good and mediocre bosses. The mediocre ones will assign you the tedious projects that nobody else wants to do, let you sit there quietly and finish them, then check in on you a few days later and give you a pat on the back. The great bosses will challenge you with a mixture of tedious and demanding projects, check in on you daily, and reward you with more exciting projects. The better supervisors are also, what I've noted, very certain in their speech. There's no "ums" or "maybes" in the way they talk or even in their emails. They get straight to the point, they know what they want, they think before they speak, and they may come off a little intimidating but it's because they are confident in how to run things. So adopt that attitude, be strong in your presentations, and happily accept some of the lame projects for the team (because one employee stuck doing the "bitch work," as some call it, will not be a happy employee, and an unhappy employee probably means you are not being a good supervisor).
I'm sure there are many more tips to landing that promotion. These are the main things I saw from observing all the authority figures I've had the opportunity to work with in the past. Please share your stories and add to this! We're all here to learn and even if you don't have a tip, maybe even a "boss from hell" story would be a good read.
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Collin County Sheriff Terry Box and his department will kick off the celebration of the 26th annual National Night Out Against Crime event by attending two National Night Out kick-off block parties this Saturday.
The first event is the City of New Hope City Park Dedication and National Night Out from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The park is located at 121 Rockcrest Road, New Hope>. Several dignitaries are expected to attend, including State Representative Jodie Laubenberg, R-Parker; and Collin County Commissioner Joe Jaynes.
The second event will be the City of Parker National Night Out kick off at 4004 Lost Hollow Court in Parker from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Republican Congressman Sam Johnson is slated to be on hand for the Parker event.
The nationwide National Night Out celebration is scheduled for October 6th with the theme, "Give Neighborhood Crime and Drugs a Going Away Party". Sheriff Box and officials from several other law enforcement agencies will join many guests for this annual Crime and Drug Prevention program by attending block parties all across Collin County.
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"Although I like meeting fans and love the response from them. I"m far happier going down to my local pub, having a drink and sitting chatting to friends. That"s when I"m most relaxed," CBS News quoted him as saying. He added: "I didn"t go into acting because I wanted to be famous, I got into acting because I loved the creation and the making of good credible drama. Fame is just an extra added on."
The actor also has no desires to indulge in partying or buying expensive things. He said: "That"s not my scene. I"m more than happy to do the normal things and buy the things I bought before all this madness kicked off." The actor was amazed to see his snaps "buying underwear at my local store" on tabloids recently. Referring to paparazzi, he said: "These guys must be hiding in the rails or something."


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"People are sick of the elites and artsy people running the show. It's time for some lunch pail, blue collar people." Don Cherry on Rob Ford
It is ironic that Don Cherry would describe Rob Ford and people like him as "lunch pail, blue collar people." Both Cherry and Ford are millionaires. We might add that both are plugged into the elite group of Conservatives around Mike Harris who ran the province for eight years.
What is true, however, is that Rob Ford is a distinctly different type of politician than has dominated Toronto politics for the last seven years. David Miller immersed himself in policy details when he was mayor. It is true he liked to hang out with "artsy people," but he was not close with the power elites that were "running the show." His goal was to deliver the best government possible. The important question is, why did the people move away from an informed, enlightened politician like Miller and vote for a man like Ford who is the very opposite in every respect?
Miller's political roots are in the left, while there is little doubt that Ford is a politician of the right. He brags about his family's Conservative origins. During the election he advocated shrinking government and attacking waste. "Spending is out of control," he claimed despite the fact that Miller had always balanced the city's budget. "End the gravy train at city hall," was his most popular slogan.
Ford is opposed to bicycle lanes. Roads are for cars and trucks. He attacked transit city because it would bring LRTs, or streetcars as he insisted on calling them, along streets in the suburbs. Subways were the answer, in his view, because they got rid of surface transit altogether and left the streets for cars.
During the campaign Ford did not put forward policies based on prudent financial projections. In speeches he got his figures wrong and seemed uninterested in the details of government. His election platform was a series of simple slogans attacking those that ran the city and their policies. So the question remains, why did Ford win, and win so decisively?
The Toronto Star map of the ward by ward voting for the three major mayoral candidates, published on October 29, 2010, is one part of the story. It shows Ford won virtually all of the wards in Etobicoke, North York and Scarborough. His vote stretches through the suburban reaches of the city like a large arc surrounding the downtown. Smitherman, his chief opponent, won the downtown and a few of the wealthy wards that stretch up Yonge Street to about the 401.
Unlike many North American cities, upper income people in Toronto tend to live downtown while poor and working class people live in the surrounding inner suburbs. (The term inner suburbs is used to describe the Toronto suburbs and distinguish it from the suburbs of the GTA.) We call this division the major fault line in Toronto, the Toronto Star article called it "the two solitudes," and Myer Siemiatycki, of Ryerson University, said, "It's a tale of two cities – within a city."
All of these descriptions are saying the same thing: Ford's vote came from people who lived in the inner suburbs, and the core of his votes came from people of lower socio-economic status, as social scientists call it – people who have lower incomes, occupational prestige and education.
Unfortunately we do not know of a detailed voting study of the 2010 election but Ekos conducted a poll on the Mayoral campaign on October 20 to 22, just days before the election. It proved to be very accurate. You can find it at this address http://www.ekospolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/full_report_october_24.pdf
Ekos found little difference in the voting intensions by gender but age made a major difference. Sixty-three percent of people over 65 years said they would vote for Ford, and 54% under 25 supported Ford. Education also made a real difference. These are figures from the Ekos study.
Table 1:
Ford Pantalone Smitherman
High school or less 63.6% 7.2% 25.9%
College or CEGEP 48.4% 21.6% 28.5%
University or higher 29.0% 19.6% 45.5%
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This table shows the difference between wards won by Ford and those won by Smitherman on a number of census variables.
2006 census variable Wards Ford won Wards Smitherman won
Mother tongue English 45.5% 60.6%
Visible Minorities 52.8% 29.5%
Immigrant 1st generation 64.7% 44.9%
University education 24.5% 39.7%
Unemployment rate 8.1% 6.7%
Employment Manufacturing 14.6% 6.3%
Employment Professional 8.6% 14.8%
Average household income $73,691 $90,778
% work trips by auto 69.8% 47.1%
These figures show that wards that Rob Ford won tended to have lower socio-economic status, lower incomes, lower levels of education, more workers employed in manufacturing and higher levels of recent immigrants. Smitherman won in wards where there were far fewer immigrants and visible minorities, where incomes were higher and jobs in the knowledge economy more prevalent. The people in the wards that Ford won are much less economically secure, and interestingly enough, they use their cars much more than the supporters of Smitherman.
While these figures tell us a lot about the 2010 mayoral vote, there is nothing new about a right wing candidate sweeping Toronto's inner suburbs. In the 1998 election – the first megacity election – Mel Lastman, a Conservative and an outspoken populist who was often accused of being brash and intemperate just like Rob Ford, defeated Barbara Hall, a Liberal, in the Toronto mayoral contest by sweeping the inner suburbs of North York, Etobicoke and Scarborough. Hall, like Smitherman in 2010, won virtually all of the wards in the city. The outcome of the recent election is almost an identical story to what happened in 1998.
The Lastman's victory was attributed to the fact that his political roots were in North York while Barbara Hall had been mayor of the City of Toronto before amalgamation, but the real reason for Lastman's victory in 1998 and the victory of Rob Ford in 2010 was the imposition of the megacity by the Mike Harris government. Harris and his Conservatives created megacity by amalgamating the inner suburbs that were then part of Metro Toronto with the downtown. Megacity was created so that the more conservative voters of the inner suburbs would swamp the liberal voters of the downtown. Even today megacity and the long arm of the Harris Conservatives continue to determine the outcome of Toronto municipal elections.
But all of this does not explain why people of lower socio-economic status vote for conservative, right-wing politicians? In the case of both Lastman and Ford it was not their links to the Conservative Party that attracted these voters. In fact these very same people vote in high numbers for Liberal and NDP candidates in federal and provincial elections. What attracted them was Ford's populist appeals and his Don Cherry like attacks on the effete elites who allegedly dominated city politics.
Ford's appeal during the election was to people who felt alienated and powerless, and he gained their support by talking about waste at city hall, high taxes and the arrogant feeling of entitlement of the downtown politicians. The more he talked about the downtown politicians who rewarded themselves with perks, the more he inspired the powerless to vote for him as a way to get back at those "elites and artsy people running the show."
People with higher socio-economic status have different political concerns than those that are less economically secure. Their issues, as reflected in municipal politics, are things like pollution, protecting neighbourhoods, quality of life, culture, control of development, good planning, bicycle paths, traffic congestion downtown and transit. These concerns have led to a high level of political participation in organizations like environmental and rate payer groups that flourish in every downtown neighbourhood, and voters in these neighbourhoods support progressive politicians who share a concern about these issues.
The political concerns of people living in the suburbs are quite different. A significant number live in single family houses and many find it difficult to pay their property taxes. Unemployment and poverty are at higher levels and tenants in the suburbs pay high rents. The issues that are prominent for the suburbanites include cost of living, employment, property taxes, crime, education for their children, housing, safety, transit and traffic congestion. Perhaps the issue that tops their list of grievances is a festering anger born out of the belief that city hall ignores them and uses their tax dollars to improve the downtown while ignoring their suburban neighbourhoods.
Rob Ford was able to win the mayoral election on this type of discontent. Ford did not propose solutions that might help the working class. What he did was tap into their anger by saying he would "stop the gravy train." He hit small but highly symbolic issues like the cost of retirement parties for city hall councillors and espresso coffee machines. His solutions, when he did bother to talk about them, were things like expanding the subway system or doing away with streetcars – both modes of transit that give good service to people in the downtown while those in the suburbs have to depend on an inadequate bus system or driving to work. His proposal for subway expansion was not costed out and he ignored the fact that the costs of building subways are three times the costs of David Miller's transit city proposal. But none of this mattered.
Like it or not Ford is a rare politician that has great appeal to low income people because his election campaign expressed the frustrations of the politically alienated. His denunciation of the "downtown political elites," was particularly telling. He was identifying himself, and people like him, as political outsiders, and David Miller and the left wing councillors who dominated the city's political life for the last seven years, as the elite.
This must have been a surprise to Miller and his supporters on council because in the past they had positioned themselves as the outsiders attacking the business and political elites that they claimed were controlling the city. Ford's campaign created the political narrative that cast him and people from the inner suburbs as outsiders – the rebels – attacking Miller and his group as the fat cats of the establishment. The examples Ford used of politicians who voted themselves perks reinforced that point of view because working people rarely get similar perks. Ford's identification of himself as an outsider must have had great political appeal to the people who felt marginalized politically and socially.
In the eyes of his lower income supporters Ford was not a Conservative Party politician. They cared little for his politics or his policies or even his outrageous behaviour in the past. In their eyes he was standing up for them – the little guys who have no power in a political system controlled by the experts, bureaucrats, professionals, the well educated and the politically sophisticated all of whom gave the impression that they know better than the uneducated masses. By voting for Ford they could express their anger and frustration against politicians, bureaucrats and a system that pays no attention to them.
Ford is the populist raging against a political system that has marginalized large numbers of people. In that sense his support is much like the support that the Tea Party Movement in the United States has captured. The populist message has great appeal to people whose engagement with politics is casual or episodic and there are many people like that living in Toronto's inner suburbs, across Canada and everywhere else.
In past elections left wing political leaders have been able to capture marginalized voters like this by their denunciations of the business and political elites that govern the country and the city. As left wing politicians have become closer to the mainstream, and have even taken over governments, they have become identified with the very system that they once denounced. That certainly happened in the case of David Miller and his left wing group that has dominated the government of the City of Toronto in the last seven years.
Miller was the author of some of the most enlightened policies ever designed by a municipal politician in this country, but in the last four years he found it difficult to connect with voters. Increasingly he seemed to be isolated and out of touch with the people he represented. Smitherman, Ford's main opponent, was never able to connect with the people in the election. His approach to politics was to enunciate policy, much like Miller, but when Ford's popular appeal exploded during the election he had no idea how to respond.
The election carries a message to politicians like Miller and Smitherman: be wary of being too closely identified with government, or you will be seen as the enemy by the very people you hope to represent.
To people in the downtown, knowledge workers, trend-setting urbanites, identity shapers and mergers, consumers and creators of symbols, Ford was the antithesis of the leader they felt that Toronto needed. To them, he appeared unsophisticated and unaware of the complexities of "their" global city. But Rob Ford's appeal to the people of the inner city suburbs was very effective. Don Cherry's, "lunch pail, blue collar people," won the day.


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If you, like many of us, devoted a large portion of your weekend to watching the second season of Orange Is the New Black on Netflix, you probably have a lot to discuss. There are new inmates, new teeth, new plants, new drugs, but still a lot of the same old shit in Litchfield. Some of that shit is even in the showers.
Join us as we examine the scenes, references, and characters that deserve a special comment or mention in each episode of the second season: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, and thirteen.
And if you haven't started season two yet, be sure to refresh your season one memories here.