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Project Management for Human Resources Professional
This webinar on project management in human resources will focus on key project management skills for the HR professional. You will learn proven, successful techniques for detailed, systematic, team-involved planning and effective implementation.
Product ID: 702645
Training Level: Intermediate
Why Should You Attend:
You as an HR leader play a major role in shaping your company's strategy as well as ensuring that the strategy is carried out as planned. While there is much written about the creation of strategy, there is little written about implementation.
In this 90-minute webinar training, we will talk about strategic and effective management and implementation of programs and ways in which you, as an HR professional, can facilitate both in your company. More specifically, this session will focus on how project management is becoming a critical success factor in the overall HR organizational strategy.
Learning Objective:
- Benefits of honing your Project Management Skills.
- Understanding the Big Picture, the four processes involved in project work.
- Understanding Work Breakdown Structures and scheduling the work.
- How to Identify and Manage Risk?
- Understanding unique challenges in HR project management.
- How to extract lessons from every HR project and apply them in future projects?
Areas Covered in This Session:
- From Strategy to Implementation.
- What is Project Management?
- Overall Benefits of Project Management in Human Resources.
- Considerations of Project Management (PM) Related to Human Resources (HR).
- Key Project Management Skills for the HR Professional.
- Approaches to Project Management.
- The Architecture of Implementation.
- Developing Project Scope.
- How to Stay on Course and Maintain Control of the Project?
- Developing the Project Budget
- Risk Identification, Planning, and Management.
- The People Side of Implementation, Planning Resources.
- Implementing Human Capital Initiatives.
- Strategy as Work in Progress – Verifying Project Scope
- Project Closeout
- Developing and Leveraging Your Strategic Mindset for Successful Implementation.
Who Will Benefit:
This webinar will provide valuable assistance to
- HR Practitioners
- HR Leaders and Team Leads
- Organizational Strategy Leaders
- Business Owners
Cathleen Hampton, is a professional Human Resources consultant with over 25 years of experience. She is a recognized expert in developing and implementing staffing and retention programs that include workforce planning and analysis, along with best-in-class HR technology, sourcing, recruiting and selection methods.
She has been responsible for planning, developing and executing comprehensive strategies for a wide range of client companies, and has broad experience with corporate policy development and program implementation, including affirmative action programs and OFCCP compliance audits.
Ms. Hampton is a dynamic leader who has been instrumental in growing Hampton Resources into a much respected HR Services organization. She oversees diverse engagements where she partners with her clients to develop strategies using the most up-to-date and sound industry trends and practices.
Ms. Hampton serves as the principal coach/mentor for all client activities where she brings a wealth of experience to her clients regarding strategic and business planning, leadership and management development, compliance enhancement, and performance management. She has developed numerous workshops and is a nationally known presenter on topics such as HR and organizational compliance strategies, performance management, organizational and management development, and human capital.
Topic Background:
Planning is everything -- and ongoing. On one thing all PM texts and authorities agree: The single most important activity that project managers engage in is planning – detailed, systematic, team-involved plans are only the foundation for project success. And when real-world events conspire to change the plan, project managers must make a new one to reflect the changes. So planning and re-planning must be a way of life for project managers.
A good program matched with outstanding implementation is your organization's best assurance of success. It is also an undeniable sign of good management. Strategy creation is about doing the right things at the right time and is a primary concern of senior executives and business owners. Implementation is about doing things right and involves a different set of activities. Therefore, it is very important that you concern yourself with effective implementation – because a great strategy is worthless if that strategy is carried out poorly.
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Dukie, be careful when you go skydiving - I'd hate for you to get hurt.
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Last June, the folks from Make: television teamed up with the Lemelson-MIT Program to capture stories from young inventors at the 2009 Eurekafest. We wanted to find out what inspires young people to invent, what the invention process taught them, and what problems they were trying to solve in the... Read more »
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Developing Transport Infrastructure for the Low Carbon Society
Andrew Sentance
Bank of England
Autumn 2009
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 391-410, 2009
For the UK and other advanced economies the transition to a genuinely Low Carbon Society is a major undertaking. Within transport, changes to vehicle and aircraft technology are likely to be the key drivers of this change, underpinned by a more consistent and comprehensive approach to carbon pricing. Infrastructure investment is likely to be needed to cater for travel growth, but this should be on the basis that improvements in carbon efficiency outweigh the upward pressure of growth on emissions. A radical shift in the power supply for road transport to support electric vehicles could also have significant infrastructure requirements, and there will be potentially significant 'soft' investment requirements associated with improved traffic management, travel information systems, and road pricing. Road pricing and an extension of carbon pricing-particularly to aviation-create income flows which may help to fund transport infrastructure development in a world of constrained public finances.
Keywords: climate change, transport policy, transport planning, transport infrastructure and planning, government policy, Q54, Q58, R40, R42, R48
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Help Wanted
The media calls the John Kennedy, Jr. death "an American tragedy," and has focused intensely on this story. But what about the kid(s) next door?
Letters to the Editor
To the many friends of the late Bob Dixon...
The family of Bob Dixon has set up a memorial fund called "Bob Dixon's Teddy Bears for Troubled Tots," with all donations going to the Monterey County Sheriff's Fund for special equipment.
City hall remodel: a waste of resources
Not too long ago, City Council members talked of building a youth center for local teens, one that would include a skate board park to keep local teens off the parking lots and other areas.
There is a valuable lesson here
How old must our children be for us as parents to start teaching them the realities of life?
Charity auction puppies
With the popularity of Golden Retrievers and the discovery of possible financial gains by charity auction organizations, Golden Retriever puppies have become a very hot item at local charity auctions.
City should buy cow and calf
As we have only one serious art exhibit in our area, my friends, my neighbors, and I sure found the vandalism to the cow and calf to be disturbing.
City, county employees care about community
It makes for a real sense of community to know that there is genuine support for the children of this town from our city and county employees.
Letters to the Editor are welcome and encouraged. Please send them to us at: P.O. Box 587 or 13342 NE 175th St. (Woodgate Mall); Woodinville, WA 98072; or deliver them to our office. They may also be faxed to (425) 486-7593. Letters must be signed and must include a daytime telephone number for confirmation. They may be edited.
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6 The angel said to me, �These words are trustworthy and true. The Lord, the God who inspires the prophets, sent his angel to show his servants the things that must soon take place.�
7 �Look, I am coming soon! Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy written in this scroll.�
8 I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I had heard and seen them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who had been showing them to me.
9 But he said to me, �Don�t do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your fellow prophets and with all who keep the words of this scroll. Worship God!�
10 Then he told me, �Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this scroll, because the time is near.
11 Let the one who does wrong continue to do wrong; let the vile person continue to be vile; let the one who does right continue to do right; and let the holy person continue to be holy.�
Epilogue: Invitation and Warning
Epilogue: Invitation and Warning
12 �Look, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done.
13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
14 �Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.
15 Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
16 �I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you[a] this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star.�
17 The Spirit and the bride say, �Come!� And let the one who hears say, �Come!� Let the one who is thirsty come; and let the one who wishes take the free gift of the water of life.
18 I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this scroll: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to that person the plagues described in this scroll.
19 And if anyone takes words away from this scroll of prophecy, God will take away from that person any share in the tree of life and in the Holy City, which are described in this scroll.
20 He who testifies to these things says, �Yes, I am coming soon.� Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.
21 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God�s people. Amen.
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- The New Jerusalem - Heaven - Eternity
- The Lion Is a Lamb: The Humility of God
- He Is The Root & Morning Star
- Behold, I Come Quickly!
- The greatest intellect and the most influential life ever lived
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We continue our discussion with Shambhala acharya, Judith Simmer-Brown, about how we can strategically invest in American Buddhism so that it survives in the long-term. We explored the first three areas of importance in-depth in part 1, which included the translation of core texts, the development of a monastic lineage, and the appointment of dharma heirs.
In this part of the discussion we flesh out the details of the fourth area, which is royal patronage. Judith speaks about how, given a lack of that kind of support, most dharma teachers and organizations turn whole-heartedly to the market to sustain them. And with that come all sort of issues–including the pursuit of fame and fortune. We finish the discussion, going back to the question of whether we'll be able to develop a monastic community in the West, and why that's important to the healthy development of Buddhism in America.
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Vince: And maybe one of the most tenuous areas seems to be the last, which is patronage.
Judith: Oh this is the one that I feel probably most intensely about. Because I think it has the potential to sabotage the other three. So since were talking on the radio and I'm not giving a keynote address I'm going to be maybe a bit more frank.
Vince: Okay, great, please.
Judith: With out patronage Buddhism is not going to survive. And what does patronage look like? Because we don't have a monarchy and we aren't getting royal patronage, where do we turn for financial support in the west? Unfortunately and this is a very American thing we turn to capitalism. We turn to the market and Dharma teachers in America are increasingly turning to the market as a way to compete and survive.
And I remember eleven years ago when I was a keynote speaker at this Buddhism in America conference in San Diego when I showed up there I was approached by many many people asking for my web site, my CD's, my brochure, and basically my marketing plan. And I was so shocked because I realized that I was on a program with almost all the other Dharma teacher were making their living as Dharma teachers, and had a whole commercial thing going on. They had booths with products and books and CD's and I started thinking eleven years ago about the market driving nature of Buddhism in America, and I have witnessed I've looked at it a lot. How it is we support the Dharma in America is through the market. And it means that everyone whose a Dharma teacher who measure success by how the number of students they attract, and the amount of money they make, and how much their profiled in our Buddhist magazines. We've measured success less by the integrity of the teachings or the depth of practice or realization and more by the charisma and the pizzazz and it's market driven pizzazz.
So it alarms me to see Dharma teachers who have been classically trained and have received Dharma transmission who now are appropriating techniques from the New Age and from pop psychology in order to become popular and famous. And in so doing they're teaching things that don't look like the Dharma at all. They look like psychotherapy or psychodrama, or you know sort of dime store relationship advice kinds of things. And I find that very troubling my self, because I feel that it betrays the trust that was given to us by our teachers. It doesn't mean that I don't think we have something to say or to offer from the point of view of our own culture. But I think we need to be very very careful about the integrity we have as Dharma teachers, and if we are grabbed by the desire to be famous, to be rich, to be popular, we are going to be sabotaged as Dharma teachers from the beginning.
On the other hand I'm very sympathetic. Because, in America the only way to survive as the Dharma teacher is to have financial support, and the only way to do that that's directly available is the market. So I see that what many of these teachers are doing is doing the best the can to fulfill their commitment as Dharma teachers, and this is the way that is provided to them by our system, by the way things work. The only problem comes when they are lured by the desire to be the biggest and the best, to have the jazziest web site with the greatest number of hits. To have full page ads in Tricycle, or Shambhala Sun, or BuddhaDharma and to attract hordes of people to there teachings. And I think its really risky territory for the entire enterprise of American Buddhism to be relying only on the market.
And I think it means there's no easy solution. But it means we need to be having like summit meetings between the various sanghas, and dharma teachers and communities in America to begin to really think how we could save the precious jewel of the dharma in the setting without sabotaging it by the market driven situation.
Vince: Seems like the whole idea of royal patronage where very wealthy patrons provide the sustenance for a whole community, there'd be less temptation to try to become more famous because you already have what you need to do what you're there to do, which is teach the dharma.
Judith: Well of course if you study Buddhist history you see the gyrations that Buddhist teachers had to go through to receive royal patronage.
Vince: That's another issue that comes up in that situation.
Judith: It is. And in China for instance, when Buddhism went to China it had to really agree to bow down before the king, the emperor, in order to receive royal patronage. So there were compromises there as well, and adaptations. But I'm not sure that they're the same kind of temptations that I see in Buddhism in America. The biggest change I've seen in the last 11 years is it feels to me that dharma teachers are sometimes getting more extreme in their attempts to be famous than they were 11 years ago. So that concerns me.
Vince: You mentioned the integrity issue; that if the intention is to become famous versus really provide a deep service to people… But then on the other hand, of course, like you're saying, if they don't have the money to even teach, they obviously can't provide that service.
Judith: That's right.
Vince: So yeah, I mean you said it's not really clear, the solutions, but do you have any sense having looked at this, both as a teacher and then kind of purveying the field, do you see any things that are hopeful, that seem to be working better than just a simple, full on market driven system?
Judith: I do feel–this is probably coming from my own experience–I think it's really good of dharma teachers have some other means of support. And I really myself feel very blessed to be a professor, so I have a salary. I don't have to live on my dharma teaching income, which is not much. I mean, it's helpful but it's not much. And my intention for teaching the dharma is not based on money at all.
I think that any dharma teacher has to really look carefully at motivation and how much we could be hooked by the desire for fame or wealth or whatever. And be very, very clear about the integrity of having some independence from patrons, from popularity and that kind of thing. So I think the ideal thing is if we have some kind of career that can support our dharma teaching in such a way that we are not reliant entirely on the income we get from dharma teaching.
Vince: It seems like it's a real tough situation since there's not a whole lot of societal value put on that kind of knowledge. So it's like there are not a lot of systems in place to support that.
Judith: That's right. That's right. And I think that, again, if we could develop a kind of cross-tradition foundation to support dharma teachers, to maybe at least subsidize them, so that the issue of survival is not there. And then, people can come up with a reasonable living that's not going to be wealthy perhaps. But that's fine. None of us are in this for the money. At least I didn't think so. Sometimes I wonder. Sometimes when I see the kind of things that are done in order to draw more people to your center or to your website or to your tapes or CD's, I wonder if perhaps things have just gotten a little out of hand.
Vince: One thing I wanted to backtrack to, another kind of critique that you brought up in the talk was that often times now when the whole issue of dharma heirs there can be a sense in which if you're published, and this connects in with the popularity piece, then that somehow legitimizes you more so than say if your lineage…
Judith: I think that's really true that one of the things, and I learned this perspective from a conversation with a professor from Berkeley, Robert Scharff, who was saying that in these days the dharma heirs are chosen by the publishing companies not by the dharma teachers. You know, their teachers. And that it seems that if you've written a book that sells well then you are a kind of de facto dharma heir. And it's true that if you write a book that really sells that you have some kind of standings as a Dharma teacher, again driven by the popularity of the situation. Now it is really important that people who become Dharma heirs get the word out that they learn how to write because writing books is one of the ways to propagate the Dharma. But when publishing companies are standing in for the Dharma lineages themselves then we have to ask some kind of question about that.
Vince: Yeah. It seems like… having worked at a spiritual publishing company, it seems like, yeah there is a fine line because most spiritual publishing companies worth their salt really started because they wanted to help propagate authentic spirituality, and then in the process they of course really do have to stay alive as a company and…
Judith: …They do!
Vince: …they want to make money, so they can continue doing what they are doing. It's almost the same temptations really for a publishing company, with those kinds of intentions, as it is with a teacher and a community it sounds like.
Judith: Very much, very much. And I think that that's natural given the system that we live in. I think the main point is to develop some kind of self-critical perspective so that we can begin to balance things because we can smell when things get a little off. And when we seek adulation more than the integrity of our own hearts that may tell us that we need to back of a little bit and rethink our priorities and our motivations. And I think the publishing companies are in that situation.
I remember at this keynote James Shaheen, the editor of Tricycle, standing up and saying, "So.. what should we do? You know, as Tricycle?"
Vince: Right
Judith: "I mean, should we not take the ads of people? We survive on advertisement." And I don't mean to say that of course we shouldn't have ads, and we shouldn't have, something that relies on the market to some degree. The question is if that motivation outweighs the initial Dharmic motivation.
Vince: Yeah
Judith: I think that's something that we always have to look at. Oh, it's funny because I remember in the early years of my years at Naropa when Buddhism was not popular at all there wasn't any problem like this. But as Buddhism has become popular and become sort of hip to be Buddhist, then the dangers of the market kick in.
So, I remember that when Time magazine ran a story on the popularity of Buddhism and they sent out reporters to Naropa to interview us, I began saying that I felt nervous about the popularity of Buddhism; worried about what it would mean for the integrity of the Dharma. And so, that's a concern I've had for quite some time. I may be just being paranoid.
Vince: That sounds like a really sane and grounding perspective when there's so much excitement behind Buddhism.
Judith: I think also though, this is where I think it would be helpful if we could get together as American Buddhists and really make some kind of judgment. about the qualities and systems that we'd like to promote, and find a way to pool the financial resources of a larger community of Buddhists, to maybe provide a foundation where people could apply for grants for worthy projects and things like that. Rather than relying on what people will pay for a weekend program could we find some way to pool our resources so that people could offer programs for free?
Or that we support translation projects, that we support Buddhist education projects, that we support people paying tuition for Buddhist education projects. Is there a way that we could make money available through grants rather than through popularity? I often think that when my generation of Buddhists die off we will be leaving estates. I mean, my estate won't be anything but some people's estates will be sizeable. If there were a way that we could have a kind of larger foundation so that those estates could go for the support of American Buddhism, maybe in these kind of selected areas. I don't know. Some way to provide patronage for the systematic, strategic areas that Buddhism needs in order to survive. I think it would be fantastic.
Vince: Beautiful. I hope that just this conversation may spark in listeners some sense of thinking about the ways they can contribute to the development of Buddhism in America. In a strategic way, just like the student in your classroom who made such a big difference.
Judith: That was amazing. She gave money to a monastery, she gave money to a large translation project, she gave money to basically the Shambhala community and also to Naropa University. She gave a lot of money to Naropa. She gave a million dollars to Naropa at a time when we were on the verge of closing. We almost closed. And if it hadn't been for that generous beginning of our endowment, Naropa would have been completely past tense. This was in the early 80's. And this donation at a strategic time in our history meant that we were able to keep our doors open. And she also gave us a piece of land that's on our current Arapahoe campus that she just bought and gave to us. And it was such an amazing thing.
The thing that I remember the most is Naropa was in terrible financial shape in those years. This was like 1982 and we were missing paychecks right and left. We were on the verge of closing our doors. I was missing paychecks all the time and working other jobs, and word came of an anonymous donation and within six months everything changed at Naropa. Our paychecks were guaranteed. We began to build and we began to develop a much more stable foundation. And this woman was still my student and I didn't know anything about her having given the money.
After she graduated from Naropa, she called me up and invited me to lunch. And she showed up driving a BMW. She'd always driven a beat up old pickup truck and wore carpenter pants and sort of sweatshirts and things like that. She was dressed very nicely, had beautiful shoes. I was just staring at her. She drove up in a BMW and she took me to the Boulderado for lunch, and at lunch she told me that she had been the one who had given the money to Naropa at that time. And I just wept. I couldn't… words couldn't express my gratitude because she saved the University. And she said, "I just, after graduating, I just wanted to tell you that I had done this but I didn't want you to know before." And it just was so incredibly generous of her. And she made such a huge difference in all of our lives by this gift.
These kinds of things, if we got together and planned what it is we could provide foundation support for, key elements for the survival of Buddhism. Maybe we can't agree across traditions but maybe there's ways we can at least begin to pool our resources and think more strategically about how to survive as a tradition. And I think it's what we're going to need to do in the century to come if we're going to make sure that it's not just a kind of flaky, watered down, made up situation. Something that really carries the living blessings of the traditions that we practice.
Vince: So before we close, maybe if I could ask a little bit about monasticism, where you see it heading. This is something you said you wanted to come back to.
Judith: I think the returns are not in on monasticism. I personally think that monasticism does need to be established in this country. It may never play the role it did in Asia, where it was the major force in all the Buddhist traditions, but there is some precious gem that monasticism has always been for Buddhism. And I think that having authentic monasteries in our traditions is really, really important in the West. So that there's some kind of a repository of a certain lineage of practice and study and mentorship that we otherwise could lose. So even though there are many who pooh-pooh monasticism in American Buddhism, I wanted to put a plug in there. Because I think it's really much too precious to just shelve and say, "It's not American." That's subject for more conversation perhaps at another time.
Vince: No, actually I think we should maybe go into that a little more.
Judith: Okay.
Vince: I think it would be interesting and it's really relevant, especially because when we look around, or I look around, I don't really see many monastic communities that are working, that are convert Buddhists, that are Western Buddhists. I know of one Theravada group in California. Ajahn Amaro.
Judith: Ajahn Amaro
Vince: But very few.
Judith: Yes. There are very few and there may always be very few. But my experience of monasteries first began at Tassajara when I was a Zen student. And it's a real monastery. It's a Zen monastery. And it's an amazing place. And I learned something in my bones about practice being at Tassajara, learning how to cook in the kitchen, learning how to slice mushrooms, learning how to lead a monastic day getting up at four in the morning for zazen and then, during sesshin doing long days. And the whole cradle of monastic training at Tassajara is just absolutely amazing.
And then in my time as a Tibetan Buddhist I've spent a lot of time at Gampo Abbey in northern Nova Scotia. Pema Chodron is the abbess of Gampo Abbey. And it's an amazing community. Again, very remote, very deep practice. Practice in one's bones, so that the routines and practices of the day are so potent and the study part is so rich as well.
I also have had a number of monastic students at Naropa, and its been very difficult for them being solitary monastics in the US. But at Naropa they've been able to find something that is at least a little bit like monastic community. My feeling is that the monastic vocation is not something that many people will hold. But there are those for whom it is deep in who they are. Pema Chodron's a very close friend. She has monasticism deeply embodied in her. And her life as a monastic has produced such incredible benefit for many, many people. She would not be beloved the way she is if she were not monastic. It's just very clear. There's been a kind of purification of her, over the decades that I've known her, that comes from her monastic discipline and training. So that didn't come from nowhere. That came from exertion and blessing and commitment and practice and study.
So I think we need to make a place and endow monasteries to continue. And there will be different kinds. You know, it took Thubten Chodron's monasteries, the strictest in the Tibetan tradition here; she follows the most strict version of the vows. Gampo Abbey has a slightly altered thing. There may be different kinds of monasteries. Zen monasteries are very different from Theravada or Tibetan ones. But I think we need to have those places in our culture, as part of the mosaic, what makes up American Buddhism. And I don't think they are the same as our practice centers where we go for a short-term retreat–like a month or three months. And those are short term compared to the monastic life that goes on for years.


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Guide to the State Rankings
Missouri's grade of an F is a reflection of the extremely vague standards written by the state Department of Education. They are both a blessing and a curse. Teachers are not held hostage to a specific list of topics/information that must be taught, giving them freedom to teach! However, it is also extremely difficult to determine what will be on the state tests because the standards are so vague. It also means that teachers who do not have the depth of knowledge to gauge what topics are significant may have poorly formed curriculum.
California's Grade
I'm pretty proud of my home state for having gone from an F to a B in four years, but as you note, much still needs to be done. However, as important as the African-American civil rights movement is, California also has to do a much deeper examination of the Latin-American rights movements such as the work of Cesar Chavez. I notice that your criteria don't seem to include those movements, which are arguably of similar importance in California, among other states.
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CLARE COUNTY, MI — Two people died in a motorcycle/pickup crash in Clare County's Surrey Township on Saturday, July 27.
Clare County deputies were dispatched at 2:34 p.m. to West Ludington near Oakridge after authorities received multiple 911 calls.
A 17-year-old Clare male in a pickup was northbound on Ludington, turning west onto Oakridge, when the pickup and motorcycle traveling south on Ludington collided, police said.
Ronald Underwood,59, of Lake was driving. His passenger was Donna Underwood, also 59 of Lake. The tow died from injuries from the crash. Both were wearing helmets, police said.
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As a matter of fact I do.
My grandparents gave each of us a china place setting, which I still have the cup and saucer from - the rest didn't make it.
They also gave us a place setting of silver ware, and one of stainless cutlery. I still have those and frequently use the stainless.
What's also interesting to me is that I also have some of the cutlery we used when I was growing up, and when I am eating stews, or things that require a spoon that is the one I go for. I think it is the way it feels in my mouth - size and shape and the amount of sauce or soup it holds? Maybe you have the same kind of connection between your mouth and the memories you generated with it along the way.


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Yeah, more or less. I ran a lot but my diet was essentially Primal save for the daily Kashi bar, and a personal brick-oven pizza twice a month. That was the final tweak in my weight loss efforts before going Primal to trim calories as much as possible.
I was low-ish fat too, unfortunately.


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James Wisniewski probably won't want to watch the replay of this one. He leaned in for a check as Tarasenko collected the puck only to come up empty, staring at a patch of empty ice. Meanwhile, Tarasenko's sharp cut created plenty of space for him to take a shot as he lost his balance. The shot wasn't his best – a fluttering one that somehow found twine – but any shot that finds the back of the net is a good one in my book.
Should Sergei Bobrovsky have stopped this puck? Probably, but you can't take anything away from the nifty move that made this goal possible.


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Autism diagnoses have increased 1,148 percent since 1987, making autism the fastest growing developmental disability in the United States, according to the Autism Society.
The most recent federal estimate reports that the number of children who are diagnosed with autism has reached a staggering one in 88.
"When I started (20 years ago), one in 10,000 children were diagnosed with autism, then really quickly it went to one in 700 and dropped rapidly from there," said Marilyn Fielding, program coordinator for the Potential Development Program School of Autism in Youngstown.
Today, 23 percent of children are diagnosed with autism.
"It's an epidemic," said Georgia Backus, executive director at the Rich Center for Autism at Youngstown State University. "It's confounding that we could go from one in 10,000 in 1995 to one in 88 in 2012."
"[Autism] is a developmental disability that affects communication, behavior and social skills," said Fielding. "There's no medical test for autism, and it's entirely symptomatic."
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No big smiles or other warm, joyful expressions by six months
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Autism is a spectrum disorder, meaning that every person who is diagnosed is unique, with varying abilities and levels of development.
"People with autism don't communicate early in life or at all," Fielding said. "They don't look at you a lot, they seem preoccupied when you talk to them, and they don't interact well with other kids or adults. They learn visually, and they're very literal. They don't get jokes or satire. Like if you were to say I 'spilled the beans,' they would think that you actually spilled beans. People with autism are also susceptible to anxiety with changes in routine or when they think that they did something wrong."
There is no known cause and no cure.
"They're all fishing," said Shellie Duchek, development officer at the Potential Development Program School of Autism, "they all want a reason, and we can't pinpoint one."
Although little is known about what causes autism, understanding it and identifying signs of autism early can make a world of difference for parents.
Paul Garchar, executive director of the Potential Development Program School of Autism, believes that "the earlier your child is diagnosed, the earlier they get into a structured program, and the earlier that you can find out what the triggers of anxiety are, the better off your child is going to be."
According to the Autism Society, the lifetime cost of caring for a person with autism is approximately $3.2 million, but these costs can be reduced by nearly 75 percent with early identification and care.
"Having a child with autism places a lot of stress on a marriage, on your finances, on pretty much every aspect of your life," said Melissa Jupp, preschool program coordinator at the Potential Development School of Autism. "You kind of have to schedule your life around where and when [your child] is going to have anxiety about something. [Parents] focus on, 'how can I get through today with the least amount of anxiety for my child.'"
Understanding autism is not only important for parents, it's important for the community.
In spite of the growing prevalence of the disorder, autism awareness is still lacking, said Backus. "I think [the community] is more aware of the word, but I'm not sure they're aware of the devastating effects that families of autistic children face.
"Ninety percent of autistic people live below the poverty level," Backus said. "We've had calls from a young woman (with an autism spectrum disorder) who graduated with a 4.0 from Kent State and can't find a job because the social aspects are so difficult for her. We'd like to help the community understand that you may have the most valuable employee, but it's just going to take a little while to train that social piece."
April is Autism Awareness Month and to kick it off, several autism-support agencies and groups came together recently to raise awareness with Youngstown's first Walk Now for Autism Speaks.
"It was a fabulous collaborative effort among agencies that serve the population," Backus said. "We were able, as a number of agencies, and with the support of Autism Speaks, to make it happen."
The money raised at this event will benefit research and awareness efforts by Autism Speaks, a powerful autism advocacy group.
Community support and autism awareness are important to families and people living with autism.
"That's what the community doesn't see," said Backus. "There is no one in my mind more powerful, or who deserves more credit, than the parent of a child with autism."


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These shifts in the international environment raise some major questions. To what extent do shared global challenges push the United States and China toward shared responsibility? What considerations will spur them to join or lead other nations in collective action? What are the signs that China is ready to help solve global problems? What are the signs that the United States is genuinely ready to share leadership? What will be the consequences if U.S. and Chinese foreign policies fail to coordinate on matters of shared concern?
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Toots and the Maytals
|Toots and the Maytals
Performing at the Summer Sundae festival, Leicester, August 2011
|Background information
|Years active
|1962–early 1980s
early 1990s–present
|Frederick "Toots" Hibbert
Paul Douglas
Carl Harvey
Jackie Jackson
Leba Thomas
Marie "Twiggi" Gitten
Norris Webb
Charles Farquarson
Radcliffe "Dougie" Bryan
Andy Bassford
|Past members
|Henry "Raleigh" Gordon
Nathaniel "Jerry" Matthias
Hux Brown
Harold Butler
Michelle Eugene
Winston Wright
Winston Grennan
Toots and the Maytals, originally called The Maytals, are a Jamaican musical group and one of the best known ska and rock steady vocal groups. The Maytals were formed in the early 1960s and were key figures in popularizing reggae music. Frontman Toots Hibbert's soulful vocal style has been compared to Otis Redding, and led him to be named one of the 100 Greatest Singers by Rolling Stone.[1] Their 1968 single "Do the Reggay", was the first song to first use the word "reggae", naming the genre and introducing it to a global audience.[2][3]
- 1 Career
- 2 Awards, Recognition and Accolades
- 3 Discography
- 4 See also
- 5 References
- 6 External links
Formation and early success[edit]
Frederick "Toots" Hibbert, the frontman of the group, was born in May Pen, Clarendon, Jamaica, in 1945, the youngest of seven children. He grew up singing gospel music in a church choir and moved to Kingston in the late 1950s.[4] In Kingston, Hibbert met Henry "Raleigh" Gordon and Nathaniel "Jerry" Mathias, forming in 1962 a group whose early recordings were incorrectly attributed to "The Flames" and "The Vikings" in the UK by Island Records.[4]
The 1960s[edit]
The Maytals first had chart success recording for producer Clement "Coxsone" Dodd at Studio One.[4] With musical backing from Dodd's house band, the Skatalites, the Maytals' close-harmony gospel singing ensured success, overshadowing Dodd's other up-and-coming vocal group, the Wailers. After staying at Studio One for about two years, the group moved on to do sessions for Prince Buster before recording with Byron Lee in 1966.[5] With Lee, the Maytals won the first-ever Jamaican Independence Festival Popular Song Competition with their original song "Bam Bam" (later covered in a Dancehall style by Sister Nancy, and also by Yellowman in 1982).[5][4][6] The group's musical career was interrupted in late 1966 when Hibbert was jailed for 18 months for possession of marijuana.[5][4] He stated that he was not arrested for ganja, but while bailing a friend.[7] Hibbert reportedly wrote "54-46 That's My Number" about his time in jail.[8]
Following Hibbert's release in 1967, the Maytals began working with the Chinese Jamaican producer Leslie Kong, a collaboration which yielded a string of hits throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s.[5] These included "Do the Reggay", released in 1968, which was the first song to first use the word "reggae" and gave the developing genre its name.[9]
The Maytals are responsible for some of the biggest hits in reggae history, including "Pressure Drop," "Sweet And Dandy" and "54-46 (That's My Number)," the winner of the 1969 Jamaican Independence Festival Popular Song Competition.[10]
The 1970s[edit]
In 1970 "Monkey Man", became the group's first international hit. By 1971, they signed a recording contract with Chris Blackwell's Island Records, become the biggest act on the island, and had become international stars.[5]
In 1972 the group won the Jamaican Independence Festival Popular Song Competition for a third time with "Pomps and Pride".[4] The group was also featured twice in the soundtrack to The Harder They Come, the 1972 film starring Jimmy Cliff, named as one of Vanity Fairs Top 10 soundtracks of all time.[4]
After Kong's death in 1971, the group continued to record with Kong's former sound engineer, Warrick Lyn. Their re-instated producer Byron Lee renamed them Toots & the Maytals.[5] The group released three best-selling albums produced by Lyn and Blackwell of Island Records, and enjoyed international hits with Funky Kingston in 1973 and Reggae Got Soul in 1975. Following the release of Reggae Got Soul, Toots & the Maytals were invited to tour as the opening act for the Who during their 1975-76 North American tour.[11]
Toots and the Maytals' compositions experienced a resurgence of popularity in 1978-80 during the reggae punk and ska revival period in the UK, when the Specials covered "Monkey Man" on their 1979 debut album and the Clash covered the group's hit "Pressure Drop". During this period Toots and the Maytals were also included in the lyrics to Bob Marley & the Wailers song, "Punky Reggae Party": "The Wailers will be there, the Damned, the Jam, the Clash, the Maytals will be there, Dr. Feelgood too".
The 1980s[edit]
Guinness Book of World Records[edit]
On 29 September 1980, the band recorded, pressed and distributed a new album (Toots Live) to the record shops all in the space of 24 hours in an attempt to make the Guinness Book of World Records.[4] A live concert was recorded on reels of 2-inch, 24-track analog tape, then rushed by van to sound engineers. After a running order was determined, the record label was quickly designed and sent to the printers. The album masters, labels and the outer covers were then separately sped to the Gedmel factory near Leicester, and the finished product was assembled and delivered to Coventry, where the band was playing the next day, successfully meeting the 24-hour deadline. Due to record label oversight, the achievement was not successfully registered with the Guinness Book of World Records. Island Records' Rob Bell was quoted as saying, "Unfortunately, the record was not included in the Guinness book, because they required prior notification that the event was going to take place, and no one at Island had informed them of the project!"[12] The record for "fastest album release" was not officially held in the Guinness Book of World Records until 28 years later when Vollgas Kompanie claimed the honor in 2008 for recording and releasing their album "Live" in 24 hours - matching the time interval in which Toots and the Maytals recorded, pressed and distributedToots Live in 1980.[13]
The group split up after releasing the 1981 album Knockout.[4] In 1982, Toots & the Maytals' "Beautiful Woman", reached number one in New Zealand.[5]
Hibbert continued to record as a solo artist throughout the 1980s.
In the early 1990s a new lineup of the Maytals was formed and the group continued touring and recording successfully, with two appearances at Reggae Sunsplash in the mid-1990s.[5][4]
In 2004, the group released True Love, an album of re-recorded versions of their earlier hits in collaboration with fellow musicians including Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Trey Anastasio, No Doubt, Ben Harper, the Roots, and Shaggy. The True Love album won the Grammy Award that year for best reggae album.
In 2006, they recorded a reggae/ska version of Radiohead's "Let Down" for the tribute album, Radiodread. The album was a song for song makeover of the English rock band's album OK Computer into reggae, dub and ska. In August 2007 Toots & the Maytals released Light Your Light, which featured re-workings of older songs such as "Johnny Cool Man", as well as new material. The album was nominated in 2008 for a Grammy in the best reggae album category.
Toots & the Maytals hold the current record of number one hits in Jamaica, with a total of thirty-one.[14]
In March 2009 it was announced that Toots & the Maytals would be performing alongside Amy Winehouse, for their shared record label Island Records' 50th anniversary. Winehouse had covered the band's "Monkey Man", and the act were supposed to perform with her at the Shepherds Bush Empire in London on 31 May 2009.[15] However, Winehouse's performance was cancelled, and Toots & the Maytals instead played at the more intimate Bush Hall to a sell-out crowd.
The 2012 live album Unplugged on Strawberry Hill gained Hibbert his fifth Grammy nomination.[16]
I continue to suffer from extreme anxiety, memory loss, headaches, dizziness and most sadly of all, a fear of crowds and performing. I am not able to write songs as I did before or remember the lyrics of songs that I wrote and have performed for decades.
In May 2013, Hibbert was struck in the head with a 1.75-liter vodka bottle while performing onstage at a Richmond, Virginia, festival. His injuries resulted in a concussion and treatment required six staples in his head. After the injury, the singer canceled all subsequent performances, citing fear of his audience and no longer feeling safe performing.[17]
In 2016 Toots and the Maytals announced a return to the stage with their first tour in 3 years,[18] and on June 15 at The Observatory North Park in San Diego the group returned to the stage for the first time since 2013.[19]
Awards, Recognition and Accolades[edit]
- 1981 'Toots Live!' nominated for Grammy Award
- 1989 'Toots in Memphis' nominated for Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album of the Year[20]
- 1998 'SKAFATHER' nominated for Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album of the Year[21]
- 2004 'True Love' won Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album of the Year[22]
- 2010 Toots Hibbert named one of the 100 Greatest Singers by Rolling Stone[1]
- 2013 'Reggae Got Soul: Unplugged On Strawberry Hill' nominated for Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album of the Year[23]
- Record holder for most number one songs in Jamaica (31 #1 songs)[24]
Studio albums[edit]
- Never Grow Old (1964)
- The Sensational Maytals (1965)
- Sweet And Dandy (1968)
- From The Roots (1970)
- Monkey Man (1970)
- Greatest Hits (1971)
- Slatyam Stoot (1972)
- Funky Kingston (1973)
- Roots Reggae (1974)
- In the Dark (1974)
- Reggae Got Soul (1976)
- Toots Presents The Maytals (1977)
- Pass the Pipe (1979)
- Just Like That (1980)
- Knock Out! (1981)
- Toots In Memphis (1988) [Toots solo album]
- Recoup (1997)
- Ska Father (1998)
- World Is Turning (2003)
- True Love (2004)
- Light Your Light (2007)
- Flip and Twist (2010)
- Pressure Drop - The Golden Tracks (2011)
Selected live albums[edit]
- Live (1980)
- Live at Reggae Sunsplash (1983)
- An Hour Live "Straight from the Yard" Dedicated to Robert Nesta Marley (1990)
- Live in London (1999)
- Unplugged on Strawberry Hill (2012)
Selected compilation albums[edit]
- The Original Golden Oldies Vol.3 (1974) [Prince Buster productions]
- Life Could Be A Dream (1992) [Coxsone Dodd productions]
- The Best Of Toots And The Maytals (1979)
- Reggae Greats (1985)
- The Very Best of Toots & The Maytals (2000)
Other contributions[edit]
- Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino (Vanguard, 2007), performing Domino's "Let The Four Winds Blow"
See also[edit]
- List of reggae musicians
- List of roots reggae artists
- List of ska musicians
- List of Caribbean music groups
- ^ a b "100 Greatest Singers". Rolling Stone. December 2, 2010. Retrieved 2016-07-08.
- ^ "Frederick "Toots" Hibbert Biography". biography.com. Retrieved 2016-07-02.
- ^ "reggae". Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House, Inc. Retrieved 2016-07-10.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Thompson, Dave (2002) Reggae & Caribbean Music, Backbeat Books, ISBN 0-87930-655-6, pp. 178–181
- ^ a b c d e f g h Mark Deming. "Toots & the Maytals | Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-08-19.
- ^ "The Festival Song Winners 1966 - 2005". The Jamaican Cultural Development Commission. 2005. Archived from the original on 2007-10-15. Retrieved 2015-10-25.
- ^ "Solid Foundation: An Oral History of Reggae: Amazon.co.uk: David Katz: Books". Amazon.co.uk. p. 90. Retrieved 2014-08-19.
- ^ "Solid Foundation: An Oral History of Reggae: Amazon.co.uk: David Katz: Books". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-08-19.
- ^ "Frederick "Toots" Hibbert Biography". biography.com. Retrieved 2016-07-02.
- ^ "Frederick "Toots" Hibbert Biography". biography.com. Retrieved 2016-07-02.
- ^ "Toots & The Maytals". Concord Music Group. Retrieved 2014-08-19.
- ^ Mojo Magazine, September 2012, pp. 32-33
- ^ "Fastest album release". guinnessworldrecords.com. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
- ^ "About The Performer: Toots And The Maytals". laphil.com. Retrieved 2016-06-30.
- ^ "Buy Island Records Tickets for All 2014 UK Tour Dates and Concerts". allgigs.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-08-19.
- ^ "Toots celebrates Grammy nod - Entertainment". JamaicaObserver.com. 2012-12-07. Retrieved 2014-08-19.
- ^ "Man gets jail time despite "Toots" Hibbert's plea - Richmond Times-Dispatch". Timesdispatch.com. 2013-12-13. Retrieved 2015-10-14.
- ^ "Toots And The Maytals Announce First Tour In 3 Years". jambase.com. 2016-04-13. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
- ^ "Toots and the Maytals Return with First Tour in Three Years". jambands.com. 2016-04-12. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
- ^ "Maytals Find Good Vibes in the Memphis Roots of Reggae". Los Angeles Times. 1989-01-25. Retrieved 2016-06-30.
- ^ "TOOTS AND THE MAYTALS". artistsonly.com. Retrieved 2016-06-30.
- ^ . grammy.com https://www.grammy.com/nominees/search?artist=toots&field_nominee_work_value=&year=All&genre=All. Retrieved 2016-06-30. Missing or empty
- ^ "Toots celebrates Grammy nod". Jamaica Observer. 2012-12-07. Retrieved 2016-06-30.
- ^ "About The Performer: Toots And The Maytals". laphil.com. Retrieved 2016-06-30.


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Galbraith Brewing Co is justifiably renowned for its range of cask conditioned, English-style ales. In addition to these, Galbraith's produces a take on a Trappist Ale called Resurrection. It's probably my favourite beer of the Galbraith's range, but one that I don't drink nearly often enough. However, when I heard that brewer Ian Ramsay has recently finished a new batch, I had to get in and sample the latest version.
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With institutional corruption in the British media / police / parliament becoming increasingly difficult to veil in shabby apologia, the personnel involved are falling over each other to fall on their sword – well it's better than falling into custody. Rebekah Brooks, Les Hinton, Sir Paul Stephenson, John Yates… all of them have clocked out with varying degrees of haste, style and dignity. But getting your resignation right is about more than securing a golden goodbye sealed with a loving confidentiality clause.
You can resign to spend more time with your family, like a 1990s Tory minister, or to spend less time with your family, like David Miliband. You can be the first out of a revolving door, like Siobhán Donaghy, the first popstar to claim the title "ex-Sugababe". You can cite principles, like crisp salesman Gary Lineker, who quit his column at the Mail on Sunday after it secretly recorded the head of the FA – only to sign up for the, er, News of the World instead.
You can declare that there are "dark forces" at work, like one of 2011′s leading sexists, the ex-Sky Sports presenter Richard Keys. Or you can attempt a temporary blaze of glory like Steven Slater, the Jet Blue air steward who upon landing announced his resignation via the plane intercom, grabbed a couple of beers from the trolley and activated the emergency inflatable slide – only to later change his mind about wanting to quit.
For those who have the opportunity to figure out the best way to shuffle off the official payroll, there's a menu of eclectic exit strategies to choose from:
1. A distraction, not a disgrace.
Classic PR manoeuvre: Attribute your resignation not to your alleged mistake/offence, but to the public outcry about that mistake/offence, then follow this up with a bold claim to selflessness. In a spot of medal-winning rationale, Met commissioner Stephenson felt it best to go now rather than get stuck into the security preparation for the London 2012 Olympics with a Murdoch-shaped cloud hanging over him – that just wouldn't be fair to Londoners. Similarly, Anthony Weiner, the former US Representative obliged to resign after sending what we will politely call a graphic tweet, regretted that "the distraction" had made it impossible to continue "to fight for the middle class and those struggling to make it". He was abandoning the cause, he said, "so my colleagues can get back to work".
2. Stylistic flourish 101
While the Twitter monster has doubtless not yet claimed its last scalp from office, a tweet can also be the medium by which you announce your sacking departure. Jonathan Schwartz, the chief executive of Sun Microsystems edged out last year when Oracle bought Sun, decided to merge social media platform with historic cultural artform when he tweeted his resignation with a haiku. "Today's my last day at Sun. I'll miss it. Seems only fitting to end on a #haiku. Financial crisis/Stalled too many customers/CEO no more." The poetry must have sapped his inspiration, however, as @openjonathan hasn't tweeted in quite some time.
3. Stylistic flourish (Honours)
It's always a good idea if you can combine your resignation letter with a de facto application for your next career. This, essentially, is what ex-Daily Star reporter Richard Peppiatt did when he decided he'd had enough of reporting fantasy as news. "I see a cascade of shit pirouetting from your penthouse office, caking each layer of management, splattering all in between," he wrote to proprietor Richard Desmond. Nice. If you're a man who wants to write for a living, rather than spend your days impersonating Muslim women for the sake of an inflammatory headline, it's a smart move to make sure everyone knows you can master such basics as a) rational argument, b) sentence rhythm, c) dry, cutting humour and d) the personal touch. Peppiatt's letter was published by more than one "quality" newspaper and he is now found frequenting television studios providing an insider's commentary on all things dodgily tabloid – thanks to News International, he is a pundit much in demand.
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Sarcasm and contempt are cheap if you're so rich you never have to pretend to work again. Hedge fund trader Andrew Lahde made an 866 per cent return in 2007 by betting that the US subprime market would collapse. His farewell open letter on quitting the industry in 2008 was withering about "the low hanging fruit, i.e. idiots whose parents paid for prep school, Yale, and then the Harvard MBA". They were "there for the taking", he said. "These people who were (often) truly not worthy of the education they received (or supposedly received) rose to the top of companies such as AIG, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers and all levels of our government. All of this behaviour… only ended up making it easier for me to find people stupid enough to take the other side of my trades. God bless America."
5. Exit, pursued by Ant and Dec
With so many household villains seeking opportunities for redemption, the contestant wishlist of the producers of I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here must be getting longer by the day – and if you think it's unlikely that, say, an ex-head of the Metropolitan police would venture into the jungle in order to be dowsed in kangaroo saliva, then consider that former deputy assistant commissioner of the Met, Brian Paddick, did almost exactly that three years ago. Paddick, whose resignation from the Met falls into the "jumped after being pushed" category, survived the Queensland cameras with minimum humiliation and was last seen making a return to the more serious endeavour of being a London mayoral candidate for the Liberal Democrats.
6. Leverage your experience
As Bank of Ireland governor, Richard Burrows must have learned a thing or two about toxic industries. So upon leaving the bank in 2009, what better career move than to take up residency as chairman of British American Tobacco? Former Halifax Bank of Scotland chief executive Andy Hornby swapped mortgages for moisturisers when he joined Boots, only to resign from that job less than two years later, saying he needed a break. This week, he was appointed the boss of bookmakers Coral, making him the ultimate casino banker. In a corporate culture where the former head of risk management at Lehman Brothers can get a job as treasurer of the World Bank, it's hard to sneer whenever someone whose career seems in the toilet talks about "pursuing new opportunities" round the other side of the U-bend. The chances are they will.
7. Why not get your life back?
After the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, BP chief executive Tony Hayward's entire lexicon, his entire demeanour, seemed like one big long resignation monologue staged to attract maximum levels of transatlantic opprobrium. The man dubbed "Big Oil's Mr Bean" notoriously declared he would "like his life back" not long after the explosion at the Deepwater Horizon oil rig killed 11 workers. The leak from its rig was still pumping thick black crude oil into the gulf at a rate of up to 60,000 barrels a day when Hayward decided to spend a day watching his yacht compete in an Isle of Wight boat race. His inevitable resignation statement contained a peerless mea non-culpa: "I will always feel a deep responsibility, regardless of where blame is ultimately found to lie."


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Jan 28, 2006 6:24PM PST
Well since I will be without my 360 for a little bit, yeah it has to be sent to Microsoft for repairs I thought it may be a good time to poll people on their thoughts about the 360 and its launch, well here goes.
Question #1
Are You happy with your 360 purchase?
Question #2
List your top five launch games, you may provide reason if you wish?
Question #3
Sleeper Hit of the 360 Launch?
Question #4a
What music artist (if any) has been downloaded to your Hard Drive for your listening pleasure?
Question #4b
Top songs downloaded to your hard drive (try to list five if possible)
Question #5
What are the best Xbox Live Arcade titles (List 3 to 5 if possible)
Question #6
Wireless or wired controller, which is your pick?
Question #7
Most disappointing game(s) of the 360 launch (list three is possible), provide reasons if you wish?
Question #8
What are your top five picks for 2006 appearing on the 360?
Question #9
Name five possible titles that you would like to see brought to the Xbox Live arcade?
Question #10
What franchise(s) are you eagerly awaiting for the next generation of gaming? (Name 5 if possible)
Question #11
What is your game of the year for 2005(any system)?
Question #12
Which system in 2006 will probably be your next purchase, Revolution or PS3?
Question #13
Which handheld do you prefer, DS or PSP?
Question #14
Top Game companies at the moment in your opinion? (Name 5 if possible)
Question #15
Did you enjoy my survey, Yes or No, provide feedback if necessary?
Have fun everyone and I'll see everyone later.
Comments (8)
Just to give everyone an ideaPosted: Jan 28, 2006 12:00AM PST by The_Collecter
I decided that I would take the first survey here just to give everyone stopping by an idea of what I am asking, well here goes.
1) Yes, not happy that it needs to be repaired but hey MS is doing it for free.
2) Perfect Dark Zero
Project Gotham Racing 3
Call of Duty 2
Quake 4
3) I have two sleeper hits for the 360 launch
Condemened and Quake 4
4a) Nine Inch Nails of course
4b) Dance, Dance by Fallout Boy
Feel Good Inc. by Gorillaz
Happy? by Mudvayne
Only by NIN
Every Day is exactly the same by NIN
5) Geometry Wars 2
Bejeweled 2
6) Wireless, never thought I would be saying that
7) Madden 06- Hey Where's the features??
NHL 2K6--Great Game if it was not so bug ridden
NBA 2K6--See NHL 2K6
Gun---TOO SHORT!!!
8) Well so far (remember E3 hasn't happened yet)
Gears of War
Splinter Cell: Double Agent
Burnout Revenge
Mass Effect
Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter
9) Teenage Munant Ninja Turtles: Arcade Version
The Simpsons Arcade version
Xmen arcade game
Double Dragon arcade
10) Any Star Wars title(preferably KOTOR III)
Final Fantasy
James Bond
Jade Empire
11) Easy-- That would be Resident Evil 4 for the Gamecube
12) Revolution- why more innovative, better 1st party franchise games, classic downloads, and should be a hell of a lot better priced.
13) DS-- Nintendo owns the handheld market!
14) Square-Enix
Electronic Arts
Microsoft Game studios
15) N/A, my survey so my opinion might be kinda of bias.
Later all!!!
survey time.....Posted: Jan 28, 2006 12:00AM PST by jester731
1.yes no problems so far.2.COD2,PGR3,Condemned,Kameo,Madden3.Condemned4.n/a 5.only tried hectic6.Wireless 7.PD0. Amped3 gears of war not making the launch 8.DOA4 gears of war fullauto fight night3 ghost recon advanced war. 9.ms.pacman Galaga asteroids shinobi 1941.10.Halo Grandtheft ninja gaiden doa beach volleyball metal gear 11.Ninja Gaiden black 12.PS3 13.PSP 14.Team ninja. Bunjie Kojima productions square-enix Rockstar15. enjoyed it. Some awnsers I didnt really have five awnsers for other than that its all good later
Here we go!!Posted: Jan 28, 2006 12:00AM PST by shorap
1. Yeppers
2. COD 2, PGR 3, Quake 4, Condemned, DOA 4.
3. Condemned
4. a. NIN, Tool, Johnny Cash, Disturbed
b. Right Where It Belongs, Stinkfist, Only, Lateralus, Hurt.
5. Smash tv, Gauntlet, Joust.
6. Wireless
7. PD0(everything about it doesn't flow well for me, from the controls to the storyline, to the movement speed and rythm), Kameo(5-6 years and it's this short?!), Quake 4(fix framerate please!!)
8. ES: Oblivion, Prey, SHADOWRUN!!!(hopefully in 06), Mass Effect, New Turok(again, hopefully), GOW(CliffyB I'm counting on you O.O)
9. The original Strider-arcade version(I would lay a golden egg if Capcom did this), Golden Axe 2-arcade version, Alterd Beast-arcade version, Phantasy Star 2 and 4, Vectorman 1 and 2, Sonic 2, Shinobi 3, arcade version of Outrun, Genesis version of Shadowrun, MK 2, Street Fighter 3, KOF '94, Marvel VS Capcom 1. Too many others to list.
10. Sonic, Turok, Shadowrun, KOTOR, Shenmue(c'mon Yu), Zelda
12. Revolution
14. Sega, Take 2, Microsoft, Nintendo, Capcom.
15. You betch'um
Can we put up a 'worst company category?' My choice is EA.
k here it is!Posted: Jan 29, 2006 12:00AM PST by JHiller
1. hell yea
2. Condemned, GUN, N4S:MW, DOA4, and PGR3
3. Def Condemned
4. I use the windows network center so...
4. NO need to download comes straight from PC!
5. Geomtry Wars, Marble ultra, Smash TV
6. Wireless
7. PDZ, Quake 4, and All EA sports title
8. GoW, GRAW, FNR3, SC:DA, and Blazing Angels
9. Same as the guy above me!
10. Resident Evil, Zelda, Devil May Cry, Halo
11. Resident Evil 4 (ps2,gc)
12. Revolution
13. EFFIN DS!! w00t
14. Capcom, Sega, Microsoft, Ubisoft, Nin.
15. Yes i did
Keep it upPosted: Jan 29, 2006 12:00AM PST by The_Collecter
Yeah thanks guys I am always interested in other people thoughts to see how many people agree with me. My only thing is I don't see how all of you dislike Perfect Dark, I feel like it was the best overall game, me and a buddy of mine have played more PDZ splitscreen than all my other games combined, I loved the customization and all the great options. Of course I am not extremely fond of DOA, I didn't think it was a bad game but I don't see why everyone is so in love with it. And I just want to go ahead and say this, Gears of War will be a better game than Halo 3, just a prediction, Halo 2 disappointed me a little bit, hmmmmm... What Halo 3 needs to be a great title might be a good survey to post. Later all.
I'll elaborate a bit more on PDZPosted: Jan 30, 2006 12:00AM PST by shorap
The movement felt too floaty as if your character was in lighter gravity or underwater. The aiming sucked and not because of no autoaim.
I've played many fps games w/ no autoaim whatsoever but every speed configuration I tried never worked good for me. As for DOA 4, I think it pretty good but I'm mainly a Virtua Fighter guy(why only on ps2 Yu why?!).
answers...Posted: Jan 30, 2006 12:00AM PST by CH0C0B0
Question #1
Are You happy with your 360 purchase?yes
Question #2
List your top five launch games, you may provide reason if you wish?cod2,pgr3, everything else was blah
Question #3
Sleeper Hit of the 360 Launch?Quake 4
Question #4a
What music artist (if any) has been downloaded to your Hard Drive for your listening pleasure? linkin park, and trance stuff
Question #4b
Top songs downloaded to your hard drive (try to list five if possible) maybe later
Question #5
What are the best Xbox Live Arcade titles (List 3 to 5 if possible) marble blast ultra, geometry wars advanced, zuma(sp?)
Question #6
Wireless or wired controller, which is your pick? both, wireless is better quality
Question #7
Most disappointing game(s) of the 360 launch (list three is possible), provide reasons if you wish? kameo- not deep enough, tiger woods- not enough achievements, call of duty- can't get in a decent online game
Question #8
What are your top five picks for 2006 appearing on the 360? GRAW, Oblivion, nighty nine nights,black, splinter cell
Question #9
Name five possible titles that you would like to see brought to the Xbox Live arcade? can't think of any right now, but i want more games
Gotta go, busy right now...but I did like your survey ^_^ maybe split it into two surveys next time, Later!
mk, here we goPosted: Jan 31, 2006 12:00AM PST by RyuDavis
1: yes
2: Condemned(damn fine surviver horror), PD0(bitching online), COD2(story mode), Q4(love the game even if it is my first of the series), NFS:MW(i'm in love w/all my cars and i like the arcade style driving)
3: Condemned
4a: Linkin Park, Daft Punk, Gorrilz will b added soon, and a mix
4b: any of the Deft Punk songs, any of the Linkin Park
5: Hexic, Geometry Wars, Marble Blast, Zuma, and Mutant Storm Reloaded
6: Wireless(i can never go back to wired now)
7: only 1 is PD0 and that is only in story mode, it's not mind blowing like i thought it would be
8: Gears of War, Prey, Oblivion, Fight Night 3, Battlefield 2/Halo3/and Splinter Cell all tie
9: Street Fighter 2, Streets of Rage 2, any of the Sonics, any(hopefully all) Metal Slugs, Pac-man
10: ya know? i would love to see a Fable done completely right, Zelda, Prince of Persia, mayb a Shadow of the Collosus sequel or remake just for the grapics and a few extras
11: hmmm, tough call tough call...um i go w/Shadow of the Collosus
12: Rev seems more likely than the PS3, the price rumors r killing me, can't magine if they turn out to b tru and u get the same from 360 for cheaper(goin from pro pack price)
13: DS cause it's more for the games like it's supposed to be while the PSP is more a media whore than a gameing streetwalker
14: Ubisoft, Square, id, Rare, Blizzard(threw ya off didn't i thought i was naming console only folks mwahahaha)
15: yes, like giving my opinion sometimes


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