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Binghamton University and The State of New York Citibank VISA Procurement Card: Policies and Procedures Overview
The New York State Citibank Visa Procurement Card (P-Card) offers Binghamton University departments an alternative method of making small dollar purchases as well as the opportunity to streamline procedures or controls for procuring goods and services.The Procurement card program also reduces the volume of accounts payable transactions and the associated administrative costs by streamlining payments to vendors.All vendors who accept Visa accept the New York State Citibank Visa procurement card.
The current P-Card purchase limit is $2,500 per transaction.Departmental cardholders can be liable for unauthorized charges made using the card when the card is lost and not reported in a timely manner.Procurement cards must be used for official SUNY purchases only.Use of the card for personal items, cash advances and business travel expenses is not permitted.
Do not use the card to circumvent state policies requiring you to seek state preferred vendors.You should use vendors on state contracts whenever possible and economical.
If you have questions on the appropriate use of the purchasing card, please contact the Program Administrator.
The Procurement Charge Card is a privilege and may be revoked for any violation of the procedures.
Use the card for…
· Items on a centralized commodity ("p") contract
· Maintenance/repairs of equipment
· Service Contracts for equipment
· Supplies and materials
· Equipment
· Printing
· Conferences/seminars
· Freight(You may exceed per transaction limits by the amount of the freight costs).
For computer related equipment, all purchases over $500 should be reported to Physical Facilities.
Purchases of any equipment over $1500 must be registered and bar coded by Physical Facilities.
The Procurement Charge Card Campus Program Administrator Provides:
· Outreach to Departments
· Trains potential Cardholders;
· Issues cards;
· Cancels cards;
· Communicates to the Citibank Visa representative to make corrections, receive monthly billings, obtain replacement cards;
· Monitors compliance with state and SUNY regulations;
· Promote M/WBE participation through the Procurement Card Program.
Enrolling in the P-Card Program
Any department with a state purchase function account, IFR or other acceptable accounts is eligible for procurement cards. One department may have several cards, each card in a different department member's name.
Procurement card services must be obtained through participation in the statewide contract administered by the State of New York, Office of General Services, Division of Standards and Purchases.The campus Program Administrator will contact Citibank Visa to begin your participation in the purchasing card program and will provide the necessary literature and training to your department.
Procurement cards will be issued to individuals who are designated by the appropriate department authority and requested in writing or in an email.The cards are issued with the name of the cardholder, Binghamton University and State of New York embossed on the card.Cardholder must sign an agreement form prior to obtaining the Procurement Card.
Upon completion of the state required training, cardholder will be given a copy of the Campus Users Policy & Procedure Manual, and a password and description of the process for certifying charges online on the SUNY-Central system.
Use of the purchasing card is limited to transactions totaling $2500 per transaction with a negotiable monthly limit.In cases where postage or freight sends the amount over $2500, departments will have discretion in how to handle the overage.
It is preferred that the card is to be used to purchase a commodity supplied by a preferred source as defined by New York State Finance Law, Corrections and Handicapped Law.The cardholder may, however use the card where ever it is accepted.
New York State and Citibank Visa created a template which automatically excludes certain types of expenditures at point of sale.Airline, lodging and car rental p-card transactions are blocked at point of sale.
Cardholders must return the Procurement card to the campus Program Administrator immediately upon request or upon termination of employment.
Authorized use of the Procurement card is limited to the person whose name appears on the face of the card.The Procurement card must not be loaned to another person.If the cardholder is going to be absent from work for an extended period of time, a separate card may be issued to a different person with procurement authority for the duration of the absence.
The Procurement Card should be kept in an accessible but secure location, accessible only to the cardholder.The Citibank Visa account number on the Procurement card should not be posted or left in a conspicuous place.
Don't use the card for…
· Personal use
· Travel/entertainment (i.e. airline, car rental, lodging, lodging reservations, restaurant)
· Gasoline purchases
· Medical services
· Non-employee compensation (payments for any personal services)
· Cash advances
· Cash back on purchases
· Cash refunds
· Gift certificates for gift purposes
· Savings bonds
· Food items and/or beverages that will become part of the state's resale inventory
· Alcoholic beverages
· Payments on formal contracts approved by OSC other than OGS Standards and Purchase Commodity Contracts
· Materials on a restricted list, such as radioactivesamples
Using the Card
If the Procurement card is lost or stolen, it is the cardholder's responsibility to immediately notify Citibank Visa, then the Program Administrator.
The campus Program Administrator should be contacted when changes need to be made to existing Procurement cards.If a new Procurement card needs to be issued, the cardholder should receive the replacement card in 7-10 business days.
The card holder's department is liable for the use of the Procurement card by authorized users, provided that use is within the single per transaction dollar limit not exceeding $2500, and within the state established purchasing guidelines.The department will not be liable for the following:
· Expenditures on Citibank Visa procurement cards which are fraudulent
· Purchases made with stolen or lost cards provided the loss is reported within 24 hours after discovery and reported to Program Administrator and Citibank Visa.
Individual cardholders will be accountable and responsible for fraudulent or unauthorized charges. To reduce the risk of fraudulent charges, the cardholder should NEVER email card data to any vendor or to another Binghamton University Campus Department. Further, cardholders should avoid sending card data through interoffice mail. Please use the telephone where necessary.
How to Place an Order
Placing an Order
1. Check the state contracted vendors.
2. Check your desired vendors and ask if they accept Visa.
3. Ensure that purchase is within the parameters of the New York State Procurement card program.
4. Ensure there are funds in your account to pay for the item.
5. Order online, via telephone or go to the vendor's place of business and place the order.Inform the vendor that the purchase is made on a GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT CARD, and that it is a TAX EXEMPT PURCHASE.
6. If item delivery will be by Express Service, please provide complete detailed shipping information including:Department, Room number, contact, Bldg., transaction number if any.
7. Give the vendor your Citibank Visa card number and expiration date. (The vendor will verify the account number with Citibank Visa.The spending limit and spending limitations will be checked electronically for compliance with applicable limits).
8. Retain all documentation pertaining to the purchase.When the vendor delivers the order, documentation of the purchase (such as a sales receipt or packing slip) should accompany the order.At the end of the billing cycle, originals of this documentation must be sent to the Program Administrator in the Purchasing Office along with a certification signed by the cardholder and supervisor.
Returns, Credits, and Disputed Items
In most cases, disputes will be resolved directly between the cardholder and the vendor that provided the goods or services.The cardholder must use the following guidelines when returning an item:
· If an item needs to be returned for any reason, the cardholder will contact the supplying vendor, arrange for the item(s) return.At the time a return is made, the vendor should assign a Return Material Authorization Number.If not available, secure your contact's name and telephone number.
· The vendor should issue a credit for items that are returned.This credit will appear on a subsequent VISA charge card statement.
· Keep all documentation of the return.All documentation pertaining to returns must be kept on file for reconciliation to the charge card statement.Cardholders must reference the original transaction control number to track the transaction.
· If the cardholder and the vendor cannot resolve an issue, the cardholder should:
1) Initiate a dispute with VISA by calling the VISA Customer Service at 1-800-790-7206, Option 2 (7:00 am.-8:00 p.m.) Monday Through Friday within 60 calendar days of purchase.VISA will investigate the dispute on the card holder's behalf and assist in the resolution. VISA will issue a temporary credit pending final resolution.Contact the Program Administrator.The Program Administrator will investigate the dispute on the card holder's behalf and assist in its resolution.
· Returned items may be dropped off at the campus Post Office.If the return warrants, Central Receiving will pick up the item and deliver it to the campus Post Office.
It is the card holder's responsibility to resolve disputes.
Reconciliation of Charge Card Statement
The cardholder is responsible for retaining copies of documentation of purchases and returns and reconciling them online on the SUNY-Central system within 10 business days of being notified to do so by the administrator or as soon as practicable. These reports must then be sent to the campus Program Administrator.
After 10 business days, cardholders will receive a reminder to turn in all applicable paperwork. If paperwork is not turned in within 5 more business days, the cardholder's supervisor will be copied on another reminder. If there is a further delay, the final step will be a phone call to the cardholder and/or supervisor. If no immediate response after this final step, the cardholder's access to the p-card will be terminated.
The following guidelines are recommended for reconciliation:
The campus Program Administrator has access to monthly charge card statements generated online by Citibank Visa.All original copies of documentation pertaining to purchases and returns should be on file with the Business Office.Remember that this information will remain on file for not less than seven years after purchase.
Payment of the Charge Card Statements
When a cardholder purchases with the Procurement Card, the vendor requests payment from Citibank Visa.The campus's Accounts Payable unit is responsible for recording departmental charges to the SUNY Central master payment system.The following guidelines must be observed when processing payments:
· Individual Cardholder Billing Statements will be online at Citibank Visafor each campus cardholder and Program Administrator following the billing cycle cutoff.
· The payment due date is established by the terms of the contract with Citibank Visa.Usually, the vendor will receive their payment within three working days.
· At the end of the billing cycle the department cardholders should print and sign the online SUNY-Central Certification, have their supervisor sign it, attach originals of the necessary documentation, and forward it to the Business Office.It is recommended that the department make any necessary photocopies for the their record.
· Remember, the state reserves the right to audit individual department cardholder accounts at any time, so keep good records of your spending activity.
· Upon receipt of the cardholder Certification and receipts,Accounts Payable audits the statements and certifies the expenditures for the period to SUNY Central, who deducts the expenditure from the departments' budget.
All card-holding departments will be subject to audit reviews to be held periodically.Final responsibility for use of the card rests with the card holding department.Necessary elements for a successful audit include the following:
· Photocopies of all packing slips, invoices, billing statements from vendors, and other documentation of transactions.
· Any other internal information related to tracking of purchases (i.e. return of merchandise memos, receipt and disbursal of items).
· Following acceptable purchasing practices according to existing SUNY and state regulations.
New York State will be initially liable for all charges to the Purchasing Card account except for fraudulent use of the card by a vendor and/or an employee, those in excess of the single per-transaction limits, and any other limits imposed by participating state agencies.
While New York State will be responsible to VISA for all employee charges associated with the Purchasing Card, the cardholders themselves will be responsible to reimburse the State of New York for any charges incurred as a result of misuse of fraudulent use of the card.
New York State will not be liable for any charges incurred by non-employees.Therefore, it is important to report immediately any lost and/or stolen Purchasing Cards to VISA.
Failure to comply with this notification process may result in the cardholder becoming personally liable for the fraudulent use of the card.
Suspension of Purchasing Card Privileges
Improper use of the card by the cardholder will lead to suspension of all Purchasing Card privileges by the Program Administrator.The Office of the State Comptroller, VISA, or OGS may also request suspension of Purchasing Card privileges.
The term "misuse or abuse" as used herein, shall mean the willful use of the Purchasing Card outside of the employee's authorized parameter (e.g. charges in excess of the permitted limit for any period;purchases of items of a type other than those allowed).Depending on the severity of the violation and their department's discretion, the following actions may be taken:
1st Offense:The Program Administrator will notify the cardholderof the infraction.The cardholder will be advised to use the card for official purposes only within the parameters established by NYS and VISA.The cardholder will also be advised that all Purchasing Card privileges will be suspended if further violations occur.If the department requests, the cardholder can be personally responsible for reimbursing the state for unauthorized purchases.
2nd Offense:The Program Administrator will suspendPurchasing Card privileges for a period of three (3) months. At the end of the three-month period, the cardholder may be by the Program Administrator.The cardholder can be held personally responsible for reimbursing the state for any unauthorized purchases.
3rd Offense:Use of the Purchasing Card will be suspended permanently.The cardholder will be personally responsible for reimbursing the state for any unauthorized purchases.
NOTE:This process can be adjusted at cardholder, department and/or campus level.
The term "fraudulent use", as used herein, shall mean the use of the Purchasing card with a deliberately-planned purpose and intent to deceive and thereby gain a wrongful advantage for oneself or anyone else other than the State of New York.The following actions will be taken:
Immediate suspension of card privileges;
Removal of cardholder's purchasing authority;
Mandate employee reimbursement to the state;and
Formal disciplinary action which may result in termination of employment pursuant to applicable contract provisions or, for Management/Confidential designated employees, in accordance with the provisions of Section 75 of the Civil Service Law.
The Program Administrator will direct Citibank Visa to cancel all Purchasing Card privileges for any cardholder that leaves state service for any reason.
The state will continue to be liable for any charges incurred by the cardholder until CITIBANK VISA is directed by the Program Administrator to cancel the Purchasing Card.
If the budget for the next immediate fiscal year has not been adopted, all Purchasing Card privileges will be suspended, effective Close of Business (COB) of the concluding year (June 30).
NOTE:In past years, the state has passed weekly budget extensions, which have included the Procurement Card Program.
Ø Time Limit Policies
Ø When notified of unreconciled purchases, log on and certify within 10 working days or as soon as practicable. After 10 working days, the following will occur:
Email reminder to return documentation within 5 business days
Contact cardholder supervisor
Revoke card access if not turned in within 5 more days after contacting the supervisor
Ø Report lost or stolen cards within 24 hours
Ø Immediately notify the Program Administrator of change of status of cardholder, including their reassignment, and leaving the department's or university's employment.
Useful URL's
Useful Phone Numbers
Program Card Administrators:Meghan Dold : 607-777-3556
John Gallent: 607-777-2036
Citibank VISA CUSTOMER SUPPORT:
· Help Desk: 1-800-790-7206, option 2
· Reporting Cancelled, Lost Or Stolen Cards: 1-800-248-4553


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Blockbuster: Obama administration pressured Solyndra to delay layoffs for political gain
posted at 12:10 pm on November 15, 2011 by Ed Morrissey
The Washington Post broke this story earlier this morning. Does anyone want to argue that Solyndra isn't a scandal now?
The Obama administration urged officers of the struggling solar company Solyndra to postpone announcing planned layoffs until after the November 2010 midterm elections, newly released e-mails show. …
Solyndra's chief executive warned the Energy Department on Oct. 25, 2010, that he intended to announce worker layoffs Oct. 28. He said he was spurred by numerous calls from reporters and potential investors about rumors the firm was in financial trouble and was planning to lay off workers and close one of its two plants.
But in an Oct. 30, 2010, e-mail, advisers to Solyndra's primary investor, Argonaut Equity, explain that the Energy Department had strongly urged the company to put off the layoff announcement until Nov. 3. The midterm elections were held Nov. 2, and led to Republicans taking control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
"DOE continues to be cooperative and have indicated that they will fund the November draw on our loan (app. $40 million) but have not committed to December yet," a Solyndra investor adviser wrote Oct. 30. "They did push very hard for us to hold our announcement of the consolidation to employees and vendors to Nov. 3rd – oddly they didn't give a reason for that date."
Yeah — that's odd, isn't it? The DoE requested that a privately-held corporation withhold important financial information from investors until the day after a national election. But that's just a coincidence … right? Riiiiiiiiiiiiight.
This means that the DoE knew that Solyndra had begun to fail, and that the cash they provided as part of Barack Obama's job stimulus wouldn't actually create jobs. In fact, it wasn't even going to save jobs. And yet the DoE not only succeeded in pressuring Solyndra into hiding that fact from the public and their investors, this sequence makes it look as though the Obama administration used the $40 million in loans as a bribe to keep Solyndra from making its layoff announcement in a timely manner. [See update.]
Guess where this thread leads? Right to the White House:
On Oct. 25, 2010, Solyndra chief executive Brian Harrison e-mailed the energy department's loan staff to explain that Solyndra "has received some press inquiries about rumors of problems (one of them with quite accurate information) and we have received in bound calls from potential investors. Both of these data points indicate the story is starting to leak outside Solyndra."
Harrison went on to state that he would "like to go forward with the internal communication [to employees regarding layoffs] on Thursday, October 28."
Harrison's e-mail was forwarded to program director, Jonathan Silver, who then alerted White House climate change czar Carol Browner and Vice President Biden's point person on stimulus, Ron Klain. Browner asked for more information about the announcement, and Chu's chief of staff explained he had left a voicemail message on her cellphone.
So who ordered Solyndra to keep quiet? Was it the "climate-change czar"? Was it the Vice President? Or did it go higher than that? It's time to start getting all of these people under oath in Congress and start preparing a criminal investigation.
Update: Solyndra is not a publicly-traded company, which means that there would be no legal requirement for the company to disclose the layoffs in terms of selling stock. However, Solyndra and the DoE were actively seeking investors at this time to keep the company from failing, as earlier documents have disclosed. In the end, they got George Kaiser and his investment group to put another $75 million into Solyndra by illegally subordinating taxpayers in the event of collapse.
Update II: I forgot to delete "publicly-traded" from the post in the first update; it's fixed now.
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Talking Opera with Arts & Crafts Record Label President
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Jeffrey Remedios is the co-founder and president of Arts & Crafts, a record label and production company. He did offer some advice to those looking to start their own label: "Have Broken Social Scene be the first band you sign." For the first three years of the label, they were able to work with Broken Social Scene, their friends and band members' side projects.


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Exceptional magazine: Americas edition, July 2013
Avinoam Nowogrodski, CEO of cloud-based project management company Clarizen, has come out on top despite odds. Now, he's eyeing up the competition.
Avinoam Nowogrodski is not afraid of saying his goal is to take on Microsoft. As the founder and CEO of Clarizen, an online project management software company, his biggest competitor is Microsoft Project, which has an annual turnover of US$1b.
Challenging the world's largest software maker is "an aggressive approach," he concedes, but, like a proud father, Nowogrodski is confident of his product and is convinced it will improve the way companies manage their operations and personnel.
Helping companies simplify project management, Clarizen provides a virtual environment in which businesses can track and manage their operations, tasks, resources, budgets and communications. Alerts are sent whenever a deadline is looming, and every aspect of the project can be supervised using the software.
Collaborating to achieve
"Collaboration" is the word the Israeli entrepreneur repeatedly stresses, because the act of people working together has always captured his imagination. He says he is fascinated by "how work gets done." This may sound prosaic, but when Nowogrodski warms to this theme, he speaks with the kind of spiritual zeal that transcends an interest in seemingly mundane procedural matters.
"The process of how work gets done is only one aspect, but collaboration is important because collaboration is what makes work happen," he says. He explains that several decades of experience in the high-tech industry in both Israel and Europe drew his attention to "the low level of participation of workers in the decision-making process and in the overall function of companies."
"The process of how work gets done is only one aspect, but collaboration is important because collaboration is what makes work happen."
If anyone understands the concept of collaboration being easier to talk about than to achieve, it is Nowogrodski. He has four children and runs a company employing 120 workers between its Israeli headquarters in Hod HaSharon, near Tel Aviv, and eight other offices across the world, including one in San Mateo, California. But to the 53-year-old CEO, the idea of many people cooperating is not a lofty ideal.
Because Clarizen is a private company, Nowogrodski will only give an estimate of its sales — tens of millions of US dollars annually. While 60% of its customers are in the United States, and the nation remains the most lucrative sales destination, Clarizen's customer base spans 67 countries.
Improving technology
Nowogrodski started Clarizen in 2006 with just four workers and raised US$50m from Israeli and American investors in a competitive market for cloud-based businesses.
His love affair with technology started in the 1980s, when he studied electrical engineering by day and worked as a security guard at night. His ambition was kindled while working near the offices of a high-tech company, where the modern aesthetic caught his eye.
"I said to myself, 'One day, when I grow up, I want to have something like this,'" he recalls. At global electronics firm Orbotech, where he was employed as a field service engineer, Nowogrodski discovered he enjoyed improving technology. The job took him to Germany, where he moved into sales before starting his own company in 1995.
"People in Israel have the confidence to learn and the guts to be open."
He created SmarTeam Corporation, a leading provider of collaborative product life-cycle management (PLM) solutions that enable clients to collaborate on product information. After 10 years — during which time Nowogrodski held the role of CEO — SmarTeam was sold to the French giant Dassault.
He could have taken a management position in the larger technology company, but he went back to square one and started a new business — a career move not uncommon in Israel's lively start-up community.
"People in Israel have the confidence to learn and the guts to be open," he says. "It's something to do with the history of the country. Israelis have been required to think outside the box."
Nowogrodski had to rely on his guts and his heart as an innovator when Clarizen ran into problems in 2008. The company stumbled by failing to reach critical mass in terms of reputation and customer growth. Unable to raise funds, Clarizen almost went under.
Nowogrodski cut 50% of the company, reduced salaries by 20%, and management worked six months without salary to turn the business around.
"The ability to manage uncertainty is the key to a great entrepreneur," says Nowogrodski. "When there is a crisis, I don't give people attitude; I try to be measured. Don't just ask yourself what you can do, ask what you can stop doing and what you can give up."
Having survived the crisis, he knew he had to make an audacious move: take on the main player in the market. In 2008, Clarizen offered discounts to customers who made the switch from Microsoft.
Clarizen has since developed a reputation as a young gun in the marketplace. The company now boasts more than 2,000 corporate customers. It receives praise from tech commentators for its early recognition of the importance of integrating a mobile feature into its software.
Revenue doubled between 2011 and 2012. Nowogrodski says 250 companies start new trials every day, and 150 are translated into paying customers every month.
That Clarizen has overcome its troubles and since expanded speaks volumes about Nowogrodski's tenacity and ambition. In the coming years, he intends to take Clarizen through an IPO while strengthening its leadership ranks.
"It's not about getting rich quickly," he says. "There's nothing wrong with that, of course. But the real drive is to make a difference to people's lives."


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Jumping rope for fitness
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - One in four children meet the recommendations for one hour or more of moderate to vigorous exercise per day.
The Centers for Disease Control released partial results from this survey involving kids ages 3 to 15.
There is a new program in Idaho Falls to get kids more active and it's gaining a lot of popularity at The YMCA.
The program takes jump roping to the extreme. Children to tricks taught by professionals from Proform Airborne.
The program is so popular, THE YMCA expanded it to three-times a week after school.
"Jump rope is an amazing exercise," said instructor Jeff Cook, who is also a part of Proform Airborne.
Cook has been jumping rope since he was 6 years old.
He said this class isn't your average playground jump-roping.
"I refer to it is extreme jump rope. Many people I compete with will do back-flips, front flips and add gymnastics and dancing to their jump roping."
Once the kids arrive, the ropes hit the floor and the class begins with warm up and stretching.
Cook said jump roping works your arms, legs and your core.
Nautica Hook, 10, said before the class she could only jump with a single rope.
"Then I went to double-dutch and started doing some tricks; some of them are pretty hard," said Hook.
Friday, the class is practicing double-dutch, and trying to do pushups while jumping.
The recommended exercise for children is one hour of moderate exercise a day.
For adults it's about two and a half hours of moderate exercise a week.
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There you go Brandon - you get your RISP.
Edit: rats, never mind.
There you go Brandon - you get your RISP.
Edit: rats, never mind.
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No one expects the butterfly
Phillips flies out to right. 0-0 mid 4th.
Starting to think we should just bunt the No. 2 man when Choo gets on with less than two outs. It's horrible strategy generally, but when your No. 2 hitters are a collective .227/.275/.336 with 14 GIDPs, you may as well just give Votto opportunities. Every guy Dusty has hit there has been garbage. It's uncanny, it defies both scouting and statistical logic.
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Lake grounds out to short.
Rizzo broken bat ground out to Latos.
Another fantastic inning for Latos.
35 pitches through 4
Castillo flies out to right. 0-0 after 4. 4 innings in less than an hour
Get this guy a run or two please
Emo Mat averaging under 9 pitches an inning through 4. Well then.
No one expects the butterfly
Will anyone score tonight? As far as this game is concerned.
Bruce flies out to center.
Ludwick again swings at the first pitch. Fly out to right.
I forgot how's frustrating ludwicks approach can be lol
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"Since I've been with the Reds in 1989, we've never had a farm system this loaded," Bowden said. "If we were the New York Yankees and had unlimited dollars, we could have traded for Colon, (Jeff) Weaver, Rolen, (Cliff) Floyd, (Kenny) Rogers and Finley and gotten them all -- and still held onto our top five prospects. That's an amazing statement."
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A year that brought incarceration, worldwide protest and some of the most celebrated commissions in contemporary art has jettisoned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei to the top of an influential global art power poll.
ArtReview magazine has placed Ai, 54, at the summit of its 2011 Power list which showcases artists, gallerists and collectors demonstrating a global dominance in the international art world.
Ai, an outpoken critic of the Chinese government, and best known for designing China's distinctive "bird's nest" 2008 Olympic stadium, was detained for 81 days earlier this year – prompting global outrage.
He has now overtaken billionaire collector and gallery owner Larry Gagosian and artist Damien Hirst to seize one of the art's world's most prestigious measures of influence.
"He is pushing art beyond the museum and gallery world and exploring the ways it can engage with real life rather than being this privileged thing you see in institutions – once you walk out it's behind you," said ArtReview editor Mark Rappolt.
Ai is the second artist to occupy the top spot in the list, now in its 10th year, after Damien Hirst. The latter was No. 1 in 2005 and 2008.
The list's judges, 26 art professionals from around the world, said Ai was placed "as much for his activism as for his art practice".
After Chinese authorities arrested him on 3 April, Tate director Sir Nicholas Serota (ranked No. 6) and sculptor Anish Kapoor (50) spoke out in his support. Kapoor also cancelled a forthcoming show in China.
Ai showed in the Tate's prestigious Unilever series until May, employing 100 million porcelain sunflower seeds scattered across the floor of Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. He also featured in this year's Time magazine 100 poll, which ArtReview says is "proof of his influence beyond the strict sphere of art".
There are just two Brits in the list's top 10, Serpentine co-director Julia Peyton-Jones, who is ranked at joint second – making her the highest-ranking gallery professional in the world – and Sir Nicholas, four spots below her. The top-ranking foreign gallery professional is New York's Museum of Modern Art director Glenn D Lowry, who is third.
Other prominent British arts figures on the list include Frieze founders Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover, jointly ranked at No. 24, the Lisson Gallery's owner Nicholas Logsdail at 30 – who represents Ai – and White Cube co-founder Jay Jopling, who is placed at 31.
"What I found working on Ai's show at the Lisson Gallery in May is that his art and his politics are part of the same sensibility," said the Lisson Gallery's curatorial director Greg Hilty. "He's an activist who brings an aesthetic sense to shape his social thought, and he brings a moral sense of activism into his artistic practice... It is hard to separate his art from his activism."
Ai employed sunflower seeds at the Tate as a political symbol. During the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Mao used propaganda depicting himself as the sun and the public as sunflowers turning towards him.
Art Review's list, published today to coincide with this week's international art fair, Frieze, comes with a health warning: "The aim of the list is to document those forces and describe the 'world' that affects the production and display of contemporary art.
"As with almost everything related to art, however, the production of these lists is not a science."
Power 100: The top 10...
1. Ai Weiwei
Alongside a hectic exhibition schedule, the Chinese artist spent 81 days in prison this year for "economic crimes", thought to relate to his outspoken politics.
2. Hans Ulrich Obrist & Julia Peyton-Jones
A power partnership who co-direct London's prestigious Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens, described by ArtReview as a "curatorial dynamo".
3. Glenn D. Lowry
Director of New York's Museum of Modern Art, Lowry has been praised with expanding the institution's collection and premises over the past 12 months.
4. Larry Gagosian
The world-famous collector and gallerist has staged a staggering 58 shows in his 11 global outposts over the last 12 months, including exhibitions by Richard Prince.
5. Anton Vidokle, Julieta Aranda & Brian Kuan Wood
Organisers of daily email art information service e-flux, which now reaches 50,000 readers around the world. Specific targets include commercial galleries.
6. Sir Nicholas Serota
Presides over The Tate, Britain's most influential art institution with some 7.4 million visitors entering its four galleries every year. About to unveil the first stage of extension to Tate Modern.
7. Cindy Sherman
The partner of former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne, one of Sherman's early photographs sold in May for $3.89m (£2.47m), becoming the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction.
8. Iwan Wirth
Co-founder of Hauser & Wirth, one of London's most powerful commercial art galleries, this year he oversaw the transformation of his Piccadilly space into a "community centre" for locals.
9. David Zwirner
Gallerist and co-founder of charity Artists for Haiti with actor Ben Stiller, he raised some $13.7m (£8.71m) at a fundraising auction at Christie's last month. Around a third of the artists – who contributed 27 works in total – were represented by Zwirner himself.
10. Beatrix Ruf
Director of contemporary art centre Kunsthalle Zurich, and recently appointed to the newly constituted cultural advisory board of CERN, which operates Europe's Large Hadron Collider.
... and other notable entries
Anish Kapoor (#50)
British sculptor famous for his highly reflective structures. His landmark structure for the 2012 Olympic park, the ArcelorMittal Orbit, is nearing completion.
Damien Hirst (#64)
Original Young British Artist. Next year he is set to have a major retrospective at Tate Modern to coincide with the Olympics. Gagosian Gallery will showcase his work in all of its 11 galleries simultaneously in January.
Dasha Zhukova (#81)
Russian model and philanthropist, and partner of Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich. Filled Moscow's Garage Center for Contemporary Culture with some of the last 12 months' most successful artworks.
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I've been slowly building up my Boba Fett ROTJ and when I decided to sit down and make some ankle spats using Count Dookie's templates, I noticed that in looking at the AOSW pics, there seems to be mismatched ankle spats. Now its VERY hard to tell if these are in fact what were used in the film as you can't see the back of the spats, but I'd really like to know how exactly the left ankle spat is fixed to itself. Here's a photo:
But in this AOSW photo, there seems to be the matching ankle spat on the left ankle:
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You've probably created your own Millionaire City on Facebook. Or maybe you've stacked some towers while playing Tower Bloxx on your iPhone. Perhaps you've even catapulted some crazy penguins, too. If so, then you've had a taste of Digital Chocolate. The rising gaming company was founded by Trip Hawkins in 2003. He is also the man behind video-game giant Electronic Arts (EA) Games. Last month, TFK visited with Hawkins at the Digital Chocolate headquarters in San Mateo, California. He spoke to TFK about working in the video-game industry, the types of games he played when he was little, the future of Digital Chocolate, and more.
Videography by Jeremiah Ysip; Edited by Mitos Briones
When did you first become interested in technology and digital arts?
I loved games when I was a kid. I started playing these board games that were very realistic, but they were kind of hard to play because I didn't have a computer. Then one of my father's friends got a hobby computer kit. I was in high school at the time, and that's when I realized that I had to put all these [games] on the computer.
How did you come up with the name "Digital Chocolate" for your company?
I have to give my wife credit because she had the idea for the word "chocolate." I just thought, "Hmm… chocolate!" That's a great word because when you [eat] chocolate, you feel like you're getting away with something. It's something that has instant gratification and makes you feel good. That's what I want to do with digital games. I like brand names like Apple Computer and Electronic Arts because they have two words that don't really [belong] together, which makes people curious.
Why did you decide to make the move from making video games and consoles to creating games for mobile devices?
Not everyone can afford a game console, and for a lot of people, it's just too much gaming. Now, it's really exciting that everyone has some kind of computer so that they can use to get on the Web, or they have a mobile phone that turns into a computer. For the first time in history, everybody can have a chance to play [digital] games.
How have devices like the iPhone and iPod Touch changed the way people play games?
They're amazing. Obviously the mobile phone has been around for a while, but when the iPhone came along, it just struck people that this is the computer I want to have in my pocket. This is an amazing computing experience. I think it's great to see how far we've come in just a couple of years.
What is your ideal video game?
Millionaire City on Facebook is really fun. You get a chance to be someone like Donald Trump and build your own city and manage your own buildings and see if you can strike it rich. It's very powerful when you can have a fantasy in a computer game that goes beyond what you can do in real life. A lot of times, the things that you learn in games you can use in real life later.
What is your favorite Digital Chocolate game?
NanoStar Castles. I was the lead designer of that game. It's a trading-card game that everyone can play. It has all the strategy of a good-trading card game, but not a lot of the complexity.
What is the best thing about your job?
Working with really talented people to make something new. I am very grateful to be here. I express my gratitude to God everyday. It's a real blessing that I can do the things that I do.
What is the most challenging thing about your job?
You have to get things to work that didn't work before. When you try to blaze a new trail, you're going to make a lot of mistakes, and you lose time and money when you make mistakes. Sometimes, you just need to come up with some breakthrough idea that nobody's ever thought of. It's okay to make mistakes, but it's not okay to make the same mistake twice.
What's up next for Digital Chocolate?
Cloud-based computing, where [tasks that you used to need your computer for can be done and accessed over the Internet]. And people can play games with each other and the games would work across all the different platforms and devices. For example, the reason you want to have a phone is because everybody else can be reached with their phone. It doesn't matter what network or what phone they are using, you can still text message and call them. [Digital gaming would be] a lot more interesting if it worked that way.


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After my first grafting attempt here are a few observations that I offer in the hopes of helping others in their attempts at grafting.
1) Before you start, have your queen cups in the grafting bars, have your wet rag to put over the grafted cups and have your grafting tool, headlight, etc. all in place before you go get your frame of brood.
2) THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART>>>>Follow Randy Oliver's advice and do the grafting in a darkened room and wear some form of magnifying eye ware and an LED camping type headlight (the brighter the better). Without the dark and the LED aid my 60 year old eyes couldn't see anything. Youth is wasted on the young. I hate the YouTube of the guy grafting outside in the sunlight!!! LOL. With the magnifier and LED it is text book clear what you have in front of you.
3) Once you get used to seeing what is in front of you there really is a marked progression starting at the center with capped brood, then really big uncapped larva, then smaller uncapped larva, then really new smaller larva (these are what you want to graft) and then eggs. Or find the eggs and then take the larva next to them. This is not new information just confirming the known for us neophytes.
4) There is a learning curve in using the Chinese grafting tool. Here are my 2 cents worth:
a) Don't be timid, shove the grafting tool in with some force or you won't get any royal jelly with the larva
b) Imagine you are putting in the grafting tool at 6 o'clock on the cell and the bendable end of the tool hits bottom, bends and scoops up the larva and the jelly. Now, before you start to withdraw the tool, make sure the tool is back to six o'clock and you are pulling straight up. At first I was pulling out the grafting tool and losing contents to the 12 o'clock side of the cell as the end was too far away from six o'clock. In other words straight in, hit the bottom and have the end of the grafting tool bend and then straight back out.
Practice your Zen like tai chi slow movements, it is easy to bang things around.
As my mom used to say "Do as I say, not as I do!" I unfortunately violated most all of these observations in my first attempt. Maybe my first attempt will be a "Good bad example".
I transferred 25 larva and in a few days we will see. Put my frame of grafts in the second super above a Queen excluder in a hive of two deep, 10 frame supers with a honey super on top, "Harden" style. I'm just trying to raise a few queens for use on our cherry orchard. Let the games begin!
Thanks to the experienced beekeepers on this forum. I really appreciate the knowledge and experience that is so freely shared on this forum.


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The beginning beekeeper wants to sample his honey in the first year. In his second year, he wants to avoid swarming and get good honey production from his overwintered hive. Lofty objectives. In some areas of the country, it can be done without much effort or cost, but in most areas Mother Nature does not provide enough forage to make it easy. The honeybee colony has limits on their capabilities, and those limits are intensely affected by forage availability.
Having empty, drawn comb simplifies swarm prevention and adds motivation for increased honey production. Both objectives are more easily met by simply having sufficient drawn comb inventory.
The intent of this experiment is to get some extra comb drawn in the first year. The concept adds some costs to the first year, but pays dividends in the second year. Be aware that this approach is a drastic shift away from conventional thinking. We will be combining two strong starter colonies in mid summer. In other words, forfeiting a strong colony. Radical! Hear me out, please.
Two packages were purchased towards the end of our normal "main flow." The purchase of 2 starters is normally recommended for the beginning beekeeper for the benefits of comparison and support of weaker of the two. As it turned out, one colony was much slower developing than the other.
A late start was deliberate. We wanted to worst-case this demonstration so that it would be repeatable almost anywhere in the country. And worst case it was. We spent the price of another package on sugar to feed the two through the summer doldrums and through the combined colony fall preps. In the early going, we fed just enough to keep them going - a quart of 1 to 1 on average, every 3 days. As they grew, the amount increased steadily to a gallon, each, per week. Changed feeding methods three times.
Target date for combining the two was Sept. 1. Other priorities delayed that for two weeks. Sept.1 was selected because fall brood nest reduction starts about the end of Sept. and the delay of 2 weeks was not significant.
Now, for the radical stuff:
One package was hived in 3 shallow supers of foundation and the other in a shallow and a deep of foundation - deep at the bottom. Both colonies started drawing comb in the shallow at the top of both configurations, as expected. The colony in 3 shallows expanded laterally across the top shallow, filling that box, before expanding downward into the next lower shallow. They did the same thing at the next lower level. Meanwhile, the colony with a single shallow only drew a few frames in their shallow at the top before starting drawing frames below in the deep.
Both colonies superseded their queen early in their growth. The deep unit opted to SS first and did not have much brood. The all-shallow unit waited until thay had substantial capped brood for replacement bees. So, the all-shallow unit got ahead of the deep unit and the deep unit never caught up in strength. When they were combined, the deep unit still had mostly frames of foundation in their top shallow outside of those used initially when hived. A few frames of honey where they started. Fortunately, the deep was mostly drawn, with good brood.
The combine was assembled with the deep of brood on the bottom, a shallow and a half of brood from the all-shallow unit (other half - capped Domino honey), The unfinished super from the top of the deep unit, and two full shallows of capped Domino at the top. Oops, neglected to mention that a fourth super had been added to the all-shallow unit in late summer. At the time of combining, that unit had four shallows - 2 brood and 2 drawn and capped. The stack combined was a deep and 5 shallows, filled on a work day with bees.
Too many bees and too much brood for mid Sept. in this area. Upped the syrup feeding to a gallon every 3 days to encourage backfilling of the broodnest through early Oct. The foragers were bringing both nectar and pollen on a small scale. If they were interested in protein supplement, it was replaced. Periodic checks through Oct. showed that they were indeed backing the broodnest down to the deep. And foraging continued through Nov. and early Dec. (unusual season) We slacked off on feeding in mid Oct to about a gallon a week into early Nov. when it was stopped completely.
The weekend before Christmas, we finally had a couple of nights below freezing. Early in the morning, three supers of capped Domino was removed from the top gently to be extracted between now and Feb. The cluster is a little oversized, but is located below two full supers and we expect them to winter well. All the answers will not be available until April, but we should have enough drawn comb to get real production in 2013.
Worst-casing this demonstration created a lot of feed jockying that the beginner would not be prepared to cope with or implement. Most of that extra cost and effort would be offset by starting two colonies early enough to have them grow on the full spring flow. At combine time he could pilfer a few frames of honey for his own use.
It also would not be necessary to sacrifice a colony at combining time. We pinched a queen that we considered less than desirable. If two normally developed colonies were to be combined, a nuc could be generated in the process for overwintering.
All in all, a fun project to keep me out of the pubs. Do with it what you will.


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Bristol church collecting donations for typhoon relief
BRISTOL, Va. - A Bristol, Virginia church is collecting donations for the victims of the massive typhoon in the the Philippines.
At the Community Baptist Church, pastor Todd Crusenberry tells us they're working to collect monetary donations to help those affected by the disaster.
The church already had missionaries in the Philippines and now they're sending more.
They'll be distributing necessary supplies to the victims. "It will take care of the food for the victims. It will take care of clean water for the victims, medication for the victims. It will take care of anything they need while we're there," said Crusenberry.
If you want to donate, you can contact the church at 423-646-8760.


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Combine kecap manis, soy sauce, garlic, oil, vinegar, cumin and coriander in a small bowl. Reserve 2 tablespoons of the marinade in a medium bowl. Place chicken in a large sealable plastic bag. Pour the remaining marinade into the bag. Marinate in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours or overnight.
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Add peanut butter, water, ketchup and hot sauce to taste to the reserved marinade and whisk to combine. Refrigerate until ready to use.
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Welcome to OVAE Connection
OVAE Connection is a new newsletter from the Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE) of the U.S. Department of Education. This is our first issue. We are sending it to all of those who received the former Thursday Notes, Up-to-Date with DATE, and Community College Compendium. We will do our best to provide "news you can use." We recognize that not all news will be usable for each reader, but we will try to ensure that each news item has some potential utility for at least a segment of our audience. Articles will come from OVAE staff involved in career and technical education; adult education; community colleges; and research, evaluation, technical assistance, and dissemination. We also want to feature articles that let those in the field know what others in the field are doing that has proven to be of value. Please send us information that others should know about what is working. And we want your feedback about what is useful and what is not. Please give us your constructive suggestions. Thank you!
Career and Technical Education (CTE) Collaborative Project Partnership Launched
OVAE and ED's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) will partner with Maryland's Department of Education to help states and districts prepare learners for high-skill, high-wage, and high-demand non-traditional careers that meet the challenges of a global society. This national-level partnership will identify resources and practices that have increased participation and completion of underrepresented students in CTE programs leading to non-traditional careers. It also will identify data tools necessary to measure and track results. The project will have two phases.
In phase one, the partners will develop a clearinghouse of replicable strategies, carefully selected promising practices, resources and data, based on work already begun in Maryland, for states and districts to use in addressing the under-representation of women and girls in CTE programs that lead to high-wage, high-demand careers, such as engineering and information technology. In phase two, the partners will expand the initiative to include other groups that are underrepresented in non-traditional fields such as male learners, learners with limited-English proficiency, and learners with disabilities in CTE programs that are critical to the US and global societies.
The partnership was announced May 4th at OCR's Methods of Administration Coordinator's Conference in Madison, Wis. News about the Career and Technical Education Collaborative Project Partnership will be located on the Perkins Career Resource Network under National Initiatives after July 1.
Anthes Appointed as Rhode Island's Administrator of Adult Education and GED
Deborah Anthes has been appointed as Rhode Island's administrator of adult education and GED. She will be taking on some of the responsibilities previously handled by Johan Uvin who is currently serving as a senior policy advisor for OVAE Assistant Secretary Dann-Messier. Anthes worked with Uvin for four years in the state's Office of Adult and Career and Technical Education. Prior to that, she was employed by Dorcas Place Adult and Family Literacy Center in Providence for five years. During that time, she held the positions of director of information and evaluation services as well as assistant vice president of programs.
Colorado Students Trade Immediate Diploma for A Year's Tuition and Credit
According to an article in the April 14 Denver Post, and as verified by the Colorado Community College System, 277 Colorado high school seniors will receive a year of college courtesy of the state. For this to occur, two things must happen. First, high school seniors who are ready to graduate and who have already earned at least 12 college credits by the spring of their senior year, must elect not to receive their high school diplomas on time. Second, the seniors' high schools must have established an arrangement with one of Colorado's public colleges for the student to attend it for a "fifth year" of high school. While students have been earning college credit in Colorado, as elsewhere, through advanced high school courses, this program will allow more Colorado students to earn college credits, to earn more of them than previously was possible. 2010 is the first year of the innovative program under state auspices. In the past, a small number of Colorado high schools that serve predominantly low-income students have escrowed diplomas and enrolled students in community college, according to the article. The State estimates that the program will cost $1.7 million this year.
The National Research Center for Career and Technical Education (NRCCTE)
The National Research Center for Career and Technical Education (NRCCTE) recently released Programs of Study: Year 2 Joint Technical Report. This report (1) summarizes the literature on previous initiatives that share similar components of Programs of Study (POS), (2) reviews the evidence on the effects of career and technical education participation on engagement, achievement, and transition, (3) describes the center's three studies about POS, and (4) offers early observations about the implementation of the four Perkins-mandated components of POS. To receive the NRCCTE newsletter, studies, and alerts about upcoming events and studies you may sign up at http://www.nrccte.org.


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Helen Smith's novel The Miracle Inspector is a work of dystopian literary fiction which will satisfy almost no one when they close the last page. From the outset, it is an enigmatic book, which in good modern literary style shuns the easy answers and neat tied-up bows. However, if you are willing to chew on it for a while, without immediately trying to judge its worth, you might find that you have gained something from having read it. If your inclination is to immediately go out and excoriate the author for her silliness on Goodreads or Amazon, I encourage you to sit on your hands and ruminate. You might find that you are paying more attention to your lover or to your child than before you read it, and that might change your opinion about the value of Smith's work.
Smith's book is set in a London which has fenced itself off from the rest of the world. In fact, all of Britain has been divided into tiny fenced-off territories, patrolled by United Nations soldiers. In The Miracle Inspector, the freedoms the British currently enjoy have been nibbled away a bite at a time, until laws created to protect citizens from terrorism, women from rapists, and children from pedophiles have created a society which resembles the Taliban-run state the laws were supposed to prevent. There are no more international airline flights. Women have no freedom whatsoever. Trapped in their homes, unable to work, they leave only in veils and find themselves desperate for company. Children are born unhealthy due to the deterioration of medical care, and shepherds roam the streets of London, pasturing sheep in its great parks. Continue Reading "For Helen Smith All Human Connections Are Miracles" »


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Shmoocon 2012 - Call for CTF team members
Shmoo has a CTF event (last years: http://www.shmoocon.org/ghost_in_the_shellcode), and I'd like to get a team prepped and ready to go for the win! I'm of course assuming they take teams...
Looks like there will be a pre-con challenge (probably to make sure your team isn't just going to eat up space), but they don't have details yet.
Anyway, if you're going to be at the con and you want to be on the team, post here. As more details become available from Shmoo, I'll give updates here.
Let's rock this motha'!


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Hi all,
I started beekeeping last summer and have been following the threads here. I have the Health and the Honeybee book, and just watched the 3 videos The Art of the Sting.
I noticed it was mentioned BVT helps with Tennis Elbow. I don't have tennis elbow, but somehow I hurt my shoulder about a month ago painting the ceiling. I'm curious if it helps the inflammation from tennis elbow, if it might help my shoulder problem. I gave myself one sting today at the joint where it was most tender. How do I know if/when to give myself additional stings? I wasn't quite sure from the video how you know. Do I try it again the next day? Do I try two next time? Not quite sure how to progress.


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Offshore 90-Meter Wind Maps and Wind Resource Potential
The U.S. Department of Energy provides 90-meter (m) height, high-resolution wind maps and estimates of the total offshore wind potential that would be possible from developing the available offshore areas. The offshore wind resource maps can be used as a guide to identify regions for commercial wind development.
About the Offshore Wind Resource Maps
The map shows the predicted mean annual wind speeds at 90-m height presented at a spatial resolution of 200 m. Areas with annual average wind speeds of 7 meters per second (m/s) and greater at 90-m height are generally considered to have a wind resource suitable for offshore development. More information on the characteristics and validation methods can be found in the report Assessment of Offshore Wind Energy Resources for the United States.
Wind Resource Potential
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has produced estimates of the gross (not reduced by environmental or human use considerations) offshore wind potential expressed in "installed capacity." This is the potential megawatts (MW) of rated capacity that could be installed at offshore areas with mean annual wind speeds of 7 m/s and greater at a 90-m height, assuming 5 MW of installed capacity per square kilometer of water. The offshore wind potential tables present the resource broken down by annual wind speed, water depth, and distance from shore.


text: My wife decided that she wanted a better car for going to school due to the long distance. So we went and picked her out a 2001 Buick Regal with 108K miles on it, 3.8L Auto etc, and bought an extended warranty from Wynns USA aftermarket warranty company for $1700 which was alot but we looked at it as a good way to deal with the GM 3.8L problems and Auto tranny problems etc 3yr 36K mile coverage.. So we took the car home and i was happy as a pig in mud because i knew if it broke i wouldnt have to really worry about it. So my wife drove the car for a week and the tranny lost 3rd gear and failed. So we brought it to our areas prefered tranny shop, and they took the warranty info, as well as dealt with the warranty company. After a week the warranty company still hadnt really responded other than to say they were going to send and adjuster to look at the car. And they finally got to it on monday of this week (15 nov 2010) and took 4 hours of looking at the now dismantled drivetrain. then they said they needed to go back to the office to talk it over. WHAT is there to discuss??? The tranny failed it is a covered part. They came back with a nice little offer that they would be willing to pay for a "used" tranny to be put into the car total cost to them $1782. when a rebuild was $2186. But they were perfectly fine with me paying the difference. which after a few different parts that the shop found defective (and charged me cost on the part and no labor to install) i walked out the door with a total bill of $541 out of my pocket. All of the defective parts were covered (oil sending unit, sway bar links and a few other little things) But they basically walked away and it cost me money. All said and done it was over 2 weeks in the shop. The shop actually worked on it for 3 days total. I would avoid them since the service contract that i signed had no fine print and in no place did it say they would replace a defective part with a "used" part. So i would avoid them since this was a rip off for me and poor treatment from them. I will give a plug to Dicks Transmission in Superior WI. They were outstanding and did GREAT work as well as trying to save me some money by doing things at cost and no labor when they could easly have charged me at every corner. Plus i still have a couple of parts to replace. but they told me exactly what was needed and what part. Inpecable service!!!!


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Dzevad Poturak Announces Retirement
- Written by Dave Walsh
Bosnian Heavyweight Kickboxer Dzevad Poturak has released a statement today announcing his retirement from the sport of Kickboxing at the age of 35. Poturak, who has competed in K-1, It's Showtime, SuperKombat and most recently Final Fight, will fight one last time at Final Fight 07, which is scheduled for September. Poturak's record currently stands at 50-22-1-1, with notable wins over Sergei Laschenko, Wendel Roche and Daniel Ghita under his belt.
Poturak had a strong showing at the K-1 World Grand Prix in March where he defeated Laschenko in a reserve bout and was called to fill in for an injured Badr Hari. Poturak was actually injured himself at the time, but opted to head to the ring and fight, putting forth a valiant effort against Ismael Londt. His most recent bout was at Final Fight 06 where he lost to Igor Jurkovic.
His retirement bout is slated for September 6th in Sarajevo under the Final Fight banner. Everyone here at LiverKick wishes Poturak well in his retirement.


text: I know that they aren't the BEST skatrs out there and they have a lot of harsh critics, but I'll miss them so badly. I started to wacth figue skating because of them in 2003 with their Elvis FD and since thta day I bacame a huge fan of them and huge fan of figure skating. I feel really bad when people trash them, or Tanith because of so many things (doll loock, O face, bad posture, bad lag lines, otyher skatrs have the very same probles and don't recive such bad critics). My litle sis have as ideols Tanith and ben, she always says thta when she grows up she want to be Tanith Belbin and i know thta they are US ice dance idols, they did a lot to the soport in US and cernetly they are very pround of everything that they achived. I was good to see them so happy this season even toughth it weren't their season. I wish them the very best, lots of shows and that they don't desapier.