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By Chris Aguinaldo
HPU green initiatives awarded, recognized
|Hawai'i Pacific University Environmental Science and Environmental Studies students helped to build a rain garden at the Hawaii Loa Campus, with community group Hui o Ko'olaupoko.
Wasted food takes a toll on our limited resources—from the water used to irrigate produce, feed fed to animals to fuel burned transporting cargo. Pledging to reduce food waste locally, Hawai'i Pacific University joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Food Recovery Challenge program in June.
Nationally, food waste is the single largest type of waste sent to landfills and incinerators, accounting for 25 percent of all materials sent to landfills and incinerators, according to the EPA.
"We look forward to working toward the development of long-term solutions for the issue of food waste in the state of Hawai'i," said HPU Sustainability Coordinator Josh Prigge (MAGLSD '11).
"Food waste that ends up in landfills is a particular problem for Hawai'i, where disposal capacity is very limited," said Jared Blumenfeld, EPA's Regional Administrator for the Pacific Southwest.
HPU joins more than 90 other colleges and universities nationwide in pledging to reduce wasted food. The program is part of EPA's Sustainable Materials Management Program, looking to reduce the environmental impact of food and other widely-used items through their entire life cycle, including how they are extracted, manufactured, distributed, used, reused, recycled or composted, and disposed.
Prigge—who is also the incoming president of the board of directors for the Sustainability Association of Hawaii—said that HPU already addresses food waste. For example, on "Weigh the Waste Wednesdays" waste from the day's meals is collected and weighed at the Hawaii Loa Campus in Kaneohe. The total from that day is then detailed on a chart prominently placed in the dining hall so students can see how much waste accumulates in just one day.
"We have seen significant reductions in food waste every Wednesday during the course of this program," Prigge said.
HPU's dining hall has taken other steps to reduce impacts on the environment. This includes eliminating polystyrene foam food containers from dining operations, turning lights out during lunch to reduce energy usage and using 100 percent recycled content napkins.
Beyond dining, the Hawaii Loa Campus has made strides toward energy efficiency, which helped it earn the coveted Hawaii Green Business Award. This award was presented in April by Gov. Neil Abercrombie and hosted by the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism, the Department of Health and the Chamber of Commerce of Hawai'i.
|Mark Glick, energy administrator of Hawaii State Energy Office; David Turkes, sustainability assistant at HPU; Gov. Neil Abercrombie; Gary Gill, deputy director of the Hawai'i State Department of Health; and Josh Prigge, HPU sustainability coordinator, celebrate HPU's Hawai'i Green Business Award, April 26.
Photo courtesy of Gov. Neil Abercrombie
HPU was in esteemed company, with honorees ranging from the Hyatt Regency Waikiki to the Westin Kaanapali resort to the Environmental Protection Agency-Pacific Island Office and others.
The Hawaii Loa Campus was recognized for being part of implementation of a university-wide double-sided printing policy, composting 100 percent of its green waste on-site, using a rain catchment and garden system, and offering numerous recycled-content products in the HPU bookstore.
HLC had a significant reduction in energy use over the past two years, which Prigge credits to using better technology, including a switchover to more efficient lighting and installing a new, highly-efficient chilled water cooling system.
Before the new chiller plant, the energy use at HLC in 2011 was 2,409,896 kilowatt hours, with a cost $665,043. Using more efficient technology, those figures have dropped. Last year, use was 1,737,317 kilowatt hours, with a cost $551,478 —a reduction in total energy use by 28 percent and savings of $113,565.
With its continuing success in green practices, it was no surprise when HPU was asked to be part of a first-of-its-kind summit addressing the topic. The inaugural Hawai'i Sustainability in Higher Education Summit was held in April, with Prigge serving as one its organizers.
Held at the University of Hawai'i-West Oahu, the conference brought together UH systems schools, Brigham Young University-Hawai'i, local stakeholders and several HPU participants to discuss sustainability.
"This type of statewide gathering is important for us because we face specific sustainability issues living in an island community," Prigge said.
"HPU had a strong presence, including presentations from HPU MA in Global Leadership and Sustainable Development student Adrienne D. Kleid, Master of Marine Science student Rachel Knapstein and HPU faculty members Dr. Stephen Allen and Dr. Regina Ostergaard-Klem," Prigge said.
Prigge also organized a conference session on the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment, and Rating System (STARS) from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). HPU recently achieved a STARS Bronze Rating in recognition of its sustainability initiatives.
While Prigge acknowledged the significance of HPU's recent accolades and awards, he also remained focused on the bigger picture — the future of the islands, planet and the world.
"It's not debatable anymore. Continued carbon emissions will increase temperature on the planet, which is going to cause unlivable climate conditions in the future, if we continue the way we're going since the industrial revolution," he said.
Which is why it is critical to reach out to tomorrow's leaders, the students, today. For example, HPU held its inaugural HPU Kukui Cup challenge last fall. The energy and sustainability competition was developed in collaboration with the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. The challenge rewarded students with prizes for learning about energy and sustainability-related issues, attending sustainability workshops and events and reducing energy use in residence halls.
|Students from Environmental Science and Environmental Studies programs helped to build a rain garden, with community group Hui o Ko'olaupoko, at the Hawaii Loa Campus.
Other students take their classroom learning and apply it to real-world conservation challenges. Matthew Brittain, an environmental science major, helped build a new rain garden at the Hawaii Loa Campus with classmates in the spring. Students from Environmental Science and Environmental Studies programs built the garden with community group Hui o Ko'olaupoko.
"We're trying to conserve the natural resource of water because we all need fresh water to live," Brittain said. "We're going to take the water that is caught on this roof here and goes into the rain gutter … it's going to run down the pipe and it's going into the pipe that we laid."
The pipe leads from an annex building to the garden, where plants will catch pollutants before they head into the drains and the water system, he explained. The garden uses low-maintenance native plants to avoid straining natural resources.
The garden is "an active demonstration of urban ecosystems," said Ostergaard-Klem, Ph.D., associate professor of Environmental Studies and Global Leadership and Sustainable Development. "Even small, low-impact development can help us create opportunities to reach more sustainable ways of living."
Another example of students contributing to HPU's mission of sustainability was when more than 50 volunteers took part in an intense permaculture project at the Hawaii Loa Campus last year. Permaculture is an ecological design practice for sustainability. Volunteers worked on beautifying and improving a taro patch, student garden and banana patch, with the hope to eventually grow more food that can be consumed at the Hawaii Loa Campus.
In the spring semester, volunteers from the Sustainable Agriculture Club also worked in the garden areas to prepare the soil for planting before the fall semester. Increasing locally sourced food means reducing dependence on imported supplies and the fuel required for those shipments, said Professor of Management Arthur Whatley, Ph.D., program chair of the Master of Arts in Global Leadership and Sustainable Development.
"The more food we can produce here, the smaller the carbon footprint on the state and the campus itself. And along the way is this wonderful reconnection, an educative portion while students are reconnecting to the earth," Whatley said.
"It's the most gratifying experience to see students engaged in this kind of project where they can get their hands in the dirt," Whatley added.
For Prigge, the dirt, sweat and hard work at HPU will pay off because, ultimately, the future depends on changing attitudes and behavior on sustainability.
"Business as usual—continuing to pollute carbon and greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere—is really not an option," Prigge said.To learn more about sustainability at HPU, visit www.hpu.edu/sustainability.


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To be screened before 'Quantum of Solace' in the U.S., the first trailer of the highly-anticipated sci-fi movie, 'Star Trek', has been played on a 15 minute loop at the Paramount Theater on the lot.
Though the first trailer of "Star Trek" won't be hitting the big screen until "Quantum of Solace" makes its debut in the U.S. theaters on November 14, several Paramount people apparently have seen it sometime last week and two of them have shared the trailer details to AICN. In their reports, both of the tipsters reveal that the promotional video will present teenage Kirk in trouble, Spock growing up, and quick cuts of spaceships in battle.
The trailer is said to be opened with a shot of mid-60's Corvette convertible tearing down the road across country side. Hotly pursuit by policeman, the muscle car heads toward a cliff. However, before it goes off, the driver, who is later on identified as young James T. Kirk, leaps out from the car. The footage then is followed by a scene where older Kirk is riding a hover bike with a voice over saying, "You never found yourself here, you never really fit in. What you choose to do with you're life is up to you."
As the voice over continues stating, "Maybe you were meant for something different, something...bigger.", it is shown that Kirk is looking at a huge futuristic structure. Then, it is cut to a scene of Volcan woman holding a baby, and switches to a toddler Spock walking in a Vulcan robe. Moving on, the footage displays older Spock involved in heated argument with Kirk which leads to a fight. The complete description of the trailer can be seen via AICN.
From the producer of hit monster movie "Cloverfield", J.J. Abrams, comes a new "Star Trek" movie chronicling the early days of James T. Kirk and his fellow USS Enterprise crew members during their time at Starfleet Academy. It teams up young and old actors, like Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Eric Bana, Zoe Saldana and Leonard Nimoy. Paramount Pictures will distribute the film in the U.S. on May 8, 2009.

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Ritter, Johann Wilhelm (1776–1810)
Ritter was interested primarily in electricity, in particular electrochemistry and electrophysiology, areas in which he made many remarkable discoveries. In 1799 he carried out the electrolysis of water, and in 1800 investigated the process of electroplating. In 1801 he observed thermoelectric currents, and investigated the artificial electrical excitation of muscles. In 1802-1803 he built the first dry cell battery and accumulator.
In 1801 Ritter discovered ultraviolet radiation by chemical means. This foray into spectroscopy was motivated by the discovery of infrared radiation by William Herschel in 1800, coupled to his general belief in electrical polarity pervading Nature: invisible radiation beyond the visible red simply had to be paired to invisible radiation beyond the violet, a speculation in line with the Naturphilosophie he espoused when engaging in philosophical theorizing.
Ritter had a difficult writing style, a marked tendency to speculate to excess, and procrastinated heavily when it came to publishing detailed accounts of his investigations and discoveries. For these reasons, many of his findings went unnoticed, only to be soon independently rediscovered by other scientists. In the last years of his life, his scientific credibility was also damaged by his interest in occult phenomena, and more importantly by the inability of other scientists to reproduce his experiments in this area. Thus dismissed by most of his scientific peers, facing severe financial difficulties and family illnesses, Ritter died an embittered man a few weeks after his thirty-third birthday. It took over a century before his scientific work was given due credit.
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West Virginia rallies past Texas Tech
LUBBOCK, Texas — West Virginia coach Bob Huggins is glad he has a good bench when his starters get in foul trouble or are having a tough game.
"That's the good thing about this team, you know?" Huggins said. "Devin (Williams) gets in foul trouble, and Elijah (Macon) answers the bell. J.C. (Jevon Carter) gets in foul trouble, Tarik (Phillip) plays well. Jaysean (Paige) hadn't been playing very well, and he played pretty well today."
Phillip scored West Virginia's final eight points, and the sixth-ranked Mountaineers ended the game on a 10-2 run to rally for an 80-76 victory over Texas Tech on Saturday, snapping a two-game losing streak.
"That shows you how resilient we can be," Phillip said. "We knew this was a must-win for us. We had to leave everything on the floor."
The Red Raiders (12-6, 2-5 Big 12) were up 76-72 with 1 minute, 10 seconds remaining when Phillip hit a 3-pointer, converted a layup and a free throw off a steal and scored the Mountaineers' final points on a dunk just before the buzzer.
Phillip finished with 20 points, Paige 22 and Jonathan Holton 13 to lead the Mountaineers (16-3, 5-2).
There were 12 lead changes, the last when Patrick took over in the last minute.
Zach Smith scored a career-high 18 points and Toddrick Gotcher added 12 for Texas Tech.
"They did what they had to do to win the game," Texas Tech coach Tubby Smith said. "Unfortunately, we didn't. It's a tough loss for us. Just a hard-fought game. I thought our kids played hard today."
West Virginia scored 23 points off 17 Red Raiders turnovers, and the Mountaineers received 43 points from their bench.
"That's the problem with this league. There's too many good players on every team, and there's too many good coaches," Huggins said. "You can't outsmart anybody. The guys that make shots and the teams that play the best that day win."
The Red Raiders led for most of the second half. They missed just two of 34 free throws.
But the Mountaineers got 3-pointers when they needed them, hitting on 8 of 19 attempts.
Texas Tech put together a 13-3 run — including consecutive three-point plays from Smith and C.J. Williamson — to grab a 43-40 halftime lead.
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MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — A helicopter crashed in Alabama's Mobile Bay on a training mission, leaving one crewmember dead and three others missing, U.S. Coast Guard officials said.
Divers planned to return to the sunken wreckage after daylight Wednesday. Overnight fog had hampered searches from the air, Chief Petty Officer John Edwards said.
The MH-65C helicopter crashed Tuesday evening near Point Clear, Ala. One crewmember was found unresponsive and later declared dead, the Coast Guard said in a news release early Wednesday.
"Our main concern is locating the three remaining crewmembers," Bordelon told The Associated Press early Wednesday.
Edwards said divers overnight had gone to the site of the helicopter, in about 13 feet of water, but were unable to gain access to its fuselage. He said they planned to try again Wednesday morning with hopes of confirming whether the crewmembers were inside.
"The sun is up, which improves things greatly," Edwards said around 8 a.m. Wednesday.
The aircraft had departed the Aviation Training Center in Mobile, Ala., on a training mission earlier Tuesday, Bordelon said. Coast Guard officials say it went down about two to three miles southwest of Point Clear. The three missing are all Coast Guard members.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the crewmembers during this difficult time," Capt. Don Rose, commanding officer of Coast Guard Sector Mobile, said in a statement.
The Coast Guard said two helicopters, an airplane and several vessels were involved in the search.
The missing crew members are "very well outfitted with survival gear wearing cold weather exposure suits," Rose told WALA-TV.
National Weather Service officials said winds in the area Tuesday night were southeast at about 15 mph, with a water temperature of about 63 degrees.
The cause of the crash was under investigation.


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Roy Mincoff
Getting your first job is always tough, but in the media and entertainment industries it can be next to impossible. That is why the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) – including legal officer Roy Mincoff – is spearheading a campaign to ensure fair pay for some of the many hundreds of young people who take on internships in the industry every year.
Although internships have been considered normal in the journalism industry for many years, the current campaign began in 2009. In November that year intern Nicola Vetta took a film company to the Reading Employment Tribunal in a bid to recoup wages she believed she should have been paid.
Vetta was supported in her claim by the Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union (Bectu). Its assistant general secretary Martin Spence gave evidence at the hearing, which heard that Vetta had been engaged as an art assistant on a film on an 'expenses-only' basis. During her time on the film Vetta kept a record of the hours she worked and realised she should have been paid.
"There's no doubt that the claimant was a worker within the definition of 'worker' both in the National Minimum Wage and Working Time Regulations legislations," the tribunal found.
Vetta was awarded almost £2,400 in wages and accrued holiday.
The National Minimum Wage Act (1998) is clear on the issue. It states: "A person qualifies for the National Minimum Wage if he is an individual who (a) is a worker; (b) is working, or ordinarily works, in the UK under his contract; and (c) has ceased to be of compulsory school age."
Workers "participating in a scheme designed to provide training, work experience or temporary work" can be excluded from the minimum wage requirements. But most interns are not in such schemes.
Following the tribunal judgment the NUJ got involved with the campaign. The union is calling on interns to recover wages they could be entitled to via claims in employment tribunals or county courts.
According to the NUJ, interns could recoup up to £232 for each week they work. Although there is a three-month statute of limitation on employment tribunal claims, former interns have six years to pursue cases in county courts.
Mincoff says the NUJ has received a number of reports from members about the issue. "We'll be challenging for breaches of the minimum wage and also possibly the working time regulations, and reclaiming money for our members," he reveals.
When the NUJ gave evidence to the Low Pay Commission last year it emerged that only 30 per cent of unpaid journalist positions resulted in permanent jobs proving that, despite what many young people believe, slaving away as an intern is not an automatic route to a job.
The commission's National Minimum Wage Report 2010, published in March last year, states: "In its oral evidence the NUJ said that many people who were undertaking work experience were actually doing jobs that employers relied on, particularly in television and consumer magazines. It said that there was an oversupply of people desperate to work in the industry and employers have built unpaid work placements into their business models.
"In its oral evidence Bectu said that some well-established companies used the terms 'volunteer', 'intern', 'trainee' or 'work experience' in the entertainment industry to encourage people to undertake unpaid roles which included basic office work, digitising material and writing up transcripts."
Mincoff says that although the NUJ has no objection to "proper work experience" for students, there is a case to be brought on behalf of interns.
"I think it's an appalling abuse, frankly – it's trying to get cheap labour," he adds. "Sometimes they're not merely shadowing existing members of staff, but are doing work on their tod. What's happening at the moment is that far too many employers are taking liberties. It's not the way it should be and the union will fight hard to eliminate that practice."
The work on internships fits into the NUJ's wider legal fights for its members' employment rights. Other big issues at present include the redundancy programmes at many media organisations, including the BBC. Mincoff says many employers have failed to consult adequately during the job losses.
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The most recent case, and one of the most high-profile redundancy programmes in the media, concerns cuts at the BBC World Service. The NUJ is heavily involved in seeking a positive outcome for the journalists involved.
"It's a great shame not just that an awful lot of people will be losing their jobs but also the effect this will have on Britain and its reputation in the world," Mincoff says.
Like other unions, the NUJ will turn to strike action when needs be. But Mincoff stresses this is a last resort.
"It's not something we'd wish to be doing," he says. "We'd rather discuss sensibly with employers. With goodwill there can be a meeting of minds to the extent that a solution is achievable."
Mincoff sees the legal work carried out by the NUJ on behalf of journalists as not only supporting the individuals involved but also the industry.
"You can cut corners and cut corners but somewhere along the way you're not going to get anything out that's worth reading or seeing," he says.
"Quality is already falling, and if that continues it will reach a stage where the public won't take it anymore. If employers want to go down that route, profits will go down."


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Brian Lara, former West Indies captain
Sometimes you play a good session or two but against Australia you need to play 15 aggressive sessions.
You can't play a patience game with them. They take command and like to take command and if you let them, they will.
I think you've got to match them, stride for stride, but you've also got to be very consistent and it's got to be over a long period of time
Jacques Kallis, South Africa all-rounder
If they get the ball in the right areas and their top four batsmen can come through they will certainly push Australia but it's going to be a tough series.
They are going to need a bit of luck to go their way
Stephen Fleming, New Zealand captain
And I think England have got the calibre of player in that side now to genuinely say that they can compete
New Zealand have competed for period of time but the trick is to compete for an entire series.
I guess that's the challenge: maintaining a higher standard for a longer period of time.
John Crawley, former England batsman
It's good to see Kevin Pietersen in the side because you need people to take the attack to Australia, otherwise they'll try and bully everyone.
Their game plan is to wait for English batsmen to nudge and nurdle so we should send Kev and Freddie Flintoff in there and go for it.
If you lose you lose but you might as well go down trying.
Sanath Jayasuriya, former Sri Lanka captain
They have to keep bowling in the right areas, fielding, catching everything and batting really well.
They cannot have any weaknesses in any area if they are to beat Australia.
Craig McMillan, New Zealand batsman
More often Australia grab those turning points because of their brilliance and their experience.
You just have to hang tough and grab those moments and you'll see England being very successful this summer.
Graeme Smith, South Africa captain
Australia keep you under pressure from ball one to the last ball if a Test match.
England have players capable of handling that but they must exert more pressure on Australia too.
England have slowly built up a squad that is working well together and I do believe in home conditions.
It is going to be a tough series for England.


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Around the State: 2,600 Thanksgiving meals
- December 9, 2013
- By Staff / Baptist Standard
Members of Oak View Baptist Church in Irving provided 2,600 Thanksgiving meals to apartment residents and also donated meals to the homeless as a part of Serving Irving, a ministry nearly two decades old. The cooking team, shown above sporting 'fowl' headwear, prepared turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, cranberry sauce, green beans, rolls and pie. Along with the meals, volunteers distributed Bibles and gospel tracts and received prayer requests. Members served on a variety of teams including promotion, baking, packaging, cooking and serving.
Two teams of Howard Payne University debaters traveled to Oxford, England, to compete in the Oxford Inter-Varsity International Debate Tournament. Debaters included Jared Russell from Hillsboro, Kaleigh Tankersley from Iraan, Marcos Corley from Corpus Christi and Catherine Mullaney from Boylston, Mass. Dorie Walton from Lolita served as a judge for the competition. Faculty members traveling with the team were Julie Welker and Kim Bryant.
Matt Farmer to the ministry at Calvary Baptist Church in Brenham, Dec. 8.
Robert Rodriguez as a deacon at First Baptist Church in Odem, Nov. 24.
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High School Hockey Tonight, Part II | Feb. 14, 2012
Posted by: Feldman
Games like this are why we love sports.
Games like this are why the 40 players who dress for tonight's game started playing hockey. Of course, regardless of who wins tonight's intra-city showdown for the Big Nine Conference championship, both Rochester Century and Rochester Mayo will still have at least a couple of games left to play this season.
Neither team's season is on the line tonight, but, bragging rights and adding another conference title to their resume are.
This is it. One game. Winner take all for the conference championship. The only way the Big Nine title isn't decided tonight is if Mayo and Century tie. Century takes a one-point lead in the Big Nine standings into the 7:30 p.m. game at the Rec Center.
This is Century's final conference game; Mayo has one more remaining after tonight, on Saturday against Winona.
If Century wins tonight, it will have 31 points in the standings, while Mayo will have 28. A Mayo victory would give the Spartans a 30-29 advantage. A tie tonight would give Century 30 points, Mayo 29, and both teams would have to hold their breath until Mayo and Winona meet on Saturday afternoon at Graham I.
I won't begin to make a prediction on this game because these intra-city games never seem to go the way I think they will. These teams know each other so well, that they almost always play to one- or two-goal games. Check out the scores from this season's games between Rochester's three Big Nine teams:
JM 4, Mayo 3
JM 5, Century 4
Mayo 3, JM 2
Century 4, JM 1
Mayo 3, Century 1
Mayo 4, JM 1
That's three one-goal games, a two-goal game (including an empty net goal) and two three-goal games.
I guess that means this game will come down to defensive zone play and the goalies -- Century's Erik Wennberg and Mayo's Case Hansen.
For the record, Mayo last won a Big 9 title in 2002. Century shared the conference title in 2010 (with Faribault) and 2009 (with Albert Lea). The Panthers last won the conference outright in 2007, when they went unbeaten in Big 9 play.


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PART SEVEN: Adding an iPod Data Integration unit.
Now this part will complete your DIY project and pretty much put a nice cherry on the cake since iPod integration is a MUST HAVE for those of us with iPods and iPhones.
For folks that do not have a BMW Sirius Receiver, and do not have a BMW Factory CD Changer in the trunk you can breeze thru this part and connect your DICE or USA-SPEC or other Data Unit to the pre-wired CD Changer cables that are in your in the trunk as shown in PART SIX ( the felt wrapped cables that I'm seen unwrapping to connect to my Sirius Receiver).
If your BMW E46 did not come with any prewiring for the CD Changer you will need to buy the Data Link Cable BMW Part# 61128374683 which costs around $40 to $60 at the dealership and install it yourself from the Data Link Port #1 to your iPod Data Unit. Those doing it this way will have the advantage of leaving everything inside the cabin of the car since you can opt to keep everything behind the dash area.
Those who are using a Sirius Receiver or a CD Changer already in the trunk will have to get the Slave Data Connector OEM Part #84110150526 and use it to connect the iPod Data Unit directly to the Sirius/CD Changer which will in turn connect the iPod Data Unit to the car. So when MODE is selected after SIRIUS you will access your iPod as if it is a CD Changer.
Picture of Slave Cable below borrowed from SNA77.
I previously planned on using Data Port #2 on back of the business CD53 Radio to support the iPod Data in the identical way that Data Port #1 supports the CD Changer/Sirius but I was
Port #2 will
on its own for Data Input support. You can add your iPod Data or 2nd Data Source (IE. CD Changer slaved to Sirius) with a Slave Data Extension Cable branching off the Sirius Receiver/CD Changer. In this case the BMW system gives hierarchy to Sirius as master always and the Data iPod or CD Changer Slaved off of it. If Sirius isn't present but a CD Changer is then the CD Changer must be the Master to Data iPod.
That said you most likely CANNOT have ALL THREE (iPod/Sirius/CD Changer) in your car at once using just the normal Data Link Pre Wiring Cable and Slave Data Cable.
There is a DIY-mentioning from last year where a member at e46fanatics
from Columbia, SC discovered, while trying to remedy the DICE/Sirius ghost feedback/alternator background noise, that you can actually splice the trunk bound ends of the main Data Link Pre-wire Cable and create two sets or multiple sets of Data Link ends off the main cable leaving the Data Link Port #1 on the back of the CD53 head unit. Then with placement of a homemade toggle switch along the junction where the separate branches meet BMWAudio32 was able to choose from multiple Data Sources (whether it be iPod, Sirius or CD Changer) in his car by flipping the homemade switch between the branches when the SIRIUS/CD CHANGER MODE was selected. This method successfully "fooled" the head unit into thinking there was one only data source when they were actually multiple. The only downside is the DIY time and skill required as well as the non-OEM look of the homemade switch placed in the cabin. Other than that it allowed for multiple Data sources that did not interfere with each other at all and eventually created the best solution for dealing with DICE/Sirius/CD Changer interference noise and issues when slaving various Data Sources.
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That brings me to my choice in the USA-Spec which was very well reviewed and introduced to the e46 community by Steve325i from e46fanatics. As a less popular unit than the DICE, The USA-Spec is cheaper and has all the features of the DICE including an RCA Aux In Port. The only reported disadvantage of the Spec to the DICE is you are only allowed access to up to 5 User-Set Playlists (Or the option to just Play ALL SONGS on iPod) while the iPod is in fully integrated mode.
The DICE allows for access to more or all the Playlists on your iPod and text display is given for the Playlist. The USA-Spec was fine for me since with Sirius, AM/FM, 100s of songs on my MP3 Data CDs, and AUX input in my car I already have unlimited access to hours upon hours of fresh music. Accessing only 5 Playlists off my iPod would not kill me or be a deal breaker. Albeit the 5 User-set Playlist can have unlimited amount of music in each playlist with respect to the size of your iPod.
So you CANNOT argue that the Spec gives you access to "less" music than the DICE would. It just gives you access to less playlists than the DICE would.
Said and done my install, after a few Darwinian/Homer Simpson moments, ended beautifully. The USA-Spec, when done properly, installs and works smoothly without any of the reported issues you get from the DICE.
You MUST fully unplug your CD53 Radio and unplug your car's battery before connecting the iPod Data Module to the car. I forgot to do this on my first attempt and my Odometer/OBC and Radio Display fizzled and pop and the text display went all Klingon on me.
I quickly disconnected everything immediately and was lucky enough to not damage anything.
After the second install attempt went smoothly I opted to run the Spec's long Data Cable into the cabin from the trunk to the USA-Spec Module in the glove box area. The Spec also comes with a lengthy iPod Cable, though not as durable as the burly Data Cable, which I snaked under the centre console/arm rest area.
Unlike others that did this before me I did not drill holes or cut and splice cables to squeeze my iPod into the E46 Armrest's tight lid pocket. Nor did I want my iPod out in the open and in the way.
I wanted to get in the car plug the iPod in and lock it away in such a place that it would be fairly immune to theft
(IE. Not in the glove box or ashtray),
not taking up visual space in the dash/console area yet still be easy and quick to access.
The best place I found was
my Euro Tray. There the iPod Touch could fit, be out of the way and accessible in seconds by pulling up the Euro Tray
(or cup holders if that is what you have).
the coin holder that rotates/flips up
(it usually comes standard behind the cup holder on the USA E46 cars)
will not give enough space for a large size iPod (like a Touch). You will need to replace it with some version a Euro Tray or the flat storage tray that sits behind the cup holders/or short Euro Tray and replaces the coin holder. In the picture below the Red X denotes what NOT to get. The other segments are fine for storing your iPod under. (Also there is a very rare segment that is a small flat open holder tray) not shown here that directly replaces the coin holder in the rear space behind the either the USA cup holder or short euro tray that will also work.
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This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery. Please follow the links below for related online resources or visit our current exhibitions schedule.
The Norton Simon Foundation and the National Gallery of Art have recently entered into a long-term arrangement whereby selected masterpieces from each collection will be lent to the other institution to hang temporarily with its permanent collection.
Norton Simon (1907–1993), one of the great collectors of his age, established the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena in 1975 to allow public access to his art treasures. European painting of the 19th century is one of the major strengths of the collection, with more than 130 works that span the entire century. Among the most impressive of these is Ragpicker by Edouard Manet, which was purchased by Simon in 1968.
The Norton Simon's Ragpicker and the National Gallery's Old Musician and Tragic Actor (Rouvière as Hamlet), are from a series of monumental figural compositions that Manet painted in the 1860s, inspired by the old masters, particularly 17th-century Spanish painter Diego Velázquez. Manet's debt to Velázquez is evident in the compositions of Ragpicker and Tragic Actor, with nearly life-sized figures placed against an ambiguous backdrop that give the works an austere, theatrical appearance. The influence of Velázquez can also be recognized in the relatively somber palette and vibrant brushwork of all three paintings. Even the humble subject matter is rooted in the traditions of 17th-century art, which Manet adapted to create direct and unsentimental images of people on the margins of society.
Organization: Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Norton Simon Foundation, Pasadena, California.
Sponsors: The exhibition is sponsored by The Exhibition Circle of the National Gallery of Art.
Schedule: National Gallery of Art, Washington, May 22–November 29, 2009


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How to Make Tiramisu
Have I ever mentioned that my most favorite dessert in the whole wide WORLD is Tiramisu? I am completely totally madly deeply passionately spoon over container in love with it. What's not to love right? It's made with a creamy MASCARPONE mixture that is sandwiched between espresso dipped lady finger layers. Add to that a splash of Amaretto and a dusting a dark chocolate cocoa powder. How can that be bad?
I actually shared a Tiramisu recipe with you way back in the day (2009) when no one was reading my blog but my family and a few friends who I made look at it when they came to visit. Okay maybe a few other people (and thank you for sticking it out it wasn't pretty back then, almost like looking at your HS yearbook yikes ) so I thought I would revisit some of my early on recipes that I happen to love and adore and think you will too.
I tweaked my original recipe a bit, this one is lighter and fluffier and I've made it in individual portions (I used DURALEX 8 3/4 oz glasses). I like to think that makes it easier to eat a reasonable portion. But sadly it hasn't stopped me from eating two, or three. Okay just two. Now I know this will be hard but trust me it's better the next day. Make these the night before, cover them with plastic wrap (you don't want your Tiramisu smelling like onions or last night's pasta do you?) and pop them into the fridge until the next day.
Now who's ready for a pick me up?
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How to Make Tiramisu
- 5 eggs - room temperature, separated
- 5 tablespoon sugar
- 2 small containers Mascarpone – room temperature
- 2 tablespoons Amaretto di Saronno
- 24 soft lady fingers
- 1 cup Espresso – cooled
- dark cocoa powder
- Into the bowl of your mixer add egg yolks and sugar. Using WHISK attachment, mix for 5 minutes until eggs are creamy, fluffy and light in color.
- Add mascarpone. Continue mixing until smooth and creamy. Add Amaretto. Mix to combine. Transfer to separate bowl. Set aside.
- Into the bowl of your mixer whip egg whites to a stiff peak. Gentlly fold mascarpone mixture with egg whites. Transfer mixture to a large piping bag.
- Place a bowl nearby with cooled espresso.
- To assemble: Lightly brush 2 ladyfingers with espresso. Press into bottom of glass. Pipe cream mixture 1/4 way up. Add another 2 ladyfingers brushed with espresso. Pipe another layer of cream mixture. Same pattern with remaining glasses.
- Cover glasses with saran wrap and refrigerate over night. Before serving LIGHTLY dust top with cocoa powder.
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This is simply lovely! Great recipe!2
I've always wanted to make my own tiramisu, but was intimated. You've inspired me to give it a try! Whenever I create this, I'll let you know. =)3
How beautiful! Tiramisu is one of my favorites too!4
I wanted so badly to just scroll right past this post as soon as I saw the title, since tiramisu is a favorite of my husband's…but I just kept looking at the pretty pictures [individual servings!!!] and well…now I added mascarpone and lady fingers to my shopping list! 🙂5
Tiramisu is straight up James's favorite dessert. Any menu he sees it on, he just HAS to order it. Last year when I made tiramisu with Spicy Eggnog Coffee, I swear to you, he ate the whole damn tray.6
This sounds so easy to make and only 7 ingredients. Love that it's served in layers in a glass to. Looks so delicious.7
I love that these are served this way. I love Tiramisu…and well it's hard to stop at one piece sometimes. 🙂 Great recipe Paula!8
Love this! Hmm, you're inspiring me to think of a vegan version of this beautiful dessert!9
GETTTT OUTTTTTT. Actually, get IN my mouth.10
Such a classic!
I just went to look at your old photos–yep, still better than my current ones! You want to see bad old photos, try my site! 😉11
This is lovely. Tiramisu is my absolute favorite. So glad to have your recipe!12
Tiramisu is wonderul. I'll have to make your version of it soon. Thanks for the post.13
Oooh! I have never tried making Tiramisu, now I absolutely must try. Yum.14
I've only had tiramisu once and I loved it! Looks mega-fantastic!15
I can't believe I've never made tiramisu at home. I only get it at when we go out to eat. This looks fantastic! I need to try it out soon.16
Delizioso! I also just love tiramisu. You're too hard on yourself…I love your older posts:)xx17
Tiramisu is an exotic, special dessert. Somehow the pictures and steps, make it seem easy. I hope to try.18
YUMMY!!!!! Enjoyed eating Paula's tiramisu at her house and it was delicious!!!!!19
I can't think of a single thing I'd rather have more than GOOD tiramisu. Sigh…20
I think I just died! Looks great Paula!21
This was SO DELICIOUS! I loved it. Thank you for sharing.22
I've made tiramisu once before but the ladyfingers got really soggy. Is that how it's supposed to be? I want it to remain its crunch.
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R S Sharma appointed MSRTC's security officer
November 24, 2003 21:47 IST
Last Updated: November 24, 2003 22:21 IST
Former Mumbai police commissioner Ranjit Singh Sharma, under a cloud over his role in the fake stamp paper racket, was on Monday appointed as chief security officer of the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation.
He was removed from the police commissioner's post on November 18 after a Special Investigating Team report pointed out the lapses on his part in the investigation into the fake stamp paper racket and posted as Additional Director General of Police (Administration) in the state police headquarters.
The latest transfer was part of a reshuffle in the higher echelons of the state police in which Additional DGP (Law &Order) Kamal Kishore Kashyap, an IPS officer of 1969 batch, was promoted as DGP and asked to take charge of the Home Guards and Civil Defence Directorate, sources said.
ADGP (Anti Corruption Bureau) Rahul Gopal will take Kashyap's place as ADGP (Law & Order) while ADGP (Establishment) Dhananjay Jadhav will be new ADGP (Administration). Principal Secretary (Home) J D Virkar will replace Jadhav.
State home department sources said the prime reason for moving Sharma out of the post of ADGP (Administration) is that he is on leave and is unlikely to resume duty with his retirement due on November 30.
Meanwhile, state home department sources said the government is likely to issue a fresh promotion list for officers of the rank of Special IGPS.
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request 718.111(12)
See REQUEST TO ACCESS ASSOCIATION RECORDS (DIVISION FORM)
The official records of the association are open to inspection and copying by any association member and shall be made available to a unit owner within 5 working days after receipt of a written request. If you are not provided with access to the records as requested with a second attempt by certified mail (See FS 718.501(1)(d) 7.) please contact the Division. H 995 created -- effective October 2008 -- subpoena power for the Division to require production of requested records.
If you make a record request, always state that you want to "INSPECT" the records, don't ask to get copies. The association (or CAM) can't charge you for inspecting the records, only for making copies. And since the new law, effective July 1, 2013, allows you to bring your own scanning (copying) device to the inspection, you can actually get your copies for free, if you make copies with your own device.
If it's the CAM that gives you grief over your record request make sure you remind him/her of the new provision in FS 468.436(2)(b)7. Violating any provision of chapter 718, chapter 719, or chapter 720 during the course of performing community association management services pursuant to a contract with a community association as defined in s. 468.431(1). File a complaint with CAM Licensing. No more excuse: "I acted on orders of the board!" CAMs can now be held liable for their own actions!
FS 718.501(1)(d) 7. If a unit owner presents the division with proof that the unit owner has requested access to official records in writing by certified mail, and that after 10 days the unit owner again made the same request for access to official records in writing by certified mail, and that more than 10 days has elapsed since the second request and the association has still failed or refused to provide access to official records as required by this chapter, the division shall issue a subpoena requiring production of the requested records where the records are kept pursuant to s. 718.112.
Ramsey Agan and Grace Agan, v. Plaza East Association, Inc.
No. 2003-09-2374
FS 718.111(12) OFFICIAL RECORDS (NEW July 1, 2013)
(a) From the inception of the association, the association shall maintain each of the following items, if applicable, which shall constitute the official records of the association:
1. A copy of the plans, permits, warranties, and other items provided by the developer pursuant to s. 718.301(4).
2. A photocopy of the recorded declaration of condominium of each condominium operated by the association and of each amendment to each declaration.
3. A photocopy of the recorded bylaws of the association and of each amendment to the bylaws.
4. A certified copy of the articles of incorporation of the association, or other documents creating the association, and of each amendment thereto.
5. A copy of the current rules of the association.
6. A book or books which contain the minutes of all meetings of the association, of the board of administration, and of unit owners, which minutes must be retained for at least 7 years.
7. A current roster of all unit owners and their mailing addresses, unit identifications, voting certifications, and, if known, telephone numbers. The association shall also maintain the electronic mailing addresses and the numbers designated by unit owners for receiving notice sent by electronic transmission of those unit owners consenting to receive notice by electronic transmission. The electronic mailing addresses and telephone numbers must be removed from association records if consent to receive notice by electronic transmission is revoked. However, the association is not liable for an erroneous disclosure of the electronic mail address or the number for receiving electronic transmission of notices.
8. All current insurance policies of the association and condominiums operated by the association.
9. A current copy of any management agreement, lease, or other contract to which the association is a party or under which the association or the unit owners have an obligation or responsibility.
10. Bills of sale or transfer for all property owned by the association.
11. Accounting records for the association and separate accounting records for each condominium which the association operates. All accounting records shall be maintained for at least a period of not less than 7 years. Any person who knowingly or intentionally defaces or destroys accounting records required to be created and maintained by this chapter during the period for which such records are required to be maintained, or who knowingly or intentionally fails to create or maintain such accounting records required to be maintained by this chapter, with the intent of causing harm to the association or one or more of its members, is personally subject to a civil penalty pursuant to s. 718.501(1)(d). The accounting records must shall include, but are not limited to:
a. Accurate, itemized, and detailed records of all receipts and expenditures.
b. A current account and a monthly, bimonthly, or quarterly statement of the account for each unit designating the name of the unit owner, the due date and amount of each assessment, the amount paid upon the account, and the balance due.
c. All audits, reviews, accounting statements, and financial reports of the association or condominium.
d. All contracts for work to be performed. Bids for work to be performed are also be considered official records and must be maintained by the association.
12. Ballots, sign-in sheets, voting proxies, and all other papers relating to voting by unit owners, which must be maintained for 1 year from the date of the election, vote, or meeting to which the document relates, notwithstanding paragraph (b).
13. All rental records, if the association is acting as agent for the rental of condominium units.
14. A copy of the current question and answer sheet as described in s. 718.504.
15. All other records of the association not specifically included in the foregoing which are related to the operation of the association.
16. A copy of the inspection report as provided in s. 718.301(4)(p).
(b) The official records of the association must be maintained within the state for at least 7 years. The records of the association shall be made available to a unit owner within 45 miles of the condominium property or within the county in which the condominium property is located within 5 working days after receipt of written request by the board or its designee. However, such distance requirement does not apply to an association governing a timeshare condominium. This paragraph may be complied with by having a copy of the official records of the association available for inspection or copying on the condominium property or association property, or the association may offer the option of making the records available to a unit owner electronically via the Internet or by allowing the records to be viewed in electronic format on a computer screen and printed upon request. The association is not responsible for the use or misuse of the information provided to an association member or his or her authorized representative pursuant to the compliance requirements of this chapter unless the association has an affirmative duty not to disclose such information pursuant to this chapter.
(c) The official records of the association are open to inspection by any
association member or the authorized representative of such member at all reasonable times. The right to inspect the records includes the right to make
or obtain copies, at the reasonable expense, if any, of the member. The
(d) The association shall prepare a question and answer sheet as described in s. 718.504, and shall update it annually.
(e)1. The association or its authorized agent is not required to provide a prospective purchaser or lienholder with information about the condominium or the association other than information or documents required by this chapter to be made available or disclosed. The association or its authorized agent may charge a reasonable fee to the prospective purchaser, lienholder, or the current unit owner for providing good faith responses to requests for information by or on behalf of a prospective purchaser or lienholder, other than that required by law, if the fee does not exceed $150 plus the reasonable cost of photocopying and any attorney's fees incurred by the association in connection with the response.
2. An association and its authorized agent are not liable for providing such information in good faith pursuant to a written request if the person providing the information includes a written statement in substantially the following form: "The responses herein are made in good faith and to the best of my ability as to their accuracy."


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Design Hunter™ Q&A with Paul McGillick
Writer, Editor and academic in an eclectic range of disciplines spanning architecture, design and linguistics, Paul McGillick's contributions to discussions of aesthetics and communication are numerous and important. This week Habitusliving learns a little about what inspires him
Where do you live?
I live in the rain forest at Hornsby Heights
Who do you live with?
I live with my Chinese wife, Charmaine
What is your occupation?
I am writer and an editor
What are you working on currently?
I am working on several books
What is on your desk right now?
At home, my book on the painter, Geoffrey de Groen
What are you listening to?
I am mainly listening to early liturgical music (Victoria, di Lasso, Zelenka), and always Bach
Who inspires you?
Bach and Matisse
What is your favourite philosophy?
Currently, I am totally immersed in the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
What are your plans for 2012?
To put Marcus Aurelius's precepts into practice
How do you define a Design Hunter™?
A design hunter is someone who only wants quality in their life. The design hunter obeys William Morris's injunction: Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.


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Original journalism from the Center's OpenSecrets Blog
John Oliver 1, Big Chicken 0?
July 13, 2015 | John Oliver, comedic anchorman of HBO show "Last Week Tonight," made feathers fly when he took on the poultry industry in a May 2015 episode. Last week, it became clear that his gripe with Big Chicken had echoed all the way to the Capitol. Oliver used his HBO show to attack the giant poultry processors —…
Bad News for Incumbents, Self-Financing Candidates in Most Expensive Midterm Election in U.S. History
November 4, 2010 | The priciest midterm election in U.S. history saw a Republican tide sweep numerous Democrats out of office, as voters anxious about the state of the economy ousted more House incumbents from office than any time since 1948. While several money-in-politics axioms held true, money was not a panacea for embattled politicians.
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 4/1/2013 (1664 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The case against a Winnipeg man accused of failing to stop his wife from committing suicide is in danger of falling apart, the Free Press has learned.
The Crown's key witness went missing, only to be found days later in a B.C. hospital with critical injuries following a mysterious accident.
Christopher Paul Henderson, 46, was arrested in August 2011 on charges of criminal negligence causing death and failing to provide the necessities of life. A preliminary hearing was set to begin next week.
But Crown attorney Nancy Fazenda requested an indefinite adjournment Friday on the grounds there is no case to present at this time.
Fazenda said she sent a subpoena last month to a woman who will present the bulk of the evidence against Henderson. When she couldn't be located, Winnipeg police began hunting for her. They tracked her down to a Penticton, B.C., hospital after she fell from an apartment balcony, court was told.
"Obviously, she's in no position to attend court. She's vital to the Crown's case," said Fazenda. "This witness can give very insightful evidence into the mindset of Mr. Henderson."
She detailed the woman's injuries, which include multiple broken bones, severe internal injuries and a shattered pelvis.
No other details about the fall were provided.
The witness already underwent emergency surgeries and will require further operations, followed by a lengthy rehabilitation, court was told.
Fazenda estimated it will be until at least next summer before the woman might be available to attend court and testify.
That prompted Henderson's lawyer, Ryan Amy, to ask that the case be ordered to proceed against his client without the witness. If the Crown is unable to prove the case, then Henderson should go free, he argued.
"Without this witness, the Crown does not have a case," Amy said.
He believes Henderson would ultimately be acquitted, saying the Crown is attempting to provide a "novel legal argument" that will likely fail.
Amy said he plans to challenge the witness about her testimony, including her state of sobriety at the time of the incident that led to his client's arrest.
"He's been waiting for this matter to proceed. Mr. Henderson denies any criminal wrongdoing," Amy said Friday.
Henderson's 55-year-old common-law wife, Darlene Westaway, died in October 2010 after police allege the two were drinking at her residence and she threatened to kill herself.
Police allege Henderson left the home and returned later, finding the woman was dead.
Police claim some time elapsed before the man called emergency officials about Westaway's death, which is expected to be the main issue in the case.
Provincial court Judge Wanda Garreck agreed with the Crown's request Friday to adjourn the preliminary hearing, but ordered lawyers to return to court on Feb. 5 with an update on the witness's condition.
Amy reserved the right to file a motion to dismiss the case on the basis of unreasonable delay, and Fazenda conceded the Crown may have to re-evaluate its position.
Henderson remains in custody.
He was originally granted bail, only to be re-arrested for allegedly violating his release conditions.
Westaway's family and friends have told the Free Press she battled mental illness and believe her death should have been prevented.
They said Westaway, a former gas company employee, was diagnosed years earlier with bipolar disorder and her quality of life gradually deteriorated.


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Maury Drummond, the former executive director of the USS Kidd Veterans Memorial & Museum for 22 years, said Tuesday that his reputation has been unfairly and cruelly maligned by recent reports suggesting he mismanaged the commission and was responsible for the agency's financial problems.
The state Legislative Auditor's Office on Monday released an accountant's review of the small state agency's 2013 finances. The independent report flagged the agency for inadequate record keeping, questionable purchases and a $300,000 debt to the Louisiana Office of Risk Management for unpaid insurance premiums.
The audit also noted that the last three years of spending under the agency is being investigated by the Inspector General's Office, in particular for the "questionable spending" by Drummond.
"It's been very painful," Drummond said. "I spent all those years at the USS Kidd to have all this in the paper. I care too much about the exhibits. I care too much about the Fourth of July."
Drummond, a former LSU basketball star, ended his long career with the famed naval destroyer memorial in December, citing health concerns. He was given a "meritorious service" award by the commission upon his retirement and honored with a ceremony praising his dedication.
He was succeeded by Alex Juan, who previously worked as his administrative assistant. Juan had served as a captain and public affairs officer with the 159th Fighter Wing of the Louisiana Air National Guard.
In an emotional phone call with a reporter on Tuesday, Drummond said he and his wife are devastated by the suggestions of his mismanagement. He added that the allegations have effectively undone all the hard work he's poured into the agency for two decades. He also said he was considering legal options to clear his name.
"They can look all they want, but they won't find anything that my wife and I did wrong," he said. "We care too much about it. We did everything we could, going as far as building exhibits at 1 in the morning, installing and hammering exhibits in the middle of the night."
Drummond said he has not once been contacted or questioned by officials with the Legislative Auditor's or the state Inspector General's offices. He said if somebody had contacted him, he could have explained some of the issues in the Monday report.
The review found that the Louisiana Naval War Memorial Commission owes the Louisiana Office of Risk Management $334,440 in unpaid insurance premiums. Drummond said the commission was aware of the debt but realized that the agency with its modest self-generated revenues could not keep up with the climbing premiums.
He said the agency paid as much as they could every year but couldn't catch up. But he said the Office of Risk Management was aware of their situation and never canceled their insurance or rejected their claims.
Juan said the agency is paying $5,000 per month to pay the down the debt.
The audit also took issue with a lack of management oversight and proper documentation for spending. Out of 145 items tested in the audit, 74 lacked "proper support to provide assurance that the expenditure was a legitimate business expense." One of the items was a personal expenditure not reimbursed by the employee, and another item was a gift card with no specified business purpose.
Drummond said he could have provided documentation for expenditures if anyone had bothered to ask him.
"This check I wrote to buy a gift card was for an employee of the month," he said. "That's how silly some of this is."
Drummond also said he was disappointed in Juan's decision to cancel Fourth of July activities at the Kidd, including the mock aerial attack and allowing people to watch the fireworks from the ship.
Juan said in July that she and the commission had concerns about safety and being able to finance the event that led them to cancel the Baton Rouge Independence Day festivities.
"I can assure you the funding for the Fourth of July was available; you just got to go raise it," Drummond said. "They don't just come and hand you a check."
He said he had previously secured corporate sponsors to help fund the events.
Juan said she was disappointed to hear that Drummond was cross with her and continues to have a "great deal of respect" for the work he's done.
"I'm sorry he feels that I'm doing something to him, but I do have to cooperate with the auditors and they follow the money trail," Juan said. "It's not my place to question them on the ongoing financial review."
Officials with the Inspector General's Office said they don't comment on ongoing investigations and didn't know when the report would be released.
Follow Rebekah Allen on Twitter, @rebekahallen. For coverage of city-parish government, follow City Hall Buzz blog at http://blogs.theadvocate.com/cityhallbuzz/.


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Groundbreaking ceremony planned for Aspinwall Riverfront Park
The portion of Aspinwall Riverfront Park known as "west park" will be the site of a groundbreaking ceremony later this month.
The ceremony will begin at 1:30 p.m. Nov. 16 at the park off of Freeport Road before the borough's annual holiday-season celebration.
Susan Crookston, who has led efforts to develop the park, said people from the community are invited to bring shovels and join in the event.
After the work volunteers and members of the community have put in, she said, she is pleased with the progression.
"It's fantastic to be at this point," Crookston said. "We're so blessed and lucky in every way."
"West park," will be the more natural part of the land. Crookston said organizers hope to be able to develop the eastern part of the park quickly, and work could be done on both at the same time.
Work to make the area a park began in 2010, when organizers started efforts to buy the land.
Numerous community fundraisers have helped raise money for the project.
Participants at the groundbreaking will be given a bulb to plant at the park that will serve as a reminder of the event, Crookston said. She said she wants as many people as possible to be involved.
"The whole community made this happen, and we want the whole community to be here and a part of it," Crookston said.
Once the park is completed, it is slated to feature playground areas, an amphitheater and a sled-riding area, among other amenities.
After years of working to make the park a reality, Crookston said, she is excited about the possibility that people will be able to use at least part of the site soon.
"It's exciting to think that this time next year, people will be enjoying it," Crookston said.
Tom McGee is an associate editor for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-856-7400, ext. 1513, or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Sydney (AFP) June 18, 2013
Australian scientists Tuesday said they had identified a possible 280 additional craters on the Moon, a finding they said could shed light on the history of the Earth's natural satellite.
By combining gravity and topography data collected by satellites, the scientists from Curtin University in Western Australia were able to use computer modelling to at first identify two basins on the far side of the Moon.
They later developed a high-resolution image to find a total of 280 "candidate basins" which they suspect are craters.
"There are many more (craters) that have been mapped from optical observations or from just the shape of the topography," researcher Will Featherstone told AFP.
"So there's many, many craters that were already known, we've just been able to apply this technique to enhance the ones that aren't so easy to see.
"What we have been able to use is the topography and the gravity together to get a stronger indication that there is something there that needs further investigation."
Featherstone said the researchers looked at the lunar surface on both the near and far sides of the Moon, the dark side being more challenging because satellites cannot be tracked from Earth when they are on that side.
To get around this, the researchers used data gathered from a mission which used multiple satellites which were tracking each other as they circled the Moon.
"So when the satellite orbiting the Moon went behind the far side and they couldn't be seen from Earth, they could be seen by other satellites," he said.
Featherstone said of the 280 possible craters, the researchers had classified 66 of them as distinctly visible according to both gravity and topography.
"Scientists can, instead of looking at every square inch of the Moon looking for basins, they can target these areas," he said.
"It just helps investigations of the Moon and the history of the Moon and the solar system," he added.
The team has also done some work on the gravity of Mars and Featherstone said other data sets were also available for Venus and other planets.
He said scientists were optimistic about further discoveries from applying their techniques to new gravity data from NASA's GRAIL mission, which ended in late 2012 when the two satellites - named Ebb and Flow - were deliberately crashed on the Moon.
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The Pending Home Sales Index, a forward-looking indicator based on contract signings, increased 7.3 percent to 100.1 in November from an upwardly revised 93.3 in October and is 5.9 percent above November 2010 when it stood at 94.5. The October upward revision resulted in a 10.4 percent monthly gain.
Existing-home sales rose again in November and remain above a year ago, according to the National Association of Realtors®. Also released today were periodic benchmark revisions with downward adjustments to sales and inventory data since 2007, led by a decline in for-sale-by-owners.
Realtors® recently rated many exterior improvements as among the most valuable home investment projects as part of the 2011-12 Remodeling Cost vs. Value Report.
A recent survey by Houselogic.com, the consumer website from the National Association of Realtors®, finds nearly one-third of respondents said housing will be the top issue on their mind when they head to the polls next November.
The National Association of Realtors® supports legislation introduced today that provides sensible reform of the secondary mortgage market and protects the interest of taxpayers.
Reforming the secondary mortgage market is essential to ensuring a reliable source of mortgage lending for consumers in all types of markets and is integral to the nation's economic and housing recovery.
Public and private sector workers in the northwestern U.S. have limited access for affordable housing. In response, the National Association of Realtors®, in partnership with the National Housing Conference, will host a forum today in Portland, Ore., to address this crisis and encourage efforts to make housing more affordable to working class families.
The Federal Housing Administration mortgage insurance program plays an important and vital role in the nation's housing financing system and has shown tremendous leadership and strength during the economic crisis, the National Association of Realtors® said in testimony today.
Pending home sales rose strongly in October and remain above year-ago levels, according to the National Association of Realtors®.
Commercial real estate markets have been relatively flat this year, but improving fundamentals mean a more positive trend is expected in 2012, according to the National Association of Realtors®.


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I am always on the lookout for artists specializing in birds. Recently I became aware of the work of Paul Nelson of Minneapolis, MN. Paul combines studio photography, seamless background and flash, with wild birds in flight. The result is amazing. The bird's wingbeats are frozen like you've never seen before and the image is frozen in white space.
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Lady Gaga Planning a Guest Judge Appearance on 'So You Think You Can Dance'
The Gagafication of all things pop culture continues: Lady Gaga has appeared on "American Idol," Weird Al parodied her, and "Glee" devoted an entire episode to all things Gaga. She maybe even taking over Japan under the alias Gagapanda. Her next stop, according to Nigel Lythgoe, is to guest judge on "So You Think You Can Dance."
Yes, Our Lady of Holy Gaga will be making an appearance on Fox's hit dancing competition show to judge the remaining talent. While Gaga isn't necessarily known for her dancing skill, she definitely has a unique style and has shown some signature moves in her music videos and performances. She even plays the piano all crazy-like.
While the appearance might seem a bit out of left field, it makes sense when you consider that Gaga was on Fox just a couple of months ago, mentoring the final four contestants on "American Idol." In addition to totally freaking Scotty McCreery out and forcing James Durbin to shake his tail feathers, Gaga also performed "You and I" and "Edge of Glory" live on the show.
A specific date for Gaga's appearance hasn't been set yet, but keep an eye out for her later this season. Just look for the lady wearing a dress made out of cheese graters with a typewriter strapped to her head. You can't miss her.
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As is the case at too many of New York's see-and-be-seen hotspots, the food at this West Village mainstay takes a back seat to the scene. The fashion and media elite regularly feast on a lineup of pastas and Tuscan staples like an oddly flavorless osso buco, all listed on a sanctimonious ("no cheese served on seafood at any time") menu—groundbreaking when the restaurant opened in a sea of red sauce joints in 1975, but not enough to lure latterday diners away from nearby Morandi. One redeeming dish: The lobster gnocchi features sweet, plump shellfish dispersed among exquisitely doughy dumplings. If weather permits, queue up for a table in the sprawling sidewalk café, still presided over by the restaurant's ebullient owner, Silvano Marchetto.
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Duquesne rebuffs nonbelievers
An atheist student at Catholic-run Duquesne University is upset the school won't recognize the Duquesne Secular Society, a group for nonbelievers he helped form.
"I know Duquesne is a Catholic school," said Nick Shadowen, 21, a senior philosophy major who grew up in Harrisburg. "I did not think that meant my opinions, my lack of belief in God, would be censored. They advertise the fact that they are a diverse and international university with all kinds of people studying and working there."
Duquesne's student government oversight committee this month rejected Shadowen's request for the school to give formal recognition to the atheist group, and university officials backed that decision. Shadowen and other nonreligious students from area universities protested outside Duquesne on Thursday.
"This group does not fall in line with the university mission statement, which says Duquesne serves students through serving God," said Zachary Zeigler, 20, of Zelienople, a junior at the school and president of the Student Government Association, which certifies the school's 230 student organizations. "To allow them classroom space and money would be contrary to the mission of the university."
Without university recognition, the group cannot meet on campus, gets no funding and has no right to advertise or even make announcements on bulletin boards around the school, Shadowen said.
He says the school undermines its own argument by recognizing Jewish and Muslim student organizations and a gay/straight alliance student group, each of which conflict with the "mission" of the Catholic Church.
There's a difference, says Bridget Fare, a Duquesne spokeswoman.
"All students are certainly welcome here. But formally recognizing a student group whose main purpose is opposition to belief in God is not aligned with our mission. The purpose of those other groups is not in direct opposition to belief in God," Fare said.
Shadowen insists the secular society's mission is not contrary to the school's.
"Our group is not meant to spread atheist propaganda or undermine the mission of the school," he said.
One purpose of the group would be to dispel stereotypes about atheists, said society member Colin Stragar-Rice, 20, of New Castle, a junior at Duquesne.
"The group would allow a lot of students to come into contact with a different point of view. We also want to remove the stigma nontheistic people face," he said.
Duquesne is the only Catholic school in the region where a request for recognition has been made, said Jesse Galef, the Communications Director for the Columbus, Ohio-based Secular Student Alliance, a nonprofit group that works to organize and empower nonreligious students around the country.
"A request similar to the one made at Duquesne University has never been made at Seton Hill University," said Kary Coleman Hazen, a spokeswoman at Seton Hill, who said she did not know how the school would respond.
Other Catholic institutions, such as the University of Dayton and Notre Dame, have rejected applications from similar student groups, as has Baylor University, a Baptist-affliliated university in Waco, Texas.
DePaul University in Chicago, the nation's largest Catholic university, granted approval to an atheist group.
The legality of the rejection is apparently not in dispute, said Witold "Vic" Walczak, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania.
"If this was happening at Pitt, it would be a huge deal. At a religious and private university, this is not a constitutional issue," he said.
"We support the decision of Duquesne University, in fidelity to its Catholic mission, to take such a position," said Rev. Ronald Lengwin, a spokesman for the Diocese of Pittsburgh.


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The Myth (film)
|The Myth
Film poster
|Directed by
|Stanley Tong
|Produced by
|Jackie Chan
Solon So
Barbie Tung
Willie Chan
Yang Buting
Albert Yeung
|Written by
|Stanley Tong
Li Haishu
Hui-Ling Wang
|Jackie Chan
Tony Leung Ka-fai
Kim Hee-sun
Mallika Sherawat
|Music by
|Wong Chung-Yin
Gary Chase
|Horace Wong
Ng Man-Ching
Michael Johnson
Lai Yiu-Fai
Choi Shung-Fai
|Edited by
|Yau Chi-Wai
|Distributed by
|JCE Movies Limited
Release date
Running time
|118 minutes
|Hong Kong
Mandarin Chinese
The Myth is a 2005 Hong Kong martial arts-fantasy-adventure film directed by Stanley Tong, starring Jackie Chan, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Kim Hee-sun and Mallika Sherawat.
During the Qin dynasty, the general Meng Yi is tasked with escorting Ok-Soo, a Korean princess, back to China to marry the Qin emperor. Along the journey, a Korean warrior attempts to seize her back but Meng Yi saves her. Ok-soo falls in love with Meng Yi and displays her affections for him openly, but Meng honourably rejects her and successfully completes his mission. The Qin emperor becomes critically ill later and he sends Meng Yi to find the elixir of immortality, the only thing that can save his life. The guards escorting the elixir are ambushed by rebels on the orders of the treacherous prince and chancellor. Meng Yi hands over the elixir to his deputy, Nangong Yan, before dying in the ensuing battle. Although Nangong Yan manages to bring the elixir to the emperor, the prince and chancellor wanted Nangong Yan and Ok-soo to test the validity of the elixir and force them to consume the elixir, condemning them to imprisonment in the Qin emperor's mausoleum for eternity.
In the present-day, Jack, an archaeologist, is Meng Yi's reincarnation, and he often dreams about his past life. One day, his friend William invites him on a quest to find a rare material that can create a field of zero gravity. They travel to a floating tomb of a Dasar prince in India, where Jack discovers a painting of the princess he has been seeing in his dreams. Jack also learns that during a mission to the Qin Empire, the Dasar prince brought treasures and women as gifts. In return, the Qin emperor offered him one of his concubines and asked him to choose, but refused when the prince chose his favourite, Ok-soo. Instead, the Qin emperor gave him a painting of Ok-soo and the Qin Star Gem. William removes a strange black rock from a feline statue, and accidentally collapses the zero gravity field holding up the tomb, resulting in its destruction. William manages to escape but Jack leaps off a cliff and falls into a river. He loses consciousness and drifts along with the current until he is saved by Samantha, an Indian peasant girl. Samantha brings Jack to see her uncle, a Kalaripayattu guru, who tells Jack to take the sword he found and fight with one of his students. During the fight, Jack has a recollection of a duel he had with the Dasar prince in his past life, and briefly recovers his fighting skills from his life as Meng Yi. Samantha's uncle enlightens Jack about his past and future, and Jack succeeds in returning home safely and he delivers the sword to the National Museum of China as a national treasure. His action angered Professor Koo, the leader of the syndicate that has been funding Jack and William's treasure hunt.
After extensive research, Jack and William conclude that the anti-gravity material is actually a fragment of a meteorite that fell to Earth during the Qin dynasty. They find the exact location of the Qin emperor's mausoleum, concealed behind a waterfall. The massive tomb contains the strongest fragment of the meteorite, which is powerful enough to make the tomb become a floating palace. Jack meets Ok-soo and Nangong Yan still alive inside the tomb and they mistake him for Meng Yi. Just then, Professor Koo and his men enter the tomb and attempt to seize the immortality elixir, leading to an aerial fight between both parties. William accidentally breaks the balance of the field after removing a piece of the meteorite and causes the tomb to collapse on itself, and dies from drowning in mercury. While Jack is escaping from the collapsing tomb, he asks Ok-soo to come with him, but she refuses after realising he is not Meng Yi and says she will wait for the real Meng Yi forever because she believes he still lives.
Before the film ends, Jack is seen at home with a published copy of The Myth, a book written by him about his adventure and his experiences which he dedicates to William.
- Jackie Chan as Jack / General Meng Yi
- Kim Hee-sun as Princess Ok-soo
- Tony Leung Ka-fai as William
- Choi Min-soo as Korean general Choi
- Mallika Sherawat as Samantha
- Patrick Tam as General Xu Gui
- Shao Bing as Nangong Yan
- Ken Lo as Dragon
- Yu Rongguang as rebel general Zhao Kuang
- Ken Wong as rebel general Meng Jie
- Jin Song as rebel general Jin Song
- Hayama Go as Tiger
- Chan Sek as Cheetah
- He Jun as Phoenix
- Park Hyun Jin as Eagle
- Yao Weixing as Korean general Shen
- Maggie Lau as Maggie
- Yuen Tak as Dasar monk
- Sun Zhou as Professor Koo
- Leon Head as Dr Smith
- Lian Shuliang as Zhao Gao
- Chen Weiguo as Li Si
- Zhang Yiqun as Huhai
- Lee Hok-Tung as the Xi'an museum curator
- Sathyanarayanan G as Dasar prince
- Ram Gopal Bajaj as Dasar martial arts schoolmaster
- Sudhanshu Pandey as Dasar temple guard captain
- Mallika Sherawat an Indian girl who saves Meng Yi
- Peter Spurrier as Dr Smith's researcher
- Ng Kong as General Choi's aide
- Jon Foo (extra) (uncredited)
Box office[edit]
The Myth was released in Hong Kong on 23 September 2005, and earned a strong HK$6,230,000 in its first three days. It ended its run with HK$17 million, making it the third highest-grossing domestic release in Hong Kong that year, and overseas for a worldwide total of $120 million.
Critical response[edit]
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 20%, based on five reviews, with an average rating of 3.9/10.[1] Styna Chyn, from filmtreat, wrote:
"Even though Jackie Chan did not direct "The Myth," (Stanley Tong), he did produce it; and his creative input echoes throughout this genre-bending action film. Shot in China, Hong Kong, and Hampi, India, "The Myth" is a comedy of epic proportions. Combining historical fantasy, martial arts, and science-fiction, Tong's film follows archaeologist Jack (Jackie Chan) and scientist William (Tony Leung Ka-Fai) on their adventures in investigating the veracity of a myth involving immortality, levitation, and a Korean princess-turned-concubine for Emperor Qin towards the end of the Qin Dynasty."[2][3]
David Cornelius, from efilmcritic, gave the film 4 out of 5 stars and wrote:
"Once again, it's time to lament that while Jackie Chan has spent the past few years churning out mostly mediocre-or-worse flops like "Around the World in 80 Days" or those damn "Rush Hour" sequels in Hollywood, he's also spent the same time flying back home every now and then to make some darn-good-or-better flicks that, sadly, remain mostly unseen Stateside because they've been unceremoniously dumped onto DVD by the studios that pick up the rights to them but then never really bother to do anything about it."[4]
Jim Hemphill, from Reel Films Reviews, gave the film 4 out of 5 stars and wrote a positive review:
"Jackie Chan's The Myth is enjoyable but second-rate Jackie Chan, an action film that's completely satisfying on every level except when compared to the star's own best work. Chan has, in some ways, become a victim of his own excellence: the astonishing stunt work and action choreography of his peak years (the 1980s period of the Police Story and Project A films) have set up expectations that no performer could continue to live up to, certainly not after moving into middle age. Viewers weaned on Chan's classics will undoubtedly find The Myth to be Jackie-lite, a slightly slowed-down version of his usual acrobatics. Yet the film does contain a few superb set pieces reminiscent of vintage Chan, and director Stanley Tong's opulent visual style makes it a feast for the eyes—and the bottom line is that half-speed Jackie Chan is still more dynamic than just about any other action hero."[5]
However, in Variety, Robert Koehler wrote a generally negative review of the film:
"Resembling a story session where many ideas are brainstormed and few stick, The Myth messily reps Jackie Chan in epic mode as a contempo archaeologist drawn into a plot to plunder the treasure of the Qin Dynasty's first emperor. As part of a movement in H.K. cinema to return to the ambitious movies of yore, helmer Stanley Tong's multi-period adventure flirts with considerable entertainment on one hand and near self-destruction on the other. Whether Chan's star power will pull in enough international bizbiz is doubtful, though ancillary should flex muscles in most territories."[6]
David Nusair, writing for Reel Film Reviews from the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival, was even less impressed:
"That The Myth eventually turns into an almost interminable experience is a shame, given the light-hearted and genuinely entertaining vibe of the film's opening hour...Fortunately, The Myth contains several expectedly impressive action sequences – with a fight set within a rat paper factory an obvious highlight – although it's not long before such moments wear out their welcome. This is particularly true of an unbelievably tedious plot development towards the end, which finds all of the film's central characters forced to duke it out inside some kind of an infinite, gravity-defying mausoleum (!) Chan is reportedly looking to get away from some of the sillier films he's been churning out as of late, but The Myth certainly does not mark a step in the right direction".[7]
Home media[edit]
On 4 May 2009, the DVD was released in Cine Asia in the United Kingdom in Region 2. Another version, including "An Introduction to Cine Asia Featurette", was released later in the United Kingdom on 28 February 2011.
Theme song[edit]
The theme song for the film, titled Wujin De Ai (無盡的愛; Endless Love) was performed in both Mandarin and Korean by Jackie Chan and Kim Hee-sun. Chan's stanzas were all sung in Mandarin, while Kim's solo stanzas were sung in Korean. However, the duets were all sung in Mandarin.
An alternative version, titled Meili De Shenhua (美麗的神話; Beautiful Myth), was performed in Mandarin by Sun Nan and Han Hong.
The song was reused as the ending theme song for the 2010 television series of the same title. This version was performed in Mandarin by Hu Ge and Bai Bing.
Action team[edit]
The Kalaripayattu martial arts were performed by experts from C. V. N. Kalari school, led by Sunil Kumar Gurukkal, and based in the town of Nadakkavu, Calicut in the state of Kerala, India. The list of stunt performers includes: John Foo, Wu Gang, Han Kwan Hua, Lee in Seob, Ken Lo, Park Hyun Jin and William Dewsbury.[citation needed]
Television series[edit]
On 10 January 2010, a 50 episodes television series, titled The Myth, was broadcast on CCTV-8 in China.[8] Jackie Chan was the producer for the series while Stanley Tong was the creative director. The television series had a storyline that is different from the film.
See also[edit]
- ^ "Jackie Chan: The Myth (2005)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
- ^ "The Myth". Film Threat. 29 November 2005. Retrieved 28 July 2011.
- ^ "Virupaksha Temple | Hampi. India!". Hampi.in. Retrieved 28 July 2011.
- ^ "Movie Review – Myth, The". eFilmCritic. 30 October 2007. Retrieved 28 July 2011.
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ Koehler, Robert (20 September 2005). "The Myth Movie Review". Variety.
- ^ "2005 TIFF Update No. 8 – Reviews by David Nusair". Reelfilm.com. Retrieved 28 July 2011.
- ^ "TV version of 'The Myth' aired on CCTV". China.org.cn. Retrieved 14 January 2010.
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- Cantonese-language films
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