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The following summarizes outcomes on key institutional metrics:
Acceptance rate for pre-medical students from OSU was over 77 percent, with students accepted to Oregon Health and Sciences, University of Southern California, University of Michigan, University of Washington, Dartmouth, University of Wisconsin and others.
The university and college metrics are posted at http://leadership.oregonstate.edu/strategic-plan/.
In my 2009-2010 Annual Campus Report, I outlined the year's agenda which included work with the State Board of Higher Education during the legislative session to seek changes in the status of the Oregon University System (OUS) from a state agency to a statewide public university system, ensure that reductions in state funds targeted for the Statewide Public Service Programs (SWPS) and Engineering Technology Investment Council (ETIC) investments are at par with Education and General funds, and seek state match to key capital budget projects.
Internal to the University, our focus included continuing work on initiatives and activities that we had started over the past year, including alignment and program changes within colleges and support units, new faculty hires, expansion and monitoring of programs introduced recently to enhance student engagement and success, program outcome assessment, NWCCU re-accreditation review, IT and teaching and research infrastructure enhancement projects, and improving services provided by the seven regional business centers. Finally, we continued to focus on enrollment and program growth at OSU-Cascades Campus, including transition of the University of Oregon undergraduate programs to OSU.
Overall Assessment of 2010-2011 Academic Year Agenda
OSU continues to grow substantially and to improve in critical dimensions of our mission. Our actions during the previous two years, driven by strategic and fiscal imperatives, set the stage in 2010-2011 to systematically invest in building faculty capacity, student and academic services, and teaching and research infrastructure of the university. Continued strong non-resident student enrollment growth, coupled with the continued research growth and success of The Campaign for OSU, have enabled these long-term investments.
During the 2010-2011 academic year, for the first time in over two decades, OSU provided central funds to hire 30 faculty positions in the four divisions, with an initial focus on building critical areas in the Division of Arts and Sciences. An additional 55 positions were filled by colleges and units during 2010-2011, with about 50 percent of those being new positions using funds held back as colleges completed strategic staffing plans or from new revenue directed from growth in the INTO OSU program.
We continued to experience strong student growth, particularly in non-resident and international students, areas that we have intentionally targeted over the past couple of years. Students from U.S. underrepresented minorities continued the pattern of steady increase that we have seen over the past several years. The University provided $2.5 million in access resources, primarily to the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Science, to support undergraduate enrollment increases with the goal to provide foundational courses to all students during their first year and to eliminate backlog in those courses. Resources were provided for additional advisors and for the purchase and implementation of MyDegrees. The University sustained funding for the Bridge to Success program, providing support to approximately 2,650 Oregon undergraduate students through packaging of scholarships, tuition remissions, Pell grants, and Oregon Opportunity grant funds.
Construction of the Linus Pauling Science Center, Hallie Ford Center for Children and Families, and the International Living-Learning Center was completed on target and all three facilities opened for fall 2011, adding new classroom, teaching and research laboratory capacity for faculty and students. One-time funding of $25 million was directed to improvements in existing classrooms and common research facilities, addressing ADA issues, and in IT for administrative and research systems.
Academic faculty worked diligently throughout the academic year to follow up on academic and program realignment plans. Some of the work was completed during the academic year, including the new structure within the College of Public Health and Human Sciences and the new School of Public Policy in the College of Liberal Arts. An application was submitted and approved by the Council of Education of Public Health to start a two-year accreditation process to establish an accredited College of Public Health. A number of proposals are in various stages of development and approval in the colleges of Agricultural Sciences, Education, Liberal Arts, Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, and Science, and will be completed during the 2011-2012 academic year. Realignment of units within the Divisions of Academic Affairs and Student Affairs was also undertaken to better support students and faculty.
There were four action items from the fall 2010 President's address to the Faculty Senate: provide additional advising support; establish graduate fellowships/scholarships; review and adjust instructors' salaries; and establish a University Ombuds position. The first three items were completed, including establishing six new advising positions, an investment of $1.5 million in graduate fellowship and scholarship programs through the Graduate School, and establishing a minimum salary baseline for instructors' salaries and review and adjustment of salaries to meet the minimum. The search for the Ombuds position is in progress with hiring to be completed in fall 2011.
All seven business centers are now operational. While we made progress in improving our business processes and systems, human resource systems need attention and improvement. In particular, we must eliminate redundant processes and decision-making layers, improve the effectiveness of services, and improve communications between users, central HR and business center staff.
Outcomes of the Legislative Session and Financial Picture
The Oregon University System gained the status of a statewide education system with the passage of Senate Bill 242, which takes effect on January 1, 2012. This change will enable the OUS to better control its revenues and costs, develop a simplified block-grant approach to state funding similar to Oregon's community colleges and K-12 system, and ensure that student-paid tuition revenues and the investment earnings on these cash balances are protected and directed towards education. The passage of Senate Bill 909 creates an education investment board for all P-20. However, this leaves uncertainty regarding the governance structure for all education sectors in the state. Clarity on the governance issue, as well as operational details resulting from Senate Bill 242, will be addressed during the 2011-2012 academic year.
The overall Education and General (E&G) budget absorbed a 14.4 percent reduction as a result of the State's economy. Based on the State's most recent economic forecast, state agencies have been asked to develop additional expenditure reduction scenarios in increments of 3.5 up to 10.5 percent. However, we will be able to offset current and projected reductions in E&G budget because of strong non-resident student growth and tuition increases.
Considerable advocacy and support from external constituents led to reducing the extent of proposed budget cuts in Statewide Public Service (SWPS) Programs — Agricultural Experiment Station, Forest Research Laboratory, and Oregon Extension Service — from a projected $20 million reduction to $8 million. SWPS programs developed plans to reduce their costs and reliance on state funding through regionalization of services, adoption of fee-based services, and greater engagement of SWPS faculty in the competitive grants process. Nevertheless, continued sluggishness in Oregon's economy may result in additional reductions in SWPS budgets which remain a source of considerable concern in the absence of tuition revenue to offset those cuts.
Financial challenges persisted in OSU Intercollegiate Athletics and are expected to continue until the new Pac-12 media contract takes effect in 2012-2013. Working with Athletics leadership, we are developing a budget plan that will set up a pay-back schedule and reduce the University's subsidy to Athletics once the new Pac-12 contract is in place.
Student Engagement and Success
We continue to serve more students and OSU remains the primary university of choice for Oregon residents. We continue to invest and focus on student engagement and success. We directed $2.5 million in 2010-2011 to create additional capacity in foundational courses in writing, speech, math, chemistry, physics, and biology. We increased the summer bridge program for the general student population by offering it to three cohorts, each consisting of 20 at-risk entering first-year students. We continued to revise first-year orientation courses with consistent university-level outcomes, and to expand and improve advising services. Considerable work was undertaken on assessment of academic programs, including development of broad based outcomes for all masters and doctoral programs.
The Faculty Senate's Ad-Hoc Committee completed its two-year review and assessment of the Baccalaureate (Bacc) Core curriculum. The work concluded that the philosophy and goals of the Bacc Core was sound and consistent with the AAC&U Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP) Essential Learning Outcomes. As part of this process, the Faculty Senate unanimously adopted Learning Goals for Graduates and recommended a set of actions to improve retention rates and graduation times (e.g. guarantee foundational courses in the first year, increase advising effectiveness, and expand experiential learning opportunities). Much of the work related to student engagement through Academic Affairs and Student Affairs is aligned with the Faculty Senate recommendations. Work on better coordinating, monitoring and expanding experiential learning opportunities for students (middle years of their tenure at OSU) will be initiated in 2011-2012.
NWCCU Accreditation
The Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU) reaffirmed our university accreditation in August 2011. The process included preparation of a Self Study that started in spring 2010 and culminated with a NWCCU site visit in April 2011. We were also the first cohort of universities to be evaluated under the new NWCCU accreditation criteria and policies. The NWCCU commended the University on effective linkage between strategic planning and university's core themes, exceeding our original capital campaign and extramural research funding goals, having robust assessment practices within Student Affairs and its collaborations with Academic Affairs on student learning, and growth of academic offerings at the OSU-Cascades Campus. The NWCCU provided two recommendations: stronger alignment of the assessment of core themes and their objectives and indicators with mission fulfillment, and additional assessment efforts in the baccalaureate core and graduate programs. Academic Affairs and the Graduate School will be leading work to address the two recommendations.
Other Key Activities
The extension for The Campaign for OSU was successfully launched and the campaign continues to be extremely successful with $106.7 million in gifts in 2010-2011. In particular, the Provost's Faculty Match Program resulted in the creation of 22 new endowed faculty positions with donor commitments exceeding $21 million.
OSU-Cascades began offering undergraduate, high enrollment majors such as Psychology and Biology previously offered by the University of Oregon. The continued enrollment growth and program growth has led the campus to seek matching funds from the state to enable purchase of a new facility in Bend, a transaction that will be completed in fall 2011.
A task force on Shared Governance, jointly charged by the Faculty Senate President and the Provost, worked during the 2010-2011 academic year to identify a set of most important areas of decision making that require input of faculty and administration. Recommendations from the task force, posted at http://oregonstate.edu/senate/committees/other/jtfsg/Final110831rev.pdf, were formally endorsed by the Faculty Senate and the Administration in fall 2011.
Finally, we were able to fill a number of key administrative positions that became open due to retirements, attrition, or individuals stepping down from a position. These included: Vice President for University Relations and Marketing, Associate Vice President and Director of Alumni Association, Dean of the Graduate School, Dean of Education, Vice Provost for Information Services, Associate Provost for International Programs, University Librarian/Director of OSU Press, Director of Institutional Research, and Director of Admissions.
Priorities for 2011-2012 follow from the work that has been initiated over the past 18 months and the three specific areas of effort outlined by President Ray in his October 13, 2011 presentation to the Faculty Senate: recruitment and retention of the brightest and most diverse faculty and students, increased university-industry partnership, and exceeding The Campaign for OSU goals. Specific goals for 2011-2012 include the following.
Faculty Recruitment and Retention
Student Engagement and Success
University-Industry Collaborations
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Two Jewish men were assaulted Saturday night outside a synagogue in Créteil, a Paris suburb.
According to Paris police, the two men, who are brothers, were attacked by two other men, one of whom fled on foot and the other on a bicycle.
The two men, who were reportedly beaten with brass knuckles, suffered multiple contusions and were hospitalized and listed in serious but not life-threatening condition.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, who noted the victims were "of the Jewish faith," condemned the attack with "utmost severity" on Sunday.
On Saturday night, hours after a deadly shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels which claimed four lives, including those of two Israeli tourists, Cazeneuve announced that he had instructed authorities to strengthen security at Jewish sites throughout France.
Cazeneuve pledged that French authorities would work to fight racism and anti-Semitism and said that police would do their best to apprehend the perpetrators.
The attack was condemned by French officials, including President François Hollande.


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Members of the University of North Florida Board of Trustees are appointed by the Governor (6 members) and by the Board of Governors (5 members). These 11 appointments are subject to confirmation by the Senate. The remaining 2 members are the chair of the Faculty Association and the president of Student Government. The appointed members serve staggered 5-year terms.
Doug Burnett, of Saint Augustine, has been the president of Doug Burnett Associates since 2010. He is a retired Adjutant General of Florida. Major General Burnett has been a member of St. Johns River Water Management District governing Board since 2013 and previously served as a member of the Florida State College of Jacksonville District Board of Trustees from 2011 to 2012. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Southern Mississippi. Major General Burnett was appointed to the University of North Florida Board of Trustees by Governor Scott July 2, 2015, for a term ending January 2020.
Prior to this appointment, Gonzalez held several leadership roles including Associate Administrator for Minority Small Business and Capital Ownership Development at the SBA; Regional Director for the Department of Commerce, Minority Business Development Agency in Atlanta, Georgia; Staff Director with the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights; Associate Director of EEO and Civil Rights with the U. S. Department of State; Country Director of the Peace Corps in Ghana, West Africa; Chief of Operations for Peace Corps Latin America Region; and Deputy Director of the Peace Corps in Bogota, Colombia. Gonzalez started his federal career as a HEW Fellow in 1976; he subsequently served as Special Assistant to the Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Department of Labor .
Mr. Gonzalez earned his Bachelors of Arts from the University of Puerto Rico (Magna Cum Laude). He also attended the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and the Federal Executive Institute .
Mr. Gonzalez serves on various boards and organizations including the Regional Community Institute of Northeast Florida, Inc .; the advisory boards of the Police Athletic League, the Jacksonville Zoo & Gardens; the SBDC, the UNF Student Affairs, WJCT, Visit Jacksonville; and the Northeast Florida Global Cities Initiative . He was reappointed to the UNF Board of Trustees on March 24, 2016 for a term ending January 6, 2020.
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prior to United, he was president and chief executive officer of CSX Corporation.
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and other administrative functions. Mr. Munoz joined CSX in
2003 as executive vice president and chief financial officer, and was appointed
chief operations officer in 2012. Before joining CSX, Mr. Munoz served as chief financial
officer and vice president of AT&T Consumer Services. He also has held key
executive positions with other consumer products companies including the
Coca-Cola Company and Pepsico Corporation. Mr. Munoz was a member of
the board of directors and chair of the Audit Committee for United Continental
Airlines. He is a member of the board of directors for Outward Bound USA. He
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influential Hispanics by Hispanic Business magazine. Mr. Munoz is actively engaged in the United Way of
Northeast Florida. He earned a B.A. from the University of Southern California
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January 2015. He was reappointed for a term ending January 2020.
Kevin Hyde of Jacksonville, is the Office Managing Partner of Foley & Lardner LLP in Jacksonville, Florida. Mr. Hyde represents employers in a variety of human resources matters, including day-to-day employment counseling , workplace safety, and litigates cases in charges of discrimination, employment-discrimination cases, wage-hour and management-union matters. Mr. Hyde is Board Certified by the Florida Bar in Labor and Employment matters. He has been listed as a leading lawyer in various publications including being included in Best Lawyers in America, Who's Who Legal USA, Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers, Florida's Legal Elite™ by Florida Trend magazine and Florida Super Lawyers® (2006-2015). Mr. Hyde is a member of the Florida and Tennessee Bars and is a past chair of the Florida Bar Labor and Employment Section (1998-1999) and the Florida Bar Labor and Employment Certification Committee.
Mr. Hyde has been active in civic and community matters. He was an elected member of the Jacksonville City Council from 2003 through 2011, and is a past president of the City Council. Additionally, he has served as chair or a member of the Board of Directors of WJCT Public Broadcasting, the Jacksonville Public Education Fund, Jacksonville Community Council, Inc., the Jacksonville Civic Council, the Youth Crisis Center and Florida College. Mr. Hyde is a graduate of the University of Florida College of Law (J.D., with honors, 1988), and the University of South Florida (B.A., magna cum laude, 1984). He is married to Kathi Hyde and has two daughters. Mr. Hyde was appointed to the UNF Board of Trustees on March 24, 2016 for a term ending January 6, 2021.
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The Oconee Treasurer and the county School District may have to wait only a few more weeks before the State's opinion is ready on whether the district must receive a share of annual fees and penalties associated with county tax payments. Two months ago County Treasurer Greg Nowell, when challenged by the public schools, announced he would request an opinion from the state Attorney's General on whether he acted properly in denying the district a portion of those fees. Mark Powell, spokesman for Attorney General Alan Wilson, said, today, "The folks in our Opinions section are still working on it. They estimate it will be ready in approximately 2-3 weeks."


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(CNSNews.com) - CBS received a failing grade for its allegedly biased coverage of President Bush's first 100 days in office, according to a Washington-based media watchdog. Two other networks, ABC and NBC, received a "C minus" and "B minus," respectively.
For example, CBS' John Roberts cited and quoted a critique of the Bush tax cut given by Citizens for Tax Justice's Robert McIntyre without labeling him a liberal.
Despite CBS's own poll showing the Bush tax cut receiving wide public support, Roberts featured two tax cut opponents to illustrate the public's negative reaction to Bush's budget speech in late February.
The study also found that CBS news anchor Dan Rather "denigrated Bush's policies, calling his tax program a 'gamble' and a 'cut-federal-programs-to-get-a-tax-cut-plan.'"
In compiling the network grades for their coverage of the president, the think tank catalogued and compiled a list of quotes attributable to the network anchors and reporters.
"All three networks fed the public a heavy dose of liberal criticism of Bush, often times not even labeling the critics as liberal," said Media Research Center President L. Brent Bozell III. CNSNews.com is a division of the MRC.
"Truly balanced coverage would have included labeling critics with a political agenda just that, instead of positing them as unbiased experts," Bozell said.
Similar liberal spins could be found on ABC, the analysis showed. ABC's Peter Jennings accused the Bush administration of "very militant" rhetoric in the U.S. standoff with China on the April 2 edition of "World News Tonight."
"Terry, before this incident the Bush administration had been very militant rhetorically with the Chinese government. Any fear there might be a backlash?" Jennings said to White House reporter Terry Moran.
The MRC found that Moran complained about the president's use of the phrase "energy crisis," even though ABC used the same words the following day in a promo for an upcoming story.
Moran did get credit for pointing out that the liberal claim of Bush's tax cut plan favoring the rich was based on only one set of statistics. When it's presented another way, Moran reported, the tax cut actually gives more benefits to lower and middle-income taxpayers.
NBC did not escape criticism either. The Media Research Center report card pointed out that Today's Matt Lauer demanded that Bush look him in the eye "and say that you are a president committed to cleaning up the environment."
The peacock network did receive kudos, though, for Meet the Press host Tim Russert's interview with Bush critic and California Governor Gray Davis, in which Russert asked, "If you don't cut taxes, Governor Davis, won't Congress spend the money?"


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SUBJECT: What is really happening between the mechanical seal faces? 9-7
The answer is, "lots of things", and it's hard to predict exactly what is going on in any particular application. As you can guess there are many theories about face lubrication, but few rules. Here are some of the more popular theories:
Regardless of what is happening between the seal faces, the rules for operating mechanical seals successfully always remains the same. Keep the two lapped flat faces together and the seal will not leak.
Now, let's define leakage:
You will note that in a previous paragraph I said the seal faces had to be flat. The term flat is often confused with the term smooth. We want the seal faces flat, not smooth. Flatness can be measured with a straight edge, or by rubbing the part on a known flat that has been coated with machinist bluing or dye. Neither of these methods is satisfactory for checking the flatness of mechanical seal faces.
Flatness must be measured by an optical flat and a monochromatic light. This equipment generates helium light bands that measure distances of 0.0000116 inches (0,3 microns). If a seal face is lapped to less than three helium light bands (slightly less than one micron) and the faces kept in physical contact, the seal should be able to pass any fugitive emission test.
If you want to understand the relative size of one micron then realize that the smallest object that can be seen with the human eye is forty (40) microns. The average coffee filter mesh is some where between ten and fifteen microns, and we know that both water and coffee will pass through this small opening easily, but solids have a tough time getting through ten microns. This implies that the lapped seal faces make the best filter you own. In other words, dirt or solids will not penetrate between lapped seal faces unless they open for some reason. Testing has shown that visible seal leakage occurs at about five helium light bands or a space that measures slightly less than two microns.
Surface finish is a measure of smoothness or polish. In the United States we commonly measure surface finish with some sort of a comparative gauge that has been polished to various degrees of gloss. The readings are made using the units RMS (root mean square) which is a number representing the square root of the mean or middle distance between the peaks and the valleys in the surface of the seal face. The metric system commonly uses CLA or center line average which is the average distance between the peaks and valleys in the face. If a seal face is too smooth there is the possibility of galling or sticking of the seal faces.
People often ask if seal faces can run dry, and the answer is yes if you're using a good grade of carbon graphite without any fillers or binders that would be injured by the additional heat caused by the friction between the faces. We all know that electric motors have run carbon brushes for years without lubrication.
Friction between the lapped seal faces will cause the softer graphite to coat or deposit on the hard face, leaving the harder carbon behind, automatically creating a non-smooth carbon surface. It is important to understand that this will only happen if moisture is present. This is the reason that children will lick the tip of a graphite pencil to make the writing darker. Dry gases, hot air, and cryogenic fluids do not have this moisture present, so a special carbon/ graphite must be used in these applications. This special grade has organics imbedded into the carbon/graphite mixture to release the softer graphite.
Experienced seal people know that excessive carbon wear is seldom a problem with mechanical seals. Most leaking seals have plenty of carbon/ graphite remaining when the seal begins to leak. The more common problem with running seal faces dry is that the friction heat will harden or destroy the elastomer or O-ring that is often located in, or close to the seal face.
Since there is a direct correlation between seal face flatness and seal face leakage it is important to know that here are a number of circumstances that can cause the seal faces to go "out of flat". Here are some of them:
Damage is a separate subject, but we know that seal faces will leak if they become damaged. Watch out for:
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NBA: Lakers forward's
size, length vexes Jazz, specifically Boozer.
SALT LAKE CITY - It was like a father playing his 10-year-old son one-on-one, showing no mercy in the driveway and dominating him to no end. It was like a player seeing an inferior talent trying to guard him and almost salivating as he scored on him time and again.
One could be forgiven if Pau Gasol had those kinds of feelings about Carlos Boozer in Monday night's 111-96 win by the Lakers over the Utah Jazz at EnergySolutions Arena.
If this series is any indication, that matchup just wasn't a fair fight.
"I was able to use my length to bother him," Gasol said in what was a gross understatement. "I'm proud of what I accomplished against him."
In what was a sweep of Utah, Gasol was not to be denied in the paint defensively and in the rebounding department. In Monday's Western Conference semifinal series-clinching win, he added his scoring tough to the entire package.
The 33 points Gasol scored was a game-high. The 14 rebounds and the two blocks have come to be expected.
His length was so vexing to Boozer that the usually high-scoring forward came up with just 10 points in what could have been his last game in a Jazz uniform. Utah made the decision to play him straight up and Gasol made the Jazz pay. Repeatedly.
"He's one of the best players in the league," Lakers center Andrew Bynum said. "He's got all the tools offensively, he makes all the shots. He's just so good in there that it's hard to guard him one-on-one."
Yet that's what the Jazz tried to do on the heels of the Lakers draining 133-pointers in Game 3, which the Lakers won 111-110. As soon as Gasol realized Utah's guards were staying home and not digging down trying to get steals, he went to work. There was 10 points and five rebounds in the first quarter. There was 11 points in the fourth period.
There were jumpers, jump hooks, turnarounds, offensive rebounds, seemingly everything in the bag of tricks.
"They weren't as aggressive as they had been double-teaming the ball," Gasol said.
"That's why I was able to get a good rhythm going early on. I felt good. Guys were getting me the ball and I was able to get my shot off."
If Monday held a good sign for the Lakers, it's that Gasol and Kobe Bryant were both able to dominate in the same game. Throughout these playoffs, it was either Bryant going off scoring-wise or Gasol. Game 4 was the first time the two were able to achieve a working balance.
It's no surprise that the Lakers were able to take off with both of them being proficient with the ball.
"I'm happy with how I played this series, but I'm happy with how we played as a team," Gasol said. "I'm proud of what we accomplished in this series."


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This item is created by using [Empty Cleansing Bowl] on the Auberdine moonwell, in Darkshore.
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This item when combined with [Blackwood Fruit Sample], [Blackwood Grain Sample], and [Blackwood Nut Sample] is used at the northern Blackwood camp will summon the satyr corrupter for the quest [18] The Blackwood Corrupted.


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Marine Lance Cpl. Cline was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. First missing for nearly three weeks and then confirmed dead, he died during a brutal battle outside An Nasiriyah. A request went out for volunteers to help a mortar company that was pinned down with some wounded. Donald was one of the first to volunteer to help his brother Marines. He went across a bridge, which is now known as 'Ambush Alley' and helped rescue all of them. At 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighing 135 pounds, Donald was carrying men twice his size. Once he had rescued everyone and they were in a truck on the way back, he was hit with a rocket-propelled grenade and killed. Donald was a big basketball fan and loved to play the game despite his short stature. He enlisted in the Marines in 2000 with his parents' permission because he was only 17. He graduated from high school and went to boot camp, finishing on Oct. 20, 2000. He and his wife Tina were married the next day. Tina said that he was undersized and had big ears. To a drill instructor, that is like saying sic 'em to a bulldog. But he was determined to be a good soldier, a good Marine, and there was no quit in him. Donald had talked about becoming a police officer and living in Reno when he left the military. Tina Cline needed to see her husband one last time before they sealed the casket. "I needed this closure," the widow said, so his casket was opened. There lies Marine Lance Cpl. Donald J. Cline Jr. with the Purple Heart medal pinned on his dress blues. The last contact came when a small package postmarked March 14 arrived from Kuwait. In it was a small toy truck carved out of wood for his son.
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Practice owner, Ross Maskell, said: "An eye test is not just a check to see whether you need glasses or not, but is also a means of ensuring your eyes are healthy.
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This is in itself a willingly admission by the Republicans that Mitt Romney is a man of very limited ability and that for all practical purposes Mitt Romney can't walk and chew bubblegum at the same time.
If by his campaign and his own admission that he was and is only up to handling one single task at a time, and that the task of running a international sporting event overwhelmed him and demanded all of his attention.
Then there should be no doubt that he is not intellectually suited to the demands and the rigors of being the President and the Commander in Chief of the United States.
The Presidency itself is a position that actually defines the word multitask.
Inherited wealth and family ties may have propelled and played a very large role in Mitt Romney's financial success in the business world, but it will not and I believe should not propel him to the pinnacle of success in the political world.
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Microsoft has used its mentorship of start-up firms to cherry-pick high-potential technologies, and lock in the next generation of partners for its products.
The plan was hatched five years ago prior to the release of the two products that would decide Microsoft's corporate fate - Windows Azure and the Windows 8 operating system. Back then it crafted a two-pronged strategy to embed these in the next generation of companies and technology professionals.
The start-up strategy involves the company's BizSpark - a support program that provides Microsoft software tools, mentorship and marketing for start-ups - and the Microsoft Innovation Centres which provide premises, as well as tools and mentorship to tech companies less than three years old. The recently launched MIC in Brisbane is just one of 100 similar facilities around the world.
Microsoft acquires about ten Bizspark companies a year, according to the company's US-based strategic and emerging business vice president Dan'l Lewin. Separately companies that have gone through the program have raised $US1 billion, he says. But some, including readers commenting on stories on this site, have criticised it for locking start-ups into Microsoft software, limiting their ability to develop technologies based on open source or other tools.
The upcoming release of the Windows 8 mobile Marketplace and the Azure cloud service architecture will drive more acquisitions, but Lewin says it is not the sole purpose of the programs.
"The last 12 to 18 months we've been focusing our higher-value offers into those areas we see the most activity," says Lewin, in Sydney for the company's regional entrepreneur summit and the Imagine Cup worldwide finals. "The more you give, the more you get."
"Occasionally we'll buy one of these companies, and get the talent, but that's happens 10 times a year out of - in BizSpark's case - 60,000 companies over a three-year period. It's not the primary purpose but a by-product is we do find brilliant technologists, entrepreneurs, that build something that either: we would want to partner intimately with; or license; or buy; and that is more serendipity than purpose of [the] broad program."
"There's so many variations on that theme, for us it's mostly enabling them to build IP of their own that's valuable to the [Microsoft] customer, and a very very very small amount comes back in."
Microsoft was criticised when it developed a plug-in feature for Outlook 2010 that directly competed with one of its Bizspark companies, Xobni ("inbox" spelled backwards). Xobni later changed its strategy to cater for other email programs and now has a contacts mobile app. It has since raised $42 million from investors. Lewin dismissed the criticism, saying it was common for BizSpark start-ups to broaden their goals. Xobni declined to comment.
"I know the Xobni guys pretty well," Lewin said. "I don't know it was a conflict per-say, if you were to ask them there was press about it being quote-unquote 'a conflict'. They had a vision as founders and hired a seasoned CEO to come in to help them follow it, to go beyond just Outlook.
"It turns out Outlook is one of largest mail applications that exist in the world, so it was the first logical target but they're doing same for Google mail, our Hotmail, Yahoo mail. I think they have a vision that was broader than that, but they started exclusively with us."
He said "very wise" entrepreneurs develop highly-targeted and focused technology to complement Microsoft's development cycles vision, and goals, but he warned companies that deal in Microsoft's bread-and-butter such as word processing and operating systems: they can't compete.
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A Uniontown man has been charged with the attempted robbery of a Connellsville gas station, one of three cases police are investigating.
Steven Vincent Campbell, 37, of 41 Shady Lane allegedly entered Reddy's Sunoco along Memorial Boulevard at 9:11 p.m. Thursday wearing a black coat and a black cap over his face. He showed a handgun and demanded money from the clerk, police said.
"The clerk refused and told him to leave," said city police Chief James Capitos. Campbell removed his hood as he left the store and walked toward York Avenue, Capitos said. The clerk called 911 and provided a description.
Connellsville police spotted Campbell, who matched the clerk's description, walking along Pittsburgh Street. As an officer approached Campbell and frisked him, police said, Campbell ran off and left behind his coat, in which a handgun was found. He was apprehended after being chased for three blocks.
Capitos said Campbell confessed.
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The Power of Social Media
For anyone out there who still thinks the internet and specifically social media is a temporary phenomenon or just a passing fad not worth of serious attention, here are two interesting stories this week about how they are transforming our world. For any photographer or business owner whose goal is to establish a sustainable and successful carreer, whatever that means to you, this should convince you of the importance of having a presence online.
–The Social (Media) Revolution We Just Saw In Egypt – "The Internet has established itself now as a central (if not the central) conduit of public political action." – read more!
– AOL Buys the Huffington Post for $315 Million – yes, a BLOG started a few years ago with a total of $1 million has been sold for quite a large sum of money. The days of a blog being the personal journal of someone with too much time on their hands is a distant notion.
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Overpriced tatt disapointed jan: Ventura Cruise Review by benamberleo
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Destination: Southern Caribbean
Embarkation: Barbados
Flight and check in was fine and embarkation excellent as no immigration.
As we boarded the ship via the Atrium we were all expecting the wow factor. How disappointing is was. Very small and plain and non descript really.
We had booked a superior deluxe balcony cabin which was quite expensive. On arrival cabin was tatty bath was very chipped which had gone black and there was black mould on the tiles above the bath. Bedding was worn with holes in and voiles on patio window were torn. Carpet was stained and soiled. I complained but to no avail as ship was full. Housekeeper was promised to cpme and look at cabin but this never happened. Then I learned that some people had been upgraded to a cabin equivalent to ours without extra charge What a joke.
Food in dining room each evening was good and the service was excellent and waiters really friendly and More professionall.Food at lunchtime in buffet was poor repetitive andToo many curries every day especially as we were in the Caribbean. Cottage Pie nearlyevery day and stew which was then a cobblers pie the day after.It was certainly not luxurious cruise food more like canteen food.
We had to pay for ice cream which I have never done before on any ship I have been on and queued for 20 minutes each time as only one person serving.
Entertainment was good overall.
The clientel left a lot to be desired and the behaviour of some of the guests was unacceptable.
We were told by returning passengers that the standards had really dropped. Two toilets on the outer decks for 3,000 passengers were inadequate for a ship of that size and on sea days and New years eve the sea became a toilet for the men due to the lengthy queues.
There were teenagers lying around really drunk on New Years Eve with no parental control.
Having said that some teenagers just hung around in groups and did no harm to no one. They were just young people having a good time.
On disembarkation day we decided to go on the Farewell to Barbados excursion as we would be dropped off at the airport at 2.30pm. The excursion included lunch which was disgraceful and following lunch we were taken straight to the airport and dropped off at 1.00pm. We then had a five hour wait in the airport before our 5.55pm flight home.
To summarise this cruise is an overpriced Butlins at Sea experience. I shall stick to Princess and Royal Caribbean for future cruises as both are far superior to P&O. Just because we are British doesn't mean we have to stay British on holiday. Less
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*** August 29, 2010 Update: The Los Angeles County Superior Court has announced that it has indefinitely suspended the one day closure per month. In other words, they are back to a normal schedule. To be frank, with the State budget deficit being what is is, I have no clue where they came up with the money to avoid the one day closure. In any case this is good news for people who need the Courts.
I am going to post the actual news release from the Los Angeles Superior Court, and then write some comments below. Here is the news release:
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Responding to Fiscal Emergency, Los Angeles Superior Court to Close One Day Per Month Action Takes Effect Wednesday, July 15, 2009 Some Limited Services To Be Maintained
Los Angeles Superior Court
Los Angeles County
Contact: Public Information Office 213-974-5227
Public Information Officer: Allan Parachini
Responding to the deepening statewide financial crisis, the Los Angeles Superior Court announced today that it will shut down nearly all of its operations and furlough employees one Wednesday per month, beginning July 15, 2009.
Implementation of the furlough plan, however, may not be enough to avert employee layoffs and, eventually, closure of entire courthouses if the budget climate does not improve markedly by the beginning of the 2011-2012 fiscal year. The one-day per month Court closure is expected to save $18 million per year.
The Court faces an estimated budget shortfall of nearly $90 million for the coming fiscal year—nearly double the amount in the most recent budget crisis that erupted in 2002, which ultimately resulted in closure of 29 courtrooms and layoffs of more than 150 employees.
Under a plan approved last week by the Court's judicial leadership, if the fiscal situation continues to deteriorate, the jobs of a quarter of the Court's 5,400 employees could be eliminated within the next four years. There would be reductions in courthouses and courtrooms in operation throughout the county.
"We face a serious crisis with immediate impacts that can be blunted, but not avoided," said Presiding Judge Charles W. (Tim) McCoy. "We learned from our experiences of 2002 through 2004. Over the intervening years, we have accumulated modest reserves that will enable us to soften the pain of these cuts for at least the first year of the new crisis. Unfortunately, we anticipate this difficult budget environment will remain with us for four years.
"We cannot allow denial, false hope or wishful thinking to cause us to drift through the crisis. We should expect things will grow increasingly difficult before they begin to get better. We must, and will, remain masters of our own destiny to the extent possible."
"The public must realize that the state's fiscal situation means we cannot actually solve the budget crisis we face" said John A. Clarke, the Court's executive officer/clerk. "The best we can do is to minimize the pain these cuts will inflict. No one—most of all the Court—is happy about this." McCoy noted that today's announcement of the effective closure of the entire court one day a month comes on an Election Day on which voters are deciding the fates of six budget-related ballot propositions.
"Even if all of these measures pass, there would be no discernable, immediate improvement in the Court budget situation," McCoy said. "We know that reducing and eliminating court services will cause all of our stakeholders—from customers with traffic tickets to lawyers with court dates—great inconvenience. Our objective is to give these constituencies as much time as possible to prepare for the furlough program when it begins on July 15. We know that every day of advance warning of these closures is important to our customers."
State court leaders are also considering one-day-per-month furloughs and other steps to respond to the financial crisis. McCoy noted that the Los Angeles Superior Court plan is being implemented even though the Judicial Council of California has not yet announced any statewide court closure or furlough plan. "We are the largest and most complex court system in the United States," McCoy said. "You cannot suddenly bring a system like ours to a halt. This must be orderly and planned and that takes time."
Details of the Los Angeles Superior Court closure/furlough program include these:
–The court system will close on the third Wednesday of each month, affecting about 600 courtrooms and bench officers and more than 5,000 employees who work in 50 separate courthouse facilities.
–While most courthouses will be closed, some courthouses will necessarily continue to be open, with full security protection to serve the needs of county agencies like the District Attorney, Public Defender, Alternate Public Defender, Probation Department, City Attorney and Child Support Services Department, whose operations are located inside courthouses and are unaffected by the furlough. A few courthouses also house offices of the Los Angeles County Registrar/Recorder, which will also be unaffected. These non-court operations see thousands of customers per day and employ hundreds of people.
–Clerk's offices, juror services and nearly all courtrooms will be shut down. Drop boxes will be in place to serve customers wishing to file court papers. –Judges will work, beginning today, on adjusting their calendars to postpone or move all scheduled court dates on affected Wednesdays for the entire fiscal year.
–A few designated courtrooms will also be available to handle emergency matters. –The limited number of employees required to work on closure days will be furloughed on other days.
–Supplementing these steps, the Court has imposed a so-called system-wide "hard"—or mandatory—hiring freeze.
–The Court will make $16 million in other ongoing expenditure reductions, largely by cutting services and supplies, restricting travel and other means.
Today's announcement responds to a fiscal analysis that projects Court deficits in Los Angeles to total $89.9 million in FY 2009-10, rising to $118.3 million in FY 2012-13. These shortfalls amount to about 10 percent of the Court's operating budget of more than $900 million per year.
Because nearly half of the Court's funding is for specific statutory purposes, discretion in how and where to make cuts is very limited. Nearly 86 percent of the Court budget is for personnel. If the current situation remains unchanged, by the end of FY 2012-13, as many as 1,300 jobs—or 25 percent of the workforce—could be eliminated. Should that occur, entire courthouses would have to be closed and Court services massively scaled back.
McCoy emphasized, however, that no specific decisions about facility closures have been made—either in terms of timing or when such shutdowns might occur. Such drastic steps are unlikely to become necessary in FY 2009-10, but could have to be addressed as soon as sometime in late FY 2010-11 or early in the following fiscal year.
Although the Court anticipates beginning the 2009-2010 fiscal year with as much as $90 million in reserves, the overall fiscal plan must spread use of this money over an expected four-year crisis period. Depleting the surplus quickly might avert some immediate effects of the crisis, but future years would see even more dire cuts. The bulk of the reserve balance will, however, be utilized in the first two years in an effort to limit adverse impacts on the court system beyond those presently contemplated and, at the end of two years, leaving the court with a small annual balance and a far more adverse situation likely ahead.
Additional details of the closure plan will be posted on Court's Web site, www.lasuperiorcourt.org. This information will be updated continuously. Customers should continue to check the Web site regularly for new postings.
OP Ed Begins Here: I must say that this is a very bad situation. The Los Angeles Superior Court is the largest and most complex Court system in the nation. This could be the beginning of some very bad times if things do not change fast. One day a month does not sound like much, but as a California Attorney, I can tell you that this will delay cases for significant amounts of time, especially civil cases. I hope a solution can be found to this soon!
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) Long after the Oakland Athletics' clubhouse had cleared out Saturday, Jack Cust remained locked away in a side room studying video of himself batting.
GAME REPORT:Athletics 7, Rangers 1
With only a few weeks left in the season, the veteran designated hitter wants to make sure he ends the season strong.
He also wants to set the tone for Oakland's younger players.
"I'm just trying to go about my business the same as always," Cust said. "Obviously there are a lot of things I feel I can improve on, but I'm just trying to finish strong and set a good example for these young guys, show them the intensity and the way you need to play a game up here."
Cust did his part, hitting a two-run home run to spark Oakland's offense in a 7-1 win over the Texas Rangers.
Bobby Crosby added a three-run double and Josh Outman earned his first major league victory as the A's snapped a two-game losing streak.
Oakland, which entered the game last in the majors in hitting and slugging percentage, had scored only one run in its previous 23 innings before breaking out against the Rangers.
The A's scored twice in the fourth on Cust's 29th homer of the season then added five more in the fifth.
Cust also struck out for the 178th time this season, eight shy of the American League record set by Milwaukee's Rob Deer in 1987.
"He's been that kind of player his whole career," Oakland manager Bob Geren said. "He gets deep in a lot of counts. That's why you get a lot of walks and that's why he'll end up getting a lot of strikeouts."
Outman had three strikeouts and was effective to get the win in his first major league start. The rookie lefty, who began the season in Philadelphia's minor league system, allowed one run and four hits over five innings.
"It was incredible," said Outman, the fifth rookie pitcher to start a game for the A's this season. "My first major league start, I can't really describe it as anything other than that. I commanded all four of my pitches and threw breaking balls for strikes consistently. That's something I hadn't done."
Outman (1-0) allowed an RBI double to Nelson Cruz in the second inning but only one other runner reached second base. He got some help from the A's defense, which turned a pair of double plays.
Huston Street, Jerry Blevins, Joey Devine and Brad Ziegler combined for four shutout innings.
Texas manager Ron Washington blamed the Rangers' lackluster offense rather than credit Outman.
"I wasn't impressed," Washington said. "We had some scoring opportunities on him and when we didn't make them he did what most pitchers are supposed to do, make his pitches and get out of the inning. If he was around after the fifth, it would have been a different story."
The A's took a 2-1 lead in the fourth on Cust's home run then had three hits and three walks in the fifth to break the game open.
Aaron Cunningham hit a two-run single off Scott Feldman (5-7) and Crosby greeted reliever Luis Mendoza with a bases-loaded double to right-center to make it 7-1. Feldman has just one win in his past eight starts.
"I know I've got a lot of areas to improve in but considering it was the first year I've thrown like this and first time starting since college, I hope I showed them that I've got potential," Feldman said. "Hopefully, I'll do nothing but improve."
Texas scored after right fielder Ryan Sweeney slipped and fell chasing Cruz's fly. The drive allowed Marlon Byrd to score, but Sweeney recovered and the relay throw home caught Hank Blalock trying to score from first.
Texas designated hitter Milton Bradley was ejected after arguing with first base umpire Angel Campos about a double play.
Bradley thought he beat the relay throw from Oakland second baseman Cliff Pennington and argued the call with Campos. Bradley continued exchanging words from the dugout as Washington came out to discuss the play.
Washington left but moments later Campos signaled an ejection - it was the fourth time Bradley was ejected this season.
Bradley, who has been bothered by a lower back sprain, sprinted back from the dugout back onto the field and yelled at Campos, and first base coach Gary Pettis stepped between them.
Umpire crew chief Tim McClelland ran down the line from home plate, and Washington came back out to help intercede as Pettis pushed back Bradley.
Notes: Texas C Gerald Laird batted leadoff for only the second time this season. Laird went 1-for-4 with three flyouts. ... The A's raised $116,750 on their annual Breast Cancer Awareness Day, with the proceeds going to the American Cancer Society and Northern California Cancer Center.
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Justin Hemmes has been slowly snapping up a roll-call of toqued Sydney chefs. Now he's moved onto restaurateurs. James Ingram, who had a hit with The International and a miss with the flatlining Kirketon Dining Room, is joining Merivale as its group general manager, food and beverage. Ingram has had a fruitful segue in recent years into hospitality consultancy and management.
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The death of the American director Paul Mazursky this week, at the age of 84, is a reminder of a period in the late sixties and early seventies that was steeped in European art cinema. From his Fellini homage Alex in Wonderland, to the Godard-nodding An Unmarried Woman, to his Bergman-inspired Scenes from a Mall, Mazursky repeatedly drew inspiration from across the Atlantic. One of his biggest successes, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, with Bette Midler, Nick Nolte and Richard Dreyfuss, was adapted from Jean Renoir's 1930s classic Boudou Saved from Drowning, about an insolent tramp who turns the lives of a middle-class family upside down.
Boudou, as the irrational, menacing underground figure threatening middle-class respectability, never quite goes away. Leos Carax recreated him, in an even more anarchic form, as the sewer-dwelling Merde, both in the omnibus film Tokyo! and his 2012 feature Holy Motors. Now Boudou's back, under the name of Borgman, in Dutch director Alex van Warmerdam's black comedy of the same name, which is also steeped in classic European influences. The inspirations include Boudou Saved from Drowning and Michael Haneke's home-invasion film Funny Games, with the added surreal elements of Luis Bunuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgoisie. Borgman is a perfectly crafted but airless allegory of contemporary European class warfare which, I think, is supposed to be funny.
The film begins with a priest leading a posse of armed men through the woods to rout a trio of men who have created underground bunkers for themselves. One of them, the scruffy Borgman (Jan Bijvoet), escapes the attack. Shortly afterward, he shows up at the sprawling suburban estate of a businessman, Richard (Jeroen Perceval), and his artist wife Marina (Hadewych Minis) and asks to use their shower. Though he is beaten and sent away, Borgman returns and persuades Marina to let him hide inside the garden shed while he recovers from Richard's attack. Feeling both guilty about her husband's behaviour and sexually attracted to the cooly presumptuous intruder, Marina is a push-over. Her guilt serves as a gateway to an incrementally escalating horror show, graduating from head games to outright violence.
Soon, Borgman has managed to find his way inside the family's modernist bunker of a home, ingratiating himself with the three angelic-looking children and turning the family – husband, wife, children and comely Danish nanny – against each other. Borgman's first overt violence involves forcibly replacing the gardener – Richard doesn't recognize the newly-coiffed stranger – and taking up permanent residence on the estate. He installs a creepy crew of deadpan gardeners, aided by a malevolent pair of women who pose as a doctor and her assistant.
There's no doubt the family is begging for a comeuppance. Richard is a conniving corporate weasel who won't hire a non-white gardener without a diploma ("We're from the West. It's affluent. That's not our fault"). Marina blasts her child for ruining a teddy bear, especially since some Third World child in a sweatshop went to a lot of trouble to make it. The black humour and perversity can occasionally startle, but the film takes far too much sadistic delight in punishing these entitled dopes. What's desperately missing – and what ultimately makes Borgman feel complacent and derivative – is any sense of Boudou's freewheeling anarchy, or the idea that the rich need to be liberated from their paranoid materialism rather than punished for it.Report Typo/Error
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In order to maintain high-quality instruction, the Film & Video Production major limits the number of students accepted each year into the major. Students who have been accepted into the major through the Secondary Admission process are then allowed to take CFV 226 and all 300- and 400- level film/video courses.
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Why Film Studio Chose Xbox 360 Over 'Perilous' DVD Market
Today marked a milestone in film and game history, of sorts. Movie studio Dare Productions released new film Pulp exclusively on Xbox 360 today, sidestepping the usual cinema/DVD route.
The comedy follows Tony Leary, a comic store owner who assists police to help them bring to justice a gang of Geordie criminals who want to use another comic company to launder money. It is available on Xbox Live today (Monday March 4) for 1180 Points for SD or 1420 Points for HD.
Producer and Co-director of Pulp Adam Hamdy spoke to NowGamer about the decision to launch on Xbox 360.
Why did you decide to try such an unusual method of delivery for your film?
Hamdy: "With traditional distribution costs running at around £2million for a wide theatrical release, it was hard to justify that kind of risk and investment in a film with no marquee names.
"That left DVD as a traditional distribution option, but we feel that Pulp is a special, fun film with mainstream appeal that deserved more than a straight-to-DVD release, particularly given the perilous state of the declining DVD market.
"Xbox has been making great strides in the entertainment space, and seemed like a natural partner for the film.-¨-¨"
What advantages have you found to releasing on Xbox Live as opposed to the cinema, DVD or streaming services like Netflix and Lovefilm?
Hamdy: "Xbox has a great relationship with its customers, and we can offer the film in ways that people are now consuming media.
"In addition to the Xbox console, Pulp is available on any Windows 8 device, or any Windows 7 device using the Zune Player.
"People can choose how they want to watch Pulp. As filmmakers, Xbox offers the benefit of direct distribution, which means we there aren't multiple agents or distributors between us and the audience.
"We can be very involved in how the film is marketed and branded.-¨-¨"
A lot of talk among the gaming community has been on how consoles are deviating from gaming-only to media features. Do you think consoles like Xbox and PlayStation could end up being more important than TV providers or services like Netflix?
Hamdy: "For certain types of entertainment, consoles could be far more important. As consoles increasingly move from the bedroom to the living room, their importance in distributing entertainment will only increase.-¨-¨"
Were you chasing a particular audience when you decided to release on Xbox?
Hamdy: "Pulp plays well with a wide range of people, but it seems to strike a particular chord with young guys between the ages of 15 and 30.
"Xbox seemed like a great way to access that audience.-¨-¨"
Did you approach Microsoft with the idea or was it vice versa? How did it come about?"
Hamdy: "My manager, Pat Nelson of Syndicate Works is an ex-Microsoft employee.
"Once we'd decided that Xbox was our first choice distribution platform, Pat arranged screenings with key executives, and they immediately saw the potential and the opportunity."
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James Hohmann, at Politico, makes the case that libertarianism is going mainstream. This is the scariest development in contemporary American politics and members of both political parties need to be on the alert, especially Catholics. You may find yourself agreeing with this or that policy, but the problem with libertarianism is at the root: When they say "human person," they understand that differently from the way orthodox Christians do. This is why Pope Pius XI, in his encyclical Quadragesimo Ano, referred to libertarian economics as a "poisoned spring." When you get the fundamentals wrong, everything that flows from it tends to be wrong. Focusing only on individual freedom as the first and foremost goal of politics, and understanding the human person in a hyper-individualistic way, demeans everything we Catholics believe about the common good, human flourishing, and the range of human values in any given culture. Libertarianism may be going mainstream, it may not, but it is dangerous in the extreme.
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"Fat TV Anchor" Jennifer Livingston On "Ellen"
If you thought Jennifer Livingston was the shit before, now you're going to want to marry her. A video of the Wisconsin news anchor went viral last week when she responded to a random jerk's cruel email complaining that she's a bad influence on viewers, especially women, because she is obese. The man admitted he doesn't even watch her news program, but went out of his way to concern-troll about her body and take her — and all women — down a peg. Livingston responded with both chutzpah and grace — not denying that she is overweight, but questioning the rudeness of this man to tell a stranger she should be ashamed of herself.
Yesterday, Jennifer Livingston visited "Ellen" to talk about her response, bullying, and how one cruel comment is one comment too many. Livingston also said addressing this rude email was never about getting an apology from the man, although he did eventually apologize. It was about showing everyone who gets picked on that the bullies are the problem, not you. "Clearly I am not the shining example of perfect health and I never claimed to be," Livingston said, "but that doesn't mean my worth should be [makes small gesture] this big."
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Fashion illustrator and graphic designer Patrick Morgan will be showcasing his work in a solo exhibition around the notion of buying luxury as a lifestyle. Having worked for fashion houses the likes of Tom Ford, Stella McCartney and Chanel, his illustrations promise to be a glamorous delight to all with an interest in how the other half of the fashion industry live.
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Snedeker finds balance, success follows
Looking on, one never got a sense that Brandt Snedeker was ever in a pitched battle with anger issues, that at times there were moments he was gnashing his teeth, banging his head up against his golf bag and taking his unsatisfactory work home with him.
Not with that boyish mug, the strawberry blond mop, the easy grin.
But inside Snedeker would seethe, so much that he would take his frustration out on those closest to him — and on the golf ball. Not knowing any better, when he was on the north side of par or his iron play was ajar, he would spend hours on end on the range, thinking he would hit his way out of bad play.
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A tiny package, however, arrived last year that changed his approach, his play and his perspective. Coming in at 5 pounds, 14 ounces and 18 inches long, Lily Hayes Snedeker changed everything for her daddy.
"My life is completely different," Snedeker said. "I used to live and die by the way I played golf. My attitude was based on the way I was playing. If I played good, I was a fun guy to be around. If I played bad, no person wanted to be around me. I let bad golf drive me crazy. But then she was born."
Lily came into the world March 3, 2011, the first child for Snedeker and wife, Mandy. Snedeker bolted the 2011 Honda Classic after the first round to catch a plane and made it to a Nashville hospital just in time for the birth.
Seven weeks later, he shot a final-round 64 to wipe out a six-shot deficit and defeated world No. 1 Luke Donald on the third playoff hole to win the RBC Heritage at Harbour Town Golf Links in Hilton Head Island, S.C.
"People who know me will tell you that because of her, I practice smarter," said Snedeker, 31, back to defend his title starting today. "I think I used to practice myself into slumps. Before her, I beat balls all day because I thought that's how I'd get better. And it's not. You get better by making your practice count, and by getting away and relaxing and having some fun.
"I don't live and die with every shot. The win at the Heritage was a re-emergence for me, to beat Luke when he was playing as well as anyone, to show myself that I could be one of the top players.
"Because of her, I had my best year of my career and I have a feeling that this year is going to be even better."
He just may be right. Earlier this year, Snedeker picked up his second win since Lily was born and the third win of his career when he defeated Kyle Stanley in a playoff at the Farmers Insurance Open, which bumped him up to a career-high world ranking of No. 15. He's won $1.672 million, just a spot out of the top 10. And he's made the cut in all nine starts.
"When you come home and see her and she looks back at you, it doesn't matter if you shot 80 or 60, she wants to play and have fun with her dad. And that instantly puts a smile on my face," he said. "She smiles and it just melts you heart."
Now, instead of hitting 10 buckets of balls, he plays with ducks and bubbles.
"I give her a bath every day," he said "That's our daddy-daughter time."
He'll spend more of that time at home. Snedeker said he'll cut his playing and practice schedule, teeing up in about 25 tournaments instead of 32.
"I'll play less now," said Snedeker, who's had surgery on both of his hips. "I think my surgeries were in direct relation to how much I played and practiced. Now I'll be smarter about both.
"And that will be easier to do with Lily around."
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In Thursday's afternoon wave, Rickie Fowler and Ricky Barnes will be joined by two-time major champion and fan favorite John Daly, who is playing most of his golf this year on the European Tour (1:20 p.m. ET). Youngster Bud Cauley, in a dash to secure a spot in The Players Championship, plays alongside 2007 Masters champion Zach Johnson and Webb Simpson, a two-time winner in 2011 (1 p.m.). The Friday afternoon wave features a 1 p.m. grouping of defending champion Brandt Snedeker and two guys he's beaten in sudden death playoffs — world No. 1 Luke Donald (in this tournament last year) and Waste Management Phoenix Open winner Kyle Stanley (in the Farmers Insurance Open this year). And three-time major champ Ernie Els, who didn't play in last week's Masters, gets back on the course with three-time major winner Padraig Harrington and 2011 FedExCup champion Bill Haas (1:10 p.m.).
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There is nothing innovative about gender balance on the inaugural Australian public service secretaries' board, set up as part of the public-service reform blueprint. [See main story.] There are just three woman secretaries (Lisa Paul, Education; Jane Halton, Health; and Robyn Kruk, Environment) – a drop of three since 2004-05. And women's representation on the new APS 200 forum is just 48 out of 180 top public servants, or 26.6 per cent. Although this outstrips the private sector, there is a long way to go considering the supposedly ironclad merit selection in the APS and that the overall APS workforce is 57.5 per cent female.
In other male bastions of the Australian public service, women are still swimming in a sea of grey suits. Of 105 agencies covered by the Financial Management and Accountability Act, 19 have female chief information officers. Female chief financial officers are gaining more ground – 28 women hold the position, said the Department of Finance and Deregulation. In the 19 departments of state, six CFOs are women, and in the 72 largest Commonwealth agencies, there are 17 female CFOs.
The government has made two appointments that depart from tradition. One is Macquarie banker
The parliamentary standing committee on public works came close to evoking a Yes, Minister image with its approval of the $20.5 million fitout for the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency's environmentally sustainable building. Hands up those who remember Yes, Minister's hospital with no patients. Despite abandonment of the emissions trading scheme, the department will have 978 staff after absorbing 445 from Environment, Water Heritage and the Arts.
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Yes, file a amended F listing all of the new debts.
The court will charge $26 to amend.
You should send notice of filing (copy of the schedule and the bankruptcy notice to each creditor you are adding on as well.
That is all you have to do.
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I just wrote amended on the first page and renumbered the bottom pages since I added a page, I initialed the bottom where I changed the page numbers is that okay?
yeah thats fine.
any other questions?
do I need to type out a new page of list of creditors showing their names, addresses and recopy the list and attach it as if a total new Schedule F?
I just list the new ones with AMENDED SCHEDULE F at the top. I don't relist the ones I've already filed
my deadline date is Dec 16 so as long as I am within 30 days I am okay right?
How am I notified of my court date for discharge?
The 341 notice you have indicates the last day for objections.
the discharge is usually right after that
But I have to go to court right?
you went to the 341 hearing right?
that is all you need to attend in ch7 unless a motion is filed.
so I will just get notified of the discharge when it goes through, how long after the deadline does it take place?
just a day or two
how do i know what was discharged? I am getting a divorce and there are things ie. property taxes that won't be allowed I am sure how do I get a quick copy of the bk discharge
you will receive the discharge notice by mail from the court
my divorce is scheduled for Dec 22 what if I don't get it in the mail,.. is it online or can I go to the courthouse and get a copy
yes, both. You would need to subscribe to PACER though to get it and pay the fee to access ti
any last questions?
thanks for the help.. this has been an experience to say the least