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Certiorari Denied in Textron: Is the Game Over?
The Supreme Court denied certiorari in Textron, leaving open the question whether in the First Circuit the work-product privilege protects tax-accrual workpapers.
June 24, 2010
Despite numerous amicus curiae briefs urging the Supreme Court to grant certiorari and a split in the circuits, on May 24, 2010, certiorari unexpectedly was denied in United States v. Textron, Inc., 577 F. 3rd 21 (1st. Cir., 2009), which held that Textron's tax accrual workpapers were not protected by the work-product privilege. Many tax practitioners and commentators have soundly criticized the majority opinion. To fully understand the import of Textron, the majority opinion must be analyzed in light of the facts and what it said and did not say.
Work-product Privilege
The work-product privilege, as first articulated by the Supreme Court in Hickman v. Taylor, 329 U.S. (1947), was codified in Rule 26(b)(3) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to protect a document from discovery if it is "prepared in anticipation of litigation or for trial …" To determine whether a document is protected, the purpose for the preparation of the document must be determined. The litigation content of a document does not answer the question as to the purpose for its creation.
The broader test adopted by most circuits, except the Fifth, is that a document is protected if it is "prepared because of the prospect of litigation." The Fifth Circuit adopted a narrower test that a document is protected if the "primary motivating purpose" in creating the document is to aid in possible future litigation. In anticipation of litigation means a real expectation of litigation, but not pending litigation. A general fear of being challenged will not satisfy the standard, but a real expectation of a specifically identified litigation is necessary.
The workpapers sought by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) were Textron's own workpapers prepared by its own in-house accountants and lawyers consisting of spreadsheets and backup materials that contained uncertain tax positions and estimates of the chances of prevailing in litigation with the IRS with respect to these items. During the audit of Textron, certain transactions entered into by its financial intermediary subsidiary became listed transactions and the IRS sought Textron's workpapers with respect to the listed transactions. Later, the IRS sought all of Textron's workpapers.
District Court's Decision
When Textron refused to turn over its workpapers, claiming work-product privilege, the IRS brought an enforcement action for the workpapers. Following the "because of" test, the court reasoned that "[t]here would have been no need to create a reserve in the first place, if Textron had not anticipated a dispute with the IRS that was likely to result in litigation or some other adversarial proceeding." As a result, the district court held that the work-product privilege protected the workpapers, having been prepared in anticipation of litigation.
First Circuit En Banc Majority Decision
A three-judge panel of the First Circuit originally affirmed the lower court's decision. On the IRS petition to hear the case en banc, the First Circuit withdrew the panel decision and heard the case en banc. The full-court majority, over a strong dissent, reversing the panel and the lower court, held that Textron's workpapers were not protected by the work product doctrine because they were not prepared for litigation, but rather for financial reporting purposes and therefore were prepared in the ordinary course of business.
The majority stated very clearly that it was applying the "because of" test adopted in Maine v. United States Dep't of Interior, 298 F. 3d 60 (1st Cir., 2002) as the test in the First Circuit, but in applying the test the majority looked to see if the documents were "prepared for use" in litigation. The majority noted that even though the workpapers contained legal thinking, they were not protected as work product, because Textron did not prepare the workpapers for use in possible litigation, but instead to estimate its tax reserves and to obtain a clean opinion from its outside auditors.
Textron's workpapers were argued to be dual purpose documents, i.e. prepared for litigation with the IRS and to support tax reserves that reflected litigation risks. Under the "because of" test dual purpose documents have been held to be protected. However, the majority opinion found that there was no evidence supporting a litigation purpose for the workpapers and they were not protected because they were prepared in the ordinary course of business and would have been created regardless of the litigation. Obviously, the majority did not consider the Textron workpapers dual purpose documents since the evidence showed that the workpapers served only the single purpose of disclosure.
The majority opinion weighed the respective interests of the IRS and the work-product privilege and placed the interest of the IRS and the collection of revenue ahead of the protection of work product. The weighing of competing interests was the very analysis conducted by the Supreme Court in the Arthur Young & Co. case, which held that the IRS was entitled to the taxpayer's financial accountants' workpapers.
Dissent Opinion
In a very critical opinion the dissent accused the majority of failing to follow the "because of" standard of the First Circuit and adopting a "prepared for use in potential litigation" standard. According to the dissent, the dual nature of the Textron's workpapers did not preclude the application of the "because of" standard and mandate the application of the "prepared for use in litigation" standard.
Further, the dissent accused the majority of using "simple generalizations" to avoid the Maine precedent and was critical of the majority's suggestion that it was respecting, rather than overruling Maine. The dissent concludes that under the Majority's unprecedented, narrower standard, the work-product privilege will not protect the workpapers.
The majority has been criticized for adopting an absolute rule that workpapers to establish reserves for audited financial statements are not protected by the work-product privilege. Yet, the majority opinion never states that tax accrual workpapers are never protected by the work-product privilege or that workpapers to determine proper financial reserves cannot also be prepared in anticipation of litigation. The majority emphasizes the facts surrounding the preparation of the workpapers that "[t]here is no evidence in this case that the workpapers were prepared for such [litigation] use or would in fact serve any useful purpose for Textron conducting litigation if it arose." In analyzing whether the workpapers were prepared for litigation, the majority concluded that the workpapers did not have the touch and feel of materials prepared for litigation. Further, the majority emphasized that the "singular immediate purpose" of the workpapers was to establish reserves for audited financial statements to receive a clean audit opinion and there was no evidence to support a litigation purpose of the workpapers. If there was such evidence, the majority may have come out differently.
Under the majority's opinion evidence demonstrating the use in litigation for the document or litigation as the purpose for the preparation of the document, in addition to disclosure requirements, may bring a different result. Workpapers with a litigation touch and feel, but also prepared to estimate tax reserves for audited financial statements, may be protected as work product even under the First Circuit's decision in Textron.
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Thomas R. Wechter, JD, LLM, is partner at Schiff Hardin LLP and concentrates his practice in the area of tax planning for individuals, corporations and partnerships and also handles matters involving tax controversies. Wechter has an LL.M. degree in Tax from New York University.


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Ended up in a heroic with a bot tank once. It did a remarkably good job. We only kicked it when it got stuck somehow and couldn't ride up the elevator. If they can make tank bots that good then making dps bots that pass for not great but at least real players shouldn't be a problem. I guess the biggest problem is if there's some actual communication going on but mosts heroics are just 'hi, go, bye'.
I hadn't seen them to the scale that the forums were mentioning until i rolled a toon on a very high pop server.. i got quite the shock at just how many bots people use. Not limited to BG's but for pretty much everything.
Sigh... Why would people who run bots bother with scenarios? And why is it every time a person does something bad its a bot? You got people that put there player on follow and went afk because they are an asshole not because they are a bot.
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there are bots EVERYWHERE; not just bg's. Blizz doesnt seem to do anything about it though. The bg bots get 3 hour suspensions lol

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MORAGA, Calif. -- Matthew Dellavedova scored 19 points and the Saint Mary's men's basketball team outlasted a very game San Francisco squad to pick up a 78-72 West Coast Conference victory on Saturday at McKeon Pavilion.
Beau Levesque scored 15, finishing in double figures for the ninth time in his last 10 games. Stephen Holt added 16 and Mitchell Young chipped in with 14 for Saint Mary's (13-4, 2-1 WCC).
Cody Doolin scored 16 to lead San Francisco (7-9, 0-4). De'End Parker was the only other Don in double figures with 15.
With three minutes left to play, Saint Mary's held on to a narrow 65-60 lead with San Francisco trying to overtake the Gaels.
The lead stayed that way for the better part of the next minute, with only a free throw by Dellavedova and two by Cody Doolin making it 66-62 Gaels with two minutes to play.
San Francisco had a chance to cut a 68-62 deficit to three with just under a minute remaining, but Parker's 3-pointer from the top of the key glanced off the side of the rim. Young secured the rebound, got fouled, and made his two free throws to put Saint Mary's up 70-62 with 49.8 seconds left.
"We knew it was going to be a tough game. They've been playing everybody tough," Saint Mary's coach Randy Bennett said. "I thought we played pretty well. We had a little lapse in the second half defensively where we were up 10 and had a chance to separate even more and didn't. ... They put on a little run and we've got to get better at that."
The Gaels held on from there, keeping the lead with good free throw shooting. That was a trend the entire contest, as Saint Mary's went 24 for 27 from the line.
For the first 10 minutes of the second half, there was no separating the two teams.
They traded baskets and good defense, but while USF got contributions from several players, Saint Mary's got the bulk of its scoring from Dellavedova and Levesque.
But even with the close score, the Gaels kept trying to get into the lane and make plays. Holt did just that with 9:20 to play, driving into the lane, scoring on a tough shot and earning the foul. He went on to convert the free throw, and put Saint Mary's up 57-52.
Young kept that momentum rolling with two free throws on the next possession, putting the Gaels up by seven.
One key to Saint Mary's keeping the lead was tremendous ball pressure on defense. Whether it was Jordan Giusti, Holt or Dellavedova, the Gaels guards kept the pressure on and forced the Dons perimeter players to work extra hard for everything they got.
"We knew they were going to try to penetrate a lot and get kick outs. They shoot the 3 really well," Dellavedova said. "That's when they got on a bit of a run. We knew going in we had to try to stop the penetration to cut off the 3s."
Despite a number of runs by Saint Mary's in the first half, San Francisco took a 36-35 lead into halftime.
That advantage came courtesy of a very balanced attack. Cole Dickerson, Tim Derksen and Matt Christiansen all scored six in the first half, and De'End Parker and Mark Tollefsen each added five.
Saint Mary's began the game on a 7-2 run, with Holt contributing five in the streak, including a run-capping 3-pointer.
The Gaels had more mini-runs like that, with strong play from Matt Hodgson and Levesque off the bench helping to keep the Gaels in the lead until the end of the half.
"They do things that get you into games on the road, like shooting 3s and getting in transition," Levesque said. "They did that really well at the end of the first half, hit some shots and got some runouts. We just needed to stick with our principles. We knew we'd be able to pull it out if we did what we did."
Saint Mary's is back in action Wednesday when it travels to Provo, Utah to take on BYU. That game is set for an 8 p.m. tip, and will be televised on ESPNU. Live audio will also be available on SMCGaels.com. The Gaels play at Portland on Saturday at 7:30 p.m., then return home to host San Diego on Jan. 24 at 8 p.m.


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In the West, precipitation is confined to the northern tier of the region, where cool, showery weather is slowing fieldwork and crop development. In contrast, dry weather accompanies record-setting warmth from California to the Four Corners States.
On the Plains, record-setting warmth persists across the southern half of the region, where today's high temperatures will again approach, reach, or exceed 90°F. On the central and southern High Plains, drought and weather extremes continue to take a toll on rangeland, pastures, and winter wheat. Farther north, cooler weather is returning to the northern Plains, following a brief warm spell that melted any remaining snow.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - A shotgun-wielding man robbed a 51-year-old cab driver who was waiting for a customer outside a Daytona Beach bar early Monday morning, deputies said.
The driver told Volusia County sheriff's deputies he was waiting in front of Daytona's Last Call on Nova Road around 4:20 a.m. when he heard a man yell for him to give him some money. When he turned toward the voice, he faced a man pointing a shotgun at him, deputies said.
The driver grabbed the gun barrel, but the culprit pulled it away and hit him in the mouth with the gun, deputies said. The driver then turned over some cash and the robber fled on foot.
No shots were fired.
Deputies and officers from local police departments searched the area, but the gunman was not found.
Deputies urge anyone with information about the robbery to call the sheriff's office at 386-323-0151. Anonymous tips can also be made by calling 888-277-TIPS.
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1. PapaJay224 (Posts: 866; Member since: 08 Feb 2009)
Just 1 more reason you dont need an iPhone, even though i'd hate to say it, but, chalk one up for Sprint.
2. zerglisk (Posts: 544; Member since: 09 Feb 2010)
Two of my coworkers switched from iPhone to EVO 4G and they are both loving it. It is really a nice and sexy phone on hand. Beat my HD2 in anyway, haha
3. networkdood (Posts: 6330; Member since: 31 Mar 2010)
Why would anyone want a white phone? Just buy a diff colored skin for it.
4. oddmanout (Posts: 443; Member since: 22 May 2009)
idk ask the thousands of people who preferred the white iphone over the black. it gives the consumer a choice and sets some individuality... i myself would get a white evo if i had the option before i got my black evo just to be different.
5. RORYREVOLUTION (Posts: 3117; Member since: 12 Jan 2010)
People I know like the white iphone better because finger prints don't show up as much.
6. xelastik2002 (Posts: 1; Member since: 19 Jun 2010)
I got my black EVO on the 4th and today i went and pre-order a white one :-)
7. sprintguy09 (Posts: 79; Member since: 17 Apr 2010)
If you buy this phone your stupid its a black evo with a white back
8. josh10132 (Posts: 30; Member since: 29 Sep 2009)
How is it stupid? its still the same phone, just different back right? its not any less than the all black one so i don't see it being dumb
9. sprintguy09 (Posts: 79; Member since: 17 Apr 2010)
because you can simply buy and white back if you already have the phone ........i was talking about the guys about us comment


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Junya Watanabe Spring 2012
It felt almost willfully odd and disorienting to be plunged into complete darkness at 9:30 a.m. on a blindingly glorious Saturday in Paris—audience members literally had to grope their way to their seats. This enlightening passage from last Sunday's Japan Times Online might explain what the habitually silent Junya Watanabe could have been saying by keeping the lights off:
"Motivated by fear of rolling blackouts and serious power cuts, people pulled together to reduce energy usage . . . this cutting back was an expression of compassion for all those who lost so much because of the earthquake, tsunami and radiation. Over-indulging on electricity when others had lost so much seemed unacceptable . . . The startling reduction of one-fifth of the country's electric activities was also a kind of silent protest. Even while protest marches and rallies against nuclear power took place in Shinjuku, Meiji Park and other venues over the summer, the quieter protest in the form of electricity conservation shows that people understand that maybe they do not really need so much electricity if it means that a nuclear power plant accident can end up radiating people's farmland, pushing them out of their homes and upending children's schools."
It would be just like Junya Watanabe, who has always been averse to explaining anything, to create a "quiet protest" as the backdrop to the collection he designed in Tokyo in the aftermath of the earthquake and meltdown of the Fukushima power plant. Protest and anger didn't register in the clothes, though. Perhaps this designer—who has often delved into the canon of aggro-punk street style—felt that a gentler response would be more healing. Some of it seemed to come out of respect for nature—flowers embroidered into a long sequence of lace handkerchief-point dresses—and some of it was apparently played purely for fun, like the layers of bouncing organza ruffles bursting from the armholes of cropped biker jackets.
Introverted and isolated as Watanabe may appear to be, he is (quietly, of course), highly skilled at channeling current ideas into the types of clothing that have earned him a following. So this season, he's brilliantly funneled the trend for tulle into a set of military utility jackets as well as playing on lace and signaling that, yes, he, too, has caught the feeling for something Spanish (those frilled-up bikers being an exuberant hybrid of flamenco-matador dressing and classic streetwear.)
All this rolled on without any overt commentary on the impact of this year's disasters. Then, as the last model took the runway, the music cut out. She walked in silence, and when she turned to face the audience, the lights went out again. Watanabe didn't want to take any applause—and when he was dragged out from backstage by the chairman of Condé Nast International, he still had no words. Perhaps he feels discomfiture about being a "mere" designer in a country rocked by such tragedy. But his presentation led to a deeply relevant train of thought.


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Arvada Center Announces new Executive Director
The City of Arvada has announced the hiring of Philip C. Sneed as the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities new Executive Director. The announcement concludes a seven month national search to fill the Center's top position. Sneed who currently serves as the Producing Artistic Director of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival will assume his duties beginning February 4, 2013.
For Sneed, coming to the Arvada Center is a homecoming. "I received my very first paycheck as a working artist back in 1976, performing in the second play ever produced at the Arvada Center." He went on to say, "I am deeply honored to come back to Arvada and to be entrusted with the leadership of a cultural organization that supports artists and offers a creative place for the community to experience the arts."
David Cooke, Chair of the Arvada Council for the Arts and Humanities sees Sneed as an excellent choice. "He brings so much to the table in terms of regional presence through his years with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival." He said, "His experience in forging new partnerships and supporting donor development will further the Arvada Center's position as the premiere multi-disciplined organization in the western United States."
"From our first meeting with Philip, we knew we had found a person that was truly passionate about the arts and carried the broad knowledge required to lead the Arvada Center." Stated Mark G. Deven, City Manager for the City of Arvada, "We are thrilled to have someone who has deep connections to the Arvada Center and also brings strong experience in the arts and community relationships." Deven went on to say, "We feel we have found the right Executive Director to lead the Arvada Center into its next phase of growth."
Prior to accepting the position, Sneed spent six and a half years as Producing Artistic Director of the prestigious Colorado Shakespeare Festival (CSF). He arrived in Boulder after spending twelve years as Artistic Director of The Foothill Theatre Company/Sierra Shakespeare Festival in Nevada City, California. While in California, Sneed initiated a cultural exchange program with the Maxim Gorky Theatre of Vladivostok, Russia, which resulted in seven projects, including a bilingual Hamlet in Russia, a new adaptation of Dracula, which he directed at the Gorky, and a CSF co-production of The Inspector General in 2011. Nationally respected by his peers, Sneed recently served two terms as President of the Shakespeare Theatre Association of America.


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The question seems absurd. John Rentoul of the Sunday Independent would be tempted to add it immediately to his list of journalistic questions to which the answer is "no". I think the answer is obviously "no".
But the Treasury and the Information Commissioner believe anyone revealing details of the Bank of England's forecasts is doing something that is:
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A Justin Bieber fan tackled the singer onstage during a concert in Dubai over the weekend, according to a United Arab Emirates report and a mobile phone video posted on YouTube.
News website The National reported that an unsuspecting Bieber was rushed from behind on Sunday night during his second show at Dubai's Sevens Stadium as part of the Believe world tour.
The teen star enraged fans the previous night, and again on Sunday night, when he turned up two hours late for both concerts in the same city.
A video purporting to be of Sunday's concert shows a male in a white T-shirt and denim shorts run onto the stage and grab a singer, dressed all in black, before security officers swarm onstage and tackle the young man.
The singer was able to free himself and dash to the side of the stage just seconds before a grand piano the star had been playing was tipped over in a tussle between the fan and a bodyguard.
Although the piano was rendered unplayable, Bieber and his eight-piece band managed to finish the song without pause while the attacker was removed from the stage, according to The National.
The website also reported that Bieber returned for an encore and finished the concert with the song Baby.
On Saturday, the Boyfriend singer had been expected to take to the stage at the Sevens Stadium at 8pm (local time), but it was only at around 10pm that concert officials announced the star was "on his way", prompting him to be booed by his young devotees.
Many parents later complained about their children being kept awake until the early hours since Sunday is a school day in the United Arab Emirates city, according to local news service Al Arabiya.
Concert organisers, DoneEvents Amg, posted an apology on their Facebook page for Saturday night's delays, saying: "Recent shows on this tour have started late and so the artist was also later than scheduled in taking to the stage last night.
"We really empathise with the fans and their parents who were affected by the delay and to whom this might have caused some inconvenience. We know that many parents had to look after tired and exhausted children both at the stadium and I am sure this morning, as they try to get them up for school.
"All that said the fans who saw Justin in action loved the incredible show he put on and they left screaming with delight as chants for the superstar echoed around the stadium."
They have not posted since Sunday night's reported attack or delay.
Bieber's late arrival comes after he kept fans waiting for two hours at London's O2 Arena in March as part of his current Believe world tour.
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I have been using FLSMS for a little over two years now. My deployment of FrontlineSMS has been used for surveys, collecting reports, external commands, auto reply function, forwarding SMS messages to my website, using short code and reverse charges.
Two weeks ago, I experienced something strange with the tool.
I copied some contacts from and existing group and pasted them into a new group. After few days, I then deleted the new group and its contacts. Upon this, I instantly noticed that the same contacts were also deleted from the existing contacts.
This is a serious problem and I do not know what went wrong, However, because I earlier exported the contacts, I was able to import the deleted contacts.
If you have had this experience, please tell me what to do to avoid this in the future.
What do you think might have been the cause?
Can this be a bug in the tool?
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Thanks for posting. I have not encountered this issue before, so I will duplicate your steps to test it out. I will get back to you as soon as possible to let you know what I found.
Hi Carter,
I tested your issue but I am unable to reproduce the problem. Can you tell me the exact steps you took when you copied contacts from one group and pasted it into another. I am unable to perform the copy and paste function (by 'Ctrl C', 'Ctrl V' or otherwise). The only way that I can copy contacts from one group to another is by selecting all contacts, then right clicking and then selecting 'Add to group'. Is this what you also did?
Also - if you click the 'Delete contacts' button, this action will delete the contacts from the group, from all other groups and the entire database. If you click on the Delete [groups] button which is located in the left pane at the bottom, this action should only delete the group. In fact, when you click the Delete [groups] button, a pop up box should appear asking you if you would also like to delete the contacts from the database. If you clicked on the Delete Contacts button, this would be why you lost all your contacts.
Let me know if this makes sense. But do please let me know what steps you took to copy and paste contacts from one group to another so that I can try again.
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There is a reason why men's clothes have buttons on the right while women have buttons on the left. What is it?
AnswerMost people are right handed and find it easier to fasten a button which is on the right through a hole which is on the left. This is why men's buttons are on the right. When buttons were first used it was rich people who could afford clothes with buttons. Among this class the ladies were often dressed by maid servants. The servant would face the lady and so it was easier for right handed servants to fasten buttons which were on the lady's left.
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Photoshop Strikes Again: Demi Moore Becomes Latest Victim of Overzealous Editing
Demi Moore doesn't look like herself in the new Helena Rubenstein cosmetics ad. She doesn't even look human. And this needs to stop!
-Lucia Peters
This? This is why the advertising industry needs a major overhaul. True, a heck of a lot of industries need major overhauls… but I mean, seriously!
It's no secret that Photoshopping has become a real problem in ads. Whether it's disproportionate limbs or missing hair, models are regularly tweaked and edited to disastrous result. And now Demi Moore has become Photoshop's most recent victim in an ad for Helena Rubenstein cosmetics.
The cosmetics company is finding itself under fire this week for what they've done to Demi's face in their new campaign. Demi has been through a lot lately, so it's unsurprising that she's been looking a little under the weather. She's only human, after all; hardships wreak havoc on the best of us. But in this new ad, the 49-year-old actress looks roughly 20 years younger than she is, her skin looks like it's been bleached, and her face is so smooth that it looks like a mask.
Long story short? Demi looks not at ALL like herself, and it's horrifying.
So what's been done to her? The Daily Mail talked to a picture editor for Life & Style to get a pro's opinion. According to the picture editor, the work would have been done "by someone very expert" and would have taken at least a day to do. He remarked that he can really only speculate on what exactly has been done without having seen the original photos, but that he suspected her skin had been "heavily airbrushed" to eliminate hairs, pores, moles, etc.—and that in Demi's case, they left pretty much nothing behind. Her cheekbones "look as though they have been heavily defined in after-effects," and her naturally hazel eyes have been made green. There also may have been some "liquefication," a process that reshapes the face. Even if each element was subtle in its change, when you combine them together, they "change the resulting face shape quite dramatically."
Oof. Just… oof.
Read 12 Actresses Who Have Mastered the Art of Aging Gracefully
This isn't the first time Helena Rubenstein cosmetics have gone overboard in their editing of Demi, either. Back in 2009, Jezebel unearthed the original image of Demi shot for a Helena Rubenstein perfume ad in its un-Photoshopped state—and the difference between it and the finished ad was shocking. But at least she still looks like herself (relatively speaking), which is more than can be said for the new ad.
What I find the most baffling is how any sane person could think that images like this will successfully sell cosmetics. In the new ad, Demi doesn't look like she has "flawless coverage." She doesn't look like her cosmetics have magically erased the ravages of time. She doesn't even look like a person. She looks like a robot, and frankly, an automaton version of a well-known personage touting a product is not going to make me want to BUY said product. It's going to make me want to run away in terror. It's also a crime to treat Demi Moore like that! I mean, she's Demi Moore! She may have had her troubles, but she's still kind of awesome! Why would you do that to her?!
As Jezebel pointed out during the 2009 incident, it's not that Demi looks bad because of the Photoshopping. It's that the Photoshopping makes her look not like a human being. And if the standard of beauty—at least in ad campaigns—is such that people no longer look like people? That's a problem. A big problem.
The really disheartening thing, though, is that the changes that would need to happen in the industry in order to fix these issues are so huge that they are unlikely to happen anytime soon. But in the meantime, maybe we can still learn to adjust our way of thinking. It's okay to look your age. In fact, it's better to look your age than to look like you're made of plastic. Remember these ladies who have mastered the art of aging gracefully? That's how we should aspire to be. Because we're all awesome, no matter how old we are.
Now we just need to convince the rest of the world of that fact.
Lucia Peters is BettyConfidential's associate editor.


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, a city with a history dating back more than 3000 years, is also called ?la città eterna? (the etnernal city). No other city in the world has a wealth of treasures such as that of Rome. Walking across the city, through Mediaeval lanes and across stylish squares, you will see monuments everywhere. It is like one big open air museum, in which arts and archeological treasures from a range of periods can be seen.
What makes Rome so extraordinary, is that the historic places and unique spots are all within walking distance. Be amazed at how much there is to see within a square kilometre! If your exploration starts at Centro Storico (the historic heart of Rome), you immediately come across sights such as the Spanish Steps, Piazza di Spagna, the Pantheon, the Trevi Fountain, and Piazza Navona. Please note that many museums are closed on Mondays! To avoid disappointment, it?s wise to check opening times beforehand.
Think of Rome, and you automatically think of the Vatican, a separate state within Rome. Don?t forget to visit this site! The world famous Vatican - covering an area of just 44 hectares ? is home to the St. Peter?s Basilica, the Sistine Chapel, the Vatican Museums, and of course the Pope.
It is impossible to see all this in one weekend, so don?t forget to just ?taste? the city. If you want to get away from the hustle and bustle, take a seat and enjoy the Italian cuisine or a wonderful cappuccino at one of Rome?s wonderful outdoor cafes. While you rest, you can enjoy the street scenery, watching the fashionable Romans meeting up on the square.
If you enjoy soaking up some culture, then visit Lazio. This region has plenty of cultural history to offer, with Rome being the highlight. You will also find Etruscan remains in the north, such as the towns of Viterbo, Tarquinia, and Necropoli.
Around Rome you will find stunning country houses built by wealthy Romans, some of which you can still visit today. Tivoli is known for its Roman villas ? visit the fabulous (fountain) gardens of Villa d?Este and the extensive estate of Villa Adriana, the country house of Emperor Hadrian. Both are UNESCO World Heritage sites.
Lazio is wedged in between the coast and the Apennine Mountains, among green vineyard-covered slopes and historic towns and villages. A comparison with Tuscany is often made, but this region is relatively unknown and less crowded.
In addition, Lazio is a volcanic region with four old volcanoes and the volcanic lakes of Bracciano, Bolsena, and Albano, offering opportunities for the water sports enthusiasts. It also has 10 fabulous golf courses for even more leisure activities.
Here, you can combine a visit to Rome with a relaxing holiday on the coast, because the west coast has many miles of sandy beaches and rocky coastline. Especially around Rome, the coast may not be the most attractive, however, such as near Ostia. The finest beaches are near the national park of Circeo ? such as those of Sperlonga.
Thanks to the combination of its mild climate, lakes, many (sports) activities, beautiful scenery, and rich culture, this region is a very attractive holiday destination.
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Most of the older Hogsback gardens are inspired by the gardens of England.
Driving up into the dreamy winter mists of the Amathole Mountains from Alice towards the Eastern Cape village of Hogsback, you find yourself in another realm.
There are numerous theories as to why many people seem to connect South Africa-born author JRR Tolkien's fantasy world, Middle-earth (the setting of The Lord of the Rings and other works), with this little village deep in the Eastern Cape forests.
Some say his son was a British air force officer in these parts, and that he sketched scenes from Hogsback and sent them home to his father.
It doesn't really matter. Within an hour of arriving up here, you just know there have to be fairies, trolls, elves and wizards lurking about in these woods.
And when you go looking for lodgings, you come across charmingly named places called Arminel, Away with the Fairies, the Eco-Shrine, Camelot, Lothlorien, King's Lodge and Nutwoods.
Like any enchanted forest, the walks are legendary. They vary from easy strolls to longer, more challenging adventures – all usefully graded.
It's the custom to buy a walking stick – a traveller's memento – from one of the crafters in the village.
When you visit the Eco-Shrine, greet the angels at the gate, walk the Labyrinth and the 400m garden meander called the Fairy Realm, look out for the rare Cape parrot, and feel the magic.
Hogsback was named, it is said, for the three ridges on the Amathole Mountains that resemble the outlines of a hog's back. These mountains are the spiritual domain of the Xhosa people, who call this area Qabimbola (after the red clay from the area they adorn their faces with).
And when the mountain mists clear, you're left with an astounding view of waterfalls, valleys and one of South Africa's most prized forest strongholds.
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Who to contact
Hogsback Information Centre
Tel: +27 (0)45 962 1245
Tel: +27 (0)45 962 1136
How to get here
Head for the Amathole Mountains, approx. 30km north of Alice on the R345. Hogsback is approx. 180km west of East London.
Best time to visit
In its forest setting, Hogsback is good throughout the year. Each season has its own features.
Tours to do
Hogsback garden tours are a great feature of the village. The Hogsback Arts and Crafts Trail will also keep you busy for a couple of days.
Get around
It's best to drive yourself to Hogsback. Once you're in the village, most of the attractions are within walking distance of your accommodation.
What will it cost
Accommodation will cost you anything from about R400 pp (self-catering) to R800 pp for bed and breakfast, though rates vary seasonally.
Length of stay
If you're a casual hiker, it's a two-day destination. If you're serious about walking in the woods, go for four days or more.
What to pack
Your most comfortable walking gear.
Where to stay
Backpackers: Away with the Fairies; leisure travellers: a wide selection of self-catering establishments, B&Bs and a few country hotels.
What to eat
You will find good pub grub at Happy Hogs (very popular with the locals), the Arminel and Hogsback Inn, and fine dining at Nutwoods and the Lighthouse Ranch.
What's happening
Hogsback stages a Christmas in July festival in late July, and a spring festival in the first week of October.
Best buys
The craft displays and shops in Hogsback are legendary. Buy your walking stick locally.


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Deep in his heart, everyone must have a private and profound sincerity and intimacy towards Allah. Having an indifferent and distant style towards Allah even in such secluded moments is an important deficiency that requires serious consideration…
It is possible to see the personality, favorable attributes, beautiful attitudes and morality a Muslim displays while he fulfills his acts of worship from outside. However for someone who observes from outside, it is impossible to know one of the most important signs of faith, that is, one's closeness to Allah in his heart. For a believer who loves Allah more than anyone and anything in this world, the friendship, intimacy and heartfelt love one has for Allah is one of the greatest blessings.
A person's attributes or attitudes that are seen from outside may be misleading. However the earnest sincerity and closeness to Allah reflects that person's genuine state. The Muslim himself also bears witness to this. At those moments nobody sees, hears or knows he himself knows the trust, submission and loyalty he displays towards Allah.
If a person can ever attain such profundity in his heart, even if he has many deficits or flaws in his attitude, it is, by Allah's leave, quite easy to make up for these deficits and attain profundity in his faith. However if these person's attitudes look flawless in outward appearance but he in fact experiences a distant and cool spirit towards Allah (surely Allah is beyond that), then this is a much perilous state. That is because, even if this person has no concrete flaw or mistake, he, in fact, experiences a great weakness in spirit and has an important lacuna in that sense. What is more important is that because he has not experienced a contrary state of mind, that is, because he has never tasted genuine spiritual profundity, he may even be unaware of the great deficiency he has. The fact is however, having a deficiency in one's sincerity to Allah, experiencing a distant and cool state of mind towards Him (Allah is beyond that) is an overt sign that he has such a viewpoint towards everything in life. That is because, if a person can not feel sufficient love for our All-Mighty Allah Who is the real possessor of all sorts of beauties, good and perfection and cannot feel due closeness, candidness and sincerity towards Him, then it is impossible for this person to feel actual closeness, sincerity and closeness also to people. A person can appreciate the beauties around him only if he can grasp love of Allah and appreciate the beauties of Allah's infinitely perfect attributes.
In the Qur'an Allah warns people against such a peril by describing the situation of those people who work very hard but whose labour come to nothing:
Some faces on that Day will be downcast,labouring, toiling endlessly… (Surat al-Ghashiyya, 2-3)
Those who have faith say, 'Are these the people who swore by Allah, with their most earnest oaths, that they were with you?' Their actions have come to nothing and they now are losers. (Surat al-Maida, 53)
That is because they followed what angers Allah and hated what is pleasing to Him. So He made their actions come to nothing. (Surah Muhammad, 28)
Consequently a person may well be fulfilling many acts of worship, spend many laborious hours and make serious effort for many issues throughout day. However this great deficiency in one's spiritual world is a great peril that may cause him to face an unfavorable situation both in this world and the Hereafter that he has never anticipated.
There are moments when a person remains all alone in his inner world, turns to Allah for prayer, pleads Him, calls for forgiveness and repents, asks for blessings, and communicates his innermost secrets, feelings, wishes, trouble and expectations to Allah.
If a person, even at those moments when sincerity is experienced to its utmost level, preserves his cool, distant, superficial and affected manners, then this attitude deserves serious attention.
Indeed in their daily lives people may display pretended manners to others or remain distant or pretentious towards them. It is surely erroneous to assume such morality also to people. However at times of prayer when nobody sees or hears him, even such a person must be able to distance himself from all his poses, the affected personality he displays, his cool style, insincere way of talking and pretentious world and experience sincerity.
It is very normal for unbelievers to live in such a cold world. People who cannot love Allah, who are unable to appreciate Allah's superior attributes and plead Him out of arrogance and pride and fail to turn to our Creator (surely Allah is beyond that) surely cannot experience closeness towards Allah in their inner worlds. Even if they pray they do it in the hope of reaping some benefits and in an insincere spirit.
However a devout who has certain faith in Allah and the Hereafter, who leads his life for Allah and devotes himself both in the spiritual and material sense to Allah, it is unacceptable to have a deficiency in his closeness to Allah. For this reason it is extremely important for every person to reconsider his situation from this perspective and immediately make effort to make up any deficiencies if he has. A believer must see no limits in his love, exuberance, sincerity, closeness towards Allah. The world and everything related to it are doomed to perish. Consequently aware that nothing is everlasting but Allah, a person must divert all his love and sincerity towards our Lord. Every good deed a person does in this world will have any worth by means of this heartfelt love and passion of Allah and taking our Lord as his closest friend.
In the Qur'an Allah relates this important fact as follows:
…Whatever good you do, Allah knows it. Take provision; but the best provision is fear of Allah. So have fear of Me, people of intelligence! (Surat al-Baqara, 197)
Their flesh and blood does not reach Allah but your fear of Allah does reach Him. In this way He has subjected them to you so that you might proclaim Allah's greatness for the way that He has guided you. Give good news to the good-doers. (Surat al-Hajj, 37)
Their reward is with their Lord: Gardens of Eden with rivers flowing under them, remaining in them timelessly, forever and ever. Allah is pleased with them and they are pleased with Him. That is for those who fear their Lord. (Surat al-Bayyina, 8)


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Embedded in the current news stories about allegations of sexual abuse by Kevin Clash are questions about the age of consent. I want to share with you some of my thoughts, and excerpts from conversations with colleagues Jenny Coleman, Lucy Greenberg, Kristen Houser and Karen Baker about this important topic. I hope they help you make sense of the significance of this story – and the larger issues about how to create sexual safety... Read full statement.
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The Goals of this Library session are:
- Know your assignment - write a lesson plan with a minimum of 4 peer reviewed articles cited APA 6th
- Learn how to create a search strategy -view Oviatt's latest video Research Therapy:Search Strategies at:
alcohol abuse, substance use, STD's, bullying, mental health, ADHD, self-esteem, eating disorders.
- Learn about Find Text
- Learn how to Cite your sources
- Learn how to choose appropriate databases for your topic
- PubMed (related to MEDLINE)
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- Articles are usually reports on scholarly research.
- Illustrations usually take the form of charts and graphs.
- Articles use jargon of the discipline.
OneSearch allows you to search, at this time, 150 databases as well as the Oviatt Library catalog. Although 150 databases, many indexes (e.g. PubMed, PsycInfo, Physical Education Index, LLBA...), full text databases (e.g. ScienceDirect, Sage Journals, JSTOR, Springer, Taylor & Franics...) are a lot of databases, OneSearch does NOT contain the contents of all our databses yet. OneSearch does offer a consistent way to save the records you want to keep, and if you view your saved records, on the right there is a "Export to EndNoteWeb" command where you can easily send the bibliographic information on the source you are viewing into your personal (editable) citation management database.
OneSearch is very useful to look up scholarly article citations (use quick keyword search author surname key words in title, or type in the article Doi if your citation offers a Doi), or do a simple keyword search on topic. You can identify academic articles easily, often be advised article is "peer reviewed" and see lots of hints on other keywords you can use for your search strategy.
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A PIONEERING company that manufactures ecologically sound cleaning materials has made Basingstoke its UK home.
Ecover, which makes soap products ranging from washing up liquid to floor cleaner, has relocated to Basing View – bringing two brands together.
UK general manager Tim Smith explained that the move stems from when Belgium-owned Ecover acquired San Francisco-based Method Products in 2012. The deal made Ecover the world's largest green cleaning product company.
Prior to the move, Ecover's UK office was in Newbury, while Method's was in Richmond, London.
Tim said: "We chose Basingstoke as it was the place that was easiest for both teams to get to – and also we wanted to make sure that we were still in a location that we could attract new people to the team. We've already recruited six new people and we're recruiting for another four.
"What we are trying to do is get good people from the local area, such as bright young graduates, to work for us."
Currently, there are 20 people working at the sales and marketing office in Basing View.
Tim said: "I think Basingstoke – which we prefer to call Amazingstoke – is great in terms of location, especially for its transport facilities, whether it's getting on the M3 or getting back to London on the train. We've also been out to a few lunches at Festival Place – so it's very convenient."
Tim said he is pleased to learn of new developments that are set to take place at the business park, including plans to build the John Lewis at home and Waitrose landmark superstore.
"Actually, that was one of the things that attracted us to Basing View," said Tim, who is also interested in the regeneration of the business park.
The company's new base is at 2200 Renaissance, which was previously Clydesdale Bank's Basingstoke financial solutions centre. The boardroom now boasts a table tennis table.
Tim said the eco-friendly company was keen to make use of an existing office building rather than a new-build. He said: "We didn't want to be the first into a new office –we wanted to use what was there."
The company, which this year will mark its 35th anniversary, sells around 50 products under the Ecover brand, and 30 with the Method name.
Tim said: "We have the fastest-growing brands on the market. What's great to see is that consumers are making a green choice about the products they buy and are recognising that they can each do their bit for the planet."


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. . . From the contents of their bellies, from between the dung and blood, We give you pure milk to drink, easy for drinkers to swallow. (Surat an-Nahl: 66)
The Production of Honey
As you know, the main ingredient in honey is the nectar collected by bees from flowers and fruit buds. Bees turn this into honey. Pollen has no effect on the production of honey, and is used by bees only to meet their needs for protein.
The nectar a bee collects from flowers and swallows undergoes a chemical change in its honey stomach, where it becomes a heavy, sugary liquid rich in vitamins and minerals. Later, bees place it into the honeycomb cells and seal with a wax cover. The honey acquires its familiar taste and consistency in the comb, thanks to the special air-conditioning provided by the bees.( http://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/insects/ahb/inf27.html)
The color of honey, its sugar content and different flavors all stem from the original nectars collected. The aromatic volatile oils in flowers, those same oils that give flowers their scents, give the honey its aroma.Honey production requires a major effort. For example, it takes 900 bees working an entire day to collect half a kilogram of raw nectar, only part of which can be turned into honey. The amount of honey obtained from the flowers totally depends upon the sugar concentration of the nectar brought to the hive. In the apple blossom, for instance, there is little sugar, and so little of the nectar collected from apple trees can be turned into honey. (Lucy W. Clausen, Insect Fact and Folklore, Int. Book and Periodicals Supply Services, New Delhi)
In order to obtain 450 grams of pure honey, some 17,000 bees must visit 10 million flowers. An average expedition to find food requires that a bee visit some 500 flowers and on a journey lasting approximately 25 minutes. That explains why bees have to put in 7,000 work hours to obtain 450 grams of pure honey. (John Brackenbury, Insects and Flowers, 1995, UK, p.12)
Although this job is most demanding, bees create many times more honey than they need. No doubt, this is a blessing from God for human beings' benefit.
. . . From inside them comes a drink of varying colors, containing healing for humanity. There is certainly a sign in that for people who reflect. (Surat an-Nahl: 69)2009-03-10 22:51:10


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Why Didn't Eva Longoria's Friends Speak Up?
Her friends are saying they knew her marriage wouldn't last with Tony Parker. Why didn't they say something?
-Faye Brennan
It bothers me when "friends" of a couple come out after the divorce announcement to say "I knew this would happen." Oh really? And you decided to keep that to yourself until after the fact? What a great friend you are!
Eva Longoria's "friends" are doing just this, telling Popeater's Rob Schuter that they knew her marriage with Tony Parker wouldn't last, and are surprised it even lasted 3 years.
"Neither one of them wanted to get married for the right reasons in the first place," says one of Schuter's sources, who reportedly attended the extravagant Longoria-Parker nuptials in 2007. "After seeing all the attention Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' wedding had received she wanted the same. And Tony just happened to be the right man in the right place at the right time," the source says.
Another wedding guest and "friend" tells Schuter of their wedding, "Tony spent most of the day listening to music on his iPod when not being pushed into pictures, while Eva spent the entire evening hanging with her friends and dancing. Tony seemed confused by the circus Eva had assembled."
And a third loyal friend chimed in, "[Eva] has been going home to an empty house for way too long. Finally the charade is over and we can all stop pretending."
Read Mean Betty: Was the Sexting Worth It, Tony Parker?
You mean, stop pretending to be a good friend to Eva, or stop pretending you hoped this day would come so you could be quoted on a gossip site?
If these sources are really Eva's friends and their claims are really true, they should've tried to talk Eva out of getting married for the wrong reasons a long time ago. It's hard to be that brutally honest with a friend and tell them something they won't want to hear, but who else will open their eyes to the fact that they may be making a huge mistake?
As Eva's friends, it was their obligation to warn her about marrying Tony. But instead, they pretended to be happy for the couple, and probably put on the cheesiest grins on their wedding day and for the next three years that Eva and Tony were together.
Now that their marriage has failed, Eva's friends have the balls to say, "I told you so"? Please! If that was me, and I found out everyone knew my marriage was a sham since the day I said, "I do," I would be so angry and hurt. Why didn't my friends say something? They could've been the voice of reason, opening my eyes to something that I couldn't see or didn't want to admit before it was too late. But instead, they were too cowardly to come forward.
I hope Eva finds out which of her "friends" spoke with Rob Schuter and unfriends them immediately — they clearly aren't the kind of people who will be honest with her or have her best interests in mind.
Tell us: if you knew your friend was marrying someone for the wrong reasons, would you speak up, or would you just wait it out until you could say, "I told you so"?
Faye Brennan is assistant editor at BettyConfidential.


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A LOBBY group has called on Taunton's Musgrove Park Hospital to divert some of its near-£1,000 weekly spend on interpreters and translation services to invest in staff and equipment.
Musgrove bosses say the bill represents a tiny proportion of its annual budget and it has a duty of care to all patients.
The trust running the hospital paid out £39,157 ensuring non-English speaking patients could understand nurses, doctors and consultants in the ten months to the end of January.
The total bill for the financial year is likely to be slightly higher than the £45,047 paid out in 2012/13, which was an increase on £18,239 the previous year.
The figures, obtained under a Freedom of Information request, show the languages the service most frequently relies on are Polish, Portuguese, Lithuanian, Russian and Mandarin.
Commenting on the Musgrove bill, TaxPayers' Alliance political director Dia Chakravarty said: "The NHS really cannot afford to spend so much of taxpayers' money on inter-preters, especially when times are hard.
"While hospitals will need to provide translators for visitors facing medical emergencies, they cannot be expected to provide day-to-day services in foreign languages.
"Hospitals must do more to cut these costs and instead focus resources on doctors, nurses and medical equip-ment."
A Musgrove spokesman said: "We have a duty of care to make sure that all members of our community can understand information about the hospital's services and that our patients, clinicians and nursing staff can communicate with each other effectively so that our patients receive the best possible care.
"We provide a range of interpretation and translation services which staff can access as and when they are needed.
"These services are provided by an external company, who were appointed through a formal procurement process.
"The annual cost of providing this service to our patients represents a small fraction, less than 0.02%, of our annual budget."
A Department of Health spokeswoman said NHS organisations need to ensure their communities can understand information about services and that patients and clinicians can communicate with each other to ensure patients get the best possible care.
She added: "However, we would encourage trusts to be efficient and save money where possible by working together and sharing resources."


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"My work experience prior to joining the Jones School of Business includes developing new and innovative products at Kimberly-Clark as part of the Product and Technology group, and most recently, managing daily production operations at Anheuser-Busch InBev with a focus on safety, quality and continuous process improvement. In my current role at Anheuser-Busch, I'm responsible for all training and development activities in the Operations department at the Houston brewery. I considered both full-time and other part-time programs but after some research as well as visiting the classes at Rice and meeting the students and faculty, there was no doubt left in my mind that this was the right fit for me. The ability to apply the knowledge and skills that I learn in the program to my workplace is the reason I chose a part-time program, and the caliber of the people that I had met at Rice through various admissions events solidified my decision. Before you start the Rice MBA for Professionals program, you go through a 6-day event called Immersion. Immersion is extremely successful at preparing the first-year business students for the launch of their rewarding and intensely rich experience at the Jones School at Rice. At the end of it, I already felt that I learned much more than just a week's worth of information – I made friends, I opened up my mind to new ways of thinking, and I was already able to explain certain workplace issues that I didn't understand previously. The thing that surprised me the most was how all the different classes during Immersion actually had connecting themes showing how they related to one another. I was also surprised by how energetic and engaged everyone, myself included, was even after staying up late working on our group assignments. This showed the commitment that my classmates had to their learning and to getting the most out of this experience. It's hard to believe that my first year will be winding down in a few months. The time has gone by so fast and I have been amazed at the experience so far. The value of the Rice MBA to me is the strength of the Rice network, the uniqueness of the program, and the values embedded in the Jones Graduate School of Business."Diana Rapp
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As the Image policy doesn't allow uploading of gif images, I was wondering if we should remove it from the supported/allowed files? There doesn't seem to be a reason why a low quality gif image would be required on this wiki.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 07:19 UTC, Thursday, 1 November 2012
It should be removed. It should avoid some confusion. Jacce | Talk | Contributions 10:23, November 1, 2012 (UTC)
Thanx.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 10:32 UTC, Thursday, 1 November 2012
Sounds good no? It would stop them from being uploaded altogether.--Cerez365™(talk) 10:45, November 1, 2012 (UTC)
Yup.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 10:54 UTC, Thursday, 1 November 2012
Hmmm... I suppose we could disable it. Technically speaking though we do have two .gifs. File:Header bg2.gif, File:Background.gif. Though we probably won't need to upload any .gifs in the future for backgrounds, etc... ~ Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (Local Talk ⁝ Animanga Talk) 13:05, November 2, 2012 (UTC)
Done. "If you need to have this reversed in the future, please reference ticket 57948 in that request." ~ Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (Local Talk ⁝ Animanga Talk) 07:53, November 6, 2012 (UTC)