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A Half-Century of Advertising Education at Michigan State University, East Lansing.
By Richard T. Cole and Gordon E. Miracle
The year 2008 marked the 50th anniversary of the Department of Advertising—now known as the Department of Advertising, Public Relations and Retailing—at Michigan State University. In 1958, the Dean of the recently established (1956) College of Communication Arts hired D'Arcy advertising executive John Crawford to serve as Chairman of a new Department of Advertising. There were no other known departments of advertising at that time. To serve as faculty members, Crawford hired professionals with BA, MA or MBA degrees in business administration, journalism or political science. Of the early faculty members, Kenward Atkin was the first to complete the requirements for the Ph.D. degree. He did so in MSU's Department of Communication in 1961 while carrying a full teaching load.
The BA in advertising was initiated as a liberal arts degree, augmented with a few advertising and journalism courses. Within a few years more than 100 students per year were enrolled in the program. Gradually the department added more professional advertising courses. In about 1960 the Department of Advertising was authorized to offer the MA in advertising, and in the next few years granted about four or five MA degrees per year.
In the 1960s scholarly advertising research was done mainly by faculty members in colleges of business and schools of journalism. Although the early members of the Department of Advertising were not researchers, Michigan State's status as a significant research university placed an expectation for research on all faculty members. Therefore, the mid 1960s was a period of dramatic change in the MSU advertising department. All but one of the early practitioner-oriented faculty members retired or left MSU for positions elsewhere by the end of the decade.
The hiring process for Ph.D. replacements —as well as for teachers with business experience — began when Gordon Miracle, Ph.D. in Marketing from the University of Wisconsin Business School, and previously a faculty member at The University of Michigan School of Business, was appointed associate professor in 1966. In early 1967, Miracle introduced a new course in international advertising at the undergraduate level, thought to be the first university course in international advertising taught at a US university. By the end of the decade departmental undergraduate enrollment increased to more than 200 students, and MA enrollment grew to about 45 per year.
Since the early 1960s and 1970s, student-run campaign courses were taught several times a year, sometimes with the support of large corporate advertisers. Later, in the mid 1970s MSU projects became so well known that sponsors were willing to pay several thousand dollars beyond the actual project costs. This extra money helped to develop and support other departmental courses and activities.
Kenward Atkin was appointed as the department's second chairman in 1969 and served until 1974. During his term, the undergraduate program grew to more than 300 students and MA enrollment held steady at about 50. As new departmental faculty conducted more scholarly research and outreach activities, and as more agencies, corporations and media came to MSU to recruit students, the department's reputation grew. More international students were attracted to the department, especially at the graduate level.
In the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, MA graduates in advertising competed successfully with marketing MBAs for jobs and salaries. In the mid 1960s the department began to recognize and honor outstanding seniors and MA students. Many of these students subsequently rose to top management and other high positions in advertising agencies, media, corporations and non-profit organizations. Over the next few years hundreds of MSU advertising graduates took positions in Chicago, Detroit and New York, as well as elsewhere in the USA and several other countries. In the early 1970s an MA in Public Relations was established.
In the years 1969-1972, under the leadership of Dean Herbert Oyer, informal discussions among faculty members in the departments of advertising, television and radio, and journalism led to launching the Ph.D. program in mass media in 1973. Miracle headed the Ph.D. Program in that first year, and other advertising faculty members played key roles in guiding graduate student research and publication. This program had a great influence on the department's research productivity. Meanwhile, faculty research and service also continued to include consulting for advertising and PR agencies, advertisers, media, and other organizations such as retailers, law firms, and manufacturers.
Under department chair Miracle — from May, 1974 until December, 1980 — the number of advertising majors grew to nearly 1000 students. As the department's international reputation grew, nearly half of the MA students were coming from outside the USA. In the late 1960s and 1970s the department appointed a number of assistant professors in the tenure system, all of whom had recently completed Ph.D. programs. Two of these faculty members stayed on to become department chairmen themselves – Martin Block in 1981 and Bruce Vanden Bergh in 1985.
During the first two decades of its existence, MSU's advertising department grew into a program with a solid balance of teaching, research and service. In addition to offering the first university course in international advertising in theUSA, the department also offered the university's first course in consumer behavior. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the department shifted from a focus on advertising to a focus on an integrated mix of marketing communication activities. This development was made more tangible, perhaps, by the later contributions of one of its prominent MA and PhD graduates, Donald Schultz, who later became known as the father of integrated marketing communication (IMC) and authored or coauthored 13 books on IMC or related topics.
Block oversaw the on-going growth in student count, as well as faculty research productivity, during his four years as chair. Among his achievements was beginning an off-campus masters program in Metropolitan Detroit. Block went on to join former student Schultz at Chicago's Northwestern University where he was instrumental in establishing the Integrated Marketing Communication program, later serving as chairman there.
University of Tennessee Ph.D. Bruce Vanden Bergh served as Department Chairman for the next dozen years—until 1997. During the mid 1980s student count exceeded 1200, as the MSU advertising department continued its tradition of leadership in teaching, research and service to the industry as well as service to national and international advertising associations. While the undergraduate program soared to new levels of prominence, the master's program also grew, both on the main MSU campus, and through a significant expansion of the Detroit area off-campus MA.
Vanden Bergh, who has taught a variety of graduate classes over the past three decades at MSU, maintained his involvement in undergraduate education, even during his chairmanship, by teaching campaign classes. During the late 1980s, Vanden Bergh was able to dial back undergraduate enrollment slightly, allowing the faculty to pursue more research and service functions and to remain focused on the campaign-style classes and activities that were helping distinguish the department. It was during this period, for example, that the department renewed its participation in the American Advertising Federation's (AAF) National Student Competition, which MSU had won in the campaign's inaugural year (1971) and won again in 1981. Over the next 25 years, the MSU Advertising Department AAF teams won regional competitions more than half the time they participated in the annual competitions.
Block, Vanden Bergh and then college dean, Irwin Bettinghaus, sensing the emergence of public relations as a respected university discipline, began staffing up with seasoned PR pros like Ned Hubbel, Jim Gaudino, now dean at Kent State, and then-Governor Jim Blanchard's press secretary and chief-of-staff, an MSU PhD in higher education administration, Richard Cole.
The department continued to be very active in the American Academy of Advertising (AAA) with VandenBergh elected president in 1995. MSU's connection to American Academy of Advertising (AAA) was strengthened through Vanden Bergh's leadership, but it neither started nor ended there. Crawford had served as AAA President in 1967-68, and Atkin served as AAAPresident in 1974-75. In 1979, MSU hosted the annual conference of theAAA. Miracle served as conference chairman and edited the conference proceedings and, in 1990, was elected a Fellow of the Academy. Advertising department chair Mary Alice Shaver held the AAA presidential post in 2002, and while in her MSU post she was also elected president of the Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).
In the 1990s, the department continued its steady march at or near the front of the growing parade of American advertising programs. MSU has consistently ranked in the top three programs in the country. Since the late 1990s Vanden Bergh and PR instructor Robert Kolt have generated national interest in an annual Super Bowl advertising judging event conducted by the department's 28 member faculty.
Dating back to the mid 1960s, the advertising curriculum had been refocusing to include more theory, strategic thinking, and managerial and technical skills—as the program began to take on the managerial focus that continues to distinguish it today. And while its scholarly influence soared, the department continued to retain qualified professional faculty with deep advertising experience necessary to prepare students for entry level jobs.
In 1975 the department established a visiting advertising professional (VAP) program. Since then, usually two or three times a year, senior advertising professionals have been brought to MSU from across the USA and from several foreign countries, for one- to four- week seminars with selected students. Today the VAP Program is financed by a gift from Kensington and Alice Jones. A former advertising professional himself, Jones taught in theMSU advertising program for nearly 20 years.
The new knowledge generated by scholarly research out of MSU's Advertising Department was shared not only through teaching at MSU, but also through scholarly publications that were read and used by graduate students and faculty members around the world. A long-standing department interest in summarizing scholarly advertising research for the advertising business has taken many forms over the past half century at MSU. Recently Vanden Bergh and current-chair Cole, influenced by an AAA panel convened by MSUassociate professor Hairong Li, created a bi-weekly, email service for MSUalumni and advertising professionals in agencies across the country. This service — Research Relevance — is dedicated to high-pointing key findings in the world of communication research that can help meet the day-to-day challenges facing the working advertising, PR and retailing professionals.
Although he retired in 1998, Miracle's early international leadership continues today. In 2007 he launched InterSIP, an international student advertising internship program that he directs from MSU in conjunction with the International Advertising Association (IAA). The department was also first accredited by the IAA in 2002. This accreditation allows MSU to offer to qualified students the professional certification: The IAA Diploma in International Marketing Communication. Miracle also serves as IAA Program Director at MSU.
The Department has graduated large numbers of outstanding students with BA and MA degrees, many of whom have moved into the highest levels of management. Numerous graduates of the MSU Ph.D. program in mass media, now media and information systems, have distinguished themselves in advertising and public relations university careers worldwide. A separate department-operated Ph.D. program in retailing continues with its long-standing record of quality university placements.
In the mid-1990's, a generous endowment established by the Rollin M. Gerstacker Foundation in honor of Ellis N. "Ned" Brandt, a public relations professional for Dow Chemical Company, created the first endowed professorship in the department and in the College of Communications Arts and Sciences. Charles Salmon, former head of the public relations sequence at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, was appointed as the first Brandt Professor. A few years later, the Gerstacker Foundation provided additional funding to convert the endowed professorship into an endowed chair, and to establish an annual Ellis N. Brandt Lecture in Public Relations at MSU.
MSU's sixth department chair, Bonnie Reece served from 1997 through 2002, and then again in an "acting" capacity during 2005-06. Reece, a University of Michigan Ph.D. with a Harvard MBA, is known as a capable administrator who acted on her keen interest in continuing the departmental record of producing first rate graduates at all program levels. During her MSU career which spanned the period 1982 until her retirement in 2006, Reece mentored and directed the programs of numerous graduate students.
Reece turned the leadership duties of the department over to Mary Alice Shaver in 2002. While president of the American Academy of Advertising, Shaver, seventh chair in the department's first half century, continued the development of departmental academic and research programs while also serving as editor of the Journal of Advertising Education, and guest editor of the Journal of Media Economics. In 2004, Shaver returned south for a leadership post at the University of Central Florida.
Reece returned to the chair position, this time on an acting basis, as she was needed to assist in the execution of merger of a program in merchandizing management and the Department of Advertising. The program in merchandizing management – now known as retailing — had been, and continues to be, staffed by several of the country's best-known and highly productive scholars in the field. The result was the newly named Department of Advertising, Public Relations, and Retailing.
Salmon was appointed dean of the College of Communication Arts and Sciences – the oldest and one of the largest and most respected communication colleges in the world – in 2005 after having served as acting dean since late 2003. With a national search for the chair of this multi-disciplinary department underway and being led by past chairman Vanden Bergh, he and Dean Salmon successfully recruited former faculty member Richard Cole, who was in late 2005 serving as Chief Administrative Officer of the ten-hospital university Detroit Medical Center.
So, in 2006, Cole rejoined MSU as professor and chair of the newly established Department of Advertising, Public Relations and Retailing. He and associate chair, retailing professor, Linda Good, immediately focused on bringing retailing, advertising and public relations together under a set of common initiatives designed to preserve the distinctions of the separate disciplines while capitalizing on the opportunities to establish a unique position in the world of commercial communications and shopper marketing education and research.
They also focused on implementing Dean Salmon's initiative "to put the arts back into communications arts and sciences" by elevating "creative opportunities" for advertising students by hiring a highly regarded graphics artist and copywriter and forging a new teaching relationship with the university's Art and Art History Department. Cole also restarted a college lecture series — that was endowed by late MSU alumnus John Aldinger. These bi-weekly lectures bring 14 top-level retailing, advertising and public relations leaders each year into a "Promotions Commons" lecture series. The sessions are regularly attended by as many as 200 of the department's undergraduate and graduate students, as well as faculty members interested on hearing professional describe cutting edge strategy and tactics.
One of Cole's early efforts was to obtain the Dean's support to move an undergraduate specialization in Public Relations under the management of the department which heretofore had responsibility only for the PR MA degree. This program gives high-GPA students from advertising, retailing, journalism, communications and certain agricultural and residential college majors the opportunity to "specialize" in PR while pursuing other (mostly) communication-related majors.
Recently, the department has been represented on a university-wide task force that will bring several undergraduate programs to a new MSU off-campus program that has been licensed as America's first public university program in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Among the graduate programs identified for initial offering in Dubai are MSU's master's level programs in advertising, public relations and retailing.
The department has been organizing the establishment of an initiative, headed by Professor Nora Rifon, dedicated to assembling the research interests of several advertising, public relations, and retailing faculty into a package of activities designed to stimulate further research into the social consequences of marketing to America's children. The first wave of publications emanating from this effort was funded by the Kellogg Foundation.
The first half century of the Department of Advertising, Public Relations, and Retailing has been marked by constant growth, dramatic change, increasing internationalism and a dynamic definition of advertising, a principal instrument of marketing communications in a flattening world. The on-going innovations and diverse, multi-disciplinary faculty members found in today's department combine with a strong history of success to predict that Michigan State University's Department of Advertising, Public Relations, and Retailing has an ever- brightening future.
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Cream Cheese Scrambled Eggs Recipe
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"My mother-in-law introduced me to this recipe, and now it's my kids' favorite breakfast. They really love it," Jacque Hunt of Heyburn, Idaho relates.
Recommended: 40+ Satisfying Low-Carb Breakfasts
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- 1 package (3 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 2 tablespoons half-and-half cream
- 8 eggs
- 1/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1/2 teaspoon lemon-pepper seasoning
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup real bacon bits
- 2 tablespoons butter
- In a small bowl, beat cream cheese and cream until smooth. Beat in the eggs, Parmesan cheese, lemon-pepper and salt. Stir in bacon.
- In a large skillet, melt butter; add egg mixture. Cook and stir over medium heat until eggs are completely set. Yield: 4 servings.
Originally published as Cream Cheese Scrambled Eggs in Simple & Delicious November/December 2006, p22
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"We left out the salt and we loved these eggs."
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"For those that don't like the salt, I did 4 eggs 1 tbl nonfat cream cheese parm to taste added a little pepper and it was perfect"
Reviewed Sep. 11, 2011
"very tasty. I used ham instead of bacon."
Reviewed Mar. 21, 2011
"My daughter has raved about this egg recipe she makes for dinner. I did try it for brunch and it was okay. I followed it exactly and thought it was too salty with the addition of grated cheese as well as salt. I'd make it again without the additional salt and add less cream cheese as well."
Reviewed Jan. 30, 2011
"The first time I made this recipe I didn't have lemon-pepper so I used slightly less plain pepper and it turned out delicious."
Reviewed Jan. 13, 2011
"eggs were very fluffy.too much bacon, but that might be my taste.insoftened the cream cheese then added the cream, this worked very well.i also omitted the salt, it would have been too salty otherwise. these eggs would be very good in a burrito with some cheddar and potatoes."


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By SABRINA GARRETT
The Wilson Post
A 4-year-old boy remained in critical condition Thursday at a Nashville hospital, a day after he was struck by a riding lawnmower operated by his 10-year-old sister at a Lebanon residence.
The childs name has not been released.
Wilson County Sheriff Robert Bryan told The Wilson Post Thursday he had checked with officials at the Monroe Carell Jr. Childrens Hospital at Vanderbilt and was told the boy was in critical condition following emergency surgery Wednesday night.
Bryan said investigators are continuing to review the incident to figure out exactly how the tragedy occurred.
Wilson County Sheriffs Department, along with Wilson County Emergency Management Agency personnel, responded to a call at 3441 Franklin Road in Lebanon at 4:58 p.m., Wednesday, regarding a lawnmower accident. WEMA dispatch reports said the call involved reports of a 4-year-old whose ankle, arm and leg were almost severed and whose hand was partially severed by the lawnmower blade.
Investigators reported that the child and his 10-year-old sister were playing at the home, whose resident was not the childs parent or primary caregiver.
What we understand was that the homeowner had just finished mowing the yard and the kids were out there playing. The way we understand it is that the 10-year-old sister was driving the lawnmower and lost control, Bryan said. We believe that the 4-year-old was playing in the yard and not riding on the lawnmower. We are trying to understand how the blades got engaged.
WEMA Director John Jewell said that upon arrival, emergency personnel found that residents had already pulled the boy out from underneath the lawnmower.
We carried him to the Lebanon Airport and he was LifeFlighted from there to Vanderbilt, Jewell said, adding that no additional information has been released about the condition of the boy. A lot of times, we dont hear about the outcome for a while.


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I'm always on the lookout for gluten-free and allergy-friendly grab-and-go snacks because I spend a lot of time running to and from meetings during the week, and I'm always on the go on the weekends. Plus, now that I'm pregnant, emergency snacks are key for when I am suddenly ravenous out of nowhere. In general, I like my snacks to be:
- easy to eat one-handed and while walking at a brisk pace
- small enough to throw in a purse or folio
- healthy enough to work for breakfast in a pinch
- small enough to sneak into meetings
With all of those things in mind, granola or cereal bars are usually the best solution (although if you have other ideas, feel free to comment and let me know!), the one caveat being that many gluten-free bars are crumbly and make a mess (not good if you are trying to sneak a snack in a meeting!). I've tried a lot of products and was recently provided a sample of Bakery on Main's line of soft & chewy granola bars.
These bars met all of my criteria–easily gobbled up while running to my next meeting, small enough to carry to and fro, packed with whole grains and seeds, and because of the chia and flax seed, they hold together very well and won't crumble in your lap.
These aren't granola bars in the traditional sense (or at least what I imagine when I think "granola bar")–they remind me more of a cereal bar because they have a lot of different grains, as well as flax and chia seeds which give them a different feel. There are three different flavors, all of which are free of gluten and dairy, but some flavors do contain different food allergens so make sure to read the allergen warnings if you have food allergies.
- Apple Cinnamon: peanut & tree nut cross-contamination warning (these were my favorite)
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A GPS tracker will still record location information through these areas of spotty coverage, however, and then report that history through the GPS platform when the device regains a data connection. Think of it like trying to send a text in a dead zone; the text will eventually send once cell service is restored. When you view the tracker's location history it may not indicate a dead zone, because it will be recording location information throughout; the dead zone will only present itself when you view the tracker's live location and it happens to be travelling through an area without coverage.
It's the nature of communications technology to change over time. As faster data connections become available, they replace older modes, yet still rely on existing infrastructure (towers) to transmit data. By shuttering 2G GSM and dedicating the same airwave space to 3G and LTE, cell providers like AT&T can increase data capacity by more than a hundredfold.


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is it possible to interrupt a carjacking in Grand Theft Auto III, Vice City, Liberty City Stories, Vice City Stories, IV and Chinatown Wars? -- PK2PK2 10:39, August 11, 2010 (UTC)
please leave a response when you find out and type in the games you can interrupt a carjacking in. -- PK2PK2 06:56, August 23, 2010 (UTC)
Can this be changed to Grand Theft Auto (crime) and have a redirect for carjacking? After all this is what the series is named for the name of the crime of stealing a car is Grand Theft Auto. T-888 17:42, November 13, 2011 (UTC)
I want to echo this, and add to it, because the name seems inaccurate. Carjacking, as it is commonly understood, refers to taking a vehicle directly from the driver. This article treats carjacking as the theft of both occupied and unoccupied vehicles; the theft of unoccupied vehicles is more commonly understood not as carjacking but as grand theft auto.Mandan14 (talk) 02:47, December 4, 2013 (UTC)


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Collect all the orders (1 color bomb, 150 orange, 150 purple) and reach 10,000 points in 45 moves.
1 star: 10000 points
2 stars: 75000 points
3 stars: 115000 points
It's rather helpful you only have 4 colors here to help you complete all your orders, but to do so, you will have to work your way down and open up the area beneath to create the color bomb needed to pass this level. Try to shoot down and match on top of the 5 hit blocks to push way down and then you will finally have room to make the color bomb. The orange and purple should follow along, but you will probably be ahead on one or the other, keep tabs on them and try to focus to keep them close, but making the color bomb is the big challenge and you have to work room in the bottom and then use striped candies mixed in to score enough pieces to collect all the orders. Just beware of the spinner dispenser in the middle halfway down.
Patricia Frederick's Tips for Candy Crush Level 289
You really only need to clear the blocks on one side to build the color bomb. If you can match that with a striped candy, it should help open up the other side of the board. After that, keep clearing the board to finish collecting the colors.


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Martha Stewart pushed her 1-year-old granddaughter Jude in her stroller in New York City on Thursday (April 19). Jude had a nice view of grandma while being pushed around the streets of the West Village. Her newborn brother Truman – born on March 7 – must have been home with mom Alexis Stewart.
Martha's daily talk show on the Hallmark is coming to an end. However, she's just signed on to host a new weekly show for PBS. The 30-minute show is called Martha Stewart's Cooking School and will be a teaching series inspired by her 2008 bestseller.
The 70-year-old said, "This new series combines so many of my passions: teaching and encouraging others."
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TubaChristmas to kick off weekend of boat parades
By CHRISTINE R. VAUGHN
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ST. PETERSBURG A TubaChristmas concert at The Pier will kick off the citys 16th annual illuminated boat parade on Saturday, Dec. 11.
The 60-member tuba band, sponsored by the St. Petersburg Community Band, will play carols beginning at 5:30 p.m. The lighted flotilla sets sail at 7.
TubaChristmas was conceived in 1974 as a tribute to the late artist and music teacher, William Bell, who was born on Christmas Day in 1902. Bell was a legend in the music world and recognized internationally for his mastery of the tuba.
The celebration is now scheduled during December in 124 American cities and in Austria, Japan and Canada.
This is the fifth annual TubaChristmas concert in Pinellas County. Participants come from all over the Tampa Bay area and include many winter visitors who arrive here in time to join the event, said Bob Fritz, an avid tuba player and retired interior designer who resides in Clearwater.
Musicians range from age 10 to mid 80s, he said, and about 25 percent are women.
Tuba and euphonium players participate in the event. Fritz, 74, explained that the euphonium has a higher pitch than a tuba.
The carols will be performed at four levels of tone, he said.
The concert will be conducted by Bill Findeison, founder of the Awesome Original Greater St. Petersburg 2nd Time Arounders Band. The first TubaChristmas was conducted by Paul Lavalle in New York Citys Rockefeller Plaza ice rink. The music was arranged by American composer Alex Wilder who composed many solo and ensemble compositions for tuba and euphonium. Ironically, Wilder died on Christmas Eve in 1980.
The Pier is at 800 Second Ave. N.E.
Other boat parades scheduled in the area are as follows:
Saturday, Dec. 11
Clearwater (Island Estates) 6:30 p.m. Begins in Mandalay Channel. Call 447-1230.
St. Pete Beach, 6 p.m. Begins at Merry Pier at Pass-A-Grille. This years boat parade prizes include thousands of dollars in prize packages for first through third place winners in three different categories. Two other categories include Most Santa Clauses and Best New Entry. Prizes also will be awarded to the first 40 vessels to register. Registrants must commit to staying in the parade until the end to receive prizes. All participating captains will be expected to attend a mandatory meeting. Call 363-9244.
St. Petersburg, 7:30 p.m. The Pier will host the 16th Annual Lighted Boat Parade, with holiday music and entertainment beginning at 6:30 p.m., with the parade to follow. Boat entry is free and open to all boat owners. Prizes will be awarded following the parade. Call 522-2264.
Tarpon Springs, 6 p.m. Begins at The Landing and travels down the Anclote River. No cost to participate. Trophies will be awarded for the best decorated boats. Registration forms are available at The Landing at Tarpon Springs, the Tarpon Springs Municipal Marina and at the Tarpon Springs Recreation Division, 400 S. Walton Ave. Call 942-5628.
Sunday, Dec. 12
Treasure Island, 6:30 p.m. at the T.I. Tennis and Yacht Club. The celebration begins 4:30 p.m. with a jazz orchestra playing and Santa visiting at the yacht club. Bring a new toy to the recreation department at City Hall or Treasure Bay on Paradise Boulevard until Dec. 10 to receive a pass to participate in events at the yacht club. Rain date is Monday, Dec. 13. Call 367-4511.
Indian Shores/Redingtons. Rain date Monday, Dec. 13. Start 5:45 p.m. north of the Madeira Beach Causeway Bridge, through the residential fingers of the three Redingtons and along the coast of Indian Shores ending at The Pub Waterfront Restaurants dock about 8:30 p.m. A captains meeting will be Wednesday, Dec. 8, 7 p.m., at North Redington Beach Town Hall, 190 173rd Ave., off Gulf Boulevard.
The best public viewing areas are DeBello Park just north of Shells in North Redington Beach about 8 p.m., and in Indian Shores, the boat launch at Park Boulevard at about 8:15 and the Estelle Harper Park behind town hall at about 8:25. Vessels will be judged in three classes from vantage points throughout the route. Prizes will be awarded in all three categories.
To enter a boat, call any of the town halls: Indian Shores, 595-4020, ext. 22; North Redington Beach, 397-4848; Redington Beach, 391-3875; and Redington Shores, 397-5538.
Wednesday, Dec. 15
South Pasadena, 6 p.m. Great American Marina. Call 347-4171.
Friday, Dec. 17
Madeira Beach, 6:30 p.m. Begins behind City Hall and goes through the fingers of the city. Immediately following the parade, join the party at the American Legion, where awards will be presented. Best overall prize is $1,000. Best 50 foot is $500 and best 25 foot is $500. Call 391-9951.
Saturday, Dec. 18
Indian Rocks Beach, 7 p.m. Begins at Holiday Inn Harborside. Call 517-0404.
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OK, I just now rebooted with a cd in the drive and the message disappears. But why should I get the message in the first place.
I have never seen it before.
I don't know. Maybe you updated the software and the developer decided to add some messages to syslog.
I believe this expected behaviour, if the system tries to mount the cdrom drive at boot. This will happen if there's an entry for the cd drive in /etc/fstab. You can avoid this boot error by:
2) remove the /etc/fstab entry, and use autofs to mount it. - chkconfig autofs on - uncomment the "misc" entry in /etc/auto.master - uncomment and verify the "cd" entry in /etc/auto.misc accessing /misc/cd should automount the cd on demand, and unmount if it's been idle for over 60 seconds.
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my boyfriend has been getting mad at me for everything..he started talking to a girl he slept with and her friend texted and said she was trying to have sex with him again I asked him about it and he started tripping out on me and said he wanted to take a break but continue talking to me until he gets his head cleared..i was pregnant and miscarried I told him tonight before I left the bar and he said he doesn't want to talk right now and I told him that I loved him and he said it back..he was complimenting me all day and asking what I had planned for the night and I went out with my friend her boyfriend and his friend to go to a bar and he got mad that her bfs friend was there because my boyfriend doesn't like him because of a fight we all got into and he called me fat but then apologized so I didn't mind that he came along..does he just need time apart? does he want to sleep with other women? I'm so confused and hurt right now.. I want to wait for him and get back together but I know if I told him I wanted a break he wouldn't even get back with me..i just don't know what to do anymore or what to say to him. he was the one who braught up getting pregnant and I agreed and then when it didn't happen for awhile he was mad at me for it and then when it happened he starting getting weird then normal then weird again...i just don't know how to react to all of this..i need him the most now since I lost the baby but he won't talk to me. should I just not text him unless he texts me first? he hasn't changed his relationship status on fb just has been adding a lot of females..he said he would always be mine and hopes that I'm not out doing things that I shouldn't and was asking where I was at and what I was doing and who I was with..i am staying faithful to him even though he left but is he staying faithful to me? he also said he needs a break now to clear his head before it gets worse and he is changing...what does that mean? will he come back to me or realize that he doesn't want to be with me? I'm trying to prepare myself for the worst but its too hard to lose him.
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Academic Outreach Endowment Grants
The Academic Outreach Endowment Fund provides financial support to both faculty and students for pursuits that involve community-connected teaching, learning, and research. Examples of these kinds of approaches include project-based learning (when there is a direct community connection), service-learning, community-based learning, participatory action research, and more.
Faculty: Please contact Tiffany Nourse Sargent with questions.
The Academic Outreach Endowment was created by the generosity of a Middlebury alumna from the 1970s. This endowment, inspired by the very meaningful experience of the alumna's thesis project, is used to provide support to students and faculty who wish to pursue community-connected opportunities and integrate "real world" issues with academic course work. The grants support the goal to provide students with experiences to apply and complement their liberal learning--combining theory and practice--and are administered by the Center for Careers and Internships (CCI).
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Applications for funding for academic year 2013-2014 are now being accepted. The deadline is April 1st.
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- Grants are awarded a maximum of $4,000, and typically range between $1,000-$3,000.
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Food GCSE
Food Technology
Exam Board: OCR
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Course entry requirements
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Pupils are taught the skills and knowledge to pass the course through a combination of teacher led sessions, mini projects and independent study.
Areas covered include nutrition, food properties and product development.
Pupils get to demonstrate and experiment with practical skills through their major project which follows the design process from research to design and through development to the end final product(s). Once taught the basics students are required to work independently in practical lessons in order to gain the higher controlled assessment marks. Students need to be committed to achieving, enjoy being creative and have the drive to stretch their skills and outcomes.
The practical element of this course is vital to success and ingredients are required on a regular basis.
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This course is assessed in the following way:
Pupils are taught to:
Select and use ingredients and processes to produce quality products
Use equipment safely with regard to themselves and others.
Work accurately and efficiently in terms of time, ingredients and equipment.
Manufacture products applying quality control procedures.
Research,effective evaluation and product analysis
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Home Economics Food and Nutrition provides a good basis for progression to A-level study, college or a wide range of careers.


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Author | Noor Fathima Warsia | Thursday, Jun 21,2007 8:32 AM
After Promo, Direct, Radio, Outdoor and Media, the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival 2007 announced the winners in the Cyber Lions category on June 20, 2007. India has not won a single Lion in this category in the last five years, and this year was no different.
India had entered 36 works in this category, five more than last year, and just one made it to the shortlist – Tribal DDB's work for MTV Asia. The jury comprised 25 members, including Jury President Tom Eslinger, Creative Director – Interactive and Emerging Technologies, Saatchi & Saatchi. ConnecTurf's Vice-Chairman, V Ramani, was also a member of this jury.
If Ramani's words are anything to go by, it would take three years for India to even reach the kind of creative standards that a market like Brazil had, let alone evolved markets like the US, the UK or even markets like Japan. However, he is of the opinion that in some categories like Email Advertising, India could have easily won a Bronze had there been enough number of entries.
He said, "We have just not entered enough work and some of the work that was entered was in categories where the international standards were far too high. I think, as a country we have to be more aware of Cannes Lions and consciously make attempts to win something here by entering more, and good work."
Like various other Indian jurors, Ramani, too, believes that India as a country has to work on better presentation of entries for platforms like these.
Giving a bigger picture, Jury President, Eslinger divulged that the jury was just really looking at great, unprecedented ideas for awarding the Lion. He said, "Any work that even made us feel like 'I wish I'd done that' took the Lion. Cyber can be the breeding ground for the next big idea and I asked the jurors to find me the Titanium even before the Titanium jury found it."
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iOS 7 adoption breaks previous record, now accounts for 60% of the ecosystem
0. phoneArena posted on 27 Sep 2013, 05:47
Apple's overhauled iOS 7 update has been live for less than 10 days, but the numbers have already started coming in, and they're quite impressive...
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1. bloodline (Posts: 706; Member since: 01 Dec 2011)
sadly one advantage over android devices.
4. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4275; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)
Not really an advantage, more of a trade-off. You can have very fast updates with Android, you just have to go with Nexus/Google Play devices. So, it's either very fast updates with a stock interface, or relatively slow updates, but with a custom OEM interface that adds features that stock doesn't have. Pick your poison; I'm trying to go down a middle road with Motorola, relatively fast updates with a mostly stock interface but with a few added features.
17. SellPhones82 (Posts: 569; Member since: 11 Dec 2008)
Below is a good read on how Google is overcoming fragmentation and most have yet to even notice it. Apple and Google are really coming from two different directions with OS updates and key OS features/apps. Apple keys on having devices on the same OS version, though they pull many of the newer features so that they are compatible with older models.
With Google we are starting to see much less added to new versions of Android. With 4.3 what really even changed? They added new Bluetooth support and a few other things like the new toggles that people really don't care about. Instead, "Google Play Service" is what Google uses to bypass the OEMs and Carriers to get the new features on all devices, regardless of what version of Android they are on. If you have a device with Play Store installed you get the new features.
Think about all the new stuff Google announced at O/I this year, Hangouts, Device Manager, updated Maps, Youtube, Play Games. All of those could have been in an OS update, ala Apple, but instead Google is able to simple push the updates to your device or make it available via the Play Store.
23. Finalflash (Posts: 3527; Member since: 23 Jul 2013)
Stop, stop with your sense making ways. Its the only "advantage" the Apple guys have left. If they lose that what will they use for a high horse, the nipple reader? I THINK NOT
25. RoyalPayne (banned) (Posts: 458; Member since: 07 Aug 2013)
One of many.
2. fistigons (Posts: 354; Member since: 11 Feb 2012)
Not me. I'm still rocking 5.something because apple didn't want to give my first gen ipad iOS 6. At least it's jailbroken.
20. ghaniosman (Posts: 78; Member since: 06 Jun 2013)
on one hand they have made impossible to downgrade from iOS7 and stopped the working of basic essential services like itunes ..etc if u r still on iOS 6 and on other hand we get to hear this crap!! congrats Apple on ur (unwilling and forceful) achievement !!!
21. stealthd (unregistered)
It's not impossible to downgrade. Apple doesn't directly give you the ability, but you can get the older iOS install files and install through iTunes.
3. _Bone_ (Posts: 2155; Member since: 29 Oct 2012)
So cartoon looks, iLag and extra battery drainage now affects dozens of millions of users? Say it ain't so.
5. RoyalPayne (banned) (Posts: 458; Member since: 07 Aug 2013)
Yes, abt 40 million galaxy notes shipped so far.
8. THE.DARK.KNIGHT (banned) (Posts: 269; Member since: 09 Sep 2013)
iLag? What the heck are you talking about?
10. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4275; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)
There is lag on iOS 7 for older devices, mainly due to planned obsolescence. Apple put 512 MB of RAM on the iPhone 4S, iPad 2, and iPod 5th gen, even though they KNEW they had to add multi-tasking to iOS soon. Multi-tasking on devices just doesn't work perfectly with less than 1 GB of RAM, so all the previously mentioned devices have noticeable lag.
15. HASHTAG (unregistered)
I agree that battery drainage is a big issue on iOS 7 with my iPad 4. Have to almost charge it up every day now.
6. dinosaur (Posts: 1; Member since: 27 Sep 2013)
I'd been forced to update cause unable to cancel it, happened to most of my friends too!
7. parvsingh05 (Posts: 98; Member since: 11 Jan 2012)
Yaa.. U wer forced to enter the deep hidden update settings , and agreeing all apple's pollicies before updating to ios7 .. Dont fool around that much dude. Control ur hands.
9. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4275; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)
Actually this might actually be a legitimate claim. My friend said she never updated her iPhone 5 herself, she just looked at her phone and saw it was rebooting, and when it was completely booted up it was running iOS 7. Maybe Apple is somehow forcing the update?
22. stealthd (unregistered)
Maybe she hit install on a pop up message, but they don't force the updates.
11. Timmehor (Posts: 599; Member since: 09 Mar 2013)
Wow, that's really successful. Apple did an awesome job at quickly phasing in iOS 7. Android and Windows Phone should have a little look at themselves and use Apple's efficient updates.
12. MobileKicker (Posts: 212; Member since: 19 Sep 2013)
ios 7 simply rocks
The icons are floating over the wallpaper
While the android is just sitting on 4 since past 5 years...lol
24. Finalflash (Posts: 3527; Member since: 23 Jul 2013)
You're either joking or stupid...the iOS 7 background parallax effect copies an Android app from like 2 years ago...
13. Rongocook (Posts: 76; Member since: 20 Sep 2013)
Mobilekicker. Nice one!
14. HASHTAG (unregistered)
This is the best thing that iOS has over Android; which is one of the reasons to why I got an iPad over an Android tablet. I also have a Nexus 4 for the reasons of getting updates without waiting months for the updates from Android manufactures.
16. dspkblympkbl (Posts: 51; Member since: 23 May 2013)
Of course it's gonna have record adoption rates, they started to shut down ios6 a month before 7 was released. Yall ain't fooling nobody!
18. WHoyton1 (Posts: 1635; Member since: 21 Feb 2013)
Doesnt suprise me its something different people are attracted to different things! Doesnt matter it could be an absolute terrible OS but its different that is why people are upgrading!
26. RoyalPayne (banned) (Posts: 458; Member since: 07 Aug 2013)
Have you used it yet on a personal device?
19. AustinPaul (Posts: 72; Member since: 13 Dec 2011)
What this says to me is that people were more anxious than ever for something different. I know I was on my iPad2. Nonetheless, I still use my little Nexus 7 more.


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A TWO-year-old girl and her parents were taken to hospital last night (Monday) after a wood burning stove exploded in their Newport home.
Daniel Jeavons, 28, happened to be crouching in front of the stove and shielded two-year-old Eadi-Mai from the blast, while partner Kate Howie, 27, was nearby in the kitchen at their home on Malpas Road.
Mr Jeavons' father, Lliswerry councillor Roger Jeavons said the force of the explosion blew out the glass from the living room bay window some 40 or 50 feet away.
"Daniel was crouching down talking to the baby between the wood burner and her, so he took any blast, if there was one," explained Cllr Jeavons, whose son is a plastering assessor.
"Perhaps we will know more later on. I am glad they are OK. They have only been in the house six months so we have no idea who put the stove in."
Mr Jeavons, Miss Howie and baby Eadi-Mai were taken to hospital where Mr Jeavons received treatment to burns on his left leg while his partner was given oxygen.
Their baby daughter was fine, said Cllr Jeavons.
The family returned to hospital yesterday for further treatment and were described as "shocked".
"We would like to thank the neighbours who were very good, somebody came in and rang the fire brigade," said Cllr Jeavons.
A Welsh Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: "We were called at 7.16pm on Monday to reports of a fire at a property on Malpas Road, Newport.
"A paramedic in a rapid response car and an emergency ambulance were dispatched to the scene, and three people with minor burns were taken to Royal Gwent Hospital for a precautionary check-up."
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Granero rules out leaving QPR in the January transfer window
"I wanted to face a big challenge with this club. It is a club with a lot of ambition and it wants to grow. I want to grow with it. Together we can move forward at the same time."
Spanish midfielder Esteban Granero has denied that he wants to leave Queens Park Rangers in the January transfer window.
"Am I happy here? Yes, more than ever. I came here for a challenge and this is what I have," Granero told the club's website.
"I wanted to face a big challenge with this club. It is a club with a lot of ambition and it wants to grow. I want to grow with it. Together we can move forward at the same time."
Granero joined the West Londoners from Real Madrid in the summer alongside other star players like Brazilian goalkeeper Julio César, winger Park Ji-Sung and French forward Djibril Cissé.
But despite these new arrivals and the millions of pounds invested by multimillionaire owner Tony Fernandes, the club are bottom of the Premier League and have yet to win a single game in the league so far this season.
"I am here to face this challenge. If people think I am not happy that I am here because we have not won yet, then they are wrong. We must work to get away from this situation and we are working hard for this. I am sure we will do it."
QPR face second-bottom club Southampton next Saturday at Loftus Road, and Granero believes a win against Nigel Adkins' side will be a springboard to help them win more games and climb out of the relegation zone.
"We know this is going to be massive for us," he said. "We play at home against one of our rivals. We know the supporters are with us and they deserve more than we are giving to them.
"All we can do is continue training hard and give everything on the pitch on Saturday.
"I believe the first win will change everything. We are doing the correct things and that is why I think it's going to be better for us very soon. The beginning has been a little bit tough but I am sure it is going to get better soon."


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E-PC boys' take second in Dunn County Indoor
MENOMONIE -- Menomonie's bigger boys' track and field team was able to easily win the Dunn- Count Indoor Meet last Tuesday at Menomonie High School.
But Elmwood-Plum City boys' squad was able to edge out several fellow Dunn-St. Croix squads to take second place.
Menomonie finished with 138 points and E-PC was second with 83 points. In third was Elk Mound with 70 points, Colfax with 19 and Boyceville scored 18 points.
The Red Devils won both relay races, the 1600-meter and the 3200. The winning time in the 1600 was 4:03.80 and the winning time in the 3200 was 9:46.90. The 1600 team is made up of Alex Gilles, Tyler Hines, Tim Talford and Gabe Rodriguez. 3200-meter team members were Gilles, Talford, Jordan Jones and Nick Zopp.
Other place winners for E-PC were a second and third by Tim Wayne and Jesse McKune in the 40-meter dash; a fifth by Lance Von Holtum in the 300-meter dash; a third, fourth and fifth place showing by Rodriguez, Talford and Von Holtum in the 400-meter dash; a second, fourth and sixth place finish by Shane Meyers, Jones and Zopp respectively in the 800-meter run; a fourth by Travis Bee in the 1600-meter run; a second and third by Nick Kernstock in both hurdle races; a fifth by Hines in the high jump, a third and fourth by Von Holtum and McKune in the long jump, a third by Kernstock in the triple jump and a third by Ben Bechel in the shot put.
Elmwood-Plum City's girls' track team finished fourth in the girls' standings. Colfax won the meet with 105 points followed up by Menomonie with 85.5, Elk Mound 47, E-PC 46 and Boyceville 30.5.
Amanda Daleiden had a pair of first place wins in both the 40 and 300 dashes. Daleiden's time in the 40 was 5.9 seconds while she ran a :47.5 second time in the 300. Teammate Sarah Claflin placed sixth in the 300 and fourth in the 400 and also took fourth in the 50-meter hurdles.
Becky and Abbie Hartung were both place winners in the 800 and 1600. Beck finished second in both races while Abbie was fourth in the 800 and third in the 1600.
Elmwood-PC is off until their first outdoor meet which is April 14 at Baldwin-Woodville.


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South Africa's floral riches at risk
A UK-based group, Fauna and Flora International (FFI), is working with South African colleagues to save the unique Cape floral kingdom.
Slightly larger than Scotland, it contains about 8,500 species, 5,800 of them found nowhere else on Earth.
There are six floral kingdoms on Earth - the Antarctic, Australasian, Boreal, Neotropic, Palaeotropic, and the Cape. Each is distinguished by the number of endemic species it contains (species found nowhere else).
The Cape floral kingdom is botanically more diverse than the richest tropical rainforest. It occupies about 90,000 square kilometres (35,000 square miles) at Africa's southern tip, stretching along the coast either side of the Cape of Good Hope.
The main plant community is known as the fynbos, Afrikaans for "fine bush", and a reference to the fine-leaved shrubby species that make up much of the vegetation. The fynbos constitutes 80% of the Cape floral kingdom.
Fire-dependent plants
The fynbos also contains many broad-leaved species, and it resembles other vegetation types like the Mediterranean maquis. It contains more than 7,000 species, nearly 5,000 of them endemic.
It produces a huge and colourful display of wild flowers, and is the origin of familiar plants like proteas, geraniums and freesias.
Now, though, the fynbos faces several threats, including competition by invading species. Some were originally imported as commercial crops. They destroy the established vegetation and damage the water catchments.
Other problems include urban expansion, pollution, over-extraction of water, and the conversion of land for agriculture.
Conservation model
In 1999, FFI bought Flower Valley, which had for years supported a wild flower-harvesting business but which was on the point of being ploughed up and used for vineyards.
And to secure the future of the entire kingdom the South African Government and a range of partners have developed a comprehensive scheme: Cape, the Cape Action Plan for the Environment.
They have asked the Global Environment Facility for $35 m (�25 m) over the next 20 years, when they hope to have conserved or restored the kingdom's biodiversity.
Attracting tourists
Cape, the first conservation strategy developed for an entire biodiversity hotspot, aims to establish a network of reserves, and to work towards sustainable yields.
Khungeka Njobe works for South Africa's National Botanical Institute. She told BBC News Online: "What's unique about Cape is the level of support it's got from everyone involved, from the cabinet down.
"It's more a sustainable development strategy than one about biodiversity alone, and I think it can attract a lot more tourists to the kingdom.
"We're a very environment-conscious country, and I don't doubt we can cope with tourists in a sustainable way."
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Trott, making his first-class return following a second break from cricket following the stress-related illness that forced him to return early from England's 5-0 Ashes series loss in Australia, batted for 47 minutes and faced 31 balls before he was lbw going across his stumps to Andre Adams.
Former New Zealand paceman Adams took four for 67 but Warwickshire avoided the follow-on thanks to England all-rounder Chris Woakes (91) and number 10 Chris Wright (65) who put on 108 for the ninth wicket.
Many of Trott's problems on the field in Australia stemmed from an inability to deal with short-pitched bowling, particularly from left-arm quick Mitchell Johnson.
But against another member of Australia's Ashes-winning attack in Nottinghamshire's Peter Siddle, Trott was nore secure when tested with the short ball.
He struck the first of his five fours when he pulled a short ball from seam bowler Siddle through square and followed up with two in successive balls in the Australian's next over, the first cut and the second hooked to fine leg before he was dismissed by Adams.
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To me, nothing can bring down a film quite like a case of miscasting. Some movies have just one role that was miscast, some have quite a few. I'd like to count down 10 roles I believe were greatly miscast, and would like to read what roles you thought were miscast in the comments.
10-Jack Nicholson-The Joker in Batman(1989)
I know the majority of people won't agree with me on this, but I just didn't feel like Jack was right for the role. I understand how casting him in the film would put people in seats, but he just didn't feel like The Joker to me. As an actor, he's great and I love most of the films he's been in, but to me The Joker isn't just some clown/gangster, he's menacing, unpredictable, and scary, and Jack brought none of that to the role.
9-Eric Bana-Bruce Banner/Hulk in Hulk(2003)
Eric Bana is a great actor, but not only does he not look like Banner, he didn't even really seem into the film itself. There were a lot of problems with "Hulk", the name being one of them, but casting Bana as Bruce Banner was it's biggest offense. It just didn't work, which is sad considering a couple of great casting choices in Sam Elliot as Thunderbolt Ross and Jennifer Connelly as Betty Ross.
8-Halle Berry-Patience Phillips in Catwoman(2004)
This belongs higher up on the list, but it's not because while it's miscast, she doesn't even play Selina Kyle! This is easily one of the worst wastes of time ever put on screen. The costume looked ridiculous, the acting from Berry was phoned in, which is bad since she was coming off of a win at the Oscars for "Monsters Ball", the directing was terrible, just everything about "Catwoman" was bad, very, very bad. Everybody involved in this movie, from the cast and crew to the studio that allowed it to be made should be ashamed of themselves.
7-Michael Clarke Duncan-The Kingpin in Daredevil(2003)
This was a bad movie with about 5 questionable casting choices, this one included. Traditionally Kingpin(Wilson Fisk) is a fat white dude, not a crazy muscular black guy. At first I thought to myself that, "Hey, this can work" but after seeing it, it just didn't work, at all. I loved Duncan, a good actor who seemed like one of the nicest guys in Hollywood, but his casting in the film was just way off.
6-Chris O'Donnell-Robin in Batman Forever/Batman & Robin(1995,1997)
I don't like this guy, I think he's a terrible actor, as evidenced by him being in a awful TV show "NCIS:Los Angeles" and to cast him as Dick Grayson should have been punishable by death. Both films he portrays Robin in were garbage, he's garbage, enough said.
5-Nicolas Cage-Johnny Blaze/Ghost Rider in Ghost Rider & Ghost Rider:Spirit Of Vengeance(2007 & 2012)
This makes me sad, Nic Cage is one of my all time favorite actors, and yes he's been making some pretty terrible choices in films, but that shouldn't take away from all the great films he's been in. With that said, casting him as Johnny Blaze couldn't be more off of the mark. Blaze is supposed to be a long haired blonde biker guy with a beard, not Nic Cage. Cage loves comics and wanted badly to play a superhero, but this was as bad as if Tim Burtons Superman would have been made. Stick to being Big Daddy Nic, that one actually worked for you.
4-Tobey Maguire-Peter Parker/Spiderman in Spiderman(2002, 2004, 2007)
First off I would like to say that I enjoyed Spiderman, loved Spiderman 2, and kinda hated the third. I also think they would have been so much better had Maguire not been cast as Parker. Not only do I think he didn't look the part, he didn't act the part very well either. It's not that I don't like Maguire, I think he's a good actor, he just wasn't right for the role, at all.
3-Topher Grace-Eddie Brock/Venom in Spiderman 3(2007)
Back to Spiderman again, but this time it's Topher Grace who was incredibly miscast as Eddie Brock. Eddie is supposed to be a a former athlete who after being fired from the Daily Globe takes up weight lifting, so yeah, he's supposed to be a pretty big, intimidating guy. Topher Grace is not at all intimidating, even as Venom. His wisecracks in the film are also quite different from what Venom was supposed to be, which is scary, and once again, Topher Grace is not, at all a scary guy. His casting as Venom was for me one of the big reasons why Spiderman 3 was such a huge letdown.
2-Jeremy Renner-Hawkeye in The Avengers(2012)
Although it didn't detract from an awesome movie, I still think this was bad casting. Renner isn't a bad actor, but he just didn't seem into the film, or the character like the rest of the cast did. Some people will say he just wasn't given much to work with, and that's fine, but I still think it was horrible casting. This guy doesn't channel Clint Barton to me, not even a little bit. Marvel is usually spot on with casting, but this one still troubles me, Clint is supposed to be a charismatic, charming Archer that without powers can still hold his own with the rest of The Avengers, Renner just doesn't seem to have those qualities, at least not in this film.
1-George Clooney-Bruce Wayne/Batman in Batman & Robin(1997)
This one should have been obvious to anybody reading. While Clooney has proved to be a really good actor and director, this is easily his worst role and to me, the most miscast role in superhero films. Not only is it incredibly miscast, it's the worst superhero film ever made, and one of the worst films ever made. To Clooney's credit though, not every actors career could survive after starring in such a box office bomb, so good job George.


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"Windows down is a song that completely embodies fun and we wanted to shoot a video that captured the four of us doing just that," Logan Henderson told Us Weekly. "We shot the video in Maui and did everything from cliff diving to paddle boarding to a house party with the locals. Our fans will get a chance to see a more mature and playful side of BTR."
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