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THE PLOT: Endurance star Ryan Dalziel completed a stunning hat-trick with a stunning performance to take an LMP2 class victory in the prestigious Le Mans 24-Hour race.
Ryan was in imperious form with a string of hot laps and treble stints to guide the Fort Lauderdale-based Starworks Motorsport HPD ARX03b car to the winners' podium.
Ryan, originally from Lanarkshire in Scotland, got the drive the two dream stints – as the sun set and then rose over the iconic La Sarthe circuit in France.
Fellow Brit Tom Kimber-Smith started the race and was soon making progress. Venezuelan Enzo Potlicchio also produced heroics as the team battled the superior speed of the rival Nissans.
Ryan – who lives in Windermere, Florida – then grabbed the lead early in his night shift and the team were able to build their advantage until they were more than a lap clear of their LMP2 rivals.
Ryan, Tom and Enzo kept consistent lap times as they broke into the top ten overall.
And Ryan got the honour of bringing the car home on its final lap in a sensational seventh place overall and first in LMP2.
Now Ryan can proudly add Le Mans winner to his CV alongside his Daytona 24 and 12 Hours of Sebring victories.
"Once you start seeing all the flags it becomes reality that you have completed the Le Mans 24 Hours. Then you realise that you have won – that is when you start welling up. There were definitely a few tears. It brought back the same emotions as at Daytona and Sebring, but for different reasons. This was a special one because I don't think anyone thought we could come and do it on away turf.
"But we did it. People thought we won at Sebring because we had local knowledge and the other cars broke down. This proves we have the right teamwork.
It was an amazing moment when we got the trophies.
"We came here with an unbelievable package and everyone worked so, so hard. There is no weak link in our team. Other teams may be faster or have faster drivers, but no one puts it all together as well as we do.
"It will take a while to sink in. At the moment I am too tired to think about it.
"It was an amazing moment when we got the trophies. I have never been on a podium with so many people in front of you. The Le Mans fans are super-passionate and they do not have favourites. They love everybody.
"They were chanting Starworks and chanting our names. It was nice to see how emotional Peter Baron was – I was been with him for a number of years. His biggest accomplishment was finishing runner up here in GT in 2003. He always wanted to come back as team owner and win it. First time back and we did it for him.
"The car finished the race the way it started. We could almost pack up the car and ship it off to Silverstone. It was a really good job from everybody – the crew did a great job and the drivers did really well to keep it in one piece. Honda have given us a very robust car.
"This is the biggest win of my career. There is Le Mans and everyone in the world knows what Le Mans is. Then there is Sebring, Daytona, Nurburgring, Dubai and races like that. They are all very good, but they are one tier below Le Mans. They will always be second to Le Mans. And now I can say I am a Le Mans winner and there not too many people who can say that."

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Posted by Chris Pereira Categories: Adventure, Editorial, Reviews, Role Playing Games, Xbox One
There were any number of reasons to be excited for Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor, which launched earlier this week. For myself and many others, it was the Nemesis system--which promises unique enemies and emergent gameplay--that was the most exciting aspect of all. And while it's certainly an intriguing feature, I can't help but feel I've been missing out on it for basically being too good at the game.
Until reviews started to hit the web, I was very cautious in being optimistic about Monolith's first-ever Lord of the Rings game. For being such a major franchise, quality games based on it have been few and far between--something that's especially surprising considering its renewed popularity following the release of Peter Jackson's movies. Once I heard the almost-unanimous praise from the reviewers I trust, I was onboard. I was ready to finally play a LotR game that was a genuinely good game, not another passable one that I accepted because it happened to make use of one of my favorite franchises.
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Watch this: The Dark Knight Rises trailer #3
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Movies, Videos
The Dark Knight Rises is set to be unleashed upon us on July 20, less than three months from now, and Warner Bros. just hit us with a new trailer. The two-minute spot is better than the first two that were released, and makes us salivate a bit more for the finale of Christopher Nolan's Batman saga. Check it out.
ElfQuest Movie: No Go
Posted by Tom Mason Categories: Editorials, Movies, Independent
This was posted by WaRP Graphics employee "Wendy Masque," on Elfquest's official Facebook page:
"After close to four years of suspense - and longer than four years of your much-appreciated interest and support - the word has come down from Warner Bros. And the word is 'no.' Their simple explanation is that they don't want to compete with The Hobbit. This was a possibility, among several, that we were prepared for. It is a relief, at last, to know."
Sad news for fans.
Movie studios make similarly-themed competing movies all the time (Armageddon and Deep Impact, anyone?) so that can't be the real reason. In fact, it sounds like movie studio bs.
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Posted by Tom Mason Categories: Editorials, DC Comics, Image Comics, Marvel Comics
So did you hear the big news? Marvel's moving to a new office building in Manhattan!
Not to be outdone, Warner Bros. decided to shake things up with a large scale corporate shift. This interview with Diane Nelson from Comic Book Resources actually sheds very little light on the nuts and bolts of it.
And the lack of real answers has caused Tom Spurgeon to raise some questions he'd like to see answered about the situation forward-going.
Naturally, and because I sometimes can't keep my mouth shut, I have my own take on the matter.
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Posted by Tom Mason Categories: Editorials, Movies, Television, DC Comics, Marvel Comics
Well, at least Batman will still be published out of New York!
I'm no pundit and I'm certainly no reporter or journalist, and I'm not even a DC insider, although I should point out that before Paul Levitz bought Wildstorm, he tried to buy the company I co-founded, Malibu Comics.
I was saddened, though not surprised that Warner Bros. was splitting DC Entertainment into two divisions and keeping all their old school business in Manhattan. My sympathies go out to all DC employees who are getting let go and to all freelancers who are getting their books cut out from under them. This is not an easy time, and it's not going to get easier.
I think lost in all the discussion and rundown of DC's recent shift is that the biggest piece of the puzzle has yet to be explained or admitted to. Warner Bros. which folded DC Comics into a new company called DC Entertainment just a year ago, now took DC Comics out of that company and moved DC Entertainment – along with all of the money-making portions of the company – to the West Coast.
DC Comics, the comic book division, is now its own stand-alone entity. An island of old-school publishing left without its support network. This has been hailed as a victory for the comic book people.
It isn't. It's a wake up call.
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Grounded: Superman's Walking Tour Diary
Posted by Tom Mason Categories: Editorials, DC Comics
Superman's been grounded. No he hasn't been sent to his room without supper, but the Man of Steel is taking a walking tour of America. The year-long adventure, called "Grounded" began in Superman #700 but really picks up steam in #701. It's written by J. Michael Straczynski and illustrated by Eddy Barrows. Supes will be using his cross-country hike to try to reconnect with the people of this great nation.
Naturally, he's keeping a diary and we got our hands on some excerpts. Up, up and away…on foot.
Day 6
Batman called to laugh at me. Said even Terra-Man used a horse. Ha-ha. Prick.
Status: Facebooking an embarrassing panel of Bruce and Dick getting massages in old comic book.
Lunch: A&W's Uncle Burger. Stupid name for a pretty good burger.
Day 9
Met another guy who wants to talk about the "brown skins." I said he had me confused with Green Lantern. I don't see skin color. I have enough trouble with Kryptonite's colors. And don't get me started on the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
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Well, I reckon it was bound t'happen, pardners. Jonah Hex has opened to just a $5 million weekend, meaning that it's officially been labeled a bomb. Too bad. Jonah was – and is – an iconic comic book property, the creation of John Albano and Tony DeZuniga. Maybe the filmmakers should've gone with a more traditional western approach like The Outlaw Josey Wales or 3:10 From Yuma instead of the steampunkian world of The Wild Wild West movie? Who's to say what would've worked, but the new one sure doesn't.
The problem now is that because Jonah Hex is based on a comic book (not a graphic novel as some lazy reporters simply retype) – but one that none of the general public has heard of before – it'll get tagged as a comic book movie, and worse, a failed comic book movie. And finger wagging along the lines of "is the comic book movie fad finally over" will start appearing as breathless know-it-all headlines in newspapers no one reads anymore.
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Netflix now delaying Fox and Universal disc releases
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If you are a current Netflix subscriber, you'll likely recall that they decided to enter into an agreement with Warner Bros. back in January that would delay Netflix from making new films from the studio available to subscribers for 28 days from the in-store release date. Well, it looks like more studios are jumping on board, as both Fox and Universal has now come to similar terms. What's the upside for Netflix subscribers? More streaming movies.
For example, with the Fox agreement, you'll need to wait 28 days before you'll be able to get a movie like Avatar in the mail, but in exchange you'll find streaming titles like 24, Bones, Lie to Me, Arrested Development, Prison Break, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. With Universal, you'll have to wait a bit longer for movies like It's Complicated, but don't fret, because Billy Elliot, The Pianist, and Being John Malkovich (among others) will be at your instant streaming disposal.
Expect more of these deals to be made, as Netflix is banking on streaming movies as the future of distribution (we agree,) and they are of the mindset that having customers wait an extra 4 weeks to get new discs is worth it if it means greater access to streaming rights. Let's see how this all plays out. Anyone upset about this?
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CES 2008: Warner Drops HD-DVD, Lone Tear Streams Down Toshiba's Face
Posted by Chris Cardinal Categories: CES, CES 2008, Home Entertainment
Warner Bros. announced they were becoming an exclusively Blu-Ray studio this weekend, apparently completely pulling the rug on the HD-DVD camp. Said a Toshiba press release:
TOKYO, Jan. 4 /PRNewswire/—Toshiba is quite surprised by Warner Bros.' decision to abandon HD DVD in favor of Blu-ray, despite the fact that there are various contracts in place between our companies concerning the support of HD DVD. As central members of the DVD Forum, we have long maintained a close partnership with Warner Bros. We worked closely together to help standardize the first-generation DVD format as well as to define and shape HD DVD as its next-generation successor.
We were particularly disappointed that this decision was made in spite of the significant momentum HD DVD has gained in the US market as well as other regions in 2007. HD DVD players and PCs have outsold Blu-ray in the US market in 2007.
Toshiba's one of the HD-DVD founders and following this announcement, they pulled their CES conference entirely. A bit of a death knell ringing for the HD-DVD side, with rumors swirling that Microsoft may be pulling their HD-DVD support as well.
It makes the free HD-DVD press backpack/roller bags a bit of a sad affair.
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Abdominal myomectomy
I recently had a large fibroid removed that was as big as two footballs it reached to my breasts. it began rapidliy growing within six months but I had it since 2000. When they removed it they noticed a portion of it was dying. they ran tests and my doctor informed that there is a possiblity of cancer but I have to have another mri in may to see if there are anymore growths she said if yes then There is a grave chance that I have some form of cancer if no growths on the mri then I am fine. I`m stressed because I don`t understand if I had some form of cancer why couldn`t it be picked up from previous test. have you ever heard of this
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It really depends on what the pathology report was on the first surgery. A normal fibroid has little potential for cancer. There are some rare fibroids that have some malignant potential. Without your pathology report, I can't really comment further. You should ask what from the pathology report was concerning. The size of the fibroids would not be a concern.
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Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
Review by Jondy
"After the original, I was expecting alot better than this crap."
Kingdom Hearts was a great game. In spite of so many flaws, namely the annoying camera and the cumbersome jump, it managed to really impress me. It's like Final Fantasy in story, but with a battle system that's both fun and challenging, assuming you're not overleveled.
Chain of memories was looking pretty good to me. Heck, fmv's in a gba game? Wow! And it should have all the greatness of the original, only portable, and maybe slightly downgraded.
So I tried it. I played it for quite some time. I played it until I just couldn't stand it anymore. How could they possibly screw up a game so impossible to screw up? First off:
Battle System: 1/10
Mixing card based with real time may sound fun, but it's not. Actually it doesn't even sound fun, now that I read this back. Here's how it works, kind of: You have a deck of cards. When you run into an enemy, you start a battle in a small, boring square. Then you select a card to hit an enemy with. Each card has a number and if the number on the card is higher than the number on the enemies card, you win, you get the card break, and your attacks succeeds. Then depending on what kind of card it was it will do X amount of damage. Sound great? It feels like total crap. Bosses that play like all high cards really screw over someone minded towards an action game. Is it really lack of skill for your deck to have alot of low number cards? Anyways, if the number on your card is too low, and lets just say you have like 10 keyblade cards. You can keep pressing A and watch all of them disappear never to return until the fight is over. And if you don't have cards you can't fight. and once you use all the cards, you can call back the ones that didn't get deleted while you're in the same fight.
It's annoying, and it's not even really because it's hard. I like hard games. But they have to be fun! This isn't.
Story: 5/10
In my humble opinion, they completely screwed up the story line. I think they should have just left it as is for Kingdom Hearts 2 to pick up. They had to incorporate the whole stupid card system into the storyline of course. It just makes the story seem... artificial to the original somehow. If you play it you'll see what I mean. I don't want to give away spoilers. And I don't think you'll be on the edge of your seat waiting to see what happens next. The story just isn't that great.
Out of battle gameplay: 0/10
What out of battle gameplay? You walk from door to door and use cards to unlock the doors. There are special doors that require special cards that you get from going to certain areas for storyline. It's far to linear. There is almost no exploration. You can break barrels for health, not that you'll need it. You can jump to higher levels to, yes, you guessed it, open more doors with more cards. Oh what fun awaits those who buy this game! Oh, by the way, swarms of boring card based battles await you on the "overworld." Touch a classic dark black heartless and the battle is on.
Card System: 5/10
I'm feeling generous. The card system may very well be the best aspect of the game, which is really very sad. As previously stated, different cards have different number values. And doors require a certain type of card with a certain number value on it to unlock the door. Which is just a great hard to figure out puzzle let me tell you. Who'd of guessed fighting battles until you get the number card you need? WHO? Man, I'm gonna have to buy the bloody guide for this game.
Graphics: 10/10
Don't judge this game by it's graphics please. The graphics in Chain of Memories, for GBA, are just plain amazing. It has a freaking FMV even! No complaints here.
Sound: 7/10
Nothing impressive really. The music just isn't that great, and the sound effects are dull.
Final Score: 5/10
If you're a big fan of Kingdom Hearts, and you are really looking forward to Kingdom Hearts 2, you probably should get this disapointing piece of bull crap anyways just for storyline's sake. Even though in my opinion they screwed the story up. Everyone else: stay away from this game. Over-freaking-hyped. Graphics deceive.
You most definitely should try it before you buy it. If you can't rent it, borrow it from a friend. If push comes to shove find it used in some game store for $10 bucks. It is not worth the full price.
Reviewer's Rating: 2.5 - Playable
Originally Posted: 04/12/05
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ZURICH, Dec 5 (Reuters) - UBS said on Tuesday SAP executive Hubertus Kuelps will take over as communications and branding head on Jan. 1, the second high-profile move in the unit in a month.
Kuelps, who will report to the Swiss bank's operating chief Ulrich Koerner, replaces Michael Willi, who is leaving UBS after 20 years to take on an undisclosed role outside the bank.
Kuelps' appointment comes five weeks after Stefan Nuenlist took over Swiss communications from Peter Hartmeier, an influential former editor of Swiss daily Tages-Anzeiger.
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The USDA released some very disturbing facts recently that millions of Americans are having to choose between rent, utilities, medicine and food when it comes to spending. In the U.S. one out of six children lives in a "food insecure" household.
Even in our area, the school's Backpack Program has brought the gravity of the situation to Richmond's doorsteps. This Saturday, May 9, the public has a chance to join the National Association of Letter Carriers in a food drive to Stamp Out Hunger.
According to John E. Potter, U.S. Postmaster General, the drive is entering its 17th year and has become the "largest one-day food drive in the country."
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Showtime! The contender, dressed in black, was working the crowd amid sporadic chants of "Linda! Linda! Linda!" Wading across the floor of a bustling ballroom, she flashed an arsenal of practiced moves: here, a handshake or a hug, there, a whisper and a sharp nod of her blonde head. It was a Friday evening in May, and some 1,500 delegates had convened in Hartford for the Connecticut Republican Convention, where they would be voting to endorse one of several candidates for an open U.S. Senate seat. Linda McMahon was gripping, grabbing and locking up support. As a competitor, McMahon had the advantage of wealth—she was promising to spend $50 million to win the seat—and an improbable self-made biography. But what really set the first-time candidate apart at this gathering of town bosses and selectmen was her ease with small-bore politicking. She was playing the audience like a seasoned performer.
This was no surprise, considering how McMahon made her fortune: in the raucous, crass, crowd-pleasing world of professional wrestling. Over more than 30 years, she and her husband, Vince, built a scruffy promotion company into a $1.2 billion empire of staged violence called World Wrestling Entertainment, known to fans (and the stock ticker) as the WWE (WWE). But while Vince, a blustery showman, was transforming TV programming, giving the world characters like Hulk Hogan and The Rock, and taking a lead role in his own wild spectacles, Linda stayed mostly. "I knew I was more suited to the boardroom," she says, "than I was to the television screen." Now that is changing as she steps into the arena of politics and tries to forge a legacy apart from the family business—an enterprise that, despite its passionate and free-spending following, still operates under a cloud of elite disdain.
It says something about this year's anti-Establishment mood that, even before she walked into the ballroom, the wrestling millionaire was already considered the Republican front-runner. Although Connecticut is a reliably liberal state, the race's Democratic candidate, Richard Blumenthal, kept making high-profile mistakes, and McMahon's supporters were predicting that she would be able to tap the same current that carried unlikely insurgents like Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown into a Senate seat long held by Democrats. "She went from zero and built up that corporation," said delegate Carol Teodosio, who began uncommitted, but had been won over by McMahon's outsider message. "She can deal with the Senate. She's dealt with testosterone before."
First, McMahon, 61, had to take care of the competition at the GOP convention, which included two Tea Party types, well-known money manager and financial market doomsayer Peter Schiff (campaign slogan: "Schiff Happens"), and volunteer firefighter Vinny Forras, whose principal qualification—he had responded to the World Trade Center on September 11—was touted by supporters wearing yellow fire helmets and carrying a banner image of the smoking ruins. Her most serious opposition came from Rob Simmons, a grayed ex-congressman with a moderate record. Simmons had promised to quit if he didn't win the party's endorsement, and McMahon was trying to drive him out of the race. Already she'd obliterated his early lead in the polls with a fusillade of expensive ads. "You know how much money I've spent on advertising?" Simmons said, as he canvassed the delegates for last-minute votes. "Zero."
Simmons sounded more overwhelmed than defiant, though, and all around him his opponent's financial edge was apparent. The ballroom floor was crawling with buzz-cut young men wearing Bluetooth earpieces and "Linda" golf shirts. "She's got an army here," said one impressed Republican, surveying the scene from the sidelines.
McMahon's foot soldiers were reporting back to a computer-filled war room down the hall, where Ed Patru, a Washington political operative who serves as the campaign's communications director, was counting votes and assessing intelligence. Hearing something he didn't like, Patru barged from the room with an aggravated look. "It's dirty politics out on the floor," he growled. Simmons' supporters, Patru claimed, were spreading rumors that a TV station was about to break news of a scandal from McMahon's past. While it wasn't true, it wasn't unbelievable, either.
McMahon was pitching herself to the convention—and by extension the state of Connecticut—as the very model of a successful Republican businesswoman. Her opponents were replying, in essence: take a look at the business. The field of wrestling is fertile ground for muckrakers. Over the years the WWE has been buffeted by periodic waves of scandal over steroid abuse, premature deaths, and allegations that their product was spoon-feeding raunchiness and violence to children. And at nearly every turn, the McMahon family gleefully embraced an outlaw image, at least on TV, playing a scheming, evil, brawling bunch of cretins in the parallel universe of their wrestling shows. The formula translated splendidly into ratings and revenues for the WWE. But now, as Linda McMahon enters a very different sort of contest, one for the public's approval, she faces a daunting challenge. She has to convince voters that the sordidness was all just make-believe.
Professional wrestling grew out of the freewheeling culture of traveling carnivals. Before Vince and Linda McMahon came along, wrestlers appeared on dingy and disorganized regional circuits, hewing to fraternal traditions with a distinctive vocabulary. The good guys were called "baby faces" and the bad guys were "heels"; the paying customers were "marks," and when they cheered or booed, that was "heat." Wrestlers were never supposed to break "kayfabe," the illusion that all fights were in earnest. If the body slams were faked, however, the rough-and-tumble of the business has always been real. Over three decades the McMahons have seen off all challengers, including some with much deeper pockets, through guile, tough tactics, and most of all, a superior understanding of the audiences' appetites.
The McMahons met as high school sweethearts back in rural North Carolina. They began small, in the 1970s, working for Vince's father, a small-time promoter. They went bankrupt early on after Vince took a risk on financing a stunt—an Evel Knievel motorcycle jump of the Snake River Canyon—that fizzled. But when the McMahons stuck to what they knew, wrestling, they made a formidable tag team. Linda held the purse strings, while Vince pulled the puppet stings, creating characters that roused the crowd—who "got over," in wrestling argot.
Vince, the impresario, is about getting a reaction from everything he does. At press conferences he's been known to declare, "Wall Street can kiss my ass." Linda was the one who smoothed things over and handled the details, playing the firm, financially conversant emissary to network executives and investors. ("I always think of Margaret Thatcher," the wrestler Bret Hart once said when asked to describe her management style.) In her new career, she's proven to be adept at what political professionals call messaging. Sitting one afternoon in her Stamford campaign office, a demure alternative to WWE's gaudy nearby headquarters, Titan Tower, McMahon told me she learned how to communicate in those early days when wrestling was still a barnstorming operation advertised on posters given away to local fire stations. "The only way you actually made money when this business was first beginning was ticket sales for live events," she said. "So you had to really develop a strong grassroots connection."
Back then the company didn't take in any revenues from TV; wrestling promoters would pay stations to broadcast their events during scheduling dead spots, fanning interest in their live matches. But it wasn't long before the McMahons realized that their product was perfect for the new, programming-deprived medium of cable TV. They persuaded the USA Network to start airing a weekly show featuring wrestlers like Hogan, Rowdy Roddy Piper, and the Iron Sheik, and replaced the simplistic heroes-and-heels formula with elaborate storylines—"angles," as wrestlers call them—that unfolded over a series of showdowns, building up to special events like the yearly WrestleMania. Soon, wrestling was the highest-rated draw on cable.
While Vince came up with the characters and charted their shifting allegiances, it was Linda who figured out how to monetize the drama. The WWE trademarked wrestlers' stage names, signature holds, and catchphrases—everything down to The Rock's distinctive cocked eyebrow—and licensed them to market T-shirts, action figures, books, and movies. Linda helped launch the brand into pay-per-view events, now a major source of revenue. When state athletic commissions began to pressure the business with regulations and taxes, it was Linda who came forward with the heretical public admission that wrestling was just an act, no more a sport than a magic show. "We got a lot of pushback from some of the older guard," she said. "But that was really the launching point for the company to start moving into more mainstream entertainment."
As the WWF's brand of entertainment grew in popularity, however, it came under attack from the self-appointed forces of decency, people like Senator Joseph Lieberman and the conservative watchdog L. Brent Bozell III, who called the McMahons "despicable people." The McMahons weren't deterred. Vince created a send-up group called Right to Censor, and told Playboy that he found Lieberman "scary." (Bygones appear to be bygones: Lieberman, an Independent who holds Connecticut's other Senate seat, recently said he'd consider endorsing Linda McMahon.) A more serious threat, during the 1990s, came in the form of the WCW, a rival league financed by cable baron Ted Turner, who stole Hulk Hogan and many other marquee performers away from the McMahons. Vince responded by dispensing with Hogan's kid-friendly style of cartoonish combat, emphasizing darker characters like the beer-swilling braggart "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, the macabre Undertaker, and the masked fiend Mankind. During this period, the so-called attitude era, the onscreen action became increasingly bloody and risqué, with angles featuring Satanism, sexuality, and smackdowns of scantily clad women.
The biggest heel of the attitude era, as the story developed, was Vince McMahon himself. He played a caricature of a Machiavellian wrestling league boss and occasionally descended into the ring to do battle with his archenemy, Steve Austin. Over time, the rest of the McMahon family got into the act. Son Shane, who in his day job headed the company's digital strategy, once took a 50-foot leap from scaffolding to the ring during a fight with the wrestler The Lethal Weapon. Daughter Stephanie, now the company's vice-president for creative development and operations, played a rebellious brat who cavorted with the hated Hunter Hearst Helmsley, or Triple H, and was often serenaded by crowds chanting "slut, slut, slut."
The McMahons say the routines were all in good fun, if not good taste. "It was almost one of the first reality series, if you would," Linda said. "It was real people, who were a real family, having these interactions in a ring." The bawdier the stories got, the more the McMahons were rewarded by the audience—and the markets. In 1999 the WWE, which changed its initials after a trademark suit by the World Wildlife Fund, went public. The McMahons, who held 83 percent of the company, were soon worth almost $1 billion on paper. (The stock has since had ups and downs, although it now trades just below its original offering price.) The company also absorbed the stumbling WCW. Attitude ruled.
A decade later, the family's exhibitionism is returning to haunt the McMahon campaign. Linda never much liked to be on camera, but her rare appearances—the one where Vince drugged her so he could frolic with one of his "divas," the one where she slapped Stephanie for plotting against the family—were memorable. The WWE has tried to scrub all evidence from the Internet, but McMahon's opponents are finding ample material to work with.
"I really don't think anyone in Sacramento expected Arnold Schwarzenegger to walk into the capital...shooting machine guns out of each hand," McMahon told me. "I do believe that people can definitely separate soap opera from reality." Still, part of Vince McMahon's genius has been his facility for blurring the lines between the two. In the 1990s, for instance, he fought a bumpkin character called "Billionaire Ted" in the ring, and at times the family's real-life storylines have turned distinctly surreal. In 1999 the onscreen character Stephanie McMahon was married to Triple H in a ceremony at a Vegas drive-through chapel that occurred while she was unconscious. Four years later, Stephanie got married in actuality, while happily awake, to Paul Levesque—better known as the wrestler Triple H. "That was life imitating art," Linda said.
"It's the wrestling business," says columnist Mike Mooneyham, co-author of Sex, Lies and Headlocks, a history of the WWE. "Sometimes it's hard to differentiate reality and fantasy."
The line gets decidedly blurry when it comes to the character of Vince McMahon. A library of tell-all books, including Mooneyham's, depicts him as a visionary who nonetheless bears similarities to the tyrannical figure he plays on TV. WWE wrestlers are employed only as independent contractors without health benefits, and their salaries, determined by their drawing power, start at a minimum of $75,000 and range up to $1 million a year, though they can make substantially more with bonuses. McMahon maintains tight control over wrestlers' appearance schedules, career arcs, even their names, and he makes and discards stars with ruthless decisiveness. He's made plenty of enemies in the process. Ring of Hell, a 2008 book by Matthew Randazzo V, quotes numerous named and unnamed former WWE employees who say that Vince McMahon has encouraged a workplace culture of rowdiness, infighting, and rampant abuse of drugs, both recreational and performance-enhancing. "These books are written by authors who benefit financially from sensationalizing WWE's past," says company spokesman Robert Zimmerman. "Neither Mr. McMahon nor the WWE intend to comment on wild allegations attributed to unnamed 'sources' contained in poorly researched books."
No one disputes that the McMahons rose to wealth on the backs of freakishly muscled men. For years the company has been dogged by scandals over steroids. In the early 1990s a series of federal investigations implicated stars like Hogan and Roddy Piper. And Vince, who admitted to having used steroids himself before they became illegal, was charged with conspiracy to distribute. He was acquitted at trial, and the company enacted a steroid testing program. It was abandoned after just five years. In 2007 testimony to a congressional committee, Linda McMahon said this was done, among other reasons, to create "a level playing field" with the WCW, Turner's organization. "He had no drug testing of any kind, and the fact was that he was paying talent much more," she told me. (There is some dispute about whether the WCW did actually test.) "We had come off the trial, we had good solid superstars, and we didn't think it was an issue."
It was only a decade later, after the death of wrestler Eddie Guerrero from a heart condition likely exacerbated by steroid abuse, that the WWE enacted a new drug policy. In a preliminary round of testing, 40 percent of its roster turned up positive. Vince said he was surprised. At first, the company's new rules had significant loopholes. Wrestlers were allowed to perform while serving their suspensions for drug use, on the theory that sitting out was a lesser punishment than being beaten in the ring for no pay. Later, after the wrestler Chris Benoit murdered his family and hung himself, leaving behind a steroid stash, the policy was tightened. Now wrestlers are barred from the ring after a positive test, their names are announced, and contracts are terminated after a third offense.
Despite the new policy, the congressional investigation concluded in 2009 that the WWE had "not taken adequate steps" to address steroid use in its ranks. In his testimony, Vince McMahon made it clear he was not convinced that such performing-enhancing drugs were even dangerous, saying "the FDA hasn't bothered to tell me or anybody else." The company chairman, who cuts a remarkably bulging figure for a 64-year-old, also refused to answer when asked under oath whether he'd used steroids in the prior 11 years. "Mr. McMahon believed that questions invading his personal and medical privacy were inappropriate and offensive," says Zimmerman.
Although there's been some scaremongering, research has linked steroid use by athletes to liver, cardiac, musculoskeletal, and reproductive system damage, as well as psychiatric effects. When I asked Linda McMahon about the issue, however, she said she shared her husband's doubts. "There's some evidence sometimes of muscle disease, or cardiac disease, but it's really hard to know because you didn't know the condition of the performer's heart, or whatever, prior to," she told me. "So I still don't think we know the long-term effects of steroids. They are continuing to study it more and more, but I don't believe there are a lot of studies out there today that are conclusive."
For all their on-camera posturing against the elites, the McMahons have long been engaged in a flirtation with the forces of respectability. Over the years the WWE has tried to translate its brand to mainstream ventures like a football league and a Times Square theme restaurant. Both were expensive debacles. The company is currently expanding into movie- making, signing up former Oscar nominees like Ed Harris and Patricia Clarkson to star alongside wrestlers. The films are part of a broader push to tone down the WWE's attitude. After years of defending the company over its racy content, which once prompted advertisers like Coca-Cola (KO) to pull its ads, it was apparently Linda and Stephanie who decided it was time for less misogyny and gore. Revenues have been hit by the recession, as well as by competition from the authentic blood sport of mixed martial arts, and the McMahons calculated that audiences and advertisers want something more family friendly.
The McMahons own an $11 million Greenwich estate and have become accepted members of Connecticut society. Lowell P. Weicker, a former GOP senator and governor, is a member of WWE's board. The current governor, Jodi M. Rell, paved the way for McMahon's entry into politics by appointing her in early 2009 to the state board of education, over the objections of some in the legislature who questioned her wrestling background. McMahon told me that brief experience gave her a taste for public service, which matured into a desire to run for the Senate as she watched President Barack Obama enact policies that encumbered entrepreneurs with taxes, regulations, and obligations to provide health-care benefits. "It was just one thing after the other, after the other," she said. "We need, I believe, more representative senators and congressmen and women who are more in tune to the people who sent them to Washington." She's pro-choice, against repealing President Bush's tax cuts, and skeptical of the bill sponsored by Senator Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) that would place new rules on the banking industry and create a consumer protection agency, which she calls "just another added layer of bureaucracy."
Although the WWE has sponsored voter registration drives, and McMahon appeared alongside The Rock at the 2000 GOP convention, people who know her say her interest in the Senate came as a surprise. "No, I didn't ever sense that this is the direction that she wanted to go in," says Weicker, an admirer who is nonetheless unsure if McMahon's prepared for the harsh business of campaigning. "She's already seen enough to know that she's got a rough road ahead."
In her short time in politics, however, McMahon has shown herself to be a formidable combatant. When she launched her campaign last September, her initial target was Dodd, a Democrat who was expected to run again for his seat. She aired a series of commercials attacking the senator as an out-of-touch incumbent who was beholden to special interests. Facing declining poll numbers and the prospect of a free-spending opponent, Dodd dropped out of the race in January, making way for a far more popular Democratic candidate, Richard Blumenthal, the state's long-serving Attorney General.
Blumenthal's entry to the race seemed to make McMahon's challenge far more difficult, but in May The New York Times rocked the campaign with a front-page story describing a series of occasions in which the Democrat, who served in a stateside Marine reserve unit during Vietnam, seemed to imply that he'd actually fought in the war. Suddenly, McMahon wasn't the only candidate with phony battles to explain. In the aftermath, an item posted on her website—and hurriedly taken down—crowed that her campaign had planted the damaging story, although The Times asserted that it did its own digging. McMahon's spokesman says the campaign's involvement with the leak was limited to sharing research with the newspaper, including a tape of one of Blumenthal's appearances where he apparently misrepresented his record. The Times got its own copy of the tape. "We made a strategic decision before the convention to put our fingerprints on this story," Patru says. "We believed it would send a message to the delegates."
Still, a poll conducted by Quinnipiac University in late May, after the news of the Vietnam flap sank in, gave Blumenthal a 25-point lead and showed that more voters had a negative than a positive view of McMahon, an unusual and troublesome result for a first-time candidate. Eric Schultz, a spokesman for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, says that in McMahon, Republicans have "a candidate who made her millions peddling sex and violence to kids, hiding widespread steroid abuse, and sending her employees into dangerous situations in exchange for their glory and her profit. Democrats chose a crusading Attorney General with a long record of delivering for Connecticut families. I'd take that matchup any day of the week."
McMahon's supporters are undaunted and confident the gap will close once an onslaught of commercials allow voters to get to know her—and her opponent—a little better. At the state convention, Republicans were positively giddy over Blumenthal's embarrassment. Many wore stickers emblazoned with the Attorney General's face and the word "LIAR," and jokes about ersatz valor abounded.
The endorsement vote, when it came, was seemingly about as rule-bound as a wrestling match. The candidates and their supporters worked the crowds until the very last minute, twisting arms and striking deals. After the first round, with McMahon close to the 50 percent threshold she needed, the presider announced, bafflingly, that everyone would now have a chance to change their votes. A cascade of delegates came forward, and one by one the announcer called out shifts to McMahon. With the prize within reach, the whole McMahon family—which has stayed far in the background for the campaign—appeared on the floor. Vince was there, spry and broad-shouldered in a light gray suit, and so were Triple H and Stephanie, looking very pregnant with the couple's third child, and Shane, who recently left the WWE and has been rumored to be exploring several sports-related investments. Swarmed by cameras, the clan clustered around Linda in disciplined silence, ignoring all questions from the throng.
Linda nervously bit her bent finger; it was hard to keep count of all the vote switches. "One more, right?" Vince said, as yet another was called out. When she reached the magic number, Linda silently pumped her fist, and then led the entire scrum on an impromptu procession across the ballroom. The presider scolded her for creating an undignified hubbub, but her audience loved it, clapping and shouting her name.
McMahon accepted the endorsement beneath an arch of red, white, and blue balloons. She graciously thanked Rob Simmons, who a few days later announced he was suspending his campaign, and took aim at the wounded front-runner, Blumenthal. "I venture to say," she declared, in her slight Southern twang, "we're going to land a smackdown on him come November." To her side, Vince beamed. The character was getting over.
"My family has not been part of this campaign or anything, [but] I wanted my family there at the convention," Linda told me a few days later. "It was a great night. It was not political theater, it was family emotion. We have a strong, close-knit family...despite all the dysfunction we've displayed over the years on television."


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SAINT-JEAN-SUR-RICHELIEU, QUE.—Coalition Avenir Québec wants to put tax dollars back into the pockets of middle-class families, but voters must wait a few more days to find out how the party would pay for it.
"We think the Charest government has dug far enough into the pockets of taxpayers," CAQ Leader François Legault said at a news conference in the fresh produce section of a supermarket in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que. on Tuesday morning.
The party taking its first run at forming government in the provincial summer election announced his plan to save middle-class families — defined as a couple earning less than $100,000, with or without children — $1,000 in taxes at the end of five years.
The health tax would be eliminated over the first two years — saving a family $400 — and another $600 in tax savings would be had by the end of five years.
The promise affecting 4.5 million people would cost a CAQ government $1.8 billion per year by the time it is fully implemented at the end of five years beginning in 2013.
Seven days into the summer election campaign, Legault and his fledgling CAQ has announced a list of spending promises that includes ensuring everyone has a family doctor, more money for arts and culture, a lower tuition hike and devoting 100 per cent of royalties from resource development to paying down the provincial debt.
Legault has so far been short on details as to how he will pay for his promises, beyond a vow to find savings by fighting corruption and cutting 7,000 jobs from the public service by eliminating school boards, abolishing regional health agencies and reducing overhead costs at Hydro Quebec.
"It's guaranteed. I returned to politics to clean house. We are cleaning up corruption. That will bring us money. We will clean up the bureaucracy. That will bring us money," said Legault on Tuesday.
"Some of these savings will go to direct services, such as in the schools, but there is a part that will also go directly into the pockets of taxpayers, because taxpayers right now are paying too many taxes in Quebec."
Pressed for details on how much money he expects to save, Legault told reporters to be patient and in the meantime, trust that he knows what he is doing.
"Count on me, it will balance," said Legault, who told reporters the party would soon be releasing the full cost of its platform, which will list both its spending promises and the savings it expects to garner from its fight against corruption and bureaucracy.
"We don't want to announce everything on the first day. Be patient. In a few days you will have the whole picture," Legault said.


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StoryCorps Military Voices Initiative, Tuesday, May 13th through Friday, May 16th at 1 pm on KUAC FM
Join KUAC FM for a very special Alaskan presentation of StoryCorps Military Voices leading up to this Armed Forces Day weekend. These stories were recorded at Ft. Wainwright when StoryCorps visited Alaska in February. Tune in May 13-16th at 1 pm on KUAC 89.9 FM, KUAC online, KUAC HD, and KUAC TV 9.5.
KUAC TV Special Stories of Service Programming
Coming Back with Wes Moore, Tuesdays at 7 pm beginning May 13th on KUAC TV
This three-part series, produced by best-selling author and US Army veteran Wes Moore, tells the story of his search for answers to some of the most difficult questions facing vets returning from war. Moore's journey, spurred by the suicide of one of his oldest friends and a fellow officer, takes him into the personal lives of different soldiers as they attempt to reintegrate into society, establish new identities and — for many — find a new mission. Tune in Tuesdays at 7 pm 5/13, through 5/27, on KUAC TV Channel 9.1 or GCI Cable Channel 9.
Escape from a Nazi Death Camp, Tuesday, May 20th at 8 pm on KUAC TV
October 14th, 2013 was the 70th anniversary of an event that shook the Nazi party to its core. In east Poland, at the remote Nazi death camp of Sobibor, 300 Jewish prisoners staged a bloody break out. To mark the anniversary, this film travels back Sobibor with the last remaining survivors to reveal their extraordinary story of courage, desperation and determination. The film uses brutally honest drama-reconstruction and first-hand testimony to reveal the incredible escape story. Tune in Tuesday, 5/20 at 8 pm, on KUAC TV Channel 9.1 or GCI Cable Channel 9.
John Glenn: A Life of Service, Thursday, May 25th at 7 pm on KUAC TV
JOHN GLENN: A LIFE OF SERVICE chronicles the extraordinary life and career of an American legend. The documentary surveys Glenn's distinguished military, NASA and political careers through archival footage and interviews with lawmakers, journalists, historians and NASA colleagues. JOHN GLENN: A LIFE OF SERVICE captures the pivotal events in John Glenn's life: his humble beginnings in Depression-era Ohio, his life-changing ride-along with a barnstormer, his enlistment following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, his 122 combat missions during World War II and the Korean War, his envelope-pushing exploits as a Naval test pilot, and his transition to astronaut during the Cold War. Tune in Sunday, 5/25 at 7 pm on KUAC TV Channel 9.1 or GCI Cable Channel 9.
National Memorial Day Concert 2014, Sunday, May 25th at 8 pm on KUAC TV
Joe Mantegna and Gary Sinise co-host the 25th anniversary broadcast of the NATIONAL MEMORIAL DAY CONCERT, a night of remembrance honoring the service and sacrifice of our men and women in uniform, their families at home and all those who have given their lives for our country. They are joined by an all-star line-up in performance with the National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of top Pops conductor Jack Everly. Featuring a unique blend of uplifting musical performances and dramatic readings, the program airs from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol before a concert audience of hundreds of thousands, millions more at home, as well as to our troops serving around the world on the American Forces Network. Tune in Sunday, 5/25 at 8 pm, on KUAC TV Channel 9.1 or GCI Cable Channel 9.
Calling Tokyo, Sunday, May 25th at 9:30 pm on KUAC TV
This documentary tells the unheralded story about a group of Japanese Americans, who as civilians served America during World War II, even as their families and friends were incarcerated in concentration camps. While the unequaled battle records of Japanese American soldiers are now legendary, little is known about the vital role played by these US citizens who did language translation work and short wave radio broadcasting to Japan, assisting in the war efforts of Britain and the USA. Through actual recordings and first-person interviews with the participants of those broadcasts, CALLING TOKYO is a fascinating story about a unique effort to help hasten the end of the war. Tune in Sunday, 5/25 at 9:30 pm, on KUAC TV Channel 9.1 or GCI Cable Channel 9.
Death and the Civil War: American Experience, Monday, May 26th at 8 pm on KUAC FM
DEATH AND THE CIVIL WAR explores an essential but largely overlooked aspect of the most pivotal event in American history. With the coming of the Civil War and the staggering casualties it ushered in, death entered the experience of the American people as it never had before — permanently altering the character of the Republic, and the psyche of the American people. The work of contending with death on an unprecedented scale propelled extraordinary changes in the inner and outer life of Americans– posing challenges for which there were no ready answers when the war began — challenges that called forth remarkable and eventually heroic efforts as Americans worked to improvise new solutions, new institutions, new ways of coping with death on an unimaginable scale. Tune in Friday, 5/26 at 8 pm, on KUAC FM, KUAC online, KUAC HD and KUAC TV 9.5.
Eagles of Mercy, Monday, May 26th at 10 pm on KUAC TV
EAGLES OF MERCY recounts a seldom-told chapter in the World War II narrative, picking up in the opening moments of D-Day. In the early hours of June 6, 1944, two young American medics with the 101st Airborne "Screaming Eagles" parachuted into France, and soon found themselves trapped in a 12th-century Norman church in the small village of Angoville-au-Plain. Medics Robert Wright and Kenneth Moore provided first aid to the first casualties of D-Day while a savage battle raged outside between American and German forces. During the documentary, Wright and Moore recount the rigors of basic training, parachuting into Normandy ahead of the amphibious landing on Utah Beach, surviving German anti-aircraft artillery and carrying on their life-saving work even when their unit retreated. EAGLES OF MERCY supplements these compelling stories with newsreel footage, re-enactments and interviews with fellow medics and residents of Angoville. Tune in Monday, 5/26 at 10 pm, on KUAC TV Channel 9.1 or GCI Cable Channel 9.
D-Day 360, Tuesday, May 27th at 8 pm on KUAC TV
D-Day was a logistical effort on a scale never seen before or since. On the day itself, 14,000 planes dropped 23,000 airborne troops behind German lines, and 5,000 ships delivered 30,000 military vehicles and 160,000 soldiers onto the beaches. Once on the shore, the troops had to negotiate six million mines buried in the sand, 500,000 fearsome beach obstacles and hundreds of miles of barbed wire, while dodging the shells and bullets fired by half-a-million German defenders. Tune in Tuesday, 5/27 at 8 pm, on KUAC TV Channel 9.1 or GCI Cable Channel 9.
NOVA: D-Day's Sunken Secrets, Wednesday, May 28th at 9 pm on KUAC TV
On June 6, 1944, the Allies launched the biggest armada in history to invade the Normandy beaches and liberate Europe from the Nazis. Throughout the operation, hundreds of ships sank running the gauntlet of mines and bunkers, creating one of the world's largest underwater archaeological sites. Now, NOVA has exclusive access to a unique collaboration between military historians, archaeologists, and specialist divers to carry out the most extensive survey ever done of the seabed bordering the legendary beachheads. Dive teams, submersibles, and underwater robots discover and identify key examples of the Allied craft that fell victim to German shellfire, mines and torpedoes. The team uses the latest 3D mapping tools to plot the relics on the sea floor producing an incredible new view of this battle. Tune in Wednesday, 5/28 at 9 pm, on KUAC TV Channel 9.1 or GCI Cable Channel 9.


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Because American foreign policy in its development and application was not based on the foregoing premises, Niebuhr thought that the compelling justification for democracy was not well served by that foreign policy.8 Nevertheless, the combination of Niebuhr's concept of realism, his acceptance of the reality of sin, and his readiness to equate certain political systemsnotably the national socialism in Germany and communism in the Soviet Union to sin led him to the development of a justification for American actions that he would have otherwise considered to have been morally indefensible. In this context, he contended that "a sharp distinction must be drawn between the moral and social behavior of individuals and of social groups, national, racial, and economic; and . . . this distinction justifies and necessitates political policies which a purely individualistic ethic must always find embarrassing . . . ."9 Niebuhr appears to be somewhat inconsistent in this context, for, while he chastises moralists for not "understanding . . . the brutal character of the behavior of all human collectives," he
9Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932), 7.
nevertheless justifies American collective political actions involving the use of nuclear weapons and the threat of the use of nuclear weaponsnuclear terror.10 In this context, Niebuhr stated that, while the prospect of nuclear war has given the pacifist position a new plausibility, the pacifist position must nevertheless be rejected. Niebuhr went on to hold that freedom cannot be won by renouncing the freedom to destroy. Thus, Niebuhr saw no hope for any effective disarmament.11
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An Obligation to Lead
by Sarah Small
This weekend, 130 leaders will be created at the College of Business' second annual Sleeman Leadership Institute.
All James Scholar freshmen and James Scholar freshmen nominees will participate in Institute to develop themselves as leaders. The Institute is provided by the Sleeman Endowment, Illinois Leadership Center, PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Office of Undergraduate Affairs.
"The focus is to educate students on the true meaning of leadership in business and the true meaning of leadership at large," said Ben Chandler assistant director of Undergraduate Affairs.
The Sleeman Leadership Institute was created thanks to an endowment by Thomas Sleeman, who graduated from the College in 1954, and his wife Nancy. John Hedeman, assistant dean, honors, said that Sleeman approached the College in 2004 wanting to endow a program that would provide leadership training for undergraduate students. At the time the College was in the process of revamping its James Scholars Program and it was decided that the Sleeman Leadership Institute would be a good addition for honors students.
"It lets them see the way in which leadership impacts them as students in their daily lives and later as professionals," Hedeman said.
At the two-day institute, the participating students will split into teams of ten where they will develop their own individual understandings of leadership, Hedeman said. Speakers, videos, workshops and group discussions will help the students create their own plans for assuming leadership roles. Helping the students with their plans will be student facilitators, juniors and seniors in the College, and professional facilitators, partners and other professionals from PricewaterhouseCoopers.
"The Institute is about getting them to think everyone is a potential leader," Hedeman said. "You can plan for leadership."
The Institute is a unique opportunity for the students, because the College puts heavy emphasis on leadership development for juniors and seniors, but this is one of few opportunities for underclassmen to plan for leadership, Hedeman said.
"Here we take a proactive approach, rather than a reactive approach, to leadership development," Chandler said.
Chandler and Hedeman said last year's Institute was successful, and they are hoping the students who participate in the event come away with an understanding of leadership and a plan for how to apply themselves as leaders both in the College community and after graduation.
"It's to have students realize they have an obligation to be leaders in professional business," Hedeman said. "Leadership isn't about being CEO, it's about making decisions that have a positive impact."


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|Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California
|Date of first manufacture
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|1, many other IAS versions at universities and government institutions
|Estimated price or cost
|location in museum
|rescued from RAND parking lot by CHM :-|
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|Johnniac - by Ron Mak
The JOHNIAC had an interesting heritage.
John von Neumann et.al. wrote a report after studying the ENIAC, (see Preliminary Discussion of the Logical Design of an Electronic Computing Instrument" by Burks, Goldstien, & von Neumann) describing a desirable computing machine.
This was implemented as the IAS computer (Institute for Advanced Study). (It was first operational in 1952.)
The builders of the IAS computer (Institute for Advanced Study) in Princeton, N.J, (not Princeton University) under the direction of John von Neumann, were contractually obliged to share their designs with other research institutions.
This resulted in a number of (not necessarily code compatible) clones, including:
from LaFarr Stuart
Johnniac instruction list (220 K bytes)
Special features
Special features
from LaFarr Stuart May, 2000; expanded August 2009, Jan 2011
Added Dec 2011 from LaFarr Stuart
Historical Notes
from the "Annals of the History of Computing", Vol.2 #3 July 1980
Historical Note from http://www.rand.org/facts/ware.html
Historical Note from http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.11/computer_pr.html
This Specimen
Interesting Web Sites
Interesting Web Sites
The First Five Kilobytes are the Hardest with George Dyson -
A very interesting very early history of computing through the lineage of
Alan Turing, John von Neumann, the IAS machines and Johniac.
An excellent description and animation of the Johnnic's original Selectron memory by Charles Osborne. local copy snapshot June 18, 2013
A YouTube video "Building Computers in 1953: The Johnniac" - [Recorded: September 15, 1998] speakers = Willis Ware, Bill Gunning, Mort Bernstein & Paul Armer - I'm in the front row of the audience - my balding head all too visible -
from LaFarr Stuart
Final Progress Report on the Physical Realization of an Electronic Computing Instrument" (IAS machine) by Goldstine, Pomerene, Smith - spotted by Leif Harcke
from Ed Thelen - the presentation on YouTube John Von Neumann Documentary Part 2 shows the "Princeton IAS Computer" in a Smithsonian warehouse with Herman Goldstine in 1966. I took the following screen shots:
from "Fagin, Barry S. Dr. USAF USAFA USAFA/DFCS" < email@example.com > April 19, 2010
Other information
Other information
from an introduction at the Computer History Museum
Mort Bernstein <email@example.com> kindly provided this timeline for the JOHNNIAC, taken from his notes for a presentation given at a local ACM meeting in 1996.
E-mail from Leif Harcke - January 2004
After a visit to the museum with some friends, an argument started as to the capabilities of early scientific computers, like the machines built from the IAS architecture. The info in the widely published Burks, Goldstine, and von Neumann "Preliminary discussion..." is nice but vague, as the hardware was vaporware when the report was written. So I finally tracked down the instruction set that von Neuman and company actually implemented:
A *related* (IAS based) machine was the Maniac ? at the University of Chicago
the following is from a list [inforoots] about April Fool pranks 4/4/2007
from Larry Press < lpress @ csudh . edu > Nov 16, 2012
This article appeared in the Nov 23, 2012 ediion of
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New York, July 20 (ANI): There are many things people would do given a chance to split early in their relationship.
Huffington Post has come out with a number of reasons people would do if they ever had a chance to call it quits early in their marriage.
Some would go much farther back and divorce sooner for losing all those years in the relationship turmoil.
While some would not have agreed to a 50/50 split on expenditures for kids, others would take half of everything, and wouldn't have moved out of the house until it was theirs to claim.
Despite giving their exes too many chances, some failed to file their papers sooner.
Attorneys were also to be blamed, as they prolong the process.
It probably may not be due to ineffective assistance of counsel, but it surely adds another layer of communication that is often inept and costly.
Attorneys also do take advantage to cash in on the situation.
Some wish they would have been much harsher up front and gotten softer over the years.
Meanwhile, others regret they had not been in such a hurry to get a divorce.
Lack of communication does lead to cracks in the relationship, which makes some regret for not trying harder to save their marriage. (ANI)


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South Island Set To Lose $2.7 Billion
Monday 5 March 2007
South Island Set To Lose $2.7 Billion From Govt Carbon Credit Grab
The South Island could lose at least $2.7 billion and potentially up to $4.2 billion from the Government's decision to nationalise Kyoto carbon credits legitimately owned by forest owners and forestry investors, the Kyoto Forestry Association (KFA) said today.
The association released the calculation on the eve of the Government's consultation meeting at Christchurch's Russley Hotel at 9:45 am tomorrow, Tuesday 6 March.
It is based on an estimate of the area of post-1990 Kyoto-qualifying forestry in the South Island, derived from official MAF forest area data by age class and territorial authority, and an estimate that carbon credit values will reach between $13,000 and $20,000 per hectare during the life of a forest.
Canterbury's loss will fall at between $575 million and $885 million, according to the analysis.
KFA spokesman Roger Dickie said more than 1,400 forest owners had attended MAF consultation meetings in the North Island and Nelson, and had delivered an overwhelming message rejecting the Government's confiscation of carbon credits and its plans for massive new taxes on the forestry industry.
"Canterbury forest owners need to unite with the rest of the industry and make the message unanimous throughout the country," Mr Dickie said. "We need to leave the Government in no doubt that we will never accept our carbon credits, or any other property, being confiscated by the Government without compensation."
Kyoto carbon credits, which the Government plans to confiscate, are earned by those individuals and businesses that sequestered carbon by planting new forestry since 1990, and by those industries which have cut their carbon emissions since then.
Through the 1990s and the early part of this decade, officials under both National and Labour Governments made clear that forestry investors would gain financially from the credits, which are a clear property right, as confirmed by the Treasury.
This fuelled a planting boom with 30,000 ordinary New Zealanders and forestry companies putting up as much as $400 million per annum of their own risk capital to invest in more than 600,000 hectares of new forest - both because of the benefits predicted to arise both from the sale of wood products and from carbon credits earned from carbon sequestration. In Canterbury, KFA estimates that approximately 44,000 hectares of Kyoto-qualifying forestry was planted.
Since the Government first indicated that it intended to confiscate the credits, tree planting in New Zealand has plunged and New Zealand is now experiencing deforestation for the first time in living memory.
Mr Dickie said the Government had previously indicated it would limit its confiscation of the credits to those associated with the First Commitment Period of the Kyoto Protocol, costing forest owners nationwide as much as $2.5 billion. Now, however, Government officials are indicating it may extend the confiscation to the Second Commitment Period, putting eventual losses nationwide up to at least $8 billion and potentially many billions more.
"The chainsaw massacre we are seeing across the country, and particularly in Canterbury, is caused by a collapse in confidence in the industry," Mr Dickie said.
"Forestry operates over a 30-year investment horizon. Forestry investors need stability in Government policy and certainty that property rights will be respected over the long-term.
"The Government has neither provided policy stability nor respected property rights, so new forest planting has plunged and the chainsaws have been revved up.
"The Government needs to understand that if it wants tree planting to start up again, it needs to restore confidence amongst forestry investors.
"Confidence cannot be restored by cheap subsidy schemes. Confidence can only be restored by returning our post-1990 carbon credits to us."
Mr Dickie said the time was fast approaching when all political parties would be expected by the industry to firm up their policy commitments to it.
"Forest owners are the environmental and economic good guys," he said. "We employ around 25,000 New Zealanders, we are the fourth largest export earner in the country, our trees protect the quality of our land and we are crucial to the fight against climate change that both the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition have been talking so much about.
"We know our industry, and what makes it tick. We expect the Government and the Opposition to endorse the six-point plan to get forest planting underway again, which was agreed last year by all key players in the industry, including the New Zealand Forest Owners Association (NZFOA), the New Zealand Farm Forestry Association (NZFFA), the Federation of Maori Authorities (FOMA) and KFA."
Attached: Background Information NZ Forestry Industry's Six-Point Plan to Get Planting Underway Again NZ Forest Plantings 1990-2005
Inquiries: Roger Dickie Kyoto Forestry Association Ph: 027 4428687
The New Zealand Forestry Industry's Six-Point Plan
1. Remove the inequitable, retrospective 'deforestation cap'.
2. Allow land owners with Kyoto-qualifying forests (forests planted from 1990) - as well as those replanting non-Kyoto forests after harvest - to financially benefit from the value of the carbon their forests remove from the atmosphere.
3. Introduce broad-based carbon charges, ensuring that all emitters of greenhouse gases face the same opportunity costs.
4. Ensure that New Zealand's Kyoto policies have the best long-term outcomes for New Zealand, even if they don't exactly mirror current Kyoto rules.
5. Develop a regime which puts a value on the environmental attributes of forestry, thereby encouraging investment in the sector.
6. Act immediately.
New Zealand Forest Plantings 1990-2005
Year Hectares 1990 16,000 1991 15,000 1992 50,000 1993 62,000 1994 98,000 1995 74,000 1996 84,000 1997 64,000 1998 51,000 1999 40,000 2000 34,000 2001 30,000 2002 22,000 2003 20,000 2004 11,000 2005 6,000