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Legal challenges expose hasty process
The Government has been pinged three times over its handling of the Canterbury earthquake recovery now. Is it getting serious? JOHN McCRONE reports.
The courts have ruled the Government's residential red-zone land clearance offers in Christchurch unlawful. A well- intentioned policy perhaps, but outside the bounds of proper process. Is that merely a bad look or evidence of something more serious?
Is the judiciary now striking back at what many have criticised - an approach to the recovery by Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee and his Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (Cera) that has been too hasty, too broadbrush, too directive and lacking in community consultation?
Brownlee was first pinged by the courts when he rubber- stamped city boundary changes to free up greenfield sections in Christchurch. In October 2011, he overrode a running Environment Court hearing to put the dotted lines where local authorities wanted them.
A judicial review found Brownlee had the necessary powers, but said there should have been a more formal planning process that at least gave the semblance of a public consultation.
Then in August came a more damaging finding against Brownlee from Justice Graham Panckhurst who was hearing the case of the Quake Outcasts - red- zoners with either bare sections or uninsured properties who had been offered only 50 per cent of the value of their land.
Panckhurst surprised by going beyond what the Quake Outcasts had even claimed in ruling the entire red-zone process unlawful. In his view, said Panckhurst, Cera and the minister had been given extraordinary powers to deal with the earthquake recovery but were guilty of then trying to achieve their ends without making proper use of those powers.
The red zone had been sold to the Christchurch public as a planning change in which land had been legally deemed unfit for habitation. Homeowners were left with the impression their properties were condemned, they had no real choice except to move.
Yet in fact the Government was only making an area-wide offer to buy people out of their insurance settlements and acquire their land - an offer backed up by comments about services being cut off, houses becoming uninsurable, and other vague threats calculated to make sure the majority complied.
The ruling caught the Government on the hop and last week it went back to the Court of Appeal in Wellington to seek to have it overturned. The answer might take weeks if not months to emerge, and after that, there is always the possibility of a further Supreme Court challenge.
But coming on top of the Phillipstown School case - the High Court finding that Education Minister Hekia Parata's consultation over its closure was unlawful - the courts appear to be identifying a pattern of flimsy and high-handed process when it comes to the recovery.
However again, the question is whether this is small stuff easy to excuse, the offences only technical? Given the need to make policy fast, it is understandable some corners were cut. Or whether instead the judiciary is now having its say on a general attitude and the fallout from that could be significant?
Otago University law professor Andrew Geddis, a specialist on constitutional issues, was one of those highly critical of the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery (CER) Act, rushed through Parliament under urgency the night before Civil Defence emergency powers expired in April 2011.
Geddis says the act did indeed give the Government unprecedented ability to take control of Canterbury, rewrite laws and local planning documents as it found necessary. So there was genuine fear of the potential for abuse - the backroom deals and advancing of political agendas.
But Geddis says instead what the Government seems to have fallen foul of is its political eagerness to provide Cantabrians with swift solutions.
"With the red zone, the Government saw all these people whose properties had been rendered basically worthless and asked how it could fix this as quickly and with as little grief as possible. So it thought it would step in and take the property off people's hands, pay them out, and then fight their insurance battles for them.
"Now there was nothing in law that said they had to do that. If you look internationally, that's actually a pretty generous thing for a Government to do."
But then a voluntary deal became dressed up as something else.
The red-zone package was offered where the finances seemed to stack up best from the Government's point of view. A broad rule of thumb was used. If there was enough land damage in a neighbourhood to require some area-wide remediation solution - piling, compacting, raising above flood heights - then the quickest way out was to move people off and worry about the land later.
The Government would act as an intermediary, buying home- owners out in exchange for taking over their house insurance and Earthquake Commission (EQC) payments. This would de-risk the insurance process for residents and simplify life for insurers, giving them just one big owner to deal with in the red-zoned suburbs.
Pegging the bailouts to 2007 government valuations (GVs) seemed a fair general benchmark - although a promise to also consider post-2007 alterations and improvements got lost somewhere along the way.
And citing moral hazard, Brownlee said the uninsured - those who had either neglected to insure their homes, or owned bare sections which can't be insured - would only get half the GV. That seemed just given their blighted land probably only retained 10 per cent of its original value Brownlee remarked.
Geddis says the Government must have thought it had gone above and beyond to help people. "I don't know that they even contemplated anyone challenging it because it seemed like such a generous thing to do, right?"
But then the rough and ready nature of the calculations began to show. Duncan Webb, partner at lawyer Lane Neave, says the majority of residents got a fair price for their properties and a number even quietly pocketed a windfall profit. Some run-down homes got quite a bit more based on their GVs than they could ever have got in an actual sale.
However that also left a matching percentage who lost out. "I had people come to me with cases like where the GV for three hectares of land was something like $160,000 - clearly inadequate, clearly erroneous, but that was it."
Webb says the Government should have recognised there would be these inequities - the original process had been too blunt a tool - and set up a second-tier system where people could challenge their valuations on an individual basis. Instead the word was the offers were not negotiable and deadlines set to crank up the pressure to sign.
Webb says many accepted the red-zone settlements under duress, even though they believed they were losing $100,000 or $200,000 on the deal. They could have tried legal action, but the cost both in terms of lawyers' fees and their mental health generally made the fight seem not worth it.
But then led by property developer John Fowler, who owns 11 vacant sections in red-zoned Brooklands, 46 uninsured property owners managed to establish enough common ground to mount a class action as the Quake Outcasts - which they won.
Now the question is if Panckhurst's ruling sticks, what exactly are the consequences? Is it a passing embarrassment for the Government or something worse?
Canterbury University assistant law professor John Hopkins says within the New Zealand constitutional context, the judiciary has limited powers. It is not like other countries where supreme court judges can have a large say in political decisions.
So when a judicial review case is brought, the courts are only ruling on the legality of the decision-making process, not the quality of the decision itself. "Largely governments can get away with doing anything so long as they follow the correct procedure," Hopkins remarks.
Panckhurst's ruling came in two parts, Hopkins adds. It addressed separately the lawfulness of the decision process and then the scope of any remedies.
The decision was deemed technically unlawful because Brownlee and Cera had been given specific powers by the CER Act to change city plans and make compulsory property purchases, and so Panckhurst took this to imply they also had to use them where possible. Attempting to achieve the same ends by more off- the-cuff methods was the minister's prime mistake.
However Hopkins says all this now means is that Brownlee might have to go back and retrospectively regularise the situation in the same way he is doing with the city boundary issue - fixing that one by rushing through a formally consulted Land User Recovery Plan (Lurp).
And in practice, Brownlee will probably not even be expected to do that because with the red zone, too much water has passed under the bridge. Most of the residents are long gone. Consulting with them would be pointless as the decision cannot be unwound.
Panckhurst also acknowledged the red-zone offers fitted the broad recovery goals of the CER Act and that the deals were generally pitched at an attractive level.
Then on the remedy side, Hopkins says Panckhurst limited the potential fallout to the Government by restricting his judgment to the Quake Outcasts, those who brought the action.
So the pressure is on to meet their demands for 100 per cent payouts, but the many more who might be feeling the GV mechanism treated them unfairly cannot use the ruling as a lever, Hopkins says. They would still have to mount their own individual judicial reviews.
Morally, there are some strong feelings about what the Quake Outcast judgment ought to mean.
Those like Reverend Mike Coleman of the Wider Earthquake Communities Action Network (WeCan) and Labour Party earthquake recovery spokesperson Ruth Dyson believe the Government has been found to have skimped proper community consultation in its rush to get things done. Now, as Webb suggests, it should be prepared to go back and revisit individual cases where the injustices seem clear.
For residents, the red zoning was a lottery, Coleman says. "In Avonside, houses next to each other were built by the same builder but nearly every one had a different GV."
Discrepancies of $30,000 were common. "The Government now has the ethical obligation to sit down and talk with people who felt they were coerced and handled incredibly poorly."
Yet Coleman agrees this is looking unlikely. So on the face of it, the Quake Outcast decision does not change much. Even if the Government fails to overturn the judgment and is forced to top-up offers to the non-insured, it can mostly shrug the court finding off.
However by laying itself open to judicial challenge, there have been some damaging knock-on effects. The most visible is Brownlee's halting of a review of more than 100 Port Hills zoning decisions.
Here Cera accepted that its original analysis of the rockfall and cliff collapse hazard was too broadbrush. Some homeowners zoned red believe their properties can be protected by bunds or rockfall nets, while others zoned green have been red sticked by Christchurch City Council because Cera did not pick up the particular risk of some local outcrop.
A full review of these complex cases was promised and after much delay was due to be released in August. But now Brownlee is saying that with the whole red- zone offer process being considered outside the law, the Port Hills cases will have to go on ice until the appeal clarifies the situation.
Then behind the scenes at Cera, there are reports of a more widespread hold-up in recovery decision making.
Leanne Curtis of the Canterbury Communities' Earthquake Recovery Network (CanCern) says everything connected to the next step for red- zoned areas is being disrupted.
Curtis says with the widespread land subsidence following the quakes, flood risk has emerged as a top priority in Christchurch. In TC3 category areas especially, lives are on hold because insurance and rebuild decisions depend on what the authorities do to make neighbourhoods safe.
"There are urgent flood management meetings taking place. But we can't really move ahead until we know what the future use of the red zones will be, because a lot of them are obvious places for stormwater schemes and stop banks. There is so much being held up while there is this question about the process being lawful that it is turning out to have massive implications," Curtis says.
Public consultation was again the nub of it when the courts ruled against Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee over rubber-stamping city boundary changes.
To free up new sections for displaced red-zoned residents, Brownlee used his powers to end a long-running Environment Court battle largely in favour of local councils.
At a stroke, Brownlee confirmed the general urban development limits being called for in a Canterbury Regional Policy Statement (RPS) and so identified where nearly 50,000 homes could be built over the next 35 years.
There were winners and losers. Some who had worked to get their rural blocks into the RPS, including Ngai Tahu with its 2500 section Prestons development in Marshland, made it safely in.
Others, particularly a group of owners of flood-prone land in Casebrook and the Cranford Basin who had been grudgingly permitted development of the land with proper treatment, but who were in the middle of having that right appealed by Christchurch City Council and other local authorities, were ruled out.
These landowners, led by Independent Fisheries which owns 22 hectares near Willowbank and developer Richard Peebles who has 12ha in the Cranford Basin, called for a judicial review of Brownlee's actions, which they duly won. They also staved off Brownlee's subsequent appeal. Yet still they look like emerging the losers says Peebles.
The courts found that Brownlee had wrongly used powers granted for the immediate purposes of the recovery to settle a messy and long-running debate over the future shape of Christchurch.
However the criticism was only of the method. So there was nothing to stop Brownlee rerunning the same decision as a formal plan change process - which he could then step in and ratify, thus ending any further Environment Court challenge. So this year has seen the Land User Recovery Plan (Lurp) being hurried through with fast- tracked public consultation.
Peebles says there might have been a faint chance of the landowners still getting something out of the Lurp, but now the other shoe has dropped.
Plans have been announced for the Northern Arterial motorway extension across the farmland of the Cranford Basin, as well as new stormwater ponding areas to either side.
Again the recovery is allowing for some wished-for changes to be accelerated. "We won, but we're just going to get beaten another way, basically, " he says.
Peebles adds he does not blame Brownlee personally. He feels the Minister stepped into the middle of a wrangle between planners and owners and went with the advice he was hearing.
"Gerry has had to make some tough old calls."
But says Peebles of an investment made five years ago when there seemed a good chance of development: "I wish I'd never seen that piece of land now."
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Today's top gainers include the company Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) which is in the industry Semiconductor – Broad Line, gaining -1.45% today. In the last week its performance is -1.37%, and 20.21% for the past quarter. Currently, Intel Corporation, INTC has a target price of 40.38, so today's gain of -1.45% is a significant step towards its target price. The GAP today is therefore -0.73%.
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC), has a market cap of 173391.16, and is based in USA. Insider ownership is at 0.04%, and institutional ownership is 66.80%.
At the current price of 36.65, it has a dividend yield of 2.84%, and its target price is 40.38. This is with a profit margin of 17.80%, and total debt/equity of 0.47. Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) has a P/E of 17.69, as well as a forward P/E of 13.08.
With a current EPS of 2.07, and a forecasted EPS growth for next year at 8.85%,Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) has had a EPS growth for the past five years at 3.00%. For the next five years EPS growth is projected to be 10.00%.
Performance for the year is 31.34%. Since its IPO date on 3/17/1980, the total performance to date is 9.07%.
Volume today for Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC), is 25345000, while its average volume is 22803.75. Whilst the total gain today was -1.45%, it did have a day high of -3.68%.
Volatility for this week has been at 1.27%, and 1.56% for the month. The 52-week low for Intel Corporation, INTC has been 35.77%, while the 52-week-high has reached -3.68%.
Looking at its return of investments, which is 13.60%, and its return on assets is 9.70%. Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) has an operating margin of 22.00%. With a sales growth of 2.60% quarter over quarter. Bearing in mind that Intel Corporation, INTC is in the sector Technology, its long-term debt/equity is 0.39, and has a current ratio of 1.7 and 1.4 for quick ratio.
So what is the value of Intel Corporation? Well its PEG is 1.77, and the P/S is 3.06, along with a P/B of 2.82. Meanwhile it has a p/cash of 9.8.


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Sound Off: Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes - Your Thoughts?
by Alex Billington
December 26, 2009
Now that you've seen it, what did you think? The last time we saw British detective Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson on the big screen was in 1985 in Barry Levinson's Young Sherlock Holmes. Now director Guy Ritchie and producer Joel Silver have brought him back again. But how is the new movie? How are Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law together and Holmes and Watson? Is it entertaining to watch or is it all style and no substance? How is Mark Strong as the villain Lord Blackwood? Is it a classic Holmes story? If you've seen it, then sound off, leave a comment, and let us know what you thought of Sherlock Holmes!
To fuel the fire, Sherlock Holmes is a fantastic movie. I've seen it twice and I loved it even more the second time. It's a considerably darker movie with a lot more intensity than I was expecting, but that's exactly what I wanted from a Guy Ritchie directed Sherlock Holmes adventure, so no complaints. I had a blast watching it and I was impressed with all of the performances and the story and the great visuals and everything. Hans Zimmer also used a badass bass sound whenever Lord Blackwood showed up that brought a smile to my face whenever I heard it. And just like Star Trek, I'm already excited to see the sequel (with Professor Moriarty).
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LONDON (Reuters) - A London auction of contemporary art fell well short of pre-sale expectations on Friday, the clearest signal yet that the financial crisis is affecting a market which hitherto defied growing economic gloom.
Sotheby's auction house raised 22 million pounds ($38 million) at its evening sale of contemporary art, held to coincide with the annual Frieze Art Fair in London.
That was far below the pre-sale estimate of 31 to 43 million pounds, and suggests that prices paid for high-quality art are no longer immune to plunging stock markets, oil prices and the broader credit crunch.
Sotheby's said it was pleased with the results.
"We are very pleased with the results of tonight's sale, which is the second highest total for an October sale of contemporary art at Sotheby's," said Cheyenne Westphal, chairman of contemporary art at Sotheby's in Europe.
"While our total fell short of its low estimate, the sale was assembled in a very different economic environment from that which prevailed today."
The highlight of the evening was Andy Warhol's series of 10 skull paintings. "Skulls" sold for 4.4 million pounds ($7.5 million), against an estimate of 5-7 million pounds.
The second highest price was set by Gerhard Richter's abstract painting "Abstraktes Bild (Rot)," which sold for 2.8 million pounds, below its estimate of 3-4 million pounds.
The results of the sale will raise concern among auctioneers, collectors and sellers, with Christie's due to hold an equivalent auction in London on Sunday before both companies stage key November sales in New York.
The art market boom of recent years has been fueled partly by growing interest from super-rich buyers in Russia, the Middle East and the Far East.
Top-end works have also been seen as a relatively safe bet compared with turbulence gripping other investments.
But the severity of falls in the value of equities, oil, property and other assets has left art vulnerable to a significant downward correction, experts have warned.
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Tampons or food. Every month, some women in Ohio's 35th district are forced to make the choice between feeding their families or taking care of themselves because of unfair taxes applied to feminine products.
"There is definitely a high price for being a woman in the state of Ohio," Representative Greta Johnson (Ohio D-35) said. "Tampons are medical necessities, not luxury items."
Ohio women aren't alone in facing high personal hygiene costs: 40 states nationwide have a feminine tax, with the exception of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, New Jersey and Massachusetts who have banned the tampon tax, and Oregon, Alaska, New Hampshire, Delaware and Montana who don't have any state sales tax, according to a January 2016 Washington Post article.
Most states tax all "tangible personal property" but make exemptions for select "necessities," or non-luxury items. "Necessities" usually include groceries, food stamp purchases, medical purchases, clothes (in some states) and agriculture supplies. The "tampon tax" refers to the sales tax applied to tampons, sanitary napkins and panty liners that are deemed "luxury" items, rather than being labeled as the necessities that they are. Depending on the state, the tax can be between 2.9 and 7.5 percent, according to the Tax Foundation.
All states should exempt feminine products from the tax to eliminate this extra cost burden that is exclusively placed on women.
The high costs of having to buy products every month quickly add up for women. The average woman spends $120 per year on pads and tampons, Groundswell Organization found, meanwhile, men are spared this cost.
"I see this as an equality issue, a civil rights issue and a fairness issue," Wisconsin Representative Melissa Sargent (D-48) said.
If men aren't burdened by the tax, then women shouldn't be either.
In fact, products used by men are often exempt from the luxury tax that tampons are still subject to. In some states with tampon taxes, viagra and condoms are exempt from the tax because they are considered medical necessities, NPR reports in 2016.
When asked by reporters why many states have such an unfair and unequal policy, President Obama explained it best: "I suspect it's because men were making the laws when those taxes were passed."
Products for men that aren't necessities are free from excessive taxation, while women are still forced to pay for products they literally cannot live without.
The taxes have especially burdened impoverished women, forcing them to choose whether to take care of their hygiene or buy food.
Four homeless women told their stories in Cosmopolitan in 2015, explaining that they've had to spend their food money on tampons, use their shirts as pads and find other ways to deal with their period because they can't afford to buy products.
Eliminating such a targeted tax would allow these women to spend money on other important items, rather than worrying about their periods.
"By putting that money back in the hands of women, we are creating greater access to a very important health product—especially in low-income and homeless populations," California Assemblywoman Ling Ling Chang said.
The majority of states are operating under a tax policy that disadvantages women and pushes poor women deeper into poverty. Women don't have a choice about buying tampons—it's unavoidable. States need to finally treat women equally and see tampons as the necessity they are.


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Fact Sheet: Growing Community
Presenter: Jane Edmanson, 26/05/2012
SERIES 23 Episode 09
Jane went to Mornington, about an hour and a half south of Melbourne to visit a garden that really brings locals the together. It's called 'Dig It' and is coordinated by Maree Schurmann.
'Dig It' is a three quarter acre plot, formerly used as a crochet court which meant that the new community gardening tenants had a fair amount of tough kikuyu grass to deal with. To overcome this initial hurdle, people have raised their vegie plots.
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'Dig It' is an exceptional community space. It boasts beehives, a library, frog pond, berry house, chook shed, pumpkin patch, fruit trees - and even toilets!
Jane had the opportunity to explore the gardens and meet some of the gardeners. First she meets Lorraine who Jane thinks has the tidiest plot in the whole garden.
Lorraine has got some climbing beans in and has Flanders Poopies seeds underneath which she grows for her Vietnam Vet husband every year.
But this isn't Lorraine's only garden. She also has a vegie patch at home. As she readily admits, "I need this like a hole in the head, but this is community."
The next gardener Jane meets has been equally as busy. "Well I've just been clearing the bed once again. I've had a crop of pumpkins in here and the vines are underneath in our 'cut and drop' policy to fertilise the soils more and the children are learning all the time which I think is the most important element - that they learn that what comes out of the ground is what you put on your table each night."
There is quite a diverse group of members at the garden - young people, singles, families, young families, retirees, homeless groups and horticulture students. The youngest plot holder, Lily is just 14 and Jane was thrilled to meet her.
Jane was curious as to why a 14 year old would want her own plot when other teens can be preoccupied at this stage of life. Lily explained, "At first you're always a bit touchy and then you start really getting into it. If you have an empty garden and you start planting things and they're all small and really cute and then they just grow. It's really nice."
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Once a month, for a gold coin donation, anyone can come to the garden and see if they can make a trade with their produce. It's a popular event called 'vegie swap.' One member, Victoria, explains the principle behind the swap. "The idea is that no food goes to waste, so that if someone has surplus, they put it in and they take someone else's surplus."
People at the garden are very passionate and they love sharing - not just their produce, but their knowledge and their caring about anyone who enters the gate and that makes Dig It a very special place.
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Performance Analysis: EA on Wii
February 4, 2009 - So with EA's newfound admiration for Nintendo's console, we thought we would take a look to see just how well the publisher's Wii games performed last year. In total, EA delivered 22 games on the Wii in 2008, including Rock Band which is a partnership with MTV Games. Some were clear successes on the system, like Rock Band and Madden NFL 09. Others didn't fare so well.
Boogie SuperStar Review
October 21, 2008 - Dance games and karaoke games are two genres becoming increasingly popular on the Nintendo Wii (and all consoles). I've seen more games with microphones in the past year than I have in the previous three years. This holiday season sees at least four games that lets players belt their hearts out, and first among them is EA's Boogie SuperStar. It's the sequel to last year's Boogie, and wonderfully showcases what happens when a developer focuses on improving one element of their game, while messing up the other part.
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October 15, 2008 - The Casual Entertainment Label of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) provides tween girls with the ultimate superstar experience with this week's release of Boogie SuperStar, exclusively for the Wii. Boogie SuperStar shipped on October 14 in North America and Canada, and will be available October 16 in Asia and October 17 in Europe. Girls around the world will have a blast singing and dancing their way to stardom, performing today's hottest music hits.
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September 4, 2008 - A conversation about Boogie SuperStar, tween girls, and the future of casual games.
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August 27, 2008 - The Casual Entertainment Label of Electronic Arts, Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) unleashes the star power behind its upcoming Boogie SuperStar game for Wii today with the announcement of international music sensation Natasha Bedingfield as the game's featured spokesperson. Additionally, EA unveils the full Boogie SuperStar soundtrack including nearly 40 hit singles made famous by today's hottest artists.
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August 14, 2008 - Electronic Arts' singing and dancing extravaganza Boogie is returning this year, although it has received a considerable makeover. Instead of controlling strange blob characters, Boogie SuperStar is populated entirely by cartoon tweens. This one is aimed squarely at the young girl demographic and is full of teeny bopper music and fashions. The developers say they are trying to empower these girls by allowing them to express themselves and come up with their own dance routines. Up to four players will be able to vogue at the same time.
EA Bringing Boogie Back
June 26, 2008 - Today Electronic Arts announced a sequel to last year's music game, Boogie. Titled Boogie SuperStar, it seems to ignore the first entry and its weirdo characters. Instead, this time out players will be dancing and singing with customizable cartoon girls. EA says there will be millions of possible characters to create. The game will include over 40 songs from artists like Rihanna, Fergie, Maroon 5, Alicia Keys, Good Charlotte, Britney Spears, and Kanye West.


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Oil flirts with $ 75 a barrel. Capitalism dances on. Free enterprise adapts. It always does.
A new and very slick adaptation to pricey oil is a jet airplane built with only one engine. Three manufacturers--Piper Aircraft of Vero Beach, Fla., Cirrus Design of Duluth, Minn. and Diamond Aircraft Industries of Wiener Neustadt, Austria--have a single-engine jet in the works. A fourth, Eclipse Aviation of Albuquerque, N.M., is toying with a single-engine version of its tiny Eclipse 500 twin-engine jet. In July Eclipse flew its skunkworks one-holer, the ECJ, into the big air show at Oshkosh, Wis.
Single-engine jets are not new. Air Force fighter jets of the 1950s, such as the F-86 Sabre, had one monster engine embedded in the fuselage. The F-86 flew 685mph and enjoyed a 10:1 kill ratio over the MiG-15 during the Korean War. But the F-86´s engine-flameout rate was unacceptably high for commercial use.
Safety through redundancy has always driven commercial jet aircraft. The Boeing (nyse: BA - news - people ) 707 entered commercial service in 1958 and used four engines to carry 141 passengers. The Boeing 727 followed in 1964, on a risky bet that only three engines were needed. The trend toward fewer engines continued with the 757 twin in the 1980s and, most radically, the jumbo 777 in 1995. Because the 777 was designed to carry more than 300 passengers over large oceans on just two engines, it was the most rigorously tested jet airplane ever.
Business jets, being much smaller, have used two engines from the beginning. The four-passenger Paris Jet debuted in 1954 but was considered more toy than tool. The first biz jet to sell in volume was Bill Lear (nyse: LEA - news - people )´s Learjet, first available in 1964. And today´s small, cutting-edge Eclipse 500 and Cessna Mustang, as well as the forthcoming Embraer (nyse: ERJ - news - people ) Phenom 100 and HondaJet, are twin-engine designs.
Fuel Economy Propels Change
The single-engine jet is a departure from the old idea that redundancy equals safety. Will the market accept singles? I think so. Fuel prices will dictate a demand for greater economy. Modern manufacturing processes combined with electronic fuel control and engine diagnostics make a single-engine jet much safer than earlier models. Today´s jet engines almost never fail. Will the paying public see it that way? Would you fly in a small jet with one engine?
Without hesitation (and assuming pilot competency) I would. I own a single-engine piston airplane, a Cirrus SR22, and both this summer and last I flew my wife and kids over the Rocky Mountains in our Cirrus. The Cirrus piston engine, made by Teledyne Continental, is very reliable. Yet in comparison, jet engines--having fewer moving parts--are ten times more reliable than pistons.
You may not know this, but the market has already accepted single-engine jet aircraft. The Cessna Caravan, Pilatus PC-12 and EADS Socata TBM 700/850 are big hits in the marketplace and profitmaking machines for their manufacturers. You may not think of these aircraft as jets, since they have a single propeller hanging off their noses. They are turboprops. Their engines are jet turbines that use the jet´s thrust to spin a prop.
The Cessna Caravan has been flying since 1985 and is a workhorse for FedEx (nyse: FDX - news - people ) in smaller cities. The Swiss-made Pilatus PC-12 specializes as an executive, commuter and ambulance aircraft. The smaller TBM 850 seats six, goes 370mph and flies a 1,570-mile range on one engine. All three single turboprops have superb safety records, a sure sign that single-engine jet aircraft can be successful.
Which of the new single-engine jets will prevail? Eclipse wants to be the Porsche (other-otc: PSEPF.PK - news - people ) of single-engine jets. Its single will fly higher (41,000 feet) and faster (395mph) than its rivals´. But it will seat only four--two up front, including the pilot, and two in back. Cirrus and Diamond are trying to be the luxury SUVs of these jets. They will fly lower (25,000 feet) and slower (340mph to 360mph) but easily seat five to six people, in various configurations. The Cirrus single has huge windows for passenger comfort and an airframe parachute, in the unlikely event that the aircraft´s Williams FJ33 engine flames out.
The Eclipse, Cirrus and Diamond jets will cost in the $ 1 million range. They will have lower operating costs compared with jets of similar size. Piper´s single-engine jet is much larger, more like a Cessna CJ1+. It seats six adults comfortably and includes a potty. It will sell for about $ 2.4 million when it hits the market in 2010.
Aviation is a conservative, slow-moving industry. Bearing this in mind, the sudden interest in single-engine jets is an extraordinary development. It says volumes about the adaptive abilities of free markets to high oil prices. It says volumes more about human innovation.
To heck with $ 75 oil. It´s a great time to be alive and free!


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Gordon meets a new female tender engine.
- James (cameo)
- Sir Topham Hatt
- Gordon
- Chelsea
- Henry (doesn't speak)
- Spencer (cameo)
- Bear (doesn't speak)
- James
- Gordon's driver
- Gordon's fireman
- Chelsea's driver
- Thomas
- Charlie
- Emily
- Duck
- the guard (doesn't speak)
Narrator: It was a beautiful day on Sodor and the engines are bussier than ever. One day, Gordon was going to Knapford and Sir Topham Hatt was at the station platform with a LNER Gresley K3 tender engine.
Sir Topham Hatt: Gordon, this is Chelsea and I want you to help her with the express.
Narrator: Then Gordon was coupled to the coaches and Chelsea went in front. Gordon tried not to be cross. They puffed thorugh Wellstworth station and went up to Gordon's hill.
Gordon: We'll be earlier at the works station. When they got there, Sir Topham Hatt was proud of them.
Chelsea: Thank you for helping me with the express.
Gordon: You're welcome, Chelsea, all though the other engines didn't know about you and I'll go tell them about you.
Narrator: Gordon went to the sheds to tell the other engines.
Thomas: A new engine, is she like a tank engine, like me?
Duck: Is she great western?
Emily: Is the new engine a diesel because I don't like diesels.
James: Or is she red?
Narrator: gordon laughed.
Gordon: She's kind've like me but she's green.
Narrator: Every day Chelsea will pull the express. Gordon, James, Henry, Spencer or Bear had to help her. But one day, her driver was ill and she can't pull the express. It started to rain and Chelsea's driver lives near Edward's station. Gordon had to pull the Wild Nor Wester to London.
Gordon's driver: Come on Gordon, Chelsea can't help you today. We have to take the Wild Nor Wester alone.
Narrator: Gordon was coupled to his train and they set off.
Gordon's Driver: Let's get a good run at the hill.
Narrator: They never got that far. Gordon's driver saw something strange.
Gordon's Driver: Uh oh look at that.
Narrator: The fireman came across the cab.
Gordon's fireman: something's wrong there.
Narrator: Hanging and flapping from Chelsea's cab looked a lot like a large red flag. Chelsea was in a siding near the station
Gordon's driver: Chelsea's driver needs help I think.
Narrator: He put on the brakes and Gordon stopped gently. The guard came walking on the ballast and came up to Gordon's driver and he pointed to the flag.
Gordon's driver: See if a doctor's on the train and ask him to go to Chelsea's cab. Then walk to the station and telliphone The Big station we've stopped.
Narrator: 2 passengers left the train and the fireman came to see the line was clear in front and then he returned.
Gordon's driver: We'll go back to the big station so we can get a good run at the hill.
Gordon's Fireman: We can't get up the hill, come and see what's happened.
Narrator: They walked around the bend.
Gordon's driver: Jiminy Christmas look at that! go back to the train, I'm going to the cab.
Narrator: He found the doctor with Chelsea's driver.
Chelsea's driver: Sill of me to faint, you saw the red apron, your all safe?
Gordon's Driver: Yes, there was a big tree blocking the line, doctor. Chelsea's driver saw it from the cab and stopped us.
Chelsea: God bless you driver.
Narrator: They cleared the line by 4th of July Gordon puffed in with the express with Sir topham hatt to Edward's station. He went up to Chelsea's driver. He gave him a new cooking apron replasing his old one and gave him slippers.
Sir Topham Hatt: I hope you have a good 4th of July and Chelsea, I hope you have a good one too.
Chelsea: Thank you sir and thank you Gordon.
Gordon: There's nothing like a friend in need.


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Marketing Automation Solutions Provider, Rockit, Strikes Agreement With VoodooVox To Deploy Platform Globally(March 21, 2012)
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Rockit Media, LLC. (Rockit) developer of a patent-pending Automated Marketing Solution that simplifies marketing for small and mid-sized business, announced today that they have entered into a multi-year contract with VoodooVox, Inc. ("VoodooVox") (TSX: VVX) to formulate and execute a reseller agreement to deploy the automated marketing solution, known as Rockit. This agreement stipulates VoodooVox is to be compensated through a revenue-sharing arrangement on the sale of product and services to businesses. This relationship is an opportunity for Rockit to propel their sales efforts by broadening their global reach, capitalizing on market share and monetizing consumer engagement.
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Rockit provides SMBs the opportunity to engage their repeat loyal customers on social networks and turn them into proactive brand ambassadors for their favorite businesses. according to Roger Toennis, CEO of Rockit Media. For the first time, businesses are able to simplify the task of measuring their marketing response and conversion rates in real-time, in order to maximize their marketing dollar, while delivering a higher return on their overall investment.
This is a great opportunity for us to broaden our product offering to include a loyalty platform, added Michael Durance, CEO of VoodooVox. We can now address the entire customer life-cycle from generating new customer leads through smart mobile ad placement to ongoing customer relationship management.
Rockits core business model is complimentary to VoodooVox as both aim to provide a high caliber, performance rich, cost effect automated marketing platform to their customers. VoodooVox uses consumer analytics to provide a smart automated marketing service via the cloud to publishers, advertisers and operators. VoodooVox, processes billions of advertising transactions for a marquee list of global clients and partners. Currently, VoodooVox solutions are deployed in 12 countries around the world.
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A MAN accused of breaking into a stranger's suburban Adelaide home and raping a woman cannot remember the alleged attack and will claim he was acting involuntarily, a court has heard.
Mark Lee Duncan, 36, of Evandale, is standing trial in the District Court accused of aggravated serious criminal trespass, rape and indecent assault on February 24, 2012, at Richmond.
Opening the trial today, prosecutor Chris Weir told the jury the victim had been staying overnight at her then boyfriend's house and he was sleeping next to her when the attack began.
"At approximately 4.30am (the victim) was asleep and was woken to someone touching her," he said.
Duncan then straddled the victim, and sexually assaulted her.
Mr Weir said the victim had assumed the man upon her was her boyfriend until he also woke and saw an unfamiliar man on top of his girlfriend.
"(He) said words to the effect of 'who the f. k are you and where are you from?'," Mr Weir said.
"To which the man replied 'She invited me in ... I'm from New Zealand'."
The victim's boyfriend then forced Duncan, who put up little resistance, out of his home and he fled.
Duncan was arrested two days later where he was living, just a few streets away, after fingerprints taken from the bedroom door and bonnet of a car outside matched Duncan's.
Mr Weir said Duncan's fingerprints had been on file because he had previously applied for a security licence.
Mr Weir said a mark matching the imprint of a left ear and cheek were found on the outside of the bedroom window.
"(This suggests) someone had pressed their ear up onto the window to hear what was going on at the time before going into the house," he said.
He expected Duncan's defence lawyers would claim their client had no recollection of the attack and was acting involuntarily, but said any suggestion that was the case was a "desperate attempt to avoid the consequences of his actions and the compelling evidence against him".
"This was a man who was accessing pornographic sites on the internet shortly before the alleged rape and several hours following the rape," Mr Weir said.
Sam Abbott, for Duncan, told the jury a psychologist and psychiatrist would be called in Duncan's defence to give evidence about his "dissociated state" at the time.
"The real issue in this case is not whether the incident occurred ... as you will heard Mark Duncan can remember nothing of the events of that early morning ... that's why he is not in a position to challenge the evidence," Mr Abbott said.
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I have been working for the same firm for 10 years. I was originally hired to do design work (we are a consulting firm) that had nothing to do with IT, but about 6 years ago got asked to take over IT when we let our former IT person go (I had an interest and some aptitude). Since then I have become almost full time IT support for 24 users and two offices. I have shepherded the company through a merger that pulled a second office into our network, created a new domain infrastructure, moved our main office to a new facility, installed and configured a second hand EMC clarrion array, upgraded server OSs and Exchange twice, upgraded and reconfigured numerous desktops and laptops, solved problems, etc, etc, etc.
In all this time i have been expected to continue to do some billable work, but recently they have started to pile more of that on me. My original design responsibilities had nothing to do with IT. They want me to continue that plus they are adding network infrastructure design to my plate (which i feel totally unqualified to do). They also want me to keep looking forward strategically to make sure the company stays on top of technology developments.
I haven't had a raise since 2008 (no one in the company has). My days consist of interruption after interruption. I cant focus on one thing for more than 10 minutes without being interrupted for a billable consultation, user issue, network problem, or a building issue (did i mention that i am the go to guy for building maintenance issues as well?). I am expected to support MS Server, MS Windows, Apple OS X, iPhone, and Android devices. (Used to support BB but thank god we got rid of those. BB Enterprise was a pain). I basically run in emergency management mode all of the time.
I am entirely self taught with no certifications. I love doing IT and enjoy solving problems and working with technology. I read voraciously to learn my trade.
The firm is a good firm, best job i ever had. But i am tired, frustrated, and have no hope for improvement. Between family and job i have had zero personal time to do my hobbies or to de-stress. And i wake every morning dreading what the day will bring. Depression is a constant companion. Expenses have gone up and my check has gone down over the last three years (health insurance is killing us) so recently it has gotten very hard to make ends meet. Add to that my wife and i just had a new baby in sept.
I guess that my question is: Should i be thankful that i have a job and just 'shut up and soldier'? Or is too much being expected of me and maybe i should start looking? Is there any hope of my finding another decent job in IT since i am entirely self taught? The only references that i have are my current firm. I don't want to relocate (we are in the DFW metroplex).
This sounds like a rant, and i apologize for that. I just am at my wits end and don't know what to do.
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Oct 28, 2011 at 8:24 UTC
Question is, do you want to stay with IT, or move back into the design work? If the answer is IT, you sound like you have "self-taught" yourself enough, and have enough on the job training to be able to find another job in the IT field. Have you spoke to your direct report about being pulled in too many directions?
Oct 28, 2011 at 8:25 UTC
If your unhappy you need a plan. If it were me I would:
See what jobs are out there.
Decide the kind of job I wanted (that I was qualified for)
Start getting the certificates that will get me the interview.
Start networking with everybody. Spiceworks groups etc...
Start the formal Job Hunt
Good Luck.
Oct 28, 2011 at 8:30 UTC
Well first things first. It never hurts to look or interview for that matter. If you're offered a job you can turn it down. You have that luxury.
In your case I would definitely look around to see what your options are.
Your pay has stayed the same while expenses have gone up.
You are doing more than what you signed on for.
You are burning out.
My advice is to check around and see what you can come up with. Even though you have no formal IT education, places will still hire someone without the paper certs as long as they know what they are doing.
Oct 28, 2011 at 8:32 UTC
I am a "soldier it out" type of person, but being in the middle of a universal pile of .... can keep you from seeing the outside. I have also recently had this shown to me.
You are doing the right thing by seeking help from here, but go to your direct superiors. I was quite surprised at how mine responded. Do it very informally and don't go in with any expectations other than letting them know your frustrations. That in itself will lift a huge weight off your shoulders. No matter the outcome, you have let your issues known and now it is up to them do decide what to do.
I would make sure that everything in your control you have under control, and let the rest just slide away.
Oct 28, 2011 at 8:33 UTC
Question is, do you want to stay with IT, or move back into the design work? If the answer is IT, you sound like you have "self-taught" yourself enough, and have enough on the job training to be able to find another job in the IT field. Have you spoke to your direct report about being pulled in too many directions?
This. It looks like you have come to a cross roads of sorts with your career, which patch you choose will be your decision. You have to sit down with your manager and let them know how you feel, maybe look to see if you can get an intern for the basic IT stuff allowing you free time to be billable.
Oct 28, 2011 at 8:39 UTC
Feel your pain as in similar place where I am at now.....The only difference is that I do have time - or honestly make time - to de-stress (Workout at fitness Place) and do have weekends. :-> Looking for a new position currently and have been for the last year or so and honestly at times that can be way more stressful - just the pressure of the interview process itself and waiting for callbacks and plus it is a absolute jungle out in the Job market currently. I would suggest start looking and getting your profile/resume on the LinkedIn and Dice type sites helps greatly. Good luck to you. :->
Oct 28, 2011 at 8:43 UTC
I feel for you. Like you, I had worked a very long time with one firm and the increasing responsibilities and limitations were very heavy. I took a very long look at what I wanted in life and finally made the decision to leave. It was probably one of the hardest decisions I made. I was respected and made decent money, but it was getting hard to get excited about life.
Prior to leaving, I planned heavily because initially I knew I was going to lose income in the beginning. Make sure you account for contingencies if you do decide to leave. I can say that timing is everything. I think if I was confronted with the same feeling today, at that same period in my life, I might have waited due to the current economic conditions. Primarily to build up cash for a longer period of time post job leave.
Like you, what I initially was brought in to do changed over time. Most of the changes and added responsibility made me happy. I like to do new things and like a challenge. However, at some point it was just too much. Not to handle, mind you, but rather the happiness factor. I felt the need for a new direction, and after getting support from family and planning my exit strategy, I finally made the decision.
The verdict is still out, and there were some rough times, but overall I'm still happy with my decisions.
Look inward and figure out your priorities, then try to evaluate your choices. The jump is always scary, but sometimes worth the leap.
Oct 28, 2011 at 8:50 UTC
I can relate in many ways, a lot of people are get unreasonable amounts of work and stuff well out job description thrown on them at the mo and over the last few years.
Being thankful that you still have job only gets you so far especially when your running on empty. And as they say theres more to life than work.
Id start of by deciding want career you want. You should then sit down with thecompany your currently at and discuss that your thinking of moving etc. If nothing comes of it then start looking. Whilest looking learn to say no and itll have to wait, and generally take a step back and dont try to kill yourself. ( I know its easyer said then done, personallyi I cant say no).
Of course if your in one of those states with poor employment laws, just start looking and keep it to yourself without making the fuzz.
Oct 28, 2011 at 8:51 UTC
First I think you need to decide if you would rather do the billable work that you intially signed up for or IT. If it is the Billable work then maybe it is time to talk with the boss about finding some help in IT ( Consultant, outsource some of IT, intern, etc ). If it is IT then I say first step is to bring your concerns up with your boss ( sounds like it is a good firm and you have 10 years in so hopefully they appreciate the amount of knowledge/experience that you bring to the table ). If your boss plays it off or is not addressing the concerns that you have then I would say start studying up for a few basic certs ( just enough to get you past HR ). Once you have those in place then start shopping around, if you came to my shop to apply for a job the basic certs would get you past HR and then we would sit down and talk and that is when your experience would come in to play ( experience weighs much more heavily to me than certs ). Once you get the job offer I would ask for a few days to make your decision and talk with the boss at your current job ( you will almost certianly get a counter offer, I always have ). If you still want to stay with the same firm then at that point ( the counter offer ) you can "negotiate" the terms of remaining at your current job and then work out what you will and won't do.
Just my 2 cents worth and it has worked for me for the past 17 years.
Oct 28, 2011 at 9:00 UTC
It thought that this would be a good forum for advice. I have talked to the company owner about the workload over that last couple of years. His response was 'You have a varied skill set that is valuable to the company'. And that was that.
I really like IT and have an aptitude for it. I dont want to give that up. The design work no longer appeals to me for a variety of reasons.
What certs would be good to pursue? I am not against getting certs, they will just have to come out of my pocket. The company doesn't see them as having any value that makes them want to invest in them.
Oct 28, 2011 at 9:03 UTC
Russell, Since this community is already giving you helpful advice, I just want to commend you on your accomplishments. And congrats on the beautiful new addition to your family. You seem like a good man. Your thoughts and feelings are appreciated.
Best regards, James
Oct 28, 2011 at 9:13 UTC
First I think you need to decide if you would rather do the billable work that you intially signed up for or IT. If it is the Billable work then maybe it is time to talk with the boss about finding some help in IT ( Consultant, outsource some of IT, intern, etc ). If it is IT then I say first step is to bring your concerns up with your boss ( sounds like it is a good firm and you have 10 years in so hopefully they appreciate the amount of knowledge/experience that you bring to the table ). If your boss plays it off or is not addressing the concerns that you have then I would say start studying up for a few basic certs ( just enough to get you past HR ). Once you have those in place then start shopping around, if you came to my shop to apply for a job the basic certs would get you past HR and then we would sit down and talk and that is when your experience would come in to play ( experience weighs much more heavily to me than certs ). Once you get the job offer I would ask for a few days to make your decision and talk with the boss at your current job ( you will almost certianly get a counter offer, I always have ). If you still want to stay with the same firm then at that point ( the counter offer ) you can "negotiate" the terms of remaining at your current job and then work out what you will and won't do.
Just my 2 cents worth and it has worked for me for the past 17 years.
That's some very good advice there that I'll have to keep in mind. Specially about the part when you get an offer somewhere else and giving time to allow for counter offers.
Oct 28, 2011 at 9:48 UTC
I'll try a contrary view to the majority of posters.
It sounds like you're in a pretty good situation with lots of opportunity. The problem is that you've got to work out how to get the best out of it. I'm going to take a stab in the dark and guess that wherever you go, it will be the same. You have to take responsibility for your actions and their consequences.
You're obviously helpful; "Wanna do some IT?" - "Yep", "There's a water leak, can you fix it?" - "No problem". You're obviously a quick learner; "Upgrade exchange!" - "Never seen it before, but that doesn't matter", "We reckon EMC is the future" - "What's that? Doesn't matter, I'll install it". The list goes on.
What could you have done differently? You could have possibly managed expectations better. "I can't do it now because I'm working on the Exchange Server - I need to finish it because there's a risk to the email system - I'll look at it at 4pm" and "I'm working on Exchange now and I've already put the Boss off until 4pm, I'm afraid I wont have time to look at that until the morning". Also, if they want you to manage a new roll out, ask for some basic training - either that or an afternoon out of the office when you can study the docs.
The trouble is, now you're stressed and I doubt you're taken all that seriously because of it. More than that, you'll have to think about your peers' perception of you. You were a designer, but you boss decided to reposition you...
I think you'll have to take IT seriously (it often pays more than design work anyway). Use the time there to become a proper IT support manager. This means becoming part of the management and not ranting with colleagues about pay. It means smartening up and learning how to say 'no' to Directors. It also means learning how to ask for resources. A well thought out justification on how it will benefit the boss is always a good start.
The opportunity is there and it's yours take take. You now need to work out how to get the strength to take it - and that starts with not pressuring yourself to make a decision on IT or Design. Decide to take the situtation that you're in and make it better. With a new baby I can imagine the response you'll get from home if you say to your partner that you'd like to change jobs. She'd be right too. I'm sure they could both benefit from a bit of stability at the moment.
Whatever you do, eat better, cut out the junk. Drink more water and less alcohol (if you drink). Get a little exercise and work out a rota with your partner regarding who gets up for the baby. In work, dress smarter, take yourself more seriously and manage expectations.
If you look, act and sound more senior, they will make you more senior - quite probably with more money.
I made a lot of assumptions there. Apologies if any of them are incorrect or offensive. I merely thought I'd put forward some thoughts to prompt you to think in a different way. Whatever you decide, I wish you and your family all the very best of luck.
Oct 28, 2011 at 9:57 UTC
IF you have already talked with the Manager and there does not seem to be any movement from that side then Certs it is.
Because you already have allot of experience I would NOT pay for a class or boot camp. You said you are a avid reader correct? If so get a good cram book and maybe invest in some testing software and go take the exam. Microsoft tests should be pretty painless due to your experience and if you keep an eye out allot of times you can get a free retake with the purchase of a voucher so help save a bit of cash. Can also find most of the books that you want used pretty cheap. Like I said I would not go broke trying to get every certification under the sun, just enough to have a couple of letters behind your name to impress HR/Management ( the ones that spent all that money getting that 4 year degree )!
I don't like playing games ( especially with my employer ) but sometimes a counter offer can "force" them to really think about what they will lose if they let you go. Most of the time this translates into them making a counter offer.
Oct 28, 2011 at 11:06 UTC
Document the non-design work load. Once you have solid figures that it is a first time job, go back to your boss with the numbers and show them how it is a full time job.
Then decide where you want your career to be. That's important because it will influence the conversation. That conversation can go three ways:
"We need a full time person for infrastructure support"
1. I will take over that role and you need to hire a new designer
2. I want to focus on design, you need to hire an IT guy
3. I can go whichever way you think best for the company, and then hire somebody for the other role.
Oct 28, 2011 at 11:35 UTC
Sounds like over a long period of time you have invested a lot of thought, work, and committement into improvimg the part of the company you can help with.
If it were me, I'd feel a reason to want to change things so I could stay.
If that's not the case and if you want to stay in Texas then I think with your experience you have a good chance of landing something more focued and to your liking.
Oct 29, 2011 at 8:05 UTC
No hope for advancement...welcome to IT. it is a sad fact that to advance in IT in most companies is the same thing as a job search! Most small to mid-sized companies have no way to advance you. Even the Mega-Company that I now work for that has been around for 100+ years is only now developing an IT career path.
My advice, a good resume that explains all your IT skills.
Oct 30, 2011 at 4:52 UTC
The main goal is to stay relevant to the company, right?
First things first. Interruptions need to be managed regardless of what you're working on. If someone needs a consultation, they need to organize it in a way that fits your schedule. That doesn't mean they need to make an appointment, just realize that your process requires you to record your thought-state before you change contexts to talk.
If someone walks into your office needing something, you have to get comfortable telling them to give you a second while you record where you were at, what you were doing, and what you were going to do next.
That's a discipline you should adopt regardless of the type of work you're doing.
Next up is managing your billable design workload, building maint workload, and IT workload. I'd suggest approaching your boss about billing your IT work to the company the exact some way that you bill your design time. That way if they think they can get it done cheaper, they can. And they can see that you're not just spinning your wheels when you're not billing. I'd also suggest outsourcing some of the heavy lifting to an MSP. Why spend your time debugging GPO when you could just hire a specialist firm to do it for you?
Oct 31, 2011 at 10:58 UTC
I'm not trying to be a downer, but it sounds as though you like your company but not your job. If your company is as good as you believe, then tell them you need help or want to stop doing certain tasks/projects. The thing to keep in mind (this is the downer part) is that from my perspective general IT at a smaller company never gets better. To be honest, there is a part of me that regrets getting into this field. I was so naive back when I first started. My idea of my career and job back then was so far from the reality of today. If you already feel that kicking in, then maybe you should move away from the small business to a large company with paths for specialization. In order to increase your chances, though, you would need to get certs like A+, MCSA/E, etc.
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2016 MBC Entertainment Awards
2016 MBC Entertainment Awards: December 29, 2016
*Note: For the acceptance speeches, I only wrote down the gist of it and not the full speeches since it takes too much time to translate the full thank you lists.
Part One
The awards show starts with a bit by DJ Park Narae. I saw her on <I Live Alone> talk about how she's been DJing for years as a way to relieve stress, so she's actually pretty decent. It would be hilarious to see her and Park Myung-soo do a collab one day.
With DJ Narae, Jota, and Madtown do a dance performance followed by teen actors Lee Soo-min and Kim Sae-ron singing "Russian Roulette." Husband and wife Esther Yeo and Hong Hye-kyul also dance along to "My Ear's Candy." Lee Guk-joo and Sleepy conclude the opening performance with "Who's Your Momma?"
Now, we meet our hosts Kim Sung-joo, Lee Sung-kyung, and Jun Hyun-moo. They say hello to all the major MBC cast members who are sitting in tables according to show.
There will be a text message vote for the best program. The nominees are
- King of Masked Singer
- We Got Married Season 4
- I Live Alone
- Radio Star
- Infinite Challenge
The Daesang nominees are
- Kim Gura
- Kim Sung-joo
- Yoo Jae-suk
- Jeong Jun-ha
Park Myung-soo and Hwang Kwang-hee are the first presenters. Last year, Hwang Kwang-hee won the rookie award and was a presenter. This year's Female Rookie Award for Music & Talk Show goes to
- Park Jin-joo – King of Masked Singer
- Shin Go-eun – Section TV, King of Masked Singer
- Lee Sun-bin – Radio Star, King of Masked Singer
- Lee Soo-min – Show Music Core
and the Male Rookie Award (Music & Talk Show) goes to
- Roy Kim – King of Masked Singer
- Park Jae-jung – Radio Star, the Talented
- Cha Eun-woo – Show Music Core
- Han Dong-geun – Duet Song Festival
Shin Go-eun, "I had no idea. Actually, last year I was expecting it, but this year I really didn't. Thank you Section TV. I will work hard. Oh no! I wish I had prepared a speech."
Han Dong-geun,"Last year, I watched the MBC awards through the TV, but now I'm here. I don't really deserve this, but I'll work hard. Thank you."
Kim Heechul and Lee Soo-geun of Secretly, Greatly present the Female Rookie Award for Variety Show. Kim Heechul actually got the rookie award back when he was on Radio Star. The nominees are
- Kim Jin-kyung – We Got Married Season 4
- Sung-so – My Little Television
- Solar – We Got Married Season 4
- Lee Si-young – Real Men
Lee Si-young, "I feel guilty for receiving this award when I was barely in the military. I'm thankful to those in the army who are spending their beautiful youth sacrificing for our country. Although it was just a short moment, I was able to see how much they sacrifice. Because of their sacrifice, I am safe and able to live happily. Please be safe and healthy until you get discharged. I love you dad. Thank you to those in the military."
The Male Rookie Award for Variety Show goes to
- Park Chan-ho – Real Men 2
- Yang Se-chan – We Got Married Season 4
- Lee Si-eon – I Live Alone
- Jackson – Real Men 2
Park Chan-ho, "Thank you. While playing baseball for 30 years, I've never gotten a rookie award, but getting this, I feel young again. A while ago, I was at the supermarket and a kid was like, "Oh it's that military guy." My mom corrected him saying I'm the baseball guy, so I feel blessed. I went to the military twice, and was able to become that much more of a man. Thank you to those who suffered with us and the staff members who worked hard to make such a good program. I am really proud of and happy because of this show. Today is my mother's 70th birthday. She's watching now through the TV. Thank you for raising me and have a long, happy life."
We will get performances from each of the Daesang candidates. The first one up is Kim Gura doing Twice's "Cheer Up" featuring DinDin, Nam Chang-hee, Heo Kyeong-hwan, and Hwang Jae-sung. The MCs comment that this performance is not for the weak of heart. Some people might want to temporarily turn off the TV.
The next award is the Rookie Award for Radio, presented by Jonghyun and Sunny.
- Kangta – Stary Night
- Park Soo-hong – Now is Radio Generation
Kangta, "It's been 20 years since I've debuted, but through MBC radio I've been able to get another rookie award. Radio is for those who want to consoled, so that's what I will work hard to do."
Park Soo-hong, "Bae Chul-soo said even he wasn't able to get the Rookie Award. It's been 20 years since I've gotten the Rookie Award. When will I get the top excellence award? I'm very thankful to my team. I'll return next year with a good variety show. Thank You."
The Excellence Award for Radio goes to
- Kim Shin-young – Kim Shin Young's Noon Song of Hope
- Kim Hyun-chul – Kim Hyun Chul's Afternoon Discovery
Kim Hyun-chul, "I am thankful for getting an award from my favorite broadcast medium. Thank you to my team and viewers."
Kim Shin-young, "It's a hit, a hit (Park Myung-soo yells from the audience, "That's my catchphrase. Don't say it!") This is mine, it's a fact, a fact. I think I got this award not because I deserve it, but because I am part of the family. I will keep doing radio, please give radio some more love. I will be an even brighter ShinD in the future."
The Top Excellence Award for Radio goes to
- Bae Chul-soo – Bae Chul Soo's Music Camp
(The audience stands and claps for him.) Bae Chul Soo, "Please don't stand. It makes me look old. In this multimedia generation, thank you for listening to radio. Thank you to my writers and my producers as well as the engineers. There are a lot of PDs at MBC, and I'd like to thank them all. The program started in 1990, and it's been too long. Today, I am especially thankful to Park Hae-young PD who first started the program in March 19, 1990. I don't know how long I can continue, but I will work hard until the end. Hooray for Radio!"
Next, Seo Yu-ri narrates some of the most memorable moments of MBC in 2016 such as several popular catchphrase. There was Jeong Jun-ha's, "Don't laugh." Haha, Park Myung-soo, and Kim Shin-young's, "It's a hit, a hit."
MC Jun Hyun-moo asks Park Myung-soo whether he's rooting for Jeong Jun-ha or Yoo Jae-suk for the Daesang. He's rooting for Jeong Jun-ha because he's been working for a long time. Singer Ha Hyun-woo is a huge fan of Yoo Jae-suk and they even look alike, so he wants Jae-suk to win.
Jeong Jun-ha and Yang Se-hyung present the next couple awards. The Screenwriter of the Year Award goes to
- Lee Ae-young – Real Men
Lee Ae-young, "I'm thankful for this award, but I'm more thankful to my staff and cast members."
The PD Award which is chosen by MBC PDs goes to
- Kim Gura – Radio Star, King of Mask Singer, and My Little Television
The second Daesang candidate has a performance. It's a duet between Kim Seung-soo and Lee Si-young.
Le Shi-eun and Lee Guk-joo present the Best Teamwork Award.
- King of Mask Singer
PD No Si-yong, "Thank you to all of the production staff members."
Part Two
Part Two begins with a hip hop performance by the third Daesang nominee, Jeong Jun-ha featuring Yang Se-hyung and Haha. He's pretty good.
Yoo Jae-suk and Solbi present the Best Couple Award. Solbi talks a bit about past lives. She thinks Kim Gura was a rice scoop because of his big chin. Yoo Jae-suk was a water insect. Park Myung-soo was a servant.
- Sleepy and Lee Guk-joo – We Got Married Season 4
- Eric Nam and Solar – We Got Married Season 4
- Jo Se-ho and Cao Lu – We Got Married Season 4
- Jota and Kim Jin-kyung – We Got Married Season 4
- Choi Tae-joon and Bomi – We Got Married Season 4
- Hong Hye-gul and Esther Yeo – My Little Television
Solar, "I didn't think we'd get an award, so I don't know what to say. This year was like a dream. Thank you.
Eric Nam, "This is such an honor. Thank you to the production staff."
Yoo Jae-suk and Solbi present the next few awards in succession.
Special Award for Singers:
- Ha Hyun-woo
Special Award for Music and Talk Shows
- Yoon Jong-shin – Radio Star
Special Award for Variety
- Jun Hyun-moo – I Live Alone
Lee Kyung-kyu comes out to present the next award. Everyone in the audience stand. He tells them to sit down. LOL. The Lifetime Achievement Award goes posthumously to
- Goo Bong-seo
Gong Myeong and Jeong Hye-sung present the Popularity Award.
- Yang Se-hyung – Infinite Challenge
- Cao Lu and Jo Se-ho – We Got Married Season 4
- Han Hye-jin – I Live Alone
Eric Nam and Park Na-rae present the MC Award which goes to
- Baek Ji-young – Duet Song Festival
- Sung Si-kyung – Duet Song Festival
- Yoo Se-yoon – Duet Song Festival
Kim Gura and Han Hye-jin present the Female Excellence Award for Music and Talk Shows.
- Kim Sae-ron – Music Core
- Baek Ji-young – Duet Song Festival
- Solbi – Real Men, Radio Star, and King of Mask Singer
- Alee – King of Mask Singer
Solbi, "It's been 10 years since I've debuted. Back then I got the rookie award for We Got Married, and it's amazing that the show is still running now. I've had a lot of up and downs in the last eight years. Thank you."
The Male Excellence Award for Music and Talk Shows goes to
- Kyuhyun – Radio Star
- Kim Kook-jin – Radio Star
- Yoo Young-suk – King of Mask Singer
- Lee Yoon-suk – King of Mask Singer
Yoo Young-suk, "So this is what it means for a heart to race. I think this award is for the contestants of King of Mask Singer for their hardwork and passion. This is the best music variety show."
Yoon Jong-shin and Kyuhyun present the Female Excellence Award for Variety Shows. They want Yoo Jae-suk and Park Chan-ho to come on Radio Star.
- Park Na Rae – I Live Alone, We Got Married Season 4
- Seo Yu-ri – My Little Television
- Lee So-ra – I Live Alone
- Cao Lu – We Got Married Season 4
Park Na-rae, "Actually last year, I got the rookie award, and I don't think I deserve this award, I think it's for the people who helped me get here."
- Sleepy – We Got Married Season 4
- Jun Hyun-moo – I Live Alone
- Heo Kyung-hwan – Real Men
- Hwang Kwang-hee – Infinite Challenge
Heo Kyung-hwan, "Mom and Dad, I got an award. I went to Real Men three times. Thank you to the military people who protect us."
There's a performance by Sechs Kies with a very short cameo by the final Daesang candidate Yoo Jae-suk.
Haha and Han Chae-ah present the Female Top Excellence Award for Variety.
- Seo In-young – Real Men
- Lee Guk Joo – I Live Alone, We Got Married
- Han Chae-ah – I Live Alone
- Han Hye-jin – I Live Alone
Lee Guk-joo, "Thank you very much. 2016 was a good year, but also a tough one. I got a lot of criticism. Thank you." (Sleepy comes up on stage to wipe her tears.)
Sung Shi-kyung and Seohyeon present the next award. This year, the two Male Top Excellence Awards are the Daesang runner ups.
The Top Excellence Award for Music and Talk Shows goes to
- Kim Sung Joo – King of Mask Singer
Kimg Sung-joo, "I am glad to just have been nominated for the Daesang. My sons are expecting me to get it though."
The Top Excellence Award for Variety Show
- Jeong Jun-ha – Infinite Challenge
Jeong Jun-ha, "My Infinite Challenge cast members helped me a lot. Just being nominated for Daesang is an honor. I've been very lucky to be part of Infinite Challenge and to have met my wife.
The Best Program of the Year Award which was chosen my text message votes goes to
- Infinite Challenge
Kim Tae-ho PD, "It's hard to find items for variety shows these days, but we will work hard to make a good show for our viewers."
This year's Daesang goes to
- Yoo Jae Suk
Yoo Jae-suk, "Thank you, but I also feel guilty to those who didn't get this award. Thank you my mother, father, wife, and son. As well as the hundreds of people I work with. I wish the best to Jung Hyung-don and Noh Hong-chul who have left our show. Also thank you to our current cast members. Through Infinite Challenge, I realized that it is the ordinary people who save the nation in times of need and suffering. I hope that not just a few, but our whole country will be able to walk on the flower path."
Also, click on these links to check out the 2016 KBS Entertainment Awards and the 2016 SBS Entertainment Awards.