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Chuck Norris uses martial arts and profits from his Lone Wolf cigars to help steer kids straight.
Norris is not afraid of the terms "hero" or "role model," nor the responsibilities that come with living up to those titles, and he feels that more celebrities need to embrace these concepts. "I don't approve of athletes or celebrities who say that they don't want to be a role model for children. The kids still look up to them, and the least they can do is not allow their lives to go in a negative direction. They have a responsibility to children whether they like it or not. And I think they should adhere to that responsibility."
From his championship career as a martial artist and his global success in the action adventure film genre, to starring in a successful television series and starting his own cigar line, Chuck Norris has managed to achieve every career goal that he has set for himself. Still, with all of the success, fame, money and toys he has accumulated over the years, Norris isn't satisfied. There is still one battle that he is devoting his life to winning.
In 1990, with the support of President George Bush, Norris launched Kick Drugs Out of America, a program that teaches martial arts in place of standard physical education classes to at-risk youths. "Kick Drugs is about providing kids with a family atmosphere," Norris says, "giving them someone to look up to and to emulate. And to get them set on a positive course in life." Such a program, of course, costs money. To help finance that dream, Norris co-created a line of cigars.
The idea came during a conversation he had one night with his assistant, Winston West. While smoking cigars in Norris's yard, the two reflected upon the millions of dollars being made from such novelty items as hats, bumper stickers and shirts, and Norris wondered, "Why can't we come up with our own phenomenon?" Then he hit upon a brainstorm. "Why don't we open up a cigar lounge and we'll call it Lone Wolf?" proposed Norris, resurrecting the name from his character in the 1983 action film Lone Wolf McQuade. "We can sell Lone Wolf paraphernalia and build [Kick Drugs] up that way.
"Eventually, I was introduced to [investment banker] Marshall Geller and we decided to start our own brand of cigars with [actor] Jim Belushi [and other investors]. We all went down to the Dominican Republic and they asked us what kind of cigars we wanted. I said that I wanted a very mellow cigar. I didn't want a cigar that was going to burn my throat. Jim said he wanted a cigar that would, in effect, blow his head off. So we have different blends of our cigars that go from mellow to strong."
The brand has three blends, all produced in the Dominican Republic: Lobo Rojo, made by La Aurora; Signature Select, made by MATASA; and Vintage Series, produced by Palmarejo Cigars. "When we were making the cigar line we were following our passion," says Belushi. "We followed our own tastes and spent a lot of time crafting them."
Lone Wolf has a new cigar in the works, the Lobito ("baby wolf" in Spanish), that will be approximately 4 inches by 30 ring. "It's a good 10- to 15-minute smoke," says Michael Dunne, senior vice president of operations. Made with Connecticut-shade wrapper and Dominican filler, Lobito will be machine made due to its small size, Dunne adds. The company plans to introduce the cigars, sold in five-packs, in August. Lone Wolf has a few cigar outlets as well. Its cigar lounge, Lone Wolf Dallas, opened in December. There is also a Lone Wolf cigar store in Santa Monica, California, and a Lone Wolf lounge at Merv Griffin's Beverly Hills Hotel.
Norris acknowledges that a role model might take some flack for publicly smoking a cigar, but he sees nothing incongruous about his choice.
"Listen, you've got to be 21 to be smoking a cigar in the first place," Norris says. "And smoking a cigar is an experience, not like smoking a pack of cigarettes every day. A cigar is for relaxation. I do enjoy cigar smoking and I'm old enough to smoke." He smokes one cigar a day--a Lone Wolf. "Anything done in excess is going to be bad for you, whether it's eating, drinking or whatever," he adds. "The key to enjoying cigar smoking is moderation."
Not content to be a celebrity who says one thing in public and does another thing in private, Norris does not equivocate about his enjoyment of cigars. "I'm not going to hide out in some back room and tell the world that I don't smoke cigars. I'm not going to lie about it. And when I created my cigar line, I did not do it so that I, personally, would make any money. It was a way of generating income for my foundation; all of my portion of the profits goes into Kick Drugs Out of America."
Norris's partner Geller agrees. "I don't think kids look at Chuck Norris and say, 'I'm going to smoke a cigar.' People form whatever habits they form based on whether they like something or not. The world wants to blame everybody else for what they do, and that really disturbs me. The man is a role model and he does a lot of charity work for what he believes in. What does that have to do with smoking a cigar?"
Norris is sitting by the lake at his ranch in Navasota, Texas, on a brilliantly sunny Saturday afternoon as he uncorks a bottle of Pinot Noir, lights a well-aged cigar and shares the story of his life. He was born Carlos Ray Norris, the eldest of three sons, in Ryan, Oklahoma, in 1940. His mother was of Irish and English descent; his father, a Cherokee Indian, deserted the family early in Norris's life. By the time Norris was 10 years old, his family had moved 16 times and he found himself in the unlikely role of caretaker to his two younger brothers, Weiland and Aaron. The experience taught the young Norris about the importance of family. With the strong influence of his mother, he also learned that with determination and persistence, there was no dream that would ever elude his grasp.
Appropriately enough, the man who plays the Lone Star lawman Cordell Walker each week on CBS's "Walker, Texas Ranger" once dreamed of becoming a police officer. Too young to become an officer immediately after high school, Norris spent the next four years in the Air Force, where he joined the military police. He was sent to Korea, where he began martial arts training to further his plans for law enforcement.
"Judo was the thing in the '50s and '60s," he says. "Karate wasn't even a word back then. I enrolled in judo class at Osan Air Force Base in Korea, and two weeks into training, I broke my shoulder."
Ironically, the setback propelled him into a discipline that would eventually change his life. "I had a sling on my arm and I couldn't train, so I went into the village and I kept seeing these heads pop up from behind a knoll. I moseyed up and I saw these Koreans doing these jump-spinning kicks in the air, and I was completely mesmerized. I couldn't believe a human body could do all of those things: jumps, heel kicks and all that. And they looked so mean, I was afraid to go over and ask what they were doing. My judo instructor on the base told me it was called tang soo do. He took me back to the village and introduced me to Mr. Shin, the instructor, and I started training while I still had one arm in a cast. I was training every day and every night, five hours a day, six days a week, and on Sunday, I studied judo. My arm eventually healed, and eventually the name of tang soo do was changed to tae kwan do."
Martial arts was to have many emotional as well as physical benefits for Norris. "By the time I left Korea, I had my black belt in tae kwan do and my brown belt in judo, and an interesting transformation was taking place. When I was growing up, I was a real shy kid. I guess not having a father image, a man to give you that strength of character, contributed to that. Martial arts really changed all that. That's why I'm such an advocate of the martial arts--because it does help you change your life in a positive direction. It helps you to be able to communicate, to be more self-assured, and it raises your self-esteem, which is the most important thing. It instills discipline and respect, which is lacking in many young kids. Discipline was the most important lesson I learned very early on in my martial arts career."
Norris returned home from the service in 1962 and decided to moonlight as a martial arts instructor to earn a little extra money for his family, giving lessons in his parents' backyard. "I married Dianne in 1958, before I went into the service. After I got out, I went to work at Northrop Aviation because our first son, Michael, was on the way." He tried out and passed his exam to enter the police force, but he was unwilling to wait the six months before he could enter the police academy. He decided instead to open up a martial arts school in Torrance, California, quit his job at Northrop and started teaching full time. A year later, he opened up a second school, then a third.
"I decided that the best way to get more students was to become a karate fighter. I entered my first tournament in Salt Lake City, took three of my students in my old, beat-up car--which barely made the trip--and we all fought in the tournament. My three students won and I lost. I drove back to California and they held their trophies. Philosophies are developed through experience, and I was really upset by losing. I said, 'While I may lose again, I'll never lose the same way twice.' That way you don't lose; you gain knowledge. Eventually, you realize that the only time you ever really lose is when you don't learn something from the experience."
Giving up on his dreams was never an option. In 1964, he won the L.A. Open. "I thought, if I could win the L.A. Open, why not the state? So in 1965, I won the state title. Then I thought, why not the national?" Norris proceeded to do just that, capturing the All-American karate title in New York in 1966. That same year, he won the international middleweight championship. In 1967 he won the middleweight division again and won the grand championship by beating the lightweight and heavyweight champions. In 1968 he won the grand championship title again, and he was the number one fighter in the country. "My schools by that time were running pretty well, so I decided to try for the international world middleweight title in New York at Madison Square Garden. I [won and] held that title and went undefeated until my retirement in 1974."
The number of schools was growing along with his success as a fighter, and Norris wanted to expand his schools to the national level, which created another set of obstacles. To raise cash for the expansion, Norris sold some of his schools to a chain. But due to mismanagement on the part of the new owners, says Norris, within two years they almost lost most of the schools. "They were about to go bankrupt--with my name on them--so I talked to my partners and wound up taking the schools back with a huge debt," he says. "Then I sold the schools off to my individual black belts. I still had about $240,000 in debt that I was personally responsible for, and it took me another five years to pay it off."
Once again, fate would intervene and change Norris's course. "I was giving seminars and teaching private lessons, and Steve McQueen and Priscilla Presley were two of my students. One day Steve asked me what my plans for the future were (I had two kids to support), and he suggested that I pursue an acting career. Even though I had a small role in Return of the Dragon with Bruce Lee, I had had no aspirations to become an actor. So, with about 16,000 unemployed actors in Hollywood with an average income of about $3,000 a year, I talked to my wife about it and I decided, why not go for it?"
Norris had cameo roles in the martial arts movies Slaughter in San Francisco and Return of the Dragon already under his belt, and now he turned his full energies to learning acting.
"It's a funny thing about life. I believe everything is predestined and if the door of opportunity opens, you can either walk through that door or you can leave it open and it will shut back up on you," says Norris. "I decided that it would probably be a good idea if I learned how to act, so I checked around and I found that the Estelle Harmon acting school would let me go to school on my GI bill."
After completing his training, Norris started to pound the pavement like any other out-of-work actor in Hollywood. "I went out on a few auditions and was surrounded by actors that I recognized--and I wanted to ask for their autographs! And I said, 'This isn't going to work.'
"One of my black belts told me that I needed to come up with an idea for a movie and make it myself, and he had an idea for me. After he told me the story, I said we should call it, 'Good Guys Wear Black.' I had another student who was a struggling writer who wrote the story on spec." But now the problem for Norris was finding backing for the project. "I found that while I could get in the doors of movie producers because I was the world champion, nobody took me seriously as a actor. I spent three years trying to get the movie made."
Not willing to take no for an answer, Norris came up with a plan. "Eventually we decided that if we could get 10 investors to put up $10,000 each, we could make the movie. I went around and met with potential investors and told them that there were about 4 million karate people in the world, and that I was the world champion for six years and they couldn't see me fight anymore because I was retired, so the only way they could see me fight now is on-screen. I said, if only half of them go, you've got a $6 million gross on your investment. So I got the money to make the movie. But then, no distribution company wanted it, and no theater chain wanted it."
Undaunted, Norris decided in 1979 to distribute the film himself. "I made up 16 prints and we started off in El Paso and San Antonio, and I took the film from city to city. I rented the theater for a week or two and I had my black belts collecting the receipts. I'd do interviews or go to high schools. I'd do 10 to 12 interviews a day and then we'd go on to the next little town. After eight months on the road, we decided to do A Force of One and then we started going to bigger cities. Eventually Good Guys Wear Black did $18 million in gross sales in the United States and A Force of One did over $20 million on a $1.5 million investment. It amazed everybody. We then produced The Octagon and formed a distribution company. It was amazing; in those days, when they offered me $40,000 to star in a movie, I thought if I could get three movies made, I could retire."
The successes of Octagon and A Force of One solidified Norris as a star of action movies, an emerging genre in the early 1980s. His testosterone-rich formula was very simple: The Good Guys were always good, the Bad Guys were always incredibly horrible, and Chuck Norris always delivered his own brand of justice. Norris aficionados will claim that he even invented the "tag line." If you think about it, there would probably be no, "Hasta la vista, baby" without Norris's "Sleep tight, sucker" or "When I want your opinion, I'll beat it out of you." While his 1980s films such as An Eye for An Eye, Invasion USA and The Delta Force were never critical successes, Chuck Norris became a bankable international star.
His television series, "Walker, Texas Ranger," proved that the big screen was not the only arena where Norris could be big box office. Since its premiere in April 1993, "Walker" has become one of the few shows in the history of the Saturday 10 p.m. slot to regularly appear among Nielsen's 10 highest-rated shows. Creating a show that blended action, humor, pathos and social concerns was an attractive challenge to Norris.
"I thought that it had enough action to appeal to a male audience, and that the Alex Cahill character [an assistant district attorney played by actress Sheree Wilson] had enough kibitzing and an undercurrent of romance to appeal to a female audience, and that there was a nice humorous touch to the script, and we could keep the show focused on action as opposed to violence, so the kids could watch it. I thought we had all of the ingredients to create a long-running series; there really wasn't anything on television like it."
As usual, success didn't come easy, and Norris had to learn a couple of hard lessons on his road to the Top 10. At the start, the show had a two-hour movie and two one-hour episodes in the can, when Cannon Films, the original producers, filed for bankruptcy. "We no longer had the deficit financing, so the show went on hiatus. After about four months, CBS decided to bring the show in-house and finance it from their in-house production unit. They brought in a whole new team and the first year was incredibly aggravating."
Norris pauses, taking a puff on his cigar. "Boy, it was just one tough year. I wasn't getting the help I needed to make the show successful. All of my years at Cannon [Norris had a seven-year film contract with Cannon in the 1980s] saved me there. I was able to take over the writing, the editing, and do all of the things myself to help the show stay on the air. Every year, for the first four years of production, I was changing 'show runners' [executive producers] to try and find the one show runner that had a vision that I had for the show and a writing staff that had that same vision. In the fourth year I brought my brother [Aaron] in and the [ranking of "Walker" among shows] was at that point in the high 30s, and he started getting me good scripts. Then he brought in some great directors of photography, and all of a sudden the show went from a 'B movie' to an 'A movie.' Then the ratings went to the 20s, and then it went all the way to a top-10 show. And on a Saturday night! We basically reinvented Saturday night. The last time anyone watched TV on a Saturday night was when 'Magnum PI' was on; Saturday was the dead zone until 'Walker' came along. Who would have thought that this July we'll start our sixth year of production?"
In a time of moral ambiguity on television as well as in film, Norris is unafraid to be thought of as "good." "I think the appeal of 'Walker' lies in its positive mode. Justice versus injustice. Right over wrong. Unfortunately in our society today, everything is on a negative side. Sometimes evil wins out over good. And I think people need something good to grab hold of. 'Walker' is a way to look at a situation and say, 'You know, there is good in the world--and good is good. Not 'bad is good'; good is good. Good hasn't been really cool since the 1960s, and I really believe that the majority of people do not feel that way. My show would not be as successful as it is if people didn't believe that good is cool, because that's what my show is all about."
Despite great ratings, coupled with years of box office success, Norris takes more than his share of punches from the critics. "The critics kill me. The critics call me corny, but we still win our time slot. But I've always had a tough time with the critics. The only movie out of my 22-movie career where I actually got good reviews was Code of Silence. And everybody wants good reviews. But Steve McQueen told me once that you can get the best reviews in the world and if no one goes to see your movie, you're not going to make any more movies. Critics can give you the worst reviews in the world, and if your movie is a huge success, you're going to keep working. So where do you want to lean toward?
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Feb 4, 2012
So have you ever been to McDonald's when they do the Monopoly game promotion and ever think to yourself… does anyone ever actually win these contests? In a previous blog under the Contests section we announced a dealer contest at the Surfaces 2012 trade show at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in viva Las Vegas, NV. Dealers at theRead more

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text: There's a new man in charge of the kitchen at Area 31, and the restaurant wants everyone to know it. To get the word out about new toque Wolfgang Birk to all foodies in the city, the restaurant threw a welcome bash with bites and bubbles galore. Good taste prevailed as guests were treated to hors d'oeuvres from Birk's new menu and Veuve Clicquot Champagne. As DJ duo Ess & Emm did their thing, a digital projection of artwork by the TM Sisters kept attendees entertained, although many others preferred a different sight: the stunning views of Brickell from the eatery's 16th floor terrace. –Photography by Brett Hufziger/bhuf.com


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Now that we have clinched everything that matters, should we play everyone and go for perfection? Or rest the starters for the plafoffs?
I would like to see them go undefeated, but obivousally a Super Bowl is more important. So i'm torn. Today after seeing Peyton and Dallas get banged up I was like "bench 'em!" But now that they're ok i'm having other thoughts.
I will support Tony in whatever he does, I will also understand that many Colts fans won't. I'm sure that many fans will be attending their only game of the season either the Chargers or the Cards game. If I was in that position I would be extremely disappointed if I didn't get to see the starters. Hell i've been to every home game and i'll be disappointed if I make the 2 hr trip to indy just to watch a late season "pre-season" game.
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Parking In Motion (PIM) which is the leading provider of dynamic and real time parking data, retaining deals with app developers, map makers, and GPS navigation companies proposes you via I-phone and blackberry an application that can save you time and eliminate stress!
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CardDAV Interface
From Zarafa wiki
A CardDAV interface for Zarafa
This article is a community contribution and may include unsupported configurations.
This was inspired by the CSV contact import script and contains code from the PHP PEAR HTTP_WebDAV_Fileserver example. There is a thread in the Zarafa Forum about this tool: Zarafa Community Forums - Access Contacts from Evolution via CardDAV.
- Shares Zarafa contacts as .vcf files using the CardDAV/WebDAV protocol. Simple listing via Webbrowser
- Access is currently read-only.
- Only the default Contacts folder of the users own store will be shown.
- Contacts in subfolders are not accessible.
- Still incompatible with Apple Addressbook
- Reporting of invalid sync token not honored by SOGo connector, thus only the first sync works.
- 0.1
- Initial release.
- Compatible with Evolution only
- No actual 'CardDAV' commands supported.
- 0.1.5
- Simple listing of vcf files in web browser
- Implemented CardDAV specific 'REPORT' method, but server will not keep sync states for clients and force full resync every time
- Somewhat supporting SOGo connector, only initial sync will succeed (SOGo doesn't do full resync when reporting invalid sync token)
A working installation of:
- Zarafa Server
- Apache/PHP 5.x and Zarafa PHP-MAPI modules
- Setup required PEAR modules
sudo apt-get install php-pear sudo pear install File_IMC sudo pear install HTTP_WebDAV_Server
- Install CardDAV PHP script into Zarafa webaccess (or any other location you like):
cd ~ wget https://raw.github.com/LevelbossMike/Zarafa_Carddav/master/zarafa_carddav.php sudo mv zarafa_carddav.php /usr/share/zarafa-webaccess/community_carddav.php
- Modify Apache configuration
- Add the following line to your webserver configuration, e.g. /etc/apache2/sites-available/zarafa-webaccess
Alias /carddav /usr/share/zarafa-webaccess/community_carddav.php
- Reload config file
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
Client configuration
- URL (https is recommended, otherwise your password might be sent in clear text!)
- Login
When using a browser or mounting this as volume you'll see a lot of .vcf files with your contacts in the root folder.
- New Address Book
- Type
- Name
What ever you like
- Username
Attention: we had trouble getting Evolution to log in with username of the format [email protected], therefore the % sign is replaced by @ on the serverside. So you might try user%server as login name.
Attention: Evolution seems to mix up some of the phone number entries of the VCard files, e.g. Home Phone numbers are not shown in the list view and shown as Business Phone in the detail dialog although they seem to be correct inside the .vcf file.
The implementation has been tested on Evolution 2.28.3 on Ubuntu 10.04.1 x86.


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The 4th Annual Epic End of Summer Bash, a free event to help the community get ready for the coming school year, will be on Saturday, Aug. 9.
Booth space is available and those wishing to pass out information or school supplies, to volunteer or to donate prizes, call 352-493-4627 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
The event also offers family fun with exhibits from public safety agencies and activities for children including a dunk booth and water slide. There will be free food, activities, back packs, school supplies, prizes, fun and information plus much more.
July 22, 2014
9:00 a.m.
A) Call to Order, Invocation and Pledge of Allegiance — Board Chairman
B) Welcome Visitors — Board Chairman
C) Employee Care Center Update — Brian Branham & Christin Mayhew, CareHere
Don Crook & Audrey Haines, Combined Benefits Group
D) 2014 TRIM Ads for Local Newspapers — Bob Clemons
Sarah Edison, standing, attended the Chiefland Rotary Club meeting on June 25 with her father, club member Jeff Edison, and thanked the members for awarding her the Jim Easley Scholarship.
Miss Edison is studying agriculture communications at the University of Florida.
Chiefland Middle High School's HOSA Academy attended the 2014 State Convention in Orlando. Attendees included Zena Patel, Trina Tolentino, Annie Tolentino, Joli Birchfield, Kaitlyn Kantor, David Hallman, William Reiff, Natalia Prince, Ryan Martin, Krista Biehl and Dylan Jones.
By PAT FAHERTY
It's that time of year, high school graduation in Levy County. The Class of 2014 is walking down the aisle to pick up diplomas and begin a new stage of life in college, enjoying summer or going to work.
A few Chiefland High School students, with the help of teachers and a few government agencies, are taking the health of Florida's springs to heart.
Ever dream of having your principal or teacher from Chiefland Elementary School prepare dinner for you and your schoolmates? Now's your chance to assign the homework and help out CES.
The principal and faculty will be serving dinar at the McDonald's in Chiefland tonight (Monday, May 19, between 6 and 8 p.m.
Head to McDonald's at 1415 N. Young Blvd. Have a meal, have some fun and help contribute to a good cause. McD's will donate 20 percent of all sales during this time will be donated to the school.
Startup money for a new Williston Middle/High School and Levy Campus for the College of Central Florida has been included in the state budget for 2014-2015 that was approved by the state Legislature last week and is heading to the governor's office.
The Levy County Commission gave its endorsement to the Fanning Springs Disability Expo hosted by the The ARC of Levy County, Agency for Persons with Disabilities (APD), the Florida Disabled Outdoors Association (FDOA) and the Department of Environmental Protection.
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Three Tracks | The Advocacy Honors Programs
Choosing a LAWS Track Preference | Course Descriptions
Video Clips
All first-year students at Southwestern are required to take a six-unit, year-long course entitled Legal Analysis, Writing, and Skills (LAWS). The course introduces students to key lawyering skills and helps prepare them for the real-world demands they will face as attorneys. During the Fall semester, LAWS I explores issues of professionalism, develops broad-based analytical, research and writing skills, and provides concentrated instruction in the basics of legal methods, legal reasoning and legal processes. In the Spring semester, LAWS II enables students to apply their new skills in a hands-on advocacy experience.
Three Tracks
First-year students at Southwestern have the unique opportunity to choose from an appellate, negotiation or trial practice track during their Legal Analysis, Writing and Skills (LAWS) course. You can read how and why Southwestern's faculty created the exciting one-of-a-kind three-track LAWS program in an article by the director of LAWS, Professor Tracy Turner, in Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing (the article appears on page 12 of the issue, available online as a PDF). Click here for things to consider when choosing a LAWS track.
The Appellate Advocacy Track introduces students to advocacy as it is practiced in the courts of appeal.* In the process of handling an appeal of a hypothetical case, students meet with clients, conduct legal research, draft an appellate court brief, and present oral arguments before a panel of justices. Note: This is the type of advocacy traditionally included in most law school legal writing programs, and the majority of first-year students will be enrolled in this track.
*An appellate court (state or federal) hears appeals from judgments and rulings of trial courts or lower appeals courts.
The Negotiation Track teaches core lawyering skills in the context of negotiating contracts. Students meet with clients, conduct legal research, draft a trial court motion that involves a question of contract validity, and participate in contract negotiations.
The Trial Practice Track corresponds to the work of a trial attorney. Students handle a variety of tasks in the pretrial and trial stages of litigation in a hypothetical legal case. They meet with clients, conduct legal research, draft a trial court motion, examine witnesses, and present their case to a jury.
Please note: Although the descriptions and videos we have provided regarding the trial practice and negotiation tracks refer to representation in a "trial court" and the drafting of a "motion," the assignments in these tracks may not always be set in a trial court and may not always involve a motion. For example, assignments may involve adjudication before a quasi-judicial administrative agency rather than before a trial court. The setting of the assignment does not affect the skills taught in these tracks.
The Advocacy Honors Programs
Southwestern has three advocacy honors programs - Moot Court Honors Program, Negotiation Honors Program and Trial Advocacy Honors Program (TAHP) - which hold intramural competitions during the Spring semester. Each LAWS track feeds into its respective honors program intramural competition. Any student, regardless of LAWS track, may compete in the Negotiation or Trial Advocacy intramural competitions; however, students who wish to compete in the Moot Court Intramural Competition must select the Appellate Advocacy Track (those in the Negotiation or Trial Practice tracks will not be able to compete in the Moot Court Intramural Competition). Click here for more information on Intramural Competitions and Honors Program Selection.
Choosing a LAWS Track Preference
During registration, students indicate their order of preference for the three LAWS tracks. While the law school will attempt to place students in their first LAWS track choice whenever possible, assignment to one of the available sections will be made in a random order just prior to First-Year Orientation. Students who do not indicate a track choice will be assigned to a section by the law school.
Students will be notified about their respective LAWS section and the name of the professor for their section at Orientation. Once assignments are made, students will not be permitted to switch LAWS sections. Students remain with their assigned section faculty member throughout both LAWS I and LAWS II.
Click here for things to consider when choosing a LAWS track.
Course Descriptions
- Legal Analysis, Writing and Skills I
- Legal Analysis, Writing and Skills II - Appellate Advocacy
- Legal Analysis, Writing and Skills II - Negotiation
- Legal Analysis, Writing and Skills II - Trial Practice
Video Clips
Overview of the LAWS Course
- Introduction
- How is legal writing different from other writing and why do we need a year-long course on it?
- What will I learn in the Fall semester of LAWS?
- Will my choice of a LAWS track affect my Fall semester?
- How does my choice of a LAWS track affect my Spring semester?
The Appellate Advocacy Track
- Introduction
- What is an appeal?
- For what type of career will appellate advocacy prepare me?
- What will I do in the LAWS II Appellate Advocacy course?
The Negotiation Track
- Introduction
- Why should I choose the Negotiation Track?
- What will I do in the LAWS II Negotiation course?
- What skills will I learn in the Negotiation Track?


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SAN LEANDRO — Witnesses described a horrific scene after a reported explosion near a homeless encampment Tuesday evening, with a pair of badly burned people rushing to a neighboring home for help before being taken to the hospital in critical condition.
Alameda County fire spokeswoman Aisha Knowles said crews were called to the area near the railroad tracks at Hesperian Boulevard and Springlake Drive on reports of an explosion around 9:30 p.m. They discovered two people had been badly injured and summoned a hazardous materials team to the area to look for what caused their injuries, she said.
"There were two adults who ran from the encampment to a nearby apartment to ask for water," Knowles said. "They were in a lot of pain and felt like they were on fire."
They went to the home of Cynthia Silva, who said her boyfriend was telling then to call 911 when a woman suddenly rushed in their front door and ran to their bathtub.
"This lady came in and she had skin hanging off her face and her arms," Silva said. "It looked bad. She was screaming 'Something exploded, something exploded!'"
Cynthia's daughter Brittney, 18, said the woman got in the tub and turned on the water but started screaming even more. A man, who Silva's boyfriend had initially seen, was also badly burned and outside, using the garden hose to wash off.
Knowles said a third person who came into contact with a possible caustic substance from the injured couple was also taken to a hospital.
She said Alameda County sheriff's investigators would take over the investigation.
"What they were not able to find is a link between the incident and the injuries," Knowles said. "That is what they will be investigating."
Contact Eric Kurhi at 408-920-5852. Follow him at Twitter.com/erickurhi.


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BACKBEAT to Begin Previews at CTG's Ahmanson Theatre This Sunday, 1/20
Previews begin this Sunday, January 20, for the U.S. premiere of "Backbeat," the dramatic new play with music about the birth of one of the greatest rock 'n' roll bands in history, the Beatles. "Backbeat" begins performances January 20 and continues through March 1, 2013. The opening is set for January 30.
Featuring the all-time rock 'n' roll classics that the Beatles cut their teeth on - "Money," "Long Tall Sally," "Twist and Shout," "Good Golly Miss Molly," "Please Mr. Postman," "Rock 'n' Roll Music" and more, "Backbeat" is set in 1960 when John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Pete Best (the drummer before Ringo Starr joined the group) and Stuart Sutcliffe (the band's original bassist) embarked on their journey from the docks of Liverpool to the red light district of Hamburg. There they worked in the clubs of the tawdry Reeperbahn, performing rock 'n' roll covers night after night, all the while honing what would become the Beatles' sound.
"Backbeat" is also the compelling story of Sutcliffe, who falls in love with the striking German photographer Astrid Kirchherr, and must choose between being with her and resuming his painting, or staying with his best friend, John Lennon, and playing in the band. This triangular relationship became an intrinsic part of the Beatles story, and the decisions made and the music played put them on an unstoppable trajectory onto the world stage.
The cast will feature Nick Blood (as Stuart Sutcliffe), Leanne Best (Astrid Kirchherr), Andrew Knott (John Lennon), Oliver Bennett (Pete Best), Daniel Healy (Paul McCartney) and Daniel Westwick (George Harrison). Rounding out the rest of the cast are ensemble members Edward Clarke, Josie Dunn, Sam Ford, Mark Hammersley, Perry Ojeda, Charlotte Palmer, Phil Pritchard, Dominic Rouse, Louise Shuttleworth, Adam Sopp, Charles Swift, James Wallace and Miranda Wilford.
"Backbeat" is co-written by Iain Softley and Stephen Jeffreys, based on the 1994 Universal Pictures film by Softley, Michael Thomas and Stephen Ward. "Backbeat" is directed by five-time Tony Award nominee David Leveaux.
Design for "Backbeat" is by Andrew D. Edwards from an original concept by Christopher Oram, lighting design is by Howard Harrison and David Holmes, and sound design is by Richard Brooker.
"Backbeat" is presented by Karl Sydow in association with Glasgow Citizens Theatre, where it first opened in February 2010. "Backbeat" made its West End debut in London in October 2011. It will open in Toronto in July 2012. Following the presentation at the Ahmanson in early 2013, "Backbeat" will move to Broadway.
Tickets for "Backbeat" are available by calling (213) 972-4400, visiting online at www.CenterTheatreGroup.org, or in person at the Center Theatre Group box office at the Ahmanson Theatre. Tickets range from $20 - $110 (ticket prices are subject to change). The Ahmanson Theatre is located at the Music Center, 135 N. Grand Avenue in Downtown L.A. 90012.
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If we could do this for a combination of Hill + while likely having to take back a contract like Fields, I'd do it just to get out of Hill's contract. You could plug just about any point guard in with our starters, and they'd be at least capable.
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If we could do this for a combination of Hill + while likely having to take back a contract like Fields, I'd do it just to get out of Hill's contract. You could plug just about any point guard in with our starters, and they'd be at least capable.
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As for taking any PG and replacing him with GH.....thats not entirely true.
Exhibit A - DJ Augustine
Exhibit B - Darren Collison
IMHO....you just can't plug and play any PG in this offense and defense. The offense and defense calls for a particular type of Guard....one that is tall and has length for his position...one that can handle and move the ball around...and one that can be effective "off the ball". Usually, this points to capable Combo-Guards...like GH and JCraw ( who Bird pursued a few seasons back )....not pure PGs who are ball dominant in order to be effective when on the floor.
Maybe Lowry can do that....i honestly havent watched the Raptors play to know whether he's a good fit or not. But let's not pretend that we can just plug N play any PG into this system and expect the same...if not better results.
Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.
And taking on a contract like Fields while also trading away a guy like Copeland actually saves the Pacers money next season to provide them with more than enough to keep Lance and sign a solid point guard in the off season. Fields would also be in his final year next year, meaning he'd also be a tradable asset. Teams aren't simply lining up to take on Hill's contract given his mediocre production/ability, meaning the Pacers would have to take on somebody else in turn.
I understand people want to improve the team, and George Hill isn't the pure PG that we would like to have, but what we have is working. We're the best team in the NBA currently.
Larry isn't going to trade a core piece for someone who's going to just bolt after the year.
I'd like to give this current team one more shot in the playoffs to see what they can do before I trade a starter. It's only year 3 of this current group, minus obviously Cope/Scola/CJ
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Strictly from a basketball standpoint. I like George Hill better defensively than I like Lowry offensively in a bubble. I also like GH with this group better than I like Lowry, much better. Only way Lowry ends up here is if GH gets an injury that ends his season, imo (knock on wood). I think GH is way underated in what he sacrifices in numbers to make the 'team' work here. I'm glad Larry understands fit as much a contract year stats. Think how the Pacers vs Golden State would have looked if Lowry was in GH's place, not pretty.
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As a big fan of George Hill, I have to say I think Lowry is the better player. However, if we factor in chemistry, likely cost in trade value, and the fact that Lowry is going to be an FA, it all seems pretty iffy to me. The whole article is just speculation.
There are two types of quarterbacks in the league: Those whom over time, the league figures out ... and those who figure out the league.
For what its worth, Lowry is a good defender. I'm not sure what the contrary statements are based on.
You can't get champagne from a garden hose.
Also, Hill shoots at a very good rate, which is key for floor spacing in our inside-out offense. In fact, the only thing that Hill doesn't do at an above average rate is attack the rim, which really isn't as important when you've got guys like Lance and Paul George on your team. He's really the perfect fit for this team, and could easily average 17 PPG on another team if he focused less on defense and more on getting his own shot.
I'd much rather have George Hill on my team than Lowry in a contract year, as others have mentioned. In fact, I'd rather have Hill at his salary than Lance at $10m+, due to the Hill's stability and his ability to defend the primary point of attack.
There is a reason no one can find a take for a PG averaging 17, 7, and 4 for a team over .500.... normally a guy like that on the market would be snapped up quickly, free agent or no.
I'd like Lowry on Indiana and maybe, with Hill's contract gone, and Danny expiring....we could negotiate with Kyle and Lance to keep both and remain under the tax. It would certainly make it easier. Plus, Butler, Ian, will be gone by season's end. People are talking about Landry Fields as filler.
ESPN trade machine says Lowry and Steve Novak, for George Hill and Solomon Hill works. Solomon would be a good young piece for Toronto. Lowry would start for us obviously. Our bench would be...
^Good shooters off that bench. No problems with scoring there. Could get us back into a lot of games quickly if we fall behind by double digits.
Another version I did that works too is George Hill and Solomon Hill and Ian Mahinmi for Kyle Lowry and Amir Johnson. Amir Johnson would take care of our backup big man problems. He's better than Ian.
Lowry has the capability to go off in games though. That's the thing. He would make opposing points and 2's in some cases have to work to guard him. Hill has a passive attitude most of the time, Lowry doesn't. He will light you up if you let him. One thing I don't like about Hill the most is his passive attitude. I remember the Portland game, we got a steal and had a chance to go up 1, being behind by two points. Hill had an open 3. He passed it up and tossed the ball to PG who was right beside him to his right. PG took the shot and missed. I want a PG who isn't afraid to take that open shot.
And this is why i dont pay for insider
I'm all in for Lowry. Getting old watching Hill get torched by every PG he plays against
Being unable to close out a game in which you have a comfortable lead in the 4th Q = Pulling a Frank Vogel
Our recent road trip alone has exposed Hill. Curry, Dragic, Isiah, and Lawson have all outplayed GH. Would be nice to occasionally have a matchup advantage at the PG position
Being unable to close out a game in which you have a comfortable lead in the 4th Q = Pulling a Frank Vogel
Bird has to be getting frustrated knowing almost every other team will win the PG matchup. What's gonna happen vs Miami when Chalmers outplays Hill
Being unable to close out a game in which you have a comfortable lead in the 4th Q = Pulling a Frank Vogel
I know Hill is a good defender, but something is missing
Being unable to close out a game in which you have a comfortable lead in the 4th Q = Pulling a Frank Vogel
You think Roy can't score more? West?
This space for rent.
It might be too late.
Lowry and Dragic could have been a Pacer in the off-season for MUCH cheaper.
Those guys are studs compared to Hill.
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I will not be surprised if Kendall Marshall outplay Hill tonight. No reason a PG off the street should perform better than G Hill
Being unable to close out a game in which you have a comfortable lead in the 4th Q = Pulling a Frank Vogel
Yet against Orlando in our playoff series while Hill was getting abused by Nelson, Collison had to come in and defended Nelson full court. Then against Miami, Collison was our best player and unlike Hill, was actually capable of defending Chalmers and Cole. Hill will have a good defensive outing, no doubt. But then he'll follow it up by giving up 25+ pts to his man the next game while being limited offensively to a spot up shooter. Yes, Hill outplayed Collison that game. But just because Paul George outplays LeBron in a game, doesn't make him better or equal to him. The Pacers would be in the exact same position they are currently in with Collison as their point guard. Cry foul all you want but I said the exact same garbage with Granger years ago, and guess what, we were actually BETTER without him. Very few guys in this league are irreplaceable.


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Seymour Hersh is one of America's premier investigative reporters and has uncovered some of the most important news stories of our times. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1970 for exposing the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War.
Hersh is the author of several books, most recently Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib, which was published in 2004. He writes regularly for The New Yorker on military and national security issues.
In this interview with Asia Society, Hersh discusses "embedded" reporters; the changes underway in the US military and security establishment; the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, and the implications of a possible American military strike against Iran.
Having been in the profession for as long as you have, could you comment on what is widely perceived as a relative decline in journalistic standards? To what do you attribute this alleged decline?
You're convinced I'm into self-immolation, I think; I can hardly go around denigrating my own profession in this way!
Look, I know, we've just recently come out of the elections in Baghdad where the coverage was, to put it mildly, incredibly fawning. The television coverage was beyond the pale. All the problems are suddenly resolved because everybody behaved exactly as predicted: the Kurds voted in the high percentage, the Shiites voted in a high percentage and nobody else voted. In any case, to answer your question in brief: yes, it's bad.
Do you have a take on why journalists are not as critical of the government as they once were?
They can still be very critical but I think, for one thing, this government is very good at manipulating and moving people. For example, the other night, very quietly right on the eve of the election - the document was literally dated January 30th - they put out an audit report which showed that - hold on to your hats! - $8.8 billion was missing from the Iraqi Oil for Peace accounts. So while Bremer was running the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), $8.8 billion disappeared from the known Iraqi funds. What are we talking about? And they put this out on a Sunday night; the night of the election, they announce: it's gone! There's still a lot of heat about the $1.6 billion that was squandered or can't be fully accounted for in the UN Oil-for-Food program. And here's $8.8 billion without a whimper. So, these guys are good.
The planning for the election was brilliant. They bring the television crews out there. They put them inside, they're all confined, and there are only a few. I have heard accounts from reliable sources that most of the major television networks could not go to any more than 4 precincts, 4 Shiite precincts and one Sunni precinct in a wealthy area. So what you see is not necessarily what is. I think 9/11 changed everything. I think it terrified the media as much as it terrified the soccer moms.
What in your view prompted the US government to alter the means of war reportage with embedded journalists in Iraq? Do you think that this was the natural culmination of a growing tendency since Vietnam to closely monitor the kind of information given to the public from war zones in which the US military is active?
It was a brilliant move because this way you do control the media. With embedded journalists you only see what the government wants you to see. It's very hard, anybody who has covered the Pentagon will tell you that our soldiers are very likeable and our officers are likeable when they want to be. So you get the Stockholm Syndrome. And then you got the kind of reporting you wanted when you thought you were going to have a fast, quick war. And so everybody missed an awful lot about what was going on and I thought it was a brilliant stroke of genius, absolutely brilliant. I couldn't run a news agency because I would have been hard pressed to understand why we wanted to do it. But I would have been in a distinct minority because you're giving up so much control. You're basically giving up your right to be a discriminating viewer of the whole picture. We didn't get the whole picture. But it was brilliant. The woman running the Pentagon press office at that time was Victoria Clarke, and she's had many high-power public relations jobs and she's obviously very good at what she does.
But the answer, in brief, is: No, I don't think the press should be embedded. No. I understand the security reasons, the need to protect journalists in war zones, but if part of the embedding process is that your stuff has to be reviewed by a senior officer before you file it, that's too high of a price.
But do you think that being embedded was a dramatic shift in war reportage? Or had this trend been developing, this way of monitoring information where US military were involved?
There's always some tension with controlling information. I mean there was censorship in World War II and then there were complaints during Vietnam, so there is always that tension. I just think that we shouldn't voluntarily give up something. In other words, because we had access through a military unit didn't mean that we should give up the right, that we should allow them to censor our materials and feel that they're always right.
Was there overt censorship? I don't think there was. I think everybody understood that you don't describe where you are and all but still it's a great big inhibitor. It's very hard when you're with a group of guys for two weeks or three weeks or a month before they go into combat and the third day of combat, they panic and shoot up a carload of people at an intersection. You're not going to tell that story because if you do it right, you're not going to be with that unit anymore. You're going to be a rat. You have ratted them out. So these are all very complicated matters that cut into the ability of reporters to be reporters.
As someone who has covered the US military and security apparatus for decades, could you comment on the extent to which the institutional logic of the foreign and security policy establishment has changed to reflect the new threats now confronting the US?
The big change right now is the one I've been writing about: the turf war between Rumsfeld and the CIA. So the change isn't so much in terms of the foreign policy establishment, it's the old cliché about Washington: all politics is local. I'm sure it's based on very strongly held profound views but Rumsfeld is convinced that the CIA simply isn't capable of dealing with the terrorism in the world. They're Cold War mentality, they don't get it. And so from the very beginning of 9/11, Rumsfeld has been trying to get control of covert ops and as I wrote recently in The New Yorker, he's done it.
That's one of the huge changes now: we are facing different threats, not a state or even group of states, and the agency, the CIA, hasn't done very well at coping with it; nobody has. It's a whole new ballgame really, stateless threats, and we are incapable of penetrating these kind of operations no matter how much they may crow and claim that they're going to do it and they're going to start programs to do it. We really aren't going to be ready, we have to anticipate that we're not going to know very much about what they're doing until they do it in many cases. So, it's a whole different ballgame, we can't be as preemptive as we want because we won't get the good intelligence. It's a very complicated set of new demands and new requirements and we're not coping very well with it. Rumsfeld's solution is to go beat up everybody and that doesn't work either. And overrunning the Congress and the Constitution because they're too slow isn't going to help. These guys in the Congress, they want to deliberate about what we're doing and that's just too slow for Rumsfeld. He's got to get on with it.


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Audra McDonald to Perform at AMNH's Life Without Lupus Gala 2012, 11/19
More than 700 members of New York City's philanthropic, business and health care communities will join forces at the S.L.E. Lupus Foundation Life Without Lupus Gala 2012 on Monday, November 19, 2011 at 6:30 p.m. at The American Museum of Natural History. Aptly named "Turning Lupus Research Upside Down," this year's black tie gala, hosted by Willie Geist, NBC-TV talk show host, is expected to raise over $2 million to support the most innovative research.
Noted philanthropists and LRI leaders, Fern and Lenard Tessler will be honored for their dedicated commitment to advancing lupus research for over a decade. The Tessler's are among our most active proponents, working on behalf of two women with lupus they love, their niece GillIan Kaye and close friend Carol Weisman.
Henry Hess, MD, EMD Serono (a subsidiary of Merck KGaA), will be presented with the Foundation's Scientific Leadership Award. A live auction conducted by noted auctioneer Jennifer Wright of Christie's will allow participants to support specific cutting-edge studies at many renowned institutions.
In keeping with the stature of the event, guests will be treated to a performance by Audra McDonald, 2012 Tony Award winner named Best Actress in a Musical for her starring role in Gershwin's classic Porgy and Bess. New to the lupus cause, Audra is no newcomer to the world's greatest stages, with a career spanning theatre, television, recording studios and concert halls. The evening will include a cocktail hour, dinner, and an award presentation. Governor Mario Cuomo and Mrs. Matilda Cuomo are among the many political, social and philanthropic leaders expected to attend.
The Honorable Michael R. Bloomberg serves as Honorary Dinner Chair. This year's Dinner Chairs are: Jennie & Richard DeScherer; Susan Golick & Alan Wasserman; Ronnie & Michael Kassan; Bonnie Englebardt Lautenberg & Senator Frank R. Lautenberg; Andrea & Jeff Lomasky; Lisa & Mark Neporent; Linda & Seth Plattus; Beth & Alan Waldenberg; and Carol & Michael Weisman.
American Museum of Natural History entrance is located at Central Park West at 79th Street, New York. The gala takes place on Monday, November 19, 2011, 6:30 p.m.: Cocktails, 7:30 p.m.- 10:00 p.m.: Program and Performance.
The S.L.E. Lupus Foundation is the country's preeminent organization delivering direct patient services, public education and novel research at a national level. Founded 40 years ago in New York City by lupus patients and their families as the first nonprofit to serve the lupus community, it remains the cornerstone of comprehensive care in all five boroughs in the continuous battle for a Life Without Lupus.


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IT'S time to dust off your walking boots and head for the hills to support injured service men and women.
The fourth Malvern Hills Challenge on Saturday, September 13 is a team or individual walk along the full length or half length of the stunning hills to raise money for Help for Heroes.
The full walk of 11km will start at Bromsberrow and will take around six hours to complete. The shorter 5km route, beginning at the Malvern Hills Hotel, will take between three or four hours to finish.
Although registration is at the Splash Leisure Centre car park in the centre of town, organisers will take participants to the start points by coach.
Tim Kidwell, Help for Heroes area organiser for Malvern said: "This is one more big push to complete a great year of fund raising in Malvern. What a fantastic year it has been for the weather, for Malvern and for Help for Heroes. Everyone has been so generous with their time and money. The Malvern Hills Challenge offers an ideal opportunity to round off the summer for families, for businesses, organisations and individuals to get out on the hills for an enjoyable and rewarding experience, as well as raising money for such a great cause."
People can enter as individuals or form a team. Mr Kidwell is also appealing for marshals, organisers or guides and specialist helpers such as first aiders to help at the event.
"I have had fantastic help from Dave Lewis who is currently serving with the RAF at Brize Norton and has organised the previous Malvern Hills challenge events," he added. "Gordon Waddell is a new volunteer and is a retired gunner and he has put together an excellent event information booklet. At the end of the challenge everyone will be able to enjoy a fete, barbeque and celebrations at the Rosebank Gardens finish and Mount Pleasant Hotel with medals for all participants."
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The Support Report1 Aug, 2008 By: Doug McPherson Response
Experts in teleservices, fulfillment and shipping, and payment processing explain what DR marketers need to know to raise profits, lower headaches and ... much more.
The way Matt Fisher sees it, a trend is brewing. A trend that, if ignored, might kill off some companies in the support services industry — a trend that may very well revolutionize support for direct response.
"I'm definitely seeing a trend that's starting to take hold in the world of DR — a lot of DR companies are moving to a lifetime value," says Fisher, vice president and general manager of DR at LiveOps, a call center headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif.
Lifetime value (LV as some call it) has been defined as the total dollar value of your average customer over the entire period that they're likely to buy from you. Fisher and other analysts say the DR companies that focus on the long-term relationship with customers will be the ones that thrive in the future.
And Fisher believes support services companies can and are playing a larger role in helping DR companies achieve more lifetime customers. "Continuity is becoming more and more important and many DR leaders are realizing that call centers are the point of first touch with the customer," Fisher says. "So it's key for those in support services to understand the goals and needs of the customer in that first acquisition so that they keep coming back to buy again."
Vicky Walz, vice president of client services for Convergys Corp., a teleservices and relationship management company in Cincinnati, says as consumers become more savvy and sophisticated, DR marketers need to appeal to the customer's desire for value, especially during an uncertain economy.
"The lifetime value of a customer should be considered with the offers and upsells, It may be better for a marketer to limit the number of upsells during the first interaction, and build a loyalty program that shares future upsells with that consumer," Walz contends. "The key is to test the tipping point — too many upsells can turn a would-be lifetime customer into a consumer who tunes out."
And so the key question support services folks must consider for their DR customers is this: what's going to drive their long-term success?
It's a question teleservices, packaging and shipping, fulfillment and payment processing pros are now turning their attention to with a renewed vigor.
Teleservices Teams With Technology
In teleservices, technology continues to play an increasing role in helping DR companies succeed. Specifically, analysts say "software as a service" (SaaS), which delivers software over the Internet, is becoming increasingly popular because it simplifies deployment and reduces customer acquisition costs; it also allows developers to support many customers with a single version of a product.
What's more, SaaS eliminates the need to install and run applications on the customer's computer, and that means the customer doesn't have to worry about software maintenance, ongoing operation or support. Gartner Consulting, a research company in Stamford, Conn., predicts that by 2013, at least 75 percent of customer call centers will use a form of SaaS in their contact centers.
Fisher says LiveOps' virtual call center, which includes more than 20,000 commissioned independent home agents, leverages the Internet to better manage and operate call centers. "In DR, it's all about spikes and having an agent there at the right time," Fisher says. "Doing things this way gives us the ability to select better agents and staff according to each infomercial. Matching agents with products helps agents get a better feel and understanding of the product."
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I"m not sure about "initimidate." I said he's in his head. Don't forget he and DWade's little tirade to the officials at halftime last year.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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I"m not sure about "initimidate." I said he's in his head. Don't forget he and DWade's little tirade to the officials at halftime last year.
"Look, it's up to me to put a team around ... Lance right now." Kevin Pritchard press conference
Perhaps Herb would consider paying some tax if the Pacers have an impressive year this year? At some point championship teams have to go into the tax no?
"We've got to be very clear about this. We don't want our players hanging around with murderers," said Larry Bird, Pacers president.
My guess is Larry has promised that they won't let him leave and will give him the money he wants, not because of a discount. I would be more worried if the Knicks or Brooklyn could afford him.
Maybe you need to adjust your numbers for your argument.
I can possibly agree with what you are saying if the Pacers were offering a 4 year / $24 mil contract and some other Team was offering a 4 year / $26 mil contract ( a difference of leaving $2 mil on the table ).....but if the offer was the same # of years but a difference of $6 mil....I can see arguments that Lance wouldn't leave $6 mil on the table and reluctantly bolt.
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Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.
Lance doing damage last night.
@WhatTheFFacts: Studies show that sarcasm enhances the ability of the human mind to solve complex problems!
Against Orlando
@WhatTheFFacts: Studies show that sarcasm enhances the ability of the human mind to solve complex problems!
Maybe basketball, but he's not better than Lionel Messi.
"And Tottenham do not know what hit them...well I can tell you, it's Theo Walcott!"
"And it's Tony Adams put through by Steve Bould, WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT?! That...sums it all up."
How much are we gonna have to pay him? After he makes the all-star team this year, his price will raise significantly. He will easily be more expensive than G Hill, and probably be worth close to Hibbert money
Being unable to close out a game in which you have a comfortable lead in the 4th Q = Pulling a Frank Vogel
In that Orlando video, look at how Lance does a good job of getting West and Hibbert the ball in scoring position. He hit Scola for a nice J too. Also, look at 1:28 when West hits him for that layup while he's cutting. Him and West seem to have good chemistry.
Outside of defense, rebounding, and improved scoring, these are the sorts of positive things that Lance offers to the starting unit. He's a great facilitator right now.
@ScottAgness: Averaging 19ppg through 3 games, Stephenson said he isn't thinking about free agency. "I'm staying with the Pacers." http://t.co/X1ZUpAUv2d
@WhatTheFFacts: Studies show that sarcasm enhances the ability of the human mind to solve complex problems!
Lance will be a restricted FA, correct? Teams can go over the Cap to keep a RFA. They will most likely let Lance sign an offer(like Roy did) then match it. That may very well spell the end of the Granger Era as well as making us take a close look at every other contract we have. If!!! Lance continues to grow at the rate we seem to be seeing this year, we have a Durant, Westbrook duo on our hands!?
My guess is he would get $6m a year max, which we could match I believe. If not we'll just trade Copeland for a 2nd rounder and cash.
Is there a max amount his is allowed to make because he was a 2nd rounder? I seem to remember Linn had some sort of contract ceiling that the knicks couldn't match and thats how Houston landed him.
Many of you are speculating 6 million a year. But honestly he is already a better scorer than Hill. He is gonna get close to a 9-11 million per year contract. I'm not sure how the Pacers will be able to keep him. He is proving to be the 2nd best player on the team right now. Pacers might have to trade Hill on draft night. Which would really suck.... But who would you keep going forward? Hill or Lance? I don't see Hill really improving much beyond who his is. He will get wiser and smarter, but he isn't going to get much better. This team pretty much just needs a defender at the PG spot. Hill is a good defender, but one could be had at a much cheaper contract going forward. I hate to say that cause being an IUPUI Alum, I love George Hill
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You can't get champagne from a garden hose.
So you are theorizing a lineup of him Sloan/Stephenson/George/West/Hibbert?
I dunno, it could be Watson as the starter, he is a solid defender and can hit the spot up 3.
You can't get champagne from a garden hose.
Thus the issue with paying an average point guard $8mil per. Hill's horrid contract could cost us dearly, if not dealt.
The Linn/Asik situation doesn't apply here. In their case, the teams did not have Bird Rights to them. The Pacers do have Bird Rights.
The Max amount of money Lance can earn is the same as every other 4th year player. 25% of the cap, Hibbert money, unless he qualifies under the Rose Rule for 30%. If Lance continues to shoot 65% from 3, he has a chance to make that kind of jack, but it is unlikely he qualifies otherwise.
Unless Lance averages 20+, he will not get paid more than Monta Ellis did this offseason.
I genuinely believe Lance want's to be a Pacer for life. He's just like JR in a sense that they are Loyal and they have a massive love for the game. JR left 10+ Million on the table to re-sign with NY so it's been reported. Of course money will be an issue, But If it were up to Lance he would figure out a way to stay in IND. But of course his family, Agent and friends will certainly have a say in this. Lance want's to be in IND, Because it represents what he has a accomplished. Ever since HS he was given a tittle of a chosen elite few. He was in the spotlight in one of the biggest cities in the world(NY). But yet he was a second round draft pick who came into IND, Believing still he was the best player on the court..
The reality that nothing would be handed to him hadn't set in yet for him.
If some of you remember earlier that year, He rubbed some veterans the wrong way, Danny, Foster and Mike IIRC. Then the DNP's started racking up, But he never once complained and cheered on. He never spoke negative on anyone and kept his image clean after an decedent with his pregnant GF. So after his rookie year he reconstructed himself, Staying to workout in INDIANA and staying away from friends in NY.. He's the definition of Blue collar.. Boy has Lance come a long way.
I an disgusted by those type of comments.. Look at Hills production from last year and compare to Mike Conley, Hill is better across the board
minus Assist and Steals.. Hill is better at everything else and yet we have guys here, Who will do anything for Conley..
If Lance continues at this pace then Danny is gone. Could see him getting 8-10mil easy. Maybe even more since he will be on the open market. Derozan got 4/10 as a contract extension for a similar level of play.
I've gone through this before, but there are roughly 10-15 point/combo guards of similar or superior ability to Hill making less than $8mil per. And the fact you had to throw in "not on his rookie contract" proves my point. Players can come into this league and instantly make an impact as a point guard for 1/4 the price. It's the deepest position in the league for a reason.
And what disgusts me more than anything, is the person who wants to come on here and use nothing but "stats" as opposed to basketball understanding as their argument. Every team in the league would take Conley over Hill as their starting point guard because he's superior in nearly every facet that the point guard position demands. He's arguably the top defensive point guard in the league, whereas Hill gets torched by any competent player opposite of him. Conley also sets up his teammates and places them in a position to score far better than Hill, who struggles to even make the entry pass into our big men, thus the reason we turned to George and Stephenson to feed the post. Conley is also the superior attacker of the rim and finisher. Hill might be a better midrange shooter, but when you are afraid to even attempt to shoot half the time, should that really be considered?
Hill doesn't struggle to make an entry pass or even handle the ball against pressure? Hill doesn't look to get the ball in George or Lance's hands the moment he crosses half court? Hill isn't constantly called out for lacking aggression as a shooter/scorer? Wonder if you even watch the Pacers play.


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U.S. forests and farmlands play key roles for our communities and for wildlife - as much as 80 percent of American wildlife depends on the health of our forests. In addition to providing habitat for our nation's fish and wildlife, forests and farmlands are critical for protecting our water resources and helping address global warming.
NWF works to conserve forests and farmlands and promote effective management of these lands to help solve global warming while also meeting our food, fuel, and animal needs. In particular, we work in the following areas:
The U.S. has a rich forest heritage containing over a dozen major forest ecosystems that provide a tremendous diversity of wildlife habitat. NWF works to promote sustainable use of our nation's public and private forest lands, and to elevate their critical role in fighting climate change both nationally and internationally.
Domestically, nearly 902 million acres--or a little more than 50 percent of the lower 48 United States--are currently managed as cropland, pastureland, or rangeland. These working lands must provide critical habitat for our nation's fish and wildlife, protect our water resources, and help mitigate global warming, while also meeting demands for food, fiber, fuel and animal feed. In addition to working on the intersection between farming practices and global warming, NWF has a robust program focused on farmland conservation and habitat protection.
Biofuels and biomass energy produced by plants directly from the sun's energy can be used to produce some of our electricity and liquid fuels, and should be part of the solution to global warming pollution. NWF is working to ensure that sustainable land use, carbon benefits, and environmental protections are in place so that the next generation of biofuels and biomass energy is done right.
The Farm Bill is among the largest sources of conservation funding in the federal government. NWF works to ensure that worthy Farm Bill conservation programs are authorized at appropriate levels, structured to achieve maximum wildlife and environmental benefits, and fully funded during the annual appropriations process.
NEW! NWF report hopes to inform and inspire rural America about the burgeoning growth in the use of cover crops and the opportunities for rural entrepreneurs to build new small businesses.
Proceedings of the second biennial conference on the conservation of America's grasslands, August 12-14, 2013. Manhattan, KS. Published March 2014 by NWF and Kansas State University.
2013 BMGs to achieve sustainability of wildlife resources within a perennial herbaceous biomass production and harvest system in the PPR and Northern Great Plains.
2013 study shows implications for wildlife habitat and biodiversity.
2013 NWF report provides 6 examples of successful cover crop outreach efforts in Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Iowa, and Maryland.
2013 NWF report finds that less than 2% of cropland in the Mississippi River Basin is planted to cover crops.
In June of 2012, NWF gathered approximately 30 stakeholders in Minneapolis, Minnesota to discuss opportunities to increase cover crop adoption. The roadmap is a collaboration on the part of these stakeholders to be used as a guide in taking next steps to promote this future-friendly farming practice.
NWF report on the potential for bioenergy crops to become invasive and damage native ecosystems.
A study of southeastern forests in the U.S. finds that in the long run, burning wood instead of fossil fuels to make electricity can reduce heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but not soon enough to prevent worsening the conditions leading to global climate change.
NWF report calls for strong agriculture and energy policies that create jobs, curb global warming, pollution, enhance national security, protect wildlife and uphold soil and water quality.
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Miggy continues work with early batting practice
DETROIT -- Miguel Cabrera was among the Tigers hitters taking early batting practice Monday afternoon, trying to get his swing down with more repetitions. He has made progress with it over the past week, hitting more line drives to center and right field, but has struggled to translate it into hits.
Monday's series opener against the White Sox brought better swings, but similar fortunes. He had a pair of flyouts to the deeper parts of center and right field his first two times up before grounding out up the middle.
"His first two at-bats were 800 feet worth of outs," manager Brad Ausmus said. "In a lot of ballparks, that's two home runs. He struck those balls well and really hit the ball up the middle well, it's just the second baseman was shifted over. If we're playing in a lot of parks, he's 3-for-3 with two homers right there.
"Those are the best swings I've seen the last few games from him."
Cabrera's 0-for-4 game dropped his batting average to .206 after going 1-for-11 with three walks and four strikeouts during the three-game series against the Angels. He has had worse April slumps, including an 0-for-21 stretch two seasons ago, but mitigated the impact by heating up immediately afterward.
Both Cabrera and Ausmus have said Cabrera physically is all right after coming off core muscle repair surgery last fall.
"I don't want to say 'I believe' -- I know Miggy's going to be fine," Ausmus said.
Cabrera has hit the White Sox well the past three seasons after struggling against them for the first three years of his Tigers tenure.
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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA--(Marketwired - April 03, 2013) - Prana Biotechnology (NASDAQ: PRAN) (ASX: PBT) today reported on the progress of its lead development asset PBT2 in Phase II trials for Huntington disease and Alzheimer's disease. Across the two trials approximately 37% have been dosed to 6 months or longer, twice the duration of the previous Phase II Alzheimer's trial.(1,2) PBT2 has been well tolerated and both trials are on schedule with very pleasing retention rates and compliance. Each Independent Data Safety Monitoring Board for the two trials met at the end of March and recommended that each trial continue as planned without any protocol changes.
Prana's PBT2 represents a novel and differentiated therapeutic action in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases based on its specialized ability to prevent the toxic relationship between disease proteins and biological metals in the brain which otherwise can lead to protein amyloid formation. Moreover, the redistribution of such metals by PBT2 promotes neurotransmission and neuronal function.
Alzheimer's disease Trial Update - the "IMAGINE" trial
In an earlier 12 week trial PBT2 both significantly changed amyloid levels in spinal fluid and improved the cognition of patients with Alzheimer's disease.(1,2) The IMAGINE trial, with 12 months of treatment, aims to establish PBT2 as a safe and effective treatment for Alzheimer's disease. The following provides an update on the trial:
The randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled trial has enrolled 41 patients with prodromal or mild Alzheimer's disease in five sites in Melbourne, Australia. Brain Imaging is being used to measure PBT2's effect on amyloid deposits in the brain (using PiB-PET scanning) and effects on increasing brain activity (FDG PET). Cognition effects are being measured by the Neuropsychological Test Battery (NTB).
The trial has received funding from the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF).
Howard Fillit, MD, the ADDF's Executive Director commented, "PBT2 stands out as one of the few orally available agents with clinical trial evidence of cognitive benefit for Alzheimer's patients. Success in this trial will demonstrate target engagement by PBT2 in the brain of people with Alzheimer's disease, and accelerate the clinical development of PBT2 to patients."
The protocol for the IMAGINE trial is available by clicking here.
Huntington Disease Trial Update - the "Reach2HD" trial
The Reach2HD trial is a 6 month trial in 109 patients with early to mid-stage Huntington disease. The trial is being conducted across sites in the USA and Australia. The following provides an update on the trial:
Only one drug is marketed for Huntington disease and that is only for the relief of the severe motor or chorea symptoms. There are no approved treatments for the significant cognitive and behavioural components of the disease, which typically manifest before motor problems.
The protocol and site updates for the Reach2HD trial can be accessed by clicking here.
(1.) Lannfelt et al. Lancet Neurology (2008) vol. 7, pp. 779-86;
(2.) Lannfelt et al. Erratum: Lancet Neurology (2009) vol. 8, pp. 981.
About Prana Biotechnology Limited
Prana Biotechnology was established to commercialize research into age-related neurodegenerative disorders. The Company was incorporated in 1997 and listed on the Australian Securities Exchange in March 2000 and listed on NASDAQ in September 2002. Researchers at prominent international institutions including The University of Melbourne, The Mental Health Research Institute (Melbourne) and Massachusetts General Hospital, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, contributed to the discovery of Prana's technology.
For further information please visit the Company's web site at www.pranabio.com.
About Huntington disease
Huntington disease is a complex and severely debilitating genetic, neurodegenerative disease, for which there is no cure. The disease often affects young adults and, whilst associated with severe physical movement symptoms, progressively impacts the mind and emotions as well. The disease causes incapacitation and death about 15-25 years after onset. The disease affects 30,000 people in the US and about 70,000 worldwide. There are no drugs in development that have established clinical evidence for treating cognitive decline.
About the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation
The Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) is the only non-profit organization whose sole mission is to accelerate the discovery and development of drugs to prevent, treat and cure Alzheimer's disease, related dementias and cognitive aging. Since 1998, the ADDF has granted more than $50 million to fund over 325 Alzheimer's drug discovery programs in academic centers and biotechnology companies in 18 countries. For more information about the Foundation, please visit www.AlzDiscovery.org.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The Company has tried to identify such forward-looking statements by use of such words as "expects," "intends," "hopes," "anticipates," "believes," "could," "may," "evidences" and "estimates," and other similar expressions, but these words are not the exclusive means of identifying such statements. Such statements include, but are not limited to any statements relating to the Company's drug development program, including, but not limited to the initiation, progress and outcomes of clinical trials of the Company's drug development program, including, but not limited to, PBT2, and any other statements that are not historical facts. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, those risks and uncertainties relating to the difficulties or delays in financing, development, testing, regulatory approval, production and marketing of the Company's drug components, including, but not limited to, PBT2, the ability of the Company to procure additional future sources of financing, unexpected adverse side effects or inadequate therapeutic efficacy of the Company's drug compounds, including, but not limited to, PBT2, that could slow or prevent products coming to market, the uncertainty of patent protection for the Company's intellectual property or trade secrets, including, but not limited to, the intellectual property relating to PBT2, and other risks detailed from time to time in the filings the Company makes with Securities and Exchange Commission including its annual reports on Form 20-F and its reports on Form 6-K. Such statements are based on management's current expectations, but actual results may differ materially due to various factions including those risks and uncertainties mentioned or referred to in this press release. Accordingly, you should not rely on those forward-looking statements as a prediction of actual future results.


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We have been combing the market for companies and stocks that will benefit from the coming housing recovery and which have not yet had strong rallies in the past year. In that time, most of the major homebuilders, such as DR Horton (DHI) and KB Home (KBH), have seen share-price recoveries of 50% to 100% on a rebounding housing market. Home Depot (HD) and Lowe's (LOW) have also seen large upward movements over the past year.
After running our sector and statistical screening processes, we tried to focus on shareholder-oriented companies that have strong management teams. The one housing-related name that potentially looked most interesting was Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY). The stock sells at a modest 11.1x 2013's expected earnings of $5.23. The shares are flat for the year, compared with a red-hot housing-related group.
There is a lot to like about Bed Bath, such as its strong business franchise, enviable long-term double-digit earnings growth track record, strong management and merchandising teams, robust margin structure with 40% gross margins, 14% net margins, 20%-plus return on equity and no debt. The company has also been shareholder oriented and has accelerated its earnings growth over the years through a share-buyback program. Furthermore, it seems like the company should be a big beneficiary of an improving housing market. It will likely have a strong economic tailwind.
These significant positives are largely offset by our nagging concerns that the company will face a number of competitive threats and troublesome issues in the upcoming years. In the past year, the stock has not recovered on the better housing-related news. Home Depot and Lowe's now trade at 17x to 19x earnings. Why shouldn't Bed Bath trade at a comparable multiple? While Bed Bath has always outperformed the housing-related industries and traded at a premium multiple to the group, it is now trading at a significant discount to the sector and to the overall market at 11.1x 2013's earnings.
Upon deeper analysis, we are beginning to see that the franchise may be undergoing significant secular changes. For one, overall organic growth is slowing to 2% to 3%, compared with its historical 10%-plus levels. In addition, margins are beginning to contract because of increased price and promotional competition. Over the past four quarters, gross margins contracted 200 basis points because of increased competition from Amazon (AMZN), Macy's (M), Target (TGT) and Kohl's (KSS).
One particular area of worry is that the growing Amazon product line overlaps with Bed Bath's. Most calculations show the product overlaps at greater than 30% and growing. Amazon is winning these customers with lower price points. Single-serve coffee cups have been the biggest disappointment to Bed Bath over the past year as customers buy coffee much cheaper online.
Management is taking this increased threat very seriously and aggressively investing in new store concepts such as World Markets and Cost Plus, expanding its Internet presence and returning money to shareholders via buybacks to re-accelerate growth.
While we expect these actions to add to shareholder value over time, we remain uncomfortable with these emerging trends. Once a retailer is outflanked, its margins begin to contract, and in many cases this results in a P/E multiple contraction, slower earnings growth, a reformulation of its store growth strategy and an underperforming stock price. Many of these negatives often feed upon themselves.
There is actually a reasonable likelihood that the company could be entering a whole new era in which more and more of Bed Bath's customers will prefer to buy their merchandise online. As a brick-and-mortar-focused organization, Bed Bath might not be able to adjust quickly enough to the new realities. Over time, we have seen many retailers falter as they have tried to transition from pure brick-and-mortar organizations to a bricks-and-clicks business model.
The company might end up going down a similar path that resulted in major declines in such well-regarded retailers as Best Buy (BBY) in electronics, and Staples (SPLS) in office products. Because of these shifting tides, we do not yet have the conviction to invest in BBBY shares, even as the housing market recovery begins to pick up steam.


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A drop in corn prices may be good news for livestock producers, but it could mean bad news for farmland prices, according to a Bloomberg report.
"I can see the fear in farmers' eyes when they think of all the moving pieces around the world gutting the value of next year's crop," said David Kohl, agricultural economist and president of consulting firm AgriVisions, who last week spoke at several farming conferences in northern Nebraska. "Most of them know the boom in corn prices and farmland prices is coming to a screeching halt."
Farmland prices have soared by an average of 72 percent over the last three years, but experts warn that the value of the $2.5 trillion of U.S. farmland could plummet by as much as 30 percent within the next three years as the corn rush ends.
"The increase in land prices was caused by the increase in corn prices," Gary Ash, chief executive officer for 1st Farm Credit Services in Normal, Ill., told Bloomberg. "The reverse is going to be true. The drop in corn is going to result in a drop in land value."
Such a drop ignites fears of the last time an agricultural land-price bubble burst in the 1980s when prices fell 27 percent within four years after a peak in 1982. Some areas in the Midwest saw prices drop by more than 50 percent.
Read, "Corn Plummeting Spurs Talk of '80s U.S. Farmland Bust: Mortgages."
Not everyone is convinced farmers should expect a hard landing when the farmland price bubble finally bursts. Terry Kastens, agricultural economist emeritus at Kansas State University, explained in an article here that while prices may tumble, they will not necessarily crash.
Still, according to Reuters, bankers warn farmers that 2014 may be the year to "sober up" from the farmland boom that has lasted for more than six years.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - EverBank Field was the site of an "off-the-field" win Tuesday as it hosted the 18th annual Blood Alliance blood drive.
Organizers were hoping to break last year's donation record.
Last year, more than 1,000 people showed up to give a pint of blood, which is just about the amount inside of an average water bottle.
But this year, organizers are counting on more than 1,500 donors to show up for one of the most productive blood drives in the state.
This is the 18th year the Blood Alliance has teamed up with the Jags.
Anyone wanting to donate blood can go to the West Touchdown Club from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday.
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Sonny Landreth -- "Mississippi Blues"
Singer, Songwriter and Louisiana Slide Guitar Phenom Sonny Landreth -- Original Roots Rock Tinged with the Blues and New Orleans Soul
No slide guitarist since Ry Cooder has made his strings shimmer and soar, growl and cry the way Sonny Landreth does. Though his sideman credits extend from a zydeco apprenticeship with Clifton Chenier through his breakthrough association with John Hiatt, Landreth finds a unique musical niche on his own recordings, combining the literacy of a Southern storyteller with the chops of a guitar hero. The 20 track compilation available for the first time on CD, features material recorded in the mid-70's by a 22-year old Landreth on guitar, mandolin, piano and occasional vocals. These early recordings comprise the longlost album of a slide guitar king.
Street Date: 01/19/2010 -- Preorder Mississippi Blues at Amazon.com
I Know You Rider
Prodigal Son
Country Blues
Don't Cry For Me
M'sippi Blues
Lady Come Lately
She Left Me A Mule
Forever Lillie Mae
That's The Way It's Gonna Be
Good Enough For Me
Rise Shining
Baby Ain't That Love
Ain't Gonna Worry
Lazy Boy
Only One
Think It Over (Lazy Boy)
You're Why I'm So Lonely
Lookin' For A Good Time
Lazy Boy (Reprise)