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Waning pertussis immunity in England/Wales, and bad reporting in Australia
A new study has come out from the UK, assessing the case for the National Health Service adding an adolescent booster of the pertussis vaccine to the schedule. I'm sure many of us in countries such as Australia, New Zealand, … Continue reading
The Anti-Vaccination Network's talk at the Healthy Lifestyle Expo
Yes, She Actually Said That On the 25th of May 2014, the spokesperson for the Australian Vaccination Skeptics Network (AVSN, formerly the Australian Vaccination Network), Meryl Dorey presented a talk, Vaccinations – Do They Really Save Lives? at the Healthy Lifestyle … Continue reading
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Whooping cough bacterium loses expression of a key vaccine target
This post is a discussion of the April 2014 study showing Australian pertussis bacteria to be losing expression of the vaccine target pertactin. The post describing the evidence that the pertussis vaccine does not increase susceptibility to parapertussis is here. … Continue reading
'Vaccine resistant' pertussis – in a way, yes. In a more accurate way, no.
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The whooping cough vaccine – doesn't increase your odds of getting any kind of whooping cough
The Bordetella species of bacteria Bordetella pertussis and Bordetella parapertussis cause whooping cough in humans. B. pertussis – the bigger cousin – produces more severe symptoms more frequently, and for longer. In fact, while pertussis infection has an estimated 1/125 fatality rate in infants … Continue reading
Whooping cough vaccination, pertussis and parapertussis: forty times more likely to be misunderstood?
Two Bordetella species of bacteria regularly cause the disease known as whooping cough in humans, Bordetella pertussis and Bordetella parapertussis. Of the two, B. pertussis causes much more severe disease, with a rate of about 1 fatality per 125 cases … Continue reading
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Hepatitis B vaccine: Preventing cancer, except for when it's not actually given…
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The great huazontle disaster
Last week, while grocery shopping at the Superama in Polanco, I got seduced by a big bunch of huazontle. It sat in the herb section, towering over the epazote and parsley like emerald-green heather. (Huazontle, pronounded "wan-ZONE-tlay," is a tall, wild green native to Mexico. People here remove the rough stems, cover the buds with cheese and eat them.) I had a vague recollection of trying huazontle once, and an even vaguer recollection that I didn't like it. But -- this plant was so pretty. I may not have liked it before, but that was when other people had cooked it. In my own kitchen, with my All Clad cookware and pantry full of vinegars and oils, I could whip the huazontle into submission and make it taste the way I liked. I decided to buy a bunch, either braise it or sauté it, and serve it with butternut squash and roasted chicken. Lola happened to be over that afternoon. She gave me a strange look when I told her I'd be sautéing the huazontle. "You're not going to boil it? Or, you know, people also serve it with cheese. Es muy rico." I said no. I didn't want to cover it with cheese. I wanted to taste the huazontle. Even though I didn't exactly remember what it tasted like. And um… I didn't plan to taste it until after I was done cooking. (You may be realizing, as I am now, that I may have been slightly more in love with looking at the huazontle than actually eating it.) The next day, I invited Alice for lunch. A few hours before she was scheduled to show up, I cut the butternut squash into cubes, and tossed them with olive oil and salt. I scooped them into a roasting pan and rested the chicken pieces on top. Something nagged at me -- was I supposed to do something else here? -- but I ignored the feeling and set my timer for 45 minutes. When the chicken was done, I realized my error: I'd forgotten to turn the squash halfway through its cooking. The bottom sides were dark-brown and nearly burned. Crap! Wait, I told myself. This is okay. I'll just deglaze the pan with a little beer and add the huazontle. I picked up my big bowl containing about 6 cups worth (I measured) of huazontle, and tossed it in with the squash. I cooked everything a bit, and fished out a piece of huazontle with my wooden spoon. I bit into it… and nearly choked. This stuff was bitter. Not broccoli rabe bitter, or even arugula bitter. Bitter like a fresh dandelion, pulled from the backyard. Bitter like all those weeds your mom made you pull as a kid. (Imagine stuffing them in your mouth.) Plus it gave me a weird heat sensation in the back of my throat, like a chili pepper. I took that as a sign that human beings were not meant to eat this in its natural state. Thinking quickly, I tried to remove all the huazontle from the pan. But some of the leaves were too small to fish out. They remained with the squash, like a stealth pesticide. I tasted again. The whole thing tasted like one huge weed. Feeling anxious and a teensy bit hysterical -- Alice was going to be at my house in 30 minutes! -- I decided to blanch the huazontle (blanching would keep its pretty color) and mask the taste of the butternut squash with a large sweet potato. I zapped the potato in the microwave, and smashed it in with the butternut squash. Tasted… too bland. Maybe a little crema and milk. And salt. After mixing, this looked kinda like vomit. But I'd gone too far to turn back. I placed a little bit on my spoon, and swallowed. It was salty and horrible. Just. Really. HORRIBLE. Meanwhile, my huazontle was bubbling over in its boiling water bath. I used a set of bamboo tongs to remove the weeds to a bowl of ice water and -- SNAP. The tongs broke. I started laughing. Half hysterically. At that moment, I decided we'd eat out for lunch, and I rushed to clean up my sweet potato-butternut squash-beer-crema disaster before Alice rang the bell. I'd managed to quaff a few sips of the extra beer, too, with sweat running down my temples, when my buzzer rang. "We can't eat here," I announced to Alice, when I let her in downstairs. "The whole thing was a disaster." That's not entirely true. The chicken turned out fine. Now, four days later, I am not letting the huazontle win. I'm braising the rest of my greens, dammit. I will squeeze every last ounce of bitterness out of them by cooking them over a gentle heat, for three hours. Maybe in white wine and garlic. Or maybe it was the smaller, thinner stems that contained all the bitterness, and if I just braised the buds, I'd be fine. If any of you have any suggestions on how to make a bitter green less bitter, I am listening with an open and less-shallow heart. I promise not to covet a vegetable's looks anymore, before I taste it. And I promise not to assume I can do anything better than all the Mexican cooks in this country, who have been eating huazontle for hundreds of years. UPDATE: Guess what else comes from the huazontle family? Quinoa, according to the Spanish-language Wikipedia entry. My quest to make huazontle palatable just got that much stronger.

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11-11-02, 11:46 #1Registered User
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Unanswered: Import Excel spreadsheet into table
I am trying to import a spreadsheet in excel into an existing table in my DB. Or into a new table. I keep getting a generic error msg stating there was an error and it couldn't import..no specific reason though.
I have named the excel fields exactly as the DB fields. I have two copies..one with underscores (i.e. Provider_Name) and one without.
I have kept the excel file name the same as the DB name and I have renamed the excel spreadsheet. I have tried renaming the DB table aswell. Nothing seems to work.
Is there something I am missing?
*I am not familiar with VB..so any answers will have to be in simple terms.
Thanks in advance.
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1) Are you trying to import the data into Access using File/Get External Data/Import from within Access or are you trying to Export data from Excel using Data/Convert to MS Access?
2) Does the data you're trying to convert contain dates? I often experience conversion problems between Access and Excel because of date format problems.
Also check for a table named <<your_table_name>>$_ImportErrors. This table should tell you record numbers and field names that are causing the error(s).Regards,
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Re: Import Excel spreadsheet into table
Hello there,
I have run into a similar problem and think I have found a fix. The problem we have is (I think) related to having Access XP and 97 installed on the same machine. Basically one of the DLLs wasn't registered to the newest version.
This Microsoft article helped me:
Here's what I ended up typing in a run box to fix the issue (we install XP in a separate directory from 97, hence the \Microsoft Office XP\):
regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office XP\Office10\Accwiz.dll"
Hope this helps - if you're still facing the same problem.
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Additional thought... the import into Access makes assumptions about data types.. for example, if the other field you are trying to import is a Provider Number, and your existing table has this as a data type of text, then you could get an import error as Access tries to import it as a number.
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I had a similar problem with importing from excel. My problem arose from access interpeting the import data as a number and trying to import it a text field.
Had a field called "Item ID", and the data type is "text" in access. But when importing from excel, access interpet the incoming "Item ID" data as numbers and causing import error.
Got around the misinterpeting of the data type by creating a "data definition" row just below the data headings. See attachement
If anyone have a more elegant solution, please let me know


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A big thanks to everyone that came out, residents and visitors alike, for the Blue Island Christmas Light Parade on Saturday, December 3rd. We think it was one of the best yet, with 60 entries, thousands of spectators and a very busy Uptown!
We'd like to give a special thanks to our parade committee: Ald. Tom Hawley, Jerry and Lori Campione, Raeann Zylman, Betty Harmeyer, Christy Hawley, Chamber Director Greg Lochow, Tom and Sandy Miller, Tom Mantel Library Director Colleen Waltman, Jan Ostling, Ald. Leticia Vieyra. And thanks to Blue Island Public Works, Police and Fire for a safe and festive day!
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New Mexico's women's basketball team attracted a school-record 177,477 fans in 16 home games this season for an average of 11,092 per game, fourth best in the nation behind Tennessee, Connecticut and Texas Tech. New Mexico defeated Miami (Fla.) and Mississippi State on its home floor in its first two games of the NCAA tournament's West Regional. The Lobos will host a Sweet 16 game Saturday.
Jake Schoellkopf/AP ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Eight years ago, Don Flanagan took over a basketball program with a long history of failure and a short list of fans.
The New Mexico women had lost 96 games in four seasons and rarely drew more than a couple of hundred people for home games. The school sold eight season tickets the year before Flanagan was hired - and four of those belonged to the school's president.
In his first meeting with the media in 1995, Flanagan made this prediction: "Someday, there's going to be 10,000 fans in here to see a women's game."
"I thought, 'That's a long ways off,'" Flanagan said.
It turned out to be sooner than he figured.
The Lobo women attracted a school record 177,477 fans for 16 home games this season, which averaged out to 11,092 a game, fourth best in the nation behind Tennessee, Connecticut and Texas Tech.
They sold out The Pit (18,018) when they played UNLV last month and drew 17,578 for the regular-season finale against Brigham Young. New Mexico drew more fans this season than the other seven Mountain West Conference teams combined.
"I'm not sure that any program has come from as little fan support as we had to as much fan support as we have in such a short period of time," Flanagan said. "The exception maybe is UConn, and they did it with national championships."
The explosion in fan support - season ticket sales this year totaled just over 7,100 - isn't the only gauge of how far the Lobos have come.
Flanagan expects the program's gross revenues this season to be close to $1 million, compared with the $4,000 it earned the season before he took over.
"I bet you now they make more than $4,000 at the snack bar before halftime," Flanagan said.
While the men had their first losing season in 20 years, the women won two games in the Mountain West Conference tournament and have won their first two "home" games in the NCAA tournament. The Lobos have advanced to the NCAAs three times in the last six years.
They beat No. 5 Texas in Albuquerque in December and went 15-1 at home, losing only to No. 6 Louisiana Tech. Most women's teams aren't used to playing before large crowds, and the Lobos have used that to build a 111-24 record in The Pit under Flanagan.
"There's very few places where you have to prepare to take the crowd out of a game," said Louisiana Tech coach Kurt Budke after his team's 67-54 win here in December. "This is an unbelievable atmosphere."
Senior forward Chelsea Grear didn't need to see what a packed Pit looked like when she signed with New Mexico during football season in fall 1998. Just walking into the empty arena was enough.
"There's something you feel when you walk down that ramp," she said. "You get that aura of electricity, even when the fans aren't there."
That kind of atmosphere seemed unfathomable when the women were going 12-96 from 1991 through 1995 under former coach Maureen Eckroth.
The program's savior, it turned out, was right across town.
Flanagan had built a girls basketball dynasty at Albuquerque's Eldorado High School. In 16 seasons, his teams were 401-13, won 11 state championships and had winning streaks of 77, 74, 69, 67 and 60 games.
"I'd go to women's games and thought, 'New Mexico is such a basketball state, there's no reason why the women's program can't attract a lot of support.' I didn't understand why it wasn't happening," he said.
In his first season at UNM, Flanagan worked as hard at recruiting fans as he did players.
"I gave free tickets to the Girl Scouts and Brownies," he said. "We'd have little girls' basketball games at halftime - anything we could do to get little girls to come see the Lady Lobos play."
That meant the parents had to tag along. Pretty soon, the whole family was hooked.
Early on, Flanagan would send his players into the stands after a game to thank the fans for turning out. "I don't do that anymore," he said, "because the last time I did, one kid didn't come back for half an hour. She was up there signing autographs."
Flanagan convinced athletic director Rudy Davalos to sell tickets cheap. A season ticket for a seat near the playing floor sold for $50 that first season; since then, the school has put on several $1 and $2 a seat promotions to pack the arena.
"There are people who couldn't afford or get seats for men's games, and when this team started having success ... they just mushroomed," said John Whisenant, an assistant coach on the men's team in the 1970s who now is an assistant GM with the WNBA's Sacramento Monarchs.
Flanagan, a no-nonsense coach who's strength is defense, also won over fans with his recruits.
"These girls have real majors - business, premed, biology," said Danny Dominguez, who along with his wife and daughter attend nearly every game. "He doesn't compromise character for playing ability."
Flanagan's first team went 14-15, and he hasn't had a losing season since. His 1997-98 team was 26-7, won the Western Athletic Conference tournament, and earned the school's first NCAA tournament bid. Two years ago, the Lobos lost to Ohio State in the WNIT championship game, and last season returned to the NCAA tournament, where they lost in the first round to Notre Dame.
In recent years, the Lobos have flirted with the top 25 but haven't made it.
"We have one of the best basketball environments in America," he said. "It's as good as anybody's, and that may even include UConn. If we could get more exposure and people would realize what's going on here, we would have a lot easier time recruiting."
Flanagan and his teams have fans clamoring for more.
"The days when I could satisfy them with tremendous effort are gone," he said. "We're going to have to stay at a high level of excellence."
Published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Wednesday, March 26, 2003.
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Johannesburg - A 32-year-old Bulawayo man has been arrested for allegedly smuggling 21 children into South Africa through an illegal crossing point along the Limpopo River, Zimbabwe's Herald Online reported on Thursday.It is believed that the man was taking the children, aged between 1 and 16, from Bulawayo to Johannesburg and claimed to have been hired by their parents.Beitbridge Chief Superintendent Lawrence Chinhengo said the man was apprehended in South Africa at around 06:00 on Wednesday."The suspect was arrested by our counterparts across Limpopo while loading the children into the car in a bushy area between the South African side of the border and Musina town.Children in care"They then handed him over to us. More charges will be preferred against him upon completion of investigations," said Chinhengo.He said that the children had been taken under the care of Save the Children Centre in the border town while investigations continued."We are yet to verify the suspect's claim that he was taking them to their parents."The suspect will soon be sent to court and we want to strongly warn all those involved in such criminal acts that their days are numbered," he said.Seven other men who were travelling in the same vehicle were also arrested for contravening the Immigration Act.Among them, five had valid passports but had opted to leave the country through an illegal crossing point, said Chinhengo.
Uncle Bob doesn't take kindly when ZanuPF potential voters skip his borders so the man is good under Zim authorities because they will make him rot in jail.
shame man, let them stay, give them jobs and accommodation
It is like a parasitic plague...
I think they are in transition to an unknown destination, thats so sick
Yes to the methodist church in Braamfontein
...can just imagine what purposes the children would have been smuggled here for...hands off these children!
Poor children, hope they find their parents
I would guess this is just the tip of the iceberg . .
I would guess you are right.....many thousands more to arrive shortly
He has fallen in the wrong hands. Zimbabwean Police will torcher to death, unless may be he starts supporting Zanu PF or he is carrying their card.
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The original group was probably 30-35 and some ended up in crocodiles' stomachs
@Green Oaks do you disrespect your mom like you do to the President? He is not my favourite character but I respect him as a president, Get Life. You should be condeming what is done to innocent children than focusing on President Zuma. Anyway the fact remains, He is your President like it or not.
The president doesn't seem to respect us does he?
doesn't this thing work both ways anymore?
Once again, respect is earned and that useless goat herder hasn't done anything to earn anyone's respect in this country so deal with it already. If you want us to respect one of your presidents then hire someone who has an education and can run a country properly and honestly and then we can talk about respect again.
You don't respect a man because he is the president, you respect the office!
I have more respect for some beggars than I do for our president, at least the beggar still has self respect, and doesn't steal the poor peoples money!
@ 2shy 2call: Respect is EARNED !!! Start earning, and I will start respecting. Understand that??
Respect is earned, 2shy. In what way has this smiling dancer earned my respect, pray?
No, this is the problem with people today, we act like beaten dogs, the president's office is not entitled to automatic respect, our politicians and policy makers shoud have to fight and sweat blood for our support and votes.
I refuse to be anyone's cheerleader, sies.
Maybe the guy was helping, who knows?
haha, what about the millions before them, it is a joke to mention this.
Yoh!!!! the whole Zim was coming here
What kind of parent would leave their children behind?? Most of the kids can't even swim - They were probably sold for something far worse...
I enjoyed your last album...more live instruments next time please
the car carried the driver,21 children and seven men?Are they using stretch limos now?
lol, I also noticed that!
SA government must work hard to stop this at borders so the man is good because we have so many kids from zim,SA we have our own kids to look after.
They were crossing at an illegal point along the river, so the Government can't control it. That's why so many Zimbabweans are here illegally.
While he was smuggling the 21 kids, another 2100 men woman and kids crossed at another 10 illegal crossing points.


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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] Having as main character to Mclean Beyor (see cast), this film directed by Jim Powers and Andrew Spahr was premiered in theaters in 2008. The movie "Tommy Time" comes from USA. You can watch Tommy Time online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in English at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2008.
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70-minute film (full movie) directed by Jim Powers and Andrew Spahr.
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Mark Browne is the Gerald D. Stephens CPCU Chair in Risk Management and Insurance in the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He teaches risk management, employee benefits, and health insurance. He has written many articles on health insurance, insurance company operations and regulation, international insurance demand, and claims settlement. He serves on the board of directors of the American Risk and Insurance Association; is past president of the Risk Theory Society; has consulted for many businesses on risk management, insurance, an employee benefits issues; and has been an expert witness cases, such as John Doe and Richard Smith v. Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company.


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Oh, the controversial subject of the crop top trend for women in their forties! In this post I'm tackling it head-on and showing you how I've styled mine. Brave? Maybe...
I've read quite a few articles this year about this particular trend and whether women over the age of 40 can - or should - wear crop tops. As you may have read in my recent Musings post To All New 40-Somethings: Style In Your Forties (& Beyond), my three "rules" for getting it right at any age are a) Wear things you like, b) Wear what flatters you, and c) Wear what's appropriate to the occasion. Let's apply those guidelines to this outfit...
a) Wear what you like
Meaning clothes that make you go "ooh, I like that!", not "Just wear whatever you want, regardless". And I like crop tops! Yes, I wore them in the 90s. I like the slightly 50s Bardot/French Riviera look to them, especially with a long sleeve. And although I don't wear black very often, I like a crop top in black because (and this is for me personally) it's then the style that's making the statement, not the colour.
b) Wear what flatters you
This is subjective, I know - but this is the biggest decider in whether anyone can "get away with" (for want of a better expression) wearing a particular item of clothing. So as already mentioned, I'm going to be brave and it might sound a little bigheaded: I like my waist and torso. I've always been very tiny round the back and waist area, and although I easily put weight on round the bum/hip/thighs area, my waist tends to stay defined and I've never had a muffin top. This is partly down to genes and partly due to not having had babies, but I also work out. A lot.
c) Wear what's appropriate to the occasion
I have the first two points covered - I like crop tops, and they flatter my small waist. The occasion was a vintage fair, so there wasn't really anyone I had to please except myself; I wasn't baring my torso at work, or a wedding, or any kind of official function. Personally, if I'm wearing any kind of flesh-baring item of clothing (which really isn't very often), I make sure I cover up the rest of me. So I wouldn't also wear a very short skirt (even if I had amazing legs), or show off loads of cleavage. I chose a long-sleeve top with a reasonably high neck - and had to make sure I styled it correctly.
Some may disagree, but I think that with the rest of the styling I've "got away with" this outfit by following those guidelines. I think it's important to style certain items in a modern way; the absolute golden rule with wearing crop tops at the moment to make them on-trend is to pair them with high waisted skirts or trousers. (Anything vaguely showing off your belly-button will scream late 90s Britney Spears.) As the occasion was a vintage fair, I wore a midi-length vintage skirt and my Panama hat as a nod to the retro theme.
My most important accessory? A bit of confidence. With most of the rest of me covered up, the only bit really on show was my middle, and that's fine with me. I work hard to keep that part of me toned, and for that reason I don't see why I shouldn't wear a crop top at the age of nearly 41. If I told any disapproving person that I was, in fact, not 40 but 38 - does that suddenly make it alright in their opinion? I don't look any different, my lifestyle isn't different, the occasion hasn't changed... it's just numbers.
I think that's enough waffle for one outfit post! I'll cut straight to the chase and ask you what you think - I know I don't usually ask for anyone's opinions on my outfits (I post my outfits because I like them, and if you do too then that's great - I simply hope readers get some inspiration!), but with crop tops being such a talking point this year I'm making an exception ;)
P.S. I've selected a few of my favourite crop tops from the interweb below, plus some lovely vintage-style skirts.
Shop my look!
Crop top: Asos (now sold out in black but this New Look one is almost identical), Fedora: Asos, Skirt: Vintage, Heels: Faith, Bag: courtesy of Yes Walker, Bracelet: Debenhams, Watch: Asos, Rings: New Look / Debenhams
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Picture: Troy Anderson as LOUIS ARMSTRONG THE REEL AWARDS - A Star-Studded Show Featuring Award-Winning Impersonators held at Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino Las Vegas,...
Jazz photographer JAMIE HODGSON has died following a battle with cancer. He was 76.
Londoner Hodgson, who passed away on Sunday (08JAN06), is best known for his black-and-white portraits of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, DIZZY GILLESPIE, Ray Charles and Ella Fitzgerald in the 1950s and 1960s.
He began his career in 1950 photographing British comedy stars Frankie Howerd and HARRY SEYCOMBE.


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2017 Public Agenda
Higher Education: Strengthening Oklahoma's Workforce
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The purpose of the public agenda is to provide a better understanding of the critical policy issues, goals and objectives that shape the direction of the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education. It is based on the needs of the state as identified through ongoing strategic planning, and it describes the major initiatives that are in place to achieve the policy objectives.
Key Policy Goals and Objectives
- Increase the number of college graduates.
- Enhance access and improve the quality of public higher education for all Oklahomans.
- Better prepare students to meet the challenges of a global economy.
- Implement Complete College America initiatives to increase the number of degrees and certificates earned in Oklahoma by 67 percent by 2023.
- Enhance capacity to successfully enroll, retain and graduate students.
- Increase systemwide efficiencies and cost savings.
- Strengthen financial support for Oklahoma college students.
- Improve instructional quality.
- Utilize performance funding to enhance student success and academic quality.
- Broaden economic development activities.
- Advance access to and quality of technologies to support systemwide programs and services.
Key Initiatives
Complete College America
The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education have identified degree completion as their top priority. Oklahoma has been named the national model for Complete College America (CCA), with a plan focused on promoting college readiness, transforming remediation, strengthening pathways to certificates and degrees, expanding adult degree completion efforts, and rewarding performance and completion. Oklahoma's CCA goal is to increase the number of degrees and certificates earned each year in our state by 67 percent by 2023.
Mathematics Success Initiative
Key elements of Oklahoma's CCA agenda include increasing freshman-to-sophomore retention and graduation rates and enhancing the efficacy and efficiency of remediation and freshman gateway courses. The Mathematics Success Group has developed a strategic plan to improve mathematics preparation of students entering college, reform mathematics remediation to be more effective, and strengthen mathematics preparation for all majors. Oklahoma's Mathematics Success Initiative involves all public institutions and has received recognition and support from national organizations.
Oklahoma's Promise
Oklahoma's Promise is recognized by many as America's best college access program and is considered a model that combines emphases
on academic preparation and financial support for college. In FY 2016, 18,210 students received Oklahoma's Promise scholarships
totaling $65 million.
Reach Higher
Eight of Oklahoma's public regional universities and 14 public community colleges and technical branches offer flexible class options and enrollment periods through Reach Higher, the state system adult degree completion program, to meet the needs of working adults. With a Reach Higher associate or bachelor's degree, students receive the leadership training, communications skills and business knowledge they need to get ahead.
The state's student information portal provides college planning and preparation information and tools for students, parents, adult learners and educators. Through the site, students can create individual portfolios, request and track transcripts, utilize high school planning timelines, explore career options, access campus information and apply for Oklahoma's Promise, among other features.
Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) is a federally funded program that helps prepare middle and high school students for college success. Academic preparation programs, financial aid education, leadership/STEM summer camps, campus tours, ACT preparation and testing, professional learning opportunities for educators and parent events support the GEAR UP goals of increasing both high school graduation and enrollment in postsecondary education.
Cooperative Agreements
Technology centers across the state have partnered with higher education institutions and branch campuses in cooperative agreement programs. Students may earn college credit through assessments and contractual arrangements toward Associate in Applied Science degrees offered by a state system college or university.
Concurrent Enrollment
Since its inception in 2005, the concurrent enrollment program has allowed outstanding juniors and seniors the opportunity to earn college credit while still in high school. In 2015-16, there were more than 12,600 student enrollments in concurrent enrollment and cooperative agreement credit courses generating nearly 108,000 credit hours.
OneNet operates Oklahoma's most advanced technology network to provide the infrastructure to support high-speed broadband services at an equitable rate. OneNet provides the technology and connectivity necessary to meet the mission-critical needs of Oklahoma's colleges and universities; K-12 and career technology schools; public libraries; local, tribal, state and federal governments; health care providers; nonprofit organizations; and programs engaged in research.
Online Education Task Force
The State Regents convened the Online Education Task Force in 2012 to develop a coordinated, systemwide approach to online learning as a component of Oklahoma higher education. The primary areas of focus are to eliminate barriers to online education and encourage educational innovation while maintaining academic rigor across multiple learning platforms.
Campus Safety and Security Task Force
The State Regents established the Campus Safety and Security Task Force to support
best practices for the ongoing safety of students, faculty, administrators and visitors
at higher education and technology center campuses. Task Force members represent
public and private institutions, technology centers, and key state agencies, including
the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management and Oklahoma Office of Homeland Security.
Contact Information
Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education
P.O. Box 108850
Oklahoma City, OK 73101-8850
Dr. Glen D. Johnson, Chancellor


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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African retailer Woolworths (WHLJ.J) reported a 27.3 percent rise in full-year profit on Thursday, reflecting the resilience of its upscale customer base as the rest of the consumer market struggles with high personal debt.
Woolworths, which sells luxury food products and clothing, said headline earnings per share (EPS) totaled 340.4 cents in the year to end-June compared with 267.3 a year earlier.
That was broadly in line with a 339 cents estimate by Thomson Reuters StarMine, which puts more weight on more recent forecasts and those from top-rated analysts.
Headline EPS, South Africa's primary profit gauge, strips out certain one-off items.
Retailers in Africa's biggest economy are struggling to grow sales at a faster pace as consumers rein in spending due to high personal debt, unemployment and rising fuel and transport prices.
But Woolworths, similar in style and products to Britain's Marks & Spencer MKS.N, is faring better as high income consumers continue to splash out on its upscale groceries and apparel.
Sales rose 23.2 percent to 35.2 billion rand ($3.40 billion), with food sales recording 15.4 percent growth. Sales were also boosted by Woolworths' purchase last year of Australian fashion retailer Witchery Group.
Shares in the Cape Town-based company are down about 15 percent so far this year, underperforming a 10 percent gain in the JSE Top-40 index .JTOPI.
Reporting by Sherilee Lakmidas, writing by Tiisetso Motsoeneng; Editing by Pascal Fletcher


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Explaindio Review – How To Create Attention-Grabbing Professional-Looking Marketing, Explainer & Training Videos in Just Minutes
Explaindio Video Creator Review
A bunch of video-related products have launched recently, including Easy Sketch Pro 2 and VideoMakerFX. Now Explaindio Video Creator is launching on 11 November, and it looks like it might contain all the features of the other two video creators combined. I've tested it out, and in this Explaindio review I'll cover all its features, and how it compares to Easy Sketch Pro 2 and VideoMakerFX.
What Is Explaindio Video Creator?
It has a weird name, but it's a pretty cool video creator software for both Mac and PC, brought to us by Nick LaPolla, Todd Gross, and Andrew Darius. Todd Gross has been behind some of the most successful launches in the video marketing industry this year, and Nick LaPolla is the creator of Simple Video Pro 2, which I reviewed previously on this blog.
With this software, you can create a professional looking video in minutes complete with HD video backgrounds, kinetic text, cartoon animations, whiteboard sketches, and more. You can create videos using just one of these styles or a combination of them.
The one time price of $57 is only for Now – then the doors will close, and when they re-open in April it will have a yearly fee. Note that this price includes a commercial license, unlike ESP2 which will charge you an extra $69 for it after your initial purchase!
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The software will also have a "create a character" set so that you can make your own characters exactly how you want them, as well as a marketplace where you can buy slides and svg's (vectors, for example illustrations or cartoon characters) created by other people.
You can also import slides from other video creation software – this plus the slides that come with the software and all the slides that'll be available in the marketplace means that Explaindio has the widest selection of slides and graphics of all the video makers.
What Is Included in Explaindio Video Creator?
Explaindio Video Creator comes with a library of 26 slide packs, which each contain multiple animated slides. There are slides available in various different styles – simple, elegant ones that can be used for any niche, slides with cartoon characters in different careers, kinetic typography slides, etc.
There are also 10 call-to-action animations you can add to your slides, as well as 5 other animations like rain or snow.
The whiteboard video section also has a library of 29 image packs, packed with a wide range of images to include in your sketch videos. There are all sorts of images for marketing like arrows, callouts, banners, graphs, social media icons etc. along with many other types of images like people, animals, office items, school supplies, vehicles, and various other objects.
You can also choose between 31 different hands to draw your sketch videos, and 55 hands to drag images or text onto the screen. You can choose a different hand for each image, and the hands can be flipped and tilted so that the drawing angle never looks awkward.
Some hands are pictured from the bottom so that you can have them draw from behind the images, as if they're drawing on the viewer's screen. All the hands are high quality – no fuzzy edges like some I saw in the Easy Sketch Pro videos.
There are also 15 audio tracks included that you can use as background music for your videos, but they were all very similar and a bit too dramatic for any videos I'd make (think "O Fortuna"). I'll be adding a bunch of music tracks as a bonus for my readers – read the bonus section at the end of this review for more info.
What I Think About Explaindio Video Creator – Pros and Cons
Though it isn't perfect, I think Explaindio is a great piece of software with a very affordable price – it has the same functionality of VMFX and ESP2 put together, along with extra exclusive features.
For example, I love the increased control features that Explaindio video creator has compared to VideoMakerFX. You can add a delay to the slides at the main focal point so that people have enough time to read or see the slide properly, and at the end.
Using Explaindio Video Creator you can also add a delay before or after each element is sketched or added in the whiteboard slides, and you can set the duration of each sketch so that it's not too fast or too slow.
Another great customization feature for the animated slide templates is the ability to change the color, size, and position of each object in the slides. This is a feature I needed when I was using VMFX.
If only it was also possible to change the position of the text blocks, it would mean we could completely customize the templates to look exactly like we need them to. I hope they add that feature soon!
I would also like them to add the capability to have a video background span multiple slides – it can do so for the whiteboard slides so maybe I'm just missing something obvious, but if so I can't figure it out.
One thing I don't like about the whiteboard videos is that often with text, instead of writing the letters in a solid line like someone would in real life, the hand will sketch the outline of the text first and then it will magically be filled in. I've seen the same thing happen in Easy Sketch Pro 2 videos though.
I love that Explaindio video creator can import slides from other video makers – this means my VMFX slide purchases won't go to waste. I imported my slides from VMFX and it worked perfectly – in fact I could even move and resize the elements like in Explaindio's own slides, which is awesome!
I'm also really excited about the character creator and the marketplace – it'll open up the doors to a lot of creativity and customization, so there'll be a lot less risk of our videos looking the same as someone else's in our niche.
My Explaindio Video Creator Bonus
As mentioned earlier in this review, Explaindio's audio selection is quite weak, so I've put together a huge amount of varied music and audio tracks for you to use in your videos, along with a bunch of images you can use in your sketch videos.
The software has 2 upsells – a Mega Themes and SVG's pack for $37 and a membership to get new slides and SVG's each month for $17. I've added some great additional bonuses for those who invest in the upsells as well – see the list below for more details.
Bonuses for Explaindio software:
- 200 images to use in your slides and sketches are Explaindio Bonus
- 140 audio tracks
Bonuses for Mega Themes and SVG's Pack:
- 30 varied, high quality cartoon characters
- 25 more audio tracks
Bonuses for Slides and SVG's Monthly Membership:
- 20 audio loops (no break in sound when looped)
- 21 Christmas music tracks (perfect for the Christmas season)
These bonuses are available to anyone who buys Explaindio video creator through my affiliate link – once you've completed the purchase, the bonuses will automatically be available for download on your JVZoo purchase page.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) Chief Financial Officer said on Thursday that the telephone company put in a bid to Clearwire Corp CLWR.O for some of its wireless airwaves.
Clearwire had previously reported a bid of $1 billion to $1.5 billion for spectrum.
Verizon's Fran Shammo did not confirm the size of his company's bid. Shammo told Reuters that if Verizon did not succeed in buying the spectrum, he would not be in the market for leasing airwaves from Clearwire, which is majority owned by No. 3 U.S. mobile provider Sprint Nextel Corp (S.N).
Sprint and satellite TV provider Dish Network Corp (DISH.O) have been seeking to buy Clearwire, which depends on leasing wireless airwaves to other operators. Its biggest customer is Sprint.
Reporting by Sinead Carew; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick


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Voices in the Wilderness
Margaret Spring '82
Tuna Diplomacy
The Monterey Bay Aquarium conservation chief brings business, science and society together to protect the Pacific.
Raised in upper Manhattan, Spring fell in love with the sea during family trips to nearby beaches, where she'd catch killifish and gather mussels. But she also has vivid memories of how raw sewage was allowed to flow right into the Hudson River near her home. "At that time there was a huge amount of pollution going into the water," she says. "All of that stayed at the very top of my mind."
Now, as chief conservation officer at California's Monterey Bay Aquarium, protecting the ocean is Spring's priority. She came to her post in 2013, after 20 years in Washington, D.C., working on environmental issues, including legislation such as the 2000 Oceans Act to get a handle on overfishing. Since her arrival at the aquarium—which attracts 2 million visitors annually—the institution has expanded its advocacy role to preserve fisheries and marine ecosystems, as well as endangered species such as sea otters, white sharks and bluefin tuna. "Aquariums are a trusted source of information," she says. "We have a special voice."
Part of Spring's job is to oversee the aquarium's Seafood Watch program, which guides consumers and businesses toward seafood that is fished or farmed in eco-friendly ways. Not only has the aquarium encouraged businesses to sell environmentally responsible products in more than 100,000 locations across the country, it has also recently worked with a presidential task force to eliminate fraud and illegal fishing for imported seafood, a threat to long-term ocean health. Seafood Watch has a global impact as well, helping countries such as Brazil, Costa Rica, South Africa and Mexico build sustainable seafood movements. "It's quite amazing to me," says Spring. "We've been able to make this transition from watchdog to advisor."
She's particularly passionate about saving the bluefin tuna, which has dwindled mainly because of overfishing in Japan, where a single giant Atlantic bluefin tuna—prized for sushi—can sell for more than $100,000. Monterey is the only U.S. aquarium that displays live bluefin, and during the past few years it has partnered with Japanese scientists on research projects in the hopes that a better understanding of the species will lead to stronger preservation measures. Though Japan recently announced new rules to restore the bluefin's declining population, Spring says further action is needed. "Measures now being implemented by Japan, while a start, are long overdue and will not be sufficient to conserve and recover this incredibly important species," she says.
An archaeology major at Dartmouth, Spring jumpstarted her career in 1991 when she postponed graduation from Duke University Law School for a year to take a fellowship on Capitol Hill. For nearly a decade she served as a lead attorney for the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, counseling congressional members on ocean and climate issues. After she married Napa winemaker Mark Bunter in 2007 she moved to California, where she directed the coastal and marine program for the Nature Conservancy's state chapter before returning to D.C. in 2009, when she was appointed to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. There, she spent four years tackling disasters such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill before returning to the West Coast.
At the aquarium Spring will continue to deal with challenging issues. One immediate task is to spread the word about a November referendum to repeal California's landmark ban on single-use plastic bags. "There's no time to waste if you know anything about the state the ocean is in," she says. "There's a lot more to do." —Heather Salerno
Darryll Lewis '75
Play it Again
Not many retired law professors have an eye for football as Lewis does. After 16 years as an NFL line judge, he's now preparing for his fourth season as a replay official. His job is to "direct the activities of all those in the replay booth in an effort to get to the referee and New York the best angles to demonstrate the accuracy—or inaccuracy—of an on-field ruling," he says. During games Lewis works onsite with a replay assistant, booth technician and booth communicator. He's also in touch with NFL VP of officiating Dean Blandino in New York. Their work comes into question from Monday morning quarterbacks every week. "Often camera angles are not indisputable," says Lewis of controversial calls, and "create doubt whether an apparently erroneous on-field ruling can be reversed."
An expert in economic law, the econ major opened his own law practice before he became an associate professor at the University of Nebraska-Omaha in 1986. Before fulfilling a dream with his NFL gig, he officiated at a variety of levels.
Although Lewis misses being a line judge, his current role still comes with the challenge of making correct calls. He also has the pressure of unilaterally halting play if he thinks a review is in order during the final two minutes of a game. Does he foresee a day when lasers and other technology will constitute all officiating? "Technology, although not perfect, is a useful aid," says Lewis. "However, technology will not replace the human element necessary in a game played by human beings." —Sean Plottner
Bryon Friedman '02
Bamboo Groove
During the decade Friedman spent racing for the U.S. Alpine Ski Team he received a huge amount of free gear. It was a nice perk, but used equipment piled up in his garage or he was forced to throw it away, especially after he retired from racing in 2009. It troubled him to think how energy-intensive ski equipment was to manufacture and how difficult it was to recycle or repurpose. One small way to make a difference, decided Friedman and former U.S. Ski Team member Erik Schlopy, was to make poles using a material that had both vintage appeal and eco-credibility: bamboo.
The company they founded, Soul Poles, now hand crafts several thousand pairs of bamboo ski and hiking poles a year at its Park City, Utah, facility. A fast-growing, low-impact, renewable resource, bamboo also has a proven track record: Before aluminum poles swept the industry in the late 1950s, discerning skiers favored bamboo poles for their light weight and durability.
Friedman sources his bamboo from a family farm in Guangdong Province, China. The small Soul Poles team kiln-dries and oils the stalks to help them withstand dry, cold skiing conditions. In company tests, the poles rated twice as strong as aluminum ones. Soul Poles have garnered accolades on both looks and performance from outlets ranging from Vogue to Powder magazine. Friedman, though, is most pleased with his customers' feedback. "Part of it is having a piece of organic material, part of it is just the conversations it starts on the chair lift," Friedman says. "People say they feel more connected to the mountain." —Kaitlin Bell Barnett '05
Steve Brosnihan '83
Lighting Up a Room
One evening six years ago Brosnihan was SAY-ing goodbye to a teenage patient. Looking out the window at Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, where he's resident cartoonist in the healing arts department, Brosnihan noticed his route to the bus was visible. He spontaneously told the boy to watch outside later for a sign. When he signaled to the boy with his flashlight on his way home, Brosnihan was surprised and pleased to see the boy flicking a light in response. So Brosnihan made it his routine to flash goodnight to his patients, many of whom told him it was the best thing that happened all day. "A feeling of loneliness is alleviated," Brosnihan says.
Since 1991, Brosnihan has logged thousands of hours drawing at the bedside of seriously ill children. He helps young patients with their fears and anxieties and he's called in like a specialist, with the goal of getting a smile or laugh from a child deep in the doldrums. He devised a method, "Cartoonagrams," to quickly teach children to join him in cartooning, using letters of the alphabet. Last year Brosnihan expanded his Goodnight Lights idea, asking local businesses, including tugboats and a bar with a large neon sign, to communicate with four blinks for "Good Night Hasbro Hospital" each night at 8:30. Businesses and patrons, who use phones or other lights, have been eager to participate. He's working on involving buildings in the nearby downtown skyline. "People are feeling the thrill that someone is thinking about them in a free will, goodwill gesture," Brosnihan says.
When the former visual studies major, who also teaches at schools and camps for children with medical and other special needs, walks the halls of the hospital, he carries a clipboard. Taped to its back is a talisman—a worn copy of a handwritten note from a fellow Dartmouth alum, Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel '25. "He was wonderfully supportive of me becoming a cartoonist," Brosnihan says. Months before he died, Geisel wrote to wish Brosnihan luck for "six years, hell, make it the next six decades." —Noel Rubinton
Chris Pandolfi '01
The Picker
When Pandolfi fell in love with the banjo, he was a high school senior obsessed with the genre-bending instrumental group Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. "I came to the banjo in this re-contextualized role that was very new and different," says Pandolfi, who majored in environmental studies. "And then I came to find out that bluegrass was where the banjo really lived." Pandolfi's five-man string band, The Infamous Stringdusters, formed in 2006 and quickly earned critical praise and credibility with bluegrass fans, notorious for their fierce loyalty to the traditional music. Six albums in, the Stringdusters now bill themselves as "The Future of Bluegrass," experimenting with form and earning crossover appeal, as well as more critical raves, including a 2011 Grammy nomination.
The Stringdusters' most recent album, Ladies & Gentlemen, released earlier this year, features a series of female vocalists such as Joan Osborne, Lee Ann Womack and Mary Chapin Carpenter and allowed Pandolfi to go beyond the banjo's traditional role. This summer the group began recording a seventh album and collaborating with singer-songwriter Ryan Adams, with whom they played Telluride Bluegrass and Newport Folk festivals and Late Night with Stephen Colbert.
Pandolfi, now working out of the Stringdusters' fan base of Denver, has also launched a solo banjo and keyboard project. TRAD+ both harkens back to the experimental, fusion banjo music that inspired him as a teenager and weaves in influences from ambient electronic music. "I've definitely put in my time and had instruction from some great and notable bluegrass players, but I've also come full-circle," Pandolfi says. "This is sort of my flight of fancy into a new musical world." —Kaitlin Bell Barnett '05
Chelsey Luger '10
Indigenized Fitness
Luger is on a mission to promote health and fitness in Native American communities. The Arizona-based journalist, who has roots in the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, joined photographer Thosh Collins in 2015 to launch Well for Culture, a website and wellness initiative that offers workout tips, recipes and holistic health advice drawn from North American indigenous traditions.
Two key concepts promoted by Well for Culture are Earth Gym and Ancestral Diet. "We're encouraging people to get outside and be on the land," says Luger. "Earth Gym is all about embracing the challenges of the elements." Ancestral Diet merges traditional Native American foodways with ideas from modern healthy-eating movements. "Spending time with food and recognizing its spiritual significance used to be a huge part of our culture, and it's something that many of us have forgotten," says the former Native American studies major.
Well for Culture has offered workshops and fitness classes in schools, on reservations and even at Nike World Headquarters, where Luger spoke to the company's Native American Network in November 2015. Earlier this year the Native Americans at Dartmouth student organization invited Luger back to Hanover to lead a weekend wellness retreat just before the start of midterm exams. Following an off-campus Earth Gym session, 40 students attended a community dinner of bison burgers, sweet potato hash and other ancestral foods. "We emphasized how exercise and healthy food contribute to brain health," says Luger.
In her monthly "Well for Culture" column for Indian Country Today Media Network, Luger stresses that promoting personal fitness in Native communities is also a highly political project. "Wellness is empowering," she says. "Living healthy and positive lifestyles is making a statement: I'm not who you expect me to be. My healthy lifestyle disproves many of the negative stereotypes of Native people. I'm alive and well, succeeding and happy."
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Michael Biggins AKA Blackout headshot (c)2010
All styles and all dialects. accents, and sub dialects within dialects, as well as impressions, low key, straigh edge, or outrageous over the top announcers and full out acting of multiple voices. See BIO below for more info or check out (Website hidden) Call toll free 877-9-BLACKOUT if you want me to give a read of your script over the phone.
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I can do almost any voice, dialect, or character impersonation. I am like Robin Williams and Jim Carey combined with Willy Wonka. Seriously. Try me. I have been able to do voices and impersonations since I was in my mothers womb.
Michael Biggins / AKA Blackout (originally born as Michael Bigansky) is an American film actor, writer, director, and radio and TV show host and voice over artist best known for performing under the name of Blackout in a wide variety of pranks, prank call recordings, radio and TV shows, films, and original characters created and performed under that performance name. Blackout is his alter ego trickster persona that he uses when performing in various works, and sometimes when he does technical roles. For instance, he might be credited as "Michael Biggins" as an actor, then credited again as "Blackout" as director or sound mixer in the same film or TV show where he performed multiple tasks or roles.
He starting performing very early on in kindergarten, and continued on in various plays in both public grade schools in New York City, and very strict private Catholic schools up until 8th grade, when he relocated to South Florida and joined the drama program at Piper High School in Fort Lauderdale.
That school was very rare in that it was and still is one of the very few high schools in the country to have a fully operational FM radio station with an over 40 mile large broadcasting radius broadcasting on 88.5 FM WKPX. His improvisation talent bloomed as a teen at Piper High, and he was given the role of production manager of the station, and his own improvisational show called "No Class". It is there and on that show that he first got his "Blackout" nickname, when during his first time on the air after passing the FCC license examination, lighting struck the station tower antenna while he was on, blacking out the entire school and station for several hours, and his teachers and fellow students affectionately started calling him "Blackout".
From there on, the name stuck and after high school he studied multiple disciplines at Broward Community College, going back and forth between the talent and technical sides of theater, film, and mass media and broadcast television. He was the lead in several of the college's major plays such as Bedroom Farce, Mousetrap, and Greater Tuna, but his true love was for film making.
He registered the website (Website hidden) in 1995 and was the first person ever to put a streaming prank call on the Internet of that same year, and has maintained and on again off again love affair with radio while primarily pursuing film and television, and occasionally theater roles. His debut breakout film was in 2007's "Film Contest ?" in which oddly enough, he played an eccentric trickster talk radio show host. The film won the West Palm Beach Film Festival, and he then did one last play in Fort Lauderdale, playing the role of "SKYboy", the over the top black sheep artist of the family in the interactive audience participation hit - "Grandma Sylvia's Funeral" at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
In 2008 he relocated back to his birthplace, New York City, and remained relatively silent as he re-acquainted himself with the New York artistic scene, and became heavily involved in the independent film community there with the goal of being a triple threat actor / writer / director of his own films. He worked as a freelance sound mixer to support himself as digital cinema slowly matured, and he opened his own production companies - Blackout's Box Studios and Hathouse Films. His last freelance sound mixer position was on a 2010 short film "AWOL" which premiers at Sundance in January of 2011. He is working on several of his own projects as actor / writer / director set to premiere in 2011, including the world's first interactive television show "Blackout's Box LIVE" where he improvises characters live as the audience directs him and feeds him lines, and two feature film projects shot entirely in HD digital cinema - "Destiny Origin" and "Origin Destiny," a two part science fiction philosophical comedy about the new age movement and alien / occult involvement in the manipulation of human consciousness.
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've been coming to Blackout.com for over 4 years now. His prank calls are still funny, and his new stuff is great too. I particularly like the Dog Beaters prank. Basically, Blackout's pranks are unique among other prank callers.Alexa.com review
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The pork has been sold all over Sweden, but as of yet there have been no reports of anyone falling ill.
According to Axfood's press manager Ingmar Kroon, the affected meat is pork imported mainly from Denmark, including chops, marinated loin and mince.
The products have been sold by supermarket chains Willys, Hemköp, Prisextra and Tempo.
"We're recalling it from all over the country, but we don't know how much has already been sold," he said to the TT news agency, adding:
"But only some of the meat has been infected."
Customers who've bought these products are encouraged to return them to stores, as they cannot be thrown in the trash. The infected meat must be sent to be destroyed.
It's still uncertain whether anyone will fall ill from the infected meat.
"I haven't had any reports about that, but it'll take a few days before we know for sure," said Kroon.
Two tonnes of meat is a large recall, but it isn't unique.
There's no cause for worry about buying imported meat rather than Swedish produce, according to Kroon.
"It's happened twice this summer that we've had infected meat from Denmark, and that might look bad, but Denmark isn't bad at handling. I definitely don't want to point the blame at them," he said.


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Thread: new to JDBC question
05-01-04, 10:15 #1Registered User
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Unanswered: new to JDBC question
I have an application where i add a new row to the data base,
then I want to select another attirbute for the person i have just entered to the db, i.e if they pay monthly or annually,
I have tried moving the result set 'backwards' but i get a null pointer
so basically i add a new member to my database, and then want to change some data in this new row, how do i get back to the row?
one way i was thinking was to get the ID of the member i had to just added and then search using the ID to get the right row, but there is no result set returned from a insert query?
can anyone point me in the right direction?
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Why would you want to insert a row, then update the same row based on some criteria. I suggest you identify whatever data it is that you want to enter first and then write a simple insert query.
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What is the database you are using? If it is MS SQL, you can do the following way:
INSERT INTO TableName(col1, col2, ..., coln) VALUES(val1, val2, ..., valn)
SELECT @@IDENTITY AS 'newRowID'
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Jerry Jones Was Locked Out of His Own Locker Room Last Night, Probably For The Best
By Bradford Pearson Published in FrontBurner November 5, 2012 11:26 am
Jerry Jones just pounded locker room door because no one would let him in. It's the angriest I've seen him all year. #Cowboys @bluestarblog
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#Cowboys in a nutshell: Jerry Jones had more highlights last night than his team. #letmein @bluestarblog #SNF
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Ditto 11 was held November 6-8, 1998 at the Newport Harbor Hotel & Marina in Newport, RI. It was sponsored by MCFI and organized by Priscilla Olson, Mark Olson, Bob Webber, and George Flynn.
This Ditto was unusual in that it had a Guest of Honor, Ed Meskys, publisher of Niekas. Niekas won a Hugo for Best Fanzine in 1967. At the time, only one Hugo trophy was given per category, and Ed's co-editor, Felice Rolfe got the trophy. The Ditto 11 organizers got a spare Hugo rocket from Bruce Pelz and created a replica Hugo base and presented Ed with his own long-overdue trophy.
See also Ditto - a Series of Conventions.
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