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L.A. has long been boosterized as a kind of paradise for commerce and fantasy. It has also been lamented for its lack of a sense of community, for cars out of control, people's retreat into isolation, and the privatization of public space. What if these latter dilemmas are not absences, but effects of a new, emerging type of city?
Scholars have been struggling to find terms for this new landscape and its rumbling conflicts. I would argue LA has long been struggling not with suburbia, but with suburbia's transitional nature, gestating a new form which is only now materializing with the development of information and image transmission technologies. Its primary trait is the merger of what we still, in perhaps outmoded fashion, think of as material versus immaterial that is, the real and unreal. It is a built environment that produces and is made of images, information, and formidable strategies of mobilization and security. It is an imaginary city only in the sense of 'setting the stage.' To borrow a brilliant distinction made at a recent Getty symposium on the city and cinema. What is set up is all too real.
L.A. may be the first city truly created by the information revolution, albeit in its early stages. From its takeoff at the turn of the century, the L.A. Times and the Chandler-Otis dynasty and its close friends used real estate holdings and hype to steer the city's development, layout, water supply, political direction, and in turn, the nation. Hollywood and defense/aerospace joined suit, with suburban tracts financed and filled by, and in turn fueling, war production, altogether creating 'environments' with global impact. This resulted in a city produced by and producing a truly unique confluence of forces, what one could call the defense-entertainment-information complex.
The commonality of electronics to the defense industry, the entertainment industry and news production unveils an entirely new paradigm of armed, and somewhat ruthless, semiotic expansionism. Far from a city without a center, a city of multiple identities, whatever heterogeneity or independent public politics arises here is subsumed in L.A.'s design and production of the fantasy-security dome protecting, imagining, and globalizing the United States. This may be why, as Ed Soja has noted sardonically, the city is ringed by the most formidable array of military bases in the history of the planet.
L.A. has evolved into an anti-polis, a city of pure privacy. Its cybernetic, spatial, political, and economic tendencies sustain a highly productive and diverse world of industry and labor yet, perhaps for the first time in urban history, thwart development of a free, public realm as reward and dutiful repository for this endless labor. In an increasingly electronified loop, those excluded and crushed play their critical role. Social breakdown and neglect are not merely 'entrenched.' They are becoming part of the nest of forces driving the development of an electronically saturated and secure world. Fear has always been a part of the city of nets. But far from a failure, it may turn out to have been all along one of the critical forces propelling the push inward, ever more into not the self, but the private, producing a technologized, secured, fantasy realm to blanket the world.
The built environment has always been about the geography of power. This is no less true when the netting and electronicization of our environment, through modems, cable, mobile technologies and the 'air touch' of cellular and microwave, make the goal of absolute, narcissistic control of 'reality' materially attainable. The lure of cyburbia is precisely to live in a technologically protected, secure, safe, dreamlike and monitored world. When truly personalized, cyburbia may offer as its portal to community an interactive screen of electronic selves and agents that arise and vaporize week by week. Yet as the net overlays and weaves holes in material boundaries, human metaphysical encapsulation, on the one hand, and total vulnerability and degradation on the other, grow. The privileged overclass retreat behind their enveloping electro-mechanical buffer, while, those without, a large and growing group, experience the brutish facticity and chaos, not of fantasy, but of its abdication and effect, the real.
LA is approaching its cyburban antipolis status by a radical advance in spatial containment and elimination. For even as it refines its thematization and control of reality, bringing the privileged together electronically inside secured, gated enclaves, problems on the 'outside' deepen. It is not by chance the two most resonant riots of the late 20th century occurred here, in Watts and South Central. A cybernetic loop has been established, whereby the perception of increase in crime and chaos, i.e., their threat, whether true or not, propels desire for ever more exclusive control, security, and monitoring to protect what is 'inside' the fantasy of immaculate, non-human existence.
The breakdown of the real into toxicity, crime, traffic jams, poverty, and community disintegration become caught in what cyberneticists call a feedback loop, but what I would prefer to call the material, built environment. They provide the necessary, and dependant, impetus for industrial development of an immaculate world where none truly come face to face. In LA, first there was the closeup, then the media event, and now the virtual event. It is, in some profound ways, a neo-medieval paradigm. The real world is a lost cause, and so we retreat. As more and more real communities fail, the push is on for ever more refined and secure castle-enclaves, points of entry into, and exclusion from, the magic kingdom of infinite desire.
These pathologies driving the expansion of cyburbia find their origins in suburbia, where flight meant leaving unfortunates behind and turning ones back on real problems. This has profoundly restructured the process of cultural division and segregation. Suburbia's safe, secure, clean and orderly private space meant one could indulge every primal fantasy in a technological, built way, disappearing into communities where everyone was apparently just like you. This was the first nail driven into the coffin of the polis. In time, as we now see, suburbia reveals the ravages of its inhumanity, both internally and externally.
Cyburbia's hubris, which is L.A.'s hubris, first and foremost, is to provide the door to never having to face the errors of our suburban and inner city past. In cyburbia, the desperation of the excluded becomes electronically bonded to the retreat of the elite. Far from representing the problems produced by exclusion, fantasy, and security obsessions, in the new virtual realm, the real becomes the ghetto, a place losers end up. It is the thing to be technologically avoided. As net surfers and cybernauts put it rather graphically, everything human outside the cyber-realm becomes 'meat.'
Dialogue in cyberspace is, contrary to hype, ill-equipped to affect or reign in powerful interests moving ever further ahead of the citizen. Information quantity is multiplying, but control of distribution, affecting what gets through, is concentrating in ever fewer hands. Open 'meeting places' in cyberspace may never make the leap to dealing with problems in the real world, and therein lies their tragic lure. People meet to share common interests in private, hardly to work out and face intractable differences between real, sweaty, and flawed human beings. Those assemblies which can occur, do so almost entirely now in cyberspace, where anything can be monitored, infiltrated, recorded, or steered off course by hard-to-identify agents. The most obvious and important trait is never discussed: electronic, or virtual, communities have a very hard time enduring, in a meaningful, built, face to face sense. When real people do meet, they may be driven further apart, to the edge of violence.
The reduction of community to a symbolic and semiotic technology leaves the real as the target of cleansing, a world of privatization with no privacy, existence with no substance, immaculate life on one side and violence on the other. The long-trumpeted suburban silent majority, with all its apathy, is not about withdrawing from and refusing power, as Jean Baudrillard has argued, but about people being withdrawn from, and beginning to hate, each other: it is atomization without open domination. As Tony Vidler noted in the same recent Getty colloquia, the panopticon of surveillance has been superseded, and we need new models.
Suburbia first developed the deadly triad of separation, virtual sensations, and total mobilization. Positioned in production lines, people were then placed happily in pleasure domes. The car got you from one to the other. Inside controlled enclosed spaces, we gained the 'sense' of the uniqueness of the non-unique, through the 'presence' of glamorous events and personalities on TV or goods in the mall, more 'real' than screaming kids and arguing parents across the lawn. As Anne Friedberg has argued in Window Shopping, the automobile may itself be a training for virtual space, where one is cut off, enclosed, moving through a world one did not create by virtual window.
In advancing all this, cyberspace is the very definition of ideology, as Scott Bukatman noted in the Getty symposium. No longer does ideology need to be reduced to statements, beliefs, or political platforms. Now it can exist as interactive worlds, entire labyrinthine plateaus of virtuality. What is left out of the discussion is that, however much Internet romantics see the data ocean as our salvation, they have de facto given up on face-to-face accountability and accessibility. This is not just an abstract problem. It is a problem of the built environment. Where do people go and exist while net-life unfolds?
L.A. promotes a strange and dangerous notion, that the face-to-face realm is avoidable, that privacy is better. Its entire technological and conceptual base pushes us to believe imagination, fantasy, and thinking come from retreat into privacy, rather than from being in the public space. But the face to face realm is messy, like the real world. And just as we failed to take charge of the development of suburbia, with its proliferation of Levittowns and freeways, we are now once again turning from the messy real into a technological fantasy of order that may well be catastrophic.
Interests driving the new frontier are hardly going to discuss its effect on civic life and interaction. But how do we deal with a world where ever larger regions of life are severed from public visibility and accountability? The L.A.-cyburban paradigm suggests the single perspective is impossible. Unfortunately, it is being replaced with a realm of endless perspectives folding inward, and likely, with cyburbia in full flower, no stable position whatsoever.
The model, I would argue, for this new cyburban regime of no viewpoint, is hardly the agora, with its open discussion and debate between real citizens, but the over-worked model of Disneyland. Here a totally privatized fantasy disguises control of the constitution, control, and expansion of the world by a corporatized few. It is a world we must enter and agree to before we can "experience something, and still we must pay. It is a place where point of view does not matter. We 'buy in.' If we do not, we're 'out.'
Disneyland has become the folkloric trope of our era, like Coney Island was in its day. Yet to see this as theme park is radically insufficient. It is here we find the link not just between space and theme, but between the cybernetic world of feedback, control, monitoring and the built environment. The control and rigidity of experience which Disneyland symbolizes is based on constant, unblockable control and monitoring: it is a force which lets go only when you're out of money. Mechanized, automatic, navigable, and claustrophobically banal, Disneyland is a transitional technology, where people do not create or revise the reality they traverse, but decide how to traverse a reality created by others, all inside a secure perimeter. One learns to forget the desire to create reality oneself, and instead to experience the pleasure of a machine the mass is said to desire.
In cyburbia, our reduction to laboring animals in pure society becomes invisible. People will be able to work at home, conversing with people continents away, never having to meet the stranger across the street or next door, or, for that matter, the boss. Not to mention someone of a different group, race or class. When plugged into the screen, confronting a real person becomes a threat, a danger to immersion. Yes, one can leave a hundred messages on the boss' Email, but what then? Will five hundred employees each get to talk one-on-one with the boss, or will it be Perot's town hall, where the boss speaks to five hundred, personally, at five hundred locations?
Just as suburbia and its partner the decaying inner city have thwarted and undermined material possibilities for public space, cyburbia represents the end of public interaction and movement across, and overcoming, differences of hierarchy, race, class, and gender. It has replaced this real movement with a pseudo-movement of signs. The technicalized, professionalized bureaucratic buffer of the 20th century is expanded and transformed into a post-modern electronic curtain, enveloping everyone in their own private, segregated world of consumption, labor, speculative existence and total penetration. Far from pulling back the electronic curtain to reveal the men behind the levers, cyburbia suggests the feudalistic politics of caste and invisible power, lurking under industrialism and bureaucracy, are now rationalizing themselves into the only remaining domains of existence.
This is why place, location and physical space, far from being antiquated by cyberspace, become the key issue again. Bringing people together face-to-face, and making this a constructive, ongoing and secure activity for self-government is a task professionals can ill afford to ignore if our freedom is to survive. In the face of cyburbia, we must devise ways to encourage different people to come together as equals, face to face, to govern and create their own worlds, not to navigate worlds handed to them. This is the abyss facing architecture, design, and community – what William Gibson, describing Singapore, calls 'Disneyland with the death penalty.' Resistance is springing up, but architecture and the human must first become better friends, or they may well become enemies.
Fred Dewey resides in Los Angeles and has written for London's New Statesman, LACPS' Framework and the L.A. Weekly.


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COVINGTON — Things got exciting over at the Newton County Detention Center Wednesday afternoon when a prisoner was able to slide under the closing door of the sally port and escape. He was shortly caught and re-incarcerated.
"He had freedom for a few minutes and earned himself another charge," said Sheriff Ezell Brown.
Treveon Woods, 17, of South Carolina was observed around 4:30 p.m. by a deputy in the 10,000 block of Flat Shoals Road riding a Suzuki dirt bike without a helmet and no tag, according to NCSO Public Information Officer Michael Cunningham.
"When the deputy ran the VIN number, he discovered the dirt bike was stolen out of Newton County," Cunningham said. "The deputy and the suspect got into a brief altercation at the scene and then he was taken into custody."
The charges at that time were receiving stolen property, riding without a helmet, no tag and obstruction of a law enforcement officer.
The suspect was then transported to the Newton County Detetion Center and when the patrol car pulled into the sally port of the jail, the deputy took his prisoner out of the vehicle before the automatic doors were completely down on the ground, the sheriff said.
"He (the prisoner) slid under the door through about a 10- to 12-inch opening," he said. "Then, the outside gate to the jail is on a timer and he managed to beat the timer and get through that gate."
Cunningham said Woods had fled in the direction of General Mills and with the help of officers from the Covington Police Department, they were able to re-capture the suspect about an hour later.
Woods was also charged with an additional charge of obstruction of law enforcement officers and escape, both felonies.
Sheriff Brown said the incident is under review.
"If it happened to be officer error, we will have to deal with that, and we're looking at putting up some signs in the sally port, the timer on the gate and policy issues," he said.
In another case, on July 19 a prisoner was able to escape from a patrol unit and was not captured again until the next day, Cunningham said.
Keith Millian Wright, 40, of 10 Harrison Circle has subsequently been arrested on charges of false imprisonment, battery under the Family Violence Act, obstruction or hindering law enforcement officers, interference with government property and escape.
Few details of the incident were available, but Cunningham said deputies were called to Harrison Circle by a resident who wanted an escort because she could see lights on in her house.
"When deputies entered the residence, they found Mr. Wright sitting on a couch and he was taken into custody," Cunningham said. "He was placed in a patrol vehicle and while deputies returned to the house to see if anyone else was in there, he escaped from the back seat."
He was captured the next day with assistance from the U.S. Marshals Service.
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Woods attorney could use the defense that his client was going after some "heart healthy" cheerios before bedding down for his stay in our fine facilities. Or maybe he was hoping to fine some magically delicious "lucky charms" to get him out of the jam he found himself in. Mr. Wright was totally wrong.
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55.5% of Android users, running 2.1
We all love pie charts, right. Well check out this recent chart from Androids own developer website. The site is one of the main sources of information and tools for developing for the Android platform. While Foryo lurks in the shadows, Éclairs have their way.
So if you are running an Android based phone you may have had your iPhone toting friends tell you about the new iOS4, thingy as a basis of their new purchase, from there you may think to yourself what's my OS? And in most cases, an under average Android user will then experience the openness and power their operating system. Last month Google reported that 50% of their users were running on OS version 2.2, then a mere month later reported a 5.5% increase to 2.1 users, putting approximately 55.5% of Android device owners running version 2.1. The beautiful pie graph also goes on to show us that there are still Android users that have either not been offered an update to their phones, and or simply do not know such updates are available. Approximately 18.9% of Android users are still rocking the original 1.5 platform, while 22.1% run with version 1.6, 55.5% run version 2.1, and not surprisingly 3.3% of users are making the rest of us in the know a little jealous running Froyo or 2.2. If you were wondering, version 2.o of the Android OS has reportedly not made its self evident enough to make it to our delicious pie graph of deserts.
This data was collected during a two week span that ended on July 15 2010. The information is one very good pile of information if you plan on working on developing for Androids famed OS, however what is more intriguing to me is how many OS users at the bottom of the "version" rung do not know an update is available.
When looking into my pie graph future telling machine, I foresee the numbers for 2.2 skyrocketing, or at least I can wish.
If 1.5 is a Cupcake, 1.6 is an Donut, 2.1 is an Éclair, 2.2 is Froyo, and the rumored mega Gingerbread man in 3.0 is not even in the oven yet. This pie graph is surely the most delicious I have ever come across in many ways.
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A shooting at Johns Hopkins Hospital in September, where a distraught man wounded a surgeon and killed his cancer-stricken 84-year-old mother before turning the gun on himself, grabbed headlines around the world. But hospital gunplay remains rare, say researchers, even though workplace assaults in health care settings are four times more common than in many other industries.
Two Johns Hopkins doctors, prompted in part by the attack, examined hospital violence in a commentary published in the Journal of the American Medical Association last week.
The doctors said from 1997 to 2009, less than 1 percent of workplace killings happened in health care settings. According to figures reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 73 of the 8,127 occupational killings tracked were at a medical facility, with 20 of them happening in hospitals.
Of these victims, 12 were doctors and 15 nurses. To put that in perspective, in the same period, 282 cab drivers and 307 cashiers were slain on the job.
Even if killings are rare, assaults are surprisingly more common than in many other industries. For most private-sector jobs, there are two assaults per 10,000 workers, say the researchers. In health care, it's eight assaults per 10,000.
Information on shootings was less formal. Using data gathered from an Internet search, the doctors said since 2008, there have been at least 18 shootings at or nearby hospitals. In about half of all cases, the motivation was revenge, or the shooter committed suicide. One-third of cases involved blasting sick relatives, and two shootings were between coworkers.
The doctors said contrary to general perception, most hospital shootings are not at facilities in high-crime areas. Rather, they happen at random, often at smaller hospitals.
They also suggest little should be done. The rarity of shootings and the fact that deterring a determined shooter is "nearly impossible" mean prevention efforts should focus on other kinds of violence, they said. They had little use for metal detectors.
"Magnetometers may also create a false sense of security," write study authors Drs. Gabor D. Kelen and Christina L. Catlett. "They do not detect nonmetal weapons and have no effect on preventing nonweapon assaults."
The violence in health care settings is a reflection of the violence in society as a whole, the doctors said (the U.S. leads other developed nations in violent crime rankings). But they also noted the decline in the public's perception of medicine.
"There was a time when physicians were viewed with reverence and hospitals were considered sanctuaries," they write.
As an example, they cite a study looking at television portrayals of doctors. In the 1950s TV show City Hospital, doctors were omnipotent healers. But in today's Grey's Anatomy, they're bickering and self-absorbed.
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- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, softened
- 3 lb mixed bones and heads of white-fleshed fish (such as monkfish, turbot, red snapper, striped bass, porgy, grouper, and/or cod), gills removed and bones and heads rinsed well
- 2 large onions, sliced
- 1 bunch parsley stems (reserve leaves for another use)
- 6 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 10 cups cold water
- 1 1/2 cups dry white wine
Spread butter in bottom of a 6- to 8-quart heavy pot. Add fish bones and heads, onions, parsley stems, lemon juice, and salt and cook, covered, over moderately high heat, without stirring, 5 minutes. (Mixture will steam in its own juices.) Add water and wine and bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, skimming any foam, 25 minutes.
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A four-year letterwinner from 2004-08 while the Stoehrs were on the Lady Techster coaching staff, Levingston will be a key asset in NSU's focus on recruiting Louisiana student-athletes.
She was a three-year first-team Class 5A All-State star from 2001-03 and a state champion in the long and triple jumps at Ruston High School.
"I am extremely excited to add Nastassja to our staff," said Brooke Stoehr. "Having seen her firsthand as a dedicated, student athlete to watching her growth as a young professional, I am confident she will be a great fit for the community of Natchitoches and our program.
"Nastassja has worked extremely hard for this opportunity and will bring a dynamic energy and work ethic to the staff.
Nastassja has deep ties in Louisiana as a player and coach that will benefit us greatly as we focus our recruiting efforts throughout the state," said Stoehr.
She and Brittany Godsey, who was a graduate assistant coach at Southern Mississippi when Brooke Stoehr was an assistant coach there, complete the Lady Demon coaching staff alongside the Stoehrs.
Levingston was a starting guard as a senior for the Lady Techsters while she played in 87 career contests.
Since graduating from Louisiana Tech in 2008 with a business administration degree, Levingston was an assistant girls basketball coach at Ruston's Cedar Creek High School, head junior high coach, and for the past year also worked in private business in Ruston.
As a senior in 2007-08, she was the Louisiana Tech Radio Network Player of the Game five times while she started 19 of 29 games.
She averaged 8.2 points, 1.5 rebounds, 1.0 steals and 0.6 assists per game while she shot 34 percent from the field, 33 percent from the three-point line and 73 percent from the free throw line. Levingston sank a team-high 39 three-pointers on the season, making at least one in 24 of her 29 games.
She three times scored a career-high 17 points that season, against Western Kentucky, Alabama, and Boise State. Levingston memorably registered a four-point play in the final minute to help the Techsters come from five points back and down Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
She posted a career-high six steals in a win over Idaho and also scored in double figures against Memphis (15 points), Sam Houston State (12 points), Hawaii (13 points), Nevada (12 points), San Jose State (14 points) and Fresno State (10 points) in her final season.
As a junior, Levingston won the McKinney Honda Offensive Player of the Game (Tech Radio Network) twice as she saw action in 23 games. She averaged 3.6 points and 1.0 rebounds per game while averaging 9.0 minutes, making 33 percent from the field, 30 percent from the three-point line and 71 percent from the free throw line. Levingston scored a then-career-high 13 points in wins over Idaho and San Jose State. She registered a career-high four assists in a win over Fresno State.
A point guard for coach Ricky Durrett at Ruston High School for four years, Levingston helped lead the Lady Bearcats to LHSAA Sweet 16 appearances in 2000 and 2001 and into the state playoffs all four years. She averaged 21.2 points and 5.9 assists as a senior.
Levingston was named first-team Class 5A all-state and all-district in 2001, 2002 and 2003.
She was twice first-team Monroe News-Star All-Northeast Louisiana and Shreveport Times All-Area, and two-time Ruston Daily Leader Lincoln Parish Player of the Year
State champion in the long jump and triple jump in 2001, Levingston was state runner-up in the long and triple jump in 2002 and 2003.
She won the district in the long and triple jumps in 2001 and 2002 and 100-meter hurdles in 2002 and 2003.
Her personal best marks were 14.8 in 100-meter hurdles, 19-7 3/4 in the long jump and 39-8 1/2 in the triple jump, and she won the track team's academic award all four years she competed.


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Amelia is Darina Allen's 2.5 year old granddaughter and Aunty Rachel showed her how to make these delicious crumpets.
Makes 12
110g (4oz) self-raising flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
25g (1oz) caster sugar
pinch of salt
1 egg
110ml (4fl oz) milk
drop of sunflower oil, for greasing
Sift the flour and baking powder into a bowl, add the sugar and salt and stir to mix. Make a well in the centre, crack in the egg and whisk, gradually drawing in the flour from the edge. Add the milk gradually, whisking all the time, to form a smooth batter.
Lightly grease a frying pan and warm it over a moderate heat. Drop 3 tablespoons of the batter into the pan, keeping well apart so they don't stick together. Cook for about 2 minutes or until bubbles appear on the surface and begin to burst and the crumpets scones are golden underneath, then flip them over and cook on the other side for a minute or until golden on this side as well.
Remove from the pan and serve warm with butter and jam, apple jelly, lemon curd or if you are like my grandchildren, chocolate spread! (If you wish, wrap the crumpets in a clean tea towel to keep warm while you make the rest.)
Once again this year, the Ballymaloe Cookery School in East Cork has a great new program of cookery courses for all interests and abilities. Ranging from a relaxing visit to sit in on an afternoon cookery demonstration to a week long 'Intensive Introductory Course'.
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AS part of their continuing preparation for the regular season, Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation Inc. (Cesafi) defending champions University of the Visayas Green Lancers and the University of San Carlos Warriors will take part in a four-day tournament in St. Bernard, Southern Leyte on May 25-28.
This tournament will come at the heels of their FilOil Flying V Hanes Premier Cup tournament campaign, which is scheduled to end on May 25 in Lapu-Lapu City.
Though they won the gold medal in the Private Schools Athletic Association national meet last month, the Lancers struggled heavily while trying to find the winning formula in pre-season tournaments like the FilOil Premier Cup.
USC on the other hand is perfecting its execution and winning touches.
This tournament would give the Cebu school-based teams the much needed exposure and experience as they will face the University of Sto. Tomas Growling Tigers, who finished second to De La Salle University Green Archers last year.
UST will be joined by a Manila-based commercial team Wang's Ball Club/Sea Lions. The Lions currently play in the championship round of Passion Basketball League in Makati City.
The Sea Lions will parade veteran players like Ricky Ricafuente, Egay Billones, Niño Marquez, Bogs Raymundo and Harold Sta. Cruz.
The other teams that will be joining are the Cebu City-based AC Troopers and NCAA champion San Beda College.
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- Tracey, 11/21/2013
Hi Don,
This is Daisey's (Cranford) daughter just wanting to thank you once again for your wonderful service to us at Red Holman Buick GMC last week.
You were so pleasant, helpful, and patient, and not to mention humorous. It was a great plus, and it made a usually stressful experience of getting a new car really a pleasure.
Before driving away, you spent plenty of time showing Mom each feature of her beautiful new 2013 Buick Regal, and made her feel very comfortable before she drove off the lot. As a senior citizen, this really made a difference in getting her off to a good start.
It's been a long time since someone has been so kind.
I really cannot thank you enough!
I am looking forward to the time when I can come in myself, and hopefully get a new vehicle in the very near future.
Until then best wishes to your continued success!
Leslie Hampton
As a business man in a service related industry I am keenly aware of excellent service especially when it is coming my way. My sales guy, Greg Dawkins is on top of his game. I really put the rush on him the day before Thanksgiving, in fact it was 2 hrs before closing when I called Greg asking him if it was possible to put a deal together in just 2 hrs and leave with a vehicle I saw a few days earlier. Guess who drove that neat Buick to the family TG party? Man was they impressed. So am I. There were minor brake and wheel bal. probs. No problem he says, I had that beauty back just a few hrs. Later in the week Todd, the service desk man called to see if I was happy w/ the service. Great follow up by a customer oriented,knowledgable guy.
Like wise with Greg, snaps right to it. BTW I bought a car from Red himself in 1959, talk about a long time relationship. When I mentioned this I was ushered into the office some of the guys who were at the Reds dealership in 59 and we had an enjoyable conversation re those very old days. Keep up the top shelf work.
-John Hayes, President HAYES MACHINERY & EQUIPMENT Westland and recently Brown City MI
October 26th, 2012
Overall Score: 100%
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I am so pleased with this DEALERSHIP, words can't truly say exactly how I feel. In October, 2007, I purchased a LACURNE CXL, for my WIFE. It was a BIRTHDAY PRESENT for her!!!!!! My Wife was so excited about this auto, that she doesn't let anyone get very near her car!!!! She was also very, very pleased with the SALESMAN RICK DAWKINS. This man is EXCEPTIONAL in many ways!!!! He truly is the MEANING OF A "HONEST", "TRUSTING", "SINCERE" SALESMAN!!!!!! TRUST ME----THERE ARE NOT MANY OF THIS TYPE SALESMEN AROUND!!!!!!! MR. DAWKINS WENT OUT OF HIS WAY FOR NOT JUST MYSELF, BUT, FOR MY WIFE. I APPRECIATE EVERYTHING THAT HE DID FOR MY WIFE, AND NOW FOR MYSELF!!!!!! The auto I purchased, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2012, is fantastic!!!!!! I purchased a 2007 LACROSS!!!!!! It doesn't have as much extras as my WIFE'S does, but, it is jut great for myself. MR. DAWKINS WAS ONCE AGAIN ON TOP OF EVERYTHING, MAKING SURE THAT THIS AUTO WAS EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED. MR. DAWKINS IS TRULY OUR SALESMAN FOR ALL FUTURE AUTOS, PLUS, I HAVE NOT HESITATED TO RECOMMEND RED HOLMAN DEALERSHIP AND MR. DAWKINS TO ANYONE I KNOW, AND CONTINUE TO BRAG ABOUT THIS COMPANY. GENERAL MOTORS SHOULD BE PROUD OF MR. DAWKINS AND THE DEALERSHIP WHICH HE WORKS FOR. As I just stated, MR. DAWKINS HONESTY, and SINCERITY, make me want to come back again and again to RED HOLMAN. THE ENTIRE STAFF AT RED HOLMAN IS EXCEPTIONAL, AND I ALWAYS ENJOY BEING A CUSTOMER. THANK YOU MR. DAWKINS, AND RED HOLMAN AND STAFF FOR THE EXCEPTIONAL ATTENTION I HAVE AND STILL RECEIVE WHENEVER I AM IN YOUR DEALERSHIP. I KNOW THAT MY WIFE AND MYSELF HAVE THE BEST AUTOS IN THE STATE OF MICHIGAN, AND BECAUSE OF THIS AND MR. DAWKINS, I WILL NOT SHOP FOR AUTOS ANYWHERE ELSE. THIS IS MY PROMISE TO RED HOLMAN AND TO MR. RICK DAWKINS. GOD BLESS EVERYONBE AT RED HOLMAN, AND ESPECIALLY GOD BLESS MR. DAWKINS AND HIS ENTIRE FAMILY. MR. DAWKINS IS TRULY A "TOP OF THE LINE" SALESMAN, AND I AM LUCKY TO HAVE HIM TAKE CARE OF MYSELF AND MY WIFE. THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN...........
March 8, 2012
Mark Kowalski
Red Holman Buick GMC
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Westland Mi. 48185
We came to Red Holman Buick GMC after being very disillusioned when visiting several other dealerships. Judy Ruen was AWESOME, right from the start. Along with her husband John, they went out of their way to make us feel comfortable. Judy worked hard to get us approved for a great used car that we both love. She even laughed at my husbands jokes. She was very patient and understanding of our situation. The entire staff made this a GREAT buying experience. We will recommend her to all of our friends and family.
The car was way above expectations, and Judy would not let us settle for any thing less than what made us both happy.
So at night, while watching the T.V. and you see the Red Holman commercial come on, pay attention to Judy, because she's the real deal!
She and John are awesome…
I was in for service 1/12/12 and Jason Hargis was assigned as my service advisor. I must say Red Holman has an outstanding employee in Jason. There were a few snafu's, not of his making, and he made sure that I was taken care of in a timely manner.
I live in Dexter, MI and so this is a jaunt for me, but, I will continue to come to Red Holman's only because of the treatment and respect I received from Jason. He is a Rock Star!!!
Thank you,
Leah Meunier
Overall Score: 100%
Comments: This was our first time buying a vehicle with Red Holman Buick GMC and we are extremely pleased. From start to finish our salesman was helpful and enthusiastic without being aggressive for a sale. The whole experience was very comfortable and positive. Our salesman also went above and beyond to make sure we were familiar with all options available on the car, gave us plenty of opportunity to test drive the car, and even went so far as to get a better interest rate for the vehicle. We are extremely thankful for such generosity and helpfulness and look forward to future experiences with Red Holman.
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-Russell H.
It was the best of times and the worst of times.
I first went to a different dealership. It was horrible! No one wanted to sell me a car! I had to go around knocking, looking for a salesperson. When I found two in a bull-pen area, instead of saying, "May we help you?" I got, "Hey, you're not allowed in here!" The person who became my sales rep was new. She didn't have a clue about how to sell a car. She wasn't clear on price, financing, or trade-in. The sales manager was not interested in coming out or his office, even though I was the only customer in the showroom for the two hours that I was there. They did appraise my Saturn Outlook and offered less than where I bought my Acadia. They never offered to show me their numbers or how far apart we were. Finally, I got up and left.
I received a phone call from the sales rep. She only told me that the dealership is in receivership and no one really cares – especially the sales manager, who is from GM Holdings. They are just waiting for the new owner. I thought, "Why are you telling me this?" She was just making a bad situation worse, and only confirmed that I will never visit that dealership at any point in the future ever again.
We then went to Red Holman in Westland, MI. We had Don McTaggart as our salesman. I will tell you. He is the first person that I will see the next time that I buy a car. He was very friendly and conveyed that he knew what he was doing! I had Bentley & Simon with me. It turns out that Mr. McTaggart used to play hockey, and the boys took an instant liking to him. At one point during the car buying process, he called my cell phone and Amy answered it. She was impressed that Mr. McTaggert used her name while on the phone. They have never met, but I mentioned her in previous conversations, and it was impressive that he picked up on that and used it. I cannot fully explain it, but he made buying a car fun. He also made me smile when I hopped into my new car, he already had the radio set to the NHL channel on XM. I smiled and thought that was smooth, and I mean that in the best way. He really picked up on a lot of little things which made me enjoy the entire experience!
I am happy with my new Acadia. I am thoroughly pleased with my experience with Mr. McTaggert at Red Holman. Thanks!
Steven Gensterblum
I received your call in regards to my satisfaction with the repairs of my Buick. I believe that the
climate control was repaired to the original condition. The few other problems with the radio and the heads up display are still the same. I understand that it is hard to repair the problem when they don't see it. I afraid I will have to live with the problems. I do want to thank you for staying on the climate control problem until it was resolved. If I decide to keep the car, you are the only person I would come see. I believe that you truly care about my satisfaction and would go the extra mile to make sure that you have taken care of your customer. You are an asset to your company and the one shinning light that I have found since buying a car from GM. I again thank you for all your help in getting this frustrating problem somewhat corrected. I would not hesitate to recommend you to a friend.


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paring most of its lead, ended at a multi-year best. "After a good
start to the session, we lost steam as the day wore on," said
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S&P 500 Index (SPX - 1,460.93)
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loss on the day, but saw a 1.4% rise for the week. Meanwhile, the
COMP posted a deficit of 13.3 points, or 0.4%, but enjoyed a weekly
return of 0.6%.
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close since Sept. 24. The VIX inched 0.2 point, or 1.5%, lower for
the day, and backpedaled 8.9% for the week.
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: "With the unemployment numbers out of the way, we can focus on
earnings season, which starts next week," said Detrick. "Alcoa Inc.
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Gold futures also headed south today, as a better-than-expected
unemployment report dimmed stimulus hopes. Against this backdrop,
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Several area businesses spent much of the weekend cleaning up from a rash of pipes bursting, caused by Fridays temperatures that dipped down to minus 15 degrees.
The problems with pipes began on Friday morning and continued through Saturday afternoon. Such businesses and properties in Watertown affected by the troubles include: the Ponderosa Steakhouse, the Comfort Inn and Suites, Best Western Carriage House Inn, Dennys restaurant and Creek Wood Apartments.
Residents of four units at Creek Wood Apartments had to be evacuated when sprinkler pipes burst, causing water to go in between walls and drip from ceiling fixtures, said Battalion Chief Timothy P. Tucker Wiley of the Watertown City Fire Department.
Firefighters first responded to the problem happening in one building at 11:47 a.m. Friday and then during a separate incident in another building several hours later, he said. The residents ended up staying with friends, he said.
On Friday morning, firefighters were called to Dennys on Arsenal Street; it remained closed on Saturday evening with a large sign on its doors notifying customers that pipes burst, sorry. There was no indication on Saturday night when the restaurant would reopen.
Battalion Chief Wiley said the fire department has been called out so often during the last couple of days that firefighters have not had a chance to get them all listed in the fire calls book.
We went all over, he said.
At the Comfort Inn, more than 15 blue industrial fans were still being used on Saturday to help clean up the mess. The hotel, however, never closed, said front desk manager Angela L. Broyles.
We had a little bit of water all over the first floor, she said. But its all under control.
The Best Western was struck by a double whammy, Battalion Chief Wiley said. A municipal pipe burst under the building and a sprinkler head malfunctioned in another part of the hotel, causing large puddles. A few third-floor rooms sustained some damage, an employee said.
Since Thursday, Jefferson County fire departments and residents have struggled to keep up with burst or frozen pipes.
When we get into the zero and subzero temperatures, pipes freeze, said Jefferson County Fire and Emergency Management Director Joseph D. Plummer. What ends up happening is the water expands in the pipe and it breaks. It gets a little warmer and the ice starts to melt.
Temperatures jumped from minus 10 degrees and below Friday evening to almost 30 degrees mid-Saturday.
Firefighters who responded to a house fire Saturday morning in LaFargeville said prior to the incident, homeowners had been attempting to thaw a frozen pipe. Earlier in the day, a burst water main outside 935 Sherman St. flooded part of the road and took several hours to clean up.
On Friday morning, the Northern Credit Union and two adjoining businesses were forced to close when a sprinkler pipe broke, causing six of inches to end up on the floor. According to a press release, the branch was going to remain closed until the cleanup was completed.
Shortly before 4 p.m. Saturday, Brook T. Hibbard, the maintenance man at the Medical Arts Building, 171 Clinton St., found a few offices in Dr. Moid Khans suites with about 2 inches of water. He surmised it came from a burst pipe in a second-floor office.
Firefighters arrived and turned off the electrical power to the offices. The businesss receptionist, who declined to give her name, said on Saturday she did not know whether the mess would be cleaned up in time to reopen on Monday.
Well get it taken care of somehow, Mr. Hibbard said.
One of the safest ways pipes can be thawed is to allow hot water to run through the plumbing.
Everything doesnt work as well in cold weather. Not just the pipes, but even firefighting efforts, said Mr. Plummer, adding that water pumps could freeze and break if firefighters didnt ensure they were empty.
Torches should not be used to thaw a pipe, however hair dryers or electric lamps may be used as long as they are supervised.
Homeowners should also be prepared to use their water shut-off valve in the event of a burst.
Additional safe thawing suggestions from the Red Cross can be found at http://wdt.me/d2suQs.
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Australia's top-ranked racehorse All Too Hard could be a surprise runner in Saturday week's Scone Guineas.
The colt's co-trainer Wayne Hawkes threw the $500,000 race into the mix on Saturday, suggesting the Group One Doomben Cup, which is run on the same day would also be considered.
The feature event at the NSW Hunter Valley track is just one option open to the Hawkes team as a lead-up to the trip to Royal Ascot that has long been mooted as part of All Too Hard's program.
"What I really wish for is a Group One mile race next Saturday," Wayne Hawkes said.
The trip to England is viewed as an essential part of All Too Hard's bid to establish himself as an international stallion prospect.
But Hawkes said All Too Hard didn't need to follow his half-sister Black Caviar to Royal Ascot to enhance his already impressive CV.
"He doesn't have to go and win in England. Black Caviar did that for him," he said.
"Does he have to do any more?"
Hawkes said a number of big European and American studs had already expressed interest in standing All Too Hard.
The Queen Anne Stakes (1600m) at the Royal meeting in June shapes as the most suitable race for All Too Hard, but Hawkes said there wasn't a race that would be beyond the colt.
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Though Capcom was on call with Street Fighter for the launch of the 3DS, this time it's all about Marvel as Sony's latest handheld disembarks on store shelves. Of all the terms accumulating on Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3's ever expanding list of descriptors, 'portable' is the one sure to give many fighting game fans pause. Does this miniaturized version of last year's celebrated slugfest deliver on the hype?
Put short, dedicated Versus players will be happy to know that the portable iteration maintains excellent gameplay parity with the console release--no small feat, considering the 60 frames-per-second 3-on-3 tag team madness integral to the series' feel. With all of the aerial shenanigans and life-shattering combos of the original, the Vita version certainly doesn't skimp on performance or content; all of the default fighters, stages, and modes are represented in full, and there are even a few original features in this extended handheld bout.
Of note is a long-desired replay option, a feature axed in the console version that gives users the ability to view and download archived matches from all over the world. Optional hitbox display gilds the lily for experienced players, but those less interested in the arcana of frame data may find value in the touchscreen-enabled canned combos, which are meant to ease newcomers into the game's more demanding techniques. Some of the other new features, however, aren't quite so interesting; using the Vita as a remote controller for the PS3 version sticks out as being particularly superfluous.
As far as the genuine Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 experience goes, compromise isn't something that longtime fighting game fans have to worry about in this well-handled port. Online play holds up admirably to the lobby features and netcode standards of the original, and dedicated pad players should find little trouble adjusting their links, loops, and launchers to the Vita's crisp controls. Of course, that also means potentially buying Marvel vs. Capcom 3 a third time in a little less than a year, but if you insist on some of the best fighting you'll experience yet on the go, you won't find much better than this.
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Investigators said Christine Denton was home at the time of the fire with three family dogs. While Ms. Denton was able to escape unharmed, the dogs were killed in the blaze, which firefighters battled until about 4:30 p.m.
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From now until eternity, Chumbawamba will always be best known for "Tubthumping," their gigantic, infernally catchy 1997 fluke hit. But the band actually had a career that spanned more than three decades and went through a lot of bizarre changes. They started out, implausibly enough, as an anarcho-punk collective, paragons of the same scene that Crass helped to birth. They'd been around for years, experimenting with different sounds and ideas before signing a deal with EMI and stumbling into fleeting international fame with "Tubthumping." They kept soldiering on after that song became a kitsch relic, too, and they're only now announcing that they're disbanding.


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Why don't the clips work?
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The referral fees would be a marketing expense.
You could put them as a separate line item so you can track how much you are spending on this.
In terms of accounting for referral fees, the same would be under GAAP as IFRS. However, switching to IFRS does have some implications.
In my experience, companies that report under IFRS have a higher net income than do companies that report under US GAAP.
GAAP is very conservative
Also, liabilitiies such as your workers comp and healthcare accruals are stated at their present value under IFRS and in todays dollars in GAAP, which makes liabilities higher under GAAP
I wrote a graduate research paper on the differences between GAAP and IFRS in relation to pension expense, and found that companies that reported under IFRS had a lower pension expense than their GAAP counterparts.
Could we report referral credit as a reduction to revenue and why? Also, when would we report such a transaction, when do we recognize this expense? What transaction do we report when the referral credit earned by the existing customer? And what transaction do we report when it is redeemed?
If we adopt IFRSs in future, what is the relevant accounting guidance we would follow in contrast to GAAP (in respect to referral credit)
Referral fees would be accounted for similar to commissions - they would be an expense, not a reduction of revenue
You would recognize this when the expense is incurred.
Once the sale is made that the referral fee is due on, you would recognize the referral fee
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Then, when the referral fee is redeemed by the customer, you would debit referral fees payable and credit accounts receivable or cash if paid in cash
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App Review: A1 Fit Interval Trainer 6
Last week as part of Mobile Nations Fitness Month we took a look at Speedy Marks' Workout, an interval training timer app. The gist of interval training is that exercising in bursts of high-intensity instead of a continuous moderate intensity results in a more effective workout. While Workout provides a pretty basic approach to the concept of interval training, A1 Fit Interval Trainer by A1 Development takes comes at it with more customizability information presentation.
Upon launch you're presented with a set-up screen asking you to specify your warm-up and cool-down times, how long you'd like each high- and low-intensity period to last, and how many cycles you'd like the app to run you through. Hit the big green start button and you're thrown to the timer screen. There are two countdown timers, with your current period timer at the top and the total time remaining at the bottom. Each is accompanied by a shrinking progress bar, with the period timer's also listing the current activity (warm-up, high intensity, et al). Smack dab in the middle is a count of how many intervals through you are in the workout.
Since you're not likely to have your smartphone up by your face when you're working out, A1 Fit has taken a number of steps to help you workout from a distance. There's the large bold text for the timers and the contrast of the progress bars and a loudly repeating chime at the change of each interval. Additionally, the background color changes with each interval, becoming orange for the warmup phase, red for high intensity workouts, green for low intensity, and a cool blue for the cool down period. You can turn off both the chime and the color change if you want to keep things calm. Smartly, A1 Fit also keeps the screen turned on through your workout.
It might seem like a simple concept, but proper and consistent timing is important for interval training to be effective. Apps like the $1.49 A1 Fit Interval Trainer aim to make it as easy as possible to do so.
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The most common greenhouse gases are water vapour, carbon dioxide and methane and they are called greenhouse gases because they trap the sun's heat within the earth's atmosphere warming the earth. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the most important greenhouse gas for us to reduce and is measured in tonnes.
Human-kind's emissions of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere lead to all sorts of environmental effects including melting the ice in our polar regions, reducing the extent of glaciers, altering our climate and contributing to rising sea levels.
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Still lagging in the polls, Democratic Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has picked up an endorsement from a radical gun control organization.
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence (BCPGV) is lending its support in recognition of Quinns tougher stance on the issue than that of his Republican opponent, State Senator Bill Brady, according to The Associated Press (AP).
[The Republican candidate] is someone who is taking the attitude that more guns in more places is somehow going to make us safer. That makes no sense at all," said Paul Helmke, president of the Washington, D.C.-based organization, quoted by the news provider.
In response to the announcement, the Illinois State Rifle Association Political Victory Fund (ISRA-PVF) released a statement listing six ways in which Quinn wants to restrict access to guns, including his support for complex regulations that would make it difficult for legitimate firearm retailers to stay in business.
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