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Trading anomalies the day before H.J. Heinz Co. announced its $28 billion acquisition led the FBI to join an investigation of alleged insider trading, the agency said on Tuesday.
The FBI said it would investigate with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which last week filed suit against traders the SEC accused of using knowledge of the pending deal to reap $1.7 million in profit.
"The FBI is aware of the trading anomalies the day before Heinz's announcement," said a statement from the FBI's field office in New York. "The FBI is consulting with the SEC to determine if a crime was committed."
Pittsburgh-based Heinz, maker of ketchup and pickles, among other foods, on Thursday said it agreed to be acquired by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and Brazilian investment firm 3G Capital for $28 billion, including debt.
The next day, the SEC obtained an emergency court order to freeze assets in a Zurich-based trading account.
"The SEC alleges that prior to any public awareness that Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital had agreed to acquire H.J. Heinz Co. in a deal valued at $28 billion, unknown traders took risky bets that Heinz's stock price would increase," the SEC said.
The SEC did not make public the names of the traders. The FBI declined further comment.
"Despite the obvious logistical challenges of investigating trades involving offshore accounts, we moved swiftly to locate and freeze the assets of these suspicious traders, who now have to make an appearance in court to explain their trading if they want their assets unfrozen," Sanjay Wadhwa, senior associate director of the SEC's New York Regional Office, said last week.
The SEC and FBI have worked more closely in recent years in the fallout from the financial crisis, said Robert Strauss, economics and public policy professor at Carnegie Mellon University's H.J. Heinz School of Public Policy.
The Heinz acquisition also is "a major transaction," Strauss said. "One shouldn't be surprised that somebody tries to benefit from inside information."
The SEC considers insider trading "a high priority," and last year brought 58 insider-trading actions against 131 individuals and companies, the commission said.
But a majority of those cases were settled, according to an analysis by NERA Economic Consulting, a subsidiary of New York-based Marsh & McLennan Cos. The SEC settled insider-trading cases with 118 individuals and eight companies last year, "almost double the total number" in 2011, NERA said.
Under the proposed acquisition, which requires approval from Heinz shareholders and government regulators, Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital would pay Heinz stockholders $72.50 a share. If completed, it would be the largest-ever transaction involving a food industry company.
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A post by Republican Rep. Nate Bell of Arkansas has raised hell on Twitter, as the lawmaker used the high-profile manhunt of the Boston bombing suspect to express his views on gun control.
"I wonder how many Boston liberals spent the night cowering in their homes wishing they had an AR-15 with a hi-capacity magazine?" Bell has tweeted.
Earlier today, he posted an apology for his tweet, mentioning that he should have picked better timing for it. The full apology can be read on his Facebook page.
"I would like to apologize to the people of Boston & Massachusetts for the poor timing of my tweet," the legislator says.
As you would expect, many are more offended by the apology than they are by the original tweet. Bell practically says that he is right about all those "cowering liberals" but has poor PR skills.
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Crystal Dynamics, the developer behind the upcoming Tomb Raider reboot, has confirmed that the game's single-player campaign will last around 12 to 15 hours to complete, depending on the play style of the actual player.
The long-running Tomb Raider franchise will receive a big reboot next year, in the form of the simply-titled Tomb Raider, which stars a young Lara Croft and features a grittier experience for the heroine.
According to Crystal Dynamics' Global Brand Director, Karl Stewart, the single-player campaign of the new game will last around 12 to 15 hours, depending on the player.
He also mentioned on Twitter that Lara Croft will have regenerative health in the game but she can't swim.
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Mother Country is a multi-sited, qualitative study of the United States fertility industry. I analyze the industry in two dimensions: as a particularly American institution and nascent profession, and as a destination for "reproductive tourism." The United States fertility industry, buttressed by lax federal regulation, free market principles, and high technology resources, is organized to benefit certain classes of American citizens and foreign nationals in their quest to have children. As such, the United States has become a prime destination for people seeking assisted fertility services such as commercial surrogacy, egg donation, and sex selection, which are unavailable, inaccessible, or illegal in many countries. I employed a grounded theory and mixed-methods approach to my topic: I used participant observation and in-depth semi-structured interviews in three major metropolitan regions (New York City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco), to generate thick, empirical data about the fertility industry in these respective cities. I also employed ethnographic content analysis of medical and scientific journals, newspaper reports, and industry marketing materials, and comparative policy analysis on the state, federal, and international level to identify trends and patterns about the global state of the field. I find that the United States produces ideal conditions for a fertility industry with a global reach. It boasts a robust network of fertility doctors, family law attorneys, and egg donation and surrogacy brokers, in addition to advanced technologies, high success rates, and lax federal regulation that enables clients to obtain services in locales with policies amenable to their needs and desires. Moreover, the profession itself has situated itself in such a way that enables it to secure its position as an autonomous body with gatekeeping functions, as professional organizations establish norms of self-regulation absent the teeth or enforcement of law.
This is a mixed-methods study conducted among heroin-using deportees in the Dominican capital of Santo Domingo, from 2008 to 2010. The study illustrates how forced mobility in transnational groups can lead to sudden changes in cultural environment, which promote risk-seeking attitudes, such as substance abuse, in the absence of structural checks and balances on high-risk behavior. In this study I adapt Merrill Singer's Syndemics model to illustrate how social isolation, mental health issues, and substance abuse are synergistic forces that aggravate the deportee's risk for serious health conditions. Data were gathered through a combination of (a) participant observation (inside shooting galleries, private homes, and public spaces); (b) life-histories, open-ended (N= 12); and (c) semi-structured interviews (N=120). In order to obtain detailed information about the life trajectory of the returnees, I first conducted participatory observation in various marginalized neighborhoods of Santo Domingo, such as Guachupita, Capotillo, San Carlos, and Villa Juana. Qualitative data served as the foundation for the semi-structured interview protocol. These research tools were used to illustrate pre- and post-removal protective and risk factors, and the subsequent health risk outcomes in the deportee life-course. According to the findings in this study, risk factors that may encourage risk seeking behavior and substance abuse are the lack of positive social networks, lack of financial means of subsistence, lack of adequate health care services, and institutional and structural stigmatization. Additionally, deportation-related trauma heightens the returnee's likelihood to suffer from mental health conditions.
This dissertation investigates the social formation and organization of the East Asian ethnic communities in Fort Lee, from the 1970s to the present. Beginning in the later-twentieth century the American suburb became an important site for immigrant settlement. A rapid influx of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean immigrants into Fort Lee, located in the metropolitan area of New York, has had an important influence on the social structures and everyday practice of this formerly white suburban community. The research is considered against existing social scientific theories of immigration including models of "spatial assimilation" and "ethnoburb." The central research question concerns how assimilation and ethnic retention are structured among East Asian immigrants and their offspring in Fort Lee. The findings suggest that three East Asian groups have formed distinct co-ethnic communities with different institutional structures and social organization. At the same time, coterminous residency in a specific suburban space has offered the possibility for development of new interrelations and informal pan-Asian affinities. Although the borough's diversity has facilitated immigrant incorporation, this has neither erased group differences nor the racialization of East Asians. The middle-class status of immigrants and the relative receptiveness of the locality have had a significant bearing on the processes of assimilation and ethnic retention. The dissertation proposes the concept of "multiethnic space" to account for the synchronicity of these processes as a product of everyday practice, relational power, and group formation. Assimilation and ethnic retention are considered as relational--rather than as mutually exclusive polarities. Practice is enacted in social relations with others: the various transformations of the multiethnic suburb are interdependent. Multiple methods were employed for the collection and analysis of the data, including: in-depth interviews with members of East Asian groups and native whites; ethnographic observations of community life and local events; analysis of census data (1950-2009); the analysis of archival records, including local community documents, and press accounts from the 1970s through the first decade of the twenty-first century.
Changes in technology are radically altering how conditions are treated, transforming the way we understand diseases and disabilities, and creating new stakeholders and subjectivities. This dissertation is an ethnographic study of parents and professionals involved in cochlear implantation in and around New York City. In the last two decades, the cochlear implant (CI) has become a common treatment for deafness, and since deaf children born to hearing parents are the fastest growing demographic of recipients, this research focuses on pediatric implantation. By spending time in a CI clinic, parents' homes, and children's schools, I learned how these parents and professionals participate in a social world based on interconnected institutions and the integration of clinical aspects of care into the home. I found that the success of this was significantly correlated with a mother's style of parenting, which was influenced by her class position. Perhaps the most striking quality of this social world was how dependent it is upon neuroscientific knowledge. I found that parents saw themselves as engaged in a `neural project' to overcome their child's deafness. I describe parents' desires to be successful at this, their willingness to comply with medical professionals, but also the ways they struggle to find their own agency in the middle of it all. Lastly, all of this must be seen within the larger context of social and technological change. There has been tremendous controversy over CIs; many in Deaf culture argue against their use because they diminish the numbers of children that learn sign language. They argue that CIs ultimately represent a case of a technology destroying a community. I found that this technology also generates community. The battle has been characterized as medical knowledge versus Deaf cultural knowledge. However, this research shows that the world of implantation, while steeped in medicine and presumed `objectivity,' is equally cultural and uses neuroscientific arguments that help to maintain controversy and division between the communities.
This dissertation will explore how ordinary workers in the new economy create and sustain power from below. In workplace and community movements, individuals acting collectively have been shown to win victories using a variety of different approaches. In this dissertation, I will argue that different approaches lead to different outcomes, often very different outcomes. I will use a framework throughout of three broad types of change processes; advocacy, mobilizing, and organizing, though my emphasis is on the latter two. And I will argue that each is productive of a different kind of victory. In arguing my case, that advocacy, mobilizing, and organizing are different approaches to social change that produce different outcomes and relative successes, I will move in, out, and between key arguments in the literature of social movements and unions published over the past forty years: the years when progressive movements began to lose everything they had gained and the right wing began consistently winning back the ground progressives lost. The twelve cases I analyze involved one classic social movement organization, two national unions, and two local unions, one of them also a local of one the nationals. Strikes were utilized as part of the overall strategy in three of the cases. By focusing on campaigns that led to success, I will identify the factors that I argue facilitate rather than inhibit the rebirth of a vibrant workers movement. This research will contribute to the sociological literature on social movement strategy and power. Specifically, my dissertation will test the current debate about "leaderless movements" and "horizontalism" by sharply focusing on leaders, including who they are, how they are identified, how they develop, the choices they make, and the role they play. The cases involve workforces with mostly women workers, in projected growth sectors of the US labor force (healthcare and education) which are dominated by women. Therefore, my work will address the dearth in the literature about labor organizing in heavily gendered sectors of work. By analyzing the factors that explain successes under new political, economic, and work conditions, I will contribute to new collective action theory, and offer a substantive understanding of how strikes are won in the new millennium.
IN DUBIOUS BATTLE: A CASE STUDY OF THE NEW LABOR TRANSNATIONALISM Adviser: Professor Frances Fox Piven This dissertation revisits the widely held assertion that neoliberal globalization necessarily undermines the power of workers. While increasing economic integration clearly presents challenges for organized labor, scholars have shown it also offers new opportunities based upon the contradictions of global capitalism. But recent debates about labor transnationalism provide a point of entry for a deeper examination of strategies for unions in the global era. Particularly, I assess the prospects for unions to exercise associational power by enforcing new modes of global governance. I believe that a careful assessment of actually existing labor transnationalism can help transcend debates between the negative prognosis of global processes and abstract internationalism. This in-depth case study suggests that global union campaigns can empower local voices and impact local unionization strategies. I therefore offer a new theoretical perspective that links labor transnationalism with union revitalization. Within this large and complex context, I compare the experiences of unions in South Africa and India as they collaborate with their partner unions in North America to battle multinational employers. First, I describe the contours of a global campaign in the private security industry, in which unions from multiple countries force their global employer to sign an international framework agreement, guaranteeing certain rights and standards for all the company's employees. Secondly, I compare the different implementation processes of the agreement between unions in South Africa and India. I conclude that workers in South Africa were able to use the rights won in the agreement to organize new workers and build stronger workplace unions. I refer to these as mobilization-type impacts. In India, unions have used the agreement to force the company to re-interpret important labor laws, which I call legislative-type impacts. I explain this variation based on an analysis of the local environments in which transnational collaboration takes place. This case suggests that scholars of labor transnationalism should more seriously consider the dynamic interaction of local mobilization and transnational campaigning. I also seek to correct a pattern in the literature which describes the recent interest in global unionism as simply following the trajectory of corporate globalization. Instead, I argue that failed domestic campaigns against multinational employers have encouraged some unions to experiment with innovative strategies at different scales, while others have become more inward-looking.
"Harm reduction" refers to a drug policy paradigm that promotes measures intended to reduce the negative consequences of illicit substance use within the context of legal prohibition. Citing values such as pragmatism, flexibility, and humanism, harm reduction "technologies" include needle exchange, methadone maintenance, and supervised injection - programs that defer the long-term goal of abstinence in favor of short-term measures aiming at the amelioration of risk. Discourses of risk pervade harm reduction programming, and indeed, the dangers of overdose, infection, and arrest faced by injection drug users are real, and further, exacerbated by a national drug strategy that emphasizes criminalization. However, this dissertation is less interested in the objective nature of the risk(s) surrounding injection drug use, and instead focuses on the construction of risk and risk subjects within harm reduction practice. By documenting the "techniques of subjectivation" employed at one community-based needle exchange, Bronx Harm Reduction, this project ultimately seeks to characterize harm reduction as both a technology of domination, and a technology of the self, while describing the identities forged therein (Foucault 1988). Drawing upon one year of participant observation and in-depth interviews with program participants and staff, this study contributes to an emerging body of critical social science research into harm reduction. Where previous study have focused upon more "spectacular" methods of harm reduction, like methadone maintenance, this research aims to explore a less controversial structural intervention, needle exchange, which works upon users' bodies by first molding their sense of self. It further endeavors to move beyond a binary of empowerment and control, in problematizing the forms of agency that are generated within needle exchange. Where harm reduction theory rests upon a construction of "clients" as autonomous and rational subjects, Bronx Harm Reduction's rules, staff actions, and client experiences betrayed a more complex reality. Ultimately, this dissertation asks: how empowering is an identity that posits the individual as potentially dangerous to him or herself and others?
Drawing on post-structuralist and feminist theories about the relationship between knowledge, power, bodies, health, and subjectification, in this dissertation I critically analyze the experience of individuals who were medically diagnosed as obese or morbidly obese and underwent bariatric (weight loss) surgery. During the late 20th and early 21st century, the United States saw an explosion of discourse and anxiety about rising population body weights. In national public health addresses, obesity was commonly referred to as a threat to the nation state. During this same time period, anti-fat stigma significantly increased and the number of bariatric surgeries performed skyrocketed. I argue that these concurrent phenomena must be understood within a neoliberal political-economic and healthist context in which `proper' citizenship is held to involve `proper' health (and by extension `proper' weight). Fat bodies, within this framing, suggest `failed' citizenship and moral laxity. Through the use of qualitative interviews with bariatric patients and surgeons, as well as brief participation at peer-led weight loss surgery conferences, I explore the ways in which bariatric patients take up or refute medicalized notions of fatness. I do so by examining why formerly fat individuals underwent bariatric surgery as a means of weight loss, and the physical, physiological, psychological, and social transformations involved in this process. I show that participants experienced pervasive anti-fat stigma and that this stigma operated in ways that were simultaneously discursive, emotional, and material. I argue that choosing weight loss surgery was not just a means of achieving a visually more normal appearance, but a means by which these individuals took responsibility for their current and moreover, their future states of health. I document how, following surgery, bariatric patients reported substantial improvements in physical health as well as emotional well being. However, they also experienced significant physiological and physical side effects from both rapidly loosing a tremendous amount of weight and also living with a dramatically altered digestive system. Because of this, bariatric patients effectively trade one set of embodied health concerns for another. I demonstrate that bariatric surgery not only shifts the relationship to the body but to others as well: patients must learn to both socially manage the impact of their new eating rituals and navigate the complexities of new attentions, envy from others, and criticisms for having taken the `easy way out.' I argue that these new embodied and social concerns are helping produce the formation of online and in-person communities around bariatric surgery. I conclude this dissertation by documenting both the forces that help push bariatric patients together, as well as those factors that pull them apart, creating divisions within bariatric communities in the process.
Drawing on intersectionality theory, hate crime studies, and feminist and sexuality research, this dissertation project employs an intersectional approach to examine race, class, and gender differences among an interview sample of 44 people who experienced violence for being perceived as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT). In contrast to previous studies of LGBT hate crime victims, which have focused on the psychological effects of bias-motivated violence, this dissertation examines the sociological components of hate crime. In particular, this dissertation builds on research questions that have been explored in the hate crime literature - specifically, how LGBT people evaluate the severity of their violent experiences and how they determine whether violence is based on their sexuality or gender identity. Results are based on semi-structured, in-depth interviews, conducted in New York City, and reveal significant differences along the lines of race, class, and gender. White gay men, for instance, generally expressed certainty as to the cause of their violent experiences, while LGBT people of color sometimes expressed uncertainty because they could not be sure whether racism had also played a role. Moreover, with regard to evaluating the severity of their violent experiences, middle-class white respondents were more likely than low-income people of color to perceive their violent experiences as severe, even though the latter experienced more physical violence than the former. By employing an intersectional approach to examine these research questions, this dissertation augments our understanding of the ways in which LGBT people perceive their violent experiences, revealing how forms of anti-LGBT violence are linked with institutional power structures such as race, class, gender, and sexuality. Entrenched in the disciplinary crossroads of sociology, criminal justice, and feminist and sexuality studies, this dissertation suggests that the social position of LGBT people plays a significant role in structuring their experiences of hate-motivated violence.


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Experience Willow Hill Farm's High School Horsemanship Program. Students enjoy horseback riding five or more times each week and participate in many other activities in our busy equestrian program such as Eventing, Drill Team, Dressage, and Jumping clinics. Willow Hill Farm's boarding program offers students a family environment on a working farm, while attending a nearby public or private school.
Willow Hill Farm is located in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. Uniquely situated in the beautiful AuSable River Valley, on 400 acres. A panorama of beauty greets viewers from the porch, stable-yard, or the indoor arena.
Willow Hill Farm is a complete equestrian facility offering boarding, training, lessons, sales and breeding. High School students have the opportunity to live on a working horse farm, seeing first hand the joys and realities of working and living with horses. Foal watch, training young horses, and going to competitions are some of the favorite activities.
Students learn to live and work together while increasing their riding skills. Chores each morning start the day before attending school. They share responsibilities in the household and in the stable. Our program gives students the knowledge to choose their own area of specialty within the world of horses. An integral part of our family life is having meals together twice each day. The importance of completing high school well is stressed.
Horsemanship skills are taught from the very basics to the skills needed to own a horse or get a job in the horse industry. Some of our most relaxed riding has been vaulting lessons, trail riding, and games. Assisting with the training of foals, yearlings, and other young horses has been a popular activity. For those who want to teach riding at a riding school, there are opportunities to observe and assist in teaching. Those who want to ride competitively as a dressage or event rider receive help in their specialty.
Willow Hill Farm specializes in Dressage and Eventing. We are members of the United States Dressage Federation and the United States Eventing Association. Gerald & Julie Edwards own and operate Willow Hill Farm along with daughter Tara and her husband Fran Bola. The combined family specialties in equine sports and farm management work together to create a well rounded educational experience for our students. Julie competes at the Prix St Georges level in Dressage and is a National Examiner for the United States Pony Club. Tara events at the Advanced Level and is a Pony Club graduate B. Her cross country clinics draw students from all over New England. Another daughter, Tawn, brings campers from her riding school in Georgia and spends half of the summer teaching and riding. Julie, Tara, and Tawn are certified instructors with the American Riding Instructors Association.
Horsemanship students may attend one of two schools:
Ausable Valley High School is located 2 miles from the farm and offers high school and college courses from Clinton Community College. Some of our students have a semester or two of college when they graduate. The student body is small and comfortable with 400 students in 4 grades. Applicants to the horsemanship program must contact AVCS, www.avcs.org, or the guidance counselor at 518-834-2811 for admission requirements. Tuition for students whose parents do not reside in the school district is $1000.
Seton Catholic High School is located in Plattsburgh and is the choice for international students. Seton has a wide array of courses and an excellent ESL (English as a Second Language) Classes as well as advanced placement courses. For more information visit: www.setoncatholic.net. Bus service is provided. Tuition for students attending from the Horsemanship Program is $4500.
Tuition for the High School Horsemanship Program is $10,000. Included in the tuition is room, board, and riding lessons. Not included are sundries, competition entry fees, and spending money.
Willow Hill Farm is home to nearly fifty horses (this number shrinks and swells as horses are born, bought and sold), a roost of chickens, several mouse-chasing cats, three farm dogs, rabbits, and goats.
If you're dreaming about horses, please send us an email. We would like to hear from you.
Or you could call us at 518-834-9746, or write to us at Willow Hill Farm, 75 Cassidy Road, Keeseville NY 12944
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Evolution of Gaming Hardware, Why it Matters
In the 90's Playstation helped take gaming away from the image of childish plaything to a widely accepted form of mainstream entertainment. Since then gaming has expanded way beyond the boundaries of that box under your TV and into an endless sea of varying devices. Developers have answered the need for smaller more accessible games to capture an audience that play on non-dedicated hardware with limited input options. All of which I consider a great boon to the industry that I love.
Well, that was until these tiny time-waster games starting making more money than some of the big triple-A blockbuster games and with only a fraction of the effort put in by developers. The cheap price and general ease of production has since tempted a lot of developers away from big budget games and onto pointless projects that are never going to see the same success as Angry Birds no matter how much they wish upon a magic star. Of course I'd never name names *cough* Peter Molyneux *cough* Curiosity *cough* , excuse me.
However, the continued popularity of a few out of the millions of these simple games coupled with the down-right genius of the indie dev scene has led to a question being asked. That question is…
"Why do we need better hardware?"
…and although it's a question that crops up in many different forms it's almost always echoed by those with diminutive past experience of the industry or little to no imagination. Now I'm not saying all those in opposition of advancements in gaming technology are children with no imagination. There are valid reasons for not wanting new, more advanced hardware but a lot of the time it stems from greed (business interests, i.e. a publisher might make more money if they kept making games for old platforms), jealousy (like if someone cannot afford to upgrade they won't want to be 'left behind') or pride (as in a fanboy not wanting their console of choice to be replaced).
There's a counter-argument I see pop up regularly and it's one that, despite being used almost to the point of cliché, is still quite poignant. It goes something along the lines of that if the detractors of advancements in hardware had their way we'd still be gaming on a NES with 2D sprites. This seems to suffer from argument fatigue in that back in the NES days everyone was all for advancements in gaming technology, so what's different now? As I mentioned above the world is a much different place but that can't be it, there has to be more to it than that.
It seems to have become much more difficult to distinguish between the advancements in gaming as the critics of the Playstation 4 reveal would have you believe. This is a slightly unfair way to judge the possibilities of upgraded hardware as it's incredibly difficult to judge anything from 2 minute pre-alpha builds and what were probably very rushed tech demos. To my eye there were many obvious improvements but they seemed to pass over the heads of most of the gaming press, who concentrated on unjust and premature criticisms.
So what exactly are the benefits of better hardware? Well, there's the obvious ones like:
Graphics - Graphics are downplayed a lot in gaming these days. They seem unimportant to most as they can find just as much enjoyment from simpler looking games, which is a valid opinion to have but let's not forget that greater visual fidelity can not only aid in immersion but also improve the very gameplay aspects that make a game stand out. For example, back in the N64 days, I remember playing Turok: Dinosaur hunter, which is a pretty standard FPS even by today's standards but the level of fogging masking the awful draw distance stopped it from becoming as good as the experience I can get from modern shooters. So, draw distance, frame rate and general visual fidelity can lend plenty to the gameplay experience of a game, bottom line graphics DO sometimes matter.
Then there's the not so blatantly obvious stuff like:
A.I. – A.I or artificial intelligence has become increasingly important in today's games as worlds grow larger and story becomes a prevalent aspect. Having good A.I. can aid endlessly with the general believability of the game world and help immerse the player in the game. As I understand, A.I. can take up a lot of processing power, which is where advancements in hardware will really start to pay off in the coming generations.
I could go on and on about the advantages of newer hardware in games but most likely you have experienced it first hand for yourselves over the years, whether you recognise it or not. I'd like to re-iterate that I love most of the incredibly imaginative stuff coming out of some of the smaller indie devs such as Journey, Braid, Unfinished Swan, Minecraft etc. I'm aware that better graphics don't always make a better game but I don't want to see the Industry become stagnant, we should always strive for better, even if it IS just shinier graphics. Who knows where technology will take us next.
Overall, not a bad read.
I do believe that consoles should upgrade every 4-6 years though. This generation seemed to have dragged, IMO. Last year especially showed how old these systems were getting.
Do they care if some of the pioneers, like bedroom coders, are relatively isolated from the modern industry, unflashy and uncared for?
On the whole no.
It's not the creative minds of games makers that many people admire. It's the lifestyle that it affords them and the ability that it gives any old member of the public to exercise (or exorcise) their ego in public displays of one up man ship.
The brilliant, abstract, minds of some games creators remain as ever much a distant mystery to the fraggers, blaggers, bloggers and downright fools who pay a relatively small amount (if their not pirating like leeches) to enter the minds, converted in to digital entertainment, of people far more gifted than the player is.
Technology, whilst it can sometimes appear nice, is bordering on mistaken narcissism if enjoyed for its own sake. Think of the people who made all of the games that you like happen, their childhoods, their upbringing, their hopes and dreams, their influences, how they may have had to work against the grain of what was fashionable. It's their story really, not yours.


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I had a day out with my friend yesterday, it did involve lunch which included a divine Gingerbread Chocolate Fondant served with toffee sauce and vanilla icecream in a tuille basket - it was to die for! I didn't take a photo (sorry). However, my DH went shopping for something for our meal today and came back with tuna steaks.
Now I do love fish, but I have never really liked fresh tuna, so not something I would have bought. Anyway I thought I should give them another go and looked for a gutsy flavoured recipe that would allow the tuna flavour to come through but not be the only taste. I've never really been good on oily fish.
I found this Tandoori Tuna recipe in my Good Housekeeping Cookery Book, it involved marinating the tuna for a few hours in a homemade Tandoori paste.
Then simply cooking it in a hot pan for for a few minutes and leaving it to rest for another 5 minutes.
4 Tuna Steaks, each about 150g (5oz)
30ml (2tbsp) tomato paste
15mil (1tbsp) oil
15 ml (1tbsp) lemon juice
5ml (1tsp) grated fresh root ginger
1 garlic clove, peeled and crushed
10ml (2tsp) ground coriander
5ml (1tsp) chilli powder
5ml (1tsp) ground cumin
salt & pepper
150ml (1/4 pint) Greek-style yogurt
15ml (1 tbsp) choppped fresh mint
50g (2oz) peeled cucumber, deseeded and grated
pinch of sugar
1 Wash and dry the tuna steaks and place in a shallow dish. Mix the tomato paste with the oil, lemon juice, giner, garlic, coriander, chilli powder, cumin and 5ml (1tsp) salt. Spread the mixtue all over the tuna steaks, ocver and leve to marinate in a cool place for 2 hours.
2 Meanwhile make the raita. Combine all the ingrfedients in a bowl and seaon with salt and pepper to taste; set aside.
3. Brush a griddle or heavy-bsed frying pan with a little oil and place over a ghigh heat. When hot, add the tuna steaks and cook for 2 minutes, then turn and cook the other side for 2 minutes. Remove from the pan and leave to rest in a warm place for 5 minutes.
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Man in vasectomy reversal dispute
Posted: February 09, 2012|
A FATHER who had a vasectomy operation on the NHS says he now wants the procedure reversed after starting a new relationship.
But unemployed Jamie Hancock, 28, has been told he will have to find £3,700 to pay for the operation himself.
Jamie was just 25 when he had the operation done in 2009.
At the time he was married and he and his wife had two children and didn't want any more.
But they are now divorcing and Jamie has fallen in love with Charlotte Beesley, 22.
He said: "One day she's going to want to have children and she deserves to be able to but I can't give them to her.
"Then we'll have to go our separate ways and neither of us wants that."
Jamie, who lives in Bideford, said he didn't feel he was offered enough counselling or advice when he opted for the vasectomy, but his GP denied this.
Jamie, who hopes to start a new job as a bus driver next month, said: "I was 25. I didn't really know my own mind and I think I should have been made to think more about what I was doing.
"Even if I can't get my vasectomy reversed I want to make sure anyone else who's considering it knows what the consequences can be."
Jamie said he went for a vasectomy because he could do it in a day.
He said: "My wife wanted her tubes tied but that meant she'd need two weeks off work.
"For a young family with two kids and a mortgage, at the time it made financial sense."
Jamie believes he was the youngest of his surgeon's 7,000 vasectomy patients.
He said: "I just want the chance to start a family with Charlotte in the future."
Charlotte, who is from Bideford and works at the Instow Arms, said Jamie's situation doesn't change the way she feels about him but that she would still like to have kids.
She said: "What woman wouldn't want children? But I'm prepared to sacrifice that to be with Jamie."
Dr Robin Buckland, the Northam GP who performed the surgery, said: "All patients who are referred for a vasectomy to Northam Surgery are counselled by their GP and further counselled in detail by the surgeon performing the operation.
"They are also given written instructions and are informed that vasectomy is an irreversible procedure and that reversal of vasectomy is not funded by the NHS.
"It is unusual for patients under 30 to be offered a vasectomy but there are always exceptional cases.
"Both the GP and the surgeon would have to be happy that this is in the patient's and his partner's best interests.
"As with all patients, Mr Hancock was fully counselled and was made aware that this was an irreversible operation and that he would not be able to get a reversal vasectomy on the NHS, unless exceptional circumstances have been demonstrated."
DISCUSSION: Who should pay for the procedure?


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Dr. Miller completed requirements for her Bachelor's degree in physical therapy from the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in 1981. She completed a Master's degree in school psychology in 1993 with emphasis in psychosocial and behavioral underpinnings of disability. She received a PhD in physical therapy from Temple University in 2007. She became certified as a Feldenkrais practitioner in 1998 following a four-year training program. She has worked in various settings as a physical therapist including pediatrics, adult neurology, acute care, ergonomics and outpatient physical therapy. She has served as a book reviewer for Physical Therapy, as a New York State Physical Therapy Practical Board Examiner from 1987-1990, as a delegate for the New York Physical Therapy Association (NYPTA), and on the nominating committee of the Long Island District of the NYPTA. Professor Miller has made numerous presentations at professional meetings and lectured to various professional groups on posture and ergonomics. She is currently involved in several research studies, including assessment of running performance in runners who have received Feldenkrais® lessons and assessment of posture in older women following Bones for Life® lessons. She has co-authored several articles published in peer-reviewed journals. She maintains her clinical skills through a small private practice working with patients with neurological and orthopedic diagnoses. Professor Miller has conducted postural screenings for several corporations.
Academic Responsibilities:
Patient/Client Management I , Clinical Decision-Making, Motor Control and Motor Learning I and II, Neuromuscular Physical Therapy Physical Therapy, Differential Diagnosis and Research Study I-V.


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As written up on the Brew yesterday, Dumm Comics is a new daily comic site launched by some of the today's top talents working in TV animation. All of the Dumm artists recently worked on Nickelodeon's El Tigre!, and prior to that, their combined credits include The Buzz on Maggie, Ren & Stimpy: Adult Party Cartoon, Mucha Lucha!, Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island, Brandy & Mr. Whiskers, Dexter's Laboratory, The Ripping Friends and Teamo Supremo, to name just a few.
This past Tuesday, May 20, I conducted an online chat via instant messaging with all the comic artists involved in Dumm Comics: Luke Cormican, Ricky Garduno, Fred Osmond, Katie Rice, Gabe Swarr and Sean Szeles. Our conversation touches on a wide range of subjects: why a group of successful animation artists would choose to branch into comics, artistic influences, Cintiqs, their working process, and what's wrong with the TV animation biz. To maintain the flavor of our rapid-fire anything-goes IM exchange, I'm presenting the discussion largely in its original form and with minimal edits.
Discussion follows after the jump.
Cartoon Brew: I was telling a friend that a bunch of people I know have started doing webcomics and I have to write about their Dumm Comics. She said, "Well they can't all be dumb." And I said, "No, their comics aren't dumb, they're called Dumm Comics." Very Abbott and Costello. So why the name Dumm?
Gabe Swarr: Well, when I was in high school, i self published a comic book with my friend Steve Wheeler and we came up with the name then. Then when I published BPM, I used the name because I thought it was well suited
Luke Cormican: The name is totally ironic, though. Our comics are only meant for the intellectual elite.
Sean Szeles: and perhaps it works well because we're all just doing this for fun and not trying to take ourselves too seriously
Cartoon Brew: Well let me ask a bigger why? Why'd you launch the site. You all have jobs in animation…and seem to be content…is it for fun or are there bigger objectives?
Ricky Garduno: not content
Katie Rice: it's kind of for both reasons
Gabe Swarr: yeah we are always wandering from job to job
Fred Osmond: Having El Tigre canceled was a big motivator for me
Ricky Garduno: this is the first time in my life i feel i'm really doing something for myself…along with my best friends of course
Sean Szeles: I think it's a small step to becoming more independent, and less reliant on the studio system for producing content
Katie Rice: Me too- it's way too rare to get a job you really LOVE in animation. Being unhappy in your job makes it really hard to be entertaining or creative or productive.
Cartoon Brew: Do you view these comics as a launching pad to animated series or syndicated strips?
Ricky Garduno: I don't see it as a launching pad. it's kind of for the sake of itself.
Luke Cormican: It's a possibility, but I don't see that as the sole reason behind Dumm Comics. It's more just to do our own thing and see if people like it.
Gabe Swarr: I've always loved comics too and always have some kind of project and teaming up was the best way
Katie Rice: yeah, it's great having like-minded people to bouce ideas off of
Fred Osmond: that doesn't mean we don't plan on eventually doing some animation in the future though
Gabe Swarr: we just wanna have fun
Ricky Garduno: a lot of us have already had opportunities to come up with a show idea or pilot, this is more rewarding
Katie Rice: For sure!
Cartoon Brew: Is there a financial model supporting this or is it done without profit in mind?
Sean Szeles: I think it's also a way to get more exposure for ourselves as artists so that more possibilites could possible arise in the future
Ricky Garduno: this actually gets done, and seen
Sean Szeles: yeah, we've all worked on too many projects that we've poured so much work and love into that eventually get canned or are not given the chance to get off the ground
Luke Cormican: I'd say it's mostly a labor of love, with no clear financial model in mind. But a lot of webcomics do make money some how. But I don't think it's something we're very focused on at the moment
Gabe Swarr: We are going to sell goods
Sean Szeles: yeah, money's nice, but it's not the be all end all
Big Pants Mouse by Gabe Swarr
Cartoon Brew: I want to go back to this idea of how it differs from the work you do in animation. While there's nothing overtly outrageous in your comics, I noticed that a lot of the content in the comics couldn't be done in your day jobs – the weapons in Skadi, the cartoon violence in 1930 Nitemare Theatre, the drinking in Through the Port-Hole…
Ricky Garduno: haha yeah
Katie Rice: That's exactly it!
Ricky Garduno: yeah it's like basic aspects of human life that are forbidden in kid's cartoons nowadays
Katie Rice: There are so many rules when you work for a studio. It's impossible to just go out and give your all. There's always some sort of compromise.
Sean Szeles: it's refreshing not to have to censor yourself
Katie Rice: We're not out to shock anyone, we just want to be ourselves.
Ricky Garduno: exactly
Fred Osmond: There's so much stuff on the internet that is "adult content" just because you can get away with it. so let's not focus on that and just make something we like and are proud of
Luke Cormican: That's a big part of the excitement of doing a personal project with no interference from "outside" sources. I don't think any of use want to go overboard with the sex and violence. But it's very refreshing not to have to censor ourselves.
Fred Osmond: yup
Gabe Swarr: we do have a loosely based rating though…
Sean Szeles: people have been drinkin, smokin, and fighting since the beginning of cartoons
Fred Osmond: something as innocent as a kid holding a "sparkler" I can do in my comic, but it's something you can be sure would get noted on at one of the big studios
Luke Cormican: Yeah, our self-imposed rating system is roughly what's seen in PG-13….or, what can been seen in Mad Magazine.
Katie Rice: right, we do have a loose PG-13 rule, because we want everyone to be able to read the comics, kids and adults alike
Gabe Swarr: …mostly because when we started forming the site we all talked about it and it did influence who we asked.
Ricky Garduno: we don't want it to be super obscene or raunchy
Sean Szeles: well, i had to restrain myself
Katie Rice: none of us are really into doing hardcore porn comics or whatever…at least as far as I know…
Cartoon Brew: damn, i was wondering when the hardcore cartoon porn would show up
Fred Osmond: look for that in Cumm Comics launching next spring
Ricky Garduno: that's the pay site
Katie Rice: it should be called Cumm Domics
Through the Port-Hole by Sean Szeles
Cartoon Brew: Getting serious again, I want to hear your perspective on this because you all work for the major TV studios. Why don't we see anything that looks as cool or as funny in these comics in TV animation. In other words, why is there generally such a disconnect between the talent working in the art form, like yourselves, and the bland and unfunny cartoons that end up on TV?
Fred Osmond: we don't have to worry about offending sponsors for one
Sean Szeles: too many cooks? too many people in the approval process?
Ricky Garduno: If anything, I hope this project gains us credibility as competent storytellers
Katie Rice: No artist WANTS bland cartoons on TV…I'm sure lots of tv cartoons start out as good ideas, but even with a crazy talented crew there are just too many restrictions. People aren't allowed to do what they do best because the higher ups get too scared to take risks.
Gabe Swarr: Well, you might of heard it a thousand times, but if there are 40+ people you have to please, nothing stands out…
Ricky Garduno: I feel that the artists are nearly forbidden to come up with any ideas
Cartoon Brew: TV is cartoons by committee, Dumm Comics are cartoons by individuals…
Gabe Swarr: straight from my brain to their eyes
Luke Cormican: pretty much. and they're not toned down for mass appeal.
Katie Rice: yeah, like what Luke said…each of our comics are SO different…none of us are trying to please anyone but ourselves, and hopefuly if we have fun making them people will have fun reading them
Ricky Garduno: they think that we are completely illiterate people
Gabe Swarr: the best part is the storytelling problems that exist
Cartoon Brew: To continue this thought, if each of you could do one thing to 'fix' tv animation, what would it be?
Sean Szeles: changing only one thing wouldn't fix it I don't think
Katie Rice: Sean's right, but if I could get rid of the idea of a "creative executive." There's nothing wrong with executives and people to help manage budgets and all that, but when a non-creative person has the ability to overrule REAL creative people, that ends up horribly.
Fred Osmond: take animation off tv
Ricky Garduno: Take more chances. these cookie cutter shows come and go
Gabe Swarr: I would change the way they are made, first no corporations, next no unions, next no network execs, no ratings, etc.
Luke Cormican: I think getting rid of the committee system would be good. I'd love it if a studio was so bold to choose one leader with a vision to run the place. I think that's how the best cartoons in history were produced.
Fred Osmond: I don't think you can fix tv animation without first fixing tv
Ricky Garduno: the reason so many old shows get mined for movies remakes etc. is that back then people took creative chances. not any more
Katie Rice: Entertainment in general is a bit disappointing nowdays. being creative nowdays is knowing what old shows to take references out of
Gabe Swarr: I understand that the networks need to make money, but it seems that even when they are on top and making plenty, they won't take any risks or stand behind a show–even if they love it
Katie Rice: like "oh, this is a mix between ferris bueller and pee-wees playhouse" or whatever
Ricky Garduno: and the reason for that is because the old shows were good and they were original. that's why everything is a retread
Gabe Swarr: if you have a spongbob that has crazy ratings and you can't beat those ratings with your next show, that next show is a failure to the shareholders…
Ricky Garduno: I say make a bunch of different stuff, air it and see what sticks. Don't hide it away for years and show it only in little tiny test rooms.
Earthward-Ho! by Fred Osmond
Cartoon Brew: Let's talk comics now. I was going to ask you to each provide a brief summary of your projects, but then I found this webpage that already did that. So let me ask you this instead? Can each of you talk things that influenced you in coming up with these ideas? These could either be artistic or thematic/narative influences. And please don't say Drabble or Marmaduke.
Gabe Swarr: "Cathy"
Katie Rice: mine is "family circus"
Gabe Swarr: Amid, Big Pants wouldn't even exist now if you didn't ask me to do a comic in Animation Blast!
Ricky Garduno: 1930 Nitemare Theatre is just all my favorite things rolled into one. speaking of retreads I hope no one sees it as a flat out Fleischer ripoff, which it is.
Luke Cormican: Well, Katie and I are both huge fantasy nerds. We like everything for Lord of the Ring to Conan to ancient mythology….plus, we love cartoony cartoons….the type that were made from the 30s thru to the 60s. So, Skadi was a natural combination of those two loves.
Cartoon Brew: I felt some Aragones in Skadi. true?
Katie Rice: For sure. I love Groo!
Luke Cormican: Groo was definitely a big influence…the barbarian thing has been done to death, in a million different ways. But I think we've really got something unique with Skadi. Her personality, and her quest are something somewhat new to the world of fantasy…..at least I'd like to think so, anyway.
Cartoon Brew: that's the thing, you could say Fleischer for Ricky's or Groo for Luke and Katie's, but they're original at the same time.
Katie Rice: (phew)
Ricky Garduno: sure, thanks. I'm not out to ape it completely. My fondest wish is that people find something in my strip that truly disturbs them, like The Exorcist.
Katie Rice: I think you've succeeded Ricky
Fred Osmond: Earthward Ho is sort of a combination of a bunch of things I love. Sci Fi like X-Files and Battlestar Galactica and Ward Kimball's Space cartoons mixed with a lot cartoon influences like Ed Benedict and Rod Scribner.
Cartoon Brew: fred, i noticed on your blog that you're trying to travel to space?
Fred Osmond: ha ha, yup. that would be great, and if anyone has 200,000 bucks they wanna dish out I'll be there!
Katie Rice: Fred will make it to space some day.
Gabe Swarr: Well, I always approach everything as a cartoon even comics. I really love a lot of illogical cartoons like the Fleishers and early Felix, and even Gumby. A thing like magic pants is perfect for that. I also always wanted to explore my mean side-Small Hats, my obsessive side, Big Pants and my girly side, Suzy Sunshine. I want people to be surprised.
Sean Szeles: Through the Port-Hole is a combination of trying to be cinematic and gag oriented at the same time. Also, all my strips are basically events and emotions that happened to me, so I guess it's pretty personal. For artistic influences for my comics, I look to Hank Ketcham, Ronald Searle, Edward Gorey, Kurtzman, and all the animation greats.
1930 Nitemare Theatre by Ricky Garduno
Cartoon Brew: A question about technique. Are you all roughing ideas on paper and doing the finals digitally? Describe your processes.
Ricky Garduno: all digital. I'll sketch one or two ideas on paper but I usually lose them
Katie Rice: Luke and I do both. If we are in a restaurant and an idea pops up, we'll draw it on paper real quick. Same goes for if we are working on a computer–we'll doodle it right into photoshop or flash. it's all finished on the computer though.
Fred Osmond: I do all my ruffs on paper, scan em in then do all the inking and assembling in flash, after that I take it into photshop for textures
Sean Szeles: I usually thumbnail in a sketchbook, then roughly layout the comic on paper (if it's a long page), then ink in photoshop
Luke Cormican: Nearly all of us have Cintiq's now….so, I think we're all doing most of this digitally….if not all of it.
Cartoon Brew: i want to marry a cintiq
Fred Osmond: ha ha
Sean Szeles: they are very loving
Katie Rice: and warm
Fred Osmond: they're hot
Katie Rice: you can sleep on them
Luke Cormican: Theyre the best invention since mail order brides.
Ricky Garduno: cintiq has changed my life in every respect.
Gabe Swarr: Big Pants starts as a rough with Photoshop and a Cintiq. I export and ink everything using a library system in Flash. Then back to Photoshop for textures. The reason I use a library system is because I eventually want to use the art for shorts…
Sean Szeles: gasp! ulterior motive gabe!
Skadi by Katie Rice and Luke Cormican
Cartoon Brew: A question for Luke and Katie, can you talk a bit about the creative conflicts that you run into when two people do a comic together.
Katie Rice: ha ha. so far it's worked out way better than you'd expect. we both do rough layouts and come up with ideas, and we both help with the layouts and color, but Luke does ALL the backgrounds, and is a lot better at color and composition than I am. I do all the character stuff and add unnecessary expressions and details.
Luke Cormican: Well, we've been working together both professional and on our own project for 7 years now. So we've worked out most of the kinks. Sorry to not be interesting, but we really don't have very many problems. We make a pretty good team.
Ricky Garduno: Katie and Luke had a vote-off once
Sean Szeles: oh yeah, they presented two rough ideas for the same strip to us dummies
Luke Cormican: Oh yeah…..we do disagree sometimes….but then she realizes that I'm right. I mean…we have a vote ;)
Katie Rice: -__-
Cartoon Brew: do you ever help one another out with ideas on each other's comics?
Ricky Garduno: we run stuff by each other, to see if it is funny or makes sense
Gabe Swarr: We all give compliments and critiques
Fred Osmond: yup, everyone is really good at suggesting ways to improve our strips.
Gabe Swarr: the emails pile up quickly
Cartoon Brew: After production ended on Nickelodeon's El Tigre, a show that all of you worked on, a lot of you have begun freelancing from home. Is doing comics as a group a way to help keep you motivated?
Sean Szeles: i miss having an office mate to bounce ideas off of. we're all so lonely since tigre got cancelled.
Ricky Garduno: I'm motivated, just desperate for more time to work on my strip. Working on my strip is my reward for getting my payed work done
Luke Cormican: We have gabe with a bull whip, standing behind us.
Fred Osmond: naked
Sean Szeles: i think working together as a group is a huge motivator
Gabe Swarr: No, seriously, I ALWAYS wanted to do a daily strip and I thought this is the best way to start. Weekly first and if I can keep up with that, then daily…
Katie Rice: if I am unmotivated, just looking at the other comics makes me wanna work harder
Sean Szeles: i see the awesome work that these guys do, and it makes me want to do something awesome as well
Fred Osmond: I feel like I'm in control of my career as opposed to a network being in control
Ricky Garduno: I feel like I'm in control of my LIFE
Sean Szeles: I don't want to dissapoint the dummies
Gabe Swarr: The other reason I think Dumm works well is because of that. We are all doing our part and support each other.
Katie Rice: the dumm family is a close knit one
Ricky Garduno: well, the whole point is that by joining forces we can have daily content
Luke Cormican: like captain planet
Gabe Swarr: or the Littles…
Fred Osmond: I know if everyone wasn't counting on me to get my days strip in I wouldn't have done as much as I already have.


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Nowadays car accidents are very widespread in all U.S. cities and all over the world. You'll see below five things to do if you get into an accident:
Afore an Accident
Always try to be prepared to accidents. Take with you a pen and paper and a copy of your insurance info. It'll be better if you have a mobile phone with a camera to take some photos of your vehicle damage, accident location and people involved with the crash.
- Get Off the Road
Do it to get to safety as fast as you can just after a crash to avoid other threats. However don't try to move your car if you can't do it without making additional damage. Do not call the police in case if you just have your bumper dinged or door scratched. Call 911in the case if anybody is injured. Be ready to tell him your registration, driver's license and insurance card.
2. Observe What You Say
You must not say such phrases as "I'm sorry" or "Forgive me" after an accident. Just ask the other driver is he\she OK.
3. Collect Info
You'll need some your info and information from the other involved driver to offer it to your insurance company: name, address, Email address, phone number, make, model and year of the car, insurance carrier, license plate number and the number of insurance policy.
4. Obtain info from the police officer who will come to the scene:
his name, ID or number badge, police report number and phone number.
Ask a policeman for a copy of the crash report. And remember that the officer's view of the accident will be handy in the case if the drivers have a disagreement about who was guilty.
5. Keep the Claim
Just after an accident, phone to your insurance company in order to begin processing your claim.


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PRESCOTT, Ariz. (KGUN9-TV/AP) - Two of the 19 fallen firefighters who died Sunday battling the Yarnell Hill Fire had connections to Tucson.
According to the president of the North Tucson Firefighter's Association, 25-year-old Bill Warneke lived in Avra Valley, and was among the 19 killed.
Officials with Pima Community College say Warneke and fellow crew member Garret Zuppiger were graduates of PCC.
Zuppiger graduated in 2006 with an Arizona General Education Curriculum-Arts degree in Liberal Arts.
Warneke earned an Associate of Applied Science degree in Fire Science in 2012.
Warneke was a first year member of the elite Granite Mountain Hot Shot crew.
He is survived by his wife Roxanne who is pregnant with the couple's first child.
She is expecting her child in December, his grandmother, Nancy Warneke, told The Press-Enterpris
Warneke grew up in Hemet, Calif., along with his fellow Granite Mountain hotshot, Chris MacKenzie.
He was a four-year Marine Corps veteran who served a tour in Iraq and had joined the hotshot crew in April, buying a property in Prescott, near where his sister lived, the newspaper reported.
Nancy Warneke said she called Billy's sister after seeing the fire on the news.
"She said, 'He's gone. They're all gone,"' Nancy Warneke told The Press-Enterpris
The family is being assisted by local firefighters and with the Chief Officers of the Prescott Fire Department, and the incident management team on scene.
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Fifth Third Bank "Drives" Financial Wellness and Job Search Assistance with Southwest Florida eBus Visits
community, educational Tweet From Oct. 3 to 18, Fifth Third Bank's Financial Empowerment Mobile – or eBus – will visit community organizations throughout South Florida to offer free job search assistance through a partnership with NextJob, a nationwide firm focused on full employment in America. Financial advice, like budget and credit counseling, will also be provided by Fifth Third employees at all eBus stops (full schedule included below). During each event, visitors can access the Job Seeker's Toolkit, NextJob's proprietary job search and training software. The program is available to all Fifth Third customers who bank online, and eBus event guests who want to find a job or take the next step in their career path. Information is free to the public and is provided in English and Spanish.
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