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ASC Conference Team
November 25, 2009
Scenario building is one of the most powerful methods available to researchers and policy analysts for understanding the dynamics of the various interdependent factors that shape alternative futures. It also highlights and projects the potential influence of different policy choices made in the present.
Scenario building allows us to transcend narrow thinking about just a "best case," "most probable case," or "worst case" future, and leads researchers and their audiences to a deeper understanding of the dynamics and possible range and complexities of future environments.
Ultimately scenario building is not really about the future per se, but rather focuses on shaping the lens of how we should see where trends and events are going today, where they could lead to, and what we could do to affect them. Thus, scenario building is amongst the most powerful analytic tools to answer two fundamental questions of interest to think tanks and their stakeholders:
"How will the future be different from today?" It allows us to look not at one factor in isolation, but to weave several interactive drivers of change into a descriptive gestalt.
"What would I need to do in the present to arrive at, or avoid a potential future?"
These questions, in turn, orients policy makers and policy implementers to position their systems proactively—toward where things are going, and to make informed decisions about what future states are desirable to approach or avoid. They operate first on the level of paradigms, or "maps of reality" and how we understand a system, and what ends we believe are achievable, and secondly at the level of strategy, of matching our means and actions to accomplish that end.
Scenario building is often used in a very loose manner as just imagining some specific event or set of conditions. But scenario building in this context, and for the purposes of the 12th Asian Security Conference, has a much more specific meaning, and it has a defined methodology that has historically yielded good results. It is a simple, but sequential process.
1. Identify Clearly the System of Concern. It is important analytically to limit the scope and focus. Some researchers may be looking at the larger balance of power, while others may be examining the trajectory of just one country, region, or sub-region. The dominant strategic drivers are likely to be different in each case, and the researcher should ask and answer the difficult question of what are the most important factors that will make the future different from today for that specific system, area or region
2. Pick a specific date. It is very important to introduce the element of time into scenario building. A specific date constrains how far each trend, and the system as a whole can move or change in a given period of time. For instance, an extrapolation of India's GDP growth or China's Population Demographics will look quite different in 2030 as opposed to 2050. Similarly, a specific date and historical knowledge provides insight into how much of a window exists to change a policy or strategy and see it come to fruition. Any change in policy, for example, "Look East" takes time to bear fruit, as projects and meetings take place over years, and there is a delay between sowing and reaping.
3. Identify the Strategic Drivers of Change. What is of importance is the understanding of how tomorrow is likely to be different (and therefore requires different thinking and policies to remain adaptive) than today. Sometimes we have high confidence in the direction of change (India will get richer), at other times we can be confident that there will be a change but there is great uncertainty or disagreement on the direction (Will wealth be more or less equitably distributed) or the speed of growth (will India grow at 4 per cent or 10 per cent). For each type of driver, there is a specific methodology:
i. Identify the High Impact Drivers of Change about which there is relatively high confidence Often there are major trends playing themselves out that have considerable momentum, and can be forecast with relative confidence barring some major catastrophe. Often a researcher may feel that things such as demographic trends, GDP growth, technology trends, etc. fall in this category. Usually there is no lack of such data and predictions available on-line (UN, World Bank, Goldman Sachs, and so on). However, we are interested in weaving these separate predictions together into a coherent picture that develops over time. There is not a hard limit to the number of such drivers, but it usually serves analytic purposes better if the researcher pares them down to fewer than a handful. A useful method to simplify is to ask "Will this really result in a qualitative change in the system?" For instance, a trend that results in a 10 per cent increase in GDP PPP is very different from a trend that would lead to quadrupling of the GDP PPP.
ii. Identify the Drivers of Change about which there is great uncertainty. Some factors can have a high element of embedded uncertainty in them, meaning that these are highly consequential factors that will cause the future to be different than today, but could also go either way, or the rate of change is deeply uncertain. It is the task of the researcher to identify which of these variable factors would make the most strategic difference in the character of the overall system. For instance, here is a list of some of the drivers that past global scenario builders thought were of strategic importance and great uncertainty:
Whether or not the relationship between two major powers (eg. United States and China) was cooperative or adversarial?
Whether or not a regional actor chose to have an activist or isolationist policy?
Which regional actor had the strongest economy and influence?
Whether or not terrorism or interstate conflict was perceived as the dominant security threat?
Whether or not fossil fuels were abundant or scarce in comparison to demand?
Here it is very important to limit the major drivers of uncertainty to just three. Scenario building that attempts to analyze together more than three drivers has historically proven cumbersome and difficult to digest, resulting in less useful analytic products. While there are likely to be many uncertainties about the future, it is the job of the researcher to consolidate and pare down to identify the top three drivers that are distinct from each other and which, in the researcher's opinion, are likely to have a greater strategic effect on the system than the others.
Most researchers prefer to examine three sets of interacting binary uncertainties. An important alternative that has also proven analytically useful is when the most relevant factors are opposed not by one possibility but by two. Where, for instance, elements in the system are trying to maximize three different goods (as for instance Efficiency, Security, Social Cohesion) that in part oppose each other, but usually, "Two win and one lose."
iii. Graphically Create the Space of Possible Futures.
In the most common format, this results in a cube, as depicted above, where the three sets of binary uncertainties are set orthogonal to each other as the X, Y, and Z axes and define the boundaries of the space of possible futures in the research model. The extreme
points (there are a total of eight) become the most divergent futures of where the uncertainties can take us. Usually all eight are not interesting or analytically useful to develop, but at least three or four are quite interesting and worth developing. It is important to give each scenario an interesting, descriptive, and memorable name. For instance, in the example above, "Elbow Room" is the point where the major external powers are adversarial, but South Asia's Growth is strong and its foreign policy is activist. This is a very different world than the opposite side of the uncertainty space, "Help Please" where low South Asian Growth, an isolationist Indian foreign policy, and a cooperative relationship between foreign powers prevails.
In the alternative "2 Win, one loses" or Shell "Trilemma" model, the strategic space described is a triangle, and the interesting scenarios emerge from the complex tradeoffs where two of the competing drivers win at the expense of the third.
4. Create a narrative timeline. The job of building scenarios does not end with the identification of generalities in extreme end points. To provide useful scenarios, each must have its own "history of the future."
For the uncertain drivers, the researcher must pick representative major events that plausibly could move the system from where it is now to the possible future scenario, and weave them in time. The researcher might chose to do this graphically, or through a narrative story, but either should include major policy decisions and events, and might sound something like:
"The results of the 2010 elections in country X were __, resulting in a public statement of Y. At the subsequent 2012 APEC summit, a decision was announced to ___. Country Z reacted strongly, making a demarche in the UN, and putting pressure on MNCs doing business with it. As a result, company T decided to postpone its investment in a major pipeline till 2016. The loss of hope to the province that would have benefited resulted in a violent incident that…"
"The results of the 2010 elections in country X were __, resulting in a public statement of Y. At the subsequent 2012 APEC summit, a decision was announced to ___. Country Z reacted strongly, making a demarche in the UN, and putting pressure on MNCs doing business with it. As a result, company T decided to postpone its investment in a major pipeline till 2016. The loss of hope to the province that would have benefited resulted in a violent incident that…"
The purpose of constructing the narrative timeline is not to actually predict any course of events, but strengthen the researcher's understanding and insight into cause and effect, second-order effects, and to be able to talk concretely rather than vaguely about what such uncertainties might actually mean if played out in reality. The timeline has a second purpose: it allows the researcher to "live through" a simulated future of influential events. This puts the researcher in a strong position to describe and make judgments about that future—What is it like to live in that end state? Is it a safer or more dangerous world than today or the other scenarios that have been crafted?
5. Conclusions, Recommendations, and Strategic Bets. The final step for the researcher is to take the perspective of citizen or policymaker and assist in making the decision of where to attempt to take the system, and illuminate what are the policies that must be pursued to get there.
Setting the Long-Term Vision: Making a Value Judgment about Where to Go. Having "lived through" at least three alternative futures, and examined what are the likely problems and considerations to be encountered along the way, the researcher can now ask and answer:
"Which of these futures is desirable?", and
"Which of these futures would be best avoided?"
Based on the possible future options (one of the three or four Scenarios Examined), make a policy recommendation as to what should be the realistic long-term vision of a desirable future. That becomes the strategic end-state.
Illuminate the Policy and Strategy to get there. Look back on the narrative timeline at what were the key events and policy decisions that took the system in one direction as opposed to another. Distil the key actions that would need to be taken, and the key actions to be avoided to create the greatest possible chance of arriving at the desired strategic end state. These become the recommendations for policy/strategy.
AF2025, pages 1-6: http://csat.au.af.mil/2025/a_f.pdf
Project Evergreen, pages 12-14, http://nicic.org/Downloads/PDF/Misc/01072008_EvergreenBooklet.pdf
Shell Scenarios, pages 8-9, http://www- static.shell.com/static/aboutshell/downloads/ our_strategy/shell_global_scenarios/exsum_23052005.pdf
http://csat.au.af.mil/2025/a_f.pdf (especially pages 1-6)
http://nicic.org/Downloads/PDF/Misc/01072008_EvergreenBooklet.pdf (especially pages 12-14)
http://www-static.shell.com/static/aboutshell/downloads/our_strategy/shell_global_scenarios/exsum_23052005.pdf (especially pages 8-9)
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Those brides looking for a more distinctive, unique, trendy and non-traditional look can easily opt for a Western style wedding dress. Western, rustic or country style wedding dresses have many advantages. In the first place, a Western style wedding dress is cheaper and more affordable compared to a traditional, elaborated, layered sophisticated wedding dress.
If you're original from a western town you an complement your roots and honor a certain family traditional custom you can choose to wear a beautiful, original, romantic or funky Western style wedding dress and get a smile on your parent's face. Another meaningful advantage of wearing a Western style wedding dress is that you can assort it with any casual and comfortable wedding set.
Whether you're planning a country-side wedding, a farm wedding, a back-yard wedding or a fancy rustic local wedding, wear a Western style wedding dress and bring more uniqueness, playfulness and cheerfulness to your wedding. More and more brides are choosing to go with a fashionable Western style wedding dress because it can complement their modern bridal look and make them appear even more feminine, different, attractive and enchanting. Choose to add more fun and casualty to your wedding by wearing a funky, rustic, cowgirl wedding dress or costume. A Western style wedding dress is always cheaper than any other fashionable bridal dress, because it has a simpler and modest design that doesn't include a very sophisticated and pompous look.
When purchasing for Western style wedding dresses, search for sleeves and jackets. If your religion tradition forces you to look more decent and less provocative, then search for high necklines and long or short sleeves that can cover your skin. If you find a sleeveless Western style wedding dress that you like, search for a lace cover-up for your arms. Use it only for the religious wedding church ceremony and then just throw it away for the night party. In general, a Western style wedding dress is composed from a heavy quantity of material so you'd better pay attention to this aspect if you're planning a summer outdoor wedding. Search only for those light-weighted Western style wedding dresses that can't provide you from feeling comfortable, move and dance easily.
Don't go with one of those redneck themes for country weddings if your wedding day is going to be extremely elegant, fancy and stylish. Go with a more chic, trendy and feminine corset old-charm Western style wedding dress and make your looks more attractive, modern and stunning. Go with a ruffled wedding dress because they are pretty fashionable these days and obtain a more romantic and yet contemporary western bridal look. Complement your dainty rustic look with a pair of classy boots and a wide hat.11
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Malia is fast becoming Crete's answer to Magaluf. Resting on a long sandy beach, the resort is highly popular with the 18-30 crowd seeking sun and fun in equal quantities. As such, it is a loud and busy place with a throbbing nightlife and no shortage of bars and clubs. Package holidays in Malia are often tailored to the young fun-seeker, but there are some quieter areas further along the beach and the town does boast a few sights worthy of exploration.
Just over 20 miles east of Heraklion, Malia is an ancient town with a rich history that dates back over 2,000 years. However, it is now quite clearly a clubber's paradise. All along the golden coast you'll find bars and clubs a plenty, and even on the beach bars line the sands and are happy to serve you refreshments as you lie in the sun. As holidays in Malia attract mainly a young crowd, there is plenty of watersports and fun activities, but if you get tired of the beach, nearby you can find Greece's largest water park. For those looking for quieter package holiday deals, Malia is probably not the place, but it is ideal for clubbers wanting a change from Ibiza, Magaluf or Ayia Napa.
There are a few sights worth seeing if you can drag yourself away from the clubs and bars. The Palace of Malia is 2,000 years old and offers a flavour of ancient Greece, and the cobbled streets of the village are worth a wander down. In addition, there are plenty of shops in the resort and no shortage of places to eat, although most restaurants are tailored to the younger crowd. If the noise and rowdiness gets a bit much, you can always head to the far end of the beach, where you'll find a less intensive atmosphere.
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Sixty five leading Indian jewellery exporters are showcasing works incorporating a seamless blend of the best international quality and workmanship with Indian design making at the jewellery's industry's premier event here.
The Gems and Jewellery Export Promotion Council of India (GJEPC), India's apex body for the promotion of gems and jewellery, is also displaying a 'Brand India' product gallery, a presentation of the best jewellery from India at the 'India Pavilion' at the JCK 2012.
Jewellery, both gold and diamond, forms an intrinsic part of India's culture and heritage, said the Indian ambassador to the US, Nirupama Rao at the show's inauguration ceremony Friday. "History is adorned with references to the great diamonds of India," she said.
Rao said India has emerged as the world's largest manufacturing centre of cut and polished diamonds contributing about 85 percent of the world's supply in volume of such diamonds.
Eleven out of every 12 diamonds set in jewellery world-wide are processed in India, which is also the third largest consumer of polished diamonds.
The Indian gems and jewellery sector that currently pegs at around $36 billion, is poised to record a compound annual growth of approximately 13 percent.
Intra-industry trade in diamonds is an important contributor to India-US commercial engagement today, Rao said noting Indian exports of diamond and diamond jewellery to the US touched $ 8 billion in 2011, whereas the US exported $4.6 billion worth of diamonds to India during the same period.
Rao was confident that JCK Las Vegas 2012 will "open a new growth path for stronger commercial links between Indian suppliers of diamond and gold Jewellery, and US and other international buyers."


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Steve O'Shea, research fellow with the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand, on a 330-pound, 16-foot-long squid caught last week by Antarctic fishermen. The squid, which had eyes as big as dinner plates, was a young female. Mr. O'Shea said this type of squid grows much larger in adulthood.
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Houston Astros outfielder Lance Berkman, on the Dixie Chicks, whose lead singer Natalie Maines provoked controversy last month by telling a European audience that she was ashamed that President Bush is from Texas.
It was like the liberation of Paris.
Army Lt. Col. Chris Hughes, on the reaction from civilians in Najaf, Iraq, last week after U.S. forces began taking control of parts of the city from Iraqi paramilitary fighters. Saddam Hussein had heavily persecuted the Shiite population of Najaf, considered the third-holiest city in the world by Shiite Muslims. Residents cheered U.S. soldiers and warned them away from minefields.
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Jo Hamlet, acting mayor of Mount Sterling, Iowa, population 40, giving an honest explanation about why he has proposed making lying a crime. "We're going to beat it around," he said. "You never know with the City Council around here what's going to happen."


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Griffiths survived to see a measure of the fame he desired. In 2001, when the documentary and the two shorts were packaged together and screened at the Sundance Film Festival as "The Beaver Trilogy," Harris and Griffiths were reunited, and remained in contact until Griffiths' death in 2009. But while the "Beaver" films' cult cachet is well-secured today -- I first saw the Glover segment on a third-generation VHS dupe, a hotly-traded item -- no plaudits were immediately forthcoming after Harris left AFI.
"I'd been in Los Angeles for a long time, an incredibly frustrating place to be," he said. "I'd had one project after another fall apart, and I just decided to hell with it, I'm going to write a screenplay that's so simple I can just go back to Utah and shoot it with my friends." That script would eventually turn into "Rubin & Ed." Harris showed it to his agent, not expected much to come of it. Instead, she thought it was funny and passed it to a producer who optioned it. Before long, the script was purchased by Columbia Tristar. "It was crazy," he recalled, "after all these years of nothing happening, this happened really quickly. Once I got the script finished it was like bang, bang, bang."
The resulting early nineties feature is one of the more idiosyncratic, uncompromised debuts of its era, completely self-assured in following its own beat. But it's not difficult to see why the movie has been divisive, for it consists of stranding the viewer alone in the desert with two aggressively grating characters. Ed, played by WKRP in Cincinnati's Howard Hesseman, is a divorced, middle-aged wash-out with an anger-management problem and a gift for mangling folksy turns of phrase, presently trying to turn his life around in a self-help seminar that seems quite like a pyramid scheme. Rubin Farr, played by Crispin Glover, is a shut-in with a penchant for skintight polyester and platform shoes; his only friend is a dead cat. Under the pretext of attending one of the seminars that Ed is hawking, Rubin commandeers Ed and his car to chauffeur the cat, on ice, into Utah's Goblin Valley State Park, where they will stumble among the red rock mushrooms, looking for the perfect burial place.
Discussing the origin of the Farr character, made infamous in an appearance on "Late Night with David Letterman" in which an in-character Glover nearly kicked the host in the head, Harris said that he and the actor "used to go to movies on Hollywood Blvd. There was an usher who was just a very strange duck, but I kind of liked him, there was something about him that I took to Rubin."
The film consists of Rubin and Ed's mostly contentious exchanges, which often comprise of arguments over relative meanings of success -- as in one exchange prompted by a piece of graffiti reading "Andy Warhol Sucks a Big One."
"That isn't funny!," Ed protests. "Andy Warhol is a successful artist!"
"He sounds like a fraud," says Rubin.
Harris recalled actually meeting Warhol in an oddball encounter. "I actually met him at Madonna's wedding of all places," he said, "and I told him I was making this movie and that I'd like to say that, and he said, 'Oh, that sounds very nice.' And then he kind of looked over and said, 'Ooh, a big one?'"
Then Trent Harris, who'd gone west to become a famous director, who'd hobnobbed with Warhol at Madonna's wedding, returned to Salt Lake City.


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Angela Chriss and her family have been vacationing in Langley, Arkansas for close to 25 years.
She was there with nine family members when she says the river rose 8 feet in three to five minutes, putting her family in the middle of a dangerous current.
Her 16-year-old son was swept away. "[He was saying] 'Mama, Daddy, please save me, help me, I'm drowning," Chriss says, crying.
Her 4-year-old grandson was floating with his mom when they sighted three dead bodies. "She said, 'Son, look at mommy, look at mommy,' and they started singing Jesus loves me," Chriss said.
Chriss and all her relatives survived with non-life threatening injuries. "I just pray that everbody's families are safe," she says. "I know there's several good friends that we made that didn't make it."
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Posted: 03/06/2014 - Enterprise police are investigating a residential burglary that happened last week.
Posted: 03/06/2014 - Enterprise police are investigating a residential burglary that happened last week.
Updated: 03/06/2014 - An arrest has been made in a December shooting in Level Plains.
Updated: 03/06/2014 - It could be a case of Mardi Gras mischief, or vandals inspired by a popular acronym.
Updated: 03/05/2014 - 2 suspects in a string of convenience store robberies last year have pleaded guilty.
Updated: 03/03/2014 - There is a burglary in progress on Edgewood Drive.
Updated: 03/03/2014 - A Crestview Florida man has been arrested on road rage charges.
Updated: 03/03/2014 - The murder trial of former Olympian Oscar Pistorius, begins today.
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Updated: 02/28/2014 - It's been nearly seven years since a Vernon mother last seen her daughter.
Posted: 02/28/2014 - On February 26th, a search warrant was executed by the WCSO VICE/Narcotics Unit with the assistance of the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, at 10 Sarasota Street, Apartment "B," Miramar Beach.
Posted: 02/28/2014 - On February 27, 2014 the Dothan Police Department made a felony arrest following a recent theft investigation.
Posted: 02/28/2014 - Sentencing for a former BP engineer found guilty of obstructing justice in the government's investigation of the Deepwater Horizon disaster has been pushed back while his lawyers fight the conviction.
Posted: 02/27/2014 - The Houston County Sheriff's Office is looking for a robbery suspect.
Posted: 02/27/2014 - A door-to-door scam ends in the Florida panhandle.
Updated: 02/27/2014 - The Okaloosa County Florida Sheriff's office makes a carjacking arrest.
Updated: 02/27/2014 - A prosecutor says the death of a defendant who faced a murder charge in the 20-year-old killing of a business owner will not affect the prosecution of the other three suspects.
Updated: 02/26/2014 - On February 24, 2014 the Dothan Police Department concluded a brief child solicitation investigation, which ended in the arrest of Reuben Huguley Jr.
Posted: 02/22/2014 - ONEONTA, Ala. (AP) -- Authorities are trying to find out who shot two pet zebras to death on a farm in the Oneonta area northeast of Birmingham.
Posted: 02/19/2014 - Authorities are looking for a north Georgia jail inmate who they say escaped by removing a toilet from a cell wall.
Posted: 02/18/2014 - On Thursday, February 13th around 8:15a.m. officers with the Henry County Sheriff's Office, Henry County/Abbeville Criminal Investigative Unit, Headland Police Department, and the Alabama State Troopers responded to a report of a robbery on County Road 20 near Headland, AL.
Updated: 02/18/2014 - On Monday, February 17th around 10 p.m the B.P. Gas Station, located at 3301 West Main Street was robbed at gun point by what is believed to be a black male, wearing a grey hooded sweatshirt and a black mask.
Updated: 05/01/2014 - Marques Ivory, wanted in connection with a capital murder that occurred in Eufaula is currently in police custody.
Updated: 02/13/2014 - Six people are arrested in connection with an attempted home invasion in Headland.
Updated: 02/11/2014 - A police take-down in Sacramento, California would make any NFL football player proud.
Updated: 02/10/2014 - People in Fort Gaines, Georgia had the opportunity to voice their concerns in a town hall meeting in the Clay County Elementary School gym with the local police department


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With all of the interest around the violent video game case, Schwarzenegger v EMA, we get questions daily on the process, the case, the legal principals, our amicus brief, others' briefs, and what is going to happen on the day of oral arguments and beyond. While we hope that the following information will shed some light on the oral argument process, we also routinely refer folks to the Supreme Court website, as well as to relevant articles on GamePolitics.
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS or Court) building is an impressive edifice and celebrated its 75th birthday just last week. While it is open to the public, as are the SCOTUS oral arguments, seating is extremely limited for the public in the courtroom. There are somewhere between 50-100 seats available in total. Guests of the Justices and a certain number of lawyers for and guests of the named parties, members of the SCOTUS bar, and members of the SCOTUS press corps all are allowed in first. Both the bar and the press corps are made up of folks in those professions, who have gone through the process to become a member of their respective SCOTUS professional group.
Then, after all those folks go in, any remaining seats may be filled by people who line up outside the court building. Some people line up the night before, but most people begin showing up a little before 8:00 am. The public is allowed in at 9:30 to begin the security process, and the first oral argument always begins at 10:00 am. Schwarzenegger is the first case on the docket for November 2nd.
Additionally, sometimes groups stage rallies on the SCOTUS steps. It is common and routine for consumer advocacy groups like ECA, AARP, NARAL, NOW and others to put on such rallies on important constitutional questions.
Once everyone is seated, the entrance doors in the back of the courtroom are closed. Recording devises and cell phones are forbidden, and the oral arguments are not broadcast outside the room live. Within 24 hours, the official court reporter's transcript is put online at the SCOTUS website. While SCOTUS' blog (http://ussc.blogspot.com) recently announced that SCOTUS would routinely begin offering radio feeds of oral arguments in the weeks after the fact, they still will not be offering video.
Everyone in the audience sits waiting in hushed silence. Then three doors on the other, far side of the room open, the court marshal comes out and asks everyone to rise and stand for the entry of the Justices. Everyone rises to their feet and the Justices file in wearing their long black robes and take their seats at the bench, and everyone else sits and the court is brought to order. It's a tremendously impressive process, especially when one visits the courtroom for the first time.
The first case for the day is called, here Schwarzenegger v EMA, and the attorneys for the two sides are called forward. First the Petitioner speaks for approximately 30 minutes giving their argument; in our case, it will be the California Attorney General. The Justices break in to ask questions in a rapid-fire Q&A. Then the Respondent has approximately 30 minutes to argue their side; in our case, it will be Paul Smith from Jenner & Block representing the Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA) and the Entertainment Software Association (ESA). Again, the Justices break in and there is some back and forth with questions and answers.
That's it. It's very fast and almost before it began, the oral arguments in the case are all over.
Then the waiting begins again. The court generally hands down its decisions during its then-current term, which in our case ends June 30th 2011. By way of comparison, last term's decision in the landmark First Amendment case, US v Stevens, was handed down over seven months after oral arguments. The timing of the decision relates to a lot of considerations like who writes the opinion, how split the Justices are, are there any dissent(s), and how backed up they are with other cases. There's really no way to tell. All we can know is that there will be much nail biting and head scratching between the oral argument in a couple of weeks and the decision being handed down in a number of months.
If you're interested in participating in the case, keep an eye on our website for more information about the rally. We also maintain a dedicated page that highlights relevant coverage. And the consumer petition that is referenced in the ECA's amicus brief is available here along with a bunch of social networking tools and ways for you to spread the word about the petition and case.
Jennifer Mercurio (herself a member of the SCOTUS Bar) is the Vice President & General Counsel for the Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA), the nonprofit membership organization that represents gamers in the U.S. and Canada.
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Australian schools have taken to a new form of virtual desktops that allows multiple students to work off a single computer without the limitations and server software associated with traditional thin clients.
Some dozen schools around the country have deployed NComputing's desktop sharing product, including Wodonga South Primary School in Victoria, Plenty Valley Montessori School in Victoria, Brighton Public School in South Australia, MacGregor State High School in Queensland and McKillop College in the ACT.
NComputing's country manager for Australia and New Zealand, John Robinson, said the education market constitutes about 50 percent of the company's business as desktop sharing is well suited for computer labs and libraries.
"The solution offers a middle ground between a desktop and thin client," Robinson said. "People typically utilise only 5 to 10 percent of a PC's capacity so NComputing is about sharing the functionality of a single resource."
NComputing has a direct-connect architecture that requires a PCI card and software on the PC and can support up to 11 users on one computer.
A network architecture is also available which can support up to 30 users running off a PC or server over a LAN.
Robinson said the acquisition cost is about half that of a PC.
"It's not meant for high-end gaming, but it supports full multimedia and office productivity applications," he said. "The PC doesn't have to be high-end, but running RAID is desirable."
NCompting devices support Windows and Linux. Windows users need to be aware of any licensing limitations in having more than one person access one operating system installation.
At Wodonga South Primary School learning was limited by having only four PCs in the school's senior classrooms.
The school's ICT and e-learning coordinator Gavan Brown said the school had tried thin-client technology, but found that maintaining the network and IT support was a problem.
"Our old, bulky CRTs also took up a lot of space in our classrooms, where we had little room to spare. We simply couldn't afford both new PCs and monitors," Brown said.
The old CRT monitors were replaced with LCD monitors and 62 NComputing "stations" were deployed.
"The cost savings were tremendous with the NComputing solution," Brown said. "Even with the expense of the new LCD monitors, we've saved more than (A)$35,000 [US$23,629] just on the initial deployment."
"We're happy with the performance of the NComputing devices, and have substantially reduced the amount of support we need to provide to keep everything up and running. There's also a lot more room for the students because there are fewer desktop PCs, and no more bulky CRTs that generate a lot of heat and take up space."
Brown is now deploying the NComputing solution in the new school being built nearby.
This story, "Desktop sharing lets schools save on PC costs" was originally published by Computerworld Australia.


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Felt a bit like Gilligan's Island for a while there, while our tiny ship was tossed in an overnight storm. It just added to the journey and to the experience, though, and we were all excited to tell of our survival on the following day. The same fearless crew that found my bag and navigated the waters was up early to make our excellent breakfast, as usual.


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(Big Bear Lake, Calif., Wednesday, September 12, 2007) - Southern California's most exciting summer snowboard contest, Hot Dawgz & Hand Rails (HD & HR), is taking place at Bear Mountain on Saturday,September 15, 2007 and today BBMR is releasing the names of the pro riders who will compete in this year's event. With $12,000 in cash prizes on the line (and $1,000 for Best Trick), three movie premieres, autograph sessions, product giveaways and more, this year's event promises to be one of the best yet!
Sponsored by Electric, Planet Earth, Vestal, Thirtytwo, Fuel TV and more, HD & HR is free and open to the public; however, the snowboarding competition is for invited, professional snowboarders only. The event will feature a unique setup that will test the skills of some of the best jibbers in the world.
Some of the world class riders scheduled to compete include: Lucas Magoon, Chris Bradshaw, Cory Cronk, Keegan Valaika, Yale Caousino, Zak Hale, Pat Milbery, JP Walker, Seth Huot, Simon Chamberlain, Lauri Heiskari, Louie Vito, Nima Jalali, Erin Comstock, Leanne Pelosi and Hana Beaman.
"When HD & HR was created four seasons ago, we really didn't know how successful it would become,but this unique late-summer event exceeded all our expectations with more than 4,500 people in attendance," said Kim Hermon, Asst. Director of Marketing for Big Bear Mountain Resorts. "We are expecting HD & HR to draw more people this year and it should be an even larger spectacle as the event evolves into more of a pre-winter festival at Bear Mountain."
"This year's HD & HR will have all new jibs for competitors to destroy, such as the first ever planter box gap, three-inch down flat down, Euro gap-gateway box, bank-to-tank and over 8 jibs to choose from with endless options and more," said Clayton Shoemaker, HD & HR contestant and rail builder.
In addition to the competition part of HD & HR, the event will feature the premiere of Mack Dawg Productions' new film "Picture This" and Bear Mountain's new movie "Sunday." HD & HR will also include a sponsor booth city, special event-only season pass rollback prices, professional rider autograph sessions, 2008 Fashion Show, product giveaways, DJ's, BBQ's, the Beach Bar, tons of snow and some of the top-ranked snowboarders in the world battling it out for $12,000 in cash prizes. HD & HR will also host a benefit for Boarding for Breast Cancer.
HD & HR will be covered by several media outlets and numerous Southern California radio stations will be involved in the promotion of the event. The event begins at 2:00 p.m. Finals are at 6:00 p.m. The awards ceremony at 7:00 p.m. will be followed by the two world snowboarding movie premieres.
"The last few years there have been literally more cameras capturing the event than there are riders competing. It has definitely become a major media affair," explained Hermon.


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Energy-balance and sliding mode control strategies of a cascade H-bridge multilevel converter for grid-connected PV systems Negroni Vera, Juan José; Biel Solé, Domingo; Guinjoan Gispert, Francisco; Meza Benavides, Carlos (2010)
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Energy-balance control of PV cascaded multilevel grid-connected inverters for phase-shifted and level-shifted pulse-width modulations Chavarría Roé, Javier; Biel Solé, Domingo; Guinjoan Gispert, Francisco; Meza Benavides, Carlos; Negroni Vera, Juan José (IEEE Press. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2012-01-26)
Restricted access - publisher's policyThis paper presents an energy-balance control strategy for a cascaded single-phase grid-connected H-bridge multilevel inverter linking n independent PV arrays to the grid. The control scheme is based on an energy-sampled ...
Robust Exact Differentiation via Sliding Mode Technique applied to a Fixed-Frequency Quasi-Sliding Control Algorithm Biel Solé, Domingo; Fossas Colet, Enric; Meza Benavides, Carlos; Muñoz Aguilar, Raúl Santiago (2008-01)
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Chocolate Cake on a rainy day
It was a blustery weekend here in San Jose. As Hubby and I were preparing for our morning walk, we glanced out the living room window and saw all the beautiful red and gold leaves being blown violently by gusts of wind and our newly washed windows were now splattered with fresh rain. This sight put an immediate end to our outdoor plans for the day and as we pulled off our winter jackets I wondered "what are some rainy day activities we can do?".
This got us thinking about our childhood rainy days, where the whole family got to stay home from work and school and spend the day enjoying great food and doing some fun family activities.Read More


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blackcatgrowl replied to Sean Payton's Vicodin's topic in Carolina Panthersrayzor or someone merged it. It's all good now.
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blackcatgrowl replied to Sean Payton's Vicodin's topic in Carolina PanthersI feel ya SPV. Feel the same way. At least you are given the right to express your emotions about it.
Wow. Really man? Locked my thread? So typical for this forum. Don't like what you hear even if it has the truth in it, so it's just swept it under the rug.
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I am too man. Trust me. I'm trying to make sense of what I watched and can't. This game shouldn't have happened the way it did. Everything leading up to it was damn near perfect. The team. Their focus. For us to go down like that... doesn't add up. We beat AZ like red-headed step children, then get trucked by a half-team that sucked against the run?
That's why I'm just about unplugging from it. Gotta vent some... then just forget about the NFL for awhile.
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blackcatgrowl replied to Sean Payton's Vicodin's topic in Carolina PanthersI've avoided posting here for years... but this... this has to be said.... My family and I have been Panthers fans since the team was formed. I have pictures of my brothers and I all wearing Panthers hats sitting in section 550 of Ericsson Stadium in 1996… my first NFL game. I've wore Panther gear proudly since Collins was the QB, and Mills was playing. I cheered for them when Beuerlein was taking snaps. I remember jumping up and almost hitting my head on the ceiling of my apartment when Smith (before he was called "Sr.") caught that pass in double OT against the Rams. I remember freezing my arse off on January 3, 2010, the coldest game in BoA Stadium history as we won a meaningless game against a playoff bound Saints team that rested their starters, but it was a win and a fun game. I have less fond memories too. I remember watching Collins drink himself out of a job. I remember watching Biakabutuka fail over and over. I remember watching them play the Redskins and lose while at a sports bar off Independence Blvd in 1998, almost getting into a bar brawl with a guy chanting "Here we go Redskins, Here we go!". I remember screaming at the screen while John Fox has his OC call the exact same 4 plays for 3 or 4 series in a row of stalled drives. I remember the out of bounds kick in SB 38. I remember Jimmy Clausen trying to give footballs to kids in the stands from the Carolina 30 yard line. I remember the months long debates about drafting Cam. And I recently remember Shula do his best John Fox impersonation with the most uniquely talented player in the NFL, and us still managing to score somehow. I remember sitting out in the cold for over an hour to hear the President of Bank of America try to talk to us like he belonged on a stage for the Panthers. Yet, through it all, I've stuck with this team. I've gone to every game I could manage or afford to. I've spent thousands of dollars on gear, tickets and paraphernalia. But this game has done it for me. I can't continue anymore. I'm retiring my gear, and stepping away from the NFL for who-knows-how long. Maybe forever. The Panthers never had a chance in Super Bowl 50. Not because Denver's D was "So good". No… they weren't. They barely beat Cleveland in OT in the regular season. They almost got taken to OT by a depleted New England. They lost 4 regular season games against several shoddy teams. It wasn't because of the pressure of the game on Cam or anyone else. It wasn't because of one specific thing. No… they never had a chance before it even began, because of how advertising, popular opinion, TV ratings, money and the capitalist-consumerism of America and the NFL all play together. Last week, my job took me out of town. While on the job-site, I wound up working with a complete stranger waiting on very delayed delivery of equipment. So we had a casual conversation to pass the time. After short while he revealed that he was a Cleveland OH native, and lifelong – swaddled in an Orange and Brown blanket – Browns fan. I'd never met one before, but I knew they existed. One of the worst, if not possibly the worst franchise in the past two decades had to have fans, as they did seem to have people in the stands. We had long talk about football. When I tried to claim I had some rough times as a Panther's fan, the man balked and threw it into perspective. He described his lifelong agony of coaching carousels, and good players gone to waste. He talked about bad decisions by ownership and management with salary cap and talent acquisitions. He remarked on how the Browns just didn't feel like a team he really wanted to root for anymore. His spirit was crushed. He genuinely looked sad and even went on to tell me how he apologized to his own son for indoctrinating him into being a Browns fan too. I felt a sense of irony… he was almost perfectly describing the dark side of my journey as a Panther's fan. And then it hit me. The Browns aren't known as having a rich fan base, nor have a high franchise value. They have never seen any great amount of sustained success. Nor have we. As I started thinking about it… this Super Bowl was setting up to become a disaster for the Panthers. I began to fear the value of our team, the money it represents, and a "narrative" for TV ratings could become tangibly insurmountable. Forced to wear our Black jerseys, the Panthers were the "bad guys". Cam Newton – made into a figurehead for youthful arrogance - became the powerful antagonist. He was fast and good, and everyone should fear him. He's been compared to "gunslingers" of football. He was coming to steal the horses and rob the bank. But he was going against "The Sherriff" who wore a white horse logo with a White uniform. He even had a golden badge on his shirt. Can you get more of a setup? The perception by national media is that everyone loves Peyton Manning. I can even hear the Nationwide jingle now.. ♫Epic sunset ride starts here ♫. That interview with Peyton in the pre-game show… his emotional choking up about how he wants to just be known as a good teammate. fuging give the man an Emmy now. In the past 13 years, more than half the time, the team that has the higher valued franchise (in terms of money) has won the Super Bowl… UNLESS there was strong narrative for the financial underdog. In fact, they even re-used the same narrative for Eli's second win over NE. A few times, the narrative was placed on the more wealthy team. The game became exactly what I feared it would be. The Panthers were one of the least penalized teams in the league. They were the best for turnover differential. Cam protected the HELL out of the football all year… enough to earn an MVP award. They were laser focused. Yet somehow, they got twice as penalized as the Broncos, and committed more turnovers in 60 minutes than they did in the past 5 games. The team stumbled over their own feet (literally at times) and I actually stopped watching the game after the goal post deflected FG. I knew it then… the fix was in. I didn't check the final score until 10:30PM, as I knew what the outcome was going to be. FFS… they are even hiding it in plain sight. Article on NFL.com headline reads "Peyton earns second ring in Hollywood ending". They got that poo right. It's a perfect script. Advertisers are happy too… just trying to look up stats on the Panthers on NFL.com, I'm berated with ♫Don't open that cellar door♫ and ♫Epic comeback starts right here♫. Bravo Goodell. Salesman of the century is a title you should hold. I'm sure you were watching those instant-ratings on your smartphone the whole game. So… I'm done. I'm not throwing money at a live action stage play. I'm not sitting through any more Nationwide commercials. I'm not buying Budweiser, or Hyundai, or Doritos, and I'm not going spend 1.5 hours of three hours of every Sunday or Monday or Thursday watching their commercials. I won't be duped anymore into thinking this is about an honest contest. I won't be lied to anymore that everything plays out legit on the field. I won' t be sold to anymore. This isn't about being a "fan". It's about being real about real life. The better team did not win today. The sponsors did.
lol, oh I don't care. I derail at times too. There's room for diverse conversation.
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Haha thanks my man.
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blackcatgrowl replied to Matt Moore's topic in NerdvanaYeah, I read that too. They keep jacking these rates up and I think I'm out.
LOL... I'm srry Salty... Does this make up for it any?
I hate u
LOL yes sir, indeed
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Lindsay Lohan is one step closer to being on good terms with the IRS. Earlier this week, the Internal Revenue Service released an update on the troubled actress case, and it seems she cleared up the entire outstanding balance for her 2009 taxes, plus put a little something toward another debt.
According to E! Online, $93,701.57 went to balance the 2009 ledger and the leftover $6,000 went to 2010. Lohan hasnt released a statement saying exactly where the money came from, but naturally, most observers are of the opinion that its the one hundred thousand dollars Charlie Sheen gave her while they filmed Scary Movie 5 together.
After this balloon payment, Lohan is still in the hole for roughly $133,000. So, in essence, she needs one more big acting role or modeling job to free herself from Uncle Sams obsessive grip. Unfortunately, given how poorly Liz & Dick fared and her recent run-ins with the law, its not as if people are lining up around the block to give her money. Plus, theres a distinct possibility she could be in jail for violating her parole within the next few months.
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Tallahassee, Florida - May 8, 2012 - 5:13pm. -
Five people want to take over Tallahassee's City Commission Seat 1.
Steve Stewart, Scott Maddox, Daniel Parker, Delaitre Hollinger and Eric Friall have put their names in the mix.
Tuesday, four of them explained their views on some hot button issues.
The forum was on the agenda of the North East Business Association's (NEBA) luncheon.
One of the questions the men answered, was how they feel about county/city consolidation.
Parker said, "I think we have a lot of bigger fish to fry. If it makes sense and there are places in the city and county that are duplicitous, then we can look at it.
Stewart said, "I'll make sure to take the time and do the research to make sure we're providing the most cost effective government."
Hollinger said, "I don't believe that consolidation is necessarily the right approach at this time."
Maddox said, "I think it makes absolute sense to consolidate portions of the county and city government."
When the moderator asked this question, "Do you think the city commissioners who took money from deferred payments, should return the money to city coffers?" things heated up a bit.
Stewart mentioned that he had documentation showing Maddox rejected a measure, while he was mayor, that would require more financial disclosure documents.
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During his next round at the podium, Stewart said to Maddox, "My issues are jobs, utilities and ethics. I didn't say you were unethical. I said you did not support increasing the financial disclosure requirements when you had a chance to as mayor."
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'Drive' Star Also Passed On 'Big,' 'Dead Poets Society' And 'Pretty Woman'
Of the many things that have made a comeback in 2011 -- Wilson Phillips, high-waisted pants, the street protest -- perhaps the happiest is the resurgence of Albert Brooks. Mostly absent from screens in the past decade, bar a vocal turn in Pixar's masterpiece "Finding Nemo," and his directorial flop "Looking For Comedy In The Muslim World," Brooks returned with an acclaimed book, "2030: The Real Story of What Happened to America," took to Twitter and instantly became the funniest thing on it, and played, against type, mobster Bernie Rose in Nicolas Winding Refn's "Drive," a performance that looks likely to take him to the Oscars.
There's more on the way, including a turn as Paul Rudd's father in Judd Apatow's "This is Forty," but in the meantime Brooks has been talking to Collider, and reflecting on some of the parts he's turned down over the years. The polymath tells the site that he's planning on spending the next few years acting, as making his own movies has forced him to pass on projects over years, and the actor mentions the likes of "Dead Poets Society," "Big" and "Pretty Woman," roles eventually taken by Robin Williams, Tom Hanks and Richard Gere.
It's intriguing to think of how those projects might have turned out with Brooks in the lead, but the most interesting bit of information is that he was offered the part of sleazeball porn producer Jack Horner in Paul Thomas Anderson's breakout "Boogie Nights," which was eventually taken by Burt Reynolds. Brooks relates "One part that I actually wanted to play, and I was in pre-production of my own movie, just because I thought I wanted to work with Paul [Thomas Anderson] was the part that Burt Reynolds got in 'Boogie Nights.' I liked that whole ensemble. When I read that script, I really liked it."
Considering that the film Brooks was prepping must have been "Mother," one of his lesser efforts, it must have stung a little, but Brooks isn't hung up on it. "I couldn't shut down what I was doing. But, regrets are stupid; they don't mean anything and they don't add up to anything." And he should take comfort in not being the only person to turn the film down -- both Warren Beatty and Sydney Pollack turned the part down, and later expressed regret. And with Brooks now firmly back on radars after "Drive," maybe PTA will find something for him in his next project, maybe in the Thomas Pynchon adaptation "Inherent Vice"? We'd drink a milkshake to that.


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The original vinyl LP Red Letter Day contained 9 songs and was limited to 500 copies. This new 10 song CD is truly a 1st edition by the only company Tom has authorized to produce and market his works. It includes for the 1st time "Stars in the Night", a centerpiece track (not on the vinyl) from the original Red Letter Day recording session! Lyric sheets for all songs included.
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