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Courses in Music Recording Technology
MRT 277. Recording Engineering I. The only way to learn engineering and studio production is to dive in and see how it works. You'll engineer tracking and mixing projects as you learn the fundamentals of recording systems - concepts and techniques of console operation, signal flow, session procedures, and signal processors.
Prerequisite: PHY 102 or permission.
3 credits.
MRT 278. Recording Engineering II. This semester we dig deeper and work on more complex console operations and studio production techniques. You'll learn more about microphone design and technique, signal processing, and audio theory. Got ears? You'll continue developing critical listening skills that are crucial for audio engineers.
Prerequisite: MRT 277.
3 credits.
MRT 373. Electronic Music. This course is an exploration of electronic music. Subjects covered include: the appreciation and knowledge of electronic music pioneers, MIDI composition, MIDI theory, sound design, synthesis, sampling, sound for video, and studio production integration. Primary software taught is Avid Pro Tools
Corequisite: MRT 374. Prerequisite: MRT 278.
3 credits.
MRT 374. Digital Audio. This course is an exploration of digital audio technologies. Subjects covered include: audio in the digital domain, digital theory, recording applications, audio editing, mixing, and an appreciation of pioneers in digital audio production. Primary software taught is Avid Pro Tools
Corequisite: MRT 373. Prerequisite: MRT 278.
3 credits.
MRT 377. Mastering Audio. A mastering engineer takes a completed mix project and tweaks it to perfection using very sophisticated signal processing and a highly developed critical ear. Learn the techniques from a professional mastering engineer who will guide you through the process of learning how to apply the tools while developing your listening skills.
Prerequisite: MRT 278.
3 credits.
MRT 379. Tonmeister Recording. How do you record an orchestra, or choral ensemble, or string quartet? The Tonmeister approach emphasizes engineering and musical skills by considering room acoustics, musical genres, microphone technique, and methods for on-location recording in order to effectively capture an acoustic performance in a concert hall.
Prerequisite: MRT 278.
1 credit.
MRT 400. Internship. All MRT majors complete an internship with a company focused in the audio/recording industry. Internships can be taken after completing all junior level class requirements. Internships are offered the senior spring semester or the summer before the senior year. If all coursework is completed, a 12-credit, full-time internship can be pursued, allowing students to relocate for the term.
May be repeated for credit (up to 12 credits of internship may be counted toward the degree). Fulfills general education requirement:
Prerequisites: All junior level MRT degree classes, and approval of the internship director and advisor.
3-12 credits.
MRT 473. Architectural Acoustics. Audio recording is not possible without an appropriate acoustic environment. We'll investigate the various issues and options involved whether you're improving an existing space or planning new construction. You'll learn how to diagnose the acoustics of a room and design solutions - and we'll start by looking at our own buildings around campus. The final project is a complete design for a studio facility you just might build someday.
Prerequisite: MRT 373 and 374, or by permission of the instructor.
3 credits.
MRT 474. Music Production Seminar. In this capstone course you will apply everything you've learned to produce a quality recording for an off-campus "client". You'll wear the hats of producer and chief engineer as you learn new techniques, refine the ones you already know, and deal with issues such as musicality, client relations, engineering, organization, and time constraints. Guided by a professional engineer with extensive experience, this course allows you to pull out all the stops to see what you can do.
Prerequisite: MRT 373 and 374, or permission of the instructor.
3 credits.
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Technology | A new leader takes over for Steve Jobs at the computer company that is a cultural force
With the announcement that 56-year-old Steve Jobs would step down as CEO of Apple, Inc. came a question Apple geeks and investors alike are asking: Will the new head of Apple be able to spin out magical and lucrative products (iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad) like Jobs did?
At Jobs' recommendation, Apple has appointed former Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook, 50, to be CEO. By many accounts, Cook already ran Apple (he'd acted as chief executive three times, including during Jobs' most recent medical leave of absence, ongoing since January). Cook has worked under Jobs for 13 years. While Jobs' role had been to cast Apple's vision and be company spokesman, Cook worked tenaciously behind the scenes to make Apple profitable, outsourcing manufacturing and building a clockwork-like supply chain for the company's carefully controlled product rollouts.
Cook has been described as demanding and unemotional. He earned $59 million in 2010, but is better known for his grueling schedule, bicycling, and energy bar consumption during meetings than for lavish living. He reportedly gives much money away-including to President Obama's 2008 election campaign, although he was a registered Republican at one point.
His political views should perhaps be irrelevant to Cook's performance as CEO, but in an age of ubiquitous media, the purveyors of technology-and their worldviews-can control content. Last year Apple banned pornographic applications from its iPhones and iPads-but also rejected an app for the "Manhattan Declaration," a Christian document that defended traditional marriage.
Observers say Cook is obsessed with detail, like Jobs, but in contrast to the mercurial yet attractive leadership style of his predecessor, Cook always appears calm and can seem personally aloof. Some analysts say Cook will be able to lean on other Apple executives to compensate for what he lacks in innovation skills. Others are skeptical. Cook himself reportedly said a few years ago, "Come on, replace Steve? No. He's irreplaceable. ... I see Steve there with gray hair in his 70s, long after I'm retired."
Jobs' final leadership test may be whether his selected protégé really can fill those sneakers.
Auto farm
Kinze Manufacturing, a Williamsburg, Iowa-based maker of farm implements, has unveiled a tractor system that can plant a field by itself. In video posted at the company's website, a driverless tractor plowed rows and made turns in a field with the help of GPS, sensors, and a computer programmed to stop the tractor if it encountered a fence, pickup truck, or animal. Kinze representatives haven't revealed a sale date or price.
Farmers have been using GPS guidance to reduce overlap and to work at night for years, but it has required a driver in the cab. If cost and safety hurdles are cleared for autonomous tractor systems, they could enable farmers to take advantage of good weather days by doing 24-hour planting-or to automatically run a grain cart alongside a combine during harvest.

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Full Sail Brewing has been named one of the "100 Best Green Companies to Work for in Oregon" by Oregon Business magazine for the second year in a row. The second annual 100 Best Green Companies were announced Tuesday, June 1, in Portland. The winners were selected from over 500 companies that participated.
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Backstory: The "realm" of Eane is consistent of seven subworlds that do not exist in the same physical realm, but do exist in the same physicality - if that makes any sense. This is a fantasy world and each of the subworlds have associated elements... consequently, the worlds do not abide by standard laws of existence. There's an element of artistic license with the way the worlds work - that said, I want them to have an equal sense feasibility, despite everything. Their symbolic existence is their literal existence, and this is reflected in the naming of each subworld.
#6: Arobanpyr (Numbered for myself since I have a consistent organization.)
Elements: Water, Fire (assumed Earth...naturally)
As far as the map goes, I spent a lot of time designing the overall look of it because I can reuse it for the other six subworlds (some of which have more than one layer... more on that later, when applicable). I want something that feels modern but also has that classic fantasy book feel to it. Not sure if I'm quite at the sweet spot yet, but I'm very happy with the progress of things.
In terms of the map itself, I've been playing around with the mountains, ice, grass and forest elements. There are very specific reasons why everything is where it is - mostly dictated by story, but also by "symbolism" - for instance the Frost Palace should be around a helluva lot of ice.
(By the way all the names of cities and buildings and such are super temporary... more as an easy way for me to remember than what they're actually going to end up being...)
I'm having a hard time getting all the pieces to blend the way I want them to, so that even though the elements may be crudely compiled (as is the nature of illogical physics), they still look aesthetically pleasing and purposeful. I'm also unsure of how to represent the volcanic peaks...
In terms of scale, the 30 miles marker is probably fairly accurate - but I've never been good at understanding mountains, so if you feel like I'm radically off in either direction, please do let me know.
Anyways, this is like the first map I've ever made that isn't a terrible pencil doodle for a new Pokemon region (#UncouthYouth), so thoughts and advice are all greatly appreciated!


text: I agree with that, my 7 mag is the same way. I always shoot a spoiler before my "group" testing of new loads. Elkoholic307 is saying that during load development that 5 shot groups tell him a lot more than 3 shot groups. I'm interested in what he's learning from the additional shots.


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With the department of telecommunications working to meet conditions set by the defence ministry, telecom firms could soon have access to more pan-India 3G spectrum. The defence ministry is likely to shortly vacate 15 MHz of spectrum in the 2.1 GHz (3G band), sources said, paving the way for auctions that should fetch the government at least R30,000 crore. With more 3G spectrum at their disposal telcos can offer better data services.
According to an internal note, drafted on November 11, and based on a meeting between the DoT and the defence ministry, the telecom department has agreed to the creation of a defence band. A steering committee, under the DoT secretary with members from the defence forces, will oversee this. The idea is for the armed forces to get 15 MHz of spectrum in the 1900 MHz band in lieu of 15 MHz in 2.1 GHz band; this did not form part of the earlier memorandum of understanding signed between them and telecom department in May 2009.
The May 2009 MoU said the defence ministry was to vacate 40 MHz of spectrum in the 1800 MHz (2G) band and 25 MHz in the 3G band in return for which the DoT was required to roll out an exclusive fibre network for the defence forces, a swap called network for spectrum (NFS). The spectrum was to be vacated by the defence ministry as per specific targets met by the DoT, which included milestones in the roll-out of the NFS network, notification of the defence band, promulgation of a defence interest zone and waiver of spectrum charges for defence.
For its part, the defence ministry has vacated 20 MHz in the 2G band and 20 MHz in the 3G band despite the targets being missed. However, it is not willing to vacate any more spectrum unless the the MoU triggers are met.
With recent meetings and negotiations the Dot and defence ministry are in the process of working out a fresh arrangement that the DoT can execute quickly. The development is significant because this swap spectrum proposal is not part of the original MoU and the two sides have got an opportunity to bridge the trust deficit created earlier because of the non-fulfilment of the MoU conditions.
The result of this fresh initiative would lead to the release of 15 MHz 3G spectrum (the same quantum of spectrum was auctioned by the government in 2010)


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Convocation exercises for the Pharm.D. Class of 2012 at The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy are scheduled for Friday, May 18. The ceremony, set to begin at 8:30 a.m., will take place at Bass Concert Hall in the Performing Arts Center (PAC) on the university campus. Dr. Kenneth Shine, executive vice chancellor for health affairs for The University of Texas System, will present the commencement address.
Tickets are not required in order to attend the ceremony, and there is no guest limit per graduate. Doors to the theater open at 8 am on the day of the event. The facility is located at 23rd Street and Robert Dedman drive, just north of the Darrell K. Royal - Texas Memorial Football Stadium.
Bass Concert Hall is ADA compliant with wheelchair access and seating available. Anyone requiring assistance should go inside the lobby to the box office and request to be seated early. Persons with mobility issues will find the shortest and flattest means of accessing the facility by dropping off passengers in front of Bass along 23rd Street. A ramp is available at this entrance.
The closest parking facilities are the San Jacinto Parking Garage, 2401 San Jacinto Boulevard, and the Manor Parking Garage, 2017 Robert Dedman Drive. UT parking garages will be free to the public for commencement weekend on both Friday and Saturday.
Pharmacy graduates will also participate in the university-wide commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 19 beginning at 8 p.m. on the south terrace of the Main Building (UT Tower). At this event, pharmacy graduates will walk in the procession and be recognized as a group. There will be no individual recognition of graduates at this event.
For questions concerning the College of Pharmacy convocation, contact Sharla Brewer at (512) 475-9753 or via email to email@example.com.
Shine to Address Graduates
Dr. Kenneth Shine, executive vice chancellor for health affairs for The University of Texas System, will present the commencement address for College of Pharmacy graduation exercises. The program begins at 8:30 a.m. at Ball Concert Hall in the Performing Arts Center.
Prior to joining the University of Texas System in 2003, he served as president of the Institute of Medicine. Under his leadership, the IOM focused attention on meeting the healthcare needs of all Americans. He organized symposia to underscore the importance of cultural sensitivity in healthcare and supported programs to increase immunization rates, decrease use of tobacco among adolescents, and improve care of the dying. He emphasized communication of scientific findings and recommendations.


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19 April 2014
By Kirsten Webster
Photo: Martin SidorjakPetra Kvitova (CZE) and captain Petr Pala
OSTRAVA, CZECH REPUBLIC: An electrifying start for Czech Republic gave them a commanding 2-0 lead over the defending Fed Cup by BNP Paribas champions Italy – even with a power cut at the Cez Arena in Ostrava delaying their progress.
Lucie Safarova and Petra Kvitova claimed the two points on the opening day of the semifinal with each of them winning in straight set matches.
The Czech captain, Petr Pala was incredibly pleased with the day's work but says he is not counting on the overall victory just yet.
"It was a very good day for us but we have to look for another day like this tomorrow. Very proud of the girl's performance they played really well and I'm really glad that it all went in two sets and in our favour"
"I know it's going to be tough tomorrow so I am not going to be sleeping as well as you think," he added.
Safarova got the first point on the board with a ruthless one hour and 11 minute performance over the Italian No. 1, Sara Errani 64 61.
The almost flawless Safarova gave the vocal home crowd every reason to cheer, bang drums and blow plastic horns after almost every point. The chair umpire, Alison Hughes even had to resort to some finger waving at repeat offenders to keep the match on track.
Safarova was far from disturbed by the noise. "It was a great match and I played so well, especially in the second set. The crowd is amazing and I love to play at home".
The bubble of Safarova on court contrasted with a more reflective Errani who struggled to explain her lack-lustre showing.
"It was a very difficult match, especially on this surface. It's not easy for me, but I tried to be a bit more aggressive but it was really difficult. We have to fight for a point and we will see," Errani said.
Kvitova strolled on to the court shortly after Safarova had ignited the crowd and if it wasn't for a freak storm which cut the power to the Arena, the match would have been over quicker than the one hour and 15 minutes it took to secure the point.
Kvitova was back to her best after a break from the tour – and just as well too. Her childhood coach, her dad, was watching from the stands with a keen eye.
"It's pressure every time my parents come, he was my coach until I was 16 so for him it's pretty tough and for me it is not easy. I am just really glad my serve was great today and I played a good match," Kvitova said.
The Italian captain, Corrado Barazzutti now has the job of motivating his team overnight and recover his own emotions.
"I don't feel very well, but we have to recognise that the Czech players played really well. They played a great match and it was a difficult match. I am disappointed. But my players never give up and we have another day tomorrow and we are ready," Barazzutti said.
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Italy's Sara Errani was drawn to play Czech Republic's Lucie Safarova in the opening rubber of the Fed Cup by BNP Paribas World Group semifinal in Ostrava
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The House of Bath catalogue is the ultimate in online shopping for home items, equipment and appliances. The catalogue is unique in dealing with home items as the range of products is wide and exhaustive. Every room around the house can practically be furnished and made functional by shopping from the House of Bath catalogue. Textiles, DIY tools, electronics and other items needed around the house and outdoors, are available in the catalogue. For shoppers who like doing their shop at one go, the House of Bath catalogue is the ultimate in home shopping.
Few online catalogues can match the House of Bath product range. Items, equipment and appliances for every room in the house and the garden are available. The furniture category has furniture for every room; beds, sofa sets, dining tables and chairs, footstools, drawers and shelves are in stock. The home decor category has writing, wall paper and art, candles and candleholders, artificial plants, lighting, and vases among others. The home textiles are beddings, curtains and blinds, and soft furnishings. There is a home wares section which has appliances for the bathroom, kitchen ware, and table wares. For home solutions there are DIY tools, cleaning solutions, pest solutions, home security equipment, and laundry. There is also an outdoors category which has garden equipment, garden furniture, fencing and floors, sheds and outbuildings. For electricals, a shopper can get DVDs, Cameras, audio equipment, SatNavs, computers, and other home electronics. For clothing, the House of Bath has clothing for everyone; men women and children.
Opening a personal credit account at House of Bath is a very good option for online shoppers. It makes repeated shopping at the online catalogue. Credit is also available starting at £100. Once a shopper has made a purchase at House of bath, the details are kept such that the shopper does not have to fill them all over again. Credit accounts have the advantage of qualifying the shopper for numerous bargains and discounts. They also give you affordability and flexibility in payment. To open a personal credit account, a valid credit or debit will be needed along with a valid address. The shopper has to be over 18 too.
A credit account has the benefit of giving flexibility in payments. For large purchases that the shopper may find unaffordable at one go, House of Bath gives the allowance to spread costs. Arrangements with the sales team will see minimum monthly payments go as low as £5. This makes shopping a breeze and very easy on the finances.
First time and existing shoppers are eligible for a promotion code which marks them for a discount. Shoppers are allowed a 28 day trial period during which they can test the suitability of a purchase. If it does not meet their tastes and standards, they are free to return it. Delivery is done by courier at home or work making shopping at House of Bath a secure experience.


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Hospital Impact has been ranked one of the top 50 healthcare blogs by Wikio.
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by Scott Kashman and Joan M. Odorizzi
As we go about doing our particular work each day, it is important to create personal and caring moments for our patients and each other. These moments are part of your daily or weekly work.
In a "caring moment" you would intentionally choose words and actions that send a message to another and enhance their well-being. In other words, an employee can give a patient a warm face cloth before eating, and that in itself is a good thing.
You can create caring moments by talking with the patient and sharing why you are doing so. Tell them you are doing this especially for them to help provide some comfort during this difficult time. Caring moments take only seconds of time and have a lasting, goodwill effect on someone else. Your intent to create these moments changes good experiences into meaningful and caring moments.
For example, we are upgrading our linen for our patients. If you do not talk with patients about this linen change, they would never know the linen has been upgraded for their comfort. By sharing we are using resort hotel-quality linen held to medical standards and upgraded the linen for their improved comfort, we have been more intentional. We also will ensure they provide feedback so we can measure the overall effect after a trial period. We want our patients, staff and physicians to know they have a say in the linen and impact on the overall experience.
Patients certainly have many caring moments or moments of truth during a stay. We have upgraded and enhanced many of our clinical programs, campus and facility aesthetics, and training. The caring moments philosophy will keep us focused on meaningful and intentional discussion on why we are doing what we are doing. That also brings about the outcome of this--feedback. As leaders, we will receive feedback and need to appreciate every bit of feedback we get (like dessert after each holiday meal!). After all, people are thinking it any way ... might as well know the truth about how they feel.
Of course, we all want to measure the impact of our efforts. We are intentionally driving our business strategies through the lens of Samueli Institute's optimal healing environment (OHE). This is an environment that is optimistic, caring and healing. Most of the time organizations look for ROI (return on investment). We are no different except for the way we go about achieving these goals. In the book, "Prescription for Excellence," Joseph Michelli, M.D., notes UCLA Health System has what it calls ROE or return on experience. The health system looks for the following:
As we focus more on caring moments and our optimal healing environment, we have realized improvements in all the ROEs above. No matter what our role and duties are, each of us has the opportunity to create caring moments. Each interaction offers the opportunity to create a caring moment. How is your organization intentionally focusing on caring moments?
Enjoy your holiday season and Happy New Year. Wishing everyone great success in their continued expedition through 2014.
Scott Kashman serves as the Chief Administrative Officer of Cape Coral Hospital, part of the Lee Memorial Health System in southwest Florida.
Joan M. Odorizzi, BS, CMSRN, is nursing director at Cape Coral Hospital, part of the Lee Memorial Health System in southwest Florida, and co-leader for the Business of Healing Environment development.
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Huntsville uses ISDN and Sensormatic Electronics Corp's Robot HyperScan long-distance picture transmission system to keep an eye on 44 schools from a central monitoring station. The system has aided school security officers in confiscating weapons and capturing burglaries and fights on video.
An E-Rate Implementation Working Group is putting together recommendations for the federally required approval of technology plans as part of the E-rate (education rate) application process.
The Department of Transportation is investing over $20 million in technology to improve the safety and convenience of traveling in northern Arizona. Using an intelligent transportation system, the state will make information about road closures and weather available through traveler information kiosks and the Internet.
The state is now using the services of Midwest Payment Systems to provide electronic benefits transfer services to its residents.
The Oakland Community and Economic Development Agency is using a new application that provides remote access to a digital warehouse of maps and city data. "Virtual City" was developed in conjunction with Internet consultants from the Dames & Moore Group.
The state implemented the Bid Information and Distribution System, an Internet-based service that opens bidding information to any business interested in selling goods and services to state agencies.
The state is working with EDS, Unisys and Xerox, in response to Gov. Rowland's initiative, to bring the state's computer systems into the 21st century.
The state added an "elected officials contact list" to their Web page. The list includes e-mail addresses for most elected officials.
The county of Hillsborough contracted with SCT Government Systems for the full complement of BANNER Courts System software products, project management and systems integration services.
The Atlanta Bureau of Management Information Systems installed a UNISearch System from Com Squared Systems Inc., which allows Atlanta police to access records quickly and easily.
The city and county of Hawaii recently re-instituted its realtime, closed-captioning program for all of its televised council and committee hearings. The program allows access to the county's proceedings to 75,000 hearing-impaired citizens. County News
A law introduced by State Treasurer Lydia Justice Edwards has passed, mandating that fee payments of $100,000 or more be sent by automated clearinghouse. This law expanded the 1989 law, for the electronic payment of taxes, to include fees.
NAST Review.
The Comptroller's Office recently implemented the Statewide Accounting Management System in conjunction with American Management Systems. SAMS makes Illinois one of the first states to implement a fully, year-2000 compliant financial management system.
Indianapolis is working with ESRI and UGC Consulting to help improve the city's return on its GIS investment. The project will result in the rapid deployment of ESRI technology onto the desktops of employees city- and countywide. ESRI ARC News.
The Department of Transportation, in cooperation with American Management Systems, has implemented the first phase of a system to improve permit issuance for oversize vehicles in the state. The system, called EZPermit, will enable the state to electronically issue more than 75,000 permits for over-dimension loads to commercial motor carriers every year.
The state Bureau of Investigation selected Printrak International Inc. for its next generation automated fingerprint identification system technology.
The state police selected Printrak International Inc. to provide an enhanced version of its automatic fingerprint identification system. The enhanced version is able to run unattended because it does not require operators to manually live-scan tenprint entries.
The state is developing processing interfaces for the implementation of Midwest Payment Systems' electronic benefits transfer services.
Maine was one of 10 states to adopt new wireless E-911


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Seattle residents will be asked to vote in November on a $60 car-tab fee, which would bring in more than $200 million in 10 years for transit, road maintenance, pedestrian and bicycle projects.
Seattle residents will vote this November on a $60 car-tab fee, about half of which would go toward transit projects.
The fee would be collected for 10 years and bring in an estimated $204 million. The Seattle City Council voted 9-0 Tuesday to endorse the measure, on the heels of a $20 increase that took effect this spring.
Council members could have sent a total fee of $80 to the ballot, but called $60 a compromise amount. They repeated the mantra, "Fix what we have, and finish what we started."
No definite list of projects is attached to the ballot measure. The city has produced various reports that identify areas where the money could be spent, including specific transit corridors and neighborhoods. A new Transit Master Plan is due by the end of this year.
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In all, 49 percent would go to transit, 29 percent to road maintenance and safety, and 22 percent mostly to pedestrian and bicycle projects.
On Monday, the Metropolitan King County Council approved a $20, two-year car-tab fee to sustain bus services.
City Councilmember Tom Rasmussen, chairman of the transportation committee, referred to that fee on Tuesday: "What good is it to have buses on the street if they can't get through the traffic?"
While the county pays for bus maintenance and driver hours, Seattle's money could go for street work to make buses faster. For example, sidewalks can protrude toward the street so buses stop in their lane of travel, rather than pull to the shoulder and lose time re-entering traffic.
Other projects could make walking to bus stops easier. There could be educational programs, and money to help make neighborhoods more attractive near transit. City officials suggest an average $4 million to $5 million each for the top eight to 10 transit corridors.
About $20 million could go to extend the electric-trolley bus network, which includes some of Metro's busiest routes. Seattle could fund overhead power wires.
An additional $18 million could go toward streetcar design and planning, with the highest priority a line between the South Lake Union streetcar and the First Hill streetcar scheduled to open in 2013. That route could go north-south through downtown, Rasmussen said.
The Transportation Choices Coalition, Cascade Bicycle Club, Sierra Club and Streets for All Seattle said they will campaign for the measure.
John Fox, head of the Seattle Displacement Coalition, called the tax regressive, because the owner of a luxury Lexus would pay the same as someone driving a 30-year-old Chevrolet.
Mayor Mike McGinn, in a statement, thanked the council for putting the fee on the ballot, though he preferred the full $80, for more years, to build rail links, including a Ballard line.
Councilmember Jean Godden had suggested a lower $40 fee, and putting most of that toward road maintenance. But she said Tuesday the proposed $60 million for roads and safety is adequate.
She said it's important to stay flexible, especially about streetcars.
"We have done this in a very quick time frame, and have not had the public weigh in as much as it might," she said. The council had until Tuesday to approve the fee in time for the November ballot.
If voters approve the proposed city fee on Nov. 8, a typical car-tab bill in Seattle would jump to $170 a year, including a new $20 county fee for Metro, a weight fee, a Sound Transit tax and handling charges.
Rasmussen said one reason to reach the ballot right away is to avoid competing with an expected flurry of measures in 2012.
One of those could be a statewide transportation tax or fee to improve deteriorating or clogged highways the state Department of Transportation can't afford to fix with gas tax and car-tab boosts that lawmakers approved in the mid-'00s.
Another is a possible property-tax levy to pay for a new sea wall along Elliott Bay.
The cost of car tabs has crept up gradually after Initiative 695, the Tim Eyman measure in 1999 that pressured lawmakers to slash the statewide rate to $30. "Have even Seattle voters reached the tipping point on hit-the-poor-the-most taxes?" Eyman commented. "We're about to find out."
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Contractors construct a new roof at the Fort Lee Building 3004 project, June 6, 2014. The $14.8 million Building 3004 renovation project upgrades a 50-year-old facility with modern technology and force protection features, which update the facility for a cost much less than if it was torn down and rebuilt. (U.S. Army photo/Patrick Bloodgood)
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VIDEO: A-Rod Booed By Fans At First Game After MLB Suspension
Monday evening, Alex Rodriguez was greeted by boos in Chicago as he took his first at-bat just hours after MLB announced it would suspend him for 211 games. He answered those boos with a single to left field. The New York Yankee announced he would be appealing the decision and vowed to defend himself against allegations he used performance-enhancing drugs.
He is eligible to play until a decision is reached on his appeal. During a press conference in Chicago earlier today, Rodriguez said, "We have a process. This is America. You have an opportunity to defend yourself."
Rodriguez has previously admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs in 2001-2003. He has repeatedly denied using them since then.


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The U.S. Air Force is delaying the planned transfer of F-22 fighters from a New Mexico base to one in Northwest Florida because of a defense spending freeze.
The stealth fighters now based at Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo were expected to be transferred to Tyndall Air Force Base outside Panama City in the spring.
Holloman officials say the transfer of two F-16 training squadrons from Luke Air Force Base in Arizona to Holloman is also on hold.
A stopgap federal defense spending bill now in effect bars aircraft retirements, realignments or transfers.
Holloman officials said the transfers are still planned but the Air Force will not be able to act until a final defense spending bill is passed.
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US private equity firm Silver Lake Partners has agreed the $1.65bn sale of Mercury Payment Systems to payment processor Vantiv.
Silver Lake had been eyeing an IPO of the business according to previous reports, but now expects to close the deal some time in the second quarter.
The firm currently holds a 63 per cent stake in Mercury following an investment in 2010, while the rest is owned by its founders.
Mercury, which had EBITDA of $93m last year, is one of the USA's largest non-bank payment processors, and target small and medium0-sized retail and restaurant businesses.
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Hello Matt Lanter! The blue-eyed hot hunk and the rest of the cast of the CW drama series 90210 were spotted in Manhattan Beach recently on a filming in process. The shooting was for the season 5 due to be airing in the fall! There is something to look forward to for 90210 fans this beach scene features shirtless Lanter and Tristan Wilds as they wander into the blue surfing waves next season.
The crew appeared to be in good spirits as all three females Shenae Grimes, Jessica Lowndes and AnnaLynne McCord of the series smiled for the cameras while on-set. Each carrying their own iced beverages around set to cool down from sweltering Califonia summer heat.
Lanter took to twitter last month and kept fans updated with the latest on 90210 . '1st day back. I got new kicks and my packed lunch….nah I'm kidding about the kicks..and the packed lunch. But it IS 1st day back!
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The Washington Post is reporting the Federal Bureau of Investigation invoked non-existent terrorism emergencies to illegally collect more than 2,000 U.S. telephone call records between 2002 and 2006, and issued retroactive approvals to justify its actions.
While the improper phone record collection has been known publicly since 2008, the Post obtained internal Bureau emails that shed light on the behind-the-scenes skirmishing over them.
A Justice Department inspector general report slated for release later this month "is expected to conclude" the FBI frequently broke the law by invoking emergencies, the Post said.
FBI director Robert Mueller did not know about the problem until they came to light in an inspector general investigation that began in mid-2006, according to the Post.
"What this turned out to be was a self-inflicted wound," FBI General Counsel Valerie Caproni told the newspaper. She also acknowledged that the Bureau "technically violated the Electronic Communications Privacy Act when agents invoked nonexistent emergencies to collect records," the Post reported.
According to the Post, among those who raised concerns internally was FBI Special Agent Bassem Youssef, supervisor of the communications analysis unit that dealt with the records. Youssef brought the matter to the attention of his superiors in 2005, after he received complaints from phone companies about the FBI's failure to provide documentation showing the searches were legal, the newspaper said.
Youssef earlier had "fallen out of favor with FBI management" because he filed a whistleblower claim alleging he had been denied promotion and retaliated against because of his ethnicity, the Post reported.
The documentation sought by the phone companies were so-called national security letters, which were controversial in their own right because they allowed the FBI to obtain records without obtaining a formal court-approved search warrant.
Read the full Post report here. It was written by former Washington Post reporter John Solomon, who recently resigned as top editor of the Washington Times amid major staff cuts and management turmoil, and Washington Post staff writer Carrie Johnson.
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A mother's account of how her two lovely children (Joy&Joseph)inspire her daily to succeed. Hopefully this blog will create more awareness about downs syndrome and prematurity. Most importantly, to become a positive resource/journal for families blessed with children with special needs in the UK and beyond
Friday, 31 January 2014
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I'm learning Greek using William Mounce's Basics of Biblical Greek. I've just recently started and as an aid for chapter 6, 'Nominative and Accusative; Definite Article', I created a black background with the first three charters from the chapter. Not all the accents are present as in the book, but I'm finding it useful just the same.
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With Mother's Day coming up on Sunday, May 13, and Father's Day a month later on June 17, we are focused on good parenting, a gift to be commemorated with flowers, chocolate, and cards. Yet in her new book Childism: Confronting Prejudice Against Children, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl reminds us how, for many children in the U.S. and abroad, good parenting is something that is sorely lacking. Jesse Kornbluth recently wrote about his "shattering" experience with Young-Bruehl's project for a Huffington Post article titled, "Who's the Bully?"
In the book, Young-Bruehl, who passed away in December, proposes the introduction of the term "childism" as the first step in identifying and counteracting a prejudice against children that she sees in everything from child imprisonment, fetal alcohol syndrome, abuse, and many more widespread phenomena. Although the author acknowledges that "We do not need more useless social science verbiage," she cites the 1965 coinage of the word "sexism" as a means for understanding the systemic stereotyping and mistreatment of women, and hopes that "childism" can foster a parallel process of recognition. "Giving it a name is the first step," Young-Bruehl wrote in an op-ed for Time that appeared last month.
In that same piece, Young-Bruehl argues that "Childism is the hardest form of prejudice to recognize because children are the one group that, many of us think without thinking, is naturally subordinate." She continues: "It seems normal to insist 'honor thy father and thy mother' without any reciprocal 'honor thy children.'"
Young-Bruehl calls for an effort to work against these assumptions, noting that childism comes in many forms other than the abuses registered by social workers. Children are manipulated, neglected, and dominated by their parents, and deprived access to food, shelter, and education under an entrenched system of poverty. The U.S., Young-Bruehl points out, has thus far failed to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and national legislation does not adequately defend children's rights or provide for their developmental needs.
As student at the New School, Young-Bruehl worked with political thinker Hannah Arendt and went on to write both the biography Hannah Arendt: For the Love of the World and Why Arendt Matters for Yale University Press. In Childism, she follows in the footsteps of her mentor, offering an incisive and articulate critique. Drawing on her work as a psychoanalyst in addition to legal, philosophical, and even literary sources, Young-Bruehl illuminates prejudices that often go overlooked, drawing her reader's attention to an injustice that affects an entire generation, and a problem that is crying out to be solved.


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Three days after the Prime Ministers Office (PMO) came out with a detailed explanation for the allocation of coal block to Hindalco Industries, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has written to the PMO, seeking the details of relevant files and the letter from Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, which backed the companys case.
Top CBI officers probing the case against Hindalco Industries and Aditya Birla Group chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla said the agency wanted to examine the public interest which Patnaik referred to in his 2005 letter to the Prime Minister, following which the coal ministry reversed its original decision on the allocation.
CBI sources said they would also like to examine whether the then coal secretary P C Parakh whom the agency has named in an FIR had, in his communication with the PMO, justified his earlier decision of not allocating the block to Hindalco Industries, and whether any explanation for reversing the decision was put in the files.
In its clarification, the PMO said, ...The ownership ratio in the joint venture was not in congruence with the guidelines approved by PM on 09.06.2005 which required this ratio to be in proportion to the assessed requirement of coal of each allocate. As per these guidelines, the NLC: Hindalco ratio in their 30 per cent share should be 22.5:7.5 and not 15:15 as was proposed.
The sources said CBI had sought these guidelines that the PM approved in 2005.
The agency plans to also examine the circumstances under which the decision to change the ratio in favour of Hindalco Industries was taken.
The CBI FIR has alleged that the decision was reversed after Birla met Parakh.
The sources said CBI would like to examine the reason why the government preferred a private company over a public sector undertaking (Neyveli Lignite Corporation), due to which, according to the FIR, the proposed power project of NLC which was approved by the Ministry of Power could not take off as planned.
Minister of State in the PMO V Narayanasamy said on Tuesday, We have nothing to hide and have already given thousands of documents to the agency.
On the competent authority mentioned in the FIR, a senior CBI officer said, The competent authority is always an individual in his capacity as minister or secretary and not a ministry or department. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was then in charge of the coal ministry.
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The Colby-Sawyer College Strategic Plan serves as an essential guide for the college community, providing 11 critical goals whose achievement requires collaboration across the campus. The plan is the result of a collaborative process that invited all community members to have a voice in the college's priorities and direction.
The Strategic Plan was approved by the Board of Trustees on Oct. 18, 2008.
Colby-Sawyer College's academic and intellectual environment, combined with rich co-curricular activities, inspires us to claim, practice and aspire to new levels of excellence. The college has a strong collaborative community of outstanding and committed students, faculty, staff, trustees, alumni and friends. Consequently, Colby-Sawyer College has the opportunity to establish itself as one of the nation's exemplary small, residential colleges educating students for both life and livelihood.
This plan is a blueprint for enriching, enhancing and sustaining excellence at Colby-Sawyer. It sets forth critical goals and steps necessary to accomplish those goals; the basic focus of the plan, like all our decisions at Colby-Sawyer begins by asking: how will students benefit?
We ask this question in the context of the college's values: excellence, responsibility, community and connectedness. And we ask it in reference to the college's student learning outcomes: learn and use a broad body of knowledge with depth in their major fields; enrich and deepen self-knowledge; think creatively and critically; communicate and interact effectively; act ethically and professionally; and understand and employ multiple perspectives.
Academic Excellence
Strengthen the overall Colby-Sawyer academic experience by: solidifying the foundation of liberal arts and sciences throughout the curriculum and co-curriculum; deepening professional preparation experiences in the majors; further expanding our curricular offerings and our internships and other complementary educational opportunities; examining and evolving our teaching practices; assessing and communicating our students' achievements; and clearly articulating and raising our overall expectation of our students and each other.
Recruit, enroll and retain outstanding students who are most likely to flourish at Colby-Sawyer and who will bring distinctive abilities, talents, backgrounds, experiences and worldviews. What makes a student or group of students outstanding depends upon many factors including academic achievement, leadership, contributions to diversity, overcoming disadvantage, potential for growth, and more.
Student Development
Continue to provide students with a safe, positive, personalized, educationally-oriented, and intentional co-curricular experience throughout their time at the college. Continue to build our athletics and recreational programs, and our wellness and sustainability initiatives as integral parts of the college and as effective ways to develop healthy, active habits of mind and body in our community.
Build an ever stronger, more diverse and more inclusive community of students, faculty, staff and trustees. One of our learning outcomes is that we expect our students to graduate with an appreciation for and the ability to apply multiple perspectives. Our ability to achieve that outcome will be meaningfully enhanced and the community improved if we become more diverse and more inclusive of people from different backgrounds, cultures, experiences, sexual orientations, and views.
Human Resources
Recruit and retain outstanding faculty and staff by, among other things, providing fair and competitive salaries and benefit packages for all and providing meaningful support for professional development throughout faculty and staff careers so that our colleagues may continue to engage, challenge, and inspire our students and each other.
Board Involvement
A key to the institution's success is a committed, involved, collegial, collaborative and philanthropically inspired Board of Trustees that shapes policy and provides outstanding leadership. The college must remain committed and focused upon sustaining an outstanding, diverse and inclusive Board of Trustees.
Foster and extend the Colby-Sawyer College community. The cohesiveness of the Colby-Sawyer community starts on campus with the devotion of faculty and staff to our students, fostering strong relationships through all aspects of their lives. Our community extends beyond our campus. For alumni, the ties of the past are transformed into ties of interest, engagement and support for the college. We must continue to connect our graduates, our students' families, our friends, and ourselves to the college and the college community. We rely on our alumni and on our community for philanthropic and essential volunteer support. Our friends respond generously with time, talents, and philanthropy. Our community includes alumni, parents and families of past and present students, and friends.
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Nurture and enhance the college's already strong relationships with the town of New London and local area residents by welcoming the community to intellectual, cultural and athletic events, Adventures in Learning (AIL) programs and our exercise facilities. Continue to engage the broader community for philanthropic and essential volunteer support and show appreciation for the important role the community plays in the success of the college.
Develop and implement a unified and dynamic strategic communications and marketing plan for the college based on carefully crafted core messages that convey the college's distinctive qualities, singular identity and reputation for excellence. Strategic communications are critical to our success in: recruiting, enrolling and retaining students who are a good fit for Colby-Sawyer; ensuring that the campus community, prospective students, alumni, parents, trustees, donors, friends and neighboring communities are well informed and engaged in the college; and for sustaining and expanding our reputation.
Celebrate, preserve and create appropriate and inspiring facilities for our students and our community. Our physical facilities are the houses for our dreams; they must be appropriate to our needs now and into the future and they must inspire students, faculty, staff, and the extended community. As such, we must use our resources wisely and creatively. We are committed to creating an environmentally sustainable campus community.
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Build financial strength for the present and future. Colby-Sawyer has achieved financial stability through a combination of growth in enrollment, prudent management of resources, distinctive excellence in our educational program, and increased giving to the college. Since the college continues to depend upon tuition revenue to fund a high proportion of its annual operations, we must be consistently prudent in managing resources, defining the rationale for our objectives and programs, and communicating aims effectively. We must solidify our financial foundation to provide financial flexibility.


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What is on your lanyard? And what do you have hanging on the end of it?
I was just having a quick look at them as i think it will be nice for dd who will be 4 when we go to have something like this!
I don't have a lanyard but I've seen folk with clear plastic credit card sized holders on them and they had fastpasses in them.
Also seen the larger pins hanging from the ends of lanyards.
This is one of the ones I have for my pins, as you can see you could put anything you would like in the plastic holder, the only thing I will say is don't put to many pins on it as she will find it a little heavy to wear,
A good thing to put in the plastic holder would be a piece of paper with her details on, this is something friends of mine have done.
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Great idea about the details Lozzy - especially a contact number.
they dont just need to see a disney character to leg it - something they are very good at is disappearing and giving you a heart attack!
Had a look in the disney shop today but they only had 1 lanyard, thought i might have a look on ebay again and get her a princess one or something, they had lots on there!
Ebay is definitely your best deal, Kate . You can get anything from a starter lanyard that has up to 4 - 8 pins for trading . Or type in lot of Disney pins and you can buy a lot of 10 pins for under $20.00 for her to trade . Much cheaper than Disney .
I wear a lanyard every day at work so I rarely wear one at WDW. My work one is a USC Trojans Lanyard in Cardinal and Gold. It has a badge holder attached to the end of it that allows me to pull on the string and put my badge up to the badge reader.
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I have three lanyards (I'm greedy). I have one that looks like an olympic gold medal that has lots of the 2004 olympic pins on it, a blue generic one that I put a giant pin on and then just some traders, and a black one with dragons on that has a dragon themed mickey head weight thing that you can buy in the shops - thats where my cast lanyard pins or LE sets go when I'm showing off.
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Space Age Appropriate: Science Museums for Kids in NYC
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Columbia Astronomy Public Outreach
Curious older kids and teens can attend free public lectures, followed by a full 90 minutes of rooftop stargazing, hosted by this branch of Columbia University's astronomy department. Past Friday-night sessions have included "How Big Is the Solar System?", "How Is a Hubble Image Made?" and "Where the Ocean Meets the Sky."
For younger children, ages 6 to 12, there's the Family Astro session, held two times a year. Among the themes are solar eclipses, meteors and comets. Check outreach.astro.columbia.edu regularly for the most up-to-date event information—announcements about the sessions are sent to the organization's email list, so sign up for the mailing list to receive invitations.


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And as Jeff Clark at CB notes, there is no mention any stapling procedure. However, there is a mention of the unexpected severity of the injury:
"No surprises other than the severeness of it — I didn't know it was that bad," Garnett said. "They evaluate you from A to Z, but until they actually get in there and see what the problem really is, then you know a 1-to-10 on how severe it was. It was pretty severe, but the best thing about is that I got it out of the way, and my leg is almost 100 percent going forward. Better than anything I'm playing without any pain, which is something I really haven't had for some time now."
Meanwhile, the New York Times (!) offers this tidbit about KG's operation:
His operation was complicated because there was concern that the removal of the spurs could damage nearby tissue.
Brian will have more on media day tomorrow, and I'll have my final (I think, I hope, I pray) take on KG's injury.


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Amid Afghan drawdown, Pendleton Marines packing up
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Staff writer Gretel C. Kovach, who covers military affairs, and photographer Nelvin C. Cepeda are embedded this summer with Camp Pendleton-based Marines in Helmand province, Afghanistan. Amid a U.S. drawdown in that country, troops from the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force are serving in that stronghold of the Taliban.
Forward Operating Base Edinburgh, Afghanistan The medical supplies are being packed away and most of the vehicle parts in the maintenance yard are already gone, but the mission continues for Marines and sailors stationed in one of the most violent areas of the war zone.
This military outpost along a contested strip of battle space in Helmand province is slated for demilitarization — one of about 220 Marine positions out of more than 250 once located in southwestern Afghanistan set to disappear or transfer to Afghan forces by October.
The flow of patients into the busiest front line surgical suite in the country and the distribution of fuel and other supplies from this logistics hub will likely continue, however, until the last days before FOB Edinburgh ceases to exist in coming weeks. Then remaining personnel will be shuffled to a shrinking number of military positions in the province amid the drawdown of international forces in Afghanistan.
Not long after the commanding general of 1st Marine Logistics Group Forward stopped by one morning last week, two more patients arrived by medevac.
"You guys are on the cutting edge. There is no more pointier end than out here," Brig. Gen. John Broadmeadow told Navy medical personnel from Camp Pendleton's 1st Maintenance Battalion who staff the base's shock trauma platoon and forward resuscitative surgical suite. "You guys have been incredibly busy here, and in the middle of all that we're going to shake you up and throw you out into new places so you can start doing it all over again."
After the general's pep talk, Army helicopters unloaded two Afghan policemen with gunshot wounds. Inside the sun baked medical tent, more than two dozen people administered to the patients.
In the last month, they have treated 67 battle casualties, including Marines struck by roadside bombs and a mass casualty of 11 people injured by a suicide bomber in nearby Musa Qala.
About half as many Marines are deployed in southwestern Afghanistan from the high of almost 20,000 last year. About 7,000 are expected to remain by the president's October deadline to reduce U.S. end-strength in Afghanistan to 68,000.
The rapid drawdown is reconfiguring the battle space and forcing commanders to juggle competing priorities with diminished resources. For instance, all across the war zone, former U.S. military bases are being stripped by Marine engineers and scraped clean, even as they build new bases for special operations forces and the realignment of conventional coalition and Afghan forces.
"Other than fresh dirt," no trace will remain after demilitarization, said Col. Edmund Bowen, the regional command's point man for base closures. "After a couple of dust storms, you would never know that we were there."
Under the current NATO timeline, coalition military operations are expected to continue in Afghanistan through 2014 at least. In the interim, the top priority for logistics Marines is sustaining remaining combat forces.
"There's not a rush for the exits by any stretch of the imagination. We are being very, very deliberate," Broadmeadow said. "It's a continual balance and assessment to make sure that I can meet that first priority — to provide that tactical logistics support."
The delivery of food, fuel, water, ammunition, mail and everything else ground forces need will become more challenging as the number of military positions dwindles, he added.
"Where we used to be able to go to a central hub and then everything else was fairly close to those Marines we needed to support, we now are going to have Marines spread out over a wider part of the battle space," Broadmeadow said.


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As the competition for the number one luxury car maker in India hots up, Germany's BMW says it has no intention to get into 'discount wars' with rivals to spur volume growth, choosing to focus on sustainable profitability.
"They (rivals) can do what they want, but BMW is always going on its own way and we are not participating in this discount war because it damages the brand," BMW Group India President Philipp von Sahr told PTI.
The company is in a stable phase and the focus is not tobuild short-term volumes pushed by discounts, he added.
With the Indian automobile market on a prolonged slump, many companies have been offering various schemes and freebies, especially in this festive season, to boost sales.
In 2010, BMW became the top luxury car seller in India overtaking rival Mercedes Benz. It retained the position till last year, but another German rival Audi has been breathing down its neck this year.
Some reports have even suggested that Audi has overtaken BMW as number one in the first quarter of this fiscal but with the company sharing only its annual sales number, it could not be verified.
While stressing on the importance to have healthy volumes, von Sahr said offering discounts is "absolutely not our policy".
"If you give lot of discounts then you don't have profitability. Then you cannot invest in the brand anymore, sooner or later you are out of the market," he said.
Instead of participating in the discount wars, he said the company would like to develop dealers and invest on its plant.
"We are looking at what is our long term vision develop dealers, optimise processes, invest on plants and invest on training and so on," he added.
When asked if the company is looking to further increase prices of its cars, von Sahr said: "If it's necessary we would go for it. We go for profitability, what we will never do is to have negative contribution margin on the cost."
The company has already hiked price twice during the current year, in January and August, due to the rupee's sharp slide against the US dollar, he added.
Terming India as a strategic market for the company along with other countries like China, Brazil and Russia, von Sahr said the company is betting on the country's long term growth potential.
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Women in cop shows are frequently portrayed in a stereotypical way, as victims needing protection or as feminine characters that use their sexuality (Cavender, 654). Consistent with this portrayal, female officers in police shows are often depicted in a manner that highlights their femininity (Cox, 151). In the popular crime genre television show NCIS, Ziva David defies this female stereotype. She exemplifies a woman officer who is able to break into the male-dominated police world. In order to be accepted in this macho environment, she must adopt typical male characteristics and overcome negative treatment by her co-workers. In contrast to her male counterparts, her behavior and performance must be beyond reproach. By breaking down the stereotype, Ziva is able to become a respected and contributing member of a male-dominated crime team.
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For this project I analyzed ten episodes of season three of the popular crime drama NCIS, focusing on the role of Ziva David, a field officer, and her role on the show. I also read three scholarly articles: "The Construction of Gender in Reality Crime TV" by Gray Cavender, "Kicking Ass…With Lip Gloss: Mediating Gender on TLC's Police Women of Broward County" by Nicole Cox, and "Silent Witness: Detection, Femininity and the Post-Mortem Body" by Heather Nunn and Anita Biressi. I was looking for articles that touched on gender stereotypes in crime shows. All of these articles analyze the role of gender in crime shows. Which relates to my analysis of the portrayal of a female character in a crime show. The main focus of all three of these articles is the female stereotypes and their relationship with the male characters. All articles touched on this fact and this stereotype of women being mothers and submissive. This is the most basic portrayal of females on television; they are not normally even shown as professionals or strong and independent. Also, all of these articles touch on the fact that in all crime dramas women tend to hold the same role; they are the victims or some type of sexual object. They all analyze the images of female characters in crime shows. Emphasizing the impact of these images because of the popularity of crime shows and the prevalence of media. "Kicking Ass…With Lip Gloss: Mediating Gender on TLC's Police Women of Broward County", is closest to the analysis that I will be doing on NCIS. This analysis of the female cops in Broward County gives a good interpretation of what stereotypes that women have to face when working in a male dominated work place. These women still face the stereotypes that are discussed in the other articles. They are sexualized and still seen for their physical appearance.
Females in crime shows are most stereotypically portrayed as victims and highly sexualized. According to Heather Nunn and Anita Biressi in their article "Silent Witness: Detection, Femininity, and the Post-Mortem Body", women are "frequently and voyeuristically presented as either the sexualized victims or perpetrators of crime" (Nunn, 193). This was even true in the ten episodes of NCIS I reviewed for this paper. Half of the episodes I watched featured a main female victim who was murdered, and two of the female victims were highly sexualized. One of the shows included a female perpetrator who was eventually killed. In the episode Voyeur's Web, the two female victims were naval wives who were running a porn website to make extra money while their husbands were overseas. The opening scene to the episode depicts one of the wives scantily clad in the bedroom, and then shows her being murdered. Another example of the typical female in a cop show is in the episode Model Behavior which features a fashion model victim. The model is a contestant on a reality show called "Boot Camp Babes", where scantily clad models participate in a version of marine boot camp. In the episode Honor Code, the perpetrator and mastermind behind the crime is a female assistant to a businessman. Despite being in the corporate world, she is portrayed as a stereotypical female, dressed in tight clothing and showing a lot of cleavage. She plays innocent and the damsel in distress part well. These programs epitomize how females in crime shows are sexualized and most popularly depicted as victims. They reinforce the stereotypical image of women as sexual objects and weak, helpless victims.
Ziva David, one of the main characters in the television show NCIS, stands in stark contrast to this stereotypical portrayal of women in crime shows. Ziva is a field officer for the Naval Crime Investigative Services. She initially meets the NCIS team while she is still a member of the Israeli version of NCIS, the Mossad. She comes to the United States when NCIS suspects another Mossad agent of attempting to assassinate one of their NCIS agents. Tensions rise and she is sent to protect her fellow agent from being killed by NCIS. After meeting and working with the NCIS team, Ziva requests the position of liaison between the Mossad and NCIS and works alongside the NCIS team full-time. Unlike other women in cop shows, Ziva's character is not overly feminine. She dresses in practical clothes for her job as a field agent, nothing revealing or sexy. She does not wear makeup; she keeps her look natural. She does not play up her femininity. Her appearance is consistent with her behavior, which is practical and straightforward. This works well in the NCIS team since the head of the team, Gibbs, is a no-nonsense, all business kind of guy. Under Gibbs is another male agent named Anthony DiNozzo, who ends up working closely with Ziva through her time at NCIS. Anthony is a skilled agent, but when he is not working he has a tendency to goof off. There is another female on the NCIS team who works in forensics and is treated paternalistically, almost like a daughter, by Gibbs and the other members of the team, who are always looking out to protect her. She is not in the field with the other men, but stays back in the offices in the lab. She is much closer to the stereotype of a female in a crime drama.
In order to break into the male-dominated NCIS department and be respected, Ziva must adopt typical masculine characteristics, demonstrating her toughness and lack of emotion, and must continually prove her competency. The stereotypical male officer is strong, focused, tough, aggressive, and unemotional, and Ziva embodies all these qualities (Cavender, 644). When she first arrives at the NCIS offices, she is calm and exerts an air of proficiency. She initially proves herself to Gibbs, the head of the NCIS team, when in the episode Killing Ari Pt. 2, she saves his life by killing the Mossad agent that is trying to assassinate Gibbs. Not only does this scene demonstrate her skill as a field agent, but also it shows her significant ability to remain unemotional since the Mossad agent she kills is her own half–brother. She is able to do her job and dispassionately shoot him, despite their family connection. In the episode Under Covers, Ziva and DiNozzo are undercover as Canadian couple who are assassins; they are taken hostage by a small group of highly trained assassins, who torture them. Despite this, Ziva is shown as strong and even sassy, negotiating with her captors and demonstrating her skill as a field agent by being able to remain calm and in control even in a time of high stress, while fighting against trained assassins. Ziva further proves herself as competent, maybe even more so than the male field agents, in the Silver War episode. In that episode, she ends up catching the criminals on her own. Moreover, when she and a male coroner get held at gunpoint, Ziva is able to stop the criminal and save both herself and the coroner, killing one criminal with a knife and holding the other two with her gun. When Gibbs and her fellow field agent DiNozzo discover what she has done, they both praise her strength and ability, with DiNozzo remarking to Gibbs, "remind me to never piss her off"(Silver War). In that moment the team recognizes her true competence, but she still needs to continue to prove herself to maintain this respect.
Unlike the male agents, Ziva has to aggressively fight for her position. Despite demonstrating her expertise and skill in the initial episode where she saves Gibbs' life, she has to continue to win over the NCIS team and push to get assignments. After becoming a liaison between Mossad and NCIS she is constantly brushed off by the other officers during cases, being told to "just observe", but Ziva doesn't let these obstacles stop her. She pushes back asking for small jobs, and accepting whatever tasks she can get in order to prove her ability. Although she demonstrates incredible skill and knowledge in her field, her co-workers don't give her the respect she deserves. For example, in the episode Silver War, Ziva is assigned to investigate with DiNozzo, and he readily assigns her the task of crawling through a dump truck full of dirt to look for evidence. Although not excited by this task, she accepts it. When she brings up to DiNozzo how unhappy she is that she is now covered in dirt, he responds, "You said you were tired of just observing", acting as though he was doing her a favor (Silver War). DiNozzo's comment is sarcastic; he is speaking as though he is helping Ziva, but knows he is just taking advantage of her. Similarly, in the Voyeur's Web episode, Ziva is assigned the mundane task to get the neighbors' statement, to which she comments about how she is always taking statements from witnesses. The jobs given to her are simple and do not allow her to utilize all of her skills or expertise.
When she first arrives at NCIS, Ziva is treated unfairly because she is a female. Not only is she made to do tasks which don't allow her to use her talents, but she often is given the typical woman's job. In the Switch episode, Gibbs assigns tasks to all of the male agents, leaving only Ziva without a job. When she asks what she can do, he quickly says, "the victim's wife is on the scene right? Why don't you go talk to her" (Switch). Gibbs makes a stereotypical assumption that as a female, Ziva is best suited to speak to the wife. As Nicole Cox states in her article "Kicking Ass…With Lip Gloss: Mediating Gender on TLC's Police Women of Broward County", the real life female cops she analyzed in the TLC show often find themselves "offer[ing] personal advice to female victim[s], 'woman to a woman'" (Cox, 158). Females are known to easily be able to make bonds with one another and this stereotype carries into their work (Cox, 158). Cox references an article by J. D'Acci that states that policewomen "[paint] a 'softer' picture of law enforcement, while negotiating the space between the traditionally masculine 'law' and the 'empathetic woman'" (Cox, 158). Most female law enforcement officers find it hard to break out of their traditional feminine roles, but Ziva rarely reverts back to her feminine side; she is all about the "masculine 'law'" (Cox, 158).
When Ziva is mistreated, she is frustrated by the circumstances, but does not let this slow her down. She may roll her eyes or display her frustration on her face, but that is the extent of her complaining. In the episode Honor Code, Ziva and DiNozzo are waiting to attack a suspect and Ziva says to DiNozzo, "I got your back" to which DiNozzo replies in typical macho fashion, "Listen lady, if anybody is getting anyone's back it's me getting yours" (Honor Code). Immediately after he makes this statement, Gibbs gives them the signal to go. Ziva does not have time to react or get upset about DiNozzo's comment. Her work comes first, so she brushes off this comment and continues to do her job. Even though there are occasional times where Ziva will complain to others on the team this mistreatment, she does not dwell or sulk about it and she continues to perform impeccably in each assignment. She does not let the ill-treatment get to her or get inside her head. Rather, she continues pursuing her job with intense focus. She knows what she wants and she is willing to fight until she gets it.
Ziva can never let down her guard and must always perform flawlessly because she is a female in the male dominated world of law enforcement. This need for perfection does not exist for male agents. Her character can be contrasted with her colleague Anthony DiNozzo who, although tough and competent, has a tendency to be distracted and goof off. Ziva remains focused on work. She is serious, has an exemplary work ethic and never lets her guard down. She will use witty comebacks when the others joke with her, but she never relaxes, always working to prove herself. In contrast, DiNozzo often plays games, pulls pranks, and jokes around when not specifically assigned a task. Although there are times when Ziva may respond to DiNozzo's jokes with a sassy comeback or by making a sexual comment, these responses are more about showing her power and wit, rather than her partaking in DiNozzo's games. This distinction can be illustrated in a scene from the episode Voyeur's Web when the team is all working in the offices and DiNozzo is seen tossing crumpled paper into a trash bin, goofing off. Ziva intercepts one of his balls of paper and comments, "Its astounding you find time to do your job" (Voyeur's Web). Ziva is focused and always on point. She takes her job seriously, while DiNozzo can be found playing silly games. Unlike a woman, DiNozzo can get away with this nonsense. Although he may be reprimanded at that moment, it does not affect his esteem as a field agent. As a male agent his ability and skill is accepted and he does not have to prove himself like Ziva does.
By assuming masculine characteristics and persistently showing impeccable skill, Ziva eventually becomes a respected member of the NCIS team. After pushing hard for small jobs and opportunities to prove herself to the rest of the NCIS team, she is accepted as part of the group. In later episodes, she is seen as an integral part of the team in contrast to what occurred when she was first introduced. When the NCIS team arrives at a crime scene, Gibbs assigns everyone a task including Ziva, with no second thought. In the episode Model Behavior she is even assigned to interrogate the staff sergeant who is a suspect. This is significant since interrogations are normally a job reserved for Gibbs and only occasionally given to other agents like DiNozzo. This is a crucial moment for Ziva for it is clear that she has finally become a valued member of the team and that her skills are being recognized and utilized. With this newfound appreciation and acceptance, Ziva pushes herself further, and confidently asserts her views. She is not afraid to stand up to her boss, Gibbs. In the episode Honor Code, when Gibbs refuses to think about the possible theory that a naval officer is faking his kidnapping for self-benefit, Ziva pushes the theory and shows how the evidence points towards this as a possibility. The fact that Gibbs listens to her views demonstrates that she has broken into the male-dominated work place and is perceived as a valued member of the team. The men no longer see her as just another woman, who needs to be protected or looked at in a sexual way; they treat her as a contributing member of the group. However, it is only because of her persistence that she is able to attain this respect.
Ziva breaks the stereotype of women in crime and is able to overcome the obstacles she confronts as a woman in a male-dominated field. As Heather Nunn and Anita Biressi state in their article, "Silent Witness: Detection, Femininity, and the Post-Mortem Body" women in crime genre shows are most frequently shown as sexualized victims (Nunn, 193). Ziva is the complete antithesis of this stereotype. She is tough, unemotional, and rarely shows her feminine and sexual side. She adopts the stereotypical male characteristics to help her gain the respect she deserves in her field. Ziva continually proves her competency to the team. She is ambitious and will work until she gets what she wants. She overcomes the discrimination she faces and is able to demonstrate her ability and skill. Through this excellence, she is ultimately able to gain the respect of her male colleagues. Although she is still not able to let go of her masculine characteristics and focused work ethic and stellar performance, she no longer has to continually push to prove herself to the team. Ziva portrays a female who is able to break into a male-dominated work place successfully. The lesson learned from Ziva is that women can successfully overcome the obstacles confronted by them in a male-dominated field. However, to do so they, like Ziva, often must adopt the characteristics of the men they work with, and usually must prove their competency and persistently fight to be accepted. Ziva portrays one path that women can take to gain respect in the macho world of law enforcement.
Works Cited
Cavender, G., Bona-Maupin, L., Jurik, N. C. (1999). The Construction of Gender in Reality Crime TV. Gender & Society, 13(5), 643-663.
Cox, N. (2012). Kicking Ass…With Lip Gloss: Mediating Gender on TLC's Police Women of Broward County. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 29(2), 149-163.
Nunn, H., Biressi, Anita. (2003). Silent Witness: Detection, Femininity and the Post-Mortem Body. Feminist Media Studies, 3(2), 193-207.
NCIS Season 3:
Kill Ari Part 1 (September 20, 2005)
Kill Ari Part 2 (September 27, 2005)
Silver War (October 11, 2005)
Switch (October 18, 2005)
The Voyeur's Web (October 25, 2005)
Honor Code (November 1, 2005)
Under Covers (November 8, 2005)
Model Behavior (December 13, 2005)
Boxed In (January 10, 2006)
Iced (April 4, 2006)
YoutTube Videos:
NCIS Death of Ari: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smua7ZDD3XA
NCIS Silver War 08: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khsDIHEM52E


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ARLINGTON, Va.– Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), a Department of Defense operational committee, received 2,899 nominations for the 2013 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award. The Freedom Award is the Department of Defense's highest recognition for employers supporting employees serving in the Guard and Reserve. Up to 15 award recipients will be announced this summer and honored in Washington, D.C. later this year at the 18th annual Freedom Award ceremony. Past award recipients have met with senior leaders of the White House and Department of Defense as part of the award recognition.
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