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Price Controls: Obama's Higher-Education Agenda, Part 2 of 8
The newest part of President Obama's agenda for higher education is his plan to limit tuition increases by punishing those that increase their prices too quickly. He enunciated this in a speech at the University of Michigan on January 27, 2012, a few days after his State of the Union address.
Two weeks ago in Obama's Higher-Education Agenda I said I would in a series of posts examine the eight major components of that agenda, and then try to put them together as a whole. Last week, in part one of the series, Supersizing, I reviewed the President's dream of ushering in a gargantuan expansion of higher education. That dream has already run into practical obstacles, the most daunting of which is the dizzying increase in college tuitions—increases that have not only outpaced inflation in the last thirty years but have spiraled up faster than even the cost of health care during that period.
The point is often underscored by this graph. I have taken a version from The Washington Post that in turn took it from the Freakonomics Web site. It goes out only to 1978 and includes tuition and fees only at private four-year colleges, based on data from the College Board and the Department of Labor. Versions that include public colleges and more recent data, however, show very similar trends.
Another calculation from InflationData.com tracks inflation in consumer prices from 1985 to 2011 as 115.06 percent vs. the college education inflation rate in that period as 498.31 percent.
Obama's proposal to impose a kind of price control on higher education comes as an emergency response to a situation he seems not to have anticipated. Until his State of the Union speech and University of Michigan follow-up, he had never made a public statement suggesting that he favored limiting the tuitions that colleges and universities charge.
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The emergency is, of course, political. Large numbers of Americans view college as indispensable in their quest for their own and their children's future prosperity. They worry that college will be priced out of reach or that they will have to compromise by attending lower-cost institutions that provide less prestige and a lower chance of obtaining good employment after receiving a degree. The zooming prices combined with the growing sense of diminished rewards has also created a growing fear that higher education is in the midst of a bubble, like the recent real-estate bubble.
President Obama's turn to a form of price control is a risky expedient meant both to calm the anxieties of those who fear being priced out and to nudge higher education away from its increasingly unsustainable business model.
It is a risky path for Obama because the higher education establishment—until now a rock-solid and fiercely activist part of his political base—is aghast at the idea of price controls in higher education. Call them what you will: "disincentives" for tuition increases, etc.
But what exactly is the President now proposing? When he released his proposed budget on February 13, he included some additional detail (page 5):
In this Budget, I also propose a series of new proposals to help families with the costs of college including making permanent the American Opportunity Tax Credit, a partially refundable tax credit worth up to $10,000 per student over 4 years of college, and rewarding colleges and universities that act responsibly in setting tuition, providing the best value, and serving needy students well.
And (page 50):
In addition, the Budget proposes to reform the formula for distributing approximately $10 billion annually of Campus-Based Aid to reward colleges that act responsibly in setting tuition, providing the best value, and serving needy students well.
And still more on Pell Grants, support for community colleges, and other items (page 96). The White House Web page on higher education provides a summary under the title, "Making College More Affordable." (If you have more than a passing interest, copy the page. White House links can disappear quickly.)
In a speech on February 13, announcing the budget, Obama explained:
They [Congress] also need to take the tuition tax credit that my administration put in the budget over these last few years—a tax credit that saves families thousands of dollars on tuition—and we need to make that permanent. It shouldn't be temporary, it should be permanent. (Applause.)
So between the increases we've provided in Pell grants, these tax credits, keeping interest rates low—all that is going to help. And millions of students across the country have benefited from that. But students and taxpayers can't just keep on subsidizing skyrocketing tuition—we're going to run out of money. So that's why I've asked states and colleges to do their part to keep costs down.
We're putting colleges and universities on notice: You can't just keep on raising tuition and expect us to keep on coming up with more and more money. Because tuition inflation has actually gone up even faster than health care. That's hard to do. (Laughter.)
So what we're saying to states, colleges and universities—if you can't stop tuition from going up, then funding you get from taxpayers will go down. Because higher education cannot be a luxury; it is an economic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford. That's part of the American promise in the 21st century. (Applause.)
Allergic Reactions
A few days earlier, the Chronicle of Higher Education covered the chagrin of college presidents and the heads of Dupont Circle organizations as the idea began to sink in that the President seriously meant to interfere with "tuition going up." In "Obama Aims to Make Colleges Cut Costs," Goldie Blumenstyk, Michael Stratford, and Beckie Supiano quoted a gallery of officials, from the nervous-sounding Cynthia A. Littlefield, director of federal relations at the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities ("We still don't have all the details, right?") to the more belligerent David Warren, president of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, who made it clear that the college presidents he represents do see Obama's plan as "price controls" and view those controls as a threat to their independence.
The Chronicle reporters found:
Even sterner attacks came from some university presidents. The University of Washington's Michael K. Young, invoking Jeremy Bentham's famous invective, decried the ideas as "nonsense on stilts" and denounced Mr. Obama's ideas as "political theater at its worst."
Obama presumably calculates that he can absorb the ire of higher-education officials, who are, after all, unlikely to seek solace by turning to Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, or Rick Santorum. And if he can appear to be tough on the higher-education executives who keep raising tuition, he just might rekindle some of the fading enthusiasm in his college-aged base and their parents.
Osawatomie Blues
But this part of Obama's higher-education agenda has an ad hoc quality. The problem of skyrocketing college prices seems to have come into focus for him after the fall season of "Occupy" protests, which in many cases brought out college students and recent graduates protesting the amount of student loan debt they had acquired. High debt and poor job prospects created a new grievance issue. It was not just the one-percenters and the banks that were ripping off the "99 percent." It was also the universities that kept relentlessly increasing their prices. Nowhere was this issue more explosive than in California, where the state government was continuing its slow withdrawal of subsidies from the University of California system. University officials made up for losses in state funding through tuition increases.
Obama has merged this grievance with the protesters' broader grievance over income inequality. Most notably in his December 6 speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, he made overcoming "inequality" part of his core agenda. "This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class," he declared and he associated that epiphany with "the people who've been occupying the streets of New York and other cities" as an expression of "the defining issue of our time," i.e. income inequality.
"Income inequality" points directly at disparities in income but it has a much wider resonance than simply announcing that George Soros and Warren Buffet have a lot more income than you or I. It also embeds the recognition that large numbers of people can no longer afford "goods," such as college degrees, that they regard as the sine qua non of middle class status.
This in turn makes Obama's long-stated (if highly implausible) goal of vaulting the United States to the position of the nation with the world's largest percentage of college graduates even less reachable than it already was. Something has to give. College prices would have to diminish as if by magic. Or the personal income of most Americans would have to multiply all of a sudden. Or somehow the federal government would have to intervene to offset higher education's runaway train of price increases.
At Osawastomie, Obama didn't say which of these roads he would walk. The first hint came in his State of the Union, followed up by the Michigan speech, and then the budget. The road to middle-class security, as Obama now pitches it, is through a leveraged increase in federal student aid and other support for colleges and universities—leveraged in the sense that to get the new money (and presumably to keep the federal funds they were already getting), colleges and universities will have to limit tuition increases to some yet-to-be-announced ceiling.
Obama's new plan aims to block the approach taken by California and many other states in their efforts to transfer more of the costs of higher education to its beneficiaries. The situation at the state level resembles those cases in which some third-world government decides to withdraw subsidies for bread or fuel oil, and the public reacts with riotous indignation. Obama is now positioned to veto the elected state leaders by withholding crucial federal funding to those state universities that try to repair state cutbacks by increasing their tuition.
The indignation of the protesters would be better focused on the long succession of U.S. presidents and Congresses that have contorted American higher education with subsidies and misaligned incentives for generations. The two basic problems have been (1) the false promise that almost everyone should go to college, and (2) the use of non-means-tested federal financial aid to make college "more affordable." President Obama in that February 13 budget speech neatly combined them as "the American promise in the 21st century"—
Because higher education cannot be a luxury; it is an economic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford. That's part of the American promise in the 21st century.
Higher education is not an "economic imperative for every family." For many families is it a large, unnecessary expense. Individuals can get good jobs and achieve financial security without a college degree. For others, it is indeed a "luxury," or more specifically, a prestige good, valued more for what it signals than for what it actually is. And as I explained in Supersizing, Obama's oft-repeated claims that giant increases in college-degree attainment would translate into greater national competitiveness are flatly contradicted by comparisons to other developed nations.
The Bennett Hypothesis
The goal is spurious, but the ways that Obama (and previous presidents) have proposed to achieve the goal are even worse. Federal subsidies that are available to all or to nearly all are one of the key accelerants to tuition increases. No sooner does the federal government attempt to make college "more affordable" with something like Obama's "$10,000 per student over 4 years of college," than college officials revise their calculations of what families can afford to pay—and raise their tuitions accordingly.
This practice of capturing federal aid by increasing tuition leaves students and their families running in place. If the federal government pours money into the financial aid bucket faster, colleges drill the hole in the bucket a little larger. Faster still? Larger still.
This no-win situation was described a quarter of a century about by then Secretary of Education William Bennett and became known as the "Bennett Hypothesis." Various economists have tried to test it, with mixed results, but as it happens just this week a major new study was released, "Introducing Bennett Hypothesis 2.0." The author is Andrew Gillen, research director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, which is my fellow Innovations blogger Richard Vedder's organization. Gillen offers a refined and more nuanced version of the idea that takes proper account of the differences between financial assistance available to all-comers and aid limited to those who have very limited financial means. He also draws in mitigating factors, such as "price discrimination," (i.e. charging different people different prices for the same thing.) The result is a much sturdier "hypothesis"—which, because such economic models are virtually untestable, remains just beyond the reach of dispositive empirical proof.
It is, however, a pretty good fit with reality, as I've written on Minding the Campus.
So what Obama is now proposing is a way, in principle, to plug the hole in the bucket—or at least to take the auger out of the hands of college officials so they can't drill the hole even bigger as he pours in still more money. The theory is that this time, at long last, the cycle will be broken and college really will become more affordable in response to increased federal largesse.
Will it work? We probably won't get a chance to see, since it is highly unlikely that Congress will pass Obama's budget. Would it work if it were enacted? I doubt it. Higher education has a million motives and nearly as many techniques to evade a regime of price controls. It would just find more circuitious ways to capture the increased aid. And that probably would be OK with the President, as long as people believed for a while in the recycled illusion that they were getting a price break.
Of course, Obama could impose his regime of price controls by regulatory fiat even without the carrot of increased student financial aid. And some of the aid he proposes comes in the form of means-tested Pell Grants, which as Gillen shows, are immune to Bennett-style capture in the form of tuition increases. So it is possible that parts of Obama's carrot-and-stick price control-regimen will roll into place in the coming months.
Lying behind Obama's dream of superszing higher education and expediting the path to a college degree through a combination of increased federal aid tied to institutional price controls is his recurrent idea that everyone, or nearly everyone, should go to college. I'll take that up in part three of this series. (Laughter, Applause.)Return to Top


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Response Expo 2012 Announces Roster of Speakers and Sessions11 Apr, 2012 By: Jackie Jones
SANTA ANA, Calif. – Response Expo 2012 returns to San Diego for its sixth consecutive year on May 15-17 with an impressive list of the industry's top marketers – as well as an American military hero – joining the ranks of speakers at this year's premier event for direct response marketers.
Former lead solo pilot of the renowned Blue Angels and Response Expo Keynote Speaker John Foley will kick off the week at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 15 at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront, while Wharton School of Business Professor Cassie Mogilner, Capital One's Patrick McLean and leaders of the finalist companies in the 2011 Direct Response Marketing Alliance's Marketer of the Year competition – Hearthware Inc.'s David Choi, Hampton Direct's Steve Heroux and BJ Global Direct's BJ Fazeli – are just a few of the more than two dozen industry leaders who will speak May 16-18 on retail distribution, maximizing online, expanding into digital media, social marketing and more.
"Response Expo 2012 marks the sixth year of the conference and exposition that DRTV executive attendees call a 'must-attend' event. Our focus for 2012 remains identical to all of our previous events – uncovering opportunities and growing businesses. Our seminars and speakers all stem from the Response Expo tradition of keeping it all focused on the bottom line," said Thomas Haire, Response Expo content director and Response Magazine editor-in-chief.
Foley has logged thousands of hours in the cockpit of F/18s and other jets as a member of the Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron. A graduate of the United States Naval Academy, he holds Masters' degrees in business management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business; in international policy studies from Stanford; and in strategic studies from the Naval War College.
Response Expo 2012 attendees have ample opportunities to gain crucial knowledge throughout the week after the Keynote Address, as well. This year's panels and speakers, presented by Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP, include:
Wednesday, May 16
10-11 a.m.
The DRMA Masters Course — Customer Engagement: Join Professor Cassie Mogilner from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business for her interactive discussion on consumer engagement. Get an Ivy League viewpoint for what you need to know when considering how best to develop and promote your products to ensure customers' engagement with your offering. Speaker: Cassie Mogilner, Wharton School of Business. Moderator: Peter Koeppel, Koeppel Direct
11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Breaking the Funding Code: No matter whether you're a company marketing a product, an agency or a DR-industry service provider, chances are you've thought about finding additional funds to start — or kick start — your business. Hear from three leading venture capital firms on what they look for when investing in businesses in the DR space. Speakers: Chris Montgomery, CSKK Consulting Inc.; Jed Simon, FastPay; Samit Varma, Anthem Ventures; Derek Walton, ICFO Capital. Moderator: Scott Barbour, Cre8tive Partners
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Quiet Giants: Think you know all of the marketing companies behind those winning DRTV products? Think again! Hear from key leaders in the DRTV marketplace whose genius has long spoken for itself — flying under the radar while selling millions of units. Find out how the marketers behind such products as Strap Perfect, Urine Gone, Mighty Putty, Mighty Mendit, EdenPure, Grout Bully and Truly Clear found and built on their success. What are the common winning DRTV threads that can be implemented by most marketers? And what do they see as challenges and sweet spots for the industry's future? Speakers: Richard Davidson, Ag NanoTech; Shelly Hufford, Suarez Corp. Industries; Steve Silbiger, Plymouth Direct. Moderator: Gene Silverman, Hawthorne Direct
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Dozens of sheds at the 64-plot allotment site at Green Lane, Devizes, have been broken into.
The offenders got into the site on Thursday by bringing down wiring at the top corner of the site, which is in Roundway parish.
Devizes Police received reports of 16 sheds being broken into, between 3-4.30pm, but say some sheds had nothing stolen from them.
Roundway parish councillor Albert Wooldridge believes that 21 sheds were broken into, based on how many locks he saw that had been forced.
A portable gas stove, rotary mower and a yellow McCulloch petrol strimmer were stolen from different sheds.
Sgt Joanne Spencer said: "This is a mean-spirited crime attacking a small community of people at a place where they go to spend their leisure and relaxation time."
Coun Wooldridge said it was the first time they had been broken into since they were opened last June.
He said: "I can't understand why people would do this. It looks like pure vandalism, I detest it.
"Allotment holders are very annoyed and angry about it."
He said the place where the break-in took place was where the council was planning to install a tank with solar panels to provide power for a water supply from a bore hole.
But he said: "Solar panels are one of the biggest things that get nicked and what we had planned was for it to be below fence level.
"We are now looking at another way of doing it, without solar panels.
"We have the bore hole in and we are still looking at having a pump and tank but are thinking of taking a small generator up there once a week.
"Solar panels would have been a good way and the green way to do it but I don't think we can risk them being stolen, they are expensive."
The matter will be discussed at the next parish council meeting on May 19.
Anyone with information about the break-in should contact the police on 101 and ask for beat manager for the area PC Chris Mead.
- Roundway Parish Council has agreed to allow residents of Devizes have plots at the allotments at Green Lane, up to a cap of ten plots at any one time. The move follows Devizes Town Council relaxing its rules to allow residents of Roundway to have allotments at Quakers Walk and Windsor Drive.


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One-by-one, 11 sexual assault survivors unite in the new public service announcement aimed at others who may be too afraid or ashamed to break their silence
Stephanie Smith Bowman is one of those survivors.
"It's not about the act of sex. It's about power and control and, secondly, it's not the victim's fault. Third, they don't have to be alone," said Bowman.
Bowman and others with the Ohio Alliance To End Sexual Violence launched the PSA as advocates for sexual assault victims gathered to learned how to better get their message out.
They say the numbers paint an alarming picture.
One in four girls, and one in six boys, in Ohio will be sexually abused before they turn 18-years-old, according to the group.
Some advocates say the facts get lost in the frenzy that often surrounds high profile cases like the trial of two Steubenville high school football players convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl.
"What we want people to know is when someone tells you that they have experience violence that they have been violated believe them, support them," said Katie Hanna, statewide director.
Advocates and survivors hope the PSA will start the conversation and push people to get help.
As the PSA states - We know how you feel, and we know there's help
If sexual assault has happened to you, the Ohio Alliance To End Sexual Violence wants you to know help is available.
Just call your local rape crisis center in Ohio at 1-888-886-8388.


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Doors keyboardist and founding member Ray Manzarek passed away today (May 20) at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim, Germany after a lengthy battle with bile duct cancer, according to a post on the Doors' official Facebook page. He was 74.
According to the post, at the time of his passing, he was surrounded by his wife Dorothy Manzarek, and his brothers Rick and James Manzarek.
Doors guitarist Robby Krieger, who toured often with Manzarek over the past decade said, issued a statement on Manzarek, also through the Doors' Facebook. "I was deeply saddened to hear about the passing of my friend and bandmate Ray Manzarek today," he wrote. "I'm just glad to have been able to have played Doors songs with him for the last decade. Ray was a huge part of my life and I will always miss him."
Doors drummer John Densmore battled with Manzarek and guitarist Krieger in court in recent years over the rights to the Doors name, but that did not stop him from sharing a tribute on his Facebook. "There was no keyboard player on the planet more appropriate to support Jim Morrison's words," Densmore wrote. "Ray, I felt totally in sync with you musically. It was like we were of one mind, holding down the foundation for Robby and Jim to float on top of. I will miss my musical brother."
Manzarek is survived by his wife Dorothy, brothers Rick and James Manczarek, son Pablo Manzarek, Pablo's wife Sharmin and their three children Noah, Apollo and Camille. Funeral arrangements are pending. The death announcement continues, "The family asks that their privacy be respected at this difficult time. In lieu of flowers, please make a memoriam donation in Ray Manzarek's name at www.standup2cancer.org."


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kurt _ wrote: > I am having a problem with Sun Java Studio Creator because the latest > version of the JDBC driver returns a field length of -1 for text fields. > > My question: Is a text field just a varchar(Integer.MAX_VALUE)? If I > want to use the data binding part of the SJSC tool I will need to > convert my text fields to some standard SQL data type. I understand > that varchar just stores the actual length of the field, and not the > padded white space. Would anyone recommend for or against creating a > field of varchar(Integer.MAX_VALUE)? Will PostgreSQL choke on that? If > against, how is text implemented and how can I represent a > variable-length String in a SQL standard format? varchar has a max of 255 characters, so yeh it'll choke using integer.max_value. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/datatype-character.html has details on how string fields are stored and the differences. -- Postgresql & php tutorials http://www.designmagick.com/
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Island Soul is a Caribbean restaurant right across from our favourite Columbia City breakfast join, Geraldine's. I was here for dinner and then brunch a couple days later with my friends.
On our first visit, I was torn between getting the whole fried tilapia and the oxtail stew. I ended up getting the oxtail stew instead because it was under famous house specials. Luckily, my friend ordered the tilapia so I was able to try that too.
Each entree comes with 2 sides of your choice. I paired my oxtail stew with collar greens, and rice and peas. The meat on the oxtail was so tender, and the stew had a little bit of spice in it. It was a comforting stew, but I was a tad too salty for me. Actually, I found that most of the dishes I tried that night were a little bit on the salty side. And also I wished it was a little bit warmer.
The deep fried whole tilapia was the best of the night. The fish was so fresh and moist, and the Escovitch sauce was nice and tangy. I really recommend this dish if you love seafood. I really wished I went with this choice instead.
The best side dishes of the night were their mac & cheese and mashed yams. The mac & cheese were creamy, and cheesy. The mashed yams were sweet, had lots of roasted flavour and with a hint of cinnamon. I'd recommend these 2.
The portion sizes here are giant. Also the pricing is quite expensive with most entrees starting at $18. Although we were stuffed to the max from our dinners, we kept seeing and smelling awesome fried chicken coming out of the kitchen on to other tables. Right then, we made a decision to come back for their fried chicken, we just didn't know it would be 2 days later for our brunch.
Brunch here was an easy choice for me. Chicken & Waffles. This dish was much more affordable at just $9. It has half of deep fried cornish hen with belgian waffles and a side of fruits. The fried chicken smelled and looked just as amazing from the other night, and it tasted awesome. The uber crispy batter was really delicious and stuck on to the chicken well too. It almost had a buttery taste. The chicken was really moist. I ate most of the chicken without hot sauce or any kind because it was flavourful enough on its own. It was too bad that the waffles weren't very good. It needed a couple more minutes on the waffle iron for it to get a bit more crispy and warm.
This place has really good food, but very slow service. It's not a place to come if you are in a rush. A take out option would probably be best if you live near by.


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Kotobukiya's first English/Japanese language book on collecting...
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Kotobukiya announces the official international launch of OTACOOL: WORLDWIDE OTAKU ROOMS at Anime Festival Asia 2009. World famous OTAKU blogger and enthusiast Danny Choo and South-East Asia's renowned cosplayer and this years Regional Cosplay Championship finalist Alodia Gosiengfiao will be our special guests in commemorating this exciting new launch. The book will be on sale at the AFA shop and those who purchase it at this event will be able to get it autographed by Danny and Alodia.
OTACOOL: WORLD WIDE OTAKU ROOMS is Kotobukiya's first English/Japanese language book that introduces readers to over 108 cool and stylish Otaku rooms worldwide. Otaku is a Japanese term used to refer to people with obsessive interests, particularly anime, manga, and video games. Capturing the Otaku culture from a totally new angle, OTACOOL presents a diverse range of incredible Otaku rooms, all classified by country of origin with spotlights on special guests, including Danny and Alodia.
Kotobukiya and Anime Festival Asia welcomes everyone to drop by this event held on November 22nd from 15:30~16:00 at booth D01. Fans can purchase the book at AFA Shop booth at D02 or SGD29.
For further information on OTACOOL please visit: www.figure.fm/feature/en/otacool.


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The friends and teachers of a Lincoln Northstar student are banding together to support one of their own.
Northstar senior Mikaelah Molifua was recently diagnosed with Stage 4 Hodgkin's Lymphoma.
Her prognosis is good, but she has to go up to Omaha for expensive chemotherapy treatments.
Students, faculty and staff hosted a soup lunch and auction Sunday.
They hope to raise enough so the family doesn't have to worry about bills.
Mikaelah says the support means so much to her. She says, "It's a big relief because I know people are there for me and I know I have the support I need to get through it. Without all the support I don't think I'd be as strong as I am."
The senior isn't letting cancer slow her down.
She plans to head to college next year and study to be a teacher.
If you'd like to help, you can donate to the Mikaelah Molifua Fund at any Wells Fargo branch.


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A lien is a type of security interest that attaches to property, both real and personal, to secure payment of a debt or performance of an obligation. Generally, there are two types of liens: consensual liens and nonconsensual liens. A consensual lien is typically acquired through an agreement or contract, such as a mortgage lien on real property or a UCC-1 security interest on personal property securing payment of a promissory note. A nonconsensual lien typically arises by statute, such as a tax lien for the failure to pay income taxes, or by operation of law, such as a judgment lien.
To acquire a valid judgment lien, there must be the following:
- An entry of a monetary judgment by a court (rather than a non-monetary judgment such as a foreclosure judgment);
- The judgment must include the address of the judgment creditor,[1] the party in favor of whom the judgment is entered [Fla. Stat. §55.10(1)];
- The judgment must include the address of the judgment debtor, the party against whom the judgment is entered [Fla. Stat. §55.01(2)]; and
- The judgment should contain the language "for which sum let execution issue."
After the court enters the judgment, the judgment creditor may take action to acquire liens on all of the judgment debtor's non-exempt real and personal property by recording the judgment and filing a Judgment Lien Certificate with the Secretary of State. In separate posts, we describe the processes for obtaining judgment liens on real property and judgment liens on personal property. Once a party holds a properly recorded judgment lien, the judgment creditor may foreclose on property to which the judgment lien has attached, through judicial foreclosure of real or personal property.
[1] The address of the judgment creditor's attorney is not sufficient. If the address is not included in the judgment, this requirement can be met by recording an affidavit that states the address at the same time the certified copy of the judgment is recorded, as described in the post explaining how to obtain judgment liens on real property.


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That's the question being asked today by a government health committee that is reviewing the longstanding ban on blood donation by men who say they've had sex with other men.
The ban has been in place since the 1980s, when health officials were beginning to battle the AIDS epidemic.
But now, advocates, academics and members of Congress are wondering if that thinking is out of date.
"Lifting restrictions on blood donation by men who have had sex with men would help to alleviate frequent blood shortages in the US," says Gary Gates, a scholar with the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law.
The institute's research suggests that ending the ban could add 219,000 pints a year of blood to the nation's supply, a 1.4 percent increase.
FDA rules currently ban blood donation by any man who has had sex with another man since 1977.
Surprisingly, men who acknowledge having sex with an HIV-positive woman or with a prostitute are banned from donating blood for only one year.
And that thinking has gay rights advocates crying foul.
"Amongst the gay male community, often people are caught off guard that this policy is still in effect since there have been such advances in detection technology," says Nathan Schaefer, policy director for Gay Men's Health Crisis, who is speaking at the hearings.
Screening technology can now detect HIV in blood within weeks of infection. When the ban began, it took months.
"The policy reinforces negative stereotypes about gay men, assuming they are all an equal threat to the public health," Schaefer says, "and reinforces false perceptions about heterosexuals to say they don't represent a risk."
Since 1985, FDA officials have had a different view. They point out that the prevalence of HIV infection among men who have had sex with other men is 60 times that of the general population.
And they say, right or wrong, the current ban has worked. The risk of getting HIV from a pint of blood is now only one per 2 million units transfused, the officials told MSNBC.
The Department of Health and Human Services will hold hearings this week to sort things out. Senators including John Kerry (D-Mass.) want to end the ban. The American Red Cross suggests modifying it so that men are banned for only one year after having sex with another man.
The FDA will make the final call.


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Lesson 2: Adding a Description to a Model
In the previous lesson, you created and deployed a report model, and then tested the model in Report Builder1 or Report Builder 3.0. In this lesson, you will add a description to the report model. A description is a brief explanation of the contents of the model, which appears in the Getting Started pane of Report Builder. When users select your model, the description appears below it and lets users determine whether they want to use this model to build their reports.
In addition, you can create descriptions for entities, attributes (fields in Report Builder), and roles that provide interesting information that the user might want to know. Report Builder users see these descriptions as tool tips when they hover over an item in the Explorer pane.
The following procedure assumes that you did not close the Business Intelligence Development Studio window that was open in the previous lesson. To open the AdventureWorks2008R2 project in BI Development Studio, click Start, point to All Programs, point to Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, click SQL Server Business Intelligence Studio. In the Recent Projects pane, click Open Project, select the AdventureWorks.sln file, and then click OK.
To add a description to a report model
Return to the AdventureWorks2008R2 report model project that is open in the Business Intelligence Development Studio window.
In the Tree view, select the Model node.
In the Properties window, locate the Description property.
In the Description box, enter the following: This report model is for the AdventureWorks2008R2 database.
In the Tree view, select the Sales Person entity, and then enter the following in the Description box: All sales people are employees.
In the List view, select the Sales Quota attribute, and then enter the following in the Description box: Sales quotas are updated quarterly.
On the File menu, click Save All.
You have successfully added descriptions for the model and for an entity and attribute. In the next lesson, you will organize the model by adding a folder to the model. See Lesson 3: Organizing a Model Using a Folder.
In Lesson 8, you will validate the changes you made to the model in Lessons 2 through 8.


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Local wine, cheese, beer and now spirits are winning medals in tough national competitions. Duckworth Distillery of Dallas (right behind the Home Depot on Lemmon) just won Bronze with their Texas Vodka at the 2015 San Francisco World Spirits Competition. This is a doubly good achievement since this is Duckworth's first product and this is their first competition. Continue reading
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That's The Spirit! Dallas Vodka Distiller Wins Bronze Medal With Very First Release
'In Pursuit of Balance' Is a Must-Attend Pinot Noir-Chardonnay Wine Event In Houston
I am very unbalanced this morning at the news that 'In Pursuit of Balance' (IPOB) is going to Houston, and not Dallas, on its Texas tour. The organizers have tried to rebalance the situation by vaguely promising that Dallas is on the circuit next year, but it doesn't quite make up for the sleight. I am especially galled by the fact that I was the one who told them they needed to change their silly name. Continue reading
Three Interesting New Texas Wines
Texas is a rapidly improving but young wine region. Just about everything is an experiment. One of the outcomes is an ever-rotating supply of interesting wines. This week two wineries, both of whom use only Texas grapes, sent me some interesting examples of their recent work.
Wedding Oak Winery is located in the pecan capital of Texas, San Saba. The location, in the northern Hill Country, provides grapes for the Texas Sangiovese shown on the left, above. The nose on this wine is redolent of cherries, strawberries and black pepper. In the mouth there is forward, ripe fruit of cherries balancing the medium plus acid levels. The firm tannins would make this wine a good match with your first attempt at cooking a Tuscan Bistecca alla Fiorentina, albeit from Texan grass-fed cattle. Continue reading
Andrew's Wine Round-Up
A round-up of noteworthy wines recently tasted. All were sent by vendors or their representatives. Continue reading
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FSITO Wine Fools Costco
Take a look at the wine bottle above. Where does the wine come from? If you said "Texas" you and Costco (the largest wine retailer in the country) are in the same boat. Below is the shelf label which reproduces the text on the back of the bottle. If gushes "Selected from our finest lots. Careful maturation with French Oak brings deep flavors of dark fruit and cocoa". Costco is usually meticulous with product descriptions, but was likely fooled by this patter in also labeling the wine's origin as 'Texas'. Continue reading
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Blankenship Named New Exec at CBD Provisions
Richard Blankenship is now execuchef at CBD Provisions at The Joule, one of the best restaurants in Dallas. Former execuchef Michael Sidoni gets an internal promotion in the Headington hierarchy (which owns and runs the restaurant) to oversee "new projects".
Blankenship comes with a deep breadth of experience. He was executive sous chef at the old Charlie Palmer at The Joule, he chef Continue reading
FSITO Wine Label Fools Master of Wine
Take a look at the label wine label above. Where does the wine come from? If you said "Texas" you and Master of Wine James Cluer are in the same boat. In an article on wine label design in San Antonio Magazine he criticized the label for causing "potential confusion created by emphasizing the wine's Texas origins—with two mentions of it on the label — given that it is a French Colombard". He was doubtless fooled partly by the cheerful "Texas Style" logo on the front label and the references to the Texas palate on the back. Yet the key to this wine's undisclosed origins are in the smallest typeface on the label, on the bottom right on the back where the eye is least likely to read it: "For Sale In Texas Only" (FSITO) allows the origin of the grapes to be concealed. Continue reading


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10 Things Your Children Need to Know for the 2016-2017 School Year (print and share w/your kids)
This list is not exhaustive and some are taken from my book "40 Things to Teach Your Children Before You Die: The Simple American Truths About Life, Family & Faith." Print em out. Put em on your fridge and discuss them daily over breakfast with your kids and help inoculate them from the Leftist lies and propaganda so prevalent in much of our culture and society today. 1. You're not a "global citizen." If you were born in the United States of America or are a legal U.S. citizen, you are a United States citizen not bound by any other Constitution than the United States Constitution. 2. The climate is always "changing." It's called weather. The reason you don't hear about "man made global warming" anymore is that it has been thoroughly de-bunked. The major reason the earth's temperature heats/cools is due to solar activity. During periods of increased solar activity the earth warms and vice-versa. "Climate change" initiatives are really just efforts to institute higher taxes and regulations to control the people ultimately for the purpose of establishing a global New World Order. 3. There are only 2 types of humans God created. Men and women. Your sex (or gender) is determined by your chromosomal makeup. Males have XY and females have XX. There is no such thing as a "transgendered" person. A man who puts on lipstick and a wig has become a "cross dresser" but is still a man. Women who act/dress like men are still women. Boys should always use the men's room and girls should always use the girl's room. 4. Our nation was not founded by secularists. The original founders, the Pilgrims and Puritans, were God fearing people whose main desire was to live in a nation where they could freely worship Jesus Christ. While many of the Framers of the Constitution were not Christians, our nation was explicitly founded on Judeo-Christian values, beliefs and principles. To the extent America returns to those founding principles and beliefs will largely determine whether we can ever become "great again." 5. Truth is not relative. God has defined all truth and apart from His Transcendent Divinely Revealed Word, everyone does what is right in their own eyes. Humans become their own gods. Man centered (humanistic) societies that have rejected God's Word have been the most murderous and barbaric nations in the history of the world (Nazi Germany, Communist China/Russia, etc...) 6. "Social Justice" is another term for Socialism. And Socialism is always wrong because it is based on the belief that it is ok to covet, steal, and re-distribute other people's "stuff" for the general benefit of the "community." 7. God has defined, established and ordained marriage. It is the exclusive union of one man and one woman and the natural human family is the first, oldest, and most important form of government God ever created. No majority of judges, legislators or voters can re-define what God Himself has defined. All other types of "marriage" are legally null and void since they violate God's definition. 8. Courts don't make law. Courts can issue opinions on individual cases before it, but court opinions are only binding on the individual plaintiffs and defendants in the case. Only the people directly or via their elected representatives can make, alter or amend laws, statutes or Constitutions. Any law or court opinions contrary to God's Law is no law at all. It is legally null and void and must be ignored and rejected by all civil magistrates at every branch and level of government. 9. There is only 1 race of people. The human race. People have different skin colors and come from different parts of the world but all humans are originally descended from the Original First Family (Adam and Eve.) Efforts to introduce race ("affirmative action," "race based preferences," "white privilege," etc...) are merely efforts to divide and conquer. 10. There is only one way to heaven. Through faith alone, by God's grace alone, in Christ alone. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father in heaven but through Me." (John 14:6) Is He your Lord and Savior?


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Perhaps equally important with the religious life of the early settlers was the education of their children and their young people.
Many people are inclined to think of our early fore fathers, as very ignorant and uneducated. Certainly they did not have the opportunity for education in Scotland where life was one of hardship and in many cases one of persecution. Perhaps, now they were more concerned for better things for their children. Life here held more freedom and they could plan for the future.
History tells us that each group of immigrants made an effort to include a teacher.
Teachers were among the early settlers in this district, and were educated far beyond the rural school education standard. Indeed a look at the old text books prove beyond a doubt a high standard of education.
In addition to the common school texts books were, Greek, Latin, Geometry, Trigonometry, Roman History and many others.
We can find no records for the first teacher in this district but have been told that John MacCallum, father of Campbell MacCallum (Senior) was here as early as 1774 at the age of 19 years, and that he taught pupils by going from home to home, before a school building was erected. 1t was said he was highly educated.
Andrew Graham born 1796,a son of Charles and Marian (Hyslop) Graham was an early teacher, He arrived here in 1832. His history will be dealt with in the review of his former home property the Graham property.
As we have already stated Andrew taught school in his own home the last years, and other pupils on his roll besides Margaret Murray (Mrs. Rod McKay) were: Mrs. John R. McKenzie, Anderson Rogers later Revs Anderson Rogers, Watson MacKean, Robina Smith, Maria Campbell, Isabella Rogers, to name a few.
We still have a small chest full of books taken from Scotland and England that belonged to the "Domonie" as he was often referred to in later years. Among his books are: Geometry, Algebra, Trigonometry, Latin, English Dictionary, Laws of Matter and Motion, Rornan History, Elements of Scientific Agriculture, printed 1813, and Calculation and Accounting;. Surely these prove a high standard of scholastic learning.
William Carson was another of the early teachers, He was a son of John Carson ( Senior ) Wearer and his wife Janet ( Hyslop ) as his brother John (Jr) was born 1825 in Nova Scotia, it is of course recorded on his gravestone at Scotsburn, that William Carson died 1884, age 62. And he would be born in Rockfield then Auchencairn, an older brother to John Jr.
In the Last will and Testament of the late Andrew (Domonie) Graham both brothers are named as executors. "1 do constitute make and ordain, William Carson, teacher and his brother John Carson Jr. and my sister Janet to be my executors of this my said will and testament." signed Andrew Graham.
We do not know where he taught school or how long he lived he lived with his parents More details are given in Carson pages of this history.
We wonder when the first school building was built in this district and who really started the first school around Rockfield and Rogers Hill Centre . Was it McCallum, Carson or Graham .
As we mentioned before, The Mechanic Farmer or Eastern Chronicle in an early edition carried the following item: "Andrew Graham is teaching at Rogers Hill Centre School in 1852" This is the only date we can find on this question.
The district of Rogers Hill was named for John Rogers, the first settler in this place, arriving in 1767 with his wife and four children on the ship Hope or Betsy. At first Rogers Hill included all the districts of Rogers Hill Centre, Rogers Hill Cross Roads, Scotsburn, even as far as Plainfreld, which makes it confusing when reading into the earlier history of these places.
It is thought that school buildings were erected as early as 1820, But in what location?
Mr. James Davidson is said to be the first teacher in Pictou County and taught school or pupils in Lyons Brook between 1772 -1776. Others interested in education were Rev. Thomas MacCulloch who arrived in Pictou in 1803, and Rev. Duncan Ross, minister at West River in 1801.
"Previous to 1864, when the present school law was enacted by the Nova Scotia Legislature, There was no definitely bounded districts in existence, and neither was there any assessment of property for the maintenance of schools. Before that time parents who had children to educate Clubbed together in order to start a school. Then their hired a teacher for a certain length of time, and engaged to pay him a certain amount for each scholar that, attended school. They also engaged to furnish the teacher with board and lodgings at their homes, for one or two weeks in proportion to the number of children they were able to send to school.
Under this primitive system of education, bachelors and parents without children of school age rendered no assistance to the education of the young." Quote from Rev. John Murray history on Scotsburn Congregation.
MacPhee, writes in his history, Pictonians at Home and Abroad, "1n 1850 He (Sire William Dawson) became the first superintendent of Education for Nova Scotia, and did the pioneer work which resulted in the founding of the Provincial Normal College in Truro in 1854. (Teachers College) and the passing of the Free School Act of 1864" No doubt this was the act that Rev. John Murray wrote about.
In 1883 Robert MacLellan, L.L.D. second son of the late John MacLellan of Durham, was appointed Government Inspector for the county of Pictou, and South Colchester.
In 1891, DR. A.H. MacKay born 1848 in Plainfield, was appointed by the government of Nova Scotia as Superintendent of Education, and held that position for 33 years. He held degrees of L.L.D. and F.R.S. The first school Inspector that acted in my school darns was E.L. Armstrong who was appointed to that position in 1900. and continued in that capacity until J. Crearar MacDonald was appointed in 1923.
D.C. Fraser was appointed Inspector of Schools in 1939, following the death of J. Crearer MacDonald.
The early years in education were simple and practical, and did not require much more than a slate and pencil, and a small bottle of water and cloth to clean the slate, and a few small books.
We have a collection of later books used as reading books, but cannot be sure of the dates each were used. The first books we are aware of are: "The Royal Readers", used before the turn of the century, at least 1800, and possible much earlier.
Then the Province of Nova Scotia had Readers printed known as the Atlantic Readers, some were printed in 1905 by Morang Coax Ltd. Toronto.
Then in 1914, Readers were again changed thus, "Entered, according to the Act of Parliament of Canada in the year 1914, In the office of the Minister of Agriculture, By the Council of Public Instruction". These were called Nova Scotia Readers. And ran from Primer to Book four. These were well bound hard cover books and sold for: Primer, .06 Cents First book, .08 Cents. second book. 11 Cents. Third book, 16 Cents. Fourth book, .18 Cents These were used for several years until the Atlantic Readers were brought back around 1927, Since that time the younger generation know of the many changes in teaching methods that have taken place.
After the 1861 period there is again not much history available. It would seem that Andrew Graham retired about this time, as he has accounts about this time, at least in February of 1861. Then in October of 1861 there are accounts with the Rogers Hill School, with the trustees named . Possibly about this time and in future days the school was held from the Rogers Hill School.
We have heard the older folk tell of the time some one states a fire in the cupboard of the school building, and nearly burned the building. It was always considered to be of incendiary origin but never proved This happened some time in the 1890's.
A search through old records surest that the building was being repaired. A letter from George Wm. MacLennan dated October, 1893 from the Sandswich Islands, where he went for work, comments: "We were pleased to hear of the old school being thoroughly repaired" .
Then about this time in 1893, there are extensive purchases of building material , spruce lumber, doors, windows, glass, paint, nails, etc., also 22 crates of desks seats, which would imply an almost complete inside rebuilding job.
There is also a receipt from Thomas Rogers, for three dollars received October 24, 1894 for the sale of eight feet of land, for a hedge around two sides of the playground.
The school house had a fire again in May of 1924. This time total destruction occured.
One bright day in May on a Saturday afternoon, a fire started around the flue and made considerable progress before being noticed by the MacCulloch family across the way. Sadie a young girl was dispatched to carry the alarm to the nearest phone at David Holmes, but before a crowd of men gathered, it was too late to save the building. Many of the seats were removed, and in a short time were set up in the old house across the road from the Graham. house in Rockfield, vacant at that time. In the same house that Andrew Graham taught school many years before.
The section immediately began work on a new building which was completed in time for the Christmas Concert that same year.
School was conducted here until it was closed in 1966, to join school consolidation.
In the early years the school year was divided into half years or terms. The summer term and the winter term, in which more of the older boys and girls were able to attend. When they were not needed so much at home to help at the farm work. I have no date on the time that the September to June term began, But it was some time after 1880.
After 1861, there is again a period of doubt, This time respective the teachers who taught school there. One was Catherine (Cassie) MacKenzie, a sister of Rev. James MacKenzie. She later married John T. Sutherland of Gairloch. She taught half year terms and boarded for a time at Rogers, then at my Grandfather Hector MacLeod's.
In 1883, Katherine (Kate) Murray, an aunt of Mrs. Ina MacLeod, taught school at Rogers Hill School. She later married Graham Creighton, Inspector of Schools for Halifax for many years.
In a letter written to my father in 1950 she writes:. "This winter reminds me of the winter of 1883, while I was teacher at Rogers Hill. There were stretches of road waist deep and no horse or sled of any kind got through. It was hard walking, and a cold building when we got through. I was thinking of this today. There is now no Thomas Rogers to ran into to get warmed and dried."
An old school register at hand show that Jessie MacLean of near Meadowville, taught school here in 1887.She boarded with her sister Mrs. Andrew Graham, (Nee. Sarah Jane MacLean) She had sixty pupils enrolled, John Carson was Secretary to Trustees, and the other trustees were, Maxwell MacLeod and Robert Mackay.
In 1890, David MacKay of Millsville taught and was followed by Mary Jane Fitzpatrick of Fitzpatricks Mountain, in 1891.
In 1893 Minnie Thompson of Durham was teacher, and was succeeded by William 0. Creighton, of Central West River, in 1894.
Fortunately for records sake my father, Albert Graham was appointed secretary to trustees in January 1895 and continued until his resignation in 1932. He carefully listed all the teachers in that period.
There is quite a comparison with schooldays now and in the early school years, Education meant sacrifice, and hardship for both parents and pupils. .Money wasn't fast and easy as today. Most things were by exchange of labour or barter. Teachers salary were low, And $165.00 was the average paid for a teaching term in eight hundreds. In the early days teachers were given free board in order to support a teacher. Even as late as 1936, and later $350.00 was an average salary for rural schools.
Travel for both teachers and pupils was hard, roads were poor for travel. No snow plows to keep the roads open. No school bus, but long hard journeys through the heavier snow. For many times it took days to shovel and break a road through for horse and sled.
We were often told the story or experience of one young boy walking along the Rockfield road one bitter cold morning on his way to school. Some bigger boys coming along behind him, saw him leaving the road and going into a culvert under the road for shelter. As they reached the place they pulled him out and kept him moving on to school otherwise he might have perished.
The school rooms were never warm in very cold weather, there was no insulation, no furnace, no floor covering, a big coal stove stood in the centre of the room, many times in cold weather, the pupils were permitted to sit by turns on benches around the stove get warmed, or maybe get clothes dried after arriving at School.
There was no indoor plumbing, The water was carried by turns by the pupils from a neighbor's well.
The black board was filled each day with arithmetic, and as pupils copied this work to their slates, and worked out the necessary answers, it wasn't a silent time as with the scribblers and pens of today. No calculators or easy ways for answers, It was all mental learning, and no short cuts for addition, subtraction, or other hand work.
What a contrast with the cost of education a hundred years ago or even fifty years ago. Yet many scholars left the little red school house for higher education, which again meant sacrifice. In order to attend Pictou Academy or other high schools meant boarding in town. There were no automobiles to drive them to classes every day. Sometimes several girls grouped together and rented a house room, and their parents provided food, which helped ease the burden. Pupils perhaps studied harder when they were aware of the sacrifice made in paying for board and books.
In spite of all these disadvantages, Rockfield made its contribution to society in sending out ministers of the gospel, school teachers, carpenters, building contractors, and tradesman as we shall mention as we write on each family.
We are going to include some expenses in the upkeep of the schools. Note the prices, and costs.
|Painting outside school
|$ 10.00
|3 lb. Dry yellow ochre
|4 lb golden ochre
|. 40
|2 lb putty.
|. 08
|6 panes glass.
|1 ľ lb. Putty
|. 07
|Total =
|More Expenses
|Year 1900
|2 joints pipe
|.40 J.G. Proadfoot
|1 pipe knee
|. 25
|6 tons coal, at 4.00 per ton
|1 grate, radiant
|.48 (Crocketts)
|To balance from last year
|$ 6.91
|Collected from rate payers
|County grant
|Profit and loss
|$ 1.00
|A.D. Rae Bal. on hauling coal
|Bal, L.L. Young Teacher salary
|Chas. S. MacLennan, material for fence
|Hopper of Coal
|Acct. Teacher for 1901
|Interest on 40.00 at 6%
|Profit and loss
|Janitor paid
|1 pane of glass
|3 dozen screws
|1 broom
|8 3/4 lb. zinc
|1 box chalk
|1 bucket
|1 Coal scuttle
Pictou County Reminiscences
Stanley Graham, Scotsburn, Nova Scotia
Compiled by: John Broderick


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I know there is alot more for example i beleive Mick Doohan the best bike racer in the world owns a 55m yacht but not sure of its name and i beleive his mechanical geniuse Jeromy Burgess also has one.
Can any one help me with this one..........??


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By STEVE PERSALL
Times Film Critic
After Wednesday night's red carpet opening, the fourth annual Sunscreen Film Festival unspools in earnest today at Muvico Baywalk 20 in St. Petersburg, with an array of 70 feature films, shorts and documentaries.
A more adventurous lineup is tough to imagine, since none of Sunscreen's films are the type to be hyped by the media. They're low-budget works with high hopes, many created in Florida, mostly short films created as calling cards for potential financiers.
Last year, no less than seven works shown at Sunscreen parlayed the exposure into distribution deals.
"We hope that pace continues this year," said Sunscreen co-founder Tony Armer, reaffirming the festival's goal of inspiring independent cinema.
Among the films Armer listed that appear poised for distribution interest: the festival's first horror film, the ghost story Hampshire (7 p.m. Saturday); John Putch's Route 30 (5:30 p.m. today) starring Dana Delany and Robert Romanus; the seedy L.A. odyssey Fix (10 p.m. Friday) and Fagbug (8 p.m. Friday), director and former Tampa resident Erin Davies' documentary of driving cross country in her Volkswagen Beetle that was vandalized because she's a lesbian.
"(Filmmakers) can come here and make a Hollywood connection," Armer said. "Most festivals show their films, but that's all they give them. We are focused on, and have the ability to deliver, the opportunity for them to get behind the scenes and learn from people who make movies."
People like actor and St. Petersburg native Patrick Wilson (Watchmen, Little Children), who is conducting an actors workshop that is closed to the public. Participants paid up to $175 for the two-day session that includes discussions with casting directors John Jackson (Sideways, About Schmidt) and LaTanya Potts (Soul Men, The Steve Harvey Show).
Joining the workshop are character actors Bill Cobbs (Night at the Museum) and Michael Rooker (JFK, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer), who co-star in the short film This Man's Life. They and director Todd Thompson will appear at both screenings, part of a shorts collection Friday (5:30 p.m.) and Saturday (2:30 p.m.).
The acting workshop also includes the only Central Florida auditions for Get Lifted, an action drama in the Fast & Furious vein, to be produced in Miami.
Free panel discussions on producing, financing and distributing films (3 and 5 p.m. Saturday), and sound design (11 a.m. Sunday) — featuring Academy Awards winners Karen Baker and Per Hallberg (The Bourne Ultimatum, Braveheart) — complete the festival's educational slant.
Steve Persall can be reached at email@example.com or (727) 893-8365. Read his blog, Reeling in the Years, at blogs. tampabay.com/movies.


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Behind the Scenes – Making of the Hellyeah Video "Band of Brothers" [VIDEO]
Hellyeah released their latest video for the title track to "Band of Brothers", and now you can get a look into the making of the video. I usually like watching "making-of" videos, just to see how people put things together, like the making of album videos. I love behind the scenes video from album recordings.
Enjoy this glimpse into the making of "Band of Brothers" the video, and get prepared for the Hellyeah make good show on July 27th here at Wet N Wild! The show should be fantastic, and hopefully they'll make it even cooler, considering the hassle we've had to go through to get them back to El Paso, right?
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Esteban Gutierrez came as close to scoring a first F1 point as possible in Korea, missing out by just 0.8secs.
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Esteban Gutierrez remains scoreless in his rookie F1 campaign, but it was not for want of trying at the Korean Grand Prix.
The Mexican, who started inside the top ten for the second race in succession, was a threat for points throughout the 55-lap encounter, but crossed the line just a scant 0.8secs shy of countryman Sergio Perez when it mattered. Gutierrez later pointed to the chaos at turn three on the opening lap - when Felipe Massa spun in his Ferrari, scattering the pack behind - as having compromised his afternoon.
"I had a very good start, then I arrived at turn three and saw what was going on," the rookie revealed, "I tried to protect my position, but my rears locked and that's why I lost a couple of positions.
"To recover from that was quite a challenge. I had some good fights with Massa and 'Checo' coming from the back and, of course, I wanted to score points today, but this is racing. It's a great experience and will help me to improve my race craft. We had good pace today and are definitely able to fight in the top ten."
"Esteban had a great start and turn one, but was unlucky into turn three, losing track positions due to other peoples' mistakes," head of track engineering Tom McCullough confirmed, "From that point on he came very close to scoring his first points, so can take a lot of positives from this race."
For team principal Monisha Kaltenborn, who admits that Sauber went into the race with 'high expectations', Gutierrez's result, while disappointing, helped confirm the progress the Swiss squad has made in recent weeks.
"I am very relieved we were able to keep up our level of performance throughout the whole weekend," she commented, "We went into the race with high expectations and it is a great feeling that we were able to meet these through our own strengths.
"Nico [Hulkenberg] put in a superb performance and, once again, great fight, as it definitely was not easy to keep those cars behind him [ see separate story], while Esteban had a difficult start, so struggled a bit more. However, all in all, it is a great step ahead for the entire team and shows we are working well together at home in Hinwil and on the track."


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AUGUSTA — By the time he sank his final putt on Wednesday, Russell Henley's name had popped up on the leaderboard looming across from the par-3 contest's ninth hole.
Jack Nicklaus, playing in the group ahead of him, winked at him when they passed near the final green.
And Gary Player stopped him to say he it was great to see the former University of Georgia golfer and PGA Tour rookie playing so well.
"Yeah, it kind of seems fake out here," Henley said after shooting a 2-under 25 and finishing in a seven-way tie for eighth place while playing in a group with former Masters champion Tom Watson and amateur Nathan Smith. "It's cool, but it feels fake."
Henley said he is hoping experiences like that start to wear off by this morning in time for his Masters Tournament debut, when he'll start at 8:11 a.m. in a group with Brian Gay and Larry Mize.
Gay played in the Masters in 2010 and Mize, the 1987 champion, has played in the tournament 29 times, making Henley the lone first-timer.
"I'm trying to get it all out of my system right now," Henley said. "I'm ready to play. ... I feel like I'm playing well and I'm ready to play well and ready to get out there. The whole practice rounds and stuff have been fun, but I'm ready to compete."
In preparation for getting down to business this morning, Henley spent Wednesday afternoon in a lighter mood, joking around with older brother Adam, who caddied for him during the par-3 contest and for much of his Web.com Tour career.
"It's cool. He's fun," Russell said of his brother. "He's loose and he's just always fun to do anything with him."
Adam was a bit caught up in the experience, too. He said his nerves led him to forget to bring a towel with him to the first green and said he spit-shined the ball to get it clean.
"I've heard my brother say a couple times that just couldn't believe some of what was happening was real, and I kind of even had that feeling today," Adam said. "I couldn't believe it was me out there in the white jumpsuit and that I was standing there talking to Tom Watson."
Russell's finish in the contest was two strokes shy of qualifying for the playoff, but Adam said the results, including a series of birdies on Nos. 3, 4 and 5, were encouraging.
"I saw him hitting some sweet zingers," said Adam, who shared caddie duties with Sanders Walker, the 10-year-old son of a friend. "And his swing is a lot different now than when I last caddied for him. I definitely like what I'm seeing."
Russell said he has been working out the jitters since Monday, and Adam said he believed Wednesday shook out the last of them.
"I actually think today was the perfect kind of day to have right before your first Masters round," Adam said. "You play the back nine then cut it up a little bit in the par-3 contest. I think that's the perfect day."


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A CONFIDENT Andy Murray last night stressed that he is strictly focused on returning to his best form at the US Open, not on his mother's dancing career.
After 13 months without a title, the 27-year-old Scot insisted he is now totally injury-free and looking forward to returning to the New York courts where he won his first Grand Slam in 2012.
The world No 9 said: "I feel good. I have had a great practice week, had good fun on the court, enjoyed it, and worked hard.
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"I've been playing well the last few weeks. I lost to guys who'd won the events and had big opportunities in both those matches. This week has been very good preparation. "
Looking relaxed, Murray smiled when asked to comment on his mum Judy's announcement that she'll be taking part in the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing later this year.
"If it makes her happy, I'll support her. I'm not really into those shows but she loves it," he said, grinning broadly. "I mean, she watches it all the time, talks about it all the time.
"Will I be watching? Probably not. I don't believe I have ever seen her dance, to be honest."
Murray begins his bid for a second US Open title tomorrow against 27-year-old Dutchman Robin Haase, who admits his knees belong to "a 60 or 70 year old". Yet the world No 70 will believe anything is possible after having taken the Scot to five sets at Flushing Meadows in 2011.
Haase, who conceded injuries have come close to wrecking his career, was just as frank about his surprise at seeing Murray sign up Amelie Mauresmo as coach to replace Czech legend Ivan Lendl.
"I wouldn't have a woman as a coach," he said. "In the end you need to understand how the game works and women's tennis and men's tennis are such different games.
"For me it's a surprise that many players work with ex-tennis players now. I wouldn't work with a former professional who has no experience as a coach."


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HotnSour Movie Channel is a facet entirely designed for Cinema world, enriched with the whole history of Malayalam Cinema (From 1907 to Today – 2016, and in future too) and "Hot n Sour" gives you authentic information and it has everything to fruit the desire of an observer or researcher. Hot n Sour is dependable – it reveals the essence of factualism cope with the past where happenings glitz in memory.
The History of Malayalam Cinema
Malayalam cinema is an integral part of Indian film industry and it has contributed enormously with best cinemas, best actors, best directors, best script directors, best cinematographers, best editors, best singers, best music composers etc. and many more or in other words "Malayalam Cinema" has everything that you would prefer from a best visual expressive art. Without the presence of Malayalam cinemas, the entire Indian Film Industry is nothing but frozen. So, Malayalam cinema is a very shining facet of Indian cinema.
There were attempts for cinemas, before the first film in Malayalam screened.
K.W. Joseph, a person who lived in the initial time span of 19th century and in 1907, who were started the first cinema hall in Thrissur, Kerala with a manually operated film projector. Again in the year 1903, another person (Jose Kattukkaran) who established the first electrically operated film projector and it was called "Jose Electrical Bioscope" and soon, such cinema halls were widely accepted in all major cities of Kerala, the electrically operated film projector established very much. These said theatres were exhibited Tamil. Hindi, English films in the earlier stage of such an era.
The year 1928, is very prominent in the history of Malayalam Cinema..
The first film in Malayalam was "Vigathakumaran", and it was a silent movie and the shooting was started in the year 1928, produced and directed by J.C. Daniel. The film "Vigathakumaran"was released in the year 1930, and "J.C. Daniel" is credited as the father of Malayalam cinema. The film "Vigathakumaran" first released in the Capitol Theatre, Trivandrum and the releasing date was Nov.7, 1930. J.C. Daniel was a business man, and he has no previous experience or much awareness on cinema. But, J.C. Daniel was a person with enormous courage and confidence. Then he entered to another effort, he has become the first person in Kerala to start an own studio. He founded the first film studio "The Travancore National Pictures Limited "in Kerala.
The entire Malayalam cinema has to consider J.C .Daniel with much respect and affection; he built the basement of Malayalam cinema industry. It was really a courageous act of making a cinema in those earlier days in the year 1928, and J.C. Daniel has been forced to experience many bitter experiences and financial failure. He is really a great visionary. In 1933, the second film in Malayalam released, it was "Marthanda Varma" based on the famous C.V .Raman Pillai novel, but due to certain legal disputes over copy right issues, the film doesn't exhibited in theaters more than 4 days. R. Sunder Raj was the producer of the second Malayalam film "Marthanda Varma" stranded in legal hassles.
1938, the starting year of Talkie movie era..
A film called "Balan" was the first talkie movie, released in the year 1938. The director of Balan was S. Nottani, and Muthukulam Raghavan Pillai, who were written screen play and songs. The first talkie movie Balan was produced at Madras (Chennai) and in those eras, the producers of majority Malayalam films were from Tamil, and it was continued until 1947. The first talkie movie in Malayalam "Balan" was an amaze to cine goers in Kerala, and in theaters' hundreds of people seated and viewed wondered seeing the movie Balan.It was an unbelievable new experience and the movie Balan was a success. Then, some richest Keralites tried their business investment in cinema and a person named "Kunchakko" from an Alappuzha reputed family entered in to cinema producing. Kunchakko established the first major film studio "Udaya" at Allappuzha and became a success full producer and he was a great contributor (as producer and director) to the Malayalam film industry.
1950, A golden era of Talkie movie become busy with cinemas.
The inception of Malayalam talkie movies, very particular with socio relevant themes taken from literature (novel), drama and politics. All the movies were based on pure family subjects involved with dowry problems; divorce, joined family system etc. and the films were filled with lot of songs. "Jeevitha Nauka" a film was released in fifties and the subject of the film spokes about the problems in the joint family and this film is lengthy with many songs. Thikkurissi Sukumaran Nair was the hero and Jeevitha Nauka, the movie became very popular in south India. Perhaps this film has started the trend to call "super hits" to successful movies and the history of super hits starts from Jeevitha Nauka. The extreme success of Jeevith Nuaka became inspired to other aspirants to invest in producing Malayalam movies. But, the subject were same structured and the success wouldn't happened soon again. So many are come to produce movies with socio relevant subjects and the Malayalam cinema witness the entry of many powerful actors like Kottarakkara Sreedharan Nair and Satyan. They were acted in many films and all are with family subjects. Sathyan has proved, he was a legendary actor.
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Second Marriages in Malayalam Cinema
Though life and cinema are entire different, the real life of cinema actors and actresses are little bit complicated, like in cinema many actors or actresses were facing something not familiar in common life, their marriage, second marriage, and third marriage etc are common, still in the film field marriage and divorces are happens frequently….


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Camps that cater to adults are making a summer splash
When Richard Schnelker packed his eleven-year-old daughter Suzanne off to a computer camp in Georgia's northern mountains, he packed his own bags as well. Blue Ridge CompuCamp was offering parents, for $375 a week, a chance to catch up with their children's knowledge of computers, and the 45-year-old lottery-company executive from Atlanta was determined to do just that. "Suzanne played tennis and hiked," he says. "But I was in that computer center ten hours a day for five days."
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