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I read this thread HERE and I tried to update the bios (1901) as said, but when I try to boot up the disc I get a "Still waiting for root device" message when using -v.
I got a Asus Maximus II Formula as that thread is about and it should have loaded just fine as with the other users of that bios.
But the thread is about 10.5.6 and I have 10.5.7 so I wonder if the bios i downloaded is only for the 10.5.6?
I am still a noob at this since I heard about Ideneb in less that 12 hours ago..

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Conservation and Watchdog Groups Oppose Barge Industry's Plan To Shift Costs to Taxpayers (6/21/10)
American Rivers * Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy * Izaak Walton League of America * Missouri Coalition for the Environment * National Wildlife Federation * Prairie Rivers Network * River Alliance of Wisconsin * Sierra Club * Taxpayers for Common Sense
Groups call on Congress to reject the barge industry-promoted proposal that will increase the taxpayer burden for constructing barge transportation network
June 21, 2010
Conservation and watchdog groups sent a letter to members of the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee late last week detailing problems in a proposal from the barge industry to eliminate existing industry financial responsibilities for the inland barge system. The industry proposal would re-write a long-standing policy established between the users of the system and the federal Treasury for sharing the cost of navigation construction.
"We strongly oppose all changes that will shift responsibility for the marine transportation system's problems onto taxpayers. The recommendations resolve the shortfall in industry contributions by simply moving cost share obligations from the users of the inland waterways to taxpayers; and thereby further removing any incentive to contain project costs," said Brad Walker, the Upper Mississippi River Coordinator for the Izaak Walton League of America.
The Inland Waterways Trust Fund—created as a fuel tax to pay for half of the new and rehabilitation construction on the barge navigation system—is depleted due to major increases in project spending, project cost overruns as high as double original estimates, and flat and declining navigation traffic levels yielding less revenue to the fund. There also has not been an increase in the fuel tax used to provide revenue to the fund for 15 years.
The proposed changes are contained in the report, Inland Marine Transportation Systems (IMTS) Capital Projects Business Model, Final Report, Revision 1 dated April 13, 2010 – Final Recommendations. This report prepared for the Inland Waterways Users Board, which consists primarily of representatives of the nation's barge companies, recommends shifting the Congressionally-mandated cost share requirements for construction and rehabilitation of locks and dams on the inland waterways system from the Inland Waterways Trust Fund to the U.S. Treasury.
"This proposal represents a major retreat from long and strenuous negotiations for cost-sharing reforms dating to 1986 and would effectively off-load financial obligations for the waterways system from its local industry beneficiaries onto private citizens. And we urge Senators Durbin and Burris to oppose this misguided proposal," said Laura Kammin of Prairie Rivers Network, an Illinois-based river conservation group.
The Corps of Engineers budget functions in a competitive nature for directing funding to projects and priorities, and the letter's authors note that increasing taxpayer funding for the Inland Waterway System would result in reduced funding available for projects targeting environmental restoration and flood and storm damage prevention.
"It's more than just the principle of corporate welfare that we oppose; the proposal would eat up limited resources that should go towards repairing some of the damage we've done to the river over the past 100 years," said Glynnis Collins, Executive Director of Prairie Rivers Network. "The public money that has funded most of the navigation system has resulted in untold public costs in the form of flooding, pollution and decline of fish and waterfowl populations. Corps funds should be directed to efforts like floodplain restoration and wetland protection that will lead to a cleaner, healthier river."
Currently, the inland waterways system is publicly subsidized at approximately 90 percent, including 50 percent of the costs for new construction projects and rehabilitation projects, and 100 percent of all operation and maintenance expenses. This is the largest rate of subsidy among all freight shipping modes in the country. The industry provides about $80 million per year to the IWTF through a $0.20 per gallon fuel tax that has not increased since 1995. The remaining more than $720 million required to keep the system functioning is provided by taxpayers. The letter's authors estimate the IMTS recommendations will further increase the public subsidy for inland waterway construction and rehabilitation by about $200 million annually, while adding major additional taxpayer obligations for operating and maintaining the inland waterway system.
"We fully endorse federal transportation initiatives that support a thriving agricultural economy and strong rural communities, but increasing the taxpayer burden for navigation projects – while Mississippi River navigation traffic continues a long-term downward trend – is simply not sound public policy," said Mark Muller, Program Director for the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.
The table below details the changes proposed by the inland waterways users to the long-standing cost share obligations that transfer current industry costs onto the U.S. Treasury.
Inland Waterways Trust Fund Cost Share Obligations
|Project Type
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|IMTS Recommendations
|New Lock
50% public/
|50% public/50% IWTF
Lock Rehabilitation
50% public/
|50% public/50% IWTF
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50% public/
|100% public
|New Dam
50% public/
|100% public
|Dam Rehabilitation
50% public/
|100% public
Cost Overruns
50% public/
|100% public
In their letter the groups urge that the IMTS report recommendations for increasing the public's cost share obligations on the inland waterways system be rejected. Citing current fiscal conditions where the federal budget is in long-term deficit, the authors assert that seeking an increase in an already excessive subsidy is clearly unwarranted and irresponsible.


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MVMA is a volunteer-driven organization led by a five-member Executive Board.
The Executive Board also serves on the MVMA's Steering Committee, our board of directors. The Steering Committee also includes the chairpeople of the Standing Committee, representatives of the local VMAs, and the AVMA delegate and alternate delegate as voting members, and the Dean of the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University (or her designee), two veterinary student representatives appointed by the Cummings Veterinary School Student Chapter of the AVMA, two representatives of the Massachusetts Veterinary Technician Association, and a representative of the MVMA Charities, Inc., all as non-voting members.
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Dr. Ilene Segal is a native of Newton, Massachusetts, and graduated from Newton South High School in 1979. She attended the University of New Hampshire where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Zoology in 1983. After completing her undergraduate studies, Dr. Segal attended Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine and received her Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine in 1987.
After working for almost a decade as an associate veterinarian in various local veterinary hospitals, Dr. Segal established Parkway Veterinary Hospital in 1996. Over the years, the positive feedback and expressions of satisfaction which Dr. Segal and her staff have received from their clients have made her work all the more rewarding and worthwhile.
Dr. Segal is a general veterinary practitioner with professional interests in acupuncture and canine rehabilitation therapy. She completed an International Veterinary Acupuncture Society course in 2001 and earned certification in Canine Rehabilitation from the University of Tennessee. Dr. Segal is also member of the advisory board and a visiting instructor at the Bancroft School of Massage Therapy in Winchester, MA.
Aside from her veterinary profession, Dr. Segal maintains active membership in several local organizations such as the State of Massachusetts Animal Response Team (S.M.A.R.T.) and the New England Women's Business Owners Association. Ballroom dancing, hiking, knitting and kayaking are some of Dr. Segal's hobbies. She is the proud owner of a handsome young Dalmatian, Tycho, and a mischievous cat named Miss Kitty.
Dr. Cindy Fuhs graduated from Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine in 2003, and has owned her own mixed large animal ambulatory practice (Still River Veterinary Services) since that time. Cindy provides general medical, surgical, reproductive, dental and emergency services to her equine, bovine, small ruminant and camelid patients, with a focus on wellness and prevention. She also provides general wellness services to her clients with dogs and cats on the farm. Cindy is a member of the AVMA, AAEP, AASRP and the ISDVMA and resides year-round in Bolton, MA with her family (both two and four-footed).
Dr. Bonnie Smith has been practicing veterinary medicine since 1993. She is a graduate of Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University. Dr. Smith has been involved in the respiratory and neonatal program at Tufts since 1988, serving as a consultant and instructor in respiratory care and ventilator management.
She is a member of the American Association of Equine Practitioners, the American Veterinary Medical Association, Veterinary Comparative Respiratory Society, and the Massachusetts Veterinary Medical Association (MVMA). She has served on the Education and Ethics and Grievance Committees, was the Large Animal Committee Chair and served on the Board of Directors for 4 years.
Early in her medical career, Dr. Smith was a Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) and Certified Pulmonary Function Technician (CPFT). She earned an Associate of Applied Science in Respiratory Therapy, a Bachelor of Science in Biology, and has been involved in medicine and critical care since 1979. She managed The Asthma and Allergy Center in N.J. and worked at a Level 1 trauma center in MA.
Some of Dr. Smith's achievements include being the first veterinarian to diagnose EEE in central Massachusetts, serving as a nutrition expert panelist for an international food company, lecturing on disaster preparation, and hosting a radio show about veterinary medical care. Dr. Smith joined a panel of experts to work with the New England Small Farm Institute (NESFI). The institute received a USDA grant to provide guidelines for groundwater conservation and good grazing practices for farm owners.
Dr. Smith has been involved in disaster training and planning for years. Veterinarians are considered Non-Traditional Emergency Responders. Traditional Responders would include Fire Departments, Police, Hazmat Specialists, Ambulance, and E.M.T.s, etc. In March 2011, she trained at the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) in Aniston, Al. in Chemical, Biological, Radiologic, Nuclear, and Explosive response for the Department of Homeland Security. With these qualifications, she was deployed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Emergency Support Function-17, when tornados swept through half of her practice area on June 1, 2011. In Brimfield, MA, she helped the Emergency Management Director take care of the animals (and our clients) for the town. For more information on Emergency Response visit http://cdp.dhs.gov or http://www.smartma.org/
Born in Portsmouth, VA, Adam was raised in Baldwin, Long Island, where he graduated from High School in 1978. He attended college at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1982 and received an M.S. in Physiology from Hahnemann University in 1984. Prior to veterinary school, he also gained experience as a research assistant at the Monell Chemical Senses Center, dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of the chemical senses, and as a sandwich builder at Koch's Delicatessen, dedicated to the stimulation of the chemical senses. In 1985, he finally wore down the resistance of the University of Pennsylvania's Veterinary School Admissions Committee and was accepted into the Veterinary Class-o-89.
Adam graduated from Veterinary School in 1989 and moved to Massachusetts. He initially worked as an associate veterinarian at the Dewitt Animal Clinic and, in 1992, helped found Metrowest Veterinary Associates. The practice started by doing house calls, and moved into its own facility in Milford in 1993.
Adam initially became involved with the MVMA when he was asked to join the Continuing Education Committee, on which he still actively participates. He has also served the MVMA as Treasurer, Finance Committee chair, Membership Committee chair, source of Steering Committee meeting distractions and interruptions, CE Programming Committee member and Legislative Committee participant. He was the MVMA representative for site visits by the AVMA Council on Education for accreditation of the TUFTS University School of Veterinary Medicine, and Becker College Vet Tech program. Adam also serves as Treasurer of the MVMA Charities, a post he has held since its reorganization in 2008.
Adam could not have participated in these activities were it not for the support of his wife, Nancy Deutsch, who encouraged his involvement, put up with his absences from home, and cajoled, reprimanded, consoled and advised him whenever needed. She also tolerates his need to ski and accommodates his passion for collecting vintage animation memorabilia.
Kathy Reilly, D.V.M., is a small animal practitioner at the Park Place Veterinary Hospital, PLLC in Keene, NH. She also represents MVMA in the AVMA House of Delegates as our Delegate, and has contributed to MVMA and Massachusetts veterinarians as Legislative Committee chair and as a founder of the South Shore Veterinary Association. You can reach Dr. Reilly by email by clicking on the address above, or at her office at 603-357-4049.
"Veterinary patients living with cancer can not comprehend that they often have a significant disease which may cut their lives short. They live in the moment which is what makes them so wonderful. Every day is the greatest day to them. If we can provide them with an excellent quality of life, despite their diseases, then ultimately we all win in the end." Andrew H. Abbo, DVM
Dr. Abbo completed his Veterinary Oncology Residency at Purdue University in Indiana. One of his honors and awards includes "First Place – Phi Zeta Osborne Clinical Investigator Research." He has extensive experience as a Medical Oncologist at several "Veterinary Specialist" locales throughout the United States, where he managed all aspects of inpatient and outpatient oncology care.
A current member of the American College of Veterinary Medicine, Massachusetts Veterinary Medical Association, the Veterinary Cancer Society, Phi Zeta Honor Society and the American Veterinary Medical Association, Dr. Abbo has authored scientific abstracts, peer-reviewed manuscripts, conducted clinical research (which includes the title "National Scholar") given presentations as well as leading numerous teaching activities on oncology.
One way to portray Dr. Abbo's passion and adoration for his line of work is to quote him directly. "It is my nature to enjoy all aspects of veterinary medicine. I love making a difference in the lives of pets living with cancer and their caregivers. I am fortunate to be working with NEVOG to have the opportunity to focus on exceptional patient and client care."
"Oncology is special to me because with continued clinical research and current therapies, we can not only provide for an excellent quality of life, but now, can also provide the best therapies for pets and their people."
Dr. Abbo lives with his wife who is also a veterinarian, a two-year-old daughter, 2 cats, Spidey Cat and Eddie, 1 Siberian Husky cross named Deedles and as he says, "a plethora o' fish."
He enjoys photography, kayaking, playing music, and spending time with his family when away from work.
Dr. Andersen is a large animal veterinarian based in Walpole, Massachusetts. He has been very active with the MVMA over the past few years as the chair of the Large Animal Committee, a member of the Legislative Committee and the MVMA's Alternate Delegate to the AVMA's House of Delegates.
Mary Labato, D.V.M., D.A.C.V.I.M., a Clinical Associate Professor of Small Animal Medicine in the Department of Clinical Sciences at Cummings Veterinary School at Tufts University, has research interests in nephrology and urology disorders. Dr. Labato will continue MVMA's efforts to enhance relations between MVMA and the Veterinary School, and MVMA and the Massachusetts Veterinary Technician Association. You can reach her by clicking on her name above or calling 508-839-5395 x 84681.
Dr. Shurtleff is based in Western Massachusetts and has long been the region's representative to the MVMA Advisory Committee. Dr. Shurtleff is a small animal practitioner and owner of Eastfield Hospital for Animals.


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Hi everyone - just wanted to say hello, and begin to document my progress somehow, and hopefully find some support as well :)
I'm starting BFL tomorrow....35 years old, and need to lose at least 30 pounds. I did BFL about 10 years ago, and did phenomenally.....then the last few years, I've let myself go again. Oddly enough, I ran three 1/2 marathons last year, but seemed to just gain and gain weight in the process. I think the running just made me uber-hungry, and I didn't care. Just goes to show you that excess cardio isn't the answer! I still think that losing weight is 80% diet, and 20% exercise....but weights and HIIT help me stay in line and seem to make me a lot hotter! Haha.
So, tomorrow is the big day. I'm all set - I'm going to hit the gym first thing in the morning, and then go to work. I will do the workouts exactly as the book says, but will still do hot yoga on top of that, mainly because I love it. And I may do an occasional long distance run for fun. I hang out with a lot of runners, and don't want to miss out on the good times.
If anyone else is starting tomorrow and wants to check in together, I'd be totally up for that! I'd love to have some online BFL buddies to stick with.
Hi Heather, I'm with you! I am also 35 and want to go from pant size 8 (very tight) to size 4/6.
I am on day 26 and have started a thread "Multiple BFL attempts, 1 successful, starting C2" where I am trying to check in every day + share my successes and struggles. Everyone seems to have disappeared from that thread but I will still log it there. I want to have some buddies who will not give up and who will continue to check in. I found this forum to be very helpful and supportive for the times I felt discouraged and for the times I want to share.
I hope you had a great first 2 days and look forward to being supportive and being supported.
Good luck Heather! I did the same thing for several years, got out of the gym and focused on cardio/distance running. This last challenge has really taught me so much about managing body composition. Keep us posted.
Hey, I'm Chad and am starting today. I was gonna start the first of the year but was not motivated. I'm 37 and want to lose 30 to 40lbs. Good luck to yall.
Thanks for the greeting guys! Shelley - where is your thread? I'll check it out!
The last two days have been good. It's strange how things sorta just come back to you. I did they eyeball thing, but also tracked my percentages on my fitness pal -and noticed I was over on carbs/under on protein - so have to balance that out ideally. I'm going to attempt to avoid all bread, and aim for gluten free carbs unless there aren't any options. I had oatmeal with egg whites for breakie. I work nights often, so that will be a challenge all in itself. But I'll manage.
I printed out all my workouts for the week, and did UBWO yesterday which was good. My chest/shoulders are sore today, and I was scared they wouldn't be - so that's a good thing! Will do my 20 min HIIT before going into work! Actually excited to run 2 miles :) I may do a 10K or 1/2 marathon in May - but I really want to focus on BFL for now, so we'll just see how I feel then!
Here's for Day 2!!
Ohhhhh!! Can I join you guys?! I actually did my last, 100% strict successful BFL challenge 10 years ago and am now getting back at it! I haven't NOT eaten healthy or exercised for the last 10 years, it's just been different ways to lose weight and intermittently. I decided this was really the best way to do it, just gotta stick with it and not be obsessed with the scale!
Hi Heather,
Good luck with your challenge !Am in my 3rd week of the challenge and have gone from 147 to 143 which is pretty motivating.Have not skipped a workout and pretty much stayed on track with the mealplans.I do have cravings from time to time but had alot more when I cut carbs out of a previous diet.Lost some weight but gained it all back in no time.My goal weight is 130 but would be happy with 135 and less body fat.How was your first couple of days so far?Hope your not too sore .All the best!!Patti
I also did my first BFL 10 years ago in 2003 and have recently started my 2nd BFL challenge 3 weeks ago on Feb 26th. I am 39 year old mom with 2 boys (10 & 8) with a starting weight of 140. 3 weeks into my challenge I now weigh 136. I am hoping to lose another 6.1 pounds to be under 130 before I turn 40! :-) I do relate with BACK2BFL with the scale obsession. With BFL I have to remind myself that my body is changing and not to focus on that number. Muscle weighs more than fat, I know!
I support you all and would love to join a thread. Sounds like we have some similar interests and goals. I do have questions about how people are mixing up their weight routines, how are they handling the free day and how much and when do you eat your 6th meal?
Hey everyone! I just wanted to pimp out the Cottage Cheese Club forum a bit :-) http://bodyforlife.com/community/boards/bfl/f/13/t/6722.aspx
We have a handful of active BFLers that check in almost daily. I look forward to reading/writing posts each day. We share our current workout, meal plans (great for ideas if you're in rut), tips/hints and just straight up motivation and encouragement.
Come on over, we love to see new members ready to make a (body for) life change!
Hey everyone :) Glad to see so many people with familiar stories! Maybe we should start a daily thread - we could use this one here, or cottage cheese, or start a new one - whatever you think! I just love the support!
I'm heavier than what most of you have listed - 175lbs. The last challenge, I got down to 139. Now, I can't remember what my starting weight was ! I think I had been in the 160s. Don't know how I let it slide so much!!! But I"m back in the game! And I also have an unhealthy obsession with the scale! But, I have to be nicer to myself, and realize that it doesn't go down every day! I will only weigh myself once a week!
Sue: From last time, I think I changed up my workouts every week somewhat....not totally, and UBWO changed more often than LBWO because squats and deadlifts are honestly just so all encompassing! My freeday, I started (last time) go all out, but eventually had tapered off to a free meal and drinks. My plan this time around is to have some wine on Friday nights, and a free meal on Saturday with no drinks. I don't want to drink any alcohol on the day of freeday incase it derails the next day. I don't drink a lot anyhow, but do want to have one or two glasses of wine every now and then.
And, I only do 5 meals. Just don't find I have time for the 6th. When I work nights though, I usually get 6 in, but then I'm awake for more hours.
So far so good this week - Everything done. Need to up the water intake, and up the protein a bit more/decrease carb intake. I'm trying to do 40/40/20 in actual calories as well - I'm not good at eye balling. All the workouts have been wonderful, but I'm having trouble walking and sitting down! Haha.
Hope everyone else is doing great! Congrats on those in your third week and seeing loss! You rock! What are you doing on your freedays?
Hi Heather, Shelley, jrmcnaircpt, ChadW, Back2BFL, PD123, Sue, and Dang, (sorry if I missed anyone)
I completed a challenge in 2010 and it was AMAZING. Didn't really expect to finish it, so proud of myself for doing it and had great results.
Since then I have done 2 false starts. Started again this week, so far so good, one brownie incident lol but every day we get a fresh start.
If you question wether BFL is for real check out my pics from C1. I plan on updating my profile with current pics and measurements. I want to loose body fat and build more muscle. Woohooo, I hope I can do it, you neve know, just have to keep walking the walk.
Good luck all!!!! You/We can do it :)
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always have
Hi Laurie :)
Those are great pics!! Fantastic! How tall are you? You look amazing!
Darn these false starts!! I'm glad you started again. Forget the brownie, and just keep going!!!
So how has week 1 gone?
10 years ago for me, as well... Just started back 3/18... Great first week!!!
Getting back into the 40-40-20 eating... And trying to get all 6 meals in. Phew!!!
Excited to find you all.....
I am with you all! I have had so many false starts and one very successful challenge. This is my second and I am on day 33, however, I have had a bad couple of days, going off the eating plan and slacking on workouts, and I feel like CRAP, but am ready to feel good again and get back on track.
I sleep 9hrs and so although I am only up for 15 hours, I still feel like I need my 6th meal. If my 5th meal (dinner) gets to be too much, I may pare down that 6th meal to smaller portion or skip it altogether, but for the most part, I feel I need it. I also think it helps with the next days workout.
With my first challenge, my free days were not great and led to an awful feeling the following day. It took me more than halfway into the challenge to realize that a full free day is not for me, but rather a cheat meal in the evening. Also, wine is something I really enjoy BUT it really depresses me the following day and really derails my energy level and screws with the diet. I want to give it up completely, and towards the end of the last challenge, I felt no desire to have wine, but that only lasted a little while and then after that felt deprived. I love the socializing and wine drinking, but really feel I should give it up. It is so detrimental to my diet for the a day or 2 following my free day and then I feel like by the time I finally get back on track, another free day is coming. Arggghhh....
I had wine last night and so am feeling down today. But wanting desperately to get back on track.
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Are you social? There are many ways you can participate in and share your experience at Oracle OpenWorld through social media. Below are just some of the social activities going on during the conference.
What: Social Plaza @ Oracle OpenWorld
When: Tuesday, October 2, Noon–8:00 p.m.
Where: Mint Plaza, Fifth Street between Mission and Market
Hashtag: #oow
Join Oracle's social media masters—plus hundreds of your soon-to-be-closest friends—at this all-social social. There will be two bars open from 4:30 p.m. until closing, with drink coupons to go 'round. Also on hand will be one of those famous San Francisco gourmet food trucks—check them out also starting at 4:30 p.m. While you're there, mug while drinking a mug at the Social PhotoBooth.
We're going to showcase artists at work—face-to-face. Indie faves Golden State will be stopping by to play, dance-rageous local DJ Brandon Arnovick will be spinning discs, and artist Melanie Alves will be painting the scene—and scenes—right there.
Into fashion? Check out the 20 local fashion designers who will be displaying, discussing, and selling their unique designs.
If you want to add to your t-shirt collection, we've got a live print screening planned. And the first 300 guests will get a t-shirt free.
Be sure to mix some technology with your social efforts. Watch Larry Ellison's keynote live from Social Plaza, beer in hand.
Remember: the hashtag to use is #oow.
One of our exciting additions to this year's OPN Exchange are Social Media Stations. Partners have the opportunity to get customized, face-to-face expert advice on how they can better engage their customers and find new prospects online using the social media tools.
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Watching Apple stumble is a little like witnessing a just-over-the-hill prizefighter wobbling on his feet or a once-eloquent orator stammering for the right word. But there's no question: Apple has lost a step since the death of Steve Jobs. That this observation is as inevitable as the effects of gravity doesn't make it any less shocking or lamentable.
How has Apple fallen? Let us count the ways. It has been three years since the release of the iPad, the company's last breakthrough product. The latest version of its mobile software reminds design critics more of the edgier features of Google's Android or Microsoft's Windows Phone than anything associated with Apple's penchant for leapfrogging-the-competition boldness. Apple's management is defensive, its people are less committed, and its competitors are resurgent. Apple's ferocious profit growth has stalled, and investors have lost faith in its ability to restart that engine. Apple's stock price is deflated, sure, but that's merely a symptom, not the disease.
No, the real problem with Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) is that this company, long the arbiter of cool, the corporate trendsetter on all matters from design to marketing to operational excellence, has gone from being insanely great to merely great. Let's not lose sight of the fact that we're talking about a company that's still worth almost $400 billion and last year generated almost $42 billion in net income, making it the second-most profitable company in the world after Exxon Mobil (XOM, Fortune 500). It's also worth noting that most unfavorable comparisons about Apple are with Apple itself. Apple's relative decline is exactly what the doubters predicted would happen after its legendary leader died. As CEO for the last 15 years of his life, Steve Jobs saved the company he co-founded from oblivion, rescuing it from near bankruptcy with his singular ability to define a vision and steer the best course of action.
Indeed, though Apple's bulletproof finances and solid product lineup today bear no resemblance whatsoever to its sorry state of affairs before the iMac, iTunes, the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad changed our lives, the image Apple is projecting of itself harks back to that troubled time. In lieu of breathtakingly new product categories to share with its customers, Apple has instead unveiled an expensive ad campaign that one can't help compare, adversely, with its iconic "Think Different" creation from 1997. The new campaign is neither attack-dog comical, like the famous "Get a Mac" spots that pilloried PCs, nor the lush product commercials that celebrate Apple's devices. Instead, it is a series of pretty pictures that barely showcase Apple's products, instead reciting the company's values. They include: "There are a thousand 'no's' for every 'yes' " and "We spend a lot of time on a few great things."
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It's as if Apple is trying to convince itself that it is still great, rather than simply peddling products to customers. Apple, one of the best marketers of modern history, is telling rather than showing.
The criticism that stings Apple the most is that it has lost its edge for innovation. The defensiveness over the frequently repeated criticism shone through during Apple's keynote presentations at its annual conference for developers in June. Introducing a new and impressively redesigned version of its Macintosh computer for professional customers, Phil Schiller, the company's senior vice president for worldwide marketing, blurted out, "Can't innovate anymore, my ass." This was a call to action in front of a friendly audience, and it drew predictably approving hoots and hollers. But it acknowledged the existence of doubt, something the Apple of old would never deign to validate. That Schiller, who played a reliable straight man to Jobs' virtuoso performance in days gone by, was calling out a product that very few Apple customers will ever buy only accentuated the lack of fresh thinking in other, more visible areas.
The best Apple has to offer these days is a new look and feel -- a fresh coat of paint, the critics sneered -- for its updated mobile software, iOS 7. "You expected something novel from Jony," says a Silicon Valley venture capitalist who follows Apple closely, referring to Jonathan Ive, Apple's longtime hardware designer, whom CEO Tim Cook recently appointed to head software design as well. "It sure doesn't look novel. It looks like a mishmash of Android and a Windows Phone." What's more, most of Apple's latest product releases have been iterations on existing gadgets. "It's hard to argue with the bears," says Katy Huberty, the Morgan Stanley analyst who follows Apple. "The iPad Mini is just a smaller iPad. You need something new to really hit investors over the head to prove that innovation isn't dead at Apple." (From a stock price perspective, Huberty counts herself a bull, predicting that Apple's shares will hit $540, compared with a recent $400, nearly a 52-week low.)
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Everywhere are signs that Apple is stuck in its ways, from the superficial to the meaningful. It has dropped hints that new product categories are on the way: an iWatch or other wearable computers, a TV, a payment or billing system that leverages its industry-leading 575 million iTunes accounts. Yet those products are nowhere to be seen. Instead, there is a predictability to Apple's product launches now, with most of the features and products leaked ahead of time. At its developers conference in San Francisco, Apple announced -- but did not have ready for release -- a service called iTunes Radio. The streaming product looks a lot like Pandora (P), which has been around for years.
Certainly there have been high-profile and self-inflicted wounds under Cook's time as CEO, including the botched hire of a retail chief (John Browett, recruited from Britain's Dixons, who lasted nine months) and its launch of a mediocre and therefore embarrassing mobile mapping service. But Apple is also suffering because its competitors are innovating and experimenting, siphoning some of the buzz once reserved exclusively for Apple. Google (GOOG, Fortune 500), for example, has wowed its developers with its futuristic computer within geeky spectacles, Google Glass. The search giant also continues to push ahead in web services (think Google Now, Google Drive). A former Apple employee, now with a startup, laments his former company's "blatant disregard" for the kinds of Facebook-like social media services that are the wave of the future. "For Apple to really not have a clue about how to do social worries me," says the Apple veteran. Apple's response to surging competitors has been defensive and churlish. In March, the day before Samsung was set to unveil its latest phone, the Galaxy S4, marketing chief Schiller granted on-the-record interviews to several publications bashing Samsung and Google's Android. (This seems a good place to note that Apple declined repeated requests to make any of its executives available to comment for this article or respond to its assertions.)
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There are indications as well that the troops at Apple are getting restless. Multiple recruiters say it is easier now than at any time in recent memory to woo Apple employees to leave. Ex-employees refer to the culture inside Apple as a "grind," one with little opportunity for promotion. It is not uncommon at Apple for people to stay in the same role for years, faithfully executing plans designed by their superiors. That was fine when the stock was moving and Apple's products were shooting the lights out. "Today there's less of an element of trusting that they're going to be working on the next cool thing," says Chetta Crowley, a former Apple recruiter, now with Groupon (GRPN).
Strategically, Apple hasn't yet shown its hand. The company has long been chary of blockbuster acquisitions. It didn't snap up the crowdsourced mapping company Waze (Google bought the company for more than $1 billion), continuing an aversion to chasing after popular deals. Rather than acquire hot Silicon Valley companies like Twitter, Square, or Nest, Apple sticks to targeted purchases. It spent less than $600 million on acquisitions in the first half of its fiscal year, which began in October, according to securities filings, and more than half of that was for a fingerprint-sensor chipmaker called AuthenTec.
Wall Street seems to have grown impatient with Apple's unwillingness to use its immense balance sheet to buy young talent or upgrade its web services portfolio. There's no doubt Apple has more tricks up its sleeve. But for the world's most valuable technology company the bar is almost impossibly high: Even if it lives up to investors' pent-up expectations for a bold move, it may never live up to the standard set by Apple at its peak.
Apple is a different company under Steve Jobs' successor, Tim Cook -- and that's not necessarily a bad thing. Up next: the bull case
The Apple doubters are wrong. Yes, the company's profits are eroding, and its product pipeline seems dry. It would be easy to say (and many have) that Apple -- having racked up virtually every superlative in business, including, for a time, the highest market capitalization in the world -- appears to have only one direction to go. Add in that Apple needs to navigate its future without Steve Jobs, and it isn't hard to understand where the detractors are coming from.
Sorry, haters. Apple has a long way to go before it can be counted out. Look closely at what little Apple has revealed about its secretive plans for the future, and you'll see a still-dominant, still-innovative company that is intelligently regrouping for fresh battles that didn't exist when Jobs was around. In its corporate DNA, Apple is a go-for-broke company, an astounding attribute given its size. The opportunities for reinvention at Apple are many, and to underestimate the abilities or the imagination of the crew Jobs left behind would be foolish. Just because Apple hasn't indicated its road map or offered concrete examples of its upcoming breakthrough ideas doesn't mean it doesn't intend to surprise and delight its customers again, the way it has so many times before.
Apple has frequently been compared to a cult or a religion, and to some extent having confidence in its future requires a leap of faith. Yet this expectation of heroics also tends to blind Apple's critics from seeing how good it remains. "From a product as well as a financial perspective, if you took the name off the recent descriptions of Apple's business, anyone would be enthralled," says Bob Borchers, a venture capitalist and former Apple product-marketing executive. "I'm a believer. The only problem here, per se, is that Apple is being compared to itself. The key is the next revolution. It has been a while since the last one, but that isn't unusual."
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Indeed, innovation doesn't follow a predictable timetable, even at Apple. Six years passed between the launch of the iPod in 2001 and the debut of the iPhone. Three years separated the pathbreaking iPhone from the iPad, which itself built on many of its predecessor's innovations. In retrospect, there wasn't a sense during that relatively fallow period before 2007 that Apple was somehow letting down its fans -- or its investors. During that time it churned out updates to popular products, like the iPod Mini and Shuffle, and fresh approaches to notebook versions of the Macintosh computer. In that light, recent iterations like the iPad Mini, the thinner iPhone 5, and redesigned mobile software look like business as usual, presuming the habitual magic is happening behind the scenes. Despite the faithful's anxiety, it has been only three years since the release of the iPad.
In the near term Apple has plenty on its plate. Investors who have traveled to Asia, where Apple buys its components and contracts for the assembly of its devices, report that a lower-cost iPhone for developing markets is on its way. Although such a device could hurt Apple's profit margins, it represents a major growth opportunity. Students of Apple's supply chain also have a window on Apple's next innovation for its high-end iPhones: the integration of fingerprint-sensor technology from AuthenTec, the chip company Apple bought late last year. The rumor mill in Asia is devoid of chatter about an imminent iWatch or an Apple television, though fans continue to expect such devices next year.
Apple is famously tightlipped about future products, but it has repeatedly dropped hints about a service many expect. At its conference for software developers in June, CEO Tim Cook noted that Apple's iTunes service currently has 575 million accounts, giving Apple the largest collection of credit card data of any online merchant. It's a statistic Apple frequently updates publicly, provoking the widespread belief that Apple will create a payments or billing system that could incorporate the best of PayPal and Square. Payments are a true ecosystem, offering the opportunity to conduct repeated transactions with loyal customers. Of the many companies poking around in payments, none has the combined hardware and software prowess of Apple. Says Katy Huberty, a Morgan Stanley analyst: "It's so important that Apple helps the market understand how they'll monetize this 575 million-person account base."
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Another tantalizing opportunity for Apple is in automobiles. It recently announced that major car manufacturers will be integrating Apple's mobile software into their vehicles beginning next year, a move that could foreshadow new mobile offerings and bolster the company's recently announced iTunes Radio service. "People spend two hours a day in the car, and they're usually listening to music," notes BTIG Research media analyst Rich Greenfield. "Apple showed off how iTunes could be the operating system of the car. That was the first time I'd seen that." It also plays to how Apple could make strengths out of recent weaknesses. With Apple Maps and its Siri voice-activated search product, Apple hasn't shown itself to be a leader. But both are examples of software services that get better the more people use them and where Apple is making investments.
Products are a key metric, but management's confidence can also be measured in its willingness to act in un-Jobs-like ways. Cook, who had been chief operating officer since 2005, has shown a responsiveness to outside groups that Jobs dismissed. He has improved Apple's relations with critics of its Chinese contract manufacturers, for example. In granting a dividend, raising debt, and committing to considerable stock buybacks, Cook also has appeased Wall Street -- at least regarding Apple's balance sheet.
In many symbolic ways, too, Apple has embraced change. Its new mobile software, iOS 7, is notable for abandoning the so-called skeuomorphism favored by Jobs. These design tricks included images of old-fashioned card tables in its gaming app and bookshelves in its iBooks app. "We just completely ran out of green felt," said Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president for software engineering. "And wood. This must be good for the environment." Federighi, a rare top Apple executive who left the company and then returned, took on more responsibility last year when Cook fired mobile-software chief Scott Forstall, an acolyte of Jobs. That Federighi could cheekily joke about a design predilection so closely associated with Jobs shows the existing management team finding its own voice.
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There are even tiny signs that Apple people have begun to sally forth into the world, compared with the former Jobsian diktat that all but a chosen few stick to their knitting in Cupertino. Andy Miller, formerly head of Apple's iAd mobile advertising business and now president of a San Francisco startup, reports that a team of his former colleagues attended a major advertising conference in Cannes recently. "Steve would never let us go," he sniffs.
A major wildcard for the future of Apple is its CEO, Cook. He generally suffers in head-to-head comparisons with Jobs. Who wouldn't? Cook isn't the storyteller or product visionary that Jobs was. But it's altogether possible that Apple was ready for a CEO like Cook. He shows little patience for public relations -- Apple declined to make him or any other executive available to comment for this article -- but perhaps that, too, is prudent, given his low-key personality and the heaping pile of responsibilities he confronts. Where it counts, Cook has shone, including by improving Apple's reputation on labor conditions and the environment as well as on Capitol Hill, where he wowed the Senate with his command of tax policy.
A few years before his death, Jobs hired away the dean of the Yale School of Management, Joel Podolny, to start Apple University. The idea was to create an in-house curriculum that would instill in Apple's future managers the lessons Jobs had learned in building the company. Podolny has taught a course at Apple U. called What Makes Apple Apple. He discusses, among other things, the unusually functional nature of Apple's corporate structure, so much so that no one person was ever in charge of the iPhone, for example. One small team handled the user interface, another the operating software, a third the hardware design, and so on. Joshua Cohen, a Stanford University political philosopher now on the faculty at Apple University, teaches a course called The Intersection, meant to explore the places where science and liberal arts meet in the creation of great products. He uses New York's Central Park as an example that is completely outside the realm of consumer electronics and all the better for gaining an understanding of Apple's unique approach.
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With Apple U. the company is trying to get its people to understand how they do what they do. The norm at Apple hasn't always been so philosophical: It's the kind of place where people do what they're told without asking why.
In its most critical sense, Apple is still set up for greatness. It is, in the words of a recently departed executive, "set up to force itself to keep innovating." Because Apple focuses its efforts on a relatively few initiatives, those initiatives must be amazing. "So will they come up with something fundamentally different?" asks this former executive. "If so, it remains Apple. If not, it dies a slow, painful death."
The conventional wisdom in the media, on Wall Street, and by lovers of schadenfreude everywhere is that dull normality will weigh down Apple in years to come. Some canny observers of Apple's past and future, however, see something different altogether: renewed greatness.
Even Apple fans think the company needs to act fast.
The task at first seemed impossible: Determine if Apple's best days are behind it or if it's merely taking a break from breakneck growth and world-beating innovation. After all, how do you figure out the trajectory of a company that is so tightlipped with its plans and prohibits its people from talking freely, even among themselves -- a company whose CEO speaks rarely and when he does, only in crisp, measured sentences designed to reveal as little as possible?
The solution to an undoable assignment ultimately was not to choose, or, rather, to take both sides in separate arguments. There's an equally valid case to be made here, and each argument has passionate adherents among the techno-elite. Even among Apple veterans, opinions are split, with some believing the excellence of the organization will enable it to win again and others seeing too many signs of decay to keep the faith.
But you can't really have it both ways in life. So what do I think?
The preponderance of the evidence, common sense, and gut instinct all suggest that the Apple-has-peaked argument is the stronger of the two. It is jarring to see Apple as a follower, but that's what it looks like with its iTunes Radio service, with its flat mobile software design, with its still suboptimal online maps. Apple isn't supposed to follow anyone on anything. If Apple makes a cheaper phone, it will boost revenues. But a premium brand that attacks the low end does so at its peril. If Apple moves into wearable computers, it will do so only after Google, Jawbone, and its own partner Nike (NKE, Fortune 500) have already shown the way. Ditto television, where rival Samsung has a stronghold.
Elsewhere there's the concern that Apple can't allow for fresh thinking. Because its top managers are all middle-aged, it's no surprise they're a step behind when it comes to social, web-based applications. Apple walks right into teasing by competitors that the iPhone is for oldsters. It's even easy to mock the music at Apple's recent developers conference. As one Apple veteran says, "They didn't do themselves any favors by playing Led Zeppelin."
Perhaps the most stinging comment from an ex-Apple executive regards how the company's employees are adjusting under the regime of Tim Cook. "They're learning to work under an operator," this executive says. Apple, in its greatest moments, is a product company. Operations help make products great, but the company thrives from the attention of someone steeped in product design and development. That in its essence was the greatness of Steve Jobs the businessman. He was willing to sacrifice anything at the altar of product greatness. That included placing an emphasis on marketing. Indeed, many thought Apple's product marketing, directly overseen by Jobs, was its greatest product.
Previously Apple did some of its best work with its back against the wall. The fear is that Apple's best won't be good enough.
This story is from the July 22, 2013 issue of Fortune.
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Type: TV Series (24 Episodes - One 1 hour episode)
Release: 02.10.2011 till ?
Genre: Contemporary Fantasy, Fantasy, Novel, Seinen
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It's almost started. Been waiting for this for a very long time, and I have a feeling it will be one of the best of the year. This is the prequel to Fate/Stay Night. It's set 10 years before the event that take place in Fate/Stay.
The first episode is set to be a one hour special, and the anime will follow the VN's most common playthrough.
Anyone else looking forward to this? :P
Last edited by Ozzaharwood; 09-12-2011 at 06:55 PM.
I haven't watched fate stay night, I was busy playing super mario sunshine when my brother bought it along with chrono crusade and keep watching it and keep talking about it with his friends.
I guess i should go watch fate stay night first.
I suggest playing the VN after as well. It is a lot better.
The new characters... O:
Irisviel von Einzbern and Tokiomi Tohsaka. Plus Shirou's dad. Gilgamesh is now Archer, and apparently Ilya and Rin make appearances. This is getting me excited.
Last edited by Ozzaharwood; 09-10-2011 at 06:54 PM.
can't visit the link, problem loading page for some reason.
also is the vn your talking about is the eroge? cause if it's not, i'd rather play the eroge. XD
I don't think there's a Fate/Zero Visual Novel. I think it was a short story series or something.
There is a Fate/Zero VN, but it's never been translated. Fate/Stay Night has a translated VN, and it's eroge-optional. It's also been said to be the best VN ever made by anyone who has played it.
"When released on January 30, 2004, Fate/stay night rapidly became one of the most popular visual novels in history, securing the title of 'highest selling visual novel' in 2004 of the adult game retailer Getchu.com."
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Also, the OP singer is apparently going to be LiSA, one of my favourite J-Singers. /Win.
Last edited by Ozzaharwood; 09-12-2011 at 12:59 AM.
After inspecting sources I have confirmed that Fate/Zero is not, in fact, a visual novel.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fate/zero
Not gonna let anyone one-up me on Fate/Stay night trivia. xD
Oh wow, my bad. It's a Light Novel. Nevertheless, it still has never been translated. That's why this will be so good.


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The Spotted Zebra Learning Center is pleased to bring the Bizzy Beez Activity Center to the Capital Region! A first of its kind in this area, the Bizzy Beez is an innovative, indoor, multi-sensory environment where kids of all ages can climb, swing, spin, build and craft their way through a variety of different settings.
Knowing that sensory play is a critical part of early childhood programs the Bizzy Beez Activity Center will have equipment and settings that will truly enhance the development of a child's fine/gross motor skills, creativity, self-esteem, social development and cognitive development!
Bizzy Beez will be open to the public and have:
Look for more information as we plan our opening for June, 2014!
Picture this! It is the first day of kindergarten! You walk into the classroom with your child radiating an air of confidence. Your quick scan around the room confirms your suspicions - the other parents and children are filled with anxiety and fear - they are unprepared!Unlike these other families, you will long remember this day with pride. Attending the Spotted Zebra Learning Center prepared you and your child for the challenges of kindergarten and made you feel secure in your child's ability to succeed. The Spotted Zebra Learning Center has now made this first day of school an enjoyable experience rather than one to be feared.
To read more about the Spotted Zebra Learning Center, browse through our website or call us at 518-438-4800!
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Rogers, the only Calhoun County player in the field, shot a third-round 86 Saturday after completing his final nine holes in a suspended second round earlier in the day to make the cut.
He stands at 237 for 54 holes.
Robbie Shelton of Wilmer, the top-ranked junior in the country and an Alabama signee, holds a two-shot lead over Michael Johnson of Birmingham entering today's final round.
• Aces in the crowd: Steve Akers has been playing golf for 50 years and Saturday he finally got to experience a golfer's thrill of a lifetime.
The Oxford resident scored his first hole-in-one, acing the 103-yard No. 13 at Highland Park Golf Course in Birmingham. The retired railroad worker, a course marshall at Cider Ridge, used a gap wedge. It helped him shoot 75, 32 on the back nine.
The shot was witnessed by Andrew Brooks.


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Special Olympics Glendive/Sidney basketball team, AKA the Prairie Badland Rattlers, have been practicing their skills with great determination in the practice gym at Dawson Community College for the past 10 weeks.
Their efforts have earned the Rattlers a trip to compete in Great Falls for the State Basketball Tourney Nov 8-10.
Glendive Special Olympics will host its Annual Pumpkin Loot Fund Raiser in order to sponsor the trip to Great Falls. The community is invited to contribute at corner of Towne and Merrill in Glendive on Friday, October 26 from 4-6pm.
In the Spirit of Halloween, Dawson Community College Associated Student Body (ASB) invites families and friends to gather for two special funtastic and spooktacular events on campus at 300 College Drive.
The college seems unassuming in the days leading up to Halloween but for three days at the end of October watch out! A Haunted House is about to materialize in the Dungeon (basement) of the Main Building on campus.
The Buccaneer volleyball team is hosting a "Dig Pink" night during its 7 p.m. match against Sheridan College at home in Toepke Center on Tuesday, Oct. 9, to promote breast cancer awareness and raise money for research.
Fans are encouraged to wear pink to support the "Dig Pink" initiative. "This is a great event to raise awareness for breast cancer. Each year millions of dollars are raised by volleyball teams around the nation. We are honored to be part of this movement." said Head Coach John Marble.
DCC is offering two educator workshops in conjunction with MEA days.
Gifted and Talented Education
Some of the most prevalent modern myths in education surround giftedness and gifted and talented programs. Instructors Lea Moore and Stephanie Soderquist will tackle the subject in 2 professional development workshops that will offer valuable insight that will assist teachers in understanding and meeting the complex challenges of identifying and providing for gifted and talented learners. Session times: 9-4PM, in the DCC Community Room. 1cr
Dawson Community College in Glendive Montana and Olds College located in Alberta Canada have announced the details of an enhanced 2+2 agreement in Agriculture that offers students a competitive, streamlined opportunity to earn a Applied Bachelor's degree in Ag.
Dawson Community College invites all alumni to visit campus Saturday, October 13th. Dust off your shoes and come play. Softball game will be at 11am on the B.L. Baker Field and basketball games will tip off at 3pm with a social at 7pm. Contact our coaches at 406-377-9450 or by email at [email protected] for more details.
At Monday night's Board of Trustee meeting, Deputy Commissioner John Cech expressed concern for the sustainability of Dawson Community College (DCC) due to enrollment trends that challenge our ability to meet FY2013 budget projections. Our 2013 budget was prepared in the fall of 2010 approved in early 2011 by the legislature, the governor's budget office, and the Board of Regents and was adopted for implementation. When submitted every expectation was that we would meet the enrollment required to fund the budget.
DCC student Brittany Pascal, from Loveland Colorado, joined 12 of her teammates and classmates as victims of a mock disaster to help our Glendive first response teams train over the weekend.
Student athletes at Dawson have volunteered 293 hours to date.
Way to go Bucs!
September is "Talk like a Pirate Month" at Dawson Community College! Pirates around the globe are celebrating! Our mascot "Bucky the Buccaneer" has a fine crew of students this year and he invites the community to join them on Wednesday, September 19 at 6p.m. in Toepke Center - 300 College Drive - as they celebrate during a special Buccaneer Open House.
Bring the kids and come up to the college. Enjoy Buccaneer refreshments while you:


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Votto takes over NL MVP lead while field chases Hamilton in AL
Story Highlights
Cincinnati star Joey Votto has been on fire in June for the first-place Reds
Two Mets and two White Sox are among the top five in their respective leagues
Paul Konerko and Mark Trumbo have narrowed the gap behind Josh Hamilton
At the end of April, Matt Kemp and Josh Hamilton looked like they were going to run away with the Most Valuable Player award in their respective leagues, but Kemp has since been knocked out of my top 10 by injuries, while Hamilton's lead has largely evaporated due to a recent slump.
Their struggles have made room in the NL for a new, red-hot leader (and former winner of the award) and in the AL an opportunity has arisen for, among others, a thrilling rookie and his slugging sophomore teammate. Also making big gains this week are three of the hottest pitchers in the game, including Wednesday's Mr. Perfect.
NOTE: All stats are through Thursday, June 13. League leaders are in bold, major league leaders in bold italics. The number in parentheses after each player's name reflects his rank on the previous list.
1. Joey Votto, 1B, Reds (HM)
Season Stats: .362/.485/.657, 12 HR, 44 RBI
Last Three Weeks: .507/.575/.881, 5 HR, 16 RBI
Votto, the 2010 NL MVP, is one point behind Melky Cabrera for the NL lead in batting average and two points behind Paul Konerko for the major league lead. He leads the NL in slugging by 47 points and leads the majors in on-base percentage by 25 points. He also paces the majors in doubles (27, five more than the runners up) and walks (52 against just 49 strikeouts). Votto has hit safely in all but one of his last 19 games, including a pinch-hit single on May 30, and has seven multi-hit games in June.
All that, and his line from the last three weeks above, explains why teams are starting to refuse to pitch to him (he has been walked intentionally four times in the last five games and leads the majors with 11 intentional passes). This is nothing new, of course. Since the start of the 2009 season, Votto leads all hitters with 1,500 or more plate appearances with a 166 OPS+ having hit .323/.426/.574 over that span. Oh, and he's an outstanding defensive first baseman as well.
2. David Wright, 3B, Mets (1)
Season Stats: .358/.460/.583, 8 HR, 36 RBI
Last Three Weeks: .280/.386/.547, 4 HR, 10 RBI
Wright was hitting .405/.500/.628 a day after I last checked in on the MVP races, when he was the frontrunner. He then went hitless for four games. In the 15 games since snapping that 0-fer, he has hit .316/.418/.596. The first line was clearly unsustainable, but that second isn't far from what people expected from Wright after he hit .311/.394/.534 in his age-22 to -25 seasons. His power numbers may still come down a bit, but it would be great to see Wright finally picking up at 29 where he left off in his early 20s, something he's well on his way toward doing.
3. Matt Cain, SP, Giants (N/A)
Season Stats: 8-2, 2.18 ERA, 0.85 WHIP, 9.1 K/9, 6.00 K/BB, 7.3 IP/GS, 2 SHO
Last Four Starts: 4-0, 0.59 ERA, 0.75 WHIP, 10.0 K/9, 5.67 K/BB, 7.7 IP/GS, 1 SHO
Yes, he just turned in a perfect game that was one of the most dominant nine-inning pitching performances in major league history, but let's look at Cain's season as a whole. At its essence, a starting pitcher's job is to eat innings while preventing baserunners and runs. No one has done that better than Matt Cain to this point in the season as he leads the majors in innings per start and WHIP, leads the NL in total innings (95) and shutouts and is third in the majors in ERA. The next most important thing a pitcher can do is keep the ball out of the hands of his defense by getting his outs via strikeout. Well, Cain is third in the majors with 96 K's, having recorded roughly one per inning, and he leads the NL in strikeout-to-walk ratio. If all that doesn't make him one of the most valuable players in the National League, I don't know what would.
4. R.A. Dickey, SP, Mets (N/A)
Season Stats: 10-1, 2.20 ERA, 0.94 WHIP, 9.0 K/9, 4.75 K/BB, 6.9 IP/GS, 2 CG, 1 SHO
Last Four Starts: 4-0, 0.00 ERA, 0.55 WHIP, 10.7 K/9, 13.00 K/BB, 8.2 IP/GS, 2 CG, 1 SHO
Dickey leads the majors with 12 quality starts (in 13 tries!) and has pitched so well in his last four starts that he has actually out-pitched Cain across the board over a span that includes Cain's 14-strikeout perfect game.
In his last start, which came just before Cain's on Wednesday night, Dickey threw a 12-strikeout one-hitter at Tampa Bay in which the only hit was a bouncer down the third base line that David Wright was unable to corral with his bare hand. The scoring decision was the right one (it would have been a tremendous play if Wright had made it, particularly with the speedy B.J. Upton running), but it was a weak hit and the only one of the game. The Rays scored an unearned run on the ninth on a throwing error by Wright, a pair of passed balls (Mike Nickeas must have been exhausted from catching Dickey's nasty, unpredictable knuckler all night) and an RBI groundout. That was the first run Dickey had allowed since May 22, a stretch of four starts, and it was unearned.
On the season, Dickey is second in the NL in innings pitched and innings per start (to Cain), second in WHIP (to Cain), third in ERA and fourth in strikeouts (90). He is also one of just 10 qualified pitchers not to have allowed a stolen base this season. Given that he's a righthander who throws a slow, unpredictable pitch 85 percent of the time, that's remarkable.
5. Carlos Ruiz, C, Phillies (3)
Season Stats: .361/.420/.579, 8 HR, 35 RBI
Last Three Weeks: .370/.452/.556, 1 HR, 6 RBI
Ruiz is 33 years old and doing a lot of things he's never done before. His batting average is being propped up by luck on balls in play that has his current BABIP nearly 80 points above his previous career rate. Also, his fly balls are leaving the ballpark twice as often as they had prior to this year, and he is now just one home run shy of his career high. At the same time, his walk rate has been cut in half, only for those missing walks to be replaced by hit-by-pitches. Ruiz was plunked for a major league-leading 10th time on Thursday, but has drawn just 11 walks, three of them intentional. Right now, all of that adds up to a tremendously valuable performance at the plate that is made even moreso by the fact that it has come from a catcher (one, I should add, who is throwing out 39 percent of attempting basestealers, also by far a career best, against a league average of 28 percent). None of it, however, seems likely to last.
Honorable Mention
Carlos Beltran, RF, Cardinals (5): Beltran, Ryan Braun and Carlos Gonzalez are all corner outfielders with superficially similar stat lines, but Beltran, who leads the NL with 19 home runs, has assembled his while playing in Busch Stadium, a less pitching-friendly home ballpark, so he gets the edge over the other two.
Ryan Braun, LF, Brewers (HM): Braun is essentially having the same season that won him this award last year. That he's this far down on this list says more about the performances of the men above him than about the fact that he's just a hair behind last year's pace in everything but home runs.
Carlos Gonzalez, LF, Rockies (N/A): Gonzalez his hitting just .248/.307/.457 on the road this year, but it's worth noting that even that is better than the average NL hitter has done away from his home park. When Gonzalez finished third in the MVP voting in 2010, he hit .289/.322/.453 away from Coors Field, which worked out to a 118 OPS+ relative to the league's road split. Gonzalez leads the majors in runs scored (49) and the NL in total bases (144) and hasn't been caught in nine steal attempts.
Andrew McCutchen, CF, Pirates (HM): I wouldn't argue against putting McCutchen at the top of this honorable mention list based on the fact that he's a centerfielder playing in a tough hitting ballpark. It's also true that he's the lone everyday star on a Pirates team that recently pulled into second place in the National League Central, but I would (and do) argue against using team performance to evaluate individual performances. Sure, the Pirates wouldn't have a winning record without McCutchen, but if McCutchen was doing the same things for a team 20 games below .500 he'd be just as valuable, he'd just be on a team less capable of capitalizing on that value (which the Pirates should ultimately prove to be anyway).
Melky Cabrera, LF, Giants (N/A): Cabrera leads the NL in batting average (.363), and the majors in hits (91) and triples (7, tied with new White Sox third baseman Orlando Hudson). Those things strike me as fluky. I'm not saying that Cabrera, 27, hasn't matured into a star, but his .402 BABIP cries out for a correction in his batting average and while AT&T Park is triples-friendly, it's not so much so that Cabrera should be one away from his previous career high in the category in mid-June. I don't think the coming correction is going to be huge, but look for Cabrera's average to come back down toward .300 and his triples to turn back into doubles. Melky has done enough to convince me that he will remain a key bat in the weak Giants lineup, but don't expect him to linger too long on this list.
Off the list: Matt Kemp (2), Jonathan Lucroy (4), A.J. Ellis (HM), Rafael Furcal (HM)
NBA Playoffs: Which team can dig out of 0-2 hole on the road?
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This all-day symposium will explore the potential benefits
and challenges of linking programs in foreign jurisdictions directed at
reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) to
cap-and-trade program as sources of offsets. Using the recently released
REDD Offset Working Group draft recommendations on this topic as a springboard,
the program will include speakers from government, academia, the NGO community,
and foreign subnational governments. It will focus, in particular, on
regulatory design elements and the legal and institutional mechanisms that
would be required to enable California to recognize emissions reductions from
jurisdictional REDD+ programs as offsets under California's cap-and-trade
program. Soliciting public feedback on the REDD Offset Working Group
draft report will be a primary aim of the symposium.
The REDD Offset Working Group (ROW) was established in
February 2011 as a result of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed in
November 2010 between the Governors of California, Chiapas and Acre, as part of
a collaborative effort to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest
degradation. Deforestation and forest degradation account for approximately 15
percent of the world's annual greenhouse gas emissions. Comprehensive efforts
to constrain the impacts of climate change will require significant global
cooperation to reduce GHG emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.
Based on direction in the MOU, the ROW was created with state representatives
and technical experts, who serve in their personal capacities.
Read the ROW's recommendations
8:45 - 9:15
9:15 – 9:30
Horowitz (Executive Director, Emmett Center on Climate Change and the
Environment, UCLA School of Law)
9:30 - 11:45
Panel 1: Why REDD+? Why California?
panel will provide an overview of REDD+ and its evolution within
international climate policy discussions, including: how REDD+ differs from
early approaches to forests and land use in the Kyoto Protocol to the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC); the current state of
REDD+ in the context of ongoing international negotiations; and the
significant progress that has occurred in reducing deforestation outside of
the UNFCCC process (e.g., substantial deforestation reductions in Brazil). Additionally, speakers will describe the
key role of states and provinces working together on jurisdictional REDD+
programs as part of the Governors' Climate and Forests Task Force (GCF). Finally, this panel will outline
opportunities and challenges regarding the integration of REDD+ into
California's cap-and-trade program.
Sean Hecht (Executive Director,
Environmental Law Center, UCLA School of Law)
1:00 - 2:45
Panel 2: Design Options for REDD+ in California
panel will summarize the regulatory design recommendations from the REDD
Offsets Working Group (ROW) and present reactions to these recommendations. Speakers
also will provide a summary of information presented in the previous two ROW
workshops, including the concept of sectoral or jurisdictional offset
programs (as opposed to stand-alone forest carbon projects tied to voluntary
markets); reference levels; monitoring, reporting, verification, and
enforcement; and safeguards.
2:45 - 3:00
3:00 - 4:45
Panel 3: Linkage and Subnational Policy Innovation
This panel
will focus on the challenges and opportunities that attend efforts to link
California's cap-and-trade program with foreign subnational jurisdictions'
REDD+ programs. Speakers will describe
the overall importance of such linkage in the context of a world where
climate policy is apt to remain deeply fragmented for the foreseeable future
(e.g., learning, proof of concept, bottom up approach to building a global
carbon market, etc.).
4:45 - 5:00
Conclusion and Next Steps
Reflecting on the Workshop:
Next Steps:
5:00 - 5:30
Light Reception
385 Charles E. Young Drive East, 1242 Law Building, Los Angeles, CA 90095
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Opening Convocation
Westminster College welcomed the Class of 2014 on Friday, August 27, at 1:30 p.m. in Orr Auditorium. Dr. Jesse T. Mann, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College, presided. Faculty and Administration processed in academic regalia, and the President of the College, Dr. Richard Dorman, welcomed students and parents. Dr. John P. Bonomo, associate professor of computer science, provided the keynote address entitled "Abuse the Faculty . " Other participants included Rev. James Mohr, chaplain, and Leigha M. Krivacek, president of the student government association. A reception on the McKelvey patio followed the ceremony.
Henderson Lecture
The 2010-2011 Henderson Lecture Award was granted to Dr.David Twining, professor of history, and was presented on Wednesday, October 6, 2010, at 7:00 p.m. in the Witherspoon Maple Room of the McKelvey Campus Center. Dr. Twining's lecture focused on "The Lost Generation of the 1960s." Dr. Twining has been with Westminster College since 1990. He earned an undergraduate degree from the College of Wooster, master's from the University of Virginia, and Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University.
The Henderson Lectureship was founded by Dr. Joseph R. Henderson and his wife, Elizabeth. Joseph Henderson is professor emeritus of education at Westminster, having served as Chair of the Department of Education and Director of the Graduate Program.
Spring Honors Convocation
The Spring Honors Convocation will be held on Wednesday, April 27, 2011, at 3:30 p.m. in Orr Auditorium. Students being recognized include those involved/inducted into Pi Sigma Pi honorary, and the Honors Program, as well as students who have been awarded scholarships, prizes, awards, and those who made the Dean's List for the Fall Semester 2010. Academic Department Chairs will present awards to their majors. Arrangements for the ceremony are made by the Office of Academic Affairs.


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- Welcome to Season 2013/2014
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Burkhard Fritz
Burkhard Fritz is sought after the world over for youthful, heldentenor roles. He sang Paul in Die tote Stadt at Oper Frankfurt, returning in 2011/12 for Arindal in concert performances of Wagner's Die Feen/The Faries (available on CD). He has sung the role of Henri at the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam and at the Vienna State Opera. Recent engagements have included Tristan (Tristan und Isolde) in Toronto, Walther von Stolzing (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) and Lohengrin at the Hamburg State Opera, Erik (The Flying Dutchman) at Leipzig Opera and Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos, which he sang at the Richard Strauss Festival in Garmisch-Partenkirchen before singing it at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. Burkhard Fritz will sing Richard Strauss' Kaiser in Die Frau ohne Schatten/The Woman without a Shadow at Leipzig Opera in 2014. He was a member of the ensemble at the Berlin Staatsoper from 2004-2010. Conductors with whom he has worked in concert and in opera have included Daniel Barenboim, Christian Thielemann, Christoph Eschenbach and Kent Nagano. Other cities where he has appeared have included Brussels, Paris and Tokyo. He was studying medicine at Hamburg University at the same time as he was being taught to sing by Ute Buge.
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