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Martha Stewart to testify in trial over her brand
Eight years after Martha Stewart was released from prison for lying about a stock trade, the home diva is now facing another legal mess that may not be easy to clean up.
Stewart, 71, is scheduled to take the stand in New York State Supreme Court Tuesday. She is at the center of a bitter legal battle between two of the nation's largest retailers – Macy's Inc. and J.C. Penney Co.
Macy's sued the media and merchandising company Stewart founded for breaching an exclusive contract when she signed a deal with Penney in December 2011 to open shops at most of its stores this spring.
Macy's, which has sold Martha Stewart products including towels and pots since 2007, is trying to block Penney from selling those products.

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|See what I did here? :)
I've read a couple of articles over the past few days that has got me thinking (in part because it looks like we're getting the go-ahead on a couple of projects that I've been itching to dig into for some time now, and this subject will be very much amongst the ones on top of the "solve-this"-list).
I think we all agree that simply aiming for Likes and followers and views gets us nowhere as far as telling stories go. It's what we do with these Likers and followers and viewers that matter. And in that context, trust is a major factor (there's a good post up from February touching on the subject here).
So, how can I as a creator achieve the level of trust that will not only make people want to watch and take part of my new content, but also advocate the content onwards to their friends and acquaintances? And as, for instance, participation and co-creation – User Contributed Content – implies that people have a great deal of trust in me as a creator and provider to a) offer them the experience they assume that they will get and b) take care of whatever it is that they have created, in the best way possible, that trust needs to be earned.
If we look at the word itself, it does give some hints of how to achieve this. Trust is defined as the firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something. Looking at those words, there are some routes we can look at.
First off "Reliability". The audience should look at our project, then look at us and go "yeah, I can rely on those to provide me with what they promise". This is either down to us as creators and the reputation we've built for ourselves, or the quality of the brand we're working with, be it the IP or the backing production company or something else that people feel they can rely on.
Secondly, "Truth". This is so very important, to not be seen lying or withholding the truth from the audience. This is not to say that ALL of the truths need to be spoken about or revealed, but we need to be able to explain WHY we're not revealing those truths and have a good reason to back the decision up. And not, never, hoax. Not if we want the audience's trust.
Thirdly, "Ability". This has a lot to do with how we present our content, our project. A well executed trailer or pre-ARG or support from respected people in the industry or in the target group the project aims to reach can help. It's the belief that what's promised will be delivered, and that, if anything, it won't stumble on the people involved not having the required skill sets to complete what they've set out to do. A good reputation doesn't hurt either.
Fourthly, "Strength". The audience of today could care less about which studio is producing which movie. But the audience is also increasingly savvy when it comes to media consumption, savvy enough to realize that when something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. If you're a small company without any backers, content- or funding-wise, don't promise the world to the audience. Be honest; refer to "Truth" above. On the other hand, if you are backed by HBO, use that to your advantage! People want to invest in winners, and the stronger the partners of a project, the more likely it'll end up on the winner's side in the end.
So, trust. Hard to get, easy to lose. Build on your reliability, your truth, your ability and your strength. And when you've gained someone's trust, be sure to take every precaution to not betray that trust in any way. Best of luck to everyone J.


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So, you've reached level 85, huh? Think you're all done with Cataclysm, huh? Well if you do, then you're dead wrong. All World of Warcraft players know that leveling to 85 is barely half the work in playing WoW. Now that you've dinged to the level cap once again (which we thank Blizzard for not making it a LONG grind to level 90), the real fun begins as you fight through dungeons and quests getting the elusive gears, leveling your professions to the next level cap, and getting your game on for the heroics and raids.
Now we'll be talking about the Enchants available to us tanks in this new expansion. Now the choices seem few compared to Wrath of the Lich King considering that several stats have been removed or merged. But even so, Cataclysm provides an impressive line up of enchants that will feed our need for damage mitigation, threat generation, and survival. But remember these enchants are here to only help. Skills and dedication is key to true tanking.
Most of the enchantments available can be bought from your favorite enchanters or the ever-reliable, but often overpriced, Auction Houses. While some require reputation grinding from certain factions.
Level 85 Head Enchant
Arcanum of the Earthen Ring: 90 Stamina, 35 Dodge Rating
Level 85 Shoulder Enchant
Greater Inscription of Unbreakable Quartz: 75 Stamina, 25 Dodge Rating
Level 85 Back Enchant
Enchant Cloak – Protection: 250 Armor
Level 85 Back Enchant
Enchant Chest – Greater Stamina: 75 Stamina
Enchant Chest – Peerless Stats: 20 to all stats
Level 85 Wrist Enchant
Enchant Bracer – Dodge: 50 Dodge Rating
Level 85 Hands Enchant
Enchant Gloves – Greater Mastery: 65 Mastery Rating
Enchant Gloves – Mighty Strength: 50 Strength
Level 85 Leg Enchant
Charscale Leg Armor: 145 Stamina, 55 Agility
Level 85 Feet Enchant
Enchant Boots – Earthen Vitality: 30 Stamina, Movement Speed Increase
Enchant Boots – Major Agility: 35 Agility
Level 85 Weapon Enchant
Enchant Weapon – Windwalk: Chance to increase Dodge Rating by 600
Enchant Weapon – Mending: Chance to heal damage on attack
Level 85 Shield Enchant
Enchant Shield – Blocking: 40 Block Rating
Enchant Shield – Protection: 160 Armor
Level 85 Ring Enchant (For 475 Enchanters only)
Enchant Ring – Greater Stamina: 60 Stamina
Enchant Ring – Agility: 40 Agility


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Live chat with 'The Lucky One's' Nicholas Sparks on Oct. 13
Nicholas Sparks, whose book "The Lucky One" is getting the big-screen treatment in April, will be joining us for a live online chat on Thursday, Oct. 13, starting at 10 a.m. PDT.
Sparks is a popular and prolific author with more than a dozen novels to his name, the latest of which, "The Best of Me," hits shelves Oct. 11. His previous titles include "The Notebook," "A Walk to Remember," "Dear John" and "The Last Song." The upcoming adaptation of "The Lucky One," starring Zac Efron as a Marine trying to find a mystery woman who he believes was his good luck charm during the war in Iraq, is Sparks' seventh book to be made into a movie.
Warner Bros. has also bought film rights to "The Best of Me," a tear-inducing tale of former high school sweethearts who reunite 25 years later. Sparks is co-producing the movie with Denise DiNovi, who produced "The Lucky One," and filming is scheduled to start in 2012.
To schedule a reminder for the chat, just fill out the form below. And be sure to join us Thursday.
Zac Efron's (halting) reinvention
Nicholas Sparks has to be feeling lucky
What's it really like working with Miley Cyrus? Just ask Julie Anne Robinson
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Summer Sewing Challenge - Retro Rocker Tonia Playsuit with C...
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by darkhorse
Vancouver, Canada
Here's my entry for the Summer Sewing Challenge – I'm calling it the 'Retro Rocker Tonia Playsuit with Cut Out Bustline'. The romper is a bit big for my mannequin, but I'm camera shy, so please forgive me. :)
I have had visions of retro style playsuits dancing in my head for ages. When I saw the challenge, I thought it was time to step it up as a self-taught sewist – more than anything, to challenge myself and the limits of my poor sewing machine (did she ever yell, whew!). This has been the most advanced project I've ever dared take on. Suffice it to say there's been blood, sweat and tears poured into this project that's obsessed me. :)
I fell in love with the retro style dress on BurdaStyle with the cut-out bustline, and I knew that had to be the base for the bodice. I've also been coveting the Tonia shorts for a long time. I decided to put them together for a custom playsuit romper based on these two patterns as a true variation and did some sketching. It involved some pattern grading (up) and pattern adjustments to unify the two patterns – and to the right size. I also wanted the romper to have some real edge so I added black shorts for contrast with black piping and a black external zipper.
The playsuit is lined and I used fuchsia Hong Kong seam finishes to keep that rock and roll feel going. I added extra pleats at the front of the shorts and an extra pair of darts on the reverse of the sorts. I eliminated the fly due to the rear zip. I added the striped shirting to the hip yoke for fun and also the shorts cuff.
I also made a fabric flower pin that I think looks great with this playsuit! I made a 4 gore wrap skirt to go with this based on the cut out bustline skirt pattern. What retro style playsuit wouldn't look awesome with a cover-up wrap skirt? :)
Here's the links to the original patterns (pics also posted here for reference):
Happy summer romping! :)
x Rena
PS – If you want to see more pics or have any questions, just leave a comment!
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Striped cotton shirting (blue and lavender), cotton broadcloth, fuchsia double fold bias tape, black zipper, interfacing.
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Jul 24, 2012, 05.41 PMby darkhorse
Thanks Mary! I had a lot of fun figuring it all out. :) x Rena
Jul 24, 2012, 09.12 AMby Mary Athey
very clever to combine the two patterns. this is fab. well done x
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Making It Look Good: Interview with Art Director Carol Goodling
Art director Carol Goodling shares thoughts on design in an interview with freelance writer Lorraine Berry. Excerpts:
Q: Tell us about your role as art director of ICView and how you got there.
A: In 1991 I was hired as the outside designer for the magazine for its special issues during the College's centennial year. Marina Todd, a former colleague of mine at various publications, was the editor at the time, so I was happy to have the opportunity to work with her again. In 1993, I was brought on staff as a designer, but no longer assigned to the magazine. So, when our department reorganized 10 years later and design/production for the magazine was brought in house, I was thrilled to be assigned as its designer/art director, working with editor Maura Stephens.
We're a much smaller operation today than in 1992, although that hasn't had much bearing on my role, which has always been to design, procure photography and illustration, and pull it all together in a layout program. The biggest change for me has been, with the advancements in technology, the "how" of how things get done, and who does them. Everyone knows that story, regardless of their field! The prevalence of quality inexpensive stock photography and art has not only made it possible and easier to do more with a shrinking budget, but it's inevitable that given the affordability and 24-hour accessibility, we rely more on those types of sources.
Still, I always prefer to hire and work with illustrators and photographers whenever possible—I enjoy the interaction, and they offer a fresh and unexpected angle to whatever direction I provide. Although original art may be pricey and budgets tight, FedEx, e-mail, cellphones, and online "soft-proofing" have made custom work more viable, allowing for better and time-saving communication with photographers and artists.
Q: What is the purpose of a college magazine?
A: In its least effective form, a college magazine may cater only to the demands, whims, and political interests emanating from the administration, development office, department heads, and, at times, influential alumni or donors. That's usually more of an editorial struggle, but also can lead to ultra-safe and unengaging design choices.
We're not subscription-based, so we do not operate completely independently. Our publication needs to reflect the goals and concerns of the administration and other parties with a vested concern for the College's future. But, philosophies can and do differ on how to address those, at times contentious, concerns.
The intent to shock or brow-beat the reader via art or words (in this venue) would be inappropriate, and counterproductive to fulfilling our publication's mission. It's not what we're about. The needs of the administration and the campus community get conveyed to the designer through the editor's words, vision, and constructive feedback. Overseeing the integrity of our mission's presentation is ongoing; without it, you end up with an incongruous mess or a stale template, or simply an unintended visual message.
I like a magazine to read and feel like a magazine, not a newsletter and not a slick brochure. I think when college or other magazines confuse one with the other in terms of design and feel, the reader senses it and consciously or unconsciously files it away in their brain along with all the associations they make about one or the other.
Q: What's it like working with different editors?
A: Some editors are more involved in the visual aspects of a publication than others. When Marina Todd was the editor, I was granted virtually free rein in terms of features design (the basic template remained essentially the same for a number of years before and after 1992). Feedback came from mostly from the then in-house writers/copy editors—mainly suggestions having to do with parochial or political no-nos that an unwitting "outsider" couldn't know. Of course, there were a few petty preferences I was obliged to adhere to as well—the color green was off-limits for one particular writer!
Maura Stephens, the present editor, on the other hand, has very strong opinions about everything from colors (although, I can't think of any particular color banished for good from our pages!), to placement of credit lines, to cropping off the tips of people's heads in photos — which makes for some lively give-and-take at times! She has a passion for good structure and relevancy. She's big on variety.
Design for design's sake is always tempting for any designer, but not as challenging, and giving in to that temptation doesn't necessarily add to — and often detracts from — a story. Doing so is often indicative of weak design or that the designer was simply trying to dress up a famished pig!
Magazines are essentially extended puzzles, within a page or section, and from one section to the next. Design, photos, art, should all contribute to a reader's interest in and understanding of, and moving through all the stories and sections. The challenge is to achieve a balanced design that fits with the established look and tone of the publication, which in turn should reflect something of the institution's values and personality, as set by the editor.
In a publication like ours, which tries to address a broad-spectrum audience made up of many niche audiences (think of the various schools, departments, donors, parents, scattered alumni working in many different fields), it can be difficult to make strong statements in terms of design or content without upsetting or turning someone off.
Sometimes political constraints—or, worse, petty preferences—can squash the willingness to be challenging and engaging with one's work, be it in art, photography, design, or writing.
But the agitation that comes with frustrated approaches can often lead to something more solid, more thought-out, better. There's typically a lot of give-and-take between an editor and a designer that leads to satisfactory solutions.
Maura isn't content with producing just another run-of-the-mill college magazine, or a glorified brochure in the guise of a magazine. I feel the same way, so every issue's an adventure!
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Kids! Campaign Contest Winners - 2009
We asked librarians to tell us how they used Kids! @ your library Campaign tool kit materials to promote their library to kids and their families. The ALSC Public Awareness Committee has chosen ten winners based on their overall and skillful use of resources. Winners will receive a $100 cash prize.
And the winners are...
The Public Library of Charlotte-Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
Foster Elementary School, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Dayton (Ohio) Metro Library, EC Doren Branch
Cuyahoga County Public Library, Parma South Branch, Parma, Ohio
Johnson County Public Library, Franklin Branch, Franklin, Ind.
Office of Library and Information Services, State of Rhode Island, Providence
Pamunkey Regional Library, Hanover, Va.
Maricopa County Library District, Phoenix, Az.
H. Leslie Perry Memorial Library, Henderson, N.C.
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WASHINGTON – Would you name your baby Persephone or Thor?
Ancient names inspired by gods and goddesses are going to be popular among expecting parents this year, according to nameberry.com.
Nameberry experts predict some of the baby naming trends this year:
1) Names inspired by Superstorm Sandy.
2) Names diverged from "Lionine" such as Leopold, Leo and Leona.
3) Calling a child by his or her middle name instead of first name.
4) Inserting a baby's place of birth into his or her name.
5) Mid-century nicknames such as Hank or Hal.
6) Names from Scandinavia such as Astrid, Magnus, and yes, Siri.
7) Names with a double "L," such as Lily, Lila and Lola.
8) Wildflower names such as Rose and Poppy.
9) Seasonal names such as Winter, Snow and Frost.
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Feb. 16, 2003
SAN DIEGO, Calif. - The Santa Clara University baseball team concluded its three-game weekend series with San Diego State with a 9-3 loss Sunday afternoon in front of 1,019 at Tony Gwynn Stadium.
For the third day in a row the Broncos jumped out to a lead after the top half of the first inning, this time scoring two times on three hits for a 2-0 lead after one half inning of play. Joe Diefenderfer and A.J. LaBarbera each started the game with a hit and would later score. Diefenderfer was plated on a Scott Shapiro groundout while LaBarbera came home on a David Mandley single to right center field.
Santa Clara's early lead was quickly erased in the bottom half of the first inning as the Aztecs scored four times on three hits to claim a 4-2 lead after the first full inning of play. Rielly Embrey's two-run single up the middle gave SDSU the lead, but it was a balk by SCU starter John Redmond that allowed Jake McLintock to score the tying run. Redmond had two balks in the inning that proved costly as all four runners who scored moved up at least one base on a balk.
The Broncos cut the San Diego State lead in half in the third inning as Diefenderfer led off with a double and moved to third when LaBarbera grounded out to the second baseman. Jason Matteucci stepped to the plate and drove in Deifenderfer with a sacrifice fly ball to right field.
The Aztecs bounced right back in the bottom half of the third inning as Jordan Swaydan delivered a one out solo home run to right field off of Redmond. The hit was the second of the game for Swaydan who also picked up his second RBI of the game. After Brian Kinsman grounded out and Embrey walked, Curt Mendoza increased the SDSU lead to 6-3 with an RBI triple to right center, scroing Embrey and forcing SCU to go to its bullpen, removing Redmond in favor of Chad Fillinger.
San Diego State increased its lead in the bottom half of the fourth inning as Peter Stonard singled and came home on a McLintock home run to left field that pushed the Aztec lead to 8-3.
The Aztecs added to the lead again in the fifth inning as Embrey connected on the team's third home run of the game, a lead-off solo blast to right center, giving SDSU a 9-3 lead after five full innings. After Mendoza singled the very next at bat, Santa Clara went to the bullpen again, brining in Scott Shapiro to relieve Fillinger. Shapiro walked the first batter he faced before retiring the next three, including a strikeout of Guerrero.
After Shapiro got the first two outs in the seventh inning Patrick Overholt came in and threw the final 1 1/3 innings, allowing no runs on no hits with one strikeout and two walks.
Ben Coon picked up the win for SDSU after throwing seven full innings in which he allowed three runs on seven hits, only one of which came after the third inning. Ryan Heil threw the eighth inning before giving way to Mark Esparza who recorded the final three outs in the ninth inning.
John Redmond fell to 1-2 on the season for the Broncos after allowing six runs on five hits in 2 2/3 innings of work.
The Broncos fell to 6-6 on the season while the Aztecs improved to 5-5. Santa Clara returns to action next weekend as they take on UC Santa Barbara in a three-game series in Santa Barbara, Calif.


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The $1.2 billion Numerica Credit Union in Spokane, Wash., is now using an automated software program to help jump into commercial and industrial lending, an area of untapped potential for many credit unions, the credit union said.
Healthy growth in its asset-based commercial lending has encouraged Numerica to branch into these more service-intensive loans, said Alan Woodruff, the 94,000-member credit union's business services relationship officer.
Numerica actively pursued asset-based commercial loan customers in 2012, Woodruff said. "We actually doubled our goal of adding $35 million, to $70 million in new business," he said.
The areas Numerica serves, in western Washington and northern Idaho, are experiencing about the same level of economic growth as the rest of the U.S., Woodruff said.
"Growth has been slow, and unemployment is still an issue for us,'' he said. But that tepid economic backdrop hasn't stopped the credit union from looking for new business opportunities, he said.
Woodruff got a call last year from BBC Easy, a Seattle startup company offering an automated program to process and manage C&I loans, including borrowing base certificates.
Woodruff, who has worked in business banking and commercial lending for 15 years and joined Numerica six years ago, said the BBC Easy program made sense.
In July, Numerica became the first credit union to sign a contract with BBC Easy, said James Walter, the young company's CEO.
He said BBC Easy has a number of credit union customers in the pipeline, at various stages of testing. BBC Easy also has customers at other financial services providers and in other industries, Walter said.
BBC Easy provides software that automates the loan set-up and record- keeping processes and stores all the records. Loan customers can pull up a dashboard screen on their computers, which facilitates filling out updated information through borrowing base certificates and then submits information electronically to the lending officers. That cuts down on the time and potential errors that occur with handing printed, faxed and scanned documents.
The lender sets parameters for loans, including how often the borrower must update information. Financial institutions that already have C&I parameters in place can set up the BBC Easy dashboard to fit their existing loan programs, the company said.
For institutions new to the business, such as Numerica, BBC Easy helps design a program from scratch. Woodruff said the Numerica program was up and running in hours and can quickly be scaled up to handle more members.
For Woodruff and his staff, the program has freed up their time to attend to their primary work, meeting with members, rather than checking paperwork, he said.
As a business that's based in the cloud, BBC Easy is careful about security, said Walter, a former program manager as Microsoft who said he has headed several other startup technology companies.
"Our files are encrypted both in storage and while in use," he said. The software program can also flag unusual activity that might signal fraud.
"Since C&I loans, are based on liquid assets, such as inventory, rather than hard assets, things are constantly changing," said Corey Ross, vice president of sales at BBC Easy. Paperwork typically is updated once a month, but it can be done weekly, or at any time.
Computer power really comes into play with data mining. "At a typical credit union, the loan officer takes down all the information, stashes it in a file behind the desk, and moves on to other things," Ross said. "With BBC easy, you have all that information available to use at any time."
Data mining from customer accounts offers many business opportunities, since the loan department can look across its whole portfolio of borrowing base certificates to identify positive and negative lending trends and adjust its strategy to any changes.
Read the full article here: http://www.cutimes.com/2013/04/03/numerica-credit-union-adopts-ci-lending-program


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YORK, Pa. – For the second consecutive year, a member of the Salisbury University women's basketball team was named the Capital Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Rookie of the Year. Freshamn forward Julia McLaughlin garners the accomplishment while two other Sea Gulls were named to the All-CAC team.
McLaughlin is the fourth Salisbury women's basketball player to be honored as the conference Rookie of the Year. The freshman forward started in 17 contests for the Gulls with playing time in all 27 games. McLaughlin ranked 17th in the conference in points per game (8.4) with a shooting percentage of 40.4 placing her in the top 15 of the league.
In her first season with the Sea Gulls, McLaughlin recorded a season-best 21 points in SU's 74-69 victory over Frostburg State University. The freshman added a career-best 11 rebounds against St. Mary's (Md.) College in the first round of CAC tournament play as Salisbury went on to win 54-44.
Sophomore point guard Anna Hackett and senior forward Katie McGahagan's selections to the All-CAC team mark the first time since the 2006-07 season that two Sea Gulls have been named All-CAC.
Hackett, last season's Rookie of the Year, was named to the first team after being a part of the second team in 2012. The sophomore ranked among the top performers in conference play. The point guard was second in points per game (16.4), fourth in field goal percentage (45.8), third in assists per game (4.3) and led the conference in free throw percentage (86.2). Hackett finished the season with 444 points, with a career-best 32 points against Randolph College.
McGahagan makes her first appearance on the all-conference team, as a member of the second team. The senior was relentless on the boards this season, climbing to the ninth spot as one of SU's career leaders in rebounds with 727. Throughout the season the Baltimore, Md., native grabbed 251 boards for an average of 9.3 rebounds per game, placing her in the top three performers of the conference. McGahagan ranked third in defensive boards per game (6.1) and fifth in offensive rebounds (3.2). The forward ranked in the top 15 in the conference in scoring, averaging 9.9 points per game. McGahagan ended the season with a career-best 10 double-doubles.
The Sea Gulls advanced to the conference semifinals for the second consecutive season and finished with a 15-12 record.


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Graduation rate highest since 1976
The nation's high school graduation rate is the highest since 1976, but more than a fifth of students are still failing to get their diploma in four years, the Education Department said in a study released Tuesday.
Officials said the steady rise of students completing their education is a reflection of the struggling economy and a greater competition for new jobs.
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"If you drop out of high school, how many good jobs are there out there for you? None. That wasn't true 10 or 15 years ago," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in an interview with The Associated Press.
The national dropout rate was about 3 percent overall, down from the year before. Many students who don't receive their diplomas in four years stay in school, taking five years or more to finish their coursework.
Some 3.1 million students nationwide earned their high school diplomas in the spring of 2010, with 78 percent of students finishing on time. That's the best since a 75 percent on-time graduation rate during the 1975-76 academic year.
The only better rate was 79 percent in 1969-70, a figure the department wouldn't vouch for.
There were tremendous differences among the states in 2010. Fifty-eight percent of students in Nevada and 60 percent in Washington, D.C., completed their high school education in four years. By comparison, 91 percent of students in Wisconsin and Vermont did, according to the report.
Graduation rates increased by more than a percentage point in 38 states between 2009 and 2010, the study found. Only the District of Columbia saw its graduation rates decline between by greater than a percentage point during those years.
Among the most significant factors of the increase was the dire U.S. economy after the 2008 Wall Street meltdown. During the 2009-10 academic year, unemployment ranged from 9.4 percent to 10 percent.


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August 2000
Natural ecosystems perform fundamental life-support services. The Elora Gorge, Ontario, Canada. Photo: Oksana Hlodan.
From the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
Have you ever considered that the cereal you eat is brought to you each morning by the wind, or that the glass of clear, cold, clean water drawn from your faucet may have been purified for you by a wetland or perhaps the root system of an entire forest? Trees in your front yard work to trap dust, dirt, and harmful gases from the air you breathe. The bright fire of oak logs you light to keep warm on cold nights and the medicine you take to ease the pain of an ailment come to you from Nature's warehouse of services. Natural ecosystems perform fundamental life-support services upon which human civilization depends. Unless human activities are carefully planned and managed, valuable ecosystems will continue to be impaired or destroyed.
What are ecosystem services?
Ecosystem Services are the processes by which the environment produces resources that we often take for granted such as clean water, timber, and habitat for fisheries, and pollination of native and agricultural plants. Whether we find ourselves in the city or a rural area, the ecosystems in which humans live provide goods and services that are very familiar to us.
Ecosystems provide "services" that:
- moderate weather extremes and their impacts
- disperse seeds
- mitigate drought and floods
- protect people from the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays
- cycle and move nutrients
- protect stream and river channels and coastal shores from erosion
- detoxify and decompose wastes
- control agricultural pests
- maintain biodiversity
- generate and preserve soils and renew their fertility
- contribute to climate stability
- purify the air and water
- regulate disease carrying organisms
- pollinate crops and natural vegetation
What is an ecosystem?
An ecosystem is a community of animals and plants interacting with one another and with their physical environment. Ecosystems include physical and chemical components, such as soils, water, and nutrients that support the organisms living within them. These organisms may range from large animals and plants to microscopic bacteria. Ecosystems include the interactions among all organisms in a given habitat. People are part of ecosystems. The health and wellbeing of human populations depends upon the services provided by ecosystems and their components — organisms, soil, water, and nutrients.
What are ecosystem services worth?
Natural ecosystems and the plants and animals within them provide humans with services that would be very difficult to duplicate. While it is often impossible to place an accurate monetary amount on ecosystem services, we can calculate some of the financial values. Many of these services are performed seemingly for "free," yet are worth many trillions of dollars, for example:
Much of the Mississippi River Valley's natural flood protection services were destroyed when adjacent wetlands were drained and channels altered. As a result, the 1993 floods resulted in property damages estimated at twelve billion dollars partially from the inability of the Valley to lessen the impacts of the high volumes of water.
80% of the world's population relies upon natural medicinal products. Of the top 150 prescription drugs used in the U.S., 118 originate from natural sources: 74% from plants, 18% from fungi, 5% from bacteria, and 3% from one vertebrate (snake species). Nine of the top 10 drugs originate from natural plant products.
Over 100,000 different animal species — including bats, bees, flies, moths, beetles, birds, and butterflies — provide free pollination services. One third of human food comes from plants pollinated by wild pollinators. The value of pollination services from wild pollinators in the U.S. alone is estimated at four to six billion dollars per year.
New York City is a case in point. Before it became overwhelmed by agricultural and sewage runoff, the watershed of the Catskill Mountains provided New York City with water ranked among the best in the Nation by Consumer Reports. When the water fell below quality standards, the City investigated what it would cost to install an artificial filtration plant. The estimated price tag for this new facility was six to eight billion dollars, plus annual operating costs of 300 million dollars — a high price to pay for what once was free. New York City decided instead to invest a fraction of that cost ($660 million) in restoring the natural capital it had in the Catskills watershed. In 1997, the City raised an Environmental Bond Issue and is currently using the funds to purchase land and halt development in the watershed, to compensate property owners for development restrictions on their land, and to subsidize the improvement of septic systems.
How are ecosystem services "cut off"?
Ecosystem services are so fundamental to life that they are easy to take for granted and so large in scale that it is hard to imagine that human activities could destroy them. Nevertheless, ecosystem services are severely threatened through
- growth in the scale of human enterprise (population size, per-capita consumption, and effects of technologies to produce goods for consumption)
- a mismatch between short-term needs and long-term societal well-being
Many human activities disrupt, impair, or reengineer ecosystems every day including:
- runoff of pesticides, fertilizers, and animal wastes
- pollution of land, water, and air resources
- introduction of non-native species
- overharvesting of fisheries
- destruction of wetlands
- erosion of soils
- deforestation
- urban sprawl
Ecology and ecosystem services
Ecologists work to help us understand the interconnection and interdependence of the many plant and animal communities within ecosystems. Although substantial understanding of many ecosystem services and the scientific principles underlying them already exists, there is still much to learn. The tradeoffs among different services within an ecosystem, the role of biodiversity in maintaining services, and the effects of long and short-term perturbations are just some of the questions that need to be further explored. The answers to such questions will provide information critical to the development of management strategies that will protect ecosystems and help maintain the provisions of the services upon which we depend.
The choices we make today in how we use land and water resources will have enormous consequences on the future sustainability of earth's ecosystems and the services they provide.
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Is the startup nation poised to become the blast-off nation?
Past a gaggle of undergraduates and up two flights of stairs, in a shabby Tel Aviv University building, sits a team working to change the face of space travel — starting with an Israeli moon landing.
The group is designing a spacecraft that is just 3 feet tall and 300 pounds in weight and will be prepared to launch toward the lunar surface in 2015. The team hopes that the unmanned mission will set a precedent for space exploration with a tiny low-cost craft and pick up an international space prize.
The Google Lunar X Prize is offering $20 million to the first privately funded team to land a robot on the moon and have it send video, images and data back to Earth, as well as travel 500 meters over the lunar surface.
In a competition where many of the 25 entries are well-funded companies hoping that success will provide a commercial boost, the Tel Aviv-based team, SpaceIL, is the only not-for-profit.
It has a shoestring budget compared with its rivals — $30 million (all teams are expected to spend more than the prize money) — and relies on more than 100 volunteers to plan the craft and the mission alongside its staff of 13. But according to some scientists, they do seem to have a good shot.
"I think they have the know-how and most of the technology and have a very good chance of being successful and winning the competition," said Aby Har-Even, former head of the Israel Space Agency.
SpaceIL's entry is quintessentially Israeli — and not just because it is making the most out of limited resources. It has chutzpah, planning to "hitchhike" a tenth of the distance to the moon to save costs. It is heavily focused on promoting science education, even promising to donate the prize money to promote subjects like math and technology to young students. And it is driven by guts, not by experience; led by the young, and giving some key tasks to future scientists who are still in their teens.
"The time has come for an Israeli flag to be planted on the moon," Israel's president, Shimon Peres, an enthusiast for all things technological, told the Forward. "I am proud of the youngsters who created this initiative, to put the first Israeli spacecraft on the moon, and I know that they can achieve it."
With all the costs of SpaceIL's mission covered by individual and corporate donors, $20 million won will mean $20 million for science, technology, engineering and mathematics education in Israel. For months now, its staff, along with dozens of nontechnical volunteers, has been traveling to schools, getting children excited about the mission and about science in general.
"It's working," said co-founder and chief operating officer Kfir Damari, 30. "I finished one presentation, and a child asked for my autograph. Now, the fact that I can stand on a stage and say 'I'm Kfir and I'm an engineer' and get asked for my autograph is exactly the excitement I'm looking to create."
From the physical surroundings it is difficult to believe that SpaceIL's office is the hub of a space travel project. The place is so basic and low-tech that it doesn't even have a properly functioning air conditioning unit: An old oscillating fan was brought from a closet to keep this reporter cool. But then you meet the brains.
Damari began studying computers in preschool and programming at the age of 6. He wrote his first computer virus at the age of 11. He and his two co-founders originally planned to make the spacecraft the size of a soda bottle, weighing just 11 pounds — and maintain that they still could manage this if it weren't for the fact that you can't buy tiny fuel tanks that are tested to a high enough standard.
"Small isn't a problem," he insisted. "In a small case you have a computer more powerful than Apollo," he said, pointing to an iPhone. "Everything that you need to land a rocket on the moon is in here, even the battery." So that it can also beam pictures, videos and data back to Earth, SpaceIL's on-board computer will be the size of three smart phones.
For 15-year-old Amit Levin, it's just another day at the office. A prodigy from a tiny village in the Sharon region, he is one of the key scientists locating a suitable landing site for the spacecraft — work that he undertakes between studying for his physics degree at Tel Aviv University and continuing his high school studies.
He began last year, with some other volunteers, analyzing NASA photographs of the lunar surface to look for landing spots after a SpaceIL scientist gave a recruitment talk at his university. "I was 14," he recalled nostalgically, "and he was like a messiah to me."
The shortlist for landing sites is getting narrower, and Levin works mostly alone, developing algorithms for further analysis of the surface.
"In school you work from an exercise book and the teacher has the answers, or the answers are in the back of the book and you're not supposed to look," Levin said. "This is the first time I've had a challenge and nobody knows the answer, which makes it so exciting."
Compared to Levin, SpaceIL staffer Adam Green is an old man. At 24 he is in charge of planning the spacecraft's route. He has never launched anything into space, but he has a master's degree in aerospace engineering and says that he isn't intimidated when consulting with top Israeli scientists, because most of them haven't, either.
"As there's no one in Israel with the experience of planning a mission to the moon, it's not as daunting as it could be," he commented. Green's task is made even harder than a "simple" navigation to the moon by the fact that, to save costs, the Israeli craft will "hitchhike" 10% of its journey on a commercial satellite or spacecraft of a foreign space agency. Given that he won't control the movement of the host satellite or craft, he doesn't know exactly what his spacecraft's starting point will be.
As GPS doesn't work outside Earth's orbit, the SpaceIL team had to find and create special navigation systems and orbit correction solutions to help Green. These include the Earth Moon Sensor, with a camera and photo processor that will take pictures of both Earth and the moon so that the spacecraft can position itself in relation to both. There are other homegrown Israeli inventions on board, including special "eyes," a hazard-detection system developed with a Weizmann Institute expert on brain control processes.
The team is confident about most of the mission. "The only part that is really complicated and really new is the landing," Damari said.
The spacecraft will hurtle toward the moon at 4,300 miles an hour. It will then use the main engine to slow down the approach — a process that will use half of the entire fuel supply. Parachutes don't work close to the moon because there isn't air to fill them up, so the plan is to slow the engines and stop them completely 30 feet above the surface of the moon and land via vertical free fall with the engine facing up.
SpaceIL is starting outreach activities in America. In April it showcased its prototype spacecraft at the Celebrate Israel Festival in Los Angeles and at the Israel Expo in Orange County, and it soon plans to recruit volunteers based in the United States to run workshops in Jewish schools.
"Just as many kids in Israel don't feel connected to science, and we hope to change this, some Jewish kids abroad don't feel connected to Israel," he said. "This is cool enough to make them excited about Israel."
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This short, stark video of a strange creature washed up on the beach at Bournemouth was released last month on YouTube. Just check it out. You will be consumed with curiosity and want to know more about WTF is happening.
But then, when the makers of this viral video revealed more about their movie The Bournemouth Incident, the magic began to wear off.
You can see the official trailer for the movie below.
Apparently, aliens emerge from these giant shell-egg things and join Bournemouth's artistic community. They start making weird, kinetic light sculptures - and then, "the incident" happens. Apparently it will involve explosions and blood. My interest levels immediately dropped when I saw this, despite how excited I was by the initial viral vid. Why?
First of all, what made the viral video so compelling was that it looked pretty realistic. Weird, giant shit does wash up on beaches all the time (witness the Montauk Monster), and a mysterious dead creature from the sea is always an intriguing mystery. Second, I liked the way the viral felt personal - it's supposed to be a camera phone vid of the shell-egg, and that's exactly how it feels. I felt like this was happening in my world, and I related to the half-seen people in the clip even though, like I said, they were half-seen.
But the trailer? Suddenly, I'm not dealing with a mystery egg on the beach or a personal brush with weirdness. It's an international news event, and not only that but it's inexplicably turned into some kind of parody of hipster artists in Bournemouth. Not going for it. Especially when the whole creepy "incident" has now been robbed of its mystery and turned into a snarky joke on how dumb artists are.
Sometimes, a 15-second viral can be better than a 90 minute movie. I hope that's not the case here - this movie could still turn out to be pretty awesome. But the trailer definitely feels like a letdown compared to the promise offered by the viral.
Revel in the virals over at The Bournemouth Incident website.
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Ok, so this isn't a fully formed idea on my part but I wanted to get the idea down before it slipped away from me. I'll try to come up with ideas for cartomancy challenges. If you have ideas for divination challenges let's hear them. I've had too many beers to think of anything right now.
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Senior (2014): Appeared in 13 matches, including starting the Boston College contest on senior day ... played a season-high 24 minutes against Pittsburgh ... played a total of 154 minutes.
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Sophomore (2012): Redshirted the season due to a foot injury.
Freshman (2011): Saw action in 16 games ... recorded three assists ... had an assist on Aug. 18 in a 2-0 season-opening win against Army ... registered an assist in Duke's 5-0 win over Radford in the first round of the NCAA Tournament ... took six shots on the year ... played a season-high 32 minutes on Aug. 26 against Houston ... played 246 total minutes.
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High School/Club: A four-year letterwinner at St. Ignatius College Preparatory ... posted 30 goals and 20 assists in high school ... as a senior, notched 19 goals and 10 assists in 26 games ... named WCAL Player of the Year, WCAL Senior Player of the Year and CCS Player of the Year in 2011 ... captain as a senior ... a WCAL First Team All-League selection ... posted four goals and two assists in 17 games as a junior ... WCAL Junior Player of the Year and WCAL First Team All-League selection ... notched four goals and three assists her sophomore year, while leading her squad to the WCAL Championship ... tallied three goals and five assists as a freshman ... played for the Cal North State Team from 2006-10 ... led the Marin FC Club squad to the GSSL Championship in 2008 and 2009 ... won the Northern California State Cup Championship with the MVLA Avalanche in 2011, including scoring a goal in the finals.
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The idea of drawing a newt has been on my mind since the summer of 2009. I tend to want to draw wildlife that I have an attachment to, and newts certainly have a special place in my heart. When we were little, my brother and I would walk along the dirt roads in Alstead hunting for newts. We would carry a plastic bucket & slowly check the roads for the orange beauties after a rainstorm. Newts always seem to come out after it rains.
I have to admit that I did not take the reference photo for this drawing. I did try to photograph newts during the summer, but I could never zoom close enough to capture the perfect picture. In my head, I kept seeing the newt face-on, crawling on rocks. So, I scoured morguefile.com and found reference that ended up fulfilling the composition in my head. Photoshop helped me fuse background and subject photos together to create the best reference.
The drawing is rendered in soft pastels on smooth, white vellum. It is 8 x 10" in size.
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Description: This is ca. 1792 musical score of Saul, a sacred oratorio by Handel composed in 1738 to the English text by Charles Jennens. The composition year 1740 given in the t.p. might refer to a performance of the oratorio that took place that year. The performance forces include: vocal soloists (SATB), mixed chorus, and orchestra (2 oboes, bassoon, trombones (3), horns (2), strings (violin, viola, violoncello, bass), timpani, organ, harp and continuo). A content index with the incipits of recitatives and arias appears on a separate page at the end of the score.
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It is only two letters but it can be hard to utter with determination.
I have been a member of the Minnesota Wisconsin Collie Rescue for nearly ten years. The wonderful volunteers with MWCR are very persuasive folks. They are really good at tugging on a potential adopter's heartstrings. And if that's not enough there is always the MWCR.org website where available collies' biographies and photos are posted. I even write some of the bios so I have developed some skill as a heartstring tugger. As keen as the rescue group is to find homes for homeless collies they are also very vigilant in determining that a potential home is a good one.
My husband Bruce and I first became involved with MWCR when we applied to adopt a collie in 2004. Our dear old Rainy the blue merle was ebbing away and we knew we just had to have another collie when the Rainman eventually left us.
I tell you we might as well have been applying to adopt a human baby. It was a very complicated and lengthy process. But at last we had jumped through all the appropriate hoops and red tape tangles and qualified as adopters. We had the privilege of living with and loving for eight years, first Astro the white collie, then Max the tricolor and finally Lacey, our mahogany sable princess. Astro crossed the Rainbow Bridge three years ago; Max is very nearly at the bridge and Lacey, bless her, is still a youthful girl full of collie hugs and kisses. As Max declines we are thinking that perhaps Lacey will need a collie companion. Adopting these special dogs has not prevented us from fostering a number of MWCR dogs over the past few years, and of course several Uffda Fund critters have also called our place home, some permanently.
Yesterday, as I was enjoying a good read, the phone rang - it was Mary the MWCR foster coordinator calling, wondering if Bruce and I would be interested in taking a gorgeous blue merle male collie which was in desperate need of placement. My brain slipped a synapse or two and was sending a message to my mouth - a three letter word - YES - when suddenly I looked at my feet where dear old Max was snoozing comfortably. The neural terminals connected suddenly and I stammered "N-n-n-o-o-o".Mary understood what I was trying to say, and after a pleasant chat about the weather in Wisconsin we said "good bye". Whew! That was touch and go for awhile. Some day the phone will ring again and I will be able to say "Yes!"


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Casablanca is the economic capital of Morocco, a cosmopolitan city full of history, tradition, a buzzing nightlife and cultural scene, beaches and a great base from which to explore Morocco. An increasing number of people speak English, which is seen as the language of development and progress, despite French and Moroccan Arabic being more widely used. There is a sizeable expat community, sports facilities and many shopping opportunities. Day to day living is affordable, with local food of high quality and low cost (imported items are, inevitably, more expensive).
Ryanair flights run daily from Rabat to London Stansted, with daily EasyJet flights from Marrakech to Gatwick and Manchester. Royal Air Maroc runs a service from Casablanca to Heathrow and Gatwick. An extensive train network connects Casablanca to Marrakech, Rabat and Tangier; car hire is inexpensive (around 25 euros per day), meaning that Casablanca is an excellent base from which to explore Morocco.
Morocco is a land of contrasts, where the traditional and modern meet on a daily basis. The country features beaches, forests, desert, and mountains (even ski resorts). Winter temperatures in Casablanca average around 13°C, with summer temperatures averaging 26°C (although temperatures often go above 30°C). Generally speaking the climate in Casablanca is very pleasant, with plenty of sunshine, not too much rain and very few insufferably hot days. Buildings are designed to stay cool in summer, which means that some apartments can get a bit chilly during the winter – easily solved with an affordable heater and some blankets.
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We're looking for teachers with the enthusiasm and empathy to succeed in an international school. This is an exciting opportunity for many reasons; it is the first school of its kind in Morocco, with plans to open new schools in other cities in the country. Teachers will be using a curriculum combining the Cambridge curriculum with elements of the English National Curriculum. Teachers at BISC will:
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Yvette Nicole Brown will be taking over Chris Hardwick's hosting jobs on AMC... at least temporarily.
Brown will be hosting this year's The Walking Dead Season 9 Preview Special as well as Talking Dead, according to Variety. The preview special is set to air Aug. 5 with Talking Dead to resume after the premiere of Fear the Walking Dead on Aug. 12.
Hardwick is still under investigation after his ex-girlfriend Chloe Dykstra accused him of sexual assault and emotional abuse in a Medium post last month. AMC pulled Hardwick's talk show Talking with Chris Hardwick after the allegations surfaced and launched its own investigation. Hardwick's name was also scrubbed from Nerdist, the website and podcast network he co-founded, and he stepped down from his panel hosting duties at Comic-Con. Brown will be taking his place there as well and moderating both the Fear the Walking Dead and The Walking Dead panels.
Will Yvette Nicole Brown Take Over Talking Dead from Chris Hardwick?
Brown is no stranger to zombies or Talking Dead though. The actress and TV super fan has made several appearances on the after-show with binders full of notes to break down what happened in each episode.
"I will say this once. I am filling in for a friend, which I have done before. I am not jockeying for a job," Brown tweeted when the panel news was announced in early July. "I have enough of my own. It is my prayer that God's Will is done in the midst of this process & that everyone is okay. My character is known & sound. Nothing has changed."
I will say this once. I am filling in for a friend, which I have done before. I am not jockeying for a job. I have enough of my own. It is my prayer that God's Will is done in the midst of this process & that everyone is okay. My character is known & sound. Nothing has changed.— yvette nicole brown (@YNB) July 4, 2018
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Is creating a scripting language for my own personal learning experience worth it?
The reason I ask is that there are so many programming languages available already, I know mine will never have any actual use other than providing a good learning experience. I do, however, see drawbacks with just trying to make a scripting language as a learning experience: it will take a lot of time and effort in which I could be doing something more "productive."
Would creating a programming language (including writing drafts of its intended purpose, syntax, philosophy, interpreter, etc) be worth the time, effort and learning experience? Or are there other projects I could benefit more from?


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Tim Mosely, who goes by the performance name Timbaland, is one of the most innovative and influential record producers of the past decade, crafting major pop hits for artists such as Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliot, Jay-Z, Destiny's Child, TLC, Eminem, Justin Timberlake, Alicia Keys, and Linkin Park. His remarkable success has afforded him a two-story mansion on 13,000 square feet of land in Pinecrest. The compound, which he says cost around eight million dollars, is one of his many rewards for producing classic, era-defining songs such as Jay-Z's "Big Pimpin'" and Missy Elliot's "Get Ur Freak On."
But there is one goal Timbaland has not yet achieved. He wants to be buck.
Since this past November, Timbaland has embarked on an extensive weight-loss program that has helped him drop dramatically from a bloated 331 pounds to, as of this writing, a husky 222 pounds. Concurrently he is incorporating a protein-rich diet into a training regimen geared to turn body fat into thick, protruding muscles.
"I don't want to be lean and cut. I want to be buck," says Timbaland during an otherwise quiet evening at his mansion. "I just like that look. When you see horses, or animals, like you see a monkey or a gorilla, like, they cut.
"It's a freaky look. When you keep working out, you get to be almost like an animal," he continues. "I like the veins popping out. I love all that."
Improbably Timbaland is even considering entering the Mr. Miami Classic, an annual bodybuilding contest, when it is held this July. If he actually goes through with it, he may very well become the first hip-hop star to flex his muscles onstage in nothing more than a pair of spandex briefs. "I'm just going to do it to compete to shock the music industry," he says. "In the little thong shorts, the whole nine."
Timbaland's journey to physical nirvana began late last October when he met trainer José Garcia at the Forge restaurant through a mutual friend. At the time Timbaland was an overworked and overweight, albeit mega-successful, record producer. He ate sporadically, worked long hours, didn't exercise, and didn't maintain a healthy diet. When he did eat, he consumed food in large portions. Eventually his obesity hastened the onset of health and medical problems such as sugar diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and dry scalp.
"They say that when you're overweight, everything changes," says Timbaland. "In pictures you look older. You looked stressed. Weight does something to your skin; it makes you look crazy." He even recounts how he used to "sleep and snore real bad, to the point where people probably think I'm dying in my sleep. You know how overweight people go [inhales loudly] öNnnnugggghhhh'? And then I'd wake up, but I'd never really get a good night's sleep."
Before meeting Garcia last year, Timbaland had unsuccessfully tried to work out with other trainers. "[Garcia] told me to give him six weeks of my life, and he could make a difference."
Now, thanks to losing more than 100 pounds in less than six months, Timbaland is no longer afflicted by his earlier ailments. Radically transforming himself from a fast-food-nation casualty to a Mr. Universe-in-training has profoundly affected him. "I'm trying to talk to the youth," he says. "I never really saw it. Your outer being is who you are as a person. People say no, but your outside affects who you are inside."
Shortly after he began training with Garcia, Timbaland signed on as a major investor in Garcia's company Physique Nutrition, which sells training supplements. Timbaland also agreed to co-sponsor Timbaland's Physique Nutrition Beach Ball Festival, a concert and fitness competition. The April 10 event, organized by TAI Entertainment, is being held on South Beach at Eighth Street and Ocean Drive.
Billed as "a day of friendly competition between your favorite ösexy' servers," the Beach Ball Festival is atypical of the cheerily frivolous sun-'n'-fun South Beach parties held during the winter season. Employees from 25 of the area's top restaurants, lounges, and nightclubs, including Mynt, Space, Nobu, and Amika, will strip down to their bathing suits, pair up in small teams of six to eight people, and compete in games such as rock-wall climbing, tug of war, dodge ball, and relay races. The day's host will be 1997 Playboy Playmate of the Year Victoria Silvstedt.
In addition to the games, a concert will feature earnest rock band Live, reggae balladeer Maxi Priest, and R&B casanova Joe, as well as promised surprise guests. The public isn't allowed to join in the games but can shell out $20 to watch the spectacle and partake in an open bar. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
"It's a day of competition for the hospitality industry," says TAI Entertainment's Alan Roth. But what's in it for everyone else? Roth says it's an opportunity to cheer on and support your favorite nightspot, bartender, and/or server. Also he points out: "Usually when you go to a concert, you pay $25 to $35 to see one act. Here, you get to see three."
In fact it was the Beach Ball Festival that led Timbaland, through Roth, to New Times, offering to talk to us for a story. What made the request extraordinary was that Timbaland rarely speaks to the press, and then only if he has an album to promote.
But when we agreed to two nighttime interviews at his mansion and a photo shoot, Timbaland appeared to be cool, even-tempered, and quiet. Too quiet. When the Virginia producer does say something, he mumbles, his words spilling out in half-formed fragments that sometimes add up and sometimes don't. He rarely applies dates to his eventful life and career, making it difficult to suss out any sort of narrative or timeline.
Alarmingly, he sometimes yawns absentmindedly during the conversations. At one point he even closes his eyes and contentedly lies back in his chair, as if he were bored by it all. When this happens, one doesn't know what to think: Is he just getting comfortable, or is he intentionally being rude?
"He's very quiet. You talked to him once; I'm sure you didn't get more than 30 words," says Rick Frazier, Timbaland's road manager and personal assistant. Frazier, who says he owns a Dallas-based bus company called Side by Side Entertainment, met Timbaland during one of the latter's concert tours. The duo's friendship coalesced to the point where Timbaland asked Frazier to join his staff. "We're like brothers," claims Frazier.
Frazier says Timbaland is laid-back and humble but doesn't say much to anyone, whether friends or complete strangers. This was observed during one of the interviews, when Timbaland briefly excused himself to eat dinner with three of his friends. As loud voices and laughter emanated from the kitchen, his voice was noticeably absent. It was clear that his friends were doing most of the talking, not him.
"He's not Hollywood," says Frazier. "He lets his music speak for him. And now that he has that body, he's going to let his body speak for him."
Born in 1971 and raised in a handful of working-class Virginia neighborhoods, including Bridle Creek and Salem Hill, Mosely is a product of the South, from his shy courtliness to his thick, slang-ridden drawl. A Pentacostal Christian, he attends church on a regular basis and peppers his sentences with frequent references to God.
Growing up, Mosely was always into music, fiddling around with a guitar and drums. "I was never into the sport stuff," he says, though he adds that he enjoyed watching boxing on TV. His interests soon turned to hip-hop and DJ culture. When his father bought him a pair of turntables, he began making mixtapes and calling himself DJ Timmy Tim. In high school he DJ'ed at house parties and made his own beats with a Casio keyboard. "I started making beats because people wasn't making those kinds of beats I like to hear when I'm DJ'ing," he says.
Throughout his teens, Mosely met and befriended many of the key players with whom he would revolutionize the hip-hop and R&B world. He made tracks for Faze (pronounced FAYZ-ee), an R&B group led by Missy Elliot. He formed a rap group, Surrounded by Idiots, with Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo (who would later form the production team the Neptunes), Magoo (who co-wrote some of Elliot's early solo hits), and Larry Live. But Timbaland says he didn't necessarily plan on pursuing a career in music. "I didn't have no plan. I was just coasting through. I didn't know what I was going to be doing from day one," he says.
Nevertheless, soon after graduating from high school, Faze managed to snare a production deal with Donald "Devante Swing" DeGrate, the producer and mastermind behind R&B stars Jodeci, the early Nineties quartet known for hits such as "Forever My Lady" and, more important, for fusing a bad-boy sensibility with aching R&B vocalizations. "When Missy and her group went up [to New Jersey] to meet Jodeci, they brought me along," says Mosely. Elliot successfully lobbied to keep him as the group's producer, and when Swing saw what he could do in the studio, "it all fell into place," he says.
Faze eventually became Sista, issuing one album in 1994, 4 All the Sistas Around da World, before splitting up. In addition to co-producing that project with Swing, Mosely claims he made several uncredited contributions to tracks on Jodeci's Diary of a Mad Band and The Show, the Afterparty, the Hotel, including hits such as "Feenin" and "Freek'n You." "I didn't get as much props as I should have," he says. "But I'm under [Swing's] wing, so that was to be expected."
Soon after The Show, the Afterparty, the Hotel was released in July 1995, Mosely struck out on his own. Taking on the pseudonym Timbaland, he produced R&B singer Ginuwine's 1996 double-platinum debut, Ginuwine...the Bachelor. That album's million-selling single, "Pony," was strikingly unique, incomparable to anything else being played on the radio. Its rippling, popping beat, full of odd stops and starts, was robotic and fresh, like a video game gone awry. Inevitably Timbaland's groundbreaking sound spawned countless imitators, from dance producers such as the Basement Jaxx to pop pinups such as 'NSync.
Around the same time, Timbaland and Elliot began a long-running partnership as a producer and a songwriter. The duo set to work on Aaliyah's One in a Million and then Elliot's own heralded 1997 debut, Supa Dupa Fly (The Rain). These recordings established Timbaland as one of the most consistently creative producers of the era. More important, he re-established the primacy of R&B music in the pop lexicon. For years, after hip-hop culture came of age in the late Eighties, R&B was considered passé, a handmaiden to the more strident, cutting-edge rhythms driving rap music. But when Timbaland arrived, his innovative techniques were widely mimicked throughout the recording industry; in the hip-hop world, only DJ Premier (Gang Starr), RZA (Wu-Tang Clan), Dr. Dre, and P. Diddy's Bad Boy squad rivaled him in influence.
"I don't know what really broke me as a producer. But people just started talking about me," says Timbaland. "I knew I was hot when girls were like, öYo, your beats are off the chain. Your beats do something to me.' When do girls ever pay attention to beats? That's when I knew, okay, something has changed.
"I had 'NSync, Janet Jackson, all of them biting my style," he continues. For Aaliyah's 1999 number-one hit "Are You That Somebody," he remembers, "I started doing the double-beat style, doing stuff like the baby laughing in the records. They was like, öYo, what is this dude doing?' They love it."
Timbaland is an understandably confident man. Like anyone influenced by hip-hop culture, he likes to boast about his achievements, noting unapologetically, "I'm the most creative dude in this game." The sound of the baby laughing on "Are You That Somebody," for example, wasn't necessarily an original idea -- Prince used the sound on his 1982 top-ten hit "Delirious" -- but Timbaland reintroduced it for a modern audience. Similarly, when he says, "I invented this whole trend of producers being on the record," he forgets that rap producers have been appearing on their stars' records since Marley Marl introduced "The Symphony" in 1988 and Prince Paul did funny ad-libs on De la Soul's Three Feet High and Rising a year later. Certainly, in the late Nineties, P. Diddy and Timbaland took the idea of "hosting" a record -- ladling their own vocal ad-libs and trademark sounds (i.e., Timbaland's double-beat) onto someone else's track to make it hotter -- to the next level.
So why didn't Timbaland become a hip-hop star in his own right? It wasn't for lack of trying. Soon after Missy Elliot's Supa Dupa Fly (The Rain) was released, Timbaland reunited with his old rap partner Magoo and released a catchy hit single, "Up Jumps da Boogie." Timbaland and Magoo's cheery, playful debut, Welcome to Our World, sold well enough to go platinum. But the duo's next two albums sold disappointingly, as did Timbaland's only solo album, 1998's Tim's Bio.
After some prodding from a few mutual friends, personal trainer José Garcia agreed to meet with Timbaland at the Forge. Garcia had a reputation for grooming NFL players such as Miami Dolphins defensive back Arturo Freeman and 2004 Pro Bowl defensive end Adewale Ogunleye (who was traded from the Dolphins to the Chicago Bears before the 2004-05 season), as well as celebrities (whom Garcia declines to name for privacy reasons). He usually charges anywhere from $1000 to $3500 a week for his services, which include training, nutritional information, supplements, and mentoring (for example, Garcia says he talks with Timbaland a few times a day). But when he met with Timbaland, the 34-year-old Garcia had mostly abandoned his personal-training business, save for the occasional client, to focus on Physique Nutrition, a company he formed in 2003 with help from several investors, including Freeman.
Physique Nutrition markets three nutritional supplements: 4-NRG (a fat-burning additive), P-NOS (a nitric oxide stimulator), and Kre-Alkalyn. Of the three, Kre-Alkalyn, a buffered powder version of creatine, has the most sales potential. The body naturally produces small amounts of phosphocreatine. When one exercises, phosphocreatine breaks down into creatine and phosphate, and the energy released helps build muscle mass. Creatine is widely available in supplement form as creatine monohydrate. Its popularity skyrocketed when former baseball slugger Mark McGwire, during the 1998 season that saw him break the major-league home-run record, admitted to using it regularly. But Garcia explains that most creatine supplements have numerous side effects, inducing stomach cramps and liver and kidney problems, particularly when they are taken with liquids. In contrast, Kre-Alkalyn can be safely consumed with liquids. "It is the only patented, buffered form of creatine. It allows you to build up lean body mass, not necessarily to burn fat, and have muscle tone at the same time," he claims.
After the Forge meeting, Garcia and his business partner and wife, Leslie Lorenzo Garcia, drove out to Timbaland's mansion. During an hour-and-a-half interview, the couple gathered a case history from Timbaland and learned about his eating habits, his exercise routines (or lack thereof), and what he wanted to accomplish during the training program.
Timbaland's goals encompassed "more than losing weight, and that's the biggest thing we've done with him," says Garcia. "Losing weight, and then getting shaped up, and having muscle tone. His ultimate goal is to be a bodybuilder and compete, and I told him I could take him there. That's a tough goal. I mean, not everybody can reach that. It's very disciplined and very tough, especially [when you're] very heavy. But he said that's his passion, that's his biggest passion in life."
So the Garcias put Timbaland on a weight-training program that included two hour-long sessions a day. He underwent a series of strength routines, including circuit training (repeating six or more exercises, each one focusing on a different part of the body); lifting weights at a high repetition (or "high reps"); doing "super setting" exercises (or two exercises, one after the other, and usually for two antagonistic muscles such as the chest and back); and undergoing cardiovascular exercises to increase heart and lung efficiency.
The couple then prescribed a strict no-sodium, high-protein diet (for building muscle mass). The proteins included organic whole chicken; fish such as tilapia, orange ruffy, and tuna; and ground turkey and egg whites. Then there were carbohydrates such as grains like oatmeal for breakfast and brown rice. For fats there were almonds, fish oils, and flaxseeds. The vegetables encompassed broccoli, spinach, and green and red peppers. All of this food was to be consumed six times a day alongside the aforementioned Physique Nutrition supplements and at least a gallon of Syfo carbonated water a day.
Garcia admits that the regimen is shockingly intense. Complicating matters was the fact that, as a musician, Timbaland doesn't have a regular schedule. He usually enters the studio at night and works until early in the morning. But Garcia remarks that Timbaland "has a phenomenal discipline. His willpower is amazing. Someone who has been heavy all of his life, and in the last few years of his life got even heavier ... his ultimate goal was to look and be in great shape.
"He looks phenomenal today," continues Garcia. "But come two to three months from now, when he gets onstage to compete, that's when it'll blow people's minds." Still, doesn't Garcia think it's a little bizarre that a celebrity artist would want to enter the outlandish and somewhat strange world of competitive bodybuilding?
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"Yeah, it is kinda unusual," he admits. "But you know what? It's very exciting to me, because taking a celebrity from one realm, like music, and taking him to the world of bodybuilding ... he could make bodybuilding a whole different thing now."
Timbaland correctly points out that staying fit, healthy, and muscular has almost become a requirement in the entertainment industry. Communicating an image of perfection, whether it is aesthetic, mental, or physical, is viewed as key to maintaining one's celebrity. For years the world of hip-hop and R&B was immune to this philosophy -- after all, one of the most popular rappers of all time, the Notorious B.I.G., was an overweight man known as "Big Poppa." But that's changing too. The new ideal is a rock-hard body such as 50 Cent's: muscular and literally capable of surviving bullet wounds. Notably, Timbaland says 50 Cent is the only new artist he truly admires.
Now Timbaland is well on his way to being a hard body too. Interestingly, he observes, "I don't think it's the actual weight loss. It's the willpower that people get fascinated by. It's so hard [to lose a lot of weight], they wonder, öHow do you do that?' Especially for females, females like that. They're like, öThis dude took the time out of his life to set a goal, and achieved it.' That drives a person to be closer to you because you achieved something they can't do."
With a new body and a new outlook on life, Timbaland hopes that his next album, a compilation that is already slated to feature friends such as Twista and Jay-Z, will be "way hotter" than anything else he's done. "There's going to be some jump," he promises. " Plus, how I look, that's what's going to kill it. Appearance is everything."


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