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Saturday, August 20, 2011
Genealogy Education
The theme of the August 2011 edition of the OGS journal, Families, was "Genealogy Education", and it contained seven papers -
The Training of Teachers is taken from the excellent book, Education and Ontario Family History, by Toronto genealogist, Marian Press. The article and book shows us where to find the educational records in such places as The Archives of Ontario.
Childhood Forgotten: The Story of a Home Child, by Robert McCauley, the winner of the 2011 Mike Brede Genealogical Essay Prize, tells the rather tragic story of Ada Victoria Girling from London who was put in numerous homes before she came to Canada as a Home Child, and the many years it took to find her story. It's her likenesses on the cover (above), as a sad little girl, and as a striking young woman.
Genealogy for Young People: Interest, Involvement, Nurturing by OGS Vice-President, Shirley Sturdevant, is a paper by a former teacher taking us through the process of teaching children about family history.
Our Heritage … Our Past is a paper be Carol White in which she tells us about the success of Heritage Fairs in Ontario. They have gone from having one fair in 1998 to 20 in 2011!
Robert Halfyard, in his paper, Never Assume!, tells us about the people that may be related to James Miller and his wife, Jane Bradley, and how he assumed that certain people were related, but weren't.
Gwen Patterson, in Documents for the Education Sector of Ontario, recounts the history of the Ontario Educational System.
Dave Obee's Tech Tools for Genealogists is the paper you should read if you want to be brought up-to-date on Social Media. It is taken from the Conference's closing lecture that he gave in Hamilton this past May.
The upcoming themes of the November 2011 issue of Families will be "The War of 1812", and "Immigration".
The Ontario Genealogical Society now has a half-year membership available for $35.00 at www.ogs.on.ca/membership/types.php
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Frozenbyte, the makers of Trine 2, informed the site XBLA Fans at GDC that the game will be getting six new stages plus other content in downloadable content to arrive this summer.
The package will also include a new story and new character skills. Frozenbyte's Mikael Haveri said fans should expect plenty of puzzles.
Additionally, Haveri said the studio's next project would not be a sequel, and that they're looking at building another $15 game to be distributed over Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, and Steam.
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Reitman's return: 'Young Adult' showcases talent
They must have closed their eyes and crossed their fingers while they were making this film. It breaks with form, doesn't follow our expectations, and is about a heroine we like less at the end than at the beginning. There are countless movies about queen bitches in high school, but Young Adult has its revenge by showing how miserable they can be when they're pushing 40.
The movie stars Charlize Theron, one of the best actors now working, as Mavis, a character we thoroughly dislike. Not only is she drop-dead gorgeous, but we see how she makes herself look that way, and what happens when it comes undone. She plays the onetime high school beauty queen in Mercury, Minn., who moved to the big city (Minneapolis), got her own condo, and is sorta famous as the author of a series of a young adult novels about popular teens. Back home in Mercury they think of her as a glamorous success. Of course they haven't seen her in years.
They're about to. In real life, Mavis lives alone, her apartment is a pigpen, she chugs liters of Diet Coke and throws back shots of bourbon, and is likely to be single until the end of time. She receives an email from Buddy Slade (Patrick Wilson), her high school boyfriend. Buddy and his wife, Beth (Elizabeth Reaser), have just had a baby, and here's a photo of the little darlin'. That does it. Full review.Read more on: movie review


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Sony Ericsson Xperia arc - Right on the Mark
Overview & Design
A[r]ching for Style?
The Sony Ericsson Xperia arc has been on our radar for quite some time now - we initially did a short preview article with a video overview on the classy looker. The Android 2.3 device comes as one of the latest additions to its increasingly Android-crowded mobile space, but with a fairly unique preposition. Not only does the wiry phone boast of a unique design, it also comes with a huge 4.2-inch Reality Display touchscreen with the new Mobile BRAVIA Engine technology. Is the arc as good as it promises to be? Let's start with a recap of its design aspects:
Off the bat, we must say we are impressed - the phone is really very thin, light, fashionable, stylish and classy. However, because of this attention to weight, the phone's sturdiness feels somewhat compromised. As a result, the device feels fragile because of the light materials used to construct the arc with its rear plastic cover feeling like it can be easily snapped into two pieces. The other smaller area of concern we had was with the arc's fingerprint-friendly shiny sides which should have been replaced with a matte material finish.
While we are fans of the simple and clean design, we felt that more attention to detail would have benefited the physical buttons used across the device. For example, the tiny power button was too flushed for comfortable use while the shutter button required better positioning.
Apart from the above concerns, the overall handling experience was positive with its scarce weight of 117g evenly distributed across a comfortably-sized body.
Our initial impressions remain consistent to our first trial over three months ago - the user experience is largely a positive one due to its slim build and lightweight body. On the other hand, we weren't big fans of its small, sometimes, impractically positioned buttons and unlit symbols (the latter has resulted in occasions where we find ourselves awkwardly fumbling in the dark).


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Appeals court: Hainstock conviction stands:
In 2006 a then 15-year-old Eric Hainstock shot and killed John Klang in the halls of Weston Schools where Klang was the principal. The usual excuses were given, he was bullied, he had a hard home life, etc. Hainstock has become a favorite of the pearl-twisters since he was tried as an adult and sentenced to life in prison.
Hainstock had previously tried to get a new trial saying his counsel was ineffective but that appeal was denied.
Last week The Wisconsin Court of Appeals upheld Hainstock's conviction once again denying him a new trial. This time it was argued that his confession should have been ruled inadmissible which the court agreed with. However, the court also ruled that witness testimony would have been more than enough to convict Hainstock and send him to prison for life.
Now before everyone gets all weepy-eyed over this punk spending his life in prison John Klang actually tried to help Hainstock with not only the alleged bullying but also with Hainstock's home life. However, he suspended Hainstock for being caught with cigarettes which was his job and Hainstock fires a number of bullets into him at almost point-blank range.
That's not someone I want in my society.
Hainstock's lawyer says he will appeal to the Wisconsin Supreme Court but I have to say what I always say in these cases.
John Klang doesn't have the luxury of appealing his unwarranted death sentence.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 109 diseños de 32 diseñadores freelance.
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I would like a logo that conveys some image of growth, or progress, or taking the next steps. The logo must also seem very professional and not too trendy
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�You know,� I sometimes tell people in this newsroom, �I wouldn�t talk to us, either.�
One thing that reporters, especially the young ones, fail to realize is that no one is required to cooperate with the news media.
We�d prefer it if you would, but we can�t make you. Even if you�re the mayor. It�s up to reporters and editors to establish trust with our readers, the public officials that we cover and the average citizen who might only have her name in the newspaper once.
Some people do talk to the Times-News. And some people go out of their way to help us as we try to tell the story of this community and to try in some small way to make it a better place.
Around here we often refer to such a person as a �Friend of the Times-News.�
They support their local newspaper and know the value of it as the long-term viability of our business has been questioned over the years.
So as I sat down to write a column for this newspaper for the last time, I thought I would list as many of these folks as space allows. Some have done a lot to help me in the years that I have worked here. Others just struck me as nice people.
They are people who have brought me gifts and who have asked how my children are doing. In the last couple of weeks, as I�ve tried to extricate myself from a job that has been such a huge part of my life, they have sent me well wishes.
They are folks I will remember.
The list started with the late Tom Woody. We used to joke that Frances Woody�s husband was an unpaid intern and he spent years doing the toting and fetching we didn�t have time to do but was needed to make this place run. He�s the nicest man I have ever met and if I needed to choose the person I would want to be when I grow up, I would choose Tom.
It included Walter Boyd. This local attorney and historian has enriched our pages with fascinating stories about the bizarre aspects of local history.
I put Harold Owen on that list. Now the city manager, Harold was once a city department head when I was writing about the city. He always took time to be available, answer questions and be friendly.
There was Faye Boswell, the tireless force who makes the Hospice League of Alamance-Caswell run.
I also included local elected officials like Ed Hooks on the Mebane City Council and Tim Sutton on the Alamance County Board of Commissioners, both of whom would always talk to me when I was a reporter and let me know what was going on so I could have stories to write.
There were others whose name I couldn�t exactly nail down for the list. I�d see them out around town or talk to them on the phone. They would leave little gifts for me at the front desk.
After a while I decided that writing such a list would be a bit foolish. I couldn�t do that list justice, not in the 22 inches of news column space I use. There are a lot of nice folks around here.
Suffice it to say that I leave this place where I have worked since 1999 with a lot of memories and a lot of friends.
And I leave amazed at the kindness that has been shown to me by these �Friends of the Times-News.�
I�ll miss you.
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The 2011 BMW M5 will likely drop its V10 in favor of a torquey 4.4-liter twin-turbo V8 pumping out an expected 540 HP. Rumors aside, these spy photos clearly show a brawnier Bimmer with quad exhaust pipes.
Of course, it's also possible the rumor-mill is wrong and we're actually getting a twin-turbo V10 or something equally ridiculous. Other rumors suggest it could be getting a carbon fiber roof, F1-Style KERS system and use lots of aluminum. Either way, we hope we get more than just the seven-speed dual-clutch manumatic because daddy likes to shift his own gears.


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It's tempting to dismiss the cutthroat campaign against San Jose Councilwoman Rose Herrera in District 8 as business-as-usual politics. But when misleading information is presented in a sensational fashion by police officers, it's different.
The police union has a right to get involved in politics. But actions that might be all right for other unions are troubling for officers who need the public's trust to do the job. If Herrera loses this election, Evergreen and San Jose will lose. Regardless, the police union is losing something in this campaign.
The police union hates Herrera. There's no other way to put it. We hope voters see through the scare tactics that imply she is single-handedly to blame for the uptick in crime, particularly burglaries, in San Jose. The fact that burglaries are up everywhere along the Highway 101 corridor — even in Palo Alto — has not yet been laid at Herrera's door, but give it time.
Herrera is flustered by the attacks, which say she "rolled out the red carpet for criminals," and she isn't always as clear as she should be when discussing statistics. But she and a majority of council members are doing the right thing, even when it may not be politically expedient. She is a key vote for responsible budgets and public safety policies.
For example, if the city had not negotiated a 10 percent pay cut for police — money the officers now want back — the force would have been cut to 950 back in 2011. Today there are still 1,054 officers on the job, and the city is hiring to get back to the budgeted level of 1,100. That's not enough, but prudent budgeting supported by Herrera has kept it from being worse.
A favorite theme of the police is Herrera's voting against increased staffing in the police burglary unit. But police Chief Chris Moore and his assistant strongly opposed this, arguing that it would take officers off patrol and was not the best use of manpower. Evergreen and San Jose need a council member smart enough to know when to listen to the experts and strong enough to vote in the public interest even when she's aware it will be used against her.
Perhaps most disingenuous, the officers are holding meetings in Evergreen ostensibly to help people guard against crime, when the sessions are part of their campaign strategy. One was scheduled the same night as a City Council study session on police staffing. They are also blocking Moore, who is retiring in January, from having civilian investigators do background checks on new recruits, which would free up 17 officers for patrol.
Herrera has been critical to the single most important step to balance the city budget and rebuild the police force: She has supported pension reform — and so has District 8, where more than 70 percent of voters approved Measure B in June. The police budget is ballooning largely because of retirement costs, which shot up from $150 million to $245 million in just the past few years.
Voters who feel themselves swayed by those scary mailers need to look a little deeper.


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Enjoy a "home away from home" with this delightful wooden dollhouse. Two flexible, wooden play figures live in this house, complete with eleven pieces of wooden furniture. The dollhouse opens for easy access and folds closed for convenient storage.
Dimensions: 13.13" x 10.63" x 6.13" Assembled
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Os Dejo Con Una Selección Dec & You De Despachos En Casa Ya Sabéis
HI, buddies. Do you like reading? What kinds of books do you like? Do you like comics or novels? Whatever the book you like, you must have a shelf to put your books in it, right? Why don't you design a home library in your house? Are you confused what kinds of home library? Don't worry. I will share it for you. Let's check these pictures.
Do you see something strange in this house? You can see a unique library, right? There are two floor home library designed with large bookshelf. The bookshelf is made from wood. I like this home library. Why? If you want to reach some books you want, you have pass the stylish ladder connects to bookshelf on the upstairs. Under the bookshelf, there are some beautiful rugs on wooden floor. The transparency of wall around this library gives charming nuance.
Other home library is designed with black and white theme. Look at this picture. There is a stylish rocking chair in grey theme. If you want to lay down while reading some books a sofa bed in white theme presented there. The shelf is not only used to place many books, but also used to put some cute souvenirs with black and white theme also.Most of the books are covered by black theme also. What a cute home libraryRead more »


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Tokyo, Japan
This Envisat radar image delineates the extent of Tokyo, the largest urban agglomeration in the world.
Defined at its narrowest the city of Tokyo has 8.1 million inhabitants, while the Tokyo prefecture amounts to 12.1 million. However what is called 'Greater Tokyo', stretching around Tokyo Bay, is home to a massive 33.4 million people, accounting for 26% of the entire Japanese population.
Unlike comparable mega-cities, the population of Tokyo is remaining broadly constant, the main development being a movement of people from its core to the margins, partly driven by exorbitant city centre rents. Finger-shaped extensions of development correspond to comparable land prices and commute times.
Tokyo's centre lies mainly south of the Ara-kawa River. Other visible rivers on this image are the Edo-gawa River to its north and the Tama-gawa River just to its south, all three rivers streaming into Tokyo Bay.
Spot the difference between the area northwest of Tokyo Bay, where the colours are predominantly grey and white - signs of dense construction - and its south-eastern opposite. With overall brownish colours is the site of the Minami Boso Quasi National Park, known for its beautiful beaches and wild flowers. Note the runways of Haneda Airport in the Bay, distinctively black in this radar image.
Another clearly visible example of modern infrastructure is the five-kilometre bridge of the Tokyo Wan Aqua-Line, the trans-Tokyo Bay highway, extending from the east side to seemingly vanish in the middle of the Bay. The remaining ten kilometres of road to the Kawasaki side is in a tunnel running 60 metres beneath the surface of the water. The Tokyo Wan Aqua-Line opened in December 1997 and provides easy access from the south part of the Bay to the Tokyo area.
Radar images measure surface roughness rather than reflected light. The colour in the image comes from the fact that this is actually a combination of three Envisat Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) image mode precision images, and is used to highlight changes occurring between acquisitions. A colour is assigned to each date of acquisition: red for 12 April 2004, green for 17 June 2004 and blue for 2 February 2004.


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[Verse 1]
Everybody know you sweet, what the problem is
Don't play dumb, I'm the one that acknowledged it
Son of a bitch, I imagine what your father is
She said, "How you make your opponent
The rapper of the moment?" His style, he don't own it
Acting all hard when he hardly like that
You gon' mess around and make me catch a body like that
Awwww, don't do it
Cause every song you make, Joe, is really ho music
I heard you said you wasn't a bitch because you sing
You a bitch because you cling like a bitch that's eighteen
Can't say my name but rap about a nigga's wife
You so black and white, trying to live a nigga's life
I'm taking too long with this amateur guy
You ain't wet nobody, nigga, you Canada dry
Soft nigga. Make no mistake, I'm talking to Drake
It's the remix. Rick Ross, Common, and that ho-ass nigga
No, man-to-man, don't hide behind them other niggas
Nah, this man-to-man. You can't run behind them man
This is some real man shit right here
[Destiny's Child sample]
Say my name, say my name
If no one is around you
If you ain't running game
Say my name, say my name
You acting kinda shady
Why the sudden change?
Say my name, say my name
If no one is around you
If you ain't running game
Say my name, say my name
You acting kinda shady
Better say my name
Common fires back after hearing sweet ol' Aubrey diss him on Rozay's "Stay Schemin'."


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Hey forum,
so I saw this video a while back. I don't KNOW if this is true, or if this guy is lying. But, if it is true then that would completely change the way we consider, not only nuclear energy, but all energy electricity production on the planet earth. I will share my perspectives on it after some time, to leave you to make your own assessment. This is a 1.5 hour video of this guy simply talking to a crowd of people. He claims he helped design the nuclear power plants in the world, and has worked with nuclear energy his entire life. He is an american, and at the very least he is quite entertaining and has quite a personality. So again, I don't know if this is true, but I think it is worth seeing and investigating and comparing that with other sources of information to see whether we can determine what is really going on. I know with Fukushima and the failure of the nuclear power plant, has lead to many concerns of radiation in the ocean. So I say it is worth considering this possibility and investigating whether radiation is indeed safe or not. Thanks.


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Let's look back to 2012!
In this SP-Studio picture contest you can show events and trends of the last year. We had contests like this for the years 2010 and 2011 already, so if you need inspiration you can have a look at them here.
Examples for possible topics: The apocalypse, Curiosity on Mars, The 2012 Summer Olympics, Gangnam Style, Syrian civil war, terrorist attacks because of "Innocence of Muslims", Felix Baumgartner's jump, Hurricane Sandy, shootings in the U.S., Typhoon Bopha, Deaths of famous people (Whitney Houston, Neil Armstrong,...), movies (The hobbit, The dark knight rises, The Avengers, Skyfall,...), games (Mass Effect 3, XCOM, Diablo 3, FEZ, The walking Dead,...),...
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A SENIOR BHP Billiton executive recounts a story about being ensconced in a meeting at the group's head office tower in Melbourne when the chief executive, Marius Kloppers, strode in, removed the phone pod used for conference calls from the centre of the round table and put it in a cupboard. The participants were dumbfounded.
Another staffer recalls Kloppers, who sits atop a staff of 40,000 in 25 countries, swooping down unannounced to tidy up the computer cords behind his desk.
The soon-to-retire head of the world's largest mining company has a mantra: accountability and simplicity. He has been outed before for the militaristic-like neat freak obsession that trickled down to every layer of the organisation – no eating hot food at the desk and one framed photo per employee.
On May 10, Kloppers will work his last day at the helm of BHP Billiton, cruise home to his suburban home in Melbourne, kick off his black leather slip-ons and place them (neatly) in the assigned cupboard. He will then turn his attention to the Higher School Certificate.
The youngest of his three children is about to face this academic challenge. His contribution to his daughter Gabrielle's performance may be more about time management than math. "We manage by policy but not detail," Kloppers says.
But this week was all about the management of his legacy. Since announcing he would vacate his position as one of the world's most powerful executives, it's been back-to-back briefings and meals with with analysts and investors, flanked by his successor, Andrew Mackenzie.
His scorecard has been picked over and compared with peers. His greatest achievements and worst moments have been trawled through. Jaws have hit tables at the $75 million value of his valedictory pay packet.
The one thing Kloppers, who is often described as the smartest person in the room regardless of the size and calibre of the crowd, didn't have control over was the timing of his departure. He would rather have seen out the year but the board had different ideas. The heady era of the resources boom is over and BHP's chairman, Jac Nasser, decided now was the time for fresh blood.
During his time Kloppers had attempted $200 billion of acquisitions and billions more investment in new projects. Mackenzie, a Scotsman, is tailor-made for the BHP's new phase – consolidation, watching the pennies and working the assets harder. Importantly, he has operational experience in energy as well as minerals.
Rarely has the ground been so meticulously prepared for the departure of a chief executive, or a corporate machine worked so hard to prepare the ground for the changing of the guard.
The process began in November with a leak to the Financial Times newspaper, citing headhunter sources, proclaiming with certainty that the search for a successor to Kloppers had begun.
Aghast as the company claimed to be at such a notion, there was no real attempt to deny it. There was equal finger-wagging by the BHP machine at suggestions this could be connected to the company's $2.84 billion impairment charge in August over its recently acquired shale assets in the US. The board was well prepared for this barrage of criticism. Such was its desire to distance Kloppers from single-handed blame that Nasser took the unusual step of backing him up in a statement, saying he supported the actions of the chief executive and agreed it was the right investment decision for BHP.
The task ahead was to convince investors. In this endeavour there has been mixed success.
Nasser didn't have to read the tea leaves to know how unpopular the $20 billion shale oil/gas asset was in the eyes of analysts and investors. It was a major factor in Kloppers' declining score in last year's Corporate Confidence Index – a confidential ratings report based on views of analysts and investors. The price of the gas these assets contain has experienced a minor improvement but some of BHP's investors remain sceptical. This has been despite the fact that the media has been warming to the investment, taking the view that it could ultimately change the geopolitical landscape around the world supply of energy.
THE pressure to inject fresh managerial blood only increased towards the end of last year when the prices of its two major products, iron ore and coal, went into a downward spin.
Kloppers, like his peers, had promoted caution and warned of some price moderation. But none had seem the commodities rout coming. The pack had collectively gazed through the same rose-clouded crystal ball.
There has always been an intense rivalry between Australia's two resource giants, BHP and Rio Tinto. Be it size, performance, the quality of assets, stock prices or shareholder returns, these two are forensically compared. They have now lined up on a new measurement – the replacement of their CEOs.
Kloppers' resignation, coming hot on the heels of the departure of the Rio boss, Tom Albanese, is not just coincidental.
Nasser denies it had any bearing but fresh governance brings with it the opportunity to reposition priorities around everything from capital expenditure, exploration and balance sheets to dividend policy.
But the unceremonious ousting of Albanese gave Rio a fresh slate, in the same way as the removal of the heads of two other mining majors, Xstrata and Anglo American, had done a few months earlier.
But where Rio and Anglo sold the changes as an opportunity for an overhaul, BHP's new boss Mackenzie is labelling his task as pursuing the same strategy but with extra vigilance.
The deference in approach between BHP and Rio is chalk and cheese.
Where Albanese was busy packing framed photos of his family in cardboard boxes while the announcement of his removal was being made, Kloppers was presenting the half-year results to the market with Mackenzie at his side.
The company had even produced a video of the outgoing and incoming chief executives together, all smiles and unity.
It was a BHP love-in full of effusive praise for Kloppers, humility from Mackenzie and backing vocals from Nasser.
Of Mackenzie, Kloppers talks personally: "You showed faith in me … which was beyond anything, and you know I consider you in a very real sense – not just in theory but in practice – the guy I will go to if I'm asking advice for my kids."
Nasser swooned: "Under Marius' leadership we've seen BHP grow to one of the most valuable companies in the world, and that isn't an opinion, it's there in the results."
The chief financial officer, Graham Kerr, had the task of presenting the details of the half-year result, which included a 38 per cent fall in earnings before interest and tax, further exacerbated by $2.7 billion of impairments on BHP's alumina and nickel assets.
CLEARING some of the underperforming assets out of the BHP portfolio at an acceptable price will be Mackenzie's job.
But where Albanese had been turfed as a result of a $14 billion write-down in its aluminium division and the ill-fated coal purchase in Mozambique, Kloppers' mistakes were, by comparison, negligible.
It will be years before an informed judgment can be made on BHP's shale gas punt. The $40 billion attempt to acquire Potash Corp was not considered a cross on Kloppers' scorecard but the inability to seal the deal attracted some criticism.
Far more controversial was Kloppers' $147 billion attempt to buy Rio Tinto. "What a fantastic deal that would have been for the time that it was launched, when I think from memory the iron ore price was about $40 [per tonne]. What a terrible deal that would have been in the global financial crisis. We engineered a way that we would have had a choice, and we exercised that choice," Kloppers said.
As luck would have it, European competition regulators knocked it back. Kloppers says it was more a case of disarming the gun than dodging the bullet.
His near six-year reign is marked by this aggressive acquisition strategy, which for some of his time was enabled by riding on the wave of record commodity prices, while some was seizing the opportunity provided by a strong balance sheet and struggling competitors to try to add to the company's stable of large tier one assets.
e world over the past six months has changed and BHP's strategy has evolved.
Mackenzie and his new counterpart at Rio, Sam Walsh, have a new agenda – a new imperative. It's not about spending, it's about saving.
Neither BHP nor Rio talk about acquisitions now. Sam Walsh delivered a homily last week, when releasing Rio's results, about getting back to basics, accountability and operating like a small business.
While expressed differently, Mackenzie delivered the same message this week. It's about focused investment on the large established assets and cost reductions.
It's about bleeding the assets harder and reducing the expenditure and using it more judiciously.
This is the new battle ground.
Exactly which of the BHP's executives Mackenzie chooses to help him in this task is unknown. There will be a reshuffle and senior roles will go or change. Those in key management roles will be sweating on them over the weekend.
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New appointment to New Zealand Tourism BoardTourism Prime Minister
The Prime Minister and Tourism Minister John Key today announced the appointment of Mike O'Donnell as a member of the New Zealand Tourism Board.
Mr O'Donnell is the Chief Operating Officer for Trade Me, New Zealand's largest online business; a business columnist; and Chairman of Positively Wellington Tourism.
Mr O'Donnell is resigning his Chairmanship to take up his position on the New Zealand Tourism Board.
"The skills, personal attributes and experience that Mr O'Donnell brings to the table will be of great value to the New Zealand Tourism Board," says Mr Key.
Mr O'Donnell has been appointed for a three-year term and replaces Malcolm Johns, who is departing the Board in October 2013, following completion of his second term.
"I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mr Johns for his commitment and service over his two terms with the Board," says Mr Key.
The New Zealand Tourism Board (known as Tourism New Zealand) is a Crown entity, responsible for ensuring that New Zealand is effectively marketed as a visitor destination in order to maximise long-term benefits to New Zealand.


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Divers revisit the Keilawarra wreck
IT stands encrusted in marine life, as a stark reminder of the lives lost at sea in one of Australia's greatest maritime disaster.
For 126-years the telegraph of The Keilawarra, the 61-metre iron steam ship that sank near North Solitary Island has risen from the ocean floor suspended in the full astern position.
For photographer Mark Spencer, who revisited the 19th century shipwreck again at the weekend, the telegraph along with the ship's stern offers a haunting insight into the ill-fated voyage.
"The propeller shots I took also show the stern has dropped down over the propeller, such that the prop is now inside the stern," Mark said.
"This is an emotive area of the wreck because it was the area where people clung when the ship was sinking Titanic-like with the stern out of the water."
The Keilawarra was bound for Brisbane when it impacted with a smaller steamer, The Helen Nicoll on the night of December 8, 1886.
Historical accounts say "smoke from the funnels had partly obscured the view ahead, as both vessels maintained full steam."
In scenes later echoed by the sinking of the Titanic, the Keilawarra plunged into the depths just seven minutes after impact.
It took with it some 40 people, while the badly damaged Helen Nicoll limped back to shore.
The Keilawarra last made headlines in February 2010, after Mark Spencer revealed the ship's safe had been plundered by thieves, thought to be professional shipwreck salvagers.
Rediscovered in 73-metres off the coast of Arrawarra in 2000, the wreck was studied for 30 minutes by this latest dive team before their arduous two-and-a-half hour decompression ascent.
Mark Spencer will announce plans to conserve artefacts from the Keilawarra at a SURG (Solitary Islands Underwater Research Group) discussion at the National Marine Science Centre on June 6 at 6.30pm.
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100% Pure New Zealand Winter Games is making history this August as the first elite snow sports event to have able bodied and athletes with a disability compete together.
100% Pure New Zealand Winter Games will provide the opportunity for both able bodied and athletes with a disability to race alongside each other in the alpine skiing and cross-country skiing disciplines. However, with valuable points available for Olympic and Paralympic qualification, the scoring system will be separate under FIS (Federation International de Ski) and IPC (International Paralympic Committee) regulations.
"This is a new concept in high performance competition," said Winter Games NZ CEO, Arthur Klap. "We believe no distinction should be made between any athletes that perform at the highest possible level, against the best in the world. To this end, adaptive and able bodied athletes will be competing at the same time, on the same course."
The importance of 100% Pure New Zealand Winter Games in the adaptive skiing calendar is further highlighted by IPC's decision to set the qualifying standard for the Games at the same level as for the Paralympics. This is a direct result of 100% Pure New Zealand Winter Games' progressive decision to include adaptive skiing in the mainstream programme.
Athletes confirmed to date include top New Zealand skier, Adam Hall from Wanaka, Otago who is currently ranked second in the world for slalom and seventh for giant slalom.
"Winter Games NZ will be great for New Zealand in the sense that it's the biggest adaptive ski event ever held here. It'll be really exciting and people would never have seen anything like this here before," he said. "It's also a major stepping stone for me in my preparation for the Paralympics in Vancouver. The support staff and myself can work together as a team and use it a practice run for 2010. The athletes that are here will also be in Vancouver so it's a perfect opportunity to test myself against them."
Athletes with a range of physical disabilities or visual impairment will compete. There are three classes of skiers – standing, sitting (using a specially mono ski) and visually impaired (who race with a guide). In the cross-country disciplines adaptive athletes either ski on two Nordic skis or in a special ski chair with long poles – these athletes are particularly fit and strong. All are professional athletes who train and compete all year round.
The inaugural 100% Pure New Zealand Winter Games will take place at Coronet Peak, The Remarkables, Cardrona Alpine Resort, Snow Farm, Naseby and Dunedin from 21-30 August 2009. It will feature disciplines of alpine skiing, free skiing, x-country skiing, snowboarding, curling, ice skating and adaptive snow sports as well as the demonstration sports of winter triathlon and natural luge.
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The other half has reserved the TV this evening so I am keeping busy by doing some more screenshots.
The Aerosoft Airbus Extended is flying south over the Scottish borders and the A2A civilian Mustang is stooging about over part of the Lake District national park in Cumbria.
Scenery is Playsims Uk VFR photographic.
Civilian Mustang by A2A Simulations
Airbus X (A320/321) by Aerosoft


text: Friday, June 28, 2013 Hawaii Becomes Final State to Require Regulation of PTAs In a move that also provides title protection for PTAs and the doctor of physical therapy degree (DPT), Hawaii Gov Neil Abercrombie signed a bill (SB 1074) yesterday requiring the licensure of physical therapist assistants (PTA) in the state. Passage of SB 1074 signifies another landmark moment for the physical therapy profession in that all 50 states and the District of Columbia now regulate physical therapist assistants. SB 1074, which was advocated for by the Hawaii Chapter of APTA (HAPTA), will promote patient safety and quality of care by ensuring that only individuals who have met specific criteria are licensed to act in the capacity of a physical therapist assistant. Prior to passage of SB 1074, Hawaii was the only state in the union that did not provide for the state regulation of PTAs. In addition to providing for the licensure of PTAs, the new law enacts a number of changes. It establishes title protection both for the regulatory designation "PTA" and for the doctor of physical therapy (DPT) educational degree. The legislation also provides for changes to the composition of the state physical therapy licensing board by eliminating the seat reserved for a physician and replacing it with a seat for a physical therapist assistant. See more in the full press release.


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Avi is a Jerusalem cab driver who has a regular passenger whom he refers to as his "special mitzvah". Almost every day he transports a totally blind youngster from his home in Tel Aviv to a special school for the sightless in Jerusalem.
A very special relationship has developed between the youngster and the cabbie who treats him like his own child.
One day Avi had a rich tourist for a passenger who was so impressed with the kindness shown by the cabbie that he made him an offer he was sure could not be refused.
"I have $10,000 here in my pocket," he said, "which I am prepared to give you if you sell me the merit of your mitzvah in dealing with this child."
To his surprise Avi, a non-observant Jew with a Jewish heart, informed him that for even a million dollars he would not give up the merit of this mitzvah, which he saw as his passport to Gan Eden.


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Kids with autism (also called autism spectrum disorder) have differences in the way their brains develop and process information. They might have language delays or trouble communicating with others, perform certain unusual or repetitive behaviors, or have difficulties learning in school.
No two cases of autism are exactly alike — depending on a child's condition, symptoms can be severe and interfere with everyday tasks or they can be mild and cause few problems. Doctors and scientists call this range of symptoms a "spectrum."
In the past, doctors didn't know a lot about autism. But that's changing. New research has made it easier for doctors to diagnose and begin treating kids earlier than ever before. With early and appropriate treatment that usually includes speech and behavioral therapy, kids with autism can have the opportunity to reach their best potential.
Signs of autism are usually recognizable by 2 or 3 years of age. But because symptoms are sometimes hard to notice, it can take longer to fully identify autism. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that pediatricians look for signs that suggest the possibility of autism at every visit. Formal autism screening can begin as early as 16 months of age.
Signs of autism can include:
Kids who show a pattern of these behaviors should be evaluated by a doctor with expertise in developmental disorders, such as a developmental pediatrician, pediatric neurologist, pediatric psychologist, or psychiatrist.
To diagnose autism, doctors will talk to parents and spend time interacting with the child. They might use parent questionnaires or have a child evaluated to test abilities and behaviors related to learning, communication, and play. While brain scans are rarely needed, they can be used to help rule out other conditions. At this time, there is no brain scan or no blood test to diagnose autism.
Causes of autism are not yet fully understood, but scientists believe that genes and environmental factors are involved. In fact, new research has found that genes play a major role; there's a 30% chance of a child developing autism if a sibling has it.
But this doesn't necessarily mean that autism is passed down from parent to child. Some studies suggest that kids with a genetic risk or predisposition to autism might develop it when they are exposed to something (yet unknown) in the environment.
Other studies have suggested that autism could be caused by viruses, allergies, or vaccines. But none of these theories have been scientifically proven. In fact, the vast majority of scientific studies on vaccines have found no link between vaccines — or any of their ingredients — and autism. The fraudulent 1998 study that suggested such a link was later retracted by the medical journal that originally published it and the study's author was stripped of his medical license.
It's also important to remember that autism is not caused by parenting or bad experiences. Earlier theories that suggested this have been disproved.
Although there's no cure for autism, early intervention and therapy can help kids develop skills and achieve their best potential. Therapy is tailored to each child's individual needs and may include behavioral, educational, speech, and occupational therapies.
The goal of therapy is to help kids learn how to:
Research suggests that a minimum of 25 hours a week of social, behavioral, play, speech, and other developmental therapies can help maximize a child's potential. Sometimes medications are also used to treat certain symptoms, like aggression toward oneself or others, problems of inattention, obsessive-compulsive behaviors, and mood swings.
While there's little research to support the use of non-traditional or alternative therapies — such as diet modification, supplements, music, art, and animal therapies — some families have reported significant benefits from them.
Before age 3, children receive therapy through their home state's early intervention program. Families work together with therapists to develop an Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP), which outlines the types of therapy to be given and their goals. A team of therapists (which may include behavioral and speech therapists and special education teachers) provides in-home therapy.
The goal of treatment is to help kids get to the point where they can learn in a regular classroom and become as independent as possible in daily life.
Kids ages 3-5 are entitled to free preschool services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Educational and therapeutic programs are offered through local school districts or other educational facilities — either at home or in a classroom. Some areas also offer parent education to help parents with the challenges of raising a child with developmental disabilities.
Once kids reach kindergarten, parents can ask to set up an individualized education plan (IEP) through the local school district. An IEP can include educational as well as behavioral, social, and self-care goals.
Once you discover your child may have a developmental delay, it's important to get help. Even before a formal diagnosis of autism is made, your child can begin early intervention to address language and other delays.
Unfortunately, treatment can be expensive and often is not reimbursed by insurance companies. But help is out there if you look in the right places — for instance, federally funded grants that cover the costs of autism services or research studies that diagnose, evaluate, and treat kids with autism.
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"I'd love to see some boot-up times and wake-from-standby times to see the impact of the solid-state storage. With video and comparisons to other current laptops."
This isn't a great comparison because my MBP is almost two years old and the Air is brand spanking new. Even given that, I'd still say I'm excited about the speedup of the wake-from-sleep and boot times.
"I'm also having a hard time believing you can open the lid with just one finger, without holding the lower case down to the table with another hand. Or did they really balance the spring tension perfectly against the weight of the lower case?"
It's definitely not as easy as it was made out to be in the video. Opening it takes a little more effort, at least on the 11" model.
"Seriously, in your hands there it looks like a cardboard mockup."
It's really quite solid, like all the unibody products that Apple makes today. It doesn't feel flexible or weak at all.
"For someone coming from a first gen Intel mac mini, would the 11 inch MBA be considered snappy enough as a primary machine?"
I'd say definitely, if only for the SSD.
"Do they have Target Disk Mode via the USB ports? For that matter, should I even assume they can be booted from an external USB hard drive?"
You can boot from USB (the software restore disk is distributed on a USB key, in fact). As for target disk mode, this hasn't been supported on many of the new products from Apple, most notably because of the lack of firewire.
"How's the keyboard? I have not been enamored with the keyboard on any of the Mac laptops I've been able to play with. "
It's just like every other Apple keyboard. If you like Model Ms, you're going to be very disappointed. It's a notebook.
"Heat and noise. Do they get toasty under prolonged use?"
No noise that I can determine. I tried baking it with YouTube videos and I was able to get each core going at 30-40 percent, with the CPU core temperatures up to around 60°C. The bottom of the device did get pretty warm.
I then played four YouTube videos simultaneously to get the processors pegged around 75-80 percent, and five videos got the machine pushing both cores into 90 percent usage for a while. Obviously, most of the video wasn't playing well at this point, but the cores seemed to max out around 72-75°C, mostly because the fans kicked on after around 2-3 minutes.
I had to put my ear right up next to the back of the laptop to actually know for sure that the fans were really running. The fans are very quiet.
The temperature on the bottom of the device was what I would describe as mild. You can tell it's warmer, but maybe only 10 degrees above ambient. After about 5-7 minutes of this, and with the fans running for a while, it got slightly warmer. Still, it's nothing I haven't felt on any other laptop before, and nothing I would describe as "hot."
"Does anyone know if it supports the Apple Remote? The MBPs do, of course, but the plastic Macbook does not. What about the Air? "
I didn't give it much time, but it doesn't appear to work.
"If you plug in one of those Headphone+Mic headsets they make for iPhones, would it pick up voice?"
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WASHINGTON -- U.S. troop deaths in Afghanistan have plunged to the lowest level in four years, reflecting a pullback from direct combat into the less deadly role of advising and assisting Afghan forces as they do more of the fighting.
Attacks by Taliban insurgents also have declined, although the war is far from finished.
Pentagon figures show that the U.S. lost three soldiers in January, including one who died of injuries suffered in December. That was the lowest monthly total since December 2008.
The total of 30 U.S. deaths over the past three months is the lowest for any three-month stretch of the war since late 2008 and early 2009.
The improvement is more than a statistical note. It marks the approaching end of battlefield sacrifice by U.S. troops who fought the nation's two post-Sept. 11 wars -- more than eight years in Iraq and 11-plus years in Afghanistan.
The last U.S. troops left Iraq in December 2011, with a cumulative death toll of nearly 4,500 and more than 30,000 wounded. In Afghanistan, a little more than 2,000 have died and 18,000 more have been wounded.
Harder to calculate is the psychological toll on troops and their families, underscored by a rising number of military suicides, which last year reached a post-2001 high.
"The reality is that while combat operations may wind down, the impact of these wars, and the high state of readiness the military must maintain, means that the need for ... services and bereavement support will continue for military families," said Ami Neiberger-Miller, spokeswoman for the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, a private support group.
By the end of next year, all American combat troops are to have left Afghanistan, although President Barack Obama may keep a few thousand there to continue training Afghan forces and to press the hunt for terrorists. He is expected to make a decision, in consultation with allies, by the end of this month.
The U.S. now has 66,000 troops in Afghanistan.
Afghans already are taking heavier casualties as their allies prepare to leave. More than 1,200 Afghan soldiers died in 2012 compared with more than 550 the year before, according to data compiled by the Washington-based Brookings Institution. The Pentagon says the U.S. lost 313 troops last year, down from 414 the year before.
The drop in U.S. deaths in Afghanistan has not been unexpected, given the gradual shift away from direct combat. But it has drawn relatively little attention as the war effort fades as a major worry for most Americans.
Jamie Graybeal, a spokesman for the U.S.-led international military coalition in Kabul, the Afghan capital, said the drop in U.S. deaths reflects in part the declining number of troops in combat as well as progress in building Afghan forces.
"This is proof that the campaign is progressing from one primarily focused on coalition-led combat operations to one focused on the train, advise and assist mission," Graybeal said.
U.S. deaths from Afghan soldiers turning their weapons on them -- known as insider attacks -- also have declined in recent months. That, too, reflects a U.S. move away from partnering with Afghans in combat operations, as well as firmer security measures intended to prevent such attacks.
The pace of combat tends to slacken during the harsh winter months, when insurgents slip away to rest and rearm, but the recent drop-off in U.S. casualties has been exceptional.
January's three deaths compare with 26 a year ago January, 25 in January 2011 and 30 in January 2010. The number has fallen every month since July, when 42 Americans were killed.
The trend may hold as the U.S. begins to bring more troops home, perhaps starting this spring, and as the remaining forces move fully into a back-seat role.
Obama announced during Afghan President Hamid Karzai's visit to the White House on Jan. 11 that Afghans will be in the lead across the country by spring, which is sooner than planned.
Obama asserted that the U.S. had achieved its core objective in Afghanistan, "ensuring that al-Qaida can never again use Afghanistan to launch attacks against America." He said it is time to leave the war to the Afghans.
Fewer casualties do not necessarily equate to military success, but Gen. John Allen, who will relinquish command of U.S. and allied forces on Feb. 10, has told reporters in recent days that he believes Afghan forces are getting stronger and will be ready to hold off the insurgency largely on their own by the end of 2014.
U.S. deaths in Afghanistan peaked in the summer of 2010, totaling 180 from June through August amid a stepped-up U.S. offensive, with an influx of 30,000 more forces, to reverse the Taliban's momentum in southern Afghanistan.


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Family Dollar store manager robbed, shot and killed | News
TAMPA, Florida - A Tampa man who was on the job just trying to make a living was robbed and shot to death Sunday morning just as the store he helped manage was opening to customers, according to Tampa police.
Lt. Ronald McMullen with the Tampa Police Department says it happened around 9 a.m. at the Family Dollar Store at 4900 North 40th Street in Tampa.
Detectives say an armed suspect walked into the store and demanded money from an employee behind the counter. A second man, who was inside the office, saw the robbery taking place and ran out to help his co-worker. The suspect then shot the intervening employee, 49-year-old Horsley Shorter Jr., who is a retired 26-year Army Veteran. Lt. McMullen says he was in management at the store.
Shorter Jr. was transported to Tampa General Hospital where he later died from his injuries.
Investigators say the suspect then forced the other employee at gunpoint out to his vehicle, opened the trunk, and ordered the employee to get inside. The employee pleaded with him and the suspect eventually closed the trunk and stole the car.
Detectives say the suspect took off in a white, 4-door Mitsubishi Mirage with Florida license plate AMZN75. It has a "Save the Ta-Tas" breast cancer sticker on the trunk and a Sonic air freshner hanging from the rear view mirror.
The suspect is described as a black male in his 20's, with a thin build. They say he has a dark complexion and was wearing a black beanie, a long-sleeved thermal shirt, long shorts, dark blue boxers, and low white socks.
If you recognize the suspect or you've seen the vehicle, you may be eligible for a cash reward. The public is urged to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-873-TIPS or text a tip to CSTB 274637.
Tampa police said earlier in the day they were looking for two suspects, but Sunday night they said they were only looking for one suspect.
Meanwhile, regular customers who live nearby and shop at the store often say they're stunned by Shorter Jr.'s death. With tears streaming down her face, Tamika Jones said, "We all family around here. We all come to Family Dollar all day, every day. He was always nice. You couldn't ask for a better person."
Lannesha Drayton says she's stops off at the store just about every day when she gets off work, but today she didn't. She said, "I mean, I don't understand why people are out doing ridiculous stuff, but they need to stop the violence. For a couple of dollars it's not worth it."


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In "The Metropolis and Mental Life," Georg Simmell famously wrote, in 1903, that "[t]he psychological foundation, upon which the metropolitan individuality is erected, is the intensification of emotional life due to the swift and continuous shift of external and internal stimuli." While the metropolitan scenes observed by Simmell look quite different from the ones we observe today, the city remains a site of consistent change. This session invites proposals for papers on the theme of urban life, broadly defined, in any aspect of popular culture from any region or period. Papers might draw on representations of urban decline or renewal, economic fluctuations, challenges to notions of the city as concrete jungle, or examples of popular culture that showcase the potential of this clash between interiority and exteriority in contemporary popular culture.
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I had the opportunity to spend a couple of
hours with Brett Murray in Surfers Paradise Thursday. Brett,
through his company BAM Media, is the Communications Director for the
Lexmark Indy 300. It's easy to see why this event is such a
success. This guy is on it 24 hours a day 7 days a week. He eats and
breathes "The Indy" as they call it in Surfers.
His cell phone is constantly in use.
In one hour he had 33 voicemail messages. As we drive to the track
he gets calls from countries all over the world. This race is
truly an international happening and the fact that it draws far more
people than Long Beach from a country that has the population the size
of Los Angeles, yet is geographically as big as the entire USA, says just how good the
promotion is for this event.
Brett, thank you for taking the time to be
with us today.
BRETT MURRAY: Always a pleasure.
Q. You've, from what I can see, made this into the model
event of all the Champ Car races. You're now in your 15th year. You have
welcome parties, forums, black-tie affairs, and so much more. The
media seems to be engaged. The crowd is probably the
biggest if not one of the biggest of the year. There are more concession
stands than at any race we've seen. What is your secret?
BRETT MURRAY: I think this business is all about relationships. I
developed a great relationship with the drivers. I've made sure that the
key point of this event is the drivers. Obviously, they're the face of
their teams. I've developed some tremendous relationships over the years
with those drivers. I make sure anything they need, anything they want,
we look after it. And in return, they give me their time. They promote
their event. Guys like Jimmy Vasser and Paul Tracy have been tremendous
supporters of this event. If I ask them to do something, they know most
of the time it's going to be fun and it's going to be worthwhile. I
never ask them to do anything that's not worthwhile. They have enough
trust and faith in me to carry that through.
This year obviously we have Team Australia, which my company also looks
after. I've been in the States several times this year. And I spent a
year in the US in 2000 looking after PacWest. You know, I've got a lot
of friends in this series. I think it's all about relationships and
Q. I noticed just walking around the track, there are concession stands
everywhere. On the commercial side of things, you seem to have a
plethora of sponsors. This race seems to have it all. I know
normally a street race in the first few years, they lose money because
of the start-up costs. From a commercial standpoint, is it profitable
BRETT MURRAY: Yeah. Look, the Queensland government is a 50% shareholder
in this event with IMG, International Management Group. There's a cost
to them every year of about $11 million. We don't consider that a loss,
we consider it a cost because the return to the government, to the State
of Queensland and Australia, is in the vicinity of $55 to $60 million.
The way I look at it, if you were guaranteed a five-to-one winner every
time you went to the horse racing circuit, you backed a horse, knew it
was going to win, would you put $10 million on it? You bet. You'd put
everything you had on it. If you knew it was going to win, you're
guaranteed a win, you'd be backing it. The Queensland government backs
this event with $10, $11 million. What we return to the government, they
almost get that back in taxes alone, in regards to media coverage,
promotion of the state and Australia, and people actually coming here
for the event.
I mean, this is a pretty special event. People don't understand. Long
Beach is a special event in the US. What people don't understand is that
the Long Beach event has a drive market of our entire country. I mean,
they have 20 million people they can drive to that event. We have 20
million people in a country that's the same size as North America. It's
a little bit different. We get 309,000 people over here in four
days. If you're going to start comparing events and people, I mean, this
is the best event in the Champ Car World Series by far.
A lot of people, a lot of events, have done a terrific job of trying to
model their events on this. San Jose was a terrific event, Edmonton,
same deal. They've used this as a model. Kevin Kalkhoven is a big fan of
this event. So he should be. We set the standard down, I'm very proud we
Q. I guess the
majority in attendance are Australians. Do you get a lot of people coming in from
BRETT MURRAY: We get a lot of North Americans, Japanese, Asian market.
New Zealand is obviously a big market for us, too. New Zealand is a very
big motorsport friendly country. They have a lot of great champions,
Denny Hulme, those sort of guys. You got Scott Dixon in the modern era.
A lot of people from New Zealand. But a lot of people from New South
Wales, Victoria, Americans, international people, get on their global
search, and we have a bit of a look from those states within our
country. We have seven states within this country. We like to see them
come in here. It would be like people coming from Minneapolis to
California to see a race.
Q. You have been able to have a successful event without really any
Australian drivers up until last year. Now this year there's a Team
Australia. Has that helped a lot?
BRETT MURRAY: Yeah, I think the one thing that's been missing, we've
been trying to get it for a lot of years, we've had some great support
this year from Craig Gore and John Fish who teamed up with Derrick
Walker to put Team Australia together. It's just been amazing. We've
developed a good following this year and we're starting to see the fruit
of all the labor this weekend. We got three cars this weekend with
Will Power, Alex Tagliani and Marcus Marshall.
You know, we're going to see people hanging out the balconies with green
and gold. We got people painting their bodies. We got people painting
their cars. We got a person getting tattooed tomorrow with the Team
Australia logo. There's some pretty serious stuff going on.
We had Jason -- we had David Besnard last year, finished seventh in his
one and only Champ Car, which was an amazing performance. Jason Bright
in 2000. He was running very strongly, about sixth or seventh, until he
got involved in someone else's accident. Then Gary Brabham, in the early
'90, Jack Brabham's son, ran a couple of races. We've had a couple of
sprinkles, but now we've got a full-on team, Team Australia, in the
Champ Car World Series, and the following has just been fantastic.
Q. Is this a model for other countries? Champ Car is negotiating
for races in China,
Japan, and Korea. Along the lines of what you have going here with Team
Australia, should there be a Team Korea, a Team Japan, Team USA,
Team Canada, Team Mexico, Team Europe, so on and so forth?
BRETT MURRAY: Yeah, well, I think, you know, obviously you got your
sprinkle of Americans and Canadians. Canada are big supporters of the
series. The best races outside of this race are in Canada, Long Beach,
then the other North American events slot in behind that.
But I think, you know, if Champ Car goes and runs in China, one of the
first thing they need to do is start looking at a Chinese driver to run
in the series. In Korea, the same thing. In Japan, we've had a few
Japanese drivers over the years. Hiro Matsushita was probably one of the
most famous of those guys. I think there's -- you know, we're going to
get back to a point where the late '90s, early double zeroes, we had
this series where it needed to be. I think people need to be applauding
Kevin Kalkhoven for the work he's done because he's done an amazing job.
I mean, I was part of the whole deal for a year in 2000, and that was
probably the pinnacle of it, that was probably the turning point to its
demise in regards to how it was structured and politically all the
things that went on.
I think in this sport, you need dictatorships. You look at Formula One,
you got Bernie Ecclestone, you look at NASCAR, you got the France
family. You need dictatorships, you need someone to take hold of it,
grab it by the throat and do the absolute best they possibly can with
it. I mean, Kevin Kalkhoven has done that. He's got a great team of
people, people don't understand. Like, you know, 18 months ago, this
series was on the brink of not even existing. Now we're at a point where
we got 19 cars this weekend, we got new sponsors, we got new events, we
got all this stuff happening. I think people haven't given enough credit
to the people that have made this happen.
People have been, you know, they've been on top of the water all
smiling. Underneath, they're paddling like hell to try and make sure
this thing happens. I think that everybody involved with Champ Car needs
to be applauded for the efforts they've put in.
Q. Thank you very much for your thoughts. It's a great event. My hat is off to
you and your staff for doing a fabulous job.
BRETT MURRAY: Thanks, Mark. You know, I've been pestering you for a long
time to come down here. It's great you are here. I think you're going to
see some spectacular racing this weekend. Hopefully a lot of your readers
and listeners will maybe get themselves down here because this is the
No. 1 motorsport event in the world, I'm proud to say that. We've worked
a lot of time getting it to that point. We'd love to have them all here.
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