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Braun Corporation Chrysler Town & Country Wheelchair Accessible Conversions
Description: For 40 years, the Braun Corporation has been giving people their independence back with innovative wheelchair-accessible vehicles for individuals with physical disabilities to own and operate. The foundation of Braun's conversion is the 2011 model year vehicle update engineered by the Chrysler Corporation. Braun offers the Chrysler wheelchair van conversions with side-entry or rear-entry to address the wide variety of needs in the marketplace. The most popular conversion is the side-entry model. Braun's side-entry conversion includes a roomy interior with a flat, lowered floor. A powered entry/exit system consists of a wheelchair ramp, a sliding side door and a kneeling feature that reduces the ramp angle and makes the vehicle easier to enter and exit for wheelchair users. The conversion also includes Braun-designed Step and Roll front seats that are easily removable to allow a wheelchair user to drive the vehicle (when equipped with hand controls) or ride in the front passenger position. For 2011, the side-entry conversion design also offers increased foot room for both the driver and front passenger. The Chrysler wheelchair vans passed all front, side and 50-mph rear crash tests and are now available at more than 200 BraunAbility dealer locations throughout the U.S. and Canada. Visit www.braunability.com for more information about these new models or to find a BraunAbility dealer.
Price: $40,000.00 to $60,000.00 Visit the Website
SkyLINK Theft Recovery Device
Description: Peace of mind is also a dealership away. SkyLINK is a small device hidden in your car that helps prevent theft by tracking and locating the car within seconds. Using new GPS technology, SkyLINK can track in real-time the location of your vehicle, anywhere in the country. In addition, SkyLINK has a unique relationship with local law enforcement, ensuring that your stolen car will be a high priority among incoming police reports. There is no monthly service fee and you're protected for the lifetime of the vehicle.
Price: $600.00 to $1,000.00 Visit the Website
Backup Camera With GPS Provides Safety And Navigation In One Product
Description: According to KIDS AND CARS (www.kidsandcars.org), at least 50 children are backed over every week in the U.S. Forty-eight are treated in hospital emergency rooms and at least 2 children die. Consumer reports also stated that of those accidents and fatalities that occur that 70% are caused by parents or relatives of the children. Protect your children and others from rollover accidents by simply installing a backup camera. PEAK Automotive offers an 4.3" LCD monitor backup camera, complete with GPS unit which can be attached to the windshield (available with or without the GPS unit). Both automatically turn on when the vehicle is in reverse. The water resistant camera simply mounts to your license plate, and the wireless transmitter that connects them can be installed in minutes. This easy system can prevent accidents that cause expensive damage to your vehicle, or worse, harm a member of your family.
Price: $199.99 to $309.99 Visit the Website
Cooper Tire Discoverer S/TMAXX
Description: For the ultimate adventurer, the Cooper Tire Discoverer S/TMAXX™ is built for exploring the great outdoors. From mudding and crawling over boulders to splashing through creeks and climbing up hills, the S/TMAXX is the perfect fit. The Cooper Tire Discoverer S/TMAXX™ is available in eight sizes. The commercial grade Discoverer S/TMAXX performs in the toughest conditions, while also maintaining remarkable on-road traction, stability and low noise characteristics. The S/TMAXX defines MAXX toughness and MAXX traction with its proven combination of the durable AmorTek3® carcass construction, a cutting edge cut and chip resistant tread compound and modern tread pattern.
Price: $150.00 to $200.00 Visit the Website
Cooper Tire Discoverer A/T3
Description: The latest addition to Cooper's sport utility vehicle and light truck tire line is the Discoverer A/T3. The A/T3 utilizes a balanced combination of technology, compounding and design to produce a tire that optimizes performance in all terrains. The progressive tread design significantly improves off-road traction without sacrificing highway performance. The Discoverer A/T3 can be found in 32 sizes for sport utility vehicles and light trucks.
Price: $150.00 to $200.00 Visit the Website
Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric All-Season Tire
Description: The Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric All-Season offers an asymmetric tread pattern and features a Dry Handling Zone on the outside shoulder for enhanced handling and grip; an All-Season Zone on the inside shoulder for increased water evacuation; specialized Tread Compound with Functionalized Polymers – for enhanced performance characteristics, such as wet traction and dry handling; TredLock Technology – with microgrooves that provide biting edges for enhanced wet traction; and Traction Teeth – providing further biting edges for traction in rain and snow.
Price: $140.00 to $190.00 Visit the Website
Cooper Tire Zeon RS3-A And RS3-S
Description: The Cooper Zeon RS3 ultra high performance tires are the smart choice for consumers providing technology, engineering, style and value, and have been designed for ultra smart performance and built to match the expectations consumers set for their everyday ride. The Cooper Zeon RS3-S is the latest summer tire in the Cooper Zeon ultra high performance line. The tire's tread compound is specifically formulated to combine dry and wet traction with crisp handling and high speed capabilities, making it an ideal summer tire. It is currently available in 19 sizes, with additional sizes being offered later in the year. The Cooper Zeon RS3-A™ is Cooper's newest all-season ultra high performance product. The RS3-A features large tread elements with an asymmetrical design, which provides drivers confidence year round. The tire's advanced technology mold profile allows for more tread-to-road contact through a square tread footprint. The RS3-A can be found in 24 sizes, with additional sizes scheduled for later in the year.
Price: $135.00 to $200.00 Visit the Website
Cobra Electronics IRadar 200 Detection System
Description: The latest model of Cobra's multi-award-winning detection system, Cobra iRadar 200 consists of a sleek dash-mounted smart detector unit paired via Bluetooth® to a powerful yet intuitive smartphone app. Together the system detects police radar/laser signals and notifies users in real-time of upcoming caution areas, excessive vehicle speed, live police and photo enforcement areas, and then automatically shares caution information with other iRadar users nearby. The new system offers universal support for Android™ and iOS smartphone.
Price: $129.94 to $129.95 Visit the Website
Bluetooth Internet Radio Car Kit By Livio Radio
Description: The Bluetooth Internet Radio Car Kit by Livio Radio allows drivers to remotely control apps on their phones while also offering 45,000 stations from around the world with no monthly fees. The Livio Car Internet Radio app for iPhone and Android is the first mobile Internet radio app optimized for use in the vehicle. The app is free with the purchase of a Livio Radio Kit and there are no monthly subscription fees. The kit also offers handsfree calling and USB charging.
Price: $100.00 to $120.00 Visit the Website
Solar Gard Ultragard™ UV Window Film
Description: Solar Gard®, based in San Diego, CA, recently introduced Solar Gard Ultragard™ UV window film, a clear automotive film that blocks 99 percent of damaging UV-A and UV-B rays - the leading causes of skin cancer, melanoma and premature aging of the skin. Recommended by the Skin Cancer Foundation, Ultragard UV provides the benefits of window film, while allowing customers to preserve the original look of their vehicle and meet state tint laws that exclude films with color or tint. Find a local Solar Gard dealer to get more information and upgrade your Dad's car for Father's Day!
Price: $100.00 to $200.00 Visit the Website
Bluetooth Internet Radio Car Kit By Livio Radio
Description: The Bluetooth Internet Radio Car Kit by Livio Radio allows drivers to remotely control apps on their phones while also offering 45,000 stations from around the world with no monthly fees. The Livio Car Internet Radio app for iPhone and Android is the first mobile Internet radio app optimized for use in the vehicle. The app is free with the purchase of a Livio Radio Kit and there are no monthly subscription fees. The Kit also offers handsfree calling and USB charging.
Price: $100.00 to $120.00 Visit the Website
Goodyear Ultra Grip Winter Tire
Description: The Goodyear Ultra Grip Winter is a true winter tire that offers confident winter traction, with a focus on snow traction. The full line will include 36 sizes for passenger vehicles, ranging from 14" to 19" wheel diameters. The new tire includes many features to help make it a great choice for winter driving including, directional tread pattern – for enhanced winter traction in snow, multiple biting edges – to help provide confident grip on ice and snow-covered roads, wide tread grooves – to help push snow and slush away for enhanced winter traction, strong shoulder blocks – to promote even tread wear and is outfitted for optional metal studs – for confidence in tough winter driving conditions.
Price: $80.00 to $171.00 Visit the Website
3M Paint Restoration System
Description: Protect your paint and help make it look like new again with 3M Paint Restoration System. This system provides you with the ability to restore any vehicle's appearance to a high gloss shine through the removal of oxidation, swirl marks, and light scratches. Your vehicle will look brand new! The kit comes complete with Scratch Remover Plus, Shine Restorer, a synthetic wax protectant, hook and loop attachment system and three corresponding six-inch foam pads. A three-inch scratch eraser pad is also for even more detailed finishing. This product is for use with an orbital sander or polisher.
Price: $64.99 Visit the Website
SYLVANIA SilverStar® ZXe Headlights
Description: Looking for a great Father's Day gift for the car-loving dad in your life? Consider the gift of safety and style all in one. The SYLVANIA SilverStar® zXe product is the whitest in the SilverStar® High Performance Series of headlights. The crisp white light will give your vehicle the look, feel and attitude of HID. The mirror top—which features precious metals—provides car enthusiasts with a striking look, even when unlit. While they're designed to be noticed, these lights are 100 percent street legal and deliver the best peripheral vision while driving. Whether you want to get the best style and look for your car, upgrade your bulbs to better see roadside hazards, or add the finishing touches to your car, SYLVANIA SilverStar® zXe is the perfect gift Dad can use and enjoy.
Price: $59.99 Visit the Website
SYLVANIA SilverStar® ZXe Headlights
Description: Looking for a great gift for the car enthusiast? Consider the gift of safety and style all in one. The SYLVANIA SilverStar® zXe product is the whitest in the SilverStar® High Performance Series of headlights. The crisp white light will give your vehicle the look, feel and attitude of HID. The mirror top—which feature precious metals—provides car enthusiasts with a striking look, even when unlit. While they're designed to be noticed, these lights are 100 percent street legal and provide the best peripheral vision while driving—great for seeing reflective roadside signage or markers, as well as identifying potential hazards in the road ahead. Whether you want to get the best style and look for your car, upgrade your bulbs to better see roadside hazards, or add the finishing touches to your car, SYLVANIA SilverStar® zXe is a great gift for the auto enthusiast who has your heart.
Price: $59.99 Visit the Website
SYLVANIA SilverStar® ULTRA Headlights
Description: Driving at night can be a stressful and uncomfortable experience for many. Give Mom the gift of safety and peace of mind through improved driving visibility with SYLVANIA SilverStar® ULTRA headlight bulbs. Compared with worn standard halogen headlights, they're up to 50 percent brighter, with up to 40 percent more downroad visibility and up to 50 percent more side road visibility. Headlights can dim by as much as 20 percent in a few years, reducing the ability to see road hazards. Upgrading to SilverStar® ULTRA headlights can help drivers to increase visibility and keep safe during their nighttime travels.
Price: $49.99 Visit the Website
3M Custom Image Kit
Description: The 3M Custom Image Kit helps you personalize your car in minutes! This full, tools-free customization tool offers you an easy and fun way to apply a subtle image to your car's clear coat. The process is as simple as printing an image of your choice, tracing it, and transferring it onto your car using 3M's innovative abrasive technology. Unlike car sticker decals, the 3M Custom Image Kit also doesn't uses adhesives, so there's no residue left over and no chemicals required for residue removal. The matte finish image lasts as long as you like, and it won't leave a single mark after removal, if desired. With the 3M Custom Image Kit, the customization options are unlimited! The kit comes complete with stencil film, transfer film, abrasive, and tape, as well as easy-to-follow step-by-step directions. The contents of this kit will create one 8.5" x 11" or two 8.5" x 5.5" matte images on the surface of your vehicle.
Price: $24.99 Visit the Website
3M Headlight Restoration System
Description: Dull and hazy headlights are both dangerous for nighttime driving and unattractive on your car. With a little elbow grease, fixing those hazards is simple with 3M Headlight Restoration System. This kit is for use on headlights, taillights, fog, and directional lights, and contains rubbing compound packet, various abrasive discs and a buffing pad. Along with an easy-to-follow four-step process that restores the clarity of yellowed, hazed, or dull headlight lenses, the 3M Headlight Restoration System can save you hundreds of dollars versus purchasing a brand new headlight. Drill is required for use with this product.
Price: $19.99 Visit the Website
Blizzerator - Ergonomic Snow, Ice Scraper
Description: Blizzerator Reinvents Much Needed Winter Accessory … Ergonomic Snow, Ice Scraper Faster, Keeps Drivers Dry. The Blizzerator is perfect for shorter stature people and those with disabilities … The Blizzerator patent-pending ergonomic design transforms a hand-held ice scraper or snow brush to an elongated tool ideal for clearing car roofs, large SUVs and trucks. Dr. Rick Henningsen, D.C., inventor of the Blizzerator, came up with the idea after seeing his 5'1" wife try to clear 14 inches of snow from her car on a wintery morning. "The ice scraper she was using was inefficient: it was too short for her and even as she was able to remove a patch of snow, a fresh batch would pile right up again," said Dr. Henningsen. "I had an epiphany that it all boiled down to size and shape. Vehicles aren't flat, they are curved, and they aren't small. So why are we flailing around with small, flat nearly useless toys when we need…well, 'weapons' to fight back at winter?" Easy to use The Blizzerator is a large, flexible, lightweight, inexpensive tool that will quickly clean vehicles of any size without soaking drivers. To learn more about the Blizzerator, go to http://www.blizzerator.com.
Price: $19.00 to $20.00 Visit the Website
3M Leather & Vinyl Repair Kit
Description: The 3M Leather & Vinyl Repair Kit cleans, shines, conditions and protects any vehicle's leather and vinyl upholstery in one easy step. The kit, which deep cleans dirt and grime from all vinyl, leather, rubber and plastic surfaces, has a fresh lemon scent to give it a nice, clean touch to it. Those who worry about a greasy residue left behind need not fear, as the kit produces professional results with any mess whatsoever. The 3M Leather & Vinyl Repair Kit includes Heat Cure repair rompounds, vinyl adhesives, three grain papers, backing fabric, practice vinyl, a mixing cup, a spatula and a heat transfer tool. Keeping these hard-to-maintain fabrics is easier than ever simply by using the Leather & Vinyl Repair Kit
Price: $16.99 Visit the Website
MirrorGear, Fun Car Accessory To Display Your Individuality!
Description: A car can say a lot about your personality. The brand, the model, even the color, can reflect what kind of person you are. Why not display your passion and personality wherever you go! MirrorGear™is a fun, new car accessory that lets enthusiasts display their individuality right on their vehicle! MirrorGear™, is a removable decorative car mirror accessory that fits sideview mirrors on most cars, trucks and SUVs, without obstructing either driver's or passenger's visibility. Logos and designs are vividly showcased on machine-washable polyester/spandex material. The standard size fits most cars, newer model minivans, SUVs and large trucks. Choose from a wide variety of different covers, depending on your mood! Some examples include "Pretty Princess,", "Soccer Star," "Smile," and "Peace N Love." You can even customize with your favorite collegiate team. MirrorGear™ is also a proud supporter of The National Breast Cancer Foundation, and a portion of proceeds from each sale of "Pink Power," are donated in support of NBCF. In addition, they are an officially licensed partner with Mossy Oak. MirrorGear's™ patented one-piece design can be easily cared for, will not scratch your vehicle, and does not obstruct the view of the car's driver or passenger. They are sold in pairs for $14.99. From the stylish, to the fun, to the plain outrageous, MirrorGear™ adds the finishing touch to your car that makes you—and others—smile!
Price: $14.99 to $15.99 Visit the Website
3M Door Edge Protection Film
Description: Dings and paint chips on car doors may seem unavoidable, but this new solution can help protect from everyday accidents. 3M Door Edge Protection Film, made from the same material as the professionally installed product used at car dealerships, defends door edges from scratches, weathering, abrasion and scuffs that can happen simply when shutting the door. This protectant is easily applied by hand with no tools required, and is virtually invisible and cleanly removable. It also helps keep any vehicle's appearance looking new and clean, as it is resistant to yellowing and staining. This kit includes two door edge strips ideal for most sedans, and no special care is necessary after installation.
Price: $11.69 Visit the Website
Turtle Wax Headlight Lens Restorer
Description: Cloudy, milky and yellowed lenses can reduce headlamp function at night or during poor visibility conditions, and replacement lenses can cost hundreds of dollars. The Turtle Wax Headlight Lens Restorer Kit rejuvenates, restores and enhances dull headlights in less than 5 minutes per lens. This kit combines the ease and speed of liquid restorers with the unmatched effectiveness of restoration pads to restore headlight lenses to like new clarity and improve headlight effectiveness. Each kit includes three (3) restoration pads, 4 fl. oz. Lens Clarifying Compound, 4 fl. oz. Spray Lubricant and one (1) 4"x4" Lens Sealing Wipe.
Price: $9.99 Visit the Website
GUNK Engine Cleaning System
Description: The GUNK engine cleaning system, using GUNK Engine Degreasers in tandem with GUNK Engine Protector, is a simple routine to help care for the "heart" of the vehicle and a great gift for dads this Father's Day. Using the GUNK engine cleaning system twice per year will keep vehicles running longer and more efficiently by protecting against wear and tear from exposure to external elements such as salt, snow, tar and road grime. The GUNK cleaning system removes built up residue and protects the engine, allowing it to run cooler, resist grime better and last longer.
Price: $8.00 to $12.00 Visit the Website
Valvoline NextGen Motor Oil
Description: Valvoline NextGen is a revolutionary motor oil that is produced with 50-percent recycled oil, meaning it's better for your engine and better for the environment. Advanced technology re-refines the recycled oil just like crude oil, refining to remove impurities, contaminants and depleted additives. This process requires less energy and resources to manufacture than regular oil. Valvoline's rigorous quality control process also assures that it is as good as the day it was first refined. NextGen exceeds all industry specifications, and matches Valvoline's highest performance standards. NextGen oil is also formulated for all climates with advanced additive technology for high performance and a longer engine life. NextGen is available at stores nationwide in 5W20, 5W30, 10W30 and 10W40 grades.
Price: $5.29 Visit the Website
MSN Autos Mobile App
Description: MSN Autos is an essential resource for car buyers and car lovers alike. Get the latest news and video coverage from the world of automobiles. Discover your next car or truck with MSN Autos Decide. Users search used and new vehicles along custom profiles, or can design their own detailed search along specific criteria. Make a list of your favorite models, add your own photos, and even keep notes on your selections. Once you're ready to get behind the wheel this app will locate the closest dealer for you too. An indispensable, easy-to-use resource, MSN Autos beautifully informs and entertains automobile enthusiasts.
Price: $0.00 Visit the Website
Get Mom The Ultimate Ride This Mother's Day!
Description: Are you ready to surprise Mom this Mother's Day? We all know that Mom's biggest concern is safety. Consumer Reports just named the Subaru Impreza the safest sedan! What's more is that the exterior and interior design elements combine to give the Impreza a hipper stance while also offering the driver and passengers a more commanding, confident view of the road. Following tradition, the revamped Impreza comes with standard all-wheel-drive, which cuts into acceleration and fuel economy. Unlike typical redesigns that add curb weight and horsepower, this new Impreza weighs less and has a smaller, less powerful engine, pefect to match Mom's elegance. The car even has new advanced infotainment technology with Bluetooth® and iPod® capability, perfect for Mom to always be in communication with the kids!
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Any My Little Pony fans in the house? Any, dare I say, Bronies? Friendship isn't the only magic. Cosplay is, too.
Children of the 1980s remember the splash the ponies made when they were first introduced—and are now perhaps pleased to see My Little Pony get the smart animated series it deserves.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has also spawned a new generation of fans, eager to show their affection for all things Pony, whether that be through art or cosplay.
Most of My Little Pony cosplay is heavy on Pony personifications—though, there are, of course, the standout fursuits. The personification cosplay does open different levels of interpretation and expression.
This gallery shows off some of the internet's best Pony cosplay, though not all! Have a look as you try to figure out who pulled off the best My Little Pony cosplay.
Click the lower corner of each image to expand to full size.
And in case you missed it, here is Kotaku's review of the first Friendship is Magic comic book.
(Top photo: MrHugoDrax/Sandman-AC/thebooradlus/)

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Summer's Here: Beware Of Ultraviolet Radiation
[Your Health]
Summer is around the corner so your average punter is getting ready to rush to the sun to enjoy its warmth.
Yet most people aren't aware of the weal and the woe of the sun—While the sun's ultraviolet rays are a source of Vitamin D, which enhances the strength of human bones, ultraviolet rays do beget sunburns. This can result in skin cancer.
Unlike dark-skinned people, fair-complexioned folks are particularly prone to skin cancer because their skin doesn't contain much melanin. Fair-skinned people lack enough melanin because their body simply doesn't optimally transform the tyrosine into melanin.
I always find it mind-bending whenever dark-complexioned people in France and in many places around the globe, out of ignorance and, or, brainwashing, lay themselves out and resort to skin-lightening bleaches in order to erase the melanin our creator gave them to guard them against harmful sun rays and skin cancer.
Many people fancy that melanin, the pigment of dark-skinned people, is produced by the body's cells reaction to sunlight hitting the skin—however, the fact or truth is that the melanin is obtained after the transformation of the amino acid phenylalanine – contained in potatoes or spuds, ripe fruits and cereals – into tyrosine. It's this tyrosine which is then transformed into melanin; the dark skin color or pigment. The melanin of humans isn't produced by sunlight hitting the skin.
Even with sunscreen, it's hazardous without melanin, or without being dark-skinned, to spend much time in the sun. Indeed, more and more ultraviolet radiation is reaching the earth; the ozone layer keeps becoming thinner and thinner with the passing of time. We do know that ultraviolet rays cause sunburns, which can lead to cancer.
Ultraviolet radiation passes through the surface of the fair skin and harms the cells underneath. As soon as the cells are damaged, they start morphing and this can bring about skin cancer.
Fair-skinned people can keep healthy skins with sunscreen, long sleeves and pants, as well as sun glasses. The sun must be shunned.
Although melanin naturally protects dark-skinned people against ultraviolet rays, they too need to protect their eyes from damage by wearing sunglasses on bright days.
Black Star News columnist Mathias Victorien Ntep is a PhD researcher at the Goethe-University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany, and at the Leiden University, the Netherlands.
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This month's Where in the West is, as usual, somewhere in the western part of the United States. Some of you have been there - I know that for sure - and so have I, as documented by the photo. Where is this place? Can you name any of the geologic, geomorphologic, and geographic features?
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Get started with College Greenlight to compare the Louisiana State University-Alexandria weather with your hometown!Create an account now!
Three Words: Big Red Barn! Also, the campus is a few minutes outside of Alexandria- a decent size city, Clubs, Movies, the Mall, and tons of restaurants.Read More
LSUA has a gym and a golf course if you're looking for something fun to do on campus. If you're looking for something off campus, Alexandria has a mall, movie theater and bowling alley.Read More
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The quad is gorgeous and there are always shady places to sit down and study. The student organizations are pretty active and usually have something going on about every other week.Read More
I hang out on the quad, they have softball and baseball games at the campus ball park, and plenty of outside areas for us to sit and talk.Read More
The gym on campus provides flag football as well as other entertainment sports, like a DDR machine, two pool tables, and a ping pong table all inside its building. The religious centers on campus, the BCM and CSO, provide weekly meals and many activities that everyone, religious or not, to participate in. Additionally there are many clubs and fraternities active throughout the school including but not limited to the Psychology club, Sigma Tau Delta, and the Empty Space Players theatre club. Lastly there is a weekly event held at the Oaks Apartments, the 'dorms' on campus, that is open to any LSUA student and these events vary from pool parties, bingo nights, poker evenings, movie nights, and general game nights.Read More
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Google's new stock split will give shareholders Class C stock without voting rights, and letting the search engine's founders keep control of the company, according to a report.
The 2-for-1 stock split was proposed to essentially double the amount of shares but also cut the price by half, according to the Wall Street Journal. The new stock will also come without any voting rights and likely will become the "primary equity trading line" for the tech titan.
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The stock split goes into effect April 2, and while it may make the price more accessible to smaller investors (the price was $1,138 at the close on Tuesday), the reason is that it also lets its founders keep control of the company. Currently its Class B shares have 10 times the voting power of Class A shares that are publicly traded, but those were diluted by employee compensation and other causes.
The new Class C shares will change all that and keep control firmly in Sergey Brin and Larry Page's hands.
As for the reasoning behind this? Aside from escaping any Carl Icahn shareholder activism, the founders can use the Class C stock without worry it may dilute their power.


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Euro Expo 2013 is lining up to be an exciting educational and inspirational event to take place Oct. 19 - 21 in Edison, NJ. Brian Grieve and Tracey Smith are co-ordinating many of the activities to take place in the N.J. Exposition Center.
"There are many highlights," says Grieve. "We are most excited about the Rush Artistic Team from London who will be presenting on main stage to launch their 2014 collection. This is their first time, and exclusively, in the US."
"The weekend in packed with education," says Smith. "The show floor features more than 30 exhibitors, a mainstage, runway shows, workshops, look and learns, hands on...something for everyone in the salon industry." More than 7000 industry professionals are expected to attend Euro Expo 2013.
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Washington D.C., Jun 12, 2012 / 04:28 am MT (CNA).- An expert on women religious in the U.S. said that a bus tour announced by religious sisters who belonging to a "progressive" social justice organization demonstrates the Vatican's concerns about certain groups of women religious in the country.
Ann Carey, author of the 1997 book "Sisters in Crisis: The Tragic Unraveling of Women's Religious Communities," said that the move is likely a "public relations ploy" aimed at "highlighting the fact that they disagree with the bishops" about religious freedom concerns in health care.
Network, a Catholic social justice lobby that describes itself as "a progressive voice within the Catholic community," has announced a bus tour across several politically significant states to protest suggested budget cuts to programs for the poor.
The dates of the tour – June 18 to July 2 – will overlap with the Fortnight for Freedom that the bishops have announced as a time of prayer, education and advocacy in the face of the Obama administration's contraception mandate.
Carey told CNA June 8 that the sisters, who are "very politically savvy," are trying to show that they are doing good works in order to "deflect the actual problems that the Vatican has pointed out."
The organization does perform good work, as do many members of the laity, she acknowledged. But there is a deeper problem with the group's understanding of the nature of religious life and its adherence to Church teaching.
Carey does believes it is appropriate for the sisters to voice concerns over budget cuts, about which some bishops have also voiced hesitations, but they need to go further in their advocacy.
The bishops, she said, are concerned that the sisters are taking one "very small part" of Catholic teaching and promoting it as the entirety of Catholic social justice.
"They've carved out a very, very small part of the Gospel message to proclaim," Carey remarked.
"The Gospel is not just about helping poor people," but also includes admonitions to avoid sin and a focus on our redemption through the sacrifice of Christ, she explained.
While it is true that different orders have different areas of emphasis, it is incorrect to claim to represent Catholic social teaching while largely ignoring some of the most foundational and important elements of this teaching, such as a respect for life and sexuality, she said.
Network was recently mentioned in the Vatican's criticism of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), a group of women religious leaders in the U.S. that has been called on to realign itself with Church teaching.
Although not formally affiliated, the close connection between the LCWR and Network was highlighted in a 2006 speech by Catherine Pinkerton, CSJ.
Upon receiving the LCWR Outstanding Leadership Award, Pinkerton explained that the callings of the two groups "are so very intertwined as to be inseparable."
"I have never doubted that for me Network was a natural progression from LCWR," she said. "In truth, we two entities are inextricably linked."
She added that the LCWR has always been part of Network's board, "helping to set its direction."
Carey said that the Network bus tour is "illustrative" of what has been happening with the women's leadership conference for several decades.
On April 18, the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith revealed the findings a four-year doctrinal assessment of the conference, which discovered "serious doctrinal problems" and a need for reform.
It cited letters from LCWR officers as well as presentations sponsored by the conference which exhibited "radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith" and dissent from Church teaching on topics including the sacramental male priesthood and homosexuality.
The assessment also found that while the group adamantly promotes social justice issues, it largely ignores matters of life, marriage and sexuality, which have played a large role in recent public debates.
Archbishop J. Peter Sartain of Seattle has been mandated to work with LCWR leadership to guide renewal efforts.
The archbishop will help the conference revise its statues and review its formation materials, speakers, presentations and affiliation with other organizations, as well as the application of liturgical norms and texts in its gatherings.
LCWR leaders said that they were "stunned" by the assessment and accused the Vatican of making "unsubstantiated accusations."
They also argued that "the sanctions imposed were disproportionate to the concerns raised" and could compromise the sisters' "ability to fulfill their mission."
However, Carey noted that the LCWR's mission was redefined when the group re-wrote its statutes four decades ago. She asserted the group has no reason to be stunned because it has been disagreeing with the Vatican over doctrine and religious life for 40 years.
"They've been alluding to it for years in their own materials," she said. "They're just trying to play the victim."
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01-24-2014, 10:22 PM #1Senior Member
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The big move
For the last few years we've been taking an annual vacation to Lake Norman which is just north of Charlotte, NC. We would rent a house on the lake, bring the boat, jet skis, the whole nine yards. After falling in love with the lake and the surrounding area, we've finally decided to do it. This current winter in NE Ohio has most certainly reaffirmed our decision and actually sped our move up.
First we decided to list our house Jan 1st, just to get things moving, not expecting to sell terribly quickly. Well 5 days later and 2 full ask offers, the house is sold. Shortly thereafter I had a lead on a pretty desirable position in Huntersville which was not meant to come to fruition until the fall, however 2 unexpected retirements had my wife and I on a plane down for an interview 2 weeks later. Now that its all said and done, I've accepted a position there and we should close on the house in the next 3 weeks. Although, in medicine we have this nasty little process called credentialing which leads to no one being able to start work much earlier than 3mos from date of acceptance.
So we will be moving by the end of april, just in time for the boating season to really come into effect, although we're going to wait a few weeks to bring the boat until we can decide on storage. Not going to rush into buying a house simply for the fact that we may indeed not like the area and simply don't know where we really want to be yet.
All in all we couldnt be more excited for the change on scenery, the weather and the extended boating season. As far as family, we're making this move completely solo, just the wife and I, although we expect some family to make the move later this year. With that comes the big problem, we need a 3rd!! So hopefully we make friends fast and can enjoy the lake to its fullest extent.
With that far too lengthy post said, any help/suggestions are very much appreciated!2014 SC350
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Lakes dont freeze over down here, so its boating season year round for the bold!
Seriously, congrats and welcome to the south
Welcome. Couple of us on Lake Wylie. Great place to be.
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Definitely consider renting for a while before you buy so you learn the area. I had a good idea of what I wanted when I moved here but missed by about a mile or two. Wish I had rented for a year. The transaction costs to sell and buy and move again are killer.My Mom said I'm not allowed to get wet!
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Do you need a 3rd in North Carolina ? You don't in Georgia as long as you have a mirror.
freshturk - I agree with Kaneboats. If you go that route, put an ad in Craigslist and let the rental market come to you. Specify your parameters, whatever they may be. Let the responses roll in for a couple of days, then pull the ad. Follow up with each offer. You could well end up with a nice arrangement that is far less expensive than the conventional rental market. I did this and the result was a half dozen very nice rental options. Friday of this coming week I close on the purchase of house that is far from what I thought would be my choice when I arrived in the area a year ago. The rental kept my living expenses very low for the year that I really needed to find the right place to live. No regrets. - Deerfield2007 Outback - SOLD June 2016
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That's a great suggestion. People hate advertising to the general public and having to deal with all their BS. I needed a temporary house for 6 months or so after my house closed while we were waiting for a short sale to wrap up on the new house. I put an ad on Craigslist and got about a dozen good responses. I said who we were, what our needs were what we wanted, etc. Be sure to go online and check the tax records to make sure they actually own the property though.My Mom said I'm not allowed to get wet!
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The big move
Congratulations on your decision! There are a bunch of people from Ohio down here. My wife and I made the move last July from NJ and are loving it, though don't kid yourself because in the winter like it is now it still gets cold here, just no snow usually (minus this week as Charlotte is supposed to get a little snow).
We moved to Fort Mill, SC a little south of you and ride on Wylie. We rented for 3 months and them found our home. Best of luck to you! In NC/SC you do not need a third as long as you have a mirror but boating is always fun with a group.2008 Supra 21V-Currently For Sale
Watch the Craiglist scams on rental homes. It's been happening a lot. Someone gets access to a foreclosed house, changes the locks, rents to someone and then they are gone. Who would of thought of that except crooks. It actually happened in our community.1998 Mobius
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My wife spent a week in November and December in NC, Would really want to move from Ohio to there. But owning a business makes that kinda hard and she did not like the idea of me being a stay at home dad. With having a 6th grader and 8th grader we hope to enjoy more time at our condo in TN once they are out of high school


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The last time we saw Joan Rivers for extended periods of time was during her partial meltdown/ultimate victory on (NBC's own) "Celebrity Apprentice."
It was a wildly emotional soap opera told through the surgically-ageless face of an entertainment survivor. Honesty, humor and quite frankly a whole lot of insanity made for great television. Which is the why the news that Ricki Sterns and Anne Sundberg's documentary on the comedian finding a US distributor is so exciting.
Variety.com reports (subscription) that IFC Films has acquired North American rights to "Joan Rivers -- A Piece of Work" over a number of willing suitors. The distributor is eying a summer release.
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The documentary follows Rivers through a year of her life as she continues to stay working and loved by her fans. Along with her brutal honesty, the relentless drive on display is probably what got her the "Apprentice" crown. And it is what will make this documentary fantastic to watch.


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In 2015, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew launched its first Science Strategy establishing its vision to document and understand global plant and fungal diversity and their uses, bringing authoritative expertise to bear on the critical challenges facing humanity today. The Science Strategy also committed Kew to delivering nine strategic outputs with the overarching aim to disseminate Kew's scientific knowledge of plants and fungi to maximize its impact in science, education, conservation policy and management. The Plants of the World Online portal (POWO), is one of the nine strategic outputs and its aim is to enable users to access information on all the world's known seed-bearing plants by 2020.
With over 8.5 million items, Kew houses the largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world in the Victorian Herbarium and Fungarium in West London. They represent over 95% of known flowering plant genera and more than 60% of known fungal genera and yet, only 20% of this knowledge is available online. POWO is Kew's way of turning 250 years of botanical knowledge into an open and accessible online global resource.
POWO draws together Kew's extensive data resources including its regional Floras and monographs, alongside images from the digitisation of the collections. The portal has been designed to maximise accessibility and enables the dissemination of plant information to its users via a mobile, tablet or desktop computer.
POWO was launched in March 2017 with a focus on key tropical African Floras - Flora Zambesiaca, Flora of West Tropical Africa and Flora of Tropical East Africa specifically. Descriptive data from these Floras was linked via a curated taxonomy to images from the digitisation of the collections enabling Kew to finally put a substantial part of these Floras online. In addition, data from Kew's Grassbase and PalmWeb databases have also been included along with species level data for some but not all Orchids.
It is important to note that POWO is not perfect and represents work in progress - see Limitations below. Ultimately, POWO will become a single point of access for authoritative plant species information, a multi-dimensional catalogue of plant life, including information on identification, distribution, traits, conservation, molecular phylogenies and uses. The codebase is open source and Kew hopes to support existing partner networks to set up their own portals, creating a distributed network of botanical data hubs. POWO aims to become a resource that has global coverage which can empower and inform citizens, policy makers, conservationists and farmers everywhere, about the importance of plants and fungi to life. In addition, a key function of POWO is to ensure that Kew's floristic data can be harvested and ingested by the World Flora Online (WFO) portal enabling Kew to support the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) Target 1 2020.
For further information or to provide feedback or make an enquiry about POWO, please email us.
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There exist other reliable authoritative sources of taxonomic opinion for some groups or some regions which we simply have not had time yet to include. Our ambition is for future versions to be more inclusive and comprehensive. POWO is a dynamic resource and content is added continuously. By 2020, POWO will be the most comprehensive single information resource covering all plants but it will be imperfect and not all the taxonomic decisions contained derive from a peer reviewed, curated, authoritative source. POWO therefore should only be treated as advisory. Other, more authoritative lists may exist for particular regions or taxa.
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New products and changes introduced over the last week include a short-term emerging markets bond ETF from ProShares; an S&P 500-based ETF in China; and an annuity from Allianz Life with a 7-year decreasing surrender charge.
In addition, W.E, Donoghue launched a power dividend index fund; American Century offered a retirement plan assessment tool; and Franklin Templeton and K2 Advisors announced a multi-strategy fund.
Here are the latest developments of interest to advisors:
1) ProShares Launches Short-Term Emerging Market Bond ETF
Proshares announced Thursday the launch of the Short Term USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF (EMSH), which is designed to offer yield potential with reduced interest rate sensitivity.
EMSH tracks the DBIQ Short Duration Emerging Market Bond Index, which is composed of a diversified portfolio of U.S. dollar-denominated emerging markets bonds with a weighted average maturity of three years or less. The index currently includes bonds from 19 countries issued by sovereign governments, other government entities and agencies, as well as corporations that have significant government ownership. A country's weight in the index is capped at 10%. Bonds must have a minimum $500 million outstanding issuance to be eligible.
2) S&P 500-Based ETF Launched in China
Through a licensing agreement with S&P Dow Jones Indices, Bosera Asset Management has launched an S&P 500-based ETF in China, a move that allows the Chinese greater access to the U.S. market.
Total assets under management of ETFs listed in mainland China (Shanghai and Shenzhen) topped 150 billion yuan (about USD $25 billion) in Q3 2013 with close to 80 ETFs available in the market. The new ETF is the first to track the S&P 500.
3) Allianz Life Announces Annuity With 7-Year Decreasing Surrender Charge
Allianz Life has announced the launch of the Allianz Signature 7 annuity, available on the Allianz Preferred platform. The annuity is designed for retirement accumulation with a seven-year decreasing surrender charge period and is currently available in 41 states.
Prior to retirement, the annuity allows customers to accumulate retirement savings through indexed interest based on changes in several external market indexes of their choice. When they are ready for retirement, customers can access income with annuity income options including payments guaranteed for the life of the customer. Or, the full contract value is available to customers as a lump sum without surrender charges after seven contract years.
4) W.E. Donoghue Introduces Power Dividend Index Fund
W.E. Donoghue & Co. introduced its Power Dividend Index Fund (A shares, PWDAX; I shares, PWDIX) on Tuesday. The fund uses the firm's proprietary Power Dividend Index to seek to generate income while deploying a tactical overlay in an effort to preserve capital in all market cycles. The index isolates the top five dividend-yielding stocks in each of the 10 global industry classification standard (GICS) sectors—consumer discretionary, consumer staples, energy, financial services, healthcare, industrials, materials, utilities, telecommunication services and information technology—that comprise the S&P 500 Index.
Those 50 stocks make up the S-Network Sector Dividend Dogs Index, and are equally weighted in the fund's portfolio. The fund will sell positions in stocks that are removed from the S&P 500. An intermediate-term tactical overlay positions the fund bearishly or bullishly, depending on market developments and outlooks, and allows it to be invested in money market funds and other cash equivalents during equity market downturns.
5) American Century Offers Retirement Plan Assessment Tool
American Century Investments has announced the launch of a new tool aimed at helping retirement plan advisors and sponsors assess plan effectiveness for better participant outcomes. Plan Health Pro is an online resource designed to help determine overall retirement plan health. Using a series of questions and answers, the plan is evaluated for plan health, retirement readiness and due diligence.
The tool takes into consideration aspects such as plan objectives, plan design, participant communications and investments. Once the plan sponsor or advisor completes the questionnaire, the result is a personalized report, including a green, yellow and red scorecard on a plan's effectiveness and suggested areas of improvement. The report may serve as historical documentation of a plan's progress to helping participants achieve retirement readiness. A demo is available at www.planhealthpro.com.
6) Franklin Templeton and K2 Advisors Announce Multistrategy Fund
Franklin Templeton Investments has announced the launch of its first multimanager, multistrategy mutual fund focused on alternative investment strategies, Franklin K2 Alternative Strategies Fund (FAAAX). FAAAX seeks to provide investors with lower correlations to traditional asset classes, reduced portfolio volatility and risk-adjusted returns, while offering daily liquidity.
K2 Advisors is the fund's investment manager. FAAAX provides access to a diversified portfolio of alternative investment strategies and to a group of unaffiliated, institutional-quality hedge fund managers. The initial set of subadvisors includes: Basso Capital Management, L.P.; Chatham Asset Management, LLC; Chilton Investment Company, Inc.; Impala Asset Management LLC; Jennison Associates LLC; Lazard Asset Management LLC; Loomis Sayles & Company, L.P.; P. Schoenfeld Asset Management LLC; and York Capital Management L.P.
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The second day we were in Atlanta, we went to CNN's World Headquarters. The CNN building was once an indoor amusement park and hotel. After 6 months, the amusement park went bankrupt, and CNN bought the building. The hotel is still functional and takes up a large amount of the building. CNN belongs to Turner Broadcasting, which is a corporation also responsible for HLN, TBS, TNT, TCM, truTV, Cartoon Network, Boomerang, Adult Swim, and many more. The tour was interesting. As some of you may know, my sister is a meteorologist for a local NBC affiliate. I had been in her studio a few times before, so it was cool to see the differences and some similarities the two studios share. Here are a few photos from the tour.
After our tour of CNN, we used our City Passes to go to the Atlanta Historical Center. My brother-in-law, Greg, is a history buff. On the way down, he was reading, "Team of Rivals," which is a book as thick as a dictionary about Lincoln's presidency. So, of course, he was totally into the museum as it was all about the Confederacy and their roll in the Civil War. It was unique to see the South's side of the War. In school we were taught with a bias for the North. Celebrated generals and other historical figures from the North were cast in a slightly negative light. It wasn't outrageously biased, but it was interesting to see the different perspectives.
The museum also featured a large wing devoted to the Atlanta Summer Olympics. It contained Olympic torches from nearly the past 100 years as well as the costumes from the opening ceremonies and a lot of the athletic equipment used.
The museum had two historical houses on the premises–one a farm and the other a mansion. Our City Passes let us tour one, so we picked the Swan House Mansion. The museum did not permit photography inside the house, so I was only able to get pictures around the premises.
As always, this is just a small sampling from the day's shoot. Head over to my Flickr page to see the whole slideshow by clicking: HERE!


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The main takeaway of McKinsey's article: Start your first 100 days when you're interviewing for your job. This makes sense because when you're interviewing for your first CIO job, you might think you need to convince the company to hire you (and you do). But you also need to know what you're getting into. Use the interview not just to sell yourself, but also to find out what you're buying into. Fully one-third of McKinsey's 100-day action items are ones you should start during the interview, including these first three:
1.Start Your 100 Days Before Your First Day.
Learn about the organization's dynamic. Do your own interviewing: talk with corporate directors, systems integrators and others who know the company and its situation to know as much as you can going in. That will help you start to flesh out your action plan before you've even badged in.
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2. Clarify Your Mandate.
Before sitting down at your new desk, you need to know what the company wants from a CIO and how that will be measured. Keep assessing this as you start the job. You want to get control set upfront over who's doing the hiring and firing, who kills projects and who decides on things like outsourcing.
3. Understand Upsides And Downsides.
This must be a focus of your questions during the interview process. You need to know as much as you can about the industry sector, how competitors use technology and fail to, and what risks your company faces. Answers to these questions might not be very clear before you get to the company, but having a sense of them ahead of time helps set expectations, and should put you in better position to negotiate what you need to do the job before you take it.
Once you've officially started your 100 days, you have a second set of things to do. Most of these will be obvious, but not simple:
4. Build Relationships.
Forge relationships with the CEO, with other executives, with business units. McKinsey gets a bit conflicted here. For instance, it wants you to figure out what priorities the business units have, but also "avoid conversations about executives' IT concerns." Of course you don't want to become a dartboard for the previous regime's missteps, but priorities and concerns sometimes map.
5. Develop A Plan, 6. Build A Team and 7. Rally The IT Organization With Your Vision are something of a set. The most important advice is probably around the team. Your best chance to change the team happens when you arrive. Don't squander it. These lead naturally to rule number 8. Demonstrate Leadership Through Visible Results And Actions, including killing a moribund project or outsourcing.
One thing McKinsey says that most CIOs probably wouldn't put on their list:
9. Continue Your Personal Journey.
New Age squishiness from McKinsey, an organization feared for its remorseless bloodletting? Common sense, more like. You're in a new job, quite possibly in a new company. You will need new skills, new ideas, new mentors and quite possibly a few consultants to mine for ideas. Knowing you have to travel a new path and doing it with intent can make a huge difference in a new job.
In a separate piece, a meaty interview with Ian Buchanan, the long-time CIO at a variety of banks and now the COO at Barclaycard talks about his first CIO job and how he survived some early mistakes, a good reality check because few of us skirt all the minefields in a new job.
He stresses one word for the new CIO: Listen. It's an interesting twist on leadership; don't come in and say, "I think," but listen to what other people are saying. It fits with Buchanan's thesis that the CIO job is about relationships and building trust. Listening is the foundation of both.
Buchanan's thesis plays out in a timely way in a recent The New York Times interview with Terry Leahy, the former CEO of Tesco. What Leahy says dovetails with McKinsey and Buchanan -- he thinks his success came from starting his job before he actually held it, including listening to people. That helped him quickly establish a vision that employees bought and were willing to push.
New CIOs should note that Leahy believes creating trust is essential. McKinsey's nine steps recommend outsourcing or offshoring as a quick way to win success as a CIO. However, outsourcing might damage trust in your IT organization. Same with removing underperformers, or someone who performs well but at the expense of the group. Make them happen in ways that build up, not undermine, morale for those who remain.
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The Outsider and the Idea of Africa
[This is part of a continuing series of posts on a class I teach at Plymouth State University, "The Outsider". I am one of many people who teach the course, and each instructor fits their own ideas and interests into a fairly general catalogue description. All the posts related to this one can be found via the Outsider label. Eventually, I'll even update the course's website, since it's now completely out of date.]
The last time I blathered on about my ideas for The Outsider, I was still a few weeks away from having to order the books for the class, and so the syllabus was still very much in flux. I hadn't even plotted it out day by day, so I didn't know if I could fit in all the various books I was thinking about fitting in.
After reading my post, the great and glorious Aaron Bady sent me a note, since much of what I was thinking about -- representations of the idea of "Africa" in colonial and then post-colonial fiction -- was stuff he's spent a lot of time studying. I felt a little embarrassed, because he actually knows what he's talking about, and I'm just following yet another of my many obsessions (really, I should rename this blog The Dilettante). But this obsession has been with me for at least a decade, and though there have been years in that time when I've not indulged it, it always comes back, and whenever it does it comes back stronger than before. (Actually, no. The strongest moment was a period of about three days when I was determined to visit and analyze the entire inventory of every bookstore in Nairobi. That was a period of temporary insanity. It began innocently and miraculously, but then...)
Anyway, Aaron made a marvelous suggestion: "What about Tarzan?" Tarzan is something Aaron knows a bit about, and more importantly, he's thought about Tarzan using just the sorts of templates and questions I want to use to think about that iconic guy. Aaron kindly sent me a paper he's working on about the Tarzan image and phenomenon, and I promptly plundered it for references and started burrowing (and Burroughsing ... ugh, sorry) around in the Plymouth State library, the Dartmouth library, Google Books, and, when desperate or particularly intrigued, various used book dealers.
My basic concept of the course is one I soon discovered is discussed in detail in a wonderful book, Artificial Africas: Colonial Images in the Times of Globalization by Ruth Mayer. Or, rather, Mayer writes about some of the ideas I'll be using during the first half of the course: How, for instance, do people who come into the place they (or their authors) think of as Africa then represent that idea of Africa to their audiences? Or, to make it more obvious how the course material and course title go together: What happens when outsiders come in and start telling stories about the place they've come into? Do the stories they tell work to assuage their feelings of outsiderness, or even to reconfigure them as the insiders and the people who are natives as the outsiders? (With a colonialist mentality, is everything outside Europe or the USA? And so no matter where they are, will a European or American always be, or at least assume themselves to be, an insider?) And then, in the second half of the course, we'll turn things around a bit and look at other perspectives -- the empire writing back, to use the familiar postcolonial phrase. Finding ways for the silenced to speak, the erased to be recovered. For the insiders who have been represented as outsiders by colonialism to reclaim their insider status. (Or, I will ask the students eventually, is the binary itself too limiting? What does it hide from us?)
(These, at least, are my aspirations. Once the actual class begins, once we're into the work, things will go in whatever direction they seem to need to go, and much depends upon the students' skills, knowledge, and interests.)
After lots of hemming and hawing -- much of which was spent on a doomed attempt to convince myself that I could somehow fit Ngugi's Petals of Blood into the class -- I settled on a basic set of texts that I would then attempt to reconcile with the calendar: King Solomon's Mines, Story of an African Farm, Tarzan of the Apes, Heart of Darkness, Things Fall Apart, David's Story, Life & Times of Michael K, and In the United States of Africa. I also really wanted to fit in a couple of readings from Modern African Drama, but I was pretty certain there wouldn't be time.
I charted it out week by week and figured we could do it, but it would be tight, and the more I thought about it, the more I realized it was insane to try to fit some really difficult books (particularly David's Story and Michael K) into a tight schedule. It would just lead to too much confusion. And much as I liked the idea of ending with In the United States of Africa, it also shifted things to another region of the continent that none of our previous readings visited. This particularly bothered me, because I want the course to offer as much mirroring and echoing as possible, particularly between the first and second halves of the term, and I want to focus on only a few geographical locations so that we're able to get multiple perspectives on them.
With the deadline for placing book orders only days away, I decided to re-think everything. Did I need both King Solomon's Mines and Tarzan? (Yes, because their differences and similarities are instructive, and at the beginning of the course we really need as much practice as possible with analyzing the sorts of problems and pleasures they provide.) What about replacing Story of an African Farm with Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen, which would be interesting to pair with something in the second half of the term by Ngugi, who called it "one of the most dangerous books ever written about Africa", and which offers a more complex example of a mythologized Africa than Haggard or Burroughs do. (A tempting idea, but no -- it's ostensibly nonfiction, which none of the other books are, and while that would make for some interesting discussions about the porousness of genre boundaries, I must remember this is an intro-level class and the ideas I'm planning on introducing are complex enough already.) And, biggest question of all: If I cut David's Story, Michael K, and In the United States of Africa, what best replaces them?
To answer the last question, I decided first to add Marjorie Macgoye's The Present Moment, a somewhat more straightforward and accessible novel than David's Story, and an interesting study of Kenyan history through the eyes of a bunch of different women. It also offers lots of connections to many of the books in the first half of the term, particularly in that it is a book by a white outsider who has become culturally as much of an insider as her circumstances allow, and who has deliberately written with a desire to recover and distribute the lost and polyphonous histories of the place she has made her home. I also decided to bring back Modern African Drama, mostly because it includes Ngugi's play (written with Ngugi wa Mirii and the peasants and workers who first performed it) I Will Marry When I Want. I figured I could probably also fit in Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman, which is also in the book.
I wanted a final text to bring things back to some of what the students might already know, things that were familiar to them, yet might now, because of the journey of the term, be, I hoped, defamiliarized or complicated in new ways. Finally, I settled on Zakes Mda's Cion, which brings the South African professional mourner Toloki (from Mda's Ways of Dying, a book I'm quite fond of and have taught in the past) to Ohio and also adds a parallel story of two boys in 19th century Virginia who escape from slavery and head north to Ohio. It does just about everything I could hope for the final book of the course to do.
Once I charted it all out day by day, I discovered I could fit everything except Cion. But I was determined to use it. There was enough time to read the first 100 pages or so together, and then I thought I'd just make Cion central to the final exam, and have the students finish reading it in the days between our last class and the final. Indeed, I may make the final not an exam but rather a project, and have us share the projects and continue our conversations during the exam period, which I much prefer to sitting around and monitoring students while they write answers to test questions.
In the last moments before I submitted my book order, I decided to add one final, small book: African History: A Very Short Introduction by John Parker and Richard Rathbone. It's a meaty little book that doesn't really lay out the history of the continent so much as it presents the ways that the idea of African history has been conceived and perceived through the centuries. I'll only require the students to read a couple of chapters (I only have two or three days during the term where I can fit the book in), but I hope they'll see it as a resource and companion to their investigations. We shall see...


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CircleUp Raises $7.5M Led by Union Square Ventures
CircleUp — a company we've covered closely, given that it is one of the only crowdfunding platforms so far that legally helps people make equity investments in startups — has raised $7.5 million in Series A funding.
The round was led by Union Square Ventures, and also included Google Ventures, Rose Park Investors and Maveron.
In its first year, CircleUp helped companies that make physical consumer products raise $10 million, ahead of the approved-but-still-not-yet-implemented JOBS Act, which would expand equity crowdfunding to a broader range of investors.
One notable aspect of the CircleUp investment is that lead investor Union Square Ventures has assembled an unusually dense portfolio around similar businesses that you might think would overlap too much. Other USV investments include Kickstarter, Lending Club, Funding Circle and Science Exchange.
"We like those models in almost every flavor they come in," said Andy Weissman, the USV partner who led the investment and joined CircleUp's board.
Which models, exactly? "It's a peer marketplace matching up two sides of a transaction," Weissman said. "It takes something very hard — raising money for consumer companies — and makes it more transparent and more liquid. That's interesting regardless of the JOBS Act."


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Pooter, First of all, a big five goes out to you for creating and editing multiple articles on GTA Wiki. Your contribution is very much welcomed, and you are free to edit almost anything you want on this site. After reviewing some of the articles written by you I've noticed that they have been improved significantly, the only thing that is unnecessary is the deletion of links in the text. An example would be "Lance Vance" or correctly "Lance Vance". Although we totally don't want numerous pages that have no purpose like "Police Boat" which would in turn describe the Predator, we want to retain as much information on Grand Theft Auto as possible, as this is a wiki. Please do not take this as a warning, it is not a warning but a gentle reminder. Your overall contribution to this site is very appreciated, and keep up the good work!!
(Please note by the way, you are allowed and encouraged to make your user:page however you like, and also feel free to write any questions on my talk page if you have them)
47 04:14, 14 February 2007 (UTC), GTW Administration
Hi - I'd also like to add my thanks to your hard work on GTA Wiki. We're getting around a thousand different people visiting each month at the moment, and it's great to see one or two of them doing something to help out, instead of just reading what's on here.
You sound like you know your stuff, so perhaps we could nominate you to become a Sysop one of these days? It's just a thought, but you're going the right way about it.
Thanks, Xenon 23:44, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks - VCS Weapons
Thanks Pooter for the update in the Vice City Stories weapon section, I havent got it for PS2 yet and I havent got is for PSP (because i believe a GTA is meat to be played on a Big Screen!) and I have been searching around for info on these weaps, so thanks for expanding the article and again I would like to say thanks for your great contributions to this web site and KEEP IT UP!!
47 04:36, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Articles Created
Hi - Just thought I'd say you don't need to edit your user page every time you create an article. Stuff you do is always available to see at [User Contributions], so you could just link to that instead. Your user page is one of the most edited pages on the site now :) Xenon 16:45, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
- I have protected your User page from being edited. Of course we appreciate your work around the rest of the site, but that was getting a bit excessive. I will un-protect it in the future so you can modify your details, but it's locked for now. Xenon 22:14, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
- You can still edit any unprotected pages (thats almost all of them) but your user page will remain locked for the time being. Xenon 16:43, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Hey Pooter, just a little reminder that if you upload images and don't put them into a page, they are transferred to the unused files folder on the site. This may lead to accidental deletion since an admin might think they are not in use and just use up space. It would be better if you first create an article, finish it, then upload an image for the page. This is much easier after you get used to it, and the pictures are not put in the unused area.
If you have any questions or further don't understand how to do this feel free to drop a comment on my page here User:47
47 23:36, 23 March 2007 (UTC), GTW Administration
Re: Uploads
No, Pooter its just better if you create an article, then add a picture, rather then uploading a bunch of pictures first and then adding them to articles while you write them one by one. Understand that when you just upload a picture and dont attach it to an article it is put in Unused Files, and may get deleted if not used for a long time. So you still can upload images, but try to always attach the photo to an article so it is not automatically put in the unused files folder. As for carlCJjohnson, he had nominated himself, and is being reviewed. As a user on GTA Wiki you are free to put comments about nominations Talk:Administrators, and you are encouraged to comment. Keep up the hard work and you may even be nominated to become an admin here in the near future
47 00:29, 24 March 2007 (UTC) GTW Administration
Oh, I forgot, once a page contains a lot of information like the Vic Vance page, feel free to take off the stub tag. Cheers
47 00:29, 24 March 2007 (UTC) GTW Administration
I think that is possible, drop Xenon a message, he might be able to help. Even though I am admin, that is one of the few things I can't do, and only the Bureaucrat can, and thats Xenon. Happy Editing, 47 01:54, 24 March 2007 (UTC), GTW Administration
- Yeah I can change your name for you I think, I'll install an extension that allows me to do that. What do you want it changing to? Xenon 14:19, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
- Okay I've moved it - but this is the first time it's ever been done, so there may be some problems. At the moment, Special:Recentchanges still lists all your edits as being from User:Pooter, but Special:Contributions/George lists them too. I'll try and get this sorted out, but let me know if you find anything else wrong. Let me know if you have problems logging in. Xenon 16:04, 25 March 2007 (BST)
Your page
I unprotected your page George. You can now edit it again, but dont list your contributions there because they already show up on a special page. Also you should edit articles more frequently then your user page. So far you have been working very hard on the articles, so I unlocked your page.
Happy Editing, 47 22:43, 28 March 2007 (BST), GTW Administration
Content from WikiGTA
Dear George, you have recently uploaded several images from WikiGTA to this site. However, WikiGTA is not a free documentation project and therefore, all content of the site is copyrighted. I kindly ask you to remove all our content from this website.
Thanks in advance, Lantyz - WikiGTA crew 12:36, 29 March 2007 (BST)
- Are you only talking about the pics with wikigta on them? George 14:04, 29 March 2007 (BST)
- No, I'm talking about all content that has been taken from WikiGTA. This includes all images, with or without the WikiGTA-tag. --Lantyz - WikiGTA crew 15:40, 29 March 2007 (BST)
- May i ask for permission to use some of them? Not them all but like the pic of Paulie Sindacco May i ask to use? George 17:05, 29 March 2007 (BST)
Screenshots from the game cannot be copyright to any particular site or person. Yes you may have pressed printscreen, but with nothing more than that it is the game developers that have the rights to images of the game. We believe it is fair to use screenshots of games to represent those games and the characters, vehicles and locations in those games. Likewise with the game logos, it is fair to use them to represent that game. I haven't examined all the images George has uploaded, but unless they contain actual work that WikiGTA has the rights to, then I see no reason why they should be removed from this site. Even if we did remove them, all we would do is go into the game and take the same screenshots... that is a pointless exercise. Looking at Special:Newimages, there is not much that would count as work under WikiGTA copyright, although perhaps the more arty screenshots that have taken a bit of effort to create - those that are along the lines of desktop wallpaper - may be removed out of courtesy. Xenon
- Even then, there is a difference between using the work of others to illustrate a subject, and running through the pages of another website to copy every usefull screen.
- True, but we do just use the images to illustrate the articles on the subject. We don't have a screenshot gallery or anything like that. Xenon
Also, I appreciate you coming here and talking, rather than forcibly removing the images yourself. Xenon
- I'm not here to harass a fellow GTA-site, please do not get me wrong. I'm just here to let you know we would appreciate it if you wouldn't use our work. Because regardless of who holds the rights - it's still our work.
- Good to know, and understandable, but I mean it's just a case
I was also thinking about emailing the WikiGTA team, to see if we could contribute to (or become) the unopened English end of the site - Xenon 17:17, 29 March 2007 (BST)
- Naturally I can't give you an answer on that on my own, but we are still working on the English WikiGTA and figuring out how to cover most topics in English. However, unlike GTW, WikiGTA can only be edited by a selected group of editors to prevent spam and nonsence. A merge would mean that GTW or WikiGTA has to change it's approach. Any way, I'll pass through your idea.--Lantyz - WikiGTA crew 18:14, 29 March 2007 (BST)
- Kind of defeats the objective of a wiki (in my view) - this is all about user generated content. The main defence against spam that GTW has is not allowing unregistered users to edit the site - meaning we can track and easily block everybody, and those people who only want to casually cause trouble can't be bothered to register. I think the merge would be a good idea as GTW has an established (but small) user base of regularly-contributing users, and some experienced wiki admins - something I would presume WikiGTA lacks om the English department at the moment. Out of interest, what restrictions does WikiGTA have on editing? - Xenon 19:28, 29 March 2007 (BST)
- WikiGTA evolved from the previous (non-wiki) walkthrough at our forums. We only use the wiki-software because it's easy to edit for all our editors, and not because we want everyone be able to edit it. Yes, that's not the general idea of a wiki, but that wasn't our goal to begin with. The Dutch GTA-articles on Wikipedia are an absolute mess; we're trying to prevent that on WikiGTA. That's why we currently only except known users from our forums as editors. I'm not saying this won't change in the future, but it is how we run things at the moment. --Lantyz - WikiGTA crew 22:49, 29 March 2007 (BST)
- I can understand that - but GTW has enough basic structure and policy to stop it becoming a mess, even with significantly more editors. There are a lot of people here who know how the place works, and I personally have a lot of experience dealing with online security and site management. Also, I notice that GTAForum.nl has a topic about GTW in its staff area - I hope nobody's saying bad things about us :) Xenon 18:06, 30 March 2007 (BST)
- Kind of defeats the objective of a wiki (in my view) - this is all about user generated content. The main defence against spam that GTW has is not allowing unregistered users to edit the site - meaning we can track and easily block everybody, and those people who only want to casually cause trouble can't be bothered to register. I think the merge would be a good idea as GTW has an established (but small) user base of regularly-contributing users, and some experienced wiki admins - something I would presume WikiGTA lacks om the English department at the moment. Out of interest, what restrictions does WikiGTA have on editing? - Xenon 19:28, 29 March 2007 (BST)
- Yeah! George 01:53, 4 April 2007 (BST)
Happy Easter
You too George. Thanks for all your help round the wiki this week :-) Xenon 16:44, 8 April 2007 (BST)
Enjoy your turkey George!
You too! George 03:24, 9 April 2007 (BST)
Greetings all the way from Grand Theft Auto Wiki!
Greetings, sir! I hails from Grand Theft Auto Wiki. I only have discovered existence of this site today, as result from a comment added at our main page's discussion from the very same person who visited your site as well, Lantyz from WikiGTA. We were also discussing possible English version of WikiGTA without our knowledge of this site's existence and the fact GTW is also considering same thing. We, the people of Grand Theft Auto Wiki, would have the pleasure of working with you guys in any way if we can. Please notice I am not member of Grand Theft Auto Wiki, just for your information. I am, well, I guess you could say I am their "unofficial" ambassador without authorized official diplomatic commission. Our Grand Theft Auto Wiki also has Spanish, German, and other language versions. I myself only know English, as I'm American. Again, it is our pleasure knowing you and all that is GTA Wiki. Thank you. ;) --Legion 16:55, 27 April 2007 (BST)
- Hi Legion - thanks for dropping by. What do you think of the place? It doesn't seem that WikiGTA want an English wiki as we know it - they're using the Dutch wiki merely for storing information, not as a community hub as we certainly try to be. I am an Official of GTA Wiki (GTW), so any suggestions you have will be taken into consideration. All I can say is enjoy yourself, I hope this site is useful, and I hope you'll be able to help us out too. Xenon (Admin) talk 17:32, 27 April 2007 (BST)
Uploading images
George congratulations on becoming a sysop on GTW. One little request I have is when you upload photos on the site - that you name them appropriately. Not that its a big deal or anything it just keeps things much more organized and easier when i check for unused stuff. An example was when you named the espantoso radio station image "scary". It looks scary - true, but if your uploading a few radiostation pictures name them for example: radiostation_espantoso.jpg, radiostation_vrock.jpg, etc. Using single words such as "scary" or something in general makes organization very sloppy, and at one point when the site is big, and there are a lot of pictures it will be a huge mess. So like I said before its nothing very big, but it keeps the site nicely organized, and will benefit us admins very much in the future if a change needs to be made. Also one more thing; when uploading photos for articles, they should be at least 600x600px or larger if nesessary (however not very huge pics) in size so if people need to see something in detail they can by clciking the thumbnail on the article. If you have any questions write on my disc. page. Happy Editing- 47 20:16, 30 April 2007 (BST)
Ok, i'll do that more often. George 20:46, 30 April 2007 (BST)
Edit Summaries
Err... you might want to avoid or at least tone down edit summaries like that. "A new pic, now you can stop bitching about it WikiGTA"... [1]. Just letting ya know. :/ --Legion 22:30, 8 May 2007 (BST)
- There are complaning a lot about me taking some pics from there site. George 22:32, 8 May 2007 (BST)
Uh, is that really a good reason to be hostile and such to them or something? Also, I just now saw what you wrote in User talk:Ewoud and frankly I'm shocked and appalled... --Legion 22:35, 8 May 2007 (BST)
- Now now - play nice. Yes it is a bit stingy of them not letting us use screenshots, even though its not the staff that have complained. We can just rest in the knowledge that we are here to share information, not keep it for ourselves. They probably won't ever read the summary, but still it is a permanent record, so best to keep it nice and clean. What he said wasn't quite "appalling", just a bit of an overreaction. Xenon (?) 22:46, 8 May 2007 (BST)
Its not that bad Chief of Staff, you're making a big deal out of it. What i said wasn't that bad. Yes, as a Moderator i should have not said that they can stop Bitching but they WERE Bitching. Sorry if you have found this appalling. George 01:07, 9 May 2007 (BST)
Hi - When editing an article, could you please use the "Show Preview" button instead of "Save Page" to check your edits, as having ten revisions in quick succession for an article is a bit of a waste of space. Thanks - Xenon (?) 22:14, 11 May 2007 (BST)
Also, if you go to an image page, eg Image:Mike-GTAA.jpg, under the image it shows you the dimensions (size) of the picture - for that one it is 120 × 137 pixels. That is the width × height. when you specify a thumbnail of an image, putting in a measurement of pixels forces it to go to that width. If you specify a bigger width than the image, such as making Mike.jpg go to 200px or 150px wide (when it is only 120px wide) will cause it to look pixelated and distorted. If the image is smaller than 150px width, you don't need to say how wide the thumbnail has to be, because it will just use the full image, and it will look good. Putting a size in a thumbnail is to make massive images fit, not to make small images bigger. I'll put all this on Help:Images too. Thanks - Xenon (?) 22:32, 11 May 2007 (BST)
Post Lapsarian Greece
George please stop changing the GTA World article back. You need to understand the grammar used to realise these are not places.
"In post lapsarian Greece" means 'In Greece, after the lapsarian period'
"the orchestra philharmonic de halap in Mexico" means 'the philharmonic orchestra of halap, in Mexico' (halap being the name of the orchestra, not a place)
i.e. the first is talking about a time in Greece after lapsarian period. I'm currently trying to find a definition of lapsarian for you but it's not a word widely used anymore.
--Chris 13:08, 20 June 2007 (BST)
Not racist
George, just wanted to point out, as you may have taken what I wrote the wrong way. I am not a racist and I'm not singling out Americans. I originally said Americans in the article because it a common mistake made by them. Nothing to do with the 'stupid stereotype', it's just how it is, I am fully aware not all Americans are stupid. I changed it to "People living outside of Europe" and you (again) reverted this and claimed it was anti-American.
Now look, America isn't the only country outside of Europe, you know that. Europe is a fairly small continent and as a result of the EU, the majority of us know the difference between the UK, and it's seperate countries, so the England Scotland Wales thing isn't an issue here. However, for people in other continents, Asia, Africa, North America etc, the differences aren't so well known, and so it is far more common for them to not realise the subtle differences.
Now I'm not gonna change it back again, we'll leave it how it is now... just wanted to point it out that I wasn't being racist I was just stating it was a common error by people living in countries far away from the UK. That's all.
--Chris 13:47, 20 June 2007 (BST)
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee State sophomore Clairwin Dameus earned 2014 Indoor Track and Field Female Athlete of the Championship honors in a vote by the league's head coaches.
Dameus helped lead the Tigerbells to its third indoor title. She took first in the pentathlon with 3,625 points and was a part of the record setting 4x400 relay team that completed the event in 3:42.73.
The Boynton Beach, Fla. native continued her dominant performance by finishing second in the long jump (20'25.00") and 55-meter hurdles (7.83), while taking third in the 55 meter dash (7.07).
Dameus scored 34.5 of TSU's 144 points.
Dameus and the rest of track and field teams will prepare for the John Mitchell Alabama Relays in Tuscaloosa, Ala. this Thursday through Saturday.