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CFO Moves this week include:
|Motorola Solutions, Inc.
|The Western Union Company
|Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
|Tiffany & Co.
|Willdan Group, Inc.
|Bemis Company, Inc.
|RockStar Resources, Inc.
|Rent-A-Center, Inc.
|Cleaver-Brooks, Inc.
|Western Digital® Corp.
|Catabasis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
|Media General, Inc.
|Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P.
|MLV & Co.
|Aviv REIT, Inc.
|DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc.
|Klondex Mines Ltd.
|ClearCorrect, LLC
|PaySpan®, Inc.
|The ExOne Company
|CTS Corporation
|Aratana Therapeutics, Inc.
|Actinium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
|Astrotech Corporation
|StemCells, Inc.
|BG Medicine, Inc.
|Ener-Core, Inc.
|State Fund
|Amyris, Inc.
|Save The World Air, Inc.
|Suburban Propane Partners, L.P.
|Medivation, Inc.
|Digimarc Corporation
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Motorola Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: MSI) announced that Gino A. Bonanotte, acting chief financial officer and corporate vice president, has been named chief financial officer and executive vice president. Bonanotte was named to the acting CFO role in August. Bonanotte joined Motorola in 1988 and previously served as corporate vice president overseeing financial operations for the company's sales and product operations organization. He has served on the board of directors for Vertex and other joint ventures in Latin America.
The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU) announced that Scott T. Scheirman, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will be leaving the company on February 28, 2014. Mr. Scheirman will serve as the Chief Financial Officer through December 31, 2013, and then he will serve as a senior advisor to the Company during the transition. Raj K. Agrawal, currently Executive Vice President, and President of Western Union Business Solutions, will serve as Interim Chief Financial Officer, effective January 1, 2014. Mr. Agrawal joined the Company in 2006 and has served as an Executive Vice President of the Company since November 2011, and President, Western Union Business Solutions since August 2011. Mr. Agrawal served as General Manager, Western Union Business Solutions, since November 2010, and as Senior Vice President of Finance, from August 2010 to November 2010. Previously, Mr. Agrawal served as Senior Vice President of Finance for the Company's Europe, Middle East, and Africa and Asia Pacific regions from July 2008 to August 2010, and as Senior Vice President and Treasurer of Western Union, from June 2006 to May 2008.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) announced that Charles Bancroft, executive vice president and chief financial officer, will take on an expanded role that includes the Business Development and Strategy groups.
Tiffany & Co. (NYSE: TIF) announced that Patrick F. McGuiness, its Chief Financial Officer has resigned that position effective November 27, 2013. James N. Fernandez, the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer will assume the position of Chief Financial Officer (principal financial officer) on an interim basis effective November 27, 2013. Mr. Fernandez joined Tiffany in 1983 and held various positions in financial planning and management prior to his appointment as Senior Vice President – Chief Financial Officer in 1989. In 1998 he was promoted to Executive Vice President – Chief Financial Officer. In June 2011 he was promoted to Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and Mr. McGuiness replaced him in the role of Chief Financial Officer. Since that time, Mr. McGuiness has reported to Mr. Fernandez.
Willdan Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: WLDN) announced the promotion of Stacy B. McLaughlin to Chief Financial Officer from her previous position as the company's Compliance Manager. Prior to joining Willdan, Mrs. McLaughlin was, from 2009 to 2010, Senior Associate at Windes & McClaughry Accountancy Corporation and, from 2004 to 2009, Senior Audit Associate at the public accounting firm KPMG, LLP.
Bemis Company, Inc. (NYSE: BMS) announced that Scott B. Ullem has resigned as its Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in order to pursue other professional opportunities. Mr. Ullem will continue as an employee through the end of the year to provide for a smooth transition. In the interim, Jerry Krempa, the Company's Vice President and Controller, will also serve as the Company's principal financial officer.
RockStar Resources, Inc. announced that Elizabeth M. Druffel has been named the Company's new Chief Financial Officer. Druffel most recently served as the former Treasurer and Chief Accountant of Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation. She also was previously employed as an Audit Senior Manager with KPMG LLP and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Rent-A-Center, Inc. (NASDAQ: RCII) announced that the Board of Directors has selected Robert D. Davis, the Company's current Chief Financial Officer, to become Chief Executive Officer on February 1, 2014. Mr. Davis also has been elected to the Company's Board. Mr. Davis has served as the Company's Executive Vice President – Finance since February 2008 and has served as the Company's Chief Financial Officer since March 1999. The Company also announced that Michael S. Wilding, the Company's current Senior Vice President – Accounting and Global Controller, will serve as Interim Chief Financial Officer, effective February 1, 2014.
HCA (NYSE: HCA) announced the appointment of Robert F. Carrel as President of HCA's Richmond, Va.-based Capital Division, effective January 1, 2014. Carrel, who has served as Chief Financial Officer of the Capital Division since 2006. As CFO of HCA's Capital Division, Carrel has been responsible for the division's financial operations for the last eight years. Prior to that, he was CFO of HCA's Fort Myers market from 2003 through 2005. From 2000 to 2003, Carrel served as CFO of Saint Vincent Hospital, a non-HCA facility in Worcestor, Mass. Carrel began his career with HCA in 1991 as Assistant Controller for Aventura Hospital & Medical Center in Aventura, Fla. He later served as CFO of several other HCA hospitals in South Florida.
Cleaver-Brooks, Inc. announced that John Oakley has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Previously, Mr. Oakley was President, Chief Financial Officer and Director for Flanders Corp. He has also served as the Chief Financial Officer at Nexxus Lighting and Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Director at Home Meridian International. Mr. Oakley began his career with Arthur Andersen, LLP, and gaining experience as Corporate Controller for Collins & Aikman Floorcoverings and as Treasurer for Pulaski Furniture Corp.
Booker announced that it has added Bill Smith as Chief Financial Officer. Bill was most recently CFO of Antenna Software, Inc. until its sale to Pegasystems, Inc. in October 2013. Prior to that, he was CFO of KAYAK Software, Inc.
Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) announced that Tim Leyden has been named chief financial officer. Leyden has served Western Digital for more than 23 years in a variety of leadership positions, including tenures as CFO from 2007 to 2010 and chief operating officer from 2010 to 2012. At the time of Western Digital's acquisition of HGST in 2012, Leyden was named president of the WD subsidiary. Leyden will succeed Wolfgang Nickl, who is resigning as CFO, effective Nov. 17, to join ASML in his native Europe.
Catabasis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that it has named Ian Sanderson its chief financial officer. Prior to joining Catabasis, Mr. Sanderson was a senior adviser at JSB-Partners, L.P. Prior to JSB-Partners, Mr. Sanderson was a managing director at Cowen and Company, LLC. Mr. Sanderson began his life sciences career in healthcare investment banking at Cowen and Company and at Houlihan Lokey Howard and Zukin, and in financial operations at U.S. Surgical Corporation (now Covidien). Mr. Sanderson also served as a director of development-stage, drug delivery technology company Spherics, Inc.
Media General, Inc. (NYSE: MEG) announced that James F. Woodward has been named a Senior Vice President, effective immediately. Mr. Woodward will continue in his role as chief financial officer, a position he has held since 2011. Mr. Woodward served as group vice president for Media General's former growth and performance group from 2009-2011. Before that, he was director of corporate human resources from 1999-2009. He was elected a corporate vice president in 2005. During his 30 years with Media General, he has served as staff accountant, audit manager, assistant controller of Richmond Newspapers, and manager of human resources systems for the finance department.
Videology announced that it has hired Scott Macleod as Chief Financial Officer. Macleod was a Managing Director and founding member of Merrill Lynch's Global Communications Group and founded Merrill Lynch's Asia Pacific Telecoms practice. Macleod later joined Rothschild as a Managing Director and Head of the North American Telecom Group. Macleod joined Nexlink Communications (later renamed XO Communications) where he ran Corporate Development. He later became Chief Financial Officer of SkyTerra Communications. Since 2010, Macleod has continued to provide strategic and investment advisory services including assisting companies (most recently Uniloc Luxembourg) in pursuing their strategic and financing alternatives.
Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. (NYSE: MMP) announced that Michael Osborne will join the partnership to replace John Chandler, current chief financial officer, upon Chandler's previously-announced departure from the company on March 31, 2014. Osborne has spent his entire career with Ernst & Young LLP, serving as an audit partner for the past 11 years. Osborne will join the partnership on Nov. 18, 2013, transitioning to the chief financial officer role in late March 2014.
MLV & Co. announced that Ron Ormand, Co-Founder and former Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Head of Capital Markets of Magnum Hunter Resources Corporation, has joined the firm's Energy Investment Banking Group as a Managing Director. In addition, Mr. Ormand will also be a Principal in 1055 Partners, MLV's principal investment arm. Prior to MHR, Mr. Ormand was Managing Director and Group Head of U.S. Oil and Gas Investment Banking at CIBC World Markets and Oppenheimer from 1988-2004 and at West LB A.G. from 2005-2007. Mr. Ormand also previously served as President and Chief Financial Officer of Tremisis Energy Acquisition Corp. II. Mr. Ormand also served as member of Board of Directors of Greenhunter Resources, Inc. from 2011-2013; Tremisis from 2007-2009 and Eureka Hunter Holdings, Inc. from 2010-2013.
Aviv REIT, Inc. (NYSE: AVIV) announced that it has hired Mark L. Wetzel as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Company. Mr. Wetzel replaces James H. Lyman, the Company's previous Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Mr. Wetzel served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc. from 2008 to 2013. From 2006 to 2007, Mr. Wetzel was the Chief Financial Officer of Vornado Realty Trust's Merchandise Mart division. From 1994 to 2006, Mr. Wetzel served in various senior executive financial positions with Equity Residential, most recently serving as Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer. From 1982 to 1994, Mr. Wetzel served in various positions in the real estate and public accounting industries.
DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc. (NYSE: DFT), announced that Jeffrey H. Foster has been named as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc., replacing Mark Wetzel who resigned his position with the Company to pursue another opportunity. Jeff Foster joined DFT in July 2007 and has been the Company's Chief Accounting Officer since its initial public offering in October 2007. Prior to joining DFT, Mr. Foster served as Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer of Global Signal, Inc., now part of Crown Castle International Corp. He also has held senior positions with Danka Office Imaging, Progress Telecom Corporation, Florida Power Corporation and GTE Corporation.
Klondex Mines Ltd. (OTC: KLNDF) announced that Barry Dahl has been appointed Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Dahl joins Klondex after being CFO of Argonaut Gold, Inc. for nearly four years. He replaces Jorge Avelino who will continue to serve Klondex as Corporate Controller and Corporate Secretary as Mr. Dahl transitions into the company. Prior to Argonaut, Mr. Dahl served as Andean Resources Corporate Controller in 2009, Hettinger Welding LLC Corporate Controller and CFO (2007 — 2009), and the Meridian Gold Inc. Director of External Reporting and Internal Controls (2003 — 2007).
Apttus announced it has appointed Jeff Van Zanten as chief financial officer (CFO). Previous to Apttus, Jeff was CFO at software firm Coverity. Prior to Coverity, he served as CFO for Symphony Services Corporation. Previous to Symphony Services, Jeff served as EVP Global Finance for Scient.
ClearCorrect, LLC announced the addition of Edward W. Hlousek as its new Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining the ClearCorrect team, Edward was a Consulting and Audit Partner at Deloitte, McConnell & Jones, and Arthur Andersen.
PaySpan, Inc. announced that Cheryl King has joined the company as CFO. King has more than 25 years of financial management and operational business experience supporting global organizations, including her prior Group CFO role at First Data Corporation.
The ExOne Company (NASDAQ: XONE) announced that Brian W. Smith will join ExOne as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer on January 1, 2014. John Irvin, the Company's current Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, will assume the role of Special Advisor to the Chairman. Upon assuming his new role, he will remain on the Company's Board of Directors. Brian W. Smith will join ExOne upon departing as an Assurance Client Service Partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers ("PwC"), where he serves in the firm's Pittsburgh, PA office. Mr. Smith joined PwC in 1984, was admitted as a Partner in 1995. Mr. Smith held various leadership roles within PwC, including leading initiatives in specific consumer and industrial product sectors.
CTS Corporation (NYSE: CTS) announced that Thomas A. Kroll, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer has notified the Company of his intention to retire from the Company, effective March 31, 2014. The Board of Directors has appointed Ashish Agrawal Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Mr. Agrawal will serve as both the Company's principal financial officer and principal accounting officer. Mr. Agrawal was elected Vice President Treasury and Corporate Development on June 13, 2011. Prior to this employment with CTS Corporation, Mr. Agrawal served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer with Dometic Corporation from December 2007.
Vistronix announced that Holly Asher Beveridge has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Vistronix, Beveridge spent the last five years as Chief Financial Officer of Trinity Technology Group, and previous five years as Chief Financial Officer of Dimensions International Inc.
Aratana Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: PETX) announced that it has appointed Craig Tooman to the position of Chief Financial Officer. Louise Mawhinney, former CFO of Aratana, will remain with the company. Immediately prior to his joining the executive team, Mr. Tooman had served as a Director and Chairman of Aratana's Audit Committee; he served as a member of the Board of Directors from March 2012 until his appointment as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Tooman will also transition from his current position of CEO of Avanzar Medical, Inc., an oncology company, to focus on Aratana. Previously, Mr. Tooman held executive positions at large pharmaceutical companies, including Pharmacia and Upjohn, and served as the CFO of Enzon Pharmaceuticals and Ikaria.
Actinium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTC: ATNM) announced the appointment of Richard I. Steinhart to its board of directors (Board). The Board also named Mr. Steinhart as Chairman of the Board's Audit Committee and a member of the Board's Compensation Committee. Mr. Steinhart has been employed by MELA Sciences, Inc, as their Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary since April 2006 and in April 2012, Mr. Steinhart received a promotion to Sr. Vice President, Finance. From May 1992 until joining the MELA Sciences Mr. Steinhart was a Managing Director of Forest Street Capital/SAE Ventures. Prior to Forest Street Capital/SAE Ventures, he was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Emisphere Technologies, Inc. Mr. Steinhart's other experience includes seven years at CW Group, Inc., a venture capital firm focused on medical technology and biopharmaceutical companies, where he was a General Partner and Chief Financial Officer. Until December 2011, Mr. Steinhart served on the Board of Manhattan Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company and was Chairman of its Audit Committee.
Astrotech Corporation (NASDAQ: ASTC) announced that it has appointed Eric Stober as Chief Financial Officer ("CFO") of the Company. Mr. Stober joined Astrotech Corporation in August of 2008 as a Senior Staff Financial Analyst. In the same year, he was promoted to Principal Financial Analyst and from 2012 to the present, Mr. Stober served as Vice President of Corporate Development. Prior to joining Astrotech Corporation, he worked at the private equity firm Virtus Financial Group. Additionally, Mr. Stober founded or co-founded several companies, including a web advertising company, a small business tax and financial advisory firm, a sports-based media and entertainment company, and a service provider sourcing company. Mr. Stober began his professional career working for both The Ayco Company, a Goldman Sachs company, and Lehman Brothers.
StemCells, Inc. (NASDAQ: STEM) announced that Greg Schiffman will join its executive team as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Finance, effective January 1, 2014. Mr. Schiffman has over fifteen years of experience leading the financial operations and strategy of global publicly-traded companies such as Affymetrix and Applied Biosystems. Most recently, Mr. Schiffman was Executive Vice President and CFO of Dendreon Corporation since 2007. Before entering the healthcare field, Mr. Schiffman held roles of increasing responsibility within Hewlett Packard, where he served as controller of its European P.C. manufacturing and distribution operations in Grenoble, France, and as manufacturing manager and controller of its Netmetrix Division. Mr. Schiffman will succeed Rodney Young, who is leaving the Company to pursue other opportunities.
BG Medicine, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGMD) announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Stephen P. Hall, as the company's Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Hall most recently held the position of Vice President Finance — Treasurer, Principal Financial and Chief Accounting Officer at Stemline Therapeutics. Prior to joining Stemline Therapeutics, Mr. Hall served as Chief Financial Officer at both life science and medical device companies, including Orthocon, Inc., Helicos BioSciences Corporation, TriPath Imaging, Inc., and Colorado MEDtech. Mr. Hall will replace Charles Abdalian, who has served as BG Medicine's CFO since October 2012.
Ener-Core, Inc. (OTC: ENCR) announced the appointment of Kelly Anderson as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Company. Previously, between April 2010 and February 2012, Ms. Anderson was the President and Chief Financial Officer of T3 Motion, Inc. Prior to that, Ms. Anderson served as T3's Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and as a director from January 2009 until January 2010. From 2006 until 2008, Ms. Anderson was Vice President at Experian. From 2004 until 2006, Ms. Anderson was Chief Accounting Officer for TripleNet Properties, G REIT, Inc., T REIT, Inc., NNN 2002 Value Fund, LLC, and Chief Financial Officer of NNN 2003 Value Fund, LLC and A REIT, Inc., all of which were real estate investment funds managed by TripleNet Properties. From 1996 to 2004, Ms. Anderson held senior financial positions with The First American Corp. Ms. Anderson replaces James Thorburn, whose contract as interim CFO was recently completed.
State Fund announced that Dan Sevilla, CFO, will resign from State Fund. Sevilla will step away from overseeing day-to-day operations immediately but will remain available for advice and consultation until the end of the year. The Board announced that it has appointed Pete Guastamachio as interim CFO. Guastamachio joined State Fund in 2009 and is State Fund's Chief Investment Officer. He has more than 30 years experience in the financial world having served as vice president-assistant portfolio manager for Bank of the West. He also served in a variety of positions with Argonaut Insurance.
Amyris, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMRS) announced that Paulo Diniz, currently President of Amyris Brasil, will become Amyris's Chief Financial Officer (CFO) on an interim basis following the decision of its current CFO, Steve Mills, to step down for personal reasons. Mr. Diniz will assume the new responsibilities by December 15, 2013, at which time Mr. Mills will transition to an advisory role with the Company. Mr. Diniz will become Amyris's Chief Financial Officer upon Mr. Mills' resignation. He joined Amyris as President of the Company's Brazilian subsidiary in early 2011, following a successful career as, among other things, the CFO of two agribusiness leaders: Bunge Brasil and Cosan.
Save The World Air, Inc. (OTC: ZERO) announced that Greggory M. Bigger, Chief Financial Officer and President was appointed by the Board to serve as the Company's Chief Executive Officer and Interim Chairman of the Board.
Suburban Propane Partners, L.P. (NYSE: SPH) announced that Michael A. Stivala, Suburban's Chief Financial Officer will be named President effective April 1, 2014. Mr. Stivala has served in his current position as CFO since October 2007 and, prior to that, held several leadership roles since joining the Partnership in December 2001.
Nelnet (NYSE: NNI) announced that, effective at the beginning of next year, Terry Heimes, currently Nelnet's Chief Financial Officer (CFO), will be appointed Chief Operating Officer, and Jim Kruger, currently Controller of Nelnet, will be appointed CFO.
Medivation, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDVN) announced that C. Patrick Machado, Medivation's Chief Business and Financial Officer, advised Medivation that he has made the decision to retire. Mr. Machado has agreed to remain with Medivation on an interim basis while Medivation conducts a search for his replacement.
Digimarc Corporation (NASDAQ: DMRC) appointed Charles Beck to serve as Digimarc's Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, replacing Michael McConnnell, who retired from these positions. Mr. Beck joined Digimarc in May 2012 as the company's Controller. Prior to joining Digimarc, Mr. Beck was a senior manager at KPMG LLP, where he served in various auditing roles since 2002.


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HOUSTON - Dr. Mauricio Rodriguez's silly product review of the Perfect Smile veneers racked up more than 7 million views and thousands of comments on Facebook.
"It ended up touching a lot of people," said Rodriguez.
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His viral video brought to life an insecurity that Kelsey had lived with for years. She hardly smiled. Her teeth were rotting, broken, and in some cases missing.
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Dr. Rodriguez extracted 28 teeth during two surgeries, before showing Kelsey the smile she'd wished for for years. Her prayers had been answered.
"I was so excited that first night, I couldn't sleep," said Schmidt. "I sat up and took four years worth of selfies, I'm not too embarrassed to admit it."
Kelsey says Dr. Rodriguez changed her life. After spending years too scared to smile in front of her own kids, her son finally knows what it's like to see mommy smile.
"I told my son, 'Look, I have teeth, baby. What do you think?' and he said 'You're so pretty,'" said Schmidt. "It made my day. Lifetime made."

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Tony Germain
- Career Highlights
- Performances with Judy Garland, Herb Pomeroy, Joe Hunt, and Dick Johnson
- Musical director, Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well, Charles Playhouse
- Pianist and keyboardist with jazz and commercial groups
- Recordings include Forces with Jerry Tachoir; Risa's Waltz with Danny Harrington; U ntil Further Notice with Steve Rochinski; Sasha Sings Dinah , A Tribute to the Queen , Dinah Washington with Sasha Daltonn; Happy Talk with Christ ine Fawson; At Last with Kimber ly Keating; Read Between the Lines with Jan Shapiro; Live at the Firehouse wi th Danny Harrington; The Berklee Great American Songbook series ; and for Acuff-Rose, Nashville
- Published articles in Keyboard and Berklee Today magazines
- Professional performing and recording artist
- Television and radio experience, including Community Auditions/Dave Maynard Talent Showcase , WBZ, Channel 4, Boston; Jack Harris Show , Detroit; Nick Clooney Show , Cincinnati; Music America , WGBH Radio, Boston; and Grand Ole Opry , Nashville
- Performer and clinician, Berklee on the Road programs in Umbria, Puerto Rico, and Los Angeles
- Education
- B.M., Berklee College of Music
In Their Own Words
"I think I might have been one of Berklee's first graduates with what today is called the performance major in piano. So as assistant chair, I have a vested interest in making sure we're still preparing piano, keyboard, and organ students, without being in any way style prejudiced. I also took the position to have a little bit more involvement with the curriculum—to see what I could personally add or help create."
"When I went to Berklee, Ted Pease, Phil Wilson, and Mike Rendish were my role models and my teachers. They set the standard for what I'd become and how I would teach. They were all very good to me, and I could see how much they loved it. Here at Berklee, I'm giving back to something that has given me everything. I often describe Berklee as a musical Fantasy Island. I just don't know where else I'd be happy."
"Prior to becoming assistant chair of the Piano Department, I taught pretty much everything across the board for 33 years: harmony, ear training, arranging, ensembles. I created the Harmonic Ear Training course and taught it from about 1978 until I became assistant chair. I'm equally in love with private and classroom teaching, and have done it all my adult life. I probably get more out of it than my students do. But hopefully I inspire students to further their interests in whichever style of performance they desire—it's my job to prepare them for the long haul. I still teach Survey of Piano Styles: History of Jazz Piano. I didn't want to give it up. And I didn't want to not teach entirely, because you lose touch if you're out of the classroom."


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Toshiba is to take on LaCie, Western Digital, Seagate and all the other HDD sellers offering drives designed to be hooked up to an HD TV.
The Story TV+ is set to ship in Q3 and will contain 1-2TB of 3.5in HDD storage. Content can be copied onto the drive through its USB 2.0 port - or from cards slipped into its SDHC slot.
Toshiba's Story TV+: content source for your telly...
You'll be able to pull material from network stores and the internet thanks to the integrated Ethernet port. It'll also have wireless. The device's spec has yet to be finalised, so Toshiba staffers couldn't say whether the TV+ will have 802.11b/g or 802.11n. Either way, Wi-Fi will be implemented by bundling a dongle that'll slip into a dedicated secondary USB port.
...be it HD or SD
It will, however, pump out pictures at up to 1080p resolution, through its HDMI port. It also has component-video output for folk with old tellies. It has co-ax digital audio out too.
Basic: the main UI
The TV+ has a display of its own: a small, 2in-or-so LCD panel that replicates the UI presented on the main screen.
The TV+ has its own screen too
It's much too early to talk about pricing, Toshiba told us. ®
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Today is Steles of the Sky's birthday, and I'm so excited I may be having heart flutters over here. There's something about the long setup on a series, and the eventual payoff, that... okay, so when I used to run tabletop RPGs a lot more than I have time for now, there was this moment when my players always knew they'd stumbled on The Awful Troof--cracked the campaign wide open, basically, and found the central mystery and aw-hell moment.
Because I would start grinning this particular delighted maniacal grin.
The great joy for me as a storyteller is the moment when the person I'm telling the story to figures out what's up. And I have been just dying to tell everybody the rest of this story for years now.
So you can imagine how excited I currently am.
In celebration of the day, there's GUEST POSTS!
Here's a post at SF Signal on writing special-needs characters in SFF.
Here's a post at the Locus blog regarding noveling as an argument with one's self.
And here's my Big Idea post at the Whatever, where my second Item of News for the week is revealed.
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Submitted by James E. Miller of the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada,
Through decades of research, American neurobiologist James McGaugh discovered that as humans learn information and encounter new experiences, the part of the brain known a the amygdala plays a key role in retention. The amygadala is activated primarily by stress hormones and other emotionally arousing stimuli. Memory consolidation, or the forming of long term memories, is typically modulated very strongly by the amygdala. Put simply, events that invoke significant amounts of emotion make a bigger imprint on one's brain.
Emotion, while an important element in man's array of mental tools, can unfortunately triumph over reason in crucial matters. Excessive anger can lead to violent confrontations. Heartbreak can lead a person to do drastic things in order to woo back a lost lover. In the context of simple economic reasoning, today's intellectual establishment often disregards common sense in favor of emotional-tinged policy proposals that rely on feelings of jealously, envy, and blind patriotism for validation rather than logical deduction. "Eat the rich" schemes such as progressive taxation and income redistribution are used by leftists who style themselves as champions of the poor. Plucking on the emotional strings of envy makes it easier to arouse widespread support for economic intervention via the state.
In the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008, economic growth predictably slowed down in most industrialized countries. Many commentators on the political left have grasped onto this opportunity to point to the vast amount of income inequality which exists in the United States and reason that it played a part in causing the crash. This argument is typically paired with a proposal to raise taxes on the rich to balance out societal incomes. It is alleged that having government brutes step in order to play the role of Robin Hood is the best and most justified way to alleviate income inequality.
Presently, income inequality in America is at its highest peak in decades. In 2011, a study by the Congressional Budget Office concluded that after tax income grew by 275% for the top 1% of income earners between the years of 1979 and 2007. The top-fifth of the U.S. population saw a 10 percentage point increase in their share of total income in the same period while all other groups saw their share decrease by 2 to 3 percentage points. The data undoubtedly shows that income inequality has been increasing over the past few decades. New York Times columnist and economist Paul Krugman has latched onto the evidence and is suggesting that rising income inequality plays a part in causing recessions. Economist Joseph Stiglitz, who recently wrote the book "The Price of Inequality," has argued that without a fair share of the national income, the middle class is unable to spend enough to keep aggregate demand elevated. Both economists see income inequality as a danger to the prosperity of a nation. Such a message is appealing to the greater public because it plays on their perceptions that the world is unfair. It almost seems intuitive to think that the rich posses too much wealth or that a prosperous society is one in which income is more equalized. Comfortableness in these beliefs paves the way for income redistribution efforts by the ever-scheming political class.
With income inequality a hot topic of debate going into the fifth year of the biggest economic downturn since the Great Depression, the question remains: does income inequality have a negative impact on society as Stiglitz and Krugman suggest? And is growing income inequality an inherit part of capitalism?
First and foremost, the idea of equality for man in physical attributes, mental fitness, and material security is essentially anti-human. The most appealing aspect of mankind is that every person varies from one another in a myriad of different ways. Some are better athletes, some are quicker studies, some have outer features that make them generally more attractive. It follows that some men and women will be more apt at producing or better attuned to the demands of the marketplace. They will have higher incomes by virtue of their own entrepreneurship or capacity to produce. So, in a sense, income inequality is a fact of the free market. But it is the possibility of inequality and the ability to achieve a higher income that makes capitalism work. Punishing those who excel at making consumers better off punishes the very market mechanism that leads to better living standards overall. In a free society, income inequality is not good or bad; it is part of the functioning order. Any attempt to make incomes more equal through state measures is unjustified plunder of the rightful earners of wealth.
But what of the inequality in income that exists in today's state-corporatist economy? Did the 1% acquire its wealth solely through hard work? The answer is hardly in many cases. Though there are some innovative businessmen who became rich by providing new and better products, the sharp increase in income inequality over the past two decades is due to an economic phenomenon outside of normal market operations. Krugman and Stiglitz rightfully point out that the greatest periods of income inequality in the United States were the late 1920s and the period since the mid-1990s. What they fail to mention is that both these periods were not defined by capitalism run amok but by massive credit expansion. This expansion in credit, aided and abetted by the Federal Reserve's loose money policy, is the real culprit behind vast income inequality. Economist George Reisman explains:
the new and additional funds created in credit expansion show up very soon in the financial markets, where they drive up the prices of securities, above all, common stocks. The owners of common stock are preponderantly wealthy individuals, who now find themselves the beneficiaries of substantial capital gains. These gains are the greater the larger and more prolonged the credit expansion is and the higher it drives the prices of shares. In the process of new and additional money pouring into the financial markets, investment bankers and stock speculators are in a position to reap especially great gains.
Since it's so important, the main point just made needs to be repeated: credit expansion creates an artificial economic inequality by showing up in the stock market and driving up stock prices.
Money acts as a medium of exchange but is not neutral in its effects on receivership. Those first receivers are able to bid up the price of goods before any other market participants. As the newly created money flows into the economy, the general price level rises to reflect the new volume of currency. In practice, credit expansion which brings about a reduction in interest rates also increases the amount of time businesses can go without making deductions for depreciation on their balance sheets as they purchase capital goods. Because investment tends to go toward durable goods during periods of credit expansion, there is less funds left over to devote to labor. Profits end up being recorded while wages sag behind. Since credit expansion and inflationary policy go hand in hand in distorting relative prices and must eventually come to an end, the bust that occurs reveals wasteful investment. Recession sets in shortly thereafter.
Printed money is not the same as accumulated savings which would otherwise fund sustainable lines of investment. And it is only through adding to the economy's pool of real savings that productive capacity is able to increase in the long term. The wealthy have a higher propensity to save precisely because they have a higher income. It is through their savings that new business ventures are funded and the economy is able to grow without the faux profits from government-enabled credit expansion. This is why raising taxes on the rich is a backwards solution to income inequality. Taxation only funnels money out of the productive, private sector and into the public sector which focuses on spending to meet political ends rather than consumer satisfaction. All government spending boils down to wasted capital. The truth is that capital is always scarce; there is never enough of it.
Pointing out this fact is by no means corporate shilling. Many corporations and well connected businesses lobby for tax increases in order to burden their competitors. Currently in California, Governor Jerry Brown is campaigning for a ballot measure which would raise taxes on the state's richest residents. According to the Wall Street Journal, companies such as Disney, NBC, Warner Bros., Viacom, CBS, and Sony have each already pitched in $100,000 for the initiative. Various energy companies are financially supporting the ballot measure to make sure that a 25% tax on natural gas and oil extraction isn't next. As the scope of government becomes all the more encompassing, big business starts seeing profit opportunity in using its forceful authority to better its own competitive position. In their unceasing tirades over income inequality, Stiglitz and Krugman recognize the trouble rent-seeking poses to competitive markets yet both reason that the problem doesn't lie with the state but with those politicians and bureaucrats who occupy its enforcement offices. To put it bluntly, this notion isn't just juvenile; it rests on the fallacious assumption that government is staffed by only the most well-meaning of individuals in society. As history and reason dictate however, good souls are not attracted to positions of absolute power. The state, by Max Weber's definition, holds the monopoly over force in a given area. Practically every action taken by state officials introduces violence or the spoils from violence into an otherwise free society. It follows that only those seeking to use state authority for their own benefit naturally gravitate toward politics.
Krugman and Stiglitz believe, as most do, that Americans should be born with the opportunity to succeed. To create an environment of fairness, they propose a variety of government policies so that even the most impoverished individuals will have a shot at the American Dream. Their arguments rest largely on emotion instead of reason and are aimed at inspiring reactionary protest. What they fail to see (or refuse to acknowledge) is that the free market provides the best opportunities for someone to make a decent living by providing goods and services. In a totally uninhibited market, profits come only to those who satisfy consumers more than their competition. Contrary to Stiglitz's suggestion, Henry Ford wasn't a great businessman because he paid his workers a high wage. He made his fortune by streamlining the process from which cars were built in order to sell them at a lower price. The employees at Ford were able to increase their productivity, and thus wages, through the previous accumulation of capital and investment in machinery. Ford's massive profits didn't last long however as domestic and foreign competition copied the mass production model and were able to attract market share of their own. The greater the amount of cars on the market meant lower prices for all consumers in the end.
Again, in a truly free market the only way to maintain a rising income is to continually produce at a more efficient and more innovative rate. In an economy plagued by the heavy hand of government, the market becomes rigged in favor of those connected to the ruling establishment. Competition is decreased by the rising cost of adhering to regulations, innovation stagnates, and more income flows to the top. Through central banking and credit expansion, profits are able to be recorded by the financial industry and first receivers of money before the rest of the population; which in turn leads to further evidence of income inequality.
No matter how you slice it, taxation is theft. It is indiscernible from highway robbery and devoid of any moral justification. Income inequality is a problem not because the government isn't doing enough to combat it but because politicians and bureaucrats never tire of intervening into the private affairs of society. With government intervention present in practically all market transactions, the solution to income inequality is to remove the intervention; not empower the state further by increasing the amount of funds at its disposal.


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I sent the full balance due to pay off my account, then the bank sent me a bill charging interest. How is this possible?
Even though you paid off your account, there could have been residual interest from previous balances. Residual interest will accrue to an account after the statement date if you have a balance transfer, cash advance balance, or have been carrying a balance from month to month.
From the time your statement cycles until the bank receives your payment, the interest continues to accrue.


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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Investors will be hoping to avoid another shock when slumping personal computer and printer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. reports its latest quarterly result after the stock market closes Thursday.
WHAT TO WATCH FOR: The results are expected to show the HP's revenue sinking from the previous year for the sixth consecutive quarter. Although it's an unsettling trend, it will almost come as a relief if the continuing revenue slide turns out to be the lowlight of this fiscal first-quarter report for the three months ending in January.
That's because of what has happened in HP's previous two quarters. The company, which is based in Palo Alto, Calif., absorbed huge charges to account for troubled acquisitions in each of the last two quarters. The twin blows lumped HP with losses totaling $15.3 billion, by far the worst financial setbacks in the company's 74-year history.
The bombshell that HP dropped three months ago was especially devastating. Besides registering another massive loss, HP traced some of its problems to the alleged financial malfeasance of the management that had been running one of its acquisitions, business software maker Autonomy, before the roughly $10 billion deal was closed in late 2011. Former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch, who was fired by HP CEO Meg Whitman last year, has vigorously denied any wrongdoing.
U.S. authorities are now investigating whether there was any misconduct within Autonomy and several shareholder lawsuits already have been filed in the fallout.
Whitman, who has now been running HP for 17 months, so far has been focused on cutting costs to offset the revenue decline. She has vowed to revive revenue growth, although she has warned HP might not be firing on all cylinders until 2015 or 2016.
Like other PC makers, HP has been struggling to adapt to a growing preference for smartphones and tablet computers that is siphoning sales away from desktop and laptop machines. Data compiled by independent research firms indicated HP may not have fared quite as badly in the most recent quarter as it did during much of last year, although revenue in its PC division is still expected to be down.
HP's woes have hurt its stock, which has plunged by more than 60 percent in just 2 1/2 years. The shares have rallied from the 10-year lows reached after news of the Autonomy scandal broke, but mostly because investors have been hoping HP might take a cue from rival Dell Inc. and do something really radical.
Dell has agreed to sell itself for $24.4 billion to its CEO, Michael Dell, and a group of investors. That stirred talk that HP might at least decide to spin off its PC and printer operations from its business software products and technology services, an idea that Whitman so far has indicated that she opposes. Analysts may press Whitman for her thoughts on a potential breakup once again during HP's earnings conference call.
HP stock closed last week at $16.79.
WHY IT MATTERS: HP is a Silicon Valley icon and a major employer with nearly 332,000 workers, down 5 percent, or 17,800 people, from a year ago. The company intends to eliminate about 11,000 more jobs before the end of next year to help boost its earning, but management could decide to jettison even more workers if HP doesn't start showing some signs of improvement.
The company is also part of the Dow Jones industrial average, so its performance sways the widely watched barometer and affects perceptions about the overall health of the stock market.
WHAT'S EXPECTED: After subtracting certain accounting charges, analysts polled by FactSet predict the company will earn $71 cents per share on revenue of $27.9 billion.
LAST YEAR'S QUARTER: HP earned $1.5 billion, or 73 cents per share, on revenue of $30.4 billion. If not for certain accounting charges, HP would have earned 92 cents share last year.


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GREELEY, Colo. – Two days after posting its season-high goal total, the Northern Arizona soccer team fell to Northern Colorado, 5-0, in its final road game of the regular season on Sunday at Jackson Stadium. The five goals were the most the Lumberjacks have given up this season as they fell to 5-7-4 and 3-2-2 in the conference heading into their final two Big Sky matches this upcoming weekend.
"We completely got outplayed today," said head coach Andre Luciano. "Northern Colorado is a really good team and they outplayed us on every side of the ball. I told the team we have to take care of our next two home games because that's how you get into the conference tournament."
The home team came out firing on its Senior Day and struck early in the 13th minute when Eryn Daniel converted on a cross into the box by Brittany Dunn. Dunn then provided the Bears with a 2-0 lead in the 30th minute when she put back a blocked shot into the net. Ahead 2-0 going into the second half, the Bears added three late goals – two by Juliana Grover and another by Dunn – in the 77th, 81st and 84th minutes to provide the margin.
The Bears outshot the Lumberjacks by a 19-4 margin and a narrow advantage in corner kicks, 6-5. Junior Lauren Weaver, who had entered the game with five shutouts in her last six games, made seven saves on the day. Senior Georgia Foltz, sophomores Sarah Tarver and Kelly Whelan and freshman Cierra Gamble each had a shot for NAU.
The Lumberjacks remain at 11 points in the standings and will host Eastern Washington on Friday and Montana on Sunday in their final attempts to move into the top-four and qualify for the Big Sky tournament. Depending on the outcomes in the final two games in the conference on Sunday, the Lumberjacks could be within two points of the top-four. Montana currently is sitting in the top-four with 13 points while Eastern Washington has eight.
NAU is 2-0-3 in its last five home games. Friday's match against Eastern Washington is slated for a 7 p.m. start.


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Can you help support Jamaica's first 3D movie?A Tale of Loss and Triumph, Poverty and Paradise.... This is the day in the life of Hugh Creek Peart, aka "Sledger," an elder Rasta farmer living in 9 Mile, the most beautiful, yet poorest part of Jamaica where he has struggled to survive for over half a century. His story is similar to the hundreds of thousands of other Jamaicans struggling to make ends meet, a life of poverty in paradise. Despite the plight of the many living in the small farming village of Nine Mile, Sledger is quite unique: Born and raised in the same household with his first cousin and best friend, Robert Nesta Marley.
This is also the story of 9 Mile, Bob Marley's home village up in the breathtaking hills of St. Anne's where simple farmers fight for running water and education for their youth. Sledger recounts what it was like growing up in the 50's and 60's with Bob, his family roots and the Rasta culture they found when they went to Kingston, which at that time was shunned, but now pervades every part of Jamaica.
In the 50's, all the village kids called Bob Marley, Skipper because they looked to him as their leader. Sledger followed Bob and his Mom to Trenchtown, far away from home.Sledger was there with Bob as he rose to be a global sensation. But when Bob died, Sledger was left without his friend, retreating back into the shadows, into his faith.
Sledger is featured in the 2012 Ziggy Marley produced Bob Marley documentary where he talks about growing up with Bob. But this documentary is different. It is about Sledger and what his own life has taught him.
The unique experiences of Bob, Sledger and others-- including Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh and dozens of Reggae greats-- led to a wealth of inspiration for songs dealing with the cultural, social, and political issues of time, many of which remain relevant today. This documentary captures Sledger's struggle, the intimate 3-D cinematography immersing you in the place and his story.
Principal photography on Sledger was completed in 2009, but his story has been curtailed due to the inability to afford completion of post-production. Shot over an arduous 12 days with a two-person crew, isolated in remote parts of Jamaica with little or no support, and using prototype 3-D equipment, Sledger is not only a labor of love, but a technical achievement.
That is where you play an important role in telling his tale-- with an added dimension. WHY 3-D?
A one-of-a-kind subject deserves a special experience. When in professional hands, 3-D truly does enhance your visual experience and enjoyment. In an environment such as Jamaica, the rich tropical backdrop, vivid colors and unique people make an even greater impact.
3-D film making has evolved to become an exciting and successful medium through innovations in technology and technique. Since Sledger was filmed, cameras have become easier use., Real-time editing in 3-D is a reality, and the entire process-- from conception to finish-- has been streamlined.
Stereo-based visual storytellers are now able to focus less on their equipment, and more on their subject.
This film holds the distinction of pioneering 3-D film making on a micro budget, and being the first of its type shot in Jamaica.
That's me, Victor
This is an independent film and we're hoping to try and raise funds for the film producer to finish the film via the Kickstarter Campaign which is why we are reaching out to all Reggae fans and trying to spread the word about the project. The film is of considerable interest to Bob Marley fans as Sledger Peart is Bob's cousin and lived with Bob and his family and the film sheds much light on his childhood with Bob and the area in which they lived, something that no other film before this one has managed to capture so well.
Please take a look at the official campaign page and if you have the time share the link and if your able help support in anyway you can.
Reggae Films UK
http://youtu.be/Cy0-0_Nwss8 Please take a look at our Kickstarter Campaign, if you are unable to support financially by reserving a DVD copy or one of the alternative options then sharing this email or the URL on your Facebook page...
would be a GREAT help and a good way in which you can help to give SLEDGER a chance at making it to the big screen in a town near you.
This project will only be funded if at least $14,000 is pledged by Wednesday Sep 11, 3:57pm EDT. Funding period
Jul 28, 2013 - Sep 11, 2013 (45 days)
Reggae Films UK (A dedicated voluntary supporter of SLEDGER - Jamaica's 1st 3D Documentary)


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janet.houck I think you need to leave your current team, do some research to find a good match, and move. Aerie Peak has the CTR uber guild, and we're sitting at over 90 raid teams. You can always find a team for you. If you can't, you can build it.
MarshallGlenn @janet.houck wth is CTR uber guild?
janet.houck @MarshallGlenn @janet.houck Convert to Raid, the podcast, has a greenwall'ed guild on Aerie Peak-US A. I think there's 8 sub-guilds at the moment. We tend to attract an older and more serious crowd, so for a 45-year old player, it might be a nice place to check out. :)
TaxmanCDN @janet.houck @MarshallGlenn All of my toons are in the CTR guild. Best guild I've ever been in. I'm on two raid teams, and on my off-nights if I feel like doing a flex there's always someone looking. Great community there, and I've found it to be a better class of raiders (in general) than on other realms.
Liopleurodon @MarshallGlenn @janet.houckConvert To Raid is a popular WoW podcast. They have a series of raiding guilds on Aerie Peak, because there's a cap to the number of people you can have in a guild. I was also under the impression that there were 'steps', like the more casual guild splinter vs the hardcore one to make it easier to find your niche but I'm not entirely sure about that. There are a few other mega/meta-guilds similar to this around, too.
MarshallGlenn @Liopleurodon @MarshallGlenn @janet.houck ahhh very cool. Edit
bluefer I had something like this problem and I transferred my toons to Aerie Peak and joined CTR. I suggest you roll an alt on Aerie Peak. AT L15 you can join CTR mega guild and find a ton of teams to choose from with good people and lots of raiders who treat each other pretty well. Best of luck.
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After latest title, will Brother Rice's Fracassa be back?
Al Fracassa sat in the bowels of Ford Field late Friday afternoon, pausing to rest and drink a cup of water after experiencing a game he thought "would never end," even though it went by faster than some of the speedsters on the field during the Division 2 state football final between Fracassa's Birmingham Brother Rice Warriors and Muskegon.
He had just met the media after celebrating something old and something new following Brother Rice's heartstopping 35-28 win over Muskegon.
It was the eighth state title under Fracassa in school history, but the first time Brother Rice ever won back-to-back state championships in his 44 years as head coach.
Fracassa paused to think about all the publicity Brother Rice was going to receive from another state title and the significance of becoming the first team since eight Divisions were formed in 1999 to repeat as state champions in Division 2.
He then got word that the bus was ready to leave and he was escorted up the ramp in the tunnel up to the bus that was certainly headed towards a victory party somewhere.
Hopefully somebody took a picture of the moment, because this could've very well have been the last time Fracassa walks out of a football stadium as head coach at Brother Rice.
It's nothing new, given the question of whether he'd retire was posed after last year's title game and he didn't announce he was coming back for this season until the team banquet.
But like a tidal wave that grows stronger and stronger as it reaches the shore, it's a question that'll get louder and louder with each passing year and when there's something new that's achieved.
He recently turned 80 last season, and told me last year that he doesn't want to be like Joe Paterno and stick around well into his 80's.
Fracassa's future was the obvious big topic after the game, and predictably, he said he needed to talk it over with his wife before making a decision in the coming weeks.
However, if there's one who likes to read between the lines, this quote from him was telling.
"Football has done so much for me," Fracassa said. "It got me a scholarship at Michigan State. I played football, baseball and basketball in high school. Sports mean a lot to me and I'd like to give it back. If I could coach in some capacity, if the good Lord gives me good health, I'd like to maybe help somebody out."
According to those words, Fracassa is about to announce his retirement and take on a lesser role in coaching somewhere.
But wait a minute?
Fracassa's passion is being a football coach through and through, he stays in Michigan pretty much year-round instead of going to a warmer climate for the winter, doesn't golf and has a crop of talented juniors coming back in the fold for next year.
So given all that, he'll definitely be back next year, right?
It'll be the million dollar question around the high school sports world in the next few weeks, and if he decides to finally call it quits, it'll be no small retirement announcement.
The victory over Muskegon was his 416th of his career, more than any other coach in state history, and he has sent countless players on to college programs, some of whom have turned into NFL players.
His office at Brother Rice is filled with photos taken with college and professional coaches around the country, who no doubt would be pouring in tribute after tribute when he does decide to hang it up.
Even at 80, the final minutes of Friday's win over Muskegon proved that Fracassa still knows how to push the right buttons.
Fracassa approved both a flea-flicker pass deep in his own territory and a lateral on a kickoff return from inside his own 10 in the final four minutes of the game.
Both worked, as they resulted in touchdowns to give Brother Rice the lead each time. The last one turned out to be a 94-yard kickoff return by Jason Alessi for a touchdown with 2:13 left that will forever be replayed as one of the most memorable game-winning touchdown plays in finals history.
"When you're back is up against the wall, you try to win," Fracassa said. "Try it and take chances."
One of the top players on this year's team, senior linebacker and Michigan State commit Jon Reschke, said he first met Fracassa at an open house before his freshman year and that Fracassa just had that special vibe to him that many don't.
"He just that has appearance that gives you an amazing feeling," Reschke said. "It was awesome."
Of course, Reschke said he didn't know if it was Fracassa's last game, and even if he did, he wasn't going to be breaking the news by himself to the media on Friday.
If it was his last game, there couldn't have been a more fitting way to go out by winning back-to-back titles for the first time and overseeing those two bold play calls that turned into gold during crunch time.
A big story was definitely Brother Rice's repeat state title, and no doubt this group of players can forever rejoice in that they distinguished themselves from previous championship teams in that regard.
But the biggest story on everyone's mind after and for the foreseeable future will be whether Al Fracassa will step on another high school football field as head coach again.
The legend left the building at Ford Field late Friday afternoon.
Only time will tell if we see him walking back.
Keith Dunlap is the high school sports coordinator for the The Oakland Press. E-mail him at email@example.com; Twitter: http://bit.ly/rwhfbe">@kd2578


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Two weeks ago, the planet's most unlikely film star turned from a Ugandan warlord to a nine-year-old kid who runs a homemade cardboard arcade out of his dad's used-auto-parts store, Smart Parts, in East Los Angeles. Invisible children to a child's imagination: the world could smile again. "Caine's Arcade," an eleven-minute film about Caine Monroy and his first customer, a struggling filmmaker named Nirvan Mullick, quickly acquired all the metrics of a viral sensation: millions of YouTube views, a top trending topic on Twitter worldwide, the Reddit front page, a call from Letterman's people. The adulations flooded Mullick's inbox, including one from the hacker collective Anonymous: "I commend you for your great work. You should be proud," the e-mail read.
"It felt as though I had been knighted by the Internet," Mullick told me. (When he tried to reply to Anonymous, the message bounced back with a scrambled auto-response.) Next, people began posting videos of themselves crying while watching the film. A seventeen-year veteran of "The Simpsons," one among legions of recent pilgrims to Caine's Arcade, broke down weeping at the sight of the real thing. He told Mullick that the moment recalled for him the scene in "Ratatouille" when the cynical food critic eats a bowl of soup, evoking visceral memories of his own mother's cooking. "That's what happened to me when Caine crawled into the box for the first time to push tickets out of a hole," said Mullick. "It brought me back to when I was a kid, and reminded me of why I used to make things, why I wanted to make films, for the pure joy of creativity."
When Mullick first posted "Caine's Arcade" to YouTube, on April 9th, he added a way for people to donate to for Caine's tuition—"imagine what this kid could build with an engineering degree"—and set a goal of twenty-five thousand dollars. He shared the link with an editor of Boing Boing, and then went to the climbing gym. While there, his phone began pinging with e-mail alerts—donations were already streaming in. Two dollars. Five dollars. Thirty dollars. Three hundred dollars. By the time Mullick went to sleep that first night, the film had raised six thousand dollars for Caine's scholarship fund; when he woke up, it had reached sixteen thousand, and, later that day, surpassed a hundred and twenty thousand dollars. (Invitations to a summer program at M.I.T. and an offer from U.C.L.A. to customize an academic track for Caine would come later.)
And this is just how the grownups reacted. The film sparked an unexpected wave of young D.I.Y. activity around the world. Kids posted videos and photos of their own cardboard creations—pinball machines, bubble-gum machines, a photocopier inside of which a small person sits and draws whatever is laid on top of it. Teachers started showing the video in school. It's not a stretch to say that "Caine's Arcade" makes a convincing case for "connected learning," a model that embraces social media as a way for kids to link up with peers and mentors—a kind of crowdsourced education. Riding the viral wave, Mullick has also launched Caine's Arcade Foundation, with seed money from the Goldhirsh Foundation and a mission to "find, foster, and fund creativity and entrepreneurship in kids." Naturally, there's a TV series in the works, which will document young kids who make things, and match them with storytellers and entrepreneurs. "Caine's Arcade" was released online, so it's not eligible for an Academy Award. Even so, Hollywood studios have started circling for the film rights. A major studio has proposed that Mullick, whose longest film has a running time of eleven minutes, make a hundred-million-dollar, live-action feature based on the story of three characters in the film who were destined to meet.
That story unfolds like so: Caine, a shy boy with an active imagination who loves to make things. His father, George Monroy, owns an auto-parts business that has struggled in the Internet economy. (Caine's parents are separated but live together; his mother doesn't speak English.) And Mullick, who had been around Los Angeles for twelve years, making conceptual projects like the The 1 Second Film and flirting with the idea of doing more commercial work. Turning thirty-seven, Mullick was forced to consider how long he could keep driving a crappy car, live without health insurance, and chase an elusive dream of artistic prosperity. He had ventured into East L.A. that September afternoon because he needed spare parts to sell his '96 Toyota Corolla. After passing all the stores that had men aggressively waving flags out front to attract business, Mullick settled on a quiet store that had a cute-looking swing hanging off a tree on the sidewalk.
Last weekend, the three stars of "Caine's Arcade" visited the San Francisco Bay Area for their first road show of sorts, since the film hit the Web. The Exploratorium, an interactive science museum, sent a seventy-foot semitrailer to Smart Parts to retrieve Caine's cardboard arcade for a one-day exhibition, called "Open MAKE: Trash." The night before the event, after closing time, Caine set up the arcade with the help of volunteers, and ran around the place as though he was the museum's V.I.P., which he was. "This is the coolest museum I have ever seen!" he noted from the back of a cart in which he was chauffeured.
That morning, the group had stopped in for an interview with Channel 7, the local ABC affiliate. The director Richard Linklater was there to promote his new film "Bernie," and told Caine that he was a big fan of the arcade. The nine-year-old shrugged. (Word that another unknown, Oprah, had posted about the arcade on her Facebook page had prompted a similar reaction from the boy, although Justin Timberlake's tweeting that Caine was his "new favorite entrepreneur" generated more of a response—at least Caine had heard of the guy.) Linklater was bumped to a later slot, and America's most famous arcade proprietor was squeezed in, awkwardly, after a segment about April 20th as "weed day." "Not ideal," Mullick remarked.
Hundreds were queued at the Exploratorium for the exhibition—whether for the arcade or its maker was not clear. Three girls were gushing about Caine to a KCBS radio reporter. "We saw his video in school, and we thought he was the most adorable little kid in the world, so we decided to come here to see him," one said. Another added, "Caine is like Justin Bieber," but was corrected by the third: "He's cooler than Justin Bieber. Justin Bieber doesn't have a cardboard arcade."
As a philosophy student at New College, Mullick had been intrigued by the notion of the "perfect moment," which Sartre explores in his novel "Nausea." What are perfect moments? Do they exist? Can you create them? "I distinctly remember putting the book down and thinking about 'perfect moments' and how I'd lose myself when I do a drawing, and all track of time." Mullick said the other day. "What if you could look into a stranger and know what it was that they wanted more than anything else in the world, and figure out a way to choreograph, and make that perfect moment happen for them in their life," he continued. "When I ran into Caine, I knew how to create a perfect moment for this boy. I knew what he wanted more than anything: customers." Sitting at breakfast on their final day in San Francisco, Caine had found a perfect moment of his own devising. Reaching for a sugar shaker, he filled a metal spoon resting on the table with granules. "Imagination sugar!" he beamed. The arcade-maker bowed his head over the spoon and licked it clean.


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