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rushy needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
2 winners were selected from 40 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
We need a new corporate logo and stationary ideas for our revamped company imagE.
Desired Color Scheme:
grays, blues, whites or other trustwothy colours.
Desired Style:
corporate but not imposing.
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Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png); Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai)
The logo is very important to this project as it must capture the entire scope and purpose of the company in one attractive, smooth and confident logo.
We are looking for something that instills a corporate, professional image yet achieves the goal of making potential clients feel safe.
The company name is WHITE KNIGHT PROJECTS and we help new company start-ups with business formation law, fund/invest in their ideas and then help them win customers by launching their ideas online where we have a proven track record of helping companies achieve rapid growth.
We are technically a business angel who take a more hands-on approach to helping you get your idea off the ground.
With all of this in mind, our logo needs to show people that we are there to help and want nothing more than to help them realise their ambitions.
It is where the WHITE KNIGHT name comes from and the Knight theme, like a knight in shining armour for needy businesses, must be present in the logo so icons/images such as:
may find a place in our logo. Its important to not be too cheesy with tese images, they must represent a look of class and instill a sense of trust in the user.
The font style we think the name most suits is an all caps font. A font we really like the look of is Trajan Pro. it is bold, powerful and 'knightly'.
One logo variation that we have seen and liked was to have WHITE KNIGHT on one line and PROJECTS below and where the G should be in KNIGHT, it was replaced with a shield. It was simple but effective.
Above all we'd like the logo to achieve a sense of trust and honour so that our clients will feel safe knowing that they're working with business 'Knights'.
As far as colour schemes go, anything is acceptable but we have n image in our minds of dark grays, whites and blues.
As for the stationary, the usual is needed and the designs are open, be as creative as you like but try to stick with the theme.
This contest was originally listed in multiple categories:
- Logo Design
- Stationery Design
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Some 1,200 caregivers from six counties, including Oakland and Macomb, are expected to attend a caregiver appreciation day and fashion show at the Palazzo Grande Banquet Center from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on May 16.
Caregivers who help people with developmental disabilities will be honored with the Caregiver Angels Award. In addition, 100 caregivers and people with disabilities will model clothes in the Kohl's Caregiver Fashion Show.Tim Joy from North Oakland Residential Services and Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel will address the attendees. The Shelby Township event is hosted by MORC, Inc., a nonprofit that provides services in Oakland, Macomb and Wayne counties to people with disabilities. Besides these three counties, caregivers from St. Clair, Genesee, and Lapeer counties also will attend the fashion show.
The Kohl's fashion show is not typical in that people with disabilities and their caregivers model together. Models are selected not based on appearance but on how meaningful the experience will be to them."We have people who were locked away in institutions or who face extreme challenges with their disabilities who never dreamed of being in a show," said Sue Gipperich, MORC supports coordination supervisor and host of the event.
"Caregivers and family members who model with loved ones are thrilled to see how much it means for a person to be cheered on by a crowd of over 1,000."Maggie Lewis with Kohl's Cares for Kids in Rochester Hills, the show's sponsor, said, "It is not your run-of-the-mill show and not your deadpan expressionless models. There's more screaming, cheering, laughing and smiling than you'll see at any event ever."
Gerald Provencal, the executive director of MORC, said, "I am proud of all our caregivers who do so much to help our people live rich and full lives."Kohl's is donating $15,000 worth of clothes to the models. Stylists from two salons also have volunteered to help models with hair and makeup.
The Caregiver Angels Awards, funded by Dr. Arthur Woehrlen, a Macomb County dentist, will honor 10 caregivers an "Angels" jacket, and a check for $250. A new caregiver award will be presented in honor of Colleen O'Neill Brayton, one of the original organizers of the MORC Caregiver Appreciation Day, who died in 2012.Jerry Wolffe, a disability rights advocate and writer in residence at MORC Inc., can be reached at 586 263 8950.


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Gers suspend Sandaza over hoax call
Rangers have suspended striker Francisco Sandaza amid a club investigation into comments he allegedly made during a hoax telephone call.
Sandaza allegedly declared details of his salary and declared himself open to a move to a better league during a telephone conversation with a Celtic fan who was pretending to be an agent, which was broadcast online.
A club statement read: "Francisco Sandaza has been suspended by the club pending an investigation into comments made by the player in a recorded telephone conversation.
"The club, Francisco and his agent have had discussions and manager Ally McCoist also spoke with the player, who did not take part in today's training session.
"Francisco will not return to the club while the investigation is under way.
"Rangers regard this is an extremely serious issue but there will be no further comment until the inquiry, which could take a week, has been completed."
McCoist, speaking ahead of the Third Division clash against Stirling Albion at Ibrox on Saturday, where they will clinch the title with a victory if nearest challengers Queen's Park fail to win at Annan, said: "Fran has been suspended by the club on full wages pending an internal inquiry.
"We are very hopeful that the inquiry won't last any more than a week but he has been suspended and won't be coming to Ibrox or Murray Park pending the investigation.
"We will be issuing a statement after the investigation, we will have more to say then.
"I can't say anything that would be to the detriment of the investigation.
"It is the last thing we need at this moment in time, we have seven players out tomorrow."
Asked if Sandaza could be sacked, McCoist replied: "I have no idea. We will have to wait to see what the investigation unfolds."


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Repetto's is a nasal, high-pitched singing style, exuding by turns macho swagger, wise-guy sarcasm and gushing sentiment . . . Repetto is admirably daring, exploring an obscure but inspired repertoire and gliding between moods with panache . . . this exciting debut is produced by multi-award-winning Gustavo Santaolalla, with whom Repetto had already worked as a member of the Bajofondo Tangoclub electronica collective. This time round, though, the young crooner is centre stage -- and in his element . . . with such natural talent and DG managing this release, Repetto is destined to become the leader of the faithful in Argentina and beyond.
Chris Moss, Songlines - The world music magazine (London) / May 2005
Wie immer faszinierend und einzigartig . . . Er und sein hervorragendes Begleitensemble bescheren ein Klangerlebnis, das den Zuh÷rer zur³ckversetzt in die Bl³tezeit des Tango.
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You've seen them here! Gabriel Iglesias, Anjelah Johnson, Charlie Murphy, Carlos Mencia, Kevin Nealon, Norm Macdonald, Rob Schneider, Richard Lewis, Ron White, Mike Epps, Margaret Cho and many more of the best-known and loved comedians, as well as top up-and-coming talent, have graced the Laugh Out Loud stage. You never know when you're about to experience the next comedy superstar!
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Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club is located next to the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in the Park North Entertainment Complex, behind A Loft Hotel and south of La Madeleine, at the corner of 410 and Blanco Road in San Antonio, Texas.
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Kitchen Kitsch: La Tour Eiffel!
Ah, the Eiffel Tower. Perhaps one of the most iconic buildings ever, it was scorned by the French public at the time of its construction as an "odious column built up of riveted iron plates." Could the salt and pepper shakers be far behind?
If you want to add a touch of French kitch to your kitchen nothing short of the poodle works like the Eiffel Tower. You can choose from dozens of variations on the salt and pepper shaker, endless kitchen towels and clocks, and even a cookie cutter. Here are some of our favorite picks:
• Francophile Dinner Plate: Eiffel Tower, $24.00 at Anthropologie
• Dish Towel, $17.00 from Paris France Products
• Cookie Cutter, $7.95 from Sur la Table
• Box Grater, $25.00 from Pylons
• Sweatheart Apron, $28.00 from prettylittlepearl on Etsy
• French Toast Stamp, from Fred $4.53
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Steph Curry On Crutches After Ankle Injury
Steph Curry's status is up in the air after he scored 31 points and came through with 11 assists but left on crutches in the Warriors 125-111 win over the Pelicans. He's said to have sprained his right ankle in Monday's game. Curry will have to undergo further medical evaluation on Tuesday.
He says at this point all he can do is "take it from there."
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i've been asked by my manager to "use oracle workflow builder, it should be on the servers". i'm pretty sure he doesn't have a clue what it is or what it's supposed to do, just heard that some consultants used it so we should too :)
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An excerpt from John Main OSB, "Healthiness of Spirit" in FULLY ALIVE, MEDITATIO Talk Series 2011-D, Oct-Dec (London: WCCM, 2011), pp. 9-10.
A big problem that all of us have to face is deciding what is really important in our lives and what is trivial, to learn to differentiate between what is passing away and what is enduring.
The English medieval writer John of Salisbury wrote:
It's not possible for one who, with her whole heart, seeks after truth, to cultivate what is merely empty.
That is the challenge that each of us has to face: not to cultivate what is empty because with our whole heart we week after truth, after love.
Meditation is so important for each one of us because we live in a society that is in real danger of losing its sanity. A human spirit that is healthy demands expansion. All of us need room to breathe, to expand, to fill our lives with truth, with love. And if we are healthy, we know that we must cross all the frontiers to what is beyond.
The spirit that is a healthy spirit is the spirit of an explorer: we are not terrified by the beyond, we are not too tired to seek what is ahead. The spirit that is really healthy knows that there is no future for us unless we set out into wholeheartedly.
Meditation is simply a way of coming to that basic healthiness of spirit, a state wherein our spirit has room to breathe, where it is not assailed and weighed down by trivia or what is merely material; a state wherein, because we are open to ultimate truth and to ultimate love, we are summoned beyond all mere trivia. We are summoned to live life not out of the shallows but to live our lives at the source.
The ultimate frontier we are all called upon to cross is the frontier of our own identity, the frontier, in other words, of our own limitation. To be one with all, to be one with the All. To practice in the depths of our own being what Jesus summons us to: the person who would find his life must lose it.
The discipline of the mantra and the discipline of the daily return to prayer is simply that commitment to turning aside from everything that is passing away and to living our life out of the source of all being. That is why we must leave behind all images, all thoughts, all ideas and imaginations; and we must be silent, as profoundly silent as we can, in the presence of the author of life, the author of love.
After meditation: an excerpt from Christopher Hedges, "Acts of Love" on Truthdig.com, posted 2.19.12
The isolated human individual can never be fully human. And for those cut off from others, for those alienated from the world around them, the false covenants of race, nationalism, the glorious cause, class and gender, compete, with great seduction, against the covenant of love. These sham covenants—and we see them dangled before us daily—are based on exclusion and hatred rather than universality. These sham covenants do not call us to humility and compassion, to an acknowledgement of our own imperfections, but to a form of self-exaltation disguised as love. Those most able to defy these sham covenants are those who are grounded in love. . . .
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Canberra: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said today that he told Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi that a jailed Australian journalist is innocent of charges that he supported the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.
Australian Peter Greste is one of three Al-Jazeera journalists who face judgement in a Cairo court today on charges that they supported the Brotherhood.
They were arrested in December as part of a sweeping crackdown on Islamist supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi after the military overthrew him last year.
Abbott, a former journalist, said he raised Greste`s case in a conversation with the newly appointed Egyptian leader on the weekend.
"I did make the point that as an Australian journalist, Peter Greste, would not have been supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, he would have simply been reporting on the Muslim Brotherhood," Abbott told reporters.
"The point I made was that in the long run, a free and vigorous media are good for democracy, good for security, (and) good for stability," he said.
But Abbott said Greste`s fate remained in the hands of the court.
"In the end, it is up to the Egyptian justice system to do its job," Abbott said.
"I did my best to put it to the president that as an Australian journalist, Peter Greste would not have been taking sides. He would have simply been reporting on the events that he saw before him. He certainly would have had no interest in promoting the Muslim Brotherhood," he said.
Greste and his Egyptian colleagues, Abdullah Elshamy and Baher Mohammed, have pleaded not guilty to terrorism-related charges that allege they provided a platform for the Brotherhood and Morsi.
The case has caused an outcry among journalists and rights groups, who say the prosecution of the journalists was politicised and undermines freedom of expression in Egypt.


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Posted by TheFallen on February 20, 2003
In Reply to: Use of comma in a series posted by S. Ryan on February 20, 2003
: I realize
that the language does evolve and sometimes rules become blurred. I had always
thought that a comma is used between all words in a series except when connected
with "and." For instance, red, blue, yellow (no comma) and green lights. In a
new textbook here in the U.S., the comma is used before the "and."
: As in, red, blue, yellow, and green lights. Which is correct?
I'm with you 120%. Separate the items in a series with commas, except for the final one, where "and" makes the comma both unnecessary and wrong.
This reminds me of the famous "five ands" conundrum, where the idea is to think of a grammatically correct sentence that contains 5 sequential uses of the word "and". To cut a long story short, the landlord of a pub called "The Pig And Whistle" is having a new sign lettered to hang outside his hostelry. The signwriter calls him outside to give approval to his work. The landlord eyes the newly lettered pub sign critically and says "There's too much space between 'Pig' and 'And' and 'And' and 'Whistle'."
There's another with 9 sequential uses of the word "had", but I'd have to dredge that one up from the memory banks.


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- Officials in Boulder, Broomfield counties weigh impact of fracking ruling on their bans
- Longmont fracking ruling: 'Blow to democracy' or 'win for individual property rights'?
- Longmont fracking ban timeline
- Colorado Supreme Court strikes down Longmont's voter-approved fracking ban
- Colo. Supreme Court to rule in Longmont fracking case Monday
- COGA 'disappointed' with Longmont council's move
- Longmont City Council votes unanimously to appeal judge's decision on fracking ban
- Boulder County judge strikes down Longmont fracking ban
- COGA, TOP ask judge to kill Longmont fracking ban
- Fracking: Industry lawsuit against Longmont will be decided first
- CU study on fracking's health effects is stirring debate
- Longmont mayor will not ask for Synergy revote
- Council votes 4-3 for Synergy road to well site, but may revisit
- Synergy asks for Longmont route to drilling site
- Colorado's oil/gas lawsuit against Longmont set for August trial
- Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper: Enhanced gas production is a must, but safeguards critical
- Colorado Oil and Gas Association seeks to depolarize local drilling disputes
- Longmont, Lafayette, Louisville lawmakers advise drilling foes to broaden their efforts
- Boulder County commissioners want a slow start to resumed oil, gas exploration
- Boulder County's oil, gas moratorium to end June 10
- Boulder County commissioners get calls for extending oil, gas drilling timeout
- Boulder County will assess fees on oil and gas industry vehicles
- Federal Government issues new drilling rule on public land
- Boulder County commissioners extend Thursday meeting
- New Colorado law sets stricter standards for reporting oil spills
- Boulder County commissioners to consider oil/gas drilling impact fees
- Multi-community letter backs Hickenlooper in Longmont oil/gas lawsuit
- Gov. Hickenlooper orders state's oil and gas agency to review its fines, enforcement policies
- Most oil, gas measures die during Colorado Legislature's 2013 session
- Longmont's Pedrow challenges Colorado Oil and Gas Association's safety claims
- Boulder County commissioners applaud lawmakers' recent focus on oil, gas issues
- Oil and gas battles move to Colorado statehouse
- OIl/gas seismic surveying rattles Colorado homeowners
- Polis introduces oil, gas drilling bill
- Jones-Singer bill would increase oil, gas well inspections
- Longmont granted change of venue in fracking ban lawsuit
- TOP joins fracking lawsuit against Longmont
- Synergy will wait on Longmont drilling
- Longmont's Mayor Coombs disappointed by oil and gas commission decision
- Longmont council will defend fracking ban, Coombs says
- On Longmont's edges, state law would allow wells in some residential areas
- Longmont council approves mineral leases
- Boulder County unlikely to extend drilling moratorium, commissioners say
- State fights dismissal of oil/gas lawsuit against Longmont
- Hickenlooper letter says lawsuit vs. Longmont was last resort; local oil/gas regs not needed
- Gov. Hickenlooper Longmont visit draws oil, gas protesters
- Hickenlooper to speak on Longmont oil/gas panel Wednesday
- Boulder County unveils proposed oil, gas regulations
- Longmont says COGCC has no authority to sue over oil and gas rules
- Longmont anti-fracking measure goes to ballot, but three council members urge 'no' vote
- Boulder County wants to make sure drillers 'first, do no harm'
- Longmont gets COGCA decision to protect Sandstone, Union areas from drilling
- State sues Longmont over oil and gas drilling regulations
- Longmont council: 'We expected lawsuit'
- Longmont council approves oil/gas rules 5-2
- City of Longmont, TOP agreement would meet new drilling standards
- Boulder County can't ban fracking, county staffer emphasizes
- Oil and gas industry poll: Longmont's drilling rules lack broad support
- State panel: Local oil and gas options are limited
- Colorado requires disclosure in fracking
A group of proposed oil and gas wells near the site of the former Union development may violate Longmont's new fracking ban.
Tonight, Synergy Resources Corp. will ask the Firestone town board for special-use permits to put 23 wells in the town. The wells would go on the town's Union annexation, in an area north of Colo. Highway 119, west of Weld County Road 3.5 and southeast of Union Reservoir.
But in three spots, the bottom of the well or "bottom hole" would reach beneath Longmont itself. And because of Longmont's newest charter amendment, that presents a problem.
If you go
Firestone town board
What: Approval of Firestone permits for 23 oil and gas wells near Longmont
When: 6:30 p.m. today
Where: Town hall, 151 Grant Ave.
More information: Agenda and packet available at http;//tinyurl.com/firestone022713.
Specifically, any drilling under the city can't use hydraulic fracturing, an almost ubiquitous production method that uses high pressure fluid to break open oil and gas deposits about 7,000 feet below the earth's surface.
"(A)ny bottom hole locations within the city of Longmont will be subject to Article 16 of the city's charter," wrote Longmont planning manager Brad Schol in a Feb. 15 letter to Firestone. "Because of this, the city requests that Synergy defer any drilling and fracking on the three bottom hole locations that are within the city of Longmont municipal limits."
Synergy also needs to cross Longmont property to get to the site and will have to get an access permit from the city.
Company representatives could not be reached for comment.
Firestone town manager Wes LaVanchy said there wasn't much the town could do. Bottom hole issues, he said, are a matter for the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, the state's regulatory body.
"Our jurisdiction is over the surface access," LaVanchy said. "Where the bottom hole comes out or doesn't come out are matters that aren't even within our jurisdiction."
Firestone's permits for the project include 23 different conditions, including dust control, noise control, traffic to and from the site, and a buffer or setback from areas such as buildings or waterways.
"Where we're struggling in our community, is they have an ordinance in Longmont that addresses a condition we don't issue a permit for," LaVanchy said.
Firestone's planning commission has recommended approving the permits.
Schol said he commented on an earlier version of the plans, and the wells in dispute had been withdrawn. But they were back on a revised version that Longmont received for comments two or three weeks ago, he said; he sent the letter in response to those plans.
Under the company's proposal, the property is divided into the "Union" site -- east of Weld County Road 3 -- and the "Church" site, which is east of Weld County Road 3.5. (The town refers to the properties as Union annexations 1 and 2.) The "Union" site would have 10 wells, including the ones Longmont is concerned about; the "Church" site would have the other 13.
What the city wants right now, Schol said, is a chance for the legal situation to play out.
The Colorado Oil and Gas Association, an industry group, has sued Longmont over its fracking ban; what the court decides could determine whether Longmont has any grounds to complain.
"There are several (holes) that are not (under Longmont)," Schol said. "If they can explore those without fracking under Longmont, maybe we'll have some time to understand what's going to happen in the court process and we can act accordingly."
Right now, it's not clear how the city can act. The main avenue to enforce the charter amendment would be litigation, but between the COGA lawsuit and a separate one over oil and gas regulations by the COGCC, Longmont may already have its hands full.
"I don't think that's what we want to do," Schol said.
Schol said he would not attend the meeting, but had submitted written comments.
This isn't the first time Longmont and Firestone have collided over the Union property, which once was in line to be annexed by Longmont in before developers withdrew the application in the face of a 2007 ballot issue challenging the move.
When Firestone began to annex Union and the nearby Firelight development in 2008 -- putting the town right up to the Longmont city limits -- that prompted a rapid counter-annexation of open space by Longmont in an attempt to cut off the town's move.
The two-year "border war" between the two communities eventually became a lawsuit that was settled in 2010.
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Columbia University researchers claim millions of HP printers could be open to remote attack via unsecured Remote Firmware Updates. Cybercriminals could steal personal information or attack otherwise secure networks. HP agrees there is a theoretical security problem but says no customer has ever reported unauthorized printer access. The company denies some of the claims and is still investigating others.


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News Release
NASD Orders First Command to Pay $12 Million for Misleading Statements in Sales of Systematic Investment Plans to Military Personnel
Washington, DC – NASD announced today that it has censured and fined First Command Financial Planning Inc., a Fort Worth, TX broker-dealer, $12 million for making misleading statements and omitting important information when selling mutual fund investments with up-front sales charges of up to 50 percent through a monthly installment method known as a "Systematic Investment Plan."
From that $12 million, First Command is ordered to pay restitution to thousands of customers who purchased a Systematic Investment Plan between Jan.1, 1999 and the present who terminated the plan and paid an effective sales charge greater than 5 percent. All money remaining will be payable to the NASD Investor Education Foundation, to be used for the investor education needs of members of the military and their families. The Foundation will use the funds to support educational programs, materials and research to help equip members of the military community with the knowledge and skills necessary to make informed investment decisions. It is anticipated that the Foundation will receive approximately $8 million.
In the action announced today, First Command also settled NASD charges of inappropriately confronting a customer who complained, failing to maintain e-mail, failing to maintain adequate supervisory systems and procedures and filing an inaccurate Form U-5 regulatory report. In a related action, NASD fined a First Command supervisor $25,000 and suspended him from acting in any supervisory capacity for 30 days.
The Securities and Exchange Commission today instituted settled enforcement proceedings against First Command based on similar allegations relating to the firm's sales of systematic investment plans.
"Using misleading sales scripts, inappropriate comparisons and omissions of important information, First Command sold hundreds of thousands of complicated and often enormously expensive plans to young members of our armed services, who are frequently inexperienced investors," said NASD Vice Chairman Mary L. Schapiro. "These investors, like all others, are entitled to balanced and honest information about investment alternatives. And it is inexcusable that a First Command sales supervisor would try to stifle an airman's complaint by suggesting, among other things, that sending his complaint violated Air Force regulations."
Under Systematic Investment Plans, an investor makes monthly payments for a fixed term, typically 15 years, which are invested in underlying mutual funds. The purchaser is charged a 50 percent sales load on the first 12 monthly payments. Payments over the remainder of the term are not subject to sales charges so that the effective sales charge decreases so long as the purchaser continues to make additional investments. However, if the investor does not terminate within 18 months, and then fails to complete the term, he or she will pay a sales charge of up to 50 percent of the amount invested. At the conclusion of NASD's investigation of this case, First Command informed NASD that it is eliminating the sale of new Systematic Investment Plans.
NASD found that First Command primarily sold the plans to commissioned and non-commissioned officers. The firm's customer base includes over 297,000 current and former military families. Forty percent of current active duty general officers, one-third of commissioned officers and 16 percent of noncommissioned officers are First Command clients. First Command's sales force consists primarily of former military personnel. Its executive officers, supervisors, managers and its Board of Advisors are primarily retired or separated military personnel.
NASD found that the firm sold the plans through the use of a three-step scripted sales process that contained misleading statements and omissions. For example:
- First Command emphasized in its sales that the 50% sales load would decrease to 3.3 percent upon completion of the term and that the high up-front sales charges increased the likelihood that an investor would complete the plan. However, the Firm's own data showed that historically, only 43 percent of its customers completed the 15-year term.
- First Command told its clients that a benefit of the high first-year sales charge was to "instill discipline." However, First Command failed to inform its customers of the lost earnings potential as a result of the sales charges deducted from the customer's first 12 months' investments. For example, an investor who made monthly payments of $100, totaling $1,200 in the first year, would be left with an investment in the funds of only $600 for that year.
- First Command also made misleading statements when comparing their plan with other mutual fund investments, telling investors that no-load mutual funds were primarily for speculators and that no-load funds frequently have some of the highest long-term costs. In fact, the long-term costs of owning no-load funds are, on average, lower than owning load funds.
- First Command, in a training manual, cautioned its representatives when looking for prospects:
"Don't ask or suggest to a 'termite' [a person who purchases term insurance, and invests the remainder in mutual funds] or 'no loader' [an individual who advocates the purchase of no-load mutual funds] who refuses to accept our philosophy that he talk with referrals. This is like voluntarily spreading a cancer in your market."
NASD also found that First Command violated NASD rules when a First Command supervisor inappropriately confronted a former customer – an Air Force officer – who complained in an e-mail to an online publication that he had suffered losses and recommended that others not invest with First Command. The e-mail was in response to a negative article about First Command's sales practices.
First Command District Supervisor James Provo contacted the customer, suggested that he might need an attorney, told him that the highest level of Air Force commanders were being contacted regarding the e-mail and told him his previously approved change in assignment might be delayed until the matter was resolved. NASD also found that Provo arranged a meeting with the Air Force's legal assistance office, questioning whether the customer had violated Air Force regulations by using e-mail to send his message criticizing First Command. Provo also contacted the customer's squadron commander and informed her that First Command might have a grievance against a member of her squadron. First Command eventually wrote a letter of apology to the former client, but otherwise took no steps to discipline Provo.
In a separate action, NASD fined Provo $25,000 and suspended him from serving in a supervisory capacity for 30 days. In settling the matter, Provo neither admitted nor denied the allegations, but consented to the entry of NASD's findings.
In addition to making payments for restitution and investor education of military personnel and their families, First Command is required to hire an independent consultant to oversee the payment of restitution and review its sales practices. First Command must also pre-file its advertising materials with NASD for one year.
First Command agreed to the sanctions while neither admitting nor denying the allegations.
NASD today issued Systematic Investment Plans—Educate Yourself Before You Enlist, an Investor Alert aimed at informing military and other investors about the risks of investing in Systematic Investment Plans.
Investors may obtain information the disciplinary record of, any NASD-registered broker or brokerage firm by using NASD's BrokerCheck. NASD makes BrokerCheck available at no charge to the public. In 2003, members of the public used this service to conduct more than 2.8 million searches for existing brokers or firms and requested almost 180,000 reports in cases where disclosable information existed on a broker or firm. Investors can link directly to BrokerCheck at www.nasdbrokercheck.com. Investors can also access this service by calling 1-800-289-9999.
NASD is the leading private-sector provider of financial regulatory services, dedicated to investor protection and market integrity through effective and efficient regulation and complementary compliance and technology-based services. NASD touches virtually every aspect of the securities business - from registering and educating all industry participants, to examining securities firms, enforcing both NASD rules and the federal securities laws, and administering the largest dispute resolution forum for investors and member firms. For more information, please visit our Web Site at www.nasd.com.


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While I'm at work and waiting for software to load or on my lunch break, I like to pull out a 4″x6″ sketchbook and do quick little sketches in ball point pen.
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Quick pen sketches
I did the artwork for a kids book called Kindergarten Heroes. It's fun, funny and not out yet, so you can't find it on the shelves at the moment. BUT, it is coming out and it'll be a fantastic hit. This Superman image is done in a similar style I used when working on Kindergarten Heroes. This is something that I wanted to offer up to people that donated over $150 to a children's charity; a sketch of any pop culture character you want done up on 10 x 10 paper, either in the adult form or super cute kid form. The problem was I didn't have any examples of what I was offering, so I did this. I'll do a Spider-Man piece in a few days as well and hopefully start getting people interested. The frame I just had lying around, I quite like it 😀
I really dug Starlight by Mark Millar and Goran Parlov (one of my favourite artists!) and wanted to create something that gave an old sci-fi novel vibe. The night time image was thought of after the initial idea and done out of curiosity, how would the same image look using very few colours? Now I think I like the night time one more than the original image 😛
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You can download the latest version of the My Galaxy strips here. When I have more done I'll add them to the pdf and eventually have the entire set available as an ebook. These are low res versions, to download just click on the link: My Galaxy
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The first of my last My Galaxy strips. I'll be doing something with these once they're all finished. Stay tuned 😀


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Animal Science Department
Contact InformationUniversity of Vermont
Animal Science Department
102 Terrill Hall
570 Main Street
Burlington, VT 05401
Phone: (802) 656-0155
Fax: (802) 656-8196
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Domestic animals play a major role in our lives through agriculture, recreation, biomedical science, and companionship. The mission of the Department of Animal Science is to provide a high quality, broad-based education emphasizing domestic animals and their interactions with humans.
Our graduates enter veterinary or other professional schools or pursue careers in biomedical science, agribusiness, companion animal care and breeding, zoos and aquaria, or education. To provide the necessary flexibility to achieve this diversity students work closely with faculty advisors to individualize their programs.
To advance our pre-veterinary program, the Department of Animal Science has established, with Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine in Massachusetts, Massey University Veterinary School in New Zealand, Ontario Veterinary College in Guelph, Ontario and the Royal Dick School of Veterinary Studies in Edinburgh, Scotland highly competitive programs for early acceptance / guaranteed admission to these veterinary colleges. For further information on these highly competitive options contact the Department of Animal Science directly at (802)656-0155 or e-mail email@example.com . Some limited veterinary scholarships are also available for upper-level students.
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The Department of Animal Science actively encourages participation in undergraduate research, internships, and study abroad. By combining classroom, laboratory, and practical experience students maximize their performance in a friendly environment and develop responsibility for and control over their education.
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I took last week off - I'm sure you were all bereft! - because we were moving and there's TONS to say about that. Also Jack turned four - FOUR! - on Tuesday and there's tons to say about that too. But today, which marks no special occasion or transition in our family, has been a NIGHTMARE so of course I'm going to talk about THAT. So now you know. Nothing sweet or deep or thoughtful or insightful, just a big fat self-indulgent vent. I shall title it: MUST THE CHILDREN BE FIGHTING EVERY BLESSED SECOND?
I mean, SERIOUSLY. They're now in bed and are, quite possibly, STILL fighting, but I wouldn't know as I've hid myself in the farthest corner of the house, the better to feel sorry for myself in peace. I've just had ten whole minutes where I wasn't telling someone to stop or quit it or calm down or lay off or for Pete's sake stop breathing on your sister! Ten minutes where I wasn't threatening and following through on toy confiscation, sitting in corners, sending to rooms, and, yes, turning on the television in hopes of distraction. (It doesn't work. Then they just fight about who is sitting too close to who.)
I can't stand it. Sometimes I think I'd rather be up with a sobbing baby or stuck in breastfeeding jail. MAYBE. Obviously I haven't REALLY thought that through. But do you know how many emails I sent to friends today, with subject headers of: MOTHER DESERTS CHILDREN, FLEES TO MAUI? (A LOT.)
In a better, fairer, more ideal world, I would be much more understanding. I was, after all, a small person once upon a time. I VIVIDLY remember my brother breathing on me, touching me, getting in my space, leaning his head into my TV sightline, and generally just being a horrible, completely unremorseful pest. (Perhaps I wasn't exactly an angel myself.) I know exactly what Jack is doing when he "cuddles" up to Molly when they're both squished in bed with me. I know exactly what Molly's thinking when she won't move her hand. Believe me, children! I have a PhD in Fighting With One's Siblings! But you know what? I'm now the MOM. And the mom is freaking TIRED. So I'm only halfway ashamed of the number of times, "JUST IGNORE HIM!" left my mouth today. And I don't care at ALL who did what first. Fair? Of course not. TOO BAD!
I should acknowledge the fact that I may have set myself up for today. It was raining - not my fault - but I didn't plan very well. We stayed home most of the day. I didn't even try to get Jack to nap (not that he EVER naps EVER) so I know he's extra tired. And I know the house is still new and the space is still strange the toys are in unfamiliar places and the routine is not quite settled. But I'm not kidding, the Fighting Level was beyond ridiculous today.
I've been thinking about Third Baby, and how I'm a little nervous about the three-year age difference between TB and Molly. Jack and Molly are 16 months apart, which pretty much means I never have to play with them. They've always entertained each other and half the time I'm completely ignored. WHICH IS FINE. But the older kids are going to be in school when TB is Jack and Molly's age, and I'm going to be expected to, you know, DO STUFF with TB. (My entreaties to have Fourth Baby ASAP have been entirely blown off by the husband, by the way. SIGH.)
But today I'm thinking: YAY three-year age difference! When Jack and Molly are in school, TB will just be hanging out with me! And I don't breathe on or touch or lean or otherwise bug people! Sure I'll have to figure out how to play with a three-year-old but this seems like a scandalous trade for NO FIGHTING. At least during the school day. AND I'LL TAKE IT.
I'm off to make myself a as-stiff-as-pregnancy-will-allow-which-is-unfortunately-not-at-all drink. Your turn to vent on the fighting!


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Hey joonies,
We're starting off the end of the week right with a very special guest post by NASEEM joon – enjoy!
Oh Joon Joons,
Salaams and booses from the frozen tundra of Minneapolis, MN! This is another joon from the Joon Club (is that name sticking yet, or is it just me?), Naseem Joon, affectionately sending all my love from the heartland. I'm fortunate enough to write this blog post as both a guest and fan of S&F (and Saaghi&Farrah, too!).
Let's get intimate before proceeding: I'm half Iranian, my favorite dish is gormeh sahbzi (I have a bottomless stomach when it comes to gormeh sahbzi), and I usually take my chai straight to the head.
And I'm embarrassed to admit that I haven't had fessenjoon in a while. Yikes!
I've been an avid reader and fan of this blog and its lovely curators for quite some time.
I find something so magical about how stories written by two women I don't know in the flesh have touched me so deeply, made me laugh, and resonated as identical reflections of my own life and experiences as a woman of Iranian heritage in the USA. I am so moved that I have taken the liberty of telling you yet another tale of the joonies and giving a slice of my own story.
As we joons know…
Education in our culture is just as important as football and freedom to those in the USA.
Now, don't get me wrong, because that isn't to say education isn't emphasized to young people in the USA, or that we Iroonis can't get down with buff men in tight spandex or feel inspired by that screeching sound of a bald eagle against the melodic riff of an electric guitar.
In high school, I was the only one in my group of friends where not going to college wasn't even something to entertain. Some of my friends never gave education another thought; some had babies way young; some went to school to become actors, doctors, and opera singers; and some just disappeared off the face of the earth.
Even if I had pressed my baba for some time off to think about what I wanted to do or study in school, my parents (and ameh and amoo and maman bozorg) were terrified that if I took this course of action, I'd surely never climb back on the horse and become an underachiever who never made it to college and spent her life never tapping into and harnessing her potential.
To them, college was the next and immediate step after graduating high school, and that's where I could figure myself out and choose an appropriate academic course.
No other option.
As is my nature to play devil's advocate for the sake of a holistic argument, I disagree with this viewpoint. I know many people who never went to college and are successful, but moreover, are happy and grateful for their stations in life and the experiences and struggles endured to make it there, despite no post-secondary education.
And though I disagree and think college is just oneway to success (and not even guaranteed, at that), I always knew I would go to college, whether it was of my own desire or having grown up in an environment where it's expected of you.
I don't feel as if I were forced into school—I always wanted to go. I'm just showcasing another end of the spectrum.
In Iranian culture, it isn't a reality to not go to school. At bare minimum you get an undergraduate degree.
And, of course, the stereotype is that you will go to school to become a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer, a professor, or some other high-ranking and very respected professional in an austere industry where you will earn both lots of money and pride and honor for the family name.
So imagine my baba's surprise when 17YO Naseem started entertaining the idea of art school. He even told me this joke:
"Naseem joon, what did the physics major say to the fine arts major?"
"You want fries with that?"
So after debating between fashion photography, musical theatre, and criminal justice, I ended up studying graphic design after taking a basic color theory and layout class in community college. That was damn near seven years ago.
And just four months ago, in the thick of my senior semester, I had a pretty interesting awakening:
I am not a born designer.
Sure, I'm creative, but I picked graphic design somewhat arbitrarily. Though I wanted more than anything to study performance arts at NYU and be a professional vocalist and actor, personal uncertainty and perceived disapproval from my family lead me to stay in the homeland and pick an academic path both creative and critical, which would provide a guaranteed degree that wouldn't leave me serving fries to smartypants making six figures a year.
So fast forward through four years of late nights, identity and academic crises, and too many shots of cheap vodka, to right now: barely two months after graduation (aka senior show), where January in Minnesota is more depressing than the last bite of maast-o-moosir or the day after sizdah bedar.
This is a pinnacle moment full of angst questioning: had I just spent five years working on a degree I'm not sure I really want to use right away?
Had I just spent five years working on a degree in order to enter an industry that I thought was perfectly befitting yet am now questioning my place in?
Where I am now is in a place that desperately seeks to have my family's approval and support during this stage of a fresh graduate's ambiguous challenge of whether I made the right choice, whether I am capable of competing against fellow peers who are far more talented than I am, whether design was the right course of action.
And this thought terrifies me.
I have an image of my Iranian side of my family looking down on me for not finding professional work as a designer. Though I believe that this won't happen, I still imagine their disapproval, clucking to themselves, "Why did you eh-study grapheec design if you are not go-eeng to vork as eh designer? Cherah, Naseem?"
Until recently, I thought that the point of a college degree was to have some official piece of paper declaring you fit for a particular career, and said paper would guide you into finding that career, and then that's what you'd do your whole life.
You get a degree in order to do what your degree says you can do, right? If not, then why go to school, pay lots of money/rack up debt if you're not going to become what your diploma says you are?
In my last months of college and well into the present, I had these very raw moments of self-awareness and experienced a constant yet slow state of learning about myself that, when juxtaposed against the work I was doing to earn a degree, revealed to me such intense bouts of self-actualization (aha! moments, if you will), I swore I could hear angels singing a heavenly four-part harmony as magnificent light shone down on me in some epic revelation.
I'm realizing now that college is a learning experiences that specializes you in something but cannot define you after that.
It's one big, expensive lesson greater than the sum of your tuition, books, room and board, and portfolio costs. What I learned about my strengths and myself is just as valuable as the degree I worked for, if not more.
It's quite all right to want to explore other professions and industries, even though I spent so long working towards one specialization.
I have two minors in art and leadership and a panache for writing and communication, so who says (other than the devil on my shoulder) that I am restricted to just graphic design for the rest of my life? I find myself in that tight place between honoring what I know is right for myself and honoring what I believe is culturally expected of me, and every day that goes by, the pressure eases ever so slightly.
But what matters is this: I got my degree.
The other thing that remains true is this: that I know my family is more proud of me than they could possibly express. And truly, it means the world to me. I know they'll always support me in my endeavors. I just have this neurotic tendency to imagine worst-case scenarios 24/7.
I would advise any and all joons in my position to remain steadfast and true to your own heart's desires (cue Disney music).
We should be damn proud that we have degrees and went to universities, but we should not become slaves to them because we feel pressure, whether internal or external, to do so.
The greatest thing I learned in school was during my last semester of my Leadership minor: when in doubt, follow the joy. That moment was pivotal and this quote needs to be unearthed from the catacombs and allowed to breathe fresh air on the surface.
Let us go forth valiantly into this world, giving only our best, knowing that we made ourselves and our families proud by not only going to college, but by giving back to the world the greatest gifts we each possess.
Joons, thank you for reading. If it behooves you, get at me.
TWEET NASEEM: @NaseemJoon


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CEOs Press Washington for Deficit Action
In a WSJ exclusive, chief executives of more than 80 brand-name U.S. corporations are banding together to pressure Washington to reduce the federal deficit with tax increases as well as spending cuts. WSJ's David Wessel reports. Photo: AP Images.
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... the ... she ... it's important for us to develop new sources of energy ... you're an American ... we change our tax code to ... make sure the world in small businesses and companies that are investing here in the United States ... the ... we take some of the money we're saving as we wind down ... two wars ... to rebuild America ... and we reduce our deficit in a balanced way that loves to make these critical investments ... now not to raise taxes on anyone ... because when the economy's going slow like this one when recession you should raise taxes on anyone ... for the economy is still going slow ... to that effect is going much more slowly now when you made the statement ... and so if you believe the same thing you just don't wanna raise taxes on people ... all taxes are on the mind of the candidates and on but on voters' minds of course ... now CEOs of more than eighty US corporations have signed a letter to pressure Congress ... to reduce the deficits not only with spending cuts ... but also tax increases ... Wall Street Journal's David Wessel broke the story reading today's paper David good morning ... morning ... so ... first off before we get to this I wanna read ... from the letter ... that ... the CEO is ... good that the CEOs are are releasing this morning if we can get that out there just just for ... for folks to to to understand we're talking about here ... so they're talking about the the wall France's they want to reform Medicare and Medicaid ... improve efficiency in the overall health care system panel in the future cost growth ... also they want to include comprehensive in pro growth tax reform ... which ... runs the base ... florist ... lowers rates raises raises revenues ... and reduces the deficit ... David ... everyone hates the deficit ... why is this announcement notable now ... well I think there's been a debate today the campaign as you pointed out of our whether we can solve our long term deficit problem ... not this that today's problem and not next month's prom but the long-term on ... without raising taxes ... president Obama has said we have to raise taxes he claims he can limited to the top two percent ... Governor Romney is you show says he's not to raise taxes ... I'm ... the Simpson Bowles Commission had proposed a plan that has tax increases and spending cuts ... and they have become very popular with the business community ... and this is a sign of just how popular they took on ... a bunch of SIL's ... a number of whom had influence over prominent Republicans are saying ... look this problem is important ... we can get there just by cutting spending ... we have to raise taxes to let's get the job done so I think he'll have some impact on the conversation ... whether is is going back to what happens in Washington was the largest ... okay given that there's a really telling it ... from your your page one story ... towards the end of it where you mentioned ... that ... some CEO is ... a good CEOs were and were invited to a dinner ... and Saturday showed up fourteen senators showed up ... and it ... basically ... BBB said the CEO's ... we need copper ... for what I party were dissenters from and corn in the new cover they were ... right so aam ... there there have been a series of dinners in Washington many of them organize by this fix the debt campaign in Austin to something called the Committee for responsible federal deficit ... and they start with the people who were known as the gang of six that bipartisan group of senators this been trying for a year to come up with some ... deficit compromises begun ... that both sides can support ... and I it's an Allen the CEO of Kiaer tell me that he was told that he has a Buy distillery told seven centers to be there ... and ... mobile all fourteen of them showed up ... and what they're saying is ... that some of us in Congress wanted do what we think is the right thing ... a when the president calls a balanced approach to deficit one that has tax increases and spending cuts but we're ready if we cannot do that they will get beat up by the anti tax crowd or there ... are other people are the ones that don't touch Medicare ... as other asking the CEO says say well as a group ... we are the business leaders in America we stand with these people who wanna copper mines because as you know ... compromises become a sign of weakness in Washington ... so that's the kind of cover they want they want to see us to stand up and say that you do with the right thing for America and I'm willing to pay more taxes personally if that's what it takes to our are they did are they saying that it is ... the question for me you ... are reading reading this letter ... is twenty so it's really easy to come speak in broad strokes ... about this issue you and ... you know for some CEOs to have nine figured that were it's it's easy to say we want to reform Medicare so Security they don't depend on it ... are they ... saying they will sacrifice they will pay more in taxes they wanna pay more in taxes help deal with this problem ... in short yes I estimate up to seven and CEOs for whom according to my story and I asked each of them that question ... now a number of feel pretty strongly that the corporate tax should not be raise their in favor of corporate tax reform that shifts the corporate tax around ... but doesn't increase the total amount of revenue from the corporate tax ... and they say that while the implication is that we're not together that corporations will many Canadians regionals like you and they say yes ... I call him our quarterly out that in a single up ... on ... it for favor of tax increases if they just go a few more spending ... on in favor of tax increases if they're part of a deal that also slows the growth of the fastest growing part of the federal budget health care or other parts of Arkansas was cut spending ok David do we need to wait to see who wins the election ... to know the course of policy or are there certain things ... we ... basically can count on at this point it better than are likely to happen whoever is sitting in in in in the White House ... the election matters of course ... if I if President Obama wins he'll try a negotiated compromise with Congress and we know that anything that he dazzled Abbas and tax increases probably on the ranch ... it's all hard to say what Mitt Romney would do ... I'm there are people including some who are close to the Romney campaign to say well you know in the end he cares about the deficit Nesat that he knows he can't may not be able to cut tax rates as much as he says ... but he's kind of made a pretty emphatic statement ... if you ask for me to forecast what happens ... what happened sometime if it's not at the end of this year it's not twenty thirteen it's not twenty fourteen ... we will eventually do something to reduce the deficit and it will have to touch defense will have to tax health care in the half to raise taxes ... it's arithmetic clean may be possible to do this without raising taxes ... but it's very hard to imagine politicians of the public ... accepting the death of spending cuts that would be needed ... to bring the deficit under control without raising taxes ok David thank you so much for joining us this morning ...


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La Russa in awe as he tours Cooperstown
NEW YORK -- Calling it an "overwhelming" experience, Tony La Russa became the last member of this year's Class of 2014 to tour the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown on Thursday.
"It's overwhelming to try and sort out the impressions," said the former manager seated in the famous gallery where his own plaque is soon to be hung. "It's really difficult because this is an overwhelming place, especially when you go through not only out here, but when you go through the archives.
NEW YORK -- Calling it an "overwhelming" experience, Tony La Russa became the last member of this year's Class of 2014 to tour the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown on Thursday.
"It's overwhelming to try and sort out the impressions," said the former manager seated in the famous gallery where his own plaque is soon to be hung. "It's really difficult because this is an overwhelming place, especially when you go through not only out here, but when you go through the archives.
"But more than anything I just appreciate being part of three organizations that contributed to this selection. So my feeling here specifically is to know that these three organizations are part of all this."
La Russa, who won 2,728 games for the White Sox, A's and Cardinals to stand third on the all-time list, will be inducted into the Hall on July 27 along with fellow managers Bobby Cox and Joe Torre. By his own choice, La Russa won't have a team emblem on his plaque. The trio will be enshrined along with slugger Frank Thomas and 300-game winners Tom Glavine and Greg Maddux, comprising a class for the ages.
La Russa said that going in with Cox and Torre is "absolutely perfect." Cox is fourth with 2,504 wins -- most of them with the Braves -- and Torre is fifth at 2,326. Together, the three combined for eight World Series titles. They were elected unanimously late last year by the 16-member Post-Expansion Veterans Committee.
La Russa managed three World Series winners, one with the A's and two with the Cardinals, but he has no favorites.
World Series wins "are like your kids, they're all special," he said.
La Russa's formal career ended with the Cardinals in 2011 when they defeated the Rangers in seven games to win that Fall Classic. He was given the honor of managing the National League to a victory in the 2012 All-Star Game. La Russa finished only 35 regular-season wins behind the legendary New York Giants manager John McGraw, who is in second place. Connie Mack, at 3,731 in 50 years of managing the Philadelphia A's, was way out of reach.
La Russa, a consultant for Major League Baseball and a member of the three-man committee that studied and helped implement the current replay review system, said he was content with his decision to stop chasing McGraw.
"I don't miss the dugout," he said. "I miss the winning and losing."
About Cox and Torre -- the latter winning four World Series and six American League pennants with the Yankees -- La Russa waxed eloquent.
"I had many more games against Bobby, with a losing record, by the way," he said. "I would see him during the winter. He was just a nice guy. You'd see him around the dinner table, he had such a great personality. But during the season he was all business. He never forgot that there was a score. He was trying to win the game. That was Bobby.
"Joe was a great player. I met him when he was a broadcaster. When I saw him handle his responsibilities with the Yankees I always felt that Joe was the best example of teaching the right way to win and lose. Joe was first class."
Thomas, Glavine, Maddux, Cox and Torre all had their pre-induction orientation tours last month. Like Thomas, La Russa chose to privately view the red-brick museum on Main Street before meeting with the press. The other four allowed members of the media to tour with them.
They were all in awe when escorted into the gallery where their individual plaques will be hung after the annual ceremony only about a mile away behind the Clark Sports Center. The Hall is expecting a crowd in excess of 50,000 to fill the meadow beyond the white-umbrella shrouded stage that is always chock-full of Hall of Famers.
La Russa, asked if he'd already considered what he might say in his acceptance speech this summer, said:
"I have, I have. I was just in St. Louis with a slew of Hall of Famers. They asked me that question and I pulled out about six pages and they tore them up. They said, 'Take one of these half pages and fit what you're going to say in about half a page. These other 5 1/2 you just dispose of.' So that's what I'm going to do."
Like this year's other five inductees, La Russa took questions from the media while sitting in front of the plaques honoring the first five players inducted into the Hall, in the Class of 1936 -- Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Honus Wagner and Christy Mathewson. Two stalls down is the spot where La Russa's bronze hardware will be riveted to the wall, second row in the middle between Glavine and Torre, a perfect place to spend all of baseball eternity.
Asked what impressed him most about the tour, La Russa chuckled as he looked at a statue in the gallery rotunda of Ruth twisting after one of his patented corkscrew swings.
"There are two answers," he said. "One is what it represents and the people who have put it together. I'm just blown away by the organizational effort that goes into making this Hall of Fame Museum work. I know what a team is. A championship team is a championship team. And then, what the heck, this is a perfect example: I'm talking to you and I'm looking at Babe Ruth over there. I'm looking over here and this is Tony La Russa. I mean, you've got to be kidding me."
Barry M. Bloom is national reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, Boomskie on Baseball. Follow @boomskie on Twitter.


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