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A specialist nurse is putting prostate cancer on the agenda under a new initiative called Back In The Driving Seat.
It is being funded by Prostate Cancer UK and run by nurse Tina Smith at the Hospice of St Francis' Spring Centre in collaboration with Watford's Peace Hospice Care, and the programme is specifically designed to support men.
In West Herts, 300 men are newly diagnosed with prostate cancer every year.
Tina will be working alongside men living with the disease and their families to find out what would be most helpful to them to understand and manage their symptoms. A future programme may include clinics offering medical and practical advice, a peer-to-peer support network and support network and specific workshops for men.
In conjunction with Back in the Driving Seat, the charity is also launching the innovative Walnut Programme. Led by the hospice's director of education, Sarah Russell, this new communication skills programme will work with local prostate cancer support networks, plus men and their families, to design and deliver new models of care to help better communication around the symptoms and practicalities of living with prostate cancer.
Director of nursing at the hospice Alison Allard said: "Being diagnosed with prostate cancer can be bewildering and scary both for the patient and their families.
"There is a mass of evidence that men find it difficult to hold conversations about their symptoms and this prevents them from seeking help both before and after diagnosis.
"Through the generosity of Prostate Cancer UK we are piloting this new dual programme to reach both health care influencers and men with prostate cancer symptoms, with the ultimate aim to empower men to manage their own diagnosis, build resilience and prevent unnecessary deaths."
Secretary of the Aylesbury Vale Prostate Cancer Support Group, the local group covering Berkhamsted, Roger Wotton said: "We welcome any opportunity to increase support for prostate cancer sufferers.
"This initiative will certainly help and we look forward to working closely with Tina and Sarah to improve the reach and effectiveness of support for men with prostate cancer."
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One in 12 Americans have asthma, according to new statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. If you're one of them - or if a family member is - you should be doing all you can to avoid the things that can trigger an asthma attack. Triggers vary from person to person, but keep clicking to see eight common ones...
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People with asthma shouldn't smoke, obviously. In addition, they should avoid exposure to secondhand smoke. Parents, friends, and relatives of children with asthma should never smoke around them - or allow others to.
Dust mites are in just about everyone's home, and they can cause big trouble for asthmatics. To reduce exposure to the mites, use mattress and pillowcase covers. Don't use down-filled pillows, quilts, or comforters. And remove stuffed animals and clutter from bedrooms.
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Car exhaust, industrial pollutants, and other things that foul the air outside can trigger asthma attacks. So pay attention to air quality forecasts, and plan outdoor activities for times when air pollution levels are low. EnviroFlash is a good resource.
To limit exposure to asthma attack-causing roaches and their dander, keep your home scrupulously free of crumbs and other food sources. At least once every three days, vacuum or sweep areas that might attract roaches. You can also use roach traps or gels.
Furry pets can cause big problems for asthma sufferers. Best to find them a new home. If that's not in the cards, the animal should at least be regularly bathed and trimmed - and kept out of the asthmatic's bedroom. Frequent vacuuming and damp-mopping can help too.
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Analysis: 'Cadillac Tax' on High-Cost Health Plans Could Affect 1 in 5 Employers in 2022
A new KFF analysis estimates that the Affordable Care Act's tax on high-cost health plans would affect one in five (21%) employers offering health benefits when it takes effect in 2022 unless employers change their health plans. An even larger share (31%) could be affected when workers' voluntary contributions to…News Release Read More
How Many Employers Could Be Affected by the High-Cost Plan Tax
The high cost plan tax (HCPT) sometimes referred to as the Cadillac tax, is an excise tax on the cost of employer health benefit exceeding certain threshold. The HCPT provides a powerful incentive to control health plans costs over time, whether through efficiency gains or shifts in costs to workers. While many employers do not expect that the tax will take effect in 2022, others are already amending their health programs in anticipation. We estimate if the tax takes effect in 2022, 21% will be subject to the tax, increasing to 37% by 2030 unless firms reduce costs. Larger shares would be affected when counting workers' voluntary contributions to Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)Issue Brief Read More
Analysis Estimates 1 in 4 Employers Offering Health Benefits Could Be Affected by the 'Cadillac Tax' in 2018 if Current Trends Continue
Share of Potentially-Affected Employers Could Grow to 30% in 2023, 42% in 2028, Analysis Finds New projections from the Kaiser Family Foundation estimate that one in four employers (26%) offering health benefits could be subject to the Affordable Care Act's tax on high-cost health plans, also known as the "Cadillac…News Release Read More
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As fall approaches, we can expect to hear more about how employers are adapting their health plans for 2016 open enrollments. One topic likely to garner a good deal of attention is how the Affordable Care Act's high cost plan tax (HCPT), sometimes called the "Cadillac plan" tax or "Cadillac tax," is affecting employer decisions about their health benefits. The tax takes effect in 2018.
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Newly minted American Idol judge Mariah Carey has unveiled her latest single, "Triumphant (Get 'Em)" featuring Rick Ross and Meek Mill. It's MiMi's first in two years.
Mariah Tweeted about the single, saying it's a track with lyrics close to her heart and including an Instagram picture of the lyrics, "In spite of the chains that bind you/you can see the mountain top/it's not too far."
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The track is the first off of her forthcoming and as yet unnamed album.
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Beatles Collaborator Tony Sheridan Dies
Singer Tony Sheridan, best known for his association with the Beatles, has died of unknown causes at age 72. The future Fab Four's first recording sessions would be as Sheridan's backing band.
Sheridan, born Anthony Esmond Sheridan McGinnity on May 21, 1940, was as legend has it, the first British musician to play an electric guitar on television. Sheridan crossed paths with the Beatles while both were playing clubs in Germany in the early '60s. Sheridan not only showed the young group the ropes of the club circuit, but also taught them a fair amount about music by introducing them to various American rock and roll records.
During a residency at the Top Ten club in Germany, the club's owner offered the Beatles a standing gig to back Sheridan. Despite having to play for up to seven hours a night, the band accepted the offer. They would soon attract the attention of musician (and label scout) Bert Kaempfert, who offered Sheridan (and backing band) a contract with Polydor Records. The result of this would be the single 'My Bonnie,' released in October of 1961 and credited to Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers (at Kaempfert's suggestion).
This would ultimately attract the attention of record shop owner Brian Epstein via a customer's request for said disc. The rest, as we know, is history, with Epstein becoming the Beatles' manager and helping the band conquer the world.
Original Beatles drummer Pete Best paid his condolences to Sheridan on Twitter, saying "My friend Tony Sherdian passed away this morning. Great guy and great memories I will miss you Tony. RIP."
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DUE WEST, S.C. – No. 19 Georgia College baseball (32-15) couldn't respond to another late surge from Erskine College (27-21) Monday, falling 7-5. The loss ends an eight-game win streak for the Bobcats.
The Flying Fleet put up three runs in the eighth, taking over a 5-4 game for a 7-5 win. Two home runs did the damage for Erskine.
Third baseman Travis Echols (Lawrenceville, Ga.) went 2-for-3 with a double, driving in two. Designated hitter Shawn Ward (Evans, Ga.) scored two runs, while shortstop Tanner Funk (Kearney, Mo.) also drove in two.
Bobcat reliever Walker McKinven (Lake Bluff, Ill.) gave up three runs in 3 1/3 innings, taking the loss (1-2). Fleet reliever Andrew Guest (7-3) got the win, throwing five innings with no runs, fanning 10. John Bolding got his second save, tossing a scoreless ninth. Shortstop Zach McCarthy was 2-for-4 with a home run, driving in two.
Georgia College is 12-9 in Peach Belt Conference (PBC) play, just one game behind Columbus State University in the PBC West.
The Bobcats are back in action Friday, April 29 at 7 p.m. to face the No. 14 Armstrong Atlantic (32-12, 14-7 PBC). The Pirates most recently swept Flagler College over the weekend.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, back-to-back winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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f(x) Krystal's Mother Does Not Like Lee Jong Suk
Actor Lee Jong Suk commented on his close comradely relationship with f(x)'s Krystal during an interview with TV Report. He first expressed how comfortable he feels about acting with Krystal. Lee Jong Suk is currently starring in MBC "High Kick3: The Short Lets Strike Back" with Krystal as siblings.
He stated, "Since Krystal and I fight all the time, I feel the most comfortable doing the fighting and arguing scenes. It seems as if I don't try to act at all in those scenes." Viewers find the constant bickering and arguing teenage siblings relatable and lovable.
Lee Jong Suk continued, "Because Krystal and I fight so often, sometimes things go out of control and we hit each other for real. For this very reason, I heard Krystal's mother does not like me." He lightened up the mood by adding, "For the same reason my grandma is not a big fan of Krystal, either." Recently, Lee Jong Suk is appealing to female viewers with his sensitivity and devoted one-sided love towards the character Kim Ji Won on "High Kick 3."


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Fred Delventhal on 18 Apr 12"The History Engine is an Historyal tool that gives students the opportunity to learn History by doing the work-researching, writing, and publishing-of a historian. The result is an ever-growing collection of historical articles or "episodes" that paints a wide-ranging portrait of life in the United States throughout its History and that is available to scholars, teachers, and the general public in our online database." Via http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/04/History-engine-explore-stories-of.html


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Florida had the most reported hate crimes towards the homeless in 2012, according to a report by the National Coalition for the Homeless.
The report, released last Friday, said that in 2012, Florida reported 15 violent crimes against the homeless. California came in second with seven reported hate crimes and Pennsylvania in third place with six reported crimes.
"It is not a comprehensive summary, since far too many of these attacks go unreported each year," Jerry Jones, Executive Director of the National Coalition for the Homeless said in a statement. "These acts are truly senseless, targeting some of the most vulnerable people imaginable."
Jones said the majority of the crimes were committed by people under the age of 20 towards homeless who are usually over 40.
The organization has been compiling reported crimes against the homeless for the past 14 years, documenting 1,328 acts of violence and 357 deaths as a result of the attacks.
The report highlights various attacks in Florida including a man that allegedly stabbed, ran over and dragged the body of a homeless man in Tampa. In Deerfield Beach a man allegedly killed a homeless man and later confessed to thinking about the killing for weeks. In Hallandale Beach, two teenagers allegedly choked, punched, kicked and stabbed a homeless man with a pen. And in Miami, a homeless man was randomly stabbed at an intersection.
"At its root, this violence is prompted by a profound lack of empathy for fellow human beings – the same moral failure that allows our society to tolerate the larger tragedy of homelessness," Jones said.


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Magic introduces new GM Rob Hennigan
New Magic GM: coach should have 'elite competitive spirit'
ORLANDO, Fla. – The Orlando Magic introduced its newly named general manager, Rob Hennigan, at a news conference on Thursday.
Magic CEO Alex Martins announced Hennigan's arrival on Wednesday.
"It is with great enthusiasm and optimism that we announce Rob Hennigan as our new General Manager," said Martins in a release. "Rob is an astute strategist and evaluator of talent who comes to the Magic family from two championship-level organizations. We feel he is an outstanding fit and the right choice to lead our Basketball Operations team in achieving our championship goals."
Hennigan told Local 6's Jamie Seh that he is looking forward to meeting with Dwight Howard and doing what he can to keep him in Orlando.
"He's one of the best players in the NBA, so clearly we'd like him to be here if he wants to be here, we certainly want him here," Hennigan said. "We're going to continue to reach out and have dialogue with Dwight. I'm looking forward to meeting him and spending some time with him and expressing the vision that we're trying to build here and the identity we're trying to build."
One of Hennigan's main priorities will be to help the team find and hire a new head coach.
"I think we want someone who embraces player development," Hennigan said. "We want someone who is going to communicate and express exactly what it is he wants from his players and at the end of the day we want someone with an elite competitive spirit and someone who's aligned with the vision and the values of the organization."
Hennigan spent the past four seasons with Oklahoma City, including the last two seasons as the Thunder's assistant general manager/player personnel. Hennigan spent his first two seasons with the Thunder as the team's director of college/international player personnel.
Prior to joining the Thunder, Hennigan spent four seasons with the San Antonio Spurs. He was named director of basketball operations in September of 2007. Hennigan began as an intern during the 2004-05 season and was later named the team's basketball operations assistant during the summer of 2005. The Spurs won the NBA World Championship in 2004-05 and 2006-07.
A native of Worcester, Massachusetts, Hennigan graduated with a degree in broadcast journalism from Emerson College in 2004. He was named a Division III All-American and an Academic All-American as a senior and was the Great Northeast Athletic Conference Player of the Year for three consecutive seasons. Hennigan finished his career as the school's all-time leading scorer.
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Silane USi-402 is a vinyl functional alkoxysilane. This product appears as a colorless, transparent liquid. It can be used as a binder of modified silanes in paints and adhesives. It can also be used as an adhesion promoter in coatings.
Nanjing Union Silicon Chemical Co., Ltd. (USI Chemical) is a manufacturer of silane coupling agents and silicone fine chemicals. It was established in July 2009 and USI Chemical is committed to the research and developement of new organic silicon materials and optimized resourcing of silane production and sales providing customers with the best quality products and services. Ranging from superior and normal products- amino silanes, epoxy silanes, vinyl silanes, methacryloxy silanes to special silanes and great R&D capabilities, USI can meet different levels of customer requirements in the paint and coating industry as well as other industries.
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Madonna's highly anticipated 12 minute show also includes a guest performance from LMFAO, making this year's halftime routine a star-studded event not to be missed.
While Madonna's set list has not been announced, the Queen of Pop is said to be performing "Ray of Light," "Vogue," and "Give Me All Your Luvvin."
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The innovative technology of the SKF LubriLean DigitalSuper makes it possible to use minimal quantity lubrication (MQL) for a wide range of cutting applications.
The unit's innovative generation of aerosol, combined with a powerful integrated control unit, constantly provides an optimal supply of oil for the cutting process. Even in case of unfavourable pressure ratios caused by the application (deep-hole drilling) or by small diameter cooling ducts.
The LubriLean DigitalSuper stands out due to its performance as well as for its very user-friendly operation.
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Compensation Committee report on behalf of the Board
Dear share owner
Following a very challenging 2009, the performance of the Group improved considerably in 2010. The design of compensation policy at WPP ensures that there is a clear and direct link between the performance of the Group and executive compensation throughout the Group. In 2010, the strong performance of the Group therefore resulted in both increased incentive levels for management and strong returns for share owners. The use of performance-driven compensation ensures the continued alignment of share owner and executive interests and is essential to enable the Company to attract, retain and motivate the most gifted talent in the industry.
2010 highlights
The committee's work during 2010 included:
- a review of the total compensation packages of the executive directors relative to the marketplace to ensure competitiveness;
- the approval of all stock plan awards used to attract, retain, reward and motivate employees;
- a review of the fees of the chairman and the non-executive directors;
- the approval of all incentive payments, payable in cash or in shares, for senior executives throughout the Group and setting appropriate performance targets for the Group chief executive and the other executive directors;
- approving the deferral and further deferral of significant share incentive awards by the Group chief executive; and
- implementation of clawback provisions in the Company's senior management share incentive plans.
What changed in 2010?
Details of all elements of compensation and any changes made to them are set out in the following pages. To summarise, the key decisions and changes to compensation during the year were as follows:
- the fees of the chairman and the non-executive directors, all of which have been in place since 1 January 2007, were increased with effect from January 2011;
- bonuses for 2010 performance were larger than those in 2009, reflecting the strong Group performance over the year. In accordance with the Company's policy, a substantial proportion of the 2010 bonus was paid in the form of deferred shares that vest two years after grant;
- changes to the compensation packages for the executive directors were considered and increases in base salary for both Paul Richardson and Mark Read were agreed and implemented, with effect from January 2011; and
- a review of the Group chief executive's overall incentive structure commenced and is continuing. The committee intends to consult share owners on this subject before the proposals are finalised. The final changes agreed will be disclosed in the 2011 Compensation Committee report.
As always, I would like to thank my fellow committee members, Philip Lader, Esther Dyson, Tim Shriver and Colin Day, as well as Bud Morten, the former chairman of the committee, for their continued support. The committee's thanks also go to Marie Capes (the Company Secretary), Mark Linaugh (the chief talent officer) and Derek Steptoe (the worldwide compensation & benefits director).
Composition of the Compensation Committee
During 2010, the Compensation Committee comprised the following:
- Jeffrey Rosen (chairman of the committee);
- Esther Dyson;
- Philip Lader;
- Tim Shriver (from 29 June 2010); and
- Colin Day (from 1 December 2010).
No member of the committee has any personal financial interest (other than as a share owner as disclosed on Director's interests) in the matters to be decided by the committee, potential conflicts of interest arising from cross-directorships or day-to-day involvement in running the Group's businesses.
The terms of reference for the Compensation Committee are available on the Company's website and will be on display at the AGM, as set out in the Notice of AGM.
Advisors to the Compensation Committee
The Compensation Committee regularly consults with Group executives, particularly the Group chief executive (who is not present when matters relating to his own compensation or contracts are discussed and decided), the chief talent officer and the worldwide director of compensation & benefits. The latter two individuals provide a perspective on information reviewed by the committee and are a conduit for requests for information and analysis from the Company's external advisors. Towers Watson are the committee's appointed compensation advisors; they did not provide any other material services to the Group. Squire Sanders Hammonds advises the committee on legal and tax issues relating to compensation and benefits, and provides legal advice on a range of matters to the Group.
The Compensation Committee receives external advice on all matters pertaining to the determination of fair and appropriate compensation packages for the executive directors. This advice covers competitive practice in comparator companies, tax and regulatory changes and governance issues related to the role of the Compensation Committee.
The link between compensation and business objectives
WPP competes on the basis of its intellectual capital. This intellectual capital is created entirely by its people, and the committee endeavours to strike the right balance of fairness between employees and share owners.
For this reason, the design of all executive compensation at WPP is governed by three guiding principles:
- competitiveness;
- performance-driven reward; and
- alignment with share owner interests.
These three principles are themselves derived from both our mission statement and our six business objectives.
The Compensation Committee regularly reviews fixed and variable compensation against appropriate benchmarks both internal and external. When making decisions on executive compensation, the committee is briefed on the remuneration levels within the Group. This includes, for example, the consideration of actual and budgeted salary increases across the organisation when determining executive salary increases. In addition, the committee approves the design of incentive plans and reviews all the awards made under those incentive plans.
The chart below shows the proportion of total compensation for executive directors which is variable (due to the linkage to performance) compared to fixed compensation.
WPP is committed to aligning executive performance and reward with share owner interests. From a compensation perspective, this is encouraged in a number of ways:
- Total Shareholder Return (TSR) has been chosen as the performance measure for the LEAP plans as it represents the best objective measure of the success of the Company as far as share owners are concerned;
- share ownership is encouraged for the WPP Leaders (approximately the top 200 executives), all of whom have stretching ownership goals;
- all eligible employees are given a share ownership opportunity through participation in the Worldwide Ownership Plan; and
- the majority of the compensation package of executive directors is paid in the form of shares (comprised of deferred share bonus and long-term incentive awards under the LEAP plans).
The role of the Compensation Committee in improving risk management
The Compensation Committee is always sensitive to the requirement that the decisions that it makes and the compensation programs the Group has in place serve to improve the management of risk in the Group. In particular:
- the incentive plans take into account performance across a broad range of financial and non-financial measures;
- Compensation Committee meetings are generally held at the time of Board meetings, at which the committee members are usually given a comprehensive briefing on issues and risks facing each of the business units as well as the Group as a whole;
- one of the single biggest challenges for WPP is attracting and retaining key talent. Incentive plans are designed to be attractive in the marketplace and provide as much retention value as possible, such as the use of deferred share bonuses that normally vest after two years, and the use of restricted stock awards that vest after three years; and
- the clawback provisions that have been added into key share incentive plans (i.e. those other than the all-employee plans) give the Compensation Committee the right to cancel or reduce unvested share awards should this be justified by a participant's acts or omissions.
TSR performance
The Company's TSR for the period from 31 December 2005 to April 2011 is shown on the graph below. The FTSE 100 is the index the Board considers most relevant for the purpose of comparison as WPP is a mid-ranking FTSE 100 company. WPP considers its key competitors to be Omnicom, Interpublic and Publicis and it is the performance of these companies with which the Company's own performance is most commonly compared. For that reason, values for those three companies are also displayed.
- * Measured on a common currency basis.
Key elements of short- and long-term remuneration
The principal elements of WPP executive remuneration currently comprise the following:
- base salaries and fees (fixed);
- short-term incentives paid both in cash (payable immediately) and shares which vest in the medium-term, usually after two years (variable); and
- long-term incentives paid in shares (variable, subject to performance conditions, and in the case of LEAP, co-investment conditions).
Pension contributions, life assurance, healthcare and other benefits are also provided.
Compensation packages for the most senior people at WPP are normally reviewed every 24 months. These reviews are undertaken within the context of:
- the mix of fixed and variable compensation;
- the performance of the relevant business unit;
- pay and employment conditions elsewhere in the Group; and
- general market conditions.
In determining suitable benchmarks, the Compensation Committee looks at the compensation of executives holding similar roles in competitor organisations and, if appropriate, general industry data for organisations of comparable size and complexity.
Base salary and fees
|Current salary and fees
|Effective date
|Sir Martin Sorrell
|1 Jan 2007
|Paul Richardson
|$925,000 and £100,000
|1 Jan 2011
|Mark Read
|1 Jan 2011
As reported in previous years, fees of £100,000 are paid to each of the executive directors in respect of their directorships of WPP plc and are included in the numbers above.
Sir Martin Sorrell's base salary was last increased on 1 January 2007. It was due to be reviewed in November 2008 with any change to be implemented from January 2009; however, Sir Martin informed the Compensation Committee that an increase would not be appropriate in light of business conditions. His salary and directors' fees therefore remained unchanged throughout 2008, 2009 and 2010. As part of the extensive review of the executive directors' compensation at the end of 2010, the committee considers that an increase in base salary and adjustments to incentive opportunities are appropriate. Consideration of these issues has continued during 2011 and the committee intends to consult share owners before the proposals are finalised. The final changes agreed will be disclosed in the 2011 Compensation Committee report.
As a result of the review, and being mindful of the time that has elapsed since the last salary increases, the committee decided to increase the base salary of the other two executive directors. Paul Richardson's base salary was increased from $830,000 plus £100,000 fees to $925,000 plus £100,000 fees. The committee believed that Mark Read's package of base salary and fees at £325,000 was uncompetitive and, given the increased importance of digital strategy to the Group and Mr Read's continuing personal development, an increase to his remuneration was in order. As a result, Mark Read's package of base salary and fees was increased to £425,000. These increases were the first increases since July 2008 and January 2009 respectively, and both increases were implemented with effect from 1 January 2011.
Retirement benefits
All pension benefits for the Company's executive directors are currently on a defined contribution basis. Only the aggregate of base salary and director fees is pensionable. Details of pension contributions for executive directors for the period under review are set out in Directors' remuneration and other statutory information.
Short-term incentives
Each year WPP sets stretching performance targets for each operating company. Performance against these targets determines the size, if any, of the incentive pool for that unit. In aggregate, incentive payments in 2010 were higher than in 2009 due to improved performance. This trend was also reflected in the bonuses paid to executive directors.
Individual targets (both financial and strategic) for the operating company CEOs are set by WPP and in turn, these CEOs set similar targets for employees who report directly to them. Payment is in the form of both cash bonuses and deferred shares, being Performance Share Awards (PSAs), which vest a further two years after grant. The grant of PSAs typically occurs three months after the end of the financial year.
In a similar way, the Compensation Committee sets objectives for Sir Martin Sorrell and the other executive directors. The extent to which these objectives are met will determine the size of both annual cash bonuses (under the STIP) and Executive Share Awards (ESAs, the portion of the annual bonus paid in shared which normally vest a further two years after grant).
No changes were made in 2010 to the levels of short-term incentive payouts that would be payable for achieving either target or maximum performance. The target and maximum cash bonus and ESA awards for each of the three executive directors in 2010 were as follows (shown as a percentage of salary):
|Target %
|Max %
|Target %
|Max %
|Sir Martin Sorrell
|Paul Richardson
|Mark Read
Consistent with previous years, for 2010 the performance of each executive director was measured in the three areas shown below:
- Group financial objectives: Examples of measures include margin improvement and operating profit growth.
- Individual strategic objectives: Examples of measures include relative financial performance, advancing CSR strategy, improving back office synergies and integrating digital assets.
- Key business achievements: Examples of measures include improving creative reputation and developing digital strategy.
Each of these three elements is equally weighted for bonus purposes (i.e., one third of the bonus is payable for the achievement of each objective). Except for the Group financial objectives, the exact measures differ for each individual executive director.
After considering each of these areas and the respective measures for each executive director, the committee assessed the following levels of performance:
|2010 achievement as % of target
|Total %
of target
|Total %
of target
|Sir Martin Sorrell
|Paul Richardson
|Mark Read
|2010 achievement as % of target
|Total %
of target
|Total %
of target
|Sir Martin Sorrell
|Paul Richardson
|Mark Read
These achievement levels resulted in the following bonus payments:
|Cash bonus
|ESA bonus
|Actual %
of target
|Actual %
of target
|Sir Martin Sorrell
|Paul Richardson
|Mark Read
The executive directors are eligible, but decided not, to participate in a cash bonus deferral plan whereby they can defer receipt of part of their bonus for four years, and receive a 25% match in the form of WPP shares (subject to continuous employment).
In conjunction with the committee's review of total compensation for the executive directors, the committee decided to adjust the levels of short-term incentive awards available for executive directors. The target and maximum levels for both Paul Richardson and Mark Read have been adjusted for 2011 in order to better balance the cash and share incentive elements of their remuneration, and to reflect market practice, and are shown below (as a percentage of salary):
|Target %
|Max %
|Target %
|Max %
|Paul Richardson
|Mark Read
As mentioned in the Base salary and fees section, a decision regarding adjustments to Sir Martin Sorrell's incentive opportunities is pending the outcome of share owner consultation.
Long-term incentives
During the latter part of 2010, the Compensation Committee reviewed the long-term incentive plans to assess whether they continued to meet the long-term strategic objectives of the Company particularly given the increased competitive pressures that have been fuelled by the general economic recovery and competitors' behaviour. The committee reviewed grant levels, performance criteria and vesting schedules. The conclusion of the review was that the grant levels and vesting schedules remained appropriate and well suited to the nature of the business. While the committee believes that the relative TSR measure that has been used for a number of years continues to be the most appropriate performance measure, the committee periodically reviews whether the plans would be strengthened by the addition of one or two further non-market measures in order to balance TSR.
Other than stock options, all awards will be satisfied out of WPP shares held in treasury or one of the Company's employee share ownership plans (ESOPs). The proceeds from any of the cash or share-based equity plans are not pensionable.
Leadership Equity Acquisition Plan III
In 2010, awards under LEAP III were made to 18 of the Group's key executives. Details of the awards made to the executive directors can be found in the Directors' remuneration and other statutory information section.
Participants have to commit and retain investments in WPP in order to receive awards under LEAP III. Such investments are in the form of WPP shares (investment shares) and, at the invitation of the Compensation Committee, also in the form of options over WPP shares purchased from an independent third party (investment options). LEAP III awards provide participants with the opportunity to earn additional WPP shares to match their investments (matching shares). The number of matching shares that a participant can receive at the end of the investment and performance period depends on the Company's TSR performance measured over five years and compared with a peer group weighted by market capitalisation.
Following the end of a performance period, the Compensation Committee is required to perform a 'fairness review' on the basis of which it may, in exceptional circumstances, decide to vary the number of matching shares that will vest. This is because relative TSR may not always reflect the true performance of the Company. Factors the committee considers in its fairness review of any award include, amongst others, multiple measures of the Group's financial performance (such as growth in revenue and in earnings per share), and any evidence of distortions in the share price of either WPP or the peer group (such as bid price premiums).
Vesting of the 2005 and 2006 LEAP awards
As previously reported in the 2009 Compensation Committee report, the 2005 award vested in March 2010 with a match of 2.50.
As described above, the Compensation Committee is required to perform a 'fairness review' before any awards can vest. When performing this fairness review in the context of determining the level of vesting of the 2006 award, the committee reviewed a broad range of factors in its consideration of whether the relative TSR achievement was a fair reflection of the performance of the Group over the 5-year performance period or whether there were factors that required the result to be adjusted. For the vesting of the 2006 award, the committee considered the following factors:
- the constituents of the peer group and whether there were any events that had an undue impact on their TSR performance in either a positive or negative way;
- the impact of changes in exchange rates on the TSR calculation; and
- the financial performance of the Company, relative to its peers, covering a wide range of measures including EPS, PBIT, margin, revenue and several other factors.
Following the fairness review, the committee concluded that the relative TSR result fairly reflected the performance of the Company over the five-year investment period, and that no adjustment was deemed necessary. The relative TSR performance of the Company resulted in a match of 4.14 for each investment share committed to the program despite the fact that on a local currency basis the match was 4.80.
Restricted Stock Plan
Other than to satisfy awards under the short-term incentive plans (ESAs and PSAs), the principal use of the Restricted Stock Plan is for awards under the WPP Leaders and Partners program. This program is used to reward, retain and align the interests of about 1,250 of our key executives with the interests of share owners.
In the program, awards are made to participants that vest three years after grant, provided the participant is still employed within the Group. Executive directors are ineligible to participate in this plan.
Executive Stock Option Plan
In order to attract or retain key talent it is sometimes necessary to make special grants of options. No awards were granted in 2010 to any employee or executive director (1 award was granted to an employee in 2009). However, the Compensation Committee is conscious that stock options remain a powerful motivator and, in certain circumstances, it might be necessary to make awards to a broader population under the Executive Stock Option Plan.
Worldwide Ownership Plan
The Worldwide Ownership Plan is an all-employee plan that makes annual grants of stock options to employees with two years of service who work in wholly-owned subsidiaries. During 2010, awards were made to over 45,000 employees. By 31 December 2010, options under this plan had been granted to approximately 97,700 employees over 43.4 million shares since March 1997. Executives who participate in one of the other share plans described above are ineligible to participate in this plan.
Key elements of short- and long-term remuneration
|Change of control
|Base salary
|To maintain package competitiveness at all levels within the Group.
|All employees.
|Salary levels are determined by taking a number of relevant factors into account, including individual and business unit performance, level of experience, scope of responsibility and the competitiveness of total remuneration.
|Cash bonus
|To incentivise delivery of value at all levels within the Group.
|Approximately 10% of employees are eligible to receive a performance bonus.
|1 year
|Achievement of challenging performance goals (financial and non-financial) at the individual and business unit level.
|The cash bonuses of executive directors do not crystallise on a change of control.
|Performance share awards
|To incentivise delivery of value and to align with interests of share owners.
|Key operating company executives.
|1 year
|Achievement of challenging performance goals (financial and non-financial) at operating company level. Further two-year retention period.
|See note below for Restricted Stock Plan.
|Executive share awards
|To incentivise delivery of value and to align with interests of share owners.
|Key head office executives and executive directors.
|1 year
|Achievement of challenging individual annual bonus objectives. Further two- or three-year retention period.
|See note below for Restricted Stock Plan.
|LEAP III and Renewed LEAP
|To incentivise long-term performance by comparing WPP's TSR against the TSR of key comparators (which are weighted by market capitalisation in the case of LEAP III), and to maximise alignment with share owner interests through a high level of personal financial commitment.
|Participation offered only to those key executives (currently no more than 20 people) whose contributions transcend their day-to-day role, including executive directors.
|5 years
|Relative TSR performance against a group of key communication services comparator companies, (weighted by market capitalisation in the case of LEAP III), subject to a fairness review by the Compensation Committee.
|On a change of control, the investment period for all outstanding awards ends, the number of vesting shares is determined at that date (pro-rated in the case of LEAP III) and any other rights cease. The number of shares that vest may be reduced to prevent adverse US tax provisions applying. The Compensation Committee may determine that outstanding awards are exchanged for equivalent awards.
|Restricted Stock Plan
|To encourage a share ownership culture and long-term retention as well as supporting recruitment.
|Directors and senior executives of the operating companies and senior head office executives.
|Typically three-year retention period.
|The vesting period for all outstanding awards is deemed to end. The Compensation Committee may determine that outstanding awards are exchanged for equivalent awards or that outstanding awards are unaffected by the change of control.
|Executive Stock Option Plan
|To provide a tool to promote retention and recruitment.
|Occasional use only to deal with special situations.
|3 years
|Conditions, if any, are determined at the time of grant of the award.
|The number of shares or ADRs is pro-rated down in accordance with the change of control date. The Compensation Committee may determine that outstanding awards are unaffected by the change of control.
|Worldwide Ownership Plan
|To develop a stronger ownership culture.
|Employees with at least two years' employment. Not offered to those participating in other share programs or to executive directors.
|Three-year vesting period.
|The number of shares or ADRs is pro-rated down in accordance with the change of control date. The Compensation Committee may determine that outstanding awards are unaffected by the change of control.
Share incentive dilution for 2000 to 2010
The share incentive dilution level, measured on a 10-year rolling basis, has declined to 4.4% at 31 December 2010 (4.6% – 2009). It is intended that awards under all plans, with the exception of the Worldwide Ownership Plan, will be satisfied with purchased shares held either in the ESOPs or in treasury.


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"Infinite Jest: Reviews, Articles, and Miscellany"
John Updike, Champion Literary Phallocrat, Drops One; Is This Finally the End for Magnificent Narcissists?
by David Foster Wallace
The New York Observer
October 13, 1997
"Of nothing but me I sing, lacking another song."
-- John Updike,
, 1969
Mailer, Updike, Roth -- the Great Male Narcissists* who've dominated
postwar realist fiction are now in their senescence, and it must seem to
them no coincidence that the prospect of their own deaths appears
backlit by the approaching millennium and on-line predictions of the
death of the novel as we know it. When a solipsist dies, after all,
everything goes with him. And no U.S. novelist has mapped the
solipsist's terrain better than John Updike, whose rise in the 60s and
70s established him as both chronicler and voice of probably the single
most self-absorbed generation since Louis XIV. As were Freud's, Mr.
Updike's big preoccupations have always been with death and sex (not
necessarily in that order), and the fact that the mood of his books has
gotten more wintery in recent years is understandable -- Mr. Updike has
always written largely about himself, and since the surprisingly moving
Rabbit at Rest
he's been exploring, more and more overtly, the
apocalyptic prospect of his own death.
Toward the End of Time
concerns an incredibly erudite, articulate,
successful, narcissistic and sex-obsessed retired guy who's keeping a
one-year journal in which he explores the apocalyptic prospect of his
own death. It is, of the total 25 Updike books I've read, far and away
the worst, a novel so mind-bendingly clunky and self-indulgent that it's
hard to believe the author let it be published in this kind of shape.
I'm afraid the preceding sentence is this review's upshot, and most of
the balance here will consist of presenting evidence/ justification for
such a disrespectful assessment. First, though, if I may poke the
critical head into the frame for just one moment, I'd like to offer
assurances that your reviewer is not one of these spleen-venting,
spittle-spattering Updike-haters one encounters among literary readers
under 40. The fact is that I am probably classifiable as one of very few
actual sub-40 Updike fans. Not as rabid a fan as, say, Nicholson Baker,
but I do think that
The Poorhouse Fair
Of the Farm
The Centaur
all great books, maybe classics. And even since
Rabbit Is Rich
-- as his
characters seemed to become more and more repellent, and without any
corresponding indication that the author understood that they were
repellent -- I've continued to read Mr. Updike's novels and to admire the
sheer gorgeousness of his descriptive prose.
Most of the literary readers I know personally are under 40, and a fair
number are female, and none of them are big admirers of the postwar
G.M.N.'s. But it's Mr. Updike in particular they seem to hate. And not
merely his books, for some reason -- mention the poor man himself and you
have to jump back:
"Just a penis with a thesaurus."
"Has the son of a bitch ever had one unpublished thought?"
"Makes misogyny seem literary the same way Limbaugh makes fascism seem
These are actual -- trust me -- quotations, and I've heard even worse ones,
and they're all usually accompanied by the sort of facial expression
where you can tell there's not going to be any profit in arguing or
talking about the esthetic pleasure of Mr. Updike's prose. None of the
other famous phallocrats of his generation -- not Mailer, not Frederick
Exley or Charles Bukowski or even the Samuel Delany of
-- excites such
violent dislike. There are, of course, some obvious explanations for
part of this dislike -- jealousy, iconoclasm, P.C. backlash, and the fact
that many of our parents revere Mr. Updike and it's easy to revile what
your parents revere. But I think the major reason so many of my
generation dislike Mr. Updike and the other G.M.N.'s has to do with
these writers' radical self-absorption, and with their uncritical
celebration of this self-absorption both in themselves and in their
Mr. Updike, for example, has for years been constructing protagonists
who are basically all the same guy (see for example Rabbit Angstrom,
Dick Maple, Piet Hanema, Henry Bech, Rev. Tom Marshfield,
's "Uncle Nunc") and who are all clearly stand-ins for the author
himself. They always live in either Pennsylvania or New England, are
unhappily married/divorced, are roughly Mr. Updike's age. Always either
the narrator or the point-of-view character, they all have the author's
astounding perceptual gifts; they all think and speak in the same
effortlessly lush, synesthetic way Mr. Updike does. They are also always
incorrigibly narcissistic, philandering, self-contemptuous, self-pitying
and deeply alone, alone the way only a solipsist can be alone. They
never belong to any sort of larger unit or community or cause. Though
usually family men, they never really love anybody -- and, though always
heterosexual to the point of satyriasis, they especially don't love
women. The very world around them, as beautifully as they see and
describe it, seems to exist for them only insofar as it evokes
impressions and associations and emotions inside the self.
I'm guessing that for the young educated adults of the 60s and 70s,
for whom the ultimate horror was the hypocritical conformity and
repression of their own parents' generation, Mr. Updike's evocation of
the libidinous self appeared redemptive and even heroic. But the young
educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the
same impassioned infidelities and divorces Mr. Updike wrote about so
beautifully -- got to watch all this brave new individualism and
self-expression and sexual freedom deteriorate into the joyless and
anomic self-indulgence of the Me Generation. Today's sub-40s have
different horrors, prominent among which are anomie and solipsism and a
peculiarly American loneliness: the prospect of dying without once
having loved something more than yourself. Ben Turnbull, the narrator of
Mr. Updike's latest novel, is 66 years old and heading for just such a
death, and he's shitlessly scared. Like so many of the novelist's
protagonists, though, Turnbull seems to be scared of all the wrong
Toward the End of Time
is being marketed by its publisher as an
ambitious departure for Mr. Updike, his foray into the
futuristic-dystopic tradition of Aldous Huxley and soft sci-fi. The year
is A.D. 2020, and time has not been kind. A Sino-American missile war
has killed millions and ended centralized government as Americans know
it. The dollar's gone; Massachusetts now uses scrip named for Bill Weld.
No taxes -- local toughs now get protection money to protect the upscale
from other local toughs. AIDS has been cured, the Midwest is
depopulated, and parts of Boston are bombed out and (presumably?)
irradiated. An abandoned space station hangs in the night sky like a
junior moon. There are tiny but rapacious "metallobioforms" that have
mutated from toxic waste and go around eating electricity and the
occasional human. Mexico has reappropriated the U.S. Southwest and is
threatening wholesale invasion even as thousands of young Americans are
sneaking across the Rio Grande in search of a better life. America, in
short, is getting ready to die.
The book's postmillennial elements are sometimes cool, and they truly
would represent an interesting departure for Mr. Updike if they weren't
all so sketchy and tangential. What 95 percent of
Toward the End of Time
actually consists of is Turnbull describing the prenominate flora (over
and over as each season passes) and his brittle, castrating wife Gloria,
and remembering the ex-wife who divorced him for adultery, and
rhapsodizing about a young prostitute he moves into the house when
Gloria's away on a trip. It's also got a lot of pages of Turnbull
brooding about decay and mortality and the tragedy of the human
condition, and even more pages of Turnbull talking about sex and the
imperiousness of the sexual urge and detailing how he lusts after
assorted secretaries and neighbors and bridge partners and
daughters-in-law and a little girl who's part of the group of young
toughs he pays protection to, a 13-year-old whose breasts -- "shallow taut
cones tipped with honeysuckle-berry nipples" -- Turnbull finally gets to
fondle in the woods behind his house when his wife's not looking.
In case this sounds like a harsh summary, here's hard statistical
evidence of just how much a "departure" for Mr. Updike this novel really
Total number of pages about the Sino-American war -- causes, duration,
casualties: 0.75;
Total number of pages about deadly mutant metallobioforms: 1.5;
Total number of pages about flora around Turnbull's home, plus fauna,
weather and how his ocean view looks in different seasons: 86;
Total number of pages about Mexico's repossession of the U.S. Southwest:
Total number of pages about Ben Turnbull's penis and his various
feelings about it: 7.5;
Total number of pages about the prostitute's body, with particular
attention to sexual loci: 8.75;
Total number of pages about golf: 15;
Total number of pages of Ben Turnbull saying things like "I want women
to be dirty" and "We are condemned, men and women, to symbiosis" and
"She was a choice cut of meat and I hoped she held out for a fair price"
and "The sexual parts are fiends, sacrificing everything to that aching
point of contact": 36.5.
The novel's best parts are a half-dozen little set pieces where Turnbull
imagines himself inhabiting different historical figures -- a tomb-robber
in ancient Egypt, Saint Mark, a guard at a Nazi death camp, etc. They're
gems, and I wished there were more of them. The problem is that they
don't serve much of a function here other than to remind us that Mr.
Updike can write great imaginative set pieces when he's in the mood.
Their justification in the novel stems from the fact that the narrator
is a science fan. Turnbull is particularly keen on subatomic physics and
something he calls the theory of "many worlds" -- which actually dates from
1957 and is a proposed solution to certain quantum paradoxes entailed by
the principles of Uncertainty and Complementarity, and which is
unbelievably abstract and complicated but which Turnbull seems to
think is roughly the same thing as the Theory of Past-Life Channeling,
apparently thereby explaining the set pieces where Turnbull is somebody
else. The whole quantum setup ends up being embarrassing the way
something pretentious is embarrassing when it's also wrong.
Better, and more convincingly "futuristic," are the narrator's
soliloquies on the blue-to-red shift and the eventual implosion of the
known universe near the book's end, and this would be among the novel's
highlights, too, if it weren't for the fact that Turnbull is interested
in cosmic apocalypse only because it serves as a grand metaphor for his
own personal death -- likewise all the Housmanesque descriptions of the
optometrically significant "Year 2020," and the book's final, heavy
description of "small pale moths [that] have mistakenly hatched" on a
late-autumn day and now "flip and flutter a foot or two above the
asphalt as if trapped in a narrow wedge of space-time beneath the
obliterating imminence of winter."
The clunky bathos of this novel seems to have infected even the prose,
John Updike's great strength for almost 40 years.
Toward the End of Tim
has occasional flashes of beautiful writing -- deer described as
"tender-faced ruminants," leaves as "chewed to lace by Japanese
beetles," a car's tight turn as a "slur." But a horrific percentage of
the book consists of stuff like "Why indeed do women weep? They weep, it
seemed to my wandering mind, for the world itself, in its beauty and
waste, its mingled cruelty and tenderness" and "How much of summer is
over before it begins! Its beginning marks its end, as our birth entails
our death" and "This development seems remote, however, among the many
more urgent issues of survival on our blasted, depopulated planet." Not
to mention whole reams of sentences with so many modifiers -- "The
insouciance and innocence of our independence twinkled like a kind of
sweat from their bare and freckled or honey-colored or mahogany
limbs" -- or so much subordination -- "As our species, having given itself a
hard hit, staggers, the others, all but counted out, moved in" -- and such
heavy alliteration -- "The broad sea blares a blue I would not have
believed obtainable without a tinted filter" -- that they seem less like
John Updike than like somebody doing a mean parody of John Updike.
Besides distracting us with worries about whether Mr. Updike might be
injured or ill, the turgidity of the prose also increases our dislike of
the novel's narrator (it's hard to like a guy whose way of saying his
wife doesn't like going to bed before him is "She hated it when I crept
into bed and disturbed in her the fragile succession of steps whereby
consciousness dissolves"). This dislike absolutely torpedoes
Toward the
End of Time
, a novel whose tragic climax (in a late chapter called "The
Deaths") is a prostate operation that leaves Turnbull impotent and
extremely bummed. It is made very clear that the author expects us to
sympathize with and even share Turnbull's grief at "the pathetic
shrunken wreck the procedures [have] made of my beloved genitals." These
demands on our compassion echo the major crisis of the book's first
half, described in a flashback, where we are supposed to empathize not
only with the textbookish existential dread that hits Turnbull at 30 as
he's in his basement building a dollhouse for his daughter -- "I would die,
but also the little girl I was making this for would die. There was no
God, each detail of the rusting, moldering cellar made clear, just
Nature, which would consume my life as carelessly and relentlessly as it
would a dung-beetle corpse in a compost pile" -- but also with Turnbull's
relief at discovering a remedy for this dread -- "an affair, my first. Its
colorful weave of carnal revelation and intoxicating risk and craven
guilt eclipsed the devouring gray sensation of time."
Maybe the only thing the reader ends up appreciating about Ben Turnbull
is that he's such a broad caricature of an Updike protagonist that he
helps us figure out what's been so unpleasant and frustrating about this
gifted author's recent characters. It's not that Turnbull is stupid -- he
can quote Kierkegaard and Pascal on angst and allude to the deaths of
Schubert and Mozart and distinguish between a sinistrorse and a
dextrorse Polygonum vine, etc. It's that he persists in the bizarre
adolescent idea that getting to have sex with whomever one wants
whenever one wants is a cure for ontological despair. And so, it
appears, does Mr. Updike -- he makes it plain that he views the narrator's
impotence as catastrophic, as the ultimate symbol of death itself, and
he clearly wants us to mourn it as much as Turnbull does. I'm not
especially offended by this attitude; I mostly just don't get it. Erect
or flaccid, Ben Turnbull's unhappiness is obvious right from the book's
first page. But it never once occurs to him that the reason he's so
unhappy is that he's an asshole.
* Unless, of course, you consider constructing long encomiums to a
woman's "sacred several-lipped gateway" or saying things like "It is
true, the sight of her plump lips obediently distended around my swollen
member, her eyelids lowered demurely, afflicts me with a religious
peace" to be the same as loving her.


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His style is both comical and skilled and I'm inspired to push my skills harder so one day, I may produce something as awesome as his work.
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Another great interview from a great Artist!
great work interview artists 5 stars from me ...
Your Scared Silly and Rajun Cajun works are two of my all time favorites. They both make me smile every time I look at them. Thank you so much for sharing.
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Great interview, and ALWAYS fabulous work, Gregory!!
You never cease to amaze me!
And I feel so much better now, knowing that you live in Oregon. Finally solving the riddle of - why 'sasquatchpoacher'??
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Thanx for the Interview....
All of your characters have a very recognizable style, even though vastly different. Nice bunch of work.
Now we just need to see the "band" animated.
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Have Fur, Will Travel
With big, padded paws, he crossed countless highways, many mountain ranges and probably even a portion of Colorado desert before he died in a trapper's snare north of Canada's Banff National Park in January. But this 9-year-old lynx won't soon be forgotten. In fact, his near-1,250-mile-trek went down as the longest ever recorded for the species—doubling previous records.
Live-captured at about two years old in Canada, near the place he met his demise, the lynx was transported to Colorado several years ago as part of a binational effort to restore the species to part of its original range in the United States. In his new Rocky Mountain territory, he mated and sired many kittens (at least six of which made it to adulthood) before he got the urge to return to Canada last year.
"This amazing story shows that wolves are not the only big-footed, four-legged animals that need room to roam across vast areas," says David Gaillard, Defender's northern Rockies representative. "It's another argument for creating contiguous wilderness pathways among our national parks, forests, and other areas of wildlife habitat in this country so that animals can safely travel to and from them."
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Global Warming National Park?
The last remaining glaciers in Montana's Glacier National Park may disappear by 2020—10 years ahead of earlier projections—says Dan Fagre of the U.S. Geological Survey's Northern Mountain Science Center. This means more than just a change in the stunning scenery. The resulting ecological changes to the region could also cause:
a loss of wildlife—grizzly, black bears, wolves, lynx, wolverines, mountain lions, mountain goats, bighorn sheep and elk all range through the region.
local extinction of cold-water dependent species such as bull trout as water temperatures in streams, ponds and lakes increase.
loss of tourism dollars—spending by the park's nearly two million visitors amounts to nearly $1 billion a year, according to Stephen Saunders of the Denver-based Rocky Mountain Climate Organization and lead author of a new report that analyzed data from 33 government and 55 scientific sources.
job loss for Montana workers—park tourism supports more than 4,000 local jobs.
Of the park's 37 named glaciers, only 25 remain large enough to still be considered glaciers. Of the 12 that have melted away, 11 have done so since 1966.
The High Price Isn't Always at the Pump
Only weeks before BP's drilling rig exploded and started leaking millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, came a painful reminder of the lingering consequences of oil spills—and how accidents do happen. More than 20 years after the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound, scientists say that wildlife there is still being exposed to oil.
The Valdez spilled about 10.5 million gallons of oil in Alaskan waters after wrecking in March 1989, a spill that covered an estimated 2,100 miles of ocean. Thousands of animals—sea birds, sea otters, bald eagles, orcas—died soon after. But some of that oil persists and some animals continue to ingest it, says Daniel Esler, lead author of a new study from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia.
Researchers studied exposure in harlequin ducks, which are particularly sensitive to oil pollution partly because they live in intertidal areas where some oil lingers, and because they eat invertebrates that live in or on sediment that may be contaminated.
With an estimated 20,000 gallons of Exxon Valdez oil still on Alaska's beaches, it appears the residual effects of the last major oil disaster will continue to impact wildlife as the latest disaster begins to take its toll on creatures in the Gulf of Mexico.
Bycatch Be Gone
It's tough being a sea turtle. In addition to the usual list of wildlife challenges—predators, disease and so on—there are many threats posed by people: oil spills, plastic garbage, beach development, light pollution, egg poaching and climate change.
But the biggest human-caused peril by far remains bycatch—the accidental catching and drowning of the species by fisheries—and the number likely ranges in the millions, according to a new Duke University and Conservation International study.
Using direct onboard observations and interviews with fishermen, researchers estimated about 85,000 turtles were caught between 1990 and 2008. But given the report covers less than 1 percent of all fishing fleets in the world, with little or no information from small-scale fisheries, the true total over the past two decades is likely in the millions rather than the tens of thousands, says Bryan Wallace, the study's lead author.
Bycatch rates from longline fishing and trawling are particularly high from Baja California to Chile and off the coast of the eastern United States and the southwest and northwest Atlantic. But researchers note that simple changes in gear—from J-shaped hooks to circle hooks, which decrease the likelihood of a turtle swallowing the hook or having it more deeply embedded—can prevent a lot of mortality. "But while gear fixes might reduce bycatch—and not necessarily in all cases—more responsible fisheries management is truly the key to meaningfully reducing sea turtle bycatch," says Wallace.
In Mexico, circle hooks are now mandatory, thanks in part to a campaign by Defenders of Wildlife, which distributed thousands of turtle-safe hooks to fishers along with special hook removal tools. Defenders also leads workshops along the Mexican coast that demonstrate how to avoid catching sea turtles and free them unharmed.
But when it comes right down to it, a big part of saving sea turtles is the responsibility of supermarket shoppers and restaurant diners—like you. By keeping a sustainable seafood pocket guide in your wallet from www.montereybayaquarium.org or using resources like www.fishphone.org you can help sea turtles in your daily life.
Sweet Flowers Lure Ladies
Purple-throated caribs say it with flowers—not just bouquets, but fields of them. The males of this eastern Caribbean hummingbird species stake out large territories full of nectar-producing blossoms, including a type that females with their longer and more curved bills can tap.
Successful males have territories with far more energy-giving nectar than they need in a day—and lots of the ladies-only flowers to lure potential mates. They aggressively ward off other nectar-eaters and competitors. But female purple-throated caribs are more than welcome to enter and sip from the blossoms—and, the males hope, linger for love.
"This is the first time such behavior has ever been observed in a bird species," says John Kress, a botanist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, who, along with ornithologist Ethan Temeles of Amherst College, discovered it. "Not only is the male defending a huge territory from competing males, but he's also defending a big chunk of it exclusively for females who he is trying to attract as potential mates."
Why the romantic approach? Purple-throated caribs sexes look similar, so instead of the showy plumage and courtship displays typical of many birds, males must rely on something else to attract mates. For these tropical hummingbirds, nothing says, "he's the one," better than the right flowers.
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Opinion: Hey, White House...Cut This, Not That
Assistant editorial page editor James Freeman on what the White House spends its money on. Photos: Getty Images
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... I ... is your last day to get a White House store was ... present Obama Reliance Linda ... stopped insisting that the ... sequester of ... of restraints on his own spending require the White House to cancel its stores at ... the fact that the White House side has canceled tours has not ... relented this week ... has got a lot of people are curious about ... where savings could be found now ... we have two out ... of its tackling the subject today in the Wall Street Journal lot one for my colleague Jack Kim Strassel another from Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn ... and they're they're basically pointing out the way is where we might find savings in the federal budget instead of ... going for the use of five short cancellations ... I really has some interesting ... things the government than spending money on not ... we see us in Diego trolley dancing are getting a ten thousand dollars grant to ... the quail star the ... this is one of Mr. October is focused on I believe that's the impact of cocaine use on quail ... the five hundred thousand dollars for shampoo for pet research ... of ... fourteen point eight million going to millionaires getting unemployment benefits ... on twenty seven million dollars a program of that the Features pottery classes ... in the Morocco ... I've that you look at all this and when you see that figure the and four under sixty eight thousand dollars that's what it would cost to keep the tours going for six months ... now we have a mansion on these two opposite are on our side now have a lot of these of federal spending programs ... we also now want to look at the White House itself ... now ... I'm obviously they're saying how they can afford the tourists ... the overall line executive office of the president budget ... six hundred and fifty eight million dollars plus per year now ... in fairness that includes a lot of offices is obvious of Management budget various ... basically staff that is not part of the ... regular the ... separate federal departments and agencies Defense Department haunted cetera so ... so this is your your overall White house bigger boat with him that if you strip out ... all of the staff bought ... it in the executive office of ... you get to the White House or residence in this is an area where I think there might be some questions now ... I were looking specifically that we have another chart now that the White House is in the operating costs for the White House or residents ... it's basically it's been going up in data kind of a ... from the Bush years are rose modestly from twelve point eight to thirteen point eight million dollars them after their problem Congress came and they've ... been ... ratcheted back a little but to ... understanding thirty million tons as the federal budget not huge number but when you when you realize what this ... does not cover its striking for example ... high transportation costs Air Force one all of that now part of this out ... in ... other elements that are not included are on our repairs to the White House itself on state dinners ... aam security so ... in other words that thirty million dollars is it just the operating expenses in the White House budget obviously this is a lot ... of the family have sold along with being official residence ... aam but it's one that doesn't ... include a mortgage that to ... in which a mostly what you would think of is the big expenses are or are covered in other budget so ... thirteen million dollars on an operating budget for the residents again not counting security transportation ... overall structural ... repairs to the building ... I think we're going see enviable of talked about how their co laborers several Kool Aid refers on staff ... is this White House to order ... cancellation continues you probably get a C Moore ... questioning NAND demand for more transparency on what that ... that Obama residents budget is of funding every year obviously is not that far but where was under Bush but I think for for all of them ... there's there's a question here on ... on what exactly the ... the people need to be spending millions on inside the White House residents it so


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Saturday was a busy day for the Lipscomb cross country teams, with three factions of the squad participating in different meets throughout the day.
The women's squad took 10 athletes to the Stanford Invitational in Palo Alto, Calif., where they placed 10th out of 32 squads at the prestigious event, finishing ahead of schools such as Fresno State, Cal and Lipscomb sister school, Pepperdine. Host Stanford dominated the event, placing five athletes in the top-10 for the victory.
"Our women got a taste of a big, fast race and it didn't start well," said head coach Bill Taylor. "At the 200m mark, I think our top runner was in 150th. All the girls were just fighting for position; they looked pretty freaked out. I was surprised we finished tenth; though it's not what we wanted, I we got thrashed worse than that."
The Lady Bisons were led by sophomore Tessa Hoefle, who finished 41st out of 278 runners with a 21:46s six-kilometer run. Senior Ashley Lehman was just behind Hoefle, in 43rd with a 21:50s mark.
"Tessa and Ashley did a good job of recovering and working their way up in the field," Taylor said. "That's hard to do in a big race on a narrow course. Most of our other girls had a pretty tough time."
Freshman Minna Fields (75th, 22:23s) and sophomore Missy Dowd (95th, 22:36s) also finished in the top-100 for Lipscomb. Senior Catherine Beals rounded out the scoring for the Lady Bisons, finishing 112th with a 22:49s run.
"It's another learning experience," Taylor said. "I'm okay with that, but at some point we have to quit having learning experiences and race to our ability. I'm not upset (with the result), but I am disappointed because I know what we're capable of. We are past the halfway point of the season now, and right now it looks like we're a long way from contending for a conference title. The girls need to figure some things out quick."
The men's squad was up the coast in Spokane, Wash., for the Erik Andersen Invitational. The Bisons finished ninth out of 25 squads in the field. Eight Lipscomb athletes were in attendance on an unseasonably warm day in the upper northwest; temperatures reached a record-breaking 91 degrees during the meet.
Junior Isaiah Greer was the lead Bison in the eight-kilometer race, coming in 12th with a 25:03.20s run. Greer has led Lipscomb in all four races he's run in 2011.
"Isaiah continues to improve his times and lead the team," said coach Luke Syverson. "He almost cracked the top-10 in a big race and competed well."
Junior Ben Wright had a superb afternoon, finishing 45th following his 25:52.30s run. That mark lowered his personal best by over a minute. Junior Geoff Musick was 61st with a 26:03.80s mark.
"Ben Wright went from running in the 27 (minute) range to the 25," Syverson said. "This race was a major breakthrough for him."
Freshman Ryan Gadsey (26:18.20s, 80th) and junior Ashton Fisher (26:24.00s, 85th) rounded out the scoring for the Bisons.
"Ryan Gadsey ran a smarter race and was rewarded with a personal-best also," Syverson said. "However, cross country is a team sport and we're still not where we want to be as a team. The guys know what they need to fix to be successful; unfortunately, we didn't accomplish that today."
The remaining Lipscomb runners competed at the Chattanooga Cross Country Festival on the Chickamauga Dam course. Lipscomb's men's and women's teams each picked up the win in smaller fields (eight women's squads, six men's).
Sophomore Alex Newby was the overall women's victor, finishing the five-kilometer race in 24:02.74s. She finished nearly half a minute better than the next closest competitor.
Lipscomb swept the top-10 in the women's event, led by Newby, freshman Kaitlyn Llewellyn (second, 24:31.81s) and sophomore Alyssa Miller (third, 24:33.90s). The closest competitor from a school other than Lipscomb finished more than a minute behind each of the Lady Bisons top five runners.
The Lady Bisons scoring was rounded out by sophomore Lacey Printz (fourth, 24:44.88s) and freshman Melissa Matis (fifth, 24:48.75s).
Freshman Tate Honaker was the first collegiate runner across the line with a 28:34.74s run; he was second overall (behind Lipscomb assistant coach Josh Foss, who ran the race as an individual). Just behind Honaker was classmate Tyler Glenn, at third overall with a 29:04.67s mark.
Wrapping up the day for Lipscomb were freshmen Ben Ashley (sixth, 29:57.59s) and Daniel Coleman (seventh, 29:59.61s) and sophomore Phillip Brasher (eighth, 30:18.24s).
"Very proud of everyone at Chattanooga," Taylor said. "To win both races, and have the women go 1-10, is amazing. Alex is recovering really well and gets better every week. Hopefully, she bridges the gap to our top girls, because we could use her help up front at conference."
The squads will be back in action next weekend, heading north for the Louisville Classic at Tom Sawyer Park. The meet is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m.
Check lipscombsports.com for all the Lipscomb cross country and track and field news, and be sure to like us on Facebook (Lipscomb University: Track & Field).


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JZ Gaming LLC, a newly formed entity and affiliate of CC Gaming LLC, which owns Johnny Z's, said Wednesday that it has entered into a definitive agreement with an affiliate of Penn National Gaming to acquire of Penn Bullwhackers and Penn Millsite, which includes Bullwhackers and a gas station in Black Hawk.
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When you're back's to the wall and you're looking at a big fall, count on the DMM Wallnuts.
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- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
It is no secret why these nuts have nothing but 5-star reviews. They are wonderful. The groove in the curved heads really makes it easy to fit these into cracks and crevices really snug. They bite the rock quite easily which also provides me with a sense of security while on the wall. None of the other stoppers I have used compare to these. Definitely would recommend to all for building their rack or just doubling up on sizes.
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Took my first big fall on the #1 yesterday. Definitely a bomber little piece of pro! If it wouldn't have held, I probably would have landed on my belayer since it was a shorter route and I only had 2 other pieces below me. Thanks for the catch!
Thanks for the review Shane! Super helpful to get this feedback out to the community.
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- Familiarity: I've used it several times
DMM wallnuts are the best I have used. Sleek design, nice anodized colors for easy identification and easy, solid placement. I have doubles in most sizes and just replaced a lost #5. Not cheap but the best i've tried.
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I can't say anything bad about these guys - they're incredibly versatile and bomber as they come with a good placement. I just picked up a #4, 5 & 6 to double up on the most frequently used sizes in my full #1-11 set.
I can't count the number of times I've been half way up a pitch wishing I had doubles!
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- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I love DMM stoppers. They're light and their shape is just perfect. So easy to place. Sometimes too easy. I have definitely lost several pieces when they got stuck on the climbs.
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- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
After having used several brands of stoppers, I like DMM over all the rest. They are lighter, and seat better due to the groove that runs lengthwise down the convex face of the head. Great nuts.
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dont really use the larger ones in the valley, but i have cams for those sizes. i place these all over. these are the only nuts i have and the only nuts we use even though my partner have wild country rocks, dont need them.
The best for featured rock
I have led pitches on friends' BD stoppers as well as my Wallnuts. My general impression is that the complex shape of the Wallnuts (shallow cutouts on the wide sides and a slightly more pronounced curve) sometimes give you a better placement. I climb on featured, East Coast rock, and I especially notice that a small crystal or bump will sometimes seat nicely in the cutout and give you extra confidence that the piece won't walk. If you want the best, Wallnuts are it. The question is whether you feel the need for that slim advantage over cheaper options like the standard BD stoppers.
I like them.
A lot! If I had the dough, all my nuts would be DMM.
Hands down, my favorite nuts!!
These are my favorite every day use nuts. They bite great and seem to fit better than any other nuts i have. The smaller sizes are my favorite in these. I find myself going for those sometime on nearly every climb and they have held whipper after whipper.
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Really useful shape, very versatile, very strong for the size and weight as compared to other brands they are very tough too. I also really like the fact that they are made in wales. Kind of not important but it makes me happy I really like the colors
The Wallnuts are bomb proof. If fallen on, they can be a little tougher than other nuts to clean, but the piece of mind climbing above them are worth it. As with all the DMM products I've used, their quality is top of the line.
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Haven't whipped on these yet, but placing and cleaning is a breeze. Good to feel stoked on the pro you're counting on. These are also offset pretty well by the Omega Pacific ABCs.
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Wallnuts are about the best standard nut you can get (in my opinion). They fit well in all kinds of places and are easy to place. I dig em.
As the other reviews have stated, these nuts are shaped perfectly. When I lead with my friends' racks, their stoppers always seem to take extra fiddling to get around irregularities in the crack. The scalloping, the curve, the rounded edges--these nuts place fast, clean easily, and are simply the best I've ever used. They've even arrested a fall or two, which isn't surprising, but definitely inspires confidence. I've also got the Peenuts, which supplement these bad boys perfectly--and are invaluable for pin scars. DMM makes the best nuts--period.
Best nuts on the market
I have used nuts of all major brands on the market, and DMM Wallnuts are the best in their class. Tapered shape and groves allow reliable placements in variety of cracks and pokets where no other stoppers work. DMM simply sets the standard for all other manufacturers to follow based on performance, not on the dollar spent on advertisement. It's sad that their new anodization color pattern does not follow the rainbow order of colors. After creating such a great stopper, they are dropping the ball on the colors. What are they thinking about?
Well, DMM and Wild Country do match their colors, which is something that no other companies do. I'd say they caught the ball perfectly. It's nice to have some kind of industry standard.
The best period
Easy to identify colors that match DMM cams and wild country cams/nuts/hexes. They feel very bomber but aren't to heard to remove. The shapes are great allowing you to take advantage of irregularities in the rock. The best I have ever used, expand the set by getting the bigger size wild country rocks!
Sick Scalloping
These nuts bite much better than any other piece I've used, whether BD, Wild Country, or Metolius. The complex grooves and scalloping make for confidence-inspiring placements.
better than most
many more options with these than bd because of the complex shape. very similar to wild country. I have yet to try the metolious nuts but I can say these are very good.
how can i purchase a #1 dmm wallnut without buying another pack?
does anyone use these and know if the #1...
does anyone use these and know if the #1 and #2 are just rated for body weight or if they are full pro
[1] 7kN; [2] 9kN.
No, you won't want to run these out if your on lead; but are generally considered fine for full pro.
Is this price for one pro or the whole...
Is this price for one pro or the whole set?
The prices shown are for one piece (nut)
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Lot Series with Cameron Hughes
Cameron Hughes makes a "lot" of wine. Growing up in Modesto, California, wine was never far from Cameron's line of sight. In fact, his entry into the wine business could have easily been considered a foregone conclusion. His father, Steve Hughes invited him to work one summer in support of his direct-marketing team at his wine company. Cameron found he loved selling wine, and seemed to be good at it.
Once bitten by the wine bug, he sold his wine collection and wrote a business plan for a négociant company. Along with wife and business partner Jessica Kogan, he founded Cameron Hughes Wine, to take advantage of the excess juice and fruit during the "wine glut" in the early part of the decade. In 2001, they began by selling wine from the back of their Volvo.
Cameron works with producers and winery owners to purchase their "finished" wines – and sometimes, finishes them himself. He also works with wine growers to make wine in their vineyard with his company's oversight. A hallmark, some would say a selling point, is that he maintains confidentiality of the original sources of both the wine and the fruit. With several labels in the CHW portfolio, there could be as many as 70 or 100 different wines on the market at one time – though their "Lot series" has become synonymous with Cameron Hughes.
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