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The struggling Warriors' injury woes have deepened with seasoned prop Steve Rapira ruled out for the rest of the NRL season.
Scans confirmed Rapira ruptured the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee playing for the Auckland Vulcans in the second-tier NSW Cup at the weekend and he will undergo reconstruction surgery.
Rapira was making his return to action after having plastic surgery to repair an ear injury suffered in the Warriors' third-round loss to Cronulla.
Warriors utility Sio Siua Taukeiaho broke his leg playing for the Vulcans and will be sidelined for six to eight weeks.
"It's a tough game we're involved in but it's really disappointing for all concerned when players have their seasons ended like this," said Warriors coach Matthew Elliott.
The Warriors lost frontrower Sione Lousi before the season started and will also be without experienced outside backs Manu Vatuvei and Dane Nielsen for their Anzac Day match against premiers Melbourne.
Vatuvei has a sternum injury which will sideline him for three weeks while former Melbourne centre Nielsen has a rib problem.
It is hoped prop Jacob Lillyman will be over ankle and hip injuries to face the Storm while Pita Godinet, who pulled out of the match against Canberra after picking up a back injury in the warm-up, will be fit for the trip to Melbourne.
"No question we're having our share of injuries. We've got a lot of players on the injury list. It's testing our depth but it's also giving players more exposure at NRL level," said Elliott.
The Warriors sit second-bottom on the NRL table, with just one win from their six matches this season.


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- "Jimmy gets in trouble with some gangsters and calls Michael for help."
- ―GTA V description at Rockstar Games Social Club.
- "Dad, shit! I'm in our boat going down the Western Highway. It's... it's been stolen."
- ―Jimmy De Santa to his father
Father/Son is a mission in Grand Theft Auto V that Michael De Santa performs with the assistance of Franklin Clinton. The mission can be triggered by either Michael or Franklin.
The mission can be started as either Michael or Franklin. If the player chooses Michael, a cutscene at Michael's mansion shows Amanda and Tracey arguing over whether Tracey can have a male friend stay the night. Michael retreats out to the pool with a drink and listens to music, only to be interrupted by Franklin. If the player chooses Franklin, the mission begins with Franklin approaching Michael at the pool.
Franklin and Michael talk. Franklin is interested in learning from Michael's criminal experience, but Michael claims that he's retired and encourages Franklin to go to college so he can "rip off people and get paid to do it." Still, Michael takes an interest in Franklin and offers to buy him a beer at a nearby bar. Franklin accepts. The two start to leave, but are interrupted when Michael gets a call from his son, Jimmy; to which Jimmy informs Michael that he tried to sell Michael's yacht, without his father's permission. The buyers steal the boat instead, leaving Jimmy to cower and hide in the boat's bathroom as the thieves drive it on a trailer down the Great Ocean Highway.
Michael and Franklin take Amanda's Sentinel and head to Pacific Bluffs. Along the way, Michael states that while he's retired, if Franklin sufficiently impresses him on this outing, Michael might teach Franklin a thing or two. They reach the Great Ocean Highway and they spot Michael's yacht flying by, pulled by a Phantom. The two give chase as the thieves follow the Del Perro Freeway. To save Jimmy, Franklin climbs onto the car hood and jumps on the yacht and deals with the goons on the stern before retrieving Michael's son. However, Jimmy gets hit by the boat's boom and ends up dangling over the freeway while holding on to the boom. Michael pulls up close and Jimmy drops into the Sentinel. Michael then gets near enough to the boat so that Franklin can jump to safety.
Michael wants to pursue the thieves but the engine of the Sentinel begins to break down, due to a goon shooting it. The goons, unfortunately get away, leaving Michael crestfallen. The three drive to Los Santos Customs. Michael takes a taxi while Franklin and Jimmy get the Sentinel repaired. Following that, Franklin drives Jimmy home and the two agree to hang out at some times.
Mission Objectives
- Go to Pacific Bluffs. (Michael)
- Get Franklin close to the yacht. (Michael)
- Shoot the thief. (Michael)
- Chase the yacht. (Michael)
- Catch Jimmy. (Michael)
- Go to the Los Santos Customs. (Michael)
- Repair Amanda's car. (Franklin)
- Return to Michael's House. (Franklin)
Gold Medal Objectives
- Quick Catch - Rescue Jimmy within 10 seconds.
- Drive quickly under the mast, but avoid traffic, there may be several trucks on the freeway.
- Not a Scratch - Deliver Amanda's car with minimal damage.
- Drive back carefully.
- Using the predetermined cinematic camera, which focuses on the truck, will not damage Amanda's car. Therefore, the chase becomes less time consuming, though the player will need to switch to first person view when the time comes to save Franklin and Jimmy.
Phone Calls
- Jimmy De Santa - Franklin can call Jimmy immediately after this mission. Franklin will ask Jimmy how Michael is doing to which Jimmy says he's fine but doesn't understand what his dad is adding to their partnership. Franklin tries to tell Jimmy that life where he's from is rough and not glamorous as Jimmy thinks it is but hopes that some of Michael's "shine" will rub off on him. Jimmy doesn't understand where Franklin is coming from to which Franklin tells him he's got to go and hangs up.
- If the player switches to Michael right after the mission, he will get out of a taxi in Morningwood (close to the Tivoli Cinema), or seen dropping Amanda (who is in a bad mood, probably because of what happened with her car) at Portola Drive to go shopping.
- If Michael goes home right after the mission, Tracey and Eva will be the only ones home, despite bringing Jimmy home.
Daily Globe Newspaper
"Motorists on the Del Perro Freeway were thrown into a panic when a high-speed gun battle broke out between two vehicles, one of which was carrying a yacht. What sparked the clash and the identity of the two groups of men involved is not yet known, but this leads us to our reader poll of the day: "Is a drive-by shootout over a luxury yacht a sign that Los Santos is in economic crisis, or out of economic crisis?""
Lifeinvader Posts
- Jimmy De Santa - "So yeah sorry about the boat i was just trying to use my initiative and make a contribution to the finances like you keep saying i need to. Gotta get creative in a recession! At least i was outside right??? That home invader turned out to be pretty cool, btw."
Bleeter Posts
- @muttonjohnpoo - "You know you're in Los Santos when...there's a driveby shootout on the Del Perro Freeway over a yacht."
Weazel News
Shock and terror on the Del Perro Freeway earlier as two groups of men engaged in a high speed gun battle over a luxury yacht. The Weazel News team was there just minutes too late, as usual, and spoke to this man. "I thought it was a joke or some prank until a bullet came through the window and tore through my artery. Now if you don't mind, I need to go to the hospital."
- A glitch can occur when Franklin and Jimmy have Amanda's car repaired while in Los Santos Customs. If the player selects the "Armor" menu but leaves without choosing any modifications, Amanda's car will have the roof up when Franklin drives it out of the garage.
- Another glitch can occur in the enhanced edition when trying to enter Los Santos Customs. It becomes impossible to repair Amanda's car and/or the game freezes when reaching Los Santos Customs, thus making the mission impossible to complete. The only way to complete the mission is to play the mission two more times, and then on the third attempt this bug should go away so that Amanda's car can be repaired.
- The song Michael listens to on his iFruit phone during the opening cutscene is "I Don't Care Anymore" by Phil Collins. When Michael, Franklin and Jimmy drive to Los Santos Customs the song playing on the radio will always be "All the Things She Said" by Simple Minds. Both songs can be heard on Los Santos Rock Radio.
- The Phantom cannot be overtaken or else the vehicle will dramatically speed up.
- If Michael's car is in front of the truck at the bridge, the truck will dramatically speed up when it drives over the bridge, since it is scripted to disappear when Michael's car breaks down.
- This mission is similar to part of the final mission in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, where Sweet Johnson jumps onto the back of the firetruck similar to Franklin jumping on the yacht. Then when the side of the yacht swings out, and Jimmy is left dangling from it, it is simliar to when Sweet was left dangling from the ladder of the fire truck. This is also similar to the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas mission Highjack, where Cesar jumps from the bike onto a truck.
- A Willhelm scream is heard when Franklin throws the first person off the boat.
- If the player has beaten or lost Hao's race prior to completing this mission, he will comment on the player's victory or loss as the player enters the garage.
- Alternatively if the player hasn't done any of Hao's races, Hao will comment that Franklin really needs to sign up for the races.
- After the end of the mission, Jimmy will send a text message to Franklin asking him to accept his friend invitation on Life invader, however, there will be no friend invitation on Franklin's Lifeinvader page.
- The trailer consists of a large red boat trailer with a thin structure, carrying the sailboat on the right side. This is one of the special trailers in the game.
- If the player manages to follow the truck's path after the engine is damaged, one will eventually find the trailer abandoned in the middle of the road. It seems that the truck leaves Elysian Fields Freeway by going to Amarillo Way, turns to the east side of Innocence Boulevard and, eventually, despawns at the intersection with El Rancho Boulevard (right before entering to Sustancia Road). [citation/verification needed]
- If Michael fails to catch Franklin before the truck drives away, a special cutscene will play, Michael pulls up, he then grunts and Jimmy will comment "Dad, don't be all butt hurt, at least you got me out of there", making Michael angry and shouting to Jimmy about "you listen to me you little shit, that kid who jumped off the hood of a moving car to save your ass, and now he's gone! And so is my boat!", before leading to mission failure. If Michael fails to save both, Michael will pull up at the same spot, yelling "FUUUUUUCK!", constantly hitting the steering wheel, before laying his head on it crying, again leading to mission failure.
- Interestingly, when the truck goes under the the tunnel near the beach, just after coming out, sometimes the Flatbed carrying a Gauntlet can sometimes fall on its side even if it is not near the truck yet, as it normally falls over when it sees the truck piling through the traffic.
- A random Prison Bus can be seen driven by a mechanic towards the end of the chase scene.
- The Sentinel is scripted to break down after two gunshots to the engine. In normal gameplay, however, the Sentinel's engine can take up to twenty gunshots before the engine is destroyed.
- Grenades and Sticky Bombs thrown during the chase will not blow up when triggered, wasting them away. They can be blown up after the yacht is lost, however.
- This is the only time in the game where more than two people can travel in a two-seater vehicle.
- When the player switches to Michael after this mission has been completed, he may sometimes be seen at the dock, saying "Jimmy..." in an angry manner.
- In the second trailer, the Phantom was red, however it was changed to dark blue in the final version.

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By Richard Clarke
If you want to waste some money today then bet on Arsène Wenger to be next Premier League manager to leave his job.
Paddy Power, Arsenal.com's official betting partner, rate that particular option at 100/1. That is the longest odds for any top-flight boss. However, in reality, you could probably add a good few noughts to that ratio given that Wenger's vibrant young side will reclaim top spot in the table with a two-goal victory at Reading this evening.
However it was not always this way. The Arsenal manager feels the best piece of luck he had in his career was NOT to start at a big club and, he argues, the only relegation of his coaching life taught him much.
"It is always difficult measure how lucky I have been," he said. "To start as a youth team coach in a low first division club [in France] and finish here? Certainly with bad luck it doesn't happen but it's difficult to compare the situations.
"Don't think anybody came to me and said 'here is the red carpet for you into a special job' and gave me a big club straight away. I know the biggest luck I have had is that I didn't start at Arsenal, I had to fight."
Wenger certainly had to battle at Nancy, his first job in
management. The small side from the Lorraine region plucked him out
of Cannes youth set-up in 1984 and were immediately rewarded when
he guided them to a healthy 11th place in his first season. In his
second season they finished third from bottom and survived via a
play-off but, a year later, they succumbed to the seemingly
inevitable demotion. However his relative success had alerted the
attention of Monaco.
"Yes, I experienced [relegation] when I was quite young," said Wenger. "It was a good learning process as I was on my own completely without any assistants.
"The pressure at the bottom is different to pressure at the top. At Nancy we made miracles every year because we where always favourites to go down. When I left they offered me the chance to take over at the club completely. They offered me a contract of five years. But at the time I was only 36 and I decided then to go to Monaco. It is a miracle I had big clubs to go to. But that still happens now, big clubs always look for good young managers."
Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Introduction to CADLearning for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013
Civil 3D - Overview
The User Interface - Workspaces
The User Interface - Overview
The User Interface - Ribbon
Using the Toolspace - Overview
Using the Toolspace - Prospector
Using the Toolspace - Settings
Using the Help System
Managing Drawings
Understanding Objects
Working with Settings - Drawing Settings
Working with Settings - Objects and Commands
Understanding Object Styles
Working with Styles - Switching and Deleting
Copying Styles Between Drawings
Working with Label Styles - Basic Concepts
Using Label Styles
Working with Label Sets and Modifying Labels
Working with the Annotative Properties of Labels
Getting Information about Objects
Working with Drawing Templates
Working with the Lines and Curves Commands
Working with the Survey Tools - Overview
Working with Survey Databases
Creating a Figure Prefix Database
Setting up Linework Code Sets
Importing Point Files and Fieldbooks
Working with Survey Queries
Working with Points
Working with Points - Key Concepts
Working with Point Settings
Creating Points in a Drawing
Creating Description Key Sets
Importing Points
Displaying Imported Points
Creating Point Groups
Using Point Groups
Working with Point Styles
Editing Points
Creating Point Tables
Working with Surfaces - Overview
Creating Surfaces
Adding Breaklines to Surfaces
Adding Boundaries to Surfaces
Editing Surfaces
Working with Surface Operations
Pasting Surfaces
Performing a Slope Analysis
Working with Surface Styles
Using Surface Utilities
Labeling Surfaces - Contours
Labeling Surfaces - Slope and Spot Elevations
Calculating Surface Volumes
Working with Alignments
Working with Alignments - Overview
Understanding Sites
Creating Alignments from Objects
Creating Alignments with the Layout Tools
Editing Alignments
Creating Offset Alignments and Widenings
Adjusting Alignment Stations
Working with Alignment Design Criteria
Adding Superelevations
Working with Alignment Labels - General Concepts
Working with Alignment Labels - Adding Additional Labels
Working with Alignment Labels - Tags and Tables
Adding Points to an Alignment
Working with Profiles
Working with Profiles - Overview
Working with Profile Views
Creating Existing Ground Profiles
Creating a Proposed Ground Profile
Editing Profiles
Using Profile Design Criteria
Labeling Profiles
Working with Profile Tools
Working with Assemblies and Subassemblies
Working with Assemblies - Overview
Working with Subassemblies - Overview
Creating Assemblies
Editing Assemblies
Creating Subassemblies from Polylines
Managing Assemblies and Subassemblies
Corridors, Intersections and Roundabouts
Working with Corridors - Overview
Creating a Corridor
Adding a Baseline to a Corridor
Adding a Region to a Corridor Baseline
Working with Intersections - Overview
Creating an Intersection
Finishing the Corridor
Creating a Surface from a Corridor
Viewing and Editing Corridor Sections
Preparing to Create a Cul-de-Sac
Finishing the Cul-de-Sac
Creating a Roundabout
Sections, QTO and Mass Haul Diagrams
Working with Sections - Overview
Creating Sample Lines
Creating Section Views
Producing Sheets of Section Views
Creating Earthwork Quantity Reports
Generating a Materials Quantity Report
Working with Mass Haul Diagrams - Overview
Creating a Mass Haul Diagram
Quantity Takeoff and Pay Item Overview
Assigning Pay Items and Generating a Report
Plan Production
Working with the Plan Production Tools - Overview
Creating View Frames
Creating Plan Production Sheets
Working with Parcels
Working with Parcels - Overview
Understanding Parcel Styles
Creating Parcels from Objects
Creating Right-of-Way Parcels
Working with the Parcel Creation Tools
Editing Parcels
Renumbering Parcels
Labeling Parcel Areas
Labeling Parcel Segments
Creating Parcel Tables
Creating Parcel Reports
Working with the Grading Tools - Overview
Working with Feature Lines - Overview
Creating Feature Lines from Objects
Creating Feature Lines from Corridors
Creating Feature Lines from Alignments
Creating Feature Lines
Editing Feature Lines
Working with the Grading Creation Tools - Creating a Building Pad
Working with the Grading Creation Tools - Creating a Detention Pond
Calculating the Detention Volume of a Pond
Grading a Parking Lot
Creating a Final Finished Ground Surface
Working with Pipe Networks - Overview
Working with Pipe Network Styles and Settings
Creating Pipe and Structure Rules
Creating a Parts List
Creating a Pipe Network Using Objects
Creating a Pipe Network Using the Creation Tools
Adding Pipes to a Network
Editing a Pipe Network
Splitting and Merging Pipe Networks
Creating Pipe Network Profiles
Modifying Pipe Profiles
Labeling Pipe Networks
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Creating a Pressure Network
Editing a Pressure Network
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Modifying Pressure Network Profiles
Working with Hydraflow - Overview
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Using Hydraflow Express for Channels
Using Hydraflow Express for Inlets
Using Hydraflow Express for Hydrology
Using Hydraflow Hydrographs for Watershed Analysis
Using Hydraflow Hydrographs for Detention Pond Design
Using Hydraflow Storm Sewers - Overview
Using Hydraflow Storm Sewers for Storm Sewer Analysis
Exporting Pipe Networks to Hydraflow Storm Sewers
Importing Pipe Networks from Hydraflow Storm Sewers
Exchanging Data with Other Applications
Importing Data from Land Desktop
Working with LandXML Data
Exporting Civil 3D Data to AutoCAD
Using eTransmit
Sharing Data
Sharing Data Within Civil 3D - Overview
Creating Data Shortcuts
Using Data Shortcuts
Labeling Through an Xref
Adding Rendering Materials to Corridors
Adding Rendering Materials to Surfaces
Adding Multiview Blocks
Creating an Animation
Point Clouds
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Creating Point Clouds
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Located between the Basilica of the Sacré-Coeur and the cabarets, owner Jon, 23, found this tiny storefront three years ago. In addition to the regular Parisian customers, this young Frenchman has visitors from all over the world. Perhaps By Flowers holds a special place in the hearts of tourists because John makes a special effort to speak with his customers in their own language. Yes, Jon speaks English, Italian, Spanish and manages to mumble a few words in other languages with a wry smile. And no matter what language he has to speak or how long it takes, Jon insists on telling the story of every single piece he sells. It's almost like getting a personalized tour of your favorite museum.
Thanks to multiple suppliers, By Flowers' merchandise is eclectic and entirely unique. Prices vary from 8 to 50 €, and items range from top international designers such as Yves Saint Laurent to the must-have used pair of Levis' shorts. The store restocks daily thus each visit is a surprise! Mix in a little vintage furniture, records, old newspapers and magazines and there's not much more a real vintage hunter could ask for. More importantly you'll be charmed by a living and breathing Parisian bobo. Sign us up!
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[SOCCER ON THE AIR] ESPN's coverage of the Brazil-Croatia World Cup opener on Thursday averaged 4.435 million viewers to rank as the most-viewed opening game of the World Cup on record (back to 1994), according to Nielsen. Univision's presentation of the opening match also delivered the most-viewed opening day performance in its history with an average of 5.1 million viewers.
World Cup vs. NBA: The combined audience for the afternoon coverage of the World Cup opener totaled more than 9.5 million; ABC averaged
an estimated 10.6 million viewers -- in prime time -- for Thursday's Game of the NBA championship series.
The ESPN audience is 55 percent higher than the South Africa-Mexico
game, the opening match in 2010 World Cup. In addition, it's the fourth most-viewed group match on the ESPN networks after three U.S. games:
Top ESPN
Audiences, Group Stage
6,161,000 USA-Algeria (2010)
5,200,000 USA-Slovenia (2010)
4,810,000 USA-Colombia (1994)
4,435,000 Brazil-Croatia (2014)
On WatchESPN, streaming coverage of Brazil-Croatia produced a 1.1 million unique viewers, up 132 percent compared to the first match of the 2010 World Cup and the highest ever for a
WatchESPN event.
The Top 10 Metered Markets (ESPN):
Washington, DC (5.1)
Boston (5.0)
Miami-Ft. Lauderdale (4.7)
Los Angeles (4.6)
New York (4.5)
San Francisco (4.3)
Hartford-New Haven (4.3)
Providence (3.9)
Austin (3.9)
Orlando (3.8)
-- The Univision opener outdelivered all four NHL Stanley Cup finals games among adults 18-49. It was less than the 5.9 million for the South-Africa-Mexico opener in 2010,
but still higher than the opening day average four years ago when they was a second match on Day 1.


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CHESTER – The board of selectmen and members of the heritage committee have agreed to continue to work toward a design for a memorial honoring Chester's important citizens. According to discussions at the selectmen's Thursday, April 10 meeting, the heritage committee will be looking to meet in the coming weeks, develop a new design or two and come back to the board for further review.
They may also seek to have a detailed design drawing made to help citizens visualize what they have in mind.
At last town meeting voters approved $10,000 for a memorial, but that work has stalled because of differences in opinion between members of the group and the selectmen over what that work should entail. The vision for the memorial was originally a relatively small, three-sided granite structure, but discussions among the group expanded that vision to a larger memorial and one that would incorporate changes to its planned site, the green in front of Stevens Memorial Hall.
Selectmen disagreed with the scope of the project at that point and since then, communication between the two groups had largely stopped.
But with ire over a warrant article to defund the project, chair of the committee John Colman set up a meeting with the board. It was clear April 10 that Colman was upset over the way he had been treated and sought to air those concerns. Much of that frustration was directed toward selectman Jack Cannon. Though the two went back and forth, eventually what had happened in the past with the project was put aside with hope for better cooperation in the future.
After an initial meeting with the selectmen last year, Colman and other members of the committee had met with a couple members of the board to work out a compromise, but details of that meeting had not been conveyed to the entire board. Chair Steph Landau apologized April 10 for that lapse in communication.
Cannon said the project scope presented to him was "garish" and not in keeping with the town's character of "modest distinction."
Colman said nothing was set in stone, but he did not think the project was overly extravagant as originally presented. He said the committee was willing to compromise and find a solution.
On April 10, committee member Web Anderson said more work needed to be done with the memorial's plans, as nothing had been finalized. He said it was unfortunate that the matter had turned into a contested issue, but it wasn't worth throwing the baby out with the bathwater and ceasing work altogether.
Committee member Don Brown also weighed in, saying that while it wasn't surprising that there was resistance by some to any changes to the Stevens Hall green, his experience with other memorials is that initial resistance is replaced with agreement when the project is more fully understood or carried out.
Brown, referencing contention that any trees be cut on the green, said that when attempting to replicate an early 1900s picture of Stevens Hall a couple years ago, the picture could not be taken from the Chester Congregational Baptist Church's steeple as it had been taken originally, because the foliage had grown so much. The area hasn't always looked as it does today, he noted.
Committee member Richard Noyes concurred with the idea that historically any changes in town have been met with resistance but eventually incorporated smoothly.
It was also suggested that the committee think again about placing the memorial in the green where the Civil War monument is, and the Civil War cannons were.
Resident Mike Oleson suggested the committee hire someone to do a detailed architectural drawing of their plan to allow for better understanding.
By the end of the meeting, Cannon said he had utmost confidence in the group working on the memorial and its ability to do the right thing for Chester.
The groups agreed to better communication in the future, Landau stating that things should have been done differently in the past but that he hoped they could progress in the future.


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U.S. State Department Blew $630,000 on Facebook "Likes"
Jason Mick
July 3, 2013 12:32 PM
Recipient E-mail
Sender E-mail
(Source: Getty Images)
Meanwhile federal agency shuts down "America.gov" as keeping it up was "too expensive"
Kazoos, Nerf footballs
internet pornography, wine, and romance novels
: we were a bit disappointed when the government blew our tax dollars on buying those things for itself. But the revelation that the
U.S. Department of State
(DoS) spent $630,000 USD in taxpayer dollars advertising to get "likes"
on Facebook.com
, Inc.'s (
) titular social network has some decrying that government waste has gone a bridge too far.
I. Your Taxpayer Dollars at Work
The program was run by the Department's
Bureau of International Information Programs
from 2011 to March 2013, during the leadership of Secretaries of State Hilary Clinton, and her successor John Kerry. It was a "success", so to speak. The State Department's page started with only 100,000 likes at the start of the campaign, and its foreign page only had tens of thousands of likes. By the end the U.S. page had 2 million likes and the foreign page had swelled to 450,000 likes.
But that didn't stop some
State Department
employees from blowing the whistle on their supervisors.
The agency's inspector general in an audit reports, "Many in the bureau criticize the advertising campaigns as 'buying fans' who may have once clicked on an ad or 'liked' a photo but have no real interest in the topic and have never engaged further."
Hillary Clinton's State Dept. reign is yet again under fire, this time for gov't waste.
[Image Source: Reuters]
The IG also complains that the program failed to decide whom to target its message too, writing, "The absence of a Department wide PD [public diplomacy] strategy tying resources to priorities directly affects IIP's work. Fundamental questions remain unresolved. What is the proper balance between engaging young people and marginalized groups versus elites and opinion leaders?"
II. Program Was Basically Worthless
For a time the likes might have been worth something, as posts from pages you "liked" would show up in your news feed. But thanks to a September 2012 change, Facebook banished such posts from the news feed by default, instead requiring companies to pay reoccurring fees to have their messages show up.
The IG complains that the State Department's social media presence is a mess, with over 150 pages for different bureaus, many of which overlap.
Here's the full report:
State Department Facebook Likes IG Report
The IG also gripes that only 2 percent of "fans" of the page actually were engaged with it in various ways, such as liking posts, sharing content, or commenting. The IG also took issue with the age of the fans. The State Department had hoped to target "older influence leaders", but the fans who liked its page were largely younger folks.
III. State Department Shuts Down America.gov
So how did the State Department get all that money to buy Facebook likes and engage in other manner of wasteful spending? Apparently it saved some resources by shutting down the website
When you visit the site, you now get the message:
It looks like the public has a clearer vision of where the State Department's spending priorities lie.
State Department IG via Scribd
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Making the bread basket last week was so much fun that this week I decided to stay on the same theme and make a Fall Centerpiece for the table to feature all of our favorite Autumn Colors. Autumn has to be one of my most favorite seasons as I just adore all of the vibrant colors that this time of year brings.
For this week's project, I wanted to create a table display that I could fill with all of the gorgeous Cheery Lynn flowers I could fit! As you can see I may have went a bit overboard but I just couldn't help myself... LOL! All of the flower dies are just so versatile and easy to use. I tend to try various combinations when making flowers and honestly the possibilities are truly endless. Once you get started playing with the flower dies it is hard to stop!
My vision for the centerpiece was to have a candle in the center of the display. I took that thought and made a lantern to hold the candle (actually a LED tea light). Once I had the lantern created, I decided to surround it with these gorgeous Cheery Lynn flowers. Of course I needed a base to hold the flowers so this took me to my next step.
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And this is a close-up so you can see the details easier. I trimmed the lantern using the the frame of the Wedding Vows die and adhered it to clear acetate so that you could see the illumination from the flameless candle.
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The numbers I posted should be good for a manually operated action, I don?t know what other stress are imposed on a semi auto action. If you go over to the Roderus forums and look in the Ask a Guru section and look at the ?other 50cal designs? post (I think that?s the name) you will see a good bit of info on the stresses placed on the locks of a 50cal action. The difference is that sense these are home builds, they know the locking lug area and the material yield strength. If you can find out how strong the steel in an AK action is you could probably do the same. Actually, If you post a question in that forum you would probably get some good responses from knowledgeable people. I have never designed or built a rifle, I was just trying to explain the differences between CUP and psi. The info on the enfield I included was just an example because I have seen it chambered in those calibers.
I think one of the difficulties you would encounter are the fact that the 7.62x39 bolt and carrier are going to be a bit short for the long 8mm cartridge. They may not be long enough to hold the rounds down in the mag. That may be the reason that the 8mm bolt has longer lugs, or it could be that the longer lugs are stronger, which they would be. It would be nice if someone who has an 8mm bolt and carrier would take a pic with ? grid graph paper as a background so you could get the basic dims, and also measure from the back of the carrier to the front of the bolt, that would give you the relationship to the position as it sasses over the cartridge in the mag. The pressure I posted for the 8mm was a saami spec, It is noted in my Speer loading manual as being low so as not to cause problems with the old small ring mausers. The surplus you get from Europe is no doubt loaded to a different spec. The military stuff may be quite a bit hotter than US specs. Arsenals often load ammo for specific weapons platforms for military use, so who knows what the pressure is.
Another problem is where to put the gas block. It needs to be the right distance from the chamber in order to catch the pressure curve in the right spot, so that it has the right amount of gas to operate the system. You might want to ask the guys doing the pistol conversions with ultra short barrels there thoughts on this. The 1.5mm receiver on the Yougo is defiantly the way to go. Global had at one time mentioned using their 1.6mm receivers for ?larger cartridges?, its not on their web sight now, I guess it didn?t pan out. If someone here gets a 30-06 Siaga and would be willing to post pics and take some measurements that would help you a lot too.
The $the 64.000 question I cant answer, but I think the Yougoslavian engineers already did, they redesigned the bolt and carrier. Technicly you should use the case ID to calculate thrust, but that info is hard to find, and besides using the OD will make the thrust come out slightly higher than it really is and will give you a very slight saftey margin. And yes please check my math, I take everything I find on the net with a grain of salt. I see a lot of stuff that just doesn't smell right.
Sorry I am a bit scatterbrianed right now, but to answer your question about why two different cartriges use different amount of powder and prodece the same pressure, it depends on a lot of things. The throat length and style, bore dia, and bullet seating depth can all play a part in pressure differences. Longer throats and freebore tend to reduce pressure, and thaey are specific to the rifle not the cartrige. It depends on what the ammo manufacturers used for testing. The Speer #11 data for the 7.62x39 was taken using a mini30 which i have been told has a long throat to reduce the pressure of firing a .311 bullet through a .308 bore, yet Speer used .308 bullets in thier testing. There are alot of people shooting mil spec .311 in thier mini30s without any problems. Fire a .308 bullet in a .311 AK bore and im sure you would get a different pressure measurement. Also another reson for the powder and pressure differences in callibers is that some case shapes are more efficient at burning powder than others. If you have a load book handy check out the amount of powder required to push the same bullet to the same velocities in different cartriges. The bench rest and PPC series are very efficient users of powder, while the 30-30 and other less bottle necked designes are not. Pressure is really the result of a lot of things acting together and you have to take that into account.
Just noticed something else
"22-308, 308, 338-08, 458 win (same parrent case)"
The 458 Win Mag is not based on the 308 case, it is a belted magnum and it has a base dia of .511.


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This is not a review, it is simply a warning to those who steer clear of the 701s due to the bad press they have received on a well known headphone site. For an alternate set of comments -- favorable -- look at the URL I have posted.
I have not tried a large number of headphones, but I have tried many. In the last 6 years, I have bought and sold around 10 pairs of headphones in the EU. I currently own a pair of K-701s and Audeze LDC-2s.
From the posts I read here, I get the impression that the AA headphone addicts do not have bundles of money to spend on their headphones systems. With that in mind, I think that the K-701s have the virtue of being the best, moderately priced, headphones on the market.
Why? Because they reproduce music better than any headphone I have heard (remember I haven't tried that many) except for one -- which I do not own and which will remain nameless due to its high price and the fact that, at 3 times the price (or is it 4x?) the additional sonic benefits -- largely in the bass -- do not justify the additional cost.
The K-701s are well balanced; they are neutral; they have very good channel separation (some call this sound stage) and I think they work fantastically on all kinds of music I listen to, which includes not only the "little girl with a guitar" type acoustic music, but also (and more importantly), very dynamic symphonic music from the likes of Sibelius, Mahler, Stravinsky, Bruckner, etc., on which they do not strain at all.
The only two caveats I would offer is, first, that they do not accentuate bass notes. The bass is tight and fast, but does not over-power the rest of the presentation. Second, they take a long time to even out. I can't say, how long exactly, because I don't remember. It just happened that after a long time, I went from thinking that these are very good headphones to these headphones are perfect for me.
Finally, I would suggest you get them re-cabled so that they feed both drivers directly. This probably involves getting new cables all-round. I own Moon Audio Black Dragon cables, but I can't really comment if this addition helped or hurt the sound, since I had them added them as a part of the purchase of these headphones. Instead, I can say, just, they are a part of the whole package I hear.
If you can get down to a store that has a demo pair, listen. If not, then I would take a gamble that I am not the only person who loves these headphones and, if you don't believe me, look at the URL I have posted.
"You don't need to be a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows"
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... the K-701s are great headphones for the money but are bitches to drive to full potential. I have a pair of K-701s recabled w/ balanced Cardas Fat Pipe coming in the mail and I'm hoping my amp does them justice. I will try to remember to post my impressions.
"He was one of those men who live in poverty so that their lines of questioning may continue." - John Steinbeck
When I first tried out the K-701s I felt shocked... yet titillated. Shocked - because they seemed to demand more juice than any other standard headphone I had encountered. Titillated - because their sonic signature seemed slightly on the antiseptic side but basically neutral, and I wondered how a ballsier amp might make them sound. When I finally plugged my pair of recabled 701s into a balanced amp, these early suspicions were confirmed. These cans will eat up a lot of good balanced power, reminding me of certain loudspeakers that need to be cranked up rather loudly before they sound their best. But they sound much more fulsome across the spectrum now, and their "soundstage" (headstage?) no longer seems to be confined within the limits of my cranium. Though less visceral and organic sounding than the K-1000s they replaced, the K-701 headstage actually seems wider than that produced by the earspeakers. Their sparkling tonality and transient speed makes them just right for small ensemble Jazz music. Voted (by me), "Best Headphones for Jazz Recordings".
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I own the Q-701 and absolutely love 'em. Very balanced & smooth sound. I have no idea why people say that AKG x701's have no bass...but then again, many seem to think the Q-701 sounds has better bass than the K versions.
those bumps on the headphone became uncomfortable to my head sometime after an hour to two.
Otherwise I like the akg, but the only other headphone I have is the Senn hd-555. I prefer the akg k-702, but they don't sound twice as good for greater than twice the cost. An amp would help, but I don't listen enough to justify it. I've only used cheapie walkman and the headphone jack from a dvd/cd played I had.
Most uncomfortable headphone I've ever worn. Clamping factor extreme and the bumps in the headband sit right on your head. Some headphones are uncomfortable. This one hurt.
The sound was ok, but these are famous for their lack of bass.
I thought my Denon D5000's were way, WAY more comfortable and had a much more well-rounded sound.
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These headphones are lean in the mids, I can see why audiophiles like them. They are not very musical.
Did you use them with an amp? I found them lean in the mids when they were used with the amp I used to have (Headroom MicroAmp) or with the headphone jack on my AVR. But NOT lean in the mids with my current amp--Burson HA160.
yes used the Schiit Hybrid and their DAC. This combo sounds great on the Senheiser and Hi Fi Man headphones. Sorry the AKG's are lean.
Headphone comfort depends on the size and shape of your head! I have AKG K702s and (for TV watching late at night) Sennheiser PX-100v.2, either of which I can wear for hours without discomfort.
I had Sennheiser 600s and 650s that were heavy and clamped too tightly, right on my temporomandibular joint--couldn't wear either of them for more than 15-20 minutes before they got painful. I sold them to people who found them very comfortable.
... especially when it starts to get colder in the wintertime. They feel like earmuffs.
"He was one of those men who live in poverty so that their lines of questioning may continue." - John Steinbeck
As an owner of the AKG K701 head speakers , while the midrange has nearly excellent response, there are three things I'd like to see in the next version. Increase the bass so that it is flatter on the low end. I'm not asking for or advocating a + response, but work on the > 10dB dropoff from 50Hz - 10Hz. The highs need the peak to be flattened, as well as extended a bit (there's a > 12dB dropoff after 10kHz). And lastly, please get rid of those miserable F-ing bumps on the headband!
Do that AKG and here's your ad copy:
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I've seen this and I probably don't hear the higb-end roll-off due to my hearing loss, and the peak is actually helpful. The low end roll off doesn't bother me at all. My hearing down there is excellent and I prefer the bass of these headphones to those that have over-exaggerated bass. Overall, I love the way the music flows, quite apart from the individual parts.
But you're right, of course, smoothing out the response a bit wouldn't hurt (I hope).
"You don't need to be a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows"
I've had my eye (ear?) on some new 'phones for a while now. Nothing
wrong with my HD600s, but I keep thinking that a pair of 701s or a
pair of HD650s might be better. But I've no particular basis for
that opinion other than what I read. And of course you can find reports/
reviews to support whatever choice you want to make. I'll definitely
keep your thoughts in mind as I go forward.
Mike K, I have both the 702 and HD650 and they are both worthy. I listen to the K702's more often, pretty much for the reasons explained by the OP.
The Sennheiser's deliver more bass energy no question. The AKG's are more clear and more expansive. Subjectively the AKG's seem more neutral, even though the objective measurement doesn't bear that out. The Senns always seem 'richer'.
When I go from one to the other, there is a mental adjustment I must make as my brain figures out where the music is. Then, that clicks in and I'm a happy camper.
And enjoyable for a while. The poster has to decide how he likes his music to sound, because there is a big difference between the two that you so aptly described.
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Australia Post will go the way of Kodak and the local video store without a fundamental transformation of the business, according to CEO Ahmed Fahour, who confirmed the company will axe 900 jobs over the next 12 months.
Most of the job losses will be managerial, administrative and support roles at Australia Post's head office in Melbourne, with a smaller number in Sydney and other cities. Senior staff and the unions representing postal workers were briefed on the changes on Tuesday with more meetings to be held over coming days.
In an interview with Fairfax Media, Mr Fahour confirmed he was lobbying the federal government to relax Australia Post's community services obligations, which include the delivery of standard mail to homes five days a week.
Australia Post is also required to set a uniform rate for letter delivery, maintain 10,000 post boxes and is expected to deliver letters by the next business day within city areas. If it wins approval to change government regulations, standard mail would be delivered only two or three days a week. Senders who wanted letters delivered more quickly would have to pay more.
Mr Fahour said history was littered with examples of companies that had responded too slowly to technological transformation and changing consumer demands.
"People really don't understand the magnitude of the losses - our letter losses will blow out to a billion dollars without reform," Mr Fahour said. "We are shifting resources, capital and money from the declining area of our business to the growing part - our trusted services in stores and the delivering of packages.''
The decline in letter volumes is expected to accelerate in coming years, wiping out the profits from the booming parcels division. Mr Fahour said that no post offices would close.
The savings from the job cuts - estimated at $90 million - will help fund extended Saturday trading hours and weekend parcel delivery.
The Communication Workers Union's Joan Doyle said she had been flooded with calls from concerned workers. ''This has not been a consultative approach,'' she said. ''And if Australia Post becomes a three-day-a-week delivery business, two-fifths of the posties won't be required and thousands more will be enormously affected.''
Australia Post will next month hand a corporate plan to the Abbott government outlining a detailed reform vision. Mr Fahour also wants Australia Post to deliver more government services - including Centrelink and Medicare services - to shore up the viability of local post offices. Both the Coalition and Labor have flagged openness to this proposal.
The company will be reorganised around two separate brands: Australia Post, which will house the existing retail and communication management services, and StarTrack, which will house the parcel and express services for businesses.


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Anyone interested in doing the live tweeting duties for MMAF for UFC 157?
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LL is normally a breh for this kinda thing.
I won't be staying up for this event so count me oooout.
Me either, the world of Twitter will just have to come to terms with the lack of the Killz/KRY combination for this event.
Thems some big boots to fill.
If LL doesn't do it I can
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You are both welcome to do it, first come first served and all that.
CC if you want in, I can give you the Twitter password tomorrow before the event and you can tweet away.
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CC is the same as CG but with a little typo ;)
LL is Lyoto Legion. obvs.
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I'll have to pass on this one brehs, won't be around a computer during the main card.
Ok, looks like Cow will be flying solo for this one. (unless any mods happen to tweet the odd thing?
Cow, I'll send you the details for the twitter log in in a minute.
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My eyes!!! They sting...
Seriously, this thread should have a warning.
Anyway, to balance things up and soothe my eyes here is Kate Beckinsale.
This is a discussion on Finally, overalls that fit! within the Off Topic & Humor Discussion forums, part of the The Back Porch category; Just ask for the Kentucky cut....
Just ask for the Kentucky cut.
My eyes!!! They sting...
Seriously, this thread should have a warning.
Anyway, to balance things up and soothe my eyes here is Kate Beckinsale.
Thanks 0.02, I needed that.
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It's too late to add one to the title, but I will try to remember next time.Seriously, this thread should have a warning
I knew you were joking. I've seen a lot worse here in KY as well. There was a picture floating around the internet comparing Paris, KY to Paris France that showed a bit of exposed thong on two girls. One picture was nice. I'm still having nightmares over the other one.
Maybe this will soothe those stinging eyes.........
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I like this one!
"The sword dose not cause the murder, and the maker of the sword dose not bear sin" Rabbi Solomon ben Isaac 11th century
This thread is so wrong on many accounts so I thought I would add a litte wrongness from Washington State. Here we have the blackburry killer.
Now where would I find some overalls like that?
"...bad decisions that turn out well often make heroes."
Gary D. Mitchell, A Sniper's Journey: The Truth About the Man and the Rifle, P. 103, NAL Caliber books, 2006, 1st Ed.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. - Jim Elliott
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein
You know? we are not catering to our female board members. We need to get some pictures that appeal to them. Unfortunately I googled for Sexy guy with a Gun and I did find some pics, but the weapons they were holding are not appropiate for this forum.
You have to make the shot when fire is smoking, people are screaming, dogs are barking, kids are crying and sirens are coming.
Randy Cain.
Ego will kill you. Leave it at home.
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I definitely promote my website that I have linked to my AudioJungle portfolio. It helps to bring traffic to page… to help sell my tracks.
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i wonder how long and how much planning this took to make.
what program can be used to add the ID3 tag to an mp3?...
I'm still looking for stock video footage to use… any more suggestions anyone?
I make hip hop tracks. Some of which are available to hear through my portfolio…
Lately I've been playing COD : Black Ops daily! I also have Mortal Kombat which is a great game also.
my PSN ID is 'kingclownin'. anyone playing ps3 online, add me!
anderworks said
i checked this site out and there is no template for a 4×6 flyer.
i liked the template GR has for the business cards to help you get your bleeds and margins just right… i wish they had all the different print templates available for download.
do you know of any other sites with templates?...
Cool interview! How did you come across that opportunity?.. I would love to have an interview on Envato's blog.
I use Protools LE 8 , Protools M-Powered 7.3, Reason 4, and FL Studio 9.
ive read through all the pages of this thread and i was hoping to see some examples of "good quality flyers" without the half naked women on them. i was looking to upload some of my graphic designs but im skeptical due to the fact of some good designs getting rejected on the grounds of it lacking quality.
i also was confused in the use of photos of celebrities and models. im guessing if the photo is used only in the preview file, everything is ok. you just cant have that photo available in the final file? could someone please help me out with this issue?!....
in my honest opinion…. art is art, regardless if you approve of it or not.. someone else may think it is the best display of creativity they have ever seen. with that being said, on top of the fact that parties need new flyers on a per party basis.. i feel as though we all need to keep the party flyers coming.


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I have completed my John Muir Discovery Award and really enjoyed exploring the shores of Loch Gilp and learning about John Muir. I am looking forward to exploring more places and learning about all things wild.
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The Problem:
My 5 year old Beagle viciously attacks our new 6 month old Beagle.
Me and my wife just introduced a 6 month old Beagle into the home, and our older 5 year old Beagle is very aggressive towards him and trying to attack him. The puppy is house trained and happy, very gentle character. He just wants to jump around and play with the older dog.
A little background on older 5 year old:
Shes a un-spayed beagle. She started showing aggression towards other animals at around 2 years old. While there has been dogs in the past that she has gotten along with(even though she still played with them as her being the dominant one) but for the most part she instantly tries to attack them viciously. There has also been times in the past where she has actually bitten me and drawn blood. Ive tried the whole thing about calmly rolling her over onto her back until she submits. Didnt really help any. So I have subscribed more to the nothing in life is free approach with her as in making her sit before going out and before feeding, I command her to come to me and sit at my feet often and randomly. I give her alot of commands through out the day, sometimes rewarding her with a small treat, sometimes giving her good verbal praises and good girls. I look for any opportunity to assert my leadership, calmly and firmly, consistently. I have started giving her a daily walk and we play ball at least once a day. Her behavior has improved towards me and she has gotten a lot more responsive to my commands. She hasnt bitten me since her new training, but then again I dont push her limits by putting my hands all over her face or etc. I believe she will still bite me if I push her in certain ways. I plan to keep her in a life long "nothing in life is free" training/reinforcement.
We introduced the dogs on neutral ground by letting them meet while going on a walk. My older Beagle instantly disliked him and tried to attack. We kept them at a distance at that point but continued with our walk. Halfway into the walk, our older dog would ignore the puppy but but still show displeasure if the puppy got to close/friendly. When the walk was over we kept the dogs on the leashes and brought them inside. The older dogs reaction was to instantly attack, and she has been trying to attack the puppy at any chance she gets.
We have a wire crate set up in the living area for the new puppy in hopes that it will accumulate the older dog to the puppy. But even when the puppy is in the crate, the older dog will try to attack him if he shows to much excitement or movement. I now keep my older dog on a drag line in the house. Sometimes my wife will put the puppy on a leash and let the puppy rest at her feet. At these times I have to keep the older dog at my feet, and if I leave the room, I take her with me by leading her with the drag line. If I turn my back on the older dog, she will instantly go for the puppy. I have no doubt that she will truly try to hurt him.
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William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baronet
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About William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
William Maxwell "Max" Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Bt, PC, (May 25, 1879 – June 9, 1964) was a Canadian-British business tycoon, politician, and writer.
Lord Beaverbrook held a tight grip on the media as an influential Press Baron, owning The Daily Express newspaper, as well as the London Evening Standard and the Sunday Express. His political career included serving as a Minister in the British Government during both world wars.
Early career in Canada
Aitken was born in Maple, Ontario, Canada, (near Keele Street and Major Mackenzie Drive) in 1879, the son of a Scottish-born Presbyterian minister. The following year, his family moved to Newcastle, New Brunswick, Canada, which he considered to be his home town. It was here, at the age of 13, that he published his first newspaper.
Although Aitken wrote the entrance examinations for Dalhousie University and registered at the King's College Law School, he did not attend either institution. His only formal higher education came when he briefly attended the University of New Brunswick. Aitken worked for a short time as an office boy in the law office of Richard Bedford Bennett, in the town of Chatham, New Brunswick. Bennett later became Prime Minister of Canada and a business associate.
As a young man, Aitken made his way to Halifax, Nova Scotia where John F. Stairs, part of the city's dominant business family, gave him employment, training him in the business of finance. In 1904, when Stairs opened his newly formed Royal Securities Corporation, Aitken became a minority shareholder and the firm's general manager. Under the tutelage of Stairs, who would be his mentor and friend, Aitken engineered a number of successful business deals and was planning to do a series of bank mergers; however, Stairs' unexpected early death in late September 1904 led to Aitken acquiring control of the company. Stairs had given the untested and untrained Aitken an opportunity in business, just as Aitken would later do when he hired A.J. Nesbitt, a young dry goods salesman from Saint John, New Brunswick. Because Montreal, Quebec was, at that time, the financial centre of Canada, Aitken would send Nesbitt to open the Montreal branch of Royal Securities.
In 1909 under the umbrella of his Royal Securities Company, Aitken founded Calgary Power Company, Limited (now formally TransAlta Corporation). As the company's first president, Aitken concentrated early efforts on the development of the Horseshoe Falls hydro station.
Canada Cement Scandal
In 1910 Aitken acquired many of the small regional cement plants in Eastern Canada and amalgamated them into Canada Cement. Canada was booming economically at the time and he had the monopoly on the material. There were irregularities in the stock transfer resulting from the conglomeration of the cement plants. Aitken sold his shares, making a large amount of money. Aitken then left for England. Some say had he stayed in Canada, he would have been charged with securities fraud.
In 1912, A. J. Nesbitt left Aitken's employ to form the Nesbitt, Thomson and Co. stock brokerage. Aitken appointed employee Izaak Walton Killam as the new President of Royal Securities and sold the Canadian securities company to Killam in 1919.
To England
The year Aitken moved to England, he became Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament for Ashton-under-Lyne. After the death of Charles Rolls in 1910, Aitken bought his shares in Rolls-Royce, and over the next two years gradually increased his holding in the company. However, Claude Johnson, Rolls-Royce's Commercial Managing Director, resisted Aitken's attempt to gain control of the company, and in October 1913 he sold his holding to J. B. Duke, of American Tobacco Company.
Aitken began to build a London newspaper empire. He often worked closely with Andrew Bonar Law, another native of New Brunswick, who became the only Canadian to be Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. In 1911, Aitken was knighted by King George V.
During the First World War, the Canadian government put Aitken in charge of creating the Canadian War Records Office in London, and he made certain that news of Canada's contribution to the War was printed in Canadian and British newspapers. Aitken also established the Canadian War Memorials Fund that evolved into a collection of war art by the premier artists and sculptors in Britain and Canada. His visits to the Western Front in the First World War, during which he held the honorary rank of Colonel in the Canadian Army, resulted in his 1916 book Canada in Flanders, a three-volume collection that chronicled the achievements of Canadian soldiers on the battlefields. After the War, Aitken wrote several books including Politicians and the Press in 1925 and Politicians and the War in 1928.
Adding to his chain of newspapers, which included the London Evening Standard, Aitken bought a controlling interest in the failing Daily Express from Lawson Johnson on 14 November 1916 for £17,500; he had been lending money to the paper and its proprietors since January 1911. He always obscured this transaction because it was at the same time as the Parliamentary crisis which replaced Asquith with Lloyd George, in which Aitken's ally and protégé Bonar Law played a great part.[citation needed] Aitken's friend and biographer, A.J.P. Taylor, states that this was a mere coincidence, brought on by Johnson's eagerness to be quit of the paper.
Aitken was granted a peerage in 1917 as the 1st Baron Beaverbrook, the name "Beaverbrook" being adopted from a small community near his boyhood home. He had initially considered, but on the advice of Louise Manny, rejected "Lord Miramichi" as too difficult to pronounce. The name "Beaverbrook" also had the advantage of conveying a distinctive Canadian ring to the title.
In 1918, Beaverbrook became the first Minister of Information, responsible for Allied propaganda in Allied and neutral countries. Lord Northcliffe became a Director of Propaganda and control propaganda in enemy countries. During his time in office Beaverbrook had a number of clashes with Foreign Secretary Balfour over the use of intelligence material. He felt that intelligence should become part of his department, but Balfour disagreed. Eventually the intelligence committee was assigned to Beaverbrook but they then resigned en masse to be re-employed by the Foreign office. He also came under attack from MPs who distrusted a press baron being employed by the state. Beaverbrook survived but became increasingly frustrated with his limited role and influence, and in September 1918, he resigned, claiming ill health.
First Baron of Fleet Street
Over time, Beaverbrook turned the dull newspaper into a glittering and witty journal, filled with an array of dramatic photo layouts and in 1918, he founded the Sunday Express. By 1934, daily circulation reached 1,708,000, generating huge profits for Beaverbrook whose wealth was already such that he never took a salary. Following the Second World War, the Daily Express became the largest selling newspaper in the world by far, with a circulation of 3,706,000. He would become known by some historians as the first baron of "Fleet Street" and as one of the most powerful men in Britain whose newspapers could make or break almost anyone. In the 1930s, while personally attempting to dissuade King Edward VIII from continuing his potentially ruinous affair with American divorcee, Wallis Simpson, Lord Beaverbrook's newspapers published every tidbit of the affair, especially allegations about pro-Nazi sympathies.
The Second World War
During the Second World War, his friend Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister, appointed Beaverbrook as Minister of Aircraft Production and later Minister of Supply. Under Beaverbrook, fighter and bomber production increased so much so that Churchill declared: "His personal force and genius made this Aitken's finest hour". Beaverbrook's impact on war time production has been much debated but his innovative style certainly energised production at a time when it was desperately needed. However it has often been argued that aircraft production was already rising when Beaverbrook took charge and that he was fortunate to inherit a system which was just beginning to bear fruit.[9] Still, a Time Magazine cover story wrote, "Even if Britain goes down this fall [1940], it will not be Lord Beaverbrook's fault. If she holds out, it will be his triumph. This war is a war of machines. It will be won on the assembly line."
In addition to his ministerial role, Beaverbrook also accompanied Churchill to several wartime meetings with President Roosevelt. He was able to relate to Roosevelt in a different way to Churchill and became close to Roosevelt during these visits. This friendship sometimes irritated Churchill who felt that Beaverbrook was distracting Roosevelt from concentrating on the war effort. For his part Roosevelt seems to have enjoyed the distraction.
Later in 1941, Beaverbrook headed the British delegation to Moscow with American counterpart Averell Harriman. This made Beaverbrook the first senior British politician to meet Soviet leader Joseph Stalin since Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union. Much impressed by Stalin and the sacrifice of the Soviet people, he returned to London determined to persuade Churchill to launch a second front in Europe to help draw German resources away from the Eastern front to aid the Soviets. Churchill was not to be persuaded and this led Beaverbrook to resign as Minister of War Production in 1942. During the remainder of the war (1943–1945), he occupied the role of Lord Privy Seal.
Despite this, throughout the war, Beaverbrook remained a close confidante of Churchill, and could regularly be found with Churchill until the early hours of the morning. Clement Attlee commented that "Churchill often listened to Beaverbrook's advice but was too sensible to take it."
Beaverbrook gave his son Max The Daily Express and The Sunday Express as a birthday present in 1931. Max Aitken Jr. became a fighter pilot with 601 Squadron, rising to Wing Commander with 16 victories.
The benefactor
After the war, Beaverbrook served as Chancellor of the University of New Brunswick and became the university's greatest benefactor, fulfilling the same role for the city of Fredericton and the Province as a whole. He would provide additions to the University, scholarship funds, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, the Beaverbrook Skating Rink, the Lord Beaverbrook Hotel (profits donated to charity), The Playhouse, Louise Manny's early folklore work, and numerous other projects.
In 1957, a bronze statue of Lord Beaverbrook was erected at the centre of Officers' Square in Fredericton, New Brunswick, paid for by money raised by children throughout the province. A bust of him by Oscar Nemon stands in the park in the town square of Newcastle, New Brunswick not far from where he sold newspapers as a young boy. His ashes are in the plinth of the bust.
Beaverbrook was both admired and despised in England, sometimes at the same time: in his 1956 autobiography, David Low quotes H.G. Wells as saying of Beaverbrook: "If ever Max ever gets to Heaven, he won't last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell after having secured a controlling interest in key subsidiary companies in both places, of course."[citation needed]
In England, Beaverbrook lived at Cherkley Court, near Leatherhead, Surrey. Beaverbrook remained a widower for many years until 1963 when he married Marcia Anastasia Christoforides (1910–1994), the widow of his friend Sir James Dunn. Lord Beaverbrook died in Surrey in 1964, aged 85. He had recently attended a birthday banquet organised by fellow Canadian press baron Lord Thomson of Fleet, where he was determined to be seen on his usual good form, despite being riddled with painful cancer. The Beaverbrook Foundation continues his philanthropic interests.
In Popular Culture
For a period of time Beaverbrook employed novelist Evelyn Waugh in London and abroad. Waugh later lampooned his employer by portraying him as Lord Copper in Scoop and as Lord Monomark in both Put Out More Flags and Vile Bodies.
The Kinks recorded "Mr. Churchill Says" for their 1969 album Arthur, which contains the lines: "Mr. Beaverbrook says: 'We've gotta save our tin/And all the garden gates and empty cans are gonna make us win...'."
Beaverbrook was one of eight notable Brits cited in Bjørge Lillelien's famous "Your boys took a hell of a beating" commentary at the end of an English football team defeat to Norway in 1981, mentioned alongside British Prime Ministers Churchill, Thatcher and Atlee.
Published works by Lord Beaverbrook
Military Rank : Lieutenant-Colonel II 10 Battalion, Surrey Volunteer Regiment
Lieutenant-Colonel II New Brunswick Regiment Honorary Colonel II New Brusnwick Regiment
Fought: WW1 - 1915
Occupation : Chairman of the Colonial Bank
Office : Member of Parliament (MP) (Unionist) for Ashton-Under-Lyne
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - between 1918-1919
Author: Success, Politicians and the Press 1925
My case for Empire Free Trade 1930 The Resources of the British Empire Don't Trust to Luck 1956 Three Keys to Success 1956 Men and Power 1917-1918, 1956 Friends: Sixty Years of Intimate Personal Relations with Richard Bedford Bennett 1959 Courage 1961 My Early Life 1964
Office: Minister of Aircraft Production between 1940-1941
Member of the War Cabinet between 1940-1942 Minister of State 1941 Trustee of the British Museum 1943 Lord Privy Seal between 1943 and 1945
Source : Complete Peerage new ed. Vol X111 p 239
William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook's Timeline
May 25, 1879
Maple, Ontario, Canada
July 9, 1908
Age 29
Halifax, Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada
February 15, 1910
Age 30
Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
June 9, 1964
Age 85