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and one trustee was willing to sell, but the other refused to concur: Held that the Court would not interfere with the trustee's discretion.Marquis Camden v. Murray, 29 W.R. 190.
Vendor and Purchaser :—
(xi.) Ch. Div. F. J.—Gonditions of Sale—Suggestio Fals~i—Suppress1'0 VeriConditions of sale of freeholds, provided that the title should commence with a document dated 27th December, 1861, which could be seen at the solicitor's oflice, and that the purchaser should assume that B. (vendor's predecessor in title) by the said document, and by his undisturbed possession, was, at the time of his death, seized in fee of the property. It appeared from the document that the vendor might have nothing more than a p/rimd. facie possessory title: Held that the condition amounted
neither to a suggesti0 falsi nor a suppressio veri.—Blenkhorn v. Penrose, 29 W.R. 287.
(xii.) Ch. Div. D. J'.—Conditions of Sale—Possession.—The conditions of sale of a piece of land, provided that the purchaser should be entitled to the possession or the receipt of the rents and profits from a certain date: Held that the vendor was bound to give possession to the Pur. chaser on the date specified, and that evidence to prove a contemporary
parol agreement varying the condition was inadmissible.—Anker v. Franklin, 48 L.T. 817.
C. A.—Specific Perfornw/nce—-Mistake.—Property correctly described in the conditions of sale and of which a correct plan was exhibited in the sale-room, was bought by defendant under the impression that his purchase included a piece of land usually occupied with, and not fenced oif from, the property sold: Held that the defendant could not resist specific performance.—Tamplin v. James, L.R.. 16 Oh. D. 215; 43 L.T. 520.
(i.) Q. B. Div.—Over_/tow of Cana.l—Vis Major—Injun'a absque damno.— After an excessive rainfall, the owners of a canal opened a sluice and discharged water from the canal into a brook which, in consequence, overflowed into plaintiii' s mines. If the water ha'.d not been so discharged, the canal banks would have burst, and the mines would have been flooded to the same extent, though a few hours later: Held that there was no ground of action against the canal owners.—Thomas v. Birmingham Canal 00., 49 LJ. Q.B. 861; 43 L.T. -136.
Will: (xxv.) Ch. Div. V. C. N[.—Churity—Mortmain—-Chaa-ge on Realty and Pers0nalty—Apporti0nment.—Where part of a fund charged on real and personal estate is given to charities. the legacies to the charities will
abate in the proportion borne by the realty to the personalty. -Re Hill's Trusts, 43 L.T. 628; 29 W.R. 211.
Ch Div. V. C. M.—Construction—Bequest of LeasehoZds—Power to retain Invsstments.—-Bequest to trustees on trust for A. for life with remainders over, with power to retain any portions of testator's property in the same state in which it was at his decease, or to sell and convert as the trustees should think fit: Held that the trustees were at liberty to retain short leaseholds held by the testator for such period as they should think fit.——Gra.y v. S1'gge1'a, L.R. 15 Ch.D. 74; 49 LJ. Ch. 819; 29 W.B.. 13.
(xxvii.) Ch. Div. V. C. B.—Construction—Bequest of Leaseholds—Power of Sale at D£wretion.—-Where a testatcr has given a discretionary power of sale to his trustees, the rule in Howe v. Lord Dartmouth (7 Ves. 187) does not apply; and the Court will not interfere with such discretion.— Theobald v. King, 29 W.R. 234.
(xxviii.) Ch. Div. V. C. B.—Conslruction—Comlition subsequent in Restraint of Marn'age—-Real Estate.—Testatrix devised real estate in strict settlement to her brother for life, with remainder to his issue in tail, with remainders over in default of issue, with a proviso that if the brother married at any time a domestic servant, the limitations in favour of himself and his issue were to be null and void. The brother married a domestic servant after testa.trix's death: Held that the condition was good, and the devises ever took elfect.—Je1mer v. Turner, 43 L.T. 468 ; 29 W.R. 99. '
(xxix.) Ch. Div. V. C. H.-—Oonsf/ruction—-Erroneous Recital—Advmwe— Account.-—Testator, having by his will given £7,000 upon trusts for the benefit of a married daughter and her children, by a codicil, after reciting that the daughter's husband owed him £5,000, directed that unless that sum at least should be repaid before his decease, the sum of £6,000 should be taken in part payment and reduction of the legacy of £7,000 : Held that the legatec was not entitled to show that the recital in the will was erroneous, and that the sum of £5,000 must be deducted from the £7,000.—Tomlin. v, Unulerhay, 43 L.T. 530.
(xxxi.) Ch. Div. M. R —Consf/rucli0n—Gifl at Thirty—Maintenance— Vesling.—Bequest to trustees in trust to pay income to B. for his main. tenance till thirty, and then to transfer the capital to him absolutely. B. survived the testator, and died under thirty: Held that B. took a vested interest.—-Isaacson v. Webster, L.R. 16 Ch. D. 47.
(xxxii.) Ch. Div. V. C. H.—C0nslruction—Gij't over on death before Execution of Trusts—Uneertainty.—Bequest of proceeds of real and personal estate (directed to be converted, with power of postponement) on trust for testator's three sons and daughter equally, the daughter's share to be retained for her separate use for life, and after her decease for her children; with a direction that in the event of any child of testator dying before testator, or before the execution of the trusts of the will, having issue, to pay to the issue the share which the parent would have taken if living: Held that the gift over on death before execution of the trusts of the will was void for uncertainty.-—R0berts v. Youle, 49 L.J. Ch. 744.
(xxxiii.) Ch. Div. V. C. B.— Construction — Gift to Children—Pe'rson(e Designatw—1 Vict., c. 26, s. 33.—~Testator directed his real estate and household furniture to be sold at his wife's decease and the moneys to be divided equally between his nine children; and he bequeathed the rest of his personal estate to trustees upon trust to sell and divide the same " equally to and between all my children: " Held that the gift of residuary personalty was to the nine children as persons designated, and therefore it fell within sec. 33 of the Wills Act.—Slansfield v. Stansfield, L.R. 15 Ch. D. 84; 49 L.J. Ch. 750; 43 L.T. 810; 29 W.R. 72.
(xxxiv.) Ch. Div. M. R.—-Conat1~ucli0n—G1'ft to Class—Gift at twenty-m1e— lllaintenance-—Vestlng.—-Gift of residue to trustees on trust to apply income or such part as they should deem expedient, for maintenance of testatrix's children, until they should attain twenty-one respectively, and then to transfer the capital to her said children in equal shares, and to settle each daughter's share whether original or accruing; with power to the trustees to advance half of the presumptive share of any
of her children. The testatrix left three children of whom one died an infant: Held that the infant did not take a vested interest in his share.—Barker v. Barker, L.R. 16 Ch. D. 44.
(xxxv.) Ch. Div. V. C. H.-——C0nslruction—Lapsed Share of ResidueIntestacy.—-B. gave real and personal estate to trustees on trust to sell, and out of proceeds to pay debts and divide the residue between live persons equally. By a codicil, B. beqeathed to the issue of R., one of the live legatees, all the effects which by the will were bequeathed to R., who was stated to be dead, but if there should be no issue living at B.'s decease, then such efiects should fall into the residue of the personal estate. R. never had any issue: Helcl that R.'s share of the residue under the will was undisposed of.—Hetherington v. Longrigg, L.B.. 15 Ch. D. 635.
(xxxvi.) Ch. Div. V. C. NI-—G0nst1-uction—Objects of Vertu and TasteFurmlture—Pictures.—One bequest in a will included all testator's jewels, trinkets, gold and silver plate, china, and objects of vertu and taste, and another bequest was of all the statuary, furniture, and other etfects in his house: Held that pictures in testator's house valued at £15,000, passed under the second bequest.—Briclgeman v. Lord 0. Fitzgerald, 50 LJ. Ch. 9; 43 L.T. 408.
(xxxvit) Ch. Div. M. R.—C'omtruction-—Power of Appointment-—Sale— Ademption.—Testator had a general power of appointment over the reversion in fee of real estate, which the trustees had power to sell with his consent ; part of the estate was sold and another part contracted to be sold with his consent in his lifetime. By a subsequent will he appointed the real estate to trustees for 500 years and subject thereto to the use of A. and his heirs, and subject to the previous appointment he gave all real and personal estate of which he was possessed or over which he had a power of appointment to B. : Heldthat the proceeds of sale of the estate passed to B.—Blake v. Blake, L.R. 15 Ch. D. 481.
(xxxviiL) Ch. Div. M. R.—Co-nstnlction—Residua1~y Gi_/'t—Hotch.pot—Revm cation of Sha.rs—Lapse.-—Testator gave residuary estate to trustees and executors on trust for his six children -nominatim equally, and he declared that none of his children who should receive from him any money for advancement should be entitled to any part of his residuary estate without bringing in sums so given with interest at £5 per cent. into hotch-pot. By a codicil he revoked the gift to his son J., whose share in consequence lapsed. J. had received an advancement: Held that the hotch-pot clause applied to the shares taken by the children in the lapsed share, but not so as to increase the share of the testator's widow therein.—Stewart v. Stewart, LB. 15 Ch. D. 539; 49 L.J. Ch. 763; 43 L.T. 370.
(xxxix.) Ch. Div. F. J.—C0nstructi0n—S1Lbstifutl0n—Vesting.—Gift to trustees on trust after a given event to sell and divide amongst all the children of T. and W. and the issue of such of them as should be then dead, share and share alike, such issue taking only his, her, or their deceased parent's share: Held that the fund was vested in all the children of T. and W. who came into existence before the event and survived testatcr, subject to be divested on death before the event leaving issue, in favour of such issue.—llIoo1-0 v. Bailey, 29 W.R. 171.
(xv.) Ch. Div. F. J.—E.vecutor's Year.—The Court may order administration of an estate before the expiration of a year from the death of the - testator.—Prosser v. Mossop, 29 W.R. 439.
(xvi.) 011- Div. V. C. M.— Emecutorahip Account—Advances by Banker.— One of two executors, who was also a residuary legatee, opened an executorship account in his own name with a banker, and the banker advanced money to him for executorial purposes, and securities belonging to the estate were deposited with the banker: Held that the banker was justified in making the advances, and entitled to have them repaid out of the proceeds of the securities.—Ch1'ld v. Thorley, L.R. 16 Oh. D. 151; 29 W.R. 417.
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- (xiv.) Ch. Div. V. C. MI.—Agreement to Settle—Subsequent Settlement.-—A. wrote to B., who had made proposals of marriage to A.'B daughter, that she would have £2,000 at once, and £4,000 on the death of A.'s wife. A year afterwards a settlement was executed by which A. settled £2,000 and the marriage then took place : Ileld that the settlement was a final arrangement between the parties.—Kingdon v. Tagart, 43 L.T. 688; 29 W.R. 278.
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tract, and plaintifl was obliged to take the horses about looking for stabling, and the horses caught cold: Held that plaintiff could not recover damages for injury resulting from the illness of the horses. —McMahon v. Field, 44 L.T. 175; 29 W.R. 472.
(xvi.) H. L.——Breach of Forward Contract—Mecwure of Damages. -—-The damages for the breach of a forward contract to accept goods for which there is no market is the amount of damage actually sustained, the person who broke tne contract not being liable in respect of additional loss caused by the other party not doing what be reasonably ought to do, and he not being bound to act otherwise than in the ordinary course of business.—Lever v. Dunki/rk Colliery 00., 43 L.T. 706.
(xvii-) B. DiV.—Champerty—Muney Lent to carry on Litigution.—-An agreement by a person having no interest in an action to furnish money to enable one of the parties to carry it on amounts to champerty, though the party who is to receive the money enters into no agreement to proceed with the litigation.—Ba.ll v. Warwick, 4A L.T. 218 ; 29 W. R. 4-68.
(xviii-) C.A..—Contract to pay money to Third Part;/.—An agreement between two parties that one of them will pay a certain sum to a third party cannot be enforced by the third party.—-Ra Empress Engineering ('10., LB. 16 Ch. D. 125; 48 L.T. 742; 29 W.R. 842.
(xix-) H. L.—Guarantee—Building Agreement— Completion of}-[ouses.—Plaintifl' advanced money to T., who had agreed to build six houses for defendant, and defendant agreed to repay the money advanced on completion of the six houses in accordance with the contract between defendant and T. The contract provided that the houses were to be built under the direction of defendant's surveyor, and the first payment made on the surveyor's certificate of completion. In an action upon defendant's guarantee the jury found that the houses were completed according to the contract before commencement of the action : Held that the surveyor-'s certificate was not a condition precedent to the payment of the £110 to the plaintifi.-—-Lewis v. Hours, 44 L.T. 66; 29 W.R. 357.
(xx.) C. P. DiV.—Warranty—~Estimated Quantity.—Plaintitfs were informed by a commission agent that defendant had about 150 tons of old iron in his yard for sale, and they wrote to defendant saying that they understood he had about 150 tons of iron for sale, and ofiered him 80s. a ton. Defendant accepted the ofier, but only delivered 44 tone, that being the amount in the yard. The agent had seen the iron in the yard, and had said to defendant that it seemed about 150 tons, and the reply was, "Yes, or more:" Held that there was no warranty as to quantity.—Mc Lay v. Perry, 44 L.T. 152.
(v.) C. A.—Claim and Counter-cla.im—-Costs to follow the Event.—A claim and counter-claim were referred to arbitration by an order providing that the costs were to follow the event unless otherwise ordered. The arbitrator awarded that a certain sum was due from plaintiff to defendant in respect of all matters in the action: Held that the award must be referred back to the arbitrator to find specifically the issues between the parties, and that " event " in the reference must be read distributively as if it were " evcnts."——Ellis v. Desilva, 44: L.T. 209; 29 W.R. 493.

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HR Strategies for Finding--and Keeping--IT Talent
HR Strategies for Finding--and Keeping--IT Talent
By Paul Hyman
Nearly one in four IT employers says it's harder to find the right talent today compared to a year ago, especially in the areas of mobile app development and programming, data network, and data center. They expect it will become even more difficult as the economy recovers.
That's according to a December, 2012 ManpowerGroup research report. And, says ManpowerGroup's 2012 Talent Shortage Survey, IT is one of the top 10 job areas that employers are having difficulty filling in both the U.S. and globally.
So what's a CIO to do?
According to four HR professionals who were willing to reveal some of their tricks of the trade for locating–and retaining–the best IT help, the employment scene has changed radically in just the past few years. Finding talented IT people, they say, no longer involves merely posting "help wanted" ads on your company's website, Monster.com or Dice, and then sitting back and waiting for the resumes to flood in.
Today, savvy IT recruiters use social networking websites, like Entelo, Gild and TalentBin, in addition to LinkedIn, where IT professionals gather to share and learn from their colleagues, even to have their IT skills ranked by peers.
"Having access to those social search and engagement tools gives recruiters a special edge," says Phil Hendrickson, manager of global talent sourcing strategy at Starbucks Coffee Co. "That's where you're able to gain social insights into talented professionals across their social graph, to understand what IT talent is doing, developing and sharing."
Hendrickson explains the reason IT talent has gone into "stealth mode" is that, in the current "war for talent," there is an abundance of companies seeking the same top skills.
"If you were to show up every day at work and get 10 calls from recruiters, you'd be flattered, but it might also get tiring," Hendrickson says. "The talent is getting reached out to so often it's almost as if they're trying to disappear from sight. To find and engage in a meaningful way, you need to meet them where they are."
At AT&T, Scott Smith, senior VP, human resources operations, explains the competition for talent is not only the result of the increasing need for technology experts, but also a decrease in the availability of U.S. workers with the required skills.
He calls the skills gap "alarming, especially since STEM [science, technology, engineering and math] jobs are projected to be growing by 17 percent compared to fewer than 10 percent for other professions. Over 2.8 million STEM job openings are predicted and many will go unfilled as candidates lack necessary technical skills, training or post-secondary degrees."
Smith reports that, to find suitable talent, AT&T uses branding, advertising, professional organizations, events and sponsorships, and campus outreach, with a focus on the digital universe–both online and mobile. And the company will soon roll out a streamlined mobile version of its successful employee referral process.
He estimates that only about 30 percent of the IT population uses job boards, while 70 percent use search engines and social media to do their job search.
Smith says the AT&T Talent Network, which allows for relationship-based advertising, has become a top 10 source of applications and hires for the company. "Job seekers can opt in for additional information, and we provide regular updates about our company culture, community activities, innovation, and jobs," he explains.
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Meanwhile, AT&T online experts use SEO to ensure that jobs are displayed to target candidates on the first page of search results and that AT&T job ads relevant to keyword searches appear in the sponsored ads section using SEM.
At Experis, a division of ManpowerGroup, Michael Barker, too, is discovering that IT people are expecting his people to find them, to perhaps pull their profile off LinkedIn or their Facebook page. As a result, some of his best recruiters are using social media to hunt them down.
"The recruiters are setting themselves up with a tweet, getting followers among the IT talent and creating their own communities. That's really new," says Barker, who is senior VP and general manager of Experis North America.
Starbucks' Hendrickson has two additional tips:
· Veterans are a great source of IT talent for Starbucks, which partners with such veteran-serving nonprofit groups like Hire America's Heroes. "Large numbers of transitioning veterans are entering the marketplace with cutting-edge skills that companies are looking for, and they are eager to be hired," he says, "and aren't as frequently in stealth mode like many already working in corporate jobs."
· An internal Candidate Relationship Management (CRM) platform is an excellent way to build a pipeline of talent for the future. Create and use a CRM to manage and maintain contact with prospects.
But given the competition for the best people, how are recruiters determining salary levels?
Trisha Zulic advises using salary surveys to ensure good salary practices--and then to be firm. Zulic is regional HR director at Efficient Edge, which is based in San Diego, and a special expert on the technology panel at the Society for Human Resource Management.
"If you don't, in your eagerness to attract great talent, you'll find yourself always competing with other companies willing to pay a dollar more," Zulic says. "Then you raise it, they raise it, and the next thing you know, you've inflated yourself out of a good employee."
She recommends having a good compensation package in place that's compatible with the culture and bottom line of your organization. And, she insists, remember there are many ways to lure good people in addition to attractive salaries, many of which are frequently overlooked by employers.
They include:
· Health and welfare benefits
· Tuition reimbursement
· Learning and development programs
· Being able to telecommute
· Awarding a few days off after finishing a project (and the days off don't count toward vacation time)
· Being flexible about work hours; many IT people work best in the evening
· Supplying fun extras, like snacks and meals, video games, a gym and game rooms.
Compensation is the carrot, say HR experts, but the other benefits are deal sealers. And don't forget the biggest components of all–what the prospective employee will actually be responsible for doing, the interaction they'll have with their boss, and the opportunities for an engaged employee experience at the company.
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Just as important, if not more important, than attracting great talent is keeping it.
"What retains people more than anything else," says Experis' Barker, "is whether the work is challenging and stimulating, and whether it is building the talent's resume. You can pay well, but if the company isn't progressive, if it's not doing the latest cool projects, your people will be easily lured elsewhere, regardless how good the salary is."
And don't forget:
· Meaningful, useful, helpful reviews
· Company culture and community match
· Leaders that care, serve and are forthright
· Fair compensation including total rewards, not just salary
· Opportunity to make a difference at work and in the community through work.
"Most of all, treating people with respect is universally appreciated," says Starbucks' Hendrickson. "That's the most important thing you can do after you've convinced somebody to join your company."
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How Web Services Increase AccessibilityBy David F. Carr Print
Miami-Dade County used XML-based Web services to make its call center more responsive to citizens--and data more accessible to government departments.
The Problem: As Miami-Dade County reached out to its citizens through a Web portal and a 311 government information call center, it wanted to tap data and applications previously available only through its mainframe, mostly powered by CA's IDMS database management system. In fact, most new applications built or bought for county use needed access to mainframe data and functions-increasingly made available as Web services.
The Details: In 2005, the county began offering citizens the ability to dial 311 and get answers and request services. The effort dovetailed with the introducton of the Miamidade.gov Web portal in 2001. "Access to the back-end data systems was critical," says Judy Zito, director of the county's Government Information Center. "Some of the mainframe systems could potentially be rewritten in the future, but when we started this we knew that wasn't something that was budgeted for and wouldn't have happened quickly." So, when a citizen wants to pay property taxes or schedule a bulky waste pickup, performing those and other common services requires access to a mainframe application.
Carmen Suarez, a manager in the county's Enterprise Technology Services Department, seized on the high-profile 311 project as an opportunity to explore the concept of service-oriented architecture. Instead of integrating the mainframe and the Motorola Customer Service Request software package the county had purchased for the 311 project, Suarez proposed turning existing mainframe applications into XML Web services for use in a variety of applications. This means that mainframe functions can be accessed with requests for services transmitted in the Extensible Markup Language (XML) format.
For example, one key service searches for the owner of a property. Search requests are invoked with an address, or a folio number from the land records, as a parameter, and the results are returned in XML. When a citizen requests a bulky waste pickup-either on the Web or over the phone-another Web service records that request in a mainframe scheduling application used by the county's waste disposal department.
The Solution: Miami-Dade uses a middleware product-Shadow RTE from DataDirect, a division of Progress Software-to make Web services available from the mainframe, along with developer tools to define the chunks of application code that will be exposed as services. For its Web portal and Java application servers, the county relies on IBM's WebSphere products running on AIX, IBM's version of Unix. Another development team works with the Microsoft .NET framework, mostly to support the integration of packaged applications that run on Windows, according to Suarez. The Java and .NET development teams are also creating Web services; more than 100 programs are now in production.
"A good majority of them are mainframe-based, because that was the point-we had all these applications that needed mainframe data," Suarez says.
The Results: The 311 call center has earned the county some rare praise. Even the usually snarky local newsweekly, the New Times, recognized the 311 center for "no hold music, no voice mail, and helpful people." Part of the reason they can be so helpful is the underlying technical integration.
Suarez says a key to success is training mainframe developers on what makes a good Web service. What if, for example, you're offering to look up property owners by both address and folio number? "Is that one Web service or two?" she asks. Answer: It's one service that accepts two different types of parameters.
The property lookup service now also feeds the Web portal, an interactive voice response system, the police and fire emergency dispatch centers, and applications used by other departments. "I can't believe how much that gets used," Suarez says. "Sooner or later, everyone in county government needs to know who owns a particular piece of land."
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The other day on Twitter I was part of a debate surrounding 10 man Heroic Al'Akir. More specifically – killing 10 man Heroic Al'Akir if you were a 25 man guild. Now, needless to say, it got me pretty fired up. To the point I felt myself getting ready to say some very nasty, un-Beru like things that I would not have been at all proud of later. (It really is amazing how little, yet how much, can be said in 140 characters). So even though I had so much more to say on the topic, I stepped out of it before I said something that I would later deeply regret.
Well, I publically stepped out of it anyhow.
At home I ranted, raved and lectured about it to anyone who would listen – with "anyone" being Brade and the dog. I stomped around the house as I made dinner jabbing my finger into the air everytime I wanted to hammer a point home. Because, dammit, I had points to make. Finally Brade, hoping to curve my ranting, looked at me and said "Why are you so worked up about an argument you had with idiots on the internet?". He probably also threw around that saying about how you aren't suppposed to argue with idiots on the internet because they'll just drag you down to their level and beat you with experience…or something like that. He tends to make blunt points that are hard to defend that way.
I shut up. Or at least ceased stomping and ranting and reverted to mumbling under my breath to the dog – at least she would give me her undivided attention…as long as I was with food in the kitchen anyhow. The truth is, I didn't really have an answer to Brade's question. Why was I so worked up about what these people thought?
Was it because I respected them and they offended me? Was it because I felt looked down upon? Was it because I felt that they were being narrow minded and wanted to expand their minds? Was it because I felt the need to defend and justify a decision that had no effect whatsoever on people outside of our guild?
Unable to come up with a solid answer to Brade's question, I eventually just let it go and moved on. Ever flowing water passing under the bridge.
Until last night.
Holiday weeks are often hard to schedule. You either end up having to adjust your raid nights, or adjust your raid time to accomodate for the holiday. Generally we try to give enough advance notice that we shift one of our raid days to compensate – if we can't do that, we end up with a short raid week. This particular holiday week was also coupled with a patch making it even more difficult to deal with.
Our regular raid schedule excludes Tuesdays, meaning that we do not raid on that night. It is also the night that we generally will add a raid night to in order to compensate for a holiday if needed. However, with Tuesday being a patch day we opted not to try and deal with potentially unstable servers, patch day woes, and everything that is packaged with all that. (Hey, how were we to know that this would be the smoothest patch WoW has seen in 6 years?). Instead we decided that we would run our full 25 man raid on Wed/Thurs/Sun – and then, knowing that we would not have a full 25 available to raid on July 4, we would take advantage of the "flexible lockout" system and run a 10 man Monday to work on anything we hadn't killed in the prior three days. I mean, being able to swap to a 10 man when you don't have 25 available was one of the key things that Blizzard touted as a benefit to this new system, was it not?
As it turns out, the only thing that we didn't kill on Sunday was Ragnaros. We were close. Just needed to shore up our Phase 2 to Phase 3 transition – but we just ran out of time. I have no doubt that had we had our full raid on Monday we would have worked through it and finished it out easily. However, Monday was a holiday, and with family and friends being important to us, we kept to our original plan of running the scheduled 10 man.
We killed Ragnaros on Monday.
I should have been excited. I should have been proud. I should have been happy. Only instead of having the feelings that I should have had – all I could think about was that stupid fucking twitter conversation from the other day. All I could think of was being told that I "cheesed" content by legitimately killing it on 10 man rather than on 25 – and then in the same breath being told that if I took my raid back to kill it "legitimately" on 25s after firelands came out it wouldn't matter because it wasn't "relevant". (Really? There is just no winning that one). All I could think about was the potential grief of going into hard modes on 25s this coming raid week with a 10 man Ragnaros kill taking us there.
It's not because we we're gunning for "rankings" (they are unimportant to us as a guild, and we aren't a "contender" for anything even if they were) or trying to "prove" ourselves, but rather because it is what is next for the team as a whole as far as "progression" is concerned. It's not as if we don't fully intend to finish out Ragnaros in our 25 this week for a "proper" 25s kill – but not working in new progression this week just so we can gun to Ragnaros an kill it on 25s would also leave us with a whole lot of wasted raid time on our hands.
And you know what? It was about at this juncture, as I found myself trying to justify our decision, that I realized that I was the one being the idiot.
By continuing to dwell on this asinine conversation I was effectively giving the power to define my fun to someone that has no bearing or right to determine if I am having fun or not. The question that I should have been asking isn't "what will these people think", but rather "did we do the right thing for our guild". And you know what? I do have an answer to that question: You're damned right we did.
Who Defines Fun?
The truth of the matter is that no one person or team has the right, or can really effectively, determine what is fun for another person or team. Everyone will have something different that triggers their "fun" button, and in all honesty it is really no one else's place to judge what that is for anyone but themselves. While this seems logical (at least to me), in reality it doesn't always play out as smoothly. I feel, to an extent, this fallacy boils down to respect. I mean is it really so hard to acknowledge that the same thing will not always float everyone's boat? It is really that hard to respect that just because you made one choice, it does not obligate others to make the same choice or find value in the same things?
Let me see if I can give a practical example.
A while back I did a post on Heroic Ascendant Council. I stated pretty point blank that I felt phase two of the fight was miserable and that it was not fun for me. In fact I did this in several venues. I felt that while one person's mistakes should be felt by your raid, that one mistake should not obliviate your raid's efforts. That, for me, that particular kind of play did not exemplify team effort nor was it particularly enjoyable. However, in a response to my post a commenter posted that he disagreed with me. That he liked the brutal-ness of the phase, and throughly enjoyed how it easily picked out what he felt were the "bad" players from the "good".
Now, while I may disagree with him, I also respect that he found the encounter enjoyable. I don't think him less of a player or a person because he found fun in something that I did not. For me, the fight was a nightmare. For me it was the opposite of fun. There were points that I'd have rather repeatedly slammed my hand into a car door than muster up the words "let's get back quickly and take another pull". And that's perfectly fine! I don't deny that the commenter found the encounter fun – I, personally, just didn't find it enjoyable. We each had a different opinion on what was "fun" and I don't think that there is anything wrong with that!
What Constitutes "Fun".
I think part of the problem is that there are so many different variations of what people consider fun, that it's hard to pinpoint any one thing to exemplify a general consensus of what is "fun". Then again, I don't know that we should try to pigeon hole a single definition of fun and make it fit for everyone either. People just don't work that way.
To a good number of people what is "fun" to them is being at the pinnacle of bleeding edge content. It's being ranked and having that ranking to prove that you are one of the best. However, truth be told, in the big picture of things it's truly a minority of guilds/people that find this ranking "game" fun or put a lot of stock into it. In fact, I think I'd wager to say that aside from perhaps a few on-server rivalries, most players/guilds don't really put a whole lot of weight into World or US "rank". And following that logic, I think that it's fair to say that the majority of guilds don't make decisions based solely on "winning" the rankings, but rather make decisions on what they think is best for their raid team and/or what is fun for them individually.
I think that if you took a poll of a diverse cross section of the raiding community in WoW you would find that most people think that "killing new internet dragons" tops their "fun" list – regardless of the time frame it takes to slaughter said dragon or who else kills the dragon before or after them. I think you would also find that most people would find wiping repeatedly with no progress to be "unfun". I suspect that you would find a whole slew of different responses to questions like "what is your favorite encounter" or "what is your least favorite encounter". I propose to you that is because everyone has a different definition of exactly what makes something fun for them.
And that is okay.
There is no "wrong" or "right" way to have fun. I think that it's important to understand, recognize and respect that there are different definitions of fun. Just as I think it's important not to force your own particular standards of fun onto others who may not want them. Because when push comes to shove each individual should define their own standards of fun and do what is best for them, and it's really no one else's place to tell them that they are wrong in that definition because in reality it has no impact on anyone other than the person looking for fun.
Does It Make Your Big Toe Hurt?
My mother would ask me as a child when I was nosing into someone else's business (generally where I didn't belong) "Does it make your big toe hurt?". And when I would reply "no", her response was always "then why do you care". It may seem silly, but at the end of the day it's these words of wisdom from my mother that I found myself falling back when seeking an answer to Brade's question. Why did I care? In fact, why did anyone in that stupid conversation care? So, I ask all of you, when you are considering someone else's actions in game, especially if they are different from yours: "Does it make your big toe hurt"? And if you answer as I did when I was a child – then I would simply reply "then why do you care".


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The key section of the SLENZ Project's Second Life Midwifery Education Birth Unit build is also to be made available shortly.
The announcement of the availability of the Foundation Learning Build was made today by the SLENZ Project's Lead Developer Aaron Griffiths (SL: Isa Goodman) on a newly setup blog, The SLENZ Project Technical Blog, where Griffiths plans to discuss the ongoing development of the two builds following completion of the SLENZ Project.
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The build, which has been made available for pickup, includes textures, animations and scripts for the Skill Mastery Hyperdome with all rezzable scenes (including the Stairway of Learning) and the private interview room teleporters. All build items are full permissions except for a few clothing items, some hair provided for the Hyperdome shop, and a few seating animations.
"The build items are provided inside a 60 x 80 metre megaprim base (SLENZ Foundation Studies Rez Base) and can be rezzed from this base once it is positioned." Griffiths said.
The SLENZ Hyperdome, a holodeck, contains a number of rezzable scenes designed to help students learn and practise interview techniques as well as prepare for real life job or tertiary study interviews.
The Stairway of Learning is a dual staircase surrounding the Hyperdome and is designed to deliver learning information about interview preparation. The "private interview room" teleporters, placed near the front of the Hyperdome, allow individual, supervisor-configurable, interview rooms to be rezzed on demand for students to practice in.
The SLENZ Project which ran for 18 months was financed by the Tertiary Education Commission of New Zealand. It was designed to determine whether there were any benefits from using Virtual Worlds for education and to establish how those benefits could be harnessed.
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Berlin, North Dakota is a small town in Lamoure County in southeastern North Dakota. Although many of the structures which once existed in Berlin are now gone (the school for one), there are some impressive structures still standing. Sabrina Hornung contributed a few photos of Berlin in 2011. In the summer of 2012 we were able to get to Berlin and capture these photos for ourselves.
This old fire station is in quite good condition. Hopefully someone has plans to maintain and/or restore this because the old fire stations are rapidly disappearing from North Dakota's dwindling small towns.
Berlin Legion Post 206
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Discredited stem cell scientist Woo Suk Hwang suffered a setback in his bid to reclaim respectability today when South Korea's Supreme Court confirmed his conviction on embezzlement and bioethics violations. The court also sent Hwang's plea to overturn his dismissal from Seoul National University (SNU) back to a lower court for review and upheld previous rulings acquitting him of fraud charges.
The ruling comes 2 weeks after Hwang scored a victory of sorts in gaining a U.S. patent for a purportedly cloned human embryonic stem cell line.
Hwang claimed to have made several breakthroughs in embryonic stem cell research that proved to be based on fabricated data. In a February 2004 Science paper, Hwang's team announced the first stem cell line derived from a cloned human embryo. Then in May 2005, they reported the creation of several stem cell lines matched to specific patients. After questions emerged about the results, an SNU investigating panel concluded in December 2005 that there was no evidence to support the second Science paper; in its January 2006 final report, the panel stated that the data and images in the first Science paper too were fabricated. That month, Hwang publicly admitted that both Science papers were bogus, though he laid the blame on junior researchers. Both papers were immediately retracted, and SNU fired him in March. In October 2009, a trial court convicted him of embezzling research funds by using falsified data and of illegally buying human eggs for his research, but cleared him of fraud. The court imposed a 2-year suspended prison sentence. An appeals court upheld that verdict but trimmed the sentence to 18 months. (Hwang did not serve time in prison.) "Manipulating scientific data in papers cannot escape strict punishment," the high court wrote in today's decision upholding the appeals court ruling.
Hwang's dismissal from SNU has proved to be a thornier legal issue. In November 2011, an appeals court found that the decision to fire him was "excessively heavy." The Supreme Court disagreed, and sent the case back to the appeals court for review in light of Hwang's now-finalized criminal convictions. SNU did not issue an official statement, but an unnamed university source quoted in a news agency report said that even if the appeals court were to find new grounds for supporting Hwang's position on his dismissal, his conviction on embezzlement and bioethics charges means that his relationship with SNU "has virtually ended."
Since the scandal, Hwang, 61 and a veterinarian by training, has been working at the Seoul-based Sooam Biotech Research Foundation, concentrating on cloning animals, particularly dogs. One of his genuine accomplishments was being the first to clone a dog. Hwang could not be reached for comment.
On 11 February, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded Hwang and his former team a patent for the cloned human embryonic stem cell line of the sort described in the first Science paper. This came as a surprise, as the consensus view in the scientific community is that the stem cell line was not produced through cloning, but rather resulted from an unfertilized egg that started developing into an embryo, a phenomenon known as parthenogenesis. But the patent seemed to raise Hwang's hopes of rehabilitation. In a rare interview carried in The Dong-A Ilbo newspaper on 24 February, Hwang said he wanted to resume work on human stem cells, telling the paper: "I ask the Seoul government and the Korean people to give me just one more chance." Today's ruling dims his chances of resuming work on human cells.


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Andrew Breitbart So Mad at MSM, He Tells MSM
"The conservative online news entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart is, for the moment, doing little to dispel stereotypes about bloggers." Now why does that sentence end with the word "bloggers" and not "conservative assholes with persecution complexes"?
Oh, because this is Liberal NPR, and they are concerned with that old "objectivity" thing, which in this case means "not calling a bullshit artist a bullshit artist."
Breitbart, it may surprise you to learn, continues to not understand that his li'l protege James O'Keefe should not actually be subject to special treatment because he is not brown.
"MSNBC and The Washington Post, you know, go nuts trying to grant terrorists at a time of war all of the rights under the world, while James O'Keefe gets arrested ... and they're already framing him,"
Oh, Andrew. First of all, MSNBC and The Washington Post are not actually in charge of the Justice Department or the Louisiana police. If you are concerned that, as you claim, your friend was held without access to a lawyer for 28 hours, you should perhaps blame not socialist Attorney General Eric Holder, but rather structural problems with the goddamn criminal justice system. If you don't like the way the media presumed the guilt of your little sidekick, maybe you should blame the Law and Order Conservatives who've inculcated in the mass media a worshipful reverence for word of the police and an inherent distrust of slimy defense attorneys and other advocates for filthy criminals.
Anyway! In case you were wondering, Andrew Breitbart still hates the MSM that continues to give him so much publicity for his pet projects.


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Stressing partnership and cooperation, Vice President Joe Biden opened a new chapter in American foreign affairs at a major conference of allies in Germany, offering talks with Iran and a bid to "reboot" troubled Russian relations.
But members of the White House foreign-policy team, including national security adviser Gen. James Jones, also issued an appeal to move urgently on Afghanistan, which General Jones says is "not simply an American problem, but an international problem."
The double-edged message was received with deep appreciation – and soberness. The new US president is well-liked in Europe, but support is weak for sending combat troops to Afghanistan. The issue could be deeply divisive; but for now, the Hotel Bayerischer Hof, where the summit was held, at times felt like a diplomatic lovefest.
France is rejoining NATO, German and French relations have come out of a funk, and Russia reacted warmly to US promises to take a fresh approach to relations with Moscow – despite President Obama's intentions to continue pursuing a controversial missile shield in Eastern Europe.
Speaking Saturday to an audience of top European leaders, including German chancellor Angela Merkel, French president Nicolas Sarkozy, and leaders of NATO, Mr. Biden said that the US would not act alone overseas, would not sacrifice its values for its security, and would address climate change. He spoke of a "new tone – rooted in partnerships ... that is not a luxury, but a necessity."
On Sunday, however, Gen. Jones told representatives of nations that have troops in Afghanistan that the current approach to the eight-year war "doesn't match the urgency required," and implied the Obama team was not going to sit on its hands. In coming months, a revamped National Security Agency will be in a "continuous and rapid consultation" with allies on Afghanistan solutions, to reshape NATO to be more proactive at a "crossroads of history.... we cannot afford failure."
A certain "Obama factor" was behind much of the reaction here. "If someone from the Bush team told us this, we would immediately disagree," said Jochen Bittner, a columnist for Germany's Die Zeit newspaper, "it would be rejected. But this is different. We have to listen."
John Kornblum, businessman and the former US ambassador to Germany, says the Munich summit is about "a righting of relations with Europe." The US delegation, he says, "said all the right things. I wouldn't underestimate how beaten up the Europeans have felt, diplomatically."
The Munich summit has been convened annually since the 1970s, when most of the discussion centered on arms control. In recent years, the forum has highlighted political tensions, as in 2003 when German foreign minister Joschka Fischer and US defense chief Donald Rumsfeld clashed over whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. In 2007, Russia's Vladimir Putin outlined a new, more assertive position on Russia's neighbors, and vehemently opposed NATO expansion. Last year, the US delegation walked out during a talk by Iranian head of parliament Ali Larijani.
This year, Mr. Larijani spoke without a walkout – though he was conspicuously absent during Biden's speech. While Larijani detailed years of Iranian grievances: a double-standard on nuclear accession by the West, and the travails of the people of Gaza in the recent war there – considered a requirement for a domestic audience in Iran – his speech was also studded with clear openings to the new American administration, saying that it was time to "build bridges."
Robert Hunter, former US ambassador to NATO, pointed out that the delegation from Tehran was far larger than expected and that the Europeans were finding "some enthusiasm in Larijani's statements, like the one that there is a 'golden opportunity for the United States' at this moment."
Regarding Russia, Biden affirmed an effort to take up the Start 2 arms-control talks that expire this year. He said it is "time to press the reset button" on Russia-US relations," but added that the Obama team would not agree with Russia on everything and "will not recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states." The two regions of Georgia were recognized by Moscow after the war in Georgia last summer, and Moscow is said to be eyeing Abkhazia as a warm-water port.
Last week, Russia offered more than $2 billion in economic blandishments to persuade Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev to order the closure of the US airbase at Manas, a major staging point for supplies to Afghanistan and the last remaining American outpost in former Soviet Central Asia.
"The message here speaks directly to the state of US-Russia relations," says Andrey Fedorov, political project director of the nongovernmental Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, a Moscow think tank. "We want to support the NATO mission in Afghanistan, and we have many common goals. But the US needs to understand that they must negotiate with Russia if they want to establish an alternative supply route to Afghanistan through former Soviet territory."
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said his country was eager "to start anew," with the US, but he offered no immediate concessions on contentious issues. "It is not an Oriental bazaar," Mr. Ivanov said in a news conference Sunday, "And we do not trade the way people do in the bazaars."
Ivanov also repeated Moscow's plans to install Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad if the US pushes forward on an antiballistic missile shield. President Obama has said he would continue to pursue the shield, which is meant to protect against possible missiles from Iran, if the system proves reliable. Ivanov suggested a joint effort using Russian radar.
US officials privately said that the Munich summit is simply an opening up, a getting-to-know-the-allies moment, and that the Obama administration is just getting started with a number of 60-day policy reviews. More specifics and even conclusions are expected in April at a NATO 60th anniversary summit.
Ulrike Guérot, of the European Council of Foreign Relations in Berlin says: "This seems a new 'can-do' administration and they want to cooperate with Russia. Biden is saying Russia is not nice, but we need to work with them. It is a new kind of language, and people were just basking in it."
Leading up to the April meeting, US officials are expected to make stronger pushes for more troops and equipment for Afghanistan – requests that could very well reduce Obama's glimmer in Europe. For now, though, leaders here are happy to hear the new president's message of cooperation, says Ralf Fuecks, head of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin.
"The main signal of the meeting here is good will," he says. "You can just feel it in the room, you can feel the relief, and it is a feeling that hasn't been here for some time. We want to be spoken to as partners. But that doesn't mean Europeans will be willing to offer at lot more troops for Afghanistan."


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Arkansas House speaker won't run for governor
Arkansas House Speaker Davy Carter says he won't seek the Republican nomination for governor next year.
Carter announced Friday he won't be joining the gubernatorial race. Carter said last month he might seek the Republican nomination.
Carter was elected House speaker last year after Republicans won control of the state Legislature in the November election. The 38-year-old has served in the state Legislature since 2009.
During this year's legislative session, Carter advocated for a plan to expand health coverage to low-income residents using federal funds. Republicans were sharply divided over the "private option," touted as an alternative to expanding Medicaid.
Former U.S. Rep. Asa Hutchinson, state Rep. Debra Hobbs and Little Rock businessman Curtis Coleman are seeking the GOP nomination.


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We last left a mythical board of a synagogue/school with a question: "Would changing lights in the building result in a real 78 per cent cost savings?"
Readers posted comments on The CJN website, including a City of Toronto representative and a lighting company (http://www.cjnews.com/node/90060#disqus_thread).
However, the most interesting observations, unrecorded on the website, came from a team of middle school junior energy auditors from the Toronto Montessori Jewish Day School, where learning is facilitated through self-discovery, using guided conversations and experiments.
The conversation started with a video that looked at the science behind climate change and ways to reduce energy generation requirements by changing consumption habits (http://bit.ly/climatereality-billnye).
The students, who were split into junior energy auditor teams, developed an understanding of their own family's consumption patterns, with each team contributing data on the number of family members at home and the size of the home. They also pulled data from their family's electricity and gas bills.
The teams then compiled a table of monthly consumption numbers, sharing the information they had. By putting numbers side by side, the students saw patterns emerge, and this prompted a discussion about kilowatt hours and consumption.
Why do two same-sized houses with an equal number of occupants have different consumption patterns? Did this apply to schools and synagogues, too?
In the home discussion, big-screen TVs, refrigerators, washer/dryers, dishwashers, microwaves and electronic chargers were identified as devices that consume electricity. The light bulb discussion led to an expedition to the school building and the synagogue that houses it. The students counted the number of fluorescent lights that consumed electricity in two portable classrooms. Moving to the main synagogue building, they were confronted with multiple lighting types and many incandescent, compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs), warm lights, cool lights, spotlights and chandelier bulbs. They asked how long the lights were left on, how long the bulbs would last, how long it takes to change a bulb and the effects of esthetics due to different light colours.Back in the classroom, the students started to put it together: how much lighting was there in the school versus the synagogue, how long were the lights left on and how does that build up to kilowatt hours, and how is the school charged for energy consumption within its monthly rent?
However, unlike at home, there was no utility bill the junior energy auditors could look at to see the total kilowatt hours consumed.
Without that bill, the students concluded there was no incentive or monetary value for the school to conserve energy, as there was no way to quantify the impact. They did see the value of conserving energy at home where behaviour changes could be tracked to quantified consumption reductions.
The Montessori learning method helped students experience first-hand a systemic Jewish community issue, the non-transparency of energy data. Would making consumption data visible to a tenant/school, leading to reduced consumption/operating costs, be a disadvantage to a landlord/synagogue by leading to reduced revenues?
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The Wind in the Willows Analysis
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In contrast to his earlier stories and tales featuring human children, Kenneth Grahame used animal characters to express his feelings and often dichotomous views of his society. Their mother's early death, followed by desertion by an alcoholic father, resulted in the Grahame children being shunted from family member to family member. Therefore, the concept of a stable, permanent home as a refuge from the world is important to each character. Food and shared meals also have symbolic pertinence.
Denied by his uncle the Oxford University education he assumed would lead to a literary career, Grahame entered the world of banking. Although he rose to become secretary of the Bank of England, he retained resentment against the mercantilism of the time. Always the repressed bohemian, he counteracted the real world of encroaching blight and social upheaval by creating an Arcadian world in which loyalty and friendship are paramount, evil is readily recognized and ultimately overcome, and tranquillity through connectedness with nature reigns supreme.
Several chapters are particularly relevant to understanding how Grahame worked out his inner conflicts in the novel. Attracted to the "Southern mystique," he made many journeys to locales less strictly structured than his own. In "Wayfarers All," Rat entertains a passing Sea Rat and, enthralled by the wanderer's tales, is ready to start a new life by migrating. Mole, however, restrains him and effects a "cure" by encouraging him to write poetry instead.
"The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" is more complicated. Rat and Mole set out on the river to find Otter's missing child, little Portly. Following the haunting music of pipes, they discover Portly sleeping between the hooves of Pan. They are in awe and actually "worship the Friend and Helper," making clear Grahame's deep spiritual commitment to pantheism.
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James Howell
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Mr. James N. Howell graduated from Michigan Tech in 1965 with a Chemical Engineering degree and subsequently attended the Thomas Cooley Law School of Lansing in 1975. Upon graduation, Mr. Howell joined the Dow Corning Corporation where he was active in environmental engineering and regulatory areas. He joined the Environmental Regulations and Enforcement Division of the State of Michigan in 1972 and the National Steel Corporation in 1975 as Director of Environmental Affairs, Midwest Division.
Throughout his career, Mr. Howell held many progressively responsible and important positions including Vice President of Environmental, Energy and Public Affairs (1981), Vice President of Engineering and Process Products Technology for National Steel (1983), Vice President and General Manager of the Great Lakes Division (1986). In 1991, he was appointed Vice President, Operations of National Steel Corporation and also served as President of ProCoil, a joint venture of National Steel and Japan's Marubeni Corporation. In 1993, he was appointed Senior Vice President and CEO for National Steel. He left National Steel in 1994 to found and develop U.S. Stainless Company. Mr. Howell is president and CEO of U.S. Stainless, a company with production planned at 3000,000 tons/yr. of flat rolled sheet product.
Mr. Howell is associated with the Southern Wayne County Chamber of Commerce, the Economic Club of Detroit, the Water Pollution Control Association and the Air Pollution Control Association. He is a member of the American Iron and Steel Institute, the American Iron and Steel Engineers, the Michigan Fund board of trustees, and he is a member of the Presidents Club. He was awarded the Menorah Award of the Michigan Trade Union Council for Histadrut in 1991.
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7-foot brothers Jordan and Dallin Bachynski face off in ASU-Utah
Visitors to the Bachynski household in Calgary, Alberta, are greeted by something that, at first glance, might not seem so unique: A tall, wooden measuring stick.
But take a closer look.
Both sides are filled with marks from pens and markers, listing heights and dates. Jordan's side starts when he was four and a half years old and four feet tall. Dallin's side starts at age three, and three feet, three and a half inches tall.
The stick stands at 7-foot-1, now barely tall enough for Dallin, a junior center at Utah who checks in at seven feet. Jordan can't fit anymore; the Arizona State senior center now measures at 7-foot-2.
"We kind of just imagine where Jordan is on the stick," says John, their father.
The markings tell a story of steady growth – about three inches per year – and some spurts. The size of the stick tells what John and his wife, Yolanda, will say: They couldn't have known how big their boys would end up.
They did know, however, that they'd likely be somewhat tall. John is 6-5, and Yolanda is 6-2. Jordan and Dallin's sister, Jessica, is 6-1 ("She made the six foot cutoff, so we're keeping her," John says.)
On Thursday night, Jordan and Dallin will face each other again, their second meeting as members of Pac-12 foes. Last January, in their first matchup, Jordan's Sun Devils bested the Utes, 55-54 in overtime.
This year, Jordan enters the matchup as the conference's best shot-blocker – he'll break the Pac-12 career record with 17 more – and a key piece of a team hoping to nab an NCAA tournament bid. Arizona State coach Herb Sendek calls Jordan one of the most improved players in the country in the last four years and says Jordan "just has an uncanny ability to have timing when it comes to blocking shots."
Jordan leads the nation with 4.5 blocks per game. His 81 blocks on the season are more than 258 teams have. A talented shot-blocker last year, too, Jordan set the Pac-12 individual season record with 120 on the year.
What will be different in this brother-to-brother matchup is Dallin's role with the Utes.
"Last year, I didn't play against (Jordan) for so many minutes," Dallin says. "This year, it's a little more nerve-wracking for me because it's going to be more than just five minutes on the floor against each other."
A key reserve averaging six points and five rebounds in 16 minutes a game after an up-and-down season last year, Dallin has become "probably our highest-energy player," Utah coach Larry Krystkowiak says now.
Dallin says he's improved his approach to the game and his approach to his role within it. Krystkowiak refers to that as Dallin "freeing up his mind."
"He's playing with confidence, and that's the toughest thing to teach basketball players," Jordan says. "If you play scared, like scared to make mistakes, you're not going to be pushing the envelope, working hard to get better. In order to get better or play phenomenally, you are going to have to make mistakes. ... That's something Dallin has definitely embraced."
Both brothers certainly understand the importance of the mental part of basketball. When they were younger and struggling with the idea of playing aggressively on the court, one of their mother's friends suggested an idea: Give each boy an on-court alter ego.
So, Jordan became Wolverine (from X-Men), and Dallin became Batman.
"We're both nice guys off the court," Jordan says. "That's something I pride myself in, being a nice guy, treating people around me how I wanted to be treated. You can't really do that if you want to be successful on the basketball court.
"You have to flip a switch and turn into someone completely different."
Both brothers say their superhero alter egos have turned into a bit of a running joke in the family, and still get brought up.
Theirs is a tight-knit family, and, for the first time in at least a handful of years, all three Bachynski children -- plus Jordan's wife, Malia -- made it home to Calgary for Christmas. Between each brother serving a two-year Mormon mission (Jordan to south Florida, Dallin to Croatia) and various other reasons like school schedules, it's been tough to get everyone home at the same time.
They made the most of it. Like they did when they were little, they built a quinzee, which is essentially a snow fort. Their father used a bobcat to help dump a pile of snow seven foot tall in one place; they dug out the middle from there.
"It's actually pretty warm once you get in there, as long as you don't have snow in your boots or anything," Dallin says.
Of course, with multiple seven-footers to fit in there, it had to be a bit bigger than the quinzees they built when they were younger.
"Also because, well, go big or go home," Dallin says, laughing. And in this family, it's always better to go big.


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