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Don't call them angels.
Far from angelic, Miley Cyrus, Ariana Grande and Lana Del Rey are three dark forces whose paths you seriously won't want to cross in the visual teaser for their new collaboration, "Don't Call Me Angel." In the flash preview, which arrived Tuesday (September 10), the singers each sport black outfits decked out with devilish matching wings while strutting their stuff with the nonchalant sass of a Mean Girls trio.
The visual comes weeks after receiving snippets from the trio's new record, which will soundtrack the upcoming Elizabeth Banks-directed movie Charlie's Angels (opening in theaters November 15), starring Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, and Ella Balinska as the new angels in charge. While little of the song has been heard, lyric-wise, Grande and Cyrus — who once paired up to cover Crowded House's "Don't Dream It's Over" years ago — announced their new project would officially premiere on Friday (September 13).
It's by no coincidence that Lana, Miley, and Ari were tapped to lead the original motion picture soundtrack, as Banks previously expressed her love for each of the ladies. "I'm thrilled that three of my favorite artists ended up doing a song for the film," the actress told PEOPLE. "It's really exciting. I can't wait for people to see it, actually in full, in the film and to hear it when the single drops."
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'Glee': 100th Episode Was 'Emotional' & 'Odd' Without Cory Monteith
On March 18, 'Glee' will reach it's hundredth episode, and while the network brought back the original New Directions for the celebration, one song was heartbreaking to sing without Cory.
In a new interview, co-creator and executive producer Brad Falchuk revealed that while the cast is excited to take on some of the best Glee hits ever on the hundredth episode, it wasn't easy to perform "Don't Stop Believin'" without Cory Monteith. The song was the first and last that Rachel (Lea Michele) and Finn performed together.
'Glee' 100th Episode Is 'Emotional' Without Cory
"It's emotional. It'd odd doing this song without Cory," Brad told The Hollywood Reporter. "You notice it. I notice it. There is a feeling when you hear that song and see all those people singing it that you really get a sense of what's come before it."
The episode's performance of the Journey classic was filmed on Feb. 24, he added — the sixth time the show has covered it. "It's a life flashes before your eyes type thing," he added. "The song is evocative anyway, and then our version becomes personal and when we see them all up there doing it, it's emotional."
The song was the first song on Glee's season one soundtrack and was performed in the Pilot episode by the originals in the club — Rachel, Finn, Artie (Kevin McHale), Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz), Mercedes (Amber Riley) and Kurt (Chris Colfer). During season four, Rachel sang the song for her "Funny Girl" audition after Finn advised her to, and flashed back to that original performance. This was the last time we saw Finn before Cory's death.
Rachel & Finn: Why They Were Supposed To End Up Together
After Cory's death, Ryan Murphy and Brad worked to figure out a new ending, since they had it planned out around Rachel and Finn. Brad says they're working hard to figure out what to do now.
"The Rachel-Finn relationship was the show in many ways," Brad told THR. "We've talked about it before, about how it represented these two worlds coming together and how it represented these two high school stories about not belonging and people feeling like they belong because they've found each other. That's what that relationship is about, and we can't tell that story. We're still going to tell that story, we're just going to find a different way to do it. And we'll do our best."
Well, as a Gleek myself, I know they'll make it good! Here's the full list of songs the cast will be performing on the hundredth episode:
"Keep Holding On:" Puck (Mark Salling)
"Valerie:" Santana (Naya Rivera) and Brittany (Heather Morris)
"Defying Gravity:" Rachel, Kurt & Mercedes
"Raise Your Glass:" Will (Matthew Morrison) and April (Kristin Chenoweth)
"Toxic:" Santana, Brittany & Quinn (Dianna Agron)
"Happy:" Holly (Gwyneth Paltrow), April, Will, Blaine (Darren Criss) & Mercedes
"Party All the Time:" Holly
"Total Eclipse of the Heart:" Will & April
"Loser Like Me:" Blaine, Artie, Sam (Chord Overstreet) and Tina
"Be Okay:" Rachel & Santana
"I Am Changing:" Mercedes & Kurt
"Just Give Me a Reason:" Quinn & Puck
"Don't Stop Believin:" Rachel, Blaine, Kurt, Will, Artie Tina
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Karen Rand seriously injured in Monday's explosion
Monday's bombings at the Boston Marathon has cost one former Mainer her left leg.
The family of Karen Rand, who is originally from Westbrook, said her shrapnel wounds were so severe that her leg could not be saved.
Rand is being treated at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Her brother told News 8's Steve Minich that doctors made the decision Thursday morning to remove her leg.
She was standing at the finish line with her friend, Krystle Campbell, when a bomb went off. Campbell died.
Just before her surgery on Thursday, she met with President Barack Obama.
Obama visited the hospital after the interfaith service. He met with all 10 victims being treated at Mass General.
Rands brother said the visit was extremely uplifting, and that's what the hospital said about the president's hour-long visit to all the victims.
"I'm not going to relay the details of what they discussed, but it was extremely uplifting for them and in some ways incredibly inspiring that he would take time out to visit them and honestly have a sincere conversation with all these folks who were hurt," said trauma surgeon Dr. David King.
Later Thursday afternoon, the FBI released photos of two men they are looking for in connection with the bombings.


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Tough: Virginia's new DUI laws
Drunk driving got a little bit more dangerous July 1– for the drunks doing the driving.
Just before July 4– a holiday more deadly than New Year's Eve, according to safety experts– Virginia enacted 25 new laws in an effort to show no mercy to drinkers who get behind the wheel.
And Delegate Rob Bell, who carried five of those bills, has emerged as the poster boy in the campaign to take back the streets.
"If you drink and drive in Virginia, we will catch you, and we will convict you," he warns. "The goal is not to lock people up. The goal is to get them off the road."
The laws focuses on repeat offenders by stiffening penalties, and even confiscating the vehicle of a DUI driver with three or more offenses in the past 10 years who is the sole owner of the car.
But even first offenders can do time. The single most important bill, thinks Bell, is the "super drunk" law, which makes jail time mandatory– even for first-time offenders– if they have a blood alcohol content, or BAC, of .15, down from .20. Not only is the drinker looking at a minimum of five days in jail, but once he's out, his car will be outfitted with an ignition interlock that keeps the car from starting until after a breath test.
So how many drinks does it take to make someone a super drunk? Six drinks in an hour on an empty stomach for a 180-pound man, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. "This is not social drinking," says NTSB's Danielle Roeber.
"At .15 you find 'em pretty lit," agrees Bell. And in 2001, 8,200 of those arrested for DUIs in Virginia had blood alcohol levels between .15 and .20.
Other additions to the law books:
- Refusing to take a breath or blood test when under arrest for a second DUI is now a misdemeanor, in addition to other penalties. You still automatically lose your license for a year with no option for restricted license the first time you refuse to blow.
- Offenders using a restricted license with even a hint of alcohol on their breaths– .02– lose their licenses for a year.
- Repeat offenders with convictions in the past five years can forget about bail.
- A DUI goes on your criminal record, instead of just on your driving record.
- And it'll cost more all around, including possible restitution for emergency services and contributions to a Trauma Center Fund.
Bell insists he has no traumatic run-in with a drunk driver in his past– except when he worked as a prosecutor in Orange County. "Early in my tenure, I had two cases that involved drunk driving fatalities," he explains. "It brings it home when you're talking to the person affected, much more than dry statistics do."
At the same time, "I'm not saying don't drink," he insists. "Boyfriends will always beat up girlfriends. People will always drink. But this is preventable. Get as drunk as you want. Just don't drive."
Some work still needs to be done to get the word out about the harsher penalties. Last year between July 1 and 4, Albemarle had no DUI arrests. This year for the same period, it had four.
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If you followed our coverage of the IFA trade show last week, you'll know that the most intriguing Windows 8 and Windows RT hardware on display came with a common mantra: available October 26, pricing information to follow.
While that was true of just about every one of the not-very-tablety tablets and intriguing but sometimes bizarre convertible designs, many of the touchscreen all-in-one computers from Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo, and others have been shipping with Windows 7 for months, and the OEMs are taking the opportunity to relaunch the systems with a more touch-friendly operating system installed.
Lenovo sent us one of its IdeaCentre A720 all-in-ones, but rather than do a traditional review of the system, we installed Windows 8 RTM code on it to get some idea of what touch support brings to the desktop: is it something you won't want to live without, or is Windows 8 on the desktop still an awkward hybrid?
The hardware
We won't dwell much on the internals of the A720, since frankly there's not that much to say. It features a quad-core Ivy Bridge-based Intel processor (like many of the touch all-in-ones on display at IFA) paired with an NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M and a 27" 1920x1080 capacitive touchscreen with support for ten simultaneous inputs. The particular GPU in my A720 review unit is actually a rebranded last-generation GT 540M, and it's a sizable step down from the midrange GT 640M LE we saw in our review of Acer's Timeline M5 gaming Ultrabook. It will perform better with high-end games than the Intel integrated graphics in some all-in-ones, but this system obviously wasn't developed with the gamer in mind.
I would normally be the first to complain about a 1920x1080 resolution in a 27" all-in-one, but the A720 gives me two reasons not to: first, the system is equipped with an HDMI input, and its 1080p resolution (and optional TV tuner and remote control) means that it can easily do double-duty as a small television. Second, at the normal 100% scaling, 1080p at 27" is just about the right size to make UI elements on the Windows desktop—small buttons, checkboxes, and the other things we so detest having to touch on tablets—more finger-friendly. A 2560x1440 panel at 125 or 150 percent scaling would probably achieve the same effect and would be preferable for standard desktop use, though.
The A720's most distinguishing characteristic is probably the arm attaching the screen to the base of the computer—it doesn't swivel from left to right or pivot, but it's quite flexible otherwise and can fold down to be parallel to the base of the machine, which gives the IdeaCentre some versatility relative to the more basic stand or kickstand upon which most all-in-ones are perched.
The touch experience
The A720's touchscreen supports all of the standard touch gestures you'd find on a Windows 8 or Windows RT tablet—swipe in from the right to invoke the Charms menu, swipe from the left to switch between running applications, and swipe from the top or bottom to bring up various app-specific toolbars.
Though the touch gestures may prove a bit easier for neophytes to learn, using keyboard shortcuts or Hot Corners can generally invoke these UI elements more efficiently—it's much easier to return to the Start screen by pressing the Windows button than it is to swipe to invoke the Charms menu and then tap the Start button, for example, and this is why a Windows hardware button on the face of the device is a requirement for Windows 8 tablets. Learning the list of Windows 8 keyboard shortcuts will save you more time and trouble than a touchscreen ever will, though this is not something that most normal people will have the time or patience to do.
Typing with the touch keyboard also falls into the "possible but not necessary" category—since you're still using a desktop, there's very little reason to use the onscreen keyboard when you've got a physical keyboard right in front of you on the desk. If for some reason you do switch between the two of them, Windows handles everything in stride: tapping a text field with your finger will automatically invoke the touch keyboard, and typing on the physical keyboard will automatically dismiss it. You'll definitely want to go into the settings and enable the extended keyboard, since there's plenty of room for the wider layout—even then the touch keyboard doesn't take up the entire width of the screen on a 27" 1080p display, but it's a better use of the space than the standard keyboard.
Moving on from the core operating system, for a certain class of Windows 8 applications, touch support is not just preferable, but necessary: you can use a mouse with the Mail app or to play a game of Solitaire, but quick, touch-oriented games like Fruit Ninja or Cut the Rope feel a bit less precise when you're using a mouse rather than your fingers, and games designed for fingers do lose some of their immediacy when you remove the direct input.
The big gestures required by some of these games and apps brings to light one of my core complaints about the Windows 8 touch experience on an all-in-one, however: actions that on a tablet or smartphone require a quick flick of a thumb or finger require your entire arm to function on the larger screen, and you're often holding your arm out in front of you to interact with the screen on your desk, rather than having it in a more comfortable resting position. A game like Fruit Ninja or Cut the Rope—anything that requires repeated, sustained, or frantic interaction with the touchscreen—quickly goes from entertaining time-waster to arm-fatiguing aerobic exercise.
That said, applications that only require occasional input—scrolling through your inbox or tapping links on a page, for example—are a bit more workable. Using a mouse to perform these operations is often more efficient, but I can imagine certain use cases—if you're doing something else, but briefly want to refresh a page or load your Twitter stream without sitting down or interacting with the mouse or keyboard, for example—touch becomes a more useful (if still not indispensable) commodity.
The A720's flexible screen also gave me a chance to try Windows 8 from another perspective, though—if you're standing up and looking down at your screen, the touch experience becomes markedly better. Since your arms are in a more natural position, it's easier to use the system for an extended period of time, and motions that become tiresome quickly when sitting are considerably less so when standing. You probably wouldn't want to use a computer like this for an extended period of time at your desk, but it would be well-suited to Web kiosks or other special use cases.
At this point, touch support adds very little to the desktop computing experience. It falls firmly into the "nice to have" category—you certainly can play touch games and interact with touch-enabled applications this way, but for most general computing tasks the keyboard and mouse pairing is still the most efficient way to interface with your PC.
This has to do both with the 90 degree angle that you'll use when you reach out to touch a screen on your desk, and with the distance between the mouse and keyboard (where your hands usually are) and the screen itself—this will vary depending on your setup, but even a distance of a few inches can be irritating enough to discourage you from using the feature regularly. This part of the equation may change for convertible laptops and tablets with keyboard docks, where this distance is typically much smaller, but for an all-in-one or monitor sitting on a desk, touch is simply another accessory, not a necessity.
Where a large touchscreen acquits itself better is in other, less typical use cases—a touchscreen angled upward at about waist level is excellent for the mid-length browsing or play sessions that you might expect from a Web kiosk or other public-use computer, and while the starting-at-$1749 IdeaCentre A720 is a bit expensive for this use, there's plenty of room for cheaper systems purpose-built for these tasks. Things like the A720 or Sony's Tap 20 all-in-one-turned-mega-tablet could point the way forward to more versatile all-in-ones that do more to take advantage of the form factor.


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WASHINGTON (AP) During a nerve-racking season in which half their games were decided by one run, the Washington Nationals enjoyed a rare blowout that manager Davey Johnson begrudgingly acknowledged was ''a laugher.''
Gio Gonzalez allowed one run over seven innings and the Nationals hit a season-high three home runs in a 7-1 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday.
''We haven't won one of those in a while,'' Johnson said. ''It's not quite what I call a laugher. That's a smiler. We were hanging around, then we got a lead and added to it. It got to be a laugher.''
The first-place Nationals had played 13 one-run games, including three in a row, coming into Saturday's game against the depleted Phillies, who are without injured sluggers Ryan Howard and Chase Utley. After falling behind 1-0, Washington used a four-run fifth inning to take control.
Former Phillies star Jayson Werth hit a three-run drive, Chad Tracy connected with a man on and Ian Desmond had a solo shot for the Nationals, who have won seven straight over Philadelphia dating to last year. By taking the first two games of the three-game set, Washington improved to 8-1 in series play this season.
The seven runs matched a season high for the Nationals, who have won four straight, and the 15 hits were their most in a game this year.
''It was a good day,'' Desmond said. ''It was a nice day to go out and hit some balls on the barrel. If we play another one-run game tomorrow, so be it. We're just trying to collect wins.''
Rick Ankiel had three hits in a second consecutive game, and Tracy and Steve Lombardozzi also had three hits apiece for Washington. Rookie Bryce Harper went 0 for 4 with a walk, dropping his batting average 55 points to .261.
Gonzalez (3-1) gave up four hits, struck out seven and walked one. Acquired last December in a trade with Oakland, the left-hander has a 1.72 ERA in six starts this season and has yielded only three runs over the last 27 innings.
''Outstanding effort against a good-hitting club,'' Johnson said. ''He made it look easy.''
Gonzalez also played a key role at the plate, sparking the pivotal fifth inning with his second career hit, a leadoff double that set the tone for the afternoon and preceded Werth's third homer of the season.
''It was fun to see these guys swing the bat,'' Gonzalez said. ''You could see there was life in our dugout. All I was trying to do is keep us in the game and let our hitters go out and do their job.''
Philadelphia starter Vance Worley (2-2) gave up five runs and 11 hits in six innings. The right-hander was 2-0 with a 0.90 ERA in his previous three starts, and in this one he kept the Nationals at bay through four innings. But his inability to retire Gonzalez in the fifth proved to be his undoing.
''When he started the game I thought he had good stuff. Then he started making mistakes,'' Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said. ''He had trouble getting Gonzalez out.''
Carlos Ruiz drove in the lone run for the Phillies, who have lost six straight against left-handed starters and now trail the Nationals by 5 1/2 games in the NL East.
''They play like they have a chip on their shoulder,'' Philadelphia's Hunter Pence said.
''They got good starting pitching and guys that can hit,'' Manuel said. ''That's why they are in first place.''
Philadelphia took a 1-0 lead in the fourth. Shane Victorino hit a leadoff double, advanced on a fly ball and scored on a sacrifice fly by Ruiz, his team-high 19th RBI.
In the bottom half, Tracy doubled with one out and advanced on a two-out infield single before Wilson Ramos bounced out. It was the fourth straight inning that Washington got a runner in scoring position before Worley worked out of the trouble.
The Nationals broke the trend in a momentum-turning fifth that began when Gonzalez lined a 3-2 pitch into the gap in right-center. Prior to the hit, the pitcher was 1 for 17 in his career at the plate.
''It bothered me, but he had a good at-bat,'' Worley said.
With runners at the corners and one out, Harper hit a fly ball to left that was too short for Gonzalez to tag up. Two pitches later, however, Werth ripped a 1-0 pitch over the left-field wall into the Washington bullpen.
''He beat me. All there is to that,'' Worley said.
Tracy and Danny Espinoza followed with singles and Ankiel hit a run-scoring double, but Tracy was thrown out at the plate on the back end of the play.
Desmond homered in the sixth to make it 5-1 and Tracy hit his second of the season in the seventh.
NOTES: Nationals 3B Ryan Zimmerman (shoulder) expects to be activated from the disabled list on Tuesday. ... The Phillies send Cole Hamels (3-1) to the mound Sunday night in the series finale. Jordan Zimmermann (1-2) will pitch for Washington. ... The three HRs were tied for the most yielded in a game by Philadelphia this season.


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BEIRUT (Reuters) - A U.N. official said a Syrian refugee in Lebanon who doused herself with petrol and set herself alight after her aid was cut was a victim of a lack of funding for the world body's work.
The millionth Syrian refugee will register in Lebanon on Thursday, the U.N. refugee agency says, adding to the strain on a county of only 4 million which is struggling to stop the war from flooding into its territory.
Mariam al-Khawli, who fled Syria with her husband and four children two years ago, set herself on fire last week in frustration at living without the food and cash lifeline provided by the United Nations since August.
Her doctor, Gabriel al-Sabeh, said 70 percent of Khawli's body was now covered in burns and that she could remain in hospital for months if she survives.
Khawli husband is unable to work due to a lung abscess and three of her children have a blood condition and they had relied on the aid. Her story has become well known over the past days, after appearing in news outlets in Lebanon.
"We really got hungry ... but they burned my heart before they burned my body. They burned my heart from the inside," she told Reuters of how she regarded the U.N. cutback.
Ninette Kelley, regional representative for Lebanon at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, said: "Right now we have close to 1 million refugees and we are able to do a lot with the funding we receive but we simply do not have enough."
She said Khawli's case was "a very sorrowful reflection of the enormous desperation and need of the refugee community and it is also a telling reminder of the consequences of the Syrian emergency and the unfolding crisis here in Lebanon".
She said the agency had been in touch with Khawli's family "for many, many months", but gave no details of why the funds were cut or how many other families might have been affected.
U.N. aid teams in Lebanon give aid to the most vulnerable first and makes regular checks on families who are not covered, Kelley said.
Last month, Lebanon's foreign minister said the crisis was "threatening the existence of Lebanon", still recovering from its own bloody 15-year civil war that ended in 1990.
Syrian beggars now walk the streets of Beirut and informal tented settlements have sprung up around the country.
Syrian rebels and their Lebanese allies fight openly with the army and militants from the Lebanese Hezbollah militia, which supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a war now in its fourth year.
The United Nations says 2.5 million Syria refugees have registered in total, more than 10 percent of Syria's population. Lebanon holds the largest number but Syrians have also fled to Turkey, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt and elsewhere.
A U.N. appeal for $1.7 billion in 2014 to help the refugees is only 14 percent funded, Kelley said.
The mounting cost of the refugee crisis is also a major challenge for Lebanon's new government, which has to deal with strained public infrastructure as the Syrians seek housing, food, and healthcare at a time of economic slowdown in Lebanon.
Showing how the conflict is spilling over, two missiles on Wednesday hit Al-Labwa, a Shi'ite town in Lebanon that has been hit before by Sunni militants in retaliation for Shi'ite Hezbollah's role in Syria.
The strikes are the latest in a series of missile attacks, bomb explosions and gun fights that have grown as the Syria conflict has become increasingly sectarian.
Writing by Oliver Holmes; Editing by Alison Williams


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This story appears in the August 2003 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
Selling is perhaps the greatest skill of all time. The ability to persuade, communicate and influence has been the basis of personal and financial success throughout the ages. Learning to sell well, therefore, will open doors for you and your sales team, and will make it possible for your business to succeed.
Steps to Sales Success
Thousands of articles and books have been written on selling, and almost every one of them contains one or more nuggets of wisdom. Some are classics that convey ideas, techniques and strategies that salespeople can use in almost any market. Nonetheless, there are three steps to sales success that have stood the test of time: prospecting, presenting and closing. They form the three points of the "iron triangle" of selling.
There are three steps to sales success that have stood the test of time: prospecting, presenting and closing.
To prospect effectively, you and your sales team must first clearly determine what it is your company is selling. Most people only define their product or service in terms of its qualities, characteristics, features and the way it is produced, distributed and delivered to the customer.
However, the most important part of your product description is what the product does for your customer. People don't buy products or services; they buy the results (or "benefits") they expect to experience by using your product or service. You must therefore determine what your product or service really does for your customers. Find out what makes your product superior to other products or services. Only then are you ready to tackle the three key steps to sales success:
1. Prospecting: Of all the prospects in your market, which can benefit most from what your product does better than the competition? The rule is that although there are many prospects, they aren't all your prospects. You must be specific about which prospects you can sell your most important benefits to the most effectively.
2. Presenting: The ability to design and give a good sales presentation will determine your success as much as any other factor. Based on more than 30 years of experience, I can say every sales presentation could use some improvement.
A good presentation shows prospects that your product or service is the best choice for them. After highlighting a feature of your product or service that's relevant to the customer, ask a question to invite feedback, such as "Is this something you would use in your situation?"
If you've given a good presentation, the prospect should fully understand the offering and be ready to make a buying decision. If you don't get this reaction at the end of your presentation, rework your presentation until it is so overwhelmingly conclusive that the sale almost falls into your hand at the end.
3. Closing: It is absolutely amazing how many sales are lost because the salesperson fails to follow up and ask for the order at the end of the sales conversation. The best way to close a sale is to set up the closing question with the words "Do you have any questions or concerns that I haven't covered so far?"
If the prospect says no, you can then ask for the sale: "Well, then, why don't you give it a try?" If the prospect is unsure, say "I really think this would be ideal for you, based on what you've told me. Why don't you give it a try?" You will be amazed at how many people are on the verge of buying and simply need an invitation.
The iron triangle of selling has always been the same: prospecting, presenting and closing. Rate yourself on a scale of 1 to 10 in each of these areas, with 10 being highest. If you score below a 7 in any area, that is what's holding you back more than any other factor.
Sales Secrets for Today
In recent years, the field of selling has changed dramatically. During the boom of the 1990s, individuals and organizations were producing and selling products and services hand over fist. There was demand and an enormous amount of money chasing after products and services in almost every field. Many salespeople who began their careers in the early '90s never learned how to sell because it wasn't necessary. It was a seller's market. As a result, most salespeople became professional order-takers. They followed up on leads, collected checks and came back to the office feeling like heroes.
In today's uncertain economic landscape, there are more sellers than buyers. There are more companies offering products and services than there are people with money to buy them. Times may be tough, but the fact is that cycles and trends are a natural part of life. Markets go up, and markets go down. This is normal, and we need to adjust to it when it happens.
Three new skills are necessary if you want to become one of the top sellers in your field:
1. Learn to focus. To succeed in selling today, you must focus more narrowly on the few prospects who are the most likely to buy what you sell. You have to define your ideal prospects more clearly and separate high-probability prospects from low-probability prospects.
But before you're able to focus your selling, you must prepare. The more thoroughly prepared you are, the more and better sales you will make. There are three steps to preparation. First, do some pre-call research. Learn everything you possibly can about your prospects before you call on them for the first time. This will help with building your credibility.
Next, set your pre-call objectives. Know your goals, and write down any questions you need to ask.
Lastly, perform post-call analysis. Always write down every detail discussed in the sales call immediately after leaving the prospect; don't rely on your memory or the sales report forms you fill out at the end of the day. The next time you visit this prospect, review your detailed notes from earlier conversations. This three-step process of preparation will thoroughly equip you with the tools necessary to build high levels of credibility and trust with your prospect throughout the sales process.
Nothing is more important in a tough market than your commitment to continuous forward action, to calling on more and better people every single working day.
2. Concentrate on your best prospects. You've identified your most important prospects. Now it's time to dedicate all your time and energy to the top 20 percent of prospects in your market who account for 80 percent of your sales. In the 1990s, it was easy to hit prospects all over the place without really trying. But today, the market has changed, and to succeed, you must concentrate your energies carefully on those few customers who can make a significant difference in achieving your sales quota.
3. Commit to forward action. To succeed in sales today, you must be in continuous motion, always looking for new and better prospects, both in your traditional markets and in markets you may not have thought of in the past. The more approaches you try, the greater the probability you'll try the right thing at the right time to make the kind of sale you really want to.
For this reason, nothing is more important in a tough market than your commitment to continuous forward action, to calling on more and better people every single working day. You should spend about 80 percent of your time prospecting-until you have so many customers that you don't have enough time to handle more.
If your sales career is going more slowly than you would like at the moment, step on the accelerator of your own potential and rev up the number of people that you see and talk to on a daily and weekly basis. The good news is, the faster you move, the more energy you will have. The more energy you have, the more people you will see and the more experience you will get. And the more experience you get, the better you will become at selling when you finally come across the ideal prospect for you.
Because of this action orientation, you'll make more sales and, as a result, get more positive feedback. This will motivate you to make even more calls on even more prospects and close even more sales in the weeks and months ahead.
Over the years, good times come and go. The economy booms, and the economy recedes. But the salespeople who practice these six essential principles day in and day out-no matter what may be happening around them-will always find success. You can do the same.
Author and speaker Brian Tracy is the chairman and CEO of Brian Tracy International, a human resources firm. His most recent book is Many Miles to Go.


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The hottest up-for-grabs female lead role has been given to Sandra Bullock. Maybe.
In reporting that Bullock is reuniting with Anne Fletcher, director of "The Proposal," Deadline just mentioned as a throwaway that Warner Bros. "recently signed Bullock to team with Robert Downey Jr. in the Alfonso Cuaron-directed film "Gravity."
The film calls for a strong lead actress who will be on screen for almost all of the 2-hour-plus film about a woman struggling to get back to her child on Earth after an accident leaves her space station crippled. Robert Downey Jr. has already signed on for a secondary role.
U.S. & World
News from around the country and around the globe
Considering that "Gravity" casting conundrum has been a hot topic among movie obsessives, this seems like an odd way for this news to get out.
The studio has gone on its knees begging to Angelina Jolie at least twice, for a brief time it appeared that the role was down to Blake Lively vs. Scarlett Johansson, and finally it looked like it would be Natalie Portman. Other names that have been bandied about include Marion Cotillard, Carey Mulligan, Rebecca Hall and Olivia Wilde.
We were pulling for Lively for a while there, having been knocked out by her work in "The Town." Bullock at first blush is a safe choice, but one has to wonder if the same audience that pushed "The Proposal" and "The Blind Side" past the $200-million mark will rush out to see an effects-heavy movie about a woman floating in space.


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Master of Arts in Mission Studies and World Christianity
The purpose of the Master of Arts in Mission Studies and World Christianity (MAMSWC) is to integrate studies in academic and practical theology with the area of modern mission studies, with a concentration in either urban or global studies. The program includes biblical and theological foundations, cross-cultural perspectives, and analysis of historical and contemporary issues in mission, ministry skills, and missionary partnership opportunities. It integrates evangelism, community development, church planting, strategies, social concerns, contextual theology and the global mission of God.
The students who graduate from the Master of Arts in Mission Studies and World Christianity will:
1. Understand the Bible and its
2. Perceive the various concepts
introductory, critical, historical, geographical, and cultural background based on a hermeneutics of mission including evangelism, social responsibilities, urban mission and Missio Dei.
3. Clarify the characteristics of urban and global mission issues in terms of theology, anthropology, and sociology.
4. Be increased in an ability to academically and realistically recognize the different culture and social customs in order to understand peoples who are living there. In addition, he or she is advised to closely connect to social agencies such as the welfare department.
5.Cooperative effort in theological understanding and the role between
6. Comprehend church and mission to manage and mobilize its resources for world evangelization.the both the missionary role and indigenous leadership in the midst of our rapidly changing society and world order.
Components and Requirements:
1. Course Requirements
The program requires a total of 60 semester hours (18 courses/54 credits and Final Project/thesis/6 credits) for graduation. For graduation, the MAMSWC students must not only complete 18 courses, but also maintain a grade point average of 3.0 or more to be eligible for graduation, less than 2 courses of which may be completed with a grade of 'C-' or below.
2. Course Distribution
The courses of the program are comprised of the following four fields in which specialization may be elected: religious heritage, cultural context, personal and spiritual formation, and capacity for ministerial and public leadership. The MAMSWC students must complete 12 credits (4 courses), 6 credits of the Final Project/Thesis in School Core, 21 credits (7 courses) in MAMSWC Core, and 21 credits (7 courses) in Elective.
3. Final Project/Thesis
A student will write a thesis or a project as a part of graduation requirements, working out the educational implications of biblical, theological, educational studies for future ministry or for life-enrichment. The Project/Thesis Seminar will be provided for all candidates in the second year with faculty members to help and guide the candidate to complete his/her project/thesis.
The Thesis tutorial is a writing of the thesis in an informal arrangement with a faculty member, meeting together as needed for guidance and criticism. The spring term Thesis Tutorial is pro forma, allowing the candidate to complete the final form of the thesis/project for presentation to the Thesis Committee.
4. Institutional Requirement
GCU requires all students to attend WS501 Institutional Requirement (chapel service) until graduation. Students will receive a Pass/Fail grade on Institutional Requirement.
The curriculum is available in the catalog on page 165, you can download it here


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Sticky sausage & sweet potato salad
Nutrition and extra info
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal620
- fat39g
- saturates9g
- carbs50g
- sugars21g
- fibre5g
- protein19g
- salt2.09g
- 8 pork sausages
- 600g sweet potato, cut into thin wedges
Sweet potatosweet po-tate-toe
Sweet potatoes have a creamy texture and a sweet-spicy flavour that makes them ideal for savoury…
- 1 tbsp olive oil
Olive oilol-iv oyl
Probably the most widely-used oil in cooking, olive oil is pressed from fresh olives. It's…
- 2 tbsp wholegrain mustard
- 3 tbsp clear honey
Honey is made by bees from the nectar they collect from flowers. Viscous and fragrant, it's…
- 200g bag baby spinach
For the dressing
Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Toss the sausages and potatoes in a roasting tin with the oil. Roast for 30 mins, then mix the mustard and honey together and stir into the tin. Roast for 10 mins more until sticky and cooked.
Meanwhile, mix together the dressing ingredients with some seasoning – the onion will soften slightly in the vinegar.
When the sausages are ready, thickly slice them, then mix back in with the potatoes. Tip the spinach onto plates, pile the sticky sausage slices and potatoes on top, then spoon over the dressing.


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While the European tuner scene doesn't normally take center stage at SEMA, this year we found a number of impressive and hard to miss BMWs. From the contest Bilstein 'Just Add' Sweepstakes 335i to likes of Liberty Walk and booth displays like Injen Technology's 328i, there was a lot to see. Below is a small grouping of Bimmers that caught our eye in addition to the many others found throughout the show and featured in the gallery.
Whether you prefer widebody conversions, carbon fiber, slammed show offs or corner killers, this list has something for everyone. Let us know in the comments section below which you like best.
Slek Designs BMW Z4
If this car looks familiar that's because it was previously featured in our event coverage of the LTMW Summer show. We found this Slek Designs widebody Z4 at the Ksport booth looking especially clean in full carbon fiber. Slek Designs says every panel has been replaced by carbon fiber except for the top pillar, which is molded into the chassis. The build took a total of nine months.
Carbon fiber is inherently lightweight and Slek Designs took advantage of its properties. The hatch, doors and hood were swapped for carbon variants. A single production door fully assembled with the window is 92 lb, while a single carbon fiber door with the window is 32 lb. The production hatch weighs 71 lb, while the carbon fiber hatch weights 17 lb. The production hood is approximately 40-50 lb while the carbon fiber hood also weighs in at 17 lb. The production seats are also on the heavy side, weighing 80 lb each compared to one carbon seat, which weighs 24 lb. That is a total weight savings of over 300 lb.
A kit like this will run you about $25000 including the doors, hatch and roof. For $17000 you can purchase the kit minus the doors, hatch and roof. The less expensive route would be a fiberglass body for $13000. Slek's motive behind this kit's construction was to demonstrate that building a full carbon fiber body doesn't have to cost $100000+.
Other Z4 modifications include: VF stage 2 570 supercharger kit, Magnaflow exhaust, CSL headers (to be installed), RSV three-piece wheels, Ksport USA performance brakes and suspension, Status carbon fiber seats and an SAE Motorsports roll cage. This car will be on track in the coming weeks testing out its brand new carbon fiber body.
Standard Suspension 2008 BMW 335
We found this modified 335 at the Standard Suspension booth. Drawn in by the carbon fiber hood, we wanted to know what was going on underneath.
After inquiring into the modifications we were presented with: motor swapped for a 2010 335 motor, larger twin-turbo turbines, Step Performance twin-inlet intake, charge pipe, blow-off valve, custom vacuum tubes, catch can and oil cooler system, Race Precision intercooler kit, ram air scoops and exhaust, upgraded internals, Centerforce clutch and flywheel, Forgeline three-piece wheels (20x10 front and 20x11 rear), Standard Suspension R3 suspension coilovers and brake kit with 380mm rotors, carbon fiber covers, Whitline front and rear suspension components, Powerflex control bushings, Prior Design full widebody kit, Seibon carbon fiber GTR hood, three interior monitors and five cameras placed strategically around the car.
The lesson here is don't judge a car by its exterior; you never know what lies beneath the hood.
LiteSpeed Racing 2010 BMW M3
With track-ready looks, this M3 at the LiteSpeed Racing booth deserved a second look. The main attraction of this car, according to LiteSpeed Racing, is the forged composite three-piece wheels. This wheel technology features a center that is 45% lighter than forged aluminum while the outer remains traditional forged aluminum.
The benefit of the aluminum outer is the ability to pop out dents and buff out scratches. This provides a lightweight wheel with added durability. In this case, an estimated five-to-six pounds per wheel is saved. There are also the advantages of less rotating mass, which include improved braking, acceleration and handling.
Past the trick wheels are the following modifications: LiteSpeed Racing titanium exhaust system, H&R Cup Kit suspension, and carbon fiber goodies such as a Challenge USA front splitter. The exhaust swap saved about 50 lb and added approximately 10hp. The BMW M Power badging across the hood screams performance and with the builders' focus on shedding rotational mass, we're sure this M3 would slice through corners like a hot knife in butter.


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In his relatively short career, Satoshi Kon has blazed upon the scene
as one of Japan's most creative animators. With only three movies
to his name, he has become a renowned animator, the director of intricate
and detailed movies. His first movie, Perfect Blue, was a
psychological thriller based on of the comic book of the same name. It
was critically acclaimed on its release in 1997 and won several film awards.
His next project, 2001's Millennium Actress, a nonlinear trip through
the life of an actress, was also very well received. His latest movie,
Tokyo Godfathers, has just made its way to DVD and is his best work
The movie starts on a cold Christmas night in Tokyo. Three homeless
people are trying to stay fed and keep warm. There is Gin, an alcoholic;
Hana, a cross dressing homosexual; and Miyuki, a teenage runaway.
The trio are digging through some refuse in an alley when they are startled
by the sound of a baby crying. Peering into a pile of garbage, they
find a small baby girl.
After the shock of seeing an abandoned newborn wears off, Miyuki and
Gin want to take the girl to the police. But Hana sees things differently.
He wants to keep the baby. As he puts it, "This is a Christmas present
from God. She's our baby!" He names her Kiyoko, from the word
'kiyo' meaning pure.
Three homeless people in the dead of winter are hard pressed to care
for an infant though. Hana soon realizes that it is not practical
for them to keep the child. But he doesn't want to turn it over to
the police. Hana was a ward of the state, and doesn't want Kiyoko
being handed off from foster home to foster home like he was. He
wants Kiyoko to know that someone loves her. So the three set out
to find the mother who abandoned her child. They want to ask her
why she threw her girl away, and hopefully to make her see the error of
her ways.
Finding one person in all of Japan is an impossible task, of course.
But with some amazing luck, they find some clues and slowly start to track
Kiyoko's mother down. Of course it is possible that all their good
fortunes aren't just coincidence. Maybe Hana is right; that Kiyoko
is really is a present from God, and that He has taken a special interest
in her welfare.
This movie may sound like it has all the makings of an after-school
special or made-for-TV movie, but it is much more than that. Writer/director
Satoshi Kon deftly weaves drama, tragedy and comedy together in this story
without it ever letting it get sappy or maudlin. He crafts a very
charming movie filled with unique characters that will stay with you long
after you view it.
The main theme of the movie is how Kiyoko affects all three of the homeless
people taking care of her. During the journey to find her mother,
each of them has to face up to the past they were trying to run away from.
This examination of their history changes them, and the people around them.
The character's evolutions are very natural and realistic. Something
that is all too rare in movies today.
But the movie is not all tear-jerking sentiment. It is actually
very funny. You normally don't associate homeless people and an abandoned
infant with comedy, but Kon has made a very funny film. The humor
is subtle at times, like when Hana is telling Miyuki, as they cross a bridge,
that he'd climb over the railing and jump into the river if he thought
they'd never find Kiyoko's mother. In the background, as they walk
by, a lady climbs onto the railing and prepares to jump, unnoticed by the
pair. There are many moments of broad comedy also, but my favorite
bit in the whole movie is when a piece of good new is discovered.
A television in the background starts playing Beethoven's Ode to Joy, but
it is not a powerful, thunderous version of the song, as it is almost always
used in movies, but a quiet tinny version from a small TV speaker.
Another thing that really endeared me to this film is the way it does
not go down the paths that you think it will. It ends up being quite
a different film from what I was expecting at the beginning. It starts
off as a quiet drama, but it finishes with a climactic ending that would
have worked well in any big-budget action film.
Not only was the script and direction excellent, the animation was very
good too. This is a beautiful movie, with a very artful look.
There was a wide color pallet used in the creation of this film, with many
subtle differences in hues and tones that helped create a life-like feel.
Many of the scenes looked like they were paintings, finely detailed and
full of emotion.
Usually, in both animation and live action films, the main object that
the director wants the viewer to notice is highlighted. This is done
either by backlighting or by giving the surrounding objects muted colors.
It has the effect of not only highlighting one object, but also dulling
the others. They didn't do that in this movie. Everything in
this movie is detailed and colored. From the rust and dirt on an
old weather vane, to the signs on the streets, all of the backgrounds were
filled with objects that made the movie look like the streets of Tokyo.
A lot of time was spent animating the main characters too. Their
expressions were very realistic, and the way they moved was so authentic
that it almost looks like they had been rotoscoped.1
The whole picture was very life-like and had a depth that you usually don't
find in animation.
This is one of the best movies I've seen in a while. The story
was excellent, the animation was superb, and characters were engaging.
This is the perfect movie to screen for someone who thinks that they dislike
all Japanese animation. A great mixture of comedy and drama that
is sure to please viewers.
The DVD:
The 5.1 soundtrack is in the original Japanese, with optional subtitles
in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. There is no English
dub. This DVD sounds wonderful. The movie is mainly dialog
driven, but there are many incidental and background noises that come through
very clearly. There was a good range, with the sounds of an auto
accident and gunshots filling the room, but the more quite parts are still
The voice talent in this movie was superb. The voices didn't sound
like typical anime voices, with the women all having high squeaky voices
and every man sounding gruff. These characters sounded like real
people more than actors trying to make their character stand out.
Miyuki voice was very low, especially for a teenage girl, but she sounded
like a real girl. A great job all around.
The anamorphic widescreen picture was mastered in high definition, and
it looks outstanding. There is a lot of contrast in the scenes of
this movie, and they all look great. You can clearly see the details
in the shadows and low light areas, such as the Tokyo streets at night
or the scenes in the interior of the tumble down shack. Subtle variations
of tones and shades are easy to detect and help give the movie its distinctive
feel. Digital compression artifacts were hard to spot. Aliasing,
something that typically affects animation on DVD was almost nonexistent.
They have done a great job mastering this movie. It looks wonderful.
The Extras:
There are not too many extras on this DVD, but what it lacks in quantity
it makes up for in quality. The main bonus feature is a 22-minute
making-of documentary. This is in Japanese, with the same optional
subtitles as the movie itself. It has clips from the opening
night, short interviews with the actors who voice the three godfathers,
and scenes of them recording their lines. The highlight of this featurette
is a couple of longer interviews with Satoshi Kon, in one of which he talks
with Aya Okamoto who voices Miyuki in the film. They also talk with
the animators and the composer of the music for the picture. This
was much better than your average HBO fluff piece, with some interesting
information about the creation of this film.
There are also previews for Tokyo Godfathers, Astro Boy, Cowboy
Bebop: The Movie, Cyborg
009, Memories,
and Steamboy.
One thing that is missing is an audio commentary by Satoshi Kon.
Even if it were in Japanese with subtitles, I would love to hear what he
had to say about this movie and the way that he constructed it.
Final Thoughts:
Every once in a while you see a movie that you
want to tell all your friends to go out and see. This is that type
of movie. It is unexpectedly funny and entertaining while also being
incredibly charming and touching. Tokyo Godfathers is a movie
that is sure to make it on several 'best of' lists for 2004, the fabulous
picture and sound on this DVD makes this disc a must buy. DVD
Talk Collector Series.
1) Rotoscoping is an old animation
technique developed by Max Fleisher in the early part of the 20th century.
Actors were filmed and then the film was broadcast onto an animator's table.
There the figure was traced and colored over. This gave the animated figure
very realistic movements and proportions. A more recent example of
this method can be found in the films American Pop or Cool World.


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I just saw this new sight system for the 10/22. It looks really good to me. I prefer to use aperture (peep) sights on my guns. It is easier to shoot them accurately. I have a couple of Mini-14s and I want the 10/22 to have similar sights to make practicing and building muscle memory better. I think that I will order one of these. And, when I do, I'll keep you informed. In the meantime, what can you great folks tell me about this setup?
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The recent IEA report on global energy use trends contained a bit of a surprise. If oil prices remain high and governments make progress on their emissions goals, there's a possibility that the world has already hit peak oil, and that the next few years will see its use plateau for a while before dropping again. Using these same assumptions, the report also said that we could hit peak coal somewhere within the next 20 years. In today's edition of Nature, a commentary suggests that, even skipping those same assumptions, we may hit peak coal before too long, simply because the best and cheapest sources are vanishing fast.
The authors of the comment unquestionably have an agenda; they come from the Post-Carbon Institute, which clearly has an interest in promoting consideration of a world that doesn't run on fossil fuels. And that agenda is obvious in the article summary, which concludes, "Energy policies relying on cheap coal have no future."
That appears to be in sharp contrast to various estimates that suggest the world's coal supply is enough to keep us going for up to several hundred years. But the key word in the sentence is "cheap." The authors don't deny that there's a lot of coal left out there—although they say it's less than most people think—but they argue that actually using it will get progressively more expensive, a trend that will ultimately make relying on cheap coal a losing proposition.
The authors provide some pretty simple evidence: for the past couple of decades, the projected global supply has been dropping at a rate faster than consumption, which suggests that there's something off with the projections. They blame advances in geology, which have led a number of nations to decide that some reserves that were once thought to be economically recoverable really aren't. For example, South Africa and Germany, which between them have just under 10 percent of the global reserves, have recently seen their estimated recoverable reserves drop more than a third over a five-year span. There could also be some ugly surprises in this area as well. The US, which has over a quarter of the estimated global reserves, hasn't updated its estimate since the 1970s.
New mining techniques and a higher price on coal could place some of these reserves back on the table, but that partially echoes the authors' point: coal won't stay as cheap as it is now.
Another thing that the authors believe will start boosting the price of coal is a mismatch between the sites of supply and demand. Although global demand is remaining pretty steady, China's demand has skyrocketed and continues to rise. It has significant reserves, but hasn't been able to extract them fast enough to keep up with demand. As a result, China has been increasingly reliant on coal imports from places like Australia and the US, which adds significantly to the cost of coal, both in China and in the domestic markets of the exporters.
Given three more years of its current growth rate, China will be absorbing the entire output of the Asia-Pacific exporters. Complicating matters further, the countries that are currently the leading exporters have relatively small reserves and export capacity. There are some reserves in Russia and Kazakhstan that could help feed China's growing demand but, so far at least, these remain largely untapped.
The last issue presented by the authors is the quality of the coal. According to the commentary, although the volume of coal extracted in the US has continued to go up, the amount of energy extracted hasn't changed significantly since the 1990s (frustratingly, there's no source for this figure). In short, we have to mine more to get the same energy. If this trend kicks in globally, it could have a severe impact on the market.
Things that don't get mentioned by the authors are issues like mine safety and the environmental impacts of both mining and burning the coal. Even if you exclude carbon dioxide emissions, coal is an extremely dirty fuel, and health and safety issues haven't been evenly addressed or enforced. Changes in these matters could significantly impact the cost of coal.
As noted above, the authors clearly have a motivation for getting people to consider a future with lower fossil fuel use. Still, they're certainly not the only ones saying that our assumption of nearly limitless coal may need some serious revision; one paper they cite suggested we may already be at coal's peak.
What the authors would like to see is the prospect of limited and expensive coal get a serious consideration; currently, most energy policy decisions, such as a focus on carbon capture and storage for coal plants, assume that coal will remain cheap enough to compensate for its added costs. Work towards efficiency measures and renewable power is advancing, but not at the pace that could easily handle the time frame in which coal supplies may become constrained. Right now, so little consideration has been given to an end to cheap coal that it's difficult to get a clear picture of what would actually be needed.
As a first step, the authors recommend that the US Geological Survey be tasked with providing a current estimate of the current US coal reserves, and the economic cost of extracting them with current techniques. With a figure that's not 40 years out of date, it might be possible to have a more intelligent conversation about policy considerations.
Nature, 2010. DOI: 10.1038/468367a (About DOIs).
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Who is Robert Lee?
What's life like for the guy with the most common name in the phone book? We called every Robert Lee in the book to find out.
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Photographs by Elyse Butler and Matt Mallams
The 2009 Oahu edition lists 31 Robert Lees, if you count the Bobs and Bobbys, beating out contenders such as George Lee, Richard Wong and Michael Kim. (Glenn Miyashiro, that old, prototypical "average Japanese name" that Frank De Lima joked about, by contrast, shows up only once.)
What must life be like for Robert Lee, we wondered? There was only one way to find out. Over the course of a week, we called every Robert Lee in the phone book. We also e-mailed every Robert Lee we could find on Facebook, since it's quickly becoming the new phone book for everyone under the age of 30.
Many weren't interested in talking; one hung up on us. But we found 10 Robert Lees willing to tell us their stories, and every one of them turned out to be fascinatingly unique. Meet Robert Lee.
The Marathoner
Robert Lee is 83 and lives in Moiliili with Miriam, his wife of 58 years. He was born in Kekaha, Kauai, spent three years serving with the U.S. Army in Korea during World War II, and, after he got out of the military, made his living selling things—encyclopedias, automobiles, fresh eggs. He's retired now, but after speaking with him for an hour, you get the sense he could still sell sand at the beach—Lee bubbles with energy and wit.
One of the things he's most proud of is running 10 Honolulu Marathons in a row. This would be a feat for anyone, but Lee finished his first one when he was 47 years old. "One day, my daughter told me I was putting on too much weight. I was getting on the fat side, obese, she said. So I went out on Woodlawn Drive, and I couldn't even run 300 yards. I was huffing and puffing."
He resolved to whip himself into shape. It took a whole month of running before he could complete four laps around the Roosevelt High School track, and he had to quit halfway through his first marathon attempt, but Lee eventually triumphed—finishing the 1978 Honolulu Marathon in 4 hours, 49 minutes and 43 seconds. (The time is burned into his memory, he says.)
The next nine races came more easily. Lee also ran the Maui Marathon and, at the age of 55, even a 50km ultramarathon. He doesn't run competitively any more, but still jogs and walks every day for about an hour.
"When I get ambitious, I go all the way to Kapahulu Library and back, about four miles," he says. "I told my wife, my ambition is to die of a good heart attack on the road. I always carry my ID with me when I go walking."
Not that he's got a death wish, of course. Lee has four children and seven grandchildren, and hopes to meet a great-grandchild or two. "Thank the good Lord, I'm still in shape. I intend to be around for as long as I can, to see how my children and grandchildren do," he says.
Lee wasn't born a Robert. His original name was Chong Won, after a famous prince of Korea, but his sister Elsie started calling him Robert in third grade and the name stuck. Lee has since passed the Robert name down to one of his four children, although not the one you might expect. Younger daughter Bobi, an R.N. at Kaiser, joins siblings Brian, Bonnie and Brett in alliteration.
The Banker
Robert Lee is 70, and lives in Hawaii Kai with Judy, his wife of 45 years. He manages the 25 retail branches of Territorial Savings Bank. It's something of a bonus career for Lee, who retired after a 30-year stint with American Savings Bank in 1996.
Never one to sit still, he went on to start his own commercial cleaning company—with five to 10 employees handling new construction and janitorial contracts. It was an unorthodox move, but Lee's financial background perfectly equipped him to run a small business. "It was interesting how people in business tend to stereotype the cleaning people," he says. "Often when they found out I was an ex-banker, they said, Wow, what are you doing? I felt I was their equal. You want to converse about the economy? Fine. You want to talk about your pension plan? Let's talk about it."
He says if he was 20 years younger, he could have built the company into a million-dollar business, but, after 10 years of running it, decided to sell it after accepting an invitation from the CEO of Territorial Savings to return to the banking world.
In fact, Lee has been comfortable wearing both blue and white collars at different points in his life. He never completed his university degree at UH, but after working construction for a few years, and doing odd jobs such as parking cars, Lee scored a training program at Bank of Hawaii, a break that opened the door to a position with American Savings Bank. By the time he retired in '96, he was a senior vice president. "I'm just an ordinary guy, nothing special. I was just lucky," he says.
In his spare time, Lee golfs. He's played with the same group of friends almost every Sunday for 25 years, and has taken on every golf course in Hawaii, save for the two on Lanai. ("So damn expensive," he says.) He also finds time to surf occasionally, a sport that reminds him of his small-kid days, growing up in the little white shacks of Waikīkī's Hawaiian Camp. "When you're Chinese, you're not big-boned, so you couldn't play football," he says. "I was 135 pounds, dripping wet. So I spent most of my time down at the beach, surfing and paddling."


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DETROIT (Reuters) - Superstorm Sandy's fury caused U.S. auto sales to fall short of expectations in October, but industry executives still see a strong fourth quarter as the housing market improves.
While General Motors Co (GM.N) and Chrysler Group LLC both reported their strongest sales for October since the 2007-09 financial crisis, the massive storm that hit the U.S. East Coast took as much as 30,000 vehicle sales out of the mix.
"Clearly, the storm had a bigger than anticipated impact on sales," said TrueCar.com analyst Jesse Toprak. "It's not the blockbuster month perhaps that we anticipated, but I would still say it's a healthy rate."
Ford Motor Co's (F.N) U.S. sales last month edged up 0.4 percent, while sales for Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) and Honda Motor Co (7267.T) rose about 16 percent and 9 percent, respectively. Nissan Motor Co Ltd's (7201.T) sales fell 3.2 percent.
GM sales rose 4.7 percent, while those at Chrysler, an affiliate of Italy's Fiat SpA FIA.MI, increased 10 percent.
Still, results from all the major automakers came in below expectations, indicating the U.S. industry will fail to reach the 14.9 million-vehicle annual sales rate economists had predicted for the month before Sandy pummeled the East Coast. Auto sales are an early indicator each month of U.S. consumer demand.
Auto executives and analysts said the industry will recoup much of the Sandy-related lost sales in November and December, especially after election day on Tuesday. Some automakers, including GM, Nissan and Toyota, are even offering deals to customers in regions hit by the storm.
Over the last five years, the U.S. auto sector has undergone a wrenching overhaul that led to plant closures, job losses and the government-financed bankruptcy restructurings of GM and Chrysler in 2009. Ford also overhauled its U.S. operations, but did not take a government bailout.
The October sales report will be the last before election day, marking the end of a contentious U.S. presidential race that has repeatedly thrust GM and Chrysler into the spotlight in televised debates, stump speeches and campaign advertisements.
"As far as the election is concerned, they've made the economy a centerpoint of their mudslinging," Kurt McNeil, GM's vice president of U.S. sales operations, said on a conference call. "That just has caused some uncertainty in the consumers' minds. Once we get past the election, all of these strong economic fundamentals are going to continue to play out."
Citing an improving housing market that should help the industry record a strong fourth quarter, GM sees industry sales for this year at close to 14.5 million vehicles. Ford expects about 14.4 million. That would be the highest annual total since 16.1 million vehicles in 2007.
The massive storm, which hit New York City on Monday evening, hurt U.S. demand at the end of the month, with Ford officials estimating the lost sales for the entire industry at 20,000 to 25,000 vehicles. Toyota estimated the loss at 30,000 vehicles.
Ford officials said their estimate translates to a hit to October's annual sales rate of 300,000 vehicles. GM officials agreed, saying Sandy hurt the annual rate by at least 300,000 vehicles.
GM said it now sees an October annual sales rate in the range of 14 million to 14.2 million vehicles. Ford estimates the rate in the high 14 million range including heavy and medium-duty trucks, which typically total 300,000 vehicles. Morgan Stanley said the total is heading toward 14.1 million.
Toyota executives said that before Sandy hit, the industry had been heading for an annual selling rate in October of 14.7 million vehicles, but that the rate was now going to end at 14.3 million.
TrueCar's Toprak said dealers often exceed 40 percent of total sales for any month in the last seven days. GM said its dealers from the Washington area through New England, including parts of Pennsylvania, had damaged cars and some were literally under water. In fact, half of GM's dealers in New Jersey were still without power.
Volkswagen AG's (VOWG_p.DE) U.S. operations chief, Jonathan Browning, said the industry would fall short of the 10 to 11 percent gain many had predicted.
"This is not yet a full-blown recovery," Browning told reporters on a conference call. "The overall environment is one of improving optimism, but it's still not a strong positive development in terms of the overall economy."
He added that demand had been choppy in some regions even before Sandy. The German automaker's combined U.S. sales for its VW, Audi and super luxury brands rose 20 percent in October.
Many automakers still made gains in the month as rising home prices, attractive vehicle financing options and Americans' growing need to replace their aging cars spurred more consumers to showrooms. That bodes well for the future, as GM's McNeil said an improving housing market could be the "final piece of the puzzle" that lifts industry sales above 15 million annually.
The sales report also caps a busy week for the U.S. auto industry, which saw third-quarter profit reports from all three Detroit automakers.
GM shares were unchanged at $25.50 on Thursday afternoon, while Ford shares were up 6 cents at $11.22.
Additional reporting by Paul Lienert and Deepa Seetharaman in Detroit; editing by Gerald E. McCormick and Matthew Lewis


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Origin: India
Collection: Heirloom Naga
The textiles in Nagaland consists of locally naturally coloured spun yarn. In Nagaland, textile making is an integral part of their tradition. It has been rooted deeply into the Nagaland society and culture from time immemorial. The people of Nagaland are versatile artisans. The items of their daily use also bear the marks of their ethnicity and aesthetic excellence.
The weavers are highly skilled women, most of whom rely completely on their primitive style loin-loom weaving for their livelihood. This technique has been instrumental in the promotion of woven products as fewer women are engaged in the craft today. Taking advantage of the flexibility of the loin-loom, the weavers work within the confines of their own homes, which not only allows them to conduct their other chores but also ensures that they are not displaced.
Textiles can take weeks to produce due to the complexity of the process but will last you a lifetime.
Hand made with natural dyes.
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Center for Frontiers of Subsurface Energy Security
The Center for Frontiers of Subsurface Energy Security (CFSES) is pursuing scientific understanding of multiscale, multiphysics processes to ensure safe and economically feasible storage of carbon dioxide and other byproducts of energy production without harming the environment.
CFSES Members Attend DOE-EFRC PI Meeting in Washington, D.C.
Members of CFSES attended the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Frontier Research Center PI meeting July 24-25 in Washington, D.C. Director Larry Lake presented an overview of CFSES at the meeting.
Research highlight talks from CFSES included: "Advances in Understanding Buoyancy-Dominated Flow in Heterogeneous Geologic Systems" (Tip Meckel), "Performance Assessment of Jointed/Faulted Caprock During CO2 Sequestration" (Pania Newell), and "Rock Mechanical Alteration Due to Flow of CO2-Charged Brine: Shear Strength of Crystal Geyser Outcrop Samples" (Matt Balhoff).
A number of students, post-docs and PIs presented posters on CFSES work, including Prasanna Krishnamurthy shown in photo (left) explaining his poster on "Engineered Heterogeneity in Sand Packs for Evaluating CO2 Saturation During Buoyancy-Driven Flow" to DOE EFRC program manager P. "Thiyaga" Thiyagarajan.
Other posters highlighted: "The Effect of Hydrous Supercritical Carbon Dioxide on the Mohr Coulomb Failure Envelope in Boise Sandstone" (Charles Choens), "Fluid Dynamics Model for Pore-Scale Wetting Phenomena" (Mario Martinez), "P4-Discrete Element Modeling of Rock Mechanical Alteration Due to CO2-Charged Brine" (Zhuang Sun), and "Universal Linear Time-Dependence of Permeability Through Dissolving Fractures Induced by Acidic Fluid" (Lichun Wang).
During the meeting, the CFSES team had the special opportunity to dine together at The Army & Navy Club in Washington, D.C., and to enjoy seeing both the library with close to 20,000 volumes and the club's many art pieces that capture important military battles (as shown in the photo below).
CFSES Wins "Best Narrative" in DOE Intersection of Sound and Science Podcast Contest
June 28 -The Department of Energy Office of Science announced the five winners of the "Intersection of Sound and Science Podcast" contest, and the CFSES entry was recognized for "Best Narrative." Congratulations to Anastasia Ilgen and Victoria Osborne on a job well done!
Sound to Analyze, Interpret, and Understand Data from Experiment and Theory, Overall Winner - Interfacial Dynamics in Radioactive Environments and Materials (IDREAM) led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Tailoring Alloys to be Radiation-tolerant for Clean and Safe Energy Production, Best Team Effort - Energy Dissipation to Defect Evolution (EDDE) led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The Rhythm of Science, Best Narrative - Center for Frontiers of Subsurface Energy Security (CFSES) led by the University of Texas at Austin
The Dance of the Electrons and the Scientist, Best Science Music Composition - Center for the Computational Design of Functional Layered Materials (CCDM) led by Temple University
Plant Cell Walls, a Symphony of Solid Sunlight, Best Explanation of a Scientific Concept - Center for Lignocellulose Structure and Formation (CLSF) led by the Pennsylvania State University
Masa Prodanovic Named a "Texas Ten" Professor
Our very own Masa Prodanovic (Associate Professor, Chevron Centennial Teaching Fellow, Petroleum Engineering)has been named to the Texas Ten list: nominated and voted on by UT alumni, the Texas Ten are professors who have made a difference in the lives and careers of those fortunate enough to have attended their classes.
Congratulations Masa!
From lengthy, heartwarming diatribes about life-changing lectures to all-caps declarations of a professor's awesomeness, each year, the Texas 10 nominations elicit a feeling of pride for Longhorns. And why not? Alumni finally have the chance to give their favorite professor an A+. It's recognition for those who have made a lasting impact on our lives. From the more than 75 nominated educators, past and present, across disciplines, we've culled the list down to the 10 most deserving professors of 2017. Read more>>
CFSES Annual Meeting in Albuquerque on Jan 10-11, 2017
CFSES members and our External Advisory Board attended the annual CFSES meeting on January 10th and 11th, 2017 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
During the event, CFSES held an awards ceremony to acknowledge the hard work and strong publication record the center has achieved in the first two years of its most recent funding from DOE. The center has published 47 peer-reviewed papers in 31 different journals. Read more>>
(pictured above - CFSES Director Larry Lake presents scientists and students awards for 47 publications. Tip Meckel (UT), David DiCarlo (UT), Prasanna Krishnamurthy (UT) and Hongkyu Yoon (Sandia) won an award for a collaborative paper that came out at the very end of 2016.)
CFSES Annual Meeting: February 17-18, 2016
The University of Texas welcomed all CFSES members and our External Advisory Board to our annual CFSES meeting on February 17 and 18, 2016 at the West Pickle Research Campus. Read more >>
CFSES at COP21 - Paris
Katherine Romanak (left, center) at the CFSES booth at COP21 in Paris.
Hilary Olson (above right), Assistant Director of CFSES, visits with Under Secretary for Science and Energy Lynn Orr at the U.S. Center at the United Nations Climate Change Conference at COP21 in Paris.


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Should Bachelor fans be worried or excited?
A week after Juan Pablo Galavis
proposed professed his love chose Nikki Ferrell on The Bachelor finale, the pair have already met with marriage counselors, Us Weekly reports.
What happened when the cameras went off? Bachelor's Chris Harrison spills on the tense finale
WEtv's Marriage Boot Camp stars Jim and Elizabeth Carroll sat down with Galavis and Ferrell this week in Miami to talk about their relationship. "I think they have marriage on their minds, but I think what Juan did was a really, I mean it wasn't a very romantic fairy-tale ending, but I think what he did was very wise in the fact that he said you know, 'I want to go through conflicts with this girl. I want to do some problem solving, I want to see basically what the ugly side is before I jump out there and tell somebody I love them and just get married,'" Jim Carroll told the magazine.
Although host Chris Harrison criticized Galavis for not telling Ferrell that he loved her, Elizabeth Carroll defended the controversial Bachelor contestant. "A lot of people are saying that he's commitment phobic or he's not ready for commitment, but we were actually seeing a different side of him," she continued. "Not only is he not commitment-phobic, he is very serious about commitment. That's why he didn't jump into the engagement right away, because it is very serious to him."
The Bachelor's terrible track record: A history of failed romances
Despite the Carrolls' praise, Jim Carroll says that Galavis' and Ferrell's personalities might be too different to make it work. "He is a very strong leader, he's masculine, he doesn't like to compromise a whole lot, and he's got a good value system," Jim said. "Nikki is more nurturing, sympathetic, and she's more feminine in her values. So when you put those two kind of people together the stronger one — like Juan Pablo — would tend to run over somebody like Nikki, if Nikki doesn't have good boundaries."
What do you think of Juan Pablo's latest move? Do you think he and Nikki will make it?


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