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Like all right-thinking people everywhere, we J'ADORE Jonathan. Once we saw him singing to farm animals in his audition tape, we had him pegged as the quirky, funny one and we were right. Nothing against Anthony and all those who love him, but we'll take Jonathan's quietly funny sarcasm over Anthony's look-at-meism any day.
But the problem with Jonathan as a designer, at least insofar as a reality competition like Project Runway is concerned, is that he really, and we mean really, tends to overthink his designs.
The other problem, at least from Jonathan's perspective, is that we could have told him going into it that Michael, Nina, and Heidi were not going to respond well to his "pretty meets gritty" aesthetic. At least, if we'd understood at the time what that little catchphrase meant.
Jonathan also seemed genuinely offended when the judges (once again, derisively) compared his print to a dirty tablecloth. We thought this print was very pretty in an understated and yes, sort of dingy way. And okay, once they made the tablecloth reference it was hard to un-see it, but we think those bitches were being a little narrow-minded, frankly.
We'll come back to that. First, here's what you're dying to know: what we think of the look. We think the jacket was a bad idea. That dress and the print should stand on its own. The jacket is a huge distraction from it and frankly, a not very pretty one. The addition of a metallic into this look seemed like a really bad choice to us. And just look at all the elements to a simple jacket. Not only is it backwards, but it has a huge metallic collar, and a bow sash (in two colors), and double hemmed sleeves (in two colors), with little metallic tabs, with little snaps or closures on them. Jonathan! At some point you HAVE. TO. STOP. DESIGNING.
As for the dress, there were parts we disliked, like the weird seaming on the cups.
And the sad - not aesthetically, but genuinely sad-looking because it's so badly done - kickpleat.
But we liked the ideas behind the dress way more than the judges did. The jacket was bad and the dress wasn't without its issues, but we could see the potential chic in the idea with some time and tweaking.
What we're trying to say is, it deserved critiquing and it even probably deserved to be in the bottom, but we were somewhat as annoyed as Pixar was at their barking derision for the whole thing. "The judges don't get me," is all too often the excuse offered for a poorly made garment, but this time, we think there's an element of truth to it.
Look, here's the blunt truth about the judges: Heidi is an enormously successful model, but the vast bulk of her career has been centered around modeling very broadly marketable, mass appeal garments. Michael has also found extreme success as a fashion designer, but he never sent anything down the runway that hadn't been sent down in some form already by somebody else. Nina, for all her success in the industry, is not and never has been Anna Wintour. These are three people who have found success in the fashion industry by sticking to the very straight and narrow. We love these judges, we even mostly respect these judges, but it cannot be denied that collectively, these three judges are not always the best arbiters of anything outside the mainstream.
It's no coincidence that the most successful designer in Project Runway history is Christian Siriano. God bless him for his success and we even love some of his designs, but like Kors, he has yet to send anything down the runway that hasn't been seen before. It's also no coincidence that the show has awarded innovation in the past with Jay McCarroll and to a lesser extent Jeffrey Sebelia and neither of them covered the show's name in glory like they no doubt hoped they would. The fact of the matter is, for all the lip service given to innovation in this competition, it's not always the best venue to showcase it. We've long said that when it comes to Project Runway and the fashion world, it's best to remember that rarely the twain shall meet. PR is a television show first; in essence it's a game show.
We aren't offering any of this as a defense of Jonathan's entry's shortcomings. All we're saying is, we feel a bit bad for him because he obviously has a deeply felt aesthetic he wants to express through his designs and he presented it to a panel of judges expecting an appreciative and respectful critiquing and got bitchy barbs from the Match Game '77 panel instead.
And we are DEFINITELY not offering it as a defense for switching up his model after Cerri went to bat for him like no other model has on this show. Granted, it's nearing the end of the competition and he just got drubbed by the judges, so he's casting around frantically looking for anything to increase his chances of staying until the end, but still. That was COLD, Pixar.
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Playing God: The Gift and Risk of Human Power (Fall 2015)
Audio recordings:
Keynote 1 - Power and Flourishing with Andy Crouch
Keynote 2 - The Broken Image
Keynote 3 - Jesus the Image of the Invisible God
Keynote 4 - Mission as Restoring the Image
Christians, and perhaps all people, have an ambiguous perspective on power. Many have bought into Lord Acton's dictum that power corrupts and are therefore wary of claiming any power at all, fearful of falling into the temptation to abuse or misuse power. At the same time many of us are aware that the very fact of our privileged, secure and educated lives, gives us a tremendous amount of power. How should we think about power? Must power always corrupt? What can safeguard its proper uses? Andy Crouch has thought long and hard about such things and he has learned much from his conversations with others in various parts of the world. His recent book, Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power is an astute reflection on the dynamic between power and vulnerability. We are very pleased to welcome Andy Crouch as our keynote speaker at this fall's Interdisciplinary Studies conference where he will lead us in conversation about these ideas. Andy is a gifted speaker and musician, executive editor of Christianity Today and a senior fellow of International Justice Mission. Invite your family and friends since this event is always open to the public.
The conference takes place September 23 and 24, 2015, beginning at 9:00 AM each morning. In addition to lectures / performances by Andy Crouch, a variety of other speakers will lead breakout sessions that help us explore how power and vulnerability are experienced by refugees, Indian residential school survivors, homeless persons in Edmonton's inner city and others. Comic relief will be offered by Dan Taylor, a local award winning comedian. We are also glad to welcome back Justine Vandergrift who will perform a lunch time concert on Thursday.
Fall 2015 Conference Schedule and Conference Schedule and Brochure
Being Human: God, Evolution and the Moral Imperative (Winter 2015)
January 28 & 29
The Winter 2015 Interdisciplinary Studies Conference is being co-sponsored by The King's University and Professor Paul Allen of Concordia University in Montreal under the auspices of the Biologos Foundation. This is an ecumenical conversation about the intertwined problems of human uniqueness, creation and evolutionary thought.
Click here for the conference program.
A more detailed description can be found HERE
2015 Winter I.S. Conference Audio is available through the King's Library
Being Human: rediscovering our creaturely calling (Fall 2014)
September 17 - 18, 2014
"being human: rediscovering our creaturely calling" is a conversation about what it means to be human in creation. Our keynote speaker will be Dr. Norman Wirzba who is Professor of Theology and Ecology at Duke University. Dr. Wirzba will present keynote presentations allowing our campus to consider the implications on calling the world 'creation' and being 'creatures' in it. Dr Wirzba will also present a public lecture on Wednesday evening, titled The Spirituality of Eating in Room N102 at 7:30 p.m.
In addition to several break out session in which the variety of ways of "being human" will be considered, Dr. Peter Mahaffy, will offer a keynote lecture on the Anthropocene Era, describing for us the impact of human beings on the planet.T
The conference is free and open to the public. Students registered for I.S. are to "check-in" and collect a conference booklet on Tuesday, September 16 from 11-2 p.m. at the table just east of the cafeteria (accords from the Registry).
Click Here For Fall Conference Information & Schedule
Missed the conference? Conference audio files are available through the King's Univeristy library.
Truth and Reconcilliation Commission (Winter 2014)
March 27 & 28, 2014
The 2014 Winter Term I.S. Conference was offered in conjunction with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission national event being held in Edmonton March 27-30. An education day was held at The King's University on March 27, during which students will learned about the history of the Indian Residential Schools, the ongoing legacy of trauma inflicted on aboriginal communities and the settlement agreement of which the TRC is one component.
The second day, Friday March 28, students attended the hearings at the Shaw Conference Centre and participated in scheduled events there, including a debriefing event at the day's conclusion.
Resources for the conference can be found on The Micah Centre Website
Click here to see the 2014 Winter IS Conference Schedule.
See Rev. Canon Travis Enright's presentation The Role of Churches
Mind Over Matter (Fall 2013)
September 18 & 19, 2013
Our special guest speaker for the Fall I.S. Conference was Professor Matthew Dickerson from Middlebury College in Vermont. Dickerson is professor of environmental studies and computer science, as well as a published novelist and Tolkien scholar. He enlists his wide range of study and concern in his book, "The Mind and the Machine" in which he considers the question of what it means to be human in the face of claims that we are nothing more than sophisticated and complex machines. He engages Richard Dawkins, Raymond Kurzweil, Daniel Dennett and B.F Skinner, all proponents of 'physicalism', by exposing the fallacies of their basic assumptions about God and nature. He also draws heavily on the writings of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien to support an alternative Christian anthropology. More about Professor Dickerson HERE
In addition, the conference featured a performance of the highly acclaimed Fringe Festival hit, "Freud's Last Session" and a variety of breakout sessions.
Click here to see the Mind Over Matter Schedule
Missed the conference? Conference audio files are available through the King's Univeristy library.
Just Worship (Winter 2013)
January 23 & 24, 2013
Keynote Speakers:
- John Bell, hymn writer, teacher, preacher of the IONA community in Scotland
- Ruth Padilla Deborst, Latin American theologian and missiologist and recently appointed as Director of Spiritual Formation for World Vision International.
For the winter I.S. Conference, King's will revist a topic that was addressed 10 years ago: Justice and Worship. With special presentations by our two Keynote Speakers, the conference will also feature Terry LeBlanc of My People International and JUST FOOD travelling art exhibit sponsored by the Canada Food Grains Bank.
Missed the conference? Conference audio files are available through the King's Univeristy library.
Love That Minds That Love: "What's So Christian About King's?" (Fall 2012)
Featuring Christian Scholar David Naugle, Singer Songwriter Martyn Joseph and King's Faculty.
Christian learning and teaching. At King's we say that this is what we are all about, but what does it all mean and why should we care? What has faith got to do with reading Shakespeare or dissecting frogs, or learning about business management? Is 'Christian' scholarship different from other varieties of learning and researching, and if so, how? One possible answer is to think about intentional mind-FULL-ness as a way of loving God and neighbour. This I.S. Conference explores these basic questions for students at a Christian liberal arts university. We will be led in our reflections by Professor David Naugle who will deliver a provocative keynote lecture each morning, and then we will hear several of our own faculty offer their most compelling reason for doing what they do, for loving what they love, and for minding what they mind.
Missed the conference? Conference audio files are available through the King's Univeristy library.
Economics and Christian Desire (Winter 2012)
Black Friday, Occupy Wall Street, economic instability – these topics are front and centre in public discourse – and front and centre at this season's The King's University's semi-annual Interdisciplinary Studies conference. Our theme is "You're Richer WHEN you Think" – a play on the popular Scotiabank slogan. Globally, we are the 5%, not the 99%, and because of this often spend money too freely – buying anything we please without much thought. This conference challenged students to see their spending choices as a voice that reflects their own Christian values.
Culture Making (Fall 2011)
Christians have long had a love-hate relationship with the cultures they are called to change, vacillating between fearful avoidance on the one hand and indiscriminate consumerism of culture on the other. The resulting temptation is to seek some middle ground, a balancing of caution and copying, critique and embrace. But the Christian cultural task is far more exciting than striking a middle ground. We are called to make culture, not just to critique, copy and consume what others make. Andy Crouch, author of Culture Making, and an accomplished musician, lead the I.S. conference in an exploration of our role as creative composers of culture. In addition to lectures / performances by Andy Crouch, a visual feast was prepared by local artists who displayed their art at King's. Other presenters include John Franklin, founding director of Imago, who spoke at the art show opening and John Van Sloten, author of The Day Metallica Came to Church, several King's faculty and a jolly jamboree with Justine and Joel.
Oil Things Considered (Winter 2011)
The Alberta Oilsands developments have sparked a debate locally and around the world. This winter's I.S. conference at King's brought the debate to students, to form opinions and discern the underlying values and assumptions upon which the various viewpoints are founded.
Special Guests:
- Hon. Premier Ed Stelmach
- Andrew Nikiforuk, Author
- Jennifer Grant, Pembina Institute
- Melody Lepine, Mikisew Cree First Nation
- Dr. John Hiemstra, The King's University
KNOW FEAR: Following Jesus in a Culture of Fear (Fall 2010)
All around us people are afraid, and we are too. Some fears are well founded, but many are not. And yet fear can paralyze us into inaction and make us indifferent to the needs of others. Fear of strangers makes us close our borders to refugees, or express itself in racism. Fear for the future may make us timid and afraid to embrace life. Fear of scarcity may make us stingy instead of generous. Fear of the unknown may lead to war. Where do such fears come from and what can we do to live courageously and joyfully – swim against the current of fear mongering?
Home (not so) Sweet Homeless (Winter 2010)
Today, we are confronted with many daunting statistics related to our idea of home. In Edmonton there are over 3,000 homeless individuals living on the streets, a number projected to double within the next ten years. Each day within Canada there are up to 300,000 people without a permanent place to stay. Globally, that number expands to over 40 million refugees and displaced persons left vulnerable due to warfare and internal conflicts. Furthermore, the earth, the only home we have ever known, is being exploited and polluted at a greater rate than ever experienced before.Yet, what is home? What is the significance of home in our own lives? What does it mean to be homeless? What are we separated, displaced or dislocated from?
Brian Walsh, Chris Turner and Jim Gurnett and a host of other presenters lead King's to explore questions such as these as well as the various forms of homelessness – socioeconomic, ecological, and psycho-spiritual – creatively discovering how biblical attentiveness and the Christian faith can heal the profound dislocations in our society and within our own lives.
Identity & Technology (Fall 2009)
Think about IT—identity and technology are inextricably linked in today's society. Whether we view technology as a necessary evil or integral part of our everyday existence, we are defined both individually and as a culture by the technology we use.
The fall I.S. conference focused on the theme of "Identity & Technology," and challenged King's to ask how we define technology and what we should do about it. Of course "technology" includes things like Twitter, facebook, and text messages, but it also refers to a complex system and patterns of behavior with deep sociological and spiritual implications.
Through lectures and discussion, we were reminded of our essential identity as human beings made in God's image and explore what our relationship to technology says about that identity.
Remembering the Children (Winter 2009)
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has issued an apology to Aboriginal communities expressing sorrow for the ill treatment suffered by many children in Indian Residential Schools. The painful legacy of those schools continues to be manifest in many ways. But the force of healing is also manifest in powerful ways as communities take action to change the trajectory of a painful history to a future of hope. The journey from Truth to Reconciliation is not traveled by "others", of whom we are mere observers - we must all travel that journey together.
This conference was co- sponsored by the Aboriginal and Church leaders "Remembering the Children" Initiative
The Invisible Dignity Project (Fall 2008)
The theme for this I.S. conference was inspired by the Invisibly Dignity Art Exhibit. Featuring artists from across Canada, the exhibit portrayed people who are often overlooked and marginalized to the extent that their inherent dignity as image bearers of God is rendered invisible. One of the most radical things that Christians believe is that all human beings bear the image of God. The implications are staggering. Human dignity, rights, self-respect, love for others - all stem from that basic and essential belief.
Thought For Food (Fall 2008)
Food security, eating habits, global poverty, climate change - all of these issues were "on the table" at the "THOUGHT FOR FOOD" conference. Speakers included Cathy Campbell (author of Stations of the Banquet), representatives of the Canada Food Grains Bank, Cathleen Kneen and members of Stage Left Theatre Company. In addition to lectures, students attended workshops, concerts, drama, and a cooking class led by Our Chef, Michel Lamontagne.
In addition there was a mini-farmers market featuring local producers, an evening Taize worship service, and international potluck dinner.


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Certificate in Sign Language Interpreting Advisement Form (PDF file - requires Acrobat Reader)
The certificate program is recommended for students who already hold a bachelor's degree or higher. It consists of courses in the major field of study. This program of study requires special admission. Contact the Sign Language Interpreting program office at 678-891-3600 or visit the GPC website for more information. Prospective students must meet a program standard of conversational fluency in American Sign Language and must have completed ENGL 1101 and 1102 prior to entry.
International students holding an F-1 Visa may not enroll in certificate or dual degree programs.Prerequisites for Sign Language Interpreting Certificate
18 hours
SLIP 2000 (a) (formerly 1904) American Sign Language I 3 hours
SLIP 2010 (a) (formerly 1905) American Sign Language II 3 hours
SLIP 2050 (a) (formerly 1906) American Sign Language III 3 hours
SLIP 2070 (a) (formerly 1907) American Sign Language IV 3 hours
OR demonstrated equivalent intermediate conversational American Sign Language skills
General Education Required Courses:
ENGL 1101* (b) English Composition I (Requires "C" or better) 3 hours
ENGL 1102* (b) English Composition II (Requires "C" or better) 3 hours
(a) These courses do not apply toward graduation requirements.
(b) These courses constitute the general education segment of the curriculum and must be completed prior to enrolling in the professional curriculum.
39 hours
SLIP 2051 (formerly 1924) Fingerspelling and Numbers 1 hour
SLIP 2071 (formerly 1925) Classifiers in ASL 1 hour
These two courses may be taken at any time prior to or during enrollement in the
professional program.
First-year courses:SLIP 1911 American Sign Language Narrative and Discourse 6 hours
SLIP 1911L Interpreting Lab 1 1 hour
SLIP 1915 Deaf History and Culture 3 hours
SLIP 1923 Consecutive ASL to English 3 hours
SLIP 1931 English to ASL Interpreting 3 hours
SLIP 1931L Interpreting Lab 2 1 hour
SLIP 1941 Introduction to Interpreting 3 hours
Second-year courses:SLIP 2901 Interpreting in Specialized Settings 3 hours
SLIP 2901L Interpreting Lab 3 1 hour
SLIP 2912 Simultaneous ASL to English 3 hours
SLIP 2912L Interpreting Lab 4 1 hour
SLIP 2932 English to American Sign Language II 3 hours
SLIP 2951 (c) Practicum 6 hours
(a) A comprehensive exam and student portfolio are required to exit the program.
Additional Notes:
- This program of study requires special admission. For additional information, contact the Sign Language Interpreting Program office, Clarkston Campus (678-891-3600), or visit the Sign Language Interpreting Program website at www.gpc.edu/~gpcslip.
- Students wishing to audit or enroll in selected courses from the program must obtain approval from the program coordinator and will be admitted on a space available basis. Students will be required to earn at least 80 percent on the final examination in the prerequisite skills class. It is expected that the students will possess the necessary knowledge and skills to complete requirements of the selected course.
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We expect to receive net proceeds of approximately $ million from the sale
of our common stock, assuming an initial public offering price of $ per
share (the midpoint of the price range set forth on the cover page of this
prospectus) and after deducting estimated expenses payable by us and
underwriting discounts and commissions. An increase or decrease in the initial
public offering price of $1.00 per share of common stock would cause the net
proceeds that we will receive from this offering, after deducting estimated
expenses payable by us and underwriting discounts and commissions, to increase
or decrease by approximately $ million. We will not receive any of the
proceeds from the sale of shares of our common stock by the selling
stockholders. We will pay all expenses related to this offering, other than the
underwriting discount related to the shares sold by the selling stockholders.
We intend to use a portion of the net proceeds we receive from this offering to
repay in full the Chesapeake note, which had an outstanding principal amount of
$19.8 million as of March 31, 2014. We intend to use the remainder of the net
proceeds from this offering to fund a portion of our capital expenditure budget
of $491 million for the remainder of 2014 and 2015. The capital expenditure
budget includes approximately $133 million for the remainder of 2014 and $318
million in 2015 for drilling and developing our leasehold acreage and
approximately $39 million for the remainder of 2014 and $35 million in 2015 for
other capital expenditures, including acquiring additional oil and natural gas
leases, extending the expiration of our current leasehold acreage and acquiring
3D seismic data. We intend to fund the remainder of our capital expenditure
budget with cash on hand, cash flows from operations, a contingent payment we
expect to receive from a previously completed disposition of Eaglebine acreage,
borrowings under the term loan or other debt facilities and proceeds from asset
The following table sets forth the expected sources and uses of funds for
repayment of the Chesapeake note and our capital expenditure budget from April
1, 2014 through December 31, 2015.
Sources of Funds ($ millions) Uses of Funds ($ millions)
Net proceeds from this offering $ Repayment of Chesapeake note and
interest(5) $ 20
Current cash and cash equivalents(1) 35 Remaining 2014 drilling and completion
capital 133
Contingent payment(2) 14 2015 drilling and completion capital 318
Other potential sources(3) Remaining other 2014 capital(6) 39
Total sources of funds(4) $ 545 Other 2015 capital(6) 35
Total uses of funds(4) $ 545
(1) As of March 31, 2014.
(2) Expected net payment of $14.3 million due in May 2014.
(3) Other sources include cash flow from operations, proceeds from potential
asset divestitures and/or borrowings under the term loan or other debt
(4) Certain totals may not add due to rounding.
(5) $19.8 million principal amount as of March 31, 2014.
(6) Includes land acquisition, leasehold extension and seismic surveys.
The ultimate amount of capital we will expend is largely discretionary, subject
to restrictions and maximum capital expenditures allowed under the terms of our
senior unsecured notes and the term loan, and may fluctuate materially based on
market conditions, the success of drilling operations, access to capital and
other factors. The agreements governing our senior unsecured notes and term loan
limit our capital expenditures to those provided for in a plan of development
approved by our lenders. Our lenders have approved the first 16 wells and $81
million of our drilling capital budget for 2014, which includes approximately
$17.2 million of drilling capital and approximately $4.1 million of other
capital spent prior to April 1, 2014. Our drilling capital budget for April 1,
2014 to December 31, 2014 and our drilling capital budget for 2015 reflect our
management's current expectations but are subject to the approval of our
lenders. Additionally, the timing and costs of drilling on our non-operated
Eaglebine leasehold acreage generally will be within the control of the operator
of the acreage.
The oil and natural gas industry is highly competitive in all phases. We
encounter competition from other oil and natural gas companies in all areas of
operation, from the acquisition of leasing options on oil and natural gas
properties to the exploration and development of those properties. Our
competitors include major integrated oil and natural gas companies, numerous
independent oil and natural gas companies, individuals and drilling and income
programs. Many of our competitors are large, well established companies that
have substantially larger operating staffs and greater capital resources than
we do. Such companies may be able to pay more for lease options on oil and
natural gas properties and exploratory locations and to define, evaluate, bid
for and purchase a greater number of properties and locations than our
financial or human resources permit. Our ability to acquire additional
properties and to discover reserves in the future will depend upon our ability
to evaluate and select suitable properties and to consummate transactions in a
highly competitive environment.
We are an independent exploration and production company focused on the
acquisition, exploration, development and exploitation of unconventional oil
and natural gas resources. As of March 31, 2014 we owned approximately 90,770
net acres in three basins: the Woodbine Sandstone, the Eagle Ford
Shale, the
Buda-Rose Limestone and other stacked formations in East Texas, which we refer
to as the Eaglebine; the Wolfcamp play in the Permian Basin in West Texas,
which we refer to as the Wolfcamp; and the Niobrara Shale in the Denver-
Julesburg Basin in Wyoming, which we refer to as the Niobrara. We target
liquids-rich resource plays and have built our leasehold acreage position
through direct acquisitions from mineral owners and larger aggregated
acquisitions. Our management team has extensive engineering, geological,
geophysical and technical expertise in our operating areas.
Our primary area of focus is the Eaglebine, in which we owned approximately
62,173 net acres as of March 31, 2014. We acquired the largest portion of this
Eaglebine acreage, 57,275 net acres, from a subsidiary of Chesapeake Energy
Corporation, or Chesapeake, and certain co-owners in April 2013 for
approximately $93 million. We refer to this transaction as the Chesapeake
Acquisition . We are the operator on approximately 49,636 of our net acres in
the Eaglebine. We began drilling on our operated Eaglebine acreage in May 2013,
and we have drilled or are in the process of drilling 14 net operated wells on
this acreage as of March 31, 2014. In addition to our acreage in the Eaglebine,
as of March 31, 2014 we had approximately 14,289 net acres in the Wolfcamp,
where we have 100% operated working interests, and 14,308 net acres in the
Niobrara, where we have 100% operated working interests.
The majority of our capital expenditure budget for 2014 and 2015 is focused on
the development of our operated acreage in the Eaglebine. The following table
presents summary data for our acreage in the Eaglebine and our other operating
areas as of March 31, 2014 and our drilling capital budget of $150 million for
the year ending December 31, 2014 and $318 million for the year ending December
31, 2015. We also have budgeted estimated capital expenditures of $44 million
for the year ending December 31, 2014 and $35 million for the year ending
December 31, 2015 for land acquisition, leasehold extension, seismic surveys
and other capital needs.
Our company was formed as Energy & Exploration Partners, LLC in 2006 and began
operations in 2008. In late 2009, we began leasing in the Eagle Ford Shale
trend, primarily in McMullen and LaSalle Counties, Texas, where we leased and
ultimately sold over 125,000 acres to major and independent oil and natural gas
companies, including Murphy Oil Corporation and Comstock Resources, Inc. In
early 2011, we began accumulating leasehold acreage in our current operating
Energy & Exploration Partners, Inc. was incorporated on July 31, 2012 pursuant
to the laws of the State of Delaware to become a holding company for our
business. In August 2012, we completed a series of reorganization transactions,
which we refer to collectively as our corporate reorganization.
Our principal executive offices are located at Two City Place, Suite 1700, 100
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The slowing Indian economy is not responding to shock therapy. The stock market rally that began in September after the government unveiled its high-decibel reforms programme is fizzling out.
The country's benchmark index failed this month to surpass its October peak - a bearish sign for chart watchers. The rupee has weakened 7 percent since Oct. 4.
In some ways, the Indian selloff mirrors the fate of risky securities globally. The MSCI Emerging Markets Index is now lower than when the Federal Reserve launched its third round of quantitative easing on Sept. 13.
Fears of untimely fiscal cutbacks in the United States and a deepening of the sclerosis in the euro zone are weighing on sentiment. But skittish investors are only one part of the story. A much bigger challenge for India is the deteriorating financial cycle. A Breakingviews analysis of 16 years of monthly bank loan data shows that - after stripping out trend growth and seasonal fluctuations - the cyclical downturn in credit that began in early 2008 is yet to level off, let alone begin a recovery.
That's hardly unusual. Financial downturns tend to last several years, while a typical business cycle recession tends to be over in about 12 months, according to a study by Bank for International Settlements researchers Mathias Drehmann, Claudio Borio and Kostas Tsatsaronis.
In a bank-dominated financial system like India's, the lending and borrowing cycle is of particular relevance to investors. The benchmark Nifty equity index more than quadrupled during the credit boom that began in late 2003 and lasted through early 2008. It is currently trading 11 percent below its January 2008 high.
By pruning fuel subsidies, and announcing its decision to open up retail, aviation and insurance industries to greater foreign participation, the government has stoked expectations of an investment-led revival in an economy that grew as little as 5.5 percent in the June quarter, its worst fiscal first-quarter performance in a decade.
But recent economic data from New Delhi belie expectations of a quick recovery. Capital goods production, which has been lacklustre for almost a year now, collapsed in September even as the country's trade deficit widened to a staggering 14 percent of GDP on an annualized basis last month. With consumer prices rising about 10 percent year-on-year in October, investors are not expecting more than a couple of quarter-percentage-point interest rate cuts in the first half of next year.
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The efficacy of trend analysis using personal health apps
John Grohol, doctor of psychology and founder and editor-in-chief of PsychCentral, has a long-standing concern about the bias of samples used in psychology research. He says now, with the ubiquity of smartphone apps, developers and entrepreneurs are pursuing data without understanding the basics of good, reliable, scientific data collection.
Because of this, he says personal health data cannot be collected by these apps without bias and somehow be transformed into measuring something bigger. The trouble really starts, he says, when data from the apps people use to track and measure their personal health is aggregated in an effort to collect larger datasets, in order to analyze health or well-being trends.
"While the resulting analyses can tell you something about this group of people, it would be inappropriate to suggest it generalizes to the rest of the population (who, demographically and behaviorally, may look and act very differently)," Grohol said. Besides, people don't use the apps long enough to get meaningful data.
In addition to suggesting improvements to personal health apps and potentially networking them, Grohol identified problems associated with gathering population-based data from health apps.
He said biased sampling results from the tiny minority of people who actively and continuously use health apps, but that sampling and continued usage could be improved by passive versus active data collection.
He added that sampling and use could be further improved by the use of a trustworthy authority (not a for-profit company or startup) to collect and store data. Additionally, apps that are aware of one another and exchange relevant health data are the next generation--instead of the current wealth of siloed, unaware apps, he said.
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SMS: The dying cash cow for wireless carriers?
Over 6.1 trillion text messages were sent last year worldwide, according to a report from the International Telecommunications Union. This number has climbed steadily since the advent of text messaging, but some analysts and industry insiders predict that carrier revenues associated with SMS are going to decrease dramatically in the next few years.
Why would a once booming source of revenue suddenly decline? Two factors are pulling at the market for SMS. First, the way carriers charge for SMS has simply made the 10-cents-per-text model less reasonable for consumers. Users are texting more and are thus buying text messaging plans that bundle hundreds or thousands of text messages per month for relatively per-message inexpensive prices. Second, the rise of smartphones has paved the way for Internet-based communications that don't rely on wireless carriers' SMS channels. Apps like Facebook, Twitter, Research In Motion's (NASDAQ:RIMM) BlackBerry Messenger, Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) forthcoming iMessage and WhatsApp allow users to send unlimited messages to recipients on the same service, all via their smartphone data plan.
"We do see more people texting, it's just we don't know if people will do that with the regular text, SMS, or with the IP, with a push-based notification," said Julie Ask, an analyst with Forrester Research who is currently researching how push-based notifications will affect SMS, from a business perspective.
SMS revenues slowing
Figures with an F represent forecasted numbers.
John White of Portio Research doesn't believe carriers will take much of a hit due to slowing SMS revenues. He said the growth of carriers' data revenues should offset the slowdown in text revenues.
"[SMS] revenues are slowing predominantly due to the long term price-erosion effect of all-you-can-eat bundles, ever increasing competitive pressure between MNOs, and new services taking market share (slowly) from SMS," White said.
Indeed, AT&T Mobility announced it will discontinue a number of its text messaging plans, including its $10 per month plan for 1,000 text messages, and will instead only offer a $20 unlimited messaging plan per month for a single line or a $30 unlimited messaging plan per month for families. The carrier's only other option will be per-message billing at 20 cents for each text message and 30 cents for each picture/video message.
As carriers phase out unlimited data plans, users will either invest more money in buying larger data plans or use their data more carefully, opting to use other messaging options than traditional SMS. Either way, the carriers should not see a revenue loss, White said.
Forrester Research's Ask doesn't see SMS drastically decreasing in the near future either. Texting and chatting apps like Facebook often require both users to have the same messaging system, she pointed out, while text messaging works across virtually every mobile phone in the world.
Chetan Sharma, from Chetan Sharm Consulting, said in a new report that the United States unseated Philippines as the king of text messaging with almost 664 messages per subscriber per month, compared with the Philippines which is seeing a sharp decline in per user messaging due to IP messaging. He said some of the European operators are also experiencing the pain of declining SMS usage. However, Charma noted that while the percentage share of the data revenues is declining for messaging, revenue growth is staying strong with almost $5 billion in revenues in the United States in the second quarter.
The alternatives to SMS
SMS (Short Message Service) and MMS (Multimedia Message Service) travel through wireless carriers' messaging gateways, and are billed separately from standard data transmissions. Most mobile phones across the world can send and receive SMS and MMS messages.
But, thanks to the rise of smartphones and third-party apps, there are a range of alternatives to the carrier-controlled SMS channel. Here is a selection:
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For users interested in alternatives to traditional texting, there are a variety of chatting options. Some companies, like Enflick, offer a variety of mobile messaging apps with different features. Enflick offers TextNow for free texting on iOS and PingChat for cross-platform instant messaging for devices running iOS. Enflick's CTO, Jon Lerner, said the company plans to expand TextNow to other platforms in September.
"Our focus is to allow our products to reach the widest audience globally while keeping development efforts feasible for us. We are always on the lookout in terms of what's emerging in popularity (e.g. Windows Phone), and depending on the adoption trends we will be adding more platforms in the future. We haven't decided on the specific platform and timeline yet," Lerner added.
Companies like Enflick offer some services for free--TextNow is a free app and unlimited texting is also free--and charge for ad-ons like call forwarding or ad-free texting. Kik Messenger, another application that provides free mobile messaging, does not charge for its app but simply relies on ad revenue.
Sharma, from Chetan Sharm Consulting, sees social networking factoring into the mobile messaging market. Sharma predicts "shifting messaging behavior to Facebook and Twitter."
Apps like Facebook's Messenger allow users to text pre-existing contacts.
Twitter itself is built on the premise of sending short messages between two or more users. A tweet can serve the same purpose as a group text. Facebook's new messaging app, similarly, works like other instant messaging systems but connecting users in a faster method than traditional SMS. Facebook's Messenger has an advantage over handset-specific messaging systems in that it can be used on phones running Android or iOS. In addition, users without smartphones can still reply to messages sent using Facebook Messenger after confirming their mobile number on Facebook.
Sharma predicts a larger shift in mobile messaging behaviors. He said it is "easy to expect that within 5-10 years a good portion [of users] will have shifted to Internet messaging as opposed to traditional SMS messaging."
At the same time, he cautions that this shift will not be the result of any one program or app. "The messaging is in trillions so even if somebody has millions of messages [being sent via his app] going on a daily basis, it is still a tiny fraction [of the market]," he warned.
The future of texting: Unified communications?
The concept of mobile messaging isn't likely to die anytime soon. What is likely to change is the way in which these messages are transferred between users. As for what users can expect in the future, Charles Golvin, a principal analyst with Forrester Research, has an idea. He sees texting as a part of a larger unified communications effort. Regardless of the method of delivery, the end result will be messages synced together from instant messaging, texting or even voice platforms.
J. Gerry Purdy of Mobiletrax also sees a future in a universal messaging system.
"Universal messaging allows you to see the different kinds of messages that go between you and that person, so you can see the email, you can see the texting, you can see the Facebook posting, and as a result, all the messages between you and somebody will show up in one place. I think that is going to continue," Purdy said.
As for text messaging overall, the market, as Golvin sees it, is getting saturated.
"We are going to start to see a decline, there isn't a huge number of subscribers waiting to take up text messaging. Grandma and grandpa aren't going to become adopters," Golvin said.


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Vattakotai (Circular Fort) is 5 Kms on the Tirunelvelli road from Kanyakumari. This fort is made of granite during the reign of Marthanda Verma to serve as defence. It is spread across an area of 4 acres and it is rectangular in shape. The fort is enclosed by walls 25 to 26 feet high, including the parapet, 29 feet thick at the front, 18 feet at the corners and 6 feet at the rear.
The portion running into the sea is the most strongly built under the orders of De Lannoy during the reign of Mathandavarma (1729-58). About 1810 A.D.
This fort has been turned into a picnic spot, and you can spent some time here. If you climb up the fort you will get a very scenic view of the beaches.
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Dr. William L. Woolverton, an internationally known behavioral science and drug-abuse researcher and mentor to dozens of medical residents and scientists-in-training, died June 13 at UMMC. He was 62.
Woolverton joined the UMMC faculty in 1993 as professor of psychiatry and human behavior. In 2010, UMMC leaders named him a Billy S. Guyton Distinguished Professor.
In his research, Woolverton aimed to improve the understanding of interactions between pharmacological, environmental and neurochemical variables that control drug abuse.
He served as vice chair of research in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, led the Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience's behavioral core and was instrumental in starting UMMC's Program in Neuroscience.
Originally from Birmingham, Ala., Woolverton earned his Ph.D. in pharmacological and physiological sciences at the University of Chicago in 1977 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Medical College of Virginia in 1980.
He is survived by his wife, Candy, and two children, Chris and Lucy. A memorial service took place June 16 at Wright and Ferguson in Ridgeland. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Woolverton Scholarship Fund, P. O. Box 12974, Jackson, MS 39236-2974.
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Posted By Ethel Navales On December 18, 2013 @ 1:21 am In News | Comments Disabled
A competition was recently held by Chinese social media site Sina Weibo. Their mission? To find China's hottest mom.
While American Pie has made the idea of a MILF (you can look that term up if you don't know it) a run-on joke since the 90's, China seems to take this concept very seriously.
The competition was influenced by Coach's Mother's Day "Hot Mom" Campaign. Once again- no, we're not kidding. In America, Coach has recently seen a slow decrease in sales. Apparently, Coach bags have been criticized for being "mom bags" and lacking personality. Coach's China branch decided to use this to their advantage.
With the help of social media, the China branch ensured that their products gave a youthful feel. They worked in the idea of mom's feeling even more youthful after purchasing a Coach bag. They then launched the "Hot Mom" campaign and sales have gone up nearly 40% this year.
Inspired by this idea, Weibo launched the "Hot Mom" photo competition. The competition proved to be a success. Tons of moms took part in it to show off their beautiful and youthful looks.
While many people seemed pleased with the competition, others seemed uncomfortable with the whole ordeal.
MailOnline remarked "Some of the mothers look so similar to their daughters it is difficult to tell them apart and instead they look like sisters." Shanghiist shared the same discomfort and agreed that it was often very difficult to tell who was the child and who was the mother.
MailOnline also commented that motherhood was already stressful enough. Jezebel highly agreed and said, "As if beauty culture didn't already put enough pressure on us to never start looking old, working tirelessly to turn us all into a diverse chorus of consumer Queen Grimhildes."
As the growing pressure to be beautiful gets even heavier in Asia, is it right to pin these expectations onto mothers as well? Be a good mother, wife, and now maintain your youth until your own daughter reaches adulthood. Are we asking for too much?
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Little Theater brings 'Kiss Me Kate' to life
The dueling time periods and show-within-a-show plot of "Kiss Me Kate" make directing the show a unique challenge.
It's one director Paul Winarski is glad to have, as it's been one of his favorite shows since he was young.
"I've been waiting for it to come around at the right time to direct it," he said. "It combines two of my favorite loves in theater. Shakespeare and Cole Porter."
The Little Theatre of Wilkes-Barre will present "Kiss Me Kate" starting Saturday, a Cole Porter musical that debuted on Broadway in December 1948. Showtimes are at 8 p.m. Saturday and May 16-17 and 3 p.m. Sunday and May 18 at the theater at 537 N. Main St.
The Cole Porter musical revolves around actors in the 1940s who are putting on a musical version of William Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew." Fred Graham, the director, producer and star of the Shakespeare production, gets his ex-wife Lilli Vanessi to play his leading lady, Katherina. Seth Brandreth plays Graham/Petruchio and Dawn Winarski plays Vanessi/Katherina.
"The fun thing about this show is you're directing two different shows, and directing actors who are playing actors who are playing roles," Winarski said. "It makes it very interesting for the actors as well."
Fred and Lilli aren't the only couple in conflict. Lois Lane, who plays Bianca in "Taming of the Shrew," must deal with her gambler boyfriend, Bill Calhoun. Calhoun, who plays Luchentio in the play within a play, runs afoul of some gangsters.
Matt Buckman, in his first show at the Little Theatre of Wilkes-Barre will play Calhoun opposite Marikate Sullivan as Lane/Bianca.
"Bill is in love with Lois, who is working with the director to make herself a better actor. And Bill has a bit of gambling problem," Buckman said. "So while everybody is trying to rehearse, he sneaks out at one point to, well, gamble. But he is in love with Lois, and we'll see as the story develops what actually becomes of that love."
Buckman said even though the show was written in the 1940s, Calhoun's the type of character who translates well to today.
"He's a guy. He makes mistakes. He upsets his girlfriend by doing stupid things. In the end, does he really love her? Yeah, he does," he said. "And he's going to do everything he can to get his girl to love him back."
Scott Colin Woolnough and Kevin Costley will play the gangsters who comes to collect money from Graham after Calhoun passes off his gambling debt to the director.
Woolnough's been in several productions at the Little Theatre, playing Harold Hill in "The Music Man," Charles Cheswick in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," and Moonface Martin in "Anything Goes."
"Once again, after playing Moon Face Martin in 'Anything Goes,' I'm playing a gangster, and like 'Anything Goes,' the gangster is providing the comic relief," Woolnough said, laughing that he gets gangster roles even though he doesn't look much like a stereotypical one. "We play a couple of heavies that come in and put pressure on Fred Graham to keep the show going. We have a financial interest."
The gangsters soon find themselves enamoured by their brush with show business, getting caught up in the production, Woolnough said.
"That's where the comedy comes from. It's fun," he said.
As opening night approaches, Winarski said the cast has been making great progress.
"I've got some great chemistry going in the cast. In the principle roles, we've got a veteran casts of actors, a who's who of local theater," he said.
And The Little Theatre of Wilkes-Barre lends itself well to the production. The show requires that full revival house-style stage, with an orchestra pit and backstage area, Winarski said.
"The theater is very much an entity in this production, so the large house really helps," he said.
What: Kiss Me, Kate
When: Saturday, 8 p.m. Sunday, 3 p.m.; May 16-17, 8 p.m.; May 18, 3 p.m.
Where: Little Theatre of Wilkes-Barre, 537 N. Main St., Wilkes-Barre, 570-823-1875
Tickets $18
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When he's not hauling in deep bombs or planting crushing blocks, San Francisco 49ers tight end Vernon Davis finds himself in a rather unusual place for a 6-foot-3, 250-pound Pro Bowler: a design studio.
Yes, Davis is co-founder of Modern Class Design alongside former record executive Antone Barnes.
The seeds were planted in college; although he'd never done anything involving art before then, he decided to break a bit from the jock stereotype -- much as artist/photographer/writer/Pittsburgh Steelers running back Baron Batch has -- and major in studio art at the University of Maryland.
"I just followed my heart," he said, "and never looked back." That meant continuing to paint and visit museums after college (he's been to the Louvre, although the Young Museum in San Francisco remains his preference -- as is abstract art, with Todd Clark as his favorite artist).
Still, Davis' passion for art was restricted to recreation until he became friends with Barnes. Davis and Barnes -- who has collaborated with the likes of Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Prince and Stevie Wonder -- had crossed paths for years, but it was a party at Barnes' house that led to their eventual business.
Davis was so impressed by the stylish design of Barnes' home that he immediately offered Barnes the opportunity to design his brother's house. Vontae, now with the Indianapolis Colts, had just been drafted by the Miami Dolphins, and not long after his South Florida home was complete, teammates Sean Smith and Reshad Jones asked Barnes to design their homes as well.
A business was in the works. Then, in 2011, Davis and Barnes took their mutual passions for art and design and formed their company.
"We're breaking the stereotype," Barnes says. "Everybody has a certain image of what an interior designer looks like and what interior designers do. As young African-American men, we're breaking down those walls."
The business model: working with athletes and other high-end clientele to customize their homes with unique design and artwork. And when describing it, Davis puts on his salesman hat:
"Every client is different, so every design has to be different," he says.
Barnes echoes this sentiment, saying: "We take pride in our self-taught approach. We set trends. We do not follow them."
MCD took off right away but wanted more. Enter Sean Spanek and SportStar Relocation, the top national athlete relocation company (a lucrative business when it comes to athletes, what with sports' constant player movement). Davis met Spanek at the 2009 birthday party for 49ers running back Frank Gore; Spanek, based in the Bay Area, had secured the luxury home for the event.
Later, when MCD started growing, Spanek, Davis and Barnes recognized an obvious synergy. MCD was looking to tap into the vast network of athlete homeowners, and SportStar was uniquely positioned to help grow their business.
So they partnered up, with Spanek saying the move will "allow us to take the company to a whole 'nother level."
And so there they stand.
As for Davis' recreational art, that's simply a hobby at this point -- especially when the games begin.
"I want to work as hard as I possibly can and help my team win," Davis says. "During the season, football is my art. I can't walk away from a painting until the canvas is complete. Just like I can't walk away from the football field 'til I get it right."
But although some teammates offer good-natured trash talk toward Davis about his abstract-inspired style -- "Justin Smith teases me all the time, saying, 'Man, that's not nothing; my son could do this!'" he says -- Davis does have an idea that maybe, like Modern Class Design, his own work could eventually be a business itself.
"I haven't put my art out commercially yet," he says, "but maybe one day."


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Dick Harmon: Time ticking down on BYU, Utah and MWC
Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
It is down to a few hours now. BYU and Utah will officially separate from the Mountain West Conference and go on to a new frontier.
It's a divorce that has not gone quietly into the night.
Remember last summer? Breaking news hourly. Tweets galore. Rumors laid upon rumors. Utah State left dangling.
It was a year ago that college expansion rumors ruled the summer. The Pac-10 settled on Utah and Colorado, and BYU decided to try independence in football. It was a crazy summer that ended with the MWC sabotaging the WAC and any plans for BYU to parlay its other sports with that league. The bloodiest part of the summer took place quickly and then it was on to a year of making smiles, shaking hands and getting on with the final season.
Well, this week, the charade is over. Cords will be cut. New letterhead, business cards, logos, stadium symbols and uniform patches will be placed in play. In the next few weeks, Utah will join Pac-12 brothers at the league's media days, the MWC will stage its annual media affair in Las Vegas, and BYU will host its own independent football media day at the new Broadcast Building.
It will be a new July for all.
There's plenty I'll miss about the Mountain West, borne out of the old WAC. Most of it will be faces, other reporters and media types I've known since I started in the business.
I remember going on my first WAC Skywriters Tour in 1976. Back in those days, the media flew around the league for a week in July, stopping at every school for interviews with coaches and players. There were great feasts, legendary card games, clown acts on bus rides and plenty of stories of antics that will be retold forever.
It's there I first met Bob Hammond and Steve Luhm of the Laramie Boomerang, Dennis Latta of the Albuquerque Journal and many of Utah's sports writers like the late John Mooney, Marion Dunn and Hack Miller, along with Lee Benson, Brad Rock, Dick Rosetta and others. In recent years, I've learned to appreciate colleagues in San Diego, Las Vegas and Colorado Springs — all good, hardworking people.
I've appreciated help from MWC staffers like Javan Hedlund and Kim Melcher and many others who work tirelessly around the clock during the year and at the annual basketball tournament in Las Vegas. Ditto for sports information directors, many of whom are now elevated to positions in athletic administrations across the league.
I could go on, but few care or appreciate friendships they don't know or understand.
This parting, however, was due.
Well, it sounds arrogant just bringing it up. But it is true: Utah and BYU outgrew the Mountain West.
The Cougars and Utes consistently grew their sports and improved while many members of the league did little to increase their competitive advantage. In the crazy BCS formula that teases an automatic qualifying bid for leagues that meet three crazy criteria, the MWC's bottom was like an anchor stuck on the sea floor. AQ status is but a dream and always would be when one of the criteria is average ranking of league teams.
And then came exposure. As much as the MWC tried to shine a light on its members, it failed. It was like donning an invisible shield or stepping into a black hole.
Competitively, in the past 12 years, BYU and Utah have combined for an incredible number of championships in the league. It is almost embarrassing for the rest of the conference.
BYU won 140 tournament and regular-season championships and Utah earned 49. They were followed by UNLV: 38; New Mexico: 35; SDSU: 33; TCU: 30; CSU: 27; and Wyoming and Air Force: two.
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China's state television accused foreign carmakers of charging domestic customers more for repair costs than in other markets, singling out Audi, Subaru and Jaguar Land Rover Ltd in the latest of a series of programmes targeting foreign firms.
The investigative report by China Central Television (CCTV), aired on Wednesday evening, also said that many of the foreign auto makers' dealers were reluctant to repair parts, often insisting on more expensive replacements.
The programme said it was based on interviews with customers and workers at service workshops designated by foreign automakers.
It cited a tail door for a Land Rover model as being sold at around 24,100 yuan ($4,000) at an official service shop, compared with 8,500 yuan in the black market. It did not give a comparative price in other countries or specify what it meant by the black market.
"By setting ridiculously high prices, China has become the 'treasure bowl' for global carmakers," the report said, adding foreign auto makers were abusing their monopoly of sales channels.
It noted, however, that import and other duties were partly responsible for pushing up prices.
Responding to the CCTV report, Jaguar Land Rover, owned by India's Tata Motors Ltd, said its pricing was in line with Chinese regulations.
"As to the component maintenance cost with imported vehicles, JLR China has been strictly abiding by relevant laws and regulations in China, and has determined pricing with consideration of market conditions," Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) China said in a statement emailed to Reuters.
A spokesman at Subaru in Tokyo, the automaker unit of Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd, declined to comment about the CCTV report. Officials at Audi, owned by German automaker Volkswagen AG, said they were looking at issuing a statement later in the day.
The report coincides with a crackdown by Chinese authorities on what they perceive to be inflated prices and monopolistic behaviour by companies.
The China Automobile Dealers Association told Reuters in August that its officials were collecting data on the price of all foreign cars sold in the country for the National Development and Reform Commission, one of China's price regulators.
CCTV often airs programmes targeting well-known global companies. Earlier this year, it accused Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd of unfair service practices, and Starbucks Corp for over charging.
The accuracy of some of the broadcaster's recent reports has, however, been called into question.
Last week, China's state tax bureau said a legal misunderstanding was behind the tussle between property developers


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Well hello guys!
Another of Jodie's friends here!
I'm Rhian and am 24. I went on my 6th trip to WDW in August this year with my fiance Alun and my DM and DF. It was Alun's first visit and we all had a great time and now I want to plan another trip!! The place is sooo addictive and my favourite place ever!!
Got our wedding to plan first though (for next August) which is taking up our time at the moment! All very exciting though!!
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4 hurt as wild elephants destroy homes
Jan 5, 2014-
A herd of wild elephants entered a human settlement in Haripur-3, Sunsari, on Friday night, destroying houses and crops.
Four villagers were injured following the intrusion of the animals on the settlement. The elephants destroyed 10 houses and ate up food grains stored inside. The affected area is the settlement of about 100 households displaced by Koshi floods.
"We narrowly escaped the attack of wild elephants on Friday night," said Haribamsha Mukhiya, who lost his mother last year in a tusker attack. Molbi Devi Mukhiya was killed when the pachyderms wrought havoc in the settlement.
Haribamsha said the government had assured of Rs 600,000 in compensation to the victim's family but had provided only Rs 325,000.
The residents, mostly Mukhiyas who are fishermen, said the villagers were terrorised as the elephants had been frequenting the area. They complained that the government had not taken initiatives to control the animals from entering the area.
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Hopkins and Prabhakar Advance at ITA All-Americans
Oct. 5, 2012
By Alex Botoman, Wake Forest Athletic Communications @SIDeacons
TULSA, Okla. - Wake Forest's 17th-ranked doubles team of David Hopkins and Amogh Prabhakar defeated a ranked team from Vanderbilt Thursday to reach the second round of the ITA All-American Championships in Tulsa, Okla.
Hopkins and Prabhakar topped No. 22 Gonzales Austin and Ryan Lipman in the match and will move on to face No. 41 Jordan Angus and Malte Stropp of Mississippi State Friday in the second round.
In other action Thursday, No. 94 Danny Kreyman dropped his first-round singles match to No. 5 Nik Scholtz of Ole Miss and then fell to No. 31 Spencer Newman of Michigan in a consolation match.
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No, I'm not joking. You wax your pubes off, then glue on the sparkles. They allegedly stay put for a few days. One blogger gave it a try, and you can view the results (link not explicit, but potentially NSFW).
What a phenomenally bad idea! Scraping! Loose crystals! In your teeth! Stuck to a condom! Even…Maude help me…getting shoved up into your vulva and vagina!
Also: a really stupid waste of money.


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Bankruptcy Law
Bankruptcy Law Questions? Ask a Bankruptcy Lawyer Now.
Hi - my name is XXXXX XXXXX I am a Bankruptcy and Consumer Protection attorney here to assist you.
If your home has no significant equity, filing a Bankruptcy will not cause you to lose your house.
I am sorry, I just saw this message.
So what will happen to the house? Will the bank / lender honor he BC as long as I am paying my mortgage?
You would be risking the loss of your home only if your home had at least $22,000 or more in equity.
And this amount is doubled if you are married.
Nothing will happen to your house as long as you continue to pay your mortgage.
I am married, so for example, if if the loan is 260000 the house is now worth 300 K, I am still OK.
Your mortgage will not be affected by your Bankruptcy filing.
Yes - if married, your available homestead exemption is $45,950.
I recently applied for loan modification, no result yet but expect the answer this month, will that make any difference?. I will not be filing BC for at least 6 months.
The bank will not process your loan modification request after your file a Bankruptcy, so it is better to complete that process before you file a Bankruptcy. mortgage - whether or not Once you file a Bankruptcy, the Bankruptcy will not affect your mortgage, whether or not your receive a modification.
Typo: the last sentence should not have the first 4 words.
My understanding is that if I am approved for loan modification, there will be trial period and once that is successfully completed, then they will make it permanent. Not sure how long this Trial period last. Any idea? Chase is the bank.
Is your current mortgage less than one year old?
It is one year.
It is unlikely that you will be able to get a loan modification with a mortgage so recent.
First statement dated 11/15/2012 payment due date was 12/01/2012.
I should have waited? for a year? Once rejected, can I reapply for the modification?
In general, loan modifications are for mortgages from before 2008.
They are for properties that are under water - where the house is worth less than the balance of the mortgage.
But that is Govt supported programs. I was told that Chase has its on programs. I am hoping to be benefited by one of those. But right now, all I needed to know that approved or not approved for my request to modification, this will not changing the fact that BC will not cause me to loose my house, correct?
If your house is worth more than the balance of your mortgage, you may be able to re-finance your mortgage at a lower interest rate - but you will unlikely be able to get a loan modification.
The interest rate is already a low rate 3.75.
That is correct - filing a Bankruptcy will not cause you to lose your home.
As always, thank you very much.
The only concern for a Bankruptcy filing is the home's equity.
You're welcome!
None exist may be less then 10,000 As I just bought the house 1 year ago
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November 20, 2009
Two embarassing corrections:
Pheasants were not widely released in the US until after 1881, they were originally imported from China. So Wenatchee's pioneers would likely have hunted other game until a bit closer to the 20th century. Rod Molzahn says there were plenty of grouse to be found in the 1870s.
Also, my math is off by 100 years at one point. We're talking about pioneer cooking from the late 19th century, some 130 years ago, no 230.
Thanks to astute listeners for pointing out these errors.


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By Elysa Gardner
Once again, a little musical that could, did.
Like "Spring Awakening," "In the Heights" and "Avenue Q" before it, "Once" -- the proudly low-tech, unapologetically earnest adaptation of a sleeper indie-pop film about struggling musicians in love -- has won over Broadway's establishment. The off-Broadway transfer topped the list of Tony Award nominations announced Tuesday morning, earning 11, even though it wasn't eligible for original score.
The two musical productions that tied for the second most nominations, 10 each, feature even more seasoned scores: "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" is a musical-theater staging of the classic folk opera, while "Nice Work If You Can Get It" is a nostalgic confection featuring other beloved Gershwin tunes. Both received mixed reviews but proved more endearing to audiences.
Among plays, "Peter and the Starcatcher", based on the novel, nabbed the most nominations, nine in all. Mike Nichols' wrenching revival of "Death of a Salesman" and the hilarious U.K. import "One Man, Two Guvnors" (based on the 18th-century Commedia dell'Arte work "The Servant of Two Masters") garnered seven each.
"One Man's" fast-rising central funnyman, James Corden, will vie against Salesman star Philip Seymour Hoffman, James Earl Jones, Frank Langella and John Lithgow in the category of best performance by an actor in a leading role in a play.
In the leading-actress field, another breakout star and one more celebrated Brit -- "Venus in Fur's" Nina Arianda and "End of the Rainbow's" Tracie Bennett, respectively -- will compete against Cynthia Nixon, Stockard Channing and Linda Lavin. Other high-profile contenders include "Peter's" Christian Borle and "Salesman's" Andrew Garfield, both up for featured actor in a play.
But a familiar name didn't guarantee Tony nominators' love. Alan Rickman's lauded performance in the less widely praised "Seminar" went unacknowledged. Matthew Broderick, who got lukewarm notices in "Nice Work," didn't share in the show's bounty. Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett were, also predictably, overlooked for their work in the Olivier Award-winning "The Mountaintop," which earned less enthusiastic reviews here than abroad. And U2's Bono and The Edge weren't tapped for their score for "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," though that critically savaged show is up for best scenic and costume design.


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In case some of these stories got past you, Amy Dawes rounds up the day's industry news:
While confessing to some fatigue at its length, Screen's Tim Grierson generally raves about the pulpy thrills of Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, which premiered out of competition Saturday at the Berlin film festival and opens Feb. 19 stateside. But New York Magazine's David Edelstein calls it a long slog, and Emanuel Levy finds it similarly overwrought. In case you've somehow avoided it, here's the trailer.
More pulp pleasures lie ahead if Quentin Tarantino succeeds in making his next project a raucously re-imagined 'slavery Western,' or as he predicts he might call it, 'a Southern.' And John Edwards' campaign trail cocksmanship will spin boxoffice turnstyles as well as dirty laundry cycles if Ari Emanuel has his way.
What with studios slashing their output, there's sunshine in the forecast for independent filmmakers, thinks Mike Goodridge at Screen Daily, though skeptics will find room to dispute that.
And in social media news, the never-shy filmmaker Kevin Smith got good results pronto when he tweeted his predicament to Southwest officials after he got booted from a flight for being too wide for a single seat. No word on whether, as a "passenger of size," he had to buy two seats on that later excursion.
"If I had to choose between this movie and televised golf, I'd watch the emergency broadcast system," says Cracked.com's Brendan McGinley about Benicio del Toro-starrer The Wolfman, which nonetheless scared up an estimated $36.5 mllion for a robust third-place opening during the long President's Day weekend. Critical slings and arrows were apparently no match for Cupid's, as the top draw was the much-derided Valentine's Day, crushing all comers with an estimated $67 mil.
And Vera Fermiga, who stole America's heart in Up In The Air, may next play the American socialite who led England's King Edward VIII to abdicate his throne in a movie that Madonna plans to direct.


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In squad news, Brad Guzan has been handed the No.1 jersey for the upcoming term.
Guzan, after a sterling campaign which saw him earn player of the year awards, will take the iconic goalkeeping top, previously worn by Nigel Spink, Brad Friedel, David James and Jimmy Rimmer.
Christian Benteke and Matt Lowton have asked to wear No.20 and No.34 respectively once again, after starring with them in the previous campaign.
Jores Okore is No.5, Nathan Baker is No.2 while Antonio Luna is No.14.
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Divided Local
April 4, 2014 Editor: In the last month I have seen four letters regarding the United Local School District permanent improvement levy. more »»
Permission not granted
April 1, 2014 Editor: The recent decision from Judge Washam in Wilson vs. Beck/Chesapeake (2013cv140) is an example of gas company overreaching and operating in disregard of the rights of landowners. more »»
On life support
March 27, 2014 Editor: Our democracy is in hopeless gridlock. The house passes legislation to guide us to energy independence, improve our economy, and protect our border and Harry Reid stonewalls it in the Senat. more »»
A critique
March 26, 2014 Editor: Once again United Local School District is going after your money. On May 5 a permanent improvement levy is going on the ballot. more »»
We can't afford to be unhealthy
March 19, 2014 Editor: Everywhere I go, I hear people talking about their health and health care insurance. Many wonder whether they will still have insurance thanks to Obamacare. I share their concern. more »»
Remember the machine?
March 9, 2014 Editor: Why is the Lisbon street department shoveling gravel into the potholes? It lasts a day or two at best. more »»
The EPA will not save us
March 5, 2014 Editor: It's too late for the Environmental Protection Agency to save your water/home values if things go to the dark side with gas/oil extractio. more »»
People are people
March 4, 2014 Editor: OK, Texas federal judge strikes down Texas' ban on same sex marriage and Arizona governor vetoes bill that would allow state businesses to discriminate against gays for religious reasons. more »»
On the road
March 3, 2014 Editor: How times have changed in the last 10 years or so, especially since the advent of the ubiquitous cell phone. more »»
Put your name, and a grade, on it
February 28, 2014 Editor: This letter is in response to the article , "A little help needed after high school," by staff writer Tom Giambroni. more »»
The good fight
February 27, 2014 Editor: Kudos to Jenny R. Pike for her letter that appeared on Feb. 1. more »»
Prized fighter
February 27, 2014 Editor: I'm pretty impressed with Democratic candidate Nathan Walker's announcement article. It is about time the Democratic Party has a candidate who is willing to slug it out in an election. more »»
Buck the trend
February 27, 2014 Editor: Not many people want to hold public office. Those wanting to run for office should be encouraged, not blocked from ballot acces. more »»
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Forty passengers whose flights were cancelled on March 13, 2013 by Aero Contractors have demanded a refund of the money paid for tickets as well as N100 million compensation
The passengers also condemned what they termed the lackadaisical and nonchallant attitude of the aviation firm and demanded a public apology.
The N100 million compensation, according to the passengers, is for the irreparable loss they suffered.
In a letter dated March 22, 2013 and signed by the passengers' solicitor, Miss Abigail Somoye, from Gab-Anna Chambers which was addressed to the Managing Director, Aero Contractors Company of Nigeria Limited, the passengers gave an ultimatum of 14 days for their demand to be met after which they will avail themselves of legal options.
The passengers were slated to board planes to Port-Harcourt, Calabar and Abuja on March 13, 2013 but were shocked when they got to the airport and discovered there was a showdown between the management and staff of the aviation firm which grounded operations.
They further claimed that the company neither notified them of the cancellation of the flights nor make alternative arrangement to enable them get to their various destinations on the said day which resulted in mental and physical torture and huge financial losses due to lost business opportunities.
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