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YOU MAKE OutGROW OutPLAY SPECIAL!
More Volunteers = A better run sale!
OGOP is able to organize upscale children's consignment sale events across Canada because of our incredible Volunteers! When you volunteer you get to shop the Pre-Sale EXTRAVAGANZA before the public and even consignors! Why Volunteer? Because Volunteers always…
- GET FIRST DIBS... choosing best merchandise selection at the lowest prices
- EARN MORE... when consigning and up to 80%
- AVOID CROWDS... you get to shop the sale the night BEFORE the public!
- GREAT PRIZES... to be won! Each volunteer shift earns a draw ballot for great prizes like gift certificates and the exclusive Golden Ticket (allows the winner entry into our next OGOP Pre-Sale EXTRAVAGANZA without having to volunteer!)
Our 3 hour volunteer shifts are easy peasy and NO experience is needed. You do not need to be a consignor to volunteer to shop the Pre-Sale EXTRAVAGANZA. There are many ways you can help out and volunteer with us. Volunteer shifts fill up really fast so if you are interested, do not delay signing up.
OutGROW OutPLAY Team Leaders are always on-site to assist and answer any questions you may have. Wear comfortable shoes and clothing that is easy to move in. Most shifts involve lots of walking - Great way to get your exercise!
Please let us know if you have any special needs so we can assign you a shift that works best for you.
Consignors who volunteer, earn more and shop the Volunteer Pre-Sale EXTRAVAGANZA before consignor who do not volunteer
- FOUR SHIFT VOLUNTEERS EARN 80% - Consignors who volunteer for four (4) three (3) hour shifts earn 80% and simply put...shop Pre-Sale EXTRAVAGANZA before anyone else in world :)
- THREE SHIFT VOLUNTEERS EARN 80% - Consignors who volunteer for three (3) three (3) hour shifts earn 80% and shop the Pre-Sale EXTRAVAGANZA before two shift and one shift volunteers
- TWO SHIFT VOLUNTEERS EARN 75% - Consignors who volunteer for two (2) three (3) hour shifts earn 75% and shop the Pre-Sale EXTRAVAGANZA before one shift volunteers
- ONE SHIFT VOLUNTEERS EARN 70% - Consignors who volunteer for one (1) three (3) hour shift earn 70% and shop the Pre-Sale EXTRAVAGANZA before consignors who do not volunteer
All volunteers MUST arrive 15 minutes prior to your shift beginning. This will give you time to sign-in and participate in a quick volunteer orientation. If you show up late, you will miss orientation and may FORFEIT your shift. OGOP has hundreds of volunteers and coordinating/orientating them takes time. Please be respectful to your peers and arrive on time :)
SOCIAL BUTTERFLY - Social Butterflies spread the word via online or by placing posters within the community. There are only a few of these shifts available each event. Please contact us to inquire about which SB shifts are available :)
SALE SET UP - This shift involves unloading the truck and setting up fixtures/tables. This shift is a workout! Mom's are encouraged to send their hubbies to do some heavy lifting.
CONSIGNOR DROP-OFF - Inspecting consignor merchandise to ensure quality
DURING THE SALE - Walking the sales floor assisting customers, placing unsold merchandise back where it belongs, helping customers carry out their merchandise.
FRONT CHECK-OUTS - Works with assigned cashier bagging customer purchases.
SALE TAKE DOWN - Packs up all racks, fixtures, tables, signage, etc and loads into the truck. Sorts all unsold merchandise back into consignor bins. Double checks all consignor bins to ensure security.
Children are not permitted during the sale set-up or take-down shifts. We made this decision because safety always comes first with OGOP and theses two shifts are too hectic for little ones.
Team Leaders in action! We get the job done and fun doing it!
Team Leaders are Volunteers who super organized, LOVE PEOPLE and have experience at multiple OGOP sale events. They essentially lead our Team of Volunteers and we'd be lost without them! Team Leader positions are one 12 hour shift or two 6 hour shifts split.
Team Leaders…
- Get to wear a WHITE apron - WoOoHoO!
- Earn 80% when consigning
- Will have their registration fee waived and shop with four shift Volunteers
Not everyone is suited to be a Team Leader. Team Leaders will be hand-picked by OGOP so if you are interested please Contact Us.
Team Leaders will work closely with us helping to lead Volunteers in various areas needed during our sales. For example…
- CASHIER - Works as a cashier during our sale
- BP SERVICE - Will coordinate all BP Service Taggers. Answering emails and forwarding the Consignor to appropriate BP Service Tagger. BP Service Team Leader earns a 5% override on all items tagged by their team.
- CONSIGNOR CHECK-IN TABLE/DROP-OFF - Responsible for checking in all Consignors, Pre-Sale Passes and Volunteer Check-Ins. Works closely with Inspection Team Leader coordinating the Inspection Tables
- INSPECTION - Leads a team of 10 Volunteers during inspection ensuring quality of merchandise.
- SALES FLOOR - Will work closely with the Volunteers at the front check-out ensuring the lines run smoothly and Volunteers on the sales floor. Works closely with CS Team Leader assigning Volunteer shifts.
- CUSTOMER SERVICE - Runs the Customer Service Table (if applicable). Answers customer questions, oversees the HOLD area, re-hangs merchandise, sorts hangers and checks-in all volunteers and assigns shifts
- SALE TAKE-DOWN - Leads a team of volunteers during take-down of the sale


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Matthew Vaughn was shocked to learn early last year that Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., the domestic distributor of his 2010 superhero movie "Kick-Ass," wasn't interested in a sequel.
The quirky, R-rated "Kick-Ass" had grossed $101 million worldwide and developed a cult following that led to a strong performance in the home entertainment market.
Vaughn, who independently financed the $28-million project, expected that the Santa Monica studio, which had a first right of refusal on the domestic rights, would be on board for a chance to build a franchise. He planned to make the second movie for the same price as the first — penny-pinching that is rare in Hollywood these days, especially after a success.
PHOTOS: 'Kick-Ass 2,' and a Comic-Con presentation
"They [Lions Gate] were so brave when they bought it, and really, they worked hard," said Vaughn, who wrote, directed and produced the original "Kick-Ass."
"I thought, 'Guys, you did the heavy lifting, you spent the money, this is gravy time.'"
Spurned by Lions Gate, Vaughn, who after "Kick-Ass" went on to direct the hit "X-Men: First Class," turned to Universal Pictures.
The studio had handled international distribution for "Kick-Ass," which took in $52.9 million abroad, so Vaughn was familiar with the company. Universal quickly made a deal to acquire worldwide rights to the sequel for about $29 million before production began in London in September.
Like its predecessor, "Kick-Ass 2" is based on the Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. comic book of the same name that centers on the adventures of teenagers who dress up as superheroes and become vigilantes. It will be released Friday in about 2,800 theaters in the U.S. and Canada.
Observers say that it is rare that a studio with a first right of refusal on distribution rights would allow what is perceived to be a successful project to fall into the hands of a rival.
ON LOCATION: Where the cameras roll
"It was a surprise that it switched studios," said Jonah Weiland, owner of comic book news website Comic Book Resources, which also covers the film business. "Certainly the sequel has some momentum. It has a great cast, and they added some great new characters."
According to a person familiar with the studio's thinking but who was not authorized to comment, Lions Gate passed on "Kick-Ass 2" in part because at the time of discussions it had only recently acquired Summit Entertainment and was in the process of integrating that company's projects into its own film slate, which made for a crowded pipeline.
Lions Gate declined to comment.
"Kick-Ass 2," which again stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the titular crime fighter, and Chloe Grace Moretz as his invective-spewing partner, could gross about $20 million over its opening weekend, according to those who have seen pre-release audience surveys.
That would be in line with the $19.8-million bow for "Kick-Ass" in April 2010. It could also be enough to win the weekend and put the film, which was written and directed by Jeff Wadlow, on the path to profitability.
"From a pure business standpoint, this movie can do exactly what the first movie did and be a very successful business proposition for us," said Adam Fogelson, chairman of Universal.
Still, "Kick-Ass 2" is also facing some controversy. In June, Jim Carrey, who appears in the sequel as costumed vigilante Col. Stars and Stripes, disavowed the picture in a message he posted on Twitter.
PHOTOS: Hollywood Backlot moments
Carrey, whose grizzled "Kick-Ass 2" character takes down foes with an ax handle, said that in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook school massacre in December, he couldn't promote a movie with a high "level of violence."
But "Kick-Ass" comic book co-creator Millar, who has been a producer on both films, said Carrey's comments gave the sequel a boost in visibility that a film of its size was unlikely to have received otherwise.
"We probably got $30 million of advertising value," he said. "Saying something like a movie called 'Kick-Ass' is too violent is like saying, 'This porno has too much sex.' The curiosity factor [with audiences] is just gigantic."
But Vaughn, who wrote and directed the first movie and is a producer on "Kick-Ass 2," said Carrey's actions left him "deeply disappointed."
"You do not get paid to make a film and then publicly say you are not supporting it without at least having the manners to approach the filmmakers and say, 'This is what I am going to do,'" Vaughn said.
"Kick-Ass 2" went into production after the July 2012 shooting rampage at a screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" at an Aurora, Colo., movie theater — an incident that Vaughn said Carrey must have been aware of yet still moved forward with the project.
FULL COVERAGE: 'Kick Ass' on Hero Complex
"I can't believe he just woke up one day and felt this strongly about gun violence," Vaughn said.
Carrey declined to comment.
Though the incident may have given "Kick-Ass 2" a publicity boost, a challenge for the film will be to convert people who watched "Kick-Ass" at home — either on a legitimate platform or by illegally downloading it — into theater-going customers.
According to a list published by TorrentFreak, a website that covers file-sharing news, as of fall 2011 "Kick-Ass" was the No. 7 most-pirated film of all time on the BitTorrent file-sharing protocol, behind blockbusters such as "Avatar" and "The Dark Knight."
Research by the film business analytics firm Nash Information Services showed that "Kick-Ass" also sold about 1.19 million DVDs in the United States and 827,753 million Blu-ray discs, and accounted for $31.9 million in rental revenue in the U.S. That helped make Universal's decision to release the second film simpler.
"A lot of people really warmed to this in its ancillary life in ways that are measurable," Fogelson said. "Our instinct was that on top of that there were many more people who had seen it in ways that couldn't necessarily be measured, whether it was pay TV or things like Netflix and Redbox."
Should the movie succeed, Fogelson believes that the narrative of "Kick-Ass 2" lays the groundwork for future films.
And there is more source material — though not an unlimited supply. In June, Icon Comics, an imprint of Marvel Comics, released the premiere issue of "Kick-Ass 3," which will be the final story arc in the series.
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Dennis Prager, a well-known author and radio talk-show host, has written that gratitude is the key to happiness. Here is how he has put it:
"There is a 'secret to happiness' and it is gratitude. All happy people are grateful, and ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that it is being unhappy that leads people to complain, but it is truer to say that it is complaining that leads to people becoming unhappy. Become grateful and you will become a much happier person."
The local political season has started. To inform the interested, it is time for those who want to be active in their local, state or federal government to enter the system by applying for a position from now until Jan. 26 at 4 p.m. Either join us at our meetings or go to the Henry County Clerks Office for the forms and information to join the process.
It is hard to believe that three-fourths of the year is already over. With that said, it is time for the annual New Castle Fall Fling, Saturday, Oct. 3, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in historic New Castle.
Although Speaker Pelosi's flawed 1,990 page health care bill (H.R. 3962) passed the House on Nov. 7, the debate on health care reform is far from over.
We need health care legislation that will give the American people the reform they have asked for: fix what is broken in our health care system, reduce cost and increase access to health insurance. That is why my Republican colleagues and I introduced the Common Sense Health Reform and Affordability Act (H.R. 4038).
I am, typically, a patient person. I don't easily lose my temper, nor do I get frustrated quickly.
But last week, my patience was tested.
Ten years ago, I started making baklava. For the uninitiated, baklava is a glorious combination of phyllo dough, honey, nuts and spices. It is rich, sweet, crunchy, and unbelievably delicious.
I was introduced to this heavenly concoction as a kiddo when my mother toted me to an Helenic festival in Evansville. There, we found gobs of the stuff, and it was love at first munch.
I have often heard Henry Countians express their belief in traditional values, in their appreciation for the old ways, and their respect for the past. However, for a community as deeply rooted in what is perceived as tradition, it is very sad to see so little care taken of the physical reminders of where we have been and who we are.
A woman and her pocketbook share a unique bond. A pocketbook serves not only as a carrying case for any number of "necessary" items, it is also a fashion statement, and in some ways a reflection of her personality. A woman is apt to fuss about her purse now and then while a man will tend to carry around the same old wallet until it is so worn that bills start falling out. Most women need a frequent change in purses.
As Veterans Day is upon us, we must remember that our country stands tall because of what veterans did and the values they stand for. Although many of our country's giants were veterans, it's important to remember that many of the veterans who pledged their lives for our freedom are quiet heroes, common folk that we know as neighbors and friends and family members.
When I was a child, cars were not equipped with shoulder harnesses, only lap belts, and child safety seats had yet to be invented.
I remember clambering over back seats to take a nap in the rear compartment of the station wagon. I remember sitting literally on the edge of the front seat gazing out the windshield at stars and the roadside scenery whizzing by seemingly inches from my face.
It was fun, and luckily we were never in a wreck.
On October 29, 2009, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the Democrats' new health care reform legislation. The Speaker, who once famously promised the "most open and transparent Congress in history," added more than 900 pages to H.R. 3200 behind closed doors to develop a bigger, more expensive and more complicated health care reform package, the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962).
As Governor Beshear and the General Assembly prepare for the upcoming legislative session, it is becoming increasingly clear that the state's two-year budget will be the most challenging Kentucky has faced since the Great Depression.
Federal stimulus dollars have helped significantly, but unless Congress provides additional funds, the stimulus dollars will run out by the budget's second year. Barring an economic miracle, there will be considerable budget gaps and no painless way to fill them.
I would like to thank everyone who came out to the recent New Castle Fall Fling on Oct 3. Thank you for braving the winds. I would like to thank the following businesses and individuals for helping us put on the annual New Castle Fall Fling: Walmart — LaGrange, Jerry Durrett, Steve and Rhonda Heightchew, Peggy and Chuck Cox.
I would like to thank our bands, Legacy and Longshot for keeping us entertained throughout the day.
One of my gurus, a psychiatrist famous in the 1940s and 1950s for his self-help program, wrote that one could take stress in stride by accepting frustration as an expected occurrence in everyday life. "Life is a business of frustrations," he taught his patients to recite whenever the inevitable occurred. His was not a negative approach to life but rather a realistic one.
As we prepare for the Veterans Day assembly at Henry County High School, I wanted to once again thank the donors who contributed, this time by publicly recognizing them. I also want to list the details of the assembly, for anyone wishing to attend.
The owners and members of the following organizations – as well as the individual households listed– allowed us to reach our goal of providing medals to award veterans at this year's assembly:
1. Norms' Food World
2. REP Rick Rand (Rand Insurance Agency)
It's hard to believe that in a county presumably named after Patrick Henry — that great man who declared, "Give me Liberty or give me death!" — that anybody would face the property rights issues the Cooks of New Castle are facing. Patrick Henry, by the way, was the first governor of Virginia in 1776, was also the first governor of what is now Kentucky.
Maybe your county officials could do some reading of a good biography of Henry. Public officials these days are in need of some learning about what Liberty really means.
The first priorities of the General Assembly may be to write the law and the budget that guides state government, but it also has an oversight responsibility as well.
Over the years that has led to the creation of eight committees that monitor a variety of programs, ranging from Medicaid to the way we spend our portion of the multi-billion dollar settlement the states reached with the major tobacco companies in the late 1990s.
I know many of you in Henry and surrounding counties have seen or signed a petition to remove Greg Derossett from his current position, or any other position that he may hold in this county. I am concerned that many of you do not know the whole story as to why this petition is being passed around by Mr. Bob Cook who resides on Scobie Lane in New Castle.
Having a few problems here in Henry County. You might remember us if you read the article about the windmills and solar in the Henry County Local. I don't know how many of you have run across this but here goes. My wife and I are both disabled, we had to put up the wind and solar, and then started building our home. Because of a horse back riding accident with my wife, it was delayed in starting.
For months, members of Congress and the American public have hotly debated the right way to reform our health care system. We all agree that there are steps that can be taken to improve health care to make it more affordable and accessible, but the devil is in the details. It is critical that we find the right prescription for reform without adding to our climbing debt and deficit. One of the essential elements to successful reform that will reduce cost within our current health care system is comprehensive medical liability reform "tort reform."
The Henry County KY-ASAP local board is a group of community leaders dedicated to developing policies that reduce substance use in Henry County. In keeping with that mission, we would like to introduce our new mini-grant funding opportunity. Our goal is simple: to support activities, programs, events or even budding ideas that encourage successful future generations in Henry County.
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Assuming the BLS projections for the labor force until 2020 are correct, what will the unemployment rate look like for the rest of the decade?
Background for this question comes from two prior posts.
- About That "Expected" Drop In Participation Rate
- Charting Errors in BLS Participation Rate Projections
Those posts show just how badly the BLS missed prior projections of the participation rate. Consider this chart of 2006 projections vs. 2012 projections from the second link above.
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Chart Data
Mitra Toossi in November 2006: A new look at long-term labor force projections to 2050 Mitra Toossi in January 2012: Labor force projections to 2020: a more slowly growing workforce
I asked Doug Short at Advisor Perspectives to plot the difference as a follow-up to my post About That "Expected" Drop In Participation Rate.
Looking Ahead
Assuming labor force and participation rate projections made by Toossi in January 2012 are now correct, the determining factor is job growth.
Mike Klaczynski at Tableau Software took my idea of plotting BLS projections of the labor force and created the following interactive map that will project the unemployment rate at various levels of job creation.


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Zero-K is a FREE, multi-platform, open source Real Time Strategy game, which aims to be a dynamic, action-packed, hassle-free experience, full of clever strategies and constantly moving combat. Includes an epic scale, realistic projectile and unit physics, terraforming terrain and hundreds of unique and interesting units.
well, the beam tracing from where?
That model looks familiar.
...it can shoot more than one enemy at once!
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These are a few screenshots from a recent game on the map River Mouth.


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The holidays are supposed to be a season of joy.
But with plans to make, family gatherings to organize and visitors to host, it can also be a time of stress and anxiety.
The holidays are supposed to be a season of joy.
But with plans to make, family gatherings to organize and visitors to host, it can also be a time of stress and anxiety.
"Everything is red and green about the holidays, but a lot of people are experiencing the blues," said LSU AgCenter family life specialist Diane Sasser.
Trying to achieve the perfect holiday can bring about worry and tension, Sasser said. This time of the year people may feel overwhelmed, fatigued and sad. They may experience headaches and tension and have difficulty concentrating.
Local social workers have some tips about dealing with stress and anxiety during the holiday season.
Penny Brooks, a licensed clinical social worker with Terrebonne General Medical Center in Houma, said it's important to keep things simple during the holidays and focus on what they're really all about — spending time with your family and friends and making memories that will last for years to come.
Don't overwork yourself to create an idyllic holiday for everyone else because the season isn't about how many decorations you put up or treats you bake, Sasser said.
And don't feel pressured to come up with the perfect gift for everyone on your list, Brooks said.
It's important to establish priorities and acknowledge that you can't do everything yourself. Don't worry about saying "no" to some requests or asking for help to accomplish tasks. Share the workload and delegate to others.
"Prioritize what it is you are trying to accomplish and focus on that," Sasser added.
It's also important to realize your holiday may not match the images portrayed on television or in magazines, Sasser said. But that doesn't make it any less special.
In addition to stress, some people may feel blue during the holidays because it reminds them of the loss of family members, Sasser said. The costs of buying presents and hosting parties may also worry people.
Denying or hiding these feelings might feel like the natural thing to do during a time of celebration, but that can often intensify them, Brooks said.
It's important to talk to someone about what's bothering you and encourage others to do the same, Brooks said. In severe cases, consider seeking help from a professional.
Other tips to keep emotionally well during the holidays:
n Eat healthy. It can help you feel physically better and good about yourself.
n Avoid alcohol. Alcohol is a depressant that can intensify feelings of sadness.
n Don't put your workout routine on hold. Be sure to get physical activity most days of the week.
n Get regular doses of sunlight every day. Sunlight is filled with vitamin D, which lifts your mood. Try to get at least 10 to 15 minutes of sun per day.
n Maintain your regular schedule as much as possible. When we are out of routine, we tend to feel unhappy.
n Get adequate rest. The stress of the season decreases immunity and increases the rates of colds and flu.
n Take time to relax. There will always be gifts to be wrapped and places to be. Carve out time to take a bath, go for a walk, watch a funny movie or just sit around and enjoy your family's company and the holiday decorations you worked so hard on.
Nikki Buskey can be reached at 857-2205 or email@example.com.


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LOS ANGELES – Only in its second running year, the annual Marketing Association Case Competition managed to draw an impressive number of first- and second-year UCLA Anderson MBA and FEMBA students looking to present solutions to marketing issues faced by sponsor Farmers Insurance Group. Over 50 students in teams of four to five competed in the 36-hour competition, which began Wednesday afternoon, March 2 and ended Thursday, March 3 at midnight. The only resources the teams were given were the case itself and a Q&A session on Thursday, leaving the rest up to their own research and insight. The twelve teams each gave a 20-minute PowerPoint presentation followed by a 10-minute Q&A session to various panels of judges the following morning at UCLA Anderson.
This year's case focused on the real problems faced by Farmers Insurance Group as it continues to adapt to an ever-changing and complex industry, noted as "one of the most competitive in the country, with plenty of challenges and opportunities."
A leading provider of auto and homeowners' insurance, Farmers is based in Los Angeles and operates in 41 states. Farmers has always prided itself for being one of the few insurance companies offering personalized customer service and subsequently, sets premium prices in contrast to most of its competitors. Significant changes in the industry, however, have resulted in a decline in market share and returns for the company. Over the past several years, the insurance industry has shifted from a highly tailored financial service to one that is focused more on a consumeristic, low-cost product. Competition from insurance providers such as GEICO and Progressive has left Farmers looking for innovative ideas for change.
"The marketing case competition represented an opportunity to get an external opinion on current issues, and from talented people," said Jorge Cisternas, a product manager at Farmers Insurance Group and a 2002 UCLA Anderson MBA alumnus. "We chose a topic that will allow the students enough room for creative suggestions, but also with plenty of data to make informed decisions."
The teams were expected to successfully address and analyze specific key points in the case:
- How Farmers could increase productivity in California
- How Farmers could encourage its agents to shift their culture from a purely price-based position
- How agents should target customers in order to maximize effectiveness
- Whether consumers value full service providers such as Farmers or discount brokerage companies
After the first round of presentations on Friday morning in various classrooms, the twelve teams were narrowed down to four finalist teams. The finalists were then asked to present their respective solutions in Korn Hall to an audience that included the Farmers Insurance Division President, all participating judges and other students and faculty. Preliminary and final round judges included Farmers executives and staff, UCLA Anderson faculty and staff members and executives from outside companies, as listed below:
Farmers Insurance Group staff:
Deb Brusseau, Product Manager
Jorge Cisternas, Product Manager
Jennifer Darrell, Staffing Manager
Doris Dunn, Marketing Consultant
Randy Leiker, Marketing Consultant
Gina Magee, Marketing Manager
Bill Martin, Director, Personal Lines
Pat Nangle, Staffing Consultant
Deb Settle, Vice President, Fire Product Management
Debbie Sullivan, Financial Services
UCLA Anderson faculty and staff:
Mike Hanssens, Marketing Faculty
Don Morrison, Marketing Faculty
Sanjay Sood, Marketing Faculty
Sara Tucker, Director, Applied Management Research Program
Shi Zhang, Marketing Faculty
Outside judges:
John Carmichael (MBA '95), Director of Marketing, Nestle
Alan Tseng (MBA '03), Brand Manager, Paramount Farms
Michael Winterburn (EMBA '05), Director of Marketing and Communications, Creditel, Inc.
Evaluations of the presentations were based on the following criteria:
- Quality of case analysis
- Extent to which recommendations address questions posed in the case
- Actionability and relevance of recommendations
- Creativity/originality of recommendations
- Quality of presentation
The judges selected Team 2 Logit 2 Quit as the winners of the competition. They received a $1,500 prize. The team included the following members, all students in the MBA class of 2006:
Greg Powell
Sara Varni
Amity Wall
Ohad Zeira
"I think the key was that we had a consistent and clear story to tell throughout the presentation. The judges seemed to respond to that," said Powell.
Cisternas agrees and is very pleased with the results of the competition. "We were very impressed with the students' presentations and ideas," he said. "The insurance industry is particularly complex, and most of the student teams did an excellent job in understanding the facts, Farmers' position and the competitive environment, and with only 36 hours to prepare the analysis!
"The quality of the presentations was also very good," Cisternas added. "There were a number of ideas and proposals that are worthy to be considered, and some others in which the company have already been working – even though they were not disclosed in the case."
This year's MA Case Competition utilized a case written by UCLA Anderson first-year students Wenhsin Lee and Douglas Martin, and faculty member Professor Sanjay Sood. A team of student volunteers including Scott Champagne, Amy Chen, Lana Goldenberg, Evelyn Icarro, Curtis Kadohama, Kim Mariash, Ruben Pranata, Lisa Quon, Jesse Ross, Greg Samarge, Linda Shih, Evelyn Wah and Kevin Yuann organized the competition.
The case competition was a success for both the Marketing Association and Farmers. Cisternas notes that there is certainly a promising future ahead for his company and Anderson.
"It is clear that UCLA is a great source of talent for organizations like Farmers," he said. "With the insurance world becoming a rare place where a graduate can help others and still enjoy the adventure of high finance and consumer marketing, we hope that students and graduates consider becoming interns and making a career at Farmers. We look forward to expanding this relationship and cooperation between Farmers and the UCLA Anderson School in the future."
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management is perennially ranked among the top-tier business schools in the world. Award-winning faculty renowned for their research and teaching, highly selective admissions, successful alumni and world-class facilities combine to provide an extraordinary learning environment. UCLA Anderson students are part of a culture that values individual vision, intellectual discipline and a sense of teamwork and collegiality.
Established in 1935, UCLA Anderson School of Management provides management education to more than 1,400 students enrolled in MBA and doctoral programs, and some 2,000 executives and managers enrolled annually in executive education programs. Recognizing that the school offers unparalleled expertise in management education, the world's business community turns to UCLA Anderson School of Management as a center of influence for the ideas, innovations, strategies and talent that will shape the future.


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The Episcopal Church debates whether to change its Book of Common Prayer.
This week, the church is debating whether to overhaul that prayer book — in large part to make clear that God doesn't have a gender.
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|Director of Athletics
Tim Hall was named the UMKC Director of Athletics on Feb. 14, 2007. In this role, he serves as a member of the Chancellor's executive cabinet, and is responsible for leading the strategic direction in growing the university's intercollegiate athletics program.
Since Hall accepted the post in 2007, UMKC has seen competitive improvement every year. UMKC has won conference championships in men's soccer, men's golf, men's tennis and softball.
In the spring of 2013, he led UMKC athletics into a new era, announcing that it was joining the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) on July 1, 2013.
Shortly after that, he announced the hiring of Head Men's Basketball Coach Kareem Richardson, who came to UMKC after winning a national title on the staff at Louisville. He also secured a deal that will get the men's basketball games back at Municipal Auditorium in the fall of 2013, inclduing numerous facility upgrades to the historic arena.
UMKC athletics announced the signing of a five-year landmark deal with Niles Media Group in the fall of 2012, partnering with the Kansas City based company for a multi-faceted agreement. The partnership has Niles Media Group working in sync with UMKC athletics on numerous aspects, namely to sell title sponsorships and spearhead a corporate partner program. Niles continues to handle the production of various television broadcasts of Kansas City athletics, working with local and national stations. It is the exclusive media rights partner, helping with the marketing of UMKC athletics in radio and television outlets.
UMKC's athletics department staffing has grown during Hall's tenure as part of an effort to catch up to other conference schools. Those additions have made UMKC more competitive in recruiting student-athletes, while providing fundraising support for many facility improvements and agreements in each sport.
The successes were reinforced by the NCAA in 2009, as UMKC Athletics received full NCAA certification without condition. The certification showed that the University is operating its athletics program in substantial conformity with operating principles adopted by the NCAA Division I membership and is valid for the next 10 years.
In 2011-12, UMKC Athletics finished fifth place in the Summit League Commissioner's Cup standings, the highest finish for the Kangaroos since 1999-2000. UMKC also took third in the Dr. Helen Smiley Women's All-Sports standings, the highest finish since winning in 1998-99. The men's tennis squad won its second straight league tournament title, while the women's basketball team posted its first 20-win season since 1991-92 and its second ever trip to the Summit League Tournament Championship game. In the fall, the women's soccer team advanced to the conference tournament for the first time in school history, while setting a school record for wins. Women's tennis also set a record for wins, the third straight year doing so.
During the 2010 campaign, the men's tennis team won The Summit League regular season title and the men's golf program was the league runner-up. This helped the men's teams finish fourth in the Dr. William Steinbrecher Men's All Sports Award standings, the best showing since 2001-02. Overall, the 'Roos moved up to sixth place in the Commissioner's Cup standings, which was the highest finish since 2006-07.
Hall led the 'Roos to their most successful year since 2000 in 2008-09 and the 'Roos continued excelling in 2009-10. UMKC claimed a pair of Summit League titles in men's soccer and men's tennis, while also earning the runner-up nod in both men's and women's golf, which led to a record 2009 finish in the annual Learfield Sports Directors' Cup.
In the classroom, the department posted a grade point average of better than 3.26 this past year. It had a 3.10 cumulative grade point in the spring 2010 semester and eight programs finished with at least a 3.0 GPA. Additionally, UMKC finished with a 958.7 APR average and the volleyball team received the NCAA public recognition award.
Internally, Hall has been hard at work to align the department with peer institutions and the NCAA. He restructured the rules compliance office to be more in line with NCAA rules and the Student-Athlete Support Services Office to better assist and prepare Kangaroo student-athletes. He also continues to work with new UMKC Chancellor Leo Morton to craft the athletics' strategic plan in concert with the University's new strategic goals.
From a fund raising standpoint, Kangaroo Athletics have never been better. In 2008, UMKC received a $5 million pledge from the Stanley H. Durwood Foundation, the largest gift in Athletics' and the fourth-largest gift in University history. The resulting Stanley H. Durwood Soccer Stadium and Recreational Field opened in August 2009 and is among the premier soccer facilities in the Midwest region.
Agreements were also made to give the softball team a facility at the Missouri 3&2 Complex in 2012, as well as use of the St. Theresa's Academy track and field complex for the UMKC track and field teams to train outdoors.
Additional facility improvements have included revamped locker rooms and lounges for men's and women's basketball and volleyball and the retro-fitting of Old Swinney Gymnasium, which provides the basketball and volleyball programs with a first-class practice facility. The project was funded through $500,000 of private support.
Hall also was instrumental in the renovation of the Swinney Recreation Center with the installation of new seatback bleachers and new scoreboards, which enhances the venue for the women's basketball and volleyball programs.
Hall is also in the midst of a partnership with the Kansas City Parks Department to build a sports complex that will house both indoor and outdoor tennis courts, a 200-meter indoor track and a softball field.
On an annual basis, the Kangaroo Athletics Scholarship Fund, which was rebranded prior to the 2007-08 school year, has posted three straight years of 50 percent growth, while donor participation is up over 200 percent. He also increased the department's total sponsorships and gift-in-kind assistance to over $1.5 million and cash and trade sponsorships have increased 265 percent since 2008. Additionally, Hall has increased UMKC's external support by 45 percent over fiscal year 2009 from $1.6 to $2.4 million. Hall also has also reconnected with over 200 former 'Roos with the former student-athlete association.
In the community, Hall has been active in an effort to get more community leaders involved in the Athletics Department. Hall restructured the Athletics Foundation Board in 2009 by adding representatives from a number of Kansas City-based businesses such as Cerner, Kansas City Southern Railways, Lathrop Gage LLC, and Mark One Electric. New partnerships have come quickly to Kangaroo Athletics, including television (Niles Media Group) and radio (810 WHB) agreements that ensure a continued presence within the Kansas City region. Renowned local advertising firm Bernstein-Rein produced a redesigned athletics logo and graphics set, while additional contractual agreements have also been signed with adidas, Truman Medical Centers, Pepsi, T-Mobile and JumpTV to better serve the department's student-athletes.
Hall continues to bring leadership to UMKC and The Summit League. In addition to his role on the Chancellor's Executive Cabinet, Hall serves on The Summit League Joint Council leadership committee and sits on the league's men's basketball scheduling committee and the men's and women's soccer coaches committees. Additionally, Hall is also in a three-year term on the NACDA Division I-AAA Executive Committee and serves on the NCAA volleyball rules committee.
Hall came to Kansas City after serving as the Associate Athletics Director for Development at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, from 2003-07. While at KSU, he was a member of the athletics senior administrative staff, working in all phases of departmental management including game and personnel contracts, scheduling, budget, policy and strategic planning.
In this role, Hall created and implemented a comprehensive restructuring of the athletic advancement unit, resulting in the creation of the Office of Athletic Advancement. He increased fundraising by more than 33 percent, helped secure the largest gift to date in the history of KSU athletics, a $1.53 million gift for the baseball stadium renovation, and raised more than $16.1 million.
Prior to moving back to Ohio, Hall worked at Eastern Kentucky University from 2000-03. Hall began work as the collegiate Director for Development in 2000 before being promoted to the Director of Major Gifts and Special Projects in 2001. In this capacity, he raised over $4.6 million for the university, including $1.3 million for athletics.
Hall also served as the Assistant Director of Development at Saint Xavier University in Chicago from September 1999 through October 2000. At Saint Xavier, Hall managed fundraising efforts for a $13 million Athletic and Convention Center. He also managed the President's Club, and developed and implemented the Cougar Club, an athletics affinity group.
Before moving to Chicago, Hall worked at Youngstown State University as an Assistant Director of Athletic Development from 1997-99. In this role, he helped the university complete its successful $26 million capital campaign. Hall also began his collegiate career at YSU, serving in the school's athletic marketing and promotions office.
Hall earned his bachelor's degree in sports administration from the University of Toledo in 1994. He then received his master's degree in sports administration from Kent State University in 1998.
Hall and his wife, Beth, have four children, Aidan, Aislin, Donovan and Landon, and they reside in Kansas City, Mo.


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Assertations vs. Exceptions
They should be distinct, but are often confused.The generally accepted defintion of assertaion is "A statement of something that MUST be true. If it is not, then your program is broken. You cannot recover from a broken program. Fix the bugs!"
An exception, by contrast, is thrown when a condition required for the correct functioning of a method isn't met. An exception may be caught and recovered from.
The concept we're interested in here is the Zen Nature of the condition we're testing. Exceptions and Errors in Java are merely implementation techniques. An assertion may well be implemented with exceptions, but its Zen Nature is not to be caught.
For example, should the user specify a non-existant file, our program may well throw a FileNotFoundException. Clearly we can catch it and ask the user for another file name.
By contrast, should the list of free pages plus the list of used pages not equal the list of all pages, we're screwed. Some fundamental method in our operating system did something wrong and we have no idea of what else might be wrong. So we can't recover.
The intention of assertions is to provide a security check during the writing and debugging of the program. By the time the program is released, no assertions should ever fail. Therefore assertions should be turned off in production.
This in turn implies that we don't care how expensive the assertion is. Excluding any real-time requirements, it is perfectly acceptable for our program to run 10x slower with assertions turned on.
A perfectly adaquate (if ugly) implementation of assertions would be:
if (ASSERTIONS_ENABLED && !condition()) throw new AssertionError("Bad condition");
Because ASSERTIONS_ENABLED would be a constant, the complier can skip the entire statement if it's false. The assertions in Java work much like this, with some really nice advantages.
A very common mistake many programmer make is to use assertions where exceptions should have been used. They then have to release their production code with assertions turned on. The obvious problems are that the code will be slow, it will be harder to read, and the new guy they hired to run the builds will turn them off.
Now, how do you use assertions?A very common mistake many programmer make is to use assertions where exceptions should have been used.


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The Assistance and Cooperation Programme has been developed to enhance the capacities of countries of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia and South-Eastern Europe in implementing the Convention.
Leaflet about the Assistance Programme: ENG RUS
Countries with economies in transition, in particular, need further assistance in order to be able to implement the requirements under the Convention. The Assistance and Cooperation Programme aims therefore at supporting Parties and UNECE countries with economies in transition to improve their industrial safety. The Programme is based on the principle that assistance can be effective only if a recipient country is capable of receiving the assistance and is willing to take advantage of it. For more information see the following document:
|Internationally supported Assistance and Cooperation Programme for the East European, Caucasian and Central Asian and the South-east European countries to enhance their efforts in implementing the convention
These countries, with the exception of Albania and Turkmenistan, participated in a high-level commitment meeting (Geneva, 14–15 December 2005) and adopted the commitment declaration (see annex of the report below) through which they joined the Programme.
|Report from the high-level commitment meeting
Current beneficiary countries
Currently, there are 15 beneficiary countries under the Assistance and Cooperation Programme: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Republic of Moldova, Serbia, Tajikistan, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
In addition, Montenegro became an independent state and Turkmenistan showed interest in the Convention; the Conference of the Parties to the Convention decided in November 2012 to invite these two countries to join the Assistance and Cooperation Programme
Assistance Programme phases
The capacity to receive assistance is demonstrated by the implementation of the basic tasks as defined under the Programme. The Assistance Programme is divided into two phases: a preparatory phase and an implementation phase. The preparatory phase consists of the expression of high-level commitment, the implementation of basic tasks and the presentation of the results to a fact finding mission, as well as awareness-raising missions and their follow-up.
When a country successfully completes the preparatory phase it is invited into the implementation phase. During this phase, assistance is provided to help the countries implementing more complex tasks. This assistance is comprised of activities that address the priority needs and are identified following the Strategic Approach.
In 2006 and 2007, 15 fact-finding missions were organized. In addition, two awareness-raising missions took place in 2009. The following countries have successfully completed the preparatory phase and entered the implementation phase: Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Croatia, Georgia, Kyrgyztan, the Republic of Moldova, Serbia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Ukraine. For further information, please see progress reports on the Assistance Programme (2012, 2010, 2008, 2006).
A decade of assistance activities
In the year 2014 the Assistance Programme celebrated its tenth anniversary. At this occasion, at the Eighth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Industrial Accidents Convention (3-5 December 2014), a high-level panel discussion was organized. The related background document provides an overview of activities and developments during the decade, impacts and lessons learned.
|A decade of assistance to countries in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia: lessons learned and future prospects


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Giants power past Rockies in series finale
San Francisco, CA – Brandon Belt put the Giants ahead for good with a two-run double in the fifth inning and San Francisco went on to take a 7-3 victory over the Colorado Rockies Sunday at AT&T Park.
Buster Posey had a solo homer among his two hits, Hunter Pence had a two-run double and the Giants received an RBI apiece from Andres Torres and Brandon Crawford to capture the rubber match of the three-game set.
Matt Cain (4-2) shook off some early troubles to strike out six over five innings. He walked five and gave up two runs on two hits to earn his fourth win in a row.
"The first and the second innings we had guys up, he was close to coming out," said Giants manager Bruce Bochy. "He found a way, it's all about battling. It's quite a job he did."
The Rockies didn't receive much from the heart of their order, with Troy Tulowitzki and Carlos Gonzalez each going hitless in a combined nine at-bats with three strikeouts apiece.
Michael Cuddyer hit a two-run double and Jordan Pacheco drove in a run for Colorado, which saw Jon Garland (3-6) drop a fourth consecutive start. He was tagged for five runs -- two earned -- on seven hits and four walks over five innings.
"I thought Jon battled well, had some tough breaks ... He gave us a chance," Rockies manager Walt Weiss said of Garland.
Cain had a rough beginning, walking three in the first inning to load the bases. Cuddyer then ripped a first-pitch offering into left field for a double that plated two runs and gave Colorado the early lead.
The Giants' righty settled in, though, after walking two more in the second. He limited the Rockies to just one hit over the rest of his start and left with the lead after San Francisco scored three runs in the bottom of the fifth.
Crawford tied the game at 2-2 with an RBI groundout an inning prior, and an error on Colorado second baseman DJ LeMahieu allowed the fifth to continue.
His blunder put runners at the corners for Belt, who ripped a double over the head of Dexter Fowler in center field to plate two runs. Torres then followed with a two-bagger of his own to bring another home and give the Giants a 5-2 edge.
Edgmer Escalona took over for Garland to start the sixth, but couldn't stop the bleeding. He surrendered singles to Marco Scutaro and Posey, both of whom came around to score when Pence's hit into right scooted off the glove of Charlie Blackmon for a double.
Pacheco drove a one-out single into center in the eighth to make it 7-3, but the Rockies went without a hit for the rest of the game.
Posey cut Colorado's two-run lead in half with a leadoff homer in the bottom of the second, and the Giants drew even in the fourth when Belt walked, moved to third on a single from Torres and crossed the plate on Crawford's groundout.
Game Notes
Cain has won his last six starts against Colorado ... Posey extended his hitting streak to 10 games ... Garland hasn't lost four consecutive starts since a career-worst five-start streak from May 24-June 13, 2009 ... The Rockies were 2-for-16 with runners in scoring position.


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CISO, Risk Based SecurityJake Kouns is the CISO for Risk Based Security and oversees the operations of the Open Sourced Vulnerability Database (OSVDB.org). Kouns has presented at many well-known security conferences, including RSA, Black Hat, DEF CON, CISO Executive Summit, CanSecWest, SOURCE, FIRST and SyScan. He is the Co-Author of the books Information Technology Risk Management in Enterprise Environments (Wiley, 2010) and The Chief Information Security Officer (IT Governance, 2011). He holds both a bachelor of business administration and a master of business administration, with a concentration in information security from James Madison University. In addition, he holds a number of certifications including ISC2's CISSP, and ISACA's CISM, CISA and CGEIT.
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Comcast SportsNet talked to Ed Reed late last night (see the video here) and he talked about the difficult decision of possibly leaving Baltimore and why Houston could be the choice if he were to switch teams.
"Houston was the team that I looked at and felt like they were where we were in Baltimore years ago, right there on the brink," Reed said.
He also touched on an important factor to consider that makes his possible signing by the Texans even more significant.
One of the most intelligent players in the NFL, Reed is a coach on the field. Wonder why he is always in the right place at the right time?
He prepares as much as any player in the league. He holds film study sessions at his house with teammates. He outsmarts opposing quarterbacks and coaches, and he has been doing it since high school. He is a winner, period.
So of course when he met with Texans coaches, they looked at film of the Texans' defense and what it did and didn't do against the Patriots, the team that routed the Texans in the regular season and sent them packing in the playoffs.
Obviously, this is about more than just the Patriots, but Tom Brady has always had difficulty against the Ravens' defense. Baltimore is the only team in the league in which Brady has thrown more interceptions than touchdowns against. The Patriots have lost to the Ravens two of the last three times they have played in the playoffs, and though overall Brady is 5-3 against Baltimore, his passer rating is in the low 70s. That's a good temperature for golf, bad rating for an NFL QB.
CSN anchor Kelli Johnson asked Reed if he could be that missing piece to help the Texans take the next step.
"Hey, I plan to do my part," Reed said. "Just talking to the coaches and knowing what they need and seeing what happened on film against teams like New England, things we've discussed and knowing what we've done in Baltimore and how battle-tested we were, the adversity we went through and knowing the team here in Houston and the things they went through, it reminds me of us, the battles that we had to go through. If I'm that piece, hey, here I am."


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Council on American-Islamic Relations using courts to stifle enemies
A federal judge's rebuke of the controversial Council on American-Islamic Relations supports claims that the Muslim lobby group is abusing the court system in an attempt to silence opposition, says a lawyer for defendants in the case.
CAIR, which was tied to a major terrorist-financing scheme, "has a long history of filing lawsuits that cost millions of dollars to its victims," Daniel Horowitz told WND.
"It is the same tactic that Scientology and other groups have used," he noted.
CAIR filed suit in 2009 against former federal investigator Dave Gaubatz and his son, Chris Gabatz, after the two carried out an undercover investigation of the Islamic group. The Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C., and three of its employees were later added to the suit for their part in commissioning a documentary.
Evidence from the investigation was published in the WND Books expose "Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America." The book documents CAIR's support of radical jihad, recounting its origin as a front group for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, the worldwide movement that has stated its intent to transform the U.S. into a Saudi-style Islamic state.
CAIR alleges it suffered damage after the younger Gaubatz, posing as an intern, obtained access to some 12,000 pages of CAIR internal documents under false pretenses and made recordings of officials and employees without consent.
On Friday, federal Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia denied CAIR's motion to extend discovery of the Center for Security Policy and several of its employees.
Fight back against CAIR's attack on First Amendment by making a contribution to WND's "Legal Defense Fund." Donations of $25 or more entitle you to free copy of "Muslim Mafia" – the book so devastating to CAIR the group is trying to ban it.
The court agreed with a brief by the American Freedom Law Center, which is defending CSP, and will soon set a schedule for motions that could end the case.
Kollar-Kotelly rebuked CAIR and its in-house legal counsel for their "inability to efficiently manage their discovery in this matter and to comply with the court's scheduling and procedures order."
Horowitz said the ruling "underscores how this process has to come to an end."
"We are looking forward to trial so that this attack on the First Amendment can be ended," he said.
Horowitz said the "glaring weakness" in CAIR's case has always been a lack of damages.
If they sued for this, the judge would throw the case out of court," he explained. 'Instead, it is suing for minor points that caused no harm.""CAIR can't sue for being exposed for its Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas founding. That is what 'Muslim Mafia' was about," he said.
Nevertheless, he said, "the cost of defending is still in the millions, so CAIR abuses the judicial system to silence its opposition."
Horowitz pointed out that in a complaint by talk-host Michael Savage against CAIR several years ago, his team prepared a RICO complaint that alleged the Muslim group was engaging in a deliberate tactic to silence opposition.
Kollar-Kotelly also denied CAIR's request to depose two non-party witnesses in the case, ruling the request was untimely, without cause, and would disrupt the court's management of its schedule and prejudice defendants by delaying resolution of the case.
The court said even CAIR's motion seeking more time for discovery was itself untimely and substantively deficient.
CSP attorney David Yerushalmi called CAIR's motion "a blatant and patently false presentation of the discovery record in this case."
"Indeed, this misrepresentation is just a part of CAIR's pattern of taking a troubling and seemingly abusive approach to civil litigation," he said.
In its motion to extend the discovery period, which had been ongoing for more than 13 months, CAIR requested to depose "Muslim Mafia" co-author Paul Sperry.
In the lawsuit, CAIR, a self-described Muslim civil-rights group, does not defend itself against the book's claims, and the FBI seized the CAIR material from the Washington law office of one of the Gaubtazes' three high-profile lawyers. A previous filing in the case revealed a federal grand jury is investigating CAIR for possible violation of laws that ban financial dealings with terrorist groups or countries under U.S. sanctions.
In her opinion in June 2011, Judge Kollar-Kotelly granted part of the Gaubatzes' motion to dismiss the case, throwing out the count pertaining to the audio and video recordings but maintaining other counts, including theft of physical documents.
Gaubatz attorney Martin Garbus told WND at the time that he "would rather have seen the entire case dismissed at this point, but I believe it will be dismissed at the next point."
Garbus, a renowned First Amendment lawyer who has handled many high-profile cases over the past four decades, said he thinks the Gaubatzes have a valid First Amendment argument and that CAIR didn't suffer any financial damage.
"They haven't shown that they have been damaged by those documents," he said.
CAIR previously attempted to file its initial amended complaint without court approval. Kollar-Kotelly reversed the filing and ordered CAIR to file a motion to explain why it should be allowed to amend.
As WND reported, CAIR's complaint seeks to expunge all copies of "Muslim Mafia," in an attempt, according to Horowitz, to eliminate evidence that could lead to criminal prosecution of the group.
In May 2007, CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Justice Department's terror-finance case against the Richardson, Texas-based Holy Land Foundation, which was convicted of funneling more than $12 million to Hamas.
As "Muslim Mafia" recounts, FBI wiretap evidence from the Holy Land case showed CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad was at an October 1993 meeting of Hamas leaders and activists in Philadelphia. CAIR was born out of a need to give a "media twinkle" to the Muslim leaders' agenda of supporting violent jihad abroad while slowly institutionalizing Islamic law at home.
Rogues gallery of terror-tied CAIR leaders
As former FBI agent Mike Rolf acknowledges in "Muslim Mafia," "CAIR has had a number of people in positions of power within the organization that have been directly connected to terrorism and have either been prosecuted or thrown out of the country." According to another FBI veteran familiar with recent and ongoing cases involving CAIR officials, "Their offices have been a turnstile for terrorists and their supporters."
A review of the public record, including federal criminal court documents, past IRS 990 tax records and Federal Election Commission records detailing donor occupations, reveals that CAIR has been associated with a disturbing number of convicted terrorists or felons in terrorism probes, as well as suspected terrorists and active targets of terrorism investigations. The list is long and includes:
|FBI agents arresting CAIR founding director Ghassan Elashi in 2002.
- Ghassan Elashi: One of CAIR's founding directors, he was convicted in 2004 of illegally shipping high-tech goods to terror state Syria and is serving 80 months in prison. He was also convicted of providing material support to Hamas in the Holy Land Foundation terror-financing trial. He was chairman of the charity, which provided seed capital to CAIR. Elashi is related to Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook.
- Muthanna al-Hanooti: The CAIR director's home was raided in 2006 by FBI agents in connection with an active terrorism investigation. Agents also searched the offices of his advocacy group, Focus on Advocacy and Advancement of International Relations, which al-Hanooti operates out of Dearborn, Mich., and Washington, D.C.Al-Hanooti, who emigrated to the U.S. from Iraq, formerly helped run a suspected Hamas terror front called LIFE for Relief and Development. Its Michigan offices also were raided in September 2006. In 2004, LIFE's Baghdad office was raided by U.S. troops, who seized files and computers. Al-Hanooti is related to Sheik Mohammed al-Hanooti, an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Muthanna al-Hanooti, wearing traditional headgarb
"Al-Hanooti collected over $6 million for support of Hamas," according to a 2001 FBI report, and was present with CAIR and Holy Land officials at a secret Hamas fundraising summit held in 1993 at a Philadelphia hotel. Prosecutors added his name to the list of unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land case.
Although Al-Hanooti denies supporting Hamas, he has praised Palestinian suicide bombers as "martyrs" who are "alive in the eyes of Allah."
- Abdurahman Alamoudi: Another CAIR director, he is serving 23 years in federal prison for plotting terrorism. Alamoudi, who was caught on tape complaining that bin Laden hadn't killed enough Americans in the U.S. embassy bombings in Africa, was one of al-Qaida's top fundraisers in America, according to the U.S. Treasury Department.
- Siraj Wahhaj: A member of CAIR's board of advisers, Wahhaj was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The radical Brooklyn imam was close to convicted terrorist Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and defended him during his trial.
Imam Siraj Wahhaj
"Muslim Mafia," citing co-author's Sperry's previous book "Infiltration" as well as terror expert Steven Emerson's research, reports that Wahhaj, a black convert to Islam, is converting gang members to Islam and holding "jihad camps" for them. With a combination of Islam and Uzis, he has said, the street thugs will be a powerful force for Islam the day America "will crumble."
Wahhaj was a key speaker at CAIR's 15th annual fund-raising banquet in Arlington, Va., in 2009.
- Randall "Ismail" Royer: The former CAIR communications specialist and civil-rights coordinator is serving 20 years in prison in connection with the Virginia Jihad Network, which he led while employed by CAIR at its Washington headquarters. The group trained to kill U.S. soldiers overseas, cased the FBI headquarters and cheered the space shuttle Columbia tragedy. Al-Qaida operative Ahmed Abu Ali, convicted of plotting to assassinate President George W. Bush, was among those who trained with Royer's Northern Virginia cell.
- Bassam Khafagi: Another CAIR official, Khafagi was arrested in 2003 while serving as CAIR's director of community affairs. He pleaded guilty to charges of bank and visa fraud stemming from a federal counter-terror probe of his leadership role in the Islamic Assembly of North America, which has supported al-Qaida and advocated suicide attacks on America. He was sentenced to 10 months in prison and deported to his native Egypt.
- Laura Jaghlit: A civil-rights coordinator for CAIR, her Washington-area home was raided by federal agents after 9/11 as part of an investigation into terrorist financing, money laundering and tax fraud. Her husband Mohammed Jaghlit, a key leader in the Saudi-backed SAAR network, is a target of the still-active probe.Jaghlit sent two letters accompanying donations – one for $10,000, the other for $5,000 – from the SAAR Foundation to Sami al-Arian, now a convicted terrorist. In each letter, according to a federal affidavit, "Jaghlit instructed al-Arian not to disclose the contribution publicly or to the media."Investigators suspect the funds were intended for Palestinian terrorists via a U.S. front called WISE, which at the time employed an official who personally delivered a satellite phone battery to Osama bin Laden. The same official also worked for Jaghlit's group.In addition, Jaghlit donated a total of $37,200 to the Holy Land Foundation, which prosecutors say is a Hamas front. Jaghlit subsequently was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the case.
Nihad Awad
- Nihad Awad: Wiretap evidence from the Holy Land case puts CAIR's executive director at the Philadelphia meeting of Hamas leaders and activists in 1993 that was secretly recorded by the FBI. Participants hatched a plot to disguise payments to Hamas terrorists as charitable giving.During the meeting, according to FBI transcripts, Awad was recorded discussing the propaganda effort. He mentions Ghassan Dahduli, whom he worked with at the time at the Islamic Association for Palestine, another Hamas front. Both were IAP officers. Dahduli's name also was listed in the address book of bin Laden's personal secretary, Wadi al-Hage, who is serving a life sentence in prison for his role in the U.S. embassy bombings. Dahduli, an ethnic-Palestinian like Awad, was deported to Jordan after 9/11 for refusing to cooperate in the terror investigation. (An April 28, 2009, letter from FBI assistant director Richard C. Powers to Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz. – which singles out CAIR chief Awad for suspicion – explains how the group's many Hamas connections caused the FBI to sever ties with CAIR.)Awad's and Dahduli's phone numbers are listed in a Muslim Brotherhood document seized by federal investigators revealing "important phone numbers" for the "Palestine Section" of the Brotherhood in America. The court exhibit showed Hamas fugitive Mousa Abu Marzook listed on the same page with Awad.
Omar Ahmad
- Omar Ahmad: U.S. prosecutors also named CAIR's founder and chairman emeritus as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land case. Ahmad, too, was placed at the Philadelphia meeting, FBI special agent Lara Burns testified at the trial. Prosecutors also designated him as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood's "Palestine Committee" in America. Ahmad, like his CAIR partner Awad, is ethnic-Palestinian.(Though both Ahmad and Awad were senior leaders of IAP, the Hamas front, neither of their biographical sketches posted on CAIR's website mentions their IAP past.)
Nabil Sadoun
- Nabil Sadoun: A CAIR board member, Sadoun has served on the board of the United Association for Studies and Research, which investigators believe to be a key Hamas front in America. In fact, Sadoun co-founded UASR with Hamas leader Marzook. The Justice Department added UASR to the list of unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land case. UPDATE: In 2010, Sadoun was ordered deported to his native Jordan. An immigration judge referenced Sadoun's relationship with Hamas and the Holy Land Foundation during a deportation hearing.
- Mohamed Nimer: CAIR's research director also served as a board director for UASR, the strategic arm for Hamas in the U.S. CAIR neglects to mention Nimer's and Sadoun's roles in UASR in their bios.
Mohamed Nimer
- Rafeeq Jaber: A founding director of CAIR, Jaber was the long-time president of the Islamic Association for Palestine. In 2002, a federal judge found that "the Islamic Association for Palestine has acted in support of Hamas." In his capacity as IAP chief, Jaber praised Hezbollah attacks on Israel. He also served on the board of a radical mosque in the Chicago area.
- Rabith Hadid: The CAIR fundraiser was a founder of the Global Relief Foundation, which after 9/11 was blacklisted by the Treasury Department for financing al-Qaida and other terror groups. Its assets were frozen in December 2001. Hadid was arrested on terror-related charges and deported to Lebanon in 2003.
- Hamza Yusuf: The FBI investigated the CAIR board member after 9/11, because just two days before the attacks, he made an ominous prediction to a Muslim audience."This country is facing a terrible fate, and the reason for that is because this country stands condemned," Yusuf warned. "It stands condemned like Europe stood condemned because of what it did. And lest people forget, Europe suffered two world wars after conquering the Muslim lands."
CAIR's founder Ahmad, while claiming to be a moderate and patriotic American, reportedly told a group of Muslims in Northern California in 1998 that they are in America not to assimilate, but to help assert Islam's rule over the country.
"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant," a local reporter paraphrased him as saying. "The Quran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth."
Ahmad insists he was misquoted. However, the reporter stands by her story, and an FBI wiretap transcript quotes Ahmad agreeing with terrorist suspects gathered at the secret Philadelphia meeting to "camouflage" their true intentions.
He compared it to the head fake in basketball.
"This is like one who plays basketball: He makes a player believe that he is doing this, while he does something else," Ahmad said. "I agree with you. Like they say, politics is a completion of war."
Hooper, CAIR's communications director, also has expressed a desire to overturn the U.S. system of government in favor of an Islamic state.
"I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future," Hooper said in a 1993 interview with the Minneapolis Star Tribune. "But I'm not going to do anything violent to promote that. I'm going to do it through education."


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IU East School of Nursing Celebrates 40th Anniversary
When Indiana University East started its nursing program 40 years ago, students would board a bus to travel to Indianapolis to take courses.
That cooperative effort with IUPUI, that humble beginning with a handful of nursing students, has come full circle with IU East evolving into a hub of regional nursing education.
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Think back to one year ago.
Screen size was one of the only ways Android phones could set themselves apart from the iPhone. Early last year, all those phones with four-inch screens seemed like a godsend to people who liked to consume a bunch of content on their device.
A lot can change in a year.
With the Galaxy Note, a massive smartphone with a 5.3-inch screen, Samsung is betting you'll want a device that offers all the big-screen advantages of a tablet, plus all the communications features you're used to in a smartphone.
Oh yeah, The Galaxy Note also comes with a stylus, that relic of the pre-iPhone PDA era, which can be used on the phone's touchscreen for doodling and jotting down notes.
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Is It Too Big?
I've been using the Galaxy Note for a week. During that time I showed it to a bunch of colleagues and friends and their reaction is almost always the same: "Wait, that's a phone?"
And it's not said with the amazement and wonder a revolutionary device would elicit. Instead, it's said with shock and disbelief. Who in their right mind would want to carry around a phone that can barely fit in your hand?
I tend to agree.
The Galaxy Note is almost six inches long and just more than three inches wide. For comparison, the iPhone is 4.5 inches long and 2.3 inches wide. It's uncomfortable to hold with one hand. It's even more uncomfortable to talk on. When you make a phone call on the Galaxy Note, it covers the entire side of your face. It looks like an oversized Pop-Tart.
Granted, smartphone users don't make as many calls as they used to. It's all texts and tweets and emails. But as a communications device, the Galaxy Note is too big for you to comfortably navigate its touchscreen. Unless you have Shaq-sized hands, there's no way you'll be able to swipe from the top to bottom of the device. It's a stretch to reach that handy drop-down notifications menu.
Typing is isn't too bad though. The wider touchscreen keyboard makes it easier to prevent typos and autocorrect fails.
So yes, for most people, the Galaxy Note will be too big.
Like, practical-joke big.
Blast From The Past
When I met with Samsung's reps to get a guided tour of the Galaxy Note, they told me Samsung's vision with the device was to replace your pen and paper. Why carry around a smartphone, a tablet, and a notepad?
That's the supposed problem the Galaxy Note's stylus is supposed to solve.
But it's not a problem. Today's touchscreen keyboards are incredibly accurate. With excellent note-taking apps like Evernote, you can dash off a note and sync it the cloud in no time. Even the standard note apps that ship with smartphones are more than good enough to do the trick. With the stylus, Samsung is trying to fix something that isn't broken.
And it probably wouldn't be that big of a deal if the stylus was as accurate as the old-school pen and paper method.
But it isn't.
When writing or doodling with the stylus, there's a very noticeable delay between when the tip touches the screen and when your marking appears. Yes, it's a lot more accurate than the credit card pads you sign your name on when paying at the supermarket. But the stylus still doesn't have that perfect, natural feeling of a pen and paper.
One way Samsung counters that problem is with a feature that converts your handwriting to plain text so you can copy it to an email or text message. But in my tests, it almost never worked properly. Pointless.
I found myself getting frustrated taking notes with the stylus. In the end, I just switched to the touchscreen keyboard. It's just easier and a lot more accurate.
Luckily, Samsung doesn't force you to use the stylus. The Galaxy Note is just a super-sized version of your typical touchscreen smartphone. You can do everything with your fingers.
Other Than That, It's Just A Really, Really Big Android Phone
At its core, the Galaxy Note is exactly like any of Samsung's other Android smartphones, just with a much larger screen. It's still running an old version of Android called Gingerbread, which is optimized for phones, not tablets. Luckily, Samsung says an update is coming soon that will add the latest tablet version of Android called Ice Cream Sandwich to the Note.
Like all Android phones, the app selection isn't as good as what you'll find on Apple's devices. Developers still prefer to make their stuff for Apple first. When they do bring their apps to Android, they tend to be less polished than their Apple counterparts.
As far as the basics go, the Galaxy Note's battery will easily last you a day or more, despite its power-hungry (and brilliant) screen. Even at such a large size, the screen's resolution is crystal clear, making videos and games look incredible. The Note also makes a decent point and shoot camera, but the shutter lag is unbearably slow. Overall, if the Galaxy Note's size doesn't bother you, you're going to get an amazing Android phone.
As part of Samsung's partnership with AT&T, the Galaxy Note's exclusive carrier at the moment, the phone is completely bogged down with crapware. When you first turn on the Galaxy Note, your screen will be filled with useless AT&T-branded apps. Even worse, you're constantly prompted to sign up for AT&T's smartphone services.
You know how Windows PCs come loaded with annoying promotional anti-virus software and other useless add-ons? The Galaxy Note is just like that.
Even worse, you can't delete most of AT&T's apps without hacking your phone.
AT&T isn't all bad though. The Galaxy Note runs on the carrier's new 4G LTE service, which is remarkably fast. I conducted a series of speed tests in New York City and got download speeds that will rival what you're used to on your cable modem at home. At times, it was much, much faster than that.
Unfortunately, AT&T currently has 4G LTE in just 28 cities, so there's a pretty good chance you won't get to try it until it expands to new markets this year.
Should You Buy It?
It'd be impossible for me to recommend the Galaxy Note to the Average Joe looking for a smartphone. It's not going to work out for most people. Don't just run out and buy it. You have to hold this thing to see if you're comfortable with it. Even if you do like it, the price, $300 with a two-year contract, is a bit hard to swallow.
If you're OK with a giant phone, then go for it. You won't be disappointed. But if you're just looking for a great Android phone, Samsung's Galaxy S II offers the same performance in a more reasonable form factor.


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These 15 yard samples are a fun and economical way to sample Tosh Vintage without investing in full skeins! Use them for colorwork projects, small toys, or simply to find the perfect color for that sweater you've been dying to make!
Tosh Vintage is 100% superwash merino wool. Working up at a versatile worsted gauge this yarn is perfect for hard-wearing sweater and accessory projects. Each squishy soft skein is hand-dyed in small dye lots and machine washable!Unfortunately, we are unable to accept returns on these samples. Once purchased, the sale is FINAL.
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Good News: My brother and his wife invited me to go on a Road Trip with them next month! It will be a around 10 days trip through the center of Minas Gerais state. We have relatives there, so we will staying some days at an auntie´s house, others at my grandmother´s house (she passed away almost a year ago, but one of my aunts is living in her house while the heirs don´t deceide what to do with it) and we are maybe staying one or two nights in a hotel. Our plans are to see my relatives, go to historical cities (from the barroque period - our gold rush times) and go to a National Park.
The point is: The last time I traveled was on my early teens, so I´m a bit lost about preparations...
And, of course, when I come back I want to keep those memories in a scrapbooking album, probably a digital one. So, I have some questions to those who are more experienced than I with travelling and them putting trip albuns together. And the first is: do you bring a phisical travel journal with you? Or do you only write when you´re back? Are there prompts of things I can´t forget to take notes? Do you do travel diaries?
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Nigeria's minister for agriculture - Purdue alum - chosen as Forbes Africa Person of the Year
December 3, 2013Nigeria's minister for agriculture, Akinwumi Adesina, is the 2013 recipient of the Forbes Africa Person of the Year Award for his work in creating opportunities for his nation's farmers to prosper in agriculture.
Adesina, who earned a master's degree in 1985 and a doctorate in 1988 from Purdue University's Department of Agricultural Economics, received the award during a ceremony in Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday (Dec. 2).
The award is given annually to the individual who has had the most influence on events in Africa during the past year. A press release noted that Adesina was nominated for his reforms, which have "empowered more than 6 million farmers across Nigeria, mostly women, to embrace
agriculture as a business and make a living from it. A passionate defender of African farmers, Adesina is relentless in unlocking opportunities for farmers and changing Africa's narrative on agriculture to wealth creation, away from poverty reduction."
Adesina's initiatives have included the Growth Enhancement Support Scheme, which increased food production by 9 million metric tons in its first year, and the Electronic Wallet System, which speeds the delivery of subsidies for seeds and fertilizers to farmers and enables them to pay for farm inputs electronically.
His reforms have also provided job opportunities for Nigeria's teeming youth population, creating more than 2 million new seasonal farm and non-farm jobs, halfway to meeting the 3.5 million target by 2015.
Jay Akridge, Glenn W. Sample Dean of the Purdue College of Agriculture, noted that Adesina in 2008 received the college's Distinguished Agriculture Alumni Award, which honors mid-career Purdue Agriculture graduates who have made significant contributions to their profession or society in general.
"Dr. Adesina represents the best of what we in Purdue Agriculture strive to achieve, and we are honored to claim him as one of our own," Akridge said.
In an email to Purdue College of Agriculture administrators today, Adesina wrote: "African agriculture will not be the same again as agriculture — as a business — holds the key to lift millions of farmers into wealth."
"I am not a billionaire or millionaire, and I don't want to be, either," he said during his acceptance speech. "My satisfaction is using agricultural business and finance innovations to turn Nigerian and African farmers and agribusinesses into millionaires and billionaires."
Gebisa Ejeta, 2009 World Food Prize laureate, said the award is a testimony to Adesina's leadership.
"What he has been able to accomplish in such a short period of time in Africa really speaks to his intellect, his vision and his focus," said Ejeta, who served on Adesina's master's degree committee and worked with him on a professional basis with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.
"He was brilliant as a student, he did superb work in his thesis and in his classwork and now is proving to be a great leader in Africa, advancing agriculture as a livelihood and not just on a subsistence level," Ejeta said. "He is helping unlock the potential of agriculture in Africa."
Since taking office in 2011, Adesina has been a leader in moving agriculture away from being a donor-driven development aid activity to a business model based on the profitable commercial production of food, fiber and fuel, said Jess Lowenberg-DeBoer, associate dean of Purdue Agriculture and director of its International Programs in Agriculture.
"Africa is the last frontier for agribusiness, and Minister Adesina is a pioneer on that frontier," Lowenberg-DeBoer said.
Often referred to as Africa's leading development entrepreneur, Adesina was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as one of 19 global leaders, along with Bill Gates, to help the world achieve Millennium Development Goals. Gates, who sits on the Eminent Persons Group that advises on Nigeria's agriculture, called Adesina's policies and reforms of agriculture "extraordinary."
Adesina, in sharing his vision for a food-secured continent, said he dreams of a future "where Africa's vast savannas are revived with crops; where large commercial and smallholder farmers co-exist and both prosper; where rail, road and port systems are improved; where open international markets enable more food to move from places of surplus to places of need; and where rising incomes bring millions of farmers into Africa's emerging middle class."
"I know the roadmap toward that vision for Africa is challenging, but we are already seeing progress, and we now have the confidence to achieve even greater results. For agriculture was Africa's past, and in agriculture — as a business — lies Africa's greater future."
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