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"What I think is essential for a successful career at L'Oréal, is to really be an entrepreneur and not just a manager, within the company. It is very special about L'Oréal because it gives you the opportunity to try out new things, new ideas, to really apply yourself, to try things that are maybe risky, but you can try them in a safe environment, which is something you usually don't have the opportunity to do."
Saskja, Germany
"For me, one of the essential things for being successful at L'Oréal is having a good appetite in taking risks. This is a company with little boundaries between the areas. You can go way beyond what is expected from you. It is very cool that you are able to take decisions on your own [and] have a lot of autonomy."
Pedro, Brazil
"Whether it is in a product launch, or in managing a portfolio, or in your career path at L'Oréal. I think that being open-minded and flexible, and keeping that open-minded spirit, is going to help you go far in whatever you do."
Camilla, Canada
"I think it is extremely important to be flexible at L'Oréal. Like it or not, situations do change, and last-minute decisions do happen. We work for a very dynamic market, and L'Oréal is a company that strives for excellence."
Chi, China
"For a successful career in L'Oréal, you need two things. Number one: you have to show a lot of flexibility because you will be stretched to levels and limits that you never thought possible. Number two: You need a very strong backbone. Why? Because in L'Oréal you'll have a lot of sunny days, but it can rain, it can storm, and you need to show resilience to get up there and go fight again."
Mayana, Kenya
"In my opinion, to have a successful career at L'Oréal, it is important to be passionate about your product, your job and your company. Only when you believe in the products and the company can you make other people believe in them. The more you share your ideas and your objectives, the more easily results and objectives will be reached."
Matteo, Italy
"What I think is essential for a successful career at L'Oréal is that you have a passion for what you do. L'Oréal is a company that asks a lot of its people. You have to work long days under high pressure. I think you really have to have a passion for L'Oréal, for the brands and the products, then it doesn't matter anymore because you love what you do and you go for it."
Liesbeth, Netherlands
Strategic and practical
"Being successful in L'Oréal means that you have to be a visionary on the one hand and a worker on the other hand. What does it mean? It means that you have to have a strategy and see clearly where you want to go with your brand, having a helicopter view. But at the same time, you need to be a multi-tasker and to handle one thousand things at the same time, and to be very operational in the business."
Sara, Germany
"What I like is that over the years it has given me exposure to many different functions that I wouldn't have been exposed to if I had worked in another organization."
Juana, Canada
"What I like about building this network is that you create a support system within the company, that you can go to for support, inspiration, or energy. It becomes a big part of how you begin to accelerate in your career. It becomes important to continue building your network and reaching out to others and cultivating those relationships."
Lauren, United States
"It is something I really like, because you have the opportunity to talk freely about your projects and products even with top management, [such as] in the cafeteria. It is probably something that people aren't at ease in doing because it is not always easy or comfortable to talk with them in an informal setting. But take advantage of it, and just go for it."
Nicolas, France
"To be successful in L'Oréal, you need to be able to prioritize and say "no". Why? Because in the loose structure and job description at L'Oréal, I think it is essential that you pick one or two priorities that you think will make the biggest difference, and put all your effort into these priorities, and convince your colleagues and bosses and make them happen."
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Big Data! Everyone is talking about it these days. Knowledge is strength and data is knowledge.
There is a good chance that in the near future, your boss is going to call on you during the next strategic planning meeting and inquire, "What are your plans for interpreting Big Data to provide a strong ROI for the company?" We want you to be prepared with something substantive and useful in your reply. Success is in the preparation.
It's easy to get carried away in all the hoopla, and want to pursue everything that is coming out of Silicon Valley. It's fun to get all of the latest gadgets, but it's not practical and can also become expensive and time consuming without a proper understanding of the basic foundation of information gathering. In today's world of multi-billion-dollar valuations for the best data fields, your data is one of your biggest assets. It needs to be organized, protected, used, and understood. In a previous column, we explored how the Hubble Telescope provided unusable images in the beginning because of a faulty mirror that was slightly too flat.
To cut through all the hype, our team at Fishbowl came up with three compelling questions and worked together to answer them.
- Why should you care about Big Data?
- What do you need to know about it?
- How can you and your business benefit from it?
Why Should You Care?
There is currently an explosion of data coming from all angles of our world today. At our company we believe in not only tracking and reporting on inventory, but on virtually every other aspect of our business, too. An emotional decision not backed by data can cause business leaders to make incorrect decisions. Data is neutral and provides a foundation of facts to make effective, smart decisions. This data needs to be used to help your profitability and your strategy, no matter how big or how small you plan to use it to inform your organization.
What Do You Need to Know?
Our team believes it's important not to get lost in the misconstrued thinking that Big Data is just fad. If anyone believes that, they might as well go back to using a typewriter because PCs and tablets are just the flavor of the week. Big Data ultimately makes your job easier. Data science is undeniably your friend and partner in making the best informed decisions for your business.
Examples of Big Data use:
- Manufacturers monitoring social networks to detect aftermarket support issues, such as before a warranty failure becomes publicly detrimental.
- Hospitals analyzing data to predict patients that are likely to be readmitted within months of discharge.
- Restaurants using simple temperature and humidity data to predict customers' buying trends and plan for marketing opportunities.
How Can You Benefit?
Even though you may not have the Big Data sets that companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google have, you have your own data that you collect on customers, prospects, and more. This is data that you can to start using today to remain competitive.
Here are four simple steps to initiate a data project in your business today:
- Organize your data
- Stop placing data in different locations and in different formats. Look at centralizing your data and cleaning it up. Moving forward, the more organized and centralized your data is, the easier it will be to use and mine.
- Find ways to collect more data
- If it doesn't hurt your organization to just add 2-3 more columns of information you collect about a customer, DO IT! Whether your company is completely Web-based or it has point-of-sale interaction with customers, there are always opportunities to collect more data. Look for them so you can make better decisions down the road.
- Take advantage of public data
- The government is making data public at the national, state, county, and city level so that small businesses like yours can benefit. You have at your fingertips housing records, demographics, crime, census, salary, and legislation records, to name a few. They continue to make this data more easily accessible, and it's important to gather and make use of it.
- Start solving data-centered problems
- After you're organized and have your data, you need to start asking the right questions about your business. Why do we run out of Pop-Tarts when there's a hurricane? (A classic Wal-Mart study in data analysis) What effect does the temperature outside have on my restaurant? How do negative comments on Yelp, Facebook, and Google affect my business? What is the best way to go about repairing damaged relationships and negative comments? What combination of personnel is the most efficient?
- After asking the right questions you need someone to analyze the data and come up with the right answers. Perhaps you have someone in your company who is already competent with Statistics, Mathematics, Linear Mapping, or Machine Learning. Some problems can be easily solved with basic regression models. Or you can go to your local university or community college and see if a professor of these fields would take on some of these tasks as a project to teach his class. I'll bet they would love to. Or offer prizes to students for the best answers to your problems. You can also hire a consultant to help for quicker results.
Big Data is an emerging field and full of opportunity and growth. An excellent guide to technique and execution is Data Science for Business (Foster Provost & Tom Fawcett, 2013).
The earlier you start using these techniques to make decisions, the more likely your business will be successful in the long term. Fishbowl's got your back and we'll continue to do our research to keep you in the know. We look forward to hearing from you.
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The seventh edition of @SEA, the Poetic Research Bureau's monthly live magazine, falls auspiciously on May 1st, so naturally, we have accepted its mission, and name the occasion: MAYDAY!
Come join us this Sunday for a program wound about the thematic maypole of labor and emergency. Three film screenings on hidden work & hidden leisure from Adele Horne, Luciano Piazza and Humphrey Jennings. A talk on the monetization of attention from Luciano. And finally, a visit from The Reader's Chorus, who will evoke "El Lector" of the Lectores de Tabaqueres, the professional reader(s) who would entertain Cuban cigar workers in the earth pre-radio 20th c. The Chorus will perform a specially curated May Day selection of texts for our audience. Spring into action this weekend at 951 Chung King Rd!
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Adele Horne screens an excerpt from her feature "Maintenance"
Luciano Piazza screens recent work and gives talk on monetization of attention
Humphrey Jennings' short film "Spare Time" is shown
The Reader's Chorus channels "El Lector" and performs a special May 1 themed selection of texts
Participant bios:
ADELE HORNE makes documentary, essayistic, and experimental films. Her work has screened internationally at venues such as the Rotterdam Film Festival, Images Festival, Museum of Modern Art, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and the Flaherty Seminar. Her film The Tailenders was broadcast nationally on P.O.V. and won the "Truer than Fiction" prize in Film Independent's Spirit Awards. She is a faculty member at California Institute of the Arts.
HUMPHREY JENNINGS (1907-1950) was an English documentary filmmaker and one of the founders of the Mass Observation organisation. Jennings was described by film critic and director Lindsay Anderson in 1954 as: "the only real poet that British cinema has yet produced."
LUCIANO PIAZZA, a filmmaker and critic, was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied literature at the University of Buenos Aires, creative writing at New York University and film at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). He works in the intersection of audiovisuals and text. He is interested in the passivity and agency of spectatorship and the role of attention in societies of spectacle. He lives in Los Angeles, and is currently the Project Director of Ism, Ism, Ism, Experimental Cinema in Latin America, Los Angeles Filmforum's contribution for the Getty PST LA/LA.
THE READER'S CHORUS, organized by CalArts faculty Sara Roberts and L.A.-based artist Jordan Biren, consists of composers and musicians, visual artists and filmmakers, writers and poets. Initially brought together to perform Robert Lax and John Beer's rarely performed Black White Oratorio, they are inspired by this hallucinogenic poem and the possibilities of sound in a group of speaking voices, and continue to explore texts meant for performative group reading.


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The Duke of Cambridge played at being a First World War fighter ace when he got the chance to see some historic aircraft from a bygone era.
William clambered into the cockpit of a replica British bi-plane and looked down Its machine gun sight as Kate watched.
The royal couple were visiting the Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre in Blenheim, New Zealand, and toured the Knights of The Sky exhibition - Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson's display of First World War aircraft.
Outside the tourist attraction a number of planes were lined up on the grass from the First and Second World Wars and the royal couple were led over to the aircraft.
William, 31, was invited to climb into a German Fokker tri-plane but turned down the chance out of patriotism, saying: "I'm not climbing into a German plane but I'll get into that Sopwith."
The royal couple headed to a replica Sopwith Pup, a bi-plane that would have been flown by British pilots during the Great War.
Built in the 1960s it was designed to look like the plane used by New Zealand flying ace Malcolm McGregor, awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and bar and credited with downing 10 enemy aircraft and an observation balloon.
William climbed on to the wing and as he swung a leg over to squeeze himself into the small cockpit, the nearby dignitaries laughed.
Jackson, who had shown the royal couple his collection of planes and memorabilia from wartime pilots filmed everything on his smartphone.
William, a former RAF Search and Rescue helicopter pilot, could not contain his excitement and said "Start her up", but the plane stayed firmly on the ground.
Kate, holding an umbrella against a light drizzle, peered over her husband's shoulder and he talked her through the controls of the aircraft.
When it came to the moment he had to heave his tall frame out of the cockpit the Duke joked: "Now to get out of here, there's no dignified way to do this."
The royal couple had more room to manoeuvre when they climbed inside a Second World War Avro Anson Mark 1 bomber, the only surviving airworthy example in the world.
Inside the museum, the royal couple were presented with a child-size flying helmet, lined with possum skin, for Prince George.
Jane Orphan, chief executive of the attraction, said: "We were very keen to mark the occasion with a gift and this is all about preserving the heritage for future generations, we thought what better to give than a gift for the young prince."
Peter Jackson, New Zealand's most famous film maker, has been collecting First World War memorabilia since he was 12 and could not hide his enthusiasm showing the royal couple around the inside of the museum, which contains 20 of his planes displayed on dioramas depicting dramatic scenes from the conflict.
One scene featured a plane that has crashed into a tree made from the same material that created the Ents in his Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Kate, 32, was fascinated to see the mannequins of pilots sitting in open cockpits, she said: "They must have been freezing."
The royal couple were introduced to the museum's senior guide, Harcourt "Bunty" Bunt, 93, a celebrated Second World War Spitfire pilot from Picton, who explained one of the most daring escapades depicted in the museum.
The diorama showed New Zealand's highest scoring ace of the First World War, Lieutenant Keith Logan "Grid" Caldwell standing on a wing and guiding his stricken plane down from 7,000 ft after a mid-air collision in September 1918 before jumping off seconds before it crashed.
Mr Bunt said: "He just brushed himself down and walked away. The plane was a write off."
Kate asked: "Did he ever talk about his experience later?" while William said: "I bet he dined out talking about it for several years," adding "Wow, what a story."
The director said: "This is a hero's story. Boy's Own stuff."
The royal couple were also shown a scene depicting the moment in April 1918 when the most famous flying ace of the First World War, the Red Baron, Germany's Manfred von Richthofen, met his death after crashing his red triplane into a beet field surrounded by Australian infantrymen who then stripped the plane for souvenirs.
The plane is a replica but the original German cross, stripped from the side of the plane by the troops, is in the museum.
A member of the host delegation joked: "These are Australians as well. New Zealanders would never do this."
Outside, William and Kate met two young fans, sisters Tallulah, nine, and Eloise, seven, Debinette from Blenheim, who gave Kate a posy and William a picture from his visit to Auckland in 2010. The framed picture showed William meeting Tallulah.
Their mother Sara-Lee Debinette said to the Duke: "You told her she had piano fingers," and he replied: "I never did, I'd never say such a thing."
The aircraft enthusiasts who run the heritage centre, which opened with the help of £1 million from the New Zealand government in 2006, now attracts 30,000 visitors a year.
Graham Orphan, one of the trustees who showed the couple around outside, said they seemed to have enjoyed their visit: "It was fantastic. He is such an aviation enthusiast. It was great to talk to him."


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I am not, technically, a high-powered public relations professional. But I would nonetheless like to offer my services to Russell Ireland, the diner owner from Oxford who's in the doghouse over his treatment of a veteran.
Granted, Ireland made a huge mistake when he tossed a retired Air Force master sergeant and his service dog out of his diner. It was a bone-headed move and the media latched on to it like ticks to a canine, because nothing gets our juices flowing faster than the opportunity to shed light on injustice, unless it's bemoaning the backside of Miley Cyrus in a thoughtful feature story that details, with many pictures, how she has achieved her destiny of becoming a tasteless strumpet.
To make matters worse, Ireland managed to insult two of the most revered species on the planet � United States veterans and pets, and not necessarily in that order. Had Ireland tossed an infant into a trash can, or set fire to a fluffy kitten, he couldn't have done worse damage to his business and reputation.
But Ireland had no way of knowing that. This misguided man from a small New England town was exercising what he believed were his rights on Saturday when he booted James Glaser and his Jack Russell terrier from Big I's restaurant in Oxford, saying he didn't believe Jack was actually a service dog because he had misbehaved during an earlier visit.
"Get that fake service dog out of my restaurant!" Ireland was quoted as saying. When the veteran tried to prove that Jack was indeed a legitimate service dog for his war-related PTSD, Ireland reportedly said, "I don't give a (bad word). I don't have time for that. Get out of my restaurant."
Since then, Ireland has only made matters worse by speaking his mind, which is a big no-no, as people who screw up in public should never, ever say what they're actually thinking, and should in fact never speak at all without the aid of a high-powered public relations professional, because we can't handle frank and honest dialogue anymore. We're not used to it. Instead, we're waiting for Ireland's spokesman to issue one of the following statements:
"Mr. Ireland's words were taken out of context. While Mr. Glaser thought he heard my client say, 'Get that fake service dog out of my restaurant,' he was actually saying, 'Let's make that nervous dog a biscuit!' "
Or this: "My client misspoke when he called Jack a 'regular mutt' and scoffed at the need of a service dog for people with emotional injuries. He also misspoke when he asked Channel 7, 'How much emotional support do you need when you are eating breakfast?' My client was under the influence of a powerful painkiller prescribed after he was mauled by a pack of Russell terriers while volunteering at an animal shelter."
Or this: "Mr. Ireland plans to check himself in to a treatment facility for people who insist on expressing opinions in public without first consulting a pollster. No one educated him about this issue. He's a victim, too."
Or, "You didn't hear it from me, but this veteran has a profile picture on his Facebook page showing what appears to be a Chihuahua doing his business on a photograph of President Barack Obama."
This happens to be true; perhaps it's another form of therapy. Speaking of Facebook, a page calling for a boycott of Big I's had over 32,000 "likes" by Wednesday afternoon. Meanwhile, Ireland has received death threats and obscene phone calls from many patriotic Americans. He has since apologized.
"I know I'm not a very eloquent guy," he said. "But the next time? I will handle it very differently."
Next time? Maybe you can teach an old dog new tricks.
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When Erika Martinez plays the flute, you can clearly see her passion for music. That passion drove her to audition and become a Meyerson Festival Scholarship Finalist, twice! She received the scholarship for flute in both 2012 and 2013. "Not too many high school students can say they performed at the Meyerson. And now to be on the other side, prepping for this event and helping the high school students prepare: it's a wonderful experience!"
Martinez attended Valley Grande Academy, where she played in the band, choir, and handbell choir. During 6th grade she began with piano lessons. After watching a band program, Martinez started asking her mom for flute lessons. Now, as a sophomore music major, she is a member of the Southwestern Symphony Orchestra, Southwestern Wind Symphony, and Southwestern University Singers.
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We were just granted the privilege to build a small skills park. Yay! We have built and rehabbed plenty of singletrack, but this will be our first park. I'm hoping y'all can give me some guidance as to how to approach this project...
The area is 100m N-S x 140m E-W [3.5 acres] with a small hill close to the south edge, about 3-4m high. Overall the site slopes from NW to SE at maybe a 5% grade. If the soil is anything like the rest of the area, it will be a thin layer of organic over clay and the occasional river rock. At present, the entire site is covered in wild grasses and weeds which will need to be scraped off. There are no trees on the site itself, but there is a small windbreak to the north. Prevailing winds are from the North and West.
Our budget is not known quite yet, but assumed to be under $10k. That is what I think we can put together by May. Most of the budget will go toward moving dirt around the site. We'll be relying heavily on volunteer labour and miracles. The land manager will likely be installing benches, and existing parking and washrooms are immediately adjacent to the site. We may be able to have material donated, in particular clay soil and treated wood, but I'm not counting on it. I am assuming that the build will take all summer.
The target audience is beginner to intermediate riders, mostly teenagers [although there will be more than a few old farts like me in there]. If advanced riders can be accommodated, we will definitely do so.
Park elements should include pump tracks, multiple jump lines, skill square[s], and some drops. The scale of the park will be for mountain bikes, as there are already BMX facilities in the city.
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If you buy VIP tickets, you get in first, you have access to one of the first 125 seats (nearest to the screen) and you get a poster of the movie.
- A red carpet will be set in fron of the theater. People can both do the red carpet and see the movie. For security measures tho, when the cast will be in the hall to get into the movie theater, the door's entry will be close, even for people with VIP tickets.
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The 2013 proxy season is well underway and this year saw another large focus on corporate political activity in the way of shareholder proposals. At the same time, reports suggest that the SEC is considering the 2011 proposal submitted by a group of ten academics calling for disclosure. And with increased focus on 501(c)4s as a result of the IRS scandal, scrutiny is only likely to grow as to how companies participate in trade associations, 501(c)4 organizations, and lobbying.
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Charlie Hunnam & Dakota Johnson Have 'Incredible Chemistry'!
Charlie Hunnam and Dakota Johnson have landed the coveted lead roles in the Fifty Shades of Grey film adaptation and now the movie's producer has spoken out on why they were cast!
"Auditions were stunning, incredible chemistry!" producer Michael De Luca tweeted to a fan who sent him a message of excitement about the casting.
Charlie will be playing the role of Christian Grey while Dakota will be taking on Anastasia Steele. The characters start a relationship that revolves around S&M sex.
According to The Wrap, the audition process required the couple to do a "chemistry read" where they did a scene on video to convince the executives that they had the right amount of heat. Guess that audition went well!
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What Zac Efron's Beard Means For Men And Women In Hollywood
This is the weekend they try to make Zac Efron a grown-up movie star.
Efron has made a lot of money for a lot of people; he was an industry before he was 20. High School Musical, which aired when he was 18, is a comically bad piece of film, but it was a jaw-droppingly successful product that later led to a TV sequel and then a theatrical sequel that made more money at the box office than musicals of which somewhat more is thought, including Evita, Yentl, Moulin Rouge!, or Little Shop Of Horrors.
In a savvy maneuver that repositioned him – but not too much – Efron shimmied over from the first High School Musical in 2006 to Hairspray in 2007, which put a stake in the ground early that his plans went beyond the Disney Channel. He made the same point in 2008, when he made his biggest-yet grab for respectability in Me And Orson Welles, which cast him as a high school student (again) who gets a job with Welles in 1937. In Welles, he was directed by Richard Linklater and danced with Claire Danes in a movie almost no one saw.
After that came the comedy 17 Again, in which he played a man trapped in the body of his high school self. It was largely scoffed at by critics but it made decent money and is not terrible, which about sums up what was going on in Efron's career at that point in terms of recognition versus respect: A headline that said "Zac Efron Vehicle Not Terrible!" was useful. He then made the corny Charlie St. Cloud, a piece of treacly magical realism that pumped him up a little bit physically but took him right back to a very Disney kind of place and petered out commercially.
After a side trip to voice work in The Lorax and a nothing appearance in the nothing movie New Year's Eve, that brings us to the Nicholas Sparks adaptation The Lucky One and the difference between what you have to do to be a movie star when you're 18 and what you have to do to be a movie star when you're 24. And to watch what's happened to him is to watch the way movies sell boys to girls give way to the way movies sell men to women.
And it starts with the face. Efron's face in High School Musical was nearly featureless. Aside from bright blue eyes, all you get from that face is a beige thing with teeth. A year or two later, he'd develop a taste for tailwind hair – the same style Justin Bieber long sported, where the hair sticks in pieces to the cheeks, as if a stiff wind is forever at your back. But at first, it was just shaggy and unformed. And, of course, beige. He would later show cheekbones, but they belong to his angularity, to the way he showed up in 17 Again all narrow in the hips and slender in the limbs, and when he puts on muscle — as he has for The Lucky One — they vanish again. Back then, he didn't seem to have them at all.
A funny thing happened in Hairspray: his eyebrows came of age, cinematically speaking.
Dark eyebrows and dark hair made Zac Efron look completely different. He never went back to the dirty blond, and he never went back to the unstructured cut. After that, it was all darker and always very much constructed: his '30s period hair in Me And Orson Welles, his literally clean-cut good boy style in Charlie St. Cloud, and the precisely sculpted high-school dreamboat 'do in 17 Again.
In The Lucky One, his first fully adult role, he's added a thick, dark scruff to go with the short cut of an ex-Marine. (Yes. Zac Efron is an ex-Marine.) With his long lashes, dark brows, dark hair, and sad o'clock shadow (every hour is sad o'clock in a Nicholas Sparks movie), he's gone from a wash of beige to something that's supposed to communicate substantially more brooding complexity. All the secondary sex characteristics are cranked up to Extra High, just in case you still see the hairless basketball player who wiggled around on the Disney Channel. He's also bulked up – USA Today recently reported he put on 20 pounds of muscle, and it shows. He's gone from being a boy that girls watch when he dances to a guy you're meant to admire as he tosses heavy things off a truck. He even physically overpowers another guy in this movie; in a past role, he got thrown against a light pole by a guy playing Orson Welles.
And then, of course, there is sex. The Lucky One is Efron's first on-screen sex scene, really – his sex life was off-screen in Me And Orson Welles and limited to a kiss-and-fade-to-black scene in Charlie St. Cloud. And that one was with a girl who was not, in a strict, corporeal sense, present at the time. (Remember, magical realism!)
Here, he gets a fairly steamy shower scene in which – hold your breath, High School Musical fans – mouths do not remain exclusively on mouths, and arms and hands do not remain energetically wrapped around necks and shoulders. As important as it is to appear uninterested in sex if you're going to be a Disney hero, that's how important it is to appear very good at sex if you're going to be a Sparks hero.
In truth, sex-wise, you sell boys to girls by promising they won't try anything. But you sell men to women by promising they will try anything.
Sex isn't the only thing high school romantic heroes do not have in common with their older counterparts, of course. As recently as 17 Again, Efron was all about emotional fragility. He'd been that way to a fault since High School Musical, in which a lot of his emoting – his terrible, regrettable emoting – consists of repeat appearances of this face.
While The Lucky One is not a good movie at all, it does have the advantage of demonstrating that Efron has learned to emote inward, a little. Even when he's been pretty good, which he was in Hairspray, 17 Again and Me And Orson Welles, he's tended to express emotion by quavering gorgeously. Here, the quavering is kept to a minimum. The pain is more the "I'm crying on the inside; my tattoo and I aren't too happy you had to see us this way" kind of pain.
In his early films, of course, vulnerability wasn't the problem; he was all kinds of vulnerable. His romantic moments came from finding courage to stand up to his father, or the school bullies, or his disapproving friends, or (in the case of Hairspray) racist television executives.
In The Lucky One, on the other hand, he plays it very steely (or as steely as he gets) for most of the film. He's a man of few words, this Logan the ex-Marine. What eventually warms the heart of Beth (Taylor Schilling) is the precise mix of revelations of sweetness that every other movie like this contains: he's good with animals and children, and he has a hidden artistic talent (here, it's playing the piano). There have to be lots of big emotional moments, of course — Sparks writes books in which only love and grief are truly transformative. But in the movies, those moments are a bit harder to come by than they are with soft-cheeked teenagers.
For Hollywood, romancing 12- and 13-year-old girls means seeming like the world's nicest boy who, underneath it all, has the guts to stick up for you and do the right thing. But romancing 18-to-49-year-old women means seeming like the world's toughest, strongest guy (a Marine!) who, underneath it all, is also gentle and kind. Girls young enough to be watching movies on the Disney Channel get the sweetness first and the hidden strength second; women old enough for a shower sex scene get the strength first and the big heart second.
Believe it or not, the play Zac Efron is making here, the play he wants to make, is the Ryan Gosling play. Gosling, too, started out as a Disney kid (on the Mickey Mouse Club) and got his first movie-star moment in a Nicholas Sparks movie, The Notebook. Of course, Gosling had spent a couple of years in between being recognized as a huge talent in a way that has absolutely not yet happened with Efron, and there's no reason yet to believe it's ever going to.
His next big project is his starring role in The Paperboy, directed by Lee Daniels (Precious) and co-starring John Cusack, Nicole Kidman, and Matthew McConaughey, which will be at the Cannes Film Festival in May. It cannot be denied that that's a lot better than a lot of people were expecting from him just six years ago, when he was a newly minted Disney Channel star.
He's been successfully sold to girls for years, and now they're trying to sell him to the same women who, just a couple of months ago, made The Vow a $124 million hit. Don't be too shocked if the beard helps Zac Efron make the leap.


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Dear Prospective Applicant,
Thank you for your interest in graduate studies in the Department of Mathematics at UCLA. Applications are accepted for Fall quarter matriculation only. The application deadline is December 15. Application review process begins in late December; to ensure full consideration, applications should be complete, with all supporting material submitted, by that time. Please note that admissions to the M.A. and M.A.T. programs has been suspended indefinitely, so if you're interested in doing graduate work in our department you must apply for admission to the Ph.D. program.
You must submit the UCLA Graduate Admissions Application (see http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu/gasaa/admissions/applicat.htm) You must submit also the Application Fee for the UCLA Graduate Admissions Application. Instructions for this payment are given online. As part of the Graduate Division Application, you will be required to submit:
- Transcripts (scans and originals)
- GRE General and Math Subject test scores
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- Letters of Recommendation (see online UCLA application)
- List of Mathematics Courses taken
- Applicants whose native language is not English must take the TOEFL exam and submit their TOEFL score.
Each applicant must select an area (pure or applied) and a field of interest as part of the application. The two areas have slightly different course requirements but both allow for flexibility to take many combinations of courses and qualifying exams throughout the department. Students can ask to switch areas or fields after starting the program if their interests change.
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The minimum Department requirements for applicants, in addition to the minimum University requirements, are:
A bachelor's degree or its equivalent, to be completed by the time of matriculation, with a minimum B (3.0 on a 4.0 scale) GPA in undergraduate junior/senior years and in post baccalaureate work. Applicants for the PhD program must have a 3.5 GPA in upper division math courses.
Prospective students do not need to have an undergraduate mathematics major, but must complete at least 12-quarter, or 8-semester courses in substantial upper division mathematics. Comparable Upper Division Courses at UCLA:
- Algebra 110AB: Ring of integers, integral domains, fields, polynomial domains, unique factorization. Groups, structure of finite groups.
- Linear Algebra 115AH: Abstract vector spaces, linear transformations, and matrices; determinants; inner product spaces; eigenvector theory.
- Analysis 131ABH: Rigorous introduction to foundations of real analysis; real numbers, point set topology in Euclidean space, functions, continuity. Derivatives, Riemann integral, sequences and series of functions, power series, Fourier series.
- Differential Geometry 120A: Curves in 3-space, Frenet formulas, surfaces in 3-space, normal curvature. Gaussian curvature. Congruence of curves and surfaces. Intrinsic geometry of surfaces, isometrics, geodesics, Gauss/Bonnet theorem.
- Ordinary Differential Equations 135AB: Systems of differential equations; linear systems with constant coefficients, analytic coefficients, periodic coefficients, and linear systems with regular singular points; existence and uniqueness results; linear boundary and eigenvalue problems; two-dimensional autonomous systems, phase/plane analysis, stability and asymptotic behavior of solutions.
- Applied Numerical Methods 151AB: Introduction to numerical methods with emphasis on algorithms, analysis of algorithms, and computer implementation issues. Solution of non-linear equations, numerical differentiation, integration, and interpolation. Numerical solution of differential equations.
Three letters of recommendation with preferably all, but always at least 2, from mathematicians who are familiar with the student's work.
The GRE General and Math Subject tests. For results to reach us in time, the General test should be taken by October and the Math Subject test by November.
The UCLA Mathematics Department encourages students to change their educational institution between their Bachelor and PhD degrees to broaden their horizons. In particular, no admissions advantage is given to UCLA undergraduates.


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The most successful international development organizations no longer leave information technology (IT) behind the scenes. They know that in order to be "fully global and fully local," development organizations must make IT a priority as the glue that holds the enterprise together and makes mission goals a reality.
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According to 9to5google.com, Google is going to roll out retail stores cross metropolitan areas in the United States ahead of the holidays this year.
Google Stores will be used to show off Google's own brand of products, such as the Nexus lineup of Android smartphones and tablets, as well as Chromebooks.
I guess if Google goes ahead with opening retail stores they might as well sell their new gTLD's out the stores as well.
If Google went ahead with retail stores there would be no reason why you couldn't walk into a Google store and learn about and register a domain names using one of Google's 100 or so new gTLD (assuming they get all the extension they applied for).
On the domain name front Google owns GoogleStore.com and GoogleStores.com
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Paul George scored 22 points to help the Indiana Pacers beat the Portland Trail Blazers 99-92 on Wednesday night.
George Hill added 18 points and David West had 16 points and 10 rebounds for the Pacers (10-9) , who have won four of five and moved above .500 for the first time since a 2-1 start. Indiana, the league leader in scoring defense, held the Blazers to 43 percent shooting.
Damian Lillard led Portland (8-11) with 23 points. Wesley Matthews scored 19, LaMarcus Aldridge had 18 points and 10 rebounds, and J.J. Hickson had 14 points and 12 rebounds for the Trail Blazers.
Indiana outscored Portland 31-14 in the third quarter to take control. The Trail Blazers made a push in the fourth but could get no closer than four.
Hickson's tip-in at the buzzer gave the Blazers a 50-48 lead at halftime. Lillard had 14 points at the break for Portland.
Indiana opened the second half on a 6-0 run to take a 54-50 lead.
A 3-pointer and a pair of free throws by George gave the Pacers a 67-60 edge, and Ian Mahinmi's basket in close pushed Indiana's lead to nine and forced Portland to call a timeout.
A fast-break layup by George out of the break bumped Indiana's lead to double digits, and a free throw by D.J. Augustin closed out the 10-0 run. During that three-minute stretch, the Trail Blazers went 0-for-3 from the field and committed three turnovers.
West's putback in the final seconds of the third quarter gave Indiana a 79-64 lead entering the fourth. Indiana held Portland to 7-for-19 shooting in the third. George, who had eight points in the first half, scored nine in the quarter.
George picked up where he left off, draining a 3-pointer from the corner in the opening minute of the fourth to give the Pacers an 18-point lead.
Portland battled back in the early minutes of the fourth. Matthews hit two free throws to trim Indiana's lead to 85-79 and Lillard added a layup to make it 85-81.
But Indiana regrouped. A drive by George and a last-second dish for a dunk by Hill gave Indiana a 93-86 lead with just over four minutes remaining.
Portland had a chance to cut Indiana's lead to three, but Hibbert blocked Hickson's shot and pulled in the rebound with 50 seconds to play.
Notes: Pacers F Danny Granger remains out with left patellar tendinosis. . Hibbert entered the game second in the league with 3.06 blocks per contest. He had three more on Wednesday . West was issued a technical foul in the second quarter. . Lillard was named Western Conference rookie of the month on Wednesday. . Mahinmi scored a season-high 12 points to help Indiana's reserves outscore Portland's 31-13. . Portland fell to 2-5 on its road trip.


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A man has faced court after police discovered drugs, weapons and cash in a car on Queensland's Gold Coast.
Brett John Carmichael, 27, appeared in the Southport Magistrates Court this morning on seven charges, including possessing and trafficking dangerous drugs and possession of firearms.
Carmichael was one of three people arrested yesterday after detectives from the major and organised crime squad searched a car at a house on Hope Island.
Police say they discovered a number of guns, silencers, four extendable batons, ammunition, a ballistic vest, capsicum spray, handcuffs, drugs, and more than $100,000 in cash.
Carmichael has been remanded in custody and is due to face court again on Friday.
A 23-year-old man and 25-year-old woman are still being questioned.


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Zero tolerance=zero common sense?
News reports come in with alarming frequency.
Four kindergartners are playing cops and robbers when one of them says, "I have a bazooka, and I'm going to shoot you." All four are suspended for three days.
Third-grader Hamadi Alston, also playing cops and robbers, uses an L-shaped piece of paper as his weapon. He's arrested by police and held for four hours.
In September 2002, some sixth-grade boys point their fingers at each other in the cafeteria line and pretend to shoot. One of the students is ordered to serve five days in-school suspension.
In the past month, the Albemarle-based Rutherford Institute has filed suits or appeals on behalf of these students punished by their schools' zero-tolerance policies.
"The problem is huge," says John Whitehead, Rutherford's president. School systems have broad policies about what constitutes a threat. "Then you have children doing kid things. The next thing you know, they're with the police."
The Rutherford Institute started taking zero-tolerance cases in the mid-1990s. "Post-Columbine, they went crazy," says Whitehead. "It's a national phenomena: the lockdown mentality."
While the cases described above occurred in New Jersey and Oklahoma, a list of 31 cases the civil liberties group has handled shows that Virginia isn't immune from zero-tolerance excess.
Loudoun County has been the target of two lawsuits brought by the Rutherford Institute, including the first in the state when fourth-grader Brandon MacLean was suspended two days and recommended for expulsion for bringing a "nerf-like gun" to his elementary school.
Eighth-grader Benjamin Ratner was trying to protect a suicidal friend by taking away the knife she'd brought to school and putting it in his locker for safekeeping. While Loudoun officials said Ratner's actions were "admirable" and posed no threat to others, he was nevertheless suspended.
Even closer to home, a Louisa County seventh grader was suspended because the A-student wrote a song with graphically violent references, even though her teachers didn't believe she was a threat to anyone.
Charlottesville City Schools do not have a zero-tolerance policy, according to director of instruction W.T. Lewis. "We take each case on its own merits individually," he says.
The city school board has discussed a zero-tolerance policy several times, says Lewis, but board members and administrators are not interested.
"Sometimes it's taken to extremes, like the kindergartner who kissed a girl and was charged with sexual harassment or some foolishness like that," says Lewis. "I'd be embarrassed."
However, he says that city school officials are very stringent when someone violates state laws and school board policy. He cites a couple of incidents last year where students were suspended for brandishing pellet guns even though the incidents didn't occur on school property. Because of the danger of a child using a weapon, "The school has jurisdiction regardless of where the felony was committed," explains Lewis.
No real guns have been found on school property in Charlottesville since a student brought a gun onto a bus three years ago.
Would city schools suspend kids for pointing fingers at each other and pretending to shoot?
"We'd have to see what the history of the student is," says Lewis, "whether there's animosity or whether they're friends."
He adds: "We caution them about making threats and how they can be perceived."
Albemarle County Schools have zero tolerance, but superintendent Kevin Castner says, "We try to use a degree of common sense."
For example, while there's a zero-tolerance policy for knives, administrators won't go to the school board and ask for expulsion unless the knife is over four inches long and was used threateningly, says Castner.
Believability is another factor in deciding whether to boot kids from school, and a kindergartner bringing in a water blaster would not, according to Castner, be perceived as a threat.
Castner hesitates to comment on other school systems, but in the case of kindergartners playing cops and robbers, he says, "I'd question the believability" of the threat of violence.
Last year, Albemarle County had 30 expulsion hearings, but Castner believes that "fewer than five" involved weapons. He says that deputy county attorney Mark Trank keeps track of the exact number, but Trank did not return repeated phone calls from The Hook.
Castner doesn't recall any weapons brought to school that were functional or used in a threatening manner. However, in 1998, one student who had a shotgun in his car that administrators agree was for hunting, was suspended for the rest of the school year.
The American Federation of Teachers supports zero tolerance policies toward bringing lethal weapons and illegal drugs to school, and violent assault. "Certain offenses are nonnegotiable," says spokeswoman Celia Lose.
But even the AFT admits there's been a lot of zealous misuse in how zero tolerance is applied. "Zero tolerance shouldn't mean zero common sense," says Lose. "Pretending a stick is a gun or pointing a finger and saying, 'bang, you're dead' may not be appropriate, but it doesn't warrant the student being tossed out of school." Instead, the AFT recommends a range of sanctions for behavior a school system deems inappropriate.
Whitehead calls zero tolerance "a really bad situation that's hurting a lot of people." The cases are difficult to win in court where "conservative judges support authority and the schools."
He decries the fact that a kid who points a finger as a pretend gun is treated the same as one who brings a weapon into school. Meanwhile, Columbine aside, Whitehead says violence in schools has dropped since the early '90s. At the same time, "Test scores are not going up and knowledge of the Bill of Rights is dropping.
"What would Thomas Jefferson think of how zero tolerance is creating an uneducated citizenry with a fear of authority?" wonders Whitehead.
And don't get him going on other examples of zero tolerance on drugs. For instance, 20 states have expelled kids for having such legal substances as Alka-Seltzer, Midol, or Tylenol.
"It makes absolutely no sense," he laments.
The ATF agrees. "We don't think you need to throw the book at students who bring Midol to school," says Lose.


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Seven of the 10 highest-paid public servants in B.C. work for just two agencies: BC Ferries and Powerex, according to the latest version of The Vancouver Sun's public-sector salary database.
The database also reveals that those at the very top of the public-sector pay rankings are doing extremely well, with the top 10 bringing home more cash than at any point since the database first launched in 2008.
Among the top 10 this year, the median salary — meaning five were above that level and five were below — was about $920,000.
Last year, the median was just $565,000 and, in the three years before that, the median never rose above $680,000.
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The huge spike is due to a series of massive year-over-year pay increases for a handful of executives at BC Ferries and top traders at Powerex, the energy-trading arm of BC Hydro.
BC Ferries says the windfall its executives received was a one-off event related to a change in bonuses and that its executives' pay should drop considerably in next year's database.
In contrast, the raises for Powerex's top traders are due to a permanent change in their contracts, meaning the traders can likely expect to earn salaries just shy of a million dollars apiece for years to come.
The BC Ferries board decided in 2011 to phase out its bonus plan for senior executives after controversy erupted over the high pay of its executives, in particular then-CEO David Hahn's million-dollar pay package.
BC Ferries estimated phasing out the plan would save about $700,000 a year.
But, as part of the phase-out, senior executives who had been in the plan were entitled to one-time cancellation payments as well as any bonuses they had earned in previous years but not yet received.
The result was huge one-time payouts for BC Ferries' top executives in 2011.
Michael Corrigan, now BC Ferries president but then its chief operating officer, went from making $558,631 in 2010 to $944,400 in 2011, a 69-per-cent increase.
Chief financial officer Robert Clarke went from $496,520 to $828,096, a jump of 67 per cent.
And Glen Schwartz, head of human resources, saw his pay rise from $506,462 to $795,214, a 57-per-cent increase.
The only BC Ferries executive in the top 10 whose salary did not go up was Hahn, whose pay went down, from $1,051,899 to $929,673.
BC Ferries spokeswoman Deborah Marshall explained in an email that because Hahn retired voluntarily at the end of 2011, he was not eligible for the cancellation payments like the other executives.
Marshall stressed the cancellation payments were a one-time payout and that, when BC Ferries reports its 2012 compensation figures later this year, it will show its executives' pay has dropped considerably, below even 2010 levels: to about $450,000 for Corrigan, $380,000 for Schwartz and $375,000 for Clarke.
In contrast, the big raises at Powerex are here to stay.
Three of Powerex's top traders — Thomas Bechard, Mark Holman and Robert Campbell — each saw year-over-year pay increases of 60 per cent or more.
Bechard went from earning $586,048 in 2010-11 to $947,730 in 2011-12, a 62-per-cent increase.
Holman went from $557,890 to $941,461, a 69-per-cent jump.
And Campbell went from $514,088 to $911,710, a 77-per-cent increase.
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Those same three names were in the news two years ago, when The Sun reported that its salary database showed them receiving huge year-over-year increases between 2008-09 and 2009-10, vaulting all three onto the top 10 list.
At that time, Powerex president Teresa Conway explained the raises by noting that U.S. financial firm Morgan Stanley had tried to raid its top traders — successfully luring some of them away — and that Powerex had to increase the remaining traders' pay to convince them to stay.
In an email this month, BC Hydro spokeswoman Simi Heer said the traders' latest jump in pay is due to that same raid attempt.
Heer wrote that, after Morgan Stanley's raid attempt, the three traders signed new compensation agreements with Powerex at the end of 2009-10 that entitled them to immediate bonuses as well as a new pay structure that would, in time, entitle them to total remuneration of more than $900,000 each.
"In recent years there has been increased competition from energy trading companies competing in the same market," Heer wrote. "This increases recruitment pressures for top trading talent. ... We are doing the best we can to retain many of the traders who help make the company a success."
BC Hydro said, based on the compensation agreements now in place, its top traders can expect to receive similar wages in 2012-13 as they did last year.
Powerex, which has about 180 employees, buys and sells energy to ensure B.C. has a reliable supply of electricity.
But it also tries to profit off those trades, profits that Hydro argues help keep electricity rates low and contribute to government revenues.
Since 2003, according to Hydro, Powerex has generated more than $1.5 billion in income for the utility.
The highest paid public servant in this year's database is Doug Pearce, head of the B.C. Investment Management Corp. (bcIMC), who made just a few bucks shy of a million dollars in 2011: $999,977.
Lincoln Webb, bcIMC's vice-president, also made the top 10 with total remuneration of $679,497.
Rick Mahler, chair of bcIMC, wrote in an email that the agency invests on behalf of the pension plans of more than 500,000 public-sector employees in B.C., an investment portfolio worth close to $100 billion.
"bcIMC competes worldwide with the best in the investment industry for these skills and we offer compensation packages that can attract and retain the expertise we require," wrote Mahler.
The final name on the top 10 list is Doug Hyndman with the B.C. Securities Commission, at $534,043. Hyndman, BCSC's longtime chair, was recently seconded to the Canadian Securities Transition Office to help establish a new national securities regulator.
In 2008, The Sun launched B.C.'s first searchable online database of public-sector salaries.
The database, which includes public servants who earn more than $75,000 a year, has been enormously popular, registering more than 10 million page views.
Today, The Sun launches the fifth version of that database at vancouversun.com/pay.
The new database includes pay for more than 70,000 public servants working at 109 public-sector agencies including Crown corporations, health authorities, municipalities and universities.
The remuneration information obtained by The Sun includes the total amount paid to each employee, including base salary but also any overtime, vacation payouts or severance.
Depending on the agency, the information in the new database covers either the 2011 calendar year or the 2011-12 fiscal year.
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Sometimes we get caught in an emotional rain storm. It happens. To all of us. Because we're living in the material fast-paced world and the weather can get rough sometimes.
You may be reading The Secret, you may be someone who tries to keep looking up, but sometimes a negative emotion or three might cloud your sunny horizon.
Here's a few tips on coping with emotional bad weather from Ayurveda – India's ancient, but always relevant, science of self-healing.
1. Take a deep breath and a step back.
Wait a few minutes and breath deeply, sometimes the clouds will blow over. If they don't then it's time to observe the unwanted feeling. Ask yourself some questions about it. Know that it comes from somewhere and that the somewhere is always to do with you. Which leads to point 2…
2. Accept response-ability.
That doesn't mean you have to blame yourself for how you're feeling or give yourself a tough time. But it does mean that you should never blame someone else. Your feelings are just that your feelings. Others around you might be involved but they can not make you feel the way you do. Your response to any given situation is always your choice. Which leads to point 3….
3. There is always a choice.
You don't have to react on auto-pilot. You can choose, for example, to feel sad, furious, victimised etc etc or feel detached, calm, humorous even. It's not always easy and sometimes we lose the plot but it does become easier if we look after our mind and give it some time out which leads to point 4…
4. Emotional weather proofing.
Being emotionally weatherproof simply means having a roof and having some shelter in the storm. It doesn't make you hard or un-empathetic; on the contrary, when your mind is supported by taking time off-line to meditate or relax it can stop fire fighting and have some room to breath.
That room tends to make us more compassionate and gentle people. It enables us to consider others rather than constantly tripping over our apparently mountainous molehills.
When you respect your mind and care for it with deep breathing exercises, meditation or walks in the countryside it will reciprocate with you by giving you emotional strength and stillness and a good waterproof layer. And for anyone wanting to move forward as a developing human being that's essential.
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The future of work has already arrived, and digital leaders are fundamentally reinventing their workforces. Driven by a surge of on-demand labor platforms and online work management solutions, legacy models and hierarchies are being dissolved and replaced with talent marketplaces.
The on-demand enterprise will deliver the rapid innovation and organizational changes companies need to transform themselves into truly digital businesses.
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Amidst the now constant flux of business markets, digital-born companies without legacy employment models are flourishing by leveraging technology solutions that attack the talent problem: efficiently matching the supply and demand for people and skills in a highly personalized way.
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Digital-born companies are capitalizing on the many pieces of a digital-age workforce that can be virtualized. The workforce is long overdue for a remodel, and digital transformations are poised to make it happen.
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Hope volleyball continues to grow its home fan base at the DeVos Fieldhouse. The NCAA reports that the 2007 Flying Dutch had the second highest average home attendance in Division III for the second consecutive year.
The Flying Dutch moved to the DeVos Fieldhouse for the 2006 season and have a dedicated space for volleyball, providing players and fans an exciting environment.
This past season the Flying Dutch averaged 575 fans across 11 home dates. The DIII leader was East Texas Baptist with an average of 590 fans across six home dates.
Hope also ranked second in the nation in home attendance in 2006, averaging 347 fans across 11 home dates.
The Flying Dutch posted an 11-0 record on their home court and in two seasons are 20-2 at DeVos Fieldhouse.
A highlight of the 2007 season was the home Calvin at Hope match which was moved to main arena court at DeVos and attracted an estimated 1,801 fans.
The Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) ranked sixth among Division III conferences in 2007 with an average of 168 fans across 92 home dates by the nine member colleges.


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If your credit card was maxed out and you were only paying interest, would you get another card to increase your spending and debt? Rational and responsible people would not.
Why then do the progressives in Washington -- liberal and socialists of both parties -- want to increase the debt limit? Sixteen trillion dollars in debt.
They want Obamacare, another massive expensive government program that is not fully funded, over budget, intrusive of our liberties and one that simply does not work. The estimated cost of Obamacare is $1.1 trillion. With already $126 trillion -- yes, that is $126 trillion -- in unfunded liabilities, why would we add more? This is financial insanity.
Our Republic and liberties are in serious danger. Democrats and liberal Republicans have no answers. Anyone having the courage to stand up to the establishment is mocked and ridiculed. The main stream media supports Obama. Establishment Republicans won�t criticize Obama for fear of being called a racist. Yet anyone with an ounce of common sense can see we�re headed for a disaster.
If you want to preserve our liberties and save our Republic from becoming another failed European socialist state, the only organization is the tea party.