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Loyola Marymount University's Latino Business Student Association is back in business. Though dormant for a few years, the organization's seven-student executive board is planning events under the LBSA banner as they seek to support Latino students in becoming business leaders.
"Preparing ourselves for what comes after college, that's what LBSA is really working on," said Javi Reyes, a senior sociology major and one of the executive board members.
The board is working on a dual strategy of recruiting students, especially freshmen, and reaching out to alumni. The aim is for the LBSA to serve as a bridge between business-minded Latino students and company leaders who can coach, mentor and perhaps hire them. Among the contacts the LBSA has made so far is the Spanish-language sports media broadcaster Fox Deportes through Alan Gutierrez '02, who was a co-president of LBSA during career at LMU. Gutierrez is a marketing associate with Fox Global Networks in Los Angeles.
"My time at LMU was critical," said Gutierrez. "I secured my position at Fox through LBSA." Gutierrez said that when he meets with students, he stresses that in today's job market, an important factor is who know you, so making many contacts is vital. "And in today's market, be that person that others want to be around."
The idea to resurrect the association came from Kathleen Soto-Gomez '07 and her husband, Jonathan Gomez '04 during a retreat. "The more [Soto-Gomez] filled me in about the benefits that came with the organization, the more I wanted to become a part of it," said Reyes. Resume-writing workshops, alumni guest speakers, and networking events are in the planning stages to reach Latino LMU students, Reyes said, including a Dia de los Muertos barbecue in coordination with the cultural student group MEChA. They are also considering dances and soccer game nights.
The board also plans a strong presence on social media. They have set up a Facebook site for students, Latino Business Student Association @ LMU, to complement the LBSA page for alumni and the Latino Alumni Association page. They also have a Twitter page and are planning to join Instagram.
Connecting with alumni has been on Reyes' mind lately. He has read many of the distinguished alumni profiles that hang in the Von Der Ahe Building – he said his goal is to read them all – including the profile Alex Martin Chaves '86, an LMU trustee, president of the Latino Alumni Association and the chief executive of Parking Company of America. "And two months later, I meet him," Reyes said. "It was amazing."
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- Chris Hollander
- Colorado Springs, CO
- United States
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Shall We Pity the Entertainment Industry?
It may be hard to say yes or no, but what the SOPA debate and others like it have come down to is this:
1. The current media distribution model is not working for some companies.
2. They perceive their model as failing because of illegal acts.
3. These so called illegal acts are so pervasive that everyone and their brother has taken part of them on occasion, if not often, for almost a decade.
So do we then:
A. Ask the government to step in and help these companies implement their ideal business model with more crackdowns and legislation?
B. Allow the market, or some other force, to make these companies accept the current reality and either adjust and create a new model that is profitable or simply parish the way of the horse buggy and cassette tape?
Mar 17 2012: I worked in the music industry (as a sideman and having my own bands) for 30 years. We didn't have to write commercial jingles to get a record deal, but that's the only way bands get deals now. Check out the new pop/rock bands being signed to any bigger labels now and you'll see that it's on the coat tails of a song that'll be introed in a TV commercial before it ever gets officially released. The corporations that make stuff for younger people to buy are in charge of what you get to listen to for free on radio (unless you're into classic hits and CW), and that's because the only way that any label makes money now is by shopping songs to advertising firms for licensing deals.
The other revenue streams are gone, so any band that doesn't have a song that seems like it can be shoehorned into a car commercial, a Target store commercial, an i-pad commercial, a feminine freshness commercial, or whatever is being sold by way of TV ads, may as well pack it in and get the members on their way to careers as insurance underwriters. Hell, freecreditscore.com even got a lousy pop band to directly shill for them with 30 second jingles that they lip sync right on the commercials. I bet those idiots think they're stars.
Yeah, free music is great, but why would anyone with any integrity ever bother with what's become of that industry anymore. And if that carrot (being able to make a living) is gone, then what stick exists to force anyone to share their music with you? There is no stick to force them, so in the end, you lose. Take the carrot away, and what have you got? Free crap from attention-starved self-promoters who never would've made it past the 1st cut within a healthy music environment where serious people felt that an actual profession was possible. That's all gone now. It's just about selling cheap crap to people who sell cheap crap to everyone else. And that's at the very top of the industry. It's much more pathetic at the street level than even that.
Mar 17 2012: Kevin,
It's been like that for 20 years - give or take the media channels.
The 70s and 80s were like a bubble economy for musos - we literally rocked.
My dad was an accomplished cool jazz drummer during the 50s and 60s - getting 1 gig a week doing old-time dances and whinging and moaning about how rock'n'roll was screwing up the market with the obscene inflow of half-assed players who would be hard pressed to keep up with a marching band.
The folk music scene is pretty robust now for really good players - but you have to be unplugged to get on stage. And really, if you don't like to get on a stage, you can't really call yourself a muso.
It's all kinda collapsed into the street level - I presume close to where it was 100 years ago.
I so agree with your take on the pap that's being touted as music these days in the mainstream media - all ghost-in-the-machine piano-roll rubbish. Back in the 80s I saw the danger of that emerging as I customized analog synthesisers for live work. hey ho.
But you absolutely understand the difference between the front and the back of the proscenium huh?
Out there in teh puntery, all they see is glitter and glamour, and from the stage, all you see is gaffa tape, cables, rats, stoned roadies, crime-bosses and spilled beer - and when you look up .. well, there's the meat market. And everyone with stars in their eyes believing what we showed them - lining up at the green room door for some tips on how to see the crap we saw.
I'm kinda glad the entry fee has gotten so high - the standard of real musicianship has become excellence never seen before on planet Earth.
Have you considered doing a trad-folk gig? It's not an "industry" it's music, and much of what gets played has been public domain for 200 years. And the punters could care less about the meat.
Mar 18 2012: I tried the solo acoustic thing for a little bit and ended up customizing a one-man 3-piece power trio act (with a DR-880, a Digitech VL4, a Vox ToneLab and the whole thing managed by a little mixer on a music stand) where I programmed my own live show again and fit it into acoustic size spaces. I just couldn't do the strum and sing thing for very long. I needed the open road that a rhythm section gives a guitarist. I'm retired now (focusing on writing and changing the way humanity understands itself) but I still have a soft spot for music writers, players, and performers.
I wish there was a way to help out, but the devaluation of their craft has become too ingrained within the American psyche for anything to be done about it. It's spread to the craft of writing too. I wrote articles for Helium.com for a few months until I saw one of my articles appear on Yahoo.com's news feed and realized that Helium had taken it and sold it to Yahoo without even letting me know they'd done it. We writers were competing with each other for stars on the Helium site, while Helium was shopping our articles to news feeds. Hell, they didn't even edit my piece, and it matched up word for word with my original submission. Sloppy of them, that's for sure.
If music is free (worthless) now, then we'll all eventually get what we pay for in the end. I enjoy playing my newer music, and have no desire to share it with the public. I give song recordings to my friends and my daughter for special occasions. I don't bother making the recordings public anymore. I know a lot of songwriters who have stopped making public music, and who are okay with keeping their songs for people they care about only. It's becoming a trend from what I understand, and a way to show someone that they're special to the artist. Let the civilians have the corporate drivel running through their heads. They can take away our careers, but they can't have our music. I don't care if it matters or not to anyone at all.
Mar 18 2012: You're a great man Kevin!
It's funny how us old musos turn to "changing the way humanity understands itself" ..
I salute you!
I suspect that, being musicians, we've been making that gift to humanity all along.
Here's where I might be able to assist:
There is a massive difference between social capital and money.
A tribe can exist without money - but it is defined by its social capital.
I have observed this in the folk festivals - they come together fueled by voluntary contribution - this makes them economic. AS teh "tribe" forms up on teh energy of voluntary contribution, it gains an "entity" - that entity can then turn to "interface" with the non-community environment - and money is the only interface there, but becasue the entity is NOT fueled by money, it has advantage, the money can be generated by ticket sales - and there is no requirement for profit beyond that needed to "seed" the next festival.
Having a basis on social capital, the behaviours within these festivals is palpably different to the money-driven community .. you really aught to try - it, it is mind-altering to see it in action .. and participate.
How do you convert social capital into food/shelter etc? Well, in the land of "Mamon", it starts with superior efficiency - and a place to participate in that very result of our efforts to "change the way humanity sees itself" - because it is all around us to see - with our own eyes - and once you see it, you will not be ashamed to say "with our own hearts".Mar 19 2012: Kevin,
Thank you for sharing your valuable experience here in this forum. I think given all that has happened in the industry and your attempts to maintain a level of professionalism in it you are due a level of appreciation.
I would like to propose to you a historical analogy and delve deeper into your comment, "If music is free (worthless) now, then we'll all eventually get what we pay for in the end."
Music has played so many different roles in human society for as long as we could communicate. Flutes and string instruments go back thousands of years and have many different and often elaborate variations. In ancient Greece, some cults believed that notes and tonal distributions maintained divine purpose. In fact they nearly worshiped the idea of sound and music! Many stories and myths we know today originated as songs and only much later were transcribed as books or poems. Later in the European renaissance, some astronomers believed that the planets themselves had different tones and if witnessed at the right time would create a symphony that was downright godly. Today, oral tradition, as anthropologists call it, is the practice of passing down one cultures to the next generation through story and song. It happens to be one of the most important but least documented sources of history around.
I mention these things because, during all these periods (most of human history), the only way anyone ever made money from music was playing it live as a jester or actor and yet, so much importance was put on music that it was societies textbook, source of philosophy, scientific motivators, entertainment, advertisements ect. Music was hugely important and there were people who were famous for being brilliant at it.
Given all of this, what is the point of music today? A place for famous people to dance around? I hope we do get what you say, "what we pay for" because I want music that values things that we cannot buy - Knowledge, culture, history and respect 4 people!
Paul Sweazey
Mar 20 2012: I believe that (B) is the answer, but the market won't find its balance until we succeed in reproducing the conditions that result in the familiar fairness that existed before content went digital and the Internet was born.
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IP owners are trying to solve their problem by making all digital content available only as (DRM-protected) services, but consumers have always had an option when no service suited them… they could buy and own a product. Unfortunately, plain (unprotected) files are not just de-tethered from suppliers, they are de-facto public goods, because the marginal cost of their replication and their distribution is essentially zero. We don't need to ban plain files. We don't need to end DRM-protected services. We DO need to add something new and fundamental to the mix. We need to create the choice of digital products that are as untethered, copiable, sharable, and versatile as plain files, yet are as singular, monetarily valuable, and transferable as tangible personal property.
We really do need all three: plain files, DRM-protected streams and files for services such as rental, and Digital Personal Property (DPP) for true consumer ownership. So-called piracy won't go away either, but in a more fair world it will be less popular. Imagine how broken our physical-product marketplace would be if consumer ownership were banned and replaced with rental and subscription services. Yet that is precisely the state of our cyber-marketplace — everything is licensed, nothing is owned.
Earlier this month I spoke at a conference of Consumers International (http://a2knetwork.org/infosoc2012), an umbrella organization of over 220 consumer rights groups around the world. My talk was on the work of the IEEE P1817 Standard for Consumer-Ownable Digital Personal Property (http://www.sweazey.com/P1817/CI_P1817slides.pdf). Everything in Cyberspace is synthetic; we can synthesize anything we want, even consumer ownership, with true autonomy and privacy.Mar 17 2012: The model of music-making employed by hitmakers Stock, Aitken, Waterman in the late 1980s, early 1990s showed quite clearly what would become of the industry in time. Acts largely as one-hit wonders in a phase of massive overproduction where music listeners (some call them consumers mistakingly) have reacted by starting to buy less and less. Music listeners have benefited from this. In the old days, a musician was one who could perform on the stage. A talented musician is not a person who can compose but the person who cannot live without composing. So it's only natural that, as a result of piracy and overproduction, musicians must start travelling round with their shows to make a living. Look at Jean-Michel Jarre touring Europe all year round!Mar 16 2012: Cris,
At one time I would have described myself as a "socialist" ..
but these days no "ist" seems worth keeping as a functional category.
On this ocasion, I think that the capitalist free market forces themselves are ripping the Entertainment industry to bits
and they, who once spouted the virtues of the free market are climbing into bed with Marx and Pol Pot.
Even the copyright laws themselves acknowledge that the creativity of humanity must return to humanity - except they want that to be delayed 100 years - at gunpoint if necessary.
In this case, they employ our own guns to be pointed at us.
It is sad that TED saw fit to remove my conversation thread on teh insane child that the corporation has become - most probably because it suggested taking up arms against the corporation .. I saw it as a balanced resoponse since the corporation is already taking up arms agains us.
Mar 17 2012: Yes that is strange considering it wasn't racist or religious or affected peoples belief systems.in no way was it offensive.
Mar 17 2012: They wrote to me saying:
"Your conversation has been removed according to the TED.com Terms of Use ( http://www.ted.com/pages/conversations_terms ) as it is too vague to be of interest to the TED.com community as a whole. Full text below."
With only the first 4 lines of my topic coppied into the email - so I have no record of my entire post or any of the responses.
I conclude that they have acted to protect themselves from a topic that might become destructively heated.
THat humanity is becoming the road-kill of its own bastard child (the corporation) .. and we better do something about it pretty quick.Mar 17 2012: Oh .. and to be honest - my post was deliberately destructive to people's beleif systems - it was intended as a viral meme designed to wreck pretty much all we assume to be true.
Well, it's out there now and is already being digested in cyberspace. All I need do now is keep re-seeding it with the snappy:
"Humanity is becoming the road-kill of its own bastard child (the corporation)"
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Mar 18 2012: HAR HAR HAR!!!!!
(getting sick of "lol")
Y'know, when you think about it - offending people is probably a bigger industry than the arts - all these shock jocks and funky anchor-men, spewing out hatred and ignorance and raking in the dough with armies of idiots who think these guys actually believe all teh shyte that they pour into the mic!
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Mar 18 2012: these things work in subtle ways. I'm not trying to do the nyan cat here, but I'll take on board your perceptions.
Thing with belief systems is that they incorporate assumptions - an assumption is a belief that has bypassed the trust-loading somehow.
Assumptions exist in the meta-space representing stuff that cannot be directly percieved. One will find these artifacts bridging observable "facts".
THere seem to be 2 dynamics at work with assumptions:
One is that they get defended .. this is because they occupy physical neural topology - altering that topology takes effort - and when you go into an assumption to rewire it, the conscousness will be aware of all subsequent re-mapping and anticipates discomfort as the scale of remapping reveals sub-structures that may have yielded personal advantage.
Two is that they get attacked - a person who observes a fact within someone elses assumption has advantage.
A subset of this is the gregarious urge to share perception/observation - it is the basis of the social metaspace.
So the erosive meme is a floating observation - wrapped in a meta-artifact. The artifact gives egress to the observation at a different, undefended point in the belief system (usually in the "pathos" structures).
Then the new concept makes its way into the assumption subconsciously and sits there. The next time the assumption gets "fired" it also fires the new concept - at that point, the "agent" will get "insight" - an "aha!" moment .. The assumption will start to re-crystalize to accomodate the new "fact". Then the entire beleif system will start to re-structure.
If it was a large assumption then new assumptions might have to be adopted to in-fill, but they will be unstable as they will not bypass the trust loadings - and will depend on personal esteem .. which will have been eroded by the realisation that a personal assumption was faulty.
I will do more work on my meme .. maybe it needs a sweeter wrapper ;)
Gabe Ozoani
Mar 16 2012: For decades they (the media) have been ripping the public off with overpriced and redundant products. The industry has clearly forgotten who they serve and I believe that people donating or paying what they think media content is worth is the way forward.
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Mar 19 2012: Well that said Mark, because as we know this isn't just a problem for the entertainment industry, intellectual property rights span everything from farming to medicine, what is the way forward with copyright?
Share and crowd source models?
Do we need to revamp economic basics?
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Mar 19 2012: Exactly!
I must admit, I'm totally motivated by structure models. It's just the way I process life.
In terms of IP .. well, if you take the semantic sense of property from "I own it" to "It is intrinsic to me" .. E.g. "This is my property - keep your hands off!" Becomes "This arises from my entity - pelase enjoy!"
YOu see, I see property as being an aspect of some entity - for instance, a property of me is that I live at this address. But a property of humans is a big brain.
From that, I argue that intellect is a property of humanity - we all have it, it therefore is not a property of a single individual. And the laws actually reflect that.
The granting of temporary monopoly on the ideas that flow freely through humanity is like a bug-fix to encourage ideas through the incentive of monolpoly. And it's pretty clever.
But it is fraught with flaws - one being the diminishing return of period-of-monopoly (ultimately serves to retard human progress instead of promoting it). Two being the acceleration of change exceeding the capacity of humanity to adapt. Three being the encouragement of unfair advantage that results in social inaquity.
Things are as they are. We have to live with it. But changes increasing the IP laws can serve only to press civillisation further down the slopes of diminished returns.
At the very root of all this is the tool of incentive - money. Money does not represent value - it represents advantage. Promotion of advantage within a social species serves to destroy the species advantage in favour of the individual.
Instead of being the collaberative organism we evolved to be, we have now become the farmers of humans. The emphasis on personal advantage has ignited a ponzi-sheme with each individual competing to not be on the bottom layer and all risk is falling upon the bottom layer in a spiral that must collapse.
There may be some sane ballance between self interest and community interest - but I see that that balance (if it exists) is gone.Mar 20 2012: Biggest, saddest thing about all that is we all know it.
Well . anyone with eyes open can see it plainly.
And now we all have in our minds "where will I be when the wheels fall off".
We are nearly all of us thinking that now.
The future is like a great big black wall that none of us can see surviving when we hit it.
We are a freaking train-wreck in progress.
So . we all know the first wheel that comes off is the money - even the economists have stopped lying about that.
But hmm - hey, what if we just ignore it?
WHat if .. we just keep going to work and keep going to the poxy supermarket.
What if we just admit that money is a fiction and just say that everybody's account has infinite credit?
What happens then?
Well . not a lot really.
One first thing is that half-assed products will stay on the shelves till the good stuff runs-out. THen we will put up with the crap till the godd stuff comes round again. SO nothing really changes except there will be queues at the shop-doors as soon as the good stuff comes round again. And the stores will stratify - good-stuff stores will become hard to find - and you better be committed to whatever you regard as good, because you'll be going on a pilgrimage to find it. And it will all balance out in the end.
The only difference wil be that your money will be going to the value - and not into the pockets of bankers.
That sounds pretty nice to me - and if you're a banker - well sucko looser! I, for one will be glad to see you in the queues with the rest of us ;)
Ken brown
Mar 16 2012: It's a basic organic need to share infomation,it's in our DNA otherwise we would be extinct by now,the church tried to restrict infomation passing amongst the common people by making the bible the sole preserve of the clergy as they were more educated than the rest.Look what happened when the printing press showed up and four perfect bibles were distributed in a village,it was mayhem,the devils work.
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Apparently the living organism called the corporation can lobby as a living organism in the U.SMar 22 2012: No we should not take pity on the Industry but in the Arstists ... The Industry is in big parts to big and slugish to adapt to change in time. A new industry will form... Pirating copyrighted material has become a multi Billion Dollar Industry in it`s self ... the next logical step for us Producers of art to step up and get our share from the people making the mony now... As with the old system we already have a co dependancy, they (pirates and /orentertainment industrie) need us (creatives) to keep on producing content, we need them to distribute that content to an audience and collect revenues (advertising/subscription fees what ever), so in the long run the only thing happening is that the industry is changing hands ...
I belive history will in somewhat prove Marc Getty (founder of Getty Images) wrong when he said "Intellectual Property is the oil of the 21st century"
Copyright has to change, Intelectual property "written in stone" for 90 years after death is sensless and kills new creativity, the future of copyright should be more flexible (lice creative commons )and will have to have a shorter life spann...Mar 19 2012: Hi. Well it seems as it is completely forgotten that Piracy was the boost for the music industry here in Europe in the 60´s and 70´s!! In that period there were a huge number of off-shore radio-stations playing what the young people wanted to listen to! The authorities in certain countries, used their power to close most of them creating new laws forbidding them to continue. If these pirates had not been there, I wonder when we would have been able to listen to all the great artists that´s been around and many more to come? Only one continued a few years longer than the rest, Radio Caroline.
So the question is: who benefits most from "legal" music? The governments getting their taxes or the music industry??Mar 19 2012: Ok so, I think many of my political and economic ideas, at least in part, essentially boil down to -
How do I keep big brother/The fuzz, off my back?
I envy anyone who gets to live without the military arm of the government (cops) breathing down their neck all the time, but know that not everyone has that pleasantry. (PS I get pulled over like once a week cause I have red tinted windows and apparently its legal but confuses cops a lot). lol!
How do we, in reality, keep the government from stepping in and enforcing laws like MPAA and new ones lke SOPA 2.0?Mar 16 2012: I appreciate your long reply. But, don't you think there should be some safeguards (until an extent) to stop piracy? After all piracy is stealing, right?
I spoke about the profits as part of the industry as a whole. The jobs point was on a more emotional level.
P.S. I wanted to post this as a reply to your comment, but I guess TED.com does not allow more than three levels of conversation.
Mar 16 2012: Gowtham,
Piracy has to do with ships on the high seas.
The pirate boards another's vesel and removes goods and value from that vesel,
Often kills everyone on board and either sinks or steals the vesel.
With digital copy nothing is removed, the vesel and crew remain intact.
What we are talking about here is prohibition.
Using the word "pirate" is a mind-screw for you to suck-up (as you have).
Prohibition always creates a black market - always.
And most artists will tell you that the real pirates are the IP companies - as they take-over our creations, remove our value and leave us discouraged.
Jobs? .. jobs are for money. Creative artist have no need of jobs - they have work. Big difference.
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Mar 17 2012: Great points @Mark MeijerMar 16 2012: The motive of any industry is to earn a profit. When their profit is being eaten through any means, they will obviously try to stop it.
Creating media is not an easy task. Lots of money and effort is put into it. We can't just expect them to give their content away for free. I think SOPA came out of the media industry's sheer frustration at being helpless.
On the other hand, I do believe that media companies should try to adapt to the changing consumer demands rather than trying to coerce them into their path.
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Mar 16 2012: Do you know how many people rely on the media industry? From technicians to directors, millions of people depend on the media industry for their livelihood directly or indirectly. Piracy is hurting their livelihoods.
I am not saying SOPA in its present form is right. I was merely pointing out one of the reasons for its existence.


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Hes already trending.....a **** storm of media attention is incoming. That tweet did the organization no favors. Its one thing if a third string QB said it, no one cares....but this is Mike Wallace.


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Okay...first of all I used fresh blueberries and was concerned that as the blueberries gave off their juices, it would turn out to liquidy. But it was fabulous! The corn starch really did it's job. Finally a fruit bar that's not sickening sweet! It's perfect and the crumb crust and topping doesn't steal the show from the fruit...which is how it should be. I didn't feel guilty eating these at all! Wonderful recipe and super simple!
This was Easy & Great Tasting. I used Raspberry Jam in place of berries & it still turned out Great. I want to try it with peachs someday.
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My original intent was to make a mixed berry pie today, but laziness got the better of me and I made this instead - the point being, it is EASY - and with little effort I had something fresh, pretty and delicious! I pulsed the dry ingredients in the food processor, then pulsed in the shortening and, finally, the egg, which I beat slightly with a teaspoon of vanilla. I found this method quick, easy and it crumbled beautifully. For the fruit I used a mix of fresh blueberries, raspberries and strawberries. Mine was perfectly done at 45 minutes, although I started to check it at 35. The results were perfect. Just as good as a crumb topped mixed berry pie and so much quicker to throw together. Very nice recipe!
I used blackberries, extra sugar mixed in the berries, and butter as suggested by reviewers, a little more cinnamon and it was perfect. The flavor really came together after sitting for a day or two, the crumb mix was kind of bland the first day, and on the third it had the best flavor. Can't wait to try it with raspberries!
I tell you what! If people would only make this recipe as is they would find it WONDERFUL! No tweaking! This deserves five stars!! You can try other fillings but the rasberry is far the best!! Thanks for an easy recipe! It didn't last long in my house and I've made it three times already!
Took these into work and they were devoured within minutes! I took the advice of others and used butter instead of shortening and doubled the amount of sugar on the berries. Very tasty and easy to make. Next time, I will combine all of the dry ingredients first for the crust, then add the butter and egg. I will also use a food processor to cut the butter into the flour mixture. This should help make the mixture a little more crumbly, like small pebbles. I had to work pretty hard to cut the butter into the flour mixture by hand! Thanks, Jan!
Remember the Seinfield episode about how everyone loves the tops of muffins and don't want the rest of the muffin? This recipe solves that problem. When I'm in a hurry, I'll make these with either raspberry or blueberry canned pie filling...either way, they are simply wonderful and disappear very quickly!
Very easy and very good! I have made them with berries, peaches and crushed pineapple. Each time it turned out great
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It has been a season of records being broken by the HEAD World Cup Rebels. With 50 out of the 88 races on the FIS Audi World Cup seeing HEAD racers on the podium, this was a season that had many highlights for the racers as well as seeing many new faces making their breakthrough onto the podium. From Soelden, that saw wins for Lindsey Vonn and Ted Ligety all the way through to Schladming and the World Cup Finals, there was a regular sight of HEAD skis on the podium. In Sochi, Maria Hoefl-Riesch, Lizz Goergl and Lindsey Vonn swept the board on the podium!
The hard facts of success explain just some of the success story of this season: Five of the ten Globes awarded at the end of the season were won by HEAD racers and with no major championships this season, HEAD racers took 28 race wins (17 by the women, 11 by the men), 20 runner up spots (12 and 8) and 18 third places (split evenly). All this added up to make HEAD the most successful brand on the Alpine Skiing World Cup Tour with 7630 World Cup points.
HEAD Race Department Manager, Rainer Salzgeber picked out his two highlights of the season: "The first real highlight was the first downhill in Lake Louise from Lindsey and the other highlight was that Ted was in the top fifteen in Slalom. We have only one racer and he is in the top fifteen so everything is not wrong!"
Lindsey Vonn has surpassed the record of the most number of points scored by a female racer and very nearly took the record of any racer. For Lindsey there were two highlights to the season: Having never won at home, her victory in Beaver Creek in December was very special to her and then winning for the 50th time in her career in Garmisch Partenkirchen was "amazing" she admitted, "It was special and emotional." With twelve victories and the Downhill, Super G, Super Combined and Overall Globes as well as becoming the first woman to achieve seventeen podiums in two separate seasons and this was the third season she has won five downhill races in a season.
Maria Hoefl-Riesch came into the season as the defending Overall Champion. She ended the season with three wins and admitted "the form of Lindsey would have made defending the Overall difficult." Maria recovered her season to place third in the Overall. "This was not a perfect season for me but a really good one. Although I did not win a Globe, I am really happy with my skiing at the moment. Next season I will be back for the Big Globe!" she explained.
Anna Fenninger made the break through and won her first World Cup race in Lienz in December. For her this was the highlight of her season and she also notched up five podium placings. "The third place in Bad Kleinkirchheim was also a highlight for me. Lake Louise was very important for me and my Super G was unbelievably strong and this has helped my confidence," she explained. Anna managed to finish fifth Overall as well as third in the Super G.
Lizz Goergl added her name to the winner's roster with victory in Bad Kleinkirchheim. This was a highlight for her "and then Sochi was really good," she felt. "All my podiums were really good," she added. Lizz's consistency in the Downhill races saw her place third in the discipline standings.
The HEAD World Cup Rebel men's team got off to a great start with Ted Ligety winning the opening race in Soelden. By the fourth race of the season HEAD racers had stood on the top step in each race! Ted Ligety's win in Kranjska Gora, winning by a massive 1.61 seconds, having been over two seconds ahead at the final split, showed that while he may not have won the Globe, he was "skiing very, very fast this year in Giant Slalom and in my opinion I was the fastest Giant Slalom Skier just not the best Giant Slalom skier."
While the records will say that the Downhill in Val Gardena was cancelled, the race was being lead by Johan Clarey when the weather forced its cancellation. This would have been the Frenchman's first World Cup win and showed the improvement he is now making.
One HEAD World Cup Rebel who did make the breakthrough and win his first World Cup race was Kjetil Jansrud. Kjetil is recognised as one of the fastest Giant Slalom skiers yet it was in the Super G in Kvitfjell that he made the breakthrough. Two podiums in the first two races that memorable weekend and then Kjetil stood on the top step in the second Super G.
Ben Thomsen is a Canadian on the move and the Olympic Test Events in Sochi saw him score his first World Cup podium. In two years the Olympics will now see Thomsen as one of the racers to beat and the confidence he gained from making the podium also saw him jump up the start list for the remaining races of the season.
When your father is the serviceman to one of the great skiers of the time, you are able to reap the rewards and gain the knowledge of skiing fast. Marcel Mathis is the son of Bode Miller's serviceman and with two third places in Giant Slalom, Marcel is one of the young Rebels coming through the ranks and more will be seen of him next year. Bode Miller had a shortened season following injury yet still managed to win Beaver Creek as well as podium in Classic races at Val Gardena and Wengen.
Aksel Lund Svindal won the Super G Globe and finished third for the Overall Globe. Race wins in Downhill at the World Cup Finals and in the Super G in Lake Louise confirmed him as one of the most exciting racers of his generation. Aksel knows that he is returning to the form that saw him win the Overall and next year will be looking to recapture the Overall Globe he last won in 2009.
When the annals of the season are written, there is one man who said farewell to the world of ski racing in the most glorious fashion: He chose his spiritual home to make the announcement and then promptly won the Race for the fifth time to become the most successful racer at Kitzbuehel. That man is Didier Cuche. Having just missed out on the Downhill and Super G Globes, Didier bowed out of racing in 1950's skiing equipment. It was a fitting way for the great man to leave the sport and his peers paid homage by trying to recreate his customary ski flick in the finish! Didier leaves the sport after 16 years of racing on the World Cup, 4 Downhill Globes, 1 Super G and 1 Giant Slalom Globe and 21 World Cup race wins.
While she did not win a podium place in her final season, Anja Paerson also retired from the sport at the end of the season. With six Olympic medals, eleven World Championship medals and 42 World Cup wins, Anja has decided to finish her career.
So those are the HEAD World Cup Rebels that have graced the podium on the World Cup in the 2011 – 2012 World Cup. The numbers speak for themselves; the personalities all have one thing in common: They are HEAD World Cup Rebels!


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Miami would gain cap savings.........I'll get my abacus out and post approx. savings soon.
In my opinion, Taylor's decision will largely be based upon what Zach decides to do more than anything else. If Thomas stays, I believe he will talk Jason into sticking it out another year. These guys have been through it together and are as close as any two players could be. So, watch the news and rumor mills to see what Zach has planned for his future and you can count on Jason not being far behind. Of course, this is just my opinion.
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Is Miami closer to the Super Bowl at this point, than New Orleans was at this point last year? the jets?I think that JT has a lot of pride and losing is tough on him. I bet after he sees who makes it to and wins the Super Bowl,he will feel that we are not that far away from making it. Then he will go to Hawaii and see for himself that he still can perform at the probowl level. He will be back rejuvinated and motivated.
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10 Best Ikea Hacks of 2012Jan Halvarson
This past year I posted a few IKEA hack round-ups here from kids rooms to stylish home office ideas; and with each post I continually was impressed with the innovative and creative thought put behind each piece. So I thought it would be fun to round up some of the best ones from 2012. From customized billy bookcases to a clever window herb garden. Here's this year's top hacks!
Industrial 1 of 13A faux vintage steel sideboard from Rast chest.
More info at Ikea Hackers.
Planter Rail 2 of 13A fun idea for a windo herb garden using a rail and "S" hooks.
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Office Update 3 of 13A clever update to an IKEA desk.
More info at Happy Mundane.
Cross-Stitch Chair 4 of 13Add some handmade to your home office with a little cross-stitch action.
More info at Ikea Hackers(Photo: Lo veo y me gusta)..
Custom Billy 5 of 13A beautiful custom job using Billy Bookcases.
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Vanity Flair 6 of 13All-In-One Multipurpose Bathroom furniture which hides a washer & dryer.
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Backsplash 7 of 13Add some splash to your backsplash with this genius hack. (Don't you love the color of that kitchen aid?)
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Book Shelf 8 of 13A clever use of a napkin holder.
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Ivar library and storage 9 of 13A clever and attractive use of the IVAR system.
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EXPEDIT – Kitchen Storage 10 of 13An Expedit is hacked using different materials making the simple white expedit-style very unique.
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Mid-Century Style 11 of 13A Stolmen turns into a mid-century unit/space-divider/desk.
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Multi-Kid Drafting Table 12 of 13A clever hack using VIKA table tops.
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Add Leather 13 of 13Leather straps take this RAST chest of drawers to a whole new level.
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Police in Bangladesh report fourth fatal attack against secular blogger in 2015; Niladri Chaterjee, activist whose online posts often criticized Islam, is killed by group of assailants who enter his home under false pretenses. MORE
Jul. 24, 2015
Sha Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, is among impoverished towns where desperation of Rohingya Muslims and poor Bangladeshis to lead better lives feeds predatory human trafficking operation that corrupts many; town's illegal network has grown in 2014 to include at least 600 smugglers and 1,600 low-level agents involved in transporting migrants across Andaman Sea to Malaysia. MORE
Jul. 11, 2015
Bangladeshi police say that at least 23 women and children died in stampede in district north of capital Dhaka as large crowd rushed to gather clothes donated during month of Ramadan. MORE
Jul. 3, 2015
Twelve suspected Al Qaeda members are arrested in Bangladesh. MORE
Jun. 17, 2015
Bangladesh's Supreme Court upholds death sentence of top Islamist party leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed for murder and other crimes against humanity conducted during 1972 war of independence against Pakistan. MORE
Jun. 2, 2015
Formal murder charges are filed against 41 people for their involvement in 2013 collapse of clothing factory building in Bangladesh; accused include building owner Sohel Rana, owners of several factories in building and multiple government officials who could all face death penalty if convicted. MORE
May. 30, 2015
Meeting held in Bangkok with delegates from 17 governments results in commitment by all participants to address primary causes of crisis created by exodus of migrants and refugees from Myanmar and Bangladesh. MORE
May. 28, 2015
International aid organizations are concerned about future of migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar living in Indonesian refugee camps, particularly with government's announcement to keep migrants for one year; apprehensive migrants will remain in makeshift camps designed for temporary, short-term emergency housing and want government to move them into medium-term housing solutions. MORE
May. 27, 2015
Signs point to possibility that Southeast Asian migrant crisis is easing; Malaysian and Indonesian search-and rescue vessels have sighted no more refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar at sea. MORE
May. 26, 2015
More than 3,000 migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar who were adrift at sea are now waiting in bureaucratic limbo in Indonesia and Malaysia that could continue indefinitely; few countries want to take migrants and there is huge logjam of applicants seeking resettlement. MORE
May. 26, 2015
Bangladesh bans radical Islamist group Ansarullah Bangla Team under antiterrorism law for threatening and killing atheist bloggers, writers and activists. MORE
May. 23, 2015
Myanmar announces seizure of boat carrying 208 Bangladeshi migrants and detention of all passengers; some Rohingya say members of their ethnic group were on boats as well. MORE
May. 20, 2015
Op-Ed article by anthropologist and author Tahmima Anam submits that severe lack of public toilets in Dhaka, Bangladesh, amounts to crisis; says government's inadequate response to situation overlooks fact that men can urinate in public while women have no such recourse; says absence of facilities women may use reinforces perception that public space belongs to men. MORE
May. 16, 2015
International Organization for Migration says boat carrying hundreds of migrants fleeing Myanmar has returned to sea after Thai authorities say people on boat told them they wanted to try to reach Malaysia; boat is part of flotilla that is carrying some of the estimated 6,000 to 20,000 people fleeing persecution in Myanmar and poverty in Bangladesh. MORE
May. 13, 2015
Indonesian Navy turns back migrant ship carrying thousands of passengers; experts caution that thousands of arriving refugees from Myanmar and Bangladesh could be stranded at sea. MORE
May. 13, 2015
Blogger Ananta Bijoy Dash is chased and killed by four men in Bangladesh, third fatal attack on a blogger in country since February. MORE
May. 12, 2015
Refugees from Myanmar and Bangladesh numbering over 1,000 have infiltrated Malaysia and Indonesia, many of whom are of Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority who were persecuted and denied citizenship in home countries. MORE
May. 8, 2015
India's Parliament unanimously passes bill for constitutional amendment to resolve border dispute with Bangladesh; more than 160 enclaves exist near border in either country and are encircled by other nation's territory; agreement calls for land exchanges and allows thousands of people to select their country of citizenship; amendment needs to pass at least half of state legislatures before pact can go into effect. MORE
May. 4, 2015
Asim Umar, leader of Al Qaeda branch in Indian subcontinent, is claiming responsibility for February 2015 killing of atheist Bangladeshi-American blogger Avijit Roy and several other intellectuals opposed to fundamentalist Islam in Bangladesh. MORE
Apr. 13, 2015
Battle between Bangladeshi Prime Min Sheikh Hasina and opposition leader Khaleda Zia has resulted in violent protests that have killed over 100 people, injured many others, and stirred general unrest that has hurt country's economy; turmoil stems from clash between Hasina and Zia, known as country's 'two ladies,' over 2014 election. MORE
Apr. 12, 2015
Bangladesh hangs Islamist party leader Mohammad Qamaruzzaman for war crimes committed during 1971 independence war with Pakistan. MORE
Apr. 10, 2015
Bangladeshis believe disappearance of Salahuddin Ahmed, former member of parliament who served as communications minister for opposition leader Khaleda Zia, was carried out by security forces. MORE
Apr. 7, 2015
High winds and heavy rain kill 41 people and injure over 200 in Bangladesh. MORE
Apr. 3, 2015
Many in Bangladesh praise Labannya Hijra, transgender beggar in Dhaka, for helping police capture two men accused of murdering blogger Oyasiqur Rhaman, who wrote comments critical of Islam on social media. MORE
Mar. 31, 2015
Oyasiqur Rhaman is latest of three secular bloggers in Bangladesh to be attacked and killed in public by men who feel they are defending Islam; some bloggers in activist community vow to continue battle for hearts and minds of country's young people, but many others are discontinuing blogs or considering seeking asylum in other countries. MORE
Mar. 28, 2015
At least ten people are killed and many more injured in stampede during bathing ritual in Langalbandh, Bangladesh. MORE
Mar. 13, 2015
At least six people are killed in Bangladesh when roof of cement factory collapses in southwestern city Mongla; rescue workers save about 40 people, but as many as 70 remain trapped. MORE
Mar. 10, 2015
Bangladesh officials expel Son Young-nam, first secretary of North Korean Embassy, for attempting to smuggle $1.4 million in gold into Dhaka; tight international sanctions restrict North Korea's ability to move money by conventional means. MORE
Mar. 3, 2015
Bangladesh security officials arrest Shafiur Rahman Farabi for murder of Avijit Roy, Bangladeshi-American blogger who criticized radical Islam; Roy was hacked to death Feb 26 in Dhaka; Farabi posted a threat on Facebook last year to kill Roy. MORE
Feb. 26, 2015
Anticorruption court in Bangladesh issues arrest warrant for opposition leader and former Prime Min Khaleda Zia after she fails to appear for hearings on embezzlement charges tied to her time in office; lawyers for Zia, who led protests against Prime Min Sheikh Hasina in January, maintain that charges are politically motivated. MORE
Feb. 21, 2015
Italian fashion company Benetton announces plant to contribute to Rana Plaza Donors Trust Fund, which will compensate victims of 2013 clothing factory collapse in Bangladesh, in response to petition organized by international advocacy group. MORE
Feb. 19, 2015
Special tribunal in Bangladesh hands death penalty to Abdus Subhan, leading figure in country's largest Islamic political party, for war crimes committed in 1971 independence war. MORE
Feb. 19, 2015
Western apparel companies VF, PVH, Gap, El Corte Ingles and others will resume business with Azim Group of Bangladesh on condition that company will continue to maintain civil relations with its labor unions and stop any assaults of union leaders at its factories. MORE
Jan. 6, 2015
Bangladesh police say four members of opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party died in clashes with security forces and supporters of governing party supporters in three northern districts; violence occurred even though security was enhanced to prepare for anniversary of re-election of governing party. MORE
Jan. 5, 2015
Bangladeshi police ban all rallies in capital Dhaka, and prevent top opposition leader Khaleda Zia from leaving her office. MORE
Dec. 23, 2014
VF Corp and Li & Fung have announced that they are ending or suspending orders with Azim Group, company that owns two Bangladeshi apparel factories where union leaders have been assaulted; separate investigations by VF and Worker Rights Consortium found that beatings captured on video were instigated by factory managers; United States, Europe and workers' advocacy groups have been pressuring Bangladesh and its garment industry to improve worker conditions and protect workers' right to unionize. MORE
Nov. 25, 2014
Special tribunal in Bangladesh convicts Mobarak Hossain for slaying 33 civilians during Bangladesh's 1971 independence war; sentences him to death for his role in mass killings. MORE
Nov. 2, 2014
Bangladesh suffers nationwide power outage after after transmission line in electrical grid fails; blackout is biggest in Bangladesh since 2007. MORE
Oct. 30, 2014
Op-Ed article by filmmaker and author Lipika Pelham points out there are millions of child laborers in Bangladesh, many earning no pay; holds although many people in country would deny it, Bangladesh practices its own form of slavery. MORE
Oct. 14, 2014
Two large groups of retailers and apparel brands complete major step toward advancing garment-factory safety in Bangladesh by inspecting nearly 1,700 garment factories in country; uncover safety violations ranging from minor to dangerous, and ask that 41 factories be temporarily closed. MORE
Oct. 11, 2014
Tahmima Anam Op-Ed article notes fascination in Bangladesh with series of Hollywood-style bank heists there; holds while public is distracted with bank robberies, more threatening bank robbers are hiding in plain sight in form of loan defaulters; contends poorly run state-run banks are largely to blame for the problem, and calls for reforms. MORE
Sep. 18, 2014
Bangladesh's Supreme Court commutes death sentence of Islamist political leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee, who was convicted in 2013 of war crimes during nation's 1971 war for independence. MORE
Aug. 14, 2014
Bangladeshi police arrest Abu Bakar Siddique, owner of a ferry that capsized and sank, leaving more than 100 people dead or missing; he is charged with culpable homicide. MORE
Aug. 7, 2014
Police in Bangladesh launch a manhunt for owners, captain and crew of ferry that capsized and sank in the Padma River; vessel was overloaded, carrying at least three times its maximum licensed capacity of 85 people; 137 passengers from ferry are reported missing and 19 bodies have been recovered. MORE
Aug. 6, 2014
Divers fight powerful currents and heavy rain while trying to recover bodies from river ferry that capsized in Bangladesh; officials say vessel was severely overloaded with passengers, and attempted river crossing despite warnings of severe weather. MORE
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Thursday, July 24, 2003JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (July 24, 2003) -- East Tennessee State softball coach Amy Fuller announced that Christina Shanko has been added to the Buccaneers coaching staff for the 2003-04 academic season. Shanko, a former right-handed pitcher with Seton Hall and native of Delmont, Pa., will replace Jennifer Herzig as the team's new graduate assistant coach. Herzig earned her master's degree from ETSU last May. "I am really excited about having Christina join the ETSU softball staff," said Fuller. "She brings a wealth of playing and pitching experience with her, and I know that she is going to make a positive impact on the program immediately." Shanko earned Seton Hall's Rookie of the Year honor in 1999 and capped off her career by being named the Senior Female Co-Athlete of the Year in 2003. During her senior campaign, Shanko led Seton Hall to a 37-13 regular season record, which was second best in school history, while her record of 20-3 on the mound last season tied a school mark for wins. She also led the team in complete games (23) and shutouts (7) en route to being named Second Team All-Big East. With 55 career victories, Shanko is the all-time leader in wins at Seton Hall. She also finished her four-year career with the Pirates ranked second in appearances (102) and strikeouts (481). In 2000, Shanko compiled a 1.01 ERA which was 17th in the nation that year and is the best by any Seton Hall pitcher. Recently, Shanko earned honorable mention on the Eastern College Athletic Conference Division I All Star Team. Shanko's summer team, the Pittsburgh Pride, also captured the 23 & under Pennsylvania State Championship in which Shanko hurled a no-hitter in the championship game. A four-time Big East Pitcher of the Week award winner, Shanko was named to the 2003 Verizon Academic All-District II Division Second Team and was a four-year member of the Big East All-Academic Team. Shanko has helped teach the game of softball to a variety of age groups including in her hometown of Delmont,where she was a camp coordinator and assistant coach for 18U Fastpitch, focusing on pitching instruction and team-building concepts. Shanko graduated from Seton Hall on May 12, 2003, with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a minor in Criminal Justice.
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The car has a big, black snout, flowing through a compact midbody, low-slung windows and a squared-off tail. We see them everywhere, zooming to and fro, responding to emergencies.
What goes into outfitting the police cars we see flashing by?
They don't have bulletproof glass or eject buttons, but a lot separates an everyday patrol car from cars civilians drive every day.
"This is your office. You put what you need in it," said Dan Lane, a public information officer for the Gaithersburg City Police. He allowed The Gazette to interrogate him and rummage through his car, a 2012 Dodge Charger with a V-6 engine.
"It has a much faster giddyup with a V-6 than with a V-8," he said.
Officers typically carry first-aid kits, flares, a fire extinguisher, riot gear, extra gloves and a traffic vest in their cars, he said.
For Lane, the extra special somethings in his car include peanuts, some bottled water, extra gloves, some Romeo and Juliet cigars for when he's off-duty — NOT to be smoked in the car, he said — and the stuffed teddy bear with a yellow shirt that says "Masons Care," belted into the back of his cruiser with a bungee cord.
Masons donate teddy bears that police departments give to children who are victims of traumatic incidents, Lane said. His father gave him one of the bears when he was hired by the police force, he said.
Montgomery County Police has about 900 marked patrol cars, according to fleet manager Sgt. Bob Ravida.
The county's fleet consists of Crown Victorias, along with Dodge Chargers, Chevy Impalas and Caprices, Ford Interceptors, and for officers with K-9s, Chevy Tahoes and Suburbans.
Why buy models from different manufacturers?
Manufacturer recalls, Ravida explained.
"We can't take the whole fleet off the road. ... It helps in a fleet of our size to have some diversity, so our operations aren't impacted if we have a major safety recall," he said.
Although the police cars resemble their civilian counterparts — the Interceptors look like Ford Tauruses, he said — the bones, innards and nervous system of the car are vastly different.
The Interceptor, for example, has a 3.7-liter engine. "That's not even available as a citizen," Ravida said.
Engineers program the engine to respond differently, to "pursuit-style" driving situations, which enables the car to accelerate harder and deal with sharp cornering.
Cruisers have larger brakes and steel wheels, which means the car can better handle curb strikes, helping the car avoid wheel and suspension damage, he said.
"If we used aluminum [for wheels] like in most cars, we'd be replacing them all day," he said.
Some cruisers also have a brace welded into the rear of the car, allowing the vehicle to withstand being struck by another car going 75 mph while it's parked.
Most cruisers can go more than 150 mph, Ravida said, but he asks for an automatic speed cutoff from manufacturers at about 130 mph, he said.
"To protect our officers, we don't let them go over 130," he said.
Cpl. Kevin Marston, a mobile systems manager for MCPD, handles some of the specialized electronics that go into the squad cars.
There's a mobile video system with forward and rear facing cameras, along with a camera box in the trunk of the cruisers.
And there's E-tickets, a scanner and a printer, which allows officers to issue tickets during traffic stops.
Ravida said he adds emergency equipment to a patrol car, like the many light bars, sirens, siren boxes, radios and decals. There is a special center console, a mobile video system, a rugged Panasonic Toughbook laptop, electronic ticketing and other items.
The total price tag for those items runs around $26,000 to $27,000, he said.
"Honestly, we spend a little more on the equipment than we do on the car, when you include labor," Ravida said.
Fresh from manufacturers — before lights and all their other parts are added — the Ford Interceptor sedans run about $24,726, he said.
Other prices are $27,216 for Ford Interceptor utility vehicles, $23,644 for Chargers, $26,697 for Chevy Tahoes and $26,911 for Chevy Caprices.
The most expensive of the lot is the Suburban, which runs about $36,380, he said.
"If you tried to buy one as civilian, you couldn't buy it for less than $46,000," Ravida said.


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Our preschool science curriculum features both season and animal units, so with winter here it's the perfect time to study the change in the season and animals who are either greatly effected by the winter weather or are cold climate animals. We started out this winter season with a hibernation unit.
It's amazing the things that I have learned while homeschooling my son. I was doing research and learned that bears don't "technically" hibernate under the original definition of hibernation. Animals who truly hibernate go into a very deep sleep and cannot be disturbed. They can be moved without even being aware of it. Bears however sleep for weeks at a time and can be disturbed. Animals who hibernate include; badgers, bats, chipmunks, dormouse, ground squirrels, hamsters, groundhogs, hedgehogs, nighthawks, prairie dogs, raccoons, and skunks.
I started by reading Big B lots of books about bears and hibernation. Our library has an entire section of science children books on animals. I got a few books that teach about bears and other animals who generally hibernate. I also got a few story books where the animals (mostly bears) are preparing to hibernate.
Hibernating animals build up fat reserves (and in some cases store foods) to sustain themselves through the winter. They will eat things like berries, nuts and other vegetation. Offer some of these foods to your child as snack (considering allergies) and talk to them about how these foods help the hibernating animals make it through the winter.
Cave Building
We talked about how animals build or seek out shelter to protect themselves while they are hibernating. Big B and his dad built a cave for him play bear and act like he was hibernating.
Fat Storing Experiment
I ran across this Animals in Winter science experiment from Preschool – What Fun We Have. I felt like it was the perfect way to show Big B how animals store fat to help them stay warm during the winter.
I started out with two bags, shortening, and ice.
I covered Big B's hand with one of the bags and then handed him a few pieces of ice
I then liberally covered his hand with the shortening and covered it with the second bag. I handed him the ice again.
The shortening represents the additional fat that helps protects the animal from the cold weather.
Big B now has a better idea of how and why animals hibernate.


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Steve's Conscience has appeared to him twice to advise him, once in Comic 7 and once in Comic 66. In Comic 7, he appears as a Shrimp, Mario, and Frankenstein's Monster. In Comic 66, the shrimp is alone. The Conscience's advice, however, is usally pretty bad.
The Shrimp can be seen touting tiny horns on it's head and carrying a small trident. Also note the fact that he makes a small roar while appearing with a PFOOF, this makes him similar, if not identical to the character Satan, leading some to believe the shrimp is really Satan in disguise.
How he fits in such a small costume is beyond us.


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